#I needed to get it out of my head

[faerieomenart]

Oh hey!! I almost forgot to say thanks for over 100 followers! 💛💛

I appreciate it so much. 💛

My queue is very close to catching up, so my seemingly daily activity will probably slow down soon, but I'll still be making more art and continuing to post as I do so! Mostly X-men fan art, but I have a small little sketch project that I'm working on for many other fandoms that I am in, which I hope to share soon ehehe. 💛

Here are some wips (that may or may not get finished lol) for the sillies of it! :)) VVV

[just-rainbow-thoughts]

I’ll be genuinely surprised if no one has thought to draw this yet

[leventart-den]

It's "Zoro is dead, Sanji carries his swords" again. Post 1, 2.

Thoughts keep popping up in my head, I just can't stop. I think this AU needs a name by this point. Any ideas?

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Zoro's gaze falls to the scars on Sanji's neck. His fingers twitch to touch, but he remains motionless.

“I did this to you.” His voice is unusually uncertain, Sanji thinks he hears a note of fear and guilt.

He doesn't like it.

This doesn't sound right coming from Zoro.

There's a pause, Sanji takes a drag from his cigarette...

Zoro frowns.

Then the idiot cook smiles.

"Yeah, they look cool, don't they? Girls love guys with cool scars! Ehehe" He laughs, chokes on the smoke, coughs, but then smiles again despite the tears in his eyes.

Idiot, the thought sounds too tender in Zoro's head. He brushes it aside.

Sanji looks at him as if expecting something.

And at this moment, Zoro can do nothing else but grin in response. Despite the pang in his heart which he is not sure of either because of guilt or because of something else, something that he is not ready to admit yet.

“Yeah.. Well.. Mine are cooler anyway, curly eyebrows.” He grunts back in his usual "tough guy" manner. 

Sanji's smile somehow brightens. The tension that Zoro had not noticed before falls away from another man.

Zoro finds himself unwilling to even blink. His air caught in his throat.

Oh.

Oh shit.

I think I'm falling in love with you, you shitty cook, he thinks.

[strunmah-mah]

Y'all ever noticed that in every single continuity Nubia get associated with a different Pantheon/God? It's really weird.

Pre-Crisis:

Nubia is Diana's twin who is kidnapped by Ares/Mars and raised to fight the Amazons. Kay first off: Diana's evil Black twin? Really? Glad that pretty much immediately revealed she was only evil cause mind control and once that was broken she was one of the god guys, but why'd you do it the first place DC? Pantheon: Greco-Roman, The tendency to treat the Greek and Roman names of Gods as interchangeable is something that annoys me, since there is over lap between the two but there's more nuance than that. But that's a personal annoyance that probably isn't going to go away anytime soon, so whatever. I am curious though, why is Ares/Mars always villain? Like obviously the answer is War Bad. But mythologically Ares is Hyppolyta's father. Wouldn't that be an interesting thing for DC to canonize.

Post-Crisis:

Many centuries ago Nu'bia won a contest like Diana did and became the guardian of Doom's Doorway. She crossed over to the other side and was never seen again leaving many Amazons with the assumption she was dead. In truth she lived in Hell for centuries and even became the lover of the god, Ahura Mazda Sidenote: Why did they add an apostrophe to the middle of her name like that? Trying to make it sound more foreign or something? Religion: Zoroastrianism, is actually still an active religion. Impressive considering it's almost as old as Buddhism though the number of practitioners is significantly smaller. Honestly, points for not doing a big name mythology. Seeing as I had never even heard of this religion before I don't dare speak to the accuracy of Ahura Mazda in this comic. But still interesting someone chose this out of all the possible options

Rebirth/Infinite Frontier:

Nubia came out of the Well of Souls around the same time Diana was born. And the two were especially close because of that. Nubia was selected to to become the guardian of Doom's Doorway like her pre-crisis counterpart, but she never goes missing. Instead she eventually becomes the queen of all Amazons. After this she starts having memories of her past life before she came through the well of souls. Which is how it's revealed she used to be a Madagascar princess named, Zahavah, training to become the avatar of Skehmet. Honestly, wtf is this? Madagascar is is it's own country with it's own gods. There is absolutely no reason she would be worshiping a goddess from over 3000 miles to the north of her. This is just treating the entire continent of Africa like a monolith. And it's also annoying because there is an entire tribe of Egyptian Amazons who almost never get stories about the pantheon they are supposedly bound to.

Anyway, I know asking for consistency from DC is tall order especially with how minor of a character Nubia was until recently. I just think the constant pantheon shift is an odd detail to keep changing. Overall, it's a shame how underutilized Nubia is as a character. Especially since according to Wikipedia she's DC's first black female superhero. But how come in every major continuity they manage to make a decision that is not great? Evil Black twin is bad, but makes an unfortunate kind of sense, since it was the 70's. At least she showed some heroic traits while still mind controlled? Nu'bia is an odd little detail, but probably not that big of a deal? But damn if the Egypt/Madagascar thing does not annoy the hell out of me.

Seriously DC, why are you like this?

[insom-nom-nom-niatic]

So hear me out...

