#It’s been a decade and yet
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reading and watching “classic” books and films is such an interesting experience because, before you get into them, when you only know them by name and maybe the vaguest plot outline, they’re intimidating and stuffy and up on a pedestal, but then you finally take the leap and check them out and realize that almost every story that’s achieved such a legendary level of popularity did so because something in its emotional core reached out and grabbed a lot of people by the throat and you are NOT immune.
#not that anyone but me probably needs to hear this but…#it’s OKAY to have Big Feelings about popular things#they’re popular for a reason - it makes sense to have a big reaction#but yeah - i should really know by now but i’m STILL floored every time i read or watch a classic and it Gets Me#like. this story has been Getting people for decades or centuries or MILLENNIA and yet STILL i’m surprised#‘i didn’t think the story would Get me’ says man about story that’s Gotten everyone who’s ever heard it
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but then also who giiiiives a shit. what ended up on screen is what matters. jayvik yaoi cocaine has half the internet in a chokehold right now. it's been trending on tumblr for almost a week straight. every official arcane social media posting the same "because I promised" scene because it's guaranteed to get a fuckton of engagement. as much as this guy wants to whine and try to pull out all the stops to break the momentum, the ball is out of his hands. the court of public opinion has reached its conclusion, and the conclusion is that theyre gay as hell
#jayvik#and on another thought path... no ones ever gonna call up Big LOTR or Marvel HQ and officially Canonize ships like sam/fro or magneto/X#yet that doesn't diminish the effect those relationships had on the people who enjoyed them#our spirk foremothers were enjoying their ship while it would have been illegal to be on television- and did so for decades#who cares about one shitty dude's laundry list of bad takes
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pick your battles
#my art#my stuff#art#comic#original art#pride 2024#pride month#trans allegory..... or not even allegory. just trans .... ^_^#i technically cannot come out yet but i don't think the people who i need to not see this stalk my tumblr#i know they stalk everything else like my twitter and my instagram but this might be safe#so fuck it we yap. this is a comic about picking your battles#this is a comic about how for almost a year now everyone at home in singapore has been crying about my sore throat#my terrible fucked up voice. my you know. etc#i came out as not cis and using they/them pronouns in 2015 when i was 14#but no one ever used my pronouns. none of my classmates or friends even up until i left for college in 2020#from 2020 onwards every year i wrote an angry vulnreable essay about how much it hurts that they dont remember#and people would dm me apologizing on their hands and knees and commending my bravery#and then forget about it all over again. id ont mean 'they misgender me and then catch it and apologize and correct themselves'#i mean they dont even get that far#and so you might ask yourself: why have you kept them around all this time?#and i would have to explain that by pure bad luck i grew up in the most conservative close minded community#that all of my ex classmates that stayed in singapore are cishet and upper middle class and chinese singaporean#that i Am the trans person. that they were able to ignore me for a decade partially because there was no one else#so this is a comic about how there is dignity and grace in staying in the closet sometimes#about how not everyone deserves to see you at your happiest. about how some people can go fuck themselves#you know your truth and THATS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS!!! YEAH!!! i love you
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Bingyuan modern ABO AU where Shen Yuan tutors sweet white lotus Luo Binghe and dutifully sends him off to university all prepped and ready to take the world by storm, and then three years later Omega Binghe shows up on his doorstep with a baby, all washed out with his prospects ruined and the father in the wind.
Beta Shen Yuan, furious, is determined to look after Luo Binghe and his adorable baby whilst tracking down the feckless Alpha involved and then... castrating him? Forcing him to step up? One of the two at least!
Only it turns out:
-Baby isn't actually Luo Binghe's
-Luo Binghe isn't an Omega
-Binghe also didn't wash out and in fact just came into a massive inheritance
He didn't even know Shen Yuan was living at the apartment he went to, he was bringing the baby to Shen Jiu in order to blackmail him. The baby is SJ's and Omega Yue Qingyuan's, and had been quietly sent away to avoid scandal. As the next phase of Luo Binghe's hundred-step plan to marrying Shen Laoshi, cuddling the baby in a vaguely sinister fashion while making thinly-veiled threats was vital to blocking Shen Jiu's inevitable attempts to interfere with Binghe's pursuit of his younger brother.
But then Shen Yuan opened the door and promptly drew all the wrong conclusions, and now Binghe is rethinking his entire strategy, furiously googling Alpha-to-Omega transition options and making Mobei Jun make Shang Qinghua find out how to fake a birth certificate for a stolen baby.
