#I'm just not gonna

[windfighter]

Dance to the death

Prompt: Pinned down (febuwhump 2025)

Gem stared up at Mumbo, the tip of his sword pointed at her throat. Both were panting, sweat running down the sides of their faces. Gem grinned, clutched her own sword tighter. The sand was coarse against her back. She had lost, at her own death beach. Made her bed and now she was lying in it. Mumbo looked unusally tall were he towered above her.

”Looks like you got me”, she said.

The grin didn’t leave her face. Mumbo blinked, his chest rose and sank with every breath. Gem moved closer to the sword.

”You can do whatever. you. want. with me.”

For every word she moved closer to the sword, pressed her throat against it. Mumbo’s cheeks turned red, he took a step back.

”A-ah! Why would I… I don’t want to… Gem!”

Coward. Mumbo’s sword trembled, moved away from Gem’s throat and she laughed, jumped back up. With one swift swing of her sword Mumbo turned red and disappeared in a cloud of dust.

”GEM!” Mumbo’s voice cut through the air from the boat.

Gem laughed again, picked up Mumbo’s head from the ground and threw it to him. Bit into a carrot and lifted her sword.

”Again”, she said.

Mumbo lifted his own sword and rushed towards her.

[paintedcrows]

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

[riddlerosehearts]

animation being treated like a genre instead of a medium is something that actually makes me go insane. beauty and the beast is a romance. the emperor's new groove is a buddy comedy. big hero 6 is a superhero movie. moana is an adventure film. the lion king is a drama. treasure planet is sci-fi. if i was talking to someone who hadn't seen these movies before, and they weren't specifically interested in animation as a medium, then i wouldn't necessarily assume they'd enjoy all of these. and that's just disney movies! try telling an anime fan that fruits basket and fullmetal alchemist are the same genre and see how they react!

[pouletpourri]

giving myself pomni/gangle interactions since idk when we'll have more of that again

[quinloki]

I think the wildest thing about the TikTok Ban is that TikTok decided to adhere to it beyond the letter of the law.

They bent their knee willingly and gave up space and a platform they did not have to. They consciously decided to fuck over their user base when there was no valid reason for them to do so.

I've seen people talking about how you absolutely do not want to obey ahead of authority, and to see TikTok do it is... weird. It's unsettling. It feels like a dangerous stunt.

Specifically, it feels performative. It's got the marks of a Great Drama™, and given Trump's first 4 years and his absolutely bonkers love for theatrics over anything else, this just feels hollow. Like TikTok is trying to turn it's - generally younger - user base into "fans" of the republicans.

They can't really scoop up youths any other way, honestly. But using a big impactful story and putting Trump as the "hero" who saves their beloved platform.

It's not even the 20th and I just don't like how this new administration is starting. I do not like a private company complying beyond the letter of the law in advance of that law either. Because the only thing the law laid down was that they couldn't update the app on Apple and Google.

There wouldn't have been any fines or legal ramifications.

[alexandriad]

jumping on the bandwagon with an ancient greek miku

[egophiliac]

(this one's been getting stolen a lot, so please be aware that if you see this anywhere else (even with credit), it's been reposted against my wishes! please do not use my art in your videos/reupload to pinterest/etc., thanks!)

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gargoyle Mal is everything I've ever dreamed of and more. his little raincoat! his umbrella! I hope he really does have big ol' stompy rainboots to splash around in puddles in. I hope they have little faces on them.

(Twst please give me Malleus having a rainy day adventure, this is everything I need right now)

[fineapple20]

Portraits

Retouched this set from last year, because it was haunting me laying there 80% finished

[shesnake]

full offence but I do NOT watch movies so I can "turn my brain off" I take this shit so seriously

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Mel's protection should have saved Viktor too, and she's trying to figure out why it didn't

(Editing to add: see this post for details on the Mel's armor/shield theory)

S2 ep1 shows a circle of protected stone where Mel and Jayce were during the explosion. My theory is that Mel's magic armor activated and saved them both. It seems like it casts a sphere of protection around wherever Mel is.

The center of this circle is not Mel's seat - it's Jayce's. She ran to Jayce to save him.

No other Councilors were in range of Mel's protection, so they all got hurt or killed.

But Viktor was, in Jayce's words, "right next to" him. He was easily within Mel's circle of protection.

1) Viktor tried to run and mistakenly left the circle of protection. But are we meant to believe that Viktor, close to dying already and using a crutch, would have outrun Mel?

2) Viktor's augmented body clashes with Mel's

Why does Mel try to touch Viktor in episode 1? It seems like a throwaway moment, but not even Jayce touches him in this scene. So why Mel?

She's curious. And possibly, feeling responsible. She's wondering why her protection didn't work.

Is this Hexcore brand of the Arcane trying to reach out to Mel? Or trying to defend itself from her?

Mel was trying to protect both Jayce and Viktor, which is reflected in how she holds Jayce as well as Viktor's cane when she promises to protect Hextech:

But if, for example, Mel's magic is Solari in origin, and Viktor's is from the Void - or the Arcane equivalent of similar opposing forces - then it's possible that their magic rejects or hurts one another. So Mel's circle of protection either rejected Viktor, or was what hurt Viktor, and not the explosion.

[inkskinned]

okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.

like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).

but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.

im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[cheriafreya]

Ratio and Aventurine before Rota Fortunae's events

[satanicdollx]

they should invent friends that do not live so fucking far

[chimchiri]

gideon & harrow OR rd and sf as cowboys please please please

It's the cowgirl necro and her gunslinger cav! Who is so damn extra she's got three guns: one left, one right, and one in pole position! (She swears the ladies love it!)

[cicadaknight]

Thinking about how this timeline's world is shrouded in darkness and decay. The arcane smothers it like mold, with the singular exception being the final resting place for this world's Jayce.

The Herald of this world preserved him, couldn't release him to total conformity. He let him rest, ensured he had sunlight, plants, and creatures not fully tainted by his mistake.

Then there's this visual framing of our Jayce's acceptance of his role in the past, present, and future.

And this framing of Viktor and Jayce regarding each other through the fragments of what was once Jayce's mind. The thriving flowers, moss, insects make his memory feel alive. Cherished. Beloved. At least compared to the desolate, metallic horror seen in the rest of this world.

And finally the gentleness of this gesture. Maybe this world's Jayce is still in there somewhere, trapped but not alone. Or perhaps Viktor is only animating the corpse of his regret for our Jayce's benefit. Either way, it is a touch filled with an eternity of tenderness and hope.