#also tangentially related

[vivrcard]

please recite Pete the cat and his 6 groovy buttons

PETE the CAT🐈‍⬛ put on his fa-vo-rite shirt with

four

big

( round )

ga-roovy buttons.

he loved his buttons so much he sang this song:

(🥁TCK TCK🥁) 🎵 my buttons! my buttons! my four groovy buttons! my buttons! my buttons! my fo–🎵 SPROING!

oh NO 😧 ! one of the buttons popped off and rolled away! how many buttons are left? three! 4️⃣ minus 1️⃣ equals 3️⃣!

did pete cry 😿? ❌goodness no❌! buttons come and buttons go 😸 . so he kept on singing his song:

(🥁TCK TCK🥁) 🎵 my buttons! my buttons! my three groovy buttons! my buttons! my buttons! my thr–🎵 SPROING!

oh NO 😧 ! one of the buttons popped off and rolled away! how many buttons are left? two! 3️⃣ minus 1️⃣ equals 2️⃣!

did pete cry 😿? ❌goodness no❌! buttons come and buttons go 😸 . so he kept on singing his song:

(🥁TCK TCK🥁) 🎵 my buttons! my buttons! my two groovy buttons! my buttons! my buttons! my tw– 🎵 SPROING!

oh NO 😧 ! one of the buttons popped off and rolled away! how many buttons are left? one! 2️⃣ minus 1️⃣ equals 1️⃣!

did pete cry 😿? ❌goodness no❌! buttons come and buttons go 😸 . so he kept on singing his song:

(🥁TCK TCK🥁) 🎵 my button! my button! my one groovy button! my button! my button! my on–🎵 SPROING!

oh NO 😧 ! one of the buttons popped off and rolled away! how many buttons are left? zero! 1️⃣ minus 1️⃣ equals zero!

did pete cry 😿? ❌goodness no❌! buttons come and buttons go 😸 .

pete the cat looked down at his buttonless shirt and you know what he saw? HIS BELLY BUTTON! so he sang this song:

(🥁TCK TCK🥁) 🎵 my button! my button! still have my belly button! my button! my button! still have my belly button!🎵

i guess🤔 this simply goes to show that stuff will come. and stuff will go 😌 but we keep. on. singing.

[theviolenttomboy]

Today on, huh, interesting, PokeSpe is listed as a shonen manga, not a kodomo, at least on Kindle, and is ranked alongside other shonen manga series.

I wonder how the other CoroCoro manga are listed.

[sunsetsands]

Season's Greason's to all who celeason's

[mellosdrawings]

Hey~ Welcome to "Mello thinks too much about Jamil at 5am coz they can't sleep!"

Today's subject: Pride!

I've just been obsessing over it for a while and had a random enlightening last night.

So NRC is a school full of prideful students who know they're hot stuff, right? Aside from maybe Trey and Cater who are more mild mannered and don't boast much like others, and maybe Rook who is more interested in others than himself, Pride is the one sin that is common amongst all the characters.

Jamil's case is pretty singular though, especially amongst the overblotted gang. Because while others' pride usually comes from knowing they're hot shit, Jamil's is a defense mechanism against the fact that he's nothing.

Yes I'll be especially harsh against Jamil, but that's kind of the truth.

Riddle is one of the greatest mages of his generation because of all the work he's done since he was basically born, he knows he's hot stuff.

Leona is just... OP. Canonically the cleverest in all NRC, OP powers, the one guy even Idia doesn't understand why he overblotted in the first place, he's even royalty. Like, if it weren't for his bro he'd have everything. Leona might be self depreciating a bunch, he still knows he's hot stuff and his pride comes from that.

Vil is both powerful and one of the biggest stars worldwide. He's the same as Leona, while he has his moments of self hatred his pride does stem from just being that bitch.

Will it surprise you if I also call Idia prideful? Sure, he's meek and introverted and has too much anxiety for his own good, but he did get his Housewarden position because he thought he was better at the job than others. He knows he's a technomancy genius and one hell of a gamer. What little pride he shows comes from those talents.

And Malleus, well, he's just the devs darling so he's even more OP than Leona.

I purposefully skipped Azul because I think his case is more similar to Jamil's than to the others.

Azul and Jamil's pride are artificial. It's here as a defense mechanism, either to be perceived as better than he thinks he is (for Azul), or to convince himself than he is more than what he actually is (for Jamil).

Sure, Jamil is clever and pretty strong and has lots of qualities. But 1. He's far from the genius he thinks he is. And 2. As soon as people point out he's a fake he immediately goes into depression mode.

Book 6 was a very insightful moment for both Jamil and Azul. They both get paired with people who (not so) accidentally chip away at their pride until they have to face the fact that they are just not as great as they think.

And that's where Azul and Jamil differ.

