#rs comics (best of)

[the-last-hipopotamovolador]

I love rigby's wild cat energy also the size difference with mordecai when rigby its in all four its just too cute 🥰🥰🥰🥰 what a trash mammal i love him lol

[genericpuff]

I'm actually kinda glad the kids are blue. If they're purple, everyone would think they're Zeus's kids, and we all know what RS said about the colour purple

ugh god you're so right LOL I just wish they had more actual elements of Persephone in them, despite trying to be a "feminist retelling" so much of the narrative feels entirely focused around what Hades wants and dreams of rather than Persephone. I mean ffs Persephone never ONCE said she wanted kids, the ONLY time it came up was when she and Hades were discussing his infertility and she proposed the idea of carrying a flame on her back, which clearly had less to do with her wanting children and more so with her being a vehicle to provide children for him.

The fact that the children all resemble Hades save for some very easily hidden / missed elements of Persephone (ex. Melinoe has pink eyes and branches that aren't even always visible) is really telling towards how Rachel views Persephone within the dynamic she wrote. At worst it's reinforcing gender stereotypes and traditional gender norms which is the complete opposite of what modern day feminism is about, at best it's a 38 year old writing the same way as a 16 year old girl who's been told her whole life that her biggest aspirations in life should be marrying rich and having babies. The fact that the "epilogue" of the comic shows a law degree on the wall but no evidence that Persephone has actually worked in law is just icing on the shit cake (it doesn't even have her fucking name on it for the love of god-)

[knific]

hi im john! or zero. i'm a LEESBO and i draw stuff : also im multifandom and i switch interests almost monthly. if you follow me for one thing you might not get that.

i'm fifteen and from the southeast of asia. i can speak different languages but i only prefer being spoken to in english lol!

also we MIGHT be mutuals. this isn't my main blog and that was actually a mistake because i didn't know how to use tumblr by the time. if you see you're being followed by some user called epicflowpow then I guess we're mutuals :') that's my main blog that im inactive on! lol! it's hard to explain

byf:

i have bad memory don't expect me to remember anything personal like ur birthday,

i make sex jokes sometimes ok if ur not comfortable lmk and ill stop,

i post what i want, i might post blood, gore, etc. anything i post may be triggering, if you don't like it block me! the only form of censoring you'll get is the tags so get ready to mute a few (ex: cw blood, cw knife, cw suicide)

my social skills suck.. you can try to talk to me but i get very nervous when talking privately and i might say things i don't mean

i am sometimes rude but it's just for fun lol i don't actually mean it,

i don't reaalyyy use tonetags but ill use them when my wording starts to sound a little serious

uhhh i make homophobic jokes because it's FUNNY. im actually a person of the bacon community though so yeah.

i like to cuss my faves out. i will say very very mean stuff about them and I won't state whether it's positive or negative. if you don't like that then you should probably not read the tags sometimes

i ironically use emojis like 😂🥺🥹😜 etc

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dni: i don't have a dni because people are gonna interacr with me anyways. ill block whoever makes me feel uncomfortable and who not (pr/shipp*rs are not exceptions lol ALL will be blocked)

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also i do requests! here are like. rules for my requests n stuff:

i think im most likely to do EVERY request you guys give me, so go crazy! i just won't do it quickly. because im not an art machine

i do any reqs, but i will less likely do/will put for last the oc requests lol :)

okay when I said any reqs i lied: just don't request me taco x pickle loll it's for the sake of some of my mutuals :) i can still draw them hanging out but it won't be tagged as ship or implied ship

i also do any fandom but again i will less likely do fandoms im not in lol

uhh. if im uncomfortable with a ship in particular ill just ignore your req don't bother sending it again or im gonna give you a beating

complicated styled characters are ok but if you wanna give me a first good impression don't send them or you're literally breaking my fingers physically

also comics scare me if you request those too you're also breaking my fingers (it's not prohibited though you can send them but ill cry)

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[slaaverin]

You belive in tarot right? I have read some tarots who implies they're not in any kind of romantic relationship as in cause those tarot readings are done of their s/o. Yes they have great bond, chemistry and they care for eachother but idt there's any romantic feel to it. I remember this one tarot reading someone had linked and it's from that kpopreading acct who's most of all readings are right and ig in one of the readings (ig ppl asked her about rs btw him and xyz members you know could be shippers) she said that it has happened two times now that she's got some card in both tae and jk's readings and that card indicates both of them are heterosexual. She is professional and doesn't really do what shippers expects from those readings though cause she keeps it till friendships and doens't really dwell into the romantic rs of members with eachother but yeah she's said it. I remember her readings of jm comics true as well.

