#bia... i dunno what to do with bia

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

@orathearsonman exactly!! you get it...!

i feel like tesilina's reactions are one of the highlights of this AU honestly

also tesilette genderbend has the potential to be really funny. especially with hestio & ephael as the peanut gallery who have a lot to say.

Everyone: Tesilina is the most pious, dignified and demure lady ever, she is unreachable, untouchable, like the flower blooming on a cliff's edge, to be seen but not touched,

Tesilina: I'm going to put a ring on it. Watch me.

(this might just be me misinterpreting things, but honestly if it weren't for the fact that Tesilid is suicidal i think he would already be absentmindedly wondering about how many kids Ailette would like to have. if he hasn't already done this. like, the guy saw the in-laws accept him and jumped on the opportunity.)

Also I think Tesilina's more forward because the Vatican would be even more uptight about Tesilina's sexuality and relationships than with Tesilid. #womanhood. So when Aiden kidnaps Tesilina after the Saint Reveal, they REALLY go into an uproar and assume that this new saint is promiscuous and has already taken Tesilina in. (It doesn't really affect Aiden's standing in the Vatican, because he is The Saint they've been waiting for all this time, anyway.) Tesilina goes 'well, since we're already at this stage...' and leans into it even more than canon Tesilid already does with his in-laws.

eyes snap open. genderbend hestio/ephael lesbians. ephael flops herself on hestio all the time and gives her kisses all over just to annoy her.

[pixxelcatt]

How do you rank the turtles from fave to least favorite for all iterations you have seen?

This should help!

(for extra clarifications, I have seen all the on screen iterations, I just didn’t include the movie trilogy versions cuz it’s been like 2 years since I watched them lol, I almost didn’t include Batman vs tmnt for the same reason, but ig they (at least Donnie and Mikey) left more of an impression on me lol)

[aberooski]

Okay so, if y'all know me you know I adore tmnt. It was my obsession before I ever watched even the original YGO much less GX. And now I'm watching tmnt 2012 for the first time, I'm about halfway through season 2 and honestly you guys are so lucky I'm not live blogging it because well.... I don't like it 💀

I will say I'm enjoying season 2 more than season 1 so far but still 💀

[tomurakii]

I feel like I'm going insane.

Why does Gale's "good ending" if you don't date him imply that he gets back with Mystra.

Why does the grown ass woman who intentionally isolated 17-year-old Wyll and trapped him in a relationship get to hang out in your camp (and potentially sleep with you).

Why do the writers (head writer and literally Wyll's personal character writer included!) have so little respect and tact when talking about their characters' traumas only when they are male and their abuser is female.

Nobody would find it funny if the Christmas animatic had Astarion blush at a picture of Cazador. Nobody would think it was "a good resolution" if Karlach saved and then dated Gortash at the end of the game.

And the characters aren't treated well outside of their relationships either, the writers love to laugh when people call Wyll boring or Gale annoying. I dunno what's worse: all the extra in-game dialogue calling Gale pathetic, or the fact that Wyll barely has any additional dialogue at all. With the additional factors of Wyll being the only Black companion and Gale being the only one with a disability that is somewhat "inconvenient" to the player (because God forbid a person need help), it just comes across as implicit bias from the writers themselves. To create these representations and then shit on them for traits that not only may be relatable to your audience, but traits that you gave them.

When Neil accepted the award for best performance he told people who relate to Astarion that "you are not alone." It's a beautiful sentiment, but paired with writers fetishising Wyll's abuse and saying Gale's best ending is the one where he kills himself, it comes across as though for POC, the chronically ill/disabled, or male victims of women, the statement does not apply.

[chara-james-crack-corner]

I RESPECTFULLY ask that you PLEASE gimme some freaky joker junior au timbern

*explodes into flowers* 👺💥🌷🌸🌹🪻🪻🪻🌹🪷🌹🌼

H m m . . . Okie.

(AU context: J.J. incident happens, Tim gets sent to Arkham, Jason comes back later and claims Tim as his smol brother now. That's it.)

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Bernard: . . . Where'd you get those scars?

Tim, without hesitation: BDSM gone wrong.

Bernard: Wow.

Jason: I don't approve of this.

Tim: I do.

Bernard: As do I.

Stephanie: I also approve.

Jason: You aren't a part of this!

Stephanie: God forbid a women vote!

Jason: No—

Stephanie: SEXISM! MISOGYNY!

Tim: Wow, Jason.

Bernard: It's because I'm gay, isn't it?

Jason: I'm gonna become an alcoholic...

Tim: ALCOHOLISM!?

Stephanie: Despicable.

Jason: I'm callin' Selina.

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Tim: I could never do anything wrong!

Bruce: You can, Tim—

Tim: Nuh uh! Ask my family, friend, and boyfriend!

Stephanie: He can't do anything wrong.

Bernard: He's to pretty to be in jail.

Jason: He's perfect.

Selina: He's incapable of doing wrong.

Bruce:

Bruce: I feel there might be a bias in the room.

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Bernard, middle of high school, ghost hunting in an abandoned building for his YouTube channel: And here is where several teenagers were sacrificed to a...

Tim, standing in the middle of the room with a flamethrower:

Stephanie, in full Spoiler gear, standing in front of him to test if her outfit is flame proof:

Bernard: . . . Sup?

Tim: Hi.

Stephanie: Don't tell the Red Hood.

Tim: He'd be disappointed in me.

Stephanie: He'd probably ground me and I'm not even his kid or sister.

Bernard: . . . You guys are so cool.

—

Stephanie: My Dad was a major b#&$ and my Mom was... Okay... Sometimes. I dunno, I kinda raised myself.

Bernard: Bad Dad squad.

Tim:

Tim: I have three Father figures, three Mom's, and an elder brother. I'm only related to two and they're dead.

Bernard: Wanna make out about it?

Tim: Yes!

Stephanie: This is why I can't trauma dump with you two.

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Jason:

Tim:

Jason:

Tim, wearing Bernard's clothes: Hi.

Jason: Care to, uh, explain?

Tim, with hickeys on his neck and legs: Explain what?

Bernard, walking out Tim's room: Sup.

Jason:

Jason, under his breath: I should've left him in Arkham, he would've been safer...

