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STRANGER THINGS CHARACTERS AS QUOTES FROM ME AND MY FRIENDS (with no explanation or context)
There's a ten image limit (I have 13) so I'll make some more at some point!! When I do I'll link em here
#stranger things#stranger things shitpost#will byers#mike wheeler#max mayfield#el hopper#lucas sinclair#dustin henderson#robin buckley#steve harrington#nancy wheeler#eddie munson#jonathan byers#argyle stranger things#steddie#byler#jargyle#elumax#platonic madwheeler#so many tags..#woah...#byler endgame#< unavoidable tag
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December Summertimeeeee. Let me ramble in the tags for a sec lol plssss hear me out
#f1#oscar piastri#franco colapinto#formula 1#f1 fanart#my art#sleepless art#op81#fc43#colastri#francoscar#my honest reaction when they don't even follow each other#I will in fact build this tag brick by brick on my own if I have to#Franco as this unavoidable presence of absence (Logan) does somethin to my brain ok <3#also whatever norapinto implications as well but less#It's Oscar's “He doesn't have to make life easy for me.” and Franco's reaction to the “I wanna learn spanish” thing#formula one#Also “hagamoslo de Boca” Franco don't do that to me hgdfgf#I WILL TAKE THE CRUMBS I GET
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Valentinian & Valens
I’m mostly playing off of Subleyras‘ paintings featuring Valens and Theodosius for my own interpretations. part of me wants to put them through the forced twin-ification blender, since they already have the brother-father-maker dynamic down. what’s one more increasingly claustrophobic association in the name of themes and narratives!
⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!
#celebrated turning 29 the other day by drawing my man and his brother and combined they’re my url w/ saturated colors#my other favorite brother-father dynamic is Ascanio and Ludovico. I think those two are more claustrophobic than these guys#if I’m being honest. but I also read Brotherly Love and I’m like. yeah okay so ALL imperial families are insular to the point of#unavoidable textual weirdness. you’ll die and your absence will create terrible situations etc. ascension. wedding. funeral.#late Roman Empire tag#drawing tag
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In honor of the @rw-ship-showdown I wanted to write about Artihunter as someone who jokingly slapped them together pre-downpour and still thinks they are actually very compelling. Just not in the super soft love wins kinda way (Although I get why people like that more) And the only way I know how to do that is talking too much so heres a far too long slug essay-
Obviously the slugcats don't offer a ton of characterization but theres not nothing to work with. Their stories, whether by their roles in it or the overarching themes do provide a backbone to work with. Even gameplay itself can provide a bit. (for some more than others) Hunter, to me, is ultimately a story about selflessness. The goal is to revive Moon, which is very much an act of kindness from both Hunter and NSH. But the weight of that action is much more significant for Hunter- Hunter is deeply sick. They're on the clock, and for all their skill in combat none of that will ultimately help them to survive longer than their body can hold out. Moon is a close friend of NSH but that means little Hunter- Hunter really gets next to nothing out of helping them, and ultimately pays quiet a bit spending their limited time alive fighting to deliver that neuron so that someone else can live.
To spend ones limited days on helping another, in a game that very much stresses the unwavering cruelty of the world and nature- is pretty notable. (And you could even say that Hunter being the Hardmode of Rain World adds another layer to this)
And then we have Artificer. A storyline that very much stands out to people as more… villainous (so to speak) than the other slugcats. Artificer's story covers a lot of things. Trauma, violence, revenge, etc. Revenge is a bit of a selfish desire- That need to see someone hurt as they have hurt you. A punishment that ultimately does not fix whatever harm was done- but feels good to see because you were hurt and now those responsible share that pain.
Artificer's actions are founded in that need for revenge, their pups killed for overstepping boundaries they didn't know existed. Is it not fair for them to be angry at that, to punish the scavengers for their violence with their own? Why should the scavengers ever be forgiven when they and their pups were not? And that's how you get that loop- Harm for harm over and over.
The original action has been lost in a spiral of violence for violence. And here stands Artificer- their very spirit scarred. Not just because they sought revenge, but because they never ceased trying to scratch that itch for violence as an answer. Artificer only has two paths for their story- killing the scavenger king (Someone who, really, has little to do with the original 'crime' of the scavengers, but represents an important individual to them- as did the slugpups to Artificer), locking themselves as karma one for good and spending the rest of their life chasing creatures that no longer even fight back in a warped sense of closure- or to dissolve themselves in the acids of the void sea because they're too far gone to find any real peace.
