#blaring in my head

[gio-cosmo]

I’ve been playing bg3 so much I hear the dice roll sound effect in my dreams

[sunshines-child]

The idea for the drawing is Percy who looks beautiful and detached, wears translucent blue silk, his hair falls to his shoulders. But his hand is protectively gripping Nico's shoulder.

I love this so much but i have like. 5 seperate art projects. this is going to haunt me forever until i say fuck it to sleep and draw it all in one sitting.

[dryya-doesnt]

More doodles from today 🫡🫡

[yaboirezzy]

Normal people when they see a robot version of themselves: "OMG WTF ARE YOU-?!"

Me when I see a robot version of myself:

(Originally a joke about how everytime there's a 'Character vs Robot Version of Character' situation people would just slap the 'Sonic CD' title on it)

[pandoa]

the rook hunt multiverse is unmatched

[neodiekido]

god i love how kiibo, who's the one the in-universe audience seeing through the eyes of, (so, the outside world's "protagonist" of v3) is also a makoto expy. makotos all the way down brotha

[navree]

Slade must have serious mommy issues because why is he immediately so hostile towards anyone who's close to Amanda Waller? He's so obsessed with being her number one.

His determination to be Waller's second in command to the point of genuine emotional investment in it is such a batshit choice, but honestly every choice they've made about literally Deathstroke the Terminator in this show is batshit, God bless.

There's so much to unpack about this dude that is entirely unintentional. The fact that he constantly, irreverently, answers any "who are you" question with "we're the good guys" when that's clearly Lane's interior justification, like he finds it funny. The fact that he appears to just have no respect for Lane at all even though he was the one in charge until very recently. And yeah, an attachment to Waller specifically in that he stays at her side and is immediately beefing with Lex for her attention (and apparently doesn't even have any reservations after she admitted in front of him that she deliberately let Livewire escape when that ended with him getting his eye fried out of his head). Hell, why the fuck is he even a part of Task Force X? Was Leslie right, was he originally in the regular military before he got recruited by Waller (or maybe Lane)? Why did he stay? What's his investment in trying to stop an alien invasion? He clearly doesn't have any ideological convictions like Lane and Waller do, and he's not that much older than Clark and co so he clearly wasn't around for Zero Day.

You have given me a 25 year old, clean shaven, white haired even tho he's only just old enough to rent a car on his own, golden eyed version of Deathstroke with the most insane characterization that has ever been given to that character, or honesty any character. Tell me more about him! What's his deal? I wanna know so much more about him, I want an entire issue of the tie-in comic devoted to him specifically. Hell, I've harped on this before, but is he even married yet? I hope he is, I really hope that this fucking guy has a wife and small children at home, I think that's the best thing they could ever do.

[jangmi-latte]

For Ace's cards, which ones weren't drawn by Yana? I know the platinum jacket wasn't drawn by her, but what about the other cards?

i'm not sure myself but halloween and masterchef ace looks different to me. he looks younger? than his original cards and looking kinda puffy faced (he's cute). look:

in comparison to these (which are yana's):

i can't be the entire judge myself. i just have this inkling that yana didn't draw certain cards based on just the art style alone. yeah you can say there can be changes but yana has this consistent level of balance in all her works (since the beginning of twst).

[hotrubbertar]

Dude...

[batsplat]

The reigning World Champion got the drive out of the final corner, but not enough to make the difference over the line. So Stoner did the smart thing, attaching himself to Rossi's tailpipe, never more than a breath behind the Italian, turning The Doctor's usual tactics against the old master. Flattered by such attention, Rossi returned the compliment, looking positively Stoneresque in his obliviousness to what was happening behind him. There could have been one Ducati behind him, or a thousand, Valentino Rossi seemed to be riding in blissful, and willful, ignorance of what was going on to the rear.

(x) kinda cute if u think about it. both of them taking on the role of the other in their most infamous duel. casey turning valentino's tactics 'against the old master'. valentino 'returning the compliment' by acting like casey. the line between the pair of them blurring in the heat of battle. 'flattered by such attention'...

there's an ask I am attempting to answer rn where I'm slapping my hands not to start using agassi/sampras quotes to talk about the rossi/stoner rivalry. so I'm just gonna do it here instead. this sampras quote is not not relevant imo:

and to ME this agassi quote also works as a description of laguna 2008:

(see here for more about the agassi/sampras rivalry)

the challenges of a rivalry forcing both sides not just to adapt but also to imitate each other... the tension causing this blurring of the line between the two of them, despite how defined this rivalry is by their differences... no hope of justice, and everyone will blame the victim...

