#But eh probably not

[shinysamurott9]

Yeah I went and did it, and ngl I really like how the Wicke's outfit looks on her

[kooldewd123]

there's something to be said about the choice to use "prince" as the main signifier of military rank for the andalites. because it kinda obscures the truth of the situation, doesn't it? a group of kids getting magic powers from an alien prince sounds whimsical and delightful. a group of kids getting pulled into a war by an alien colonel sounds tragic and horrible. the slow reveal of what "prince" actually means over the course of the early books is perhaps the most underrated twist of the entire series, because it fundamentally recontextualizes the entire premise of the series without the reader even consciously realizing it.

[radioroxx]

this post but its the deltabunes

(versions w/out text)

[cozymochi]

no doubt an obvious and low hanging fruit joke to do, but, it wouldn’t leave me until it was visualized

Ko-fi

[a-most-beloved-fool]

I do think my favorite on-station Garashir dynamic is where Garak is just. painfully pathetic about Bashir. It's very funny to me.

Various Bajorans on the station will watch Bashir's and Garak's little lunches, and they'll be like, "oh no. the poor naive doctor is Going to be taken advantage of". And then they look a little closer and they see that actually Garak is fully whipped for that twink.

Like, sure, he's a former spy. He could kill you. But he's a little busy trying desperately to seduce Bashir without letting on that he's sad and also pathetic. He's making skimpy clothing in his shop that is Very Clearly Bashir-sized. He's arguing shamelessly. He put his hands on Bashir's shoulders during their very first meeting, for Prophet's sake!

Bashir is, of course, oblivious to this and, to their embarrassment, the watching Bajorans actually find themselves feeling bad for Garak. Is he morally dubious? Certainly! Was he a spy in the Obsidian Order? That's the rumor! Has he killed in cold blood? They'd stake their bets on it! But when a guy is pining that pathetically over the shiniest most naive Starfleet twink imaginable...

Well.

It's a little hard to stay afraid of him.

They figure that as long as they don't do anything to harm Bashir or Cardassia, they probably don't have anything to worry about.

[doctorsiren]

doodles I did while on a plane yesterday

[keferon]

…..I should be working rn but one of the songs in my playlist hit harder than usual so

[zipsunz]

magician // emperor

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[collieii]

someone probably said this already but in spiderverse i think it's interesting how when pavitr was first introduced everyone thought something bad was gonna happen to him bc of how confident and optimistic he was. and then in the actual movie we see that something bad was supposed to happen to him (police chief dying!) but it doesn't! miles stops it! and miguel berates miles for this, says it's going to cause the universe to collapse or whatever.

there's this idea that tragedy is inherent to spidermans growth, and while it's true that some spiderpeople learn important lessons through loss, no one stops to ask, is it really necessary? yeah, maybe the chief was supposed to die. but why does spiderman have to be formed through tragedy? why do we (as heroes) have to let people die? pavitr didn't lose anyone, and he's still a good spiderman! maybe, if he doesn't suffer, he'll end up better off for it!

so while miguel is arguing for all this big picture stuff about saving the multiverse he's lost sight of what it really means to be a spiderman, he's not looking out for the real individual people. yeah it's just one person who would die, but that one person means something to someone. shrugging and saying "stuff just sucks sometimes, we can't do anything about it" is the opposite of what superheroes do. pretty obviously, miles arc is also a reflection of the struggles people face in real life, working within unequal systems, where it's easy to shrug and say "that's just the way it is" and not ask "but why does it need be this way? can't we do something about it?"

miguel is arguing that you can't have your cake and eat it too. presumably, miles and co. are going to find a way to get around that and change things for the better (and maybe that's why miles has that line about two cakes in the advisors office!)

[arinmoss]

Beautiful trans man for the lads :3

[sykloni]

23. Technus

Ectober 2023

I just love the idea of Tucker and Technus becoming friends.

[tea-cat-arts]

Sometimes I wonder what Jiang Cheng could've become if his parents didn't instill a mix of "crippling fear of failure" and "impossibly high standards" in him. Cuz like, his dad was holding him to the vague standard of being as good as wwx, his mom yelling at him whenever he goofed around like wwx, and then both of them expressed disappointment when he's less successful than wwx. The thing both of them seem to ignore though is that wwx got where he is entirely because he had the freedom to fuck around and find out- he trained tirelessly because he made training fun for himself, he was innovative as a cultivators because he experimented and persisted through failures, and he was able to act in line with the Jiang clan moto because his actions had less political pull than members of the main family. Jiang Cheng on the other hand- if he fucked around he got told to "stop stooping to the level of servants." If his achievements were lesser than wwx's, he got either dismissed by his dad or yelled at by his mom to try harder. And if he picked fights with the Wens, they'd have an excuse to destroy his clan. Like ya- no shit that'd create an adult who's terrified of failure.

The kite game serves as such a good metaphor/embodiment of this set back- with Jiang Cheng never being able to shoot as far as Wei Wuxian because he pulls back and shoots closer the second he misses.

And its sad too because he's shown to be pretty brilliant when he's in "fuck it, we ball" mode. Like, when he's not freezing up, he manages to pull off things like rebuilding his entire clan from the ground up, leading armies and taking back territories from the Wens, and I'm fairly sure he's the only character we see counter the Lan music cultivation techniques (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on that last one. Also feel free to add any of the other cool shit he did that I'm blanking on at the moment, cuz I know I'm forgetting something).

That being said- even with his anxiety, he's still one of the top cultivators. Imagine what a force of nature he'd be if he could sustain "fuck it we ball" mode

[biblically-accurate-dca]

painting test with a limited color palette

here's the moon equivalent!

[valduin111]

Imagine the skelebros trying to introduce gaster to frisk and then they go ‘what’s good doctor g’ and they both do the most complex handshake possible right infront of two gobsmacked sans and papyrus

the

[oifaaa]

So much respect for which ever mad bastard at dreamworks said fuck it let's actually make a good Puss in Boots movie and not just another pitiful cash grab this kitty deserves better so true

[mysticalcats]

pekes and pollicles trouble makers