#i am going to. go lie down. i think.

[dandyshucks]

all the darts are sewn up now yay ... but hands are shaky very early tonight 😭 so sewing must stop for the night RIP, but tomorrow i will continue on the hair !!!

[verflares]

(pre-calam) filling the compendium :-)

+ closeup and the aftermath

[nyaagolor]

I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE ALL DRAWING TRANSFEM BATTLER WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS DESIGN WAS FOR A WHOLE OTHER CHARACTER

[meamiki]

Happy Anniversary In Stars and Time!! Have some Friend Quest based drawings :D

(These have specific quote picks related to them! And there's also a long ramble on why I like those specific quotes below if interested)

(And by long, I mean roughly 2k+ words of proper ramble total, so be warned before clicking keep reading this link right here to the rb!!)

[sysig]

Can I request a pokemon drawing? Was thinking mewtwo but idk whoever whatever!

Day 11 - Quiet pls

[badbookkeeping]

feeling like a lot of ppl who hate kant are forgetting that hes being legit blackmailed by the police into doing all this. he clearly wouldnt ordinarily do smth like this (think of james' account of kants kindness), but whats worse?? helping put hitmen behind bars (despite coming to care for one of them) or going to prison himself and leaving babe all alone to fend for himself? what happens to babe if kant is gone? we already know that kant is willing to resort to theft for babe's sake. he would do anything to protect babe, and the lengths hed go thru to do so are what makes his character so compelling

[youssefguedira]

How. do you possibly resolve severance. if lumon is dissolved and everyone stops working there all of the innies are gone. if they keep going then they can only work. if they stop working somehow but maintain the division between innie and outie they'll be in constant conflict. if they reintegrate who knows how much of both innie and outie gets lost in the process and how do they resolve two completely different people. if one of them leaves then they're free but they're also gone. irving's not dead he's just not here. but also they're the same thing

[frnkiebby]

another great fucking pov~🎃

[necrotic-nephilim]

Any ships you don’t like in the batfam fandom that is popular?

OOOH this is such a fun question because I have quite a few

StephCass - i'll be honest this is one of those ships where the fandom ruined it for me. because 2000s StephCass is an elite dynamic, they care for each other so deeply. but the fandom has been intent on defanging and purifying this ship. i don't know *why* but StephCass seems most popular with the anti-Batcest crowd who get very mad if you compare it to ships they deem Batcest. i have an entire meta commentary on this in my drafts I'll likely never post discussing why the only reason StephCass gets the pass for not being Batcest ties directly into misogyny (because the women of the Batfam need to exist as love interests first, not family members so Steph was never going to truly get to exist as a "full" Batfam member so long as she could remain a viable love interest for Tim, and the same can apply to Babs, Helena, and even Cass in some cases) and that just sours me to it. like if i want yuri in Batfam i think there are far more interesting/fucked up ships for Steph like Babs/Steph or Helena/Steph. and when it comes to what i'd actually like to see in canon, i don't want to see Steph relegated to love interest of a Batfamily member, even if it's queer. let her date and exist outside of Gotham the way every other Batfam member gets to, DC *please*.

Bruce/Selina - i can't fully articulate why this ship isn't my thing, it just isn't. i think i just can't conceivably agree with Selina letting go of so many of her fundamental morals and beliefs for the sake of a man, even one she loves such as Bruce. ironically, i think that's one of the few things Gotham War got right about these two. the only canon love interest i like for Bruce is Zatanna and i mourn we'll never get much of that.

JayRoy - i will admit when i was newer to DC the first comics i picked up for Jason were all New-52 and i shipped this. but now that i'm a pre-Flashpoint truther and i've actually read well-written Roy Harper comics, i only see the flaws in this ship. ngl if ppl were actually fun and interesting with it, playing with the idea of Roy knowing Jason as Robin and still seeing him as just Dick's little brother who's gone a little mental, it *could* be fun. but this Red Hood & the Outlaws (2011) and Red Hood/Arsenal (2015) dynamic *butchers* the fuck out of Roy and strips him of everything interesting. and even as a Batfamily stan, my number one pet peeve is when other DC characters get *butchered* in a Batfamily character's book just for the sake of propping up the Bat as some kind of savior. free Roy Harper from this mans.

