#Blue alien people

[smilysstuff]

Lavernius Tucker your my everything

[doomdoomofdoom]

If nothing else, I want you to take this away from yesterday's presidential debate:

This is a literal, actual, verbatim quote.

[kinabluuuuu]

until these falling stars are buried in the blur of time...

not even a day later and my previous post is irrelevant. tabieita forever. tabieita as ivantill because i said so.

[build-a-stim]

rainbow bearlien (2024) with webcore, scene, raves, kandi, and slushies for anon

X | X | X || X | X | X || X | X | X

[thestuffedalligator]

OK you know that. Thing. When you’re watching a piece of visual media that’s been going on for a while, and it started with very simple, almost abstract, character designs, but as time went on and the artist skills/technology improved, and they could consistently make more elaborate character designs, new additions to the cast would be more consistently elaborate in their design and the characters who were grandfathered in from those earlier installments wind up looking a little goofy alongside them?

Is there a name for that? Is this a recognized phenomenon? I’ve been calling it character design creep in my head

[lainalit]

It's almost funny how Rhysand can't change the traditional views of Illyrian/CoN men in 500+ years.

but in the Ice Planet Barbarian series, human women get stranded on an ice planet with blue aliens on it, who are basically cavemen, and within a few days they manage to transform the traditional views of the male aliens from woman cook/clean and man hunt/provide to all women are queens and can do whatever they want.

[bumblingbabooshka]

People who act like Seven of Nine is a naive child being taken advantage of when it comes to c/7 but not j/7 hmm...examine that.

[girlbossdarkiplier]

moar mark ocs as lps (ゝω・´★)

[fictionalmenplz]

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Summary: When an Omaticayan warrior washes up on her shores, Ki'qara takes full responsibility in ensuring his health and safety...

Contains: small mention of flesh/blood

A/N: part 1/? Also thank y'all for being so so patient while I took my EIGHT MONTH long break 💀

Part 5 of Never In A Thousand Years should be posted soon <3

She climbed up the rock overlooking the water, her legs shaking slightly as she looked down at the transparent teal liquid that splashed and sang beneath her.

With an unsteady sigh she briefly shut her eyes and put her hand on her heart, this is a necessary part in your process of fishing, she reminded herself. Being afraid of water when it is what you were born in is a curse.

She sat down on the rock, gripping the old vine that was tied to a tree behind her and also dangled off the edge into the water, she pulled it up with all her strength, glad to find a heaping pile of fish in her basket trap.

She immediately took her basket and stepped away from the edge, planting her feet on sand and sitting down. She plucked a thick leaf from beside her and laid it out flat and began neatly laying the fish down on it.

She secured her haul with some thin vine and then slowly lowered her trap into the water once more, returning to her home with more than just one dinner.

Her home was quaint, and tidy. She built it herself not that long ago. In her few years of living this life alone she has begun to accept and relish in the fact that not everyone needed a clan.

It was on the roots of the ocean trees, like most clan homes, except it was mostly on the shore to help with her fear of the water. Her flooring was more reinforced and had less space in the netting so it would never be at risk of breaking.

She removed one fish out of her storage and brought it to the shore where she had twelve rocks laid in a circle and some coal and ash rested in the center. With her tools, she began to de-scale and flay it.

"Ay!" She exclaimed and held her hand was not the best at removing the bones. "Skxawng payoang*." She muttered and tossed the rest into the dying flame.

*idiot rock fish

She stood up and rubbed her cheek as she walked to the entrance of her home, just before she could move the draped blanket in front of her door, her eyes caught a glimpse of something in the water.

Once she realized it was one of her own kind, lying face down in the wake, she rushed into the water without thinking of her fear. The water lapped up to her chin, she was able to wrap her arms around the figure's ribs.

She frantically pulled their bodies to shore, once it was shallow she stumbled to her knees and took hold of the other's knife strap and pulled them to shore.

She fell onto her back, panting heavily as she kicked water off her legs. She sat up and looked down at the Na'vi next to her, he was much different from her own people, but so similar.

The girl took hold of the strap over his chest again and carefully pulled him into her home. She took her best weaved quilts and wrapped them over the parts of his body free of scrapes and other wounds.

Lighting her torches and gathered her salves, work is needed in order for this Omaticayan man to live. She removed his concealed blade pouch over his chest and examined the gash across his heart.

