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License to Kitty.
#dungeon meshi#izutsumi#marcille donato#chilchuk tims#I still stand by my tags on the Izutsumi character study piece I did in January - but I will repeat myself on a few lines here:#I *really* love this character. I love that all of the dungeon meshi crew are complicated and have difficult to love components.#But Izutsumi is a particular kind of hard to love. I foresee a lot of people being turned off by her abrasiveness and lack of teamwork.#She is very self-centered and openly goes against what the party agrees on.#She's a picky eater in a story that is 50% about eating good and healthy food!#It is in part about her growth but admittedly even *then* she remains rather true to her self-centeredness.#Even though she isn't as nice or funny or compassionate as the others...Izutsumi is still someone worth loving.#Even the more difficult people are someone worth loving.#And those people in turn are people who have something and someone they love.#She may be a girlcat but she is the most human of them all.#I hope that if you are an anime only watcher and are feeling put off by her at the moment; you'll give her a chance.#By the way: *yes* I worked very hard to draw that skateboard pose. It was worth it.#EDIT: HAPPY 500th POST OF POORLY-DRAW-MDZS!!! What a comic to commemorate the milestone with!
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can i be real with yall i kind of hate fandom assigned siblingisms because often it’s just used as a signifier of closeness rather than an exploration of any of the things that make siblings narratively interesting imo. and i think a lot of that comes down to the fact that people enjoy the fantasy of relationships that are “naturally” eternal, ie, intimacy without having to do The Work. and i will never shame anyone for indulging a fantasy through fiction, this is just not something that really works for me. where siblings become compelling, imo, is within that unique “eternity” (whether societally imposed or genuinely forged in childhood and blood) and its power to trap and hurt. where the people involved don’t do The Work, or The Work they do isn’t enough. they’re tied together but some wounds take a long time to heal—if they ever do. wounds that they share, or wounds that they inflict on each other
#frogs.txt#this is why i fucking love ace attorney btw if you couldn’t tell#and like i knwo i describe it as kind of dour but it doesn’t have to be! i mean thinking about mia and maya—their relationship is filled#with so much heartwarming love but like. the fact of their relationship’s existence under the inherently violent and abusive fey clan#introduces so much complexity to them#and even still it’s not pessimistic at all! i’m not saying i want dark fucked up siblings necessarily. just stories that engage with like.#what it MEANS to be a sibling. what it means to love your sibling. or what it means to resent them or misunderstand them at the same time#siblingisms should be complicating not flattening
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watching the sdcc panel and i am just very :) about how sweet their answers to “what are some of the micro moments from the game that have stuck with you the most over the years?” are. taliesin saying what the fuck is up with that which was the first like The Party Gets To Know Each Other moments of c3. travis saying asking his wife if he could kiss her in campaign. marisha going way back to the cannonball competition in campaign one. ashley choosing the beauyasha date but also just the silly goat noise matt made. liam adding onto that to compliment matt roleplaying grass so well and then saying his favourite moment was writing a story for laura and reading it to her as caleb for jester. and then matt saying that was his answer, and that his favourite moments of the game are when they find ways to give gifts to each other whether tangible or not. and sam saying his favourite moments have less to do with the story and is more so when he can just. see his friends across the table from him. when marisha perches and when laura and ashley are (badly) drawing dicks and liam saying he loves when sam sneezes and ashley tells him to stop it and just. yeah. they Are an extremely popular online powerhouse, but i’m so happy that they’re also friends building a world together out of gifts to and love for one another.
like i Am so enamoured with the characters and the world of exandria but the moments when you can feel the love that those people have for each other reach out from behind the stained glass of their performances (to steal a metaphor from brennan lee mulligan) are so extremely special and i am endlessly grateful that they decided to share their silly little home game with the world.
