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let’s not talk about this, ever
#totk#tears of the kingdom#yiga clan#totk link#totk yiga#totk meme#totk fanart#loz#legend of zelda#all clucking cucco quest gave me trust issues#if they can illusion magicks themselves into anything how common are these incidents#'aw man the beloved family dog turned out to be a freeloading yiga spy again. can't have shit in hyrule'#totk spoilers
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My understanding of evil, age 0-10: MY NAME IS SMOG SMOKESLY AND I RUN THE POLLUTION FACTORY, IT PRODUCES POLLUTION!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
My understanding of evil, in my teens: You can't really boil things down to good and evil. People are complicated. Everyone is the hero of their own story, and someone who seems evil to you is actually doing their best from their own perspective. If you could walk a mile in their shoes, you'd understand. There is no such thing as evil.
My understanding of evil, in my twenties: Look, it's basically just tribalism. We are all necessarily thrust into competition with one another. There are always going to be winners and losers. Whining about evil is just being upset that you lost the game.
My understanding of evil, in my thirties: MY NAME IS SMOG SMOKESLY AND I RUN THE POLLUTION FACTORY, IT PRODUCES POLLUTION!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
#one of the hardest pills to swallow growing up#was understanding that the world actually isn't that complicated#it really is just greed#power-lust#cruelty#and hate#that are ruining society#people are making the world worse out of spite#not because they get something out of it#but because they get off on seeing you lose something#evil really is uncomplicated and simple like a saturday morning cartoon#it has been all along#it only pretends to have nuance#because the illusion of complexity makes it marketable to new suckers
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the dynamic of demigods thinking which other demigod is the most powerful is always amusing to me because. like, we know the big 3 kids are all the most powerful. That's just a fact of their universe. And then we know nearly every character views Percy as the strongest demigod, and most people are very rightfully intimidated by him.
and you look at the powers of the Big 3 kids and there's Percy, but then you realize Nico is just kind of objectively more powerful than him but simply chooses to hang out in Percy's shadow like he's Percy's scary dog privileges. Like, the two of them are pretty equally capable of causing multiple different apocalypses. Nico just also has like four different instakill powers and it's not like he doesn't use them. He very much uses them! Not infrequently, even! And they don't seem to take a significant amount of energy from him! And other demigods are pretty intimidated by both of them! But Nico makes a conscious point to keep his cards close to his chest and not let on exactly how dangerous and scary he can be if he wants to. People are already scared enough of him without knowing anything about him and he doesn't like that. Percy doesn't think about that nearly as much, and so usually just goes in guns blazing and that's part of why he's considered a wildcard. And then Nico himself puts Percy on a pedestal, so those who do know more about Nico's abilities then presume Nico knows something they don't about Percy that implies Percy is even stronger than him.
And even on a meta level Nico's narrative role requires him to be functionally more powerful than Percy, because he very often serves the purpose of getting Percy out of situations he can't handle on his own. That's just part of his function as a character! But also narratively he can't overshadow Percy so he just takes a backseat of his own accord and that's very amusing to me.
