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i dont think theyd get along very well .
#this is pretty oldish#but ummmm object invasion releases tomorrow !#village of objects#brawling on planetary scales#inanimate insanity#oj ii#ii oj#orange juice ii#i drew these from memory so ignore the inaccuracies#object invasion#voo phone#ii mephone 4#mephone 4#how to tag posts tutorial no glue#cell art
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House Sparrow Passer domesticus
2/16/2023 Disney California Adventure Park, California
#house sparrow#sparrow#sparrows#invasive wildlife#invasive species#invasive but so pretty :(#disneyland#disney parks#california adventure#bird#birds#bird photography#birblr#wildlife#wildlife photos#wildlife photography#nature#nature photos#nature photography#birding#birdwatching#birding photos#my photos#california#california wildlife
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Sokka's sexism
Sokka’s sexism from the earliest episodes is an interesting case, because the Southern Water Tribe, at least from what was presented to us on screen, doesn’t seem to operate that much on gender roles? Especially when compared to the Northern Water Tribe?
I mean, yeah, warriors (men) went to war, while women, children and the elders stayed at home. But as Hama’s story shows, when Fire Nation attacked Southern Water Tribe, both female and male benders were fighting against invaders arm to arm and it seems like they were the actual first line of defense there, not the non-bender warriors.
In contrast, during siege of North Pole, in the final of Book 1: Water, we don’t see any female bender helping defend their home except Katara, who was involved in protecting Aang when he was in Spirit World.
Since all the waterbenders were captured from the Southern Tribe, it makes sense that non-bender warriors stepped in and got involved with war, while the kids and elders were left under women’s care.
Another example comes from “a ceremonial test of wisdom, bravery and trust”, known as ice dodging. As Bato explained, it is a rite of passage for young Water Tribe members and in their village “done by weaving a boat through a field of icebergs.” When a child turns 14, their father was supposed to take them to ice dodging, so they could earn their mark. Though the episode itself was focused on Sokka’s ceremony, Bato never specified it as something that boys alone should do and not only Katara (girl) but also Aang (outsider) is allowed to take part in the ritual. Once Sokka proved himself, everyone of their group got a mark, as a sign they passed the test. Interesting thing to note, since Bato did not specify it is a rite of passage for boys alone, it suggests girls were expected to know how to sail in boats of the Southern Water Tribe. Of course, again, war didn’t allow to continue this tradition as men (Hakoda, in case of Sokka & Katara) left to fight against Fire Nation.
Later, when Sokka and Katara reunited with their father, Hakoda did not try to send away Katara nor relegate her to just a medic job during the invasion. In Northern Water Tribe episodes, we learned that teaching for waterbenders there was defined by gender - women were allowed to learn only how to heal, while men how to use their bending in fight. Hakoda, nor Bato nor other of their warriors even for a moment questioned Katara’s presence on the battlefield nor the presence of women in the ranks of their allies like a blind, 12 years old Toph or the female water benders from Swamps or female(?) soldier from Earth Kingdom
And during battle, Katara did not fight in rank with other soldiers, she first alone secured Appa during submarine attack, then alongside her brother and father took down guardhouses - Hakoda himself told her and Sokka to attack one when he took down the other one
showing how much he trusted his 15 years old son and 14 years old daughter while ordering them attack on Fire Nation adult soldiers hidden in well guarder place.
Later, when Hakoda got seriously injured and Sokka temporary took the command of their forces, we could see that Hakoda relied on Katara to follow his troops and not ever once tried to send her back “to safety” or argued she should leave him behind, as often it happens with heroic (male) figures. Quite the opposite. When Katara offered him to “wait here if you want”, Hakoda firmly said “I want to press forward with the others”, which meant his daughter needed to come with him directly into an already ongoing fight (even if they stayed more at the rear of their army, they were still on battlefield).
She and her brother, alongside with the youngest members of Invasion, were forced to flee on Appa once the battle was lost, but no other adult woman was included. During Zuko’s coronation, when all war prisoners were released, in the background we could again see the female character(s) from Swamps.
And let's not forget how impressive Hakoda was by Suki when she single-handedly captured the warden at Boiling Rock prison and did not try to stop her from fighting against Ty Lee alongside Zuko and Sokka against Azula.
