#i'm half serious about this

[xray-vex]

finding out that Ed's fancy party updo also has butterflies in it is exactly the sort of joy & magic i fucking needed in my life today 🥰🦋

[whenthelightisrunninglow]

how's the other guy holding up

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Man movie sonic sure do have a family huh

[oldguardians]

mad max: fury road says that when stripped down to its basic parts, the world is run by rich old men who control the production of weapons, oil, and water and food resources. these old men willingly hold most of the world in artificial poverty and take luxury as their right. they regard women as their property. they use sincere religious sentiment to further their selfish aims. they killed the world.

furiosa wants to fight back: she wants to escape to the green place, the utopia of childhood. but no matter what she and the wives sacrifice or how far they search, the earth is sour. the old men poisoned the soil with their bombs and their chemicals. there is no homeland outside of the systems these old men have dominated and these women have inhabited, the system furiosa has learned and perpetuated and rejected. their only option is to go back, to kill the old men and take their place in the tower where decisions are made.

can they hold the citadel, the ones who plant seeds instead of bombs? can they deradicalize the religious soldiers and create a more equitable society? can something grow in sour soil after all? we will never know. we leave our change-makers moving up into the seat of power. but as long as they rise, we can hold on to an ambiguous moment of hope.

[beautifulstorms]

Yuna Aoki, SP Adios Nonino • Skate America 2024

[undertalethingems]

Continuing the theme of posting about cosplays...

I'd love to make some costume pieces for Toriel, Asgore, and Alphys. I don't want to wear them myself (i am physically not big enough to pull off either toriel or asgore XD)... but I think it'd be fun to make them for someone who did, in the semi-realistic style I draw them in. They'd all present their own challenges, but as shown in my poll, they don't get cosplayed often... Come to think of it, I don't know that I've ever seen a non-gijinka Alphys??? Granted, I haven't gone looking.... but, point is, it's not common, and I'd like to see them.

So I guess, uh, if you like the way I draw these characters and have a burning desire to cosplay them... I could be convinced to take on some special commissions, eheh.

[royalarchivist]

Bagi: I think Badboyhalo is turning green. Without the rainbow stuff, I saw green stuff in his hand- in his back.

Fit: You might be right, yeah. I mean, it's hard to tell with- Hold on. Wait- wait. Bad, take your shirt off. Take your shirt off.

Bad: Well, I mean, I don't know if this is the right setting for-

Fit: Take your shirt off. [Leans into the mic and uses a deeper voice] Take your shirt off, take your shirt off, take your shirt off.

Empanada: whoa there are kids here and its me D:

Fit: Don't worry, Empanada- Bad's my good friend, and I just want to make sure that he's doing okay, you know? That's all I'm doing.

Bad: [Disappointed] Oh, ok... I guess Pac would be upset if it was anything else. Anyway!

Fit: Wait, what? What? Huh?

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Bagi: I think Badboyhalo is turning green.

Empanada: [In response to Bad saying everything is fine] mhm sure uncle bad i believe you especially

Fit: You might be right, yeah. Wait, hold on- I mean, it's hard to tell with-

Bagi: Without the rainbow stuff, I saw green stuff in his hand- in his back.

Fit: Wait, really?

Bagi: In his back, yeah.

Bad: Yeah, I don't know what Bagi is talking about. [In a loud whisper] Bagi's been seeing things, Fit!

Fit: Hold on, wait- wait. Bad, take your shirt off. Take your shirt off.

Bad: Well, I mean, I don't know if this is the right setting for-

Fit: Take your shirt off. [Leans into the mic and uses a deeper voice] Take your shirt off, take your shirt off, take your shirt off, take your shirt off.

Bagi: [Cracking up]

Bad: OK, ok, ok! It's off! There you go!

Fit: [Sees the infection / marking on Bad's back] Um... That doesn't, uh... Yeah, you might want to get that checked out.

Bagi: It's kinda different, you know?

Fit: Yeah, I think you might want to see a doctor.

Bad: Nah, it looks fine! No, it looks fine.