#pjo#percy jackson#riordanverse#nico di angelo#i will also note it is implied though we never see that Hazel has the exact same powers as Nico#and Hazel has trained with her powers way longer than Nico has plus is older so theoretically is more powerful already#she killed a giant all by herself. sank a small island. and successfully subdued Gaea for like another 60 years#so given that + her also having Nico's powers then *Hazel* is theoretically the strongest demigod no contest#Jason and Thalia end up kind of nerfed by the plot in that neither is allowed to overshadow Percy either#but they dont play the same roles that characters like Nico do - Nico keeps getting stupid abilities just for convenience factor#and Bianca never got the opportunity to use many powers besides astral projection/dream manipulation and similarly hades kid illusion stuff#and general ghost stuff. and she does all that as a ghost really. her killing the skeleton wasnt even her powers that was just a normal sta#and it was just by virtue of her being a hades kid and fulfilling the ''can kill these skeletons'' requirement that it blew up#technically she also showcases underworld immunity with the lethe stuff wearing off but that's very subtle#Hazel also doesnt play the same role as Nico and so doesnt get to showcase all that#plus is similarly nerfed with the ''cant be cooler than Percy'' constraint and so never gets to really do anything#even though logistically she is the most powerful and should showcase the full extent of her abilities to the same degree as Percy and Nico#Jason at least gets a little bit more wiggle room than Thalia being a main protagonist#Nico just gets the most wiggle room out of both not being a protagonist and being functionally a dues ex machina most of the time#versus Thalia or Bianca who are only ever secondary or supporting characters
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another failed sneaking attempt
#i didnt even have this written down as an idea#i just started drawing cause i was bored and here we are#i think this is the most effort ive put into a multi panel post yet#purple text on a grey background is very difficult to make look good so sorry if it hurts your eyes#getting better with expressions i thhink. no longer hate myself whenever i do that downturned mouth thing on uzi#and head shape im a lot happier with the rounded square kinda head shape i see in all the md art i like#forgot to draw on ns sketchpad in the last panel. woopsies#theyd probably have a little bit of trauma regarding the solver stuff but like#theres no way in hell uzi is turning down the ability to become a sick as hell nightmare worm#for all its evil stuff the solver was edgy as hell and i think she would be totally on board with that#honestly i think i just wanted an excuse to draw solver worm stuff#i doodled it a bit ago and liked the way it came out so i wanted to draw it more#my hand is cramping im wrapping this up#art#murder drones#murder drones uzi#uzi doorman#murder drones n#serial designation n#the worm bit in the final panel is solely because i remembered i can use gausian blur to give the illusion of depth or whatever#never actually tried that before i think so here i am#oh yeah uhh#nuzi#i guess. i think this counts#im not well versed in the Fandom Rules
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#painted illusions#dream smp#dream smp fanart#c!niki#c!tommy#c!wilbur#rozoodles#comics#gbye niki it was lovely having you#it was a very fun challenge trying to communicate Niki’s thoughts and feelings clearly through a comic format#I hope I did alright 👍#next part might take a little longer (hopefully not a whole ‘nother year sjdhfh)#just need some time to dust off scripts and sketch things out
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The first three subclass/wizard school inspired outfits! teehee
(from left to right: enchantment, divination, illusion)
#not 100 percent into how these turned out but I need to finish these#still um. 5 more to go bc the plan is to redraw the necro one I did#you can tell I really did not like how illusion ended up lollll#WHATEVER#throws this out into the wild#gale#bg3#baldur’s gate 3#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep
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Basically every kitchen scene.
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reblog, don’t repost. thank you
#got to keep the illusion up for adrien#drew this after the first kitchen scene#how accurate it turned out to be#adrien agreste#gabriel agreste#nathalie sancoeur#gabenath#kind of?#miraculous ladybug#miraculous the tales of ladybug and chat noir#Nieriel#2022
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imagine this family trying to take a picture for a christmas card, or any type of family picture for that matter
bloody hell I was waiting for something like this
(ik im late as, but people never put the decorations away right after the 25th...)
(and yes the last two parts of the Alien Cody arc is still happening)
#noco family au#total drama#total drama noah#total drama cody#total drama noco#total drama raj#total drama dave#total drama mike#total drama svetlana#total drama Owen#thanks for the ask!#I wanted to get this done at least on the 26th but I was simply too Out Of It#time is an illusion#currently contemplating events of my life that have led me to creating this au#I mean really when else was I gonna do a Christmas thing might as well go at it if its still December eh?#4am thoughts
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have you put the pieces together yet, detective
#goro akechi#akechi goro#persona 5#persona 5 royal#p5 akechi#p5 spoilers#persona 5 fanart#jesst some art#i may have worked on this for... just under two weeks? i had like. so many fckgin thoughts i might make a process/concept breakdown post#it's honestly just for my own peace (haha piece) of mind because i overthought about. SosoooOoOo many motifs and symbols and i just wanna#idk PUT EM ALL somewhere........ maybe it'll become its own jessay of mine. god. who can say.#also DUDE tumblr rly does crunch up quality wow ouch#unironically a core thematic inspiration for this piece is a quote from the folding ideas' video 'the nostalgia critic and the wall'#'it doesn't all make sense or resolve or coalesce because we don't all make sense'#'everyone is the illusion of order constructed brick by brick out of chaos'#i've watched that video essay through at least. a dozen times at this point. everything about it. yeah. it's good.#this piece initially went many different directions and i have realized ah yes to fully explore just THESE themes that i'm interested in as#they relate to goro akechi i will need to draw. at least two more pieces. sdlfhsdlkfjsd
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Agh, really machine?