Understandably, we have no idea how the Southern Water Tribe and its culture looked like before the war, even arguably, the characters themselves may not have a clear idea due to growing up in dire times. But my point is, Hakoda and Bato, the two main adult Southern Water Tribe’s warriors that Avatar: The Last Airbender allowed us to know more about, have never shown any direct sexism toward Katara or other female characters. And though Sokka was the oldest boy at their village, there is no reason to think women did not hunt in absence of men, because one person would not be able to provide for a whole community 24/7. Also, as Hama proved, the Southern Water Tribe’s waterbenders were capable of fighting and their gender did not play any vital role the way it happened in their sister tribe at North Pole.
Of course, Fire Nation’s repeated attacks affected residents of South Pole and their living conditions but from the little bits the show gave us, I think it is correct to assume if Sokka grew up with Hakoda around to guide him as he should, his behavior would be different from the sexism and dismissive attitude toward Katara or Kyoshi Warriors. For one, logically thinking Southern Water Tribe’s warriors need to do all the cooking, sewing and keeping their camp clean all on their own during war so it is not a “girly job” but a vital part of a warriors skills to survive and ensure their equipment is in the best condition. But Sokka doesn’t know it, because there is no one to teach him the importance of those skills. All Sokka had was father’s farewell words to cling to - and I’m not sure if Hakoda truly expected his son to be able to protect Katara and the village in his absence, or he just tried to make Sokka feel a bit less depressed about being left behind. You know, by giving him purpose and a Big Important Job to focus on and to feel needed and trusted.
Which leads me to think that Sokka’s sexism is not rooted in Southern Water Tribe’s culture itself, but in his own insecurity and pressure of being the oldest boy in the village. If girls could be warriors - and be better than him - it would put into question all his self-worth, purpose and the trust given by father. Once Sokka met Kyoshi Warriors and later all the skilled girls, it challenged him on a very personal level, but he accepted the truth and moved on and alongside, finally became a true warrior and a man.
And I find it indeed an interesting case, as Sokka’s sexism and dismissal of girls is not necessarily stemming from the culture he is part of, but rather is the effect of not knowing said culture & pre-war history of his Tribe. And of course, from his own insecurity.
#atla#avatar: the last airbender#sokka#hakoda#just some thoughts#because bato and hakoda seems pretty okay toward katara and include her in rite of passage for sokka and invasion battle#like her age and gender doesn't matter#with dad and dad's friend (bato) like that where comes sokka's dismissal?#so i guess this is about sokka's insecurity and growing up without father to guide him#good suki straighten sokka up pretty quickly#i'm pretty sure SWT has some sense of gender roles but not so strict take like northern water tribe#no arranged marriages and no true aristocracy and waterbenders being fighters and so on#sokka though lives in destroyed by war tribe to understand yet what was done to his community i guess?
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dragon age: the veilguard | arlathan forest
#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age#arlathan forest#datv#dav#i desperately want to explore out of bounds here but 1) i dunno how and 2) i'm pretty sure out of bounds lacks collision#which makes me a sad little rule breaker :(#i can take the camera out of bounds at least :D#also i'm begging the veil jumpers to investigate whatever is making all their conifers die! invasive insects? drought?#i live in a conifer forest it is BAD when you have so many dead ones ok. pls. it's a tinderbox!#da4#da#i made this#hmm should i have a landscapes tag? sure why not#dav landscapes
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I'm sure it's been discussed at length already but I think it's easy to assume saiyans are strong so their genes are dominant but I (like to) think it's the opposite. It's interesting to think that the ecological nature of a saiyan is stealthy and invasive, and according to Jaco a saiyan invasion was going to be extra dangerous to earth because they look like earthlings (and a lot of other human-like races in the db universe) and one baby saiyan will easily go completely undetected until it starts the extermination process.
so it actually makes a lot of sense to me that a saiyan hybrid would take more physical traits from a local species, while maintaining the potential to house a saiyan's strength and inborn power over ki (which I think due to the story following a group of people who use it is a thing we often forgotten is a super rare and dangerous ability in that universe, and inborn/instinctive to a select few very powerful races). Could also be a fun way to explain why their tails can detach and grow back, since that may be the only real Tell.
because like yeah gohan and goten look like goku but they also look like chichi ykwim? trunks and bulla look like bulma. pan looks like videl. thoughts i chew on.
