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Collecting Denmark personifications like trading cards
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hilarious man (The National Play âSorrowâ for Six Hours at MoMA PS1)
#that old man forever. if you want my opinion#the national#thing#did you know the whole thing is online. on youtube even. hour 5 minute 40 if you want to hear the one where he cried#and the energy does build up on hour 5. cant believe i was too busy being 14 and from a different continent to go to this shit
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when you're part of a group with structural power over another goup, you really do gotta just learn to say "i am not exempt from 'fuck 'em' when relevant" whenever someone expresses frustration with you or people like you.
#juney.txt#like sure to protect your ego you could try to make up some axis of oppression that concievably means you're not accountable for anything#and how dare people from colonized nations tell you that you have it easier than them just because you live in the imperial core#or how dare trans women say you have it easier than them because no matter what it'll always be your word against a tranny's#or you could just learn to be a little uncomfortable for a moment#and look at the situation for a second and say#''you know what? they're right to be frustrated!''#''and it's really not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things if they're frustrated at me''#''especially if i'm being a prime example of the things they're getting frustrated about''#''i am not exempt from 'fuck 'em' when relevant''
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"So what's the weirdest possible first (second) impression Loop could make on the party in postcanon?" "Yeah, that, probably."
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theyre just standing there in direct party order while this happens. normal tuesday.
#its not even purely aggression or a powerplay or anything i think they just fucking panicked and had to shut them up somehow#anyway . fluff reunion? angst reunion? how about just weird as fuck reunion. KEEP EM GUESSIN#in stars and time#isat#isat spoilers#in stars and time spoilers#isat fanart#in stars and time fanart#isat siffrin#isat loop#sifloop#hello again sifloop nation i bring you weird fucking takes once again#this sure is a different tone to the last thing i put in the tags huh? KEEP EM GUESSIN BABEYYYY#lucabyteart#in stars and time act 6 spoilers#anyway this is a truncated & amped up version of my headcanon reunion. which is to say loop sits on the edge of camp waiting to be noticed#& after what would be far more rambling than ive put here siffrin almost calls them that and loop stops them + makes it clear thats secret#but loop has had to travel some distance to get to them + has been stewing about it. knows they stopped existing for a while and came back#doesnt know why. blames it on siffrin. might not even have been them or a wish. but they jump to conclusions and have time to get mad#then like TWO SECONDS after they have this weird standoff reunion its RIGHT BACK to being buddy buddy and overly familiar with them.#just ultra confusing for the party. as confusing as humanly possible.
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Fontaine is in remarkably good shape after getting completely submerged. Even Dvalin threw a few signs on roofs and whatnot
Kaveh and al-Haitham redesigns are mine (still WIP), while Nahida's is by fallencrowkarma
Masterpost of other quest sketches
#anyway glad tartaglia got some enrichment this update#wriothesley's ark being able to fly was kind of hilarious. was that necessary duke. the entire nation is covered in water anyway#the thing is. people didn't dissolve. but I assume they can still drown ToT but everyone seems to have been fine???#oh well. anyway furina deserves the world and if she has one fan that's me if she has zero fans-#genshin impact#my art#4.2 spoilers#genshin spoilers#navia#arlecchino#neuvillette#gi traveler#paimon#mona megistus#barbeloth#i guess.#furina#lyney#egeria#focalors#rukkhadevata#makoto#ig???#dainsleif#he got zapped#tartaglia#skirk#kaveh#al-haitham#lynette
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To all my fellow, âZukka in the southern water tribeâ enthusiasts
#zukka#zuko x sokka#atla#zukka fanart#I just love the idea that once Sokka and Zuko stop being pining idiots in the fire nation#they start taking regular trips to the southern water tribe together#and eventually itâs a monthly thing#and thatâs where Sokka (or zuko) proposes#that concept has been in my brain forever I needed to get it out
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Would you/ have you ever drawn Flower Ranchers fanart? (JimmyĂTangoĂScott)
I have drawn them before and I have done so again for you all!!!
I was originally just going to repost my previous art of them but my bestie gave me this banger idea for them and I needed to get it out there! (Also that art is like a year old now)
I've grown fond of snowbugs... they are so pretty!
