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How I imagine most tlt smut
cam/pal: sappy soul sex, sometimes dulcenia and pyhrra are there too and there are threesomes happening, lots of masturbation, no hetero, the author’s thinly veiled desire to fuck camilla (real and true and same)
corona/ianthe: if you swallowed a battery and put a fork in an electricity plug and then threw yourself in a bathtub, very chaotic very horny, great introspection time for ianthe tridentarius, oftentimes contains emotional manipulation, one day i will write smut for them and give ianthe erectile dysfunction
gideon/harrow: angry sex, so much crying so much angst, harrow comes in 3 seconds so there’s probably a lot of overstimulation involved, very kinky, religious themes but not so much religious guilt, undernegotiated kink
silas/colum: life changing I imagine, the most toxic guilty sex that has ever been written, catholicism is prevalent even tho they scream protestantism to me, smut tags that you didn’t imagine could even exist
#the locked tomb#anyway maybe im wrong#i have yet to expand my tlt smut repertoire so we’ll see 🥰#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth#griddlehark#campal#tridentariicest#does silas/colum have a ship name?#oh well#ο θεός μίλησε
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I really don't think people who think jinki would want to stop being a singer truly ever listened to him lol
#if he decides that's what's best for him that's great#i'm not saying what he should and shouldn't do#but if you followed his solo career over the last 5 years#how hard he worked for his music#you cant tell me he'd want to stop especially when he literally said he wants to come back#he created all of his albums using his own resources with barely any input from sm (but they'd never credit him for it)#directed his own concerts#paid for content out of his own pocket to show his musical process#also people seeing him as just a ballad singer (not a bad thing btw) when he's proved he enjoys making all types of music... idk#all this is just word vomit and idk if im making sense but the way some of y'all talk is 😬#shinee#jinki#onew#ramblings#anyway maybe im wrong#but from what hes shown talked and written to us this is how i feel
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mentor
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen fanart#gojo satoru#megumi fushiguro#jjk art#jjk spoilers#jjk manga spoilers#jjk leaks#pulled another allnighter fr Angst's sake cries i havent slept.......but i couldnt help myself i was out all DAY i hadnt drawn all DAY#do u know what that does to a mf i felt all antsy and Wrong#so i cracked an energy drink i think i may have a problem honestly but hey at least u get ur daily dose of megumi angst#remember how i said i considered including gojo in the yuuji/tsumiki/megu squared train piece#well this is me making up fr Not including him there#i ws right his and megumi's relationship deserves its own homage smile :)#anyway @ anon who wanted a gojo/megumi hug.....ik it's not exactly a hug but you can forgive me im sure <3#dare i say it's better than hugs jeremy.....#honestly fr all my gripes w gojo i Did get kind of emo abt this?? but i feel like. the majority of my emotions r on megumi's behalf#also might have been the mukashi mukashi no kyou no boku on repeat that'll also do it#seriously debated putting translated lyrics as the caption but it feels like a copout doing 2 lyric-captions in a row#also i do have some shame. miku lyrics r a bit.#anyway art notes uhhhhh finally got gojo's hair to not look Yuuji#who knew the trick was to make it longer smh maybe sleep deprivation n 10 hours of staring at a screen Does make simple problems hard#oh file name 'proud of you' btw
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I've seen a lot of different takes on Fear Toxin/other fear causing stuff (Yellow Lanterns Ring or something)(later just called Fear Toxin cause I'm lazy) but here is another one.
Danny seems like he isn't affected by Fear Toxin because his biggest fear is that his accident changed him so much he is no longer human, he can no longer truly experience human things.
So when he gets lungful of fear Toxin, he feels normal. He was antsy before, because c'mon, it's a rogue attack but it's not worse. Or so he thought. Because the anxiety lingers. Not enough to register as abnormal just this slight hypervigilance that makes you see things about yourself and your surroundings that you'd never realize otherwise. He'd realize he doesn't blink as often. He'd realize that if he doesn't consciously focus, he sometimes seems to not touch the ground. Forgets to breathe. He can't feel his own pulse at time. He'd realize people will miss him when he's walking down the street as if he was invisible (people just don't care about everyone they pass by). When he'd look straight into his reflection, he'd look slightly to the left. Not enough to actually name anything that was wrong but just stretched enough to fall on the wrong side of the uncanny valley. If he just caught his reflection in the peripheral vision, it'd be vaguely shadowy creature with glowing green eyes and white smoke instead of hair. Overall he'd be just wrong enough to be distinctly not human.
For everyone else, he'd be just a dude. Literally couldn't find more normal dude than this dude. Will pass as absolutely normal human unless someone is specifically looking for ecto-ghost stuff. Even most magic users wouldn't clock him at the glance
Tldr: Fear Toxin makes Danny perceive himself as some sort of eldritch horror but not enough to make him believe he'd actually be affected, while from outside perspective he's Just A Dude™
#dpxdc#dc x dp#dp x dc#dcxdp#fear toxin#please no Ghost King#nothing against this au but i don't think it'll mesh well woth this idea#probably works best with danny soon after accident#maybe still believing all of his parents anti-ghost propaganda#that'd add to angst for sure#idk why he is somewhere where he could be affected#idk who would realize something is wrong#up to whoever wants to do expand on this prompt#he'd cry when someone tells him he's been in fact affected by fear causing thing#because this means he *is* human and while he was fundamentally changed by his death#it didn't fully get rid of his humanity#but he won't tell that too busy being relieved so whoever delivered the news would be in for the ride#actually it'd be cool if it was someone who has superpowers but they showed up later in their life#parallels y'know#... i may still not be normal about “i wonder what could lie beyond infinity” by Numinous_Scribe on ao3...#top notch fic go read it great Clark characterization#anyway because plot kinda escaped me#hope this idea scratches someone's creative braincell or something#im curious what y'all will make out of it#yellow lantern#have a nice day dear stranger who got to this part
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hmhmhm i want to see hermes with his full on overworld sprite again,,, maybe on olympus? 👀👀👀
oh dear i forgot melis moon thing asdfhjkll ill fix that later...
#hades game#hades 2#hades ii#hermes hades#hermes#melinoe#melinoë#mmarts#idk what tags to use www anyway#maybe hermes will take over the shop stuff on the top idk tho haha anyway wowie#i still want to finish my one lil comic abt the twinsss aueue its sitting in csp marinating uh il get back to that too#man i just keep yapping take this messy doodle yall all my drawings are messy but yeah theyre my babies ig#i called it overworld sprite but im prolly wrong idk the terms haha#hades 2 spoilers#maybe#background who? i dont background here chief
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asking and receiving (bonus below readmore)
[ID: A black and white, digital Trigun comic of Vash and Wolfwood. In the first panel is a close up of Wolfwood's mouth as he says, "Vash". Accompanying it is a close up shot of Vash's eye, widen and cheeks flushed. Wolfwood presses a knee against the open space between Vash's legs and says, "Tell me everything you want from me." Wolfwood's face is equally as flushed. He continues to say, "I'll give it to you. Everything." As he talks, a wide shot shows the both of them in white space. Vash is sitting, leaning a little back with both hands pressed against the surface he's sitting on. Wolfwood is in his white dress shirt, stripped of the blazer. He's still leaning in with one knee in between Vash's spread legs, his right hand touching Vash's lips and his left hand behind his back.
The shot closes in on Vash's mouth and Wolfwood's hand against it, pressing down on the lower lip as he says, "You have to ask though. Go on." His hand moves down to Vash's chin, gently holding it. With a shy and uncertain expression, Vash hesitantly asks, "Um... K... Kiss... Please?" Wolfwood, without wasting a second, leans in and kisses him and indulges by pressing deeper, eliciting a small noise of surprise from Vash.
Wolfwood moves away from Vash first and with a smile, asks, "What else?" Vash tugs on Wolfwood's left sleeve, wordlessly budging Wolfwood to give him his hand that was still behind his back. In the next panel, Vash utters, "Hold me..?" He's holding Wolfwood's left hand with his own while his right hand is reaching for his waist. Wolfwood complies, moving his left hand to Vash's shoulder and his right hand continues to touch Vash's cheek. Wolfwood asks again, "What else?"
More comfortable now, Vash leans in to kiss Wolfwood. Wolfwood catches him immediately, pressing his thumb against Vash's lips to stop him before demanding, "Hey. Ask." Vash looks back in surprise and Wolfwood meets his eye with a quiet, insistent look. They're quiet for a moment before Vash leans in again and curtly requests, "Kiss. Me." Wolfwood says "Good", smiling as he lifts his hand away, and meets Vash's lips. In the next shot, Wolfwood had adjusted his position, sitting on Vash's thigh. The hand that was once on Vash's cheek has moved its way to Vash's nape, pushing away the collar of his jacket with his pinky. His other hand continues to grip on Vash's shoulder. Still kissing, Wolfwood asks again, "What else?"
In the next shot, Vash is starting to turn, moving Wolfwood with him. Vash asks, "Let me on top of you?" Wolfwood says, "Mhm" before asking again, "What else?" The next panel shows a close look of Vash's face. He's looking down, flushed and shy just as he had been at the beginning, but now, more decisive. Vash asks, "Wolfwood... Let me have you..?" A panel of Wolfwood taking Vash's hand into his, pulling it towards his chest. The next panel shows Wolfwood lying down where Vash had laid him. Vash's hand is on Wolfwood's chest, covering the cross of his rosary while Wolfwood's hand lingers against his, loosely pressing Vash's hand in place. He looks up at Vash with a shy smile of his own, flushed cheeks. He says, "All yours."
A panel shows a close up of Vash's tender gaze before he leans down to be closer to Wolfwood. The final shot is a front view of their positions, Vash's face turned away from the viewer; Vash is leaning over Wolfwood who's lying down with his right leg draped over Vash's legs. Wolfwood's left hand holds onto Vash's left arm. With finality, Vash says, "...Mine." End ID]


