#I guess? idk

[aakeysmash]

college!sukuna lives literally next door. you live in one of those apartment complexes where you rent a room and then have a common kitchen, bathroom and stuff with your almost-roommates inside of a bigger complex made of apartments just like yours, for students only.

if it wasn't for his 9 year old brother yuuji, who casually lives across from your room (wasn't this place for college students?) and is the literal definition of a ray of sunshine, you'd hate his guts. sure, he's hot for a guy who looks like he's failing half of his classes and makes sure you hear every single one of the girls he brings into his room at night, but he's still a major pain in your ass.

"where the hell do you think you're going?" he tells his brother, leaning on his door, arms crossed. the child is rushing to put his shoes on and zipping his sweater up.

"yn said she's going to take me running!" he responds grinning, tripping on his own feet from how excited he is before softly knocking on your door, all while sukuna looks at him raising one eyebrow.

"i'm starting to think you like her more than me, brat," he grits out just as you get out.

"oh he does, he just doesn't want to hurt your feelings by saying it," you rub in his face without sparing him a glance. he huffs and rolls his eyes, really wanting to punch you in the face. you ignore him and smile at yuuji, getting at his eye level.

"ready? whoever gets tired last will be the first player tonight in mario kart," you say wiggling your eyebrows.

"deal!" he squeals happily before running out the door. you know he's going to wait for you, he's a good kid, he's not going to run away. he's more mature than any 9 year old should be.

"y'know, if you needed some cardio you could've come in my room," sukuna tells you coming closer and looking you up and down. you have this cute set on that is making him salivate, but he still maintains some kind of distance.

"on my dead body, itadori senior," you lightly push him out of the way and go back into your room to get your bag.

"come on, i'll even push your head in the sheets so as not to look at your annoying ass face," he remarks, and you shoot him a dirty glance. he flips you off.

"can you talk about something that doesn't make me want to rip my ears off?" you mumble while searching for your house keys.

"i can talk about how i'll break your neck if you don't bring back my brother in two hours, if you want," he says, looking at you from the doorway, bored.

"he still likes me more."

"when you get home there will be another lock, bitch."

[witheredoffherwitch]

Every now and then, I venture onto Twitter to gauge the vibes, and each time it catches me off guard, ngl 💀

If you thought the locals' obsession with Viserys being a great dad and ruler was weird, wait till you hear about the Jacemond crossover gaining popularity 😭

[gumbootillustrations]

day 5 of aphtober - sun / moon

decided to do some garrance tarot cards (inspired by the incredible @number-one-zara-fan), with garroth as the sun (positivity, success, vitality) and laurance as the moon (illusions, anxiety, and the subconscious)

textless versions under the cut :3

anyway. enjoy.

[saturnniidae]

I love how similar Hiccup and Astrid are in how they're so incredibly stubborn but if given solid in your face proof they're wrong about something, they will be the fastest to change

[scarymonsters-andsupercreeps]

Anatomy practice featuring a few pillars!

[sullina]

i honestly really appreciate Mairimashita Iruma-kuns take on demons, because demons in many fiction-works (which is... all of them, bc demons aren't actually real...) are portrayed as selfish and only doing what they want, or are literally just 1:1 to humans but this time with horns.

And yeah, in "Iruma-kun", they're also selfish and do whatever they want, but they're also still very much social and have a (more or less) working society. So they can work together, despite their selfishness.

And this also reflects in the demons we see working. Full disclosure, i don't remember that much right now, but just thinking of the teachers at Babyls, they all absolutely love their jobs and are amazing at it, if to varying levels.

And why wouldn't they? Demons only do whatever they wanna do. The teachers at Babyls aren't forced to work as teachers, they chose to become teachers, because that's what they wanted to do. And if you love something, you're willing to put a lot of work into it.

Even Kaluego, despite his usual demeanor and attitude, loves being a teacher, and especially wants to see every single one of his students grow to their fullest potential. Why else would he have a notebook dedicated to each and every single student? I don't think teachers are required to do that, so the only answer left is that he loves his job.

