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[rivangel]

i was thinking about it and i realized how cruel it would've been if kuchel still had to actively work as a prostitute whilst pregnant with levi. like pls i get the need to have money and that the whole Underground mentality is survival but at least during that time, kuchel needed a break or to at least not have some pig on her. like kuchel is strong and all but imagine the potential shame felt from being unable to keep levi "safe" even before he's born(??).

god this is so interesting. Kuchel probably kept the pregnancy from her boss(es) for as long as possible until she started showing too much to excuse. because what if she got "fired"? when the truth does come out, i think the other women would've stood up for her though. even women who Kuchel's not particularly close to.

But fr she probably had some close friends that always wanted to touch her belly🥺 and maybe talked about names with, or held debates over whether it's a boy or a girl... to take away from the true gravity of Kuchel bringing a baby into this kind of world.

if she ever heard criticism or pointed questions about how happy a baby/Levi would be, Kuchel would completely dismiss it, and get defensive. She knew she loved Levi even before he was born, and that she would provide, support, and protect him with her life. he deserved to have a chance to live.

she was especially ornery after Kenny came to try and talk her out of it. a shouting match perhaps? holy shit. Kuchel being the one to flat-out tell him to go to hell if he says one more thing about her baby being cursed or doomed from the start. I like to think about the sorrow Kenny would feel, even though he'd be remiss to admit it even to himself.

on the topic of the women Kuchel considered friends, they would come by her room with extra food from time to time since she was eating for two. I think that after a certain point when Kuchel was too far along to work (it's dangerous anyway?), Kuchel had to go without pay and (begrudgingly) relied on the others for charity. Kuchel is the independent type, but for Levi she set aside her pride and asked for help.

imagine after she's done with a client and the guy lights a cigar or something. she refuses to be in the room with him (would a customer pay her extra to cuddle or something...?) until he puts it out. On that topic I wonder how many customers she'd get after it became clear she was pregnant? Very sad to imagine her pregnancy being used as a turn-off for some customers. maybe others had a moral problem with it, but in the Underground who knows.

did any customers have a savior complex? and offered to take Kuchel away from the Underground, like sweeping her off her feet or something? She'd probably heard the same promises many times before and didn't take the offer because she knew they wouldn't go through with it. But then again, if it meant her baby being born and living Aboveground, wouldn't she have done it? Even if that meant a toxic or abusive relationship, at least Levi would've had a father figure and had sunlight. Could she have been that stubborn? For Levi there's nothing she wouldn't have done :/ so maybe she didn't get that chance.

customers who offered to pay for her to have an abortion... Kuchel's boss(es) threatening her with less pay if she didn't because of the way her body would look after the birth (stretchmarks, a bigger belly I think? and for some time after birth she wouldn't be able to have sex).

Godd she'd definitely feel so much shame. she had so little support, and even less ability to make sure her baby grew in a good environment. the stress on her couldn't have been good. But her anger, too, whenever customers/whomever insulted the idea of a prostitute being a mother. calling her baby a parasite. perhaps thinking of Kuchel as "ruined" in a way.

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[annqer]

pt. 2 - wild card

[jahdefender]

So I found this posted to reddit and I wanted to share it here because I'm sure there are some fans who haven't seen the Adventures Bible stuff. (I had not so this is just referencing myself)

[yellowvixen]

SCREAMING AND CRYING ETC

[slutpoppers]

Digimon Adventure Ova (1999)

[lethalhedgehogs-archive]

I bought Mario Wonder for my sisters for Christmas, and the singing piranha plants are hands-down the greatest thing Nintendo has ever done.

Merry Christmas!

[grondds-and-roses]

My favourite thing about AOT is that when Eren first met Armin and Mikasa, he scared the hell out of them

Like imagine this: You just had the worst day of your life. A bunch of kids beat you up/ you watched your parents get killed then you got kidnapped and out of nowhere a creepy little kid in a red scarf shows up and he is like “yo, wanna tatakae and be my bestie forever :)”

[ayilings]

they’re not working it out on the remix

[makiswirl]

can i just say. and this is probably a niche hill to die on. that i am so gobsmacked every time someone vaguely hints at the idea that jotaro doesn't care meaningfully for the other crusaders, usually particularly kakyoin and joseph, when those two actually tend to be the ones he reacts to being hurt the hardest

like he cares for his loved ones!!!! that literally plays into his character motives in every single part he shows up in!!! stop lying to me!!!!!!!