[ID: A follow up bonus comic in a looser, sketchier style. They're laying comfortably in bed when Vash asks, "What was that earlier?" referecing to the start of the previous comic. Wolfwood glances away and says, "To get you used to it. Asking. And getting what you ask for. Since you're alwasy hesitant about it." Vash's eyes widen, tight lipped. Wolfwood continues, "Knowing you, it'll be a tough habit to break..." When he says this, Vash can't help but laugh, unable to deny it. Wolfwood slowly brings a hand to Vash's cheek and continues to say, "So I'll keep trying -- whatever ways I can... to get it through your thick skull." Vash takes Wolfwood's hand with his, kissing the the palm gently. Wolfwood's eyes soften and holding onto Vash's cheek, he leans in to try for a kiss. Vash says, "Hey..." before stopping Wolfwood's lips with the back of his hand, a smug look on his face, "Ask." Wolfwood's embarrassed and with little irritation, asks, "Really?" Vash smiles, saying, "You're in need of practice too." They pause for a moment, Wolfwood looking contemplatively, before he's leaning in again, asking, "May I please kiss you?" Vash looks him in the eyes and says, "Yes." The comic ends with a "chu", indicating an off-panel kiss. End ID]
#vashwood#vash the stampede#nicholas d wolfwood#trigun#trigun maximum#it took me so long to post this even after getting clarification about the maturity warning and stuff#bc i am so shy about it. SDGMKDSGMKSD I LIKE THIS COMIC BUT IM ALSO SO LIKE... AUGHHHH....#when i posted this on twitter though it was like... a few days after ep 11? ive always had the thought circling about vash deserving of#asking for things... and getting what he wants bc he never gets both. doesn't get the opportunity to ask and hardly does he get what he want#maybe the results can go in his favor but at some point along the way he'll still lose something bc nothing can ever go perfectly for him...#and he's usually the one begging and pleading with people to not. do something. it's not even asking at that point it's just straight up#please believe me. please trust me. please don't shoot that person. please don't kill anyone. please don't do it.#and wolfwood.... it was not always this lovey dovey ok. he wouldv noticed this habit miles away and they got into a fight about it the first#time they talked about it bc wolfwood is being hypocritical too. as he always is!!!! but i think as they get more intimate#wolfwood finds ways to make vash understand. smth smth insatiable want and love and desire for wolfwood that makes it much easier to ask.#wolfwood can also just be so compliant. sometimes. which is also an issue in of itself that id love to explore at some point#but he also just enjoys giving into vash fully and completely.#bc he loves him a lot. but anyway#i hope the id is comprehendible.... please lmk if there's something wrong with how im doing it asfdgkdsmgs#ruporas art
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Kagamines vertically long ver.
#supposed to be a taller maybe older looking and more slender built version of#my usual blocky rin n len who are close to the ground#i say that but my hc height for them is not truly that short bc some people are out here being under 5 foot unironically#anyway in my head theyre supposed to be more mature and less rowdy in personality but#while drawing it they came out looking even more menacing 🪦#saved as alt. ver.#vocaloid#kagamine len#len kagamine#鏡音レン#kagamine rin#rin kagamine#鏡音リン#edit: fixed typos#my hc for normal rin/len height is 5'2/5'3 whereas the long ver. is like +3 inches except that feels too tall#the kagamines are Short™ to me and i will not be making them look big#if you feel 5'2/5'3 is tall relative to you then think of them as being oversized#built like a 4 something footer but they reach 5foot plus bc of that big ol head#headcanon ramblings#edit 2: dont get me wrong im at the same vertical distance from the ground as my normal kagamine hc heights#im a fellow shortie
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i havent drawn anything worth posting in a while hi ^__^ erm..... are texans always this strange and unusual?
#reverse 1999#reverse 1999 spoilers#????????????#i love being a gacha gamer goodlord. its like embarrassing how much my brain likes them.#it all started with bandori.......... i can never escape now.#esp as like. a video game design student. i recognise most of these games have like no good gameplay. but i cant help it...its fun..#i love logging in for like 5 minutes every day doing my stupid dailies and thats it. maybe repeat that once more in the afternoon#im yappiiingggg anyways the new reverse update is nice#they should go back to europe tho pspspsps come to the balkans ^_^ we have so much drama worth exploring.#i liked argus but mostly in the scenes where they werent trying to make her look cool....just a nice lady overall. id like to hang out w he#i think im gonna start posting more ocs from now on tho.... def on my brain more#i know people barely interact with those posts of mine but who gaf#or maybe pjsk since its slowly creeping its way back into my brain. mizukiwhen i fucking get you.mizuki#ermmm ok thats all i have to say for now adios#(dont read the rest of these its embarrassign)#argus reverse 1999#tuesday reverse 1999#wtf is that other girls name#kimberly reverse 1999#i think idk#shes so fun wtf is wrong with you.#art i made
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this email and the fact he was writing him literal poetry. like this is not really an email it is not really a letter it is almost entirely a piece of poetry that alex writes about the way that he loves him. the way he loves henry. henry with the great passion for queer poetry. henry who dreams of the anthology he didn't know he would get the chance to write yet. hello.

