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coconut530 · 3 months ago

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Bump in the Night & Sleeptober Day 19: Screams on the Wind & Waves

#6 #Sleeptober #Sleeptober 2024 #Sleep Token #Bump in the Night #Bump in the Night 2024 #Shiloh #Shiloh Webtoon #Webtoon #Hello!#Took like all day but I got things done #I realized Shiloh drawings take a long time bc of the linework #Ollie I’m not totally used to and Shane’s blazer is very meticulous with the stripe placement #And then coloring stuff takes a little bit #This BITN was actually a sketch from last year I was gonna just draw the panel itself #But never did #But now it came in handy so I didn’t have to sketch anything #And for sleeptober #This doesn’t compare to other people’s entries (@/blanchebees and @/floating-goblin-art made BEAUTIFUL pieces)#But I struggled to find something cool to draw #Went scouring TPWBYT and TMBTE lyrics for some image to pop into my head #Kept getting distracted by singing songs hahhha #But then I played The Night Does Not Belong To God again and it hit me. Like a wave one might say #Bc that song just kinda builds and builds and then crashes on you #Emotionally and sonically #Like a wave #So I decided to make a little piece for it with Sundowning Vessel #Not too complex but it exists #Yuh #anyway see you tomorrow!!!

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cosmicredcadet · 8 months ago

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"This fandom is so queer friendly!" This fandom literally hates, bisexual, trans, nonbinary, and aspec people but ok.

#text #fandom #fandom culture #“queer friendly” you mean gays an lesbians? because i sure as hell don't see the same friendlyness towards anyone else #bisexual character exists “noooo they were comphet” or “they're dating the opposite sex right now so it doesn't count!!!”#Trans character exists and their story still has to focus on them being gay or else it's not queer or interesting enough #not to mention the sexualization they will face solely based off their trans identity #and the debates on if they're “really” gay or not because of being trans #Nonbinary character or character with complex and nuanced gender exists #and it's all about what their ACTUAL gender is and “I'm just going to use [gendered pronouns] for X because i see X as a boy/girl”#Character uses a specific set of pronouns and everyone decides to toss those to the side in favor of other (gendered) pronouns #under the guise of “nonbinary people can use gendered pronouns too! they are still nonbinaryyyyyyy i prommy”#Aspec character exists and it's “nooo you can't prove their aspec” “I can still ship them because aros can still date”#“Aces can still have sex so I can sexualize this ace character”#“okay but i headcanon them as a different sexuality so it's fine!”#and if you headcanon ANY of these identities? “Nooo you can't PROVE that they are bi/trans/nonbinary/aspec!!!!!”#queer #lgbt+#lgbtq+#lgbtqia+#bisexual #aro #ace #aromantic #asexual #aroace #aplatonic #aspec #acespec #arospec

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cradle-of-darkness · 3 months ago

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GHOST YURI 🎉🎉🎉

#project sekai #project sekai colorful stage #colorful stage #pjsekai #prsk fa #mizuki akiyama #akiyama mizuki #emu otori #otori emu #mizuemu #♦️charlie's art #shhh mizu5 doesn't exist look at how silly she is!!!! /j #confession: ive been working on this since the wonderhorror set was leaked but i got too busy with cfco to finish it till now #i blame the complex costume designs

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mythalism · 4 days ago

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at all times i am thinking about how this is the core of not only his character but (was, up until recently) the core of dragon age's storytelling

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crownedwithstars · 2 months ago

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"they're Mary Sues" is imho such an irrelevant criticism of the Silm. this is not a character driven story in the same way as some other books may be. It's literally the cosmogony and the heroic age of a world and characters in it are bound to be idealised or archetypal to some degree or embodying a poetic truth. It's as pointless as calling Helen of Troy or Gilgamesh Mary Sue/Gary Stu.

#The Silmarillion #Silmarillion #how many of the Silm characters are that well-rounded/'not Mary Sues' anyway?#also the perceived complexity of some characters comes from fanon more often than not #Mary Sue as a concept exists for criticism of bad writing #which literally is not the case with Tolkien #also all too often you see 'Mary Sue' used in a misogynistic way #or it's applied far more often to female characters than male characters

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sukibenders · 5 months ago

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Aegon, Aemond, Helaena, and Daeron looking at Alicent after she washes her hands of a war, that she (and Otto) dragged them into, and the throne, that she (and Otto) forced them to grasp/fight over even though they obviously didn't want it, and goes off to live her best life while they are all still stuck in a cycle forced on to them without their input (obviously this is about the s2 final):

