#new tag for me ranting

[honeypleasejustkillme]

i thought i was at my lowest but holy shit it gets lower

[queerdraws]

projecting on luffy again. get bited.

[stealingyourbones]

Never will I stop with the steadfast notion that folks in the DPXDC fandom should interact with at least some form of canon DC media.

There are comics, tv shows, radio dramas both old and new, podcasts, movies, magazines, so much shit that intentionally avoiding the media is simply preventing yourself from spawning new ideas and gaining a new appreciation for a fandom that you’re already in.

The Superman Radio Show has episodes 11 minutes long. A lot of the TV shows don’t have episodes that surpass 30 minutes and most are nearly fully clipped on the official DC YouTube channel. The amount of fan made motion comics is astounding. The amount of fanmade animations is equally as incredible.

[nonbinary-vents]

This has been an absolutely horrible couple weeks for the Jewish and Israeli community, so I want to throw in at least a tiny bit of hope in here. Amina Hassouna, the Bedouin girl who was severely hurt in Iran’s missile attacks, has been recovering well and seems to be in good condition! She is described as being ‘fully conscious’ and ‘communicating and smiling’. Two bomb shelters have been placed in Al-Fura, the town that she and her family are from, as well.

[salty-an-disco]

everytime someone says a version of "what if Shifty is intentionally manipulative and maybe even evil–" a part of me dies a little inside

[pallanophblargh]

So it’s been a while. And I feel obligated to explain my lengthy absence from… everywhere. My email is so full I’m low key terrified.

On New Year’s Eve, I found out the hard way I have asthma. I thought I was tackling a stubborn cold with a particularly nasty cough, but it culminated in a trip to the ER after I all but stopped breathing and felt hypoxic. My oxygen saturation had dropped into the 60s and I was put on oxygen. Went through the whole barrage of tests, chest x rays and blood draws. And the culprit? RSV and the asthma I had thought was imaginary. Despite my own body’s efforts to cancel my subscription to the bullshit year we are now living in, I was discharged after 6 hours just an hour before midnight. To put it simply, I felt like total shit but no longer in danger.

RSV knocked me and J absolutely flat for 2+ weeks. I still am dealing with fatigue and respiratory/cardio hiccups as I try to get back to how life was before. And before I could get to that point, life threw another wrench.

Raclette, my darling pup I had adopted back in October, who I was assured had been spayed (having come from the shelter where it is required) had gone into heat. Which leads me to believe that her first owners had (for whatever crazy reason) lied to the shelter about spaying her, and there were no records of her from before her time at the shelter. To say I was disappointed and alarmed is an understatement, and my suspicions were confirmed by our vet. Poor girl has been in a diaper for a week and a half and her spay is 3 weeks away. We are both miserable and I’ve had my hands full taking care of her. She’s restless at night so I’m not sleeping well, but I would never hold it against her.

So yeah! Art took a severe back seat, and I will need to reevaluate my relationship with art once the commission queue has been emptied. It’s gonna be an extremely rough year and I’m looking to find things that bring me more joy while taking better care of myself (and the dog). It’s a tall order but it needs doing!

Stay safe out there, y’all.

[ohno-the-sun]

Found this old comic in my drafts

[collecting-dustbunnies]

Lesson 58-A in a nutshell (SPOILERS!)

(Context under cut)

[somegurl8]

It feels so weird seeing my Tumblr and Twitter tls going crazy over the Riptide hiatus update and PD being on break still meanwhile I’m here like “the last thing Apotheosis related we’ve gotten has been the Thanny Nation shirt. While back they said they would do an Apotheosis bad ending What If but it has yet to exist. Omg Total Monster Kill soundtrack I still need to listen to that.”

[harpywitharobot]

The fanart meme with my favorite clown boy.

Man, I'm so cooked.

Anyways, the headcanon is that he's a magic user much like Wuya, so taking stuff from her design is fair game.