#bingyuan#svsss#scum villain#scum villain's self saving system#binghe's in too deep now (five minutes into shen yuan fussing over him) he's just gonna have to embrace the fiction#bonus: at some point it somehow does come out that shen jiu is the father#and in order to protect yue qi shen jiu is stuck accepting the conclusion shen yuan draws which is that he knocked luo binghe up#and ruined his life and future prospects and then abandoned him as a heartbroken single parent#though to be fair shen jiu HAS been trying to ruin luo binghe's life and future prospects for the better part of a decade#he never would have actually gone this route but only because he draws the line at SA (and also it wouldn't have worked on an alpha anyway)#idk where yue qi is in all of this like he's either beside himself or else he doesn't even know the baby is gone yet#still getting updates from the nanny luo binghe bribed while staring wistfully out of windows and sighing at what could have been
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i haven't stopped thinking about him so i did screencap edits. please enjoy all these feral!fords (but you can see it as vampire ford too, whichever fits your palate :))
i just think he's neat
#can we talk about how he survived 3 decades in the multiverse and how he must've done everything he could to survive?#how settling into animalistic behaviours would have been the only way out more often than not#so similar to his twin brother when he was running from the mafia and the government#yet so different as a result of it#how learning they both can still understand each other so well based on experience#how heartbreaking it must be that they suffered through it alone anyway#screenshot edit#screencaps#gravity falls#stanford pines#ford pines#feral ford#feral ford au#feral ford pines#they make me sick
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I do think that referring to Essek as irredeemable for regretting his actions only because he was caught and risked losing his friends is both kind of reductive to him as a character and a misunderstanding of the concept of redemption arcs in media.
A person generally isn't changed because you sit them down and hand them a bunch of political theory to read. They change because their circumstances and relationships do. It's like that guy who was deradicalized because he got a bunch of shrimp and started to care for them. It’s our relationships that change us, because they give us not a logical but an emotional reason to do so.
Caleb explicitly says "these people will change you" (or something along that line; I don’t remember the exact quote). Essek, before the m9, didn’t genuinely care about anyone. The people who would die if a war started because of his actions were irrelevant and abstract to him. Caleb, similarly, also started c2 not really caring about others. He had no interest in taking on Ikithon or the Assembly to save others from going through what he did, too preoccupied with his own trauma and his own goals to care. In that sense, he started the campaign in a similar place as Essek post ep. 97: regretful, but too busy wallowing in his own self-loathing to productively do anything to prevent future harm due to his previous actions.
Being with the m9, being reminded of the importance of other people and realizing that they’re capable of caring for them, is what changes Caleb and Essek both. Of course Essek starts out more concerned with losing the nein than with strangers killed in a war. They’re his starting step, the opening through which he realizes that the people hurt by his actions are real, that he cares, that he has the ability to, if not undo his harm, help stop furthering of it.
#critical role#cr2#essek thelyss#nella talks cr#esseks return has brought back old essek discourse#and I'm taking the excuse to ruminate on the nature of redemption in fiction#like lets not forget that essek starts out categorized as literally evil#caleb had over a decade to carry his guilt and regret before the entrance of the m9#he wasn't good yet but he hadn’t been evil for a while#(and lets not pretend young caleb wasn't categorized as evil. he was brainwashed sure but he was just as responsible for his actions as any#radicalized young adult who made the choice to hurt others. boy tortured and murdered people bc he believed in nationalistic propaganda)#essek in comparison spedruns his redemption bc he has the m9 from the start#but he’s still going to need some time. you can’t expect him to immediately Become Good
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Lackadaisy Enrichment
#in our enclosures!!#video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right#lackadaisy#WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic#like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet.#the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me#like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but.#good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort???#and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it..#if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also#juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story#and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like#take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol#namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other#which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky#have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the#comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another....#For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's#historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol#like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret...#Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery#which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah#anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots#sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps#and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill#and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have#you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas#SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later
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#...do i tag spoilers for a book thats been out for over a decade in reference to an episode that isnt out yet?#pjo spoilers#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#annabeth chase#percabeth
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this disability pride month i'd like to remind y'all that "visibly disabled" does not imply "mobility aid user" (nor anything else other than "people can see there is something about you that doesn't fit abled hegemony")
OP is autistic and talking about its experiences being autistic (AND multiply disabled). don't fucking touch if you have no solidarity towards autistic people.
