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[thisisadonaldduckblognow]

all the rise boys get done dirty on characterization by fandom in different ways i think. (not ALL the time every fanwork etc etc these are just like, trends i tend to notice?) every fandom suffers from losing character nuance.

- leo i’ve talked about plenty on this blog, how some of his canon traits (genuine belief in his skill and cockiness, capacity for joy, his manipulativeness whether for good or ill) seem to get watered down or wiped off the board and supplemented with generic sad boy. his struggles with purpose and identity and not wanting to fail somehow morph into “he hates and completely holds no value for himself”

- donnie’s canon personality gets blurred out and largely replaced with whatever list of Neurodivergent Traits. and i think there’s such a fine line to walk between exploring a character that’s been word of god confirmed as on the spectrum and overwriting what’s canonically there. it’s a hard needle to thread. it also feels like a lot of his canon emotiveness gets left off the table for some reason. bc he does have his moments of flat/deadpan delivery, but a lot of the time he’s honestly very emotive. he has the passion of a theatre kid and the vindictiveness of... also a theatre kid. and the mind of a scientist.

- raph loses so much of his rowdy teen boy energy it’s kind of wild? like interpretations sand off that he’s also impulsive and can be reckless and dumb and LOVES fighting and roughhousing and isn’t the most eloquent person. suddenly there’s this pitch perfect soft boy big bro who would never hurt a fly and always says the exact right supportive thing and singlehandedly raised his 3 brothers (which simultaneously sands off all the nuance of splinter’s issues emotionally connecting with his sons and how that affected all of them). and like i LOVE raph, he’s so full of love and care and anxiety, he clearly has learned to put a lot of work into being aware of his strength and size. but there’s a difference you know?

- mikey is like. where raph gets overparentified by fanon, mikey gets over “family therapist”-ed IMO. the impulsiveness, the goofiness, the powerful emotions including a VERY powerful temper, the flat-out dumb teen boy choices... they get ignored. suddenly there’s this only very sweet and earnest boy who has read a hundred psychology books and runs group family therapy weekly or something. he is crying in his room bc leo and raph are arguing about something. which is so. he IS very sweet and can be very earnest and is full of love! he HAS come in with his opinions and unsolicited advice a couple of times and life coached for the greater good. but there’s a difference between what he does in canon and the role he gets in fanon.

[allastoredeer]

*Turns on megaphone* Lucifer Morningstar is a Service Top! ...That is all.

THANK YOU!

Can we all readdress the fact that Lucifer is a canonical switch? I understand liking bottom!Lucifer, I really do, but let this man top. As a RadioApple fan, is it really too much to want Alastor to get properly railed 😩

I suppose I'll have to be the change I want to see in the world, but I still wanna read/see it.

I'm pretty sure this is why I've been consuming so much RadioStatic content lately. Their dynamic is amazing AND Alastor gets to bottom. It's perfect.

[ailithnight]

Need a good doctor friend so I can ask them medical shit for fic reasons.

If someone was stripped and tied up in a drafty warehouse, what's the temperature-time chart for hypothermia? Like, at x-temperature it takes y-time for z-stage of hypothermia to set in.

Attempting to find these answers online either gives me water temperature or windchill/frostbite charts. I know enough science to confidentially say that water is not analogous to a drafty warehouse.

Water is significantly better at conducting heat transfer. Something like 25 times better if I remember thermodynamics. So I know hypothermia would set in much quicker in water, so those charts aren't helpful.

And frostbite, while a fascinating condition in its own right, is not itself hypothermia. I know it's a common complication of hypothermia. But it is not directly linked to the cooling of the core temperature. Also, a drafty warehouse may be, well, drafty, but if the draft is not extremely strong and also directly on the person, I'm not sure windchill would have any part to play.

How am I supposed to find the answers I seek to my highly specific questions when any search engine is just gonna analyze my query and spit out the most commonly clicked links to the most commonly searched variation; which is inevitably going to be some random ass surface knowledge listicle site answering a completely different question to the one I asked?

[shima-draws]

I haven't watched more than like, 8 episodes of once piece, but i just want to say that i'm loving your live(?) blogging of the episodes as you go. especially all the sanji x luffy, it's all very cute in general but also how excited you get about it is fantastic.

that's all! i just love seeing people passionately enjoy things.

AAGFGHGHF THANK YOU OMG........I feel like I've been REALLY annoying talking about Sanlu nonstop but I'm glad at least somebody is enjoying it lmao. But if there's one place where I SHOULD have no filter and feel free to talk about my ships constantly, it should be my own blog right. LOL

Essentially,

[slavhew]

i draw myself a lot

[oceanwithouthermoon]

ive been unhealthily fixated on kubosai for the past few weeks, i just have no idea how to put it into words. kuboyasu aren and saiki kusuo are in love btw

[genericpuff]

I think someone needs to touch some grass

Please

I know what it’s like to be angry…

thanks i'm cured 🤡

[familyofpaladins]

Here it is!!! Here's my giant board of things that make me go "HHMMMM"

There's just a lot of things that happened this season (season 4) that could connect back to LBD.

more and close ups of the board below

Main things here:

There's several times where LBD refers to playing "a game" and that people and other things are "pieces" of that game

The Jade Emperor tells Azure that he is just a piece in a game. What is this game? Who are the players? LBD and the Emperor? Someone else? The mystery person with the scroll? The Mayor? Where is he???

LBD also tells Monkey King, Macaque and Mk at different points that she will rip/undo/erase the memories of them. How was she planning on doing that? Oh hello Ancient Scroll of Memory that is in the Underworld.

Oh underworld you say? Ya know, I wonder if that was the "beyond" the Mayor was referring to when he said that LBD would use the Samadhi fire to cleanse the celestial realm and beyond. I mean, the fire IS an Inter-dimensional weapon after all.

