#Than in any other season

[shopcat]

as much as I love season 3 for the scoops troop i think how Steve was depicted there really fuelled the "Steve is just a dumb himbo 😝" thing because they made him act dumber for some reason? and people just clung onto that

HMM yeah honestly i think it's that like. he acts entirely the same but the worst parts of fandom tend to be the most annoying bastardising people on earth and will strip a character of everything they are in order to mass produce frothy content with no substance because a character that is two dimensional and easily trope-ified can be then easily marketable replicatable and therefore accessible in fan content. like they don't have to think of his actual characterisation or ANYONE'S!!! because they're reducing the character to a small handful of generalised traits in order to make Incorrect Character Quote blogs or something. ummm i don't think steve has ever even once been a "himbo" i think that's a ridiculous term for small hearted people + he is the victim of his own comedy relief + it's like the easiest thing in the world to be like "i'm not saying he's dumb to be mean he's dumb and i love it 😂" so no one cares to like think about that a little bit let alone anyone who claims to Really Understand Him bc they would have to acknowledge they're using a weird mindset there, at least potentially...

like yeah he's a little behind on some things and is the asks silly questions guy but it's honestly just so fucking MEAN to me to hold him to shit like that entirely as someone who thinks in very similar ways like okay you're hurting my feelings a little bit here sorry. also his questions and Dumb Moments aren't even that fucking insane like not to be the steve fan who is constantly defending a tv show character but oh my god who gives a shit he asked if the stupid scifi villain was a vampire because he could have been a fucking vampire SHUT UPPPPPP. also parallel thinking and delayed processing etc like this is such a common trait in a line with neurodivergent behaviour TBH like seriously think about what you're implying here!!! honestly people really show their hand in equating intelligence with worth let alone intelligence with just knowing dumb shit when that's just memorisation and recollection. anyone can do that and you're just being fucking rude tbh 😑.

ALSO like, objectively, people are missing the point of the character misdirects here imo... :0 in the words of joe keery himself it takes a little bit for him to get there but he still GETS THERE, also honestly i DO think he is still in general not actually The Silly Stupid Bimbo One i think he has and always WILL be the Normal One who reacts to things Normally he is just surrounded by the worlds most precocious genius children and precocious genius other teens and their very lives depend on figuring things out and he struggles making those particular connections which is in fact, again, Entirely Normal, because he lives in a world where monsters exist. i've compared him to like an isekai'd character before because of it LOL. STEVE in particular is also literally half the time The One in the midst helping figure things out and it's CRAZY if his character season 3 in particular is helping this particular Silly Himbo phenomena because i honestly think he is his most... assured? helpful? in season 3? he helps with the code even though he Try As He Might can't learn an ENTIRE LANGUAGE with a different alphabet in like two days, HE identifies the song in the recording and deduces it means the code came from the mall itself, he makes logical leaps and on the fly thinking moves in order to get himself and the people he's trying to help out of dangerous situations a dozen different times + his street smarts are still SMARTS. one of the most important parts of his character TO ME is that he is smart in OTHER WAYS to highlight that you Can be helpful + important without being like a fucking MENSA child. and it just feels cheap and silly to call him a HIMBO after that... it doesn't come off as "aw but i love it" as people think at least From Some People, and To Me. i also don't really think they like, MADE him dumb or anything in season 3 in particular i think fanonisation has just rotted his actual characterisation away :(

i think like objectively here ppl calling him dumb and being like I Love It!!! don't mean anything by it and the word himbo is like, fine, and i also say that he's silly and i DO love it he IS my little dumby but that is also because he is in the same way i am and really at the end of the day we're both Not actually stupid. and really what i mean when i say it is he's funny and i love him and i love his silly moments bc i get it i get it so much i would say that too. i also think ppl trying to combat this in particular to prove he is actually INCREDIBLY intelligent are also missing the mark a little (imo) i think he's just normal and has different strengths <3. also, to try and make a certain trait lovable people need to realise they can just come off incredibly condescending or even dehumanising and ESPECIALLY, to wrap it all back around to the reason i was talking about this, applying false diagnostic criteria for like learning disabilities or disorders in order to "explain" why he's Dumb to you will end up coming off just oh. so ableist. especially from neurotypical and allistic people.

[taffywabbit]

I finally watched breaking bad (all within the past week or so while I worked, finished it and watched el camino last night) and I'm confident this isn't a new thought I'm expressing or anything but genuinely how DID an entire generation of dudes convince themselves Walter White was cool and admirable and intended to be sympathetic. I know ppl just lack media literacy sometimes but I'm still so confused

I don't think I've EVER watched a piece of media that so blatantly depicts a guy making the worst possible decisions at every turn and having his life ruined for it and not being redeemed or made sympathetic in any significant or lasting way. the kinds of justifications villains USUALLY give that make people consider them "morally grey" or "tragic" or whatever (everything I did was for my loved ones, I did what I had to to survive, once I was in this I couldn't get out, I just needed you to trust me so I could keep you safe, etc etc) is ALWAYS framed as complete self-serving bullshit when Walt says it, and one of the only shreds of personal growth he ever exhibits in the whole series is when he finally fucking admits that. every time he does something even remotely cool or drops a quotable one-liner, something terrible immediately happens that makes everything worse and makes him look like an unreasonable idiot asshole again. by the end of the series the ONLY characters they can still contrast as being morally "worse" than him are literally a bunch of bloodthirsty neonazis who kept a guy in a cage for several months. this show is practically SCREAMING at you the entire time not to admire Walt. why did every dude I knew in highschool have his face on tshirts and Facebook pfps.

