#<-uhhh new tag?? fun!

[fantasykiri5]

Chat which do we like more, with or without the extra little patches of colors (ignore that the bark edge on the top isn't finished- I'm gonna do it once I've figured put the rest of the bark)

[charactercandyart]

happy valentines day <3

[rbtlvr]

okay so. i have been watching this animatic (big big isat spoilers) on repeat for the past uhh. while! and i kept thinking about the main isat theme over the song. so i did that. and added some more (the house motif and hcyhms) for good measure. enjoy!

[ihonestlydontknowwhattocallthis]

Dude, transformers was honestly just a fun thing I liked that was nostalgic and made me happy (this was mainly the bay verse ones idk why I like those) until I watched transformers one and then I just had to go down a whole rabbit hole of things that were angsty as shit and so much complicated lore. God damn you transformers one but I also love you at the same time.

[dots-in-my-head]

[gemini-queen42]

Batb: Other Than Human - Themes stuff (& why I Called It That)

That's right folks, the self-indulgent "throwing any concept I like at the wall and haphazardly mixing together what sticks" au rewrite Thing has Actual Themes! That kind of happened accidentally but they are so real for that so let's get into it.

The Main Narratives Themes Trio of the story now all also embody expanded themes about being an "Other", when being a person is not enough to be properly considered human- more specifically of a neurodivergent/queer girlhood type flavor.

Summary is that it's called "Other Than Human" because the prominent theming is about being considered something other than human due to not fitting the mold of the 'norm'.

[This is a long one so details & specific character stuff are under the cut<3]

Amalure has the greatest departure from her original counterparts thematic placing, so we'll start with her. Amalure retains Gaston's social standing, reputation, etc. But it's of course not quite the same- because she is a woman, and she is not revered for being the picture of ideal womanhood/femininity. Instead, she excels in masculinity, but remains firm that she is and always will be a woman. So, to justify the desire & awe people have for her, they dehumanize her: She doesn't need to follow the Rules because she is outside of them. Amalure is not a person: she is a symbol, a figure, an object. A legend, a folksong, a modern myth. Her skills are not skills they are blessings, inherent, a mundane magic or supernatural. Despite having grown up in Villeneuve for her entire life, she is considered exotic, and is practically, if not actually, fetishized. And through all of this, the status quo and social order gets to be retained without question, and she gets to exist as the exception that proves the rule, rather than the Undesirable that she'd be marked as otherwise.

Amalure is fine with this, because this dehumanization is her status quo: She doesn't really view herself as a person either, she is defined by her relationship to other people, by who she is to them. Amalure has never been a person to anybody: Growing up she was never just a girl, never just Amalure: She was a girl with a mans brain, an embodiment of her fathers greatest achievements, an embodiment of her mothers worst mistakes, she is her fathers daughter or her mothers daughter, but not her own. (and she never both, it is either or, mother or father, never both, never parents.)

Princess Eve/The Beast is the other end of this, of operating through her dehumanization. Upon being cursed, she adheres to what societies have oft wanted to happen to their Undesirables: Hide away and never be seen by the public again. It is entirely self-inflicted, as most of her suffering truly is. She operates not through others dehumanizing view of her, but her dehumanizing view of herself and its warping of how she believes others view her. Because, well, the servants still view her as a person. I mean, they're still human- under the new object forms. And the separation of humanity that is easy to slip into on matters of royalty is awfully minimal as well; they watched her grow up, and she grew up among them.

The girl's bratty, spoiled, temperamental, and is a ball of horrid consequences of the shallow views and ideals learned from surrounding nobility. But she's also the girl that fell asleep listening to Cogsworth explain the many technicalities to managing servants; because she was stubborn in asserting her authority as the mistress of the castle, and thus she Must have say over its goings ons. But the majordomo's voice can be awfully soothing when he's not high-strung on anxiety, and it's hard to pay attention when you don't understand what's being discussed, so its all going in one ear and out the other. And She's Lumiere's 'Evie', who was so amused when Lumiere would draw on a little mustache when dancing the male roles so the princess could learn some duo dances, or because she didn't look very "waiter-like" (because Eve wasn't entirely sure what a maître d' did, but it seemed to have something to do with waiters), and who got annoyed every time the dance teacher/maître d' would warn her not to hurt her body in her pursuits, because it seemed so silly, why would anyone do that? And she's the girl who dragged Mrs. Potts to have tea with her, because she made the best tea and as princess she would have only the best; and if you're going to have tea you may as well have a tea party, and you can't really have a party of one, but two isn't much of a party either so she's going to drag Babette away from her duties too, since the maid was so elegant and thus would be perfect.

