#BECAUSE IT WORKS SO WELL OMG

[lolabearwrites]

You're my enemy and my light, dark as night, the curse of you and I

-ma meilleure ennemie english cover

[erabu-san]

Burning going to be my new gender i afraid

+ a doodle i made yesterday before sleeping

[dirt-str1der]

They made hyoga look so much cooler in the anime hes just standing there , in the manga theyre all dripping wet and bedraggled and senku is dying as usual

[mohntilyet]

let me be clear i like veilguard but it does suck that no one disapproves anymore outside of like. three choices. i want to be fighting for my life earning approval back again someone has GOT to hate my ass. i should be careful about party composition and companion reactions again. i miss tactically taking fenris out of the party before i'm nice to merrill like those were the days

[chill-vibes-but-rainbow-panic]

Finally back, with a lil more of Chill's Artist Admiration Sketchbook; making fanart for blogs I like :D

@kingspacebar

Accessoires and colours my beloved <3 <3 <3

[thorough-witness-enjoyer]

I. Am. Going. To. Be. SICKKKKKKKKKKKK

[friendlynaborhooddisapointment]

yk what im thinking? the fentons are 100% crazy enough to be Waynes. so what if they were? Jack could be Thomas Waynes' great-grandfather's brother who lived at Wayne Manor with his wife and kids. and they still open the portal with danny in it, so hes still a halfa. but either Jack and Maddie find out and they stick him in a stasis tube to try and fix him (what if they were also the people who figured out how to make the court of owls dead guys????) or Danny got stuck in the portal when he went inside and it doesnt open until the bats find it.

when the bats find him im thinking either they know (as well as danny) that hes half dead (the stasis tube) or they dont (stuck in the portal) and they find out all the fun stuff together. but, if they know hes dead already and so did danny there could be more creepy ghost shenanigans that could happen before they found the laboratory. which is v important

[akimojo]

i just saw someone call ffxiii overrated like? what?? it's literally one of the most hated games in the franchise wym "overrated" 😭

[lil-gingerbread-queen]

Later, Bruce finds him climbing the cave to join the bats.

[lord-squiggletits]

Pharma's place in a Functionist society (headcanon)

So I've talked in some previous posts about all the reasons that Pharma isn't a functionist because canon never showed him espousing functionist ideals + he's actually in a place to be a victim of functionism. And I've been working on a Pharma-centric oneshot that made me put into words the best metaphor I can think of for Pharma's relationship with Functionism:

He doesn't support Functionism, but is simultaneously a beneficiary of it and also marginalized by it, because his position of being forged both a doctor and a jet basically turns him into a "token minority" of sorts.

I know that sounds kind of silly or maybe like a clumsy political allegory, but hear me out. There are a couple facts about Pharma and the circumstances of his forging that put him at the crossroads between privilege and marginalization within Functionism:

Tyrest says that Pharma was "famous for being forged." Not famous for being a forged medic-- otherwise surely Ratchet would be just as noteworthy-- but famous for being FORGED. But also, note that this is an opinion that SOCIETY had about Pharma, not something that Pharma espouses about himself. (For the sake of an example, Pharma isn't Starscream, who has an explicit, deep-seated need for others' love and approval. Pharma himself doesn't express any opinions on his own popularity or convey that fame/adoration is something he wants.)

Functionism on Cybertron held that if someone was born with a certain alt-mode, they can/should only have certain jobs. For people born with flight alt-modes, those people were almost always regulated to military or transportation/courier jobs

SIMULTANEOUSLY, Pharma was forged with medic hands, which under a Functionist society were viewed as the peak of medical care and all the best doctors were forged or at least had a "special something" that non-forged hands lacked (according to Ratchet).

So taken in combination, this means that from the moment of Pharma's birth, he straddled a line of Functionism between two different "predestined" paths for him, where he was simultaneously forged to be a doctor and also forged to fly, fitting into BOTH of these categories despite norms of Functionism which say you're one or the other. And I speculate that the reason Pharma is "famous for being forged" is precisely because of those lines he straddles: his very existence is a contradiction, but he was also FORGED that way. The same creed that dictated the two different functions of "hands" and "alt-mode" also says that Pharma should be what he was born to be. What he was born to be was a forged medic jet.

In my opinion, I think that being "famous for being forged" is sort of like a token-minority situation for Pharma, where perhaps Pharma was seen as a curiosity or even something exotic, not just as a person. Maybe because he was a jet and people assumed jets were only soldiers/transportation, a lot of his achievements were put in the light of "Oh, he's a really amazing doctor, for a jet" or "It's crazy that he's a doctor AND a jet at the same time". The attention Pharma received for the unique circumstances of his birth WAS positive, but it would've likely been framed in a bit of a condescending way, as if Pharma is noteworthy and famous not for being a good doctor, but for being a good doctor despite being born a jet.

So I would say that as far as Pharma's personal experience with Functionism, he simultaneously experienced privilege and marginalization. He enjoyed the privileges of being a medic while avoiding the restrictions of being a flight frame. However, a lot of the idolization and attention he received would have also come from a place of tokenizing Pharma: he's "famous for being forged," because in this society he's defying expectations merely for existing as himself. That is to say, Pharma in a Functionist society wasn't treated as remarkable because of who he is as a person and how hard he worked to be a good doctor; he was treated as remarkable for the circumstances of his forging, something he had no control over and can't change, and apparently Pharma being a forged medic jet is such a noteworthy origin that he's "famous" for it.

