#We have an agreement

[formidable-fermenter]

If you’re ever in the woods or forest and you get an eerie feeling that there’s something making the fae angry, that’s just me goofin’.

[prehistoricopossum]

Why would I believe in goblin sharks if goblin sharks don’t believe in me?

People who see pics of like those fucked up deep sea fish and creatures and go "omg I'm never going swimming in the ocean again 😰😰😰" calm down. They're 5000 feet below where you are and also i went down there and none of them even knew you. Leave them alone bitch

[lilybug-02]

Final Bug Fact:

The world NEEDS bugs. They keep the soil healthy, pollinate, control pests, and contribute to the worlds' ecosystem. By the end of the century, it is estimated 40% of insect species may go extinct due to habitat loss. Yes, that is very scary. But with even one beetle spared, one caterpillar rescued, and one Hollow Knight comic of all things, things will change. Because I know there's a lot more Dewi's out there than most people realize. Stay curious.

Thanks for going on this adventure with me. ♥︎

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Comic Thoughts and Pictures Below!

I wanted to put here how amazing and sweet everyone has been with this comic. I finished a 75 page comic in 3 MONTHS. I am at a loss for words. That sounds crazy and it IS crazy. But man was it fun. Even on days were I wasn't able to draw due to fatigue or business, I loved working on it from start to finish. And guess what!? This is my first ever FINISHED comic :D I'm so proud of myself. I know there's some things I want to change and the art is wonky in most places...... but I'm content to let it be. What an amazing summer adventure!

I'm hoping to post the full comic on another Comic website. I may or may not edit some of the art ^w^ So I'll let y'all know when I release it.

Interested in learning what you could do to help your local insects? This is the basic stuff. Maybe make some Insect Hotels if you have the time!!! And never forget to spread the word about bugs. They need our help just as any animal on earth.

Still Here? Well you can look in the tags for little lore dumps if ur looking for stuff like that ;)

[toasttestified]

dirkjohn vampire!AU pixel art 🖤

[alexandraisyes]

The cutest reminder ever that the way family works in TSAMS canon is that two parties have to be in mutual agreement that they are family. If one party doesn't agree then they aren't family. Parties can revoke familial ties whenever they want and that means they are no longer family.

"Code Relation" theory is stupid because you're then implying that Eclipse is Sun and Moon's child. Which he isn't. Or that Killcode is somehow Moon's child and his brother at the same time that he's Eclipse, Lunar and Bloodmoon's "father" at the same time that they're Sun and Moon's grand children. Like, we're seeing the issue here, right?

Don't make things more complicated than it has to be. Just accept the fact that family is literally determined by a verbal agreement between two animatronics and nothing else because none of them were born from wombs. That means respecting canon when characters in canon decide that they aren't comfortable being family (like Eclipse) or just straight-up disown everyone (like Bloodmoon). It's okay to have headcanons, but don't try to push them onto canon.

[wafflesrisa]

On the supposed breaching of a previous agreement

After so much misinformation has been debunked, the one item I’ve seen repeated again and again is that there was a prior agreement which Carlos supposedly broke - but Charles gave no actual information about what the agreement was.

Surely the logical conclusion to draw is that we simply don’t know what the agreement was, and so we cannot cast shade on either Charles nor Carlos off the back of the statement. We simply do not know.

Specifically, while we do know Charles subjectively thought an agreement was broken, we do not have any ability to evaluate whether that conclusion is objectively true. Indeed, we don’t even know whether Charles, when making that statement, even had all the facts to hand (given he is not privy to Carlos’ radio messages and debriefing had not yet happened).

In this context the statement from Charles cannot be taken as objective truth. At most, it is a clear indication he was feeling subjectively frustrated.

The response I’ve seen from all over social media seems to be “let’s take Charles’s word for it that trust was breached, even if we don’t know what the agreement was”.

We have no facts. We have no information. We cannot draw conclusions as to what the agreement was, and therefore we cannot know if Carlos actually breached it.

Until (if ever) we have more information, Charles’ comment can only be taken as evidencing his frustration, and no more.

[aardvaark]

im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophie’s background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps they’re all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.

[sersfandomthings]

radish birthday!! birthday of the radish!!!

happy belated birthday nahida sorry this came late my krita freaked out on me and kept on crashing so I couldn't complete it in time

I'm ngl this piece was hell to do and I almost gave up several times but looking at the finished product I'm actually pretty happy with it. still trying to figure out an artstyle but maybe I'll settle for something like this

[lotus-duckies]

i was going back and forth on how deep this message is in terms of the actual content of the manga cause yknow if they say stuff but don't back it up with consistent execution it means nothing

and i think the key here. is that Utena is a villain. she's quite literally the bad guy. she harasses tres magia for personal enjoyment because she's. the villain.

and the series always makes a point of emphasis when the feelings are mutual. for example, with utena torturing azul and both of them getting enjoyment out of it. or utena and kiwi getting ✨nasty✨, or whatever nemo and matama have going on

there is a distinction between "doing freaky stuff for personal pleasure" and "doing freaky stuff as an expression of love and intimacy"

there's also the fact utena tries to avoid going too far with anyone and gets upset when she hurts them, and when it ventures into genuine Bad Stuff TM, it's treated with an appropriate sense of horror and pain. which probably factors into this somehow

[sage-nebula]

It happened, as things so often did, like a bolt from the blue on one of Pacifica's rare days off from work at the diner.