#cpunk#dyspunktional#disability#disability pride month#neuroqueer#neurodivergence#actually autistic#actually disabled#this is a friendly (ish) reminder from your not-so-local cripple who has been visibly disabled for the last decade or so#and yet doesn't have any access to mobility aids besides one (1) knee brace that doesn't even fully work#adding that disclaimer juuust in case. you know who you are.#physdis#physically disabled#physical disability#unitypunk
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it's been forever, i don't wanna wait too long
individual panels since im trying to work with smaller canvas sizes and i know tumblr's gonna play shrinkydink with the quality
#true detective#rustmarty#rust cohle#marty hart#rustin cohle#martin hart#my art#cw suggestive#i am trying not to spend so much time cleaning my art up butttt it's hard.#also can i blame me even making this on the fact that ive been sick. Some kinda fever dream state...#agh... putting this in the main tag feels insane. then again it's been a decade.#no references were harmed (used) during the making of this film so dont look too hard at the anatomy or. anything. lol.#not as fluid as i wanted it to be but i had to really push to fit this all in one square#too romantic. except not at all. To me postcarcosa rustmarty is the peak romance of all time.#WHEN DID THIS ESCAPE MY DRAFTS?!!??!#i swear i hadnt posted it yet... Hadnt worked up the nerve 😭😭
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what if i redesigned Red just a teensy weensy bit
#its been over a decade and yet i can never settle#i just always want to tweak their design a little bit#usually its their hair#their hair never looks right to me#i kinda like this look tho#its fun#its more interesting than what he has rn at least#plus i can add the lil white clips like veronica and nia have#my art#my ocs#red guardian benny#also when I was looking at those old designs I remembered how the gang used to have their symbol as an accessory in their hair#and i kinda missed that so i wanted to see if i could add it back in#color guardians
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Picture of little baby me, I wanna say circa 2014? Maybe? I would have been like uh 9, maybe 10?? This was on a field trip LOOK AT HOW GOOFY BILL’S PROPORTIONS ARE
#doctorsiren#gravity falls#bill cipher#siren speaks#my art#my glasses must have been lost or broken at the time this photo was taken#bc those are the only reasons I wouldn’t be wearing them#WHY DO I HAVE EYEBAGS LIKE THWT HAHAH#also it’s funny bc now I have a very square face compared to this#Ough this was like a decade ago…#I remember one time I drew Bill on the back of a restaurant kids thing and my dad was like ????#because he didn’t know about gravity falls really yet
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Lestat, struggling to ask Louis about September 8th.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S02E08 - “AND THAT’S THE END OF IT. THERE’S NOTHING ELSE”
#Interview with the Vampire#IWTV#iwtvedit#iwtvsource#Lestat de Lioncourt#tvedit#tvgifs#filmtvcentral#filmtvdaily#filmtvedit#cinemapix#mine*#mygifs#iwtvmine#IWTV 2#you really don't know. you just can't even begin to imagine how feral this makes me feel. because he could have asked ANYTHING#it's been DECADES since that night and he could have asked anything else. but no. he had to ask if he had hurt himself#he hadn't known PEACE since the moment Armand called him. and yet... the moment he CAN ask Louis about it? HE STILL STRUGGLES#the way he avoids his eyes. that bit right there. AHHHHHHHHHH. I want to scream!#also. I wish I could say I can officially move on from giffing this scene but I'm not sure. it's just so great to color#(it's always been the same coloring but it still amazes me how happy I am with it hahahaha)
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This line is one of my Absolute Favorites from this show, because it really digs right into the new world that the kids are in:
They're not kids anymore.
There's a furious man threatening harm to Bumpy and her friends, and Sammy puts herself square in the middle of the argument, turns on the charm and promises that she'll make it up to him...and when he doesn't acquiesce, she immediately turns Stern. She bluntly tells him to go home. As an adult talking to another adult.
She has her own property. Her own life. Her own world. She has authority now. The days where they're kids hiding from robots or businessmen or sneaking away from big game hunters and mercenaries are over. Sammy has land, she has responsibilities, and she's not backing down from them. Sammy Gutierrez is an adult woman, and she's going to act like one.
#she is twenty-one years old#not super-old or experienced but also she watched like five men die when she was fourteen and fifteen#pretty much killed one of them herself#she's had guns pointed at her#and had her liver mellted#sammy gutierrez#she's been blackmailed and threatened and hunted and captured#she was in a helicopter crash#and a car crash#two car crashes actually#hasn't had her third yet as far as I know#could be her fourth or fifth#she's at least a decade younger than carl but she's seen more than him#and she's ready for this#and I love it when heroes who go through too much get to flex on those who haven't#jurassic world: chaos theory#chaos theory#jwct
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its genuinely crazy that tiffany is the most mainstream slasher woman we have. i love her but shes never the sole focus. shes introduced As girlfriend. when the hell are we going to get a jason michael freddy etc who’s a woman. when will i get art the clown style violence from a deeply unwell woman on my screen and have her be popular and successful and not just some niche character for deep cut horror fans. + i dont care about it being subversive im not talking about the slashers history of misogyny. im saying this not as a feminist im saying it as a dyke
#its actually insane that this has not yet been the case like what the fuck is going on#when can women be allowed to stalk and kill and loom ominously and do gratuitous murder???#slashers have been known megahits for decades and yet we havent had a single true equivalent. what!!!!!!#kora.txt
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