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Bernard: Mom, Tim isn't a clown!

Tim: Not anymore.

Mrs. Dowd: . . . Bernard, sweetie, he looks like he does drugs.

Tim: Only the ones I'm prescribed for my hallucinations and various mental conditions, ma'am.

Mrs. Dowd:

Tim: I was kidnapped and tortured.

Bernard: He's had a rough life!

Mrs. Dowd: And how would you like to explain to your Father you wish to be with a...

Tim:

Mrs. Dowd: Him?

Bernard: It's not hard to understand, Mom. He'd sweet, cute, and has a gun permit at sixteen.

Mrs. Dowd: a what?

Tim: My big brother gave me it!

Mrs. Dowd: Bernard. Darling. Are you dating a gang member?

Bernard: Darla's Dad is a mob boss, Mom. We live in Gotham! I didn't think you would care.

Mrs. Dowd: Darla is different.

Bernard: Y'know what? Forget this! C'mon, Tim, let's go bake at your apartment while Jason's not there.

Tim: YES!!!

Mrs. Dowd:

Mrs. Dowd: Bake???

Tim, whispering: It's a code word for sex.

Tim, patting her shoulder before walking off:

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[deadlysoupy]

i've been thinking about tfe!bumblebee and tfone!bumblebee and how people perceive them and now i'm like... they actually aren't that different???? like at all??? they just deal with abandonment differently

visual aid bc. i dunno

see bc they both were abandoned at some point, even though tfe bee still had a mission, he was largely in hiding and couldn't make contact with most of the autobots. he had to not get involved in anything, had to stay away from the people he loved, and in the process he became somewhat jaded, repressing most of his hiding since he doesn't think it's a big deal, he had a job to do and he did it as best as he could. he's fine don't ask. he tries to maintain his "nice guy" persona, but with the isolation he had to go through it's very obvious he can't stay that way, so he desperately clings to his positivity like his life depends on it, while at the same time displaying cynicism that's within him now

meanwhile over here in the tfone bee corner, our guy was sent to do community service no one needed to do, with no one to talk to, for god knows what (in canon he says he "did his job too well" so he fucked up way too many times, poor guy). he made himself people to talk to, and it's not like he was purposefully trying to hide himself, but we KNOW that he knows how to get out, so, potentially, he could have just fled and become a fugitive. instead, he stayed at his job because there was some hope still left in him that someone would come and release him from his "duties". anyway as soon as he finds actual people he can communicate with it all goes off the rails. unlike tfe bee, though, he doesn't hide his desperation for company, and while he is extremely traumatized, he's still expressing himself, and people know what he's going through, and they help him eventually

if anything tfone bee would be more healthy than tfe bee (and totally not just bcs i have a personal bias for tfe hahaha what are you talking about don't look at my blog.) (also one went through war already and the other didn't (yet)), he would even make him talk out some of the problems he's having... but like at the same time tfe bee would recognise tfone's own denial and would reassure him that, yes, you are loved, you are enough, even when no one listens to you. do you see the vision

[mixingandmelting]

hi hii <3 take as long as you need to get to this request or even ignore it if you want to <3

i was wondering what thoughts you have on the batboys dating a reader with a story like jason’s? like they died, maybe they worked for some group of assassins as a kid and died one mission. they get revived and obviously find that weird - also, they’re an adult? - and go back to the hometown of gotham and try to settle down. they actively go out as a ‘civilian’ undercover at night and save a few people from getting mugged maybe but they no longer kill. probably meets the boys because of this and then? i dunno i’m not a writer sorry ����

A/n: did three of the five since Duke and Damian aren't adults yet 😔

Dick: Gradually Dating

If he had a nickel every time someone close to him was dead then revived using the Lazarus Pit, he’d have four nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened four times: Jason, Cass, Damian, and, now, you. It took a while for him to get closer to you, initially because he was impressed by your skills when taking those muggers only for him to be hook, line, and sinker for you. You’re everything he needed including all the ways he didn’t know he needed. He would be yapping and you would be listening to everything he says and keep it in mind. He could be in the foulest or darkest mood and somehow you’d be able to pull him out of it where he gets flustered when realizing he’s getting spoiled by you. 

He is very much pleased to say he, successfully, got together with you and is the happiest man in all of space and time. It’s a habit for him to pester you constantly with the goal being you cringing at the puns and word play he does. His hands are always on you, no matter the place, time, occasion. In your hands, on your shoulders, around your waist- 24/7 unless he’s on a long-distance mission. He’ll simply bombard you with texts on how much he misses you and asks if you miss him. All because he loves you and you’re cute but that talk is for another day.The only problem he has developed recently is not liking how Jason’s rubbing off on you ever since you met him. Blue will always be better than red and his discowing costume is a masterpiece what do you mean :( 

Jason: Buddies to Dating

The two of you hit things off right from the start when he first met you. Sure, trying to chat with you as you beat up a group of muggers wasn’t the greatest way to begin a relationship but hey. By the end of the night, you both bonded over having similar pasts and became trauma buddies. Having a person who understands what it's like to go through a crappy past like his made you become his go-to person whenever he’s in the dump and going through an episode. You laugh along and share his dark humor. You know the best ways to comfort him. You accept all of him including his flaws with no bias or judgement. Add all that to him thinking you’re stronger than him where you choose not to resent but rather overcome your past- his admiration developed into adoration for you. 

Nothing has changed once the two of you became official, other than him enjoying how he gets to physically hold you more to his heart's content. Really, he’s never been into showing affection but here he is, being the physical affectionate one out of the two of you because he likes making you flush from the simplest things like kissing you on cheek, rubbing circles on the back of your hand when holding hands . Especially in public, which he teases you about all the time. He’s definitely more tamed than Dick though, where he’s not constantly all over you 24/7, though at home, cuddling is a must. So is making sure everyone knows he’s yours and you’re the best person alive. Anyone who argues you’re not can suck it and talk to his fist. 

Tim: Denial to Acceptance

It was from investigating why the rate of mugging during the night dropped that led him to meeting you, after doing a background check on you prior. But color him surprised when you don’t like a certain group of people he knows that’s dipped in the Lazarus Pit. He thought it was out of curiosity and making sure you weren’t planning to become an underground crime-lord that he followed you around and chatted with you whenever he got caught (which was 90% of the time). It seemed like you were struggling and with how nice and kind you were towards everyone and him, he was only trying to help by leaving things you need after he leaves. Then you smiled and- oh shit, he actually likes you. 

