#In a tight spot

[writersagony]

You guys.. really like seeing people tied up and tortured in writing, huh?

[ruporas]

caged in (ID in alt)

[pebbleyoufindonthestreet]

Papyrus doodle page! He’s so silly

(I’ve been drawing his brother much more lately, I hope he isn’t too mad at me lol)

[rikdraws]

Happy Zineday errbody! Checkit out at https://www.patreon.com/rikdraws or not, I'm not your dad! But I do love you. So give me money. That's how this works, right?

[vasira96]

Commissions Open!

would you like some art of your OC or favorite character? Need more blorbo content in your life? check out my commissions page here for details and contact info and treat yourself (or your loved one) to some custom art made by me for you 💜✨

Additionally, you can see previous commissions here if you're looking for more examples of my work~

slots are limited so email me if you are interested!

Slots Available

FULL

2. FULL

3. OPEN

4. OPEN

5. OPEN

[maplesugardoodles]

Saw a place called “Lester’s Hungry Hut” today

You think there special was the Mr.Faust

[seiwas]

there is a very specific image in my head of early-mid 20’s iwaizumi hajime

[crazywolf828]

Hey friends! I want to give everyone an update.

So as some of you know my grandfather fell and broke his hip right after healing from a broken neck. He was one of our main sources of income and got sent to a rehab.

Unfortunately the way his hip broke he won't be able to walk again which means he has to stay in a nursing home permanently.

His insurance and SSI doesn't cover all of it and bills at home are piling up from him being gone. So now we have to pay our usual bills on top of his nursing home.

So I'm asking if you can donate anything at all, or even just reblog this I'd be forever grateful.

[zegalba]

David Byrne: Tight Spot (2011) Location: New York City

[f1-stuff]

Austrian GP '24 // P11 Finish

"(On the Lap 1 contact) It was a racing incident - I couldn't do anything... Oscar didn't know Checo was on the inside. Checo went for the overtake because there was the gap, but maybe was a bit too optimistic. I mean, going into the first corner three [cars] wide, [it's] never gonna work out. That made me lose the front wing, and that was...not the end of our race, but then we had to recover so much. So, uh, a big shame."

[bestworstcase]

So having already moved past the idea of Yang as a Maiden - I do suspect the other reason people jump to that conclusion is people getting Raven's trajectory wrong. Yang as Maiden is the obvious conclusion if you think that Raven is going to come back to save Yang and die for it. Which... look, I can see Raven getting badly hurt. But dying - nah. The STRQ team and the Rose-Xiao Long household is not getting any outs from the most awkward family conversation ever. (Though your points about Raven actually being very difficult to kill does mean that the show can have the Spring Maiden get Yang out of a really tight spot without killing Raven or sacrificing tension) But it does feel like the idea has bit at least in some respects of the fandom that way to balance Raven being a coward/bandit and the setup for the untested "Everyone Only Gets One (Save)" rule is for Raven to come in and die for it.

mhm

i think something that is broadly true of this fandom is a general struggle to conceptualize what the narrative can meaningfully do with old-guard characters that isn’t… killing them off. qrow gets this a lot too, he’s nominally ruby’s mentor but she’s outgrown that relationship and is now on a level with him and there’s a persistent belief that it’s only a matter of time before his time is up. but it isn’t just him, i’ve also seen this attitude toward pietro, for example. (including one. memorable post that outright expressed surprise that pietro and maria survived v8 on the grounds that without penny the op thought it was pointless for the narrative to keep them around, because what would they even be doing in vacuo. which is absurd!)

and then raven in particular is a difficult character – fandoms always have a hard time with performative/masking behaviors, rwby is no different, although i do think the specific way rwby utilizes archetype and allusion makes it worse because fandom is also bad at paying attention – on top of also being, in v5, an antagonistic character to yang.