I also just find parasitism a real good meaty horror concept to put in my little 'this is why everyone's afraid of saiyans' headcanon file along with 'can see in the dark, biologically strategic energy consumption, can go long periods without food or rest' and of course the canonical 'surprise monkey werewolf kaiju'
#like that bug larva that evolved to trick ants into taking it home and then it just eats all the ants larvae. what if saiyans are like that.#except they can also breed with pretty much any other species to make more invasive species#chewing on it#gnashing my teeth on these bones#dbtag#silly hours#also just please imagine tarble's kid. little gure lookin dude. insane power. i'd die klasjdlkasj#Also I just generally love the idea that there’s really no such thing as a pure bred anything and current ‘pure’ saiyans are already#Very likely the result of evolution and hybridization with a species made extinct by its offspring#And we know that the planet King V established as his own was occupied so it’s also possible that a lot of the younger saiyans#In Vegeta’s generation who were killed when Frieza destroyed the planet might’ve been a largely hybridized generation we never saw#Especially if they too were a race with black hair and black eyes or were selectively bred with saiyans to maintain the façade of purity#The surges in power levels in Vegeta’s generation could also be an indicator of hybridization according to Nappa#Which could if you want to dig real far imply that both Vegeta and Broly are already hybrids#Which could even further explain why Vegeta’s kids share their mothers traits so glaringly — his saiyan genes might already be competing#Could also explain why Trunks and Bulla may or may not have been born without tails depending on your headcanons 🤔#Anyway I am still gnawing on this
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literally sucks so bad that rithmere is one of the most vibrant and beautiful and inspired cultures in all of rodda’s worldbuilding but absolutely none of it made it into the canon text of the novels
#secrets of deltora and tales of deltora are doing so much work for rithmere nation#and the 1 canonically mere character we get is fardeep who is a hermit and like.. ethnically mere but not culturally(?) if i may posit that#obviously rithmere 16 years post shadow invasion is not going to be anything like rithmere in doran's time#that's the watsonian explanation. shadow lord colonization killed mere culture#it seems pretty obvious to me that mother brightly is not mere. she reeks of colonizer#and also people come from all over deltora to participate in the games and the trio spent almost their whole time in rithmere at the inn#so the they didn't really get to experience the real rithmere#the doylist explanation is that rodda just hadn't done her lapis tribe worldbuilding yet#dq liveblog#the shifting sands
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I know some folks have been saying “Ed wanted to die in the same place he laid next to Stede-“ WRONG! HE WANTED TO DIE WHERE STEDE LAID NEXT TO HIM!!!
The place Auntie points out as being where his head was crushed by the cannon ball is the exact spot where Stede’s head had been during the arrest and that’s even more insane than the first option. (Anyway, I wanted to correct that assumption. It’s only a matter of like 2 feet, but I still find it an important detail, and figured a visual might help!)
#Cae Has Lots of Feelings About Our Flag Means Death#GUYS-#HE LAID DOWN IN ONE OF THE LAST PLACES STEDE WAS ON THE REVENGE#HE LET HIS BODY BREAKDOWN AND GIVE TO THE TIRE RIGHT ON THAT SPOT#HE WANTED TO DIE ON THE EXACT SPOT THAT STEDE LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID “You came back.”#I am screaming and crying and feeling every emotion humanly possible#I need us all to know that Edward Teach born on a beach wanted to spend his last moments in a place he remembers so fondly#Despite all the chaos of the British Invasion he smiled while he was arrested#Looking at Stede and waiting to see whatever happened as long as they saw it together#And now Stede's gone#But Edward will be too. Soon.#So he lays down - right there - to wait for it to come#Wearing Stede's Cravat#Soaking up whatever tangential connection to Stede Bonnet remains on his ship#I love him your honor#He is so babygirl#It's also a fun lil easter egg that Frenchie's in pretty much the same place in both shots too lol - but Ed's the crucial part#Our Flag Means Death#OFMD#Our Flag Means Death Season 2 Spoilers#Our Flag Means Death Spoilers#OFMD Spoilers#OFMDS2#OFMD s2 spoilers#Stede Bonnet#The Gentleman Pirate#Edward Teach#Blackbeard#Gentlebeard#OFMD Meta
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so instead of get back into art after the basic recovery of my surgery, I instead replayed Mario and Luigi Partners in Time…and why does nobody talk about this game?? Hardly ever see it in the Super Mario tag. Like. It’s actually insane how dark it gets. People die. Like actually die. Not as dark as SPM but like we see the dead spirits of Toads get siphoned through tubes. They had their life force sucked out of them via genetically modified trees. Yoshis were eaten by a larger alien Yoshi and were gonna be turned into more alien Yoshis via a factory IN THE GIANT ALIEN YOSHI. We see a town that’s literally just “Christmas is Cancelled” the city. Their mayor probably died. We never see these places restored because there are no survivors to restore them. The citizens of Hollijolli village probably all died by the time the bros shut down the Vim factory. And also there’s the entire scene with the Star Gate. Like. Hello??