#okay randomly at the very last sentance i started second guessing myself that maybe it isn't actually canon that henry writes an anthology#of queer poetry post-canon and instead a widely accepted fandom headcanon that i have internalized instead#is that the case? lmk if that's the case#either way i made this post in the tone that it was canon so sorry if im wrong but even if i am this is canon TO ME#anyways this is possibly the most romantic book i have ever read#like serious real romance i love u rw&rb#rwrb#red white and royal blue#rw&rb#firstprince
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i think the bigger question isn't even how Viggo survived a lava burst to the face, but how he even got out of the volcano—he fell pretty deep and the sides are really steep, did he climb out? with THAT wound on his face?? half blind and burned??? it's not like they had stairs in the volcano or anything, so he had to have climbed out by the walls?? cus i don't know how else that would have worked. he's build different i swear
#dude got hit straight in the face by lava#and then climbed out of an active volcano#no biggy#generally i wonder what even the course of events was in there#he fell and saw the dragon eye. reached for it. got burned and then....???#he just... left? didnt try again?#im not saying he had to but im saying that if he could climb out of that volcano by himself#he might as well have tried grabbing the dragon eye again#idk maybe im remembering things wrong but anyway#httyd#rtte#viggo grimborn#how to train your dragon#race to the edge
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where were you when captain cuttlefish died

