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the tragedy of rhaenyra and alicent is that they cannot ever truly see the other without destroying the foundations of their own self-image. rhaenyra cannot see alicent as a child married to a man old enough to be her father because that’s rhaenyra’s father. and the image she has of both viserys as a just and kind man and of herself as the beloved daughter of that man would collapse under the weight of that realisation. the resentment she holds against alicent would have to turn upon viserys. if she recognised that viserys treats alicent little better than a broodmare, she would have to realise that fundamentally that is all her mother was to him too. if she understood why alicent was disgusted by her marrying daemon she would have to see herself not as someone with agency marrying a man she loved who happened to be her uncle but as someone manipulated and groomed since childhood. the agency she clings to, which is so important to how she sees herself, would be revealed as an illusion. by extension she would have to see her family as one in which the familial is warped almost beyond repair. her self-image, so rooted in targaryen exceptionalism, would collapse.
likewise alicent cannot fully grasp why rhaenyra was so upset that she married viserys because she would have to fully see viserys not as the king but her friend’s father. she would have to face the horror of her life head on. moreover she would have to see viserys in her own father. for her to accept that rhaenyra is not selfish or undutiful for having affairs and trying to carve out whatever agency she can, the pedestal on which alicent places duty would have to be destroyed. she would have to realise that duty is only as important as she believes it to be, that it has no meaningful moral weight to it, and that all of her suffering has been for nothing. alicent tells herself that her sadness is a condition of her existence, as a woman, a mother, a daughter, and that by trying to claw whatever happiness she can from the world rhaenyra has turned her back on all of those things; she is the wrong kind of woman. if she could ever accept that rhaenyra had slept around and birthed bastards without judgement the core of alicent’s identity as a good mother/wife/queen would collapse. she would have to face the reality that nothing that happened to her was justified, and crucially that her submissiveness at every turn was not noble or good and was never going to let her win, but only trapped her further. every cognitive barrier she has built up to protect herself and provide some sort of meaning to a life in which she has only ever really suffered would have to shatter.
and they both realise these things to some extent, rhaenyra knows that viserys is flawed and fallible because she’s experienced his mistakes firsthand (and she is definitely aware of daemon’s violence) and in many ways alicent is so viciously judgemental of rhaenyra’s choices because she wants that level of freedom so desperately for herself, and they so clearly love each other still that they both want to believe there’s something good in the other. but they bury those doubts under layers and layers of cognitive dissonance so they don’t have to face deeply painful realities, because neither of them can truly see the other without destroying themselves.
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Black Mercy
#my adventures with superman#maws#maws spoilers#clark kent#superman#brainiac#jor el and lara are holding kid clark's hands but they're just hands so im not tagging them#posting my sketches so i actually post. dont look too closely at the lines pls thank youuu#cant believe this is my first MAWS fanart. the first superheo fanart im posting. and its THIS OUTFIT#This fit was for the girls and the gays ok- im doing my duty as a tumblr user ok i swear please im so normal about this episode-#black mercy is the thing that lets clark be mind controlled. also this is evil mind controlled clark for ppl who dont watch MAWS#my art
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I'm not going back to Gusu with you.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#lan wangji#wei wuxian#Those last two high effort comics where just a warm up for this masterpiece. My true magnum opus.#I was originally going to do this gag as a 'alternate version of comic 155'#Then I realized that they have the 'Come back to Gusu with me' conversation twice. So here we are!#I did consider having WWX say 'I'm not going back to gusu with you' in the comic for the better plot accuracy.#I'm invoking the rule of silly by having Wei Wuxian read between the lines of 'Come back to Gusu with me'.#Because it does feel like a confession! It is a confession of 'I care about your safety and I worry for what may happen.'#It is also poorly articulated. You can't really blame WWX for reading into it as 'LWJ is just another person trying to control me.'#The relationship between them is not good! It is two parties who genuinely want to be closer with each other but cannot communicate it.#You can't really have what makes these two work so well as a dynamic without the past history of:#“Back then I really wanted to be your friend.” They are a *missed connection*!#WWX reaches out and LWJ rejects him. And now when LWJ reaches out it is WWX who pushes them apart.#It is a tragedy about the consequences of being out of tandem and realizing what you want far too late.#The momentum of WWX's downfall is far to fast to reverse now. It's a 'When' not ''if' question.#Back to your normal style of PD-MDZS next update. Thank you for reading!