Also Balam, who gets so excited about new things that it scares most students.

And Bachiko, who taught Iruma archery. She was tough on him, but she never called him annoying or wanted him to go away, unless you count the beginning of their training, but even that was because she had so many students give up and didn't think Iruma was any different. Once he had proven himself to be capable and willing to do whatever it took to master archery, she was behind him 110%.

I just love this take, because on the one hand, it's more fresh, and on the other, also seems a little more... accurate?

Because consider any other medium where demons are portrayed as hating and killing each other on the daily, but still have cities and schools, and just a society in general (if a broken one), and it's said that it's "always been this way". Basically just "humans with horns and way more hostile". Why the fuck would they band together if they can't cross paths without trying to tear each others throats out? Why would they reproduce? If a demon can't care for anything other than its own individual self, why would they raise their children? Let alone anyone elses children, like in schools? You don't band together, unless there's some sort of benefit that outweighs the cost. In that kind of world, it makes no sense that demons would have cities, let alone countries, and without countries, there wouldn't be any wars either. Wars are fought by countries, which is a collection of people, or demons in this case, all fighting collectively for the same goal. If demons don't fight for a collective goal, because they're not a collective, there can't be any wars, only senseless bloodshed where it's everyone vs. everyone and the winner is the last individual left alive.

And yeah, in Mairimashita it's still said that it kinda sorta was like this a long time ago, but it's not like this now, and the clear reason is that Delkira, the demon king, made it this way, in part by introducing the rank system that allowed anyone to get higher in their society. And even then, in that "a long time ago", demons still had a society, just not an equal one. And while we see demons being selfish in the manga/anime, we also know that they CAN care for others, be it their friends or family. And in that amusement park arc, i distinctly remember a child being trapped in a building that could come down any second, and Iruma, the resident human, stepping in to save the child, which inspired his demonic friends to step in and help him. So yeah, demons in mairima are very much naturally selfish, but not to such an extent that they can't care for others.

[orittsu]

DC Prompt #1

In this au, Robin doesn't appear until after Batman and Superman have met each other.

And looking at how...bright Robin is there are 3 theories:

Batman is just some guy. He respects Superman and thus, adopted a kid that embodied his optimism

Batman isn't human and he just liked Superman so much he poofed Robin into existence.

Robin is made from a piece of Superman and Batman. In hopes of brightening Gotham or something???

Inspired by this thread.

[cobraonthecob]

i hate how they handled the topic of mixed families in the comics but i think that as a character motivation, it would've made more sense zuko and katara were together (or actually, anyone and katara, let's be real) and aang was being a petty little brat about it rather than looking like an idiot that he was in canon

like yeah he'd be an asshole, but at least it'd make SENSE. like idk about y'all, but if i was dating someone outside of my race, i would NOT be pushing for this shit. i'm not one of my country's supreme court justices, after all (bad case of rules for thee and not for me)

i still think aang going right to banning mixed marriages was stupid as fuck and i wish they never wrote that plotline, but pandora's box has been opened and you can't close it. this is what we get. aang pushing for a ban on mixed marriages is canon in the comics, and short of pretending the comics don't exist, i get to be salty and pissed off about it

and i think that's why it's important to divorce the different aangs from each other. aang as he was from the animated show is a different character in the comics, very different from legend of korra, and fanon aang can be whatever you make of him. if you want to steer into his best traits, good for you! but some of us like steering into his worst traits, don't yell at us about it. yell at the canon material for being present and giving us that fuel lmfao

[tehloserprince]

I noticed that Beelzebub almost seems a little subdued/thoughtful when they arrive at The Resurrectionist with Gabriel. It makes sense in a way because the previous graveyard scene ended with them staring wistfully at Gabriel while he admired the statue of himself. I've talked about it elsewhere, but the way Shelley Conn was acting in that scene gave me two impressions: first, that Beelzebub longed for Gabriel to look at them like that; and second, that Beelzebub may have been doubting whether or not Gabriel could ever love them - a demon, and the Grand Duke of Hell - since that statue seemed to represent Gabriel's Heavenly duty and devotion.