[atotalpitch]

Anna Kendrick talking (briefly) about Beca's relationship with the Bellas was NOT on my 2024 bingo card. in fact, i'm actually physically shaking. what the hell.

[romanticize-until-you-drop]

Just raised my hand and asked my first question in a seminar!! Killing my social anxiety one step at a time…

[captn3]

fairly odd parents still infecting my brain have a redraw

og screenshot ^ im already working on stuff with backgrounds i dont need to make even more

[juustozzi]

you might've seen this in an ask already, but decided to post here too; a collection of Tenmas from Yara's fics, since I love the differences that thrown into different timelines and happenings give him!

[fenharel-is-so-swell]

A Cold Welcome Home

Zayne x You(MC) x Caleb

-----a/n: okay y'all, this is essentially one of my first ever fics. I wrote a few DA fics when I was 17 or so, but nothinnnn since. This is very unedited and I'm very rusty. It was all written at 4:00am last night lmao so, yk, blame it on the sleep deprivation. All the "I'm sorrys" in the word to my moots that have never seen me do the seggs stuff on main. Idk how to format writing at all on here, so hopefully that gets better for if I post the actual full smuteroony.

This is also my first time writing second person so, apologies if the tenses get funky as I figure it out. I will hear nothing about my liberal use of pipsqueak, in a country full of Neanderthals I wear that shit with a fucking badge of honor.

-----Draft intro word count: 1.3K (what I have written beyond this totals 3.1k)

-----warnings for this draft: mdni, smut, jealousy, soft-ish non con?(I mean, there are assumptions of interest), blow job, grief mention, spoilers, cursing, defo some angst here, many incomplete and run on sentences bc i love themmmm

-----about: You don't know how you would have gotten through the year without Zayne, the loss of Caleb and Josephine nearly undid you. Though, if there is a silver lining to be found it's that it pushed you two closer. So close, in fact, you have some apologies to make after you "mistakenly" get him drunk with liquor filled chocolate. Unfortunately for you both, Caleb is back and (?)better(?) than ever.

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You knew one thing for certain—Zayne was going to combust. Well, in reality, Zayne was going to do whatever the opposite of combustion was once he finally noticed the figure darkening his doorway.

A shaky breath slipped from between your parted lips. Caleb was at the hospital. Caleb was in Zayne’s office. Your mind reeled, tumbling through curses at Y’vonne. You glanced at the wall clock that read 2:25 in the morning. You realized that the old security guard that manned the desk at this hour likely had no clue who Caleb was. Had no clue he was dead -- that you had grieved him. The old baton wielding fucker absolutely didn’t realize you were busy apologizing to Zayne for the stunt you pulled with the chocolate. Lavishing the bulge in his snug slacks with your tongue, savoring the raspy moans that slipped from the slackened O of his mouth. Desperate, pleading, pitiful, gentle sounds you’d worked so hard to get him to produce. He was so very guarded and always in control. He was just beginning to soften up, to believe you wouldn’t despise him for not being perfectly poised, that one mistake wouldn’t hurt you or make you hate him.

You begged Caleb not to let Zayne know he was back. To let you deliver the news. You just wanted one more night of unguarded eyes, sloppy, needy fucking, and gentle dreamless sleep wrapped in Zayne’s cool embrace.

But the love triangle that never was still infused its bitter jealousy into everything. You felt it in the possessive streak knotted through Caleb’s every action upon his return. It was whispered in the slurred drunken fear of failure, of loss, in Zayne’s more vulnerable moments. You placed your hands on Zayne’s thighs, staring up at him, your guilt and apology laid bare in your gaze. The soft adoration in his expression maimed your soul, the raw reverence was humbling as much as it was heartbreaking. Hazy with desire his eyes flitted over to the open door to his office.

You felt his world shift. Like those videos you’d seen online of incomprehensibly large glaciers cracking. Giant chunks falling from the larger mass so slowly it almost looked gentle. Crashing into the waters below with strangely soft bellowing splashes. Zayne’s heart cracked. The warmth in his gaze hardened over. His brows twitched between surprise and outrage. Nothing could ever be the same. You shifted back on your knees. Letting your bum rest against your heels, your gaze turned towards Caleb.

