#i remain whimsical

[sp-growingpains]

G4 and hurrgghh with Kyle? Love that little redhead!

Dude...you can't talk to the king that way!

G4 - hurrgghh

[david-talks-sw]

I think it's interesting that - in order to make his "free-thinking Jedi" characters hold any semblance of rationality in their arguments - Dave Filoni needs to resort to artificially dehumanizing the other Jedi and painting them all with the same "we dogmatically worship protocol" brush.

He does this with Huyang in the recent Ahsoka episode.

"Lolz he's so narrow-minded, preachy and by-the-book, unable to think outside the box, just like the Jedi in the Prequels."

My first reaction was being amused at the fact that Filoni had to resort to making the Jedi Order's ideals and rules be embodied by a literal machine for his anti-Jedi headcanon to start making sense.

But then I remembered: Huyang isn't just any droid.

In The Clone Wars, he had a sassy personality, he had a pep in his step, he had a sense of humor...

This character was human in his behavior, he was fun and whimsical.

But now he's been reduced to, I dunno, "Jedi C-3PO"? Basically?

"Ha! He's blunt and unsympathetic because he's a droid, but it's funny because the Jedi were the same, they were training themselves to be tactless, emotionless droids."

And Filoni does this with Mace Windu too, in Tales of the Jedi.

Mace, who brought a lightsaber to the throat of a planetary leader to defend the endangered Zillo Beast...

... and who went waaay past his mandate by mischievously sneaking around Bardottan authorities and breaking into the Queen's quarters because he felt something bad was afoot...

... was reduced to being an almost droid-like, rule-parotting, protocol purist who sticks to his instructions (and is implied to be willing to let a murder go unsolved so he can get a promotion).

I mentioned this at the end of my first post on Luke in The Last Jedi... while changes in personality do happen overtime and can be explained in-universe... if you don't show us that progression and evolution and just leave us without that context, that'll break the suspension of disbelief, for your audience.

Here, we have two characters with a different (almost caricatural) personality than the one they were originally shown to have.

Now... we could resort to headcanons, to make it all fit together.

We could justify Huyang's tone shift 'cause "Order 66 changed him". And we could make explanations about TotJ's Mace:

Being younger and thus more ambitious and a stickler for the rules, and only really becoming more flexible after getting his seat on the Council and gaining more maturity.

Being such a teacher's pet in the episode because we're seeing him through the eyes of a notorious unreliable narrator, Dooku.

There'd be nothing wrong with opting to go with either of those headcanons to cope with this. After all, Star Wars is meant to help you get creative.

But the problem I encounter is that:

Filoni has an anti-Jedi bias, so the above headcanons clearly wouldn't really track with his intended narrative.

We'd be jumping through hoops to extrapolate and fill in what is, essentially, inconsistent characterization, manufactured to make Ahsoka and Dooku shine under a better light.

And that sours whatever headcanon I come up with.

Edit: Also, yeah, as folks have been saying in the tags... wtf is "Jedi protocol"? The term isn't ever mentioned in the movies, I skimmed through dialog transcripts of TCW, never saw it there.

So it's almost as if - if Filoni wasn't draining characters like Mace and Huyang of all humanity and nuance - his point about "the Jedi were too detached and lost their way, but not free-thinkers like Qui-Gon, Dooku and Ahsoka" wouldn't really hold much water.

[bizzyboysbizzydays]

A really shitty short inspekta x reader thing. It’s less than 500 words so like. Yeah

Reader passes out while keeping inspekta company

Inspekta muttered under his breath as he clicked at the keyboard attached to his desk. He cared for his Bizzyboys, he really did, but the paperwork some of them submitted left… much to be desired more often than not. He was lucky he didn't need to sleep anymore, otherwise he'd probably go insane from sleep deprivation. All of the typos and incorrect information giving him the beginning of a headache.

A shift against his side caused the god to pause his frantic correcting. Inspekta glanced down, frowning slightly as he watched you shift uncomfortably against his coils. You refused to leave earlier, citing that 'he needed to spend more time with others or he'll get lonely'. While you weren't wrong about that, he did warn you it was getting far too late for a human and you should go home to sleep. You, the stubborn mortal you are, blew a raspberry at him and said if you get tired you'd just sleep on top of him. So that's exactly what you did— or at least half of what you did. In reality you ended up slouched against Inspekta while sitting next to him, and he had ended up coiling half his body to create you a makeshift bed. It was hard for him to actually be upset with you, though. The trust and love you showed the god was enough to pacify the god entirely.

