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I am so glad that no matter how many times I try I can never feel the dreaded conditioned taste aversion for lemon. And hopefully celery
#for context: I fucking love lemon#and eat lemon related foods at least twice a week#my buddy and I zoom called through lunches during pandemic year and I ate basically only lemon-bean salad#anyways I got the stomach flu#but I have triumphed#emotionally and physically#I dunno abt my Chen exam tho I might bomb that tomorrow (have NOT been able to study)
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✦ Pink Skies ✦
#digital art#artists on tumblr#art#illustration#my art#my ocs#original art#original characters#motorcycle#biker#punk#drawing#Noah#been listening to Zach Bryan's Pink Skies on loop lately#So that's the soundtrack for this one#Let's pretend or a moment that this is totally Noah's Tansy and not mine#unfortunately i don't have a spare Triumph sitting around i can use for reference#so the Kawasaki will have to do#(Also i just kinda really wanted to draw her ok)#Anyways here's Noah. Off to somewhere even he doesn't know where is yet#(probably mcdonalds)
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-Brutus and as many as 60 co-conspirators, circa March 14th, 44 BC
#ides of march#would you believe that I created this image all the way back in january STRICTLY BECAUSE I HAVE THAT MUCH BEEF WITH CAESAR?#this was created because he insisted that the Rhine was the border between Gaul and Germany#just so he could declare that he'd 'conquered' Gaul#but there's very little evidence that the peoples living in those places even viewed the Rhine as a barrier between lands#and their continued fighting against rome along that border line could indicate that they were in fact#attempting to reunite lands occupied by foreign invaders#anyway fuck you caesar i hope your triumph sucked ass#and that everyone who ever made bald jokes about you found idk a denarius in their pocket unexpectedly#yes i'm retroactively wishing dead people good and ill i'm complicated like that
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So I just picked up another Vorkosigan book (having inhaled the first 8 or 9 books several months ago), and I dont know if it's that I've been away or that this series just keeps gaining momentum, but I am here to tell you the PLOTTING on these bad boys is THE TIGHTEST SHIT. Listen. Every time I pick up one of these books I underestimate it. somehow!!!! I say to myself "ah yes, this will be merely good." AND THEN IT KNOCKS MY SOCKS OFF. it's not just the plotting. It's the fact that this woman UNDERSTANDS PEOPLE SO GODDAMN GOOD. And she's like. Genuinely progressive about it. do NOT be fooled by the archaic language. she's got THE SPIRIT in a MAJOR way. And in my (huge metropolitan) library's app, where you borrow nothing without waiting 4-50 weeks, her stuff is TRAGICALLY always available. Please help me create hold times for these books! You'll thank me!!!
#vorkosigan saga#lois mcmaster bujold#one of those writers that has me seething with jealousy <3#its so deceptive too!! very matter of fact style that seems almost factual#will have you cryin in your cereal#whooping in triumph in the lab#i havent said anything about what the series is about thats a weak spot i admit#do look up the recommended reading order rather than reading in publication order tho#EVERY SINGLE ONE IS A BANGER#they have good audiobooks is how ive read them btw
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YURI!!!! THE CROWD GOES WILDDD
#wander over yonder#save woy#commander peepers#woy wander#gijinka#starry eyed#wandering eye#i just noticed the second wanders legs look weird..#dhmu💔💔💔#prob wont be that active im gonna have a vacation tmr#now im tempted to draw triumph anf awesome having a vacation#okay im lying I’ll probably still be active IF i get mobile data#my art
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the thing about imogen saying that "if getting rid of delilah means getting rid of [launda] too, it's not worth it" is that it doesn't really change anything, does it? yes it provides laudna with reassurance that she is loved regardless of what lives in her head, but it doesn't mean that imogen doesn't still have negative feelings about delilah being there. "I love you more than I hate delilah" doesn't mean she isn't still disgusted by delilah. I get the sense that this is not an important distinction for imogen--she's said her piece, she's told laudna that she matters more, and that's the end of it for her. laudna matters more. her meaning is crystal clear: I love you and I'm choosing you.
but laudna has been obsessed with imogen saying she was disgusted by delilah watching them. she said herself she can't stop thinking about it, and marisha has said she can't stop thinking about it either, out of game. as far as they know currently, delilah's soul is twined in and around laudna's to the point where they are indistinguishable. the only way to get rid of delilah is to lose laudna. laudna doesn't know where she ends and delilah begins. imogen loves her, but imogen is disgusted by delilah. how does that work if they are one and the same? how does laudna cope with the fact that an inextinguishable part of herself is both genuinely evil and hated by the person she loves the most? at what point does being disgusted by delilah become being disgusted by a piece of laudna herself?
