#I’m kinda tired rn

[forsakenprogam]

choir from dystopia? Either normal or cyborg is fine

Drew choir, had fun drawing him, 10/10 would do it again

[musicaltheaternerd142]

Veflix drawing

It do be like that sometimes😶

[izuizzy]

I’m always drawing him in pain so have an AU where he’s actually good and his smile is actually PRECIOUS

[cricket-the-kobold]

This is an official @i-may-be-an-emu appreciation post. Anyone who has been in the tumblr side of the SFTH community will probably recognize this person. He was the first person to reach out when I asked for references, and he is always welcoming people into the community with open arms. He is exactly the kind of person that you want in a fandom. Emu, keep being fantastic, it is greatly appreciated.

[koroart]

I realized I never shared this here — but this is the piece I did for the DMCL Exchange that happened a few months back! Did this for … shit I forgot who I did this for.

[kkoffin]

I’m not a picky eater, but since i’ve been feeding myself since i was 12, i can be somewhat particular about what i feel like eating for dinner and what i don’t, but sometimes i still get sick of the time it takes to make a proper meal, following a recipe, adding all the tiny ingredients like cornstarch and sake, rather than just putting some meat on the stove and eating it with salt and pepper.

Anyways, then i remember historically, pretty much all recipes are made by women, almost like a kind of women-only art that’s passed down from one generation to the next. and im like nvm this is kinda fucking awesome actually

obviously women shouldn’t have been forced to do that, ofc i don’t think “women belong in the kitchen” or “cooking is a woman’s job” - it’s mostly terrible and patriarchal, but it’s still cool to me to imagine the origins of each recipe i cook, the woman who came up with it, what she was thinking, what led her to try that particular method etc, and then her spending years refining it and passing it down to her daughter

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

When I see stuff like this I kinda want to bash my head into a wall:

To start off, I’m not sure whether this person was commenting on book or show Cersei, but honestly, it doesn’t even matter because she’s so much more than the ‘ambitious villain’ or the ‘murderous girlboss’ tropes in both the book and show.

(Of course, I do have my issues with the way Cersei was written in the show like most people but this is simply a rant post so I’m not going to go through the differences of Show vs Book Cersei)

Cersei is a female character who was shaped by her environment, who’s insecurities were created by her environment, and she’s a woman who’s idiotic mistakes can be traced back to how her environment shaped her. She’s much more than a murderous girlboss, she’s both a victim of the system and also a beneficiary of it, while also acting as an agent of it to keep the status quo while also desiring what the system denied her.

Cersei is NUANCED and complicated and even now people hate that about her and want her to have been a purely evil woman handcrafted in a vacuum, ignoring the context of her life because readers would rather not engage with Cersei’s victimhood and nuances because that ruins their idea of: She Was The Problem and Always The Problem. (People would rather say that she deserved her walk of shame instead of interacting meaningfully with the theme of systematic gender-based violence that is so prevalent in Cersei’s story. The exploration of patriarchal violence in Show Alicent’s story is done so horribly in comparison.)

And what really pissed me off about these tags is that this person has clearly decided that they don’t care to interact with the nuance of Cersei and are fine with flattening her, and yet they shit on others for not liking Alicent.

Because of the way Alicent is written in this show, she almost always has a ‘woe is me I can do no wrong’ attitude, which of course drives people away from the character (woe is me I deserve to take a child’s eye 🥺). However, what actually annoys me is how she’s made out to be stupid, foolish, ignorant, and inconsistent due to the horrible writing of this show, all of which are deviations from her book characterization. Also, I despise it when people want me to support writing decisions and changes made in adaptations that are downright misogynistic and are meant to attract the male gaze.

But what pisses many people, including myself, off is how the changes made negatively impacted many other characters. Alicent’s terrible characterization is like a black hole that distorts and warps the whole story! It’s annoying af!

So when people like this say: ‘She’s nuanced and people just can’t handle it 🙄;’ I say: No. She’s horribly written and a different character from the book and people have a right to be critical about these changes that stripped a female character of 1) her agency and 2) her intelligence!

And the thing is, there was little reason for the writers to have made all these changes to Alicent’s characterization! In the book she is an interesting character with clear motives and understandable reactions. She’s cunning and ambitious and acts the way a noble lady who became queen would. And despite her clear ambitions and dislike of Rhaenyra, she still makes a comment wondering about who would protect the Princess from Ser Criston, and yet she then takes Cole into her service after his falling out with Rhaenyra. That’s a perfect example of nuance! Show Alicent could never compare to book Alicent’s clear moral values and consistent disregard of said moral values in pursuit of power.

And because of this, Book Alicent isn’t easy to stomach. It’s hard for most people to come to terms with a character like her and it’s even harder for people to feel sympathetic for her at the end when she went mad with grief.