Your lips were dry, your face a sticky mess from the saliva drenching Zayne’s pants. Your tongue flicked out, wetting your whisper “You promised.”

Caleb chuckled; the sound was cruel. You’d noticed it when he first…resurrected. A strange edge existed within him now, something that sat discordant with the warm memories you had of the boy you grew up with. A round face with too big front teeth, his peach fuzzed mouth smeared in chocolate ‘stolen’ from the free sample tray at the convenience store down the street, the gangly teen who held your hand in that haunted house and only laughed a little when you screamed, the man who was a dutiful pilot and only slightly unreliable surrogate grandson to Josephine. He wasn’t that Caleb, not entirely at least. It wasn’t the same.

“Oh come on pipsqueak, you know it only counts if it’s a pinky promise.”

Zayne finally reacted with something other than shock. His gently voice just reaching your ears. “Stand up, darling.”

You sighed. “I can’t.” Your ankles had started screaming from the angle, but Caleb’s evol didn’t let up. You had felt it fall over you the moment he entered the room, its gentle oppression a sweet agony. It was so familiar; you had missed him so much.

The way he used his evol was yet another change you had noticed. His evol used to soften the blow if you slipped out of a tree you were climbing, or to lighten your backpacks on the way to school. Now he used both aspects of his control in equal measure. Lessening gravity’s grounding force to make it even easier to trap you in the pretty cage of his arms, toss you around, keep you at his mercy. He liked to make the pressure punishing and indomitable when he wanted you to just sit still, when he wanted you restrained. Though, in all of your memories of that year where it was the three of you, you recalled that he never once softened Zayne’s fall. He never lessened the weight of his books or kept him upright as he balanced when you three would tip toe along the guardrails. That kindness was seemingly reserved for you. You felt stupid for assuming he’d afford any such saccharine sweetness to Zayne now.

Zayne stood, placing himself in front of you. You noticed his evol creeping up his hand, his back pin straight as he struggled to maintain control.

“You let her grieve.” Zayne’s soft tone was a condemnation.

“And you were more than willing to be her shoulder to cry on.” Came Caleb’s sharp retort.

You sighed weakly. “Can we please not do this?” Your fingers twitched, itching to reach for Zayne’s hand, to resonate and soothe his evol.

“Oh, I have a lovely idea instead pipsqueak.” Caleb’s lips spread into a wicked, playful smile. He pulled the lone rolling stool in Zayne’s office from the corner of the room. Scooting it towards you both.

Caleb had a feeling he’d find you two like this. While catching up you had mentioned Zayne a few too many times. He dug around a bit and identified the nature of your relationship. It made something sick burst to life in his gut. While he was dead and gone you were sidled up to Josephine’s second favorite, the only person she told to look after you. It made him want to claim you, to own you, to possess you, to fuck the memory of anyone else in the world out of you. You were his, you were always his. You would always be his; you pinky promised.

Zayne shifted his stance, ice spread from under his shiny black dress shoes. it bit into your knees as it reached you. The pain was a familiar distraction.

Caleb waved a dismissive hand. His grin was still plastered on his face. “Don’t stop on my account.”

Zayne scoffed, but something grotesque twisted deliciously in your gut.

With panty liquefying horror you realized you wanted to punish him; you wanted to punish Caleb. You wanted him to hurt as much as losing him had hurt you. The way he waltzed back into your life as if everything were okay, as though your life and desires should cow to the threads of a deeper love, of a darker attraction, that were building before he ‘died’. It infuriated you. You had to pick up the pieces. Zayne helped you pick up the pieces. He made sure you weren’t being overly reckless on missions, that you still had someone to come home to, that you could find out the deeper cause of all of this pain. He soothed the ache, and from his quiet constant love your own blossomed.