#it's WILD and fascinating and very difficult#I think it's a super interesting dynamic and I really want to see where this leads#because unless they find a way to get rid of delilah without killing laudna#how DO you have a long-term relationship with this hanging between you two?#and again I think it's a thing where Imogen just assumes they'll ''deal with it'' in some unspecified manner and it'll be fine#because love triumphs all right? that's how it has to be#but i'm not sure laudna thinks that#then again we'll see! who knows! it's interesting though!#cr spoilers#anyway i WILL maintag this one because i really like this one#critical role
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people don’t write it often, probably bc it’s a bit intense and can be triggering
but my favorite type of darling are the ones who are 100% seriously willing and able to kill themselves to escape their yan
i don’t care about the having the will to survive and escape i want to have the pettiness and spite to take away the only thing they truly love (me)
ooooh ur right nonniee!!!! ☝🏽☝🏽
iii i agree it can be quite triggering. think for a lot of people it also breaks the immersion; if ur reading yandere to feel like you matter to the extent where someone is so enamoured with you they’d condemn the law and their own morals, it defeats the purpose if darling just ,,, like,,,, kills themselves,,,,,,
but there’s also a sort of power in that!!
the sheer devastation it would entail for them, to lose the object of their affection by their own fucking hand. they promised to keep you safe, tucked away from the rest of the world and all its dangers; and yet, in a tragically ironic way—
you were the one thing they couldn’t protect you from.
wonder who gets the last laugh, then.
#i personally do read a lot of fics on here#where i would just darling die than deal with the depravity of the yandere#but as a fantasy#you always wanna triumph#preferably alive#and i think that’s why so many people like subby characters#you can still be drunk on the power you’ve got over this person#only with the added bonus of not having to kill urself first#tw suicide#tw self harm#tw sh#ring ring
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shoutout to robert aramayo's blistering agony at elrond having to kiss galadriel. it's not possible to hate that moment more than he did but i sure am doing my best.
#i have a burgeoning annoyance over how the show is treating galadriel and all the female characters this season#she's either on her hands and knees begging the men around her for absolution for falling victim to the world's purest evil#or she's being lectured and chided by elrond and gil-galad#or she's being caged and displayed and kissed without consent#and she's had no meaningful narrative arc thus far#and this is layered on the show's brutality towards mirdania and rian#giving rian a moment of triumph sure before her death but mirdania was not given a single moment of intelligence or grace#and this talk from the cast about galadriel being humbled is an uncomfortable insight into the show runner's opinion on the character#she was a victim the same as celebrimbor#why then do we assign total blame to galadriel but understand brimby has been terrorised when both of them were deceived?#anyway shoutout to robert for his class at navigating those tricky questions about the kiss#elrond#trop#the rings of power
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Daten Route!