The above paragraph is purely headcanon, of course, but I like to imagine that part of Pharma's reason for having a big ego isn't out of simple vanity or insecurity, but because of a sort of "gifted student" syndrome, in a sense. From the moment he was forged he was treated as a rarity and an incredible phenomenon, and he would have had to work incredibly hard to be seen as "an incredible doctor" in his own right rather than just "that forged medic jet." Maybe, as a jet, he also had something to prove; he had to show to a Functionist society that being a jet doesn't make him an inferior doctor and that his alt-mode has nothing to do with his skills at his profession.

That is to say, I don't think Pharma would have been openly anti-Functionist, or had many opinions about it at all. I actually lean towards the interpretation that Pharma basically saw himself as getting lucky with the way he was forged and being content with the fact that he'd managed to carve out a reputation for himself as being incredibly skilled. However, Pharma not getting involved politically in Functionism doesn't change the fact that he WOULD have had a very complicated relationship with Functionism, in that alt-mode discrimination would have had an effect on him even though he was in the scientific/medical class and supposedly privileged.

[easeupkid]

people with onsite laundry will never understand the epic highs and lows of laundromat life

[deoidesign]

I was scrolling and saw your art and it made me really happy because I realized you made time and time again!!!

It’s literally one of my favorite things I’ve ever read, so cool!!!

This is so sweet, thank you for sharing!

It's sort of "illusion breaking" so to speak, to think of my art being both out there in a way that someone could happen upon it, and then further that someone may happen upon it twice, and finally that on doing so they find it recognizable...

I always think of myself and my work as something that sort of sits behind the curtain. The idea that it might take up space in this way is unreal!

This is the kind of thing that means more than you could imagine.

So thank you!

[erabu-san]

Burning going to be my new gender i afraid

+ a doodle i made yesterday before sleeping

[onlyasimp4nobody]

[starrysharks]

i might end up watching that one certain series about hell because i want to give my honest opinion on how it turned out as a former fan, but my judgement of 2 minute opening alone is that i really dislike the way they went about the exposition,,, it's kinda drawn out and presented in an uninteresting way, which sucks cuz a few small changes could make it way better - instead of having the protag just read out what she probably already knows, why not have it be a flashback of her father/mother reading it to her and then cut to present day ,,, and also loredumping right off the bat is an easy way to make things boring, pls quicken the pace or leave stuff to the imagination that's a better hook imo. also while i'm not a christian (ex-pentecostal christian, agonistic) and i'm aware that it might be a setup showing how lucifer is maybe lying to/twisting the original story that he tells his subjects, or a "what if"/converging of different forms of christianity/general mythology, the incorrect theology made my ass itch 😭😭😭😭 PLS read the bible or at least be aware of the main points of the teachings before you write a show about any religion

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

not you advertising for me in the tags bye ily 🥹🥹💕

annnnyway some of those fandoms caught my eye so i'm just gonna put descendants, arcane and opla in here pretty please <3

sorry this took me so long i was genuinely freaking out trying to figure out the whole 'best character' part of this and figuring out the formatting gave me more trouble than it should've <333

descendants

favorite character(s): JANELOS MY BELOVEDS. y'all will never make me hate jane. i love her so much, she's an absolute cutie patootie and so so pretty and i support her wrongs solely because fairy godmother should've been a better parent and should've actually helped her. and carlos !! the loml. he's never done anything wrong ever, he also has the best style of the core 4 but that's another discussion for another time. he just needs so many hugs and i'm very sad that he is canonically now dead (even though, ofc i know why and i'm not gonna judge the decision)

are they the best character(s)?: i'm gonna say no and instead say that uma is. she knows what she wants and how to get it and what she wanted wasn't even awful or selfish. she didn't want fairy godmother's wand to cause chaos, she wanted it to free her people and she didn't want to be chosen for auradon for herself and to go crazy, she wanted everyone to go if they wanted so they could have a better life. and amazingly, her goals don't shift over the course of the three movies she's in, she just wants every vk to be someone's priority and to have a voice and a choice (ha that rhymed)

arcane

favorite character(s): hmm probably viktor or ekko. i've been a big viktor fan for a while now (even though i was mad suspicious of him during his s1 introduction but that's not important) and i support his jesus-agenda (also he looks so good in s2 omg). and then with ekko, i loved him from the moment i saw him and wanted to protect young him so bad !! i was very happy when he was revealed to be the firelight leader and really liked his dynamic with heimer in s2. i've never rooted against these two ever (save for that little parentheses up there)

are they the best character(s)?: objectively, no one's really the best character (in my opinion) cause they're all very morally grey save for like some of them but the best written is probably ekko, i'm not even being biased. he's the most consistent character and has angered (meaning due to a completely ooc/very bad and avoidable writing choice) me the least out all of the characters. i know a lot of the characters have been said to have changed in s2 but i feel like ekko really hasn't all that much and any change has been due to events on-screen

one piece live action

favorite character: roronoa "my beautiful beloved" zoro. he's just so pretty and strong and cool and funny. i low-key wanna be him tbh, cause he's everything i wanna be. i love swords and he has three of them so- guys i love zoro so much i'm not even joking (special mention: luffy cause i love him too)

are they the best character?: i don't think so. i think that it might be usopp. i mean he's just such a guy, like such a person, if that makes a lick of sense. he reacts to situations like most people would and he's the most realistic out of all the characters. this is a franchise that does not follow realism though, so that might be a negative for some people...but anyway. i once saw someone say that usopp's the bravest one on the team because being brave is doing things even though you're scared whereas the others have little fear and aren't technically 'brave' and that's just so valid. i also feel like he was the only character who never had a moment that felt different then their previous scenes (like in a personality sense)

thank you so much for the ask :))) i love getting to talk about characters like this