#anti hotd #like....what were they doing with alicent in s2? like-#in s1 they had great foundation for pushing her character and her belief as to why her children would be under threat from just existing #(even if u like rhae- understandable- it's not hard to take a step back & understand some of ali's pov #especially when daemon comes into the picture)#there's buildup for why she's forcing this on to her kids (murky but still) & still shows that she loves them in a complex way #heck there was even room to show her after all this also wanting to be close to the throne trailing into s2 whatever #but then s2 shits on that by making everything that happened in s1 hold no weight & ali (& otto) basically ruin their kids lives #like i like alicent but s2 makes no sense characterwise & makes her just...a bad character overall #like ive always felt bad for her kids bc ali was wrong a lot of times but u understand it bc toxic/complex family relationships where the #love is still there but it's complicated #but now post s2? i feel sorry bc their mother pushed them down a path and then left them to live her life?#HUH!?#fanfic writers save me!#aegon ii targaryen #aemond targaryen #heleana targaryen #daeron targaryen #alicent hightower #kind of...anti alicent hightower too?#hotd showrunners really ruined this family & it frustrates me so bad #dni if you can't have a collected conversation about this #like “sorry sweeties mommy wants to makes amends with her childhood crush so rip!”#(& this is from someone who ships rhaenicent)

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slightlycomicobsessed · 4 months ago

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"we need more complex and irredemable female characters!" yall couldn't even handle Natasha Romanoff

#'what do you expect me do read her entire 50+ year history-'#yes #some of yall have never picked up a black widow comic and it shows #why do i keep seeing her reduced to a caricature of herself #'we need another black widow movie-'#well marvel corporate are cowards. we're not getting one #ffs if you want what you say you do then READ HER COMICS #'it's too difficult-'#no it really isn't #google exists #there's an entire website called CMRO that lists every single one of her appearances #but seriously people say they want complex and nuanced media but then don't support the complex and nuanced media.#and then get mad when there is a lack of complex and nuanced media #oughhhh....#natasha romanoff #black widow

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averlym · 1 year ago

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litany of the martyrs (click for better resolution!)

#at some point i wanted to make an illustration for each character but in retrospect maybe each is multiple song-coded..#drew the sketch for a quincy thing after a chat with a mutual reminded me this song existed dfsghjkl and then spent weeks rendering this #quincy cynthius martin #adamandi #i'm finally done with this! the saints especially were joys to paint and the halo a menace.... this has been the most ambitious one so far.#but it also took quite long because i only worked on it <engages with quincy> when mentally okay to deal with the themes. i'm not religious #but i do identify with the irrational(?ish) guilt + family legacy + academic achievement + disregard for self. also more complex thoughts #about love [but depsite quincent being a large part of quincy's character this piece deals with mostly the Rest of it. so another time..]#anyways! in the original sketch- the saints had heads bent towards quincy so the halo spikes pointed at him. but this worked better! halos #of the saints implying/creating one for quincy was a concept from the start though. in the show they don't touch him directly here but #differences in mediums i think- i don't have time in an image to craft a narrative so everything has to be happening. also artistic liberty #misc inspiration for this includes stained glass windows. i might have maybe misinterpreted the saint costume but i think i logic-ed it out #as the cloth part following a nun's habit w the hood. and then halo above. the material is also more transparent originally but i had. um.#too much fun painting fabric folds.. if you look closely you can see the basis of faces though behind the cloth; but only the vague shapes #because smth obscurity + inhumanness// cassian is the only one i gave a mouth though. that stems from melliot's post about the saints and #st cassian as spokesperson (<- did research teehee!) that's also how i found out which costume = which saint. speaking of which.#left to right: 'st lucy take my hand' // 'st lawrence give me strength' (presses quincy forward; but hand on shoulder connotates guidance)#/'st cassian help me smile' (quincy's mouth is btwn a grimace and a smile; tilts up at side. also no direct touch bc added insidiousness.)#//'st jude [...] i hope your causes burn' (jude's hand is in two places to show movement- nearing the flame and then snatching back; burnt)#other notes: at the midst of the flame the core is shaped like a human heart /the saints and their wax are all melting like the candle for #fun visual effect and also this way they are even less tangible <real>. perks of painting as a medium i guess. // also insp from icarus?#wax and burning imagery; looking at the halo and rays as parallel to sun that burns. too close to the sun; melting; hurting; hurtling //#candles at bottom are a nod to the frankly gorgeous set// also the entire composition kind of stems from the lyric <what use is a candle if #both ends aren't burning>; the two sides between the concepts of catholic guilt and academic perfection that spur quincy #the halo above (saints and guilt; litanyofthemartyrs) and the 'halo' below (academic papers; insp from choreo for perfect at school)#the papers were originally supposed to be more glowy. but i like the idea of it now being a reflection of how quincy's priorities shift #also of note is that <candle> in centre = quincy; w burning candle + aforementioned heart in flame -> most human; idea of love + passion #last thoughts: kneeling + hands close tgt = prayer //wax dripping onto the red As make an effect that looks like blood. because i like #hiding that within the adamandi pieces :OO continuity!! // i've run out of tags but yeah! had fun with this one! every so often i go a #little insane in making art and the final result astounds even me. ngl i'm quite proud of this one. pretty colours <3333