Anyway. I wonder if Gabriel noticed that Beelzebub had grown a bit quiet - maybe even a little sad - and that contributed to his jukebox miracle? Idk, but I love that he knew that song would make them happy and he wanted to see them smile. The camera's focus isn't on Gabriel in that particular shot, but we can still see this look of quiet excitement as he waits for Beelzebub to notice the song.

Also, I might be hearing things and/or it might be due to other things happening in the scene, but I swear it sounds like Beelzebub buzzes a bit when they say "Is that? Did you?" Specifically, I hear it when Shelley Conn says "Is that?" Maybe it's just me, but it kind of fits in with my own little headcanon that the buzzing occurs more frequently when Beelzebub is emotional (excited, angry, etc.). Idk. Anyone else hearing it? Just me?

[trophybutchpics]

cmere n sniff my pits, i know u wanna, perv >:P

[dio-the-thot-exterminator]

nuh uh 🤨☝️

[almostgotforgotten]

im a little sad i had to scrap this background, but im still fond of it

[aphel1on]

not sure how to phrase this but something i have been ruminating on recently is that xue yang is strangely fragile. obviously he is also incredibly resilient. he survived, and continues to survive, impossible things. he has a million barriers between himself and the world, but none of this actually matters when it comes to what he feels. everything is personal to him. everything pierces straight through all that armor and goes right to his battered heart, the heart that no one else believes he has. that even he is not fully cognizant of. the world strikes and strikes and strikes and so he strikes and strikes and strikes back, even (especially) when the wound is something other people would not think worthy of retribution.

xue yang would never realize this- would be outraged at the concept of it- but the way everything, everything is something to rally a defense against is in itself a form of fragility. he does not know how to let go of things, or let them pass him by. passivity is death. so he is ruthlessly cruel and violent. he projects himself as a lunatic untouchable by anything you might possibly do to him, and on some level he even believes this. but in actuality he is one raw emotional wound. he never learned to separate himself from his emotions, much less process them. the volatility is not so much insanity as it is the constant lashing out of an animal in a trap, and the trap is the world, and the trap is himself, and he is never going to get out. and like so much else, this pain is just part of the background radiation of his life. it hardly registers. to be able to register the hurt, you would have to be able to register a time in which you were not hurt.

i feel like it is a fragility that could blossom into such tenderness, given exactly the right set of circumstances. how at the very first touch of softness in his life he fell into a domesticity from which he never recovered. how much was there, still, to be salvaged from the cruelty. on some level i am always thinking about the little apple bunnies. about the meal for daozhang and the straw in a-qing's bed.

it was too little, too late. it shattered like glass when the world intruded back in. but the tenderness was there. no one, least of all xue yang, knows what might have happened had it been unearthed in him any sooner.

[tiny-katara]

Almost everyone in the fandom will agree that Zuko had the best redemption arc that beats any/all others. Almost to the point where Zuko's put on a pedestal and talked as if he was already redeemed to begin with.

And yet, whenever it comes to him and Katara, that's all forgotten about and many are just now reminding everyone what a xenophobic sleaze-bag he used to be and they think he would somehow resort back to his sleaze-bagginess if he ever dated/married Katara.

yeah like zuko is renowned for his brilliant redemption arc across all of the fandom (except the azula stan spaces but that's neither here nor there). i think people just use it as a "gotcha" moment tbh.

katara isn't even mistrustful of him as she lets him run off with other members of the gaang with little to no complaint. she feels betrayed and is holding some resentment for what she feels he represents. once he's proven that he will not betray her again and helped to shift her perception of him and his agenda, she forgives him and holds no ill will. they're literally good friends after that and get along with no issues. they just seem to struggle to accept that a good foundation for a relationship is a solid friendship (which zutara has lol). people are just very silly and they like to find reasons to justify why they're right and you're wrong.

[lemonlilactea]

Oh also a lot of the trans based dialogue has made me cry in a good way so far, I love taash and their quests and journey and maybe they do mention being nonbinary a lot but guess what. so do i