Bruce/Oliver - we could be here all day if i listed all the Bruce ships i don't like, but i figure this one has to be included. because oh my god either the people shipping this *really* don't understand Oliver Queen or they just hate his ass because why would you subject Oliver to this man. he can't *stand* Bruce. i really hate the popular BruOliie shipping dynamic of like "oh they were boarding school besties" because if you want that, you *should* like Bruce/Zatanna, not these two. Oliver just always gets butchered in these fics and i won't stand for it.

Tim/Bernard - the ESSAYS i could write on this ship and why i dislike it. the fucking *fear* DC (and most popular media tbh) has with depicting queer relationships as anything other than totally perfect and cute for fear of accusations of homophobia has stripped this ship of *any* real grit. Bernard is a non-character in Tim Drake: Robin, he exists to cheer Tim on and prop him up and just be The Boyfriend. we occasionally get glimpses of an interesting character with really interesting trauma and nothing is *done* with it bc at the end of the day, Tim and Bernard must be perfect and cute. what's fun about Tim is he is the *worst* boyfriend alive. that boy is *ass* at dating. all of his relationships are rich with conflict and yet the moment he dates a guy suddenly all of his flaws vanish? i hate it. i mourn what this could've been if we kept messy Tim Drake and had a Bernard who was actually informed by his trauma. DC please let gays be messy again. also of all of Tim's 90s/00s friends to bring back as a love interest, Bernard Dowd was just a *bizarre* fucking choice. Sebastian Ives was *right* there come on now.

Any Crossover Ship - look if crossovers are your cup of tea i'm happy for you but oh my god if i have to see that little green ghost boy or that ladybug girl in the Batfam one more time i think i may explode. i have a lot of thoughts on *why* i think specifically Danny Phantom and Miraculous Ladybug get crossed over as often as they do with the Batfam, but i don't think anyone wants to year that. my only exception to this is Jason/Bucky Barnes, but it *has* to be comics!Bucky. like. Judd Winick's Jason and Ed Brubaker's Bucky would hatefuck and that i wish to see it. any other crossover ship (especially the Peter Parker ones that seem to be rising in popularity) just do *not* do it for me.

honestly besides that i don't think i dislike many ships. (aside from being super opinionated on Bruce ships, but that's mostly bc ppl will use him to butcher the character they ship him with) there are some ships i'm neutral to because i simply do not know enough to have an opinion (like Dick/Wally). i guess the only Batcest ship i'm not particular to is Bruce/Damian, but I wouldn't say that one is popular nor would i say i dislike it, just that it's not my cup of tea. most Batcest ships click for me in one way or another because i like their Weird dnyamics. i guess i could also say i dislike most ships that have come out of Young Justice (tv) because. oh my *god* why were those group of characters put together on a team. it's baffling. but even then it's not disliking those ships, it's moreso disliking that show's depiction of those characters so. everything is really dependant on the canon context for me!

[quarks-pussy]

So I know we here at Startrekfandom love that "came back wrong but from the pov of the wrong" thing and apply it to many different characters and canon situations and I am far from trying to complain about it (I'm "came out wrong" trope myself so I was always gonna obsess over it) but having recently watched a very important episode (you'll know which one) for the first time I think there's a character who hits both tropes mentioned but llike, intertwined, opposite and subverted, and whom I wanna talk about.

Julian Bashir.

From his parents' pov he's "came out wrong but we got him help and he came back better" while from his own pov it's "came out 'insufficient', was destroyed for it, came back wrong and only later slowly came to terms with his new self tho never the process (justifiably so)" and it's heartbreaking because in a way, he's right! Jules Bashir died! His parents had an intellectually disabled child and decided to eugenics him! Julian is not the person he used to be and while I do love the person he is now, that doesn't bring back who he was! Part of me wishes we could've gotten to see Jules at least once and part of me hopes we never do because my heart would shatter.

This isn't a good comparison but nonetheless one I can't help drawing: it's giving similar vibes to anti-vaxxers. "I'd rather risk having a child who is dead than one who's autistic". Obviously this doesn't map over since Julian is still autistic and the procedure his parents subjected him to specifically targeted his intellectual disability and if any folks with id wanna comment on this I definitely recommend you listen to them over me, but it's a similarity I, as an autistic who has encountered anti-vaxxers again and again, can't help but point out. "Give me a normal child or give them death."

