#and too much of „maybe“

[panthera-tigris-venenata]

The Isle is Neverland. Captain Hook is synonymous with Neverland, and so his children have the blood of Neverland within them as well. Harriet, truly Never. Harry, born in the midst of Neverland's deterioration, a mix of Never and Isle. And CJ, fully Isle, what Neverland became. But Wendy, back in London, is synonymous with Neverland just as much as Captain Hook is. What, then, is Jane?

That depends on one thing and one thing only: How old is Jane Darling?

Maybe she is one of the oldest Auradon kids, as old as Harriet. In that case, she is Neverland. She aches to protect the children that haunt her dreams, she just wants for them to have a childhood.

She failed before she was even born.

In that case, Jane Darling grows up with sad eyes and gentle hands, an echo of what no one knows was lost.

Maybe she is slighly younger, as old as Harry.

She mistakes her dreams, nighmares, really, for reality. She wakes up screaming – she was just almost murdered in that alleyway. She wakes up gasping for breath – she almost drowned in the foul, oily waters, infested with sharks and mermaids with sharper teeth. Confused, but giggling – she was just playing hide and seek with the Lost Boys, wasn't she?

She wakes up crying – or does she?

She doesn't know anymore.

And maybe, maybe she is even younger than that. Maybe she was born after Neverland finally fell. She laughs when she wakes up from confusing dreams full of broken glass and red eyes and on the Isle, CJ Hook echoes her laugh.

What else is there left to do?

They are Neverlands echoes, mirrors, afterlights.

They all are, except Jane Darling doesn't know.

So maybe, just maybe, it doesn't matter at all: Jane Darling is left with her nightmares and the painful void where the second star should be.

(thank you for the ask! I missed Isle is Neverland)

[cali]

sorry bro i lost focus and forgot where u begin and i end i hope nothing gay happened

[chalkrub]

autumnal chill....featuring the girl

[marsipain]

Norwegian Mikus :)

Left is Miku as a russ and right is Miku in a bunad!

[thegunslingerletmedrop]

Bruh. He tried not to shake her hand. He didn't look at her. He didn't say her name. Harris did the opposite.

We've all worked with a dick like that who thinks he's better than you, a woman. Fuck that noise.

[hinamie]

sympathy for cain

[egophiliac]

crossing my fingers and wishing upon every star that chapter 10 finally brings us the tweel cards 🤞🤞

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Soup solves everything.

[mithrun-house-of-kerensil]

Lately, I've been thinking about Mithrun and the ways he is dehumanized in canon.

Before I get started, we know that elven society is incredibly afraid of death and illness. This is obvious in how they look down on the short lived races and see them as weak and childlike. We also know that Mithrun himself had ableist views toward his brother and these values did not leave him once he, himself, became disabled. He is a product of the society that raised him, but I also think how Mithrun is currently being treated contributes to his view of himself.

Mithrun has had three different caretaking groups over the years. The first are the ones his brother hired for him. From what we can see, they did the job, but we can understand that they did not know what to do with him. No one had ever recovered from having their desires eaten so the focus was less on rehabilitation and more on keeping him alive.

Later we see Milsiril take an interest in him because of his desire to return to the dungeon. Since she did not bother to visit him for decades after finding him, we can assume that there is an ulterior motive here. Timeline-wise, this was when the majority of the canaries had just been wiped out. They needed more men, and Mithrun is set up to be the perfect single-focused soldier.

Honestly, we can assume that Milsiril doesn't really care about him or see him as a person. Mithrun is just a new project for her to play with. We can see this in how she's focused on superficial level concerns like the fact that he doesn't look nice and wanting him to be overly grateful toward her. She also talks about him like he's not in the room and can't hear her. This is a dehumanizing trait shared by many characters when talking about Mithrun.

When he finally does recover enough to return to the canaries, the military does not make any effort to accommodate his needs. We know the canaries are understaffed and the ethics are already bad, but they really did not even try to care about Mithrun's safety at all.

Entrusting a criminal with his care was questionable at best, especially when Cithis immediately took the opportunity to abuse her power over him and no one stopped her.

While acknowledging the light-hearted nature of the manga, it's uncomfortable that Mithrun was treated like a child and an animal by Cithis for her amusement. Regardless of her 'learning to respect him' later, the point is that Mithrun was taken advantage of and degraded because she believed he couldn't say no. No one bothered to do anything about this until Pattadol yelled at her.

Truly his treatment is summarized well by Milsiril here. Mithrun is extremely vulnerable to being abused by those taking care of him because he won't advocate for himself. He has one desire so he won't fight for himself in any other way.

It is obvious that Mithrun was not treated well by his caretakers and this has resulted in him identifying his needs through a disconnected and frankly, infantilizing lens.

I understand that it may have been a translator's decision, but I always thought it was interesting that Mithrun says that he's "not sleepy" which is a childish term. Otherwise, he speaks like everyone else, if not rather posh.

This, followed by the fact that he is responsive to Kabru treating him like a literal infant to get him to eat, paints a clear picture of the fact that Mithrun is not unfamiliar with being treated like this. He responds to it because he's used to it and has no desire to argue with being treated this way. When we consider the fact that the chapter started with Milsiril treating an older child Kabru in the same way, it is likely that she also did the same thing to Mithrun when he was under her care.

In these panels, we see that Mithrun does not believe that he can sleep without magical assistance, even though it is immediately refuted when Kabru takes the time to bundle him up and help him relax. Not only does he fully believe he can't sleep without external assistance, but he states directly that there is no point in him getting comfortable.

As Kabru observes, Mithrun's inability to recognize his needs applies to needs such as hunger and exhaustion, but it obviously also applies to emotional needs. Kabru just wanting to feed him something delicious and not wanting him to give up on life is the most consideration someone has given Mithrun in years.

The relationship they form over the course of a single week is enough to shape Mithrun's behaviour completely. Mithrun ignores Cithis's demand in favour of asking Kabru's opinion. It is Kabru's hand Mithrun takes to pull him out of his defeated state. It is Kabru Mithrun confessed his true desire to.

Do you realize how depressing that is? All it took was the new perspectives from Kabru and Senshi to make him consider the fact that he should keep living despite no longer needing to fulfill his duty. Being treated well could have helped Mithrun much sooner and this shift in the way he sees himself contributes to his recovery going forward.

TLDR: Mithrun has no desire to be respected, but why does that make people feel comfortable acting like he doesn't deserve it? Someone not caring about being treated well doesn't give you permission to treat them poorly. This feels like a playschool-level consent lesson: just because he's not saying no to a humiliating or degrading act doesn't mean it's a yes and therefore okay to do. Acknowledging this is the bare minimum of treating him as a person.

[ganondoodle]

then perish.

[akanemnon]

Ghosts. How do they work?

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[isjasz]

[Day 286]

Redrawing whatever the heck tdy's hermit recap thumbnail was bc it looked so goofy HAJKSDHAWHW

[barghest-land]

drawings from paleo expedition to dagestan, done right on the trip. sometimes messy when it was cold and rainy, but i won't correct it. i think it's cool to leave it just the way it was done, and not retouch it after. there will be more drawings later, but those will be done from home

[snsnsuo]

rise is always fun to rewatch for me because of its attention to design details. these screenshots are from the bug busters episode. look at his battle shell: we see in these shots that it's designed to be flexible and not constraining for his movement

if you ever held a mango cut like this, you'll get the idea of how donnie's battle shell works

[ph-cutie]

(pretty much) all the character concept arts from tha art book. because im the compiler

[beehunterkisser]

wanted to do my own take on these guys...