#it’s better than i thought it would be ngl

[famouskoaladetective]

My mom was an abusive alcoholic for most of my early childhood.

She got sober but surrounded us with people from AA who she knew were sex offenders and she didn't protect me from them because she thought being sober made them good people who wouldn't hurt me.

She got married multiple times and prioritized her partners over me, even lying to have me hospitalized when she wanted to elope with husband #2, and she let him hit me.

She repeatedly voluntarily put me into foster care or the care of family members growing up because she couldn't handle having a disabled queer kid, especially with her drinking and mental health problems.

She made me drop out of school because she didn't want to be awake when I would have to do homeschooling if I homeschooled. Plus, me dropping out meant I could work in her boyfriend's tattoo shop, until the artists (my bosses) relapsed, and gave my aunt hep c, closing the shop and leaving me with nothing.

She promised to let me live with her until I got on my feet when my dad died when I was 17, but put me out on the street 6 months after I turned 18 because husband #3 didn't like my Abyssinian cat or my boyfriend (who his kids/my step sisters had beaten up and stolen Adderall from in highschool)

She basically let me be homeless. She doesn't help me with leaving abusive situations and we've been estranged on and off during my adult life to the point where we stopped talking and when I reached back out, I had another kid she didn't know about and she was onto husband #4.

But she's my lawyer.

She's the only family I have left since my dad's dead and my partner destroyed my relationship with my grandmother (who's so far gone with dementia, she doesn't know who I am)

I'm kinda forced to have a relationship with my mom to protect myself.

Granted, she's doing much better than she was when I was younger. Living overseas and marrying my current step dad mellowed her out.

But yeah... I don't like my mom very much, but I love my parents, and I need their help a lot as single disabled trans parent. So I deal with her mental health symptoms, including narcissistic tendencies (don't come at me, I'm not claiming 'narc abuse ', but she is diagnosed with severe BPD with narcissistic tendencies and it does affect our relationship because she does the whole "I hate you, don't leave me" thing towards me out of habit. She's done it my whole life and it's getting better but it's still a problem. I understand that it's due to her trauma and I don't hold it against her but ngl it hurts.)

So yeah sometimes people's relationships with their parents are complicated but they just have to deal with it. Don't judge people, we're just adults dealing with lifetimes of baggage.

[starflungwaddledee]

Oooo starstruck dee has little stars at the bottom of her feet! Are they just aesthetic or would they make imprints into the ground? (like pawprints)

exactly like that! though she's not the only one...

edit: might need to add some additional dialogue to this to make it more clear, but a clarification in the interim; he knows about his own footprints. he's just surprised to see something similar already there when he knows he's only just landed. he lifts his own shoe to confirm that they're not identical (and also to reveal this to the viewer). seems his stoicism beat off the clarity in this one, sorry 😭

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

not me immediately getting jude from this

who did you guys get? 👀

[spoondoodles]

I blacked out and more Logince HS AU appeared on my canvas idk what happened (also ty @oatmeal-stans-the-trash-rat for some inspiration sorry it took so long to make a post about Them <3)

[support-ponies]

Hiiii! I love this blog sm it makes me so happy!

I wanted to request a trans pride sunburst? He’s my comfort character, I project onto him a lot and he feels so trans coded imo. It would mean a lot to me :D

Thank you so so much if you get around to this!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[lucadrawss]

Enjoyed drawing Vector so I did Astral this time, I might just to regular Astral if I do it again.

Speed paint under cut

[simplegeneral]

While I loved to watch season 3, a lot of things kinda cut off my vibes, and one of them was Raishan, I do think she is a downgrade.

For starters, their meeting was a mess, its kinda what I expected, but just because Keyleth says no, they all agree with her, not even Percy, a notable pragmatic voice in the campaign, even stands up to try to say something.

They only start thinking about the benefits of allying with Raishan, AFTER their meeting, instead of you know, WITH her. They just keep passively-mostly-aggressively kinda working with her anyways?

And this meeting makes even less sense as they are reaching to the final of the season, with Keyleth going to... apologize? To a mass murderer? That gotta to be one of the most contrived and nonsensical conflicts I ever saw, an infinite downgrade compared to Vax and Vex just uncovering her plot.

Keyleth just started acting as if Raishan was just misunderstood, poor girl (I mean, I feel for her, ngl xD), but no, that's an brutal 180º on Keyleth's character, with barely any sense, all Raishan did was to put Vox Machina in trouble after trouble that mostly they escaped due to plot armor.

