#remember that iconic outfit?

[esprei]

offers you a halloween volo ✨🎃 (feel free to use as an icon if you'd like!)

[bealzebubs-blog]

I know I'm late to the whole miku around the world trend but have trad goth Brit miku.

[boygirlctommy]

new icon!! i just redrew the old one lol ^_^

reminder that my commissions are open 👉👈

[cthulhubrain]

tumblr's new post system is ridonkulous and i loathe it with every fibre of my being.

ahem. so here's some wacky pirate doodlings I did during the summer.

bonus:

[weaponizedmoth]

Still don't have a computer, but I do have a basic cartoon Lydia cosplay like in my teen years <3

[its-hai-time]

i just think phoenix should be elle woods for halloween

[raeflora]

blair waldorf outfits 4x02 double identity

outfit 4

[kindahoping4forever]

Via shicafreaka on IG

[drunkenssoldier]

Guys, I've been rewatching The Nanny and it's SO GOOD and holds up so well. There's real nuance and depth to everyone and the jokes are still funny, and the slow burn with Fran and Mr. Sheffield is hitting just right. Good writing is just good writing no matter when it happened. Fran is the OG girls girl and so secure in herself, I want to be her when I grow up

[texashippiecowboy]

top 5 favorite moments of the eras tour have to be:

5. taylors lautner showing up to speak now release night, wrists full of friendship bracelets, and The Backfip heard round the world

4. her very first show, night 1 in glendale (in general but) specifically the champagne problems bridge

3. the shows in tampa after The News broke, when she missed her splash cue and then her garter broke during anti hero (honorable mention is the first performance of yoyok)

2. performing in the middle of a monsoon aka the rainiest rain show

1. first performance of long live tv with the stolen museum exhibit

[victim9d]

the black and white w blue/pink accents IS a vibe for cassie and tate and i am attached However. I am changing my psd

[nonokoko13]

Why can't people like a celebrity without imagine them as queer? Can't people like Taylor music without go saying she's lesbian/queer when she hasn't said anything about that. Pretty sure if she was attracted to women she would have already said it 🫠

Even in the hypothetical scenario where she was queer indeed pressuring somebody to come out or out them yourself is selfish, stupid, dangerous, toxic and overall fucked up (-᷅_-᷄)

We have so many queer pop icons out of the closet but you need to headcanon your favourite ally/het as lgbt for...comfort reasons? Just because she's your fav? Because you are queer? Dude she's not a fictional character can you not spread false information or discuss real people orientations and just enjoy their content 💀

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

[bandsanitizer]

kim hongjoong in balmain probably the only idol I want to see at the met gala now

[trevisos]

artist vs oc

tagged by @tadpole-apocalypse!!!

i tried so hard but this picrew is honestly not my fav LOL

human-adjacent xarrai bc i couldn’t make them purple. i tried ieriyn instead bc at least he’s human color but he came out way worse so u get xar LOL

i’m a monster so i’m just tagging anyone who sees this and wants to do it. go crazy :3

picrew link here :)

[cloakedstarlight]

It just clicked for me, like yesterday, how long I have been following this comic and how much I love it. There’s so many adventures and mysteries under a deceptively simple premise: becoming a hero to save stories.

Which becomes a story in of itself, (ie., Hero’s Journey) that’s full of thought-provoking questions and gentle world building. There’s background that’s explained, but it never feels like word-vomit. It’s told like a story by stories because every character has a story and is a story themselves.

It’s so meta, and abstract and profound in so many small ways that encapsulate the human condition and the complex emotions that exist within that

Hello! I've been following TPoH for about a decade now and I can say it rewired my brain in many ways:D Your work is wonderful and deeply inspiring to me, and I was skimming your blog to see if you were okay with getting tattoos based on the comic (I read that you are? Is that the case still? Because I'd love to get one based on TPoH!) when I got the courage to write for the first time:) Thank you so much for writing this story!

YES I am very pro tattoo, be sure it's what you want! but absolutely do go ahead I'd be honoured :D thanks for the support this means a lot to me!

[fuiru]

A 44 year old man goes to a K-Pop Concert

I promised you a report on the K-pop concert that I, a 44-year-old accountant, went to a couple of weeks ago with my wife and daughter in Toronto. So here it is.

The band we saw were Ateez. They're my daughter's favourite band and my wife's second favourite. I know most of my mutuals are similarly aged like me and may not be familiar with them so let me give you a brief primer on Ateez.

Imagine the most attractive eight men you can think of, just unfathomably beautiful specimens of aesthetic perfection, and make them sing songs that somehow combine the subjects of 'dancing like nobody is watching' with 'we live in a dystopian hellscape that we must all work together to overthrow'. Give them an ongoing music video story lore that literally nobody - not even the band themselves - understand, so that online discussion of their visual motifs looks more like the fevered rantings of a conspiracy theorist, complete with speculation about alternate realities and time being a Moebius strip. There is also a giant sand timer, for some reason.

That's Ateez. That's what you need to know.

Now, K-pop concerts are very different to the gigs I've been going to for the last 28 (!) years. There's no support act, for a start. Also the band perform for like, three hours, with breaks for costume changes and interpretive dance. Furthermore, hanging above everything is the constant looming threat of mandatory military service.

So this being my first such concert, I wasn't sure what to expect. What happened was difficult to explain, but I will try as I am already six paragraphs into this write-up and I'm too invested to stop now. Here goes:

In his Wicked + Divine comics series, Kieron Gillen places modern pop icons as deities, feeding upon and gaining strength from the worship of their fans at the altar of musical performance. I thought I understood that metaphor. I thought I understood it AS a metaphor. I was wrong, because that night Ateez WERE Gods with a capital G and we were their worshippers, a crowd emanating adoration (in the religious and non-religious senses), bestowing strength upon them and gaining their strength in return.

If that sounds weird, it probably is. But as pointed out above, I have lived over four decades and never yet experienced anything like the overwhelming passion of that crowd, the utter abandon with which they conveyed their love for the band.

"But Fuiru, what of the actual music?" you ask. Thinking back, there was a moment in one of their songs - I can't remember which - where I watched the stage, and the people around me, taking it in, and I thought, "Man, I just love Music". But that doesn't answer your question, sorry.

Ateez's music is bloody great. As a tiresome indie/rock/metal kid I'm resisting the urge to add the usual tiresome indie/rock/metal caveat of "...for pop music" because honestly that does it a disservice. They have some genuinely amazing songs. Halazia is an absolute fucking masterpiece that descends into furious hardcore breakbeat. Bouncy is a big, brash racket that somehow is also a perfect pop song. Utopia, Wonderland, and Guerrilla are similarly superb. The obligatory boy band slow number is represented by Dancing Like Butterfly Wings which will make you cry because you will forever associate it with your twelve year old daughter being pointed to and waved at by her favourite Ateez member (Seonghwa) because of her Seonghwa-branded lightstick.

That might just be me, though.

So in summary: being a 44 year old dad at his first K-pop concert rules and you should endeavour to partake in the experience if the opportunity arises.

Finally, for any Atiny reading this: my bias would be San or Seonghwa but my wife and daughter said they were taken so it’s Mingi. My concert outfit (designed and created by my offspring) reflects this.