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the real reason i'm depressed is because my Hoard has been in a duffel bag for 3 years now and i haven't been able to unpack it
#i'm not doing so well with all of the moving#it's more complicated than it should be#i miss my little shiny objects :(#in a year i have to probably move back to canada and i dont know what im gonna do from there#because my dad is set on making aliyah and i'm not interested in going with him#not even for political reasons. i just dont see the appeal in moving to a (guaranteed much smaller) apartment on another continent#that's a bazillion times more stressful than it's worth#my sister doesn't seem so hyped about going either i need to ask whether theres another option for her#for now i'm just gonna#not unpack my room and not think about it#sighh
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Go ahead. Tell me I'm wrong
WHY would I when you are correct
#ask reply#my only criticism of this is you should of covered that dudes face#he ain’t like us#BUT LITERALLY Michael gotta have his faves and least fave animatronics#I actually don’t think he outright hates them all#I think it’s more complicated than that#similar to movie Vanessa I gotta believe he has actual interest in animatronics etc etc#maybe due to growing up with them#so yeah man has strong feelings on all of em#he could do a tier list on all animatronics and it be 5 hours long
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ok, I think I can post this
(just wanted to imagine what the colors would look like, so come up with the context yourself)
've been doing things very productively lately
Raph doesn't have the right size pants, so he just wraps a piece of fabric around himself 🔥🔥🔥
#rottmnt#raphael#casey jones#casey sr#ruf doodles#in a good way it should have been shown only after I finished doing the first part#but who am I to do something good#WAIT I NEED TO COME UP WITH A NAME FOR THIS AU#what about...#ruf future au#??? idk#seems pretty corny#but I don’t want to think about something complicated#I'm planning to make a short story so this will do#(I LOVE CASEY'S DESIGN MORE THAN I SHOULD)
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the scariest thing you can be for halloween is emotionally vulnerable with a guy that's never taken a hint in his life
#OC#i wanted to post this on halloween but then i put more work into it than i should have so its a day late lol#emotionally complicated force vs. completely oblivious object#nick is not a hint taker#ark 3 hours prior commenting on nicks black eye: i hope youre taking care of yourself. i dont know what id do if smth happened to you#nick: that is a normal thing that guys say to each other :)#all of this happening while in halloween costumes really adds to the flavor#ark#drae#wrestle boy#comic
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Seeing Nimrod kinda move for the first time is just - I feel like a proud Papa....watching a really dumb baby bite a pant leg -
#he's so feral when he doesn't get his way#GET ELIMINATED#he should have known better than to mess with the leg#yeah that's Bailey lmao#first test boarding!!#The animation won't be much more complicated than this#cause Im a board artist primarily#weevmo#corduroy stew#nimrod stew#bailey stew
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The night they got their ass kicked by Link prolly ahaha Also~~~~
Sources under cut
#i keep making this more complicated than it should be for a meme u3u#loz#age of calamity#totk#legend of zelda#master kohga#sooga#yiga clan#my art#oddart#tuck them in
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it’s super funny to me that in the first scene with haymitch in the entire series, he loudly proclaims he likes katniss, and then goes on to spend the next five hundred or so pages pretending the exact opposite.
#he’s complicated ok#I should say he unsuccessfully pretends because you could always kind of tell#well at least that he loved her#I would say he loved her more than liked her by the end of catching fire lbr#haymitch abernathy#Katniss everdeen#thg#hunger games#text post ✨✍🏻🤎#400
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The most moderate, nuanced and productive people I have discussed the Israel-Hamas war with have been Jews, Israelis, and people with Palestinian family. Everyone directly affected by this just wants it to stop and to have peace and safety in the region in a way that minimises the casualty count.
The most extreme and performative and vile things I've been told are by people who have no connection to this and like to think they are experts because they have covered adjacent topics during learning, or read stuff online.
