#‘she’s the least chaotic’

[starlooove]

“Why is cassie the leader and not the others” proceeds to talk about how cool and quirky the other 3 boys are and how cassie has to wrangle em in like the mom she is. This is not misogynistic because Cassie is in charge. She just gets no personality that’s not how much more responsible she has to be. I’m gonna kms

[demigod-shenanigans]

Leo complaining about Jason pulling all the girls is even funnier when you realize the girls he’s pulling are like. Repressed queer girl destined by the goddess of love not to end up with him. Repressed queer girl that’s probably not even into guys. Drew.

None of them are girls Leo is even remotely interested in romantically. Percy also gets a lot of romantic attention—arguably more than Jason—and Leo isn’t bothered by that.

Buddy, I don’t think you’re jealous of the attention Jason is getting for the reason you think you are.

[aaandbackstabbed]

Goldie and Scrooge, sneaking back in at 2am

Hortense, turns in swivel chair: care to tell me where you two were?

Goldie: we were with Mathilda.

Mathilda, also turns in her swivel chair: you wanna try that again?

Scrooge: we were with 22?

22, turns in swivel chair: guess agai-

Mathilda: hortense! HELP I CANT STOP THE CHAIR!

[edwardallenpoe]

Mariana and Sherlock's favorite pass time is embarrassing John, they meet up on Sundays to record their "blush-o-meter" results of the week.

[outtox1cated]

i've been obsessed with this thing. have so many silly ideas with them....

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

What's your opinion on malewife/house husband Adrien posts? I asked this to another blog, and like I said to them, I find them a guilty pleasure: The concept is cute, but I know that would be the last thing Adrien would ever wanna be after all his dad put him through.

I don't think that it would be the last thing that Adrien would ever want. I actually think it suits his character in a lot of ways, you just have to handle the topic with care.

First let's talk about why it suits him.

Miraculous has totally failed to give Adrien any sort of career-based passion and - if we ignore the senti complication - I honestly love that for him! I want more characters with no major life ambitions to balance out the Marinettes of the world!

I think that society places way too much pressure and value on finding the perfect career that fulfills us in every way while also allowing us to put food on the table. Most people will never find that and that's okay. It doesn't mean that you've failed or that you're lesser. For most people, the goal is to find a career that pays the bills and that you enjoy enough that you don't hate doing it 40hrs/week. Along similar lines, for most people, your passion will be something that doesn't make money. It will be something like a hobby or spending time with those you love or analyzing badly written French TV shows.

This brings us back to Adrien.

Adrien seems to get a great deal of joy from being around his loved ones and making them happy, so I can absolutely picture him finding a lot of joy in running a home. This is extra true because Marinette is pretty clearly career driven and she's planning to go into a creative field, so she'll probably have a pretty crazy schedule and struggle to stay on top of it all. Having a loving husband to take things like cooking and cleaning off of her plate would be a blessing and a gift that she'd greatly appreciate, but that would feel unbalanced if Adrien was working, too. (Yes, they could hire staff, but that risks the secret identity thing, so I don't see them doing that.)

If they both have power careers, then they'd barely see each other and I hate that for them. I think that it would make Adrien incredibly sad and depressed. Plus, while Marinette thrives off of competition and staying busy, only needing occasional breaks before diving right back in, Adrien seems to hate busy schedules and heavy work loads.

Given all of that, I think that there's a lot to be said for Adrien stepping away from the working world. Especially since he's been in it for years and being a child celebrity is no joke! I think it would be nice for him to escape from strict schedules and expectations. Dinner fails? Order takeout!

While we're on the topic of food, I really like the idea of Adrien falling in love with cooking. Dude needs a creative outlet and that's honestly a great one (I hate it when people write characters as unable to figure out cooking like it's some cute quirk. While an initial struggle is believable, it's not a mystical art that takes years of practice. Between YouTube, the wider Internet, and maybe some classes if he wants to get fancy, I think that he'll be fine.) There's so much variety with what you can do in the kitchen and the end result gets to be shared and appreciated by those you love. It just seems like a perfect fit for him, but I would never make him a professional chef because the hours are insane and the pressure to be perfect is high. I only see him loving it as a hobby where he can go at his own pace, take days off, and make lazy meals when he's not feeling like being a show off.

