#Honestly I didn't bother drawing it because I'm lazy plus I wanted to draw the lightning scars

[mereelskirata]

I am finally sated with my Foxiyo/Seinoa shenanigans.

To those who can't read my handwriting, Fox says: How do you even stay protected in this? I'm cold...

[duchessofostergotlands]

What's your opinion of the crown? Personally, I'm pissed they didn't have Sophie mentioned at all. I looked through the entire cast list, and NOTHING. Plus I'm tired as ever of the Saint Diana narrative.

We did a bit of discussion on The Crown in our podcast. It's Episode 43, Girl Boss Milk Snatcher (here).

I stopped watching around season 3 so I don't really know what happened after that but I honestly can't see what Sophie would have added to the narrative they were going for which was about the tension between royals as people - their thoughts, feelings, fears etc - and royals as symbols. I can see why introducing a new character in the last season who's married to a minor character no one cares about and doesn't really do anything that's relevant to the main theme of the show wouldn't have been worth the effort. I was annoyed they missed out William of Gloucester but they made their choices to stick to the core line and I suppose I understand from a story perspective.

I lost interest in The Crown when the writing became sloppy. They had always changed historical details and I'm fine with that to a degree (although Peter Morgan constantly insisting it's truthful instead of just going with it being a dramatic telling was annoying). But I have to draw the line at changing the dates of real historical events solely to make Margaret Thatcher into a caring, loving mother who was so upset about her son's disappearance that she started the Falkands War. And they were also starting to contradict their own established characterisations. The Aberfan episode, for example, bothered me because the whole point was "the Queen's a sociopath who can't show emotion." And there's a scene where she talks about how ever since she was a little girl she's never been able to show strong emotions, despite the fact the first two seasons were packed full of scenes where she was distraught or furious or giddy with joy. If you want to portray the Queen as cold and unfeeling I think it would be lazy writing but it’s a choice they can make. But you can't say she's cold and unfeeling when your own show spent two whole seasons contradicting that!!

At the end of the day I watched The Queen, I have already seen Peter Morgan making heavy handed allegories comparing the plight of a hunted deer to Diana, so when it got into the Diana era I just realised he didn't have anything new to say. It was ultimately badly written and boring.

[uweresaying]

final goodbye - Shouto Todoroki x reader

In the dorms of UA high school, class 1-A had settled into their rooms for the night. Deku was probably up practicing his quirk, while Katsuki and Iida were probably fast asleep, like most of the class. It had been a long day of vigorous quirk training, pushing the limits of how far they could go. But here you were, wide awake, sitting out on the balcony of your dorm. You had a cig in one hand, and in the other, you held your worn copy of Fahrenheit 451. You had problems with falling asleep, especially since the LOV attack at summer camp, so most nights you would just end up in this exact position. As you read, you caught a glimpse of your door opening, and the air was knocked out of you when you saw the heterochronic eyes of one of your classmates looking back at you. You raised an eyebrow as you took another drag, watching him close the door behind him, and shuffle over to the glass door in front of you, taking his time to take in the scenery of your room. There he stood, the same plaid sweatpants he'd worn the first night in the dorms when Mina insisted you guys all hang out in the common room to celebrate "moving in with one another". That had been 2 years ago, so you had wondered whether or not they were the same pants, but let that thought exhale from your mind along with the cig smoke. "I thought you quit that shit." the boy said, inviting himself to lay down on the mini couch across from where you were sitting. You couldn't help but let out a small laugh, rolling your eyes at him. "I did. for about a year and 5 months." you said, taking another drag and turning your attention back to your book. Shouto let out a heavy sigh, turning away from the sky to look at you. "You know, I didn't give that key to you. It's pretty rude for you to use it." you said, not looking up from your book. "What are you talking about y/n, you did give it to me. plus, you never asked for it back. It was a gift." You let another half-assed laugh escape your lips, looking over to him with a look of surprise. "No, I didn't give it to you. I gave it to the person that you used to be. You're a stranger to me." As you met his eyes, you could see the hurt your words had caused. if you weren't about to take another drag of your cig, you would have probably smiled, but your drag was cut short when a firm hand grabbed the smoking stick from your mouth and put it out with his right hand. "Hey! What the fuck, do you know how hard it is to find a pack of-" "menthols around here?" he cut you off to finish. You felt your cheeks warming up as he sat down on the floor against the railing, looking up at you. Words were swimming in your head. You were angry. You wanted to slap him. But you also wanted to jump into his arms. Hold him close and let his strong form wrap around you and indulge in the safety only he could provide you. But instead, your muscles were stiff, water forming in your eyes, your face betraying you by letting him see a hurt expression start to cross it. "I don't know what you want from me." you finally uttered out, looking down at your chipped toenails that were crossed in your chair. "I want you to lie to me and tell me that the person looking back at me wasn't created because of the hurt I caused." he said, drawing your eyes back to him. You laughed a little, rolling your eyes before licking your lips and looking up at him again. "Well, I'm not a good liar, so I think you're shit out of luck." you said, making him smile a little. "Yeah, a good liar has never been high on your resume. I remember when you came to my dorm reeking of whiskey, thinking you had convinced me you hadn't been drinking with Mina and Ochako." he said, letting a small smile cross his lips. You smiled too, leaning back and looking up at the sky. "Yeah, and you bitched them out for encouraging me to drink on a school night while all three of us were hungover." you said, watching a plane fly by in the distance. You both sat in silence for a bit, in fact, you had let your eyes fall shut, just enjoying the sounds of nighttime. "I never meant to act the way I did." he