I'll still leave my other art of them under the cut, as well as close ups of this one:
#Sorry to all people who requested ships and are expecting wholesome silly things I don't think that's gonna happen#I'm being so so normal about them all right now#didn't know if I wanted to post it but hhhgb here you go i hope it brings someone some kind of joy#Slightly inspired by the challengers movie though the dynamic doesn't exactly fit them#feeling positive since my last rancher thing wasn't hated on lol#This one is specifically double life! Hence Scott's doggy tail (from Pearl)#alek draws#alek answers#trafficshipping#suggestive#suggestive cw#tw suggestive#definitely Not tagging the individuals this time though lol#flower ranchers#snowbugs#uhhh yea i guess?#don't think this counts as ranchers or flower husbands tho#Frostember#Banger ship name btw tango/scott nation you are awesome#trafficblr
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The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.
#also idk how to tell you this but even if it were true. wealthy children potentially sacrificing their educational careers to protest is#a good thing actually. idk how to tell you that caring about people from other nations is good#personal#âthis war has nothing to do with most students cuz nobody's getting draftedâ idk how to explain to you that we should be angry#that our tuitions of 10s of thousands of dollars that we pay every year for an education is being used to fund a genocidal campaign#also the implication that if you go to a uni institution you are automatically privileged by participation no matter your bg#i didn't /want/ to go to this school. i was supposed to go to a school with an art/animation program. but i realized my immigrant#parents have been working their whole lives to get me here. and turning the opportunity down would be a disservice to their sacrifice#this is getting into convos of âwhat 2nd gen kids owe their parentsâ which is different for everyone but. yeah#i just get pissed off at seeing people misrepresenting student bodies as âwealthyâ and âprivilegedâ and âeliteâ when it's such a blatant li#i remember a year ago a friend told me they can't fly home to hong kong for winter break because the plane tickets are too expensive#so they have to find temporary housing around the area#last quarter for a film doc class my film partner made a doc on a small group of marxist grad students from india discussing praxis#during a rally a few months ago in response to police presence the coalition invited palestinian students to speak about their experiences#and lead songs and read poems they wrote. these are STUDENTS. are they elitist too?#this is not to disregard my own personal privilege either.#this whole narrative's just to rationalize a lack of empathy to me. seeing a 19yo student get shot by a rubber bullet and your first#reaction is âHAW! HAW! bet richy rich didn't see THAT coming when she put on her terrorist hood!â#newsflash. these big uni campuses are HAUNTED by the violence of past protests and revolutions and police brutality. we know.#why do you think these coalitions have been making reinforced barricades at record speed
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I love Chiyo- and I kind of headcanon her as a Witch of the Woods (Sands???) archetype- a bitter old woman who has sacrificed too much, experienced and committed more atrocities than anyone can imagine, and who knows the truth about what lies in the hearts of men to live among the villages anymore.
In my AU she's got a pretty dark backstory. Back in time when Villages were just getting established, women weren't allowed to be shinobi in the same capacity as men. There was too much warring and death among the clans to risk women, so they were only ever allowed to serve as spies or medics. (Chiyo started off as a medic).
And like any military/fascist dictatorship, serving the state was more important than anything else- so women who were kunoichi were given missions to steal and return with powerful bloodlines. Even before villages, this was a common fear among clans (which is why so many of them have protective measures and inbreed/arrange matches very carefully).
Chiyo was one such woman, who took a X-rated mission in her youth because she was told it would 'serve her nation'. There was a powerful bloodline whose Kekkei Genkai could harden sand to something akin to Steel- something Suna very desperately wanted.
Chiyo succeeded in her mission, but despite the veneer of 'serving your nation', when she returned, she was considered, in her words, "Just another whore."
Then when her son didn't manifest the bloodline- it was worse, but Chiyo was happy because that meant her son was HERS. (This is when she met Enji, and he saved her son's life at great cost- so Chiyo owes him a blood/life debt.)
Then the war came, and they needed women to fight so now serving the nation meant something different, and Chiyo became a full fledged 'shinobi' and turned her healing towards poison and death- especially when she had to fight the Salamander.
Then she sealed Gaara and that was the atrocity straw that broke the camel's back and she dipped out Suna and retired to an oasis. She's still a healer, but adamantly refuses to serve shinobi.
Once again, thank you so much for these asks and all the support for this AU?
@youngpeacearbiter
#naruto#haruno sakura#granny chiyo#coven!sakura#nations always celebrate serving the military but no support for anyone who comes back#veteran's aid? what's that and we all know how they would see women like this#there's no more xrated missions in villages and its like a shameful secret they all gloss over#you never air the dirt out when you've gotta indoctrinate your next wave of children into child soldiers#also chiyo is a pretty cruel woman IMO#first thing she did when she learned Sakura stepped between two attacks was to laugh so hard she started crying#Chiyo has both HEAVY internalized mysogyny but also really wants to protect women- its a balancing act#queen of tough love throw em in the deep end no floaties#trial by firing squad#also chiyo just HATES the hypocrisy of being venerated as a war hero when its convenient for the nation- she just hates shinobi villages#thank u kishimoto for keeping Chiyo's backstory vague as hell so i can play#chiyo as an embodiment of female rage
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Kinda rushed this sorry yall
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Zuko looked up and locked eyes with his cousin, who was struck speechless. Then, ever so slowly, Lu Ten's lips twitched upwards. And then he smiled. And then he beamed. And then he nodded proudly once, just once, and vanished.