Empanada: whoa there are kids here and its me D:

Fit: Don't worry, Empanada- I'm just checking- Bad's my good friend, and I just want to make sure that he's doing okay, you know? Like, that's all I'm doing.

Bad: [Disappointed] Oh, ok... I guess Pac would be upset if it was anything else. Anyway!

Fit: Wait, what? What? Huh? Huh? What?

Bad: Oh, you didn't want to check out my muscles? Anyways, it's fine... I just- you know. Anyways...

Empanada: you got pac after all

Fit: Yeah Empanada, he's my roommate! Yeah, he's my roommate, it's- it's- it's cool, it's cool.

Bad: You got Pac, after all. Your roommate.

Fit: My roommate, My roommate.

Empanada: sure tell yourself that

Bad: [Cracks up]

Bagi: [Also cracking up] Oh Empanada, I love you so much! You're definitely my daughter! You're so my daughter! Here- Empanada, here's another cookie for you!

Fit: [Groans] I'm catching strays, I'm catching strays from an Egg today, oh no...

Bad: This is great! Oh, my goodness...

Empanada: you wore each others clothes tio

Fit: Yeah, but that- but I mean, that was- I- I know it- it- um...

Bad: I love this, this is great.

Fit: I got nothing, I got nothing... I got no defense to that.

[sergle]

It really is like. you don't realize until you ask other fat ppl, how common it is for a thinner person to use you as a Fat Sounding Board for their feelings about THEIR own weight.

[zo-lost-and-confused]

What I did not expect from s2 is that it would reawaken my Benji delusions and at the same time make my beloved Dinostar so so messy, making it hard to even think about.

So mean of them to bring up Dinostar possibility in s1 just to crush my hopeful heart in s2.

[shoegazingmonad]

Tavvy, Rage and Lord English

There have been a good handful of references to Lord English via Tavvy so far, his outfit is terribly similar to Caliborn's / Doc scratch's, he was raised by Gamzee, he sweats a lot, - his first word was honk, so was LE's. Enough comparisons between the two to rouse suspicion.

And so, I (and quite a few other people) think Tavvy is, or has been, set up in a way that he's going to be a successor to Caliborn or Lord English, and I think it's something Gamzee's being perpetuating since he was born.

Tavvy's character is centered around repression. He's been trapped living in close quarters with a murderer who's shown to leave people fuming in a few seconds, left unable to question why or show his explicit upset with the situation due to fear of punishment, and isn't given any proper emotional support by family members because they either don't care or are too inebriated to help in any way that matters. Tavvy is literally 'home' stuck (lol), and as we see here, he's clearly bottled-up whatever bullshit he's been put through for the first 15 years of his life. It's his Chekhov's gun, because we all know that at some point all of those feelings are going to burst out of him like a parasite bursting out of its host.

Firstly, I think it's important to understand why Gamzee would want to do this in the first place. As this wonderfully detailed post describes: Gamzee hates the Author for making him the butt-of-the-joke, hates them because it means every miserable aspect of his life was not simply coincidence but a carefully plotted shitshow, and he hates the audience too for if it weren't for us, he wouldn't have been given such a joke of an existence in the first place. Ruining and perverting everything he can just so he can spite the Author and disgust the Audience has been his whole shtick since Act 5.

This motivation continues to drive him throughout his life in the epilogues, which feels like a particularly disgusting stain on an already harrowing story as we see him ruin Dirk's funeral, assert himself as a priest whose forgiveness comes in the form of sprinkling breastmilk on people before forcing them to make out, and enter a kismesissitude with Jane, putting even more strain on her as she tries to maneuver an entire planet into her power. In short, he's trying, and succeeding to make a pretty fucked situation into an immensely fucked up situation, and there are no bounds to what he'll do to achieve this.

