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tennessoui · 7 months ago

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"anakin slinks back into their house at least once a month with a dead sith in his mouth like a very deadly house cat" - 100/10 no notes this is hilarious :D

anakin is a surly cat who was accidentally domesticated, escaped into the wild, and honestly obi-wan knows it’s bad for the environment (the galaxy around them), but it’s literally exhausting to keep him inside all the time. obi-wan is sore and frankly tuckered out (the only activity he has found that anakin likes more than the occasional murder is sex)

it’s enough that he knows anakin always comes back after a few hours outside (yeah usually dripping in remnants of bloody crime lol) - and all obi-wan has to do to ensure anakin stays very close is mention that he thinks he’s going to invite one of the neighbors over sometime soon.

leave it vague. leave anakin guessing. he can’t kill ALL their neighbors. obi-wan would be cross

#asks #obikin #throat fic au #What interests me most about this fic is the power struggle between the two #like it’s so much compromise #to meet in the middle #anakin sacrifices all his sithy plans #and obi-wan sacrifices a majority of his Jedi ideals and his Jedi future #cause when push came to shove obi-wan didn’t throw himself on the grenade to save the galaxy #but because he didn’t want the grenade to explode without taking him with it (anakin is the grenade)#they can’t be normal about each other

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clearlydusty · 1 month ago

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Here's the mondo sketches I promised, as well as @squishvicx request for Trans mondo HC!

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vaguely-concerned · 4 months ago

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the fact that irving canonically survives through the end of asunder to be at wynne's funeral is so fucking funny to me. nothing but love and respect for MY unstoppable cockroach morally grey machiavellian mage dad!!! he's survived in his position through multiple attempted rites of annulment and blood mage plots popping up left right and center around him. the chantry keeps trying to stamp him out but his dodge game is simply out of this world, divine. civil wars, political machinations and minefields, chantry atrocities, this wily old motherfucker is dodging and weaving his way through it all, not-quite-no-hits-taken-running-it-but-honestly-close-enough-under-the-circumstances style. if solas does succeed in tearing down the veil I would fully believe that one of the like three people still alive at the end of it all would be a very weary 90 year old first enchanter irving going 'oh this shit again huh'. the maker has cursed him for his hubris and his paperwork is never finished (affectionate, it's fine he canonically loves paperwork)

#we should have had the option to leave him in the fade instead of hawke or a warden #he would've just annoyedly shuffled his way back out of there a week later #dragon age #dragon age origins #first enchanter irving #he must be SO annoying to the chantry because it's heavily implied he's made his playground #out of tirelessly finding technicalities and loopholes to exploit that they can't *quite* call him on without domino effects going off #I think first enchanter in the circle system at origins times is a position that invariably and inevitably leaves you morally compromised #but I feel he really does his best within the rules he's given to play with and personally i love him a bit for that. and also #for being an unkillable lil shit. insufferable. inconquerable in his 'I'm about to be such an annoyance to you' impish spirit.#the I'm going to suffer but guess what. so are you of it all. traumatize the chantry back #I just imagine sophia sending letters home right before the vote for independence like '...dad I am hearing some INSANE rumours out here #what the actual fuck is going on back home???'#and he's like 'nothing that you need to worry about sweetie just keep living your best life and have fun killing darkspawn <3'#(there's something that makes me feel So much about how consistently his stance is like... 'you'll always be welcome here #but the circle doesn't *need* you; go be a warden and live your life'. he managed to fineagle freedom for you somehow and won't let you #turn and glance back. not even once. I feel somehow both so abandoned and so incredibly loved it's wild)#oc: sophia amell

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hinamie · 5 months ago

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you're lovely in ways that i just can't explain

testing out new brushes w some lmhs itfs nape kisses :> jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #itafushi #itadori yuuji #fushiguro megumi #fanart #jjk fanart #jjk atla!au #atla!au: art #atla!au: illust #lmhs #THESE BRUSHES R LIKE CRACK TO ME I LOVE THEM #i.... paid for them.... which i normally never do #but i talked myself into it bc i figured i like them enough and they will probably get enough use to justify the $9 price tag #and im SO glad i did they were worth every gd CENT TH TEXTURE #chalky oily pastely chunky god i cld EAT IT #oh ya the itfs #fr once not much 2 say rly just a tender moonlit moment ??? honestly they r just my vessels (HAH) th real stars r the brushes #this lighting is the closest u will see me get to blue eyed megu btw. this is as much as i am willing to compromise on #also i finally managed to get the Blue Shading On Pink to look right! i love th way it looks sm but its a Hard combo 2 pull off fr me :'>#....lmhs rly pushing the hina use blue agenda i just realized #though ig that rly is just on atla for being so colour coordinated :')#also caption ! radiohead by nightly.....itfs song.....if u care........#EDIT FRGOT THEIR SCARS I NEED TO SLEEEEPPPP #smh fake fan of our own au :((((