Do you believe jkk are dating or have/had romantic feelings for eachother?

Hello,

Thank you for your ask.

Personally I tend to look at readings from only one person. When you see readings from many different people it can depend so much on the reader. The cards themselves don't really lie but from one reader to the next the interpretation can really be vastly different and so it can get all muddled up.

I personally only read bluemoonpunch's readings. I've always had an intuitive pull towards hers, and she read for me privately as well, so I have no doubts on her capabilities. Her readings always confirmed as well my own observations about BTS, like she says stuff I intuitively already know.

That's why - even if I absolutely love tarot readings - I do not look up other readings for BTS. It's like when you do a personal reading for yourself, if you do not like the cards you get, you're not supposed to start over to get other cards, what you get is what you get and that's it.

Absolutely no judgement to you or anyone that does this, but to me people who look up many different readings are more close to prying into BTS than anything else. There's a fine line between being interested to learn and violation of privacy. (I get it, we are all curious).

That's only my perspective and opinion, but to me it's best if you stick to one reader you absolutely trust and resonate with, and draw your own conclusions from it.

As for your second question.

Yes I personally believe jikook are in a romantic relationship. Is it a classical one? An open one? An ungoing one? Or however you may classify, I don't know. That is their business.

I don't believe this because tarot cards told me (bluemoonpunch never said they are in a romantic relationship, even if you can read between lines of course).

I believe this from my own observations, after watching all the BTS content that exists.

It is not one single thing that makes me believe those two have romantic feelings, it's thousands of moments and things and words put together.

I believe it so much so, that to me the contrary would be more impossible.

And I know it's a strong word to use - but it's true.

I'm in disbelief many people don't see it already, when it is so in your face and plain as day. Because what would be the alternative?

A relationship like theirs, with so much romantic connotation, that is simply friendship? It doesn't exist. Like people in real life they don't do it, it's too weird. However you turn it and make it make sense in your head, it just doesn't make sense.

There is no alternative to me.

The playfulness, the skinship, the closeness, the flirting, all of it could still be explained with a deep friendship, alright.

But what about the sexual undertones?

THIS.

How can two friends have that much sexual tension? Sexual jokes? How can a friend be such a shaved legs enthusiast? And butt? Why a friend would pull up his tongue in such a sexual manner to tease A FRIEND? Why make jokes about them tying each other up?

You can't make that shit up.

The sexual undertones of their relationship makes it romantic to me.

Because everything else you can pass it up as very close friendship at best, if you squint and wanna be blind.

But the way Jungkook wants to devour Jimin it's not something a friend would do.

And I know that's so little examples from me, sorry for my shit memory, but there are tons and tons of sexual moments between them, so this plus EVERYTHING ELSE. I MEAN????

What more do you want from them? To kiss on stage?

Jungkook already SUCKED JIMIN'S EAR. That's somewhat even worse because what kind of intimacy you need to do this? Even with my boyfriend of 9+ year it's not something that would come to mind.

You need to be really. fucking. close. to do this.

Ahhh I don't know what people want anymore.

Everything they say or do screams couple. To me saying it now out loud would be like? useless. WE ALREADY KNOW.

Anyway I went on a tengeant but I hope you get my point.

To me they are indeed in a romantic relationship and the recent travel show only confirms it even more (i didn't think it was possible??). I'll make posts about the travel show when I will have settled into my thoughts.

But I can't tell you what to think anon, you need to make your own mind about this.

Take care 💜

[chaifootsteps]

I think every anti's strategy and agenda is always digging through old social media to weaponize whatever could be found.

Like Rebecca S's fanart from when she was a minor. People tried saying it was pedophilia for shipping two characters together that were minors. That and the fact everything that could be weaponized was scrutinized. Gee, why didn't anyone point out she won a scholarship and won so many contests when she was younger? It's like the kid who drew yaoi randomly got her TV series, not the merit of all the things she accomplished when she was younger. There was some comic she made about an astronaut, but nope the Edd and Eddie yaoi is more noteworthy.