Now, we know he's had a heavy hand in Tavvy's life, and that there's a method to his madness, but we don't know the exacts of what he's been planning for him. Little has come to fruition so far, and Tavvy almost seems so unaffected that you'd think that maybe his reign of terror really had come to an end with his death, but you'd be wrong. Because, ironically, in the same scene that Tavvy supposedly removes his uncle's influence on him, he just reveals that there are plenty of unseen layers to this. Layers that he can't even recognize due to his unawareness of the bigger picture here.

The thing about continuing Homestuck is that - at the end of the day - you are literally just creating English again. That's what writing is, after all. And who better to kickstart the rebirth of Homestuck's antagonist than y'know, the guy who raised him in the first place?

Anyway, what I'm saying is that Gamzee has been setting up Tavvy to be the next Caliborn / Doc Scratch / Lord English since his birth. And we've seen some of the ways he's been 'training' Tavvy for this, forcing Jake to cure his allergy by forcefully exposing him to them under the guise of pity for him being unable to eat PB&J. An allergy, which seems to function as an allergy to the character's existence within Homestuck itself, as though he's trying to cure Tavvy of his inability to confront their metanarrative reality, and perhaps goading him into a grudge against it in the process. Look at that knowing smile and smug gaze and tell me he doesn't know what he's doing.

As of now, there isn't much to suggest Tavvy has any sort of hatred towards the nature of his existence. But the issue there is that for the most part he isn't aware of why Candy is the way it is, or that there could be anyone purposefully manipulating the timeline into the way it was. Candy's creator is a vague subject; but it's one with an answer within the text.

In Meat 36 Roxy tells Terezi that ever since Jade got possessed Calliope has been painting 'lotsa nasty purple blood' 'nudity' and 'various combos of them all getting married', and in Candy 40, Alt Calliope says 'the sky looks like something painted by a crazy person'. So, if the nature of Candy didn't give it's author away already; yeah, it's Calliope. This actually helps my case quite a bit, because not only is it well known that Lord English fucking hates Calliope, Tavvy's also got a reason to dislike her besides her role in its making, as it's Calliope who decides Gamzee deserves 'redemption' in the first place.

It's not like he'd need to have a direct grudge towards the Author anyway, just his feelings. He's had a whole 15 years of life to experience infuriating bullshit that others didn't after all, I mean why did his mother have him in the first place if she was only going to regret it and neglect him because of it? Why couldn't she have chosen someone who wanted to have a child with her, and how is he supposed to blame his father for anything when he never wanted him - or this - to begin with?

Why did ANY of the adults around him think it was okay to let a MURDERER take care of a child? Why do his friends / close same-age family members (because he doesn't really have any friends) get to have at least one decent parent whilst he gets none? Why did nobody intervene when Jane stopped John from taking him away from there? Why did Jane even punish him for that? John came to him with the idea, he was only going along with it! Gamzee's been putting him through comically stupid '''training''' under the excuse of teaching him about 'combat, philosophy, life, and love' since he was a toddler, and, according to quite a handful of people utterly unaware and inconsiderate of how awful his life is, all and every bit of this is fine and dandy because he's RICH??? BUDDY, YOU'RE ALL RICH?????????

...And now that Gamzee and (presumably) Jane are dead, his dad trying to make his best of what's left of their frayed relationship after nearly two decades of spousal abuse, who is he supposed to blame but the people who have allowed it to get this bad in the first place?

So, if he is sure to burst at some point, when? I think it helps to look at Gamzee's meltdown; the reason he was aware enough to put the pieces together when it came to watching ICP's Miracles was because he hadn't eaten any sopor recently, something akin to a pacifier for him that he later says 'RUSTS YOUR MOTHERFUCKIN THINK PAN'. Gamzee himself is Tavvy's 'sopor', his pacifier in the way Gamzee suppresses other's anger, so following his death we're left to assume Tavvy will slowly, but surely become less inhibited as his influence lessens. It's something we've been seeing steadily unfold for a while now.

I imagine he'll 'snap' whenever he learns the full scope of what's been going on behind the scenes, though that's assuming his change in character will be immediate, and not a slow trickle like we've seen of him so far. I've got my bets on a breakdown though, we know damn well the little cry he has after seeing Gamzee's corpse is nowhere near the full thing, they were in a rush after all, and he thinks so himself.