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priest guy sending mixed signals, what is he up to?🤨🕶🤏
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[Image Description: A warm-toned comic featuring Trigun98 characters. It opens with Vash shouting "YOWCH!!" as a half-eaten donut flies through the air, a bruise on Vash's tongue. Meryl, editing papers, is annoyed as he complains: "Ow! Ow! I bi'e my 'ongue..." "What's the rush?" Meryl asks, "They're all yours." Vash, still hurt, tries to explain: "They're jus' sooo good!" Meryl argues back, "Well, savour it then!" Wolfwood has been watching the scene unfold as Meryl continues, "Satisfying your sweet tooth doesn't come cheap, unfortunately." Wolfwood clicks his lighter open and closed, again and again. Without a word, he leans closer, his thumb on Vash's lips. "Wolfwood...?" Vash trails off. Then, Wolfwood opens Vash's mouth and knicks his thumb on one of Vash's canines in one fell swoop. "Wah? Huh??" Vash says as Wolfwood pulls his bleeding thumb away. He licks the blood off the wound then snickers at Vash. Meryl looks disgusted, Vash has lit up in an embarrassed explosion, and Milly remarks, curious: "Those are surprisingly sharp, Mr. Vash!" Question marks float around Vash, and his donuts lay discarded on the table. Each panel is signed by raepliica. End ID]
#trigun#trigun 1998#trigun 98#vash the stampede#nicholas d. wolfwood#meryl stryfe#milly thompson#vashwood#raepliica_art#ww has a thing for vash's fangs (because i said so)#i just know ww has had some interesting thoughts about those fangs the moment he noticed them‼️🦅🦅💥🦅💥#tbh i saw a wolf skull and went haha vash fangies (proceeded to black out for a week to draw this)#98ww is the most normal ww?🤔 WRONG‼️ he's a freak like the other ones! but kinda in a different way#ww flustering vash by being the weirder one>>>>>>#meryl's dwindling sanity as collateral damage<3#if u squint real hard this is a polygun art#okay maybe it doesn't look like it at all... but it is to me#polycule casually hanging out and one of them HAS to be a freak in public ugh🙄🙄#anyway im rambling ajsksh🏃🏃#enjoy this full colour comic i did to practice while thinking i had lost the ability to colour:] (this is what only doing b&w will do to u)#described#thank you starberry-skies for the id!!♥︎
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Tasuki
#jedi robes being as big and billowy and in the way as kimonos is an entertaining thought#and they have to tie them up when they get in the way#obi wan's been doing it for years now and now does it with that practiced ease#qui gon taught him when he was babywan#but also like consider#first time cody sees it he's like a victorian maiden seeing a slice of skin#its 4am on the venator theyre doing paperwork and cody hears a frustrated noise and turns to see obi-wan with a sash in his mouth#its the jedi equivalent of putting up your hair#but its tying up your sleeves#cody is completely normal about it#he sees the sleeves tied up with the little cross at the back and maybe the neckline of his jedi robes is disrupted#he's done for#thank you discord for this idea#obi wan kenobi#obi-wan kenobi#star wars fanart#star wars#my art#fanart#tasuki#may the fourth be with you#may the 4th#may the fourth#i'm gonna draw more of him with tied up sleeves#its hot okay
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my roman empire is payneland and touch as a love language
(that's it, that's the post)
#payneland#charles x edwin#painland#paynland#chedwin#dead boy detectives#I am not normal about them and I have just accepted it#thank you gif makers you give me dopamine#my posts
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while teen while goblin while aroace while injured while doing your best
#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#riz gukgak#figueroth faeth#sklonda gukgak#dimension 20#this. mmmmhhh this is so. I did Not know how to draw this really.#I am very normal about riz (<- lying)#it's a brennan-dm d20 campaign the bad guy is always capitalism (I am saying this with clenched teeth)#riz out of all of them being aroace fucks with me SO bad. bc its also established that elmsville specifically and probably the#majority of solace is not. made for goblins. and that becomes sklonda being worked to the bone and pok dying on the job#and riz spending all his time trying to keep his friends together. maybe to the point of it being injurous#like. do u get what I mean. its an economy of time it takes your time it eats up your time#not just the gukgaks but everyone you have to spend time to get to live and you don't have a lot of time left in a day#and you have to spend it carefully. you have to prioritize#you're somewhere without an established community and companionship is bought with your time spent working#this place doesn't take care of you. at the end of the day who do you have who'd prioritize you. do you understand me#the evolved aroace loathing where if your friends and family are granted more time nobody would have to choose. we live in a society#holds ur hand we live in a society. idk if Im making any sense#anyway . uhhh riz is my favourite that's my statement thank you for listening. au revoir
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Luke: I must fight Vader alone and redeem him.
Ahsoka: yeah kinda tried that kid but ok
i know this is a reference to the tl4j ot au, but do you ever think about how Ahsoka feels knowing that she -- Anakin's padawan and pseudo-sister who fought alongside him for years and was one of the people -- failed to get through to him? not even failed, she DIED in one timeline. but luke got through to him, luke brought him back to the light and anivader didn't kill luke, he saved him. he and luke barely ever met and were always enemies but he got through to anakin. do you think ahsoka feels jealous? or do you think she wants to feel jealous but every time she looks at him all she can see are the best bits of his parents and how can she POSSIBLY feel anything but love for him?