I do not blame RS for being on the downlow and not sharing as much anymore. She told fans she and Ian got married then zip. She shared an album she released but yeah, radio silence from her now.

She is someone I genuinely believe did not deserve the things that happened to her.

It's so fucking pathetic. It's pathetic when they did it to Rebecca Sugar and pathetic (and counterproductive) when they do it to Viv's old Zoophobia stuff.

Hope RS is living her best life now, away from the scrutiny of internet nutjobs.

[justmenoworries]

Lore Olympus Episode 244 Spoilers

And of course the narrative finds a way to twist itself so that Persephone's in the right to disrespect Zeus' decision and take his kid away from him.

Should've seen that coming.

At least I get to see Zeus roasting Persie before he fucks off into the void again.

The way Persephone herself acknowledges that she made a fucking stupid decision right there and completely threw her partner under the bus in the process.

"You have every right to be furious with me right now. Why aren't you angry?"

Because Hades knows if he in any way calls you out or gets mad at you, RS will make him the next antagonist and assassinate his established character to justify it. (Not that there would be much to assassinate in the first place.)

No one's allowed to criticize you in this comic Persie, no worries.

Holy shit, I know we made jokes that Persie only wanted to keep Dyonisus so badly 'cause he's a mini-version of Papa Smurf, but she actually admits that's the case here, I fucking can't. Oh, and also that she once again lied to Hades about something that concerned him just as much as it did her, but that's normal at this point.

"If you want to confiscate Zeus' baby because he's incompetent, I will support you."

Okay, one: Fuck off, Hades. Dyonisus is not a thing that you can take away. But I guess you're used to taking other people's children just because. It's what you did to Demeter.

Second: Sir, you're the last person in the entire fucking multiverse to call someone else's parenting incompetent. Your son is still an emotionally scarred mess to this day because you couldn't be arsed to provide proper child care. At least Zeus was willing to do that. Growing up with nymphs is still leagues above growing up with a guy who shows more affection to his dogs than the small scared child who was abandoned by his mother. Speaking of, said son is still missing btw.

It's gotten to the point where even Persephone admits she's fucking useless as Queen of the Underworld, because RS won't let her develop or be powerful in her own way. Everything about her, down to her very self-esteem is tied to Hades. She can't even go giant on her own, even though Zeus and Hades can. Even though she's supposedly this super-powerful fertility goddess.

RS, lampshading your comic's rushed plot isn't going to magically make it better.

And now they remember Thanatos is still MIA. Just had to prop up Persie's ego a bit first, I guess.

Ares is unironically the best character in this chapter, he's just as annoyed with hxp's bs as I am.

Oh shit, Leuce run! Persie is looking for another poor peasant to torture so she can feel better about herself!

That child deity is still trapped and being tortured in Tartarus, by the by.

[minthe-lover]

So because it's pride month I just gotta mention again how lore olympus isn't as progressive as it may frame itself. All of the queer relationships and characters are overwhelmingly ignored in favor for the multiple hetro-normative monogamous relationships.

I mean even the most basic shit isn't present... like we just had a wedding and none of the women wore suits? Eros fits the gay best friend trope for basically everything but still manages to only make one passing comment that like sort of imply attraction to men that could easily be miss or ignored.

And also the biggest thing for me, how most of the women with different body types are queer women. Hestia is the only fat women that gets any time, Athena is just straight up drawn like a man sometimes, and so is Morpheus.

When 90% of the women are drawn with the same or extremely similar body type of thin, small with big boobs.. and every single queer women doesn't have that body type it's just... hits me the wrong way. It's honestly the worse with Morpheus because besides just learning she's trans outside of the comic, there are only two ways to know she's trans. One knowing the god she is based on is a man (which isn't even that good a way cause of chiron being a cis women) and two.. that she isn't drawn like the other women.

I don't think it's something Rs is doing purposefully or maliciously but I feel like its something that should be mentioned cause it is really weird how this happened...

[dennydraws]

Happy October! Autumn is here! \o/

Which isn't super happy to me, Romancing SaGaRS announced EoS and I've been playing for about 4 years, 3 and something ;u; I'm so very heartbroken as a SaGa fan this was my source of delicious lore.

