#also??

[moondirti]

i would like to talk about the miguel concept art

bonus:

(@cteec on insta)

[lindalofbroome]

it was mid-autumn festival recently and i wanted to take the opportunity to make dq characters share mooncake :')

ngl my plan was to elaborate on my headcanons for ancient del culture (aka before the shadowlord eroded Del over time) but i don't really have the energy so maybe i'll come back another time with my thoughts

but the short version is that the Topaz is their talisman, and its powers and traits are relative to the Del people. so in this instance, the importance of the moon to the Topaz's power is in parallel to its importance to the people. (what that means is up for interpretation. i have ideas but you may have others)

anyway maybe post-DQ3 they do a harvest festival, or maybe even dragon night itself, and people make some form of mooncake to share with loved ones <3

[myiayse]

my dog is so fucked up bro😭😭

[thesulkycroissant]

I read just so many Batman fics before I really got into comics, and the thing is, fanon is just so unkind to Ra's and Talia. I think Damian's inevitable LoA trauma is worth talking about, but trauma is often significantly compounded by the reality that the people responsible (by choice or by circumstance) are also people who loved you, people who were trying, people who you see when you look in the mirror (and don't always wish you didn’t).

Anyway, Damian got his love of animals from Ra's, pass it on.

[cosmic--static]

eyeing the Depeche mode album

[tao-lay]

*dreamy sigh*

[kyoshi-fans]

which do you prefer, azuki or yueki?

this is a hard question sob sob

they both hit the princess x knight dynamic which i absolutely LOVE skjdksk <3 but for azuki i feel like it’s more princess-doesn’t-want-the-annoying-ass-knight-by-her-side x knight-who-won’t-leave-her-the-fuck-alone-for-the-sake-of-annoying-her and honestly im living for that right now and my azuki brainrot is so, so strong

SO, to answer your question, if I absolutely had to choose one right now i think i’d unfortunately have to say that the stronger brainrot occupying every crevice of my brain is.. Azuki :’D

[toughttt]

It's so aggravating when people like something [shipping discourse] just because people dislike it. "I giving everyone the big F YOU by drawing this... heh",, yeah and you spent easily an hour on it.

You spent an hour drawing something that you don't even actually like just because others dislike it,, you can't list anything about the dynamic or relationship between the characters you like??

[madame-blueberry]

*points microphone* Madame! Madame! A question, if you will! We just want to know what happened; why haven't we heard from you or the other Veggies in a while? You were all the hottest thing, and then, wham, bam! You were quieter than a saint in a confessional. More zip than a stuck zipper on the one pocket of your coat that had your credit card. How come the most famous Blueberry in Bumblyberg simply stopped giving interviews? What happened?

"Let's get one thing straight," Megan responded slowly quirking her eyebrow, "We were not all the hottest thing. I was and continue to be."

[deceptive-daydreams]

i will never understand the way TS haters are even more obsessed with her than actual fans because there was a point where i was so disinterested in her and didn't like her music but i didn't activley seek out reasons to hate her and any time a vid came up i would literally scroll. because im an adult and if something disinterested me i simply moved on.

[ex0rin]

me watching mutual after mutual put JDM on my dash after I was spiraling over him last night: yes, good.... very very good...

[lindalofbroome]

02 - Ambition

‘The sad thing is,’ Britta found herself saying, ‘that Vashti could no doubt be a very good trader if only her father would trust in her talent and leave her alone.’

STAR OF DELTORA The Hungry Isle Ch 18 - Friends

i dont know if rodda would write more for this series because it's pretty closed now. but there's still a part of me yearning for more. and i want so bad for vashti to have some agency and some redemption. she was the antagonist in a literary sense and she does have that White Woman™ vibes, but she's also just a kid and i dont think she's evil at heart. sod didn’t really end up going down the direction of exploring the moral greyness of people and your individuality as much, but like i can dream.