If all the randos in the west would just shut up for ten minutes and let those of us actually affected, with an understanding of the history of the land and the culture and the generational trauma experienced by Jews and Palestinians alike talk, we might actually have a chance to salvage this and stop it spiraling
#jumblr#antisemitism#i/p#nuance is something so easy to have and yet people choose not to#we are measured and non extreme because we dont have the privilege to be angry.#someone literally said that they wont ensge further with me because the topic makes me emotional#jews get called genocidal#palestinans get called Antisemitic#how about the rest of you shut the fuck up and let the adults talk#maybe youll learn how to problem solve and not be a bigot if you listen to those you so desperately want to hate#its pathetic#we all know hamas doesnt represent all Palestinians#we also know hamas teaches Antisemitism in schools in gaza and the west bank#these two things can and should co-exist in your head#that doesnt meam all palestinians are rabid jew hating murderers#it means the situation is complicated and not black and white and will take more than just screaming for a ceasefire to actually solve#we are not a football for your performative activism
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redefining antisemitism to smear supporters of Palestine as antisemites is a state-backed, load-bearing tactic of the Zionist propaganda strategy, to legitimize Zionism and undermine solidarity with Palestine, for as long as the Zionist project has been underway
everyone who I've seen speak out in support of Palestine has, as a result, been subjected to a deluge of harassment from Zionists accusing them of antisemitism (“just say you hate Jews and go”), a mob of “nuanced” bellyachers running interference with “concern” about Tone and Phrasing, whinging demands to “pweeeeease listen to Jews [read: Zionists]” about Palestine/Zionism, insisting that The Left is broadly antisemitic in a way that makes support for Palestine essentially Suspicious, etc.
if you, as a nominally Anti-Zionist Jew, still decide to wag your finger at gentiles who support Palestine to “watch their tone”, “tread lightly”, or even “listen to Palestinians and Jews” about Zionism, you are still playing into that Zionist propaganda strategy. you are still insisting on privileging your own feelings of being Uncomfy, and you are still insinuating that Jewish voices speaking on Palestine are innately more nuanced or trustworthy than those of gentiles. which is not only implicit/latent Zionism but also an utterly fucking deranged and farcical thing to believe at this moment or any other moment in the last near-century. get fucking real
#you should be more ~Uncomfy~ about the complicity of our communities and institutions than you are about “Gentile Leftists”#my posts
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mom avoids dead anime mom curse because he transitions. he’s always had a complicated relationship with pregnancy because of how woefully little people are told about potential complications and aftercare, and also because of how gendered it is, so after the birth of his second child he’s finally had it and decides to transition
he joins a local community group for mothers and at first it’s played for laughs how often they fall to the dead mom curse, but soon we find out more about how society has failed mothers and people who give birth, from information being withheld, procedures being carried out without consent, lack of accommodations and maternal and paternal leave, racism…
it also turns out that becoming a man doesn’t help with this, not really, because being a pregnant trans man brings its own problems. follow along as he learns more about being a parent and a mother, and maybe even… finding love???
coming to you never because I can’t write!
#if the japanese is bad. MY BAD LMAO#this was also a joke for me at first but then i was like well hang on.....#my initial romance thought was his husband leaves him after the transition and eventually a new single father ends up joining the group#cos he like. idk misread the flyer as being a new parents group but the group accepts him with open arms#and hes drawn to the only other guy there and well u know wink wonk.#then i thought well come on thats not. very nice rip what if his husband sticks with him.#but thats why u have more than one trans guy LMAO so it doesnt become bad tokenism!!!!#the older kid also has a complicated relationship with his mom transitioning tbh#art#wow original art from me... ummm.#he also wears glasses but not all the time#GRAPHIC DESIGN IS (NOT) MY PASSION!!!!!#I WANT YOU TO KNOW IF THIS WOULD EVER BE WRITTEN IT WOULD BE GROUNDBREAKING INCREDIBLE.#but it wont because one that would imply that i finish writing anything ever.#two it would require so so much reading. which you should be doing you should be researching.#but the point is there would be a lot because i would think 'oh it had to be perfect' and then would never do it. on top of already#never finishing anything..................#ocs
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watched mouthwashing finally. the fact that i saw people be more aggressive towards curly than jimmy is kinda strange. kinda real weird
