#am i still salty? yes

[secondgenerationparrothead]

Art Fight Day 1: Tzatziki by @catbatart

This is my first time joining in art fight, and posting my minis on here! Hoping to keep this rolling throughout the month

My profile can be found here

[scribefindegil]

& it's always especially frustrating when people use the "well SOME ace people have sex!" to shoot down sex-repulsed ace headcanons and rep that are explicitly based on a character in the source material saying they don't want to have sex. Like, yeah! Fine! Some ace people like it! But this character doesn't! She said so with her words in the text!

[jeremysknoxes]

FUCK aroace erasure

[aliciavance4228]

"Medusa x Perseus" Why don't you guys ship Bellerophon with Chimera? Or Heracles with the Hydra?

[half-man-half-lime]

Virgin Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor: if we explained why this rock could talk it would suck all the joy and poetry out of everything

Chad Wildbow: the complex and intricate worldbuilding on the nature of others means I can explain why this cigarette is near-sentient in a satisfying and interesting way, and then some magical teens can go interview it in a dream where they're all film noir in a smoky speakeasy overhearing local chatter

[plague-of-insomnia]

i love how antis jumped up my ass today for asking genuine questions about what they would and wouldn’t allow as submissions to their gimmick blog, when no two antis can ever agree!

“no incest” to one anti might mean only canon related characters, but another might consider potential relationships (“it’s possible they’re related!”) incest, and yet another may take it still farther.

“no pedophilia” - oh so you mean don’t be attracted to kids? No?? oh, right, antis don’t know how to use this word either. One anti may consider it pedophilia only if it’s adult/minor. Another may say minor/minor ships count if you’re an adult. Yet another may say regardless of canon ages, if one character is significantly older, even if they’re both adults, it’s pedophilia. And yet another might consider it that merely bc one of the characters LOOKS young (the infamous “child coded��� bs).

So I’m sorry if I look like a fool asking what you do or do not consider “too icky” for your blog… and if you make fun of anyone who asks in good faith, and if you don’t have clear rules…. you’re not gonna have a successful gimmick blog.

[guardingthegalaxy]

You know, I feel like it's finally safe to say that gone are the days where the MCU just treated Quill like absolute shit.

He took so many losses throughout each movie. He lost his mum, he found his dad, found out that said dad was evil, lost his true dad yondu, lost Gamora twice, not to mention the fact that he's been the butt of so many jokes for no real reason at all.

One thing that always bugged me was the way the Guardians acted towards Peter in Infinity War. They spent four years together and grew closer and respected one another after the events of Vol. 2, only for that to all be taken away once Thor came along. That in particular baffles me because I feel like if it were the Guardians mid way through Vol. 1, they probably would've been that way to Quill. It has always pissed me off because it seems out of character. The Guardians only became closer and respected one another due to finally putting each other's differences aside and being brave enough to work together in order to save the universe, and even more so because of the high stakes and how deep the emotions ran in Vol. 2 and the loss of Yondu. So, wouldn't they actually respect him?

Don't get me wrong, in IW Rocket could be seen as having a sort of pass with the way he acted, but that was only because he didn't want to face Thanos. But even so, Quill ended up on the receiving end of that more than everyone else.

[mayasaura]

imagine trying to understand the locked tomb without knowing anything about whakapapa

[thatswhatsushesaid]

haha

it is SO rich for the jgy critical crowd to insist that it's the jgy stans who are being weird and defensive given /gestures @ all of this. like what's the opposite of defensive 🧐 because that's what this is.

as i said to someone else earlier tonight, i'm manifesting the capability to climb through these anons' phone screens so i can chase them through their houses with a nerf gun. every little foam projectile will include a relevant printed out page from the EXR translation. probably with highlights and notes in the margins. maybe some frowny faces for emphasis.

anyway this is why i'm insane

[absolutely-normal-about-x]

A Pacifist’s Fury and Grief

The one of the things, I absolutely love about the Iwamoto manga, is the demostration of X’s grief and Fury in the wars.

This Fury was first shown to us in the final chapters of the X3 Manga

Keep that in mind he never acted like this in the final chapters in the X1 and X2 Mangas. The way he acts like this shows that he’s at his limit. It doesn’t show it that often but fuck I love how it demonstrates, that he is not okay and how he views himself. How much he wants sigma dead so the wars can stop. He stopped him so the world is saved and everything is restoring itself so things are going to be okay!

Then the Replaforce mess happens and well…during a mission Blizzard Buffalo against Ice Walrus. Sacrificing himself to save X and look what happened…

His friend died cause he was weak and helpless to stop walrus.

His mind and his heart where damaged convincing himself that…he needs to be stronger to stop this madness (Hi double for that speech 💥💥) going on a Rampage of grief and Fury. Going on a war path of destruction

Enter the ultimate armor and if anyone read the manga knows what happens next…

X was lost in the war that he nearly lost himself because of that grief and fury. To the point that he aims his weapon at Zero, his best friend. How his heart was so wounded from the battles that he nearly forgot who he was…thankfully he was reminded of his heart by General gently embracing him and sacrificing himself.

Allowing himself to let go of his hatred and rage, and attempted to be better, embracing the blast. Cause of his heart that ultimate armor purifies it self.