Though there's other ways it could go down. Maybe it'll be the classic 'mind control but it isn't really mind control so much as it is an excuse to express thoughts and feelings you already had' like we've seen before with two of his guardians. Maybe he'll get exposed to an overload of upsetting information all at once, overwhelming him and causing some grim affliction in the process? Or perhaps he'll accidentally get entangled in the situation regarding John's (likely) Lord English possessed corpse? What about something new and completely unpredictable? The possibilities are endless...

[insertsomthinawesome]

⚜ L u o c h a ⚜

[saxandviolins77]

Transformers Skybound #15 spoilers below cut

This issue was so good, bro... Mainly because of the Autobots ngl.

Ah, my monthly dose of Constructicons as background flavoring while important stuff happens. Hmmm.

More sympathetic Thundercracker, I really want to see where this goes. As for now, nothing new. (beyond the escalation of murder, ofc).

WE GOT BLUESTREAK BEFORE PROWL! I LOVE BLUESTREAK SO MUCH!!

Daddymus...

Urrgh! I'm kinda loving Arcee's character; I liked how they portrayed her dealing with what was basically a relapse into violence and rage.

Megoptimus...?

Megatron has been shown the ability to influence others; is this connected to it?

DIALOGUE!! WE ARE WINNING.

Also, hey... Jorge Corona doesn't use the inferior Sunbow model for him.

Brooo, the payoff for this must be huge; if Ravage doesn't become a mainstay character, I'll go berserk. Like holy fuuuuck it's taking so long, they even drew focus to it, so I hope DWJ has something in mind.

As of now, Ravage is just a pity prop for Soundwave.

They killed Jamjet.

THEY MADE BLUESTREAK COOL AF!! I'm genuinely enjoying the more jaded Autobots of Cybertron and the softer Autobots of Earth; I'm really interested in seeing how they'll eventually clash.

Can we get Elita to stab someone too?

TRAILBREAKER!! IT'S BEEN SO LONG...

Oh, haha, yeah, Starscream really is an inse-

Oh, hi Scrapper... You're adorable as always :)

CONSTRUCTICONS WATCH OUT FOR THE COMBATICONS! OH MY GOD, THEY HAVE AIRPODS ON, THEY CAN'T HEAR US!!

Is it too early to say I'm more excited for Trailbreaker showing up than Bruticus?

I'm generally neutral to the Combaticons, like, sure, whatever.

Also... SUNBOW CHARACTER MODEL 🤢.

[repurposedmeatlocker]

I'm glad the weird South Park fans haven't discovered Beavis and Butt-Head. The resulting mischaracterization would be despicable.

[bitternace]

WHY ARE YOU SO EVIL!!! /POS. ATTACKING YOU.

Xemnas and Xigbar for 37 if that number hasn't been done? If it has, how about 74?

no puedo pedirle lo eterno a un simple mortal // ay, todo lo que he hecho por ti.

[ID: a mostly black and white drawing with a purple overlay of xigbar and xemnas shown from the hip up on the left side of the image. the background is black and has some diagonal lines with a bit of transparency on the right side. the shadows are harsh, with only a bit of light falling on their faces.

they stand before each other turned to the audience. xigbar, holds the handle and the middle of No Name before him, head tilted down as he looks to the audience. xemnas stands a full head taller behind xigbar, his left hand held some distance below the bladed tip of No Name, his left eye is covered by his fringe.

xemnas visible eye is painted ochre with a white pupil, while xigbar's eye is white and gold. The eyes on no name's handle and the gazing eye on the blade are a vibrant cyan. the caption reads the spanish lyrics "i can't ask a simple mortal for a forever" and "oh, everything i've done for you." /End ID.]

close-up under keep reading.

[thawthebeez]

i love reading haikyuu tiktok shipping discourse comment sections. it's so entertaining seeing so many people with such bad taste.

[electrozeistyking]

you cant just hand me crow nefarious with wings and then expect me NOT to do something with it