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DPxDC Headcanon: the title "King of the Infinite Realms" is misleading
Sure, there are indeed an infinite amount of worlds and dimensions across the multiverse. However, the name "Infinite Realms" is actually referring to the space in between said realms. The malleable borders that act as cushions to prevent all these realities from constantly colliding with each other. If you compare the worlds themselves to bones, then the Infinite Realms would be the cartilage preventing friction whenever they move.
So if Danny ever became the king of the Infinite Realms, he wouldn't actually have authority over whatever goes on within said realms. After all, each world has their own set(s) of afterlives and deities already taking care of that. No, Danny would only be in charge of that squishy, ectoplasmic stretch of space that portals need to punch holes through in order to cross over.
#dpxdc#headcanon#infinite realms#This could also factor into why Pariah Dark had to be stopped by the other ancients#He overstepped important dimensional boundaries and upset the balance of several worlds binding them together under his ownership#Those ectoplasm borders eroding away until whole dimensions almost collapsed into each other#Long story short tho#While the IR can be a useful way to connect the living realms to various afterlives#I don't think being in charge of the IR automatically makes you in charge of every realm adjacent to it#That'd be like saying owning a street automatically grants you ownership of the buildings connected to it#Oh yeah I tagged this as DPxDC because I was getting a smidge bored of those crossover fics where Danny overpowers the JL without a sweat#Like yes our boy is very powerful#but for fics where he's still a teen I think he should still have some growing to do on the combat side of things#Even with him as an adult I'm worried about turning him into this ultra unfair mary sue with full control of all existence
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IMO, Artemis i, ii, and Angeline are codependent in a way that doesn't result in yelling matches per se, but rather codependent in the sense of, “I love you so much I want to put you in a snow globe and look at it for hours in a quiet room”.
On the one hand, Artemis II acts like he's the parent despite being 15-17 — and then on the other hand, Angeline and Artemis I see every awful thing that happens with the People as if it were happening to Artemis circa age 6.
All this is complicated by Artemis being thee baby of the family/the Original Heir***. There’s a tension in Artemis thinking that he needs to puppeteer his parents for the good of The Family, whereas his parents hold that maybe the world did end when Artemis died (TLG) and to pretend otherwise is insane.
***"Thee baby" not in the sense of youngest or most infantilized. Of course, in TEC, Fowl Sr grieves at the sight of the adult-like Artemis in front of him during the hospital visit, as does Angeline in TAI during a phone call.
Rather, I joke about this in the sense that like... Angeline and Artemis I never get to see Artemis grow up. Not to mention, Artemis was born into an era of the Fowls where it would be reasonable to worry that someone would do ill by Artemis to hurt the family due to him being the only heir (at the time). Myles and Beckett are born into a wholly different world than Artemis was. So much of the anguish over Artemis has to do with that context!
#artemis fowl#don’t make me factor in Butler re: the cocktail of parental neuroses Artemis has because it just gets even messier LMAO#like imagine this ^ is the tenor of your old money crime dynasty and you also have a father figure in you’re#employ (!) who doesn’t see you as a son per se but closer to a younger brother and also is torn often between falling on his sword when you#die and having at various points thought about quitting (or even killing you in B1) due to how often you ask him to cross his moral lines#and put his biological sister in danger
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Vasco and Machete are absolutely adorable, your style is so lovely and you draw the softest beds I’ve ever seen in any art ever
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#thank you!#softest beds is a whole new compliment that's so sweet#let me go off on a weird and personal tangent for a minute#I've always found the concept of sleeping very touching somehow#it's this mandatory resting period literally everyone has to plan their life around no one has the power to avoid sleeping#if you neglect it your mind and body start to break down very quickly#sleep is such a neutral state of being no one is particularly sad or happy or evil or good while they're asleep they're just logged off#sleeping feels nice it's rejuvenating it's one of the few universal pleasures every single person has an access to#and I find it terribly cute how people have different little bedtime rituals#socks on socks off various pillow and blanket arrangements certain sounds that make them sleepy etc#and sleeping next to someone is such an act of trust#it's extremely intimate as is sex doesn't necessarily have to factor into it#getting comfortable and going unconscious with someone at the same place at the same time that just touches my heart#especially if you're invited into their bed which is a very private space a person's own little nest where the world can't reach them#even if you fall asleep in public transport there's this vulnerability to it and for the most part people respect the sanctity of sleep#and tend to leave sleeping people alone at least in my limited experience#I like drawing my characters sleeping because it feels like I'm doing them a favor granting them a little respite#anonymous#answered
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saw your most recent post about really good fics that contain uncomfortable kinks and i immediately thought "ah, biscia must be reading the mpreg soriel fic" and almost left a reply talking about it but i stopped myself because i realized that would be an insane assumption to make. needless to say i felt so vindicated when i saw you link it in an earlier post.