Inspekta heaved a sigh as he summoned a few hands to help move you, adjusting your body so you'd fit more comfortably against him. Your head now rested where his chest used to be as he laid back against the back of his desk, a summoned hand fiddling with the screen behind him to dim the screen. You nuzzled your face against him as you sighed in your sleep. Gently, Inspekta rubbed your back and pet your head. The paperwork forgotten as he focused on you.

Sometimes, he missed being human. He missed the idea of growing old with you, of adventuring and exploring the Earth and all it had to offer. He missed the way you'd cling to his arm in excitement or wrap your arms around him from behind to hold him close and press kisses to his shoulder. He missed how you'd nuzzle your face into his neck while half asleep. He didn't regret his godhood, but he so wished he could experience godhood with you at his side forever.

Inspekta sighed again, adjusting his hat to cover his eyes as he slid down until he was lying on his back with you curled up on top of the god. He didn't need to sleep, no. But maybe just for you he'd rest his eyes. To dream of a world where you'd both be together forever within the heavens.

[lucabyte]

Moomin!Ali returns alongside their siblings in the slightly manic later pages of my recent sketchbook.

[cynical-cemeteries]

still can’t get over this 😭😭

[blorb-el]

we shall be free; we shall find peace chapter 4 is here! it is 8.5k-ish, no specific warnings. it is time for us to meet some bats... kon and Normal Civilian Bruce Wayne team up :)

i will be focusing on the superfam secret santa exchange and also moving a few states away next week, but I did work on wsbf all throughout nano, and have a rough draft I'm pretty pleased with up to chapter 10 or so, so hopefully the next chapter will be later this month!

[wallbeatjournal]

Where did you go?

bluesky mostly

[stormbreaker-290]

Love attacks bestie, your cute enough to be attacked by love

EBEBEBEBEEE YIPPEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ansburg]

blocking racebent karlach posters for my mental well-being 👍

[sp-growingpains]

Bing bong. They're idiots.

Rambling Below

So I'm actually playing Jean's kids in a tabletop game! I never thought I'd get a chance to use Ronnie and Rowan in anything really! So I was like "Oh haha this'll be awesome and no one will know! It won't come up that he's the son of my fucking South Park OC! I surely won't have to explain that at the table!"

The game is called Legion. My DM wanted to run a power rangers game with his own twist. We're not "Rangers" we're "Legionaires".

Ronnie and Rowan were literally abducted by aliens in the 90s when they were sixteen. They were taken to a war planet and forced into a fighting pit. Ronnie isn't a fighter. He's a lover, kind of a crybaby. Long story short, they escape the planet and find their own space ship. So now they're two sixteen year olds scrambling to try to make sense of a planet where they don't understand a word of what anyone says. Fast-Forward about thirty years and Ronnie and Rowan find their way back home.

Well, a few sessions ago another player character asked Ronnie and Rowan why they haven't seen their mom. Ya know, let her know they're alive.

"Hey, so what about your parents, Ronnie? Why don't you talk about them?"

"Uh...well, that's complicated, dude. I mean, they know we're alive...they probably saw us on the news."

"Isn't that more of a reason to go see them?! They're probably worried about you! You've been missing for thirty years!"

Out of characters, I was sitting there with a look of horror on my face. I have to quickly make up two different idiots that are Ronnie and Rowans' parents. The thought of everyone at the table finding out that I made a south park oc and shipped them with a Canon character.

Then, my so called best friend, pipes up with a shit eating grin.

"Yeah, Kayla, let's go meet Ronnies' parents."

Because she knows. She's the one person at the table who knows. I trusted her.

Luckily, the DM threw me a bone and just introduced Jean. I had Ronnie and Rowan give the excuse they're not ready to face their dad yet.

So the slight change in Kyle's design was not only fun, but helped me hide from the other players. I love them all so much, but I'm not ready to be raked across the coals yet.

Extra conversation with the DM, who is my best friends husband. So of course he found out:

"So...Ronnies' dad is...Stan?"