#and then you have the OPPOSITE where luke is jealous of her for having actually known Good Anakin and been taught/semi-raised by him#...once ahsoka gets over the trauma and tells luke who she is of course#im soooo normal about their dynamic#like what if you both had everything the other one wanted but you could never hate them bc in another life you wouldve been family#thanks for the ask!#askbox closed
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#they're so proud of their boy everyone#I'm totally normal about all of them#Damian Wayne#Bruce Wayne#Batman#Talia Al Ghul#Damian Al Ghul#Robin#DC Comics#DC fan art#artists on tumblr#Brutalia#and thank you for the encouragement and flower language help Gee! 💛#he forgot to draw her in the group picture BUT that's because he has whole sketchbooks full of drawings of them together#I'll die on this hill#batfam#batfamily#snark art
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howl's moving castle x klapolly because i cant stop thinking about it!!!!
#klapollo#klavier gavin#apollo justice#klavier x apollo#ace attorney#my art#fanart#howl's moving castle#idk how to caption art#AAHHHH#i love all the hmc x klapolly art i think about them a lot. soo normal about it#the last 2 are messier cuz im tired but if i clean them up ill relplace them. if i can even do that idk how tumble works still#ghibli#1K THANK U🥹
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I miss Limited Life guys :(
#limited life#limited life smp#inthelittlewood#martyn inthelittlewood#itlwart#trafficblr#traffic smp#uhhh yeah#I am not normal about LL!Martyn#thank you for asking#mean gills in general#might draw them soon-ish#qakdj klhkjfhwjkdhk
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Used a single textured canvas for this one because I loved the effect for this style, so here’s Gregory and Eleanor but based on some old photo poses I found on Pinterest 😁
#doctorsiren#ace attorney#gregory edgeworth#eleanor edgeworth#ace attorney fanart#ace attorney oc#digital art#my art#procreate#I am so normal about them#thank you Lily for the idea#you are often an inspiration for ideas /pos 😁
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Thank you all for an incredible 500 days of love and support. I offer you: answers to questions that no one has asked.
(As always, more can be found in the tags <3)
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#a-qing#jin ling#wen ning#jiang cheng#“Hey wait this feels like there should have been way more content for questions” Yes. There was.#I was not strong enough to redraw *all* of what was lost. Rest in piece the original (lost to tea related accident)#But I'll tell you all the fun other things that would have been drawn out right here in the tags!#Did you know my longest posting streak was 61 days? And my longest hiatus was 6 days?#Did you know I missed posting on 92 days of those 500 days - meaning I posted 82% of the time on a daily basis?#I'm normal about collecting data. I have so much data on this blog for normal reasons. I'm also so normal about art. The normalest.#Honorable mention for the character rankings: Lan Wangji! for “Most improved in rank”.#Sorry Lan Wangji fans but until the audio drama I honestly was...pretty indifferent towards him.#I think a huge part of that was due to the fact he's constantly paired up with WWX; who has *so* much charisma and steals the scene#But I've really come to like him a lot more since starting this project. He rose from mid-tier to being in the top ten!#Dishonorable mention: Nie Huaisang. Who fell out of number 1 spot and out of the top 5.#He just hasn't shown up a lot! And my rankings are fickle! They will probably change once I finish the third season!#My favourite comics are: A lot of them! And the ones I have yet to make!#I'm very sleepy at the moment while writing this but I do want to give a huge shout out to YOU.#Yeah! you reading this! Thank you! If you've been here since the first week or just started reading: THANK YOU!#If you've only ever lurked and never even liked a single post but still read my comics: THANK YOU!!#In creating this blog - I have found 500 days of more happiness that I could have ever imagined.#Thank you for joining me on this journey. Thank you for giving me your time and your support.#It means more than any 'thank you' could say B'*)
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just leaving this here for my fellow peemphum enthusiasts!! 👀
cr: louverue
#we are the series#phumpeem#pondphuwin#pond naravit#phuwin tangsakyuen#gmmtv#i'm so normal about them#thanks for asking
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It's Riku! Riku's here!
#thinking about that scene where sora gets on his knees and cries while clutching rikus hand bc he missed him SO much#and its not like its an 'omg youre alive!' thing bc sora had been assured REPEATEDLY that riku was fine#he just REALLY missed him#most normal boy best friend behaviour (lying)#also can we just appreciate kairi for making this scene happen#sora couldnt see riku as riku until he touched him and he was (understandably) pretty reluctant to get close to#who he thought was his former enemy (ansem SoD)#but kairi COULD see and she sure as hell would make sora see too. so she grabs then both and makes them hold hands and then this happens#everyone say thank you kairi#sora#riku#soriku#kingdom hearts#kingdom hearts 2#kh#kh2#art#my art#xanders art#digital art#fan art
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i feel totally fine after watching The Star...
#I HAVE A NORMAL AMOUNT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THEM#they want eachother so bad it makes them look STUPID#i actually cannot believe that they gave us toxic bubbline. im so grateful#ALSO?? BUTCH PB? THANK YOU. I DIDNT KNOW I NEEDED ITIN MY LIFE#i feel so alive and well fed thank you fionna and cake crew i owe u my life#marceline abadeer#princess bonnibel bubblegum#princess bubblegum#bubbline#marceline#bubblegum#selsdraws#Adventure time#Fionna and Cake#Fionna and cake spoilers#fac spoilers#at#sugarless gum
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