It’s still a work in progress in terms of being more expressive in public where recently the two of you successfully hold hands comfortably without either of you getting too self-conscious. Same with the occasional hugs and pecks on the cheek. At home is a different story. He’s completely clingy. Working in your lap or you in his arms always wrapped around you as he follows you around the house, of course helping you out as he does. Displays every form of affection and the fact you reciprocate it makes everything even better. Not that he’s good at hiding it from others at the beginning when he’s always on his phone, texting you, and getting flustered when someone mentions you or you’re with him.

[olderthannetfic]

Ok. Dumb question incoming, but I'd much have a 'conversation' than try to read fanlore or watch video essays or something because I want to hear individual people's contributions.

Why Star Trek?

Don't get me wrong - I like the franchise! I'm not super duper familiar with it, but I do enjoy the bits and pieces that I do know. But I am wondering why that in particular is hailed as the grandmother of all fandoms? Obviously people were fannish before Trek, but I don't think anyone can deny the impact that OG Trekkies had on fic, zines, and eventually on the internet.

I know that it's always been popular and well-liked, but it's not as if there was NO SUCH THING as popular culture/fan culture before that (I mean, come on, the term "parasocial" predates the first Star Trek episode by 10 years!) . Was it just a perfect mix of timing + popularity + etc? Is there something in particular about ST that "hit different" than other series at the time? Or is the fandom really really just that mighty and it's almost "luck" in a way? I guess I'm wondering what particular dominoes cascaded in a line in order for Star Trek to have the impact on fandom that it does today.

or am I wrong? were there just-as-big fandoms before and I simply overhype Trekkie power in my head / happen to see more talk of that than I do of other fandoms? It could definitely be a social circle bias thing.

Ugh. Asking OTNF why Star Trek is so important to fandom history feels very much like asking a Russian History major why War & Peace is so important to literature - hence why I warned you that it'd be a dumb question! But I am just so damn curious what sort of crack was in early ST fandom that made it SO widespread and SO strong.

Like, I guess the TLDR is: what was particularly 'different' about Star Trek, either as a fandom or as a franchise or both, that made it Theeeeee OG fandom, rather than something, like, i dunno, LOTR or the earliest versions of Marvel/DC comics or General Hospital or something else like that?

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I await the hordes of angry Man from U.N.C.L.E. fans eager to prove that they were first.

And, no, it wasn't that popular. Hence the aggressive Save Our Show campaign and explosion of fan culture when it ended after three seasons.

Part of the answer to your question is that there were like three things on TV at the time. What big fandoms? 'Parasocial' was about non-subculture people feeling warmly towards news anchors or hosts of variety shows or something, wasn't it?

LOTR got rediscovered in the 60s or 70s from what I hear, but science fiction and fantasy books were for fringe weirdoes. SFF was not mainstream for the most part. There are a bunch of History of Book SF Fandom things on Youtube, and you should consult them on the complex role of LOTR in that space. LOTR wasn't a mainstream thing until there were live action movies a billion years later.

The key about Star Trek is that it was a hit with the pre-existing book SF crowd. They were an organized subculture. Some of their favorite writers wrote episodes. Other shit on TV was for people who did not form subcultures in that way. Other shit for SF fans had an audience 1/10,00th the size.

MFU was insanely popular. Illya Kuryakin was the heartthrob of a certain era of girl and inspired many a Russian major. (Seriously, there are soooo many Russia-boos of a certain age who probably still have a poster of him somewhere.) The actor set a record for fanmail. The show may have more influence on fandom history than we think now, but it also didn't rerun the way Trek did, at least in some eras, and it didn't have sequel series in a franchise. I'm always finding 2015 movie fans shocked that there's a still extant and semi-active fandom—or even shocked that the movie is based on something.

Starsky & Hutch was also hugely important and is the moment slash fandom and "Media Fandom" really split from book SF fandom. As Trek fans moved on to buddy cops, they were into a completely mainstream show but in a non-mainstream way. Trek was an awkward bedfellow at SF cons, but S&H just didn't fit at all.

Of course, while Trek is the grandma of AO3 type fandom, don't forget that a shitton of modern fans who are doing "research" just look at the same few sources. Enterprising Women is great and all, but even other fans of the same stuff are like "Oh, that was just X's friends. Where's [thing] and [thing] and [thing]?" Ditto Textual Poachers and the other scant early sources that people think have academic weight.

While Trek would still be central, the picture of what was going on in the late 60s-early 80s would look a bit different if you just found a bunch of 70-something nerds and asked them than if you regurgitate other people's research, you know?

If you want an idea of what else was going on in SF fandom back in the day, check out Galactic Journey, where they roleplay that it's 55 years ago and review SF things "as they come out".

If you want to understand MFU, here's a vid of Illya:

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What say you, readers?

What have acafandom and fandom history and meta left out?

[vaporclan]

I know this is my comic account but it's the account that has the most followers on it and I'm really scared for my cat and don't want to be alone right now.

I'm at a loss. He's been to the vet 3 times this month, and I'm completely drained of money.

I suspect there's something wrong with my cats mouth, and paid for a vet visit. The vet had a quick look at his mouth and told us to drop it, and that his teeth are fine. But...

I just. It's the only conclusion I can come to after witnessing his symptoms.

He's throwing up - usually bile. He's gone so skinny because he just won't eat anything even remotely solid. If it's got bits in it, he won't eat it.

He's not lethargic. There's NO DIARRHEA. His pooping is 100% normal, doesn't strain or anything. Completely solid poops.

His appetite is NOT gone - he TRIES to eat food and struggles. He tries solid food and immediately gives up because it's too crunchy. He TRIES to eat his wet food and gives up once getting to the chunks. HE TRIES!!! It's not a lack of appetite! He's starving!

Just 5 minutes ago I saw him walk over to the bowl of dry food, try to eat it and immediately give up. Its not an appetite issue! He is *struggling* to eat it! This is his favourite dry food, btw.