I also overall didn't liked Raishan attacking Keyleth just for the lols, she in the original was pragmatic, and keeping faithful, would mostly likely just accept Keyleth's apology and move on with her plan. Then Vox Machina would stop her, because they went after her for no reason in the campaign, Raishan was a non-threat, but well, villains gotta be defeated, one way or another. (Kinda wanted to see Raishan in c2).

The ending was alright, I just thought that she exchanging bodies with Thordak was a bit of a lazy premise to end up defeating her with her disease.

I understand this all could be from smahing hours and hours and hours of campaign into 20 minutes episodes, but some of the changes, I thought Raishan in the original was a better character overall, she was the villain I love to see, a mastermind, she is not too evil, just maybe too pragmatic, willing to do anything whatsoever to achieve her goals.

TLOVM Raishan is probably really wondering Vox Machina's mental sanity, as much as she wonders what is left of Thordak's. They keep giving her mix signs of cooperation or conflict. Poor girl is just lost, and I love she just keeps trying her best, despite the very confusing signs they give her.

She ends up being kinda of a very compelling anti-hero, that I actually liked more about TLOVM Raishan than the original.

I'm not even going to try to pretend that the Thordak - Raishan Dracolich thing wasn't rad as fuck. Because it was. It was rad as fuck. But I can't help but feel it undercuts a bit of what made Raishan cool in the stream.

She is the only female dragon in the Chroma Conclave. She is the smallest member, physically the weakest, and diseased besides. But she turned out to be easily the most dangerous and deadly dragon of the bunch, just through her smarts and her magic.

(Spoilers for Campaign One under the cut.)

While everyone was still spent from Thordak's defeat, she hit Vex, Vax, and Keyleth with a spell that literally called down meteors that did 101 points of damage, even after all three made the save. The group had to wait until the next session to find out if Vex was still even alive. In her last solo battle, she used invisibility to deadly effect. Cutting her off from her spells was the only thing that gave them a chance.

And what makes Raishan dangerous in TLOVM is her...stealing the body of a much bigger and physically stronger male counterpart. Okay.

This doesn't eradicate Raishan's original cool factor. She is smart enough, knowledgeable enough, and deceptive enough to pull off the body swap, after all. But in the stream, she was such a dangerous, unstoppable foe all on her own that I can't help but see her TLOVM incarnation as a downgrade.

[ttenvely]

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In the source link below, you will find 216 gifs in 245x150 of TSUNEMATSU YURI (1998) in Alice in Borderland 2 (2022). She is of Japanese descent, so please cast accordingly. All gifs were made from scratch by me and are for roleplay purposes only. Please consider giving this a reblog if using or if you found this to be useful. Do not repost or claim as your own. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

[bolithesenate]

who wants to see the goat mask i am constructing from paper?

[dulcebot]

DON'T GIVE ME IDEASSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and when hiraeth releases their final mini album before a year long hiatus or more so poppy can focus in her health + kaia can do her own things + yvan can do musicals and do whatever projects they want because in the dulceverse yvan will be glinda for wicked instead of ari bc i can do whatever i want this is my silly universe and i can do whatever but two months in and vivi's rent is due and the lights are flickering and the eviction notice is at the front door and none of the girls are answering her calls despite them being together at poppy's vacay home in lake como so she had ONE chance and ONE dream she had NO OTHER CHOICE so she got out a dusty and retired angel of the season project and got these three talented girls from diff companies that she's been eyeing to be hiraeths little sister unit and it's all fun and games until the new girlies don't do good because there will never be another hiraeth / another kaia poppy and yvan and they have a lot to carry on their shoulders even during predebut and there's a lot of self doubts and hesitance and insecurity and tension between vivi and even themselves and it becomes a really big problem where they don't stand each other or just refuse to understand each other and it will be a story of them slowly becoming and understanding that they are their own person, either alone or together as they try to carry on a legacy even when they are not hiraeth they are THEMSELVES!