like. HELLO?
HELLO???????
#answered asks#''I fear nothing good ever comes of it when it does'' is straight up SEARED into my brain as the toriel line of all time I've ever read#there's some character interpretations I don't share there. like i said i don't think either of them would cry that easily#and while the different conception (badumtss) of sex/gender in various monsters was interesting#i felt like it didn't quite deal with the ramifications of not strictly binary reproductions on social perception of gender like I could've#eg the part about boss monsters being closer to humans in how it works and thus having a different concept of mom/dad compared to skeletons#was pretty nice. but if you establish that skeletons work like ghosts but distinguish she/he ''for some reason'' even though all of them#can bear kids. and then you make a comment about ''the child possibly growing into a woman considering the shape of the pelvis'' it's like#why??????? why. whywhywhy. why would that be a factor. even hypothesizing a certain physical dimorphism. WHY pick the one tied to pregnancy#the ONE ASPECT that you decided was shared between both ''male'' and ''female'' skeletons#it's also like. objectively an argument that is leveraged to hurt and deny trans people irl so it was just. unbelievably uncomfortable#this is what we mean with mpreg and transphobia btw#not that the concept is inherently transphobic or hurtful to trans people#but that that kind of alternative biological worldbuilding implies an alternative social conception of gender role for the characters#that a lot of authors just. straight up miss. because their view of the world is still very cis/perisexist#BUT!!!!!!!!!!#it was still over all a very good fic. I'd rec it to pll not into that for the initial 2 chapters alone
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Hot take: It's okay that Bi-Han doesn't like Tomas. He doesn't have to see him as family or like him.
By the addition of “Hot take” I assume this is not something that fandom at large figured out by themselves yet. Can’t say I’m surprised though. Yes, it is okay for Bi-Han to not like or see Tomas as family, as no one can be - nor should be - forced to like anyone just because others (adults) expect it. That alone doesn’t make Bi-Han an evil person, even if Tomas feels rejected in the process, as each person will define what makes one a family differently.
Their brotherhood was forced on both, as none had any say in Grandmaster’s decision to adopt the orphaned and traumatized boy (how they adapted to the situation is another matter and so far, we know more about Smoke’s process of adaptation than Bi-Han’s). We know only small bits of what happened that significant day, but so far sources - the way the informations are phased at least - feel to me like the Grandmaster adopted the boy less for Tomas’ sake and more to smother his own guilt
[...] Having accidentally trespassed onto Lin Kuei lands, they were attacked. Smoke was orphaned. Ashamed by his warriors' actions, the Lin Kuei's Grandmaster adopted Smoke. He raised him alongside his sons, Sub-Zero and Scorpion. [Smoke’s BIO]
and/or to save his honor:
Kitana: "You are Kuai Liang's adopted brother?" Smoke: "His father's honor demanded that he take me in."
So this is not a situation as if Bi-Han urged father to give him another younger brother and dad complied to make his son happy but once he brought the orphaned Tomas, Bi-Han decided nope, I change my mind and from on I will act as a spoiled brat that didn’t get what he wanted. Tomas did not choose to be orphaned nor to be adopted (as he himself admitted he did not think being taken in by Lin Kuei was anything good for him at that time), the same as Bi-Han was not asked by Grandmaster for approval (and even if he was, his objection apparently wasn’t taken into account as Grandmaster still adopted Tomas).