#it’s just the. laura and travis’ characters always being supportive of one another when they’re facing hardship#taliesin and marisha consistently making characters who challenge one another and still protect each other relentlessly#all of them being so fond of ashley’s characters always and literally seeing them light up in c1 episodes when ash got to join in person#sam and liam always making characters who offer one another reprieves into kindness that they don’t always get in the campaign setting#liam making orym after falling in love with keyleth as vax#marisha making laudna after matt’s storytelling with delilah and choosing vex as her body double#ashley using ‘i would like to rage’ and matt having kord ask her where she finds her strength#laura and matt always weaving these deeply complicated and emotional interactions between a daughter and a father#the gasps and yells and clapping when matt makes cool sound effects or reveals a map or breaks/ends on a cliff hanger#them ending both campaign 1 and 2 with ‘what a great/nice story’ and travis saying ‘let’s do it again!’#and it’s like. yes yes i love the comics and i’m a fan of tlovm but . seeing this well produced thing that somehow mimics#the feeling i get sitting in my living room laughing with my roommates about my ranger’s giant rat failing to climb stairs#it’s very special it’s very sweet#critical role#sdcc 2023#taliesin jaffe#travis willingham#marisha ray#ashley johnson#liam o’brien#matthew mercer#laura bailey#sam riegel#cr cast#critical role cast#my posts
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#ogerpon#YAAAAY EVERYONE'S FAVORITE LEGENDARY#i swear everybody saw the stars in this thing's eyes and they went “yeah i love it”#and like. yeah it's pretty cute. i didn't see it at first but nowadays esp after finishing the story of the dlc i've come around to it#although it's unfortunate that after terastal gets removed in gen 10 that its gimmick will be completely gone#well. mostly gone#but that's happened to so many pokémon before that i'm not sure why tpc even bothers anymore#could you imagine how complicated and confusing pokémon would be if they kept every gimmick around every time they added a new one#one pokémon game with mega evolution‚ z moves‚ dynamax‚ AND terastal#fucking insanity. the competitive scene would evaporate
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he's,,, a cat
adrientte fruits basket au ;)
#miraculous ladybug#miraculoustalesofladybugandcatnoir#miraculous fanart#miraculous ladybug fanart#marinette dupain cheng#ladybug#ml ladybug#adrien agreste#chat noir#cat noir#adrienette#ladynoir#ml ladynoir#adrienette fanart#westy doodles#HAHA YALL GUESSED IT#okay im loving this au a lot but HERES THE THING#i have no idea how im going to go about it story-wise#im not sure im going to include the superhero lives??? i feel like that would complicate things#if yall have any ideas of where to flush this au to send me an ask!! lets brainstorm!!#comic#furuba au
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ok, I think I can post this
(just wanted to imagine what the colors would look like, so come up with the context yourself)
've been doing things very productively lately
Raph doesn't have the right size pants, so he just wraps a piece of fabric around himself 🔥🔥🔥
#rottmnt#raphael#casey jones#casey sr#ruf doodles#in a good way it should have been shown only after I finished doing the first part#but who am I to do something good#WAIT I NEED TO COME UP WITH A NAME FOR THIS AU#what about...#ruf future au#??? idk#seems pretty corny#but I don’t want to think about something complicated#I'm planning to make a short story so this will do#(I LOVE CASEY'S DESIGN MORE THAN I SHOULD)
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How do I explain how married Han Yoojin and Sung Hyunje are in the post-epilogue Side Stories without sounding like I am exaggerating or making things up...
