#could be wrong but eh

[comfort-questing]

Here is your new card for Bad Things Happen Bingo. Happy writing!

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all right, crew! let’s go!

if anyone has any suggestions, I’m open for bingo requests regarding (UPDATED 12/24)

- No. 6, my new obsession (most familiar wi anime but planning to read manga)

- Dungeon Meshi (UPDATE: now finished the manga)

- Yona of the Dawn (I’m almost caught up in the manga, can’t believe I missed that one)

- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (anime)

- Genshin Impact

- Fire Emblem Three Houses

- Fate/Stay Night or Fate/Zero (idk the other fate series stuff v well) wi some reservations because some characters are Kinda Icky for me

- Critrole campaign 1 or 2 or TLOVM

-  early or mid RWBY (I haven’t kept up since the end of v6)

- Lord of the Rings (familiar wi other Tolkien stuff but I don’t think I can match the Silm fandom and I don’t follow ROP) ALSO ABSOLUTELY The War of the Rohirrim which I saw an loved so much

- generic/nonfandom scenarios

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REQUESTS IN PROCESSING/PROGRESS:

- “stitches,” Genshin, Wri and Neuvilette

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REQUESTS COMPLETE:

- “guilty conscience,” Dunmeshi, dragon!Falin

- “sword fight,” Genshin, Furina experiences a brush with her newfound mortality one night by the docks

- “poisoned weapon,” TLOVM

- “Headache/Migraine,” FE3H, Claude helps out Dimitri (possibly getting a part 2 sometime heh)

- “hiding an illness,” Genshin, the tone-deaf bard gets a cold

- “Friendly fire,” FE3H, Edelgard and a stray arrow from Claude

- “Falling through the Ice,” FE3H, requested by a discord friend :)

- “get it over with,” generic nonfandom

- “Barely Conscious”/”Cradling someone in their arms,” TLOVM (at blinkin last, sorry, heh)

[screwpinecaprice]

I was trying to eat noodles neatly and for some reason I got sad midway. So I drew them messy eating a biscuit and a strawberry to combat sad noodle blues.

[temporary-tats]

Mon Loup

Please send help, Wenclair has taken over my brain.

Per usual, do not reupload without credit/permission. Thanks folks!

(My ko-fi, should you wish!)

[canisalbus]

Is that canon!?! Was Machete just really naive/didn't really understand the implications of his relationship to Vasco? Did his mentor ever find out about them or discuss such things with him? I assume bc he didn't have parents, he kinda didn't get educated on sex or anything. Was it a big shock to realize he was "sinning"?

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[snailfen]

got distracted and made an ii gjinka for the first time in years when i shouldve been taking notes. she can be intimidating as much as she wants but her ass is NOT beating the cutie patootie allegations

[blarrghe]

I do really dislike the nothing matters approach to the past games that Vielguard has for the conflicts like. The Qunari threat has been talked about and telegraphed heavily for three games, there's an interesting if flawed sociopolitical ideology conflict at play and it's just a matter of time before that comes to a head.

except actually the Antaam broke off from the Qunari, don't follow the same ideologies at all, and that's why they're invading. what does that mean for Qunari society and the political ideology it runs on? Not gonna talk about it. the endgame of all that intrigue is just corrupt flamethrower wielding terrorists extra corrupted by evil entities that you can kill in droves.

I was never super up on that part of the lore to be honest but I just. if any aspect of the Qunari conflict felt oversimplified before it's so much more so now.

And same thing in Orlais. There are novels I haven't read worth of history on its imperialism and budding servant class revolution that is completely intertwined with the politics of a crusading religion and heavily ingrained racism. You have the opportunity in the last game to really stir that pot one way or another by having a hand in who the leader of the country will be with your options ranging from a militaristic nationalist to a puppet government controlled by elvhen rebels. you can even force a tense compromise and wouldn't it be fun to see how that works.

except actually a faction of the Orleasian nobility has joined the bad guy cultists who are also their longstanding religious rivals from Tevinter, because they got more corrupted by the evil entities and are now driving the conflict in the south that the Inquisitor is dealing with wholly on their own. There was some intrigue in the codex I read about this but also it's not your problem at all and again, the real problem is the evil entities from the fade that you're going to defeat anyway.

