#[ THIS FAMILY IS AWESOME

[akapictorem]

Brave warrior egg!

[sonic-adventure-3]

it’s crazy that rouge straight up said this and people still see her as a mother figure lmaooo

[saturnstrays]

Hello ULTRAHUSTLERS please accept this extremely rushed silly comic that I started on Christmas eve have a merry ultrachristmas or just an ultra day!!!

[raineyraven]

man i feel bad for fans of the httyd movies who haven't seen the shows, especially race to the edge. like they don't know that the riders left berk and lived on an outpost together to go adventuring and fight dragon hunters as a team. they don't know that snotlout and astrid and fishlegs and the twins got character development. they don't know how cool and interesting the villains in the shows are compared to the movies. they don't know that the riders are filled with love and loyalty to each other and they bicker and train and play card games with each other and have sleepovers together and will risk their lives for their friends and their dragons in a heartbeat. imagine that.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

I can't believe people would slander ocean sunfish for having a lot of parasites. Uh, hello?? Every animal in nature has parasites dipshit, it came free with living in an ecosystem

[key-rk]

Silco and Powder for new year's :D

I had a lot of fun experimenting with a new brush +paper texture

[jasonsthunderthighs]

Dick: Which one of you was goin to tell me tea tastes different if you put it in HOT water?

Bruce: You're puttin it in cold water?!

Damian: Grayson. Answer the question, Grayson!!

Dick: Yea, I thought for like five years that people just put it in hot water to speed up the ✨Teaification Process✨

Dick: Didn't realise there was an actual reason.

Tim: You don't have the patience to microwave water for three minutes?!

Jason: Why are you puttin it in the microwave to boil it???

Tim: Do you think I have the patience to boil water on a stove?!

Jason: It takes less than a minute!!

Tim: Jason, is your stove powered by the fuckin sun?!

Jason: HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO BOIL A CUP OF WATER ON THE STOVE?!

Tim: LIKE SEVEN MINUTES!

Jason: Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat. And it boils in like two minutes. Less than that and you use a saucepan.

Tim: You're puttin the whole mug on the stove on medium heat?! YOUR STOVE IS ENCHANTED!!!

Duke: Every single person in this place is a fuckin lunatic.

Alfred: DO NONE OF YOU OWN A FUCKIN KETTLE?!

[amamamumumumu]

Damianya Week Day 3: rival kingdoms AU (and monsters AU)

okay...it may be a little different than you'd expect but in my head rival kingdoms AU look like this Anya is a Chimera and Damian is a Gryphon. As much as they look like each other their families are feuding, but they fall in love and refuse to have a war between the kingdoms I really enjoy drawing monster AU, and I'd like to do it more often in the future, but it will all depend on your reaction of course :,D

[fictionadventurer]

I have to talk about Chester Arthur. His story makes me go crazy. A mediocre president from the 1880s who's completely forgotten today has one of the best redemption stories I've ever heard and I need to make people understand just how cool his story is.

So, like, he starts out as this idealist, okay? He's the son of an abolitionist minister and becomes famous as a New York lawyer who defends the North's version of Rosa Parks whose story desegregates New York City's trolley system.

Then he starts getting pulled into politics and becomes one of the grimiest pieces of the political machine. He wants money, power, prestige, and he gets it. He becomes the right-hand man of Roscoe Conkling, the most feared political boss in the nation, a guy who will throw his weight around and do the most ruthless things imaginable to keep his friends in power and destroy his enemies.

Because Arthur's this guy's top lackey, he gets to be Controller of the Port of New York--the best-paying political appointment in the country, because that port brings in, like, 70% of the federal government's funds in tariffs. He gets a huge salary plus a percentage of all the fines they levy on lawbreakers, and because he's not afraid to make up infractions to fine people over, he is absolutely raking in the dough. Making the rough equivalent of $1.3 million a year--absolutely insane amounts of money for a government position. He's spending ridiculous sums on clothes, buying huge amounts of alcohol and cigars to share with people as part of his job recruiting supporters to the party, going out nearly every night to wine and dine people as part of his work in the political machine. He's living the high life. Even when President Hayes pulls him from his position on suspicions of fraud, he's still living a great life of wealth, power, and prestige.

Then in 1880, his beloved wife dies. While he's out of town working for a political campaign. And he can't get back in time to say goodbye before she dies. Because he's a guy who has big emotions, it absolutely tears him up inside, especially because Nell resented how much his political work kept him away from home. He has huge regrets, but he just moves in with Roscoe Conkling and keeps working for the political machine.

And then he gets a chance to be vice president. The Republican Party has nominated James Garfield, a dark horse candidate who wants to reform the spoils system that has given Conking his power and gave Arthur his position as Port Controller. Conkling is pissed, and he controls New York, and since the party's not going to win the election without New York, they think that appointing Conkling's top lackey as vice-president will pacify him.