#mouthwashing#captain curly#jimmy mouthwashing#i saw people draw fanart of anya. pouring mouthwash on his exposed flesh? as punishment for failing her?#which okay. 1. i dont think shed like that. 2. are we seriously blaming curly for this more than. jimmy. the guy who DID IT?#like okay do not get me wrong. curly is to blame. he made terrible mistakes he did horrible things his inaction is inexcusable#he should have handled the situation better. if he couldnt 'take care' of jimmy (likely) he should have just at least#been there for anya. supported her and comforted her more than he did#im not saying any of it is untrue#hell the aus i saw where anya is angry with curly? where post-recovery shes genuinely mad and to a degree disgusted with him?#great! real! very reasonable! it makes sense it works its everything#but like. some of the people i saw were being straight up vile. for zero reason#'yeah curly deserves to be tortured and like skinned more by anya for closure because of what he did' HAVE WE FORGOTTEN WHO DID IT#WHY IS JIMMY GETTING LEFT OUT OF THIS CONVERSATION. ARE WE FORGETTING WHOS THE LITERAL ASSAULTER?#one of those people also said that if you ship anya and curly you should kys so uhhh not really taking that opinion seriously but. jeez#i dont ship them either for the record i just think telling people to die over it is a little excessive. thats the whole thing really#theyre being really excessive#on a similiar note i saw people say 'nobody on the ship is black and white in morality' and i agree with that about everyone BUT jimmy#for one simple reason. there is never ever a reason to rape someone. not EVER. everyone else has reasons. is complicated#and while jimmy is complicated too obviously that doesnt. like undeniably hes the worst. he is the worst because what he did is just#one of the only crimes that never ever has an explaination that means anything. its always evil
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I love trans people whose transness means that their sexuality is complex. I love trans people who adopt contradictory labels. I love transmasculine people who still have ties to old lesbian spaces and transfeminine people who still have ties to gay spaces (even if they themselves aren't lesbian or gay). I love trans people whose dysphoria has put them at a place where they don't want to engage with any type of sexuality. I love trans people who are confused, unsure, or questioning. I love trans people who toe the lines of queerness. I love trans people who are unapologetically embracing their sexualities. I love trans people who are working through internalized shame about their sexualities.
#trans#transgender#queer#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#mtf#nonbinary#honestly being trans has really complicated my sexuality in so many ways and i don't always see people remember this i guess#because i think people expect that trans people will assimilate into their gender and immediately adopt their sexuality...#...in an assimilationalist way where it is uncomplicated and understandable to even cishet people#but it's honestly more complex than that for a ton of us#like i've found myself in most of the situations i included in this post and i'm probably forgetting some more (feel free to add onto this)#because the reality is is that transness *can* make figuring out your sexuality more complex#and that is okay. we should acknowledge this in addition to recognizing that sexuality can be easy or less complex for some#we can recognize that transness can be linked in some way to a person's sexuality without being weird about it i think#because a ton of people are weird especially about trans people's sexualities or their assumptions about our sexualities#this blog aims to grow and encourage growth and acceptance - especially if *i* don't get it *personally*
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i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you
#im reading that post that says artists are directors of audience reaction and not its dictator:#'you cannot guarantee that everyone viewing your work will react as you are trying t make them react. a good artist knows that this is what#allows work to breath. by definition you cannot have art where the viewer brings nothing to the table ... this is why you have to let go of#the urge to plainly state in text exactly how you think the work should be interpreted ... its better to be misinterpreted sometimes than#to talk down to your audience. you wont even gain any control that way; people will still develop their opinions no matter what you do#im thinking abt this again cuz i was thinking maybe the thing that lets adventure time work so well the way it does is cuz it doesnt#take itself too seriously that it gives the audience enough room to fuck with subtext and then fuck with them back yknow. i think it was#mentioned somewhere that they werent even planning to run with the postapocalyptic elements that are hinted in the show but changed their#mind after the one off with the frozen businessmen and dominoed into marcy and simons backstory. on the other side there are stories that#explain too much to let the story speak for itself and i think it ends up having to do more with the crew trying to lead ppl in a certain#direction than expand on what they have and i see a lot of this with miraculous. like when interviews and tweets are used as word of god in#arguments and it becomes a little stifling to play around with it knowing the creator can just interject. u can say its the crews effort to#engage with