I dunno. I don't even think you needed to count player choices from previous games towards the Qunari conflict much as player choice never really touched that, but fine.

[necrotic-nephilim]

For the ask game: A Damian who never got the sex talk or a consent talk from Bruce (both bc he assumed that Dick, son-wife extraordinaire, would take care of that and bc he thought that Damian would be ace or celibate or something) and so in his teens after only learning about sex from the internet he just becomes like, wildly inappropriate about his crushes, including unfortunately his older siblings, especially Dick, Tim and Cass

This includes not just the bat-typical stalking online and irl, but also making comments on their bodies, flirting excessively, and one notable time, masturbating in the living room of Dick’s apartment

Everyone is torn on how to address it, if they should be saying anything at all, I mean, he’s just going through puberty, it’s just a phase right?

for the ask game!

i LOVE it when Damian has like. zero concept of how relationships work and no one thinks to talk to him about it, leading to wildly inappropriate behavior. it's my fave flavor for any Damian ship.

obviously, his first crush is Dick. and because Damian has had such little interaction with healthy romantic relationships, he doesn't even *realize* that's what he's feeling. in concept, he understands sex. but he has a very clinical definition of it, viewing it as coupling to produce an heir. (100% influenced by Ra's) so sex as a pleasurable thing, as something driven by romantic interest, that's foreign to him. he refuses to show weakness and he needs to be hyper-independent, so he falls down a google rabbit hole. i love the idea of Damian accidentally stumbling into like, forums and subreddits based on what he googles that are for people with incestual fantasies and it ends up giving him the WILDLY wrong idea about what's normal. he makes his own account and becomes mildly chronically online about it. at first, it's just a safe outlet for him to vent about his feelings. bc deep down Damian *does* know this is a little wrong and weird, he knows Dick doesn't exactly reciprocate and he understands there's a difference between familial and romantic love. but the more Damian is reading other stories online, the bolder he gets. and he starts getting more open about his attraction.

not only does he get more open about it, but his attraction spreads to Cass and Tim. for Cass, it makes sense. they grew up similarly, if anyone understands the guilt of being raised to be an assassin and now trying to atone for it, it's her. Damian respects her raw ability and naturally it turns into a crush. for Tim, it's harder to explain. he hates Tim with his whole being, doesn't see Tim as his brother. it starts as sexual attraction first, with Tim. for Dick and Cass it was romantic first, but not Tim. watching Tim train shirtless, Damian almost hits himself in the face with the workout equipment he's using. since he's never considered Tim a brother, he's never considered Tim seriously when he's thinking about incestual feelings. it startles him to be attracted to Tim too. honestly? fun concept that Damian gets so in his head with an incest kink that he finally accepts Tim as a brother to him because he's attracted to Tim, therefore this must mean that some part of Damian views him as a brother because Damian has just. entangled those feelings internally.

it's when Damian is attracted to them as well, that they all start to notice. Cass notices first, and she asks Tim about it, since she can tell Damian's feelings are toward Tim and Dick as well. they have a conversation about it and ultimately decide they can't change Damian's feelings, and they don't want to embarrass him about it because he's young and going through puberty. Tim had his own childhood crush on Dick, it happens, he really gets it. they loop Dick in, who is absolutely thrown by the concept. for a while Dick doesn't believe them. he's convinced they're reading into things. until Damian starts getting more bold. going from openly staring that could be interpreted a lot fo ways to excess compliments and flirting. Dick's used to comments about his body, they slide off easily. but when Damian very loudly makes a comment about Tim or Cass' body, Dick balks. he tries to. carefully tell Damian that there are boundaries to certain relationships and he needs to be more respectful. Damian doesn't take it seriously because Dick won't address it head-on and is dancing around the topic. Damian either doesn't think Dick is serious, or he thinks Dick doesn't understand the depth of his emotion outside of sexual desire. so he starts trying to be more romantic. flirting, gifts and gestures. it's very sweet and almost childlike, how hard Damian is trying. Cass thinks it's cute and doesn't mind it. Dick is trying carefully to let Damian down gently. and Tim is just baffled, not really sure what to do with the *very* nice new bo staff Damian got him that's reinforced and admittedly, very well balanced.

