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I still don't like Reyna very much. I don't despise her, but I also don't like her very much. Octavian is sympathetic because Rick Riordan heavily hammers in that Octavian is lonely, and has nearly every character bully him. But Reyna isn't like that. I don't think I've seen anyone bully her. Instead, she's used her power to try and manipulate things. She tried to get Percy to date her or something. She once allied herself with Circe, a woman who turned people into animals (and felt no shame about doing it). It's just…not the easiest task to sympathize with her so far. I still hate a lot of other characters more (like Luke, for example), but Reyna just rubs me the wrong way occasionally.
#i don't despise her#but i just don't love her#i almost feel bad about it#i want to like her#i just struggle#reyna avila ramirez arellano#octavian pjo#pjo octavian#octavian hoo#hoo octavian#camp jupiter#heroes of olympus#heroes of olympus series#pjo hoo toa#hoo#the son of neptune#son of neptune#percy jackson#mark of athena#the mark of athena
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filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^
#THIS TOOK ME FOREVER RAAHHHH#i had help from my mom with stuff like the parts of the traje de mestiza which is the outfit shes wearing#this trend looks so much fun and i wanted to join in.. im first gen canadian though so ive never been to the philippines and only#know thru stories of my parents growing up. im proud of my heritage but there are some things i didnt grow up with that#make me feel disconnected from my culture. so it was nice to talk to my mom abt it and ask for her help with this :3#the pleated tapis is meant to resemble her skirt.. i had no way of adding her stockings but i noticed the piano key design#so i used that for the saya. the bandana is meant to resemble her hairties and shes wearing bakya wooden slippers with embroidery#i kinda wanted to add the panuelo to resemble her tie as a finishing touch but i forgor ;w; just imagine it i guess#my mom really likes this. shes a little confused abt the blue hair and i had to explain her hair is like that but she thinks shes pretty#originally i wanted her holding the woven pamaypay and fanning herself because ITS HOT ITS 25 FUCKING DEGREES TODAY#but i couldnt get the pose right so i settled for this. i wanna draw her and brazilian miku high fiving ill do that tmrw#my art#myart#hatsune miku#miku worldwide#philippines#vocaloid#miku
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pls rb if you think cuddling doesn't have to be s3xual
im tryna prove a point to my bf's mother help me out
#like im asexual its def not gonna be like that for me#but she still thinks it is soo#but like. cuddling can totally be platonic there doesnt gotta be such a fuss abt it 😭#i get her pov but c'mon#asexual#aromantic#<- for reach#edit: ...its censored because i want to btw#like. ik im in the horniest social media but i wanna censor it so i do#ik i wont get shadowbanned like in tiktok lmao#im not even in tiktok......😭#so yup i censored it for my own comfort 💯 hope this answered your questions pls shut up now lmaooo
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there’s something sooo sickening about how dunmeshis whole energy is like sometimes something terrible and awful happens to you and it changes you forever and nothing can make you the person you were before but there’s still love and there’s still sharing a meal together and there’s still living
#dungeon meshi#dunmeshi#it’s so AOUGH!!!#especially mithrun and falin and thistle#but everyone has some element of this#it’s also so important that the characters in majority DONT get what they want#marcille never gets to even out the lifespan between races#falin is never returned to her pre chimera state#mithrun never got to truly be the version of himself he want to be#like idk i could go on#but there’s smthn to the fact that not all the problems are fixed#and actually most of the time it’s better they aren’t#IDKKKK IRS JUST SO AOUGH
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The math just adds up!
#dungeon meshi#falin touden#marcille donato#farcille#I always loved how chapter 27 ends with them both so bloody and 28 starts with them in the bath.#not just because of how iconic the bathtub moment is but because you know they had to scrap off so much gore first.#I think everyone in the party took a very long and methodical bath but Falin was basically *all* blood*.#Being covered in blood is one of those 'just girly things' that women deserve to stop being shamed about.#I just don't think Chilchuck is progressive enough. He probably made them take a bath first B*/#Okay jestering aside I want to just highlight -#The magnitude of Marcille's joy at seeing her dearest friend again! Of holding her and sharing her presence in the same room!#Something about this reunion feels like a beautiful dream you are afraid of waking up from...
