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[laismoura-art]

Question. Why do you use pictures of Hanzo in Mortal Kombat 1 when talking about him being with Kuai and Harumi? He is a child in Mortal Kombat 1. You can use other pictures of him. It is canon he is a boy in Mortal Kombat 1, and you are using pictures of a boy to talk about a relationship with him and Kuai and Harumi. It just confuses me. If you ship a boy with them, admit it. Or maybe use other photo of him. I mean no harm by this, I am just confused.

Hi Anon!

See, the only two things I have to admit are:

That I knew one day this ask would come for me

That I DO NOT ship Kuairumi with a child!

But I totally understand your confusion, Anon.

I'll take that you just bumped into my blog, and most likely through either this post or this post.

I'm guessing it was the first one, cause the second one has these tags:

Which I believe is a dead giveaway on why I ship MK1 Subscorprumi:

I DO NOT see nor portrait MK1 Hanzo as a child

I view him as a short adult. See, these are the tags of my latest post of him:

And on this one, I list all the reasons why I don't see him as a child:

I even go more in-depth in this post (that started it all)

And though I mostly speak through memes (blame my Brazilian genes), I do explain in detail why think he's not as young as the fandom is fearing he is.

He's just younger than the other characters, hence the constant use of the "boy" nickname (which is common for people to do when speaking to someone younger and/or on a lower rank than them. Evidence to that was how Takeda was constantly called "boy" by older characters in the MKX Comics, in which he was canonically 18 years old)

Hanzo even reminds me of Takeda and the other Kombat Kids, who ironically were not kids! They are 18 in the comics and are in their 20s in the actual MKX game.

He was homeless and starving, which would make him look smaller and scrawnier than he would if he was well-fed and health (which could also be misleading to Tomas)

These pictures speak for themselves (look at the size of his arrrrms)

His voice (well, his grunts) was too deep and raspy to belong to a child.

And the most jarring evidence is that he is on the front lines with Kuai & Co.

And given how 18yo Takeda from the comics had training but didn't really engage in combat (till Hanzo died and he went after Havik for revenge) I take that Hanzo was only allowed to fight here because he is a trained adult.

(Also, given how he was their first initiate, it's safe to say he is the most skilled and is in a higher rank than the other initiates behind him!)

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I understand your fears here, Anon. But I assure you I don't and never will perceive or portrait MK1 Hanzo as a child.

I do not create nor interact with kid Hanzo content, and I do not allow others to associate my content with kid hanzo.

I use MK1 Hanzo because I like his story and see his potential as a character and see the potential in his relationships, whether they are platonic (Tomas, Bi-Han) or romantic (Harumi, Kuai)

And I would much rather see him being shipped around (as an adult, like I portrait him) than our local incel and Kuairumi killer, Zanho Sahashi, the Scorpion from MK Invasions.

Hope that clears that all up! And I hope you find joy in my content!🩷💛💙

Also, thank you so much for being polite in your ask and coming to me for an explanation rather than jumping to conclusions. It was very nice of you. Feel free to send more asks if you have more doubts <3

[mermaidsirennikita]

Interesting convo about the suitability of Ancient Rome as a setting for historical romance led to the question of "If Ancient Rome not okay for historical romance setting, why Regency okay" (a good convo to have, imo), which then led to "Regency okay because we can say this duke was good to his servants which is an acceptable handwave; no acceptable handwave for Ancient Rome".

With the implication being that because the everyday exploitation is VISIBLE in Ancient Rome, whereas it's Off Elsewhere for the dukes (who benefited, let us be clear, from an empire based on slavery, indentured servitude, and colonialism, whether or not they WANTED TO), the dukes can get a handwave

And I find that. Pretty bad tbh.

[shadowlinktheshadow]

I don't usually post art two days in a row guys.... this is a privilege 💔

anyways here are rough sketches of Hibiki and Silver's punk jackets!!!