LORE SPEAKING they were born / created by "mother" the exact day each seasonal angels broke their own loop by eating their forbidden fruit = giving into temptation and they are little angels who were born to parallel hiraeth as hiraeth weren't "pure" anymore but ffs the little sisters wanted to be like them wtf....... and then they were left behind in celestias castle or palace i don't remember what it was and they hold some kind of grudge because why did they leave and not us?! why did they not took us with them?! but eventually hiraeths doctrine cult like messages gets to them and they are not ready to break their loop but instead they start shaking things up in celestia's castle palace whatever and being a pain in the ass for "mother" because they are sharing to other angels that they could be and do more outside mothers doctrine and this even makes the little sisters realize that they are their own person/angel and they are not the seasonal aengels as much as mother wanted them to be and maybe they start their own "cult" and its not like "mother" can force them to leave celestia because they are perfect w no sins!

[heiressofdoodles]

Alrighty, so I saw a few posts regarding a few other characters and how @gethoce's character Valfrey would react to them based on their morality and code of honour, and I wanted to participate a bit lol. So, since this is too late for any polls, I might as well do General Maisie Knight instead, mostly because Hopea is a bit too simple for this while she's a lil kid.

One must live their life for a purpose such as serving a shogun or protecting one's people. If left without a purpose one must make it their mission to find one.

Maisie's entire life from birth to 500 years old, she was pretty much trying to figure out her purpose, because surely it wasn't just because she was born a Blue Star and waiting to die. She ended up carving out her own path and making a life where she became one of the Leaders of the GSA, marrying Floret, and just wanting to retire in a peaceful land after the GSA collapsed.

Be the Master of one's emotions, yet Do not rob yourself of your whimsy for it’d poison your mind.

Hooo boi, this might be the one to tick off the most points. One of the ways that Maisie keeps her Crash ability together is through her stoic attitude. Her being a bit more snarky than most others probably wouldn't give her much in the way of being whimsical. If you want to see her more passionate and loving side, though, just ask her about her wife, and she'll be head over heels in seconds.

Always be honest.

While Maisie strives to be honest with her fellow Soldiers and Generals, she did struggle with telling them about some genuinely distressing news. Even now, she struggles with honesty when it can be harmful to her troupe, since the last time she said something distressing to someone, she lost her wings.

Do not steal unless it is to protect the weak.

Maisie is very much not a thief. She may be willing to intimidate people or attempt to

Do not sneak attack when a fair battle is possible.

Despite her having the Ninja ability, Maisie is one for a fair fight. However, it does not mean that she is above some rather sneaky tactics to people that even she could handle on her own. Most of the time, it is for intimidation and is not often targeted by specifics.

There is no honour in being outnumbered, use usually unfair tactics to even the playing field.

Maisie is unashamed of using some morally grey tactics to even a fight against a powerful or multiple foe/s. It is one of her preferred fighting multiple people, regardless of how many allies she has. While she is not a fan of actually murdering her enemies, thank god, she is more than capable of rendering her enemies unable to fight.

Respect yourself, keep yourself healthy and well groomed.

The one thing that Maisie is fine with not having her feather wings anymore is that she doesn't have to worry about having to groom them anymore. While she struggles sometimes with keeping healthy habits, especially after the GSA collapsed, she will try her hardest, and that's what matters.

Stay true to your principles.

Maisie hasn't broken her own code of honour, and has no intention to. She got pretty close when she learned of just how many organizations that were meant to assist the GSA sat idly during the collapse, but she's never genuinely acted on those dark desires.

Do not slaughter your own kin unless they strike first.

Maisie is extremely unwilling to harm to her friends, and her allies. When she wandered the galaxy with her troupe, the small group travelling with her was all she had. The only way she would even consider fighting one of them would be to get them to take a chill pill and stop self destructing for no reason, damnit.

Even if she was possessed by Dark Matter or some other powerful force, it would be at constant war to force her to harm Floret, though it would never be able to force Maisie to kill her.

[mercymaker]

goddd i still can't believe d&d pulled the most basic catty as fuck 'if two powerful women exist in a room together, they're gonna hate each other and be petty for no reason' shit and so SO many people ate that shit up and endlessly harassed one another for years

[sadrockandwaltzes]

Bill!

[phagodyke]

the masculine urge to take a saucepan off thr draining board and bash myself repeatedly over the head with it until I pass out and no longer have to experience feeling Bad 😍

[abby420]

being attracted to women is so hard cause i’ll think a woman is hot asf and be interested in her but then my brain goes “how DARE you sexualize her??? hasn’t she been through ENOUGH!? can’t women do ANYTHING without being sexualized???”