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[sevicia]

Just found out my grandpa used to catch frogs & sell them to the restaurant (?) all the miners would have lunch at. Also that one time he caught a bunch of snakes in a bag, went to the theater (where the highest seats were the cheapest) and dumped the snakes on the people below when they started complaining about The Filthy Poors With No Manners. and then ran for it

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[bluewolfangel01]

I love the unhinged idea that if Mc is angry or dissapointed with the demons, that they would create a circle of salt around themselves and just stay in it

And no matter the immense combined powers that Diavolo, Barbatos, and the Brothers hold, they ain't getting past the salt circle no matter what they do

Salt is the most powerful thing in the Devildom, confirmed

[shepscapades]

Your highness… I don’t feel so good

[remxedmoon]

y’know what? fuck you. *UNGRAYSCALES YOUR ISATS*

no wait come back there’s greyscale versions under the cut :(

[feelo-fick]

um ok cool thanks for letting me know .... why are you telling me this

[egophiliac]

this is basically what happened, right?

(these guys are very lucky that everyone at NRC 1) has the combined intelligence of a sack of bricks, and 2) is easily distracted by shiny things.)

[ditzyclown]

I think they deserved to bond your honor

[turtletoria]

man having the worst day of his life about to have the second worst day of his life

[wardingshout]

I'm also having a lot of fun with this game!!

[fremedon]

Back in 2014, I did a panel at CON.TXT on dubious consent tropes: sex pollen, fuck or die, omegaverse, and so on. And we talked about how the same tropes can carry different kinds of narrative weight, and how the ways they're used have evolved over time--how tropes that started out as a way to get around the rape culture assumption that Nice Girls Don't were repurposed to interrogate rape culture. By making the coercion external to all parties to the sex act--by removing culpability--they allow for rape and rape culture stories without rapists.

And I proposed that a lot of these tropes were also coming to be used in ways that read as allegories for the impossibility of resisting the conditions of late capitalism. A character is placed under complete social or biological constraint, with no power to escape or fight or do anything but submit, and their only choice is whether to submit gracefully or make a token and futile resistance. And that their decision to make the experience something they want--to claim whatever good they can in it--is an act of power. That to consent, even internally, and make it meaningful, even when they have no way to enforce a refusal, is an act of power.

Because it was a panel on dubcon, and saying Yes is what differentiates dubcon from noncon, in fiction, we talked mostly about stories where the protagonist says Yes; we talked about these consent tropes as allegories for the ways that people do, in fact, find good in conditions they cannot opt out of. People do build good relationships under rape culture. They build communities under late capitalism. These things do happen, outside of fiction, and a story about someone reconciling to life as an omega can have a lot to say about the complicated internal struggles people go through to make them happen.

We didn't talk so much about the flip side of these tropes--that by making that internal Yes meaningful, even in circumstances where No has no power, they also imply that there is meaning in No, even where it has no effect. They validate the worth of an internal resistance, even where it achieves nothing. Maybe we mentioned it? I don't even remember--it was a panel on dubcon, not noncon, and that internal No has the power to change the genre, if nothing else.

I am thinking now, though, about the rise within fandom of a purity culture that strenuously rejects these tropes--while also granting them remarkable power. That claims that, because real life does not have the distinction possible in fiction between dubious consent and nonconsent, that not only is fictional dubcon no different from fictional rape, it's no different from real rape. That returns culpability to these stories and places it firmly with the author. That says that a fictional character cannot consent, to anything--and that the real author, being the only person involved with actual moral agency, owes it to the character to keep them safe.

To exercise moral choice on their behalf.

To say No, in the fictional world where that No is meaningful, and to imbue that No with an irresistible moral weight in the real world.

At any rate I'm not saying the crowd that thinks not voting to withhold their consent from things done in their name is somehow a meaningful form of protest just needs to read some sex pollen about it. But I'm not not saying that.

[bitesonmyneck]

excerpts from Peter De Potter’s Tumblr Takeover for ShowStudio: “THANK GOD”

[chiropteracupola]

c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.

[sonlc]

any tips on how to draw the sonic style muzzles? I've been struggling for decades and it still doesn't look right and glued on

hi i feel you so bad. its been almost a year since i started learning how to draw sonic characters and the muzzles are honestly one of the things i still struggle with the most (in fact i was kinda shocked when i got this ask because i dont feel completely qualified to give other people advice on this, haha). that being said heres my attempt to show my process/thoughts i have when drawing them in hopes it'll help you out. <3

[the-one-with-spider-brainrot]

Alright, Leshy Kissing Booth go! Booth Closed!!

For info: feel free to reblog to participate (or ask but reblogs preferred for organisation), I only ask to not put anything overtly suggestive just for my own comfortability! Otherwise go silly! He’s open for a kiss, or more platonic interactions if you want something more generally comforting from the worm. Or bites. He’s more than happy to bite, the Ex-God of Chaos is always willing to start shit on purpose.

[crowleyholmes]

"I'll never leave you. I'll never leave you again."