[cocogum]

I don't know what possessed me to color one of Wakfu's fanart pages, and yet here we are.

For more context to this particular page, this was a fanart made by Ancestral Z that Ankama placed in their Quest for the Six Eliatrope Dofus volume 1's fanart section.

This is genuinely such a clever idea to make: mixing Wakfu with Dofus by putting our iconic wakfu idiots in the dofus manga style 💕💕 No wonder Ankama took notice of the art: it made perfect sense! The fanart can be seen in the first volume, specifically on page 217.

Full process of the coloring under the cut

[geekgirles]

Okay, so maybe Amalia was constantly being ignored and overshadowed by Evangelyne in terms of looks during the first two seasons (as she should, given she was a literal child encountering creepy, older guys. That's not to say Eva deserved it either, but at least she is four years older), but at least Amalia has the dubious honour of all her admirers once she grew up being objectively hot—even if two of them were downright psychotic.

[fellow-traveller]

Ever wonder why Hol Horse is one of the only JoJo characters with the specific SFX 「メギャン」 (me-gyan)?

Me too, me too.

(I'm not an expert in Japanese expressional words, let alone its manga SFX, so take this with a spoonful of salt)

I assume "me-gyan" is a mix of "meki" and "kyan". "Meki" is the sound of something "ripping out", like a tree growing out of the ground at rapid speed. "Kyan" can be two things - a squeal or a wolf's cry.

At this point...it's safe to say that a high pitch, cracking howl is what Emperor literally sounds like when it "rips itself out" of Hol's hand. The manga and anime didn't show this, obviously. Just Emperor phasing in and out from Hol's hand with a synth sound...

But the OVA literally did show the ripping out part (which is kinda scary, tbh...to have a gun rip out of one's arm like some Kazuo Umezu story).

Which makes OVA Hol Horse even cooler, btw.

For a minor character to have a very memorable SFX assigned to him, shows how much Araki actually cared for Hol Horse. He just never had the capacity to expand him during SDC's run. But, from Hol, we were given Gyro (a better Hol Horse, according to the man himself) so that's good.

[vioyume]

Made more since I realized that I can make whatever I want with this.

[h34rtcake]

wip preview for ship meme 😶‍🌫️ big plans…

[listranz]

Why I like the anime series Hellsing more than OVA Ultimate:

• Style design

• No betrayal of Walter in the finale

• A lighter detective-crime plot without going into the Nazi militarium

• Great opening and music

• The “Master of Monster” series played in a new way and the additional series “Red Rose Vertigo”

|| I know that Ultimate is the closest incarnation of canon. I love the manga and I love the OVA, they are beautiful and unique. However, initially I fell in love with the anime series, and not the manga and OVA, I liked the fact that it seemed to play out in (almost?) alternative events of the canon, it had its own charm and peculiarity.

Of course, the anime series is very different from the manga canon. Of course, the anime series gives us some kind of new take on the original Hellsing and I understand that people who love the manga canon may not like it. However, this is a matter of taste. I personally love all of these things, but my favorite will always be the anime series because it was the one that first introduced me to Hellsing.

[futuristichedge]

Sonic, the embodiment of freedom switching places with Metal Sonic and being able to realize and experience first hand how isolated and restricted Metal is. Unable to speak, limited body language and fingers unable to articulate anything outside of a clawing motion. Metal coming to and adjusting to experiencing the overstimulating experience of being a living breathing thing. Being called just Sonic and how right it feels... in a way. It feels right the way that looking at yourself through a funhouse mirror is right. It's still you, isn't it?

The tragedy of being created in the form of another. Predestined to never reach the heights of what you are capable of, chained down by the expectations of what you SHOULD be.

An embodiment of freedom made to be obedient. Bottled wind, stagnating in your containment.

You were made to usurp someone, to be superior but held back by your own programming. Held back by comparisons inherent to being a replica, gifted tunnel vision to achieve an unachievable goal.

So wrapped up in comparison that the only way you can see to break free from these expectations is to remove the person you were made in the image of. Become the ONLY 'you' there is.

What if its given to you. You are no longer the copy, you are what you were always meant to be. But the expectation is still there, and you are still falling short. What then.