Honestly, the girl probably would've turned out fine if she was raised by just the servants. But they weren't the only forces in her life: she's a princess, so she's got to host and interact with important people and learn how to Be noble which isn't something any of the servants can teach her. And it is under the pressures and eyes of nobility, is in mixing and learning their social rules, that learns the lessons that will lead to her curse: That to be considered human and treated as such, one must look human. And to be such as a woman meant to look beautiful, like the ideal. As a woman, to be worthy is to be beautiful and vice versa. And even if she does not, she must have some way to serve men. Otherwise, she is nothing. Eve met these requirements well, and where she did not yet her authority as princess covered. So when a beggar woman is at her doorstep, the princess turns her away: because she is old, ugly, so long past her 'prime'- there is no worth to her anymore. There is no point caring for her future.

Helene stands as both the middle ground and inverse to the other two. She is an Other by virtue of her mind, she is Objectifiable by virtue of her beauty. She sits on the precipice between Undesirable and Desired, seeming nearly apathetic to where she lands despite popular encouragement to embrace or smother aspects of herself. Helene is quite sure she's a person like anyone else, thank you, and is frankly frustrated and a bit weirded out that others seem to have a hard time getting the memo- she doesn't like or want to assume the worst, though, so maybe she just missed another confusing untold social rule or something. I mean, the local triplets really do seem to be advising in good faith- they really do think of her as one of them to an extent (for reasons Helene is yet to know); they just don't understand her.

When Amalure pursues her, there's an unspoken aspect to the deal of marriage she proposes: Helene will get a secured place on the in of the community, a secure standing the promises people no longer questioning or trying to encourage her to no longer be herself. But Helene just isn't interested in Amalure like that, and she also sees what the real trade-off of that security is; that uncomfortable dehumanization that is exactly what Helene doesn't want to deal with anymore. If Amalure is fine living with it than she is free to do as she pleases, but the huntress doesn't seem to understand what Helene could possibly have a problem with- and it's not like they can discuss it, because it's unspoken, and you're not supposed to speak the unspoken things, because they're unspoken for a reason- even if you don't know what that reason is. Helene knows that rule, at least.

When Helene meets the Beast, she regards her as she does any other. It's plain as day that the Beast has a humanity to her, whether she's really "human" or not- she thinks and she feels, and that's enough for Helene.

Because Helene grew up raised by a single dad who she got most of her brain workings from, and he is a man of compassion and science. Off he'd send his beloved daughter to go and question and figure out the world for herself, to experiment and learn and become whatever she desires. Off to bed he'd send her to tell her fairy tales and have their lessons of love and compassion and humanity understood as she drifted off to sleep. Helene was never Odd with her father, never Other, in fact they were so easily two of a kind. It was so jarring, hearing people imply Tyndare less than sane; his logic paths were so easy to follow- but apparently his voice gruffs enough that others have a hard time understanding what he's saying sometimes, so that's where things seem to get lost in translation she guesses. People became jarring in other ways as she grew up too, because suddenly there seemed to be lots of social things she was supposed to know or be but didn't and wasn't, and it became very apparent very quickly that she was an Other among her village.

Overall: Eve & Helene get to go through these themes through the main plot, and post curse-breaking is when Eve gets to properly deal with the internalized issues and whatnot. Like she's learned beauty doesn't matter when it comes to love, and shouldn't decide whether or not someone should be cared about, and Helene loves her despite her having been beastly and despite her being a failure of a woman- (because she no longer fits the feminine ideal after the curse is broken, and frankly she never will again.) But she's still a Failure Of A Woman and Helene deserves Better Than That! So there's still work to do.

Amalure remains static on this aspect of the narrative until after the battle at the castle, where she does survive! .. barely. and it's later, in an argument with her mother that same night, bleeding out on the kitchen floor, when she asserts that she's her daughter too, not just her fathers. she has always been her daughter, always will be, she is the daughter of both of them, because that's not something that just switches or turns on and off- and it's an entire rant that I will not recite here, but the important part is the assertion that she is, always has been, always will be, the daughter of both her parents at once- that's the first little step for her arc of recognizing her own individual personhood and whatnot.

