#diversity is my favorite

[frostphorous]

making a pinterest board or picrew for my ocs is so hard because i'm so painfully indecisive. i can try and make a sona for myself this way with relative ease, but.. sigh

[starrysharks]

friendship is magic

closeups:

[dandyleyen]

In honor of the Stardew Valley 1.6 update, here’s some really old (2021) Shane art that I never uploaded !!

[kookoofufu]

[thatonecrazysidekick]

@sunfloweraro these tags of yours ignited an Art Spark within me, so here's Hyrule carrying Bunny in his arms like a baby!! I hope you like it <(^-^<)

(I hope it's not too blurry--tumblr kept making the image visibly worse whenever I put it in this post for some reason??? so...)

(Also CHAPTER SIX??? OMG THAT'S CRAZYYYY)

[c-rowlesblogs]

the last time I made a post about a character type I really like it went well, so here's another one: I love a character who is a piece of shit loser.

Let me explain: a very specific kind of piece of shit loser. This is a character who is almost never (at least not at first) a major protagonist or a major villain. They might be a mercenary or thief or black-hat hacker or in some other sort of antisocial "bad guy" line of work. They are some sort of henchman, or at least have strong henchman energy: dangerous and/or talented in specific skills perhaps, but also, importantly, undeniably a loser. Their personality sucks. They're uncharismatic and unpleasant. The heroes interact with them only when they must-- and this character deliberately cranks up the cynicism around especially sunny or optimistic heroes. They know the world is a cold, hard place, and the only thing they trust is cold, hard cash (if they're even getting paid for this shit). Things like "hope" and "friendship" are for suckers.

Until... somehow, some incident or confrontation or compounding sequence of events puts a crack in their armor. It's a crack where the light can get in-- and also, alarmingly (to others and to them), shine out. It turns out this piece of shit loser had a little spark of goodness buried deep inside all along, and no matter how much they dig in their heels and insist they don't care, their conscience is steadily pulling them over to the "good" side, and it's winning. And the heroes know it, too: this character might still be a piece of shit loser, but now they're their piece of shit loser, and there's no going back.

[zeldadiscussions]

The repeated use of the specific word imperialism in fandom discussions of TotK really bugs me because like… we know what imperialism looks like, right?

Genocide either by murder or assimilation, leadership that is either of the conquering race or loyal to it generally for personal gain, control of the conquered’s resources, and a social climate where the conquerors are considered superior.

But in this Hyrule none of the other races had their cultures erased, they aren’t governed by Hylian leaders and the local leaders’ first priority is taking care of their people, they manage their own trade affairs, and Hylians don’t constantly subject others to put downs about their race.

If a Hylian man dares enter Gerudo Town without the Chief’s permission, they kick him out or put him in jail. That’s how much control the Gerudo have over their own territory and how little being a Hylian matters if you mess with them.

Rauru is accused of hoarding power but he literally gave his secret stones out to the other races and they remain in possession of them to this day.

Basically the only time the other nations seem to actually follow Hyrule’s lead at all is when facing common threats or working towards common goals. Hyrule only ever meddles in other lands affairs either to lend them aid (Link and Zelda fighting for everyone, the folks at Tabantha Bridge Stable providing disaster releif to the Rito, etc.) or requesting aid from them (Rauru and Zelda asking the Sages and Champions to help them fight Ganon[dorf].) They lead like a team leader leads.

Sonia and Rauru didn’t found an empire.

They founded an alliance.

I know I’m beating a dead horse here but to my eyes at least (for now) there is zero solid evidence of Hyrule exerting control over the daily lives of non-Hylians or stealing their resources, two major defining traits of imperialistic rule. Hyrule is at the head of the alliance, yes, but an empire isn’t the only system of governance that has one group or individual at the helm of a coalition. The difference is in the details and the details here are that Hyrule leads the others but it does not dominate them, and that is key.

The only empire in the game would have been the one Ganondorf was trying to force on everyone and that was pretty bluntly depicted as being a bad thing. How can we say it’s pro-imperialistic if the main conflict is preventing the rise of an evil empire?

You can’t effectively analyze a narrative by completely ignoring everything about it and its meta that contradicts a knee-jerk viewpoint. What is even the point of analyzing it at all at that point?

[supercalime]

Just thought about sharing this frame right here

Do with it what you will

[milk-box-16]

I finally finished this thing that I had for a month- So, yes it is an AU where it would be the other part of the Subcon Kingdom also putting a bit of my Oc's lore in this case :D

This Au is going to be called "Forget Forest" on the recommendation of a friend

Edit: I just noticed that there are a lot of spelling errors in the description of Blade, but it's fixed now :D

[hamable]

Bkdk literally Had It All as of chapter 430, and then 431 ripped it away with such precision and vengeance that I’m actually kind of impressed

[bleachbleachbleach]

I was taking a book recommendation quiz and now the only thing I can think about is the Seireitei Communications putting one out for shinigami (Hisagi's attempt to get buy-in for mass importation of books and movies and music and such from the Living World).

Like, how do you not read this question and think about comedic master Kuchiki Byakuya bemoaning the inability to choose more than one option:

I mean, like:

[spenglerstwinkie]

Morioh would’ve been way more bizarre if they had Kendrick Lamar

Insp + background vv😭😭

Literally only this photo of Kendrick prompted me to make like a screencap of him if he was in the crazy noisy bizarre town op... Sorry if its mid its pretty rushed. Also i love Kendrick

the background was so fun to do omg😭😭 took me ages and i had to make the paint splatter brushes myself (i love procreate) (if you can tell they were low quality. No you cant.) Its a rip of the background in Okuyasu’s screencap but… shhh

Is it frowned upon to have insanely long captions plus a lot of tags… if so mb i dont use tumblr like at all and i love to yap

[circusballoon]

Art summary time!

Things were going slow but steady this year, and then... I discovered In Stars and Time in April... ISaT kicked my love of drawing back into full gear and I've been finding SO much joy in creating again. Very pink and purple, as always :D

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[libr-0-cubicularist]

Happy ace week to the walking asexual flags

[jestroer]

Team Canada moment sketch celebrating the grand return!!!!

[kathairoscloset]

music tag game

AH SHEIT THIS WAS IN MY DRAFTS FOR MONTHS IM SO SORRY @puzzl-d HAHAHA (THANKS FOR TAGGING ME THO I APPRECIATE IT BIG KISS)

Rules: shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag 10 people.

I Love by LiLiPi

Key Ingredient (Instrumentals) by Mili

Twit by Hwasa

Waltz from the ballet Glazunov A. "Lady Soubrette"

AYA by MAMAMOO

As if its Your Last by Blackpink

KiLLER LADY by 8-Prince-P (feat. Gumi)

Cry for Me (Eng. Ver) by TWICE

Love Like You by Rebecca Sugar

Shanti (Chogakusei Ver.) by wotaku

hork hork bold of you to assume I have 10 ppl I can tag, but hey if you see this and find this interesting then go do it! I'm not stopping you~