Damian gets bolder. his touch lingers, his comments get more sexual. and of course, the breaking point: he jerks off in Dick's living room. he does it when Dick is busy in another room, taking a shower. Dick comes in just as Damian reaches completion, gripping one of the throw pillows on Dick's couch. Dick leaves the room, pretends he didn't see anything and gives Damian the chance to clean himself up. but when he comes in the room, they both know that Dick knows. Dick decides he has to be more firm with his boundaries. he sits down and tells Damian it's okay to have a crush, but this is not okay. Dick repeatedly calls it "puberty" and a "phase", and Damian gets more caught up on Dick denying the realness of his feelings than the rejection. he doubles down, because he perceives the issue as Dick just not understanding how real Damian's feelings are. this isn't some silly teenage phase to Damian, he knows his feelings. obviously, the issue must be that Dick, Tim, and Cass don't understand that. so he does his best to act more like an adult. he's far more reasonable on patrol, he doesn't pick fights, he's independent. all the issues Dick has been having with training Damian suddenly vanish and well. Dick knows why, but he has to admit, it is far easier to work with Damian like this. at this point, Tim just finds the whole thing funny. Cass doesn't enjoy the sexualized comments about her body, she's always been hyperaware of how others will oversexualize her, but she still sees Damian as a young kid and doesn't lash out at him over it. she's dealt with far worse, and she doesn't want to make him feel bad about a crush.

if i were writing this, i think it'd be fun if Damian's feels do eventually fade. he stops going online so much and he gets other things to focus on trying to be a good vigilante and soon his efforts aren't about his feelings, he's just genuinely focused on himself. he grows back and Dick, Tim, and Cass breathe a sigh of relief about it really just being some phase. that is, of course, until someone new joins the Batfam and the cycle starts again. maybe it's Duke, maybe it's someone else like Terry. but at the end of the day, Damian's incest kink wins out and maybe this time, he actually succeeds. he gets his new person of affection to reciprocate with all of the attention he gives them and Dick just has to watch from the background, facepalming. bc at the end of the day, Damian will always get what he wants, sooner or later.

[transgenderprototype]

Ill go onto someone's profile and their pinned post will have like "DNI IF YOU SUPPORT [insert artist] ILL BLOCK YOUR ASS IF YOU REBLOG THEIR ART anyway u can dm me if you want more info on why i have a vitriolic hatred for this person, i pwomise it wont be biased and full of bullshit :3"

Ill be like "okay thats fucking stupid, im not dm'ing them for what'll clearly be a biased response. I should probably look more into it.

I find out why.

"Oh these are lies. These are lies being spread because someone leaked a queer person's nsfw alt and found something they could twist into being "morally wrong" and theyre still continuing as the artist clarifies that what they drew isnt [whatever theyre trying to twist it into]."

[findafight]

You can brag about having "media literacy" all you want but just because YOU see something in a piece of art doesn't mean that was the creator's intent. Claiming anything and everything you see as "proof" meant to be taken and analyzed and held up as concrete evidence of something as silly as a SHIP being canon whittles away at the integrity of deeper analysis of art.

Art is meant to be subjective! We all pull something different out of it! I can look at an oil painting from 1865 and have a completely different interpretation and feeling from it than someone standing beside me, and I can have the same exact emotions as someone who saw it the day it was revealed. Is that not beautiful?

