#absolutely no idea what inspired this

[gilraina]

Many years ago (10, I wanna say?) there was this one person on here who argued very passionately that if you are a woman playing DA2 as a male Hawke instead of female, then you either have some internalised misogyny you need to confront, or you're a filthy fujo fetishising m/m relationships. And they absolutely refused to listen to people explaining that it's not that deep, that sometimes you want to play as a character of a different gender than yourself just because you can, that that's what role-playing games are for, etc. No, all these people were wrong and in denial actually. Why would you, as a woman, want to play a video game that has no gender-locked options (except for one straight guy you can only romance as a woman anyway) as a male character, unless you either hate women, or have an unhealthy obsession with gay men?

(They did graciously concede that, if you're a trans man, then you are in fact a man and this argument doesn't apply to you. I don't remember if they ever explained how nonbinary people fit into that)

I think the reason this argument still lives rent free in my brain all these years later is because it's so exemplary of a bigger issue I keep seeing in RPG fandoms, like DA or recently BG3. This complete dismissal of the role-playing aspect, and conflating in-game choices with players' real life personalities and beliefs. I don't know about you, but for me, a lot of the time, "why I, the player, chose to do X" and "why my character chose to do X" are two separate questions with different answers (though obviously they can inform one another - "I chose to do this because that's what I think my character would do" is a perfectly reasonable answer). But so much of the discourse around those games conflates the two, and I think that's how we get "DNI if you sided with X instead of Y", "literally kill yourself if you ever hurt Blorbo Bleebus", and to circle back, "the only reason one would ever choose X is if they're [specific type of person, likely one op doesn't respect]"

It's. Extremely frustrating. But also fascinating to watch. In a train wreck kind of way

[tagarilaghost]

I SWEAR CELEBI'S THINGY IS COMING SOON BUT I REALLY WANTED TO POST THIS ALRIGHT

yeaah... future trio got me too...

and Darkrai is there too, because of course he is.

hey look i drew a cute Drifloon :D

...ignore the rest

whatever started at Darkrai doodles ended in brainrot of future trio + darkrai and I'm blaming @scribz-ag24 for this

[teocrsh]

at some point i'll post my non lcb art on here. not today though

[scalierpepper]

Gave my pfp a bit of a glow up!!

Neat to see the one year improvement

[crimsonconstl]

Halloween time I guess

An alt greyscale version (my fav) and some coraline pidge + classic werewolf Keith & vamp Lance

[forgetful-river]

Aradia August Day 13: Pale

[pastasilly]

My last two Treasure Planet ocs!! And additionally as to how I think the Interstellar student’s grade patches look like

Midas (left) and Dakota (right)

[lifeonmvrs]

“MURDOCK AND NELSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW!!!” “nelson and murdock :] sounds better”

inktober day 1: dreams

[Image Description: digital line art of matt murdock and foggy nelson in their college era. foggy is talking excitedly about the future with upturned arms while matt listens intently with a smile and amused expression. they are both sitting on some stairs. in the background, there is a napkin with a drawing of a sign / plaque reading “nelson and murdock attorneys at law”, though the last part (attorneys at law) is mostly hidden by matt and foggy. /end ID]

[witchofthesouls]

Let's be honest. If humans ever find out that the Autobots and Decepticons were real aliens, most of them really don't care. Many folks either have friends, family, classmates or coworkers who are Toons thus nothing can really faze them. Oh? Megatron threatens to blow up the Earth? Cue a bunch of Toons sabotaging EVERYTHING.

War is boring so why not have some fun? Any Cybertronian artifacts on Earth would be deemed irretrievable since they are most likely within the vicinity of a Toon. Only way for anyone to make strides on this insane planet is with help from a human.

Megatron just squirming as trying to catch an organic without alerting one of those THINGS is going to be very very difficult.

Omph, I would say it would depend on the universe. Something like G1 will be for light-hearted when combined with Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but something like TFP or IDW would be darker. I mean, they're not human, so rights for them would be a long process across the century (or longer if we want to delve into a universe where all forms of cartoons were able to come to life).

I personally find it hilarious if there's actually more alien visitors in these kinds of crossovers, but humans think it's a running joke or a ridiculously long setup since they got used to a variety of space-themed Toons.

It doesn't help that Daffy Duck still has his Duck Dodgers costume, and the theme song plays whenever he comes across a Cybertronian.

Actually, retract it all. It's definitely G1 because the Autobots love basketball, and everyone knows Space Jam, so it really doesn't help with the Cybertronians' "we are from a completely different planet" stance.

Oh no, the 'bots will be hounded by scouts, both human and Toon, for the yearly games. Nothing gets Americans more riled up than their sport teams.

The 'cons join because they refuse to be left out.

Michael Jordan gets literally roped into another golf hole to be their basketball coach. Again.

[seaofreverie]

Sparkstember Day 22: The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman

My knowledge of this album is limited to the excerpts of it that have been performed on the THOM tour, but based just on those I should enjoy it quite a bit... Someday soon I hope!

[hmslusitania]

Something that just made me a lot more chill about seeing other peoples questionable takes in the depths of comics fandoms here is that, you know, with like tv shows or movies when there’s differing takes, you can ask yourself with great despair “did we even watch the same thing?” and you DID but people are people.

Whereas with comics, particularly character analysis as opposed to like. Event review. You sit there looking at some wild (to you) conclusion someone else has drawn and you ask, “did we even read the same comics?!” And like.

Honestly?

Chances are pretty good that… no. You didn’t. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[wine-82]

drawing i made like a monþ ago. wanted to make a sort of "disconnect" between gabriel and þe background but also made one wiþ a more painted style for funsies. and i just realised þe wing colour is wrong.... fuck

[skeletalheartattack]

...am I just losing my mind or did yer icon become evil? I don't remember that BeAst behind Boe

yuuuump always been behind me

[valkyurii]

reading the comments on yt videos and even nexus mods about minthara is.. something. the way people are like ‘i love this character but i would like to change everything about the way they look’ is just wild to me idk

[shuruzy]

i usually don't fill out this character inspiration chart bc I rarely end up with 6 whole characters as inspirations I can call back to, but Dylan actually HAS gained 6 over the years.

Even then, one of these characters is solely here because I said "I FW THE WEAPON YOU USE".