#i love some feedback

[madpatti]

So I finally finished this fan art❤️ I can't remember the last time I put so much detail into one drawing.

[starcurtain]

One thing I wish I'd see more of among Ratio fans is some thought about how he views himself as a teacher.

Like yes, of course he refuses to compromise on the quality and rigor of the education he imparts, and he would find it unforgivably unethical to lower his standards in order to pass more students who had not genuinely learned the material. This is core to his character.

However, as someone who is a teacher IRL, I know the absolutely miserable feeling setting that kind of standard can cause. There's the obvious disheartening sense of disappointment ("Are students these days really not capable of doing the work correctly? Is our future in danger, if this is the highest level of understanding our current generation of students can achieve?"), but even worse than that is the self-doubt.

"Is this somehow my fault? Am I not teaching this material in the right ways for the students to learn? Is there something I could have done differently to get through to these students? Would a better teacher have a higher passing rate?"

We know that Ratio does (or at least did) struggle with feeling inferior to the Genius Society, so I think it is also likely, as much as he absolutely will not budge on his academic standards, that he has doubts about his teaching ability as well.

This is the man who wants to educate the entire world to cure the disease of ignorance, and yet only 3% of his actual students are able to get there. How can someone who gets so few of his direct students to a state of enlightenment hope to enlighten the whole universe? If so few students are successfully learning the material of a given class, doesn't that mean the teacher is doing something wrong?Would a better teacher--would a genius, maybe--not be able to impart their knowledge more efficiently and educate even the most challenging of students?

As someone constantly struggling with that balance between keeping academic standards high while also meeting the needs of today's students, I think the passing rates of his courses must affect Dr. Ratio much more deeply than I've seen fans discuss. I think he would question himself harshly over his class success rates, and I think he must be constantly trying to push himself to become the best teacher he possibly can be.

tl;dr: I hope one day the HSR fandom will stop sleeping on the fact that Ratio is an actual practicing professor who probably has astronomical levels of teacher angst. 😂

[freaky-flawless]

It's black history month and I wanted to draw some black monsters, particularly ones that don't get enough love!

ID in alt!

[nyssasatelier]

My scrapped Hermes designs :

VS the one that won🏆 :

[mischiefbuckley]

no one could ever make me hate Bobby like you have this man so excited to participate and compete over a haunted house at the fire station for kids and he’s all dressed up as a vampire doing the voice and narrating for the children as “Cap Dracula” as they enter the 118’s version of their own spooky haunted house with Hen, Chimney, Eddie and Buck also participating because Bobby is competitive and wants to be better than all the other firehouses and it gets ruined by Bobby’s pseudo son of all people yk ordering an actual dead body as decor and then he’s convinced he has a curse like again this show is something else I swear lmao

[lemorgo]

[butchkaramazov]

new post out !! this time it's on teenage crushes & other almost fucked up things, like the distance b/w yr tongue & the light on the roof of yr mouth/yr closed first & yr heart that is the size of yr fist.

[lustrecannon]

fuck it. formal time

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Taking a snooze.

[joffyworld]

Dead Lamb's Hand

Two aces and eights.

Two twine covered fates.

'Neath the lights and the gates, the rhinestones do gaze;

They follow the haze, the mist and the daze,

As they waltz on in, with a crafted fake face,

Two eights and two aces,

In here of all places,

The starlet's sweet naissence, into rich patrons graces.

They stride with such patience, their face never changes,

No matter the cards dealt, it's off to the races

The red queen of our hearts,

They rise, so they part,

The times come at last; One final dance.

With a move of the wrist, the dealer does flick,

The cards on the table, they wager the risk.

Declared with a grin, "I'm going all in"

The cat's astonished but sings,

"So am I my sweet thing,

The casino is yours if you win,

I'm all in."

Two pairs of two pairs,

The crowd is silent and stares,

The winner undecided, the kicker declares,

The cat has a six,

The lamb has a queen,

Stunned silences fill the casino to the seam,

The ewe's debonair but it drops fast as a hare:

She cheated her way, manipulated with care,

In order to be the winner of this sordid affair.

Now crowned the leader, the winner,

The cat's cause of despair.

The cat straightens her back almost sharp as a diamond,

Begins with a laugh, her eyes struck with lightning:

"Very well my dear Ines, I see no point in fighting.

You've won the game as I feared, it is luck you were striking.

But I will return, one day when you yearn,

For what's rightfully yours, my heart I'll confer."

The cat turned with a pace, and so struck up the band,

To sing the tale and the story,

Of the Dead Lamb's Hand

(Based on @lagomorphics's Lucky Card au)

[quarriart]

The Darkroom. Part 5. End. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

[trans-androgyne]

> Guy who claims to be a voice for intersex people.

> Still uses AMAB and AFAB.

I very much do not claim to be a voice for intersex people, that is not my place as a perisex person. I do try to be an intersex ally, and that is why I use amab and afab the way I do.

Whether any of us like it or not, most people do get assigned male or female at birth based on their natural body parts and/or coercive surgeries. And that birth assignment often influences the way others who know it treat us. But the way I use them is meant to make it abundantly clear that being amab or afab is an event, not a trait, and does not inherently imply anything about your body or experiences.