the designs . . .
#splatoon#art.floor#agent 4#agent 8#agent 32#<- its always there for me#UHHHHH okay inspired by that cool concept art poster thing? wherw eight has a phone#and the pose is vaguely reminiscent of the chaos vs order promo picture with the tentacurl + haircut girlies in chaos gear . Just vaguely#i cantbe bpthered to make this look good so take it ❤️ anyways these are supposed to be . during splat3#im sure you understand what im saying i say to my audience of nobody#uuhhh 4's outfit is obvi inspired by hypno callie! She just thinks she looked fresh#same tattoo too! on the wrong side . if anyone asks i'll maybe explain my agents lore lol#anyways enough yapping HIT POST !
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heres a scribble of these guys again smiles grins
#this was just a doodle before and after work smiles#not like. explicitly renga but u can tag it as them#i dont . like how some people write their relationship in a romantic lense sometimes they lose sight of the actual dynamic#which CAN work in a romantic setting dont get me wrong im a hashtag renga warrior esp like. thinking about langa being gay#and like. all my brainworms aboht that#and reki and his whole deal. oh BROTHER#maybe its bc im very fresh off of watching the show. lol#ANYWAYS YEAH I HAD FUN W THIS THEYRE SO FUN TO DRAW#sk8#sk8 the infinity#reki kyan#langa hasegawa#my art
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Finntress wedding?
i can only ever see farmworld HW getting tied down so
#was this a request in the first place? idk. if it wasn't sorry. I'm not sure what you're asking.#like she doesnt have magic madness so maybe im wrong but odds are more in favor she'd get hitched than Ooo HW at least#gave them matching ear tattoos cuz i dont think theyd actually use wedding bands there but i threw them on anyway#adventure time#finn mertens#finn the human#huntress wizard#finntress#farmworld finn#asks
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Ride 808: The jerseys competing for the lead!!