A tiny animation loop for the last day of @usukweek
Ty everyone for following along 💕
#first time ever making/animating a puppet. I definitely have a lot to learn…#hetalia#aph america#hws america#aph england#hws england#ukus#usuk#usukus#straystarship art#animation#usukweek#not me triumphing over my adhd just to complete this shit
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Ninjago writers if they weren’t cowards /j (I haven’t seen the Russian dub so IDK if she’s there, I’ll go nuts if she is though)
Also after drawing Sora I finally understand they hype around her design (I drew most of this two weeks ago lol I just didn’t finish it until tonight)
Something something Mother and Son Skating Competition
#because the mechs have giant wheels y'see#ninjago#ninjago dragons rising#I love these two so much literally my otp#like they triumph over Jaya for me that's how much I lob them#also Edna is wearing a pilot jacket???#she was a pilot???#would explain where Jay partially gets his love of flying lol#also I got better at drawing Lloyd lol :p#ninjago ed#ninjago edna#ninjago lloyd#lloyd garmadon#ninjago sora#my stuff#forgor to draw the controls in the third panel smh
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kiryuu sibling stasis post-32 is so interesting to me. nanami tries to leave and is (temporarily but also, crucially, violently) prevented from doing so by touga and akio. after this experience she puts distance between herself and them: she leaves touga’s phone in the car, she resigns from the student council (though she dons her old uniform still), she repeatedly dismisses and undermines the authority of the rose code, of end of the world, of akio, of touga. but she’s still in ohtori, isn’t she? uncomfortable with the idea of leaving, uncertain if it’s really possible. she tried before, and it hurt her. deeply. it’s so interesting to me, nanami’s agency and how she limits her exertion of it after 32, when she realises it for what it is. contrast that with touga, who accepts this weird stalemate between them, who is, really, uninterested in having any relationship of any kind with nanami if he can’t gain something from her. he’s very passive with her after 32, compared to the passivity he’d always feigned towards her before in order to stoke reactions from her and then exploit them. i was thinking about how touga has always been able to sever his relationship with nanami, but chosen not to; first out of a sense of obligation (‘we should live to help each other’) then a realisation of how that could be exploited. i was thinking about how nanami has never realised her ability to leave, in part because it is limited by touga and the harm he does her. i was thinking about the desperation and confusion akio calls out to anthy with as she leaves. i was thinking about how different that is to the kiryuus’ strange semi-breakdown; touga doesn’t want or need nanami, and nanami might love her brother but she cannot trust him or feel safe around him, doesn’t want to see him anymore; she’s itching to leave, and just a little scared (you know, because last time she tried that her brother assaulted her), and he’s not doing anything because ignoring her means he doesn’t have to deal with the emotions of her leaving or staying. something something gendered power dynamics something something tragic siblings
#local kiryuu sibling enjoyer has thoughts about them#i wrote this like three days ago but it’s getting posted now i have to speak my truth#touga loves a bit of inaction#nanami doesn’t but what the fuck else is she gonna do?? be brave? she tried that already#and she WILL try it again and i don’t think touga will try particularly hard to stop her#i think he might try a little but in doing so he’ll just become more aware of how much he doesn’t want to do that#and is only doing it bc of a vague sense of obligation to a perspective on life that he’s already questioned a la utena#im just. i have so many feelings about them. i bet none of you were aware of that fact already#i am once again wondering: does touga love nanami? what does that mean for each of them?#and im concluding: i really don’t think he does#i think he’s felt obligation to her and turned bitter towards that emotion and her in turn#i think he has no idea how to feel about her so he ignores the problem and exploits HER feelings as he thinks he understands them#until he realises that he doesn’t and has to deal (a little bit) with the ramifications of that#touga and anthy when nanami makes them self reflect. or swagever. the 32 way. neither of them would ever admit this but it’s true#dais.txt#her tragedy her triumph
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the story doesn't care that your heart got broken yesterday, or that you nicked your thumb while chopping the onions today. it doesn't care for the medals you received in 5th grade and it doesn't care for the raise that you keep trying for. the story just asks to be read, and you are its most beloved being for the fact of having read it.
#does this make sense#to the story it doesnt matter how much you have failed or triumphed#it just asks you to consume it#see me. embrace me. tell me your eyes lingered if only for one word; one page#i was alive in your mind for a moment and that is enough#you can return to your busy schedule and your countless notifications now#i know that there was a brief moment when it was only you and i#DOES THIS MAKE SENSe#orv
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The cute Damian + familial bits of DC vs Vampires: Hunters, you're welcome.