They can't meaningfully recover from that state, not alone, twisting in on themselves. Even if they halt their actions, they've been using violence as a feeble defense against their own pain- violence that no longer has any real direction or basis. Artificer gets no real closure from killing the scavenger king. All they can do is continue the cycle, or try to scrub it away. No real peace in a prison of their own making. So you have a creature, who even with a strict timer on their life- a body that will crumble to disease, spends its last bit of time on saving another. And another who was so caught up in the pain of loss that were eaten alive by their own anger, poisoned their own soul on such a deep level even self-proclaimed gods have no solution for them. What peace can they offer each other? For Hunter, its only a fleeting moment of happiness- of selfish love, before their own body fails them. A bit of indulgence in something for themself. For Artificer, its a single, comforting thread to ground them again, something tangible to protect and care about again. But thats a thread that will ultimately be snapped under the cruel indifference of the world. Hunters timer will tick down regardless of if it takes another with it. Its a tragedy- its doomed to end badly. Whatever good it offers to either of them to find each other will only provide the fleeting comfort of a band-aid that will be ripped away too early. But all that can be worth indulging in anyway, if only for the moment. It doesn't change the ending, but the ending was never going to be happy. Its can so yuri
#rain world#rw shipping#tagging that just cause this is explicitly about that even though I usually dont do shipping stuff#with that said i dont even think this particular interpretation of a possible dynamic needs to be romantic its just kinda#about companionship in general. companionship thats going to absolutely shred an already unstable slug emotionally but thats#the point. friendship and love in spite of the unavoidable ending#just noticed this is like 80% theme analysis and 20% 'these go together just trust me'#but also theyre both girls because i want them to and also because im channeling hornet from hollow knight#who made me so deeply ill that my rain world tags still havent outcompeted my Hk tags because i drew her so much. so so much.#hunter is hornet coded to me and artificer is like if angela and gebura from lc combined into a deeply fucked up ferret#also i did tag the poll because they kinda inspired this but also. i wasnt gonna put all this out here WITHOUT a readmore thats embarassing#but i guess this is propaganda for a ship already seen as popular but like... idk i think theres something to it even as someone#who did literally slap them together originally because they were both red slugcats i considered girls. predownpour so we didnt have anythi#anyway hi tag readers i have so much work to do im being bad by writing about gay slugs. i need to get myself together#its so late this might just be nonsense bwaaaaaaa
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I’ve long noticed and previously commented on the odd fandom antipathy towards characters like Suvi of Worlds Beyond Number and Jonas Spahr from Midst; and simultaneously a far, far more generous approach to outright villains like Will Gallows, many of the witches, and Moc Weepe.
I’ve also commented on the favor and endless forgiveness shown villains before, and to get it out of the way, yes, a lot of this is due to horny reasons, and as someone who does not identify personally as a monsterfucker this might be part of my lack of interest. But I think it would be unwise to chalk this up entirely to people wanting to fuck the villains, and given that Suvi and Jonas are both extremely attractive as well it’s certainly not the whole picture.
Suvi and Jonas are born into and achieve positions of privilege - military/political no less - in imperial societies. They are both explicitly indoctrinated. They are not, in my opinion, brainwashed; but they are driven into who they become through competition.
I think a lot of people are really uncomfortable with characters shown to be complicit in and favored within this kind of society. I think Spahr and Suvi occupy a space that they find too close to home; too close to what they themselves are. A villain validates one’s beliefs: Weepe is ruthlessly self-interested, driven by profit, and terribly violent, and so it’s easier to be comfortable with him, ironically enough, because the story tells you he’s a bastard and you can feel good about clocking him as a bastard, and even like that this character is on a meta level telling you that you’re right in your beliefs.
