#gay dolphins :)

[angrydivaprobs]

☆*:.｡. celestial compass .｡.:*☆

after his orange hair, i feel like orange is his colour

[wafaaaahhh]

Beach Beasts #7

how the turn tables...

[soren-apologist]

time for more soren character analysis:

petrine’s battle conversation with soren in chapter 23 has always been a favorite of mine, and now that i’m looking at it again i noticed a few extra details:

it’s important to mention that this battle takes place directly after ike and soren’s a-support, in which soren confesses he’s a branded and expects to be shunned, only for ike to tell him that it doesn’t matter and he wants soren to stay by his side regardless.

anyway, besides “Now let me show you true fear!” being a really hard line, it’s really cool to see how soren’s reaction to his branded status being pointed out changes so sharply over the course of a handful of chapters. i already analyzed his reaction to nasir’s betrayal where he’s agitated over the fact that he could have prevented it if nasir hadn’t threatened to reveal him being branded to the army, so seeing him being so confident in himself is great, and i’ll touch on why here.

one of the reasons i like to say the game treats ike and soren’s a-support as canon is actually this particular conversation. soren, having just been reassured that ike will always want him at his side regardless of who or what he is, now suddenly has had his biggest fear and insecurity taken off his back. he doesn’t need to hate himself for being branded because ike, the only person who’s ever truly mattered to soren, doesn’t care at all.

back to the conversation, soren’s judgment over the situation at hand is no longer clouded by his own self-loathing. instead of comparing them as branded and seeing himself as just as horrid and disgusting as petrine (tiger branded, fun fact), he’s able to instead compare them as individuals and realize that what he’s done up to that point will never measure up to the atrocities she’s committed. i think the best part personally is just how disgusted soren looks by the notion he and petrine are the same, because he’s right— him being cutthroat and pragmatic is nothing compared to everything petrine has done in daein’s name— and the fact he can clearly see this means that, for the very first time, he’s finally starting to heal from the mental wounds inflicted upon him by his childhood.

overall, i like this little nod to soren starting to learn to grow and change from who he was at the beginning of fe9. it’s more clearly seen in radiant dawn, where he’s calmer to the point ranulf even comments on it, but these little inklings implying the start of soren’s healing are really cool to see.

[harmonicawizard]

[arl1n-e]

Evan and Connor as dolphins (I JUST WANNA BE APART OF YOUR SYMPHONY)

(I can't draw dolphins)

[shesmore-shoebill]

angela in the pico stream says "did you hear one of the dolphins got pantsed?" and you can tell i don't follow sports because the image i had in my head for a brief, glorious moment, was not what she was talking about.

[rescue-ram]

Thinking about Gai as a nihilistic character

I know I've written about this at some point in the past, but the concept of apotheosis is genuinely moving to me- that most of life is meaningless suffering, but if you scrape and claw and fight your way to the top for one shining moment of pure self-actualization, it justifies and redeems everything that came before as a necessary sacrifice- and because Time Is A Flat Circle etc it also justifies everything that comes after it to.

And like in fiction, we love to end things at that point, or jussssst after, for maximum satisfaction- the character has Struggled and now they've Succeeded- but there's so much pathos in the afterwards.

And like Gai, almost more than any other character in Naruto embodies the tragedy of living past your goal (although tbf there is a little of this theme in a lot of Naruto). One of the first things we learn about him is that he's got a suicide technique buried in his heart and he's been waiting all his life for the right moment to unleash it- and that's reinforced over and over, one of the few things about Gai we're meant to take totally seriously.

And I kind of love that he got his moment- he opens all eight gates, is recognized as the strongest- but doesn't really succeed, permanently and profoundly disables himself in the prime of his life, and then has to live with the consequence. I'm obsessed with the angst potential of him finding out how to live without a Reason to, and the little bits we get of this in canon (and in glorious fanon) are so good for my brain....

[matoitech]

i cant post the full art of my warmup of tang and diesel i got carried away with for today on tumblr for what should be obvious reasons but the full IS on furaffinity

[pikaboubou]

Who wouldn't want to take Crowley to a gay bar? Serious though, he'd fit right in 😏

What an absolute tall drink of water, that one 😎 STAY HYDRATED 💦

[captainrufflebanger]

I felt like a lost child in a huge store because you changed your PFP and i wasn't able to find you for 5 minutes

Never fear, anon, listen for the tiny beep beep on the south wind and you will find me and the horrors. Oh my god you will find the horrors, DRIVE FASTER YOU FOOL.

[king-k-ripple]

Some LGBT+ Animals I Painted to Prove Queerness Exists in Nature

These animals have the color palettes of the flags their sexualities genders or gender expressions are based on.

Literal Otter (the term otter refers to a gay man who is small and thin but also hairy):

Gay Male Penguin (gay male penguin couples often adopt baby penguins)

Transgender Clownfish (male clownfish can turn into female clownfish)

Literal Bear (the term bear refers to a gay man who is big (fat or muscular) and hairy):

Twink Ruff (male ruffs have their equivalent of twinks known as satellite males who are less masculine than traditional male ruffs, but aren’t exactly feminine either)

Femboy Ruff (yes, male ruffs also have their equivalent of femboys known as faeder male ruffs, ones that look similar to female ruffs but have just enough in their physical characteristics to be distinguishable from their female counterparts (I guess “Astolfo level” feminine if that makes sense)):

Tomboy Lion (female lions sometimes grow manes just like male lions)

Black Caiman (not sure if this animal is queer, but I wanted to represent queer activists of color as symbol of appreciation, as they significantly helped shape the LGBT+ rights movement we have to this day)

Asexual New Mexico Whiptail Lizard (they reproduce asexually) and Intersex Hyena (birthing hyenas have “pseudo penises” instead of vaginas)

Bisexual Bonobo and Lesbian Dolphin (they engage in same-sex intercourse)

[trainedsubway]

save me Itapan, Itapan save me

“Oh, please stay by me, Veneziano”

[wafaaaahhh]

all mine

[xkwhwhwhah]

trinkets

srry i never draw this silly little dude

[okapiandpaste]

i love you holmes lesbians and bisexuals i love you holmes aros and aces i love you holmes transgenders. in my head we are skipping through a field together. like this

[unobstrusive-distance]

„Did you know that Dolphins are just gay Sharks?“ - Brittany S. Pierce