The Moral of the lesson here kids is to never invoke the Pacifist Fury.

Aka don’t piss of X or murk his loved ones.

[uchihasavior]

[[ You're aware Itachi was 13 years old at the time of the Massacre, correct?

"Correct."

You're also aware he was being pressed by both sides to spy on them, correct?

"Correct."

Danzo also kept oppressing the Uchiha so he could force a coup and declare them a threat to the village.

"Correct."

So the massacre was not Itachi's fault and he's just as much a victim of it.

"No, it was his fault and he should've said no lol" ]]

[local-gay]

oh surrrrrreee, james somerton can lie, cheat, and steal his way to success, but i use the word "idiosyncrasies" once in an essay about MY OWN LIFE in 6th grade and get accused of plagiarism

[goldenchocobo]

Spirit Chocobos! Heartless design Nobody design Unversed design

Kwedibird (Kweh, Incredible, bird)

Journal Entry: Hyperactive and never stopping, someone really needs to chill these birds out!

Link Attack: Sora: Chocobronco Riku: Shining Hammer

[lloydfrontera]

why did they hire an artist who is averse to drawing pretty guys to draw the adaptation for the "man thinks about how pretty his best friend is 24/7" novel ://

[lautakwah]

theres sth deeply sad abt a lot of translated works (and i dont mean some ya novel translated frm english to french. obviously.) in the imperial core being shortened/abridged bc the translator deemed those parts unimportant or straight up didnt have the cultural/historical/religious knowledge to understand WHY theyre important... not to mention how they tend to be biased in their translating to pigeonhole sfuff into western frameworks of thought like 😭

[eightfifteen]

I resent the notion that Mike as a character will be ruined if he doesn't return Will's feelings.

Mike does have his own arc outside of Will and outside of his romantic interests.

In season 1, he's the Dungeon Master. He directs the party and takes on the main carer role for El. People listen to him and his ideas, he's being heard.

Then in s2, he loses himself. The party gets louder, he gets quieter, and he feels like he's speaking into thin air for 353 days (not knowing El is listening on the other side). It's also why he gets so upset at the party for inviting Max without taking his opinion into consideration. He gets better once Will needs him and he can be there for him, when Will opens up to him and he realizes that he can help, that he can listen and be important in that way.

Just as importantly, when he's teamed up with Joyce and Hopper in that season, two adults, they still take his opinion in consideration. They take him seriously. They listen to him still, and he once again finds himself. He gets to contribute ideas - he tries to warn them Will's plan was a trap, Joyce listens to him when he tells her to sedate Will, and he's the one that came up with the idea of going into the tunnels. He finds his role again.

Then in season 3, he knows now that life goes on and he has to go along with it. Except, when shit starts going down again, they pair up with Nancy, and suddenly no one listens to him anymore. Nancy takes charge, leaving him literally in the backseat. and every valid concern he has gets bulldozed and pushed to the side, literally ignored to talk about something that doesn't even matter ("El broke up with you???"). He literally just becomes Supergirl's boyfriend.

Mike lost pieces of himself that summer. First when he realized he'd been pushing his friends away trying to be normal, then when he loses his leading role and becomes insignificant to the party, and eventually he literally loses both Will and El.

He had to literally build himself back up when he went to High School, starting with the hellfire club where he found joy in simply being a paladin again, just a member of the party instead of team leader. He gets to be a kid again, not just someone's boyfriend and not someone who has to shepherd his friends through the apocalypse. He gets to figure out who he is without El, without Will, and even without the party.

Yet once he's in California, he's once again faced with the fact he is just someone's boyfriend and that despite his best efforts, he's fucking it up. And he's doing it wrong and he's not being heard and worse, maybe, because now no one is even telling him things anymore. Now he's being kept out of the loop, clueless and oblivious because they don't trust him enough to tell him things. El doesn't even rely on him for comfort. And maybe, now he's realized who he is as a person, he's realizing he might not want to be El's boyfriend at all.

But at least when he promised El everything would be okay, he did manage to get her back. He finally got the take charge again and his plan worked. People are finally listening to him again.

So "you're the heart" does have meaning outside of both m*leven and Byler. It is Mike realizing he has to take up this leading role again despite currently having very complicated feelings about the position - because on one hand it's a serious burden, especially when they fail and the responsibility is on him, and no one listens to him anyway, but on the other hand, he wants people to hear him again and feel like he has purpose within the party.

This whole theme of not being heard and listened to is also reflected by his family dynamic - where all his concerns get consistently brushed aside by his parents, all the way from season 1 until now. At first, he fights back against it, trying to be loud and get through to his parents, because the party listens to him and they take him serious. But then slowly, bit by bit, he stops caring about getting through to his parents, because the party doesn't listen to him anymore anyway so maybe he should just shut up.

(((and yes through it all, there's only one person that never ignores Mike. One person that always hears him, even when Mike doesn't even speak. One person to whom Mike will never be invisible and who will always need Mike's guidance and protection. Who takes Mike's opinion seriously.)))

I really hope season 5 delves deeper into Mike as a leader, the paladin, to really round out his character arc to the point that even the GA can finally understand him better again. He deserves the spotlight for once. I'm sick of people trashing on his character.