#**my precious children**

[carlyraejepsans]

*walks out of a character's main tag covered in blood*

[egophiliac]

WOOO we're finally getting some Ride Kamens story content! ...and it's mostly Leon getting REALLY into being a small business owner! this is (unironically) an excellent sign for the future.

(what do you mean the Agent isn't wearing cat ears 24/7 in every outfit) (can't hear you la la laaaaa)

[bashzzey]

Did my own two sky kid designs which I imagined some months ago! Reunited twin sisters wandering around the world n helping spirits :3c and as well did my main sky kid fit reference too and put all three of them on my Artfight acc :0c

[hahahafangirl]

gotta put my thoughts down before i forget it but the thing that did it in for me is how spy x family is ultimately and uniquely a “children-focused” work, where the major stakes require that we pay attention to the lives and dynamics of young children so that — specifically — we have to genuinely engage with and invested in their inner lives, motivations, desires, thoughts, emotions, etc.

i think this is a very unique focus in the shounen sphere, where the audience and creators are centered about adolescent boys (the shounen genre, in its name) and thus have a very wide scope of focus that nonetheless has “aged” past “childhood”. usually media about children and childhood are sequestered in its own genre (children’s shows like doraemon, magical girl anime like precure series, etc.) aimed at a different target audience who are in the same demographic as the main characters in the shows. this is, obviously, not a bad thing. but i appreciate the “genre-breaking” focus that spy x family have because it inspires a sort of empathy to children, who are often not the most favorite group of people for the typical demographic of shounen readers, that is specifically vital in today’s climate. (can’t say much about japan itself, who historically has been dealing with declining birth rates, but oh i can speak for the american individualism— ironically where sxf is also very popular in) another thing about this is it’s drive home how intertwined the family life is, and should be. agent twilight and thorn princess’s plot-lines are clearly shounen-esque (a spy fighting for world peace, an assassin weeding out traitors) but they are nonetheless inextricable from the family- and anya-focused story, because by choice or circumstances they are anya’s parents. they’re a part of a larger societal fabric that embedded them in relationships to others — children being one of them. i think that’s pretty neat.

another thing, specially about the depiction of children in sxf: they are fictitious yet realistic enough to portray real children and inspire sympathy for them. a lot of asian home media in general have the problems of portraying young children as “problems”: annoying, loud, privileged, dumb, ungrateful, etc etc. these are such complaints about children that are unfortunately way too common and way too ungenerous and mean-spirited; none of these tropes are present, even in a media full of scions and heiress. complaints about them being brats (red circus bus hijacking arc) was rightfully framed as unsympathetic and unreasonable (they’re children! they can’t help where they were born into— it goes both ways.) i think the crux of this beautiful balance sxf struck in portraying nuanced, dynamics children is sympathy. they can be loud, they can be whiny, cry at the drop of a hat, has too much energy, gross, have bad grades, clingy, inconsistent, academically unmotivated, ran off randomly— and that’s fine, because we know why they do it, we are given space into their inner thoughts, something so rarely afforded to real life children at times. but they can be motivated, they want world peace, they want to have genuine friends, they want their friends to be happy, they have crushes, and most of all they love their parents and they love the people around them.

i think regardless of everything sxf is a work that understands that children are full of love and the majority of the things they do are out of love. i think that alone makes it incredible in the current socio-econo-political climate where sympathy is spared so little and humanity spreads so thin children barely gets what they deserve. i suppose that’s the sort of war we are entrenched in.

[slythereen]

that really is charles’ son right there

[wurmwizzard]

very quick, very messy cuno doodles trying to figure out how i want to draw this fidgety little creature. I care for him very deeply 🐷

[bfhdhb]

finished playing through aai2 recently

[cinderacequeen]

After the events of #ImaginaryFriendAsylum, Polo's Dad Mode™ was amped up to 11, much to Niccolò's chagrin.

Considering what happened, though, his IF's overprotectiveness is quite understandable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Italian translation: "Oh my God, you stubborn fool!"

I've been hyperfixated on this game for the past 3 weeks 💀

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 93

“So are we going to talk about the whole end of the world thing or…” Tucker trailed off, sprawled on one of the couches as he looked up from his pda, sand falling from his hair. 

 “No,” Sam grumbled, glaring at one of her plants as though demanding why it wasn’t growing like she was asking it to. 

 “Hey Danny are we-” 

 “Nope!” Danny cheerfully responded, hands inside what might be a black hole or some sort of baby cosmos to-be as he molded it like a chunk of clay. 

 “Alright, no talking about that, but can we at least talk about how we’re going to stop Clockwork from murdering my speedsters for this one…?” 

[the-lavender-clown]

Post successful mission selfie!

[killugon-truther]

killua standing there like a proud big brother means everything to me, actually.

he's like "mhm. that's my sister. she's the shit." lmao i love them sm.

and they're both making the cat faces! they are too cute.

[beanghostprincess]

Usopp your family is back with us for like a panel and I am losing my fucking mind iwanthembackiwanthembackiwanthemback-

[basmentdwealer]

Older MC been stuck on my mind all day :9

Originally they were going to have longer hair but I decided to double down and chop it off :333

I wish them nothing but the best :-)

[theflyingsealion]

Someone: So what do you do for fun?

Me: Well these days I mostly just recreate Octopath 2 characters in the Octopath 1 style

Someone: What?

Me: I SAID-

[numberonetribble]

When your Sparkling is half Decepticon, they're bound to learn how to lie for personal gain eventually

Bonus:

[sho0t1ngst4rrr]

Tiny babies