This must be what- The fifth rematch today?
Can we take a break or something? I'm- I'm getting eepy.
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#after this v1 said 'no bitch get back in the bed' but i left that out to preserve the illusion of innocence#ultrakill#gabriel ultrakill
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AU where Gon was raised in Greed Island instead of with Mito, so he grew up with the game. He spends one month more with Ging than he would in canon but is still left in the care of the other game masters as a baby, everyone is understandably angry with Ging about it, but they can't abandon Gon so they throw the baby between each other as a collective babysitting. They tend to avoid actually doing their assigned duty a lot, putting the baby under the care of a Panda Maid#99 card while they focus on their own thing. When every panda maid card hit its transformation limits they panicked, forced to babysit the kid themselves or give him to NPCs, which were worked on to have a bit more dept.
Gon learns Nen extremely young, and grows to be deeply attached to Greed Island, his home. He visits Razor, Elena, Eta, Dwun, and List, all the time and grows attached to NPCs. He guides new players too, not having a 'book' but knowing all the rules. (He used to have a book to experience the cards, but he almost won the game, which he can't do as an 'honorary game master', and had his ring confiscated)
Gon knows how important it is to explore the game yourself so he never gives away everything, and he treats NPC as 'people', to the point Gon can feel like he is an NPC of the game for those unaware GI takes place in a real island.
The Game Master Crew don't have an agreement on how old Gon must be to attend the hunter exam and search for his dad, cause they are confident Gon can breeze through the exam, but they know how insane Ging is personally, and while Gon is very competent and smart they worry for him. He takes it so personally when the NPCs he loves are hurt or disrespected and try to see the best in people. So how will they know he is in good hands out there? After much discussion, and the realization Ging will not come to visit, they decide Gon can go hunt for Ging when he is 14.
Killua learns Nen at 13 for a job, which is to kill a player in Greed Island cause the client is scared said player will finish the game before the player they want to win.
Greed Island is a game for hunters, so Gon never sees other kids who aren't NPCs made to keep him company. When Killua shows up he is delighted, he shows off every place in the game and gives more info than he probably should cause he is excited and Killua is so cool! He wants to show off! Killua lets Gon hang out at first cause he is a 'useful npc' and deep down he just really wants to interact with a kid his age, but it doesn't take too long to like him. He starts to treat Gon way better and takes him more seriously when he realizes he is a person, intrigued by his deal.
#long time no ridiculous au for hxh#hxh#hunter x hunter#killua zoldyck#gon freecs#killugon#i just really like the idea of Gon bonding with the NPCs and being this illusive guy that occasionally show up to help out#greed island gon au#edited on july 2024
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Today, the country indeed looks alien. The America many of us believed we knew now appears stranger in retrospect: The anger and resentment we may have thought was pitched at a simmer turned out to be at a rollicking boil. And one of liberals’ most cherished shibboleths from 2016—that Trumpism is a movement for aggrieved white men—unraveled in the face of a realignment that saw the GOP appear to give birth to a multiracial working-class movement. A second Trump presidency is the result of this misjudgment.
Democrats are a coalition party of the center-left
The Left has traditionally been associated with egalitarianism, which is by necessity concerned with the masses, the common people, the working class, but also the dispossessed, the marginalized, the disadvantaged
The modern Democratic party traces its roots most directly to the New Deal coalition of the 1930s, which it understands to have been a robust working-class and labor-rights movement
They also see themselves in the 1960s cultural revolutions and their repudiation of hierarchy, itself generally seen as the position of the common person, the masses, but also the dispossessed
The party takes its name from Andrew Jackson, great champion of the Common Man, at least as understood at his time, but it goes back to Thomas Jefferson, famous for declaring that "all men are created equal," and now excoriated for failing to live out that egalitarian principle
The Democrats are a party for the people, understood as capaciously as possible, the party that repudiates narrow nationalism and jingoism, in favor of spreading the benefits of American society widely, in opposition to favoring the privileged few
Why am I reminding you of all these things that you already know?