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yuurionviktor · 1 year ago

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Gideon to match Harrow 😗✌️

#the locked tomb #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #gideon the 9th #gideon the first #griddlehark #things ive made #you can REALLY tell where my sympathies lie if you look at them side by side I feel like lmao #also I tried to make the art style for Gideon softer on purpose but it ended up looking just inconsistent I feel like #the colors too #like I wanted to change the color scheme for a warmer one but ended up not matching with harrow too much so I had to change it back #and compromise #so it’s not similar enough but also not different enough #idk man idk

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mecachrome · 6 months ago

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"You've got Lando in [Australian national colors] as well." O: Yeah, it was part of my plan!

#emotionally compromised by extremely shaky 480p footage? it's more likely thank you think #lando norris #oscar piastri #landoscar #*#the way lando had to hold back his laugh when oscar said “throw a spanner in the works” ??? hasklfhld #why do these two like checking each other out so much. anyway

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thejugheadparadox · 1 year ago

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GOODBYE RIVERDALE. WE CAN BE MELODRAMATIC TODAY

#I CAN BE MELODRAMATIC AND STUPID AND KIND OF COMPROMISE MY LEFTIST VALUES AS A TREAT ON TUMBLR ONCE #THIS FEELS LIKE SO MUCH TO ME AND HONESTLY IM NOT SURE WHY. IM GOING THROUGH SOMETHING #riverdale

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cubezart · 5 days ago

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everyone seems to really like my squip so i drew a lil more

#🐟 my art #be more chill #bmc musical #bmc squip #bmc jeremy #the squip #jeremy heere #hes so. Freak ❤️#i wanted to give him a cool glittery outfit but still liked the simplified 2d style for him #so i figured this was the best compromise #hes Very fun to draw #the way i drew him in earlier posts i imagine are more like his simplest form when he exists as like a shadow to jeremy #he doesnt have as much power and influence on him just yet #and he gets more of a distinct form as he manipulates him and more and more ppl get squipped

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puppyeared · 1 month ago

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you are umasou

#I watched it today it was so good #im not big on dinosaur stuff but i like how it was used to approach the predator/prey conversation especially when both sides are sentient #instead of just defaulting to well since predators are meat eaters their actions are automatically immoral so their role in the story #has to match. and then when your characters /are/ meat eaters you just step around that whole topic #heart knows he has to kill and eat so there’s no avoiding it but even he knows he has agency over that #hell he even decided to hunt by himself so umasou doesn’t have to see him kill and eat another dinosaur a day after meeting him #and maybe its because it’s a kids movie but it also doesn’t make a big show over the act of hunting and eating. it doesn’t dwell on it #like yes you can clearly see them ripping into guts minus the graphic details but it doesnt go out of its way to censor it either #its played straight just like hearts mom having more kids like nobody asks who the father is or when that happened cuz it doesn’t matter #what matters is she still loves heart and encourages her kids to greet their big brother and they do!!! it’s sweet #Beckon was also an interesting touch bc they make it clear the only reason he doesnt eat umasou is bc he cant and not that he wouldn’t #but he’s still a funny and interesting character and that doesn’t get in the way of how we see him too much #same for baku he was pretty polite with heart esp from the start when he asks him if hes abandoned implying he would be prepared to #look out for him from the start. and at the end when he decides to spare him. I dont hate him at all hes just intimidating #you are umasou #doodles #I wanted to draw smth more detailed but I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go with the cartoony art style #or smth closer to realistic?? so this is like. some sort of compromise I guess

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youngpettyqueen · 4 months ago

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I know the decision to have Julian's parents have him augmented was made on the fly but imo its pretty obvious from early on that Julian has Family Issues because he avoids talking about his family like the plague and I think they should've incorporated this into the Julian and Sisko dynamic right from early on because I think it would've made for some really compelling stories and moments and could've set up a REALLY interesting Julian and Jake dynamic which they kinda started to do but never fully went for