also. not to be too bold here. but this bit is also sort of valentino/casey, wherein they both have a very different understanding of what constitutes 'best' and 'worst':

casey IN SOME WAYS low key valentino's favourite rival solely during the years where they were actually competing for titles, because he's super challenging and tricky to beat and forces valentino to get creative but isn't emotionally messy and is instead kinda fun to play with. valentino switches to casey's tyre in 2008 - he has to learn to do what casey has already accomplished and succeed on the bridgestones, because that's the only way to compete against casey. valentino is a better rider in 2008 for having had to figure out the casey stoner puzzle!! admittedly he'd prefer to have done all that in a season where he spent a LITTLE more time actually racing w2w with his competitors in a way that would've played more to his strengths as a rider, but that's mostly not casey's fault... and crucially they have their One Defining Battle where valentino forcibly wrenches casey and their rivalry from casey's comfort zone to valentino's. and it's not just one race, right - the whole point of that battle is that implicitly it's valentino threatening casey by suggesting he will always do this when given half a chance. valentino learns from casey and adjusts his approach and then takes control of the rivalry by dragging casey down into the dirt with him

and then you've got casey, who very much did not love this rivalry. who is always talking about how much he learned from valentino, how he learned about having to stand up for himself on the track, with the media, had to learn to treat some riders with less respect, to suck up to the press, to race more aggressively, to sell himself better - and crucially NONE of these things he would want to be doing in an ideal world!! he doesn't want to have to ride aggressively and he CERTAINLY doesn't want to be a pr merchant. but he gets pretty good at all of these things... because he has to. because that's the sort of challenge valentino poses for him. and. again. not to get too bold here. but what's also interesting is how... there is just this sense that casey's development doesn't just help him in fighting valentino: the rivalry makes him an all-round better competitor. casey doesn't just talk about having to race valentino differently due to valentino's aggression - instead it's "after two years of racing people who don't worry about you", he's had to change. which, yes, is obviously mostly indirectly slagging off valentino, but in that same answer he's also saying EUROPEANS simply do not understand what he's talking about - this IS a grudge that extends beyond valentino, even if it's always focused around him. (obviously europeans are not inherently more aggressive riders than anglos but... let's not even touch that.) laguna is a turning point of his CAREER, not just of that particular rivalry. it made him realise he had to race only for himself, which is an ethos he carried with him even when they weren't direct rivals anymore. likewise, casey was already constantly feeling misrepresented by the media long long before valentino began working his dark magic. casey came to realise that refusing to engage with the media simply wasn't going to work for him... it's a process valentino jumpstarted, but its effects on casey's approach went beyond the immediate scope of that rivalry, eventually transforming casey into a far more effective communicator for it. casey learned valentino's tricks because that's what it takes to succeed in the sport - both in the literal sense of succeeding on-track as well as the more abstract sense of getting people on your side, selling your story to people. winning them over. even to casey, valentino remains the ultimate point of reference

and these are the parts of the sport casey wishes didn't exist, and they're all so closely connected to valentino. and THAT is where the tension comes from, because casey hates valentino in one breath and learns from him the other and always has to reckon with how much he is willing to cross his own lines to succeed. and it helped him be a better rider! but not in ways he actually liked. this grim tone in which he talks again and again about having had to learn to respond to what an arsehole valentino was... he did not want this. he did not want to have to learn these things. and yet casey ended up becoming a little more like valentino than he had been when their rivalry began. and so his discomfort with valentino becomes his discomfort with the sport becomes his discomfort with himself. and thus even for all the obvious contrast between the pair of them, the line that separates them would occasionally still be blurred

[13eyond13]

My most blindly patriotic Canadian trait is angrily adding the letter U back to all my words with "or" in them whenever autocorrect tries to change them into being spelled the American way

[bleeding-hart]

some sketches

based on @theicarusconstellation's writing

I keep thinking of details I left out and stuff I need to fix but if I let myself do that I'm going to go insane so we're leaving it at this

Also some Sirius because they're a fucking king and we love them (I very strongly hc them as genderqueer and using any pronouns, but specifically he/they/she/it)

The dress was a bit of a failure but hey it looks like fabric at least I think maybe

[sunnfish]

[ID: A digital illustration of Hanzawa Masato from Sasaki to Miyano. He is shown from a behind angle from the shoulders up, head hanging down wearily. The back of his neck and his cheeks and ear are angry shades of red and orange, as if badly sunburnt. His eye, barely visible from underneath his bangs, is an image of a photorealistic eye; it looks back towards the viewer. The background is a solid neon cyan. The artist's signature "sunnfish" is written in the corner. /End ID]

sunburn

[vinelark]

hmmmmhhmhm i should make another fic rec post soon. reading good fic is the best

[adoredmarigold]

I will literally never trust a white man with an Asian wife

[paradoxgavel]

bro i am not kidding when i say that every new lil scrap of content about sun and moon makes me feel like a rocket ship blasting off into space