It was the height of summer and so hellaciously hot, even for—no, especially for Oregon. Having lost access to the private pools and yachts after her father's investments into Cipher capital during Weirdmageddon four years prior, Pacifica found herself at the Gravity Falls community pool, lounging on a pool chair after layering SPF 50 on her skin, and silently telling herself over and over that it was always morally correct to block her parents' numbers on her days off, and that her father probably hadn't yet found where Pacifica's pet rescue opposum, Susanna, had hidden the bell yet, so there was no need to worry.

(Pacifica had rescued Susanna from the diner kitchen two summers ago, when she was fourteen. Susanna was technically a male oppossum, but something about him reminded Pacifica of Lazy Susan, so Susanna he was.)

But it was at that moment that deep laughter followed by a higher pitched "shut up!" and even more laughter from both voices broke through Pacifica's inner mantras. She opened her eyes to see that both of the Pines twins, having once again made their yearly visit to Gravity Falls, had also chosen to visit the pool that day.

Pacifica swallowed hard.

For all that she had tried to deny it even to herself in her tween and early teen years, by now Pacifica had long since accepted that she found Dipper Pines attractive. It was impossible not to, with the way he came back taller each summer, his shoulders increasingly more broad as he grew into the physique promised by his great uncles (or his Great Uncle Ford, anyway), a little stubble that he "forgot" to shave always left around his chin, and his sideburns. Oh, his sideburns. Pacifica hated how much she loved Dipper's sideburns. It was beyond cringe, and the only other living soul who would ever know about her crush was Susanna, but Pacifica Northwest did indeed have a crush on Dipper Pines. She knew, and accepted, this about herself.

But then, on that hellaciously hot summer day at the community pool, Mabel Pines took her sweater off right in front of Pacifica's eyes.

Mabel pulled her sweater up over her head, and it was as if time slowed down. Mabel's arms were just as toned and strong (if not maybe a little more toned, the way the sunlight hit her muscles) than Dipper's. She had been wearing a bikini under her sweater—a pink one decorated with stars that fit her perfectly—and her thousand watt smile revealed she'd finally gotten her braces off to reveal a set of dazzling teeth. And when she tugged her hair free from her ponytail, it swished around her in a cascade of long, brown waves.

Dipper had thrown his tanktop onto a pool chair, and Mabel followed suit, throwing her sweater and hair tie on top of Dipper's shirt. But as Dipper was in the middle of saying something (they were too far for Pacifica to hear clearly), Mabel whipped back around with devilish speed and shoved him straight in the pool.

Mabel laughed uproariously as Dipper came back up for air, sputtering water and shaking his sopping bangs from his eyes. But he was only off guard for a second, and Mabel's mirth kept her off hers for longer. Dipper grinned wickedly and snapped his fingers around Mabel's wrist, yanking her in headfirst after him. Just as Dipper had before her, Mabel resurfaced immediately, though she had to use both hands to shove her curtains of damp hair out of her face. But her smile was just as impish as Dipper's own, and within seconds they were splashing each other, shrieking and laughing as they caused the biggest ruckus the pool had seen all day.

And as she watched them play, the water making their skin glisten and their smiles making their eyes sparkle, Pacifica felt a swarm of butterflies in her gut and a flash of heat in her face that had nothing at all to do with the summer sun above. She curled in on herself in her pool chair, and tugged her sun hat down over her face.

"Oh no."

[al-luviec]

juvie buddies

[hiraethwrote]

just woke up to see the results. sending all my love to my american friends. i hope you manage to stay safe despite everything

[tcfactory]

This is going to be a long Taash rant, I'm sorry.

I genuinely think trying to find their gender identity - along with their cultural one - is a fitting and personal story for Taash, being 20 and this being their first real chance to get out from their community and find themself. Is it on the nose and very hamfisted? Yeah, kinda. The writing can be really bad in this game overall. But that "nobody likes being a woman" line was pretty spot on, as far as these kinds of experiences go and sitting next to someone trying to figure themselves out is never pretty or smooth.