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historical drama/sitcom where two gay best friends (woman and man) get lavender married--and proceed to spend the Fancy European Honeymoon their parents paid for acting as each other's wingman
#and hijinks ensue. obviously.#BONUS POINTS if they're gender nonconforming/questioning/trans coded#back at home they'd get dressed up then switch outfits in the taxi on the way to the gay club#now that they're married/on vacation in a new country they just wear what they want#he already has a glamorous collection of silk dressing gowns but she's the one who drags him out to buy a closet full of evening gowns#he tries to throw his suits out to make closet space and she steals them for her own wardrobe#also i think they should be a fun mixture of supportive and Cattily Judgemental about each other's dating decisions#just for funsies#like when your bestie is making a mess of their love life but you're in no position to lecture them bc youre WORSE#no wait wait wait#FINAL SEASON they both realize they're trans and move abroad permanently--where they each assume the other's legal identity!!!#SERIES FINALE: a joyful double wedding--wherein they lovingly divorce each other#and (under their switched identities) legally marry their longterm partners
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dnd character design :] !!!
#dnd oc#dnd character#arcane trickster#dnd art#dnd#d4ggerfishdraws#she's based off wraith deadlock + jade curtiss tales of the abyss + gojo jjk#i want to play her in a campaign... like dragonheist or something#i am aware you can technically only have 1 mage hand at a time but that's what magic items are for
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this place is so fruity!
#ace attorney#my art#franmaya#maya fey#franziska von karma#i rarely make ship art but sometimes I have to or else I will die#maya's japanese text says “AYASATO” (her japanese surname)#and franziska's says “LOVE”#>;3#hope you like these drawings haha I wanted them to be just right!!!!!
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I kept trying to write a first-impressions review of Initiated by Amanda Yates Garcia, but this was the first time I was unable to do so in good faith. I had to get to the end and maybe let it sit. It didn't have to sit long, though.
I wrote up this review/disjointed rant on StoryGraph:
2.0 ⭐️
Audiobook read by the author. She performs well, but I had to adjust to it. I'm not used to slow, breathy intonation in general, letalone in an audiobook.
As for the text, it's a nonfiction, so things "not done" in fiction can be read as nonfiction convention. Her writing is fine, if meandering.
I first tried to read this last year, but was not in a good headspace. Returning to it, I'm pleased to discover I'm doing better and have become more tolerant (believe it or not) of the woo-y witchcraft flavor. Still not my thing, but I tend to gravitate towards folk practices, proto-deities, and storytelling.
Regarding her content, I will say that she speaks for all witches with gatekeeping rhetoric and in ways more Wicca than witch. There's nothing wrong with Wicca (aside from the cultural appropriation, but what religion born of toxic xtianity doesn't have that issue?), but Garcia takes the time to voice how she is not Wiccan and does not appreciate their practices, then proceeds to discuss using their practices in her craft without a trace of acknowledgement or irony.
There's a lack of self-awareness and self-reflection that is frankly irritating, especially in her "epilogue" (it was the final chapter, not an epilogue. This is picayune, but she has a masters in writing, a phd, and a published book. Some standards must therefore be met). She uses her witchcraft to avoid the responsibilities of her actions, to remove herself from the situation much the way a marker is placed for a golfball not in play.
She does not allow this same convenience for her mother. Now, I can understand the complicated, angry feelings she has towards her mom; her feelings are not only valid, but justified. Where Garcia uses her witchcraft to excuse herself from the narrative as an active participant, she places onus on her mother for all the bad that happened to her growing up. Her resentment is understandable, but the self-awareness is nonexistent. In the way Garcia narrates, I believe she is aware of her hypocrisy, but is hoping the reader does not.
Speaking of narration, she is unreliable (which is normal in an autobiography (she calls it a memoir, it's not and there is a difference)), however she discusses historical events and mythologies as points of anthropological fact without a single citation.
Big 'T' Truth and little 't' truth are going to be present in every nonfiction, but Initiated is so convoluted and so muddied, there's no way to trust anything Garcia says. More than being held to a higher standard as a published academic, Amanda Yates Garcia is the self-proclaimed #OracleOfLA (Oracle of Los Angeles) and is daily being given faith and money like a living altar, like a televangelist in pagan trappings.
Tl;dr Amanda Yates Garcia is overhyped, immature, and lacks total self-awareness.