They're wrong--Conkling orders Arthur to refuse--but Arthur thinks this sounds like a great opportunity. The only political position he's ever held is Port Controller--a job he wasn't elected to and that he was pulled from in disgrace. Vice President is way more than he could ever have hoped for. It's a position with a lot of political pull and zero actual responsibilities. He'll get to spend four years living in up in Washington high society. It's the perfect job! Of course he accepts, and Conkling comes around when he figures out that he can use this to his advantage.

When Garfield becomes president, Arthur does everything he can to undermine him. He uses every dirty political trick he can think of to block everything that Garfield wants to do. He refuses to let the Senate elect a president pro tempore so he can stay there and influence every bill that comes through. He all but openly boasts of buying votes in the election. He's so much Conkling's lackey that he may as well be the henchman of a cartoon supervillain. On Conkling's orders, he drags one of Garfield's Cabinet members out of bed in the middle of the night--while the guy is ill--to drag him to Conkling's house so he can be forced to resign. He's just absolutely a thorn in the president's side, a henchman doing everything he can to maintain the corrupt spoils system.

Then in July 1881, when Arthur's in New York helping Conkling's campaign, the president gets shot. By a guy who shouts, "Now Arthur will be president!" just after he fires the gun. Arthur has just spent the past four months fighting the president tooth and nail. Everyone thinks he's behind the assassination. There are lynch mobs looking to take out him and Conkling. The papers are tearing him apart.

Arthur is absolutely distraught. He rushes to Washington to speak with the president and assure him of his innocence, but the doctors won't let him in the room. He gets choked up when talking to the First Lady. Reporters find him weeping in his house in Washington. Once again, death has torn his world apart and he's not getting a chance to make amends.

Arthur goes to New York while the president is getting medical treatment, and he refuses to come to Washington and take charge because he doesn't dare to give the impression that he's looking to take over. No one wants Arthur to be president and he doesn't want to be president, and the possibility that this corrupt political lackey is about to ascend to the highest office in the land is absolutely terrifying to everyone.

Then in August, when it's becoming clear that the president is unlikely to recover, he gets a letter. From a 31-year-old invalid from New York named Julia Sand. A woman from a very politically-minded family who has been following Arthur's career for years. And she writes him this astounding letter that takes him to task for his corrupt, conniving ways, and the obsession with worldly power and prestige that has brought him wealth and fame at the cost of his own soul--and she tells him that he can do better. In the midst of a nationwide press that's tearing him apart, this one woman writes to tell him that she believes he has the capacity to be a good president and a good man if he changes his ways.

And then he does. After Garfield dies, people come to Arthur's house and find servants who tell them that Arthur is in his room weeping like a child (I told you he had big emotions), but he takes the oath of office and ascends to the presidency. And he becomes a completely different man. His first speech as president mentions that one of his top priorities is reforming the spoils system so that people will be appointed based on merit rather than getting appointed as political favors with each change in the administration. Even though this system made him president. When Conkling comes to Arthur's office telling him to appoint his people to important government positions, Arthur calls his demands outrageous, throws him out, and keeps Garfield's appointees in the positions. "He's not Chet Arthur anymore," one of his former political friends laments. "He's the president."

He loses all his former political friends. He's never trusted by the other side. Yet he sticks to his guns and continues to support spoils system reform. He prosecutes a postal service corruption case that everyone thought he would drop. He's the one who signs into law the first civil service reform bill, even though presidents have been trying to do this for more than ten years, and he's the person who's gained all his power through the spoils system. He immediately takes action to enforce this bill when he could have just dropped it. He becomes a champion of this issue even though it's the last thing anyone would have expected of him.

He oversees naval reform. He oversees a renovation of the White House. He still prefers the social duties of the presidency, but he's respectable in a way that no one expected. Possibly because Julia Sand keeps sending him letters of encouragement and advice over the next two years. But also because he's dying.

Not long after ascending to the presidency, he learns he's suffering from a terminal kidney disease. And he tells no one. He keeps going about his daily life, fulfilling his duties as president, and keeps his health problems hidden. Once again, death is upending his life, and this time it's his own death. He's lived a life he's ashamed of, and he doesn't have much time left to change. He enters the presidency as an example of the absolute worst of the political system, and leaves it as a respectable man.

He makes a token effort to seek re-election, but because of his health problems, he doesn't mind at all when someone else gets the nomination. He dies a couple of years after leaving office. The day before his death, he orders most of his papers burned, because he's ashamed of his old life--but among the things that are saved are the letters from Julia Sand, the woman who encouraged him to change his ways.