The big concerns that come with making him a homemaker are a lack of financial independence and a lack of socialization. I don't see the first thing as an issue for Adrien since he comes from a wealthy family, so that one doesn't phase me.

The isolation could very easily be an issue, but it could just as easily be a problem if he started working, too. It's not as if a job is a sure way to have friends or even just consistent positive social interactions, which is another reason why I don't really see a need to give him a traditional job. You can get a vibrant social life in lots of other ways.

Here are the two big things that I keep in mind when writing an Adrien-as-a-homemaker or similar setup as it is where I tend to have Adrien land for all of the above reasons:

Adrien needs to be active in some organization or project. Volunteer work is a good fit as is being an active stay-at-home parent or some combination of the two. Voice acting is also on my radar, but my default is to have him act as the head of team miraculous' out-of-battle activities. Scheduling meet and greets. Going to see sick kids. Jetting around the world for humanitarian aid missions. Basically let Chat Noir be his "career" which gives him a lot of much needed flexibility for making his own schedule, especially if he's a stay-at-home parent to any eventual kids. I also like the poetic nature of Adrien finally being proud to be the face of a "brand" via his hero side while his civilian side becomes just some guy that people kind of remember from old ads.

Consider having a non-traditional living arrangement. I am a big fan of hero teams living together, so my default is to take the Agreste mansion and remodel it into a secret HQ for the team. Adrien and Marinette would have their own apartment/wing/whatever, but they'd still be surrounded by their found family on a near-daily basis, so that social isolation is the last thing on Adrien's mind. There's almost always someone to hang out with! You could also just have Alya and Nino or other friends live in the same apartment building so that they're over a lot/Adrien has a place to hang when Marinette is working late because you know that she'd do that.

Basically, Adrien's rich, so he doesn't need to make money and he doesn't seem to have any interest in a normal job, so I really like letting him having a unique life where he doesn't have a traditional job. He is a superhero, after all. Unique career paths are pretty par for the course. You just have to be careful to make sure that all of this feels like his fully informed and carefully considered choice and not like you forced it on him to make Marinette's life perfect (I only brought her up earlier because this is a story and it makes sense to design characters around each other). I usually do this by sending Adrien to therapy in his late teens or by giving him some other parth of self discovery.

Do note that all of the above is inspired by my read of Adrien which may be totally different from your read of him and that's fine! I just can't picture him as someone who thrives in a traditional career path based on knowing people who strike me as similar to him and from whom I draw my understanding of how to write that part of Adrien's character. I think that he'd be perfectly able to have a traditional career path, but I also think that he'd be pretty miserable for a lot of reasons.

I'll also note that I'm not sure what posts spawned this ask, so there may be elements of those that I'd have criticisms of. This post was about the general concept of Adrien being a homemaker. I tend to avoid the broader fandom for my own sanity and the use of the term "malewife" has me concerned that I'm implying support of something I wouldn't actually support because that's a new one for me and it sounds incredibly sexist.

I'm not a fan of implying that the default definition of "wife" is "submissive homemaker" so a man taking on a homemaking role is clearly submissive and acting like a woman does while his aggressive, domineering wife is acting like a man, which is the definition of this word that I'm finding online and yikes! Wife and husband are legal/social status in my book. They are not clearly defined jobs/roles/personality types, so I'm not a fan of using gendered terms to refer to stuff like this especially since I do actively try to use gender neutral words in my own writing whenever I can, though I'm certainly far from perfect on that front.

I also don't see homemaking as a submissive act. It certainly can be, but that's not how I picture Adrien at all! I picture him as relaxed and plesent, but 100% in charge of the home and all choices about how it's run. I also see him being in charge of their finances like homemakers often were in the "old days" since they were the ones in charge of things like scheduling cleaners, buying food, and other things that needed strong budgeting skills while the person who worked wasn't actually spending money or managing the home since they were at work. I like to think that Nathalie would prep Adrien to be a wealthy man and so he'd have strong skills in finance management.

[lumilasi]

Decided that while this does kiiiinda have a different style from my prev Cyberpunk AU pieces due to more varied lineart thickness, I still wanted to connect it to them via using the same style for the speech bubbles/info stuff. (Since this is still in the same AU and story). Ava has normal human eyes in this AU since she's not a Fae here. I also ended up not adding a pattern on her mask, as I felt like her outfit has enough detail as is.