#i want to like her#but she's witchtok made flesh 30+ years before tiktok#witchcraft#memoir#nonfiction#amanda yates garcia#book review
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elita pep talk
#transformers one#transformers#b 127#bumblebee#elita one#i want more content of elita and bee#their dynamic would be so funny i think#ur mean aunt who acts like she hates u but she gets u that one really obscure thing u mentioned in passing conversation#i think their relationship can be really sweet#i think bee would geniunly really look up to elita and think shes so awesome#and elita is just like okay this annoying yellow thing follows me around now i guess#(she loves him)#her stupid son that she hates#shes tough on him but she cares...
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this came to me in a dream
#all im saying is rio could've had a bit more fun if she had wanted to.....#agatha looked like a such a loser with that shirt ..and i need her#shirt with the word bohner in it i said OH IM SURE#agathario#agatha all along#agatha harkness#rio vidal#agatha x rio#evgarart#lesbian art
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It is the middle of a Sunday afternoon. You have nothing on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.
Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.
you are greeted by...... her
#fairy vs walrus#walrus vs fairy#walrus#why is this so well textured its fucking shitpost art#like why cant i pull this off in my normal art it had to be the walrus fairy#meme art#things that would give people outside of tumblr a heart attack#maybe#has the fairy vs walrus debate breached containment yet#also that generic girl i drew ended up looking a lot like how i look irl (yes i look like an npc)#also that door is unreasonably large but i needed you to be able to see the walrus in all her glory#i wanted it to be bigger so you could see her wings#fairy walrus#dragon draws creatures
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sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)
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#gale dekarios#shadowheart#astarion#bg3#baldur's gate 3#my art#want to promote a greater shovel presence in the fanbase. where is all the shovel content. where is my beautiful daughter#she is gale's familiar. to me.#he may not necessarily *want* shovel#but it's too late now#he's her wizard it might be more apt to say#tara is not in any way shape or form a familiar she's like. his aunt.#also i have GOT to develop a faster way of making things like i have so many dumb joke ideas i can’t be rendering shit. unsustainable! 😭😭
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The FNAF Vanessas meet their younger selves..
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf vanny#fnaf vanessa#vanessa shelly#vanessa afton#fnaf movie#security breach#fnaf fanart#MORE SCENE VANNY 🩵🩵🩵#also this is a semi sequel to the Mikes ver I made#seeing I think the Vanessas deserve the funny too 😤#I like to think Vanny would tell her younger self white lies#she knows at that age she just wanted to know life would get better for her#seeing teen her was stuck living with her awful father#Vanessa’s life does get hard again as an adult but.. SINCE HW2 I think she’s in a better place#finally stood up to her abuser and all so it does get better#WHILE MOVIE VANESSA …#bit more manic here BAHAH#listen if younger Vanessa loosen screws on her fathers suit#would anyone even know 🙏🏾#she could get away with it-#Movie Vanessa of course would want to prevent things anyway she can#the Afton kids always being a lil crazy is so real
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the reverend family and harrow's childhood (based on htn)
#i wanted to design harrow's parents and play around with their facial features so they could resemble harrow's#in my mind harrow looks like her dad#the locked tomb#harrow the ninth#harrowhark nonagesimus#art tag
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a satisfactory answer for Selina
#bruce wayne#batman#selina kyle#catwoman#batcat#bruce#selina#mine#my art#i wanted to make the bat ears fold back SO badly but it looked too odd . unfortunately#wanted to put the collar ON HIM too but also it looked too out of place. SAD .#oh my GOD i forgot i could add IDs to these pictures now !!!#just finished adding that#i will see if i can do that for the other images i posted on this blog#anyway#thats her pookie bear.... her discord kitten...#who said that#this is what batcat is . to me . not that deep#just playful. selina gets to cause a little mischief whenever she wants and bruce gets be ouppy when he wants#thats just what the file names are LOL ouppy 1 2 and 3#in another post i may feel inclined to expand on it instead of in these tags#just know that there are very few people he would let restrain him and she is one of them. they just vibe like that.#younger bruce DOES follow her like a little duckling for these kinds of things. older bruce is too miserable to do fwb w anyone anymore#so they just enjoy each others company and reminiscence#mm. alot of tags for a shitpost.
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