#I was like what. 10 years old

[pastelaspirations]

I love this not just because it's Errorink, but because I have a little too much knowledge of calico cats since I was a very lonely child who spent too much time with her nose buried in animal fact books

O k a y. So, Ink being a calico cat is p e a k for multiple reasons. One, because the vast majority of all calico cats are female. This has to do with their chromosomes. Male cats have an X and a Y chromosome and females have two X chromosomes. Generally, the only way for a calico to exist is for it to gain an orange color X chromosome and a black color X chromosome.

Because females generally are the only ones who can have two X chromosomes, that means that usually, they are the only ones who can be calico or tortoiseshells cats.

So, this means that Ink being a calico makes the "Ink = trans" or "Ink is gender nonconforming" headcanons confirmed. (In this art at least.)

But. B u t. Male calico cats can exist on rare occasions. Usually, this means the male cat has to have a mutation to give him the chromosome makeup of XXY. Since he has two X chromosomes, this makes the ability for him to be a calico possible.

But they are usually infertile because of these mutations. Which m e a n s this gives such great potential for ✧˖°.angst✧˖°.

Like, i m a g i n e. Ink wanting to be a parent kitty so much, but cannot because of his chromosomal makeup. It is literally so good, it's so j u i c y and angsty, how can you not get intrigued by that-

Oh yeah, and Error is cute as a tabby

HELLOOO?? IM INLOVE WITH YOUR ART PLEASE COULD YOU DRAW SOME ERRORINK THIS WILL ABSOLUTELY MAKE MY DAY IF YOU DO SO AHHH BUT PLEASE TAKE YOUR TIME^^

I LOVE ERRINK <33

i definitely did not take 11 hours to answer this

ALSO TYSM???? compliments like this make me wanna draw so much

ink is a calico and error is a tabby...idk if i did the tabby markings correctly

ink belongs to comyet error belongs to loverofpiggies

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

Lore accurate Fiddlestan

Og source^

[abisalli]

Some Tims! I haven't read any current comic runs in forever so someone please tell me they aged my boy up

[catmask]

sometimes while i think about that while a lot of adults did not treat me very well as a kid i also get a lot of 'in hindsight this person was so good to me and i didnt even realize it until now' as an adult. today i was thinking about how the first anime convention i ever went to was when i was 10 and i asked the man working the manga cafe what manga was/what a good place to start was (because the con was very overstimulating for me and i had gotten lost) and he asked how old i was before recommending yotsuba and asking if i wanted any water or something to eat. its really simple but theres a lot of bad things that couldve happened or he could've been careless in his recommendation, but instead yotsuba has remained one of my favorite manga for years, and probably a large portion of why i continue to read manga as an adult... i think adults who try to involve kids in the world safely/kindly even in little ways make so much more of a difference than they ever really know.

[zevranunderstander]

i dont think i will ever be over dragon age 2. like. bioware made an epic fantasy story about a chosen one having to save a country and stop the apocalypse and then they made the second installment of the series be about the sociopolitical climate in ONE city through the lens of a family of refugees fleeing from the war of the first game and just. made it about political tensions and class dynamics and the influences of living in a church-mandated state and the growing tension over an occupied piece of the city and political killings and interpersonal conflict and power and its story is ENTIRELY character-driven. it has easily the most iconic set of companion characters. the premise of living through a story told over the course of ten years and knowing from the start that something really bad will happen in the end was so fresh and exciting. the fact that the acts really built on top of each other andhow much the city changed over time. and the game was so mature in terms of the topic of fighting against oppression in so many ways (im usually generous and say that the short development time left some things a bit wanting), and as much as some people say that the game treats mages and templars as being equally bad, i don't think that that is actually true about the game and it very earnestly tries to grapple with some pretty complex political dynamics.

and then the game completely flopped financially and was almost universally hated for its queer themes and its sympathy for "terrorism" and a lot of the things that stemmed from basically having no production time at all and then the studio just made another epic fantasy story about a chosen one that has to save the world from the apocalypse

[tarmac-rat]

"I can't believe CDPR made one of the romance options a COP" River is a cop for literally two thirds of a mission that is dedicated to uncovering the depths of police corruption in Night City, gets immediately booted from the force BECAUSE he tried to stand up to said police corruption, spends the rest of the game pursuing detective work outside the law, and in the base game mentions he's going to start work as a private eye so he doesn't have to return to the force in order to keep protecting people.