Suvi and Jonas and those like them don’t permit you that validation. They participate in these harmful systems while believing it to be the right thing to do. They are also young people who grew up knowing little else, with unfathomably high expectations placed upon them. They are flawed, with no shortage of harsh edges, but they are also frequently kind and generous people who are incredibly important, as they currently are, to characters one might find more sympathetic. They are deeply human. And they are both the beneficiaries and the victims of a vast and complicated system. You cannot fit them into the box of a “stripped of choice” victim even though both have found themselves backed against a wall by their respective societies. You cannot avoid that the dissolution of their society would have devastating consequences, even if it might be right (which Midst directly explores; I suspect the Citadel might not be a thing to be dissolved). And while many people do so, one cannot in good faith and intelligent analysis treat them as nothing more than a shipping doll who needs to be programmed to become a mirror of the “correct” character of one’s choosing without ignoring who they are and what they bring to the table: a political savvy, a great deal of talent and intelligence, and a desire to embody the best parts of their respective flawed societies.
As Midst reaches its denouement, one of the core messages is that a harmful society is still one comprised of people: some upholding it, some actively furthering it, and some just living within it. While Worlds Beyond Number is nowhere near its end, Brennan Lee Mulligan’s body of work upholds a similar message; that one cannot lose sight of the personhood of people, even those involved in messy and damaging systems, and that people must be judged with that in mind. Suvi and Spahr are not cogs to be wrenched free and corrected, but characters to appreciate in their complexity. It is a shame that so many reject them in favor of those who consistently choose to do harm because it is less difficult and challenging to think in terms of Good Guy/Bad Guy.
#Perhaps this is too unkind but i feel the majority of people who hate on the suvi and spahr archetype are like.#people who center white queerness while bringing other axes of oppression solely to win arguments#And i suspect suvi and spahr being canonically and unavoidably POC and complicated people REALLY fucks with their worldview#it also feels very like. i think a lot of people who like villains while hating on complicated heroes#are also the sort of people who whine about bans on plastic straws#Midst tag#wbn tag
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what i love about the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi of it all is that...it's not just that he's famous and therefore widely recognizable wherever he goes. like yes that is very funny because he was an exorcist before he became a famous actor, which means he CHOSE, on purpose, a day job that would make it harder to hide his double life/secret identity from the hordes of his adoring public, but it's more than that. it's not just that he's famous, it's that he's famous specifically for being an ACTOR, aka a person whose job it is to dissimulate, to make believe, to inhabit roles and emotions other than his own. like he decided he was going to become as visible as possible (which again was literally not necessary! he could have gone into any other career for his day job!!) but in such a way that everyone would see him but no one would see him - they would just see his various made-up personas, including the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi persona. i can't decide if he's a genius or if he just made so many absurd decisions that they canceled each other out and circled back around to working out. he's either playing 9-dimensional chess or he's eating the pieces. too soon to say.
#the other thing i love about it is that in a very real sense it's his actor day job that is his alter ego#being an exorcist is his normie job. he's just a famous celebrity on the side#which isn't that uncommon in secret identity setups but it's still very funny#natsume's book of friends#natsume yuujinchou#natori shuuichi#natsuyuu meta#my posts#f#i think probably the actual answer is that acting was a very natural career choice because he already masks so extensively#both to hide that he can see things other people can't (and that youkai exist and that he exorcises them)#and to hide what he's really feeling so that no one can use it against him#so if it's already something he has to do & he's good at it...why not have someone tell him exactly how to do it & get paid for it?#and the other part of the answer is that most ppl don't go into acting assuming they'll get famous. the fame was a side effect#so each decision as it was being made probably made perfect sense. but put them all together#and you have this hilarious assortment of elements that seem to directly contradict each other#okay also i would be remiss if i didn't mention the other possible answer which is that the attention came first and was unavoidable#and the acting developed from the need to protect himself from the attention that he was going to be attracting no matter what he did#because he's so beautiful. and (in the exorcist world specifically) because he's the last of the natori#the more i talk about it the more i'm like no becoming a famous actor was the only path that made any sense for him lol#1) he's gonna be watched no matter what bc he's him -> gotta figure out how to hide his secrets -> learn to act as self-defense#or 2) he's got secrets -> he's gotten a lot of practice hiding them -> hey you could make a career out of this!#all roads lead to actor natori shuuichi. and since he's beautiful...all roads lead to FAMOUS actor natori shuuichi#i love it when i ramble so much in the tags that i end up contradicting my own post lol#he's neither thinking ten steps ahead nor is he irrational. he's simply making sensible individual decisions#that follow logically from what is available to him and what his priorities are
