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[sickgraymeat]

It is so funny how like. Almost invariably.

Character introduced or established early on as a/the Bad Guy — is more complicated than that — [ground up and churned out by the fandom machine] — certified 100% sad traumatized uwu baby that’s all

Character introduced or established early on as Good Guy — is more complicated than that — [ground up and churned out by the fandom machine] — certified 100% evil uncaring manipulator that’s all

[kiestrokes]

I sent 45k worth of wips to the graveyard 🥹

[meirimerens]

potnia thêrōn

"potnia thêrōn" (''mistress of the beasts, mistress of [wild] animals'') is multiple things:

firstly and more famously it is one of the many epithets of the goddess Artemis, associated with the wilderness and the animals in it. secondly it is more widely applied, sometimes anachronistically (in the same way paleolithic female sculptures are called ''Venus''), to a persistent female divinity archetype found across western asia and southeastern europe in which a goddess (often a Mother, Nature or Fertility goddess but not necessarily [or we lack information]) is shown as controlling, presiding over, or being surrounded by wild beasts (typically felines), possibly linked to ancient beliefs in a Mother-type goddess associated with domestication rites.

some of the most well-known depictions of a goddess as ''potnia thêrōn'' include the ''seated woman with felines'' of Çatalhöyük, some depictions of Kybélê/Kubileya/Cybele and Ishtar that have them flanked by lions, winged Artemis seizing animals by the throat, or the gaulish Epona as mistress of horses.

this one is in no small part inspired by the oh-so-famous minoan snake goddesses.

[sweeneydino]

Sunshine ☀️ i mean, WOH! Mikey!

He burns very very bright and explodes brighter. Next is april and then rat man.

[sherurose]

Daniel Molloy + first impressions

[mecachrome]

Australia 2022 → Abu Dhabi 2023 → Bahrain 2024

It's awful, it's terrible.

[bazpango]

[WIP] captive

[ckret2]

a few months ago i decided to demonstrate why I never draw bill & ford kissing

completely forgot about it until i saw this meme

[tulisydan]

Long live jealous!Bojan 😔✊🏻

[sicktwistedlimpwristed]

This is one of the primary themes of the terror

[14dayswithyou]

PSA ! Gentle reminder to read the pinned post before sending in any questions!! You need to meet certain conditions (listed in the pinned post) in order for me to answer them!

I'll also be shifting away from answering Angel-centric questions for the time being, since more often than not, they usually elicit the same kind of response ^^; (Folks often ask how Ren would react to an Angel with a specific profession, personality trait, or interest; and the usual response is that he ultimately wouldn't mind & would cater towards it because he loves Angel for who they are.)

[pestopastaenjoyer]

“Advance takes place before both adventure games!!1!!11” my brother in Christ. If this was supposedly set before sa2 then why would Sonic stay Super in space by himself for DAYS & come back w a solemn expression before smiling at the player to congratulate them for beating the game

[mayvora]

something something I win

mumbo with the wings here

and false here

[whitealbum]

[corellianhounds]

You know what people like better than a Strong Female Character™, Filoni?

A strongly written character.

Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian, after a more fractious and character-driven episode of “The Heiress,” has Mando begrudgingly asking Bo-Katan for help retrieving his kid only because it’s clear she’s had experience hijacking and navigating around Imperial ships, she has numbers with Koska and Axe behind her, and she is a legitimately good fighter.

Bo-Katan initially scoffs and refuses. To her, he is either intentionally or unintentionally the reason she lost the shipment of Imperial arms and munitions, and their culture clash only drove the divide between them even wider. Now he wants her help? Is he insane?

“It’s Moff Gideon’s lightcruiser,” Mando says.

And that gives her pause. She sneers at him with both derision and suspicion, saying nobody can just track down an Imperial Moff, especially a Moff who’s former ISB, especially by someone like you, Mando.

Mando grits his teeth and shows her verifiable proof and oh, noooooow she’s whistling a different tune. She readily agrees, giving him the same warning about leaving Gideon for her to fight. Din doesn’t care: his child is his only priority.

So the infiltration goes off and they get inside the ship with their collective crews. Mando beats Moff Gideon and saves his child, and then he shows up on the bridge with the Darksaber in hand, the tip of the blade humming at Gideon’s back.