Pag 1
2: Onoda-san, now the lead have all left and entered the downhill towards the sea!!
3: Yeah!!
6: Do your best!!
Naruko-kun!! Imaizumi-kun!!


Pag 2 / 3
1: The men who are staring at the Inter High's first day's victory!!
(Congratulations!! 17 whole years of publication!!)

Pag 4
1: We're all here!!
Five teams, ten people!! These are
4: the jerseys

Pag 5
5: that are aiming
7: for the Inter High's first day's finish line!!

Pag 6
1: Let's go, Ninoshima!!
2: But be careful!!
Don't worry, Higashimura-san!! Downhills require courage and will-power!!
3: Don't leave any space!!
Those people are skilled!! The opposite lane
6: of the road, that we don't normally use and was closed for this race.....
7: Don't worry!!

Pag 7
1: They're using every inch of the inner side of the opposite lane!!
Ah!! There's only a small gap between them and the guardrail!!

Pag 8
2: I was bravely thinking of running as close to the guardrail as possible, yet in that tiny space on the inner side they....!?
I even moved before them exploiting the moment when Kyofushi and Gunam were talking... and yet!!
5: Downhills are all about “choosing a line” and “weight”, yon

Pag 9
1: Gunmaa!!
Yon
While taking the curve.... he gave me advice!!
2: Calm down, Ninoshima!! Just cling to them!! Follow me now!!
Dammit, and what was that about “choosing a pine” and “fruit juice”, Higashimura!!
…. no, he said “weight”*
(*NdT.: the words for 'weight' and 'fruit juice' sound the same in Japanese)
3: Ah, really
4: If in road racing downhills are all about choosing a line and weight, then it's easy!!

