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"we heard the nerevarine set sail for Akavir and Vivec vanished during the Oblivion Crisis" "I wonder where they are now"
I stumbled on the @nerevar-quote-and-star pinup challenge and ached to do the "sunkissed" one but then my life happened and my computer crashed and then I added Vivec and now I'm past the days for that prompt so this is late! I hope that's cool lol
couldn't help but immediately think about my nerevarine, Isavyn, who 100% fucks off into the distance with Vivec in tow post-tribunal/bloodmoon to go farting around Tamriel. It's healthy and fun, for someone's definition of healthy and fun.
#tes pinup challenge 2023#tes#dunmer#morrowind#vivec#oc#my scribbles#nerevarine#i don't take criticism#vehk is his own mer#he makes his own choices
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Ratatouille would have been a better and potentially much more interesting story if Remy had partnered with Collette instead of Linguini. Two underdogs with talent and passion forced to maintain a dangerous ruse. Fiercely independent Collette giving up temporary control of her body to a creature who, despite the insanity of a rat wanting to cook professionally, she can relate to on a personal level and who she does want to teach. The inner conflict of wondering if Remyās growing talents are eclipsing her own, if the praise their food is earning belongs more to him than to her. Her guilt over feeling resentment and jealousy towards this little guy who wouldnāt have a hope of realizing his talents if not for her trust and protection. Both of them unraveling the mystery of that sweet but bumbling kitchen boy with the obvious crush on Collette being Gusteauās secret son, and working together to thwart the new evil ownerās plans to stop Linguini from claiming his birthright. The message of the movie not being this weird, almost smug āsome people are born with talent, some people arenāt, and thatās how being a ~great artist~ worksā, but something more like, āif you have a dream, you deserve to pursue it, and be supported and encouraged in your pursuit of it, even if other people tell you that, because of some intrinsic aspect of yourself or the circumstances you were born in (like being a human woman in the restaurant industry, or being a literal rat), you have no place pursuing this dream. Also, raw talent can only get you so far, and skill and passion existing in the right balance is key.ā Iāve been thinking about this for seventeen years. Iām breaking my silence
#when I first watched this movie the moment near the end where Collette makes ratatouille and Remy rejects it outright#and makes his own super special beautiful version that everyone loves#even though Collette was the one who turned him into the cook he became and taught him everything#it felt kind of mean to me? like mean as a story choice. like ohh sure he needed her help before#but heās this special little genius so now her skills arenāt presented as impressive or even worthwhile anymore#catie talks
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I kidnapped ur long-nosed cat for a sec
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#last year you said that ādude looks like he's been betrayed in all past lives and is to be betrayed in all lives to comeā#and it has become one of the defining descriptions of Machete in my head#I think about it frequently#you captured him so delicately here#almost like an old oil painting#or weirdly enough the color palette also reminds me of chalk on a blackboard#and I appreciate the big angular pink-tinted goblin ears#and the smooth gradient of his snout#I like the nuance of his expression he seems calm but kind of melancholic#thank you! your rendition of him looks so classy and refined ;-;#gift art#awkwardosthe3rd#Machete#own characters#I can't paint digitally at all so whenever I see someone making it seem so natural and correct and right I'm like#floored#people are making such nice art of my goobers I have no choice but to curl on the floor like a dead bug
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I think people are not understanding that to get Astarionās approval up you donāt have to be mean you just have to be chaotic. The man is a toddler let loose off his leash for the first time in 200 years he doesnāt care about being mean he cares about being funny
#like yeah he would approve if you punched a child in act 1 but not because its mean because its so out of pocket#he gets to make his own choices for the first time he can remember and heās using that freedom to start a career as a slapstick comedian#bg3#baldurās gate 3#astarion
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Ok this is gonna sound fun but, did Timmy ever get any advice from "fairy mason" who was his fairy lawyer in the norm the genie episode. It would be cool to see Timmy have a mentor
Timmy practically lived in Fairy Mason's office throughout his entire schooling at Pixies' Academy. He had lots of questions and discussions and thoughts!!!! And Fairy Mason answered every. single. one of them.
