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[eldritchqueerture]

psychological fun fact: if you praise someone for an achievement or a finished task, refer to the effort they put in instead of to the traits of them as a person. meaning instead of saying "wow, you're so smart", say "wow, you must have worked hard"

this is especially important with kids because it influences how they stay motivated. if they receive praise for their efforts they're more eager to try and make errors on their way to learning while kids who are told they are smart assume that making errors and needing to put in more effort could mean they aren't as smart as they were told. so they react with fear and perform worse overall

[electroniccollectiondonut]

possibly maybe more feanorian headcanons? (I adored your post) 👉👈

Hello!! I actually saw this ask when it came in a few days ago but I couldn't answer it until now because I didn't have wifi in my new apartment yet. I ALWAYS have more silm headcanons and I love to be asked, so! Here's my Fundamental Headcanon for each of the Feanorians, which is a concept I came up with based on that writing advice post that says "don't write about war write about the little boy's burnt socks" or whatever. Basically, a Fundamental Headcanon is a Little Detail with Big Implications that I can use as armature for the rest of the characterization, and I have them for all the characters I think about very hard. Disclaimer: some of these hinge on my own hcs about Elven culture as a whole.

Feanor: He keeps his hair short in memory of Miriel from the moment he's old enough to know what it means until the day he dies, because he can't bear the way it seems like everyone around him is trying to erase her and this is a visible way he can remind them all that she was here.

Nerdanel: The moment she meets Feanor is the moment she has her first vision of Foresight, of darkness and fire and grief, and knows that one day he will break her heart. She marries him anyway.

Maedhros: He doesn't have nightmares of his capture, of Melkor or his time in Angband or on the cliff face. He never admits that his nightmares are actually of the burning at Losgar; when he jumps with the Silmaril he doesn't see fire, he sees water.

Maglor: He begins composing his earliest version of the Noldolante the moment the swan ships leave the harbor, after his brothers have to drag him screaming from the fighting.

Celegorm: Of all his bothers he's the one who most inherited Feanor's talent for language, but he never learned to read. In Valinor it was because he wouldn't let Feanor teach him and in Beleriand it was because he refused to be taught by anyone but Feanor. All the texts he knows, and most of them are hymns to Orome, he knows by rote.

Caranthir: He shorts some people's rations during Maglor's kingship at Mithrim, including his own, and he never second guesses his choice or tells anyone else that he did it, because he's quartermaster and he doesn't have to be fed to work out that there isn't enough for everyone, just for the most important.

Curufin: In Valinor, he made all the knives in his family's house. Feanor and Celebrimbor are both jewelsmiths first and foremost, but he's a bladesmith, and there's not anyone better. He's never content with this, because when Feanor dies he's left heir to every project his father never finished and to matter how hard he tries his skill doesn't lie with any of them.

Amrod and Amras: They count themselves as one first, and separate second. Like all Elven twins, they're skilled in osanwe, especially between themselves, and because of this they find their craft in things that deal with the spirit ahead of the body, and especially in healing. (Is it cheating to put these two together? I don't think so, since that's the whole point of this headcanon.)

Celebrimbor: He looks as alike to Curufin as Curufin did to Feanor, and so he's always overdressed for everything because those two were chronically underdressed and he wants to minimize how often people remember that he's Feanorian. It's the same reason he had his fathername stricken from the record after Nargothrond, not because he doesn't love them but because he doesn't want to be held under the same black mark.

[axolotlclown]

I'm gonna be honest, that aimsey response isn't enough for me. It comes off as deflecting rather than taking the responsibility of having a large platform requires. This rhetoric hurts real people, and as usual these days, trans people are always the center of it. I am very tired of pretending that this rhetoric has anything to do with lesbian spaces. It doesn't.

Who benefits from telling other people what they can or cannot identify as? Who benefits from explicit separation of communities? Who benefits from targeting and attacking fellow queer people?

Please think critically for a moment before regurgitating random opinions you find online. You do not know who made those posts.

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

I know this may sound crazy but remember how in No Way Out, Sonic told Nine that he still considered him to be a friend while getting down on one knee and Nine calmed down? Later in Nine’s Lives, Nine says “Typical” when seeing Sonic run to the others and accused Sonic of betraying him when Sonic called the others his friends.

Nine was sort of acting like Sonic proposed to him and then cheated on him by being friends with the others.