I just don't get it. at least with The Dark Knight's Joker it was like, a feature-length movie and that's it. you spend a lot less time with the Joker and it has a lot less time to delve into his motivations, so there's way more room for flanderization and misinterpretation as people extrapolate the few cool/interesting/sad things they saw into a whole nuanced misunderstood guy in their heads and online. Walter White has 5 seasons' worth of 45min episodes to convince you beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a miserable fucking loser who ruins everything he touches because of greed and selfishness. if you weren't watching it for that, what WERE you getting out of this. what DID you think this show was about. am I just missing some key piece of context from 2012 or whatever that would help me understand this

[drrav3nb]

AYO EDEBIRI as Sydney Adamu WILL POULTER as Luca THE BEAR SEASON 3 | Episode 10 - Forever

Are you close? Yeah. Kind of best friends and kind of lost touch, so. It's nice to reconnect. Yeah, especially when it literally is like a best friend that you saw every day of your life and you kinda went through this sort of battle together.

Bonus:

[theashesofthefirststar]

If they’re not going to give Edwin a boyfriend in the form of one Charles Rowland then they need to let him be a slut. I’m so serious actually. Guy escaped hell, watched the love of his after life kiss someone else, and got strapped to a witches torture table all within the span of 24 hours. He deserves to have his ass eaten.

[mbohjeezart]

[ WIP ]

Bring a goat to a courthouse...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for an incredible 500 days of love and support. I offer you: answers to questions that no one has asked.

(As always, more can be found in the tags <3)

[shepscapades]

69. Panorama — Cool Cool, Jeremy Lister, bergie

Our eyes, they need some new direction There's somethin' lost with our connection And we can't seem to shake this scene This same routine is killin' me This town, it needs a restoration A little sparkly decoration These glossy lives and half-ass smiles keep movin' by By, by, by

Xisuma’s Season 8 has made me certifiably insane and I’m so glad this drawing challenge lets me out of my enclosure to share some of my insanity with yall— dbhc flavored, because of course! <3 This song is actually such a bop, highly recommend it!! It’s pretty early on in dbhc Xisuma’s playlist, representing the uh… Introduction/ Entering The Scene of a certain someone, and it foreshadows the horrific vibes of Xisuma’s season to come. I am so so so normal about this song, I’m positive it would be higher on the list had I found it a little earlier in the year

Although I will say, I was actually really excited to see this song rank at 69 because I knew people would request this number LMAO plus I’ve been drawing so much Xisuma lately so i was super excited to be able to draw and post some of my brainrot finally >:]

[pucksandpower]

Each new positive spin that Williams tries to put on the situation just makes it sit even worse with me … maybe I’m reading into it too much but the undertone of disrespect is frankly ridiculous

[columboscreens]

[sappho-hoziers-version]

Is NBC’s Hannibal a poignant drama that calls into question the nuances of morality, the violence of the human desire to love and be loved, and the darker side of adoration

Or

Is it three gays in a trench coat causing as much drama as they possibly can

[tornoleander]

Hunted Dragons!!! :D

I missed my lil dragon guys

Traditional art! Cause I’m about to get my first art tablet and I need to readjust to using a pencil instead of my finger for Digital art.

I drift off of canon designs a bit in favor of what I think looks better. /adding a few things from more modern design of that elemental dragon.

Earth -barley changed the more I drew Slab the more I appreciated the design choices. Everything about him is like a Hippo with ram horns peek ground type the most similar to Dragons rising versions

Lightning Stole a few things from Jiro cause that Dragon might have the best design ever.

Fire- messed with face a bit Flame’s colors are really good

I based ice dragon solely off of concept art cause….

LIKE I CAN SEE WHAT THEY WERE GOING FOR NOW BUT DAMN hunted ice dragon is a hilarious miss

Here’s my Dragon art book of all dragons from before hunted The ones I just drew are my bests though tbh Also I fixed the issue where the image doesn’t show

After I draw every dragon, I’m gonna make a tier list or something cause damn these designs are not created equal. I would love to rant about dragon things no one else would care about.

[epickiya722]

Can't believe she was taken from us!! YOU'LL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS, STAR!! 😭🌟

[im-no-jedi]

history repeats itself 😂

[legokingfisher]

“Neuuroo 😁 master of mind👀...! Versus. 👹BOLOBO.👹👹👹 masterof nnature!”

[mimicmerchant]

I bummed myself out thinking about how PiBE season 2 was never going to get playbills so I decided to be the change I wanted to see in the world...... then i realized graphic design is hard. Anyway, have some thumbnails of what could have been!