if you didn't know I uh. Like to yap in the tags

but I am a changed man so now we yap on the post 🗣️🔥‼️💥

Hibiki - first let me just say Ho-Oh is SO much better than Lugia. Lugia only has 2 colors and the rest are just shades of blue. why is she so ugly 💔 (sorry to the two Lugia fans) - um. I don't even know if these are punk jackets. but you know those cool jackets with stitch on designs or kanji on em? yeah I was going for that - oh my god... Ho-Oh is literally just so good... - the yellow stripe is a nod to Ho-Oh's 4 yellow feathers on it's head - can I just say Hibiki is slaying that makeup... (Silver too) - the red is ofc the body of Ho-Oh. I was wondering between that and black but went with red in the end - gave him a lime choker to match the lime v-stripe on Ho-Oh's neck - HE KEEPS THE BIG UGLY ZIPPER. GOLD TRADEMARK SYMBOL - Ho-Oh's tail feathers are really... weird... on the jacket. Not sure if I was able to convey them well. - pants are short like that to match a bird's...thighs? y'know how they are really round and chonky - I WAS SEARCHING UP "TALON BOOTS" SO I COULD GIVE TALONS LIKE HO-OH BUT THERE WAS NOTHING GOOD SO I JUST USED THE COLOR OF IT'S LEGS 😭 - I'm really indecisive about whether I should make the back "Gold" or "Hibiki" I'm leaning towards "Gold" so he can match with Silver Silver - I'm gonna say it again.... Lugia is so fucking ugly..... what were they thinking..... - the one shade of white for the whole body killed me. And the wing hands are just so... SO ugly 💔 - I still think Silver slays that makeup. I'm at least glad Lugia has those blue marks on it's eyes. but the white... I was gonna go for dots like Hibiki or a pattern on his face but scrapped it for an under eye - I wanted to make Silver's jacket slightly different. and hey. Lugia's belly is blue so why not have the inner shirt be blue (character design at it:s peak) - I'm sorry I got so lazy with the spikes on the jacket... Lugia's ugliness really demotivated me.... -(im crying why does he look like a disco dancer... 😭😭😭) - Lugia's hands are so weird man... I don't know how I'd change it but the feathers on Hibiki's jacket just look better than those... white strips on Silver.. - AND LUGIAS TAIL. I DID not KNOW HOW TO INCORPORATE THAT INTO THE JACKET (its the little jacket tail but still. Whyyy) - I made Silver's jeans longer not only to contrast Hibiki's, but also because Lugia's feet are so small. Ho-Oh has those bird talons and long... y'know bird legs the hard part is super long (hard to believe I was born in America with this English 💔😭) meanwhile Lugia just has... feet. - the tears in the jeans are simply character design. I couldn't think of anything else (but yes. He IS wearing fishnet stockings. If that means anything...) - no comment on the boots. Lugia feet. - I was really struggling with the color of Silver's kanji on his back. fighting whether I should make it lighter or darker than the jacket... (cause it's so hard to see)

[pseudophan]

They could do a podcast similar to the one Jenna and Julien used to do, with a bit of chatting and playing some silly games. The new vid they uploaded could’ve been a podcast episode so easily

yeah i'm thinking something like that would be likely, but they do love to Be Different so i could see them tweaking the format just a bit more since arguably that's essentially what every youtuber/streamer/influencer(lol) podcast that isn't interview/guest focused is like these days. i don't think any of us would mind at all if it was just the same type of format most people are doing but with dan and phil, it's popular for a reason and it's always more about the personalities behind it anyway. arguably them doing that sort of podcast wouldn't be any different than them doing gaming videos when other people are also doing gaming videos, it's just a format more than anything, but again they're soooo annoying about it like they have chronic not like the other girls disease and i just know that if they did a podcast they would either want to make it unique somehow or do a podcast alongside something else new, though the latter would be crazy if they really are still planning on doing gaming videos occasionally

i'm also thinking with their chronic schedule-phobia that they could do like a podcast format but not a full on podcast, if that makes sense? if they don't want to commit fully to regular longform content they could treat it more like they do their other videos. it might make sponsorship deals trickier (podcasts can get you suchhh good longterm sponsorships lol) but they do have the benefit of an already very established audience, so they don't necessarily have to go all in and focus exclusively on a podcast, they could just do episodes of that when they feel like it and then other things in between

basically i think i'm just looking for ways to make a podcast (a format that just makes so much fucking sense for them and always has, that both them and we would enjoy a lot) work for the type of creators they are and what they enjoy doing, and without too much risk of them burning out entirely

[mask131]

In the light of everything that has been happening recently, there's the disturbing return of one particularly nasty turn of phrase. "This artist doesn't deserve to make money out of their work".

It is popping up here and there more and more. If one says "This artist shouldn't get any more money because of X or Y reason", I can get it. But no the exact phrasing is doesn't deserve. For some of you it might sound the same, but it is not.