#calling each other “parenting partners”#planning to live together#planning vacations together#and adventures as well#yoojin demanded hyunje gives him half his money#hyunje just agreed#tbf hyunje is almost definitely going to live more than yoojin but none of them wants to think about it right now#you heard of yoojin raising a child that is a copy of hyunje but did you know hyunje has adopted a baby version of yoojin#(it's complicated)#the 2 kids are best friends#hyunje in dragon form making a joke about yoojin wanting to ride him#hyunje in mini-form making a joke about liking to ride yoojin#from today's chapter: im sorry i cant pat your head in this form i know you like it#also asking if yoojin likes to be manhandled#yoojin every 5 seconds: hyunje when are you coming back home. come back. hurry. i am making plans for when you come back#at least twice yoojin mentioned hyunje taking his last name#tbf it was 2 different yoojins#there are many versions of jinje in different realities#they keep getting drawn to each other#we got confirmations that if yoojin hadnt regressed. hyunje would have gone back for him after yoohyun's death#and they would have ended up livong together in switzerland#did i mention they plan to love together#we dont if yoohyun is going to be chill with that tho#sctir#sctir spoilers#sctir side story#sctir a later story#jinje#jinjae#the s classes that i raised
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MAJOR ARCANA XII: THE HANGED MAN
#two streamers/yters i like just finished dd and soj respectively#boy do i love stories about how much a person will sacrifice in order to protect the ones they love#me when im prepared to serve a death penalty to protect my little sister#ive never drawn blackquill or rayfa or yuty before#i hate these khurainese mfers and their complicated ass designs#anyway#my art#ace attorney#simon blackquill#athena cykes#nahyuta sahdmadhi#rayfa padma khura'in#blackmahdi
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Some toxic old women yuri <3
#i love the idea of them having the most toxic on and off relationship#also there the same age and went to hs together so like even tho the original story is stepmom and stepdaughter they are def not to me lol#also i heavily changed the evils queens dress because it was too damn complicated for me#ever after high#eah#eah evil queen#eah snow white#eah fanart#ever after high fanart#ship fanart#fanart#art#digital art
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Understand that I am crazy and then read: This game changed what I thought games could be. This changed what I thought Batman could be, what the Batman and Jokers relationship could be. The take on them and making Joker a glorified Robin, showing the player the absolute tragedy that is their relationship, showing me how desperate and gross either side can become. Like Bruce has to prove to himself that what he’s doing, his code and his way is right and the Joker is the product of that… he’s the product of all of this - HIS CHARACTER is THAT. I was never the same after this, this rewired my brain. This will forever rival any Batman depiction I ever see. I’m new after this in the way that I have to mourn the person I once was before playing this. Call it a ship, a game, or a superhero story - I call this art. I’m gonna sit here for the next few months being upset at the fact that now that I’ve played this I’ll never find anything else like it.
#ive always cherished stories that focused on the relationship between two characters#its my favorite genre#especially when the characters relationship is complicated to the point where its like ‘do they hate each other?’#‘do they love each other?’#or ‘do they need each other?’#jesus did this really do a good job at that#thank you writers#batjokes#batman#telltale batman#batman the telltale series#joker#batman telltale
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"Are you crazy? Why did you forcibly suspend your cultivation and bring about your own destruction?"
FANGS OF FORTUNE (2024). EPISODE THIRTY TWO.
#fangs of fortune#asiandramasource#dramasource#cdramasource#tvedit#*#faiza gifs#honestly he's IN THERE in top 5 characters OF THE YEAR for me. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL HAUNTED SIMPLE BUT COMPLICATED FULL OF RESENTMENT#YET SO MUCH LOVE BUT DOESNT KNOW WHAT TO DO OR HOW TO USE IT bisexual.#he is EVERYTHING i want. yanan you STAR. you STAAAAAAAAAAAAAR.#like li lun is RIGHT UP THERE with xue yang as one of those characters that just. leave the DEEPEST of impressions on you. even long after#the show's finished. their story is just THAT compelling. THEIR CHEMISTRY WITH EVERYONE is just THAT sizzling.#anyway. all this is to say that im just SO happy with li lun's entire character arc and story.#like i KNEW he was gonna die anyway and id made peace with so long ago that it just FELT like.#im just so HAPPY that like. HE got to choose HOW and WHEN he'd die. on his OWN terms.#and thats ALL he's ever longed for. SOME form of freedom. and he GOT THAT.
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#the beatles#george harrison#paul mccartney#mcharrison#sorry Paul but constantly promising the media a collaboration George hadn't agreed to was not the best move#even if was out of love. their story was complicated enough without acting entitled to someone else's collaboration#at least we know they were at peace with each other#my post
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the peoples princess!