On the other hand, Show Alicent was designed in a way to garner pity, and when the writers felt like her current arc wouldn’t be enough to garner the specific reaction they wanted they would then throw in a time skip and suddenly she’s completely different and yet still Thee victim. She’s designed to be as sympathetic as fucking possible! The camera angles, the background music, and the lighting is set up in a way to make sure you the viewer feels pity or sympathy for her! Cause that’s her role in this series! She’s thee Ultimate Victim!

But too bad for the writers as many people are fed up with this kind of inconsistent writing. Even when the writers created a whole new challenge for Alicent where she’s shitted on by the green council and forced to face the beast she helped to raise, I and many others could never feel any satisfaction as it was clear that once again Alicent was being made to be Thee Ultimate Victim who was just led astray by the patriarchy and was a victim of it and was only just realizing it so don’t you pity her don’t you feel sad for her and now she’s trying to do the right thing so pls pls pls pity her 🥺~ So it shouldn’t be surprising that many people are annoyed by these eNLiGhtEnEd changes that have led to a complete deviation from the source material.

To summarize: Cersei is an excellent fucking character who’s by no means easy to stomach, and because she’s not easy to stomach she’s often reduced to annoying ass tropes by dumbasses who are reading above their comprehension level. But when you actually try to understand her, you can easily see why she turned out the way she did and you can feel sympathy for her while understanding that she’s both victim and perpetrator! On the other hand, Show Alicent is a mess and HOTD is trying to make her serve a different narrative role than she did in the books so ofc people are going to be unhappy with the changes as book readers are once again faced with the annoying reality that the writers don’t give a fuck about the source material.

[ghonorrhead]

gyjo omegaverse because IDGAF!!!

[kleoplasm]

Okay, and so what if I genuinely really like SAO? It was one of my first anime and means a lot to me, okay?? And, maybe I like analyzing how female vs. male characters are portrayed, and talking about the flaws of media with my friend and SAO is a really good example of that? Maybe I think Asuna and Kirito are a good example of a healthy and meaningful relationship, and what of it? SO WHAT, If I wrote a whole ESSAY about Kirito and Eugeo’s relationship? WHAT IF I do really like this show???

[a-bucket-in-the-void]

meet radio (they/she) :]]

i tried to kinda add onto a sketch i did, i don’t know if it’s better but eh it was fun to do

[nami-moittli]

Don’t know why I felt the need to do this, but the mood struck so why not

Also, what I mean by “normal counterparts” is a digimon who shares their name. Like Ancient Mermaimon and Mermaimon, Ancient Garurumon and Garurumon, etc etc, same for the ones without a counterpart, there is no “Troiamon” or “Irismon” just the Ancient versions

Why I put this together? Fakemon/digifake idea maybe? Who knows if/when I might follow through with that particular idea but it’s still fun to think about, yk?

[brokendoor16]

Okay. So IK I’ve been a touch inactive (GCSEs are KILLING me rn) BUT. I have a Theory. (This may or may not have originated in my comments on a fic, so credits to @midnights-dragon) ANYWAYS. Here goes:

It’s pretty fucking obvious that Aziraphale and Crowley are borderline OBSESSED with forgiving each other/gaining each other’s forgiveness, but I think that might be something a little bit deeper. They’ve both been, for thousands of years, in the most insanely TOXIC environments, right? Crowley was cast out from Heaven and has since lived in fear of Hell, and Aziraphale has spent his whole existence trying and failing to live up to Heaven’s IMPOSSIBLE standards, so. Neither of them are gonna have the BEST possible self-esteem, okay? (Stay with me, I promise I’m getting to the point)

So since they’ve both experienced so LITTLE forgiveness in their existences, it makes SENSE that they’d be amazed by the readiness with which they forgive each other, right? Obviously that, but my personal Theory is that forgiveness isn’t actually what they want; it’s unconditional love.

By asking for forgiveness, they’re both constantly saying ‘forgive my flaws, and love me despite them’- because neither of them believe their flaws and faults are WORTHY of being loved. I think that, if they were completely honest, they’d ask instead ‘see my flaws, and love me because of them’. I think that, when they’re asking to be forgiven, that’s not really what they want; I think all they really want is the love they’re too afraid to ask for.

[autistic-katara]

me: dude im not even feeling that tired rn and haven’t for ages oh no oh fuck im probably accidentally faking my disability-

my chronic fatigue, loading ammunition into a massive fucking cannon: damn really bro?

[renfieldmyfriend]

so there’s this guy who eats bugs

[dreamtydraw]

Entering depressed dreamty wave era of the month, I’ll excuse myself for being moody, I randomly feel like crying on the floor.

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

should i sleep for a hundred million years or purposefully stop sleeping just to see what happens