As a last hurrah I will probably clear the 2 pending super difficulty fights now that they gave access to all styles and just going to take screenshots of my favorite pixel people. While I kept referring to myself as casual player (and my RS friends bonk me on the head - no, Denny you are not!) I did always clear the hard content on release - safe for the last couple of months when the powercreep became too much for me too.

I have such fond memories of clearing World Tower... :') it was a big event at the time and it required so many characters and I got to use some I never thought I'd use before.

I remember clearing Spiral Tower every time new floor got released except the more recent ones. I always pulled for my faves and occasionally for the recommended. I got so many new SaGa characters as favorites and I will treasure the moments and the memeires I posted on Reddit. Best treasure was the friends I made on the way really! :D I do hope we'll get a new SaGa gatcha game some day and Global isn't shafted :D;;; but... all things come to an end. This was my first and only gatcha game and I don't plan on playing anything on my phone. I only played RS because I'm a SaGa fan.

But Romacing SaGa 2 Remake is coming out at the end of the month!! I've slapped preorder as soon as it was available so that's something I'm looking forward to!! RS2 has my favorite lore so I'm super looking forward to it :> I was thinking to do some countdown illustrations... but I don't think I'll have the spoons for that.

Especially because... FanFyria comic books have arrived!! \o/ (sorry for potato phone quality, the books are not potato quality haha)

I'll be making a better/proper post about it soon to grab info on whoever is interested in purchasing a copy! :> I look forward to the watercolor pieces that I'll be adding as bonus! They're always so much fun to do. The idea of my friends having a little something from me sparks joy!

And until then... I'm slowly but surely Dawning the Trail... :D;;; Oh gosh, this expac hasn't been clicking with me but I'm also at level 94 quests so maybe it will over time. I have nothing to vent or rant or anything really, it just haven't been clicking with me :D;;;; which I think is okay, we all have different vibes! I do hope I finish DT before RS2R though. I appreciate that mama Hydaelyn taught us well though!

Other than that? I've been feeling in a bit of a writing mood, funny enough :D;; and I've been sketching a lot of fluffy arts lately so more may pop on the dash from me... maybe!

Whew! Long post xD Thank you for stopping by and reading this far! I hope you have great rest of the day, dear web traveler!

[lonesomedreamer]

The Rings of Power Liveblog: Adrift (Episode 2)

In between watching the first and second halves of this episode, I was looking back through the Appendices and realized that the events this series covers, from the reemergence of Sauron in Middle-earth to the eventual forging of the various Rings, span 1200 years! So it’s kind of absurd to think of them somehow adapting those events “accurately” (which makes you wonder why they made some of the narrative choices they did…).

The idea of Galadriel swimming back across the sea to Middle-earth is laughable, but tbh what else can she attempt to do in this situation?

The fire around the Stranger isn’t hot because…magic, I guess?

Nori’s a darling.

Arondir is being all self-sacrificing and stupid noble by going to explore the scary tunnels alone…good thing he probably has plot armor.

People who haven’t read The Silmarillion: Who the fuck is Fëanor? What are the Silmarils?!?

Helpfully, Elrond tells us that they were “the jewels that contain the very light of Valinor.” Oversimplified, sure, but that’s the kind of exposition the first episode needed: Tolkien 101 for people who know nothing about Tolkien (beyond, probably, some movies)!

As someone who can’t roll their Rs, the aggressively exaggerated pronunciation of “Sauron,” “Morgoth,” and now “Silmaril” makes me feel…kind of inept.

That said, a) do they even have the rights to tell this Morgoth story? and b) exposition between two characters who already know it (and I guarantee that Elrond knows the story Celebrimbor is telling rn…) is mildly annoying.

Elrond Half-elven, “as noble and fair as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer” a Kiss-ass

Good set design! Tbh, I wish Rivendell had been portrayed more like this in the PJ movies: a little richer, with more wood and warm golden light.

Why is Celebrimbor in such an arbitrary hurry to build this forge? A few months is nothing to an Elf!

“How far outside [our own race]?” Well, I just don’t know, Celebrimbor, who else in Middle-earth is renowned for their metallurgy? Which race has yet to be portrayed in this—oh, right.