(i hesitate to describe her role as villainous, because raven’s response to getting backed into a corner was to neatly sabotage salem’s operation; she didn’t help salem under duress, she acted as a double agent on behalf of team oz under duress, and what she did wrong was mainly not communicate this to them. as ever raven is very brave about everything that isn’t having a slightly difficult conversation with someone she cares about. lol)

the point being, raven gets this general difficulty this fandom has with the old guard stacked on top of 1. being a difficult character (as a woman lmao) so a lot of people just don’t like her very much, and 2. being an antagonistic (or outright villainous) character depending on whether one takes raven “joining” salem at face value or not. so a fair amount of “speculation” that raven will die is either character hate in the guise of theory, and i think there is a large share of raven-will-die-saving-yang theories that boil down to redemption-by-heroic-sacrifice thinking.

what’s funny about that, aside from the obvious factor of raven being in vacuo now (and the most probable reason for her to only be in the last section of the epilogue being that she arrived on the refugee ship from vale and the likeliest answer there being that after haven she went to loop glynda in and help out because she knew salem would be coming back for the crown sooner or later), is how pragmatic she is and how desperately in need the heroes are right now of pragmatists – real pragmatists, not “leave mantle to die”-ish cowardice masquerading as pragmatism.

like. raven has been the leader of what appears to be a quite large encampment of bandits for more than a decade now, right, and to all appearances she’s done a great job – they respect her, trust her to have their backs, morale seems high, they’re well-supplied (by non-huntsman standards) and well-provisioned, they’re disciplined enough to erect fairly impressive temporary fortifications surrounding their camps – all of this suggests that raven is skilled at managing problems of scarcity, attrition, morale, grimm predation etc under fairly harsh conditions.

those problems are much larger in vacuo and the branwen subsistence strategy of raiding settlements is off the table, but – raven’s experience managing these sort of challenges in the animan wilderness is invaluable here! (especially if she brought all her bandits with her, because that’s a small militia that can whip up very nice ad hoc fortifications in an hour or two, given materials to work with, and two maidens solves the “no trees in the desert” problem).

and raven is also – demonstrably – someone capable of being very cunning, and turning lose/lose situations to her advantage even under intense pressure. salem’s people strolled into her camp like they owned the place, and raven took a deep breath, went “okay, we planned for this,” and played them like a fiddle! she is the reason salem’s infiltration of haven failed, and had everything gone according to raven’s plan, cinder would have died that night with omen in her back.

without the spring maiden, they’re all going to die. not because of her magical power, but because of who raven is. they need someone who can think and plan like this. they need someone who can evaluate an impossible situation and make tough choices like “i want my brother dead” – given the choice between capitulating or letting her people get massacred, raven bet on qrow not being stupid enough to walk unarmed into an obvious trap without backup, and tricked cinder into letting her tiny infiltration force be outnumbered almost two-to-one by highly trained combatants.

raven is what ironwood thought he was.

and she’s decided to join the coalition at a critical moment when they have zero good, easy choices ahead of them.

it would be absurd and baffling for the story to kill off raven at this point – this is Her Moment! and she and yang get to have their uncomfortable, painful, incredibly fraught reunion after haven in a time where raven has plainly earned back the full trust of the vacuo coalition, in all likelihood in large part by showing the fuck up at exactly the right moment her skillset and perspective were most helpful. which creates a really juicy tension for the personal relationship she has to now build with yang!

[biggirldreaming]

classy lady 😇

(Don’t add text, keep it in tags)

[spacemancharisma]

I will draw you a picture if you send me some money for groceries

the picture will be much like this ^

dm me for venm0 or p4ypal

[despazito]

just heard a british person say it would be a shame to turn the oven on just to bake potatoes are you guys alright over there

[little-laurance]

The way the narrative frames Laurance's actions during The Wedding (ya know, werewolf one) is actually really frustrating to me. It's Malachi's castle all over again

Because the characters talk about the even as if Laurance only went ballistic because he was jealous of Aphmau marrying someone else? As if he and his companions hadn't just been sold like a commodity? As if they're very humanity hadn't been altered (turned into meif'wa)? As if Katelyn wasn't sitting alone in a cell half naked, Aphmau wasn't being forced to marry a man she didn't know, and Laurance himself was mere moments away from certain death? But yeah no, he just go super jelly and killed all those werewolves!!

[starliteonearth]

HotD struggles between being a reimagining in which Rhaenyra & Alicent are the center of the story vs being a "fairly accurate" adaptation of the book in which they aren't, and because the writers won't fully commit to either, both women sadly get shortchanged.