its audience but it feels more like micromanaging. and none of this is to say there ISNT room for stories that spell things out#theyre just suited for different things. if sesame street tried abstract approaches to themes and nuance itd be counterproductive#a lot of things fly over my head so i need help picking things apart to get it- but it doesnt have to be from the story itself. ive picked#picked up or built on my own interpretations listening to other ppl share their thoughts which creates conversation around the same thing#sometimes stories will spell things out for you without being so obvious abt it that it feels like its woven into the text. my fav example#for this might be ATLA using younger characters as its main cast but instead of feeling like its dumbed down for kids to understand why war#is bad its framed from a childs point of view so younger audiences can pick up on it by relating to the characters. maybe an 8 year old#wont get how geopolitics works but at least they get 'hey the world is a little more complicated than everyone vs. fire nation'. same for#steven universe bc its like theyre trying to describe and put feelings into words that kids might not have so they have smth to start with#especially with the metaphors around relationships bc even if it looks unfamiliar as a kid now maybe the hope is for it to be smth you can#look back to. thats why it feels like these shows grew up with me.. instead of saving difficult topics for 'when im ready for it'#as if its preparing me for high school it gave me smth to turn in my hands and revisit again and again as i grow. stories that never#treated u as dumb all along. just someone who could learn and come back to it as many times as u need to. i loved SU for the longest time#but i felt guilty for enjoying it hearing the way ppl bash it. bc i was a kid and thought other ppl understood it better than me and made#feel bad for leaning into the message of paying forward kindness and not questioning why steven didnt punish the diamonds or hold them#accountable. but im rewatching it now and going oh. i still love this show and what it was trying to teach me#yapping#diary
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thinking about compiling screenshots of golden/silver age batman exclusively calling dick his ward to combat the allegations that it was “initially a father-child relationship”
#dc#batman#brudick#i don’t even ship it#i think i'm still mad at the poll when people were trying to refute the brudick points#by saying shippers are also biased and ignoring the history and that it really was a familial relationship early on#me the only asshole on this website enough of dumbass to try to read early batman “no it fucking wasn't”#if you hate the ship fine but don't back up your argument with complete lies#the pro-brudick camp has receipts which gives them way more validity than the haters#i'm sure somewhere out there there's dick grayson pre-crisis saying bruce is like a father to him#there's so many comics and i've barely scratched the surface#but i did read both the first golden age compilation book of batman and silver age world's finest compilation#and neither of them say anything like that#and no “his ward dick grayson” is how he's called constantly it's one of the stock phrases in the ever present narration#early comics fundamentally didn't understand they were a visual medium and are full of very tedious and unnecessary text panels#and to be fair each issue needed to function as an intro to someone who had never heard of batman and robin before so#“and his ward dick grayson”#every damn time#their relationship was adult man and his plucky kid sidekick he inexplicably hangs out with#which doesn't make sense and doesn't parallel to real life real social interaction#but neither does a man going in a batsuit to fight crime#and the out-of-universe explanation is because this comic was aimed at kids who were supposed to project onto dick grayson#and the kids want to be batman's kid-partner not his kid-son#it's not that complicated this trope still exists today#kid who should not be here but is because it's a kids' show/book/movie/etc#i stg i'm gonna become a brudick shipper out of spite at this point#and WHILE I'M COMPLAINING i am also going to be mad at the people who get all up-in-arms#about all the evil heroes doing child endangerment on their poor abused sidekicks#should there be kid heroes? no but cape comics would suck without them so stop complaining and enjoy yourselves#RL vigilantism is also always bad stop bringing real world standards into this they don't apply
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fengming is such a fun ship because you have these two guys who are deeply and irrevocably traumatized by their closest relationships and how those relationships intersected with their own sense of duty, loyalty, and honor. and they both have such opposite responses to that trauma.
pei ming finds new friendships with ling wen and shi wudu but does his utmost to remain carefree and tries to leave the past in the past. to not think of everything he's lost everyone he loved who he cut down with his own hands tries to not let himself to get too attached to anyone else (he fails) and just live in the moment. even though his past still clearly haunts him,,, he can't commit himself to a weapon, he can't speak to yushi huang, he can't bring himself to have more than a fling with anyone.
