#im not tagging all of them. fuck

[the-director]

My self indulgent mlp au

The mane six, and by extension most of the characters who are their age are in college instead of highschool like in equestria girls.

I have the most thoughts about applejack and the apple family as I've modeled them after my own mainland family who have had a history with farming and yknow. That traditional type of American things. (To give context. My mainland family is made up of mostly engineers/teachers but also have had a history of farming both animals like chickens and riding horses but also food stuffs, we go hunting for deer with bow and arrow, go fishing, we go off roading in jeeps and trucks (mostly in the desert) we also explore abandoned mines and try to find gold (though that's mostly my crazy uncle). Of course some parts of our family are more... well off? Less partial to that kind of fun. But that's the vibe I want for aj and her extended family)

Big Mac being older than aj is either almost out of college or completely out of it, I'm having him be actually in engineering. And debating if big Mac should be a trans woman.

I honestly have very little clue on their majors. Like rainbow dash is commonly an athlete because of her goal of joining the wonderbolts, and having aj be in agriculture and fluttershy aiming to be a veterinarian or work with animals (I do want her to have a side business of petsitting, and volunteerwork at the local animal shelter) pinkie pie im thinking hospitality?

I am for sure about twilight majoring in like. History? Like specifically ancient medieval type, because of her fixation on starswirl the bearded who is basically merlin?

Also rarity in business, I know she loves fashion. But she's also a business woman, she wants to open up boutiques and sadly in our capitalist hellscape that includes the nitty gritty.

The cutie mark crusaders, and spike are freshman in highschool.

The living situation is fluttershy and rainbow living together and scootaloo visiting so often she might as well live there., rarity, twilight and spike living together with sweetie belle still living with their parents but she visits all the time.

I have no thoughts on sunset. I'm sorry. And discord is... thinking about putting him in the human world gives me a headache.

[hoshizoralone]

reflection

[nova-rpv]

a redraw of the first drawing i posted here to celebrate the fact that ive been in tumblr for more than a whole year posting my shit and havent deleted my blog in panic yippee \:D/ (mushy rant in tags)

[evelynpr]

Congratulations My Hero Academia for providing, possibly, the biggest and longest legit straightbaiting yet in shonen history.

Bonus points that their final chapter was released on yaoi day.

[pinacoladamatata]

blink and you'll miss it moments around skyhold....

[grezzirossi]

My Bg3 Party with the cutest barbarian and 3 pathetic guys.

[kagoutiss]

pelican town, ‘72

[avocadoraisin]

hits the Saw characters with my shrink ray

[torchstelechos]

[Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations.]

[hesbianyaoi]

these guys are so cool to me. gummy bear style. take your vitamins 👇

dont even worry about dazai he's a survivor he could get spitroasted by 2 trucks on a busy highway and somehow manage to frolic away with maybe slight injuries

[nonbinary-arsonists]

HELL YEAH PRI(D(EMO)N)TH

[shiraoyagi]

hot take ??

the only reason people say that "mafuyu and tsukasa have nothing in common" when presented with mafukasa parallels is because they equate mafuyu and tsukasa being similar to "tsukasa has depression" because the fandom equates mafuyu's personality to being depressed and nothing else.

it doesn't help that people (primarily younger people in the fandom) who DO believe in mafukasa parallels end up making the mistake of portraying tsukasa as depressed because as of right now he is not (although it's possible he was in past because of his Very Unclear Middle School Backstory but that's irrelevant)

anyways, mafuyu and tsukasa are narrative foils because their core personalities are built off of the concept of wanting to make the people around them— especially their families— happy.

they both developed personalities at a young age based on someone they looked up to. for tsukasa, it was seiichi amami's performance that inspired him to be a star— a hero that could cheer anyone up. for mafuyu, it was her mother taking care of her that inspired her to be a nurse— and you can see the similarities from there.