A couple weeks ago, I gave him one of his favourite treats - he was Excited when I opened the packet. He tried to chew it, failed and gave up. This was my first suspicion.

He is 13 years old and has a snaggletooth and has had it for as long as I've known him, but was not born with it. He got it back when he was my sister's cat and was attacked by her dog (He no longer lives with dogs!). They never took him to the vet for this.

I vividly remember taking him to get a checkup last year, and the (more expensive, might I add!) vet saying he could possibly have some dental issues.

So why would this second (cheaper) vet, after a quick look at his mouth, tell me it's 100% not dental and it's likely a gut issue? And then jump straight to "it could be CANCER" after a less than 2 minute long inspection? They barely looked at him!

(I went to the cheaper vet because I ran out of money this month, and they've been good in the past...?)

Why is he trying and failing to eat solid food? If he was turning his nose up at any and all food, I'd agree with the idea that he's got a lack of appetite. But he's trying *so* hard to eat.

I dunno, I get a lot of mouth pain myself and I can attest it is very difficult to eat solid food when it gets painful. Maybe it's confirmation bias, but....

‼️ I heard a CRUNCHY noise coming from his mouth when he was eating KITTY YOGURT 2 days ago.

The way the cheaper vet looked at him for less than 2 minutes and immediately shut us down, told us it's 100% not dental issues and he might have CANCER instead and immediately gave us some meds without explaining what the medication even does makes my stomach feel a little queezy. My gut is telling me something is not right here.

He has a heart murmur. I looked up the medication given to us by the vet - prednisolone - and after some impulsive Googling found out it can make heart conditions worse and should be given with caution after an ecg. They didn't even SUGGEST an ecg. They didn't take his heart murmur into account at all. Again, the appointment lasted *2 minutes*.

Am I crazy? I feel all sorts of crazy.

I get paid like, £600 in a few days. The cost of a dental x-ray is anywhere from £200 to £400. And that's Just The X-Ray. If he needs teeth out, that's an extra £400, and where am I gonna pull that money from?

I get paid another £600 or so on the 28th.

He's so fucking skinny, man..

I don't want to make another donation post and I really truly do not have it in me to draw commissions right now. I don't know what to do.

[sepublic]

            Anyhow, I think part of my disconnect with people saying Lumity got “boring” is that… They seem more interested in the “spicy” Will They Won’t They phase of ships. And they would’ve preferred Lumity stay static in that phase. Or for Amity to be eternally grumpy and never heal from that.

            Which is fine, if you want a ship dynamic! But you have S1 Lumity for that, you can always go back to S1 Lumity. But what made Lumity compelling to me is that they went beyond that; They actually explored the question of What Happens Next, how do these characters navigate an actual relationship?

            There is conflict, it’s just that amidst all of the relief that Lumity doesn’t try to backpedal its progress for the sake of drawing out the Will They Won’t They because the writers don’t know how to write past that, people forget; There’s still problems. It’s just not the same trite stuff like Cheating that’s created more for the sake of drama than actual consistent character growth.

            Because we have Amity worrying about the status of her relationship with Luz and having the setup to be an abuse victim who settles for another abusive relationship, as is tragically seen IRL! We have Amity trying not to repeat her own mother’s invasive control, while Luz learns to let people in.

            We have Luz messing up once more, Amity being mad about it. We have Luz feeling guilt over something she feels Amity would legitimately judge her over, and it’s not just a matter of not wanting Amity to be burdened in helping. Amity is forced to watch her girlfriend go down a very self-destructive path as she tries to help. And they eventually resolve these things together! These characters can be in conflict but we see exactly why they keep coming back to each other, because they are generally still happy with one another!

            And that’s the thing, I think people want a ship over a story; They want a static, funny dynamic where Luz is the happy-go-lucky girlfriend and Amity is the Mean Lesbian. They want a recurring gag. And these are fine on their own, but… That isn’t what the writers are going for, where both of these characters are meant to heal and grow and self-actualize, and reflect on their issues. This isn’t conducive for a story where they mature.

            Yeah Amity is a Mean Lesbian but she’s Mean because she’s been trained to by parental abuse, and her Meanness has a tangible, negative impact on Willow and the people around her. It’d be funny for Amity to stay mean, but it wouldn’t be an actual story about the character reflecting on how her abuse has influenced her, and how she’s had the capacity to repeat it and already has. It’d have to be treated as unserious to be left that way, but that’s not cathartic.

            Luz and Amity having that “spicy” conflict just doesn’t work when you actually want the characters to complete their journeys, to actually change. And that just feels at odds with wanting Lumity to remain as this Fandom Archetype that never reaches a resolution. It ignores the new conflict that does crop up, and how Lumity is ultimately a vessel for these individual characters’ development, who feel more well-rounded for it. Like there’s actual themes, setup and payoff, etc., instead of an eternal game of cat and mouse.

            I dunno; It just feels like a lot of the other Toxic Yuri ships that fandom praises would inevitably reach this point, it just happened off-screen because the story ends with the resolution of Will They Won’t They. Whereas Lumity went past that, and so I guess because of Recency Bias, all people remember is the Navigating Relationship aspect.

            But Lumity has both, it has the more adversarial, Will They Won’t They dynamic that isn’t quite Enemies to Lovers (I feel that label quashes their story into a Fandom Archetype and not the actual nuance of intrigue it has), and then there’s the hurt/comfort scattered amongst the Wholesome vibes. Lumity has it all IMO and people act like the existence of one of these things cancels out the rest, when in reality the characters evolve and so do their dynamic.

            I guess part of it is that the story is not about Lumity, where the big climax is Lumity getting together (and the rest being ignored), it’s a story about different characters where Lumity contributes to the narrative and plays its important part. Maybe it’s not as outwardly “fun” but it makes for more substantial writing, where a ship isn’t a substitute for a proper narrative.

