#conventional action

[maddie-grove]

Honestly I hate the “girlboss” criticisms of feminism more and more each day. A lot of people have rightfully pointed out that feminists had/have very practical reasons to fight for women’s rights in the workplace, but I feel like there’s still an idea that a woman is deluded or morally suspect if she enjoys or takes pride in her work. It’s not just about the money; it’s about not being barred from fully participating in society just because you’re a woman. That is an unfair and degrading thing to do to someone, even if they have other means of financial support.

[grimmoriun]

love that part in mouthwash where they were sailing those moons

[dreamacosplay]

Mirabel with BB-8. This was my first ever con and it was sooo much fun!

[metanarrates]

literally love that yjh and kdj's method of communication is beating the shit out of each other. the secret hidden way to overcome The Wall is actually to just fucking hit each other until you come to an understanding

[pure-jeff-ward]

Jeff with a buggy cosplayer at la mole convention via lucien_vansmoke on instagram

[sophisticatedpjparty]

My table at PTXcon 2025!! Shared my table space with my sister @petuniacat99 today^^ (Go show her some support!)

[boarcide]

There is something so good about Akutagawa--a very much feared, boogeyman like figure (even amongst his own men) in Yokohama because of his violence, bloodlust, and steadfast loyalty to a violent criminal organization such as the Port Mafia--given biblical angel symbolism

I don't know, something something about someone whose beauty is so incomprehensible and terrifying to most. He's not physically ugly, he's not--he's beautiful, the type of beautiful that almost feel as if he's not a real person, like he's a mirage, or a painting. But he's beautiful not like those renaissance cherubs and lovely looking maidens for angels, but more like the biblical angels with their beauty beyond mortal grasp, the beauty that brings fear and revulsion towards whoever sees them because they cannot comprehend it. Coming across him makes you understand why angels say, "Be not afraid" when they reveal themselves to mortals. An incomprehensible beauty that very few can keep looking at. A dangerous feat, literally and metaphorically.

(This isn't only with his physical appearance either--for someone who is constantly beaten down both by canon and by the fandom for being "simple", he is a terrifying bundle of different aspects that contradict each other. Like a super machine you open up and you see the intricate criss crossing of wires and bolts that hold it together. He's a mess of nerves and feelings and experiences so profound, so horrific, that you don't know where to start with him. To uncoil him and see him truly bare is almost impossible. Where does he end and the roots that connect him to the earth begin?)

Something about Akutagawa being an angel, a being created entirely to follow the will of "God", obey their every word. Unwavering loyalty to their master while singing praise. Acting entirely on the order of their master--wing always dipped in blood for his sake. A weapon of "heaven' that brings destruction to those who oppose "God" and be one of the many upon which "God" rests upon.

(Almost everything Akutagawa does is for the sake of the Port Mafia, taking orders from the "master" (boss) himself. Willingness and obedience and loyalty repeatedly exploited and used, everything he has done as one of the high ranking leaders handling most of the Mafia's dirty work playing a part so Mori's throne stays high.)

Something about comparing Akutagawa to a certain archangel, finding repulsion in "God"'s cherished creation, the inferiority that came with being "less" to "mankind", and the painful fall from grace to the deepest pits of despair when he confronts the being that created him, molded him, and then condemn him. And to his humiliation, mankind, for centuries, condemns him too.

(He can't be compared to Lucifer, God's most beloved angel. Maybe Dazai did value him, but it doesn't matter, does it? because the difference between the two is that one was cherished and one never was. However, you can compare the rage and humiliation Akutagawa felt towards Atsushi--for obtaining Dazai's approval and affection with no effort, no proper control over his skill or any seemingly differentiating quality-- to Lucifer's refusal to bow down to humanity--a creation inherently imperfect and lackluster, with not the qualities of angels. And as a result? Disgraced. Both by the creator and by ones that held their creator's favor. )

Something about Akutagawa being an angel--someone whose presence means nothing pleasant to those he appears before. A reaper of sorts, responsible for taking life and for souls to see the afterlife (killing both as an order and an act of mercy, for he despises torture and meaningless suffering). A guardian angel watching over "mankind" from afar, where he is not aware and saving him from certain death at his own expense.

There's just something so appealing about depicting Akutagawa--a fearsome, ruthless, and bloodthirsty mafioso, a boogeyman to his own men--as an angel, be it of death, of mercy, a destroying angel-- whatever anyone wants to see him as and use him for.

[tarabyte3]

My Con purchases: Shadowgast, Dorym, and Essek stickers. (Link to the artist)

And him 😍🫠🥺 Paz, my beloved.

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #801

Walter has said in an interview that he owns all of the Palisades Toys Muppet figurines except for the Dr. Teeth Variant Action Figure, which was a Wizard World East convention exclusive in 2002.

Sources:

Dr. Teeth Variant Action Figure. Muppet Wiki.

"Walter Palisades." MuppetWiki. YouTube. February 8, 2023.

[scarlet--wiccan]

btw the big Marvel logo banner at SDCC includes visibly brown Wanda from Rivals instead of Olsen

[the-dragon-hearted]

Guys, guys, you don't have to excuse your little blorbo's atrocities. Yes, they committed war crimes that's why you love them. It would only be problematic if they weren't fictional -

[news4dzhozhar]

[that-rackin-frackin-varmint]

Looney Tunes: Back in Action: - Removed Content

this part kills me.

Kate "We'll replace Daffy with a hot girl"

Bugs "I wouldn't want to hurt a girl"

Kate "Ok but we'll make you guys enemies-to-lovers"

Bugs (completely skipping the insinuation of romancing the girl) "Usually I'm the girl in the relationship"

[pippin-pippout]

Just confirming we don't officially know what the D stands for right?

Dream? Danger? Demon? Disaster?

[taraxippos]

The extent of possessiveness some people have on art that they post on the internet is crazy to me like, I'm seeing someone on art fight all caps serious business warning not to save image files of their characters UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Like Oh no your character ref png is on another computer!!!!!! Who cares

[loregoddess]

if you had told me, say five-ish years ago before I had encountered these two stories, that there was an anime called Cowboy Bebop and a manga called Trigun, and that one was a space western and the other was a space noir story, and then told me the one with "cowboy" in the name was not the space western, I would have thrown something small and harmless at you