Because Azul knows he's "not that great". Or at least, he thinks he's inferior to others. That's why people he considers above him punching down on him hurts so much (plus the obvious bullying trauma he's got).

Jamil genuinely thought he was better than everybody else until Book 6, where Leona knocked him down a peg. He convinced himself through inflated and artifical pride that he was more competent than his peers. And the second he realized that wasn't the case, he started flipping back and forth between self depreciating and trying to inflate his own pride again. As a defense mechanism.

Because for someone who's always been pushed down to take the least amount of space possible, for someone who's always known he had the possibility to be/do better but was never given the occasion to shine, admitting that he's mid hurts.

He needs to make himself useful and show off to Leona, not just because it's a reflex ingrained in him since forever or because of the repercussions that could befall him should he let royalty get hurt under his watch, but also because he needs to reassure himself that he is something.

Because he's been nothing his whole life.

And that hurts.

That's why it was so hard for Leona to get through to him, while Riddle and Azul managed to work together midway through their descent into Tartarus. Because for Jamil to accept criticism and help, he'd first need to drop his pride. And he just can't do that.

Even by the end of their descent, Jamil still found a way to twist Leona's preaching in his favor. Even then he still managed to put his pride up to reassure himself. He has more potential to grow than others, sure. That's a first step in accepting his mediocrity, but that's also very validating for his pride. He might not be the best now, but just you wait-

And that's why Jamil was all talk and no show before that point. Because unlike the others, his pride is artificial. He has nothing to back it up.

I'm sorry if I repeated myself a lot or didn't make much sense. I'm afraid me trying to explain my thought process tends to be stunted by the fact I don't have enough vocabulary to back it up :'D (And the fact that I'm writing all that while sleep deprived doesn't really help lol)

I usually tend to obsess over the 'sin' of Envy for Leona, Vil, and Jamil, coz it's one hell of a sin, the only that brings no pleasure whatsoever. And I just love watching characters make their own lives miserable over the pettiest things.

But damn is the subject of Pride interesting. I see most people, myself included, tend to tone down the Pride aspect of NRC when writing fanfics or drawing fanarts, even though it's one of the core points of the story.

And as said earlier, it's hard to make a character change and develop when Pride is in the way, so I totally understand why people downplay it for the sake of narrative.

Coz otherwise we'd only get tragedies.

And I love tragedies~

[hoofpeet]

Minecraft zombie noise

[no1totell]

save me corny mid-budget early 2000s action comedy television series. save me

[karmathehalflander]

Naming the move “Venom the Last Dance” and not having Eddie and Vee dance together ONCE is absolutely evil behavior. I would actually have zero criticisms of this movie if that’s what we got.

[asthedeathoflight]

Another extremely important image to me is Ajax (butch) standing awkwardly off to the side while Fox and Swan do their whole eyelash batting femme routine with the Orphans. Like oh yeaaahhhh we're just delicate little girls we cant hurt anyone 👁️👄👁️ while Ajax is standing there trying to hide behind Rembrandt

[carouselcometh]

So I got curious and I did read all of the Franklin Expedition manga yesterday, here are my personal highlights

There’s a speech at one point about how you shouldn’t engage in sodomy because if you engage in sodomy you will get scurvy faster

Jopson offers to blow Crozier

Crozier later asks Jopson to shoot him because if Jopson offered to blow him, he would also probably be willing to shoot him

Irving becomes captain at one point but no one respects him

And that’s all my highlights

[the-meme-monarch]

there’s been something on my mind ever since i saw it and it damn Did something in my brain but I don’t know how to verbalize it. fst spoilers if you care. the old organisms were going to pit friendprogram and waterbottle against each other. either fp was going to befriend waterbottle or waterbottle was going to kill fp. either fp was going to prove they could “function correctly” by befriending the best killing machine in the lab or they’d be destroyed for being unable to carry out their designed purpose. win-win. and I’m not sure either of them even remember this. this was during the unconscious days im pretty sure. and even now that fp Certainly knows this bc they read the file i doubt it changed how they see waterbottle. even if they know waterbottle still feels like a killing machine. fp knows they don’t want to hurt anyone. they’re not friends. and fp trusts them. runs into the WALLL

[meamiki]

what to do when you forget your umbrella!

i will not elaborate.