[naffeclipse]

NAAAAFFFF i just binged thru o’ medusa and im literally crying at how oblivious briar is LMAO. im eating it all up but it amuses me that briar’s whole thought process goes something like:

briar: i wonder what eclipse does in his room all day

eclipse, taking his 5th depression nap of the day: i crave death.

that gorgon has ISSUES 🤩🤩 i know he prolly hates himself and his entire existence due to his change to something so utterly inhuman, but that’s okay bc i’ll do all the loving for him <3 the entire time i was like omg how sebastian-core of him 💕😏 but anyways. this isnt about fish man LMAO

receiving that cloak from briar must have equal parts hurt and heartwarmed him bc like. on one hand yay a gift from someone who doesn’t want to hurt him/is not scared of him for once and in fact Cares enough to get it for him, but on the other hand it’s literally a soldier’s cloak iirc and that probably reminded him about who he once was. self loathing goes crazy ❤️ he’s gotta be tormenting himself constantly with how refined and polished his old armor is. oh to mourn for a life you no longer have…..

also, he’s probably so scarily good at concealing his footsteps. i have no doubt that he’s spent numerous times looking at briar from afar when theyre unaware LOLLL. him creeping about, staring at them like this ❤️👄❤️ and they would be none the wiser!!

and i fear i have a bias for his little snakes LOL they r so cute, all the details about them shifting closer to briar & gently giving them little snakes kisses with a flick of their tongues is soooo 😍😍 and the fact that they give away eclipse’s innermost feelings LMAOO does he get irked that they give him away constantly like that or has he resigned himself to it LOL

living by himself in the temple for two whole years must have left him terribly lonely and touch-starved too lol. also probably depleted his social skills if im being honest LMAO. it’s clear how important briar is to him now, especially since he waits for them to return whenever they go to the market. sometimes i gotta shake him for being so angsty and jaded tho LOLL but his emotions are valid i suppose. i too would curse the gods if they changed me into a monstrous being for whichever reason. my current theory is that it was puppet (and for Sure she’s gotta be the goddess of the temple; i had a feeling once the tiles of the courtyard were described as being black and white. and i think homar is probably henry) and eclipse is lying to briar about having “found” the temple in its destroyed state, but i dunno!

i swooned when he showed up to fight monty btw HAHA he was soo good with that sword, even after two years of not having touched it (most likely, i think). muscle memory serves him well. my heart went like this 💔 when he rushed to pick up monty’s glasses at the end and it ended up melting away tho💔💔 he was probably so hopeful at that moment sjjdkdkdd i have no doubt he wouldve given them to briar to use 😔 its okay tho, my heart mended itself with that little kiss he gave briar LOOLL i know what he is 🫵 (in love, terribly attached to briar—to lose them would ruin him beyond repair)

anyways, the extent to which i know about medusa lore just comes from the percy jackson books i read in middle school SOOO here are my current theories for how the ending could possibly go wrt the whole “turning people into stone” thing:

1) eclipse gets stabbed in the eyes or something of the sort in a final battle with this afton iteration 2) briar goes blind (unlikely tbh, given that the whole fic is already with them having the blindfold on) 3) magic glasses (since afton “built” monty and therefore also made those sunglasses that shielded monty against eclipse’s stone-turning powers, he likely has the power to create something of this sort again) 4) briar gets turned to stone BUT somehow they are able to reverse this with the help of klyta OR potentially puppet 5) briar somehow had the hidden ability to Not turn into stone the entire time (also unlikely, but those sheep had me Pondering) or they gain this ability later on 6) eclipse gets turned to stone (devastating, agonizing, my thumbs are pointed down). right now im leaning more towards theory 1, i think. it would be poetic, in a sense

also are the cats sun and moon LMAOOO i saw them added as characters in ao3’s tags and i was like. eyesquint. those r some suspicious cats. but they could also not be 🤷‍♀️ i am eager to see more of them, regardless 🙂‍↕️

anyways, kissing u on the head & rattling u. ily and i am sat waiting patiently for whatever else u have cooked up for hot gorgon guy <3

SHAYYYY I'M RATTLING YOU AHHHH!

Oblivious Y/Ns my beloved!! Briar really does not understand what might be happening with the guy who has snakes on his head, but they just keep wondering! But they can at least give him some of the love that he has gone without for a long, long time.

HE IS SO SEBASTIAN CORE ALDJSAFLSF LISTEN—I LIKE MY ANGSTY BOYS TO BE MONSTEROUS OKAY??

There is so much I want to blab about, especially from Eclipse's POV. There is so much BRAIR DOES NOT GET but that'll unravel soon enough hehe Oh to be gifted a very lovely soldier's cloak <3

I'm so happy you enjoy the snakes! They're actually little darlings, but Eclipse would never call them such lol but that's okay, Briar will! Eclipse has... a lot of feelings about his snakes, and not of them are positive PFFFT

FINALLY THE FIGHT SCENE YES! I've been waiting to write that for so long, and augh! I love showing off Eclipse! He's so skilled and cool, and he's going to have sore muscles having not doing that kind of work for two years but Briar can see now!! And ask some questions about it hehe

I AM STARING AT THE REST OF YOUR THOUGHTS/THEORIES! I'm foaming at the mouth actually but I'm trying to be so so normal, I swear! Those will all come in due time, but ohhh, I love to read theories!

Ahhh, rattling you some more! Thank you so much for reading! I can't wait to read more of your work and I'll hop on my own writing hehe <333

[lace-tf]

So much art sphere discourse always makes me scratch my head like “Why are we policing what independent hobbyists—many of whom are young, working-class (or impoverished) queer folk, let alone QPOC—do for free in their own time?” Some people seem to unironically want to bring back Eating Your Veggies or throw around allegations of unconscious bigotry based on confirmation bias instead of just like… Seeking out the content / people they enjoy without having to put others down to do it.

I have strong preferences and principles myself, and I’ll avoid people whose vibes I dislike, or whose values I disagree with. But I’m not better, wiser, or more worldly than other people for doing this 😭 A hot topic in the OC community right now is “if you don’t regularly draw ‘female’ characters, you should examine your internalised misogyny problem!” and it’s so, like… Maybe consider why many transmasc or non-binary creators might connect more to non-woman characters? Consider that implying—unless they force themselves to represent femininity and womanhood in their creations, possibly triggering dysphoria—they’re bigoted is very unkind?

(Also, how are we even defining ‘female’? I recently saw someone say that if your whole cast is “men and male-aligned” they don’t think you’re worth interacting with. Where does that place GNC or masc women? Butches who don’t use she / her or don’t identify as women? What about genderfluid and non-binary men or mascs who use she / her or present femininely?)