The only instance where the "River is a Cop" joke is funny is using it in the context of Johnny being pissy about it, which should probably tell you how low hanging that particular fruit probably is.

[tevintersnakes]

back in the fallout pit, fortunately my art has improved since 2016 so I can draw doctors hanging out together somewhat effectively now

[mylittleredgirl]

kind of wild how i’m absolutely sure that going to bed every night at 9:30 pm without my phone would improve my life in every conceivable way, an action that’s both free and easy to do if it weren’t also somehow impossible

[darkeneddawning]

Escaped clone au

You know all those fics where Danny and Damian are twins but everyone first assumes Danny must be a clone? How about an au where Danny is Damian's clone who escaped the League after he was assumed dead. Damian could even have been the one to have "killed" him, back when Danny was a newly created, fully brainwashed clone minion and trying to kill Damian himself.

Danny gets adopted by the Fentons and canon goes on as normal, until Dan. Witnessing what would happen to the world should he turn evil really drove home to Danny how dangerous he is.

Even if he was confident he could be trusted with his absurd amount of power (which he isn't), what if the League of Assassins found out about him? Does he still have programming triggers from his evil assassin clone conditioning?

So, Danny does the responsible thing: he goes to Batman to turn himself in.

Cue Danny showing up on Bruce's doorstep with ghost hunting equipment, intel on the afterlife, and an almost unbelievable backstory. Somehow he still managed to be more well-adjusted than Damian.

More thoughts under the read more

Here's how I'm thinking Danny leaving the League went down:

After surviving his wounds but failing his mission, Danny (then an unnamed potential Damian replacement) knew there was no point in returning to the League. As a failure, he was meant to be disposed of. He even thought of simply allowing himself to perish, since that was what the League would do.

But he couldn't help but feel as though that would be a waste of a resource. Surely he could be of more use to the League alive than dead?

That tiny bit of rebellious logic is what caused Danny to go into hiding, only living on based on the off chance he would find opportunities to further the League's goals. Obviously, that mentality didn't last long after being exposed to the real world and meeting one Jazz Fenton.

Being adopted by the Fentons was the best cover Danny could have asked for, since any odd behavior he couldn't hide while he was learning how to be "normal" was totally overshadowed by the sheer bizarre eccentricity of his new parents. He was still the neighborhood weird kid, but even that was a major upgrade from disposable tool, so Danny considered it a win.

Anyway, if anyone likes this idea, please feel free to have at it! Interpret it as you please :)

[10yearsofdnp]

January 1, 2015: Happy New Year from Dan and Phil!!! ❤️🎉🦌

[knight-says-pow]

Big fan of Jayce and Caitlyn’s sibling relationship. Big fan of the implications regarding how that happened

This man, an only-child, now a young adult, secures a sponsorship outside the academy. His sponsors have a tween daughter who pokes around his lab space. He doesn’t return her, or act mature and responsibly, or even choose to babysit - nothing like any of that, of course not.

No, this 20 year old looks at Cait and goes “yes.. yes I am going to pester her as much as she pesters me… she, the twelve year old, obviously started it”

And again, because it’s insane to me, he’s an only child! Baffling how easily he nailed the older brother role. I know found family sibling relationships aren’t rare but the fact that the age gap didn’t stop them is fascinating. For any sibling dynamic as real as theirs you Know it started with some degree of beef. Jayce had beef with a middle schooler. They’ve been on equal playing fields from day one I love this I love them

[marshmallowgoop]

no thoughts just Heiji Hattori (HD)

[spacedlexi]

its my birthday who wants some KISSIES!!!