Okay so first of all, I don't think you're crazy. During S3 there's actually plenty of evidence that Nine is jealous, both of the Tails variants and Sonic considering everyone else his friends.

One example that presents his specific kind of jealousy is during Episode 2 of Season 3, when Nine first appears to Sonic in New Yoke.

"Everything is collapsing... This is terrible!"

"Is it? That seems odd coming from you. As far as I can tell you only care about your own home."

Essentially what I'm getting at is this. I do believe that pre betrayal, Nine admittedly considered Sonic to be the most important person to him, and thought Sonic may have felt the same way. And the "betrayal" at the end of S2 hurt Nine very deeply. He had this image of Sonic in his head that was shattered by the finale, so he sort of instinctively switches to thinking the worst about Sonic because he can't trust that anything he thought before wasn't a lie. This is one of the reasons that he can't fathom Sonic caring about shatterspaces other than his own home.

But it's not just that he can't fathom it, it's that due to this deep hurt, Nine cannot allow himself to believe it.

Because if Sonic genuinely cares about the shatterverse as a whole, if he genuinely cares about saving all of these people, then to Nine, what made him the exception?

Sure, we the audience can see Sonic’s journey in Prime. We can see that by the end of S2, Sonic wanted to keep the shatterverse safe just as much as he wanted to bring back Green Hill. He wanted everyone to be alive and happy. But from Nine's pov here, he's just learned that Sonic lied to him, spoke honeyed words and manipulated him just to get to the prism. None of that is true, but he doesn't feel like Sonic actually cares for him or wants him. So at this point, for Sonic to put saving all of these people over saving his own home or genuinely worrying about their home makes Nine feel like the exception or that his feelings about Sonic must be wrong. Either one of those ideas he'd understandably like to avoid (because one means that Sonic is genuine with everyone except for him, and the other would mean to him that his feeling of betrayal and hurt feelings post S2 finale are misplaced and not allowed to be had, though he feels justified feeling hurt)

And that scene in S3 E3 No Escape is actually another big exemplifier of Nine's brand of jealousy and just how hurt he is.

"Don't worry. Beneath the surface, my new friends are far simpler than the flawed creatures you knew and loved. And all the more loyal for it."

Starting out strong, Nine takes a not so subtle shot at Sonic's friends while taking subtler shot at Sonic's loyalty, since Sonic had been his first and only friend.

"Ever wonder where we'd be if things had gone differently between us?"

"...Not anymore."

"I do. All the time."

"Not anymore." Implying that post the S2 finale he really had dwelled (at least for a time) on thoughts of how things could have been different. How he wished things could have gone differently.

And Nine gets visibly angry/frustrated when Sonic confesses he's always thinking about how things could have been different. Perhaps because it feels like a slap to the face, or feels hard to believe.

"Tch. You had your chance."

"...Right back at ya, bud."

And then, despite his anger, despite how he's been trying to get Sonic all along so he can drain his energy and save his home, Nine ignores Sonic's "should we get this over with". He puts on another one of those faces, similar to earlier when Sonic arrived and Nine talked about his "new friends". Perhaps to cover up exactly the way he's feeling in this moment with a veneer of superiority (he always did something similar when talking up Sonic to the Chaos Council).

"You know...after all this time...I think I finally understand you, Sonic."

...

"You wanna save everyone. Friends. Foes. Total strangers! You say it's because you're a hero and that's what heroes do, but deep down... After what you did—destroying your own home—it's the only way you can ever live with yourself. Even if that means you won't live at all."

And while I think Nine isn't incorrect—that there is a part of Prime!Sonic who's been acting out of selfishness, caring more about feeling like a good person than actually being one—these are still words from someone who feels betrayed by Sonic. I think there's a level to which Nine is seeing a part of Sonic no one else did, and also to a level which Nine is trying to recontextualize Sonic's more heroic/selfless seeming actions so he can reconcile them with how he feels about Sonic and sees him at this moment. In other words, while he's seeing a facet of Sonic he didn't see before, this is not all encompassing of who Prime Sonic is. It's just that perhaps by believing that Sonic's every seemingly selfless action is disingenuine, that all those nice words and intent to save people is just so Sonic can feel good rather that actually caring about anyone, then Nine doesn’t have to feel like the exception. Then he can see Sonic as someone who is pretending to care about all of this, and Sonic's other friends as fools who don't see what he (Nine) has seen.

