#it just kinda;;;;; looms there

[yi3248]

napping

[noxcheshire]

If ya’ll know Madoka Magica you will understand how beautiful and haunting the art of the witches that show up on screen are.

LIKE

It’s gorgeous.

That unsettling feeling of seeing something beyond yourself, beyond your sense of consciousness and knowing that this could very well be your grave.

It’s a labyrinth of feelings, of misery, of regret, and wanting that traps its victims in a forever.

You know what else is unsettling?

Death.

Death and ghosts and everything beyond it.

So imagine with me then, that the Infinite Realms and those ecto-born and ecto-contaminated don’t see the ghosts the same way.

Amity Park and its residents see the invading ghosts as close to their real form in life as they are in death.

Those not touched by the Infinite?

They see them the same way as witches. Unnatural creatures that unsettles the mind and environment to allow the ghosts access to the living world.

Maybe that’s why Maddie and Jack Fenton do not see ghosts as sentient things. They have seen them as humans see them, things filled with misery and pain, stealing from those too foolish to wander in the Ghosts domain.

The GIW are much the same, seeing the ghosts as the ‘witches’ they are, not what they were.

Danny doesn’t realize how unsettling he truly is, no one in Amity Park baring the Fenton parents and the GIW do.

Not until he is summoned on his first official Kingly summon, unaware of the looming gaping horror that stood staring back down at the humans that lived outside of Amity Park.

[dunmeshistash]

Am once again thinking about Milsiril and the general fandom impression of her, it's fascinating

[intuitive-revelations]

I don't know if I'm excited or frustrated at the 'future children' angle for Susan's origin. On one hand... I'm very interested in the possible links to the likes of Miranda, the Other etc.

On the other hand... ok confession time: This may make me a minority in the fandom, but I actually really dislike the 80s-90s retcons of Susan's origin. (Birth of a Renegade, Lungbarrow etc.)

I kinda just like her and the Doctor being some of the last surviving members of what was once a family on Gallifrey. I find the mystery and tragedy of what happened on Gallifrey, with implied student uprisings and political assassinations, far more intriguing than any twists saying "actually she's not really his granddaughter". Fortunately, some things can be canonwelded into that (eg. Susan really could be also related to the president / descended from Rassilon), but stuff that actually gives her an origin elsewhere is always a pain.

Idk. I just see once being a parent (and losing it all tragically) as such a crucial part of the Doctor's background and Susan fits very well into that as far as I'm concerned. Anything disconnecting her from that, or worse erasing it completely, ultimately damages what I find to be one of the most compelling things about the Doctor and Susan. :/

The few posts I've already seen talking about this suggests this is an unpopular opinion, but I'd be interested to know what people think, and if they agree or disagree...

[flightyalrighty]

Flighty I'm sorry to say but you've picked the worst social to post a nuanced and openly violent comic. Tumblr users do not understand horror or themes or anything beyond what's been shown to them on the page. Reading comprehension is at an all time low and all the low gathers here to complain that something bad or nuanced happened in a story and then demand that the artist and writer personally explain or change aspects of the story for their sake or because it " makes them feel bad "

Also should take the time to remind everyone that not everything is cattered directly to you abd that's not a bad thing or a moral failing on the writers part. Good lord.

I'm sure that not everyone on this website is Like That. Tumblr's made up of a LOT of people after all! Trust me when I say, in my experience, of the four platforms I've posted this comic on (Tumblr, Comicfury, Twitter [though not anymore] & Bluesky), Tumblr folks have actually been the MOST thoughtful (and patient) out of all of them.

Now, that said, yeah, on occasion I've gotten a few stinkers in my inbox. That's okay. The fellas that have made me smile on here have far outweighed the entitled weirdos.

I trust that, despite this comic not being for everyone, and how a few loud people are gonna get mad about it, overall Infested will be enjoyed plenty. I'm just happy this comic got any readers at all. I used to get no readers whatsoever. THAT was the true hell of being a comic creator on Tumblr.

[moeblob]

WOW it's way later than I planned to just be finishing art but here we go! I did manage!

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Honestly as somebody who has friends who are going through so much more than me esp in their home lives I extremely get Fabian because it’s like yeah it isn’t perfect but it’s a million times better than what they have to deal with so like you just kinda have to be grateful for what you have and try not to complain yknow

[thorarms]

People often wonder why asgardians still ride horses if they have all these technological advancements and flying ships etc etc, and my answer is that horses are a rich people hobby. Owning a horse is expensive. Vets bills are expensive. Maintaining the land a horse needs to comfortably live is expensive and time consuming. Realistically, the only asgardians who actually own horses in their modern age are farmers who cant afford fancy machinery, and rich people who want a hobby and can afford to outsource all the labor that comes with owning a horse.

I think it's the asgardian version of romanticising a more rural idyllic past, whilst pricing the hobby out of reach for the vast majority of people to maintain a degree of seperatation from the realities of that rural past. Theres a reason we only see asgardian royalty riding horses in the movies

[bonefall]

post/734733274896809984/do-you-ever-worry-your-own-writing-might-come-off that makes sense. i was asking because i'm afraid of accidentally writing misogyny myself and i kind of admire what you do

Hmm... I wish I had better advice to give you on this front, but honestly, the only thing I can tell you is to consider the perspective of your female characters.

Women are people. They have thoughts and feelings of their own, so like... just let them have their own arcs. A lot of the worst misogyny in WC comes from the way that the writers just don't care about their girls (or, in the case of tall shadow, actually get undermined and forced to rewrite entire chapters), so they're not curious about their lives, or WHY they feel the way they do or what they want, or any direction for their character arcs.