Smoke: "Father wanted us to be brothers." Sub Zero: "Yet another of the old man's foolish dreams."
Note this: father wanted. Not hoped they will eventually find a common ground despite the not the best circumstances. He wanted to save honor. He wanted them to be brothers. Again, not sounding as taking into account what the kids wished for or needed and who knows, maybe Grandmaster wanted it so much, he pushed too hard to get the most comfortable solution for his own conscience - except Bi-Han simply never clicked with Tomas, whatever due to incompatible personalities or factors beyond their good will? I presume they all were still enough young when Tomas was brought into picture, but if Bi-Han is the eldest out of them three, then he could had his own duties that simply didn’t give him enough time to bond with the (culturally and ethically) different kid the way Kuai Liang did, again presumably, as closer in age to Tomas.
But even if Bi-Han simply didn’t like Tomas, then it is still okay, because people can’t be forced to love or like others. Not liking someone though doesn’t give anyone the right to act disrespectful - yet so far, we only heard he was cold to Tomas but that does not necessary mean being intentionally cruel either. A human can be polite and still come off as emotionally cold (and let’s not forget that people can also be naturally introverts or fall into the autism/asocial disorders spectrum that makes it difficult to establish good relationships with strangers. We are familiar with MK1 Bi-Han for what? Maybe twenty minutes of story mode and through intro-dialogues that only gives us a sense of who he is at this point. We don’t even have an idea if cryomancer genes affect his perception of the world or behavior).
Bi-Han as an adult person seems to come to terms with the situation to some extent and got used to the idea of an additional brother - his and Tomas relationship is tense and complicated but it is now tainted by their conscious choices, however in the past, if Bi-Han didn’t like Tomas for whatever understandable or petty reason, no one can demand from a kid to act as an adult and control/smooth their own emotions to solve the problem adults created in the first place. The whole situation wasn’t fair to Tomas and so wasn’t to Bi-Han either.
Would it be sad to learn that Bi-Han has never liked Tomas or never come to love him the way he loved his biological brother? Yes. But not liking someone or not considering someone a family member is not a crime itself and is not an indication of being inherently evil. Be it fictional characters or real human beings, people sometimes simply don't like each other and they have the right to feel that way. Not liking each other though does not mean anyone is allowed to abuse or disrespect others, just to be clear here.
I like to think this should be obvious, but knowing fandom, it may indeed be the hot take.
#mortal kombat#my replies#bi han#sub zero#tomas vrbada#smoke#bi han & tomas#would i like them to be good bros? of course!#but i will respect if they don't like each other or if only bi han doesn't like tomas#because interpersonal relationships aren't either good or bad#some are complicated by various factors#on which some we have control while on others don't#i get that parents want their children to get along but forcing them to bond when it doesn't work is just wrong way to handle the problem#i know fandom likes to make Tomas the Cinnamon Roll#but Tomas is not some lost puppy that if you don't like him you must be the embodiment of all evil#where people ever get those ideas? Or no I don't wanna know that actually
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i hate being self-aware (i'm not, really, and i don't know why i'm saying this; or why suddenly i'm correcting myself and making an attempt at using proper punctuation; here, would you look at that, an oversaturation of semicolons; what a ciceronian sentence this has become; how so.)
#random thoughts#i overcorrect myself because i'd rather be a concept in your minds. a correlation.#i sympathize with him in some aspects but i wouldn't dare say most. i like the belief that i am him.#a silly and lighthearted idea because of our similarities.#but if i start to actually believe it then it will factor into a trinity.#myself and god and then him. because he's quite an idol to me now.#anyway. post cancelled (or however one spells it). i love you franz kafka!!!!#and i'm sorry for even saying that as a puerile sot myself.#you would chronically despise me for admiring you i'm aware.#to this point would disgust you. but i suppose i am meant to disgust. i am a creature in some respects.#my simple existence disgusts many for various reasons.#but you are dead so we cannot confer. if possible it were for you to see this you'd know it's about you.#and hate me.#why don't i post about my beloved boyfriend instead of a dead man who would have despised me anyway.#(sorry if you wouldn't have i am just assuming. very seriously sorry again.#ought to write an album on my trifecta of false delusion surrounding us and god.)