#star trek: ds9 #julian bashir #benjamin sisko #jake sisko #s1 Julian being so young and eager to prove himself and latching onto Sisko as this mentor figure to look up to #seeing Sisko with Jake and low-key seeking that fatherly figure connection which he won't even let himself think about #Sisko seeing this young brilliant doctor who's got all the makings to be something great and he's just GOTTA help him along #I think he would also catch on pretty quick that Julian's got Parental Issues #he tries to ask one day all casual like 'tell me about yourself :)' and Julian talks about nothing but Starfleet and med school #any attempts to ask about his family are met with awkward brief answers and redirections #and then theres the way Julian's eyes light up the first time Sisko invites him to watch a baseball game #like he Knows. he's a dad he Knows somethings up #but he doesnt pry #I also think it makes their dynamic more tragic towards the end of the series #where we have Sisko asking Julian to compromise his morals again and again #Julian's trust and respect for him gradually deteriorating #and then at the end of course Sisko is gone and they have no idea when he'll be back #which I think Julian would have a lot of complicated feelings about #but of course theres also Jake #I imagine they'd get closer #very brotherly dynamic #you know that scene in TNG where Wesley goes to Riker for girl advice and Riker and Guinan start flirting?#absolutely happens but with Jake asking Julian for girl advice and Julian wooing a girl at Quark's and Jake absolutely loses the plot #makes the events of ...Nor the Battle to the Strong more intense as well I think #also I like to think there'd be an episode where the B plot is Jake gets mad at Sisko and impulsively decides to move out #ends up at Julian's because he did not think this through #Julian is now very much caught in the middle of this family drama and he Fucking Hates It #also him and Jake are NOT compatible roommates but he's trying so so hard to be nice #eventually they have a talk and Julian cryptically hints at his own home life and tells Jake he's lucky he has a dad who cares so much #them being closer would work into what Alone Together sets up for them

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maelancoli · 16 days ago

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i'm kind of late to this but i just finished reading the scholomance trilogy by naomi novik and i feel like it is such an underrated urban fantasy?? taking the chosen one trope and turning it on its head with a fmc who has been prophesied to bring death and destruction, who is imbued with terrible power, but cannot even properly use said power to solve any of her obstacles because it would obliterate them and her soul. it takes a tired trope and the idea of an 'overpowered mary sue' and throws it back in your face by showing how all the power and destiny in the world is useless against a system filled with corruption that has burdened you with an easy way out (evil/destructive magic) that you can't take so now you have to work twice as hard as everyone else just to do simple, constructive spells instead of flicking your wrist and being done with it.

#the scholomance #naomi novik #galadriel higgins #orion lake #bookblr #urban fantasy #a deadly education #the last graduate #ya fantasy #the golden enclave #ya fiction #it has a diverse cast #queerness just effortlessly woven in #and the entire thing is so seamlessly crafted with a narrative on what real change looks like #how to really rid your environment of corruption and change society for the better you have to do the gritty work #you have to be willing to do the unpleasant hard grueling organization and working with people / meeting them where they're at #you might not even get to see or do the pretty parts #but its still worth doing the distatesful shit #doing the compromising and giving space for people to learn and make up for mistakes #so that future generations can do better #and have the childhood u didn't #no spoilers in case by some miracle i convince another soul to read this but like #she legit fucking says it in the book #it's not the work she wants to do in the end. not what she envisioned. but she does what she must to make sure other kids don't suffer #makes me think of climate activism so much #we might not get to have the pretty wonderful utopia but we have to be willing to do the shitty stuff it takes to make that future possible

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hakunoknight · 1 month ago

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haven’t done a bug hornet reference in forever so did a quick one. colors not final.

#hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #hollow knight hornet #silksong #silksong hornet #hk #my art #references #idk i love my girl and i’ve always liked the idea of albino hornet but never liked it in practice so instead we will do chimera coloring :)#albino also makes her too much pk’s daughter so this is my compromise #post-canon she’s much chunkier though bc she starts sleeping and actually eating #i just did her cloak the same way i do her human ver with a part where her arms can peek through but i don’t think she uses it often #anywayssss #my fave spider i love her

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thekittyokat · 6 months ago

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you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