Even though you think you're using it for good intentions or well meaning, what you're actually saying is that an artist needs to be "worthy" of their own art. Be them old or young, man or woman, good or bad (in fact morality is entirely out of the question here), what you're saying is that an artist literaly doesn't own their work. And thats catching back this nasty, entitled, bratty little train of thought that has been encouraged by the glorification and complacency towards "fan culture". "The art belongs to the people". Well, no? The art belongs to the artist until she/he/they are dead, when it comes to technicality and money and copyright and all that? And then you have to wait until it is released in public domain for it to be owned by the people. I know it doesn't sound as glorious or powerful or poetic as "Art belongs to History", "Art belongs to the people", "Art belongs to the fans" but hey! Artists had to fight to even get copyrights! Artists had to fight for centuries to be able to get money off their work! Artists, up until a very recent time, had to struggle and suffer to prove that no, you couln't just copy or imitate their work as you wanted because that was ripping off and plagiarizing! Heck artist had centuries of fight against this mindset which is actually the same mindset generative-AI-defenders try to use to pillage artists' works!

It doesn't sound much, but for someone who is trying to make a life out of art, or for someone who knows very well artists and their struggles, it is just the first step towards the road that concludes in "Oh artists are just anonymous, faceless little human tools that don't deserve a pay. After all, do you pay your paintbrush?"

So if you think an artist doesn't deserve your money for one reason or another, you are always right because it is your money, you do what you want with it! You have no obligation towards the artist - and that's something people tend to forget. Because you like an artist doesn't mean you have to like everything they do. An excellent painter can make one very shitty portrait. A talented singer can record a song that is really not your taste. And in reverse, because you dislike an artist you don't have to be hypocritical towards their actual works. Shitty actors have made heart-touching performances. Foul authors have written beautiful books. In this sense, the art is separated from the artist, yes.

However, where the art isn't separated from the artist, is by this very fundamental, decent, basic principle that an artist owns their work and yes, should make money off it. Because it's their work, their effort, their creation, no matter what you say. If people are willing to spend money for, I don't know, a murderer's book about how he killed and ate an innocent woman (*looks over at Japan*), it is normal for an author to get money out of their writing, because it is a needed social pact to establish how artists can survive... Just as it is normal for one people to judge, criticize and be appaled by a person's decision to buy the book and support a murderer. You can't prevent them from doing so, that would be walking over people's freedom to live their life, but you also have your right to have an opinion. (Unless the book is bought from second hand, or given as a gift, or offered for free - in which case this whole talk goes out the window since there's no actual direct money given to the person and thus this is out of subject)

[spookythesillyfella]

WHAATT ??? SPOOKY MAKING ACTUAL ART AGAIN ??? thiz iz insane

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★ song : "Goodbye to This Meaningless Everyday" – Dobu no Awa

[sp-growingpains]

i saw yours tags in that stan post about alcoholism and i have to agree as someone who not only has family that are such, but also had friends that were as well. it’s scary. there have been times where i was scared of both those family members and friends. and to see stan’s being treated as a way for “angst” breaks my heart. he obviously uses it to cope because he has no other outlet, no other ways of dealing with stress and it sucks. also addictive personalities are a REAL THING and can be 100% serious if not treated, which is 90% what stan has as well…i wish this fandom would take that seriously. i really do. because it can end badly for him and offers if not taken as such. which is why i want to see more of stan recovering. taking the time to do so. be proud of it. that feels so much more rewarding to me! ( btw, i’m happy you managed to get help, you’re going to do great <3 )

TW: ALCOHOLISM, SEXUAL ASSAULT, MENTAL HEALTH - Once again, do not read further if you're not okay or you don't have the mental health for it! Okay?

Forgive me now if all my points don't come across correctly or if it feels like I'm rambling? For something like this, I should have written it out, proof read it, and then edited it. But it's all off the hip and a collection of thoughts I've had since I've gotten it.

We good? Okay...let's go!

Hey friend. I have not been ignoring this ask! I kinda wanted to hoard it like a little goblin in my inbox because, honestly? I am so very touched by it.

It is things like this that make me want to continue to talk about it. Trigger warnings are important for things like this, but it's also so very important to talk about it. When you it out there like this, people connect and come together.

And ya know? If it takes these little cartoon assholes to do it. That's fine. Do what works for you and brings you closer to other people.

Because really you know what saved me? Community.