Please book me a trip to Middle-earth.

“Their prince, Durin, is an old and dear friend.” And yet Elrond, one of the wisest people in Middle-earth, doesn’t know what “Durin’s Day” is when it comes up in The Hobbit. If he had a near-fraternal bond with a Dwarf prince, wouldn’t he be aware of significant Dwarven holidays?

I know this Elrond is just supposed to be younger and less experienced, but he’s coming across as kind of dumb.

Khazad-dûm looks incredible.

So the Dwarves have Scottish accents, the Harfoots Irish, and the Elves English? But the Men also have English accents, just less refined? Hmm. Choices were made.

I would die for her nbd. ♥

Gee, I wonder why everyone is speculating about Gandalf.

“Looks can be deceiving.” Given that I know who this character turns out to be, this dialogue is a little…heavy-handed.

The whole water dragon (?) sequence was so silly. Just like the “ice troll”.

It’s almost like “Elrond is besties with this Dwarf prince” subplot was a bad idea cooked up only to create some pointless, petty interpersonal conflict. It also makes it painfully obvious that there’s no reason Celebrimbor, an Elf, would be in a big hurry to build anything.

“Gamli” is the really best name they could come up with for Durin’s son? Pretty sure Durin’s son was also named Durin. I cross-checked the Appendices and could not find a “Gamli” anywhere…

Do Durin and Disa, the crown prince and princess of Khazad-dûm, have no servants? They’re just welcoming a guest into their house, fussing with their children, and serving dinner like regular folk. Where is a single one of the dozens of extras that we just saw in a previous scene??

What is it with the tendency of Tolkien adaptations to show the Dwarves as less than dignified? (i.e., Durin belching loudly at the dinner table.) Gimli was reduced to comic relief, and the Dwarves in the Hobbit films who aren’t meant to be seen as goofy—Thorin, Fili and Kili—are much more like Men than the other Dwarves. Tolkien felt VERY strongly about Dwarves being a proud and noble race! Respect that!!!

“Aulë’s beard!” I love this. (People who haven’t read the Silmarillion: Who’s Aulë?!)

“I am simply wondering what manner of man would so readily abandon his companions to death.” Big Elizabeth Swann energy.

There are so many problems with making this character a hot human dude. I’m glad I already know the truth about his identity, though—I don’t have to come around to “Halbrand” or (even worse) start shipping him with Galadriel. I can just be indignant.

Based on what we know about the duplicitous behavior as [redacted], you’d think Halbrand would be a little bit more…suave? Charming? Anything but this blunt, confrontational asshole.

People sure can cover ground quickly in Middle-earth. Unbelievably fast travel for the sake of moving the story along is a problem in almost all fantasy TV shows, mind you. If they only budgeted for 10 episodes instead of 8…or even (gasp) 13…

Why do Orcs look like straight-up horror movie villains now?

Also it’s so convenient that this Orc appeared beneath Bronwyn’s house on the same day she tried to convince her fellow villagers about the Orc tunnel threat.

Their pathetic little raft wouldn’t survive this, lol.

WHY does Halbrand save Galadriel? Repeatedly?? Did they think about this at all? There is nothing human, selfless, or compassionate about [redacted], lmfao.

As magical as this looks, Nori and Poppy’s “firefly” lanterns aren’t flickering, and anyone who’s ever seen fireflies knows that their glow isn’t consistent. They blink individually.

Same, Poppy. I also get freaked out when I see a firefly die.

The Appendices tell us that the Dwarves came to the military aid of the Elves and that they were as closely allied with Celebrimbor/Eregion as at any time in their shared history. So why are they making King Durin such a bullheaded, racist prick? (I know: for drama.)

Is the narrative implying that the shining object in King Durin’s chest is…what, a Silmaril? Because it sure as fuck shouldn’t be.

No, little emo kid, don’t take the broken Sauron sword that will surely attract evil to your people as they flee their village!

Bronwyn’s entire village is pretty easy to scare despite their generally gruff attitudes, aren’t they? At least they’re not completely stupid/have some sense of self-preservation.

The Good:

There’s still some stunning imagery to be had in this one, namely Khazad-dûm and the surrounding mountains

Likewise, some really nice set design in Eregion and especially Khazad-dûm

Nori!!!