for mafuyu, her identity would first come into conflict when her mother expressed her want for mafuyu to be a doctor— suddenly, "everyone's" happiness didn't match what she wanted to do, leaving her in a state of disorder and eventual depression.

for tsukasa, his identity was something he nearly forgot in its entirety at the start of the main story— becoming arrogant and fully absorbed in a hero persona, forgetting the kind person he truly is. furthermore, his current character arc seems to be foreshadowing that what "being a star" to him is going to be called into question— maybe it is something more than just being the main character that saves everyone.

their insecurities are incredibly similar.

in mafuyu's first mixed, mafuyu feels insecure towards ichika because unlike ichika, she feels as if her lyrics have no genuine meaning to be expressed to other people— despite them being her very real feelings. this is brought up again in her second mixed as well.

in tsukasa's third focus event, something similar happens. when watching seiichi's performance, he thinks that his acting is "real" and feels inferior towards him, which is ironic because tsukasa has been method acting this whole time. when tsukasa is acting out rio or bartlett or really anyone at this point in the story, it's not just those characters— it's a reflection of his traumas.

just like mafuyu, tsukasa undermines his passions he's poured his feelings into because someone else's work is more genuine in his eyes.

now, then, foils have many similarities and parallels (and i could honestly list a lot more), but how i define them is that they usually have some kind of major branching difference that MAKES them foils.

for mafuyu and tsukasa it's pretty straightforward.

mafuyu's people pleasing behavior comes from external expectations and pressures— her mother's demands.

tsukasa's people pleasing behavior comes internally, from himself— if he can't meet his own standards, if he can't be the perfect big brother or the perfect star, then he is nothing.

and even then, there's some overlap.

tsukasa's behavior was indirectly encouraged by his mother praising him for being a "good big brother" over the phone instead of asking him if he was okay while home alone.

mafuyu's terrified to be herself around other people because she doesn't want to worry or bother them— she doesn't want to be a burden— and projects her mother's expectations onto them, not realizing that they would prefer the real mafuyu if they knew the truth.

and the concept of mafukasa being foils is most perfectly and blatantly portrayed in these two cards.

mafuyu, the marionette, sitting limp on the floor— puppeteered by her mother's demands and donning a mask to hide her true self.

tsukasa, the jester, standing above everything else— puppeteering silenced plushies— his feelings. he's not being completely honest with himself, and he doesn't even realize it.

mafuyu has cut her strings and ripped her mask in half. she has acknowledged her true feelings and expressed them to her mother, even if she had to run away in the end.

tsukasa has not yet cut his.

[hunnybeebb]

[bunnyboy-juice]

NO MORE ASSOCIATING THINGS WITH FEMMES ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PINK!HYPERFEM FEMMES ARE GREAT AND I LOVE YOU CAMPY FEMMES WHO EMBODY PINK BUT ALSO JESUS CHRIST CAN YOU GUYS NOT GO MORE THAN ONE DAY W/O TRYING TO SHOEHORN FEMMES INTO BEING ONLY PINK UWU BABIES. I AM FEMME AS IN GRASS AS IN DIRT AS IN TREE BARK AS IN WEEDS SPROUTING THROUGH THE SIDEWALK CEMENT. FEMME AS IN GENDER NONCONFORMITY AS IN FUCK YOU MY FEMININITY IS WHAT *I* SAY IT IS. FEMME AS IN DEPTH AND DARKNESS AND WARMTH AND TERROR. FEMME AS IN CAVES. FEMME AS IN LIGHTNING. FEMME AS IN AN AMALGAMATION OF TRAITS THAT I HAVE DECIDED ARE FEMININE REGARDLESS OF WHAT SOCIETY SAYS. FUCK IS IT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!???

[hotdrinks]

U know I just think if you have a favorite character you also have to love the worst things about them bc it's integral to everything they do and makes the good they do more meaningful and makes them so sexy and cool

[heartorbit]

revstar emu save me