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#ch.txt#idk what to tag this as for the sake of exposure#i’ll start so no one’s embarrassed: i was literally never taught about anything more recent than WW2#BUT I moved around a lot and different schools have different curriculums#so that resulted in things like. me learning about the revolutionary war like 8 separate times#I learned about WW2 about 6 separate times and the teacher who did the best job was an english teacher not history#and all he did was make us read/talk about Night by Elie Wiesel. the only reason I think I have a decent grasp#on the subject of the holocaust itself is bc that’s kind of just an unavoidable part of growing up Jewish#and bc I read Maus#if you’re curious abt which teacher covered WW2 the worst btw it was the US hist teacher that spent half the unit JUST talking about D-Day#in the most ‘yeah America! we saved the day and we’re heroes’ way possible#i actually used to hate history as a kid bc of it. now I’m majoring in it
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noah kahan’s stick season (forever) is not safe to listen to after 10pm
#Crying is basically unavoidable#It’s just probable at any other time of day#But at night?? Sobbing is imminent#Okay actual tags now#noah kahan#stick season we’ll all be here forever#stick season#well all be here forever#forever#stick season (we’ll all be here forever)#stick season by noah kahan#stick season forever#stick season album#lyrics#homesick#the view between villages#northern attitude#your needs my needs#youre gonna go far
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Cos I saw someone 'defending' their misuse of the dollblr tag after receiving an ask about it because 'other people do it' - this is why it's a fucking problem in the first place. It is against TOS. It is unrelated to your post, it is spam, and don't be surprised if everything you post gets reported.
Just because other people spam the tag too, doesn't magically excempt it from TOS or user guidelines. Like at this point I am straight up breaking this down to bare bones website operation here, what's so hard to understand? It's shit like this that literally degrades website quality because as you spread your crap over multiple tags that are accumulating like a goddamn snowball, people stop actually using those tags for the topic they were meant for. People stop posting. People leave. Welcome to dead internet.
It doesn't matter if you see other people doing it, rules are rules. There is a reason WHY tag spam is against the rules and that's to keep a website useable. Actual Dollbr-bloggers? Keep reporting guys.
#dollblr cleanup crew#dollblr#i was serious when i said I wake up every morning to pressure hose down tags#also the irony of them claiming people politely asking them to stop are narcissists#my dude ... please look up the definition of narcissistic#'I see what you're saying but actually I'm more important because excuse that doesn't make sense because it's against TOS anyway'#fandom discourse#you're just as bad as pornbots#i am old. i have watched the rise and fall of multiple social media platforms. i have watched the marching progression of enshittification#tumblr is the only social media that doesn't actually make my mental health worse and i will die on this hill#i won't let bad actors ruin everyone else's experience or mine#yeah i could have said this to them directly but 1. I am not the type to do targeted de-anonmyised callouts#2. conscious of the fact a lot of these coquette posters are literally half my age (15) and are minors#2.5 sidenote jesus christ please find a bettee niche than yeeting all your autonomy to men and glorifying your mental illness#your adult self will thank you#3. looking at current replies they got big 'lalala not listening' energy and having my own post means it is unavoidable and not eraseable
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i dont know why my byler hyperfixation hasnt awakened yet. even after seeing the pics im not insane yet. why am i not insane yet!! :/
#im still bonkers about yellowjackets i havent even remotely moved on and its almost been a year#i watched it in august#i wanna get back into byler again tho i hobestly think itd have to rewatch all of st again in order to spark it back up#cuz i forget just how gay it is lmao#also ive not been looking at the byler tag much cuz i just dont want spoilers this time#like ill see the art and edits but i have all the tags for leaks and bts pics filtered i dont wanna see it#unless the actual official instagrams posted it#but today was unavoidable#byler
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Today on "tumblr ads that I wish were rebloggable":
I'm not wildly fond of tumblr ads promoting weight loss all willy-nilly, but the theming of this one combined with the fact that I saw it on a blog that I first followed for Dracula Daily posting has me losing it. Lose weight how, pray tell, dear tumblr ad? Lose blood weight? Because someone's drinking it? Am I going to be running through Transylvania because there's a vampire chasing me?