Lu Ten comes back in For the Spirits Chapter VII: Take Me South, only to leave Zuko with more questions than answers. Just how much is he truly aware of? When will he return? What is Zuko going to do now?
(What will the South bring?)
#atla#zuko#avatar the last airbender#atla fanart#atla art#prince zuko#for the spirits#spirit touched zuko#new gods au#lu ten atla#lu ten#atla zuko#zuko fanfic#atla fanfic#atla fic#atla au#fire nation royal family#For the Spirits Chapter VII: Take Me South#EVERYONE LOOK IT'S TEN TEN#My sweet darling baby boyâI love this bastard so much you have literally no idea#I played with the idea of making him look closer to the spirits in ATLAâblue and look-through and classically ghostly.#But that's not how Zuko sees them at all. Despite not being able to interact directly with material things (unless you're a high spirit)...#...ghosts and spirits look *normal*. Most of the time. Hence pretty Ten Ten.#I'm sure it was a mess for Zuko growing up. He had to learn which persons around him were *alive* and which ones...weren't.#Which is why that scene in Ch5 with Lu Ten is so heartbreaking for me...#Actually...any scene with Ten Ten is both heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure. He's amazing like that (I love him SO much)#I have big plans for him in the future! I'd love to hear your thoughts about where you think this is going and exactly what is going on#What is Lu Ten aware of? What (or who) will Zuko encounter in the South Pole? What in Agni's name is going on?????#What do you think of the blue eyes? Or Izumi's and Lu Ten's suspicious behavior?#I love your theories and thoughts! So if you have any please let me know â¤ď¸
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ah yes, the duality of mankind. Over here we got the most gorgeous, the most delicious fanart youâll ever see and the 1000-IQ analysis posts by the most big-brained theorists worthy of being hired by the FBI, then on the other side we got miniongate, bychance and people losing their minds over low quality bts of will and mike in the same vicinity as each other. I love byler tumblr
#byler#mike wheeler#will byers#stranger things#Being a byler be like#Hereâs 300+ reasons with photos and receipts why I believe byler is endgame#But also#OH MY GOD BLUE AND YELLOW BIKES BYLER IS REALLLL#and i eat it up every time#byler nation#stranger things 5#mike wheeler is gay#byler is canon#miniongate
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like do you remember a few years back how popular lesbian blogs would come out as bi after a while and then immediately be subject to a wave of hate asks about how theyâre personally ruining and soiling the lesbian identity and drive them to delete/remake? actually Iâm speaking in past tense but people literally still do this
#itâs rlly potent shitty biphobia and imo its from the same root#cuz this reactionary conception of lesbianism being an abstract pure âthingâ that can be tarnished#comes from this view of lesbianism as a moral category#rather than a sexuality#you guys are doing birth of a nation shit but with lesbians instead of white women every other day#sasha speaks
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I hold my worried heart close. "I think I know exactly where to start." I reply.