This may have been written about already but there needs to be stories about teenage Julian (after finding out and rediscovering who he was) practicing some good ol' recognition of the self through media. I need to hear about how he would encounter a story about someone who came back wrong (I'm gonna assume there's plenty of "wrong" pov stories floating around by the 24th century) and absolutely weep. I need to see Julian mourning Jules, taking years and years to process his feelings, experiencing guilt about how he, the imposter, didn't deserve to live Jules' life.

Came back wrong from the returned's pov but it wasn't an accident. It was done to you deliberately by the people who claim to love you. And now you are here, piloting the corpse of your predecessor.

Jules Bashir is dead. Long live Julian Bashir.

[not-glorfindel-stop-asking]

Lindir, you’ve gotta have some sweet Eredin stories! What’s the most heart-melting thing he’s done for you?

Ah. Ah.

You ask for one story, but do you realize what you request?

How does one select a single moment when Eredin exists in a constant state of being utterly, unbearably sweet? It is an impossible task. I might as well be asked to count the stars or catalog every leaf in the valley.

But fine. Since you insist-

There was a day—years ago now, when Eredin was still new to the archives, still skittish as a fawn, still prone to clutching his quill like a lifeline whenever spoken to directly. I had been ill—nothing dramatic, nothing worthy of great concern, but enough to make my head foggy and my limbs sluggish. Enough that Elrond, in all his wisdom, had exiled me from my own duties and ordered me to rest. (A ridiculous command, truly. I was perfectly capable of continuing my work, and I told him as much. He responded by confiscating my writing implements and setting Glorfindel to watch me, which was an insult I shall never forget.)

Eredin, of course, took this matter with the utmost gravity.

It was as if my mild cold were a grave diplomatic incident requiring delicate maneuvering and constant vigilance. He did not say he was checking in on me—no, he simply appeared.

At first, it was small things: a cup of warm cocoa left within reach when I woke, an extra pillow subtly tucked behind my back, a thick woolen blanket I do not own but somehow acquired draped over my shoulders. I was suspicious.

Rightfully so.

And then—oh. Then.

The moment I will never forget.

One evening, as I pretended to be sleeping (so that Glorfindel would leave), I heard rustling near my bedside. A soft clink. The faintest murmur of words, barely audible. I cracked one eye open.

There was Eredin. My absurd, absurd assistant, kneeling beside my bed, arranging—arranging, with the most careful, studious expression—an assortment of small trinkets beside me. A smooth river stone. A tiny carved owl. A pressed leaf, golden with autumn. A minuscule, perfect pinecone.

I stared. He froze.

"Lindir!" he squeaked, voice pitching high enough to make the Valar wince. "You—oh, you’re awake, I didn’t—um, I was only—this is not what it looks like!"

"...What," I croaked, "does it look like?"

He turned a color so vivid I feared he might combust on the spot.

"You were unwell," he blurted. "And when someone is unwell, you bring them things! That’s what you do!"

"Things," I repeated.

He nodded frantically, hands flapping like a startled bird. "Yes! Things! Small things! Comforting things! I—I read about it once, somewhere, I think it was a book about warg behavior—but that is not important!"

And so I learned that in his worry, in his fervent desire to do something, my dear, ridiculous Eredin had apparently researched creatures in the wild and decided that surely the best course of action was to mimic them. Because if wolves and crows and all manner of beasts brought gifts to those they cared for, why should he not do the same?

I was stunned. I was speechless. I wanted to scream.

Instead, I picked up the small carved owl, turned it over in my palm, and said, very carefully, very softly, "Thank you, Eredin. I will treasure it."

And oh. Oh. You should have seen him.

His breath hitched. His eyes went impossibly wide. And then—oh, then—the most radiant, disastrously lovely smile broke across his face. A smile so full of pure, unguarded joy that I almost had to look away.

He fled before I could say anything else.

(And yes. Yes, I still have the owl. And the stone. And the leaf. And the pinecone. I keep them in a small wooden box, tucked safely away. Not that it is important. Not that it means anything.)

[soap-is-an-artist]

finally playing Slay the Princess teehee

i love the player character so much we have such cool arms and hands!! pictures below the cut, they are spoilers for sure

rambling in the tags for funsies, spoilers again

[shewhoeatssand]

I want to befriend Kaneki and meet with him and email him forever

[coquelicoq]

also realized i've worked for my boss for. 18 and a half years now.