((these drawings are a GSNK rain scene reference ADSAFFASD))

bonus isolated (isalated?) running isa as a treat for his birthday:

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

context, if such a thing even exists

stede: i think we should ask the crew to provide their own linens when they visit

ed: aw, what? what kind of shitass inn doesn’t even do linens for their guests?

stede: we can still do linens for regular guests, i just think-

ed: oh, cmon, we can’t give the crew worse service, they already hate me

stede: they do not hate you-

ed: well they might if we skimp on the linens!

stede: ed-

ed: i’ve gotten really good at washing linens, actually. i don’t know if you’ve noticed that. see how little jizz is on our sheets?

stede: …i mean, there is that rather large—

ed: ok that’s from literally a twenty minutes ago that doesn’t count, you know that doesn’t count

stede: alright, alright

ed: we literally haven’t even gotten out of bed yet

stede: fair enough

ed: if i wasn’t good at doing laundry this sheet would be just one big jizz stain and you know it

stede: this is true, you’re right. you’ve done an excellent job, sweetheart

ed: aww thanks babe :)

stede: im just a bit worried about the foursome

ed: (experiencing a sudden coughing fit) the what?

stede: the foursome? jim, olu, archie, and zheng?

ed: oh. oh. (clears throat) i thought you—nevermind. um.

ed: uhh what about them? you think i can’t handle their post-orgy cleanup?

stede: well…

ed: wait, seriously? it’s just two extra people, mate, it’s not that much more mess

stede: it’s not the quantity i’m concerned with, it’s the. well.

ed: …well?

stede: well. the thing is, archie always refers to sex with her partners as “goop sex”

ed:

ed: goop sex

stede: yes, goop sex

ed: are you sure she doesn’t call it “group sex” and you’re just mishearing her?

stede: no, it’s definitely goop sex

ed: hm

stede: admittedly i’m not completely sure what goop sex actually is—unless you happen to be familiar…?

ed: yeah no i’ve never heard of goop sex

stede: darn. well, in any case, i imagine there’s a very strong possibility that goop sex stains fabrics!

ed: hm, yeah, probably

stede: so you see my concern

ed: i do, yeah

stede: with the linens

ed: mhmm

stede: especially since we only have the one set!

ed: mhmm

stede: which we should probably do something about, actually, if we want to provide free linen service to our guests. although maybe we can wait until after the crew visits so we have an excuse for not doing their linens? what do you think?

ed: mmm

stede:

stede: ed, darling

ed: hhwhat sorry huh

stede: you zoned out for a moment there

ed: oh shit, my bad, babe

stede: no worries! i was just wondering where you’d gone to

ed: right, well, i’d gone to goop sex

stede: yknow i probably could’ve guessed that myself actually

ed: specifically i was thinking that we should try and figure out what goop sex is

stede: i

stede: hm.

stede:

stede:

stede: okay, but—

ed: oh cmon don’t give me that

stede: ed, th-

ed: i saw your face just now! i bet you already have some ideas!

stede: ok but ed we really only have the one set of linens!

ed: and you’re telling me you’re not willing to risk those linens to try out some of your guesses about goop sex?

stede: y—i’m—well. I-I mean,

ed: yeahhhh that’s what i thought, you fuckin pervert

stede: alright well i better not hear any complaining when our only set of sheets is reduced to one big goop stain!

ed: that is a price i will gladly pay to let you try out your goopy sex theories on me

[bambiraptorx]

[I.D. Digital drawing of Draxum from ROTTMNT playing a golden violin. Draxum narrows his eyes and stares at his fingers in concentration as he plays. The violin is outlined in white and seems to glow, casting a stark shadow across Draxum's face and body. The darkest parts of the shadow blend into the background. Much of the shading is done with small blocky shapes that slot together, creating a sort of blocky texture. End I.D.]

Devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin' for a soul to steal

(aka i wanted to play around with lighting effects)

[caeslxys]

love the new art so much <3 also give us the wisdom please...imodna bio kid resembling dadna...

aw thank you so much! I'm glad you liked them, I'm currently deeply brain rotted about them.

I've had the vividly clear image in my head for quite a while of their little bio baby and I touched on this in the tags of that art but yes, I think she'd look more like laudna than imogen, and that imogen would just be SO happy about it.

mostly because imogen's likeness to her mother has haunted her so deeply all campaign and that was, well, before bells hells made world changing decisions that would absolutely follow their children. even if they had gone the extremely boring (and narratively unsatisfying) route and changed nothing substantial at all, though, I still think the aforementioned liliana look-a-like trauma of it all would have made her more anxious for her baby resembling her than not.

but laudna? laudna, who she thinks is the most beautiful and spooky and wonderful person and who has already irrevocably changed imogen's life? who was there for her when even her own parents had pushed her away? laudna, who lost her family and anyone who resembled her or took pride in her own resemblance to them in the most violent way possible? I think imogen would adore having a child who looks exactly like laudna.

of course in the end this is all subject to whether or not laura bailey wants a baby with purple hair or not lol

[preggomancer]

I think my most contentious opinion to be honest I that I think Laois dungeonmeshi is so cis. I stand in solidarity with my transfem Laois enthusiasts but to me this man took 8 seconds to investigate his gender once and got bored and went back to reading about mimic digestive tracts

[andromeddog]

muck’s rosary, hoobler’s luger, speirs’ lucky strikes, and a false sense of security