@notsolonedesert ur lovely ctimene has graced my lecture notes <3!! no references we die like my final braincells lol
her sarcasm knows no bounds and odysseus' famous wits have ocassionally paled in comparison to his sisters many a time ;)
sassy lil sister ctimene please and thank you. also stubborn af. idk i need more of them being siblings and and how they grew alongside one another and now tease eachother over meals and reminisce during cold winter evenings childhood shenanigans and laugh boisterously together (they have the same laugh. and a dad sneeze TM) and how they reacted to each others firstborns and and and
#u cant convince me she doesnt have a merida esque origin story where she had a favourite horse#loathes being confined to her potential as a wife instead of being seen as her own person. age typical sexism essentially#(not by ody or pen or eury ofc. never ever)#maybe she has a complicated relationship with her mother whose to say. love me a sprinkle of tragic parent and child#anyway one feature film length of character development later#she finds middle ground between accepting and fulfilling duties but not compromising on her own interests and needs#idk she trains the young women of ithaca. let her be ares' blorbo. let my girl kick ass#she definately bonds with penelope athletically#pen always wins swimming lol and is very agile but cti is unmatched in brute force and stamina#hc she protected penelope from the suitors. she didnt bring attention to the either of them but should the need ever arise#shes bitch slapping all 108 of them#eury would be proud#ctimene#epic the musical#my art
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"They were never really that close pre-death" "Dick was mean to Jason before warming up" etc etc are the worst Dick&Jason takes possible. Why would you even say that about them
#my dc posting#jason todd#dick grayson#robin#jaybin#discowing#<- bc its abt that time period#my favourite interpretation of them is well. they were the og batsiblings. the first ones to meet n develop that bond out of all of them#they went from strangers to friends to brothers in my mind. but dc is stupid and wont give me that#and fandom is dumb bc they keep pulling this shit of dick having misplaced his anger towards jason or being cold towards him and its like#why would you write that. like in my personal opinion its literally just not good??#like straight up its just a bad decision for their relationship#the point that makes jason's death so sad is that he was loved. he was happy. its what makes it a fucking tragedy#but noooo dick was horrible to jason. source? uhh trust me bro. are there any benefits or point to this being in the story? uhhhh well uh#(no no there arent)#it adds nothinggggg of value its such a bad take i hate ittt#give me jaybin & dick being brothers or give me death#n im not saying i want them to have been perfect or non complicated or anything but just. this slander wears at me ._.
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Something I wonder about Simon and Betty's relationship is how long they were together before the whole crown ordeal. But they were engaged, you say. My aunt (in)famously met my uncle and had a ring on her finger in 8 weeks. We've seen that both Betty and Simon were both weird outcasts, crazy determined and a pinch insane. I would not be surprised if they decided they'd met their one true love and got engaged super quick.
My point being, Betty's shifting to revolve around Simon and Simon's rose colored glasses of their relationship feels very much like New Love. They're people who love each other and love being a couple but still haven't quite figured out how to coexist together, as two people in a partnership. I feel like if they'd known each other longer, lived together longer, some of the issues we're seeing would have probably self resolved.
I don't think their relationship is toxic nor is it totally perfect. It's two lonely, most likely neurodivergent people in a relatively early relationship still figuring out how it works. Everything that happened afterwards: the crown, the seperation, the time travel, the magic/madness/sadness just exemplified issues they had both as individuals and as a couple.
#fionna and cake#fionna and cake spoilers#simon petrikov#betty grof#in the tags its either#'oh they're toxic' or 'owo literal soulmates'#but i think its both more simple and yet more complicated#its struck me from the very start that they were eternally engaged#they never got to be married they're still stuck at this in between milestone#plus the way they act/talk around one another it HAS that new relationship vibe#If i were to guess they were each other's first romantic relationship#they loved so hard but they didnt really understand how it worked (mood)#if tehy'd had time and space like normal people yeah I think they'd have been fine#unfortunately all manner of bs got in the way and they never got to resolve some of these issues#it doesnt make one right over the other it just adds another layer of tragedy to their story#they only had time to get to know each other -to really feel understood- before it was taken away#Artists call betty 'simons wife#but its soooo important to me that they never made it that far#a flower that was plucked before it had a chance to bloom#anyway just my thoughts#petrigrov forever
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evil is the most self-aware campy show i’ve seen in a long time & i LOVE it so much!! the main 3 had so much tension & drama at the beginning, but now in s4 ben & kristen are like silly little competent clowns that just show up to david’s home uninvited with tiny margaritas & beer
#evil show#evil paramount#evil cbs#like none of their characters ever regress in the name of a joke or boosting another character’s arc#they’re all equals & they each have their own complicated stories#and they’re all very capable in their jobs & the world they live in#but they’re also all incredibly dumb & i love that about them#also i’m still figuring out what the tags for this show are lmao
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