#lion's pride

[discordiansamba]

thinking about lion's pride also, the superhero AU in which the Galra have invaded Earth but instead of like. what we see in canon its heroes vs villains style battles.

anyways I am just once again rotating Galra spy Keith who gets sent out to determine the true identities of the paladins by direct order of Zarkon. He's not loyal to the Galra, but he's the perfect pawn for them because he still looks very human and has reasons why he can't betray them.

What they don't expect is that he ends up getting mistaken for a runaway and gets his ass saved from the cops by Adam, who invites him to come live with him and his fiancee since it's pretty obvious that this kid's got nowhere else to go. Keith winds up getting pretty attached to these two weird humans... so of course it turns out that Shiro is the black paladin.

Just his luck.

[springtime-creations]

wait i never posted these two on tumblr lol

[siarven]

Saw this post by @doppelnatur how dandelions are pretty good trans symbols and got inspired! Happy pride everyone 🏳️‍⚧️

[slowedmountains]

Get the whole Pride out

[olivescales3]

Aromantic flag colorpicked from Cragger / AroAce flag colorpicked from Laval

"Even some of the least sappy humans get a little mushy about love around Valentine’s Day. Do other animals love their mates — or family, or friends — in the same way we love one another?", The Washington Post

[housesofmouses]

young kovu and kiara 🥺

[sennamaticart]

Sapphic Sphinxes for PRIDE month 🦁

[bearlyfunctioning]

It's your life to live. Don't let anyone stand in the way of being your authentic self! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

I hope ya'll don't mind me posting non bear content for once but I made the companion piece for my Pride lions (MtF this time) & I wanna share it here before it gets re-posted without permission 💔

[sfortuna-1]

Donald scolding lion Sora for trying to pounce on him.

[discordiansamba]

actually got to think more about hunk/allura, and the more I think about it, the more perfect the superhero AU, lion's pride feels like it could be for that ship..

Just. Hunk as the one who is most insecure in his role as a hero. He's not sure why Allura chose him of all people- yeah, sure, he'd really like to help people, and he's certainly doing that right now! But he feels like he's falling behind the other paladins, that he's holding the team back- after all, once Pidge got over her hang up over her power being over plants, he's definitely the only one left struggling with his element.

But Allura sees in Hunk a big heart, and perhaps the strongest desire to protect others out of all of her paladins. She thinks he's perfect. And if she can't get him to understand that in words, maybe some extra hands on training would help motivate him. Help him see what she sees in him.

(Unfortunately for Allura, her training methods are uh. insane. But I think Hunk can still tell that she's well meaning, if nothing else.)

Hunk becomes the first one Allura opens up to about what happened to her planet. About their struggles in fending off the Galra. About the people she's lost. She didn't even realize how much she needed to talk about it, but Hunk is just such a good listener that she can't stop herself.

Just the two of them slowly drawing closer to each other and bonding... and Allura growing increasingly guilty all the while that she's left a part of the story out.

[springtime-creations]

"Slut"

[bailiesartblog]

The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown

[ladystoneboobs]

idt we talk enough about how a song of ice and fire is also the song of incest and cannibalism. i mean, sure, obviously both of those subjects are noted as present, but the saga feels much more known for its incest, which idt is fair or accurate to the later materiel. iirc, jaime fucking cersei next to their dead firstborn is the last instance of onpage incest happening in present tl, and after that it's all about the cannibals, baby.

(disclaimer: cw/tw sa, cw/tw rape, and i'm not counting cousincest as that's normal in-world even for non-targaryens and also still legal in many places in our world today, nor counting the faux-incestuous freudian mess that is littlefinger/alayne(sansa)/sweetrobin, nor any dark humor jokes and/or unfulfilled threats wrt forced cannibalism)

in fact pretty much all the active incest during the present tl happens in those first 3 books:

the twincest as a major plot point ofc, kicking action off when bran saw them fucking in a tower

and viserys creeping on dany and twisting her nipple

tyrion relating his backstory to bronn wherein he and tysha were both raped by proxy by his father, tywin (tho tyrion does not use that terminology)

craster still being alive to rape and impregnate his own daughters (resulting in dozens of forced incestuous relationships)

and theon unknowingly groping his own sister while she (knowingly) groped him in return

jaime's early pov recalled how he shut up cersei with kissing when they fought after bran refused to die

bella of stoney sept trying and failing to seduce gendry who is (unbeknownst to them both) her half-brother as both were sired by robert baratheon (only example in these 3 books where incest was averted before any sexual activity or incestuous contact occurred)

the aforementioned sept twincest next to joffrey's corpse

tyrion learning from oberyn about cersei twisting his penis when he was a baby

cersei's failed attempt to seduce jaime in wst, pulling out his dick for either a bj or hj until her talk of tyrion's death made him lose his boner

while incest is not exactly absent from the text after that, it seems to exist in the feastdance only in hypotheticals or past memories:

