#💬my post

[ashers-selfships]

Redrew Bad Bunny and fixed their design a little! I wanted to make them more obviously 90s-esque and just fix some other things that I wasn’t sure about

[anxeious]

[prodbyton]

ngh~~ fuckkkkk anton 😋😫👀🫣🤤💦🍆😱🥴

[mini-ism]

hjm <333333

[candyheartedchy]

Been thinking about these two A LOT lately.

[burning-sol]

JRWI PCs react to being called a faggot.

Chip: *pulls you aside* Who told you, I want names.

Jay: *turns around to see if you were talking to someone else but no one is there* Who. Me?

Gillion: Fagging it up, Gillion Fagstrider!!! Champion of the Undersea, Hero of the Deep, The Faggot!!! Yes, i am faggot.

William: *does a wispy laugh* Hahahah!!! I'm making a callout doc on you what is your twitter handle.

Vyncent: You can't say that in Prime, it has a different meaning here :(

Ashe: Huh? *takes off headphones* Sorry, what did you say?

Dakota: WHAT. WHAT THE FUCK. THAT'S ILLEGAL.

Kian: *smiles* Nice dude. What up my fellow fag.

Rand: *coughs* Huh? What. no man get your own fags.. *squats in the alley doing fuck all and continuing to smoke*

Rolan: I'm being hate crimed.

Rumi: *looks completely shell shocked like they'll never recover*

Emizel: *KILLS YOU KILLS YOU KILLS YOU KILLS YOU-*

[honeytonedhottie]

SOOO excited for this months it girl magazine it is SUCH a treat୭ 🧁 ✧˚. ᵎᵎ 🎀

[kybelles]

so after a recent conversation with my friends we’ve come to a realization: fandom loves Slave Rights Advocate laurent trope. whether it be an arranged marriage au, a time travel au, an auguste lives au or any kind of setting where slavery is still in motion; it’s always laurent who opens damen’s eyes to the horrors of slavery and insists they can’t be with each other until slavery is abolished, that slavery is a deal breaker on whether they can be together or not. now i certainly don’t want to sound like i’m policing anybody’s creative choices but it’s become such a common trope in the fandom that it is baffling at this point because. here’s the thing. slavery isn’t one of laurent’s battles. at all.

allow me to explain further before i make people angry. it’s clear laurent is against the fundamental premise of slavery and finds it inhumane. but through the series (counting out taofc where he and damen are trying to build an empire together), he doesn’t actively fight or challenge the system or slavery. i don’t even think this is a hot take when you remember that he;

i. didn’t protect the akielon slaves in arles until damen begged him to and sold them to torveld for personal gain (which was the best course of action he could take under the circumstances but as i said, he wasn’t above using them)

ii. referred to damen as his slave constantly in both a technical and romantic sense

iii. got turned on by playing master and slave and master and pet

iv. used isander as a way to get back at damen: was fed by isander in the feast, stroked him, allowed him to kiss his feet and boots etc.

in fact here are plenty of instances where it’s clear laurent enjoyed the type of power he had over damen:

and here’s the only part where i can remember damen and laurent discussing slavery after damen’s identity is revealed and they have the possibility of a future together. as you can see, laurent’s attitude towards it is pretty neutral. he doesn’t approve, but it’s clear he’s not a passionate champion of the anti slavery movement.

let me make it clear that none of this is a criticism towards laurent. it’s important to remember that capri started as a slavekink fic (in pacat’s own words) and though it evolved, by the final draft she still kept some of those elements: like making the first night between lamen a romantic, sacred, precious thing between them; laurent telling damen he’s his slave by feeding him as a slave would, damen calling himself laurent’s slave as a sign of submission/love/romance before their first kiss, laurent saying damen is still his slave before sleeping with him… the narrative still eroticizes slavery to some extent and uses it as a vehicle of romance.

the thing is, laurent finding enjoyment in these practices is not the problem. when the fandom loves to pretend like laurent would be so disgusted by the idea of slavery (even though the text repeatedly shows he’s not) , that he; a perfect civilized blonde veretian angel would come to akielos and educate those barbarians about how horrible slavery is and damen would only open his eyes to the truth through laurent’s guidance, that’s when my issues start. because, like i said, this was never laurent’s battle and it pretty much reads like laurent is some sort of white savior, someone who comes to damen’s country to “fix” the problems of akielos without understanding their history, needs, or the region’s current state of affairs.

another very important thing to underline is that the whole slavery ordeal in the series was damen’s character arc, not laurent’s. he’s the actual slave in the scenario, and as much as laurent doesn’t like slavery, damen didn’t come to the conclusion that it was bad because of laurent’s preachings. it leaves a bad taste in the mouth that damen was the one who actually experienced slavery and faced countless humiliations in vere and yet people still insist on making laurent educate damen about why it’s wrong, even though he himself has never experienced slavery in his life. (one might argue in aus where damen was never sent to vere as a slave he wouldn’t come to the same realizations but that still doesn’t mean laurent would have a passionate agenda regarding slaves. at best i believe he would demand damen to stop sleeping with his slaves as they are monogamous.)

choosing laurent as The One who firmly stands against slavery is bad from a narrative pov too. making this specifically about laurent makes no sense because it's got nothing to do with him. it's not his country! he doesn't care about akielos the way damen does. everything about it thematically relates back to damen; who exists as a metaphor for akielos - any insult or injury done to him is an insult to akielos. he embodies it’s values and it’s people, and by becoming a slave he’s reflecting the current slave state of akielos, and through finding liberation for himself he’s also finding liberation for akielos. it’s a powerful symbolism for how akielos is changed and freed directly BECAUSE of his own personal liberation. laurent has nothing more than an intellectual interest in anti-slavery and he only ever begins to care about akielos because he cares for damen. but damen was raised with it and experienced it and cares very deeply about it. it’s his country! it's his story!

tldr; through the series, it was damen’s journey to experience what it was like to be a slave, to see the true horrors of this practice and decide he doesn’t want to rule his country that way anymore. so taking his agency and giving it laurent, someone who was neutral at best about slavery, feels incredibly insensitive and wrong.