[catzgam3rz]

Heyyyy New Icon time for the Pride month lets goooooo

(Flags are for Aroace and Nonbinary!)

[impzone]

portrait to end the month

[creakysocks]

My Pacrim oc Vivian ft some interactions i imagine happening at different points

[quinn-pop]

doodles of the puff himself !!

[narwhalandchill]

PHEW new abyss done 🫡😤😤 chiorinavia nation feels SO good tho it kinda feels like i have a bit subpar ER built on xianyun i need to get her some more for smoother rotations like even furinas on ER sands just for comfort in this team. chiori really helps with navias energy specifically but the other 2 are kinda just struggling 💀💀 at least zhongli i could put on fav in the past but oh well

Anyway having high invested childe international for this floor 12 chamber 3 first half is so fucking funny bc like. Yes. Yes we do have all the damage needed to clear copelia and copelius with plenty of extra time left over for 2nd half like the gang shreds that shit Easily. Not even close.

now. Now. the subject of how many fucking times that ginger mf (beloved <3) had to die on me on the way to actually inflicting all that damage successfully????? Yeah lets not dwell on that actually 💀💀💀 This boss wants u dead so bad its unreal

[lmaolumarii]

I genuinely dont understand how this app works it feels too complex but uh hi I’m Lumari ig💀😭‼️ also this is Madeline she’s my pet kitten

[crystal-verse]

various gpose images of sae'pheli'ehva and a'mehka'ahma, feat. some wolraha

[unowneyenon]

some long awaited additions left out in og (ty tags for reminding me of these):

you’re in new york, and PETA tries to actually kill you repeatedly, through the course of two games. the only actual animal activist not only can speak to animals, but might also be one. his dad is the king of PETA and makes a castle rise out of the ground in the first game, and successfully freezes the entire region in some adaptations. in the manga, he crucifies all of the gym leaders. but hey! you can put your pokémon in MOVIES ⭐️ oh but you still have to fight that animal guy with one of the legendary dragons of the region that came out of a ball. yeah don’t worry about it, you can fight old guys on the subway later.

you’re young, and ready to start your pokémon adventure—but oh shit, it’s the mafia! you beat up the mafia boss so unbelievably bad that you become a literal legend and eventually the most powerful trainer in the world. beating up the same mafia boss happens twice, actually. weird. time to gamble!

local depressed man feels REALLY sad about his floating lightbulb pet among other things, so he summons gods. this is the second time this has happened in the region since meiji era japan.

meanwhile, in Wellington-upon-somewhere in great britain (ton), you can make really good curry and your fire bunny can play soccer :D also you have to wake up kings arthur and the round table in order to fight the power of capitalism

@naptimed says it SO much better

and finally,

@nukenai you both WIN you WON you GET IT

pokémon game plots will forever be some of the wildest things to grasp for me. a bunch of environmentalists dressing up like pirates actually almost drown the world. oh yeah you can also dress up your pikachu in silly outfits and pick berries for them. jeff bezos creates a death laser using gods to try and destroy france. oh yeah you can also participate in cutsy pageants w your pokémon and yassify your poodle. meanwhile, in hawaii, aliens sent by your girlfriend’s abusive mom are trying to kill everything and many of them look like lovecraftian horrors. have fun surfing on manta rays though. meanwhile, in meiji era japan, you have to battle The Devil from The Bible TWICE because this loser who’s been Just There the whole game has religious trauma and wants to fistfight god. everything wants to KILL YOU and you’re getting paid minimum wage for groundbreaking scientific research. GOD from THE BIBLE gives you an iphone -11 reality is BREAKING NOW GO CATCH 20 BIDOOF AND THREE LAKE SPIRITS

[tvsnationalgeosapphic]

crazy that you can just like…. listen to music you’ve never heard before. forever. all the time. much to think about.

[saturnaous]

Being an artist is so funny.

Like. I'm drawing things I never plan to finish. I'm exploring new ways to draw and having fun. I love making new half drawn things.

I'm drawing random shit. What are you, the IRS? I owe you nothing. My art is for me. Do I want to share my art? Yes. Can you see my unfinished works? Never in a million years. Want to see my finished things? No they're in an outdated style.

Its so much fun to create for ME and ME ALONE