This is an astounding story full of so many twists and turns and dramatic moments. A man who falls from idealism into the worst kind of corruption and then claws his way back up to decency because of a series of devastating personal losses and unexpected opportunities to do more than he could have ever hoped to do. I just go crazy thinking about it and I need you all to understand just how amazing this story is.

[nocreativityfornames]

I can't believe there is yet another one

[c-kiddo]

cad and belle are just wee besties to me . and have lots of sensory pressure hugs. (from npc requests but i wanted to draw them together anyway so bonus cad)

[daftpatience]

i lov planning outfits the same way i love drawing diagrams for rearranging furniture. its plotting and scheming

[bluehome91]

[kogglyuffs]

devsis keeps adding jesters thats so AWESOME

[gothamite-rambler]

Wonder Woman and Jason Todd meeting years later

Wonder Woman spotted a tall man engaged in conversation with Batman, his facial features strikingly reminiscent of a young warrior she recalled as Bruce's sidekick. His life had been cut short in his teens, but he had miraculously been brought back to life. Although she hadn't seen him since his rebirth, she felt a surge of joy as she approached, trying to contain her excitement.

Wonder Woman (smiling): Jason?

Jason (eyes widening): Yeah—Oh my God, you’re—

In a moment of feigned shyness, Jason hid behind Batman, pretending to be unseen.

Batman (confused): Really? You’re embarrassed to talk to her?

Jason (sheepishly): I’ve done a lot of awful things, and I don’t want my favorite hero to see me like this.

Batman (offended): Favorite?

Wonder Woman (softly): If you’re worried I’m angry or judging you for what you’ve done... I’m not. I’ve heard you’re getting better... and that’s all that matters.

With a playfully firm motion, Wonder Woman shoved Batman aside, knocking him to the ground. She stepped closer to a nervous Jason, her expression warm and inviting.

Wonder Woman (smiling): You’ve grown into a handsome man. But if you were still on that path of vengeance... I wouldn’t be mad at you. I’d help you and give you a hug like this.

Without hesitation, Wonder Woman enveloped Jason in a warm embrace. For a moment, he was taken aback, but then he reciprocated, resting his head on her shoulder.

Wonder Woman: It’s so good to see you again.

Jason whimpered, tears welling in his eyes.

Wonder Woman: Yeah, I have that effect on my fans.

Meanwhile, Batman stood up, a look of disbelief on his face as he stumbled to his feet.

Batman (defensive): I would’ve moved if you asked!

Wonder Woman (placing her hand up to Batman's face): Not talking to you. You’ve brought this young warrior enough strife. Right now, he needs a hug from his favorite hero.

Batman: He’s not really a hugger.

Jason (muffled against her): Batman, I am not complaining. This is one of the few things I needed after being brought back to life.

Batman (irritated): Okay, hurry up, we have to go—

Wonder Woman playfully punched Batman in the chest. He fell back, gasping for air.

Wonder Woman (shaking her head): Tsk, tsk. Ignore him, Jason. Don’t tell anyone this, but you’re a billion times more precious than Dick Grayson.

Jason (grinning): I’m definitely rubbing that in his face later.

Wonder Woman (light-heartedly): And your hair looks quite pretty too.

Jason (sniffling): I’m going to let that go because the white streak is from being tossed in the Lazarus Pit. But that means a lot coming from you, so I’ll take it as a compliment.

Wonder Woman (sympathetically): Oh sweet Hera, do you want another minute for a hug?

Jason: Yes, please.

Batman (annoyed): Nah, don’t need help here. I’m fine.

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about how Leo says he uses his jokes to cope and y’know, thinking harder on it I think it may very well be because of what else uses one-liners and puns and that type of humor.

Specifically, 80’s action movies and campy sci-fi. Even more specifically, the protagonists of these.

So I can imagine why, exactly, Leo leans toward this brand of humor. It’s directly linked to things he loves! But even more than that is why I think it’s used as a coping mechanism.

In these genres, these quips tend to be said by the winner - or, if not a winner, then someone who will stay alive. So there’s a confidence behind them, an assurance, almost, that even if things go wrong, things aren’t ever too serious. There’s no bad endings here! It’s all good fun, even if the stakes seem high.

Leo canonically has been known to steer his brothers away from the more brutal villains and toward more fun, lighthearted activities and not-so-dangerous criminals. So for Leo, these jokes definitely make things less heavy, make the situations they find themselves in less intense.

It’s kinda not just coping, but also can be seen as a form of escapism. A safety blanket. A way for Leo to defuse the tension of knowing just how dangerous their lives are and replace that with a levity which implies that things will be okay.

Unfortunately, levity alone does not alter reality.