aeron's trauma flashbacks of his (implied only in published text) csa by euron

jaime still feeling lust when seeing cersei nude

and her fond reminiscing about them fucking behind robert's back/brief dream of them as a married couple before her walk of shame

and cersei remembering another she twisted tyrion's baby penis

victarion misinterpreting asha's offer of partnership as a marriage proposal and suddenly looking at his niece in a new way with "his manhood beginning to stiffen"

jaime's recollection of fucking cersei at darry next to robert as he was passed out drunk before cersei sent him to hunt arya (which would have happened back in agot and the point of this scene is more his failed hunt for a child just to make cersei happy)

arianne's "uneasy" memory of a past fantasy about being seduced by a man whose description is suspiciously similar to her late uncle oberyn

the aborted marital match of aegon/young griff to his purported aunt dany

illyrio saying (the now dead) viserys tried to rape dany the night before her wedding to drogo (another event from agot concerning a guy we already knew was into incest)

and tyrion once saying he wanted to rape as well as murder cersei

conversely, the cannibalism in the earlier books is most often only unproven hypotheticals alluded to as possible cannibalism:

old nan saying the others fed their dead servants the flesh of human children (which we have not yet seen with any wights so far, whether or not one counts walking undead eating human flesh as straight-up cannibalism)

the mystery meat in flea bottom's bowls o' brown which may or may not contain symon silver tongue after tyrion had him killed

renly's recollection that cressen kept stannis from catapulting their old master-at-arms by saying they may need to eat him later (which did not come to pass thanks to davos)

joffrey telling his people to eat their own dead (with no way of knowing if any actually did)

lady hornwood eating her own fingers (though bran's pov only notes them being chewed on, not swallowed. it's only in adwd that people talk of her eating the fingers.)

the mentions of the ice river clans being the cannibals beyond the wall (who are def not among the free folk jon snow gets to know onpage, making it just background detail)

bran's (possibly mythical) story of the rat cook

and biter chewing on people he attacked and other corpses (which seems to be just a side hobby connected to his killing method moreso constituting a snack than a full meal from a person butchered for meat. this tendancy of his is just background detail in acok, with biter chewing a corpse in the background after the weasel soup operation, and the hindsight implication that it could well have been him rather than dogs or wolves who had "been at" the corpses after the skirmish where yoren was killed)

while the feastdance feels much more in your face with cannibalism, having not only more total mentions of the practice but also more confirmed, actual cannibalism (as opposed to the ambiguity of each and every bowl o' brown), for those who know how to look at the evidence:

jaime learned that his father's mad dog aka the mountain fed parts of vargo hoat to all his prisoners (including vargo himself) after recapturing harrenhal

and euron bragged about pulling a similar trick with the warlocks he captured (the only twist being that the warlocks knew what they were being forced to eat, which vargo hoat and wylis manderly etc at harrenhal likely didn't)

the elder brother of the quiet isle told of biter eating all of a woman's breasts at saltpans after she'd been raped and killed (prob the largest amount of flesh biter's confirmed to have eaten from one corpse)

bran and co. ate "pig" supplied by coldhands which had to be long pig aka human meat

brienne felt her face being eaten by biter in her own pov (which is so much worse than him chewing others in the background of the weasel soup scene)

theon was told that two ironmen at moat cailin were found eating their dead comrades

the astapori were said to eat their own dead while under siege by the yunkishmen

and then were said to do so again in refugee camps outside meereen

sam and davos sailed past skagos and remembered stories of skagosi cannibalism

khrazz the pit fighter cut the hearts from his defeated foes to eat them

cotter pyke's last letter to jon snow said the wildlings were eating their own dead at hardhome

4 of stannis's men were executed by burning for butchering and eating other men (with asha wondering how many others had done so without being caught)

and ofc the frey pies with wyman manderly having his 3 former guests killed and serving their meat to their own kin and the other guests at ramsay's wedding while eating some himself too

two of these examples (involving gregor clegane and euron greyjoy) must have actually happened during the course of asos, but grrm chose to give us the gruesome details in affc, which was brand new information about men we already knew were villains but did not know were into that fucked-up shit specifically, unlike being reminded that agot-era jaime and viserys wanted to fuck their sisters. (and not unlike how adwd has the clarification of multiple characters saying lady hornwood ate her own fingers as opposed to bran's acok pov just saying she chewed on them.) it's as if after craster was killed and jc effectively broke up grrm decided cannibalism was the taboo subject matter he would fill the later books with, so we'd really feel the increasing danger of starvation-induced cannibalism with winter's arrival (and have no trouble believing rickon's new home of skagos really is a cannibal island). however, in-universe it feels like there's some sort of environmental balance connection so that the decrease in one formerly common behaviorial abomination just allows another such abomination to fill in the gap with a sharp increase in activity, like deer overpopulation resulting from lack of predators as if all the active incest somehow stopped more people from eating themselves or other people.

[pickypickypeak]

simba in the lion king 2: EXILE!!!

kiara: NO!!!

the whole savannah:

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 2

[housesofmouses]

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998), dir. Darrell Rooney