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thousandyearphantombunker · 5 months ago

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"We want more morally grey/flawed female characters"

You bitches can't handle APPLE WHITE!

like people keep saying "you couldn't even handle rose quartz" but this is even more pathetic to me. How can y'all make this kid into a monster?

#ever after high #apple white #rose quarts steven universe #rose quartz #rose quarts su #steven universe #morally grey characters #Other female characters I think get too much hate are Kikikyo from Inuyasha and Mai from atla #Y'all can't handle characters that are flawed #You guys clamor for more diverse female characters yet freak out when your given these well written flawed girls that are diverse #Y'all don't want flawed- you want generically relatable- you don't want morally grey- you want morally dark white #Justice for my girl #royal or rebel #Stop villainizing apple white- shes selfish not a monster #And she's complex #I'll defend her forever #Ever after high really pointed at how both sides where selfish and that both made fair points #But y'all couldn't see that the royals had a point #And even when they were just straight up selfish it was understandable #Y'all really want to reduce the most compelling part of ever after high's story to nothing #morally gray #nuance #'oh but she's classist-'#She's also afraid of her and her friends fading out of existence and thinks raven is kind of selfish for even risking it #Not saying she was right but she has a point

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msnihilist · 7 months ago

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Once again, no, you were not groomed by proshipping. You were groomed by someone using proshipping.

My groomer used a pairing that I already liked to desensitize me to sexual interactions, and it was a completely normal and popular pairing. To this day, I still don't like it. It's completely okay to not like or even hate those things that your groomer used against you.

It's not okay to demonize an entire group of people or lump the ideology itself in with a terrible experience that you had. Your trauma does not make you infallible.

It is not the fault of the content you were shown that you got groomed. Groomers will use anything. They are bad people. The content you were shown is neutral.

#proship #sorry this is just a terrible argument and i see it all the time #grooming is way too complex and horrible to just blame whatever content was used like??#imagine if we blamed the guns in murders and let the actual murderer walk #like no the tool itself doesn't matter what matters is that you hurt people #''proshipping was used to desensitize me to the age gap'' my groomer used roleplay to desensitize me #went from rp with fictional characters to rp between ourselves #if weird ships didn't exist i promise you would have gotten desensitized a different way #because the point is that someone older than you wanted to cause you harm not that weird fanart exists

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sugarr-moon · 9 months ago

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“none of artis actions are justified and everything was her fault shes a shitty parent who got her kids killed and a genocidal maniac”

“arti was completely justified and all of the scavengers deserved to die for killing two innocent babies”

nuanced character enjoyers:

#rain world #rain world downpour #rw artificer #artificer rw #if you cannot accept that both statements:#arti is terrible and genocidal #arti is a sympathetic character who didnt deserve the things she had to go through #can co-exist #i think that is silly!#y’all want more complex characters AND THIS SHIT HAPPENS!!!#this goes for five pebbles too #the fact he did bad things but can still be sympathized with are co-existing statements #these characters were bad and did bad things but youre not Wrong for likjng or sympathizing with them #and the bad things they did werent justified either!#Ok #rant post over #this shit just pisses me off LMAO

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necrotic-nephilim · 6 months ago

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If you want to be bothered. Maybe this for dick and Bruce???

i ALWAYS want to be bothered these are always the highlight of my day tbh you're a delight for letting me just yap <3

Dick. For the canon isn't real square I am Specifically talking about the Tom Taylor Nightwing run. Usually I ignore bad runs but given this one is ongoing (though about to end THANK GOD and get replaced by Dan Watters who i have high hopes for since i adored his Sword of Azrael (2022) run but i digress) so I counted it. Especially since it's so debated if that run is bad or not, for some reason. I'm a 90s Nightwing truther. I love Dick so dearly and tbh recently I've been more enamored with him the more I read his Discowing era, I didn't used to be as big of a Dick stan as I am these days.