Obviously you guys don’t see it here on my fandom blog, but I love my femme OCs and draw / post them regularly. Yet, this wasn’t the case when I was younger—as a transmasc* person, I wholly gravitated towards writing and drawing men / mascs. I liked when my peers liked the guys I created using my own experiences and feelings about masculinity, especially when IRL was so hostile towards my identity.

At the time I thought—and do still think, even though things have gotten much better—that it was also just kind of hard to find compelling female characters in mainstream media. I had plenty of them I liked (Xion from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Midna from Twilight Princess, GLaDOS from Portal, Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors, Azula from ATLA, and The Other Mother from the Coraline film among them), but they were few and far between unless you went out of your way to find them. This was both because many big creators or corporations neglected developing the female characters in their properties, and because… There weren’t many female characters in most IPs to begin with.

And this makes me think a bit about the original culture of fujoshi in Japan, where women* fixated on M / M relationships due to 1) the freedom men were allowed in Japanese (and largely Asian) society, and 2) the distance between those fictional men and the female creator’s lived experiences and desires (which may feel too painful or shameful to delve into directly). Fujoshi used male characters as a vessel to explore their identities, emotions, sexuality, etc…

So like. I dunno. There are plenty of reasons for people to prefer playing with masculine dolls that have nothing to do with “hating women.” And I think if you want to celebrate femme characters more, and surround yourself with creators who feel the same way, you should just do that instead of being weird towards people who love masc ones.

At the end of the day, independent small artists who post their little guys FOR FREE do not owe you anything but common courtesy. They aren’t being paid to be a bastion of representation; they aren’t a corporation that profits off proliferating mass media and therefore has the responsibility to use its reach to spread tolerance. They’re literally just randos online.

[muntitled]

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐞 | 𝐊.𝐒.

Kim Seungmin x Fem!Reader

♡ Follow Kim Seungmin as he embarks on slaying the demon that plagues you monthly. (Aka he takes care of you on your period)

♡ Cw: Established Relationship, Domestic Fluff, Care, Suggestive Content, Soft Dom Minnie, slightly implied chubby reader, humour, mentions of nausea, Possessiveness

♡ He's successfully wrecked Bang Chan as my top bias

He could tell, from the moment he stepped over the wooden threshold, when your frustrated groans drifted through the air, that he had just walked into something akin to a battle zone on the Northern front. Seungmin clenches his eyes shut, feeling his own exhaustion double at the sound of your incessant moaning and groaning.

His large hand drifts over the contours of his bareface and for a no more than 40 seconds, Seungmin just stands there.

His back hits the framed wall depicting you and Seungmin (in much happier spirits) on your various ‘baecations’ all around the globe.

Seungmin turns to examine these pictures as he kicks his Nike sneakers off and he shakes his head.

You look so carefree in the picture. Your head is thrown back in a luscious guffaw aimed at the sky and Seungmin, in the very same picture is caught, quite embarrassingly so, with his head gazing down at you with a kind of admiration ancient Greeks held for the deities they worshipped.

That same mouth of yours had been painted with a lip combo that Seungmin had spent the entire evening trying to kiss off. He kissed you and kissed you and never grew tired. You both look so full of life. So attractive. So infuriatingly Instagram-y.

“야, Kim Seungmin! I swear to God if you're standing at the door, holding my period pills hostage, I will fucking end you!”

The juxtaposition was almost laughable. Seungmin couldn't help the slightly humorously exhale that left his lips as he gathered what little sensibilities he had left to face you and your particular dragon that he had to conquer when it was that time of the month.

When his sock-clad feet glide into the living room he finds you laid on the floor in foetal position (unsurprising) with your hands clutched around your stomach, while you groan thunderously into the air.

“Why do you always resort to using my government name when you're having cramps,” your ‘supposed boyfriend’ says in a manner that is so infuriatingly nonchalant, it has your eye twitching from your position on the persian rug.

“I'm dying, and that's the first thing you have to say to me?” Instead of responding to what was admittedly an over exaggeration used to thaw away at your boyfriend's unnaturally cold heart, Seungmin instead places the groceries on the counter.

“It's almost as if-” you watch as he works in the kitchen ceremoniously connected to the living area. “You always think you’re dying and then, miraculously, make it through another month. Its almost as if this is… temporary? Dunno though, I'm not an expert.” he resorts to sarcasm while your stomach turns in nausea

“Haters!” You affirm through clenched teeth while cradling your body from side to side, “I'm surrounded by my haters and they're closing in….”

“The only thing that's ‘closing in’ is your bedtime.” Seungmin swipes his fringe to the side as he watches you from behind the counter but it only bounces right back into his eyes, “Did you brush your teeth”

“Did you brush yours,”

“There's only one of us slinking on the floor like Satan,”

“Mean to me-” you whimper through quivering lips, “You're so mean to me!”

“I'm not mean when I'm trying to get you to go brush your teeth,” you hear the sound of the water spout running before soft muted footsteps approach you. Sensing Seungmin’s shadow now casted over your serpentine form which did in fact resemble Satan in the garden of Eden, you keep your eyes shut and your bottom lip jutted out as if thoroughly,and completely angry with him.

“Drink your pills, Bubs-”

“Don't tell me what to-”

“Drink it.”

There were many things you could get away with being in a relationship with one-such Kim Seungmin. He practically radiated boyfriend energy which made walking out in public with a complete nightmare because there is a special detector stationed in every girl, letting them know they were in the radius of a particularly special boy. He knew of your aversion to outsiders perceiving him, “you want me to wear a paper bag?” Seungmin had been completely unimpressed when you brought up the topic at the kbbq restaurant in the sunny recesses of Gyeongsang Province. “You're too hot,” you'd said, “And kind and delightful and it pisses me off,”

he had cracked a smile and showed up to your apartment the very next day quite literally wearing a cardboard paper bag. He had holes for eyes and the rest of him was otherwise normal. “Let's go”

And you had fricken gone, because when Seungmin puts base in his voice, like he’s doing right now while he had a glass of water hanging above your head, there was nothing left to do except comply.

You grumble as you lift yourself up from off the floor and your eyes are hardened balls of cement when you grab the water and the pills.