If intersex folks would like to critique the way I use them or provide me with another way to discuss folks' nonconsensual birth sex assignment and the impacts it can have, I would be happy to hear it, but the intersex folks I know use agab terms the same way that I do.

[cherubchoirs]

two unauthorized bugs in the lust layer!!!! get them now!!!!!!

[the-lonelyshepherd]

jackieshauna drives me insane btw

[artbyblastweave]

Thinkin’ about The Siberian

I was sitting on a draft that said something to the effect of “Worm AU where Manton pulls an NBC Hannibal and moonlights as The Siberian on top of being a globally respected parahuman studies researcher. Is this anything.”

Then I thought about this a little more and realized that this might not be far off from what actually happened. There’s a throughline in Manton’s interests, in his trajectory through life, where he’s trying to figure out what you can use powers to get away with doing to people- about identifying constraints and overcoming them. 

He’s the guy who somehow credibly catalogued, and got his name associated with, the fact that powers generally can’t be used to pop people like balloons, and he did so reasonably early in the timeline, in the nineties at the latest. That’s.... an interesting direction to take your research! When people are just coming to terms with the fact that parahumans are real he’s out there taking careful note of whether they can manifest their powers inside people to instantly kill them. How did he test that? What capes did he collaborate with to test that? What did those conversations look like? Did the IRB at a minimum issue any revise-and-resubmits?

And then, of course, he gets picked up by Cauldron (also known as the infinite untraceable victim depot) to work on improving the vials- gaining a sufficiently in-depth understanding of what they are, how they’re made, and what they can do to people that when Cauldron told Legend that Manton had gone rogue and was the one creating C53s, he found this plausible. You’ve got the guy who’d later become the backbone of the Slaughterhouse 9 basically systemically cataloging every conceivable way a power could violate someone’s physiology- first from without, and then, at Cauldron, from within.

Then, when he pulls the trigger and gives himself powers, the resultant ability is essentially a distilled refutation of the Manton Effect- a minion that can obliterate anything, eat anything, delete any material from existence, viscerally dismember people in a unity of conventional and esoteric, power-enabled violence. And he’s insulated from the consequences of his actions on two levels- in terms of Siberian’s invulnerability, but also in the discrepancy between his form and that of his minion. He mixed the vial that gave him that power himself.

Essentially- I don’t think Siberian is something that just happened after a psychological break following a messy divorce. I think Manton basically pre-committed to becoming something like The Siberian, spent most of his career working towards some form of transcendence through superpowers, and the messy divorce was downstream of the cracks starting to show as he got closer and closer to what he’d been chasing.

Now to segue into a complication that’s more directly supported in the text- it’s Worm, it’s always complicated- Master powers spring from loneliness. My theory is that while Manton wanted apotheosis, and while he’d probably been gearing up for a rampage for a while, he genuinely didn’t want to do it alone; he wanted a sidekick. Hence why he bothered pursuing a family in the first place, hence why he fed his daughter a vial, hence why his own projection ended up looking like his daughter after he accidently made her explode or whatever with the bad vial- a monkey’s paw restoration, giving him back a facsimile of the person he wanted to take along for the ride, and making his capacity for violence inseparable from her presence.

This is why he joined up with the Nine rather than remaining a solo act; it’s why he engages in a bad imitation of the Parent/Child relationship with Bonesaw; and it’s why he seeks out Bitch as a candidate. His interest in her candidacy parses to me as genuine- Even moreso than Bonesaw, even moreso than Jack, Bitch has arrived at a no-frills fuck-you-I-do-what-I-want outlook that’s very appealing to Manton. He wants to have a murderer-daughter relationship!

But Rachel got where she is the hard way, by having a life that sucked a lot, by getting near-constantly kicked around! She has a clear reason to be so angry! Even if all my postulations about Manton having a long game are complete bullshit, there are several stages at which Manton had to actively opt in to the same lifestyle and reputation that Bitch was forced to adopt as a basic survival tactic. He didn’t have to start eating people! He’s a tourist! His “freedom” is inseparable from his distance, his disguise. Rachel’s “freedom” is just the freedom of having nothing left to lose.

All of this to say- In an interlude in which Bitch has an extended internal monologue about how people with families have the opportunities to be assholes and monsters to a captive audience, it is absolutely not a coincidence that she’s scouted by a would-be parental figure who proceeds to be an asshole and a monster in front of a captive audience, before trying to buy her affection with a puppy. In rejecting Manton, Rachel dodged an esoterically-packaged but ultimately very familiar bullet.

[t00nyah]

(previous post about phantom)

sigh sorry it was quick. so here's updated design! the reason why i made it so suddenly was because i got the idea of making her based on flying fish beamed into my head and i HAD to act. so she has fins now! the fins on her sides look like actual wings ... inspired by minecraft phantoms ... she can glide a bit (feather falling buff made me think of that + hey. flying fish.)

i think hallucinations are a big part of her lore in some way but i actually can't figure out how to implement why others(like me in my run!) also experience them please send help...