maybe I’ll stream or let’s play this game and share it here because I think. More ppl should talk about Partners in Time. I’ll say it too: I like it more than Bowser’s Inside Story. By like a LOT. That’s my ramble for the night. Ttyd day tomorrow. Yippee
#Mario and luigi partners in time#MnLPiT#Partners in time spoilers#death mention#mario and luigi#super mario#germtalks#germ talks#Not art#LISTEN EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT SPM FOR ANGST#BUT THIS GAME IS PRETTY ANGST#especially bc the babies r in it so. The ppl who use the brooklyn bros headcanon get to work with that like.#Did their parents decide to Leave the mushroom world after the ALIEN INVASION that DESTROYED MOST THE KINGDOM#Dont even get me started on shrowser#Imagine bowser covered in grotesque purple mushrooms#Like theres HORROR THERE#and ofc elder princess shroob’s real form is. Horrific. And her BOSS THEME#AUGH#I LOVE PIT!!!#The shroobs are such cool villains and ill never forget the sickass art i saw as a kid#Of peach being infected by them or bein turned evil or smth#Idr the context i jus remember she had red eyes and a buncha tubes in her like they were filling her with chemicals#Scifi horror bs right there#Oh another thing: princess shroobs eyes act like robot eyes they flicker. Turn black. And she dies#Why is that and whybis it so COOL#and then the shroob cameo in bis?!? Thats terrifying!!!#wish theyd come back#I love u purple aliens in mario
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Doing promo about Secret Invasion:
"If you don't mind me asking: did you at any point call Kit Harington to say like 'Dude, is this really a good idea?' or was it like 'No, let's go' ?" (x)
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Bonus (still laughing at her own joke)
#emilia clarke#secret invasion#kit harington#mcu secret invasion#marvel#fanart#gifset#my edit#i love her your honor#i also love her friendship with kit so fucking much#i wanna see them banter on a stage at that con#pretty please kit don't cancel on us#i would understand#obviously#but that would be sooooo disappointing#because we never got any joined interviews of these two#another thing season 8 took from us
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I know we Sanuso shippers sound like a broken record moving in between Skypiea, Water 7, Enies Lobby, and Sabaody, but... Those really are crucial arcs for both of them. They show their core personalities, even before their actual arcs (WCI and, hopefully, Elbaf, if Oda gives my boy Usopp all the attention he deserves there) and they're always together. They're paired together in each of those and they're together to witness each other's important moments and growth. And I just think it's something so beautiful. It's not exactly that they have crucial scenes, it's the fact that they're together to support each other in them.
#idk i just find it so beautiful like#wci is a crime for not having usopp but the way luffy acts in wci is different from how usopp would've reacted too#and i think that being together in their journey pretty much since the beginning gives such a beautiful perspective to their relationship#they're not invasive of each other's issues and trauma and they don't demand to be in each other's space. they just... they just are#it's like it's just obvious that if sanji is somewhere usopp will be there too#like they just exist next to each other#and this happened more pre-ts but it's quite obvious in gyojin island and punk hazard too that they're written to be together#and i am very sad#i love them a lot#one piece#black leg sanji#usopp#sanuso
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CW: bugs
Are the things Chloe has done fucked up? Yes
Is the way her life has turned since Zoe appeared and slowly gained everything Chloe has been striving for also fucked? Yes
#miraculous ladybug#miraculous leaks#mlb#chloe bourgeois#zoe lee#i guess anti zoe but moreso in how the writers have positioned her in the story#cw bugs#tw bugs#mild horror#i think this idea of zoe coming in and slowly replacing chloe is so horrific#and the contrast of their bee n wasp inspired costumes add to this idea of invasion#its pretty neat horror content
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spotted lanternfly in oil pastels
#i wish we didn't have to kill them since they're invasive here#it'd be pretty dope to get to see them in china or vietnam. then i could properly appreciate them without feeling worried#i found and killed this one while looking around outside for a 'nature model'#the damage is hidden by the wings. i had to wrangle them into the right pose delicately. i think rigor mortis set in#i never realized before that their spots are asymmetrical#or that their beige wings have a purplish undertone#or that they have little red spots under their eyes#i think i like planthoppers as a group a lot#bugs tw#insects#animals#oil pastels#traditional art#artists on tumblr#art homework#spotted lanternfly#i didnt have a black oil pastel so i made do with dark grey green and blue
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I declare thee, tumblr entity…
SKIBIDI TOILET
JOKES ON YOU, I ALREADY AM!!!