#sorry i got really into my feelings about mark hoffman again #the very specific version of him in my brain that i really really wish i had the time and energy to properly share with you guys #saw #well until i muster the energy to explode all of my feelings out into a fic. if you want to TRY and understand #know that my three biggest hoffman fic insps right now are as follows #your best kept secret hoffman. a series of mistakes hoffman. and rushed like a dreadful wind hoffman.#there is a very clear throughline just know i am extremely emotionally compromised rn #thinking about theee fics vs the canon path hoffman spirals down #something something the absolute tragedy of watching a man's descent into madness #the transformation of a man into a monster #and what could have saved him from himself and kramer's corruption #sorry i'm rambling so much oh my god i was just having such a crying fit out of nowhere about this #do you think he could feel it happening. do you think he was aware he was losing his mind.#the script version of him fucks with me so bad. the crazed rankings and the longer hair and him not being well kept anymore #it's impossible to think he didn't know he was deteriorating #fuuuck okay i need to either chill or write a whole longfic rn #i project on that guy so much i truly don't know if i could properly write my vision of him #until i do something more substantial the full extent of my hoffman exists for me and my boyfriend only. they get me like no one else #well ginny and jenna also get me. please read best kept secret and a series of mistakes Oh My God #where am i going with this. i like tag rambling actually this is a nice way to do it without forcing EVERYONE to read my delirium #anyways if you've read all of this i think i love you? feel free to dm me about hoffman and my very specific headcanons and aus #maybe soon i'll try and start writing my fics about this tragic man #i could never say any of this on twitter btw they'd string me up for my opinions on him as a sad wet beast who could have been fixed #if only he hadn't been weaponized first #god i'm too tired to even be as embarrassed about this as i should be. thought i unlearned cringe already #but i've been spending way too much time on twitter and they HAAATE hoffman there #rip. i know it's not that serious but i'm sensitive rn and hate feeling lonely in my thoughts #ok bye for real otherwise i'll never shut up. i might tag ramble more often bc this was therapeutic in a way i needed badly #cat chat

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glassfag · 25 days ago

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premium tomarry to me is when harry is such a piece of shit unethical human being that you forget about tom's murdering and regime plans because you're too busy being annoyed at harry. why does the stupid jock not leave my beautiful murderprincess future supreme leader of the wizarding world alone??

#tomarry #tmr #tom riddle #hjp #harry potter #hptmr #i really like writing a horrible harry #i think that dude has such great untapped bad person potential.... he could be so much worse #i also really like a tomarry dynamic in which tom somehow becomes better while harry gets worse #they both think they're compromising for the sake of the relationship only to realize they've just swapped

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lord-squiggletits · 3 months ago

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Reread/skimmed my oldest Pharma apologism posts (mainly the ones about Pharma not being a functionist) and it just occurred to me that possibly another reason the fandom saddled Pharma with the "functionist bigot" label is because his introduction by First Aid says that everyone hates Decepticons, but Pharma really really hates Decepticons. Mix that with the portion of the fanbase that lionizes and whitewashes the Decepticons, and I can easily see it entering common fanon that "Pharma hates Decepticons -> the Decepticons are freedom fighters wrongly maligned by the Autobots/the franchise -> Pharma must be a bigoted functionist since he hates Decepticons who represent freedom."

The simpler explanation is just that Pharma is an antagonist and therefore gets the "everything about him must be evil and wrong" black-and-white analysis so common in fandoms in general, but given some of the bizarre Decepticon takes I've seen I can also easily see Pharma's Decepticon hatred being taken as a sign of him being bigoted and evil.

Though AGAIN in this case it would still be singling Pharma out as a bigot for crimes/flaws that multiple other Autobots are guilty of like.

Oh, Pharma hates Decepticons? Well a lot of other Autobots hate Decepticons too, First Aid's narration about Pharma even says "we all hate Decepticons"; for that matter, there are a lot of Decepticons who hate Autobots. It's a massive civil war that's lasted for a lifetime causing two groups of people to be stuck in a near-permanent blood feud, you can't assume that every Autobot who hates Decepticons (and vice versa) hates them because they're a bigot. Maybe there's been a war where both sides have been building an ever-increasing mountain of reasons to hate each other, so hating the opposite faction is a social problem caused by war and politics rather than a sign of individual moral failing.

Pharma worked at the New Institute so that means he must be evil/bigoted? Chromedome and Brainstorm also worked at the New Institute, but there's no widespread fandom shunning of them or headcanoning them as bigots.

Hell, even the very premise of assuming Pharma is a functionist bigot for hating Decepticons is ignoring the very premise of Pharma's motives, which are, uh... being blackmailed by the leader of the Decepticon Justice Division, who represents the ultimate form of Decepticon ideals to the point of literally wearing their symbol as his mask? So how were we jumping straight to "oh Pharma hates Decepticons bc he's a posh bigoted functionist" when there was a far more immediate interpretation/headcanon of "Pharma hates Decepticons because he's being tortured and blackmailed by one."

That's not to say that Pharma couldn't have hated Decepticons before Delphi, and I think you could make interesting headcanons/extrapolations based on either idea. But still. It kinda feels like people saw Pharma and just wanted to make him the Token Evil Autobot who's the opposite of our Good Heroic Autobots regardless of whether evidence from canon supported it or not.

Good riddance to bigoted functionist Pharma fanon, I'm so glad that the majority of Pharma fanon these days actually gives him a chance and puts him on equal footing as other Autobots.