Turtle Tail as an example. She'll often just end up feeling whatever Gray Wing's plot demands. She's gotta leave when Storm dumps him to make him feel lonely. She shows up again to love him in the next book. Lets her best friend Bumble get dragged back to Tom the Wifebeater, but is sad enough about her death to be "unreasonably angry" with Clear Sky, and then calms down and accept Gray Wing is right all along.

And then she dies, so he can have his very own fridge wife.

In this way, Turtle Tail's just being used to tell Gray Wing's story. They're not interested in why she would turn on Bumble, or god forbid any lingering negative feelings for how she didn't help her, or even resentment towards Clear Sky for killing her or Gray Wing for jumping to his defense. She isn't really going through her own character arc.

She does have personality traits of her own, don't misunderstand my criticism, but as a character she revolves around Gray Wing.

So, zoom out every now and then, and just ask yourself; "Whose story is being told by what I wrote? Do my female characters have goals, wants, and agency, or are they just supporting men? How do their choices impact the narrative?"

But that's already kinda assuming that you already have characters like Turtle Tail who DO have personalities and potential of their own. Here's some super simple and practical advice that helped me;

Tally the genders in your cast. How many are boys, how many are girls, how many are others?

And take stock of how many of those characters are just in the supporting cast, and compare that to the amount you have in the main cast.

If you have a significant imbalance, ESPECIALLY in the main cast, fire the Woman Beam.

It's a really simple trick to just write a male character, and then change its gender while keeping it the same. I promise women are really not fundamentally different from men lmao. You can consider how your in-universe gender roles affect them later, if you'd like, but when you're just starting to wean yourself off a "boy bias" this trick works like a charm.

Also you're not allowed to change the body type of any girl you Woman Beam because I said so. PLEASE allow your girls to have muscles, or be fat, or be old, or have lots of scars. Do NOT do what a cowardly Triple A studio does, where the women all have the same cute or sexy face and curvy body while they're standing next to dwarves, robots, and a gorilla.

Or this shit,

If you do this I will GET you. If you're ever possessed by the dark urge, you will see my face appear in the clouds like Mufasa himself to guide you away from the path of evil.

Anyway, you get better at just making characters girls to begin with as time goes on and you practice it. It's really not as big of a deal as your brain might think it is.

Take a legitimate interest in female characters and try not to disproportionately hit them with parental/romance plots as opposed to the male cast, and you'll be fine. Don't think of them as "SPECIAL WOMEN CHARACTERS" just make a character and then let her be a girl, occasionally checking your tally and doing some critical thinking about their use in the story.

(Also remember I'm not a professional or anything, I'm just trying to give advice)

[firelise]

TopMew: Sex is a pawn in a game

BostonNick: Sex is a tool for discovery, freedom, self-love, and healing

SandRay: Sex is an expression of gratitude, unconditional love, and commitment

[charliemcarthy]

good on the jehovah's witnesses who came to our house a second time to bother my mother, only to be greeted by me in a shirt with 'hell was boring', boxer shorts of scooby doo with a cop hat & handcuffs with text saying 'assume the position', and nearly all tattoos on display, particularly neon cthulu and my unsolved tribute with the pentagram. i figured it not the best idea to mention i was a satanist and sent them on their way

but i am THIS close to hanging my house's stranger looking witch bells in more obvious places or my sign that says "Beware of...well just beware"

[robinsnest2111]

warning, tmi

fr whenever this stupid connective tissue/blood vessel expansion issue crops up again my suicidal thoughts intensify by 400%

like im doing EVERYTHING I CAN to prevent this issue. got a whole double sided info sheet from the specialist I saw when it first happened in 2018, i follow the food and water recommendations, the exercise recommendations, even the fucking recommendations on how to shit!!!, BUT STILL

IT KEEPS HAPPENING AT RANDOM and always at the worst possible times tbh and every time it happens it gets worse because the area is already weakened from the previous times...

i hate it hate it hate it hate it.............

can I please have a different body? please?

[skitskatdacat63]

And now Fernando in all his historical AUs !!

In order with relevant info: Nandopoleon Alonsoparte(x), King Fernando I(x), Napoleonic Hussar(x)

Again: let me know your favorite <3

[deiiamorte]

Can't stop thinking about Rookanis + Bellara's friendship, like, Bellara found a ride or die little brother in Mirghilanan; an assassin who will happily stab people for free for her.

However by doing this, she unwittingly also got a second scary brother-in-law in the shape of the First Talon Lucanis.

[hiihavebrainrot]

Whole Cake Island-era Sanji!!! Bc... Idk I felt like drawing him being utterly miserable lmfao

Where is the light source? I don't know, you tell me 🤷‍♀️

[ID: A drawing of Sanji from One Piece ( in his outfit from Whole Cake Island -- a ruffled shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a yellow bracelet/cuff around each of his wrists, and a red cape draped over his shoulders. He is gazing out of a paneless window, resting his head in one hand, as a tear falls from his visible eye. He is smoking.]

[seventh-district]

again and again i find myself lamenting that audio roleplay isn't taken more seriously by some people. like yeah, they often have a romantic element, and by nature they usually directly involve/address the listener- and i totally get that those things aren't to everyone's taste. no art or entertainment is universally appealing, and that's okay! but.. it still makes me a lil sad that the "cringe" reputation of asmr/audio rp precedes it. there's a whole lot of talent and creativity being poured into these audios by so many people that i feel goes unrecognized and/or disrespected simply due to the medium that the stories are being told through.