Media analysis and literacy do not mean viewing a text and being able to dissect it into exactly what the author meant and what will happen next. It's extracting meaning through asking questions (sometimes through an established framework) and looking closely at the text to see what answers it gives. Sometimes those answers are not what you agree with or what you were expecting. That's part of the joy of it! The beauty of it! Just like a science experiment, you may have your hypothesis/thesis challenged or completely disproven in the course of investigating and analysing. Your ideas surrounding the text may change. You may find that something else about the text has further depth you didn't consider or has less to extract than you thought.

Going into an analysis of any art with the intent to PROVE something rather than EXPLORE a theory is as foolish as going into a science experiment believing under no circumstances your hypothesis is incorrect. You must have an open mind and be willing to be wrong.

[kalolasfantasyworld]

Any Haikyuu fans around here?

We like the cat @purpled-royalty ^^

[greasydumbfuck]

thinking about frank and sex (in a sad way)

[lazzarella]

I'd have to rewatch to be more confident, and also wait until the end, but right now, Yak and Dee's love story feels like it's been written as a spiral to me. So, it's not a line from point A (FWB) to point B (boyfriends). And while they do keep coming back to the same issues and themes, it's not a circle either (at least not yet, and I don't think it will be). In a circular narrative, the protagonists end where they start. In a spiral, like I said, they come back to the same things more than once, but each time they've moved further along the spiral, so when they come back to the same point, it's with new experiences or perspectives or whatever. And that’s what I see here, and why I’m enjoying all the mirrored scenes, etc.

And, while I know many people don't see any progress being made, I definitely do. They're kissing now, for one, and the Dee of a few episodes ago wouldn't have made that speech in front of Ter, not to mention Yak no longer has lingering doubts about Taem vs Dee and has said that he loves Dee. 

So, yeah. I could be wrong about the spiral thing, but that's how I'm seeing it right now, and I’m very much enjoying it

[samallama]

With Summer reruns, that's all coatings get! A sketch that became unserious along the way because, well

yeah LOL

[histi27]

Hi love your art!! Wanted to ask if you think Giovanni has any opinions on Ghetsis' damaged arm? (personally think Ghetsis makes it into a bigger deal more than anyone else, he's so dramatic)

Hi! Thank you for the ask. I’m glad that you like my art!

The question actually made me realize I never decided on what exactly is wrong with Ghetsis’ right arm besides the fact that a) he can use it but only for very general movements/gestures as shown in the bw opening animatic, b) it’s scarred in some way as shown in the evolutions ova, and c) it came after his eye injury (won’t be able to find a source for this one rn). So uh I’ve sketched some concepts for what it might be.

(Personally, I’m partial to the electric one I modelled after lightning scars but Pokemon attack scars are probably the most likely option)

Going back to the question, I agree with you to a degree. Ghetsis is obsessed with being perfect so any “imperfections” like that really get to him. His pride doesn't let him admit to it though unless he's veeery close to someone. Meanwhile yeah, Giovanni either doesn’t really care about it or finds it quite cool. If Ghetsis actually has a prosthetic he’d probably commission a fancy gold-plated one for him or something like that lmao. Either way, he got them matching pairs of gloves at some point <3

[vanlegion]

After careful thought...

I am now convinced RVB is, in a nutshell at its core, two twenty year long dimetric slowburn romance tropes comprised of viewing each from the lens of 'I'd die for you/I'd live for you' while accounting for the repercussions of those choices on the lives of those around them while also examining at the same time the 'Inability to let go/ever start' and how it ultimately locks your mind in a perpetual state of 'What if?' without taking the risk of DOING all by asking the simple fucking question

Ever wonder why we're here?

[arthur-lesters-spinal-cord]

So i just finished arcane.

I go to search the tag.

Turns out i automatically spell it with a k nowadays.

I was very confused why malevolent art was showing up.

Took me longer than i would like to admit to realise i had written arkayne on instinct.