But as I said, it's more complicated than that. Perhaps Nine is seeing a facet of Sonic that other people don't see or don't want to see, but Prime!Sonic is multifaceted. Perhaps he does want to hurry up and sacrifice himself in this scene because then he can finally feel like he's atoned for what he's done and he's absolved of/paid for his crimes, but that also doesn't mean he doesn't genuinely care about the lives of people in the shatterverse.

"If I don't make it, and you do, how do I know you'll keep your promise."

"Don't worry. Your 'friends' are safe. Once I have your energy, I can restore everything. They can have their silly lives in their silly spaces, as long as they leave me alone."

"Fair enough."

...

"And for what it's worth...I wouldda done the same for you."

"Don't lie to me..."

"I'm not–"

"DON'T!"

"Think whatever you want, but it's true. Even after everything you've done, everything we've been through. Together. Against each other. You're still my friend, Nine."

I really couldn't express more just how hurt Nine feels. That he doesn't believe Sonic would give anything up for him, even if he were to accept that Sonic would do that for everyone else. When he tells Sonic not to lie to him, frustrated, angry, voice wavering, I think it's because he can't take this again. If Sonic is lying just to manipulate him, if this isn't genuine, if he's just using him again, he can't take it again.

This is an incredibly intimate scene. With Sonic, standing face to face to Nine, inside Nine's safe space, his home that no one else has been into, behind the physical representation of the walls surrounding Nine's heart post betrayal, this is his first time all season really being allowed to speak to Nine directly. Here there's no one to perform to aside from each other.

But you can see that despite everything, Sonic still reaches Nine in this scene. It's not easy, but he reaches Nine's heart, leading Nine to start to believe in him again.

And that's why it's a pity the other variants show up when they do, using Sonic to breach Nine's walls. With the way Nine reacts after this happens, Sonic may as well have made Nine believe in that image of him again. Sonic may as well have made Nine believe that Sonic does care about him, that he'd do anything for him (or, at least, would give his life for him like he would for the others if it meant they could live), only to be the trojan horse that allowed the enemy™ to breach his safe space. The pretty lie.

At the beginning of S3 E4 Nine's Lives, Nine says "Predictable" when Sonic runs over to his friends. And, as anon mentioned, Nine says that Sonic has betrayed him for the last time, calling the deal off.

I wouldn't necessarily say here that Nine feels as if Sonic had cheated on him so to speak, but I would say that even if Nine doesn't see Sonic as a willing "trojan horse" here, Nine still feels like a fool for "falling for it again", for believing in Sonic. I think it's enough betrayal to Nine that Sonic would convince him that he cares about him and wants him to have a future too, only to then side with a bunch of people who want to beat Nine down and who would not let Nine be happy if Nine surrendered to them (from Nine's pov at least).

So in short, anon, I think you are seeing Nine's jealousy here. Even if he also has to believe Sonic is secretly fooling the others, to him this is a scene where Sonic is not only choosing them over him, but another example of Sonic (from Nine's pov) proving that he's a liar who doesn't care for Nine or his future/safety at all.

[themagicalkidproject]

Could you do a disability pride magical kid with a changeling theme, hearing aids and adhd?

Because I received two asks for this one, and I’d already designed the first kid, I decided to make them both and just give them different variations of the flag! They’re the ONLY exception to the “Only one Kid per flag” rule.

This flag was requested by two different Anonymouses!

This iteration of the Disability Pride Flag was created by Anne Magil, but was later redesigned due to the brightness causing seizures if viewed alone. I think that if I show these Magical Kids again in an unshaded environment, I will also desaturate the first’s Colors as well to make them both accessible.

The Kid on the left has a Stormcloud theme while the Kid to the right is MEANT to have a Changeling theme but I. Didn’t know how to do do that, so she’s based on the MLP Changelings, I.e. bugs, so she either has a Changeling theme or a Butterfly theme depending on how you look at her. The kid to the left uses She/Her pronouns while the kid to the right switches between She/Her, He/Him, and They/Them pronouns!

The Kid to the left is named Saifon, which means rain or rainfall, while the Kid to the right is named Lalita, which means playful and/or charming! Saifon can move at super speeds with the sound of thunder, while Lalita can turn into a cloud of butterflies. After reducing himself to butterflies, Lalita can turn into a carbon copy of Saifon- this form is temporary, and cannot use Saifon’s super speed.