Bruce. Honestly where do you even start with Bruce. I want to fist fight him and also patch him up. He got me into comics and superheroes as a whole but I roll my eyes whenever he shows up in a story. He's a bastard and usually not a good father but also complex and should be dissected under a magnifying glass. I love him dearly. He's also just the worst. I think that's why I love him. I'm always a fan of unabashedly Complicated Asshole Bruce who's generally not always the best person, particularly not to the Batfamily and that being the driving force of his relationships with them, especially in shipping.

And for bonus points, Tim. Because know above all else, I'm a Tim Drake kinnie /deg. He's been my number one for a decade and I've yet to uproot him from my brain. He's literally the Worst half the time and I love him for it. And the canon isn't real refers to Tim Drake: Robin because... that sure was a comic. And that's about all I can say about it. Pre-Flashpoint Tim I miss you so dearly. I think it's fun that I want to put him in a blender and drink the juice but also want Nothing Ever to happen to him.

#necrotic answerings #batcest #bruce wayne #dick grayson #tim drake #fandom tag #anyway the fandom is i guess mean to all of them #but like it's deserving.#everytime i meet a tim anti i'm like you're SO right. he's the worst. pls hate his ass more.#same with bruce. like never met a bruce anti who didn't have endless receipts for hating his ass.#(except for those using the shallow 'he's a billionaire beating up the mentally ill' argument which. i ignore)#(bc why are you. consuming superhero content if you just don't like or understand the genre. it's lazy pseudointellectual nonsense.)#and i don't think ppl are truly mean to dick. i think they just don't understand him.#which extends to the entire batfamily bc well. the state of the fandom and all.#like “everyone else is wrong about them” isn't in a “no one gets them but me” way #(except about tim truly no one gets him but me /j)#it's in a “oh y'all just want to fit them into neat boxes don't you” way #one more person call dick grayson “eldest daughter core” and i'm going to your house and eating the stuffing out all of your pillows.#first of all can we stop calling male characters “female coded” in any way please #women exist in comics too.#second of all it's just not true? and it's not the complex he has with bruce nor his “siblings” if you wish to call them that #and then bruce. where do you even start.#you dare say you think it's in character for bruce to hit his kids and *SOCIETY. society goes wild.*#like ofc it has to be in specific contexts. he's not just swinging.#and sometimes it *is* written very OOC bc bruce is written as a machismo self insert i give you that #but yeah a soldier who views his children as soldiers and has zero healthy emotional regulation or communication skills #is gonna sometimes swing in his worst moments. it is just how the superhero genre works everyone is gonna fist fight to solve problems.#why are you reading comics about ppl who hit other ppl for a living if you don't like it when they hit ppl.#also random hot take about dick's characterization #the young justice tv show did incredible damage to ppl's perception of him and i dislike the take it's the best adaptation of him

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divorceblogger · 15 days ago

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the absolutely horrible thing about lestat asking marius this question is that everything he’s done and everything he’s going to do is always going to be dictated by marius’s lived experiences. the gothic doubling got him. fuck!

#deriving your looks from your mothers (blond hair / blue eyes) + dressing in red? check #absentee mother & a narrative concerned with oedipal complexes being afforded to them? check #making the backwards journey home via retracing vampiric origins and developing a sexual/maternal relationship with akasha? check #coming from a background with lots of privilege and being the youngest sons of the household? check #kidnapped and turned in northern france? check #failing your fledglings constantly by turning them to enrich your life even at the cost of their lived lives? check #similar philosphies of existence? check #attempting to take over / share the burden of caring for alasha & enkil? check #I’m sick I need marius to get away from him get a job etc but IT’S TOO LATE!! they’re a father & son + favoured heir pair now. it’s so over.#text #iwtv #tvl

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pjharvey · 2 months ago

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sometimes i feel like i spend too much time thinking about my own relationship with gender when i literally like tried out different pronouns and a more androgynous name and all of that and didn't like it but the thing is that when ur so gnc af that your friend's transphobic brother STILL called you they by default and ur friends have a recurring joke one of your friends' boyfriends looks exactly like you and you call yourself a guy in conversations a lot it's like. well it raises some questions.