Pag 10
1: Sonomoto-chan
2: In MTB, on downhills there are so many bumps and trees' roots
3: Tires lose their grip, and you're busy trying to get traction and grip
4: In road racing, though, the tires are always on the ground!!
5: It's too easy, road racing
It even makes me

Pag 11
1: want to “play” a little!!

Pag 12
1: Uh-oh
4: What the hell was that just now!? Did their rear wheels slip!?
Did they let them slip!?
5: Huh...
7: Don't make such sudden grip turns
Sorry, since it's you I thought you'd get it
I did get it, but still (haha)
8: Kakaka, a friendly performance right before the Inter High's finish line!? You sure are confident, Gunma.san!!
9: Puku, what was that, so cool....
Puku

Pag 13
1: Are those the skills you cultivated through MTB? You originally raced in MTB, so you're showing off what you can do
Showing off how freely you can control your bike
So cool, will you
2: teach me too?
3: Teach me....
4: Teach
5: Number 41 is clinging to him!! He's getting too close
There's a left curve soon, get back....!!

Pag 14
1: me
me
me
2: Me me me me
3: We're in a curve, it's dangerous, so could you please back down a little?
4: Me me me me
5: Why won't you teach me that cool thing? Are you keeping it a secret from me?
6: Well, it's just that

Pag 15
1: I can't feel any impetus at all in your words, yon
2: You got me

Pag 16
1: They're taking the curve while his head is on his shoulder!! What incredible balance they have, Gunma's number 181 and Kyofushi's number 41!!
3: Even though the speed going downhill is frightening!!
4: But now, I
5: understand you a little, yon
Puku? Me? You understand me?

Pag 17
1: It seems like your impetus to win is fierce, yon
2: You too, you're not just a fancy small-fry
Not a small fry!!

Pag 18
2: Not bad
Yeah!!
3: Except for Hiroshima, who unexpectedly attacked earlier than usual, this lead is just what I had imagined
4: Kyofushi and Gunma too, even while arguing are still showing restraint
5: And Hakogaku too is carefully waiting

Pag 19
1: The real movement still hasn't happened
Get ready. If they move, we step on right away!!
Got it!!
2: 8km left until the finish line!!
3: There's no one else who'll join the final race for the finish line!!

Pag 20
2: Kakaka, what's wrong, Hotshot
Did you drop the energy bar in your pocket!?
3: No.... it's nothing, I just misheard
4: Sometimes, when I concentrate too much, I hear strange sounds
Ah, that's it!!

Pag 21
1: Kuaaaa
3: I hear...? A voice... and besides

Pag 22
1: I know it!!
2: No, that's impossible!!
He has probably fallen behind a lot with his team on the mountain!!
3: Moreover... there's no way with this “lead”...!!
4: No indeed, there's no way
I'm concentrating too hard, I'm even dreaming about the buddies training camp
6: Ah, there's one person catching up, yon
Yeah, the guy who was working so hard to cling to us
7: when we left the pack

Pag 23
1: I don't even know his name... the guy from the selected team

Pag 24
1: Kuaaaaaagh
2: That's the target!! That's the target we set!!