Saifon’s Magical Girl weapon is lightning bolts- basically sticks of energy she can toss around. They can fry you something fierce, which is bad when she’s zooming around deafening you with thunder and hitting you with lightning at Mach 5. Meanwhile, Lalita’s Magical Kid weapon is a pair of scissors that can cut through any substance. This is a reference to the fact that in some changelings myths, you can reveal the Changeling by giving them scissors.

A useless fact about them is that they’re half siblings- Saifon is the older child, whose parents divorced, but her father remarried and had Lalita with his new wife. Their families are super close, though, and the two regard themselves as full siblings. Additionally, Saifon is Thai/African American while Lalita is Thai/Chinese!

[prettypinkbubbless]

@wilsons-three-legged-siamese here is your guy!!!

I AM SO SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG but here he is, he was a pleasure.

[spite-and-waffles]

I get so infuriated when people reduce Jason's ultimatum to "trying to force Bruce to kill someone to prove his love". The dishonesty of it. Remove all context from the situation and make it sound like an insane inhumane choice. I can do that too actually. Batman is a rich kid who whales on poor and mentally ill people instead of going to therapy. He colludes with cops to bypass due process and collect evidence illegally. He creates child soldiers and makes them into canon fodder for his obsession. It sounds pretty indefensible when you remove every single context and convention that makes a story work doesn't it? Almost like you're only willing to extend the in-universe rules to the rich white manbaby and not the child whose death he was responsible for, huh?

Also? Moral absolutism is harmful and egoistic. You shouldn't kill people, not even criminals, of course not. But that doesn't mean refusing to kill in any situation whatsoever is the moral choice. There's a difference between killing to protect and killing to avenge. Between killing an active threat who will definitely escape and slaughter a family and killing one who is safely contained. Any rule that's taken purely prescriptively and without regard to the individual context of the choice is simply dogma. Especially if the role you have voluntarily taken on requires the willingness to do whatever it takes to do your fucking job. That's why morality isn't fucking black and white.

That's the crux of it for me; why I take this defense of Batman's choices so personally. I don't trust people who see the world in such a black and white way (this includes Jason, who is exactly as myopic as Bruce, but happens to be right about the Joker imo. Fortunately he's a fictional character and also a kid who has not yet had the opportunity to grow, unlike Bruce). I don't trust people who think morality is about a set of correct judgements rather than the process by which you arrive at said judgements. I don't trust people who won't fucking choose. Inaction is complicity, bitch. The consequences of your choices exist and fall on other people regardless of your refusal to take responsibility for them. Bottomline – if your version of "mercy" results in the death and suffering of other people, maybe consider that you're the villain of the story.

[bluravenite]

I know this probably wasn't intended badly or as a critique but

Do not comment on the way i draw Ghoul's bodies.

They're my personal headcanons and I don't care if you don't think a swimmer and touring musician would have a muscular build.

You don't like it? Draw them yourself.

I have designed these ghouls with my own personal headcanons and considerations of their back stories and real life inspirations.

I do not want to see tags in my art saying "he's too soft :(" "they're so buff :(" "why is she hour glass shaped?"

Especially when it's someone like cumulus who i have drawn several times before out of uniform and she is clearly not naturally "hour glass shaped" but ffs SHAPE WEAR EXISTS, especially if it's a uniform you wear to perform?!! She's gonna wanna have back and bust support!!! I have publicly headcanoned that ghouls wear corsetry for support!! I'm not just drawing her skinnier i am just considering other fucking variables!!!

Why are rain, swiss and mountain more physically built??? Because rain is a swimmer and i have used references of Olympic medalist swimmers to use as reference for how i wanted to draw him as well as looked at surfer body types, most of which were skinnier but toned!!! So that's why?? Mountain bc he's in the fucking garden doing sowing and planting work and playing the fucking drums, that's some fucking heavy ass equipment he's helping the band move and he does it seamlessly!!! Swiss also??? He's a multi, he's tall too, he's gotta be strong to help with everything they need, plus you think that he's gonna be bending ghouls over if he were so skinny??? Probably not!!

Another petty one. Consider more variables?? Aka working out releases lactic acid, and the surge of fluids causes your muscle cells to swell up, especially if you're drinking something like a protein drink without a carb/fat filled breakfast.

Do you think a DEMONIC HUMANOID CREATURE, that wakes up at dawn to have a protein shake AND GO SWIMMING AND SURFING is not??? Gonna look??? Buff????