A little exposition for non-readers (though maybe still not enough)

The Bad:

Most of the acting was weaker than in first episode, not that the writers gave anyone much to work with

Weak writing throughout: the dialogue’s not great. The characters’ motivations/choices don’t make much sense. Most of the scenarios they find themselves in vary from illogical (Elrond, Arondir) to unbelievable (Galadriel).

Why is the Stranger—Gandalf or Radagast or whoever he is—mute? And why does Nori keep assuming that she can understand/communicate with him??

No respect for the Dwarves, as usual

Too much stuff is convenient or coincidental, i.e., the perfectly-timed Orc appearance in Bronwyn’s house and the improbable survival of Halbrand’s raft

Meaning no disrespect to gamers, there were more “video game” type scenes—specifically, the water “dragon” and the Orc in Bronwyn’s house—which added nothing to the story and told us anything about the characters.

Halbrand. Yes, I am biased by knowing the twist.

I didn’t feel like this episode was that much worse than the first while I was watching it, but after reading over this, it’s obvious that it was quite a step down in quality. The first one felt, in most places, like a heartfelt homage to Tolkien’s world in ways this one just didn’t. But I love Nori to bits, and the visuals are still amazing, so I will persevere.

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[antiloreolympus]

5 Anti LO Asks

(Note: All of these asks are before episode 206 (Season 2 finale) so some may be dated.) 1. OK but no one is stopping RS from just making a pg-13 safe comic about them hooking up and thats it lmao. most of the romance genre is just that. idk why she bemoans she can't do what she wants when quite literally she can? unless she means she just wants to draw them having sex, in which case why make a comic then when she could have just kept to her NSFW patreon instead of dragging this comic on for another five years.

2. I’m sorry, I just realized bc of the time skip does that mean Dionysus was also just resolved off screen?? Like with Minthe and Daphne and Eros and Psyche?? Maybe Rachel just dropped all of them 😪😭

3. LO has the (hopefully) unintentional vibe of those terminally online cishets who think because more diverse voices also get a say online that theyre now an oppressed class. like rachel youre not the "subversive" progressive ally you think you are when your entire comic is about Manly Men™️, Feminine Women™️, and how the most oppressed people are actually the uber rich cishets in their straight romance with no actual problems and their villains are *checks notes* gays and poor people.

4. I think my fav part about Rachel is she literally does the exact opposite of everything she says. "This comic is against purity culture!" *reinforces purity culture from the very first ep* "Hera likes modest clothing!" *puts Hera in the most garish outfits* "Hades would never go after a teenage girl!" *Hades goes after a teenage girl* I could keep going but i'd be here all day.

5. I want to also add that during that one "tour of the Underworld" scene (the one where they got Pom soda) Persephone literally said (paraphrasing here) she'd kill something if she had to spend anymore time with flower nymphs, so apparently they're her "sisters" and "as close as you could be" yet she says outloud she doesn't want to be around them. Hell she was in the Underworld KNOWING THEY WERE DEAD and didn't once try to see them? Way to treat your "best friends"/"sisters".

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Can you tell the difference game from mine version or LO/RS version

Note that I do not own the characters from the Greek Myth, I was doing this for fun.

My Hedone: Note this is an old art of him that I drawn him, when I was 15

Hedone is the personified goddess of joy and pleasure, she is the daughter of Eros and the beautiful Psyche, friend to lover of Morpheus.

Likes: flowers (mostly roses), romance, perfume, butterflies, chocolate, her family, flirting with cute guys and Morpheus.

Dislikes: Mud, getting dirty (not that type of dirty, just getting mud on her dress type of dirty), Eos, Mama’s boy (Theseus), Her grandmother Aphrodite would stop dressing her up as a doll, no romance and losing her loved ones.

Friends/Allies: her parents, Aphrodite, Ares, Methe (best friend), Parthenos (best friend), Angelia (best friend) and Morpheus (friend to lover).

Enemies: Theseus (he is a mama’s boy), Eos (because they have to fight who gets the pretty boy) and monsters.

Personality: She has a same personality just like her father who is a yandere when it comes with her lover, but she can be very loving, carefree and romantic, she has the same personality just like her mother she is very sweet, kind and cheerful. She can be very flirty with guys (hopefully she is not going to be in a cat fight with Eos) and she is very caring and loving to Morpheus.