Also I FINALLY remembered to include my watermark on these. I made it specifically to put on my art but I keep forgetting to do it lmaoo. (Also noted that since the snowflake part is black, I can ALSO make a version of it that just has the eyes and the text, which may be better for some pieces)

[arostormblessed]

oouugghhhh thinking about zoe heriot again. she’s a genius from the future she wore sparkly jumpsuits she knocked people out with flower pots she knew how to work the tardis she flipped a giant ass man over her head she was smarter than the doctor. she was even a lesbian

[itstimeforstarwars]

I love that Dooku raised Rael and Qui-Gon back to back and then after Qui-Gon became a knight Dooku had to take like a 30 year break before deciding to raise Komari.

[theeflowerofcarnage]

freeing Orpheus really is the lawful stupid option….…doesn’t mean I’m not gonna do it one day but all I’m sayin is that Voss n laezel are asking a LOT of me to sell my soul to Raphael for it like they weren’t trying to murder me a few weeks ago

[dazzelmethat]

Long time no Bud. Wow the last time I made her a ref was 2018. I experimented some with her pallet. Unsure if I like the profile head but oh well, open mouthed anime inspired profile faces are notoriously hard for a reason.

Sigh. What am I going to do with her.. my writing conundrum workshopping in tags. My tag rant mentions plot related suicide and ableism (in relation to the zombie trope).

[sysig]

Red Eyes and Evil Time, practically the same thing right (Patreon)

[obessivedork]

Was.... that supposed to be the end of FO4? 😐 Like once you've blown up the Institute you get this random nostalgic slideshow that has nothing to do with ANYTHING and that's it? You beat the game! Good for you! But we'll place you back into the world to keep playing I fucking guess? What's going to happen to your friends and The Commonwealth with all the decisions you made?😐 Don't ask us! Not like we're going to make an RPG with the infamous RPG IP, that would be silly!

[softerpixels]

doing nothing but working and practicing her craft has left ava with some major party withdrawals so she hit up the warehouse with her girls francesca and bria. it's not a night out if ava doesn't end up cuddled up with her longtime friend and dealer max, tho. she's... not that into him but he's very into her and this girl's gotta afford her vices somehow!

[glitch-pep]

Funky Outfit Time! >:D

Tmosth but with the gang!

MASSIVE shout-out to SmileyFace098 on DeviantArt for compiling all of the game assets!

[For the record: Milo and Charlie are NOT genderbent in this, the fake screenshot above takes place soon after the exchange underneath, and Charlie's height in this is wrong because I needed her to be visible above the text box.]

I never shaded my art like this before so let me know what you think! (I'm still figuring it out, it might look a bit messy.)

[rawliverandcigarettes]

WIP Meme

I was tagged by @illusivesoul, thank you so much (and I'm sorry about your previous tags, they just fell down the depths of my mentions and I forgot them forever ;; )

Tagging... @crapeaucrapeau, @bloobluebloo, and I genuinely do not know who want to be tagged in things like these so I won't bother anyone, but feel free to join up (or don't if you don't feel like doing it of course!)

But!! What a great excuse to share with you all... the very first paragraph of The Empire of Preys. 👀🐸🌿

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Her krogan of a father used to tell her this before he vanished from her life: don’t look where the sun sets. Look anywhere else. Get your head-start. Gear up while everyone else is blinded.

So Rhanda T’selvi did just that, and went to work that day expecting to be fired.

She got the notice at 4. No surprise there. Najarat Forum was already half empty, most of her turian colleagues long gone by then. She dragged herself off the security desk on an empty stomach and punched the elevator to the last level of the egg-shaped, crisscrossed tenement —her back pointedly turned to the city view. She was tugging at the trigger of the assault rifle strapped to her shoulder, out of habit, when the Virtual Intelligence chimed: floor thirty-seven, directorial center. Rhanda extracted herself from the glass box and took her plated boots towards the empty atrium. At first, she was polite and waited for movement: a secretary, a greeting, another soul waiting for dismissal as well. Anyone. Something. Nobody came. She invited herself deeper in.