Fairy Mason wrote the letter of recommendation to the Fairy Council to let Timmy work so close with Jorgen on Da Rules' policy changes! Timmy was able to hit the ground running by the time he entered the workforce thanks to it. He also quickly made a name of himself as one of the best lawyers of the Pixie Court due to Mason's tutelage!
Bitties Series: [Start] > [Previous] > [Next]
#fairly oddparents#fop#fop a new wish#fop timmy turner#fop timmy#timmy turner#asks#itty bitties fop au#uay778#after timmy got his job he still maintained contact with fairy mason#but as time passed he relied on his advice less and less#because sooner or later you just gotta make your own choices and rely on your own intuitions!#and fairy mason is very proud of timmy!!!#usually when someone constantly asks for your advice. theres that fear that what theyre hoping for is to become you.#or as near identical as you so that theyd never have to make their own choices or their own thoughts#but timmy took his advice and made it into his own and became his own fairy. he simply needed mason's guidance to understand things!#fairy mason was on call though when they had to re-release norm#thankfully timmy didnt have to call him but he was on standby
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#MOMENTS THAT MAKE ME EMOTIONAL. BAUL CALLING HIM BY NAME NOT CALLING HIM HUMAN. WEAK AT THE KNEES#i think ill only have time to draw these two pieces before i leave for the holidays so i want them to be a set. i think its fun#talked abt it on twt but artistically its SO fun that book 7 has the 'good guys' w the colors of the night. greens and purples and darks#and the 'bad guys' of the humans strike their queen down with a brilliant yellow light. the light IS the darkness is conceptually yummy#trying to lean into color choices and intentional comps lately. lilias piece reading L>R feels like the angle pushes down on him#here sebek faces with the eye's movement so its more positive. like hes climbing towards his beautiful bright future. ouughj#never before in fandom have i wanted to so clearly break down my own art choices like a historian but diasom does smth to my brain#twst#twisted wonderland#sebek zigvolt#baul zigvolt#ch 7 spoilers#suntails
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If Coryo was solely looking out for himself throughout TBOSAS and never had genuine feelings for Lucy Gray, then explain this passage
He couldāve landed in one of the districts closer to the Capitol, but instead chose to exile himself to District 12 hoping to be reunited with Lucy Gray. The mere possibility of their reunion is the only thing that keeps him going. And thatās love.š
#hunger for power and obsession with control can 100% coexist with love btw#the latter isnāt diminished by the circumstance that the person feeling such love later made poor choices#it just makes their story a tragedy#disliking a character and/or thinking theyāre irredeemable is one thing#but believing that snow was evil from the start is just wrong#heās digging his own grave but is unaware of it#tbosas#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#the hunger games#snowbaird#coryo x lucy#coriolanus snow#lucy gray baird#coriolanus x lucy gray
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my contribution to the fmab fandom, slowly but surely (click for better quality)
#you can make the argument that ling yao is forced to dilly dally but i think its a choice on his part#he didnt have to pretend to be a silly lil guy he just really wanted to#but yeah do not underestimate him he is always locked in. the dilly dally is usually a farce#greed however wants so badly to be locked in but he is forced to dilly dally for months on a camping trip#greed the avaricious#<hes born to lock in forced to lock in but went and dilly dally-ed until canon rolled around#yes i view all of them as individual characters. id even say greedling (when the lines blur n you cant tell) is its own fourth character#greedling#ling yao#fmab#fullmetal alchemist brotherhood#born to dilly dally#forced to lock in#yes i know these are usually done with one image but im indecisive and couldnt pick T^T#also i have a million screenshots of them and i need to use them or it was all for naught#moss' madness
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wardrobe notes for my silly au; travelling king thranduil
#thranduil#the hobbit#lotr#myart#i wanna start drawing him consistently for all of these doodles anyways#i hope his emotional state/proximity to elrond will be apparent by how ornate or stripped down his clothes and jewelry are :)#he wears dark warm colors and greens elrond wears cooler colors and occasional red and copper their tailoring is to personal taste#i like that rivendell elves have really elegant lines in their clothes it makes sense w the art nouveau architecture#i think thranduil dresses p singularly tho i think his tailoring and color choices are all of his own (dramatic)#ugh wish these geezers would hurry up and court each other so i can draw elrond wearing a flower crown in the greenwood
