#gonna try to babble more

[twistedappletree]

Arranged marriage zhuiling AU where instead of being arranged to marry each other, Jiang Cheng keeps trying to set Jin Ling up with random girls from other clans after Jin Ling mentions he’s interested in marrying ‘someone’ because he doesn’t know Jin Ling meant Lan Sizhui, so Jin Ling keeps doing the most ridiculously annoying and unappealing things to scare off every girl who comes to Koi Tower and Jiang Cheng is ripping his hair out because you little brat, you said you wanted to get married???

Eventually, both of them are so exhausted from the miscommunication that Jiang Cheng investigates and finally finds out what’s wrong, then tells Jin Ling he has one more potential spouse for him to meet. Jin Ling is a pouting lackluster mess over it until his entire world stops when the doors to Koi Tower open and Lan Sizhui walks through.

[popponn]

there is something about how when anime official art gets yoichi right fashion wise it's always a comfy bf look like look at him

very fluffy. very huggable. i want to poke and pinch his cheeks. also he often has those lil blushies when he eats and for some reason it's cute. the gap moe between on field and off field is still something else to see each time i remember it. i love it ofc 💚 but it's still something else

[bonefall]

Hi Bones!! Thank you for you hard work on this project and for sharing it with us!

I've seen your posts about weird representation of society (regarding the "natural order of things") in xenofiction, especially in lion king, so I wanted to ask:

could you recommend any xenofiction media that has all (or most of the) animal species sapient? Or is the only solution to make just one or two species sapient while the others (especially prey) are plain animals?

Really sorry if you've seen this ask from me before - my account had a weird laggy period when I couldn't send or receive messages and asks, so I don't know if you got the previous one! I just know that now it's fixed so I double all the asks sent haha

Honestly I'm not totally sure! If any 3rd person has some good recommendations for "every being is alive" xenofiction types, feel free to weigh in.

If you want to jump in with me though, I am following the webcomic Africa. It updates every Wednesday. Africa is about a mother Leopard on the verge of a great ecological disaster, the relationship between her children and the animals around her, and the strength of both instinct and choice as the characters face an uncertain future.

Since it's ongoing, I still don't know how it's going to end and can't judge it as a full work! But it's absolutely fascinating and I think the author is doing a fantastic job so far. Bonus points for the way it portrays humans, btw.

No more spoilers though, if you're interested, it's on Webtoons.

(I'm also planning to read Oren's Forge soon. Ask me about it again in a few months over on Bonebabbles and I'll give you my thoughts)

As an aside though, funny you mention it because like... ever since I was a kid I've had a story I want to tell with the premise. It's a scintilla I've kept close to me for well over a decade but haven't done anything official with. So this is actually a theme I've thought about a lot.

It's rare to see it done well though because like... its very premise butts heads with reality. The "natural order" that an animal follows is not something it moralizes. A tiger doesn't have the capacity to think about how fucked up it is to kill to stay alive, the deer doesn't know that if its population isn't controlled it will destroy the forest.

They're animals. They don't HAVE that agency. Your dog does not care about being sterilized. A snake doesn't differentiate between a pinky and an adult mouse except in terms of if it will fit in its mouth. But the minute you put human morality in there... they have the ability to reason, create and agree on the rules of a society, make choices about MORALITY.

If nothing is going to change about their world, you just end up putting human arguments about "natural order" in their mouths and, well... start telling a parable justifying this "natural order."

(Genuine) Does what I'm saying make sense? Animals DON'T rationalize or negotiate. HUMANS do.

So the minute you're approaching a world with that logic, like it or not, you are invoking those "arguments from nature." And you're putting them in a being that is not fully an animal or a human, but an anthropomorphic mix which CAN rationalize but WON'T make an effort to change their world.

(Which is why tbh the best examples i know of are works with a theme of "change.")

OH WAIT I also remember another that's interesting!! Leafy: Hen into the Wild actually has a fascinating take on it. It's not interested in "moralizing" or really being about an animal society. It's a very emotional sort of movie, and it's about joys in adversity, the freedom that choice gives you, how bad things are going to happen and you can never completely prevent them.

INTENSE movie emotionally, the ending will wreck you (especially in the English translation which leaves out a really important theme making it feel abrupt x_x) but it's really good. Check that one out.

OH and also You Are Umasou. That one has more pitfalls imo (it does try to moralize a bit) but it's super unique as a movie. And is about dinosaurs.

[possamble]

realizing im kind of a weirdo about laios and marcille

[blastlight]

every so often i think about how if i ever make a post or something that blows up, i'll immediately be harassed en masse by people claiming i'm a zionist

[enden-k]

anw thanks to that route of kavehs hangout event i wanna draw hkvthm having kids now and living a domestic family life rip

[bosspigeon]

the more emmrich art i see the more sure i am that we're gonna have another case of "huge buff trans man gets topped by a spindly little dandy"

[turtlemurmurs]

GENTLEMAN SCIENTIST FINALLY GOT A REWORK!!! I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT TO FINISH THIS TO CELEBRATE THE OCCASION!!!

I’ve had a few very silly “beard science” ideas in my head for a while but now that it’s officially relevant~ I really wanted to make a mockup update poster like they used to do for the original game! I hope you all enjoy <3 (Disclaimer: the only thing I took from the actual update is the beard storage thing lmao)

Here’s a slightly more faded probably less readable version aand just the Wilson by himself because he turned out cute <3

[our-inspire-verse]

Me realizing it's that fuckin Phase again, that unsure amount of time in which our asexuality spectrum starts randomizing some dials and usually they all land on 💯% horny agonizing HORNY HORNY

[ghostsinthecellar]

I want to go to bed!!!!

[vi-enti]

new fucking fear unlocked, my parents just got back from visiting family in india and mentioned my grandfather wants to start looking into getting me married

[twistedappletree]

my problem lately is that i’ve been writing but not finishing anything so if anyone has ideas they wanna see written that can be made into a short ficlet/ask-fic, feel free to lmk

[feraecor]

hi i've been sick home from work for days and i'm slowly dying and leaking from my nose

[totallyawesome123]

rediscovering I have empathy? craaaazyyyyy

[blastlight]

i got an automated text from my old doctors' office telling me it's time for a flu shot

meanwhile i'm ghosting my current doctor because i have no healthcare 🤪 maybe i should just stop going outside

[mikomiio]

Practising sceneries for the first time and attempting to conceptualise my fantasy setting.

I'm pretty satisfied with this start and I plan to make more attempts in the future

I have a whole little fantasy setting in my mind for my characters but I've not actually drawn much background or scenery before. Here are my first few attempts and I'll eventually make more till I can fully realise the concepts the way I imagine them.

These 2 are my sorta quick attempts at my floating islands that are supposed to be connected by bridges and hold a medium sized city on them. The sketches themselves didn't turn out too accurate to how I imagine things, save some tidbits here and there but it helped me figure out in which direction to go and how to go about it.

My goal is to work on more drawings with actual backgrounds, we all know the struggle and place our characters on white backgrounds. And that will still be my go to for the most part bc it's relaxing and simple but I also wanna be capable of drawing backgrounds that turn out the way that I imagine them just like I learned how to do that with characters