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Gale: info dumping about arcana, the Weave, theories, literature, and recipes. random mentions of Tara
Talara: 😍
Talara: info dumping about history, folk lore, and how there's this one dialect of elvish that is lost to time because no one bothered preserving the pronunciation
Gale: 😍
Everyone else: Please shut the fuck up
#gale of waterdeep#baldur's gate 3#bg3#gale dekarios#they're autistic your honor#info dumping is a love language#please in this day and age of recordings and such if you speak or know someone who speaks a regional dialect (esp if it's dying) preserve i#we lost entire dialects of irish because of various factors including the lack of preservation#we have lost native languages for similar reasons#dont let language die#dont let folk art die#preserve your history
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so this "ethics & legal requirements for research involving human subjects" course I'm doing for class rn hasn't figured out that you don't hyphenate "cisgender," and yet has still somehow heard of "trans broken arm syndrome" and wants to inform us about it being a source of distrust in medical professionals among some trans people. what's happening here....
#various factors in my life have coincided such that 95% of the content of this course isn't remotely new to me at all#(i.e. psychology undergrad & kink community)#but every so often it just throws a curveball without so much as blinking that has me going#'EXCUSE ME CAN WE BACK UP A SECOND AND UNPACK THAT??'#and that's approximately the entertainment keeping me going through it#(well that and the intonation of the person reading the voiceover whenever they say ''federal regulations'')#(because it's the exact same prosody as airplane safety voice 'federal regulations prohibit tampering/disabling/removing smoke detectors')#(so I guess that's now in my head the same way as grocery store checkout machine 'put your. PINK LADY APPLE. in the bag.')#.......well those tags certainly went off on a ramble didn't they#...OH YEAH RIGHT the holy shit unpack pls stuff has largely included like#''the police & justice department are exempt from these [previously described] regulations about ethical overview''#YOU CAN'T JUST SAY THAT MATTER-OF-FACTLY AND THEN MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE HELLO#anyway. yeah. this is a time I'm having.#James liveblogs grad school#content is for other people
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Vague posting instead of reblogging since I already left four replies on it but like fear mongering over a job listing being posted in the discord that staff might be taking advantage of starry eyed fans is so fucking funny to me now that I'm not in desperately trying not to fall asleep mode. Like after doing my morning salt mine inspection route I realize there is absolutely no way that anon didn't submit that shit without already having Santae allegations in mind. $6-$10 an item + allegations artists get paid less than that? What a sick joke.
Like this is a very old answer and who knows how things might've changed and if it is actually true but goddddddd damn it's like night and day. It's crazy.
#meow.txt#like at the end of the day idk how fair these rates are because im sure theres various factors involved. but it IS bigger number. at least.#and its just so insanely normal for a lot of creative productions to source talent from their fans#i swear it happens all the time in comics and animation
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Freaky creature-face Jupiter ink with no pencil sketch, bonus rare traditional color (albeit quick)
One of my biggest retroactive regrets with my comic was adhering too close to the Gigamix style's 'mask' interpretation, and then putting a 'cute' face under it (even though it has significant and slightly depressing backstory/narrative implications that I may never get around to utilizing...)