#funny#Dracula Daily#weight loss tw#tumblr ads#Transylvania#walking challenge#I don't mind the idea of a walking challenge but this idea that everybody needs to lose weight constantly is so dangerously pervasive#but the implied context of “lose weight because vampires” is kind of hilarious#image described in alt text#sorry to the people of Transylvania that your country gets flattened to heehoo vampires#but the spooky castle theming plus the theme of the blog that I saw this on made thinking about vampires unavoidable for me#vampires#rosebleue#sorry Rose (can I call you Rose?) I know you did not personally put this ad on your blog#it's just the combination of it with you as a vampire blog that made it so funny to me#blood drinking#ask to tag#if there's anything else I've missed#lunch break posting
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So… hello. Happy pride to those who celebrate. I did as @im-not-a-l0ser suggested a little bit ago and made this post as michie. So. Enjoy.
I hope tumblr doesn’t crunch this too bad i put so many little details in.
#lab-trash#michie#its a good show of my improvement#i think. :)#like how i managed to learn how to size up my canvas#and how apparently i can bullshit my way through drawing feet properly for the first time#i try to avoid it but this one it’s kinda unavoidable#but nope#did it this time#alright enough chatting in the tags now i hope pride month goes well for yall
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can't express accurately how happy it makes me that c.s. lewis did not leave room for many interpretations in narnia. it's christian and you can't get around it. susan chose to care more about worldly things than what matters and he said what he said. the lion is Jesus. evil is evil and good is good and people have to choose. and that makes some readers angry because it's nearly impossible to ignore and they want to ignore it. they want it to be something else and they can't make it something else without making it not narnia. love that. that is doing it right
#that's. how. it. should. be#if there's room for interpretation in your writing as a christian you are doing it wrong#if people read your work and get to pick and choose what it means and you left it OPEN to interpretation-#-and they can divorce your fantasy world from the truth? you are doing it wrong#looking at you john ronald reuel#readers you're upset because susan cares more about “nylons and lipstick” than Aslan? 1. that's not really what lewis said#2. you should be upset because she made the wrong decision#and if you're upset because you can't get around the christianity in narnia let me share something with you - that's the point#it's a christian series#it's telling you christian things. this is not lord of the rings. this is not Cool Fantasy World open to interpretation#you can't worship the fantasy world and ignore the christian truths#you can't separate the two. that's what it should be#that's what all christian writing should be#if you write something amazing and centuries later people host parades for your fictional world and there's no God in it? no truth?#wrong. you did it wrong. they should not be able to separate the two - unless the point of your writing was to write a cool story#congratulations you wrote a cool story. but did it point people to the truth? unavoidably? no? then what a waste of freaking time#what a waste of a beautiful God-given talent#okay I got off on a tangent#my point is: be upset because Narnia is Christian and you can't get around that with ease#I am so. glad. you can't get around that with ease#this is why Lewis is my favorite author in the root of me#he did it right. this is what we as christian authors should aspire to#not LOTR. Narnia. NARNIA.#christianity#narnia#the chronicles of narnia#thoughts in the tags#doverstar's thoughts#writing#authors
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#mdzs#jiang cheng#wei wuxian#jin ling#jc apologism#the (more) in option 4 is about how that tag is already filled with misogyny aimed at yu ziyuan#jc is already kind of ex-coded so can you imagine if he were a cis woman. the fujoshi misogyny would be unavoidable. rip jc fans in this au#the jin ling abuse discourse would be 100000x worse because god forbid a female caretaker be anything but perfect#yanyan polls#sorry for putting this on your dash
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hi. i got fallout new vegas awhile ago and i finally started playing it the other day. have some sketches of my guy <3
#im like late as hell to playing these games LMAOO ive never played a fallout game before#never played the other bethesda game of the same genre as well.....#its fun.. i like it.... aside from the game crashing (unavoidable) im having lots of fun.......#gonna go continue my playthrough after i post this teehee#fallout#my ocs#? kinda#allyart#i genuinely dont know how to tag this i just wanted to draw my silly little courier guy#kain (oc)
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are you there, Anchor? / always, Anchor.
FaTT pinup week: challenge mode!
what's sexier than Divines NOTHING!!
Pinup week is the first time I've posted art online pretty much ever and it's been such a wonderful experience, so thank you all! especially @fatt-pinups for hosting!!
#The guts of a machine 🤝 the inscrutable divine 🤝 the concept of Fealty#Being unavoidably and uncontrollably sexy#I had. At least three other drafts for this prompt of Completely different works so stay tuned I've still got gas in the tank#friends at the table#road to palisade#the divine fealty#fattpinups#Collage#my art#sexy metal#< if you're new here that's my tag for machine guts#id in alt text
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