#LONG POST!!!!!!

[paxcallow]

Do you think you could tell us about your The Sight ocs? I met them from your t-word art and they seem soooo cute

OH FUCK YEAH! what do you wanna know about 'em??? there are a LOT of main characters in the sight (like uhhh ten or so in the central cast which is pretty big compared to most of my universes) but you probably just know about rose and dirk!

Dirconius Talwar and Rosemary Valdis are 14 year old Seers who begin their story on opposite sides of a conflict they admittedly don't care that much about once they start getting closer.

the conflict is over an incredibly powerful artifact called The Book of Dircon. (<- did you know? part of dirk's name is in this) dirk is recruited by an unnamed team composed of Eleanora Eldottir, Xander Schmittlot and Vicky Chang, whose mission is to find and protect the Book from a fractured group named The Sight, (<- did you know? this is the title of the series) who seek to destroy it because despite the fact that it's enabled seers and spirits to interact and coexist and has changed the world for the better in several ways, it's apparently too powerful to exist.

rose is a member of the sight, and has been fairly dedicated to the cause until meeting dirk, who is actually very lovely <3 after getting own'd a couple times. they're friendly enemies for a while, and as they slowly grow annoyed by their respective teams' baggage/incompetence, and MOSTLY just want to spend more time together...

they decide to work together to find the Book of Dircon on their own before the full moon of december, the Cold Moon, a time when the layers of physical and spiritual reality are the least separated and the Book will be the strongest, but the most vulnerable to destruction.

... and... it's kind of hard to fully talk about the sight without spoilers because there's a pretty big... event like a quarter(?) through the whole story that changes everyone's dynamics at once. i've danced around it a lot on this blog but fuck it i wanna talk about it.

BIG SPOILERS follow for something that won't be released for probably a long time.

at the end of the first season, on the cold moon itself, dirk and rose find the Book. after going through so much together, dirk has earned rose's trust, and she decides to let dirk take it back to nora.

the reason the Book of Dircon is so powerful- so powerful the Sight wants to destroy it- is that anything writ in its pages becomes reality.

and more than just keeping it safe, nora has very badly been wanting to use it.

secretly, this entire time, nora has believed that dirk is the reincarnation of a very powerful spirit, and that by splitting open his soul, the spirit will reawaken and bring the world into an era of peace and harmony.

when he brings her the Book on that night, when the barrier between human and spirit is at its thinnest, she takes it as a sign.

what nora does to dirk on the cold moon is supernaturally tantamount to One Of The Worst Fucking Things You Can Possibly Do To Another Person. especially a child.

and it almost kills him. but gwen friede, the leader of the sight and a woman who has seemed like Bad News, Super Bad, Really Grimdark Mean Lady No Compassion for the entire first season, saves him in the nick of time and wallops the shit out of nora before escaping without the Book, but with a shocked dirk.

and dirk is in shock, and basically everyone is really, for the first half of the second season. the sight has to reckon with the fact that they have not been much of a team at all and their dysfunction lost them the Book of Dircon and almost caused Something Catastrophic to happen.

in the first season, dirk is a kind of standoffish boy who is quickly befriended and encouraged by nora, xander and vicky. so nora's betrayal (and by extension, knowing* what she had planned, xander and vicky's) rocks him to his core and he backslides hard. and rose, who over the course of the first season slowly grew apart from gwen, someone she has always deeply respected, and feels like she horribly betrayed her by handing the book over to nora.

both of these things make the prospect of unifying The Sight into something resembling a group of friends rather than a bunch of distrusting or self-important people vaguely working toward the same goal more daunting than any of the other challenges they face. but the silver lining has always been and still is dirk and rose's friendship (romance), and it slowly infects the rest of the team until they begin to have a fighting chance.

and that's what the sight is really about.

ALSO!

because you are here from my t-word art and i feel called out by absolutely no one except myself: okay listen dirk has been the target of tickling and will probably continue to be just because he is the OC who likes it the most. dirk craves attention and physical affection and he likes roughhousing and laughing. (my man laughs in basically every situation)

but he is terrified of choosing to be vulnerable because rejection hurts worse than physical pain. it stands to reason he loves being tickled. he can believe that someone is tickling him because it's funny or because he (intentionally) annoyed them, and not because he's letting them do something nice for him, or he looked like he needed a hug, or his hair pet, or to be doted on. even though basically everyone catches on that he likes this.

also it's just fun for grumpy/rude/sassy characters to get tickled stupid.

... i've been sitting on a tickle fic for a while because it refers indirectly to these BIG SPOILERS, but now that this post exists i could probably post it. i might post it soon.

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[climbingthefloors]

obsessed with this baby hippo from thailand's khao khew zoo.. she has been so utterly betrayed by the world

[thankstothe]

folk hero really

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[ydotome]

Holidays with Pokémon - 【公式】PokéMinutos

[bigskycastle]

school project, some drawings for my pretend game about a housefly girl called musca and her adventures in some creepy&wet place

[yumenikkii]

just another average day in gravity falls

[whiteshipnightjar]

Zoozve, my beloved

[valdotpng]

an accomplice turned victim his apology, long overdue

[nondivisable]

I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm

if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"

I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix

(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)

this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.

in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.

but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.

one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.

and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.

my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.

yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.

[gongyussy]

good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

update: somehow it got impossibly more wholesome

quick translation: おかえり: welcome home あ 終わった 終わった: ahhh, it's over! it's done! コーヒー? お茶?: coffee? tea? コ~ヒ~ ありがと: coffee, thank you~ ネクタイレア★★ ネクタイ取るレア★★★★: seeing him with a tie on, rarity level ★★, seeing him take a tie off, rarity level ★★★★ にあうな~: it suits him~

also please do follow: AraigumaSha: sensei's twitter account marureviere: maru, who does such valuable work highlighting bl manga for an international audience

[fishfingersandscarves]

they've never had sex

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[thankstothe]

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