#art#fanart#mega man#mega man v#stardroid jupiter#dai's mega man dump#i'm not feeling great lately#and i feel about ready to leave this fandom for various reasons#i have a habitual pattern of burnout#where combinations of factors make me want to give up art for a while#and i need to go on a consumer binge to get my energy back#but whenever i resurface from depression it's usually into a different fandom#so i guess it is what it is...#i have so much written that may never get realized#because the energy return is not enough to make up for the cost#i'm sorry to anybody whose hopes i got up#at the end of the day i was never somebody who should have been trusted to finish what was started
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>find poc creator talking about issues regarding their comminity
>not part of it but find it interesting topic so watch lots of their videos about it and trends
>find her personality to be good and her stances fair and respectful
>put channel to oldest content to put interesting videos in a watch later
"THE TRANSES ARE INDOCTRINATING YOUR CHILDREN" "TIRED OF RESPECTING PRONOUNS" "TRIGGERED FEMINISTS" "PARENTS OF TRANS KIDS HAVE NO BACKBONES" "WOMEN WANT TO BE TRADWIFES"
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#videos from 6 months ago so its not like a ''ok shes grown from this'' type of thing#like just because shes no longer making a video about it doesnt mean her stances changed from 6 months ago not in this climate.#its so fucking dissapointing. i just want to watch more brown creators and then i check their channel and theyre posting like#''should trans people be allowed to live? thinkpiece''#this happened the other day too when i watched a video and she seemed fun and all the sudden that right wing podcaster brent fuckingwhtever#clip in the middle of it without her being like ''now i know she sucks but-'' just uncritical#and i click on the rest of the videos and theres various videos about gay people Going Too Far or something#its so disappointing because homophobic/transphobic american brown people are specially like. theres a hidden thing here about#respectability. like we want to be respectable so white people will stop treating us so bad#and so many of these cultures have rich third gender or gay love history but its all magically poofed away because We Need To Look#Respectable To White People.#and of course theres the just basic Theyre just misguided hateful bigoted people but i cant ignore that factor of#you know you're not special? you know they hate you too? do you know that?#its sooooo. sigh#smashes head#i wish i could just watch a random poc cishet creator without worrying theyll end up as a christian who is weird about gay people due#unfortunate upbringing and things like that#i hate itttt i hate itttt i should be able to trust my own people but sometiems i cant because stuff like this happensssssd#so you guys think itll ever get better
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im a little curious. In ur opinion how do u think femstars natsumes childhood went ? Was she made to dress up as a boy or was she maybe kind of "forced" to overperform femininity when she maybe was a little more tomboyish ? I feel like natsume's "odd" childhood is very important to his character so I was just wondering how you (or anyone else, but since u draw a lot of fem natsume i was wondering if u ever thought about it) would go about adapting it. anyways i love ur art!!! Its so cute i wanna eat it <33 i love women i love boys idk i just love anything u draw. Ur a big inspiration for me!! <3333
HMMM i guess itd kinda depend on how u wish to view femstars natsume!
for example, to some people femstars is just a way for them to draw their favorite characters as cute girls, and if u want natsume to be and present as a cute girl then itd make sense for her childhood to instead have her be dressed up as a boy! kinda reversing everything and having fun that way!
then theres the angle of using femstars as a way to explore femininity and gender expression as a whole. now, u can still have her dress as a boy during childhood and integrate that into her complicated relationship with gender, but i personally enjoy natsumes complex relationship with femininity specifically. so, while i havent thought about this in alot of detail, i personally enjoy viewing it as her character arc basically being ?? kind of the same as regular natsume ??? having an overly feminine childhood and such, and maybe she felt like a bit of a "damsel" and didnt feel like she was taken seriously due to her "being a girl" and "hyperfeminine," so, she begins to resent it a bit and is more Tomboy. maybe during her first and second year at yumenosaki she really leans into it too, but i do want her to gradually grow comfortable with her femininity. i like natsume in pink and cute outfits!! and id like for pink and cute things to sort of be a guilty pleasure for her!! she just doesnt wear it in public much bc she wants to look Cool, but maybe in her third/graduate years shes more comfortable dressing in varying ways.......
#i like nonbinary natsume so i want her to keep some ambiguity in regards to her gender and how she feels towards it#gender is not the same as gender expression id also like to add#so its alot of fun to explore these various things!!#the thing above is just what i personally enjoy most as it is a territory thats familiar to me and makes me happy#since femstars isnt real and we can literally just make shit up as we go#its fun to find ways to integrate personal factors into it and to explore it through these characters instead#femstars doesnt need to be something super cut and dry! it holds so many possibilities BECAUSE its not canon!!#u can literally do whatever u want!!! its great and i love it so much!!!!#its /MY/ au headcanons and /I/ get to choose how i want the characters to present.#ask#AND THANK U FOR THE COMPLIMENTS WAAAAAA UR SO SWEET........... <3<3
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When I find myself in times of writer self-doubt, Seanan McGuire comes to me, speaking words of wisdom: Alchemical Journeys.