said, causing you to look at him, a lazy look over your face, before rolling your eyes and looking back up at the sky. "It's all water under the bridge at this point. It happened. I let it, and you go." you lied. "It honestly surprises me you feel anything about me, let alone remorse for how you treated me." you said, beginning to feel fed up with this surprise visit you knew shouldn't have been allowed in the first place. "Y/n, I felt a lot of things, I just didn't know how to express them, I didn't know-" "How to communicate your feelings. Look, I know okay. I preached that shit to everyone who tried to talk shit about you when I was sobbing my eyes out to them, trying to figure out what the fuck I had done wrong." you said, your mind not able to stop your mouth before it was too late. Shouto looked at you, and he looked hurt, but he also looked, to you, pathetic. "And you know what, I treated you fucking amazing. I got clean for you. I stopped smoking weed and cigs and stopped drinking, I worked on my quirk that you insisted I was 'throwing away', and worked my ass off to get good grades that I didn't give a shit about until you. I had gotten better. I was doing amazing. and then out of nowhere, you break up with me." you said, letting your words sink in before continuing, "And you know, at first, I was sad, but figured we could have somewhat of a good friendship. I fully intended to continue to get good grades and be the little perfect angel that I expected myself to be to feel like i was enough for you, but then you pretended I didnt exist. You acted like even looking in my direction would kill you. And don't even get me started with you saying you had been thinking about leaving me for two weeks before you actually did it." you said, tears spilling from your eyes, but you kept your voice and face stern. "So don't. just please don't. Just let me live, Shouto. You had no right to come here tonight. You should have thrown that damn key in the trash just like you did with me." you spat, not even bothering to look at him. You knew you'd regret everything you said if you saw him hurt by it, and you didn't want to apologize. All you had wanted since he broke up with you was for him to feel even a fraction of the pain you had felt. But your eyes wandered to him anyway. He was looking at you, dumbstruck. "What?" you spat, more hot tears streaming down your face. He said nothing as he stood, and pulled the key from his pocket, a chain attached to it, with a familiar locket clanking against the key as he held it out to you. Your eyes were blurry from the tears, and you were frozen as he set the chain in your hand. Before he left, he choked, saying, "You're right. You deserve to be allowed to move on. I'm sorry I came." He then kissed the top of your head, before walking back in, leaving you alone once more. You pulled the necklace out from under your shirt, the same locket from his key necklace around your neck. You poped the two of them open and out them side by side. Inside were pictures, in his, was your smiling face with his arms around you, and in yours, the same picture, only the other half, with him smiling with your arms around him. on the opposite side, carved into the gold medal in small letters, the words "私の愛" stared back at you.

*bonus*

only 10 minutes after Sho had left, you found yourself curled up in your bed, sobbing into your pillow, tugging the sleeves of the old sweatshirt he had given you months prior, closer, before eventually drifting off.

[crankywhenprovoked]

I am 100% on board with what your talking about. I've had such a big problem with this that I can barely watch his stuff anymore cause it bothers me so so much. But I was curious to watch the recent episode cause I saw it had picani and I still adore the crap out of him so I watched it! And it really was just a grab for more Patreon members like holy shit.

There's been so much hate on Thomas lately and every single piece of hate is so SO fucking valid.

He totally could've done a zoom call meeting, heck, with picani and his patients!!! They could've discussed how they are handling the quarantine!!!!!! But no! Thomas is just so concerned about super long 'movie' like content that he doesn't care!!

I saw a post about something like this and it's been stuck in my head lately. You know WHY he's taking months upon months upon months to produce just a SCRAP of a video? Someone said that he's milking every single video dry of potential money that he could get. He could've done the zoom video, he could've done a zoom call with the sides, he could've done SOMETHING since the last sides video. But he chooses not to cause he's so money hungry that he just doesn't care enough to.

Also!!! I'm not sure if you knew, but Thomas released keychains on his shop a few months ago. Literally every one I've seen on Tumblr so far has complained about the keychains. They always come in chipped or broken. And they have a very cheap covering over them I'm talking EXTREMELY cheap covering. And if you try to fix it? It'll ruin the coloring. There is no excuse for that at all. He's just being so incredibly lazy at this point and it's so showing

And the point that the one Thomas and friends video with all the animators? He never paid a single dime to those animators. They were crunched in time, they had to rush in order to met the dead line, and once they finished they didn't get paid!!!!