"What?! No! Gross! Jean would throw up at the thought alone. It's Kyle."

"Ronnies' jewish?!"

[kirbyddd]

they're clearly very closely referencing the original panels far more than nichijou, practically tracing at points. probably a constraint of budget as much as CITY's composition was more advanced. not as much room for developing original composition and storyboarding scenes from the ground up

but by CITY arawi's composition had come to a point where it was practically already keyframed—prime material for adaptation. making it the perfect choice for a more constrained passion project, more resources could be focused on the execution itself than on planning. bring the pages to life as beautifully as possible. CITY is a deliberate choice of source material for the circumstances of the production

an interesting consequence of this is seeing arawi's personal work brought to life more faithfully than ever before. with nichijou arawi more provided the seeds of something the studio team would raise to maturity, but in CITY he's practically codirecting. this is THE arawi anime

[kalimasim]

im 7 twsties in a trench coat here's the list for anyone who wants it. in descending order of importance or strength or whathaveyou

kalim

epel

vil (i know. also, might be an introject)

riddle (99% 4 OCD coping reasons)

yuu (somewhat spiritual but eh)

jade (pretty lighthearted/for funsies)

neige (i KNOW. im INSANE don't @ me. i barely even kin him, he's so low tier i keep wanting to take him off my kinlist but literally every time i do i get kinfeels/have a kinshift. babygirl what are we)

[averagefungus]

People are reenacting war of 1812 in the notes

I still can’t get over what brits call musical notes like bro please I’m trying so hard to take this country seriously

[clearallcathy]

anyway im having fun with colors now that ive sworn off the Nefarious Orange Undertones. i always hated anything that i can see orange in tbh But i have not grown up on not only pretentious storytelling but also 2000s school moviesand i have chronic outdated person syndrome so i am not immune to propaganda. for clothes

[yuumei-art]

I'm finally back from visiting the in-laws in Sweden! There were so many whimsical and unique buildings in Stockholm, I must have taken hundreds of photos. One in particular is of this historic little house at Terrassen 16. The building used to be much longer but now only 1/5 of it remains, like a leftover slice of bread. The tiny house served as the inspiration and reference for this painting. I can totally see Kiki and Jiji living here with their cat family ❤️

I also briefly visited Italy and Switzerland, which have their own unique and beautiful architecture. I can't wait to painting them all~

[floatyflowers]

Hi! Big fan of your books!

If your taking any request rn can you please make a romantic white king head cannon for your Disney master list?

I really hope that we see a lot more of him in your yandere Disney book!

Dark Male! White King X Alice's Mother! Reader

You are the mother of Alice, and after her sudden disappearance, you search for her until you accidentally fall down a rabbit hole and find yourself in Wonderland.

Desperate to find your daughter, you wander through Wonderland’s strange, ever-changing landscapes only to meet the White King.

He helps you in reuniting with your daughter and even allow you two to stay at his castle.

Right now, you and Alice’s stood before the White King, his alabaster figure glowing in the soft light of his grand hall.

"Thank you, Your Majesty," you say, your voice filled with sincere gratitude.

"You’ve been most kind to us, but it’s time we return home."

The White King’s light coloured eyes narrowed slightly, the corner of his lips curling into a polite yet unreadable smile.

"Home?" he repeated, his voice smooth as silk.

"My dear lady, you are already home. Why wander back to a world so mundane when you could remain here, where beauty and wonder know no bounds?"

Alice looked up at you, her wide eyes betraying an awe at the idea of staying in Wonderland.

You shook your head, your grip on your daughter's hand tightening.

"We’re grateful for your hospitality, truly, but I have a husband waiting for me and Alice."

The White King’s serene expression faltered for a brief moment before solidifying into something colder, sharper.

"A husband?" he echoed, his tone laced with disdain. He stepped closer, his towering figure casting a shadow over you.

"Surely you jest, no man could ever care for you or Alice as I would, you belong here, with me, I will make you my queen, and your daughter shall have a life of luxury as a princess."

"No, I-"

The White King places a finger on your lips, his whimsical smile appearing.

"The potion should work now."

When you realise what he meant by potion, it was already too late, as you have fallen unconscious into his arms.

The white king picks you up into his arms, before looking down at Alice.

"Now come, Alice, we should bring your mother to her bed."