There is twice that LBD refers to MK as a monkey. Does she know? Did she know that MK was a stone monkey all along??? Does that have anything to do with the weird blue wisps during MK's transformation?

I'm now realizing that I forgot to add a piece of info, but its over all not super important. But she tells Macaque at one point that he "refused the Path of Destiny, and so there will be Pain". But she tells MK that the pursuit of what you think is right will only lead to pain.

She also tells Mei (which MK overhears) while possessing Monkey King, that they (Mei and the other Heroes) are Agents of Chaos, which LBD wants to eradicate, and that in doing so will get rid of disorder and Destruction. Meanwhile the ink curse tells MK that he's nothing but a Harbinger of Chaos who will cause nothing but Chaos and Destruction. Is it simply using LBD's words to get in his head or is there something more there?

also the symbols on the scroll are the same symbols that LBD uses and which surrounded her when she was locked away. Does that mean anything? Is it just the language of the underworld? Is it just a language the animation crew uses on repeat because they have it? or is LBD connected to the scroll?

hhmmmmmmmmm

[starcurtain]

I think my very least favorite type of mihoyo fan to interact with is the rabid "There's no ships implied or teased because in Hoyo games no ships are canon!! These characters are just friends!!"

Like, do you just enjoy being bland as untoasted bread? Do you not have a single romantic bone in your body? Are you completely incapable of just letting other people have fun?

Normally I am happy to let people cook, but actually, for this group? Please shut up. Literally no one who is shipping in these fandoms actually expects their ships to be 100% confirmed as canon in-game. We know there aren't many confirmed relationships in Hoyo games. We've got it, thanks!

But denying that there's any deliberate ship tease or fan bait, especially in Hoyo's marketing, just makes you look media illiterate. Of course there's ship tease in Hoyo marketing and games! That shit sells just as well as the waifu/husbando fantasy! Hoyo knows how to make money; they're not stupid!

Anyway, sorry for the rant. There just seems to be a particular breed of really intolerable fan in the Hoyo fandoms that is exhausting to have to see and respond to and that last video has brought them out in force... 😮‍💨

[todayisafridaynight]

commission for a twitter lovely as a gift for another twitter lovely :]

Commission Sale (Aug. 24th - Sept. 1st, 2023)

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[this-should-do]

uh ohhhhh looks like somebody finally got what was coming to them

[kittykatstiles]

the kitten stiles slander i just saw omg….. tbh your stiles is NOT my stiles and it’s okay!!!! but being so serious rn if you don’t like kitten stiles and to avoid seeing it pls block me cause obviously i am a kitten stiles enjoyer <3

anyways this is a pic of me and him we tight 🤞🏻 like this

[hokkienmee]

Gekokujo Kyuji (2023) ↳ Episode 6

subtitles by subie06 (d-addicts). thank you!

[spiritsong]

the holy trinity, as coined by @thehightiefling!

Aune - First Tav Ever, my precious and tortured bard-cleric of Eilistraee. There's a lot about her on my blog so I won't go on and on. Her moodboard depicts various aspects of her: her devotion to Eilistraee, her favorite instruments, sword worship, willows (significant to her & her story), that lovely sculpture in the center which is a perfect depiction of her religious trauma/guilt lol; hands raised in prayer, or desperation, or both?

Aune (but make it Durge) - First Durge Ever; Spore druid. Similarly precious and tortured, but like in a different way. Bhaalspawn edition. A lot of the images mirror the placements of tav!Aune's. Front and center are bloody hands held tenderly; this sort of image/symbolism is central to her story.

Aun* - High Primistress of Bhaal. Also precious, but not as tortured! since she's an embrace!Durge. Despite being objectively the worst, she's most in alignment with herself out of the three. Her color palette is white, red, and gold, partly as a nod to default Durge, but also because she is the kind of person who wants to stand out amongst others; to place herself seperately (and therefore above) those around her. She likes the idea of being this bright beacon dressed in white & red amongst the rest of the black-clad Bhaalists. She doesn't wear purple but it's a color I associate with Drow. She has the most exposure to Menzoberranzan culture out of the three, on account of her having stayed there the longest. (And also the fact that she got to live as a noblewoman there.) Monkshood and hellebore are in her moodboard because their folkloric/mythological associations fit well with Aun's story. I can go into this later if anyone is interested but I'm cutting myself off here because I can talk about plants forever

*Aun doesn't have the -e suffix on her name like the other two; -e means servant, slave, vassal, etc. in the Drow language. In her AU, she never becomes a slave because she passes for a full Drow in Menzoberranzan. Hence the name difference. (Also conveniently makes it easier to distinguish her from the other Aunes)

If you want to read proper bios for these characters, follow the link in my pinned post. :)

[rylivers]

was scrolling through tiktok on the toilet (yes im a toilet tiktok watcher) and saw this one tiktok of a person talking about the 911 finale and it was literally the same regurgitated shit i've seen on here but they were like "oh i feel so sorry for oliver because..." and like excuse me??? you think oliver stark, queer men supporter, is gonna be all up in arms over one fun flirty line? you think they'd bring lou back for multiple episodes if oliver disliked him that much? are you for real? can you stop assuming how oliver, a grown ass man in his 30s, feels about things you have no knowledge about? pls. stop it. it's just embarrassing at this point.

[crocuspetals]

my favorite autistic emotionally distraught traumatized lesbian! here is violet :) she is also a cat. violentine can be kitties together that way

louis is next 🐶

design notes:

-spiky and messy fur. it tends to soften when around people she’s close to (ex: clem, tenn, aj, louis)

-ears are torn and they usually droop

-weird ass hair tuft 😭

-matching markings with louis hashtag bffs forever