LO Hedone:

She looks like RS just copied the child version of Tina from her own children’s picture book spin-off and just out lazily pasted it in the comic and Eros doesn’t look like he is holding her and she looks like she doesn’t belong here.

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I'm not sure if anyone else has made this connection, but I've never seen it mentioned before. I think, similar to Lolita, RS was also inspired by the art of Trevor Brown. His work has a lot of young girls and medical fetish themes (to put it lightly) in a style reminiscent of RS's earlier stuff.

sigh

CW: medical fetish art often depicting children / child-like characters and medical equipment such as needles, gas masks, etc. seriously don't hit the jump if medical equipment or young girls in nurse's outfits or with open wounds makes you squeamish, I will not blame you for turning around now LOL

OP I was about to just... dismiss this. Wave it away as a funny coincidence that is indeed funny, but doesn't have any real evidence to back it up. I had a post typed up in response already declaring this, after which posting I was gonna move on with my day, work on Rekindled, play some XIV.

Because sure, there are a lot of resemblances between Trevor Brown's work and Rachel's old art, but nothing that can't be dismissed in good faith as a simple coincidence of being within the same genre of fetish art (first three are Trevor's, last three are Rachel's).

But then that little voice in the back of my head whispered in my ear, "Puff. You should double check. Just to be sure. Do your due diligence." And I once again found myself on the precipice of the rabbithole that somehow becomes deeper every time I jump. This time though, I knew it couldn't be that bad, I mean, I had enough confidence in knowing that there's no fucking way she listed Trevor Brown as one of her favorite artists-

God fucking dammit. How in the world did I miss this? I mean, I suppose I missed it simply because I'm not familiar with the works of Trevor Brown, but you can bet your ass I became familiar with it in my digging. Yeah, this guy is a supreme creep.

Again, I am not going to accuse Rachel of being a pedophile because that's just not an accusation that should be thrown around without undeniable evidence. What I will say, which has largely remained the same - though even more confidently now than ever before - is that she's clearly someone who took a lot of inspiration and influence from very problematic artists when she was young (I'm talking in her late teens which has me wondering if she started making medical fetish art when she was still a minor-) and then, BEST guess, she started to drop the medical fetish stuff around the time she went to college (which was also the same time she dropped The Doctor Pepper Show, which later got reworked into The Doctor Foxglove Show which was a lot less reminiscent of her medical fetish style from the early 2000's, but still had some of her usual preferences at play) and that's led up to today where she's drawing comics that look like they're for kids but tackle heavy adult subject matter in the worst way possible that straight up perpetuates grooming.

No matter how much experience I have with this already, no matter how much I think I've already seen, I always find more, and this time was no different. In fact - though unrelated to the original topic - thanks to this one fucking ask, I even found the full Mads Mikkelson comic with the completed caption. You know, that one.

And apparently Mads Mikkelson did very much replace her crush on Jeremy Irons.

Who's Jeremy Irons?

Oh yeah.

I just... y'all I can't. This is un-fucking-real. I'm gonna go take a shower, I need to scrub myself off of this 😭

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aleix espargaro had the chance to do the funniest thing in motorsport history

september 3rd, 2023. motogp grand prix of catalunya. aleix espargaro is approaching the timing line to finish his penultimate lap, leading his aprilia teammate maverick vinales by a second and a change; a gulf in motogp terms. the aprilia has been good all weekend, and aleix especially has been on top of the bike and the track. the perfect marriage; which is funny because the _other_ perfect marriage, dominant defending champion pecco bagnaia of ducati, was taken out of the race in a lap 1 highside. there are virtually no probable roadblocks that can get in the way of aleix winning this race and aprilia making history. what history? and wait did you say "funny"? what's so funny about this situation in particular? to understand, we need to rewind