She couldn't even imagine what animal he fought to get that wound. Very carefully, she took a cloth and used it to wipe away the blood and small chunks of ripped flesh off his skin. His legs lightly kicked and he let out a sharp grunt in response.

Cautiously applying the thick salve to his gash, she tried hard to not wake him, he looked like a fierce warrior, sure to hurt her if she startled him. "Eywa help this soul," she whispered, feeling compelled to speak.

After laying down a mesh cloth over his wound, Ki'qara stood and began to tidy her mess of supplies. Having briefly turned her back on him, Tsu'tey, the supposedly sleeping warrior, took this chance to wake up.

His eyes shot open and his pupils dilated immediately, a heavy gasp leaving his lips as he jolted upright. He quickly scanned his surroundings, the woman in the corner was still reacting to his awakened state and crouching down, ready to defend herself.

He panicked, not knowing where he was and how he got here, he grabbed his knife and jumped to his feet, bounding out of the seaside hut and stumbling poorly down the shore.

[hauntingofhouses]

Seeing fan discussions about Blue Eye Samurai and especially Mizu's identity is so annoying sometimes. So let me just talk about it real quick.

First off, I have to emphasise that different interpretations of the text are always important when discussing fiction. That's how the whole branch of literary studies came to be, and what literary criticism and analysis is all about: people would each have their own interpretation of what the text is saying, each person applying a different lens or theory through which to approach the text (ie. queer theory, feminist theory, reader response theory, postcolonial theory, etc) when analysing it. And while yes, you can just take everything the authors say as gospel, strictly doing so would leave little room for further analysis and subjective interpretation, and both of these are absolutely necessary when having any meaningful discussion about a piece of media.

With that being said, when discussing Blue Eye Samurai, and Mizu's character in particular, I always see people only ever interpret her through a queer lens. Because when discussing themes of identity, yes, a queer reading can definitely apply, and in Mizu's story, queer themes are definitely present. Mizu has to hide her body and do her best to pass in a cisheteronormative society; she presents as a man 99% of the time and is shown to be more comfortable in men's spaces (sword-fighting) than in female spaces (homemaking). Thus, there's nothing wrong with a queer reading at all. Hell, some queer theorists interpret Jo March from Little Women as transmasc and that's totally valid, because like all analyses, they are subjective and argumentative; you have the choice to agree with an interpretation or you can oppose it and form your own.

To that end, I know many are equally adamant that Mizu is strictly a woman, and that's also also a completely valid reading of the text, and aligns with the canon "Word of God", as the creators' intention was to make her a woman. And certainly, feminist themes in the show are undeniably present and greatly colour the narrative, and Episode 4 & 5 are the clearest demonstrations of this: Mizu's protectiveness of Madame Kaji and her girls, Mizu's trauma after killing Kinuyo, her line to Akemi about how little options women have in life, and the way her husband had scorned her for being more capable than him in battle.

I myself personally fall into the camp of Mizu leaning towards womanhood, so i tend to prefer to use she/her pronouns for her, though I don't think she's strictly a cis woman, so I do still interpret her under the non-binary umbrella. But that's besides my point.

My gripe here, and the thing that spurred me to write this post, is that rarely does this fandom even touch upon the more predominant themes of colonialism and postcolonial identities within the story. So it definitely irks me when people say that the show presenting Mizu being cishet is "boring." While it's completely fine to have your opinion and to want queer rep, a statement like that just feels dismissive of the rest of the representation that the show has to offer. And it's frustrating because I know why this is a prevalent sentiment; because fandom culture is usually very white, so of course a majority of the fandom places greater value on a queer narrative (that aligns only with Western ideas of queerness) over a postcolonial, non-Western narrative.

And that relates to how, I feel, people tend to forget, or perhaps just downplay, that the crux of Mizu's internal conflict and her struggle to survive is due to her being mixed-race.

Because while she can blend in rather seamlessly into male society by binding and dressing in men's clothing and lowering her voice and being the best goddamn swordsman there is, she cannot hide her blue eyes. Even with her glasses, you can still see the colour of her eyes from her side profile, and her glasses are constantly thrown off her face in battle. Her blue eyes are the central point to her marginalisation and Otherness within a hegemonic society. It's why everyone calls her ugly or a monster or a demon or deformed; just because she looks different. She is both white and Japanese but accepted in neither societies. Her deepest hatred of herself stems primarily from this hybridised and alienated identity. It's the whole reason why she's so intent on revenge and started learning the way of the sword in the first place; not to fit in better as a man, but to kill the white men who made her this way. These things are intrinsic to her character and to her arc.