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i was talking extensively with a friend about reijuās delicate balance of caring/emotionless and her relationship with sanji
#dont look too closely or u WILL see that i drew this cold and sloppy#hopefully its legible#uhhhhh anyway. she does genuinely want sanji to have a good and safe life!#but she doesnt understand how to factor in what he WANTS from life.#and she certainly doesnt trust him to make his own decisions regarding said life#in her mind i think she sees her muted emotions as a strength. she thinks she can make unbiased choices for him#her idea of Best Possible Life would make him MISERABLE#the end#one piece#sanji#vinsmoke reiju
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tragic day for the soft phillie community
#dan howell forever on my shitlist with his we/us decisions#phil STAND UP make your own choices heās just a man#phil lester#amazingphil#dan and phil#dnp#daniel howell
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not enough discussion about the gavins' complicated relationship with feminine-coded/beauty products, i don't think.
#for klavier because it's not as direct it's about how we never see him actually wearing lipstick? even though apollo literally attends#a concert of his which is where you'd most expect him to wear makeup. but apparently he just doesnt. or at least not in public#klavier gavin#kristoph gavin#i feel like there are several ways you can read into it. the misogyny/toxic masculinity one is really obvious clearly with kristoph's#singling out of men specifically and klavier's (probably accidental?) condescending manner of calling women 'fraulein' plus his general#mildly patronising attitude towards many of the women in the game (also probably unintentional)#(i think he's trying to be charming and it's coming off wrong to some of them. like ema. and me.)#but i feel like there's also maybe an element of... inherent perfecfionism to it? like both of these products are conventionally beautifyin#products and kristoph while he is open to showing people he uses nail polish specifically chooses one that's clear and missable unless you#see him apply it. he also feels the need to justify his use of it and specifically spell it out as something he chooses to do rather than#needs to do even though duh. that should be obvious.#idk there's just something about his seeming need to take control of that narrative that i find interesting. his need to spin it into a#'there's nothing wrong with my nails but I had the foresight to see that even the smallest parts of my appearance should be kept immaculate#and it's a choice i'm making to refine an already adequate part of my personage /not/ to cover some unsightly defect.' the need to emphasis#that specifically is so. hm. and with klavier i could see it being a case of him liking makeup liking the pops of colour yet being unwillin#to admit to it because he's afraid that other people might see it as him being dissatisfied with his own appearance regardless of if he is#or isn't. or even just perceiving colourful makeup as being unseemly because it's so overt and unnatural.#like i can see this as them both viewing 'real' beauty to be that which is inherent to a person and seemingly effortless#thus somehow negating the beauty which one achieves through cosmetics or other external means.#and if you want to use external means to achieve beauty or neatness or whatever then your only valid options are those which blend into you#natural state. like clear nail polish. or really awful spray tan.#i feel like klavier's less confined by these ideas (if they hold merit at all) considering he actually owns coloured lipstick and he wears#jewellery (admittedly quite 'masculine' jewellery no gems or pearls or anything like that but jewellery nonetheless) but i think it just#makes it more interesting that he doesnt seem quite able to cross the line anyway. like it's that ingrained into his system.#anyway that's all i've got. you guys should tell me what you think too#annotations
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i am truly so sick of peopleāboth outside and inside the star wars universeāremembering anakin fondly. this man, though not wholly responsible, played a major hand in the destruction of the jedi order and the death of democracy itself. he slaughtered children, brutally executed his peers and superiors, and continued to hunt them down throughout the years. he is remembered as a good master, as a good leader, butā¦ was he? was he a good master when he led the execution, the genocide, of ahsokaās people? their people? yes, it would have happened with or without him. yes, he was groomed and manipulated by palpatine. but he, in the end, choose to commit those heinous crimes. he chose to forsake the galaxy, forsake his community, all for a person who genuinely did not want that. it is the very thing the jedi order so deeply tried to teach him, to not let your love blind you, and to not forsake everyone else for your love. he chose his path, and to free him of any blame while putting that blame on the very people who tried to help him (the jedi) is a disservice not only to the tragedy of his character, but the tragedy of the jedi orderās fate itself.
