#AIS JR

[bizzxis]

*WAVING EXCITEDLY* Possible origin of Ais Jr.? https://www.tumblr.com/importantanimalstories/762518145527332864/this-is-a-meteorite-that-has-fallen-from-a-clearly

Yay my first Ais Jr ask!

As for as Ais Jr lore goes, we don’t really know much of the origins of the little bean just yet. Ais found them wrapped in a dirty wool blanket at the front of the Spring and they looked exactly like Ais. Each LI has a theory of the baby’s origin…

Ais: Ocudeus birthed the baby [Ocudeus: N O]

Vere: Ais accidentally impregnated a brothel worker.

Leander: “I birthed the baby” (Ais: you’re on thin ice, buddy)

Mhin: no comment (internal monologue: I’ll kidnap the baby and give it to a loving family)

Kuras: “The Seaspring…is very suspicious” [writes a sixty-page essay on baby’s origin]

[aaliyahunleashed]

Give the greats their flowers

Art from Jay Sims via Facebook.

[shummthechumm]

NICKELODEON/BACKYARDIGANS OFFICIAL HIRE ME I CAN HELP YOU!!!!

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Now I have to ask- WHY do you hate Pacific Rim?

Okay, fair warning, this is about as bitter and salty and small-minded as day-old caviar. But. My bitter, salty (probably fishy) opinion:

Pacific Rim is only a good movie because it's a well-written story about robots punching monsters.

That's it. That's all there is to the movie.

I started out merely disappointed by Pacific Rim. We went gaga for the preview materials that promised these unique well-rounded character pairs and trios with these idiosyncratic robots from all these different Pacific nations... And then the movie itself is about some bland white American guy who pilots a robot named a racial slur, the second most fleshed-out team is bland white Australian guys, and the Chinese team is there, kind of, in the background, but don't worry they're going to die first. The "character-driven story" turned out to be "various characters take turns punching aliens" but, sure, whatever, I love the MCU so why not.

The day I went from "Pacific Rim is overrated" to "Pacific Rim is the worst thing that has ever happened to human civilization, I'm extremely normal about this" was the day I saw a Tumblr post suggesting we replace the Bechdel test with the Mako Mori test. Because Mako Mori has her own plot and doesn't kiss North Carolina at the end, making her a whole new type of feminist icon.

To which I was like:

We are talking about the same movie here, right? The Pacific Rim that can't even pass the Bechdel test? The Pacific Rim that's all about might-makes-right, the Pacific Rim that has ONE speaking role for ONE female character in its (from IMDB) 50-person cast? The Pacific Rim that repeatedly puts its only female character in danger and has her rescued by first Idris Elba then North Carolina? THAT Pacific Rim?

Is there a different Mako Mori I haven't met? Because the one I've seen a) has a character arc driven by deciding whether to obey her father or follow her heart, which is as inoffensive and stale as an unblessed communion wafer, b) does nothing that Ellen Ripley didn't do 30 years earlier, but with about 5% of the character depth Ripley got, and c) stands there in silence looking sad as two men punch each other over the question of her virtue.

Any post assuming this movie invented the idea of "small Asian woman kicks monster ass" needs to learn its damn history. Especially the ones acting like her being physically small is somehow a feminist bonus. There's something embarrassingly ahistorical about the whole thing.

And look. I get how we got here. I know how easily Tumblr backs you into a rhetorical corner of "calling a story Good can never mean merely 'enjoyable'; calling a story Good must mean 'virtuous'". Until next thing you know you're arguing that actually, shipping Obi-Wan/Darth Vader is a net good for all of society, because gay divorced middle-aged tyrants who use supplemental oxygen and murdered their exes in a custody dispute over the one kid (out of two) they actually care about deserve to see themselves in sci fi too! You only end up in that corner because half the time you're arguing against someone who says that shipping Obi-Wan/Darth Vader is literally the same thing as supporting father-son incest, so your real reasons for shipping them (1. foe yay, 2. old man yaoi) seem wildly insufficient.

Much of what I see about Pacific Rim seems neck-deep in the "it's not allowed to be a Good Movie unless it single-handedly dismantles the patriarchy" fallacy. There's nothing progressive about shipping two dudes best known for chopping off each other's body parts with laser swords. And there's nothing progressive about a movie having its only female character hug the male protagonist at the end instead of kissing him. You're allowed to like a thing just because it's well-made, without acting like a bog-standard normatively-broey action flick somehow invented a new form of feminism. Anyway, "Pacific Rim is a perfectly fine movie" is the hill I will die upon, heretical though it may be.

[bellamortedits]

The Gang

[justc2world]

New C² challenge with Carlos giving 0 fucks 🤣

[pleadingmantis]

I hate all AI, no exceptions

I'm tired of opening Pinterest and seeing some AI marauders art instead of someone who spent a lot of time on fan art just for AI to take its place

I don't wanna see "Moony and Padfoot harry Potter AI" KILL YOURSELF

[jefpoo421]

Lots of artists are being fired due to the easiness of ai art, let's stop that please

Despite the convenience of generating art using ai, it can lead to some problems.

One being the issues with messed-up details, and two being the lack of heart.

Sure, making art with ai is easy for anyone, but many human artists pour all their blood and sweat on making their art. Hours, even days, even years. It takes more effort to create real art rather than ai art.

Support the human artists. Stop using generative ai.

[lemissingmask]

[ID: Greyscale sketch with only irises in colour of Kotetsu Kaburagi and Barnaby Brooks Jr lying on autumn leaves against a tree together. Kotetsu is propped up a bit by the tree with his head resting against a gap between branches, and he's smiling as he looks up at the sky. Barnaby is lying between his legs with his head resting on Kotetsu's stomach and is looking at the camera. End ID]

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Spent ages working on this and the full sized, full colour version of it, but I hated how it turned out so a cropped greyscale version is here instead. -_- Such is art. You can spend hours, days or weeks on one art and have it turn out awful at the end

[rocketqueen1989x]

Yum yum yum yum

[domesticlion]

had this one in the drafts for way too long !!

[bizzxis]

Leander and Ais Jr doodles!

[shatter-song]

idk how many death battle fans are on here but i figured I'd share what's probably the most hyped mu to date (for me at least)

[reggies-fake-horcrux]

regulus

[swordmyth]

Robert Downey Jr bound and gagged

[xxxregulusblackxxx]

This account uses AI art to promote marauders fic beware of them