I cannot stop thinking about this Teen Wolf story that's been plaguing my mind for the past month... and it goes a little something like this:

Set in present day which brings most characters to be in their early 30's/late 20's.

Issac ends up on his own (away from Argents) in the forrest regions of France or England.

He meets a (insert fae creature/possibly also over run by a "dormant" demon) and that's his mate. Both supernatural beings trying to lay low and now get burned at the stake but ALSO keep the near town safe. (I still don't have a name for her uuuuuuugh)

Most of the characters live near the couple along with a small "pack" of not only werewolves and Banshees this time.

The pack doesn't have an Alpha cause fuck that bullshit but Issac being himself is pretty much the Alpha/leader. (His partner runs the chaos club but he tries to keep everything under control)

Issac met Theo on his last trip back to Beacon Hills, needing help from Chris Argent and befriending Theo, bring him back to (wherever he's living) and growing a close, brotherly bond with the slightly younger were-being. BFF bond!

Kira found Issac's mate in a time of need, helping her recover and becoming BFFs for better or for worst. She has become a close friend of Isaac because of this and their shared histories (what some might call betrayal) with Scott, and is the one he looks to when things begin to really pop-off.

Stiles ends up on a special FBI mission to the town, given his interests in the abnormal, and finds himself at Issac's doorstep.

After the death of Aiden, Ethan found solace in Issac and a reason to protect the innocent while also being a part of a pack alone. He couldn't be in a pack with more Alpha energy given everything that had happened, but also needs a team to keep him in line. (He and the girl may or may not have resurrected Aiden)

Danny followed close behind Ethan and continues to learn all he can about the supernatural and becoming a bit of a witch in some sense. Though, he and Ethan called it quites, both remain the other's biggest supporter.

Parish comes along on the more difficult "hunting" missions, letting his hound out to play in order to keep the peace back at home.

Braeden follows (though she really didn't need to) Parish to find the pack after noticing more and more bodies being found in very random towns throughout the globe, emanating to this one area. But lends her own services to the impending doom with some faces from the past.

Meredith lends a hand when things get tricky, having odd knowledge of the supernatural since coming back from her catatonic state and learning from one of the eldest Druids in Europe. She keeps an eye on Issac's mate when she gets her "feelings" of something being off. Knowing the ticking time bomb in their midst.

THE PLOT:

As more and more supernatural beings begin to invade the wildscapes of (insert town), the pack get stopped by a group of wild shapes outside Isaac's property alerting them to the imminent threat to all living creatures. The pack now have to prepare, comprehend, and fight a presence that has had millennias to build its strength.

Not to mention, the creatures taking advantage of the chaos to come.

Some will thrive.

Some won't survive.

Some can be trusted and some will break them all.

Everyone is a threat to someone.

[sk8rambler]

adding onto the yes show, (amidst all of the clash posts) i want to admit that i have created a whole two more seasons including bonus episodes and i wondered if anyone wanted to hear abt them !!

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[hinamie]

post-graduation trip airport looks

[risetherivermoon]

ppl dont talk about the fact that even Daisuke's characterization is affected by Jimmy's unreliable perspective. He refers to Daisuke as a spoiled rich kid who has his mommy and daddy behind him, that he's impressionable and stupid, and i do see people kinda characterizing him like that

like he has these rich parents who will dote on him and give him everything, that he's an airhead who isn't good at anything...

yet in curly's perspective we see that he's good at board games, he's trying his best, he's trying to listen to swansea and learn from him. He did get the internship from his parents but not because he wanted to, but because his parents thought he wasn't going anywhere in life, that he needed to be doing something. Daisuke is silly and a positive person but that's just for show, we see in the scene where Jimmy finds him lying on the floor drunk on mouthwash, that Daisuke isn't doing well, he's scared and feels sad about his parents. He makes jokes to cope with the horrible tension on the ship.

people characterize him as a stupid little kid too much for my liking, that's how Jimmy sees him. As a spoiled brat who came on the ship just to be an inconvenience. Even Swansea didn't see him like that, sure he complained about him but in Daisuke's final moments we see Swansea's true colors and how much he actually cares for him. He's an adult, who's putting on this happy go-lucky persona because he truly wants to succeed in life, and he's doing the internship for his mom and dad even though he doesn't want to. So he makes friends, he tries his best, he wants to be on the good side of everyone on the ship.

Jimmy just saw him as an easy target, someone too trusting and easily manipulated. A stupid kid he can use to get what he wants. He even plays with Daisuke's feelings of needing validation from Swansea, someone he looks up to. He tells Daisuke that by going in the vent, he'd make Swansea proud.

Daisuke isn't someone who has it easy or someone who's a stupid airhead. Jimmy just saw kindness and positivity as weakness.

[snarkspawn]

the devil you know

[hymnoeides]

'Cause I'm stuck with your stories

[kaiju-naut]

“Sixer, it would eat you alive.”

[virune]

[kaban-bang]

Farcille

[darkness-nova]

alright we're seb posting now I love him and I can't stand him. here's an older comfort scribble

[giantkillerjack]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

[plain-text version of this post can be found under the cut]

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

Plain-text version:

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

P.S. Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.