It was other people. It was my therapist. It was a group of individuals who were fighting the same battle - or had. It was my friends and people who loved me.

It was shit like this. Things that got me out of my head! Obsession and addiction is a real thing and like all things in the world, moderation.

You can do it. You can learn discipline. You can move forward. You can overcome it and be better.

The scary thing about alcoholism is that most of the time, its a different experience for each person. It didn't start out as a problem for me. It started off as a few beers with some friends. Then it turned into a few beers every Friday and that started the slippery slope into drinking every weekend.

It's not always falling over yourself, throwing up on yourself, blacking out. I wanna make that clear. Mine was. Mine was also spending money I didn't have - money I could have put away for today.

When Stan was using it as a way to get out of his head and get through the day, that was one of the rare moments I felt heard. And it kinda scared me. I love that episode, but I struggle to get through it because it hits close. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?!

It's the end of the episode that one no one talks about! How he realized that he didn't need it to get through life! That people around him helped him get out of it! That experiencing new things in life and focusing up on hobbies helped him see color again. Life is scary. It's sometimes very lonely. It's hard.

I've seen some people talk about how Kyle was a horrible friend in that episode. Just like in Raisins when Stan was going through it. Just like in Guitar Queer-o when they had their fight. Once more into Freemium isn't free.

Look, in my opinion, that's the scariest fucking thing about addiction. I fully believe, from the bottom of my heart, no one is beyond saving from that. But those are MY ideals! There may be people who are just like me and feel the same. I would do anything for my best friend, and the people around me.

But you know what? I don't fucking blame Kyle or Stan for the outcome of those episodes. Because it's not Kyle's job to "fix" his best friend. In every episode, he does try! He tries to be a friend, and I'm gonna give Kyle some major props here, he calls him out on it!

When I was still an alcoholic, no one called me out for it. Why would they? They didn't know what was going on behind the scenes. They saw Ashe as this goofball who could pound back a bottle of whiskey and be "fine" the next day. They didn't know I was already thinking about my next drink and how amazing that felt, despite the splitting headache.

I liked me better when I drank. I liked the Ashe that I was. She was loose. He was funny. They weren't caught up in the fear of saying stupid and not being able to recover from it.

But I hated who I was the next day. I hated that I didn't take my life seriously. That I felt like no one would like me if I wasn't putting away as many cans of beer as possible.

That's incredibly sad and lonely. It felt like the only person who understood me was the bottle, and that wasn't the case. I just couldn't see it, and neither could the people I still call my best friends or my ex-fiancé.

I wish I had a Kyle then. Maybe things would have gotten better faster. I don't know.

I have heard so many real stories from other people. Lived it through watching family. It runs on both sides of my family, and because of that, I was able to come out the other side better. Like I said earlier, it's different for everyone. That's what makes people so wonderful. So fantastic.

No, the fact that we suffer or struggle - but who we are after. Your experience is not mine. I can sympathize. I can relate. But I'm not you.

So I tell my story. I talk about these portrayals in media. I try to be careful with my writing and my art because of it. Because if it changes just one person, it it helps just ONE individual; then I've done my job.

You gotta walk to get better. If you can't walk; you crawl. And if you can't crawl, you find someone to carry you.

Because you wanna know something that's so heart warming from that stupid fucking show about dicks and butts? Is that Kyle and Stan are always friends again. Kyle always welcomes Stan back. Stan learns more about his mental health, he learns how to regulate these desires! That's wonderful! That's so fucking wonderful.

I want that. I want to bring a media or a platform where people can feel that way too! I wanna be there for you, welcoming you back! I want a day where you can come out of any situation, having learned and become better for it. That you have a home, someone you feel safe with, and that you're alive!

Anon; I'm proud of you too! I am so very proud of you! You don't have to respond just please, please keep going. I know it's scary living through it, experiencing it, being around it.

Let me make this perfectly clear again. Those ideals and the way I feel are MINE. You owe nothing to people who hurt you. Nothing to people who would use this substance to harm and do unspeakable things! At the end of the day, you gotta live with you. Protect yourself, love yourself, and surround yourself with those who want to live with you, too!

I have been on the other end of a man who liked whiskey and four year olds a little too much. I have been on the other end of a mother who would rather spend her money on vodka and cigarettes instead of worrying about feeding her children. I have been on the other of the very real slippery slope of addiction. I walk on the other side of PTSD, Depression, Mania, and being Bi-Polar.

