#THIS IS NOT SHIP ART BTW. not that it matters. but still. theyre not a thing xd

[basketobread]

she would never outright say this but i mean close enough

This is some OOOOOLD art from a few months ago. I always imagined that despite Callus being the one that's supposed to be violent and whatnot (he's my Dark Urge) he's like... the LEAST evil of my main 4 characters... ...with Lunara being the most evil. Not that she wants to be or anything like that. She just is. Ex-Menzoberranzan citizen and all. Callus, on the other hand, is made from Bhaal's own flesh yet he STILL does everything in his power to resist his murderous urges. I've always enjoyed Lunara's dynamic with Durge. I think they're similar in a lot of ways and different in many others. I can't go into those right now because... that's enough info for a whole other post... but it's something I appreciate nonetheless. Also, I imagine Lunara eventually learns to treat Callus with respect later down the line... but that is NOT right now. So, good luck, Callus! ^_^;

[urlocalnonbinarybastardwrites]

hii!! im here for one of the fandom ships if they're still up for grabs! :)

im a girl (lesbian so uh a wlw or wlnm ship is definitely preferred) i have medium length wavy brown hair that im growing out, with a red underlayer (i think the styles called a peekaboo?) i have brown eyes, and an oval face, i have bangs that swoop to one side and almost cover my whole left eye. im an infp and pretty energetic! i have naturally long fingernails that get described as talons. i love cats and the rain and birds are my favourite animals. i do art, and i love stars. im also british but i hate stereotypical things like tea and i have straight teeth (seriously though, i hate the booawoa(bottle of water) ahh stereotypes) i love writing and hate maths. i literally cannot point out a single country on a map, apart from mine and a few others like america. I LOVE AMERICAN ACCENTS THEYRE SO FUN TO DO. i love the colour green. OH I ALSO LOVE FERRETS, CANARIES AND CONURES!! im like quite short btw like 5'4? but i wish i was taller.

anyways thats all i can think of about myself!

Your Fandom Ship: Piper McLean!! (Heroes of Olympus) 

Explanation: starting off with looks, I think that the daughter of Aphrodite would find you absolutely stunning. She loves your beautiful brown hair with the red just peeking out from underneath it and she thinks that your brown eyes are gorgeous and is constantly complementing you on them. She’s kind of a very lovey-dovey romantic person not to say that she’s not tough but she would absolutely romanticize your relationship. She would do really sweet things for you. She is always over performing on Valentine’s Day things like that. She’s just a romantic at heart which I think would do really well with you. she doesn’t mind her energetic personality and even encourages it and I think sometimes you two are kind of like bouncing off the walls together, but she can pull you down whenever you need to be pulled down and also I think that she would find your nails, very attractive and consistently ask you about nail care and how you broom them and have you do nail nights with her where you guys take turns doing each other‘s nails. She’s not particularly girly. I think she would still enjoy doing this and insist on doing it. She also loves animals and the rain so I think that she would dance in the rain with you if you were into that or do the whole cheesy kissing under the umbrella thing. I can’t remember her height, but I think she would be slightly taller than you and consistently tease you about being short. I also think that she loves your British accent and honestly kind of wishes that she had one herself because of how adorable it is and I just think she would be so obsessed with it. She would just absolutely be in love with it and like if you guys know, I just like think she’d be so down for bad with a British accent she would be obsessed. I mean, she romanticizes things a lot, so no doubt she would be romanticizing your accent man. She has a pretty similar personality to you and I think that she would be very loyal to you and protect you at any cost no matter what and U2 would be extremely cute together and a pretty healthy relationship. I can see you guys having like the perfect wedding that everyone is fucking jealous of, but anyway, I don’t know you you guys are cute. I really ship it. 🩷🩷🩷

[kankuroplease]

Haha, I'm sorry for troubling you last time! I don't necessarily want a request of KakaZabu again, since making 2 requests seem a little unfair, but I'd love to explain myself if you're alright with that! I noticed you included that bit with rarepaires in the 400 follower post (congrats btw!!! Your art is insanely pretty and just nice to look at and so so soft you deserve each and every one!!!) So.. belated explanation? I guess.