Caleb chuckled again beckoning Zayne to look at you. Finally, finally, those cool green eyes met your own and widened a bit in shock. Whatever he saw in your gaze made him break his unrequited stalemate with Caleb. He dropped to his knees before you, gathering your face into his hands he schooled his features into a blank canvas. His eyes bore into your soul.

“You want this.” He stated.

It wasn’t a question as it was obvious that your desire, no matter how twisted, was written all over you. Your slightly huffed breaths, your pulse thrumming visibly in your neck.

With a small nod, Zayne stood. He leveled a look at Caleb and spoke as he slowly undid his belt. You nearly wept at the sight. The way his hands always calmly, methodically, tortuously took their time disrobing both of you.

“Though my lectures are normally booked months in advance. I suppose I have time to teach a bit of human anatomy.” A smirk tugged at the corner of his lips.

[piko-rose]

Being a Sonamy fan is hard (and just being an Amy Rose fan in general)

*quick note, I have only seen a few leaks regarding Sonic X Shadow Generations so take this post with a grain of salt and please add in some stuff about the game that I should be aware of because I have a feeling that this post might be incorrect about a lot of things*

*contains possible Sonic X Shadow Generations spoilers*

Being in love with Sonic isn't Amy's only trait. She is something more. She's a baker, a tarot card user, she's got a strong heart of gold, and is just a passionate and cheerful cute little weird girl.

As a Sonamy fan, these "changes" are nothing special or big, it's still just Amy being Amy, but this time more than just wanting to be with Sonic. I am aware of that one edit where Amy was trying to give Sonic cupcakes. It's really cute, but it's not the same without the hand over her face. Am I complaining? Yes, and no, it's hard to describe. (I don't have the image with me atm but in the future I'll edited in on this post)

I'm not complaining because we are seeing Amy just doing more than just, loving over Sonic. She still is in that cutscene, and most of the game as far as I'm concerned (I haven't seen all of the leaks), but in a more calmer fashion.

But at the same time, I am complaining because, and I highly doubt SEGA is doing this, at least on purpose, but Amy's crush on Sonic feels like is getting buried in a way.

I kind of worry that a newer generation of Sonic fans will never find out about Amy's crush for Sonic, or just how wonderful their dynamic in general is if this keeps going on.

I know it won't, but still, we haven't been seeing that a lot. But at least if you want to introduce new fans Sonic and Amy's dynamic, platonically or romantically, make sure to not bring up Heroes or a couple of X episodes please LMAO

(But that one episode where Amy and Sam talk about her relationship with Sonic, yeah, bring that one up. OH. and the last episode of Season 2, don't forget about that one.)

Look, we're all high on Son/adow right now, and it feels good, but what about Sonamy? Sonamy and Son/adow have a lot in common and are both really good with angst potential and lots of great character interactions. At least in my opinion anyway. (Topic for another day, if I'm brave enough)

I love them both equally, so I want to see an equal amount of hedgehog dorks being together. Or better yet, Sonamyshad. 😎

But I'm getting slight off-topic...

I don't want Amy's crush to be forgotten. You don't even have to like Sonamy to understand why and how Amy's feelings for him is actually really important for her character. (Again, topic for another day)

I mean, of course, some reasons as of why relate to my personal headcanons, but there are other good in-canon reasons, too!

Hell, even Sonic and Amy's friendship is just as important. They don't have to be a couple, but that doesn't mean we have to pretend that Amy never fell in love with the hedgehog who saved her life in more ways than one.

I also don't want how much Sonic and Amy's relationship improved throughout the years to be forgotten, either. This is why I'd rather have the shot of Sonic's covering her face with his hand, because he wouldn't do this today, and that's the point of all this...

They both started off as goofy, little kids, one wanting to share her love like wildfire, and the other always running off, not understanding the concept of love, and, of course, not loving her back.

Amy was much more loud and expressive about her love, and Sonic, while he knows there is good in Amy, does not want to be part of a relationship, and doesn't know how to talk things out about it, even with Amy not taking "no" for an answer. The solution? Just run away lol

Yeah, there are times where he called her a "pain" and thought of her as "annoying," but those times he was either in a hurry, or in a bad mood. Remember: They were both younger at the time, so it's in-character for Sonic at that age.