“You complain about cramps but never actually want to drink the pills I bring,” Seungmin murmurs with his hands on his hips. You watch him in his billowy white shirt and his sweatpants and you can feel your anger beginning to slip away.

Chugging down your water, you place the glass on the coffee table before you begin to grumble, “Instead of medicating me all the time it wouldn't hurt to- I dunno- hold me-” the second those words leave your mouth Seungmin pulls you into his arms with a deep and heavy eye roll as the both of you fall backwards into the couch. “That was my second order of business, Babe.” He nuzzles his nose into tje side of your face and his hands pull yoir thigh pver his mich smaller one

“Unhand me, Demon!”

“Now I know you didn't eat because you never eat when you're like this,” your stomach, despite turning in nausea also manages to descend into a pit of butterflies, “But I'm going to make you a smoothie and you'll drink at least 2 gulps. Maybe even 3.”

You try to wrangle out of his grip but he keeps you there, “And you still haven't brushed your teeth, so you're doing that after the smoothie” Seungmin whispers, nearly causing an anyureseum as a places a delicate kiss to ypur cheek, as his hand comes up the back of your head, patting your hair down in intervals.

“Are you my dad?” You whisper, despite your eyes flitting shut. Your cramps, you're noticing, have already begun to ease up and Seungmin snickers as he watches the peace take over your countenance.

He leaves one more delicate kiss to your forehead before snickering, “don't piss me off” he says, tapping the skin of your thigh, “God, I love when you're like this,” you're unaware of the intensity with which Seungmin is looking down at you. “You like when I'm dying of pain?” You ask craning your neck back to haze into the vaguely serious face taking over your boufriend's features. While you examine the roundness of his cheeks and the contours of his visage, Seungmin's eyes are trained on you too. They're intense, dark holes of perpetual lust as his hand begins to rub up and down your thigh. “I like when you let me take care of you?” He whispers before lightly pushing his lips against yours. It begins as a whisper of a kiss, almost hy as the tips of your lips brush together. Seungmin sticks his tongue out, lapping shyly at your bottom lip.

You groan underneath him, only prompting him to shift until he's hovering over you, kissing you deeply.

“I need-” you try to move away but his lips chase yours, “I need to eat, remember-”

“Didn't say anything about me eating you-”

The lightening that slices down your spine is so vicious and so sudden and by the time you're pushing Seungmin off of you, you realize your cramps have completely dissipated.

“Make me a smoothie, and then we'll talk.”

[crownedcupidd]

I dunno if you mentioned it anywhere, but do you think you'd tap into any of the more obscure 'mons? I am *super* bias towards the duskull and litwick lines and ghosts in general, and the way you design pokemon fucks so hard, so if you did I'd love to see those too :3

Maybe! Hopefully? I can't really say for sure? I haven't actually drawn that many pokemon recently other than the starters, most of the other pokemon i've drawn are reallllyy old and I usually did them as a crossover with my own characters, which I have been thinking of doing some more, so you might see some other mons there.

I've kind of only like, just realized that im lowkey a pokemon superfan?? I drew those Gen 3 starters and had a wholeass epiphany like huh yeah I dont think the average person could name all 1025 pokemon actually i think you might enjoy this piece of media. So I definitely WANT to draw more pokemon in general, I'm just not sure what those will be. HOWEVER!!! I have done a couple of pokemon doodles as requests from friends so here you go :) i hope this gengar is ghosty enough for you (even if its pretty old haha)

And here's a bonus very rough and sketchy Altaria

I also have a Zygarde(s) hiding away in my files but I might wait to post that one until I draw Yveltal and Xerneas as well :eye:

and thank you veyr much for the kind words :3

[nachos-and-movies]

LEVIATHAN AS AN ANIME ON NETFLIX BRUH.

I done finished it 👍

I love the Leviathan book series. I love love love love them. I read them first in my first year in college, aka my shit year in college. These books were my Lifeline. I read them again during covid, to see if they were really good or if I was just Deeply 19 at the time I read them. Nope, they still slap. I’ve read them twice more ever since. I love them more every time I do. Every read-through I find something else that I love about it.

‘Girl disguises as boy because the fucking patriarchy’ is one of my favourite tropes. Fellow Mulan lovers, how’s life being trans? It’s one of the only series that I feel has done steampunk really well. I’m European, so I know my world war 1 history, unfortunately. I’m also a sucker for friendships grown stronger through mutual trauma. And characters who are stupid brave and grow into their own by saving and protecting each other. The world-building is So Good. Again: European, so Europe being divided by the technology they employ around the 1910’s makes So Much Sense. I totally have a bias for darwinism, I too would love beasties. There’s also fantastically beautiful illustrations by Keith Thompson. It’s like these books were made for me, I dunno what else to tell you. They read like butter, they’re so easy to get through. Read the damn books, they’re really good.

So when Scott Westerfeld’s instagram (yea, I know!!) announced there’d be an adaptation coming out, I was… afraid. Especially when they announced it was gonna be an anime. On netflix. And then the first stills were released and oh, fuck, I hated the designs for Alek and Deryn. I thought ‘this is gonna be awful, this is gonna be one of those adaptations that just Doesn’t Get it’. And then Scott Westerfeld was gonna be co-executive producer and, okay, MAYBE there’s some hope. Dude wrote the books, he’ll keep them on the straight and narrow, right? RIGHT?? I wasn’t gonna watch it. I thought, why was I gonna do that to myself, it was NEVER gonna live up to the books. I’ve read them so many times, the visuals I had imprinted in my mind were always gonna be better than this old-school anime design! But then I kept seeing stills from it on Westerfeld’s insta, and he seemed really really excited about it.

So. Fine. Okay, first Saturday I’m off work, I decided, I’ll watch it all in one go. I’ll lay down my expectations, I’ll try to put away my bias, and I’m just gonna enjoy a story that I KNOW I will like! And so I did and…

Yeah so… not as good as the books, not even close. Obviously.

Good on it’s own though? I’d say so, yeah.