KakaZabu always seemed like the otp of Naruto for me, even before I'd entered the fandom! It was the way Kakashi and Zabuza were so alike and still pitted against each other, the both of them fighting for causes they didn't believe in and Zabuza died as a consequence. Zabuza only wanted to make money to keep himself and Haku afloat, Kiri likely being an awful place for him. Kakashi never wanted a Genin team, believing himself to be too broken, too devoid of love and warmth to keep the three of them alive. He'd only just barely managed to regain his philosophy of saving his comrades no matter the cost that Konoha beat out of him.

But I think Zabuza could have given Kakashi the will to hate. To be angry at Konoha for killing his father, for sending children on suicide missions, for giving him his dead sensei's child and the last Uchiha and a poor civilian born girl who was painfully dillusioned in the ways of shinobi. Their love would have been electric and destructive, one kiss sending forests ablaze and a mere touch leveling armies. Lightening and water are a deadly combo, after all.

They would understand each other well too, i think. Like two old, wisened veterans of war meeting in peace times. Or maybe a more apt description would be two wolves meeting among the sheep. They're two very damaged, barely surviving individuals with the combination blessing-curse of children that they need to take care of. That they need to train to handle the death and torture of the shinobi world. But together they'd be strong too, a force to be reckoned with on par to the jinchuuriki and akatsuki, powerful and eccentric and oh so dedicated to two things: they're children and each other.

On a lighter note... 😅

Theyre just cute together! Porn-reading psycho ninja killer cuddling up to his renowned-swordsman killer shark boyfriend! Just poking each other to no end, teasing quietly and acting innocent when their kids stare at them. As soon as Sakura or Naruto or Haku turn their backs tho, it's right back to giggling and lightly smacking each other. Just two big babies. They come across a laughably weak shinobi that tries to cash in their bounties and play tennis with the poor man's body. Kakashi probably gets a big sword too to match his boyfriend, or they develop an unbeatable style that involves them both using kubikiribocho at the same time! Kakashi was already good with a sword like that like we saw in the War Arc, so the both of them using it would just be grand!

Plus, poor little NaruSasuSaku dealing with Haku and the kids no doubt weird hobbies is just too good of a concept.

Sorry to bother with the long ask 😅

🔥 ALL VALID AND THOUGHT PROVOKING POINTS 🔥

And you’re not bothering me at all!!

I’m so sorry if that seemed directed at you, wasn’t meant to be! believe me when I say I have gotten many other request, even when I’m not taking them, for some REALLY hard to imagine Rarepairs.

My brain automatically does white noise if I get a rarepair request that I can’t fathom. That’s why I asked people to hype up their request if they really want me to do it as I will otherwise have to pass on it because names and personalities are not enough sometimes, y’know?

As for Kakazabu, I get the ship. I do, or else I wouldn’t have taken it on 😎 BUT for all the great reasons you pointed out, that’s what makes them hard to draw for me. Intensity isn’t always the easiest thing to capture in one picture, especially a romantic pairing picture without them just getting nasty 👀 engaging in a fight/standoff. because my mind was like

✨ violence will do ✨

and you may not have wanted that, so I just asked for ideas for them instead and mashed them together for something sweet but with promise 🖤

[houseki-no-suffering]

Pssst.... gush about some thing you’ve wanted to for so long but haven’t found the ask to do so! I really like reading your metas or off-the-wall posts.

aw ty!

mmmh usually i just crank out a random meta when i feel like it, which i havent had the energy to do in a while. so have a lot of hcs about gem language, gem society and how it resembles a totalitarian system cause why not, this is already a dystopia. 

goes from cute to shady real quick, have fun

Gem Vocabulary

gems have no gender, they dont age, they dont reproduce. the whole vocabulary about relationships, aging and sex must be completely different in gem language. they probably lack a lot of words we commonly use, and have unique words for things we dont have (like winter duty, patrol duty... i wouldnt be surprised if gem language had unique grammatical features for those)

this is one of the reasons why its so unfair of aechmea to call cairn ‘wife’ and ‘princess.’ the gems have no concept of wife-ness, we dont know if a gem equivalent of marriage exists, but its definitely much, much different from what the lunarians (and us) perceive as one.

do gems have anything akin coming of age? this could be weird bc gems can potentially live forever, but they can also be abducted by the lunarians at any time, so who’s to say how long a lustrous will live? how do you calculate being ‘of age’? is it by calculating the average life-span of a gem? 

how do they measure time and seasons? we know they have winter and summer and phos mentions ‘spring’ in chapter 20, but what about months and lunar phases? do they have words for that or are months just too small a timeframe for the immortal lustrous to utilize? how do they measure time? in hours and seconds? weeks? different units altogether?