Sonic and Amy don't have a lot of moments where they're just, together. And not just for a "date." Sonic doesn't know a lot about Amy other than her love for him. ...Okay, some things he does know, but not a lot.

Their relationship was beginning to shift after the events of Lost World and especially after Forces, which I would explain, but I'm gonna put a link here because I don't want this post to be too long.

But if you have read it, then the next couple of texts would have some context lol

Anyways, after all that, Sonic and Amy's relationship was a lot different now. Amy was more calm but still cheerful, just not showing a lot of her love for Sonic because she's fully aware that none of that is important, and Sonic was more gentle around her because he wanted to be better than how he acted towards her for a while.

They both just want to hang out and start over as proper friends, but eventually, Sonic would find out what Amy was going through mentally, and how long she kept this from him.

Perhaps after that, Sonic wouldn't mind being closer to Amy, but he still has a world to look after. But hey, maybe slowing down and letting Amy catch up with him won't be so bad. Besides, he's finally seeing her happy with just him for the first time in a while, and he never realized just how much he missed it until now.

Buuuuut, those are just my headcanons, like I mentioned earlier. We all have our reasons why we love or dislike a ship (as long as it's not gross), and I have my own.

These two, just like son/adow, hold a special place in my heart because of what I went through myself, and how much they both have grown, and I truly hope that their relationship and friendship won't be forgotten.

I know it won't happen, but I still have that feeling... Probably because no body cares about their dynamic as much anymore.

Because of the past and people misinterpreting the ship, and Amy's character as a whole, the fandom seemed to care less about it. I mean, I don't blame them, but... it's still pretty messed up.

It's fine if you don't like sonamy, but I really hope you dislike it for a genuine reason, and not just because of some fans getting some things, or worse, everything about Amy and/or the ship wrong.

Amy's character arcs through the games, and her and Sonic's dynamic through the years have been overlooked as far as I'm concerned. Not like heavily overlooked, it's just that it's been a while since I've seen people give a damn about Amy Rose, especially SEGA.

I know we got The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, but I feel like that's not enough.

What's going on with Sonic X Shadow Generations is pretty strange, but first of all, it's not Ian's fault god dammit, and second, I don't see it as a big deal. I haven't seen most of the leaks, but as far as I'm concerned, it's not that bad.

(But I have heard about that one cutscene with Knuckles and Classic Sonic and I couldn't help but laugh my ass off over it XD)

But with how the game is handling Amy, please be aware that this isn't the first time this happened, and it's not even that bad either. I mean, yeah I did mention how I'm worried about it, but I was over it once, I'll get over it again lol

There have been discussions about this since the Fast Friends Forever bio thing that happened last year, and I'm getting kind of tired of the arguments by now.

Amy stopped chasing Sonic not because she doesn't love him anymore, but because she doesn't need too. She is part of the team and has been closer with Sonic for a long time now. She doesn't need to follow them around when she already have proven herself to be useful and a fighter.

I'm really happy Amy is being recognized as something more than having a crush on Sonic, but having a crush is the heart of Amy's character.

Looking up to Sonic and wanting to be like him is what made Amy Rose... well, Amy Rose. She pushed herself and fought hard to be the person she wanted to be, and it's all thanks to Sonic.

He inspired a lot of people around him, especially Amy, so it's no wonder why she loves him so much. Plus, her tarot cards told her that he would be the love of her life, but I feel like even if the cards are wrong (not saying they are lol), she still loves him.

I want Amy's feelings for Sonic, and their friendship and their potential relationship to be remembered for a long time. I don't want them to be pushed to the side forever.

I don't want people to believe that her crush is her only trait, even though it's so important to her character.

I don't want Amy to change too much. Friends or not, I don't want her to give up on Sonic entirely.

I don't want this fandom to forget about Amy Rose.