Because they believe so deeply that they are right in every way that matters, or at least incomparably superior to their opponents, they cannot begin to imagine repudiation from the very people in whose interests they thought they were acting, let alone in favor of the very person they swore was an existential, even murderous threat to those very same people
I think to appreciate the sensation, you might imagine a thief broke into your home, and then your family kicked you out in favor of the thief; someone broke in to ravish your spouse and they called the police on you; a sex offender told your children explicitly what he wanted to do them, and your children fought you to get out of your arms so they could crawl into the van knowing full well they'd never see you again
The shock is so existentially horrifying, such a betrayal of reality itself, that it would require rethinking all your most basic assumptions about the political order, human beings, and worst of all, yourself. Why would they do such a manifestly insane thing? Is there something I don't know? What did I miss? What did I do wrong? What do I do now?
Democrats cannot meaningfully internalize that they are the party of the privileged and the elite, by their own philosophy they are themselves the enemy, they write a blank check for the most lurid excesses of anti-colonial violence and call it "exhilarating" without dealing with the fact that given their assumptions, in this society, they are the power and not the resistance
But it's hard to ask yourself these kinds of questions and most people don't have the nerve for it, and so what we see instead, in another little paradox of human nature, is they're going to blame not the ravisher but the spouse
TL;DR, self-examination is hard, so now Democrats hate Latinos
#meanwhile republicans just don't give a shit#they are truly the 'i got mine and you can go fuck yourself' party#honestly for better and for worse#republicans are precisely as magnanimous or as vicious as their bank balance allows#but then#that is deeply human so how can you argue with it#a Republican is someone who not only knows that they would cannibalize their friends if sufficiently threatened#they know precisely the order in which they would do it#valuing as they do their personal security and survival above every other consideration#'well what do democrats value?'#the illusion of moral superiority at literally any cost#we will continue to watch these impulses play out
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whatever happened to the man of tomorrow?
#for the record this has nothing to do with the story#i was gonna use a song but i couldn't have 'legible without zooming in' and 'the illusion of it being a spread' at the same time#and was at a loss of how to caption it otherwise dskjfhs#orphan farmboy. you understand.#Ardbert#speedpaint#fanart#i draw sometimes#Final Fantasy XIV#trying to figure out how to colour this though#i've tried my usual light + desaturated colours for ardbert when limited to cmyk and it didn't come out how i wanted it to that time#so finding something new was in order
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See Frieren x Himmel is canonically doomed and that's part of the overall narrative, Frieren will outlive almost everyone she ever meets but she slowly starts to build more and more relationships in spite of that and Himmel was one of the biggest catalysts in her changing in this way
But they also have this "this is how it can still win" vibe to it because Frieren is literally traveling to the afterlife specifically to visit Himmel, and along the way she's changing and very slowly embracing love in all these different forms from the people around her, one of which was from Himmel
So it's doomed but it still feels like they'll definitely have a happy ending too, it's an interesting dynamic
#frieren: beyond journey's end#frieren x himmel#frimmel#never have I been so desperate for the straightbait to still work out haha. it's just such sappy genuine romance and I love it#save me doomed elf/human relationship#this isn't even touching upon the most recent manga arc where she's traveled back in time and the marriage illusion. like. christ#tc posts#anyway they'll reunite one day after frieren eventually passes and share a long embrace
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You’ll figure things out, all in good time
#painted illusions#dream smp#c!tommy#rozu art#HAPPY THREE YEARSS :DD 🎉🎉🎉#next comic coming out later yaaay
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y'all
Keyleth definitely would've seen through his illusion, right?
she saw that Essek showed up disguised as a random Cobalt Soul archivist and went "yeah, sure, why wouldn't an undercover Kryn drow show up when i asked a Zemnian human for help? that tracks with how wild everything is right now. anyways, gotta go deal with way more important people, byeeee"
or, way more juicy idea, did Caleb give her a heads up?
"ja, that sounds like a very important mission. unfortunately i'm indesposed (Jester knock it off this is an important call) but i can send you my good friend (Artagan please stop making that motion with your fingers). he'll be impersonating a member of the Cobalt Soul, but don't worry, Expositor Lionett is here with me and is giving me a thumbs up."
#i have sooooo many feelings!!!!!!!!!#but i couldn't get this idea out of my head#she's definitely got true sight or something of that nature#there's no way someone in that camp wouldn't have been able to tell he was under an illusion#but also the idea of caleb trying to explain essek to her is just so good#caleb widogast#essek thelyss#keyleth of the air ashari#voice of the tempest#keyleth#essek#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#c3 e94#critical role#bell's hells#bells hells#c3e94
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