[uygfiug]

ugh i missed my alarm & hurried all the way to school & it turns out i dont even have class for my first 4 hours :((

[narutosux]

i want to talk about the frank castle, mr The Punisher, of my dreams

the version of the punisher that is canon to me in my heart and idgaf about reality because men wrote him anyway and i dont respect men in general. im also going to talk a tiny bit about daredevil because to me they are literally two sides of the same coin they're literally bbc merlin and arthur and im this woke ass dragon going "two sides of the same coin go freaky on each other"

In my heart of hearts, Frank Castle is an anarcho communist. He is a hardcore anti-establishment commie who believes that revolution cannot come without bloodshed. He respects and cares about the wellbeing of Daredevil, Matt Murdock, and other heroes who have similar goals, because they do want revolution and change, but they don't have the balls to actually kill wholesale like Frank. Frank sees himself as the only one willing to actually get shit done, and he's okay with being an attack dog. He's used to it, because its what the US government used him as when he was a Marine.

The concept he would ever respect the police, a violent force used to oppress lower classes and protect capital, is LAUGHABLE. It's foolish. I ignore iterations of the Punisher who is fine with killing drug addicts because they're "breaking the law", and I believe in versions of Frank Castle that kills CEOs of pharmaceutical companies for pushing opioids as harmless drugs. I think the Punisher of the 80s might focus on street level drug offenses, however I think he would learn that the problem is systemic and tearing the leaves off a tree won't kill it, you have to attack it at the root.

I believe that he would work willingly with Daredevil A LOT... Obviously, Frank Castle is more than capable of doing investigative work on his own, and he's great at planning, however I think that both men recognize their ability to work well as a team and function together. Frank is willing to work with him on jobs where he can admit that killing isn't NEEDED, even if it would do things a whole lot faster.

Frank Castle, without a single doubt in my mind, HATES the US Military Industrial Complex, and the enforcement of violence. He accepts violence because it's all he's ever known. He's a good trained attack dog, and it's where he feels comfortable, but he's both a dog and his own master, and he feels he can only make up for the attrocities he's helped commit by righting the wrongs he's done. He's single-minded, headstrong, focused on his goals of destroying in order for rebuilding a better version of the world. Allowing people to take time to change means they can fuck up and harm others in the meantime. He's not willing to risk that.

Another piece that I did like from the version of him where he was the leader of the Hand, I really liked the idea that Maria was planning to divorce him right before his family was slaughtered. I think it would make him recognize just how little of life he had, and it would make him even more angry at him failing to protect them and failing to be a genuinely good husband. But, he also recognizes that it was never love, it was a role he thought he was supposed to fill. I just don't think he really loved her. Love doesn't look like what he put Maria through.

He knows how to fill roles, but he doesn't know who he actually is. Something quite similar to Matt Murdock, who feels he's the Devil, but also doesn't know who he is when he's Matthew. They're both constantly trying to fill roles in other people's lives, or fill the roles they think that they're supposed to be in, but they don't actually know who they truly are as people.

I think that's so powerful, for these two men who are so full of conviction and so firm in their beliefs but when it comes to thinking about who they are as people, they don't know themselves. But, they know each other. I think they know each other better than they know themselves, but they don't recognize that it's because they see so much of themselves in the other man.

Sorry, but you can't convince me they aren't completely fucking obsessed with each other. Daredevil sometimes wishes he could be the Punisher. He wishes he could just kill the evil he has had to hear for years and years and years and years of his life. But he knows it would never solve anything, it would only make him as bad as the evil around him. The Punisher wishes he could see a world where redemption is possible, he wishes he had that scrap of humanity left in him still. I think when he works with Daredevil he feels himself growing weaker and he has to run away and can't stay with him long, because it makes him recognize that he might not have the resolve to kill. He also fears he might taint Matt Murdock. He might eventually actually convince him to kill. And that scares him. Frank Castle taints everything around him, even his bloodsoaked, mangled children. Even his wife Maria, brought back from the dead, still covered in bullet wounds and beautiful as ever. He drove her to kill.

One day he might ruin Daredevil like that too, and the only saving grace of that moment would be that Daredevil would finally put down the sick dog that is Frank Castle.