#astra.txt#star wars#anakin skywalker#anti anakin skywalker#i guess?#pro jedi#to blame the jedi for his fall from grace is genuinely one of the stupidest takes i have ever seen#and it completely removes the fact he is a person who makes his own choices#this is my first star wars post of course itās me being a hater#anyways he is looking up at us rn#i personally believe anakin and darth vader are the same person and thatāonce againāsaying otherwise is a disservice to his character
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gothic lolita machete came to me in a dream
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#HHWAH#but he unironically kind of makes it work though??#I never realized that the leap from what he normally wears to gothic lolita would be this small#basically the same thing just a lot more lace and frills and embroidery#loving! the pomegranates!#it always makes me ecstatic when people find a way to include them or his other... symbols? motifs? objects of significance?#it's nice you kept the red gloves and red heels#the little crosses on the capelet and the stockings too hah#and the massive bow where the fascia would go#I support genderfuckery Machete by the way#his design and mannerisms have always been somewhat androgynous or at least that's what I've been trying to aim for#despite his sharp angular form he's supposed to have an aura of elegance and delicateness#at least on his better days when he's not in full rat man mode#given the choice he'd rather be called beautiful than handsome I'm pretty sure#folks have been mistaking him for a goth lesbian a whole lot lately so I can't be too far off#thank you this made me grin like an idiot when I opened the inbox#gift art#aggiepython#own characters#Machete
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so many gems in the Doctor Who script library the BBC just released but today I'm here in 4x02, The Fires of Pompeii
#doctor who#donna noble#tenth doctor#the fires of pompeii#literally this is donna's second trip#the first time she met the doctor she saw what he was capable of#and this episode does that too but in a different way#somebody far more eloquent than i needs to elaborate on how this was on a small scale reminiscent#of what the doctor had to do to end the time war#(or at least at this point thought he did. not getting into the timey-wimey retcons rn)#and how he always seems to end up having to make these soulcrushing choices on his own bc that's what being the doctor means#but donna does something very different here and chooses to take half the weight of this impossible choice#and i am very š about it#don't mind me just spiraling over a sixteen year old episode of doctor who on this fine thursday afternoon#as one does#wait.... it's tuesday. dammit.#my posts
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even though shen yuan disdains wife plots, i feel it's because they're often so contrived and the wives are always damsels in distress, and when the system puts him in one it's against his will and he has no control over it, BUT, i think if he makes the choice to put himself in one on purpose and with a plan, he would excel at it, he would play into it so hard to get what he wants, he'd see it as his opportunity to cheat the system (pun intended!) and farm easy points
#''im not an actual damsel in distress if im just acting'' -shen yuan | damsel in distress#hed get the other peak lords to fuss over him so quickly#all wrapped around his finger#i think the biggest issue is really the control and agency of it#shen yuan doesnt like not having control over his own actions and choices#so when he makes the choice himself to play a certain role for his own gains he wouldnt care at all#(also i headcanon he likes getting fussed over once in a while)#(and being carried like a princess by big strong men)#''all the princes come to save the princess!'' <- shen yuan not realizing that princes fall in love with princesses#white lotus binghe would get sooo jealous too when liu qingge carries sqq home after a flare up#he cant wait to grow up so HE will be carrying shizun around#anyway just a random thought#svsss#shen yuan#shen qingqiu#scum villianās self saving system#scum villian self saving system#scum villain#luo binghe#damsel in distress trope
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