Pag 25
1: I'll catch up!! I will!! To the lead!!
2: Sugi.... moto!!
5: Now it's... eleven people!?
6: Insect....
#yowamushi pedal#yowapeda#yowamushi pedal translations#yowapeda manga#yowamushi pedal manga#yowamushi pedal spoilers#ride 808#17 years!!! i was only 13 when yowapeda's first chapter came out ;^;#oh that makes me so emotional#it's such a long time i feel so grateful that its lasting so long#everyone say thank you watanabe we love you#anyway on another note#midosuji and kiji's interactions are the funniest thing ever i adora them asdhgasdkg#but the moST IMPORTAN THING#SUGIMOTO MY BOY YOU DID IT OH MY GOOOOOD#imaizumi hearing him approaching??? and thinking hes imagining it???? hello???#i always thought sugimoto didnt stand a chance with his love for imaizumi but man maybe im wrong!#ohhh i cant wait to see how this plays out!!#also i love how hiroshima is there panicking bc they didnt expect so many people lmao#im sure higashimura is thinking that perhas miya and urakubo might have been right in their strategies lmao#btw midosuji's face on page 12 asdghkasfg watanabe def has a lot of fun drawing him and it shows
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you know that post about how addiction isnt the only way to read Jon's journey in s4, there's also a reading where it's about what you're willing and ethically allowed to do to live (and several readings can coexist)-
it reminded of an older reading i havent seen around in a bit; that cynical lens, about what you do when you realize you're part of a system that benefits you only on the back of other people's suffering. Not the only or the best reading, but i did want to share it for people who might not have seen it before
So there's a way of gaining power that's maybe always been with humanity, but perfected by rich british men in the 1700s and 1800s. they made it into a science. the system has been used for centuries, by old rich families, organized religion, the police. And you, a young british man, have been set up to benefit from it nearly from birth, without knowing, without your consent.
And that doesn't mean it's kind to you; it will gladly feed on you if you don't play by its rules... but. play by its rules, and it will give you power.
This system only functions by the suffering of others. by the time you really truly understand what it's doing, it's unfathomable that you could break free from it. your well-being depends on it, the lives of the people you care about are shaped around it. so you perpetuate it. to live with it, you tell yourself; that it's really not so bad as it seems; that the hurt you cause is not in your control; that it's justified because you will use this power for the better; that you're not a bad person because while you harm these people just as much as the real monsters, you feel bad about it, and that has to mean something... right?
Eventually these powers cause the end of the world. the realization sets in that there is never a way to do good with this system, no matter who uses it or who is in charge: it must be destroyed entirely. but by this point in the story it's so interwoven with the world that destroying it causes terrible collateral damage - or you look away; once again; pass the consequences on, to people you will never meet.
#tma#joos yaps#delete later#maybe#tma s5#anyways. again im not saying 'THIS is the CORRECT reading and the others are wrong!'#in fact i actively prefer when there are several possible readings of the same fantasy/scifi/horror metaphor#the fandom isnt as rabid as it used to be back when but still. ik this reading can be seen as p mean#to jon and that rubs people the wrong way#the magnus archives
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tbh i think volo would have been significantly more normal and fine if he hadn’t been hiding so much of his true feelings and personality. like when you deny yourself genuine human connection to that degree you’re probably going to come off as a machiavellian monster who wants to make the world and the lives of others worse, but looking at his actual stated motivations and intentions it’s clear to me at least that the guy is deeply empathetic and idealistic and more than anything disappointed that the world can’t be better
#volo#pla#i don’t even think the game wants you to think he’s That Bad#given the way laventon discusses him talking about the pokédex and peacefully/awkwardly leaving#the way his eyes go all weird makes me think they were going for almost a jekyll and hyde psychotic break thing#but people kinda projected another kind of villain trope onto him—the calculating immoral sociopath—and that’s the common interpretation#it’s like the opposite of when people look at villains who are meant to be completely terrible and find redeemable things about them#insisting that the writers wanted people to see those things as well#i might be doing that myself but just looking at the text and themes of the game it seems to me that you’re supposed to feel bad for him#rather than like violently hate him#even just with the way the player looks at him when he walks away#and that’s not even getting into shit that happens in pokemas#like sorry man volo unintentionally and incidentally prompting arceus to separate the train guys does not make him evil#that was arceus…#same with the player character although i think volo would have had more of a reason to tell them what’s going on#ingo was accepted in hisui#they weren’t#anyway sorry i just wanted to add my take to the many floating around#maybe im wrong or you disagree! that’s fine#but yeah
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