meanwhile feng xin digs in with all his might and grasps at every straw he can to not let his connections fade even though they've twisted and gone sour because he refuses to move on and refuses to make new meaningful connections. he'll pick fights with mu qing and chase after xie lian and jian lan because even after all they've done to hurt him, he loves them and doesn't know how to stop,,,
but in the end they're both a couple of guys who never meant to ascend, who never sought to be more than what they were. pei ming was happy as a general. feng xin was happy as a bodyguard. and they've lost so much in a way that few people can understand but at least they can understand each other.
#tgcf#feng xin#pei ming#fengming#peixin#tgcf spoilers#“i did it for your own good’’ when its the exact opposite of what you wanted is so traumatizing and such an isolating thing#trust and commitment issues vs abandonment issues should not be a ship that works and yet#they are just SO fun#feng xin knows pei ming doesn't want anything serious so he's unwilling to push boundaries so he doesn't get rejected and left behind again#pei ming knows feng xin has had weird complicated friendships with power imbalances on both sides so a relationship as equals will be more#meaningful than any commitment could ever be
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A small spider-man 2099 reading guide
Just watched atsv and wondering where to start getting into Miguel O’Hara? Hate trying to figure out comic timelines? Well hopefully this guide can help a little bit. Please note its far from a definitive guide and could probably use some work but I'm hoping it helps someone out! Also not including spider-verse appearances or those in most other comics, because we could be here forever listing every comic appearance and this is meant to be a quick guide Miguel's original appearance was in Amazing Spider-Man #365, but that was more of a preview than anything else. I've split it pre-2000's and post-2000's, but listen to me if you have to pick one comic to read out of all of this make it the original 1992 run. You basically cannot go wrong with just reading 1992. A few have been marked with asterisks because you really don't have to read them but it felt wrong to not include them on the list.
Pre 2000's
Spider-man 2099 (1992): Literally Required Reading. Keep in mind that the last two issues had different writers and are kinda disregarded by just about everyone. Issue #16 starts the crossover event Fall of The Hammer, a mini-guide to which I've included below. The Special and Annual take place in between issues but it's easiest to just read them last.
Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man (1995): It's short, it's sweet, give it a read.
*2099: World of Tomorrow (1996): At the time this was meant to close off all the 2099 plots, theres lots of other 2099 characters in here but a fair bit of Mig.
*2099: Manifest Destiny (1998): Further closure to the 2099 world, again lots of other characters but still a solid read. Basically waves away the last two issues of sm2099 (1992) in a slightly hilarious way and worth reading just for that.
Fall of the Hammer crossover mini-guide:
Spider-man 2099 (1992) #16
Ravage 2099 #15
X-men 2099 #5
Doom 2099 (1993) #14
Punisher 2099 (1993) #13
Post 2000's
*Superior Spider-man (2013) issues #16-19: Largely set up but its cool too
Spider-man 2099 (2014): You can read this without the Superior Spider-man setup but depending on your prior comic reading experience you may be a bit confused. If you're a seasoned reader and used to taking weird comic shifts in stride due to missing some random issues of a completely different comic you'll be fine
Spider-man 2099 (2015): Solid run, I don't have much to say about it honestly
Marvel's 2099 (2019 event): you are better off looking up a separate guide for this one it is not my ballpark
#spider-man 2099#spiderman 2099#miguel o’hara#miguel o'hara#atsv#<- tagging that one to help people who are just getting into him#spiderman#miguel#sm2099#sm2099 reading guide#spiderverse#fr though read the 1992 run#anyone who knows more than me please feel free to correct me on anything i've just seen some people wanting this and thought i may as well#extra apologies if anyone has done this before but i cannot go in migs tag#<- walking thru hell for real#i felt like i should do this because as a comic character lover all i do is post comic content#by god though if i can convince ONE person to read 1992 run it will be worth it#mig does not have enough comics to truly be as complicated as some other comic characters but i know it can be nice to have it all set out
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