They do not define you. They are you, sure. But that is not all you are.

Your past with alcohol, your present with alcohol, your future with alcohol - that is not all you are. You are so many different shades of blues. And I love you.

[buttercupshands]

The way I approach love stories is so interesting, like I care not for both sexual and romantic part, both don't exactly need to be present for you to see that characters trust each other and feel safe

Same with family, platonic stuff and friendships, feelings of trust and whatever else worth so much in all of this

Love story being a love story just means it'll happen faster and more... Boldly?? Bc that's the main focus and all

Also since people love romance so much you get more stuff in the fandom win/win

Although I'd say it took me a loooong time to get into anything, because I rarely see something and go THAT'S A SHIP! nah, that's a friendship, that's cute and sweet

Then we have toxic stuff and that's the intoxicating codependency that makes me want to analyze it all, like wow those characters are horrible to each other

But I usually have like two to balance each other, bc as funny toxic stuff is, I want some sweet stuff be it a friendship or a healthy ship

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

RIP to you but what makes me immune to falling into a cult isn't that I think I'm too smart or moral... It's that I think it would require willingly making myself part of a group of people.

It would seem to require actually speaking to someone, but most of all what makes me immune is that I think the cults are all avoiding me personally, because they don't want me. They only knock on my door once and then never again and I always think it was something I said.

My toxic trait is that I think being sucked into a cult requires being willing to seek or accept human contact, and that it requires a group of people who actually wants you among their numbers [have not found one to date].

[caterpillarinacave]

nothing like a corporate american retail job to crush your soul like a grape

[thequeenofsastiel]

One of the things I absolutely adore about my personal discovery of BL shows is seeing the MASSIVE difference in cultural attitudes about physical touch. Before I started watching BL shows, I pretty much only watched American shows, and the occasional British show, like Doctor Who. And the attitudes American society has about physical touch are so different from the ones in Thailand, specifically.

In America, it's seen as perfectly acceptable to kiss and hug your partner in public. Unless a relationship needs to stay discreet for some reason, partners never hesitate to kiss and hug their partners in public. We also kiss hello and goodbye, and that just isn't really a thing by and large in Thailand from what I've seen.

However, we're very weird about touch between men. I'm watching Star in My Mind, and Daonuea sleeps in the same bed as his brother and cuddles with him while his brother strokes his hair. And they're not kids. Daonuea is a young adult, sure, but he's still an adult. That sort of intimacy between adult brothers is just not depicted in American television. I'm specifically remembering an episode of Supernatural in which Sam and Dean accidentally get a hotel room that only has one bed, and they're both clearly horrified at the thought of sharing a bed with each other. But neither of them ever hesitated to kiss sexual and romantic partners in public. They simply can't be physically close like that with each other. They very rarely hug. It usually happens when one of them comes back from the dead, or occasionally if they were in horrible danger.

Admittedly, Supernatural's depiction of physical touch between brothers is a little more extreme than most shows(I will say it's very interesting that Sam and Dean have very little physical touch, but, when it comes to their emotional bond, it's deeply profound and almost romantic, and I say that as someone who very much does not ship Wincest), but the others follow a similar pattern.

Look, I'm sure other people have said everything I've said before, but I just find it quite fascinating, and wanted to make my own post about it.

[rozzywell]

I have been living in "Michael is bisexual bc I said so and I know it to be true (technically still just headcanon)" world so deeply lately that when I think about Anton official bisexual announcement image I go "woaaahggh holy fUck. Anton official bisexual announcement image........" like that's somehow the greatest thing on earth. Bisexuality REAL..........

[the-mononoke-facade]

One of these days I'm going to figure out when 瞳 (hitomi) is supposed to be referring to someone's eyes and when it's supposed to be referring to someone's pupils, because slitted/narrowed eyes and slitted pupils have two different connotations, did you narrow your eyes or do you have cat eyes? This is important information okay

[rabbitindisguise]

Me: maybe I'm too soft on Naruto? Maybe the haters are right and I just don't have criticism of anime in me

Me, watches an anime I loathe: nevermind. I'm the most correct on anime ever and the haters are wrong. They don't know what truly bad anime is. They haven't seen The Horrors

[sage-nebula]

I watched episode 100 and yeah . . . I'm tapping out until spoilers (probably 30 episodes from now) tell me whether I'm right about what I think is going to happen or not.

It was nice to see Spinel again, though.

[kira-light0]

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