[kings-highway]

"daichi is a firefighter" "daichi is a gym teacher" "daichi is a-" look i get that fully au-ing it to erase the cop timeline is an easy out but I stand by "daichi enters the police academy with nothing but genuinely gold-hearted ideals about protecting people and slowly works his way through the police heirarchy as an uncorruptable force that threatens the status quo making him a direct target of his own colleagues and supervisors as he steadfastly untangles a net of bribery and cover-ups. the sixth time he arrests one of his own coworkers he gets an unofficial warning to stand down. the seventh time he does it he gets framed of a crime to justify firing from the force. the eigth time he does it he's 40 and working as a private detective exclusively to light the entire conspircy on fire and wont rest until he succeeds."

[vorbarrsultana]

i finished rereading the first four vorkosigan books (+ "the flowers of vashnoi" because ekaterin!!!), and you really have to feel for piotr vorkosigan because what a nightmare life, truly.

imagine you are born just in time for your world to be unified by dorca vorbarra and rediscovered by people from wider galaxy. things are finally looking good, for the first time in 600 years of isolation there is no more feudal infighting, and the promise of galactic medicine and technologies being available lightens everyone's perspectives. sure, your grandpa is called count pierre "le sanguinaire", but who doesn't have terrible relatives?

then you are 15, and suddenly your planet is attacked by the aggressive eugenecist space empire hell-bent on subjugating your people and turning them into disposable material for unethical genetic experiments. you flee into the mountains, away from your family, and create guerrilla forces from locals sworn to your dad, and it's really terrible for a very long time. you have no high-tech weapons and no food, you sleep in a cave in the dead of winter, and the cetagandans try everything (from carpet bombing to chemical weapons) to murder you.

but hey, at least you now have your bff ezar vorbarra, and (from the bff's words on his deathbed) it sounds like you two had so much fun between unimaginable horrors and despair, and it's not surprising, since no one really believes in death after life at 20. then the emperor makes you a general at the tender age of 22. fortunately for him, you & bff make a frighteningly competent dream-team, and the joke's on cetagandans.

then, several years later, you ask the emperor for weapons, because you still sleep on the bare cave floor, there are little resources, and every ghem on the planet is trying to murder you. he offers you the hand of his granddaughter instead, like it's some sort of twisted fairytale, but you grow to love your olivia more than anything, and the tide of war is finally turning, and you allow yourself to entertain the idea of peaceful life, and then...

the space eugenecist empire nukes your hometown, killing your mom, dad, surviving brothers, and two hundred thousand of your people. plus your bff (ezar) gets a radiation doze large enough for it to cause severe cancer thirty years later. great.

but you win! your district is in shambles, your capital is an irradiated crater, your castle is in ruins, but you win! the old dorca dies, and yuri ascends the throne, but politicking is secondary to the fact that you are alive.

yes, you are probably not entirely sane, and you've long forgotten what the peaceful times look like, but you are alive, just under 35, and your entire life is ahead of you. olivia is alive too, and ezar, and you now have three wonderful children, and the extended vorpatril-vorbarra family that hosts regular get-togethers. sure, your mom-in-law is a betan with all sorts of crazy ideas in her head, but she is not pierre vorrutyer. small mercies.

but then the new emperor goes mad, and decides to murder your entire family overnight. your brothers-in-law are gone, one of your sisters-in-law too, and all your nephews and nieces except little padma. but all of this pales in comparison to the facts that olivia is murdered, and that your heir and daughter lay dead beside her.

all you have left of her, of your house, of the family you've lost in vashnoi not a ten years ago, is aral, whom you keep by your side throughout the bloody civil war to put your bff on the throne.

but you win again. you are 43, and ezar vorbarra is now the emperor. you are responsible for the imperium's entire ground forces. you are also responsible for a severely traumatized boy of 13, and the only children you've interacted with without olivia's genle guidance were little messengers of guerilla companies.

what a mess.