Like??? Sorry if this rant sounds petty but I'm genuinely tired of dealing with people commenting on my own personal original designs.

I have never claimed to be drawing the people on stage. I am drawing MY OWN CHARACTERS, based on the real thing.

Don't just comment on people's characters or art if it's not something they can fix within 3 strokes of their pen.

[statecfdreaming]

there’s been rumors about the circumstances of this sister’s sudden reappearance…

[girlboyburger]

would you ever be open to selling any of your older unused sonas? apologies if this is a rude question!

not a rude question!

i have definitely thought about it a lot, i'm just unsure how to go about doing it.

a lot of them are very, very much still me or majorly parts of me, so i'd wanted some light changes to be made to the design / names / ect, but i don't have the time to go back and do that myself. i'm also unsure what to charge for them.

if anyone has interest in an old 'sona i haven't used in like a year+, they're open to private offers! i'd just like to discuss aforementioned changes before selling

[sundancefemme]

why is it so hard to find butch lesbians in real life…..

[kdramamilfs]

NEW YEARS CLEAN-UP 🎊

rules: unburden yourself from the abandoned WIPS collecting dust in your folder and share 5 gifs, then tag five people. tagged by @taiturner ty <3

tagging (no pressure) @fouralarm-fire & @aeirithgainsborough

i'm gonna take this opportunity to post some gifs that didnt make it into the sets i posted:

i initially made this one for a set for yellowjacketsweek, but decided on a different scene......

this one was for the fairytale set for yjoctober, but i didnt rly vibe with it in the end dskjfhsf

and now i'll just count these as one each bc who am i to keep simone gifs from the people. but oh boy. i have so many more, especially for wonderland...... these just kind of didnt fit in anywhere (partially bc i messed up somewhere and deleted the psd...... yeah. i am also guilty of that crime dksjfh)

pine gap:

the crossing:

wonderland:

[drasticdoodling]

happy pride everyone, have some mustelids!!! i hope you're doing well and staying safe :)

Editing to add image sources where I could find them (wish I'd kept better track of this) Unfortunately I couldn't find links for the American Badger, Fisher, Chinese Ferret Badger, or Sea Otter references

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REF IMAGE SOURCES: **Sable** Link - https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/sable-foraging-snowy-woods-1708750144 Photographer - Wang LiQiang **Wolverine** Link - https://www.patagonia.com/stories/following-wolverines/story-31092.html Photographer - Steven Gnam **Marbled Polecat** Link - https://www.flickr.com/photos/88147383@N02/13901023967/in/photolist-2mMu4EH-2jcyNtV-2jcyNuB-2jcA9H6-2jcw5Xz-2jcw5XK-2jcyNsH-pjtgpa-2o2zhMw-efNAyw-5uBfzU-66Tpik-evpz6k-2ncYqB9-evpyE6-evpmNH-2ncYqBj-evpxFa-nt9Q4p-2ncYqyP-2ncWWRJ-evpn2g-S5pjcx-2ncZMZD-2ncRMYu-evpxHT-2ncYqzq-efEEFP-nHgv24-RQQAAC-noUyoe-nboo82-yTBkhE-nbEkYc-egsv3K-evpmV8-evsNSu-evpmRK-ntccrE-evsNVm-dpNfT3-evpyqH-evpmXM-evpn4Z-efEEGk-eaGEDx-doQaki-8e9Ujh-24eogGe-6dmX3z Photographer- catnip254 **Pine Marten (on stump)** Link - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbinstead/ Photographer - Matt Binstead **Pine Martens (2 in the tree hollow)** Link - https://www.andyrouse.co.uk/ Photographer - Andy Rouse **Stoat** Link - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/long-tailed-weasel-with-yellow-wildflowers-and-log-royalty-free-image/200352545-001 Photographer - Tom Brakefield **Black Footed Ferret** Link - https://natsci.source.colostate.edu/csu-grad-student-researches-plague-vaccine-protect-endangered-black-footed-ferrets/

[heavenknowsffs]

Yeah he's cute but he has 0 emotional intelligence and set up a date with me at a show just to tell me he's going to another show by himself after all ???

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

i like your fic! could you @ me when a new chapter is out if you dont mind? i dont wanna miss a chapter (no pressure!!! its all good if you dont want to!)

Oh, hi! Sure, I’d be happy to save you a spot to the show :) I’m still figuring out this whole taglist thing but anyone who wants me to tag them is more than welcome to ask.

[rosicheeks]

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