i feel like her parent/s were in her ear ever since she was born, fuelling a desire in her to win the apprenticeship and to be The Best. they nurtured her as a tool, but not as a person. not excusing her bullying and undermining, because that’s horrible, but does she know anything else? if her ‘superiors’ are not treating her with kindness and goodness, why would she treat her perceived ‘inferiors’ any differently.

anyway this post could be interpreted as vashti’s ambition. it pushed her to want the apprenticeship enough to cheat and bully. taking every advantage she could. on ship and off ship. take no prisoners mentality. belittling and dehumanising her opponents in her mind, clouding her judgement. similar to jasmine’s opponents in the rithmere games. a burly del-ignorant brute? a devious scavenging rascal? a poor shopkeeper’s daughter? vashti let her assumptions cloud her judgement, and now her enemies are bonded against her. she didn’t really have a chance.

but this post was about her parent/s when i drew up the sketch. i don’t know if her mother, irma, was as directly involved. the books reference her father, loy, much more often in meddling. so i dont know if she’s just like, his trophy wife or something like that and just let things happen warily, or if she held the same ambitions and was his accomplice. either way i would still direct blame on her, even if she was only indirectly responsible because i can’t believe that she was in the dark on the matter.

the vibes im getting out of this parent-daught relationship reminds me of that B99 episode where peralta and holt are talking about the kid graffiting police cars

Peralta: His daddy comes in and bails him out every time. He’s a lucky little jerk.

Holt: No, I wouldn’t say he was lucky. I feel bad for this kid. I mean, what kind of father cares so little for his son that he lets him get away with everything?

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE S01 E02

it’s not directly the same. but, at least to me, it’s clear that vashti is not seen as a daughter to be loved and led and encouraged to a prosperous future by them, but a tool and a key to a prosperous future for them. you know?

‘From what I have heard since I have been in here, Vashti’s father has been training her and her younger sisters for years with this contest in mind. He already has three ships of his own, but he wants control of the Trader fleet as well — especially the Star of Deltora.’  [Jewel said.]

STAR OF DELTORA Shadows of the Master Ch 9 The Announcement

like bruh??? imagine. having the fucking audacity. i hope that in a world where vashti wins, she eventually learns that he doesnt and shouldnt have power over her and something she won. it doesnt matter that he raised her, that he taught her things she knows. not everything she has was from him, and theres room for stuff outside of him.

i. also forgot she had siblings because it’s never mentioned again except in that quote. but i guess vashti is always on the periphery anyway. but i was thinking that the other candidates are older than britta, who just scraped in at 15, but i dont have concrete numbers in mind lol.

as i was working on this i was thinking maybe vashti was 18. i cant remember if i really had reasons for that or if i chose that arbitrarily alskdj like i guess she might be more used to being composed and more experienced and stuff which makes her intimidating. but she can be younger and still act like that.

but then i was thinking about since she technically also just scraped in (but on the other end) and then the implications of that hit me in the face. like her parent/s were already on her case, but the fact that she just got in probably increased their desperation and longing, and it would’ve been even worse than previous years. the familiar anticipation was manifesting into a lustful grab for power. it was scary. it was overwhelming. there was nothing but a need to make them happy. it’s no longer about a personal accomplishment but a trophy to sate her parents’ hunger. and of course it wouldn’t last. and if they had a taste for something so big, they’d only demand more and more. where would it end.

[cullxtheherd]

goddd dammit jhabjfdfg i spoke to my vascular surgeons office and they were like?? LOL no idea WHY your provider wouldn't release the hold on authorization for your CT scan.

spoke to my provider and they were like?? LMAO ur surgeon never confirmed why they needed the procedure done at a hospital location

this is not very punk rock behavior ms surgeon maam pLEASE BGHDSFGNSKL

[parkitaco]

i don’t think you guys understand: here everyone knows you’re the way to my heart. hear so many stories of you at the bar. most times alone and some looking your worst but never not sweet to the trust funds and punishers

[spider-sideblog]

how can you watch good omens when the author is not pro-israel. neil gaiman wants to stop the genocide of palestinians how can you live with that? it's clearly anti-colonial. wtf

Probably because I have the same beliefs as Neil Gaiman.