Look at this gay little camera man and his bestie speakerman ❤️❤️
#I’m sorry lmao#i love the series ironically#It’s so bad but the fact it has a rough plot and ‘lore’ interests me#It’s like ‘I can fix him’ when it comes to the story#It’s stupid#but like#it’s a pretty decent invasion story otherwise#behind the stupidity
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I’ve seen a few people in recent times being all like “don’t assume dnp to be anything but best friends unless they say it outright they’re a couple you’re making them uncomfortable” or whatever and I can’t help but think… switch out one of them for a girl. If this were a het pair we were looking at I bet these people wouldn’t hesitate to think differently.
Take all the 2009 tweets/dailybooths, the vday vid, the living together for years, going on vacations together, having all the traditions & jokes they have. All the times Dan goes to see Phil’s family. The fact they’ve never been around another human enough for anyone to assume they have a different partner (who they’d never have time for anyway when dnp literally make a big deal of how much time they spend together) Dan literally confirming their relationship was more than romantic (at least at some point) in his coming out video. The double dates they go on with other confirmed couples. How casually they’re talked about as a pair by other people/YouTubers. Slip ups confirming ‘the bed’ ‘the bedroom’ ‘don’t worry guys only I saw Phil’s butt in the mirror not the people on my zoom call” it being known they stayed in a place with 2 bedrooms with another couple in Australia. Posing for naked photos together. One being a literal biological uncle and the other one literally being referred to as a uncle too by the baby’s mother.
The genuine love and affection they have for each other. The way they can’t shut up about the other. Being each others biggest fans. The way they have talked hypothetically about getting a pet together (and had a bloody fish) and the main kicker…. Literally been thinking and designing a FOREVER HOME together since 2017 and now live in it. Together. 😱
If this was a girl & boy no one would think different but bc it’s 2 men people be like… we’ll actually they never said it explicitly so blah blah blah. What a weird heteronormative world some still live in
genuinely yeah. a huge part of it is just straight up homophobia, but i think the average person who doesn't really pay attention to them/is completely unfamiliar with them DOES actually look at all that and take away the idea that they're a couple at this point in time.
i think an aspect of it with people who are the most vehemently "they're just friends" is like. a lot of the time that's coming from people who did follow them at some point in time, who were involved with the fandom—and who now are acting from a place of shame and unfettered cringe over their past actions & making that everyone else's problem.
sometimes it is really funny to me when people Just Don't Get It though like... dan and phil aren't FOR them. it's not about people who don't get it and that's not the audience dan and phil are prioritizing. and i'm utterly fucking delighted for them that they've pulled off this level of ambiguity for so long even after coming out.
#no but yeah my abusive ex friend tried being like 'you're doing exactly what dan howell asked people not to do in his coming out video'#abt me... talking about facts abt dan and phil's life to new coworkers at work and abt how much i admire them. girl help#i think i know more about dan and phil than you do genius#i'm not fucking... looking up floor plans to their home or finding copies of legal documents with their real signatures rather than#autograph signatures and shit like that so like.. i'm pretty sure i'm good#with the not being invasive.#jam replies#anon#phan
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If Talos dies I'm going to be inconsolable I love that old skrull more than a normal amount
#he's literally the guy ever#his eyes are so pretty#and his voice is just....wow#manifest talos not dying with me please?#I will literally cry a river if he does#and I'm pretty sure my neighbors don't want to be flooded like that so...can marvel just help us all out here?#talos#secret invasion#marvel#ben mendelsohn
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