#colorful misunderstanding

[gabi-trollastic]

Colorful Misunderstanding (Batim Au)

@happyqueenandgrumpydork *Around break time in Angie Studios, Branch was practicing some new demonic spells from his book.*

[somegrumpynerd]

Okay hear me out

Nightmare asking Killer if there's anything he wants and Killer says he wants to go see Color in the omega timeline. He hasn't seen him in a while and he misses his friend, but Nightmare takes this to mean he wants to leave and stay with Color permanently.

He agrees, because even though it makes him deeply sad to lose one of his men, he needs to let Killer go and live with other mortals and be happy. Killer texts Color and goes to pack a bag and Nightmare opens a portal and takes him to the omega timeline. They meet Color and he's looking very suspicious of Nightmare while Killer runs up all excited and off they go.

And Nightmare goes back to the castle. He spends the rest of the day in a weird daze, feeling kind of empty. When the others inevitably ask where Killer is, he hesitates and tells them he's in the omega timeline and doesn't elaborate further.

Eventually he shuts himself in his office for the night and just sits at his desk, staring into space. He's glad Killer's happy, of course, but it still hurts that he's gone. What is he going to tell the others when they start asking again, after it's been too long to be a simple visit? Will they all want to leave? They probably all have places to be, maybe he should let them go, would that be better for everyone? If Killer, who was always so eager and happy to be here, wanted nothing more than to get out, what does that mean for the rest of them?

This is the beginning of the end, isn't it? He'll have to let them all go, and then he'll be alone. Just like when he and Dream were kids and Dream would go off with his own friends. Except he can talk to Dream now, can't he? Maybe he should ask him about this. If nothing else maybe Dream would agree to visit him, once they're all gone.

But before he can pick up his phone and call his brother, it starts buzzing and it's Killer like "Okay I'm ready to come home now c:"

[sunnysidesevenup]

OKAY HEAR ME OUT SUNNY.

Arlo and Neige. But Gelphie (from Wicked). HEAR ME OUT THAT WOULD BE SO CUTEEEEE

I AM HEARING YOU LOUD AND CLEAR AMBSGDNSHSHHS

obviously their personalities are not a 100% fit so lots of things would be slightly different but OMGGGGGGGG GONNA BE THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR A WHILE.

I think this is the closest Arlo and Neige would ever get to an enemies to lovers plot lmao 😭

[mollysunder]

I see Arcane's marketing is thrusting a lot of blue on Jinx's persona, which is fine, but also a misdirection! I argue that the use of blue on Jinx represents THE IDEA that others have of Jinx rather than representing who Jinx really is. Jinx's true color, the one she paints over those closest to her, the one that represents her is PINK. Jinx is pink!

When we see Jinx in pieces either in or out of show where blue is the predominant color in the palette it's signaling to us the audience that this the Jinx that is perceived by the world around her, which includes Piltover AND Zaun. In this essay I will---

[moeblob]

son boy raccoon trash can man suffering in a dnd au as a cleric bc his warlock will not stop committing murders and he has to keep coming up with reasons murder is valid to convince the gm its fine and under control

[howlsofbloodhounds]

How do you feel about delta x killer. (Like general dynamics,,,)

Well considering I came up with their duo name, blood orange duo, and as far as I can tell, was one of the firsts that even made posts about them and their potential dynamics—I absolutely love them.

[asteriass]

Akane’s hair color

Every now and then I’ll remember that Akane is not a ginger but instead has brown hair… and I hear the sound of my heart cracking for no reason what so ever

In my defense: The anime made him a ginger…

In the anime’s defense: In artworks that have a super saturated color palette, Aida tends to (or at least used to) draw him with more of an orangey tint to his hair, so that’s probably what they were going by…

[solazu1]

Soooo, Harmonia and the love interest amiright?

had a lot of fun playing with colors and background, im trying something new ^_^!

[nonasemporium]

points at how john interacts with, talks about, and even resurrected g1deon

points at how john engages with augustine in comparison to both g1deon and mercy (will get more into in just a second)

points at how ianthe sought power in her relationship to john by shifting to a more masculine presentation, when before she had a relatively feminine presentation

points at how john seems to take some extra joy out of both shaping alecto into the appearance of a white woman and also how he seems to feel a very specific facet of power in how he engages with mercy, who is also presumably a white woman

points at the concept that if pyrrha WAS a white woman there's a very specific exchange in how john perceives and engages with her relationship to g1deon

points at how cavaliers are repeatedly referred to, in some way, as largely darker in skin-tone than the necromancers AND how they're constantly described with/compared to beasts in some sense

points at how john is fixated on the roman empire and also catholocism

points at actual catholicism (and the history it has with race and colorism)

now.

is it hard to see how colorism is also a possible read into his character

[liquidstar]

and now for something stupid

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

[gabi-trollastic]

Wonder if Clay's current appereance in Trolls Band Together is cause his current golf home place

[zrllosyn-art]

More oc-tober stuff, except this one is completely off prompt. I jus wanted to draw gachapon machines.

(he only has 300 yen)

[sephirajo]

lol there's a terf in imane khelif's tag all fucking surprised at the racism and misunderstanding of sex in the terf community.

like kiddo, child, sweet summer lass... if you don't like the smell of shit STAY OUT OF THE BARN.

[totally-not-an-awkward-okapi]

The recent Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero conversation once more got me thinking about my old pitch for if SubZero’s existence hadn’t been so violently rejected, so here’s a model sheet that’s Totally Definitely 100% Official.

[scarlet--wiccan]

So this is not supposed to be a gotcha question because I'm sure you'll have a good response to it, but what of the argument that Wanda and Pietro were white characters for the first 15 years of their history (arguably until VIsion & The Scarlet Witch vol. 2 confirmed Magda)? What gets to me on social media is the frequent statement that they were always Romani, a bit like (though not nearly as bad as) the idea that the Hitler-like Magneto of the 60s/70s should be read as a Holocaust survivor.

Well, I agree that it would be dishonest to claim that they were "always" intended to be Romani characters, because as far as we know, that's simply not the truth. But to that, I raise two points. The first-- so what? They didn't have a fully established backstory in the 60s or for most of the 70s, but the same can be said a lot of other Silver Age characters, including most of the original X-Men cast. So who cares? When the writers finally settled on a concrete backstory, this is what they came up with.

Second, I think the fact that they've existed as such for 40+ years, and that their heritage is an integral part of every iteration of their origin story-- not to mention the fact that it makes them arguably the most prominent Romani characters in the entire superhero genre/American pop culture writ large-- should be enough for people to accept that this is a key aspect of the characters, and it's not going to change. I'm sorry, but if you look at Wanda and Pietro's full 60 year publication history and all you can say is "well, for a small fraction of that time, years before I or most people currently purchasing comics were even born, they were white, so therefore I'm entitled to whitewash them," you're being racist. You just are.

We're talking about representations of a marginalized community, as well as depictions of, and narratives about, the way that community has historically been oppressed. You have to internalize that fact, and, like, have a moral backbone about it.

As for Magneto, I think that when we're reading material that spans decades, as comics do, we have to develop the ability to simultaneously read the text as it was written at the time of publication, AND view it in context of the larger continuity. I agree that it's hard to reconcile Magneto's characterization in the 60s and 70s with the version we know and love today, but you don't necessarily have to. And I have to say, this is a very different situation that I don't think compares at all to Wanda and Pietro. With Magneto, we've got two different character treatments that really conflict, but with the twins it's just an absence of information that was eventually expanded upon.