#aka tidal creatures is out!!!!#now maybe my reading slump will end#and I can stop feeling shitty about my writing because of various factors#so excited to read about moon people#I know seasonal fears wasn’t my favorite but Middlegame WAS so I’m tentatively excited for this one
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Not me talking again about luffy and christianism (lmao) but bellamy being changed by luffy going to skypiea (heaven) and ringing the bell is just???? What else can it be
#like skypiea bieng heaven and enel being god and like all of that is just in your face.... but bellamy... who would have expected this 500#episodes later....#and like if i throw this in with my ace is like jesus christ thing....#ace is actually a false jesus christ bc he ends up dying and not resurrecting AND not being able to carry the will of D#(because of various factors but)#luffy actually fulfills more the jesus christ figure if you take the will of D as like The Spirit and/or god#buuuut with gear 5 luffy BECOMES god so idk what to do with that... havent seen thay yet so whatever....#talking tag#watching one piece#pulling threads#this is for my oncoming corkboard (trust me)
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Wish I had more of that stereotypical "refined genius psychopath mystery villain" vibes and less "dysfunctional no sleep cycle can't tell when/if they have emotions traumatized mess doesn't feel like a human paranoid future true crime psychopath" vibes. So that was word salad. Moving on.
#i have been described as a genius but unfortunately the#aspd and other mental illnesses mess with my impulse control and risk vs return and energy/motivation levels#so it kind of gets in the way of showing off my intelligence most of the time#which probably makes me less insufferable but also leads to some people underestimating me#or just thinking of me as too much of a mess in general#both of which i hate#and when it comes to the 'coolness/sophistication factor' vs 'unfortunate creature that needs to stop interacting with humans vibe' well.#trust me i would go into seclusion for the rest of time if it was financially viable and if#my various projects didn't require working with other people#ugh I'm not really that upset today I'm just frustrated by my brain#also my body and other people and the universe and the concept of time but that's a whole different subject#sometimes the stars align and it's like the best aspects of everything 'wrong' with me are displaying at once#and i actually feel like myself and like myself#then something shifts idk but the worse things start showing again and the best bits lose some of their influence and#suddenly I'm struggling to get through a day with a decent level of functionality and without engaging in destructive behaviors#the AND is very important because i can usually do or. At least i have that i guess#today i don't feel like a person i feel like a poorly written character who's been brought into real life#only to find out that when faced with normal everyday problems#their fucked up little traits are way more of a disadvantage than they thought#i could probably blame it on the trauma or the aspd or a million other things#but maybe it's just because i am the person i am#and idk how to feel about that#just want the stars to align again
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According to 6 different serious health/psychology pages I have BPD, do you think that means I should see a therapist?
#i've been thinking about the possibility for a while but never looked up symptoms because i was scared#and now it's starting to get out of hand so i finally did even though i originally didn't want to be officially diagnosed#for various reasons like the stigma in society and my health insurance knowing so all my future doctors will go back to their#'it's only psychological stop being so dramatic you're not actually sick' shit and invalidating me and my health problems in the past#some of them straight up refused to write a sick note for school when i actually had the flu back in 8th grade#so that's one reason why i don't want any mental illnesses to appear in my medical record#plus the cost factor because i'm not sure if the insurance would even cover everything but i might end up paying for it myself#if it means the health insurance won't be informed even if it's probably a lot of money#but in order to get therapy i need to get diagnosed by a professional so once i read into it a bit more i'll figure out how to tell my mom#and see if i'll call this one therapist in my town who apparently treats psychosomatic disorders#i'm sincerely sorry to everybody i've talked to recently (aside from casual fandom chatting) who may have noticed me behaving kinda shitty#advice is greatly appreciated because this hit me like a train and i don't fucking want this. like at all#i thought my switching between depressed and anxious and angry and empty and hyper was just. idk something else but not That#mel talks
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