Day Four of @byler-week! A short, yet meaningful one today! This one probably takes the cake for being my favorite so far, so I hope you all enjoy it just as much as I did making it! :-D Today's Prompts were: Bridge, Crumbling, Rebuild, Orange (my favorite color!)/Blue color scheme
Part One || Part Two || Part Three
#cadetart#fun fact about me: âcool coolâ is my favorite byler scene :-D#I rewatched it to get screenshots for this prompt#and started crying...#it's the best ever :-)#ALSO coloring with my favorite color AND finally being able to use blue for Mike?#best prompt set ever ty byler week team :-)#byler#bylerweek#bylerweek2024#byler nation#byler fanart#stranger things#mike wheeler#will byers
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spent a month mashing two of my long term hyperfixations together into an AU, bone apple teeth
I wouldn't consider this a crossover as much as an inspired AU because autism brain drew parallels between the two narratives and I think it would be fun to explore the earlier years of the apocalypse, before the world is absolutely decimated (alongside many of the resources), before the fam loses Donnie and Raph, et cetera. I have Plansâ˘
Paying homage to this iconic panel from The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem:
Still finalizing each of the bro's code names, but here are the initial drafts and close-ups of their designs:
Riff-Raph
Donamite
Antimatter Master-Plan
Magic Mic
#louder than god's revolver and twice as shiny#*blends Danger Days and Kraang!Timeline future in my brain* oh we cooking now#representation for early invasion mutant turtle teens my beloved#before they truly see the full extent of the Kraang conflict#I think they originally went into the bad timeline seeing this as a fight they could win#like the season 1 finale against shredder!Draxum#the grim reality is something that dawns on them later#but if the kraang hate one thing its persistent hope and authenticity#what could beings that prize power and assimilation despise more than those fighting them seemingly not taking them seriously?#we be we!! embrace the turtle baby /ref#there's this vision of the turtles speeding through the outskirts nyc jamming to loud music and blasting the hell outta Kraang hounds#fyi this AU is inspired more-so by the Danger Days album and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California than National Anthem#guess which killjoy each bros outfit is inspired by :) guess :)))#the fabulous mad dogs au#tfmd au#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rise of the tmnt#tmnt#rise of the tmnt the movie#explodingstar art#rise donnie#rise mikey#rise raph#rise leo#tmnt au#rottmnt kraang timeline#danger days
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connections between venti and arlecchino that i found particularly interesting, a rambling đŁď¸
ARLECCHINO STORY QUEST SPOILERSâźď¸âźď¸
(these r just some cool things i found kinda sus and interesting. this was for fun.)
1. first, my thoughts on clervie â specifically what she says in response to learning about mondstadt:
2. the similarities between arlecchino and venti regarding âfreedomâ:
venti fought for freedom that was earned, and eventually became the god of freedom shortly after he earned said freedom.
he also tested vennessa. he tested her by saying he could grant her freedom and waited to see if she would leave the cell with him, but she didnât. she stayed and showed him how freedom was meant to be earned, not given. venti was more than satisfied with her answer and left.
venti has shown time and time again that he believes freedom is meant to be earned. at least, thatâs how i see his character and his ideals.
now i want to bring up what arlecchino said towards the end of her story quest. i find it interesting how she also believes that freedom is meant to be earned, not given.
pretty interesting.
3. now for my own personal rant and theories:
âfreedomâ itself is always being mentioned in this game. it started in mondstadt, the nation embodying freedom. the god of freedom himself entered the fray and showed us what freedom truly meant.
liyue was âfreedâ from their own god, who saw it time to step down from his position as archon and left the task of ruling & protecting liyue to the humans.
wouldnât say thereâs much freedom in inazuma tbh. unless you count the people being âfreedâ from the vision hunt decree and the sakoku decree.
nahida being freed from the hands of the sages/akademiya.
furina being freed from her curse and the act she played out for 500 years.
i wonder if weâll see any freedom in natlan too.
ANYWAYS, ALL THIS TO SAY (i didnt mean for this to become a venti rant, i have constant venti brainrot) â i believe that venti and freedom play an ENORMOUS part in the lore of the game and we havenât seen anything yet.
i am a firm believer that venti is one of the most important characters in this game. bro has lore in literally every nation, maybe with the exception of fontaine (iirc, there hasnât been anything in fontaine calling back to barbatos).
he even has lore in the chasm and enkanomiya, which says A LOT. i havenât finished the remuria world quest yet, so idk if thereâs any lore about him or istaroth sprinkled there too. tbh i wouldnât be surprised if there was.
everything always comes full circle when it comes to venti. heâs everywhere, which is pretty cool to think about when you realize that heâs supposed to be the embodiment of the wind, which is everywhere all at once and can hear everything.
which brings me to my last point â
4. this voiceline from arlecchino about the wind.
hmmm.. đ¤¨
#firm believer of clervie being an anemo vision wielder if she survived#clervie wouldâve loved mondstadt and everything to do with the nation as whole including barbatos#someone needs to take away my venti privileges bc the brainrot never stops#yes this is kind of a call back to venti maybe being the most powerful archon#i did not mean to turn this into a whole thing i originally just wanted to talk about clervie and mond#well aware that arlecchino knowing about ventiâs ability to hear shit on the wind might be common knowledge#but at the same time how would she know that bc realistically only venti would know??#unless im just stupid#why do i feel like arlecchino def knows venti is barbatos#i mean it would make sense given that signora knew ventiâs identity#I NEED TO STOP RAMBLING#genshin impact#genshin#venti#genshin venti#mondstadt#arlecchino#arlecchino genshin#â [ venti rambles. ]#â [ rambles ] ; eydĂs talks!
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