#A Robin Triumphs on Mount Olympia#dc comics#comics#damian wayne#dick grayson#alfred pennyworth#batfamily#dc vs vampires#dc vs vampires: hunters#now you don't have to buy it or read it#I logged on to tumblr today and figured Id check whats happening with my little boy#the verdict is in - comics are SO fucking bad#homie hasn't grown an inch since he was 10 which would be more okay if his height was just like that#but its mostly cause comic artists kinda suck - especially nowadays#the writing is way worse lmao#Im just here for the little bits of damian whump#also why the fuck he look like tim drake in the new batman and robin??? They just are SO bad omg#Imma cruise some more cute bits - so know one else gotta read this garbage
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Why Jason Grace is The Most Tragic Character in the Riordanverse
*in no way is this trying to dial down Nico's own suffering, I'm just stating my case for Jason because godsdamn SOMEBODY needs to say it!*
@most-tragic-character-tournament here's propoganda i came out guns ablazing
List of why fans are saying Nico:
Lost his mother
lost years of his life
found out he was a demigod at age 10
lost sister at 10
rough relationship with his dad
closeted gay
crush is madly in love with somebody else
forced to come out
List of why Jason is more tragic:
Lost his mom to alcoholism/mental decline
Lost his ENTIRE FUCKING CHILDHOOD because Said Mom gave him up to Juno to be raised by a PACK OF WOLVES who would've EATEN HIM if he was WEAK FOR EVEN A SECOND - AS A FUCKING TWO YEAR OLD
Was a trained demigod FROM THE GET-GO (again, TWO YEARS OLD)
Because of previously stated separation, was TAKEN FROM HIS SISTER WHO LOVED HIM SO MUCH SHE RAN AWAY BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T TAKE THE GUILT AND FEAR AND RAGE THAT FILLED HER AT HIS ABSENCE
Was set up into a "perfect" relationship by Juno/Hera WHILE HAVING HIS MEMORIES TAKEN
Jason may not have had the awful forced outting Nico had to go through, but...that's not really his fault? Nobody has any control over their sexual identity, and Jason? Well. He never really got to explore it. Because that was taken from him too.
Thinks he LOST LEO VALDEZ, ONE OF HIS ACTUAL FIRST FRIENDS, WHO LIKED HIM FOR HIM AND NOT BECAUSE OF HIS STATUS
FORCED TO COMPLY TO A DEMANDING SOCIETY THAT EXALTED HIM FROM DAY 1 BECAUSE HIS DAD IS THE OH-SO-IMPORTANT JUPITER (*cough victim of nepotism cough*)
AND WHEN HE TRIES TO COMBAT THAT NEPOTISM HE KEEPS GETTING PUSHBACK UNTIL HE FALTERS
then. then his girlfriend breaks up with him - not because of any drama, or even a disagreement, but over a very valid point
their relationship didn't exactly start out very...honestly. Jason had been mind-wiped of all memories and Piper had fake ones implanted into her to make her think she liked Jason as more than a friend. sure. they had a pretty nice relationship, but when everything slowed down and they took a look at their lives?
Piper's the one who sees it first, and makes the decision. Jason is heartbroken, but understands - he even, dare I say, agrees that they should end the relationship. it was built on fake memories - you could say it was built on lies.
and now Jason has this opportunity to step back and analyze who he is and what he wants.
what he finds is depressing. everything he's had, everything's he's been up till now...
it's not him.
he never wanted to be raised by Lupa and her wolves.
he never wanted to be Jupiter's son
he never wanted to be the exalted leader Camp Jupiter praised him for
From day 1 his life was somebody else's. his first steps were under the tutelage of a wolf, not of the loving eyes of his sister
Camp Jupiter only ever saw him as the demigod to be praised and turn to above all others, even before he became praetor.
Jason's life...was never his own.
and now that he's away from all that pressure and expectation...he doesn't know who he is.
Son of Jupiter?
Champion of Juno?
Praetor of the Twelfth Legion?
Member of the Prophesized Seven?
Hero of Olympus?
no. he was never himself under these names.
he was never...Jason.
but maybe now he could start navigating his own life. without some god intervening for once. this would be good for him, and for Piper, to find their own way.
but then. then they talk to Herophile...and find out one of them will die. And Jason? Well, he's not going to let Piper be taken from the life she deserves. he may not be her boyfriend, her knight in shining armor, but he sure as HELL loves her - especially as a friend. And if there's one thing you should know about Jason? It's that he loves his friends.
so what does he do? He sacrifices himself. He duels Caligula himself, and urges Piper, Meg, and Apollo to Go, save yourselves! and -
he's stabbed. through the chest. the only thing he can do? Look to Apollo, to the blue gaze so much like his own drenched in horror, and ask; Remember. because he didn't get to live the life he wished, but maybe Apollo could - no, Apollo can, he can make the difference Jason wanted. Because he trusts Apollo.