#'gender nonconforming lesbian' is the best phrase that currently exists for my whole thing #and i think coming up with new terms for sexuality and gender identity is just not necessary we already have too many #i'd rather just accept that many people's experiences with those things are too complex to be neatly boiled down into one or two words #and you also don't owe people all the nuances

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plounce · 2 months ago

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i should put thancred on that list but my thoughts on him and gender are too complex to word in a flippant semi-humorous tumblr post. suffice to say i think he has a lot of complexes about women and Being A Man in general

#chirps #robffxiv #another reason i like transfem urianger is that it's another dimension to add to thancred's complexes about women.#not in reaction to her being transfem but via his partner being a woman who has a lot of very maternal traits #again. my thoughts are too expansive and complex to properly put here.#as always. thancred is trying his best but he has a lot of stuff to work through that prevents him from being his best self #(if that self exists) (if anyone even has a best self anyway)#flawed man. flawed man.

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miss-eli-starfleet · 8 months ago

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I like how WestAllen ended in the Flash with Nora's birth. The part where they're holding hands right before her birth and yellow and purple lightning zaps between them is done really well... Now, I don't particularly ship SnowBarry, but I do find the idea cute sometimes because of the Frost sisters, and how well done the writers wrote her scripts. I'm gonna disregard the whole Khione thing in my comparison of both ships which is canon WestAllen and AU SnowBarry from my perspective.

In a SnowBarry AU, Caitlin would be Barry’s “lightning rod”.

Barry would've been married to OG Caitlin (if you know what I mean) by the time they split in S6. At least following the timeline of how WestAllen generally progressed throughout the show. Like, as in, Barry's proposal of "Running Home to You" would be directed towards Caitlin instead of Iris in S3, SnowBarry marriage in S4, etc etc... Maybe it would be Caitlin SnowAllen if they decide to hyphenate?

Anyways, AU SnowBarry or canon WestAllen, I do wish they gave Caitlin/Frost more screentime especially after they split in S6. I would take the Frost sisters in a heartbeat instead of Cecile or Allegra.

S2 Barry and Jay would be “fighting” over Caitlin lol. Or maybe not. But he would be hella protective when Zoom kidnaps her.

In S3, Caitlin turned Killer Frost does end up working with Savitar.. imagine just how desperate Barry would be to keep her from going all "Frosty" because Caitlin is his fiancee, just as desperate as he was with trying to save Iris from Savitar in canon. I think instead of the focus on Iris, a majority of SnowBarry AU’s base plot line would include Barry trying to save Caitlin from her evil self? Like in that one episode where he spoke to Frost, and allowed her to try to kill him because he knows she’s still Caitlin deep down. OR it could be both: Savitar’s tryna kill her because she’s Barry’s “lightning rod” in this SnowBarry AU instead of them joining up.

Let’s say Barry still goes into the Speedforce in this SnowBary AU. Her heartbreak would be another catalyst/reason as to why Caitlin turned into her Frosty self between S3 and S4 to work for Amunet. In canon 4x01, Killer Frost does come back to the team as Caitlin to help Barry come out of the Speedforce so don't gotta "AU" that part. I know they "balanced out" the whole Caitlin/Frost thing in S4, and that was awesome to watch.

Loved the cuteness where “Caity” and Frost would communicate with each other in little sticky notes. Since Barry and Caitlin would be married by that time, maybe Frost writes sticky notes to Barry too?

Moving onto S5.. How would it go with Caitlin raising Nora alone in the future? Caitlin is a geneticist/doctor whereas Iris is a news reporter.. I think with Caitlin’s doctor/biochemist, I don't think she'd put a power dampening chip inside Nora. Nora would have Frost (split or not) to protect/guide her as well as the rest of the team. Maybe in SnowBarry S5, Nora would've grown up knowing that her father is the Flash from the start. 5x18 would've shown Caitlin and Nora having a better mother-daughter relationship than 5x18 canon Iris and Nora. Would she still go to Thawne then? Maybe so because of godspeed and he’s the only other speedster around and then after what happened to Lia? Maybe so.

Since Nora still wouldn’t have ever met Barry, Thawne could’ve still manipulated her with the whole Cicada dagger thing so she travels back in time. One thing for sure: she wouldn’t be all pissy towards Iris lol. But my poor girl Nora would’ve still vanished in S5 finale :(

When Caitlin splits in S6, imagine how happy Frost would be have her own body, but also to be there to support SnowBarry marriage in person, and be able to interact with both Barry and Caitlin at the same time. Speaking of the Frost sisters, what would Nora call Frost? Aunt Frost? Something like that?

Yep, Caitlin and Frost never dies in this particular SnowBarry AU. It was the only stupid thing the writers did for her character.

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