It’s hard to really review it on its own as someone who loves the books so much, since most of the fun I had watching this was me going !!! at things I recognise from the books. It’s not a very well known book series so any reference I see of it makes my heart beat a lil’ faster. Like I said before, they nail the core of the story pretty dang well: Alek’s and Deryn’s characters, their friendship, the clanker and the darwinism cultures, the war and what it means for everyone, being noble vs protecting your own, etc. The animation is pretty good too - despite my fears - mixing 2D and 3D so the characters can match the technology and the world around them. Deryn and Tesla’s mannerisms especially were very well done. I’m even guessing some mocap was used, the animations were so fluid and human. I also liked the changes they made to save time and keep the pace up. It faltered a bit in the Behemoth arc but really picked it back up again in Goliath. It’s definitely understandable how much they cut and changed from Goliath since that book is…. A goliath. Heh. And the changes they made, unlike other adaptations, made Sense. There was no loss of character or story or the message. Hell, even Volger’s lil’ turn-about Made Sense. All we lost was some events from the books. That’s really it, everything else that’s important was kept pretty cleverly.

I did a live-blogging situation on my main blog, if you’re curious as to what my reactions were as I was watching.

I didn’t think it was great though, however I cannot for the life of me tell if this is a ‘me being biased towards the books and my own audiovisual experience as I was reading’ thing, but I do think it’s something a lot of other people would subconsciously notice. I missed the epicness of what I associate with the Leviathan series.

For example, I really liked the addition of music in the story, now that the medium allowed for it. Alek using his skill with music (and the memory of his mother) to control the walkers, is a stroke of genius. And him and Deryn being able to connect and find each other again as friends, because they grew up with the same song. Brilliant! I loved it! But the general soundtrack was kinda… just there. I personally associate the music playing in Phantasialand’s Rookburgh and the music from the Golden Compass PS game with the series. Cus I listened to them as I was reading them but I picked them specifically BECAUSE I felt like they fit so well. Rookburgh specifically is MADE for a steampunk background. The heavy clanks and the sound of steam releasing is part of the music and made me feel like I was on a constantly moving airship. The ghibli-esque piano was nice but it also felt pretty superficial. Like there was silence that needed to be filled, so we did what never fails and added something soft and nice, and when there’s action, we’ll add some drums and trumpets. Yeah, that’s fine but it’s not “we’re using a whale as an airship to bomb german warships”. It should’ve been… bombastic, huge, swooping! Much like in Rookburgh, like you’re on a rollercoaster!

I also missed movement on the Leviathan. For a ship that literally cannot be still, the shots were oddly static. Of course, that’s for budget reasons, but I would’ve liked a little bit of swaying to have been added in editing, maybe have a hanging lamp in the background going back and forth a little or something similar. Same with sound design: if I didn’t know better, I would’ve forgotten we were in a steel hanger under the belly of a flying whale. There was also - and I’m pretty pissed about this - scale issues. Like literally. There was a point where midshipman were climbing the side of the Leviathan and they were the same size as the directional engines. Uh, what? No, no, the WHALE is a WHALE. The humans on top of it should be teeny teeensy tiny! Lil’ lil humans! Toiny!

All of these are kinda nitpicks but it’s a genuine issue I think the series had: lack of scale. A whale flying through the skies as an airship to fight war battles, should be in the dictionary under ‘epic’. The series is good, but it’s not Epic. And it Should be. Like imagine Pacific Rim, without that boss soundtrack, without the sound design of heavy steel clashing with the storm waves of the sea or the grotesque monster flesh of kaiju, that makes your headphones shudder so much they fall off your head! Or the robot to human scale is just a little off. You’d feel something is missing! It wouldn’t punch you in the gut as much as it does!

Not to say that there weren’t any epic moments in the show! The finale kicked ass! And every time they released the fletchet bats and the strafing hawks, HO! The scenic shots that showcased the landscapes were gorgeous! And Deryn is so funny, I love them so much. And Klopp. And Alek. I love them all so much. And Bovril was so cute. Bovril Plushie When?

So yeah, it’s not blow-your-socks-off fantastic, but it’s pretty entertaining and worth the Saturday. If you’re into the ‘girl dresses as boy cus fucking patriarchy’ trope, steampunk, some kickass worldbuilding and the 1910’s, watch Leviathan on Netflix! (And then read the books and thank me later.)

Have some art I drew when I still liked to draw!

[ultimatebottom69]

And this is exactly what I mean when I say "Luka haters don't even know why they hate him except showing incredible bias"

You telling me to not listen to the motherfucking creator of the show is one thing.

Like ok let's just be fine with that.

Now you telling my bitchass. Deadass btw. That you think Luka would make sexual remarks toward Mizi ?? Deadass ?? The man who is obssessed with our beautiful Hyuna is gonna harass someone that is 8 years younger then him (which if we look at the comic the agressor has like 4 years more at best or same age) talk about the bird and the bees and randomly slap her...

The same Luka who let himself get beaten up like a pulp on broad ass TV. No struggling whatsoever...Behind closed doors slapped Mizi...

Oh and let's not even add to the fact this "Luka" would somehow give a shit what Till's name is.

I agree that the artstyle is changing but do you sometimes sit and genuinely think before writing a 300 word essay ?

"What Sua said" hum...you mean saying how easy Mizi had it ? How does this relate to this random punk ass being Luka ?

Also your Luka looking a bit healthy over there. No purple fingers and a mole on his face.

Change of topic but frankly the whole "Till got SA" theory was always a big "I mean...I don't know why you would think they would do that but sure." Kind of thing.

Yeah his clothes are disheveled because they had to restrain his ass due to him acting like a rabid dog (aka another Tuesday) he is sweating profusely because at this point in time he thinks Mizi is maybe dead or worse abandonned him so a panic attack.

Plus I am wondering you all never had to struggle against someone's stronger grasp because let me tell you you get sweaty and tired very fast.

And the Alien petting him is like how you pet a dog. But i mean the SA part can be interesting but frankly if Till got SA.

Ivan definitely did the lyrics "He is smooth, flexible, quite easy" followed by a rant about how you must ignore it and just stand tall is to me a bigger SA implied then anything.

Luka may have too. After all we know they have no real body autonomy.

Anyway. I don't like speaking of SA os casually but I always interpreted the Aliens seeing the humans like dogs and cattles...Statsically speaking there is not that many zoophiles even amongst humans. Dunno why the Aliens would be higher in percentage anywya.

The punk in the comic ain't Luka and I'll die on that hill. I'll kill him first though.