Jason doesn't regret his sacrifice. he saved Piper from the prophecy, after all. He saved Apollo & Meg's lives too.
in fact, Jason didn't really mind dying. Because he didn't have much of a life either. And a life like that? shrug It's worth sacrificing for those who deserve theirs.
and as icing on the cake, remember who Jason's father is? The almighty, all-powerful Jupiter himself, King of the Gods?
he doesn't do a damn thing to help Jason. Not a single. Thing.
because Jupiter/Zeus doesn't care about his children. Especially his sons.
Zeus saved Thalia. But he didn't even try to save Jason.
Trying would have at least lessened the pain...
People like to claim Jason is a bland, boring character who's never suffered a minute in his life. That he's a golden retriever with no flaws.
Well.
Take a look up there and ask yourself - it that the life of a boy who knows no suffering?
Because it sure as hell don't look that way to me.
To me, it looks like Jason was a used, depressed young man who never got to choose his own path. Who's father abandoned him first to his wife's mercy, then to a cruel emperor's.
Jason Grace suffered.
and he never got to live that happy life he saw within the Fates.
Never got to get that family, those grandchildren he saw himself telling the story of the Argo II to.
Because The Fall of Jason Grace is a true, utter tragedy.
#jason grace#i have feeeeelings#remember when people complained about jason being “boring” and then rick was like “okay he's dead now” and then those same people screamed#about never reading toa because “how could rick do that!!! jason was supposed to marry piper and have kids!!!! :(((”#well my friends you DO remember the first page of the lightning thief don't you?#“look i didn't want to be a half-blood”#being a half-blood is dangerous#sometimes it can get you killed in painful nasty ways#~don't say i didn't warn you#- percy jackson#rick warned us at the very beginning#in greek mythology...there's triumph and victory#but the one thing greece is known for in theater?#it's tragedy#and rick perfectly displays it with the fall of jason grace#life's not all sunshine and rainbows#it's not going to be “they all lived happily ever after the end”#it wouldn't be a greek story without tragedy#and really...how many of you ~actually~ cared about jason until he died#hmm?#i'm not judging#i ~was~ one of those people#he wasn't my favorite but i was more...eh about him#he existed for me#until i took a step back and looked at his life and went...#oh.#he's not who i thought he was#and he's not who you think he is either#thank you for coming to my tedtalk#the burning maze
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Doodle dump boooo👎👎👎
#wander over yonder#save woy#woy#woy oc#woy ocs#oc x canon#original characters#ultra kind of reminds me of shigeo tbh😭#its the hair i tell ya..#I should eatch mob pyscho again#starry eyed#wandering eye#also wander and peepers r stargazing at the third photo and wander is yapping abt something#i made triumph biologically 28 becaude lore wise it would not make sense if he was a thousand years old#like i actually have lore plans for him😂#alr i do but i dont know how to execute them#my art
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sorry that i've deprived you all of a wip preview, anyway; deity-fies your local bad future mystic magic nuke
#wip#rottmnt#rottmnt mikey#future mikey#once again failing the 'dont draw f!mikey crying for once' challenge#im sorry he's just so great to dramatify#the one with the most heart....carrying all the grief and rage#something something the violence it takes to be this kind#SOMETHING SOMETHING MIKEY BEING THE SPIRIT OF WAR#of slaughter you ask? the spirit of war tactics and strategies? of murderous victories? of warmongering triumph?#the spirit of war is a tragedy#the spirit of war is grief of mothers losing their sons and daughters#of men losing their families#of wailing children wandering battlefields lost in the carnage#the spirit of war is ravaged homes and plundered people#its the cries for mercy and waning hope and tearful terror#there is no glory in this spirit#only grief. only rage. how dare you call upon it#sorry i went on a tangent#i have like. all this handcrafted lore of my F!Mikey that i havent dropped on any of you yet#so i might look a bit unhinged#[SHAKES VIOLENTLY IN PLACE GROWLING AND FOAMING AT THE MOUTH LIKE A FERAL CHIHUAHUA]#okay im normal again#<- lying
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