[6okuto]

we need to come together and discuss this as a community because this was crazy THIS WAS CRYAZBD

[call-me-copycat]

My hamsters, for those curious ʕ ◦`꒳´◦ʔ

The first one is named Suki (After Bakugo's first name, Katsuki) because he was very bitey when I first got him (he gave me a permanent scar on my hand >⁠.⁠<)

The second one is named Hoshi (after Shinso's first name, Hitoshi) just because I like Shinso - I was originally going to name Suki something that eluded to Aizawa but after getting to know him I changed it up

I've had them for awhile now, I don't know why I haven't shared them yet (⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ

[ashers-selfships]

Yeah I didn’t really go into this with a specific idea and I think it shows🥲 but anyway here’s my first ever drawing with one of my more recent f/os (and my new Christmas pfp)!

[anxeious]

hi friends!!! if anyone wants to help decorate my tree here’s a link to do so!!! hearts!!! <3

[iri-desky]

OKAY ALNST FANS, HERE'S A CONCEPT; (theory? idea? Who knows, it's a concept)

We'll only actually hear the alnst characters actually speak rather than sing at the very end of Alien Stage.

Now, we know that alnst, long ago, was summarized to ultimately be about "a girl who changed the world". That girl is axiomatically Mizi (at least, I assume, presuming that VIVINOS doesn't pull a little sneaky on us and make someone like Hyuna or that mysterious girl from the top 3 video the girl in question. But I digress). Now we're going to assume that, at the end, something has greatly changed with the relationship between aliens and humans. If so, then at the end, humans likely won't be under the heel of the aliens so much-- they won't be minimized to singing voices in a contest anymore. If this is true, then at the very end, we likely won't have to only hear the characters sing anymore; they'll finally be able to speak when they're no longer voiceless.

I also want to point out that the only other time in the whole series when we've heard a character canonically speak instead of sing is in the very first episode, when Mizi gave her monologue in the middle of My Clematis. The monologue gave some exposition for ALNST, but also essentially revealed the core themes of Alien Stage in a nutshell -- love, what it means, and what it ultimately brings.

This monologue is just before Sua, Mizi's love interest, dies right before her eyes and shatters Mizi's innocence. After that, no other character can talk, not even Mizi. It is here wherein Mizi becomes voiceless as the reality of her predicament finally hits her.

She has to change it to get her real "voice" back after oppression.

[lpsotd]

sorry to continue lpspop posting but that reblog got me really thinking "wow. all these characters do kinda suck," angelina in particular kinda stood out to me, because early on in savannah's rise to popularity, angelina was kinda depicted as 'the good one' while genny and savvy bathed in their newfound popularity, when in actuality angelina was the one who pushed savannah to overthrow brooke simply because she's good looking, and then she gets upset when savannah and genny don't acknowledge her due to them being busy with boys

that's not me saying lina's anger isn't valid, especially since at first genny and savvy didn't try to include lina in their activities. it took until the night of (or before?) brooke's party for savannah to apologize, which is good on her part, but still ??? i dunno

what i'm trying to say is that angelina isn't exactly a saint 😭 neither is genny, since they the ones to pitch the idea of a rivalry with brooke to savannah. idk i'm just rambling here.

[candyheartedchy]

When your f/os’ fandoms are small and you want to reblog posts from others but don’t want to be perceived:

[burning-sol]

JRWI characters react to your lactose intolerance.

Gillion: What's lactose intolerance???? *DRINKS A GALLON OF MILK AND PROCEEDS TO HAVE SEVERE STOMACH ISSUES*

Jay: Wow it must suck to be you *continues to drink her glass of milk without a care*

Chip: HAH!! *tries to drink milk but it drips out his exposed ribcage* Awe man.........

Goobleck: it okay!! goobleck drink it all already!!!!!

Vyncent: I know how to fix this!!! *dashes over to the sink and pours all the milk down the drain*

William: oh ill just put this away then *goes to walk to the fridge but phases through the floor leaving only the bottle of milk behind*

Dakota: OH NICE I PREFER SOY MILK ANYWAYS IT TASTES SO GOOD, RIGHT??

Ashe; *hands you a can of monster*

Rand: *takes deep inhale of joint and exhales* did you know theyre puttingillegal supplements in milk its this whole conspiracy--

Kian: its okay dude but like where do you get your calcium from then..?

Rolan: Coffee doesn't even taste that good so you're not missing out.

Thanatos: Your biases towards dairy products does not concern me Y/N.

peter; oh wow me too...... we're like. both so intolerant... ..i think i phrased that wrong. nevermind.

rumi: Hm. I see... Did you know some people are into that sort of thing? You know, milking? Not me of course. But.

Exandrofh: I'M INTOLERANT TOWARDS MILK TOO I EXPLODE EVERY COW I SEE