#ditto tbh

[hinamie]

playing around w slightly different hair renders

[spookberry]

Its been a while so I cant point to a bunch of specific example outside of like, Hera, Athena, and Hephaestus. But okay, one thing that always bothers me about the Percy Jackson worldbuilding is the fact that its fundamental premise is just "what if the greek gods and their stories were real" so there's nothing you can do about how deeply and unrelentingly sexist the ancient greeks were without just breaking your own premise. Like your options are take them at their word to fulfill the premise or say "nah all of them were wrong I have new lore". So I don't exactly blame Riordon for cherrypicking which myths he was gonna edit.

Its just a little wacky to me though that because of it's status as an adaption(to some degree) people don't really critically analyze the intent behind the source material on the gods. Their context from a meta perspective is often overlooked in the grand scheme of the story. Which I understand, the intrigue is on the demigods afterall, not the gods themselves.

However I just cannot stop myself from thinking about it. Like the fact that a big part of why the greeks respected Athena was because she was born "purely of man" and her birth was umblemished via coming from an icky woman. Shes the perfect woman because she lacks ties to womanhood. Shes the ideal Pick Me girl.

The story of Hephaestus's birth is sucky for him, but personally I think more on Hera. To me its always been fairly clear that the intended message you are meant to get out of that story is literally "no matter what, women are worse then men. Even at the one thing theyre meant to be good at." How dare a woman think she could ever be better than a man at something even if she is a Goddess of this thing.

Hera does bad things in her mythos I wont deny that and youre not meant to like her in Percy Jackson either which is fine. We can have complicated and annoyingly meddlesome girlbosss goddess for the sake of plot. Nonetheless I often find myself feeling sad about how she has been dragged through the mud for centuries because people dont dare to think more critically on why the men telling her stories spoke on her the way they did.

[fel-feline]

creative problem solving for fussy Mewtwo babies

[efverse]

miiight change some things about dittos family a bit...(like giving her an older bellossom sister🤪)

[y-urios]

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[quins-makeshift-menagerie]

All the line art’s done so I finished what I wanted to do today but damn I’ve been working since 8am my time and it’s now about 12pm nonSTOP

I need some mac and cheese

[venomgaia]

stuff bc i cant sleep but cant finish anything rn

handsome fella in the first pic is @rogercheetoofficial!

[randomnameless]

Imagine a world where Jeralt wasn't an idiot and he didn't kidnap Billy away from Rhea. Supreme Leader's war would have ended before it could begin because Billy would have known Eggy was spewing bs.

It's all his fault Fodlan didn't immediately improve. Great job, racist dumbass.

Anon,

in that AU, Billy would have told Rhea about the gremlin in their head, and the plot would have been radically different lol

More seriously,

Billy, despite being raised as a... well, how Jerry raised them, knows that this "crusts put a value on people's worth" spiel is shit, because Billy themselves have the rarest crust ever, and they're not immediately promoted to "ruler of the world", hell, they must still listen to people and can't do whatever they want.

The leader of the KoS is Jerry through Rhea's favoritism, but before that? Who had that role? Alois, a crestless random, was Catherine's superior.

When Hanneman discovers Billy has a crest? Well, they're still a teacher, just like Crestless!Manu.

"but the church promotes the crust system"

"wtf are you taking about"

But since we can't have that, or have Billy appreciate what they are supposed to appreciate as seen through Heroes/Engage aka some sort of peace, sense of belonging and guiding/teaching stuff to people instead of being a sword for hire, the plot happens.

Also, given how Billy'n'Jerry must have travelled around during their time as mercs, or were at least in Remire where people weren't that preoccupied about crusts and what not, but as randoms, about what they're going to eat tonight or if they weren't going to be attacked by bandits or mad scientists who will turn them in guinea pigs, the "Sacrifices must be made, I'm killing people for their sake" would fall hollow, especially given what happens to Remire which is located, again, in Arundel...

@fantasyinvader wrote recently a post about Billy's status as a character/avatar hybrid and how the focus on one status... neutralises the other, but that's what we have with this character (and everyone in Fodlan tbh, save for the Lions thanks to Nopes and the Nabateans) : Billy being the player's avatar must bend to the player's will, so they will be able to join Tru Piss and feel sad uwus about fighting the red Emperor, that's how the game was designed.

This fucks over Billy as a character, especially in Tru Piss, but also, partly in Winds - assuming they did the "help Seteth" quests, his paralogue or just talked to the various students/NPCs in the monastery - and yet, allows for the artificial "route split" or "pick your lord" choice.

TS' Serenor did the thing better with "have a character + let the player pick which character they want to follow", without scrubbing Serenor's personnality.

[minimoll7]

Just realized one of my favorite mutuals blocked me :( we used to be really close friends back in the day to, so even tho we weren't talking anymore, I still greatly enjoyed seeing him on my dash and all

I knew it was gonna happen eventually but it still kind of hurts

[kohakhearts]

ive been fleshing out my timeskip thoughts. this is all ive got. think recent college graduate and his fucked up little cat (who. goes to work with him)

bonus source of hehe ditto:

get it. like. tamago. time-ago. yeah. ok i’ll see myself out

[s0mnolentcat]

I'm trying to do a Poketober thing

I know how to draw pokemon? No But here is this Today was normal type sooo

[cartoonico]

It's interesting seeing that some pokemon have changed color over time, whether becoming a different shade or changing color completely.

[morgenlich]

unfortunately jon’s adwd pov chapters are very crucial to the plot but also painful to read if i’m being honest

[efverse]

👗 or 💍 for ditto!

two alternate wedding dittos??

[dittolicous]

me, waking up for a two stress hour nap after not sleeping only to be called in to work, find two email interview offers, one voice-mail for an interview, and get a call for a different interview while replying to the first:

[diurnalcritters]

Day 184

Ditto sticky hand