Gem Relationships

similarly, gem relationships are codified in a completely different way. we know they have a concept of romance bc dia ships phos and shinsha and makes comments here and there about other gems being in love. 

at the same time, the relationships btw alexandrite and chrysoberyl, padpa and rutile, ghost/cairn and lapis etc are little different from ‘pure’ sibling/sibling relationships or senpai/kohai relationships.

this is not to say that they’re all romantic in nature, but the way they’re codified in canon (especially in the way the characters grief for their partner) makes me think that even if the gems have no blood/physical kinship with one another they have a very articulated system of establishing family bonds.

dia and bort are clearly siblings, but the same can’t be said, for example, for rutile and padpa, even if they were partners and even if they display a similar junior/senior relationship. this means that relationships are predicated on something else in hnk, and kinship, family and romance are all codified in a different way.

think of vulcans in star trek: physical contact such as two fingers touching, holding hands and kissing is unknown of (save for very specific circumstances). and vulcan people have a completely different way of expressing intimacy and romance than humans. 

this makes me think: just how many canonically romantic relationships are there in hnk (if any) that we’re simply unaware of bc the way gems codify and express romance is so different from ours? is romance even common? rare? perceived as weird? useless? 

what about other relationships? the gems use ‘little brother/ older brother’ but what if this is just japanese approximations? what kind of relationships can lustrous language really express and how different are they from ours?

Imagination

as @ruddy-rutile​ pointed out some time ago, the gems lack a concept of fantasy. thats why i posted that panel about alex’s original lunarian designs. sure, it’s funny, but it also makes you think: these gems are not raised to think outside the box and they can do it without being told so only under exceptional circumstances.

of the vast library of texts that ghost (and lapis) used to take care of, just how many are novels and fiction? none of them? a small amount? a decent amount? in a society thats as focused on practicality, efficiency and conservatism as the lustrous’, how is fiction perceived if perceived at all? 

is there art? red beryl’s craft comes very close to art when they express their feelings about ‘fashion for fashion’s sake,’ but it’s an exception that the other gems find hard to grasp.

phos is often told to stop fantasizing about the world and get things done, the only tale we know the gems are told is the actual story of how their world came to be. the gems always talk about real things, stuff that happened, and make and do things that have a practical use. 

even bort’s jellyfish diary is just made up of a recollection of what happened when they tried to feed them. still, the fact that bort names the jellyfish makes you think that these rocks do have potential for fantasy, theyre just not used to it

Totalitarianism and Privacy

to make this even more shady, here’s your gentle reminder that:

- gems’ rooms have no doors. the only door ive been able to find is the one in shinsha’s room (ch 2) and that is because shinsha’s room is closed off to other people and full of mercury. its like putting a patch on smth you dont want to deal with (much like shinsha’s whole character arc tbh)

- the gems have little to no free time. or their free time can be revoked any time in case an emergency occurs, sensei is napping etc. the gems’ time is rigorously managed by jade, euc and sensei. each gem has a place to be and a time to be.

this means that a missing gem can be found at all times and slackers can be identified very easily. they all have a job and they have to follow it. this is not to say that they have no fun ever, but leisure time is rare and (at least as far as we know) its not contemplated when tasks are assigned each day.

the mere fact that there is a morning assembly and tasks are assigned each day makes you think. is this communism? is this totalitarianism? but most importantly, is this a scary dystopia that hits you in the face like a brick the third time you reread ch 2?   