There are parts of their personal story that sink the whole thing for me, however. We could have done without using 'nonbinary' as a word - that's a very modern word that sticks out in the language of the game and doesn't get an explanation about how it even got there. I don't like the mother's character much, but when she goes "what does that even mean??" I thought that was a very legit reaction to being introduced to a new word (in a language that isn't her native one even) that, as far as I could gather, isn't even really used in Rivain. Taash got this fancy new word from Neve and because the concept fits, they are now resistant to calling it anything else.

Which is what ultimately sinks a scene that could have been about reconciliation, about parent and child finding a middle ground. Shathann tries to make sense of what her child is telling her, tries to find common ground - here's the word that the Qun uses for this concept, is this what you mean? - and Taash immediately rejects it, because she doesn't use their chosen word, isn't immediately on board with it in the exact way they want her to be. I'm sorry, did you want your mother to find common ground with you or not?? Shathann tries, but she's not doing it right so we are not doing this at all I guess???

I'm closeted irl (due to the state of politics and trans-related healthcare as well as rampant, violent queerphobia in my country) and I haven't dared to broach the topic with my mother because she's open minded about some things and very bigoted about others (very "I don't mind faggots, I want everyone to be happy with whoever they are that happiest, but only if I don't have to see them" energy) but if I did tell her, I'd be overjoyed if she tried to meet me where I stand. Even if she doesn't get it right or understand what I'm telling her exactly.

So to see a character that previously was bending into pretzels trying to get their mother's approval and understanding get angry at the olive branch and reject it was baffling.

Another thing that was really frustrating to see was the scene with Isabella doing the pushups and it being presented as a good, welcome thing.

Isabella accidentally misgenders Taash in the middle of telling a story about them - something that would have been a popular story that she has no doubt told many times in the past - and instead of a quick apology or even just correcting herself and moving on, she goes off to the corner to do pushups for a bit, explaining some cutesy story about how this is so much better than apologies, because what if you don't mean it and what if you turn that around and make it all about yourself?

Well, you made it about yourself anyway, with this performative act of self-flagellation. Adjusting to someone's new pronouns can take a bit, because you are working against your own habits and ingrained muscle memory. Slip ups happen, especially in contexts like this. She was already accepting and making an effort to use Taash's new pronouns, the theatrics were off-putting and unnecessary. Everyone has a different experience with gender, but most trans and nonbinary people understand this and don't want you to treat their new pronouns as something to be made a fuss about. The best you can do is treat it like normal so it becomes a new normal. Go forward and keep making an effort using their new pronouns - build up that new muscle memory! - and it will be fine. If someone feels like you are not making enough of an effort because you keep slipping up (maybe because you still think of them as a woman, deep down), there are ways to address that between the two of you.

Now, aside from how uncomfortable that scene made me feel because the narrative pushes so hard for it that this is the correct way to handle this situation...

Can we address the elephant in the room and look at what message this sends to cis people? Not the crowd crying about wokeness, they can rot where they are, but players who have not been exposed to trans/nonbinary narratives before and are uninformed or ambivalent about the topic. Taash is angry and aggressive when the world doesn't immediately reorder itself in a way that accommodates their new identity the exact way they want it to. They don't even get any meaningful pushback!! Nobody questions or disregards their new identity, even their mother is more confused than anything. A cis character making one mistake of misgendering them is punished for it and it is explained at length why she should be punished and why that is a good thing.

I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say that it's probably unintentional, but this is feeding into some of the most prevalent anti-trans stereotypes that paint trans and nonbinary people as vindictive and unreasonable and all I can say to that is 😬. Should have put more thought into this, people.

[moeblob]

son boy raccoon trash can man suffering in a dnd au as a cleric bc his warlock will not stop committing murders and he has to keep coming up with reasons murder is valid to convince the gm its fine and under control

[fallout-lou-begas]

wait why is u-hauling bad??

i understand the urge to u-haul because it's so fun and romantic and exhilarating to want to rush into living together with someone, but the sooner that you rush into a very serious, very committed (leases last a whole year!), emotionally and materially embroiled cohabitating relationship with someone, the less time and remove that you're giving yourself to actually learn about who they are and how they live and how they may act in certain situations or with certain people, which is all very vital information to have before you decide to orient your entire life around them. many people want to skip the "getting to know each other" step and just swear deeply devoted and gushingly romantic total fealty to each other as soon as possible because that's soooooo hot and exciting, but it should be noted that lesbians are not just stereotyped for u-hauling but also stereotyped for having the most apocalyptic break-ups imaginable, and in my view, these two things are deeply correlated!

of course with so many girls coming from shitty home situations, moving in with someone (such as a romantic partner) recklessly may be the only real way out. and i have immense sympathy for that, and the only real solution is free and universal housing for everyone, but in the meantime anybody taking this route really ought to think through at least some safeguards to prevent absolute powder keg codependency situations, because going from the frying pan and into the fire isn't exactly ideal. i mean, maybe it'll work out! maybe! but you have got to understand that it's very steep gamble!

[rickybaby]

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