Thus, to refuse to engage with these themes and dismiss the importance of how the representation of her racial Otherness speaks to themes of colonialism and racial oppression just feels tone-deaf to the show's message. Because even if Mizu is a cishet woman in canon, that doesn't make her story any less important, because while you as a white queer person living in the West may feel unrepresented, it is still giving a voice to the stories of people of colour, mixed-race folks, and the myriad of marginalised racial/ethnic/cultural groups in non-Western societies.

[liedownquisition]

Today I am once again and eternally haunted by the connections my brain makes between:

“Over all the millennia, only you have ever loved me, Thor. Only you have ever looked at me with affection in place of condescension. Why, then, am I killing you, and not the others? Because you stopped.” ~Loki #4, Robert Rodi

And

"Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. But why? Why on God's Earth is HE still alive? Ignoring what he's done in the past. Blindly, stupidly, disregarding the entire graveyards he's filled, the thousands who have suffered, the friends he's crippled. You know, I thought… I thought I'd be the last person you'd ever let him hurt. If it had been you he beat to a bloody pulp, if he had taken you from this world, I would've done nothing but search the planet for this pathetic pile of evil death-worshiping garbage and sent him off to Hell. … I'm not talking about killing Penguin, or Scarecrow, or Dent. I'm talking about him. Just him. And doing it because… because he took me away from you." ~Batman#650/UtH#13 Judd Winnick

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[stvlti]

Jaime Reyes sucks at driving and here's why

... What's up, Jaime? Is that your girlfriend? Why don't you have a car?

His old man runs a garage and he doesn't have a car ...

(Panel from Blue Beetle (2006) #26)

Throughout the 2006 series we seldom see Jaime drive. He's always carpooled with Brenda and Paco to school, and even after he becomes Blue Beetle full-time it's Paco who drives him around on missions. Which makes sense, considering he got the scarab at 16, leaving him little incentive to learn to drive and drive well when he could just fly. In issue #26 we see him do exactly that: he commutes to a family gathering by flying in in his bugsuit.

So Jaime is not the best driver. He probably drove Once™ and is barred from the driver's seat by everyone from El Paso to his Titans friend group. But no, it's not what you're thinking. He can drive. He just drives like a grandpa. Three miles an hour below the speed limit at all times, uses his blinkers religiously, and waits way too long to make turns because he doesn't trust that the gap in traffic is long enough. He gets to a busy junction and starts sweating bullets. The Scarab is screaming in his head about imminent danger. He's trying to read signals and Khaji tells him to just floor it. Everytime Jaime gets into a car the scarab is screaming about the stupidity of right of way in traffic laws.

The first time Jaime borrows the family car after the scarab fuses to his spine it goes like this:

Khaji: IF I WERE DRIVING WE WOULD HAVE ARRIVED 22 MINUTES AGO

Jaime: If you were driving we wouldn't have enough car left to arrive in!!!! not to mention all the pedestrian casualties!!!!

Jaime can't even help navigate the road with the scarab's built-in GPS system because roads don't make sense to Khaji and it never maps drivable routes.

Khaji: turn right in 500 feet

Jaime: khaji theres no road in 500 feet

Khaji: turn right in 200 feet

Jaime: khaji theres no road, reroute!!!

Khaji: turn right in 15 feet

Jaime: KHAJI IM NOT DRIVING THIS CAR THROUGH A WALMART, REROUTE

(dialogues courtesy of @lemontongues )

In conclusion, Jaime absolutely sucks at driving, thanks for coming to our ted talk

[zprite-x]

I will fight anyone to the death that Shiny Leafeon should’ve been orange like an autumn leaf

[texasthrillbilly]

We gotta get these two together.

[neonli]

Constellation Drifter

“Have you heard of Constellation Drifter? Some say if you look closely at the night sky, you can see it. You can see her drifting across the cosmos.”

Hands traced and modeled from Ibis Paint X reference materials

[shannoneichorn]

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