- sameness > equality. i already went over this in the past. gems society underlines sameness and conformity over anything else. the gems think theyre equal but theyre actually ‘similar.’

a system based on equality emphasizes differences so that every individual can do the best with what they have got and get back what they need, according to their personal needs. 

these gems emphasize sameness: everyone is upheld to the same standards, even when those standards dont match with a gem’s unique characteristics (ie phos cannot be a fighter, no reason to keep saying stuff like ‘if only you were stronger/you’re useless’ etc. they’re a rock with an imagination in a world where dull reality is the rule. just make them write theater plays and play with slugs with shinsha, wth)

It’s real 1984 hours:

all of the above means that:

- your sense of self is subordinated to the group. if you dont belong you’re simply a nothing. at times, the gems almost display a collective consciousness (a pretty hostile one too): everything must be decided together and done together

- you are what you do. gems identify completely with their job. thats why a job is so important, thats why this system is so fucked up. self worth is not inherent, it depends on what you can do. talk about a breeding ground for mental health issues 

- you dont have a saying in picking your career or deciding for you future. thats up to sensei (and maybe euc and jade). unless you have a very strong affinity with a certain task (like red beryl and alex)

- youre expected to follow orders all the damn time. no matter how much sensei wants his gems to exert free will, they still prefer to do what theyre told. ill admit, its much easier than taking your life in your hands and decide what youre gonna do with it, but damn if it isnt depressing. and childish

- euclase and sensei are the authority. sensei and euc are the powers that be. in the sense that they assign tasks, they decide on times and battle plans, on purpose etc. lets not forget that euc was the one to take on sensei’s role after he ‘resigned.’ 

i wonder what would happen if euc were abducted and the gems had no one to follow anymore, no orders. who’d be the new leader? would there be one? lets not forget that no matter how gentle euc is, phos is shit scared of them.

- thought police is a thing. to end this meta on what is probably the shadiest note: surveillance is a thing. the gems report on each other, it’s thought police, no sugarcoating this. 

there’s no privacy, no secrets. even antarc reads rutile’s diary. this goes from cute and childish (’you did this one wrong thing, im gonna tell sensei’) to absolutely fucked up (’you did this one wrong thing, im gonna tell sensei’)

[plainvanillapotato]

the 100 diaries S2 E12

quarantine: may 31 2020

season 2 episode 12: “Rubicon”

the guy is running. watch he just die and no one gets clarkes message. i would love it if clarkes plane just backfired but of course they save him. 

ok but wait why was cage just random carrying a oxygen tank when he himself doesnt even need one.

tsing out here with her own personal army. then just plucking these kids one by one. damn 

these grounders really be listening to clarke just because lexa said so?? damn these grounders be loyal minus gustus and that one guy that tried to kill clarke but then got eaten by king kong

is raven really the only person out here doing all this crap?? like does clarke not realize how big of an ask shes asking of raven? raven is magic and shit but she has some limitations just to be somewhat realistic. just chill the fuck out clarke raven is doing the best out here arguably more than clarke.

i love how bellamy is still wearing that hat still looking like sean malto. but also how has someone not noticed him? but i guess bellamy like joe from you as in if he wears a hat he magically blends in.

“...all of this is for nothing” way to put pressure on prettyboy bellamy like he didnt already know that. chill clarke everyone is trying their best out here. ngl i would hate to have clarke as a manager cuz i think she would micromanage the shit out of people. 

remember in the last episode when clarke asked what her job was well i think that i figured it out:

i also wanna mention that finn literally died idk less than a week ago but clarkes in charge being out and about commanding people years her senior. i get that we had that whole episode dedicated to how finns death affects clarke but still she got over that pretty quick. a little too quick. but i guess that if youre a sky person your emotional metabolism is just through the fucking roof...

ooo clarke still be salty toward her mom. but yeah kane is kinda an enabler

but why do these people have clear paper. the art department is feeling themselves on that one. like is it because they wanted to be edgy and futuristic or is it from an actual realistic viewpoint that the space people dont have trees to create paper................does this also mean that the space people didnt have toilet paper???????? but also back to the paper thing did these kids never learn how to write in cursive??? since i would imagine actual writing utensils are limited so idk if they waste it on teaching kids cursive. actually tho does anyone have an answer to these questions??? 

where did jaha get that antler stick. i kinda want one. i like to imagine that he just saw it lying somewhere on their way to the desert and said to himself i would look epic holding that stick and then went to pick up and started using it even tho he doesnt actually need a walking stick....any hunter x hunter fans?

jaha’s mask at 8:29 is an example of what not to wear during corona season

��thanks for the water?”...while looking down a bit flustered ”its, uh..it was no problem” emori and murphy? ship?