There is so much beef I could talk about with Thomas right now. I want to leave the fandom so badly but I've made a lot of friends here, plus, I still really love drawing and writing the characters. But it's become a point where every single video that Thomas makes just...irritates the fuck out of me. So don't worry, your now alone here. I won't blame you for leaving!!

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Honestly. The fact that he used Emile is something that pisses me off the most. Because so many people DO love him, and wanted to see him in the three years since the therapy vids were posted. But he just didn’t do anything, until suddenly he’s realizing how many people weren’t renewing their patreons, and did this plea

And that’s super true. He milks all he can from a video, and then when people are starting to lose interest; he pops back up with something new

So I did know that the shop was SUPER sketchy. Because stuff would be missing, damaged, not show at all. And trying to get your money back was hella bad. But that, that’s just fucked

Yea, I’ve been toeing out of the fandom for a while now. But this, this just pissed me off so fucking much that I’m officially done, like done done

[afoxysunny]

Sportacus as Álfurildi

Choosing a Miraculous for him was actually the easiest out of all for me and the more i thought about this AU the more sense it made.

Disclaimer: this AU is just one big work in progress so please excuse the fact that i don't have most of the details worked out yet

Even without a Miraculous Sportacus was already a slightly above average hero. Not being called into Lazytown to live there with the kids he traveled around helping whoever needed him. One way or the other he ends up being chosen as the new Guardian of the Miracle Box once the Peacock and Butterfly Miraculous are recovered from the villains in Paris

Here are the references i started this process with

And a process it was indeed. As obviously as the choice for this pair was it was equally as hard to actually design him

Most butterfly inspired fashion i found were dresses or otherwise extravagant and made for women, definitely too impractical for Sportacus to wear. I like what i came up with in the end a lot and am so relieved as halfway into this process i was really scared it would end up looking like this disgusting cartoon trope where they draw old fat men in tiny pink dresses to make fun of them but thank goodness it didn't!

Design Notes:

Red Spotted Purple - that is the very misleading name of an almost entirely blue butterfly with some faintly red spots. It works though, the Kwami is purple but the cistume still ends up partially blue

Brooch in place of crystal - it was a no brainer, the round and glowy Miraculous just had to replace/join in the placement of his usual crystal (who knows if he even has the crystal in this au? I sure don't) Details on his costume get the dark purple colour of the brooch

Bandana around neck - Sportacus' canon outfit already leans very heavily on Icelandic traditional fashion from head to toe. All accept the bandana tied around the neck. With each version of Sportacus' costume getting closer to this tradition i just had to add it

Ugly ass cap he loves i guess - honestly i think this style of hat is so ugly but he seems to like it so let him keep it i guess

Blue + purple - in Miraculous canon the Kwami's colour usually is the one and only dominant colour of the costume each hero ends up with. Only Hawkmoth really deviated from this and I'm not good eith simplistic and effective designs so i went more into that direction. Sportacus' signature blue stays the base with Nooroo's purple added on top for the butterfly themed costume parts (it was accidental but also sportarobbie so that's always a plus)

Reasoning:

The show Miraculous Ladybug makes it very clear on multiple occasions that the Butterfly Miraculous is meant to call in allies to help the Miraculous Holders and that all Kwamis wish for their powers to be used for good. Despite this the wiki is written like Nooroo is evil even though Hawkmoth corrupted his powers against the Kwami's wish. Because of that i wanted to pair Nooroo with someone who could never be mistaken for a villain: Sportacus

Story:

Sportacus has proven himself a hero wherever he went, looking for the best in people while always striving for even better. Because of his many strengths he was chosen as the new Guardian of this Miracle Box to keep it safe and most importantly help Nooroo recover from the long time abuse he had to endure. After befriending the Kwami they mutually decided there would be no better new partner for the slowly healing Nooroo than the supportive Sportacus. Which works out perfectly for his own interests as well. Of cause he wants to do all he can to help the purple Kwami through his struggle with recovery and Sportacus is strong in many ways so he stays transformed into Álfurildi for as long as possible; while Nooroo powers him up nobody can get to him and hurt him again.

I actually thought up a very big load of story for him and Robbie so i won't go into too much more detail right now until you also met Robbie's Miraculous version, stay tuned!

Name:

God, did i struggle with this one. In the end i mashed together the Icelandic word for Elf, Álfur, and Butterfly, Fiðrildi, to get Álfurildi! It's lame, i know, but honestly, Sportacus really isn't good at naming things so I'll let it slide. I imagine Robbie said exactly this to him as well, and additionally is too lazy to say that nane despite being well capable of speaking Icelandic so he just calls him Fairy. Both because that's kinda what he looks like and also because (at least according to the app i use to try to learn Icelandic) the word for fairy and elf are the exact same in Icelandic. That really bothers Sportacus and always corrects him by saying "you know that's not what it means" but in the end the kids can't pronounce Álfurildi and end up calling him Fairy as well, much to Robbie's and my amusement

Thank you for your attention, it truly means the world to me that i get ti ramble your ear off with my nonsense