#<— if you squint i guess

[wweaselkat]

second night in a row of trading my sleep for v1 fishing drawings

[radrobsgarage]

Gender swap doodles and gnc stuff!

[demaparbat-hp]

Prince Pouty ™

[ato-dato]

Is this anything

[rosieofcorona]

red raw heart (detail)

[nerujikam]

6th year

[violent138]

When the Robins were too young to convincingly pass as drivers, they'd always insist that Bruce drive them to school or anyplace they were running late to, because Bruce's extensive illegal racing experience meant they were guaranteed to make it there on time. Or even early sometimes.

[kayotic-catgirl]

concept i thought of and want to share because i can't be sad alone: after jon realized that he could Know Everything, the first thing he tried to find out was what sasha really looked like.

[eminemily05]

As someone who’s prone to moments of major audial/visual overstimulation, I like to think Ratchet would be the most understanding and let me chill out in his vehicle mode

Majorly self-indulgent, I’m not gonna lie. But I’m not ashamed, haha

[proidents]

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[mai-komagata]

so here is my melkor hot take of the day. i dont think melkor is more evil than sauron.

like yes, tolkien said sauron is less evil than melkor bc he is devoted and obedient to him, i.e. catholic theological legalese, since love and obedience are the catholic virtue things that dont originate from evil. cool. ASIDE FROM THAT.

and like, melkor is totally MORE POWERFUL than sauron by like orders of magnitude. sure. melkor is the evil soup that suffuses the world like original sin and the fall do in catholic theology.

but like if in looking at intent and what they do, i dont think you can say that for sauron's relative power, i hesitate to say he is more evil, but he is evil in a more insidious and dangerous way common to our age.

like i see melkor very much representing the evil of the natural world (and to some degree part of the universal plan of eru iluvatar). he is volcanoes. he is the blight of winter. he is disease and pestilence and decay. he is the coming of darkness, the destruction of creation. the entropy of the universe. he desires the spark or life but can only subdivide endlessly like bacteria.

but that is part of the fallen world in theological terms even if it shouldn't be part of a healed world of immortal quasi spiritual (or actually spiritual) beings. it is imperfection if the goal is deathlessness. but it is part of the world.

and to a degree i see valar as having this sort of impersonal force of nature quality about them. not just melkor. they all do. tolkien describes them like heavenly bureaucrats. they arent tied to the world and dont understand the world in a tangible personal way that even the maiar do.

sauron is different and i think there is a reason sauron is the villain in the books in the second and third age and specifically in the main book he published. he is the evil of our modern world.

because most mythologies dont have two dark lords. one representing chaos and destruction and one representing order and coercion and industry.

it represents a fundamental swing in how cultures started to conceptualize evil. we mastered science and thus a lot of the things that were a curse from the gods were being solved. and yet. the world wasn't becoming less evil. we still want to control each other, to subjugate others. we want to tame nature so much it kills her and makes her barren. we covet power because we are afraid of the lack of it.

so yeah. sauron and melkor are both evil. but sauron was subject to melkor (or natural evils) until we subdued and chained him. and then sauron's evils were dominant.

(is this character analysis or fictional theology? idk.)

i love these characters because they are symbolic of how we conceptualize evil in the world, as well as being stand-ins for a certain character archetype. i dont have to write them just as them being evil. but they are great for writing about difficult subjects because of their symbolic nature.

(and maybe like sauron i too love volcanoes and snow and mushrooms and thus am a bit enchanted with the force of nature that is melkor. i used to study a LOT of catholic theology, and now as an outsider looking in im like, maybe i can play with these myths and tropes. at the same time, the ultimate plan of eru iluvatar is meant to be a mystery.)

[deikshen]

Mobei Jun who doesn't understand why his Emperor is so in love with the cold bitch Shen Qingqiu, or why his little and cute husband seems to smile like a sun every time he sees him in the court.

So, he starts trying to understand what is so interesting about the man. He watches him do things, talk to servants... At first it's normal, even boring; then Shen Qingqiu has a heated conversation with some diplomats-cultivators about not disrespecting demon culture and wanting to change it just on a whim, he smiles warmly watching a puppy of a dangerous beast that apparently one of the kitchen servants has been secretly raising, and he has conversations with the court dancers about whether they are safe or getting well paid for staying so late at the parties that Luo Binghe is forced to throw for his guests.

Shen Qingqiu barely draws his sword, but when he does so to practice in the inner gardens, Mobei Jun only watches the display of a powerful martial movement gorgeous like that of a warrior and delicate like a dance.

And Mobei Jun spits out his viperous tongue, hostile to servants disrespectful to his Emperor, cruel to low-ranking demons who try to start uprisings. Shen Qingqiu has a string of flowery swear words and insults that would make a drunk blush. And if that's not enough, he has the ability to scold even high-ranking demons in the court as if he were a strict mother.

... Mobei Jun is beginning to see quite a bit of Shen Qingqiu's appeal. Well, he'll have to keep his distance. He's perhaps satisfied his curiosity too much already, and it's clear that his Emperor's wife is not taking secondary husbands; even if it is clear that he and his cute husband would be satisfied with a place in the Emperor's wife's harem, Mobei Jun is sure that this has never crossed Luo Binghe's mind, because otherwise they probably wouldn't be alive.

[glitchgh0sty]

Decepticon!Prowl: Cycle 51. Signal

Context ✨ Previous ✨ Next

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Prowl: hmhmm,, I fear I misheard you. So, I’ll ask again,, who are you sending out right now???

- Soldier 664 NZ? He’s up next on the spread.

Prowl: … [but? - he wasn’t supposed to be sent out for the next 3 joor??]

[and Prowl definitely didn’t *cough* mess around a bit to make sure that was the case, 3 joor ago]

[freindsssssss]

yeahg

[bardockarts]

Your bro has got your back, Dee, he will not forget your birthday <3

[your-local-granny]

So excited to finally share my full piece for the @curtaincallzine!!! I had sosososo much fun making this piece!!! the drama of 3-5 and the drama of Mozart operas, together at last <3

(details/ analysis under the cut!)

This was inspired by the final scene of the 2001 zurich production of don giovanni! the thought was Dahlia (Don Giovanni) being cast into hell by the returned ghost of Mia (the Commendatore)-- it works too well!! Also Don Giovanni/ Dahlia as the seducer is just perfect!

I included the thinker statue because it represents the statue of the Commendatore/ Mia that speaks to Don Giovanni/ Dahlia asking them to repent and then casting them into hell! Mia is on the dinner table because of the dinner table Don Giovanni sets when he defiles the statue which actually works pretty well with the gravy/ dinner that the aa cast had the night of the murder! And the rope bridge was meant to parallel the ladder that Don Giovanni casts himself off of in the Zurich 2001 production

Also!! Not only is evidence from the case falling into the river-- I included paper with the final words of the show written on it!! why??? because I'm insane!!

I never quite nailed down 1-to-1 parallels for the rest of the cast but I always saw Iris as Leporello (servant who got in over their head) and Phoenix and Edgeworth as Donna Anna and Don Ottavio (seeking vengeance for the murder/ boyfriend of the person seeking vengeance). I think Pearls and Godot could work as Zerlina and Donna Elvira but it's more about being tricked than being seduced obv. So i guess that makes Maya..... Masetto? There is also a world in which Maya and Franziska are Zerlina and Masetto if only to make "batti batti" absolutely hysterical djhshdjh. Misty Fey could also work as the Commedatore but I feel like this game as a whole is more about Mia? That's just cause i like her more tho tbh