bellamy crawling through air vents to save the day...magenta from sky high who??

also bellamy’s ear piece is giving me everything. *i know that the following meme is just a tiny phone but i just really like it so idgaf

again with the inaccuracy of bone marrow extraction.

but what really gets me is clarke recognizing what procedure is going o just by the sound of a drill. ok who is she? she be like the boy that can identify a vacuum just by the sound. For those that don’t know what I’m talking about:

https://youtu.be/Ar5nLNku0CM

A missile?? where did these people get a missile

But also imagine if clarke was like actually i didn’t catch any of that conversation and bellamy just had to recap it like Luis in ant-man. I would die

thats a lot to ask of raven clarke. Like i could never get that shit done no matter how long you gave me. Yeah ppl be screwed if i was part of the 100

That hug btw Clarke and raven...ship? Jk i know it was just a friendship hug but yah can never know with these writers. Like i honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the writers said enemies (being part of that love triangle with finn) to friends to lovers

murphy and emori are definitly a ship. walking together behind with everyone else. Murphy said “i killed two people. I had my reasons but nobody cared.” Fuck you murphy you killed them cuz you a salty bitch. I also hate how he says this so blasé. Like dude want?? Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Murphy also said im the bad guy. Murphy is a billie elish fan?? Duh.

woah when that girl pulled out her claw????? I fell out of my seat. its actually huge. she could grab a whole basket all. They did a great job concealing/ not drawing attention to her hand before like i was so fucking surprised.

“Its pretty badass” and murphy looking at that claw tho...murphy is into kinky shit. But also that look he gave her while she walked away that was the most genuine look I’ve ever seen out of murphy.

Bellamy shoving jasper into a wall and whispering...bellamy and jasper? ship?

this secret talk between bellamy and Dante....bellamy and president Dante? ship?

But i also like to imagine that during this meeting that bellamy has the song dont be suspious. Dont be suspious playing in his head

woah. Mountain man said inconito mode activated. Reminds me of one of those green soldiers in toy story especially during the opening scene of i think the first movie

This character development in clarke is something else like remember when she talked about the grounders wanting finn out in the open and not in private causing a huge public uproar. Look at her now talking in private with Lexa about the missile. Phenomenal character growth if you ask me.

they really put all their eggs in one basket with bellamy. But bellamy be a really good basket tho. Trust Lexa trust.

where tf did this guy get an RPG??

Woah Emori be the real bad guy. But honestly she could slit Murphy’s throat and he would still live because cockroaches can still live without their head.

raven you should have just shut up. You really dropped the ball there.

lincoln???? What are the chances??? Isn’t he still a druggie?? Honestly octavias little speech would not motivate me at all. If anything it would make me want to take more drugs. At this point i would just say to Lincoln “dont fight it”

i like how they took everything but they let jaha keep his stick.

caspian is reall dressed like a hipster that sells artisanal kombucha

Jaha really has some faith in murphy...jaha and murphy? ship?

Also that was a really good shot of them murphy, jaha, and their crew climbing up the hill with a giant moon in the background

Lexa is giving me padme vibez wearing that head scarf like that

they were going to let kane and indra die

yeah sorry to break it to you abby but your child is a killer but then again so are you sooo..you really cant be out here to judge your kid like that. Like mother like daughter. But you really cant lecture clarke on this. you literally gave your husband up and you let your daughter blame her best friend for it. And on top of this you were part of the council that sent 100 kid down to earth without even knowing if earth was survivable. ma’m get the fuck outta here.

but all those lives for bellamy. i think its worth it. Because bellamy is worth everything.

theyre linking arms they got monty no!! absolutely not. they took jasper but i gotta say better he than monty bc Monty is king. Yeah jasper really fumbled with that gun. Really not smart. jasper should have just shot tsing instead

Oof a containment breach. wow what an epic door stop. Sooo loong tsing. That was such a cruel death tho but yeah she kinda deserved it.

Does Dante play the cello?? A real renaissance man isn’t he?

wow this makes octaiva and lincoln like an epic couple that conquered the world. power couple. Goals *gag* but ok does that mean that Lincoln just stopped cold turkey just like that?? Hes just automatically better? No this is not how drug addiction works. But ok sure Jan.