Now Bo-Katan is even angrier. He, deliberately or not (and at this point she’s certain it’s deliberate, him continuing to foil her at every turn), did the one thing she told him not to do, and now this- this outsider, this cultist who knows nothing, is standing there with her sword.

And then he has the audacity to offer it up in forfeit, right there in front of everybody. There’s no possible way she’ll be able to challenge him for the sword now because people will know that he never wanted it in the first place, so he’d obviously just be throwing the fight and she’d have no legitimate claim over it.

He doesn’t even want it.

“It has to be won in combat,” she grits out through her teeth. She can’t even attack him here, not when he’s already tried to yield it to her and he’s holding the foundling he saved as a result of winning said fight in his other arm. The Mandalorian ideal, wrapped up in this new suit laden with more beskar than she’s seen in one place for a long time.

She can’t even begin to say how much she hates him right now.

But then in her periphery she hears Moff Gideon chuckle, and Bo-Katan bristles, knowing exactly what he’s about to say as soon as she hears him laugh and it’s going to ruin everything, but she’s too late

“Why can’t he forfeit the sword?” Gideon taunts. “Thats how I got it from you.”

The bright flash of a blaster bolt sails through the air and hits Gideon square in the chest, knocking him back with a grunt as she strides forward to kill him with her bare hands. There’s an immediate clamoring of voices, the drop soldier hitting her like a brick wall and holding her back while everyone else tries to break up the impending fight, saying he’s a war criminal who needs to answer to the New Republic for his crimes. Gideon groans, falling back against the console as his plastoid chest plate smokes, and Bo-Katan Kryze trembles with rage.

Koska and Axe are behind her. She knows what expression she’ll see on their faces, the immediate disdain and loss of respect. She shouldn’t have shot him. She shouldn’t have shot him because that’s more of an admission of guilt than anything, and now all of them know.

Gideon still somehow manages to chuckle weakly and she realizes that he knew exactly what he was doing. Even defeated and without recourse, he excels at psychological warfare and he’s just fractured any and all support she may have ever had at her back. The Nite Owls know. The cultist knows. The droptrooper, the assassin, the clone—

Everybody now knows that Bo-Katan Kryze, Mandalorian heiress to the throne of their homeworld, had at one point in time faced down Moff Gideon with the Darksaber in hand and had not fought to the death. They know that she forfeited the sword at the height of the Empire’s war, and they knew that Mandalore had fallen either because of her surrender, or because she was foolish enough to believe they would grant them mercy.

To them, she’s either completely inept and an idiot, or she’s a traitor, or she’s a coward, if not all three. Nothing about her actions was befitting of a Mandalorian and she’s fought so hard for so long to keep anybody else from finding out. With two sentences Moff Gideon has ripped any support or chance at leadership away from her entirely. It doesn’t matter what her intentions were when she surrendered; no one will ever truly know or believe her because there is no other way for them to see this freshly re-opened wound as anything other than a complete disgrace to her house, her creed, and her armor. Nobody will rally behind her now.

At the end of season 2, Bo-Katan is alone.

[starcurtain]

Sometimes I think about the fact that we have absolutely no information on how long Aventurine actually spent in slavery.

He fled from the Avgin massacre as a young child, and we didn't see him again until he was a grown adult. I doubt he could have survived entirely on his own at that age and Sigonia's conditions seem too harsh for people to randomly adopt orphans, especially from a rival/outcast clan...

We do know that the master we see on screen was not his only master, because he was purchased from someone else, but we have no idea how many masters he had total before his final one, how many times he could have fled and been recaptured, how many times he was bought and sold...

We do know that Aventurine appears to have been kept on Sigonia or somewhere similarly tribal for those missing years, since his first request to the IPC is for Jade to take him to her "chief," but we don't even know how long Aventurine has been out of slavery. He doesn't look massively different in age from his "trial" with Jade to how he looks in-game now, and he did not rise through the IPC ranks over time like Topaz but won his role directly through his gamble with Jade and then later proving himself on Iymanika.

Basically, all this is leading to a big question: Is it possible that the Aventurine we know is only barely out of slavery? That there may be something like five years or fewer separating him from the wastelands of Sigonia? That he learned all these new behaviors, all this new information about how to operate as a free person in the universe, in what likely amounts to 2-3 years of Jade's guidance and his own hard work?

Man, what an incredible character. Really a standout among my very favorites.