(how about that secret base impression. (pls hire me))

the modern aprilia rs-gp lineage started from 2015, with aprilia partnering with gresini to create aprilia racing team gresini. it was dogshit. it was a motogp career end bike. through the revolving doors include alvaro bautista (now sbk rider, heyy he won the 2022 championship with ducati; more on ducati later), stefan bradl (now honda test rider), marco melandri (now retired), and michael laverty (now commentator). it was a bike competing for the low teens places in the championship, year after year. but then, in the covid-riddled 2021 season, aprilia decided that, you know what, we're done fucking around. they got a podium in silverstone (inadvertently becoming a part of history where six different factories occupied the top six finish; last time that happened was yugoslavia 1972), the bike looked like it finally had an upside, and they took over operations, leaving gresini and becoming aprilia racing. gresini, now without factory support, became once again an independent team, using the previous spec ducati for their 2022 season, in effect pretty much replacing esponsorama racing's entry, even taking on one of their riders to boot. how did they do? eh. they just. won 4 races and took 3rd place in the riders' championship with enea bastianini. it's alright.

the ducati is fast. ludicrously fast. it's the fastest motogp bike in a straight line; has been for a decade plus now. and yet, for the longest time only casey stoner was successful in taming the bike convincingly: you see, _it didn't turn_. which is a bad thing. because motogp races on tracks that. have turns. motogp legend valentino rossi couldn't even get on terms with the bike in his disastrous spell with the team, turning the italian dream team into italian nightmare (that doesn't involve putting fries and tuna on pizza). the situation had been improving year after year, with the andrea duet of iannone (later in his career also an aprilia Victim) and dovisiozo regularly competing for podiums, but it's the sport-wide switch to aero-focused concepts in the late 2010s that finally opened the door for ducati: the bike _turns_ now. meanwhile, japanese factories yamaha and honda, stuck in their old ways, ignored the aero development and are currently Eating shit. their last gasp came in 2022, where reigning champion fabio quartararo ran out of cinderella magic midway through the season, and his yamaha bike with basic aero and currently-inferior inline 4 engine concept crumbled from underneath him; the championship battle from that point on becoming a comical battle between ducati's pecco bagnaia and... himself, suffocatingly fast but prone to crashing. but in the end, pecco managed to upend fabio's 91-point lead, taking the 2022 world championship. italian dream team is back on the menu.

it's 2023 and ducati's obviously the best bike on the field. in the sachsenring race, the top 9 included _all_ of the ducati riders, with ktm's jack miller in 6th the odd man out. it was so good that there are rumours going around about 8-time champion and motogp alien marc marquez angling to leave his honda, a bike that has claimed a few prime years of his life, 2020 world champion joan mir's entire confidence, and alex rins' "that boy nice" 2022-2023 stretch; leaving _the slow bike that crashes_ for a _gresini seat_. with the previous spec ducati. alongside his younger brother alex. buying out his massive, massive honda contract. it's a baseless rumour (marc's now. pretty much resigned to becoming a development driver for the last years of his honda contract, switching up his riding style so that he stops crashing; being sad and fighting for 15th with fabio on the yamaha), but you get the idea. the domination was so bad that after the austria race where pecco put 5 whole damn seconds on 2nd place man ktm's brad binder, fabio quartararo dropped the V-word (...verstappen), drawing a parallel between this and red bull f1's invincible combination with max verstappen. although, unlike f1, it's not _all_ ducati. the aforementioned brad binder Passed some Fucking Bikes on his way to a sprint victory in argentina. and, recently, aprilia showed massive signs of life, making a big "we're here." statement with a win in silverstone (they love this track, huh), in typical british summer weather (torrential rain on quali day, cold and damp on race day); aleix espargaro making a gutsy pass on pecco bagnaia after copse on the final lap.

and there's our other side of the harmonious marriage, the talismanic constant presence during the tumultuous years, having been on the team since 2016: aleix espargaro. for the longest time he compared unfavourably with his younger brother pol: the latter a moto2 world champion, and was lucky enough to land on faster bikes. rather than rue his luck, aleix kept his head down and was/is lauded for his chops in developing a bike. his luck finally turned in the 2021 season (funnily enough simultaneous with pol's luck turning for the _worse_; he landed on... honda), getting the aforementioned silverstone podium. now in his 30s, taking on a leadership role, finally in a competitive bike, he finally started to get his flowers. and he gets a cute nickname of "the captain" to boot.

so, the ducati is the best because it's fast and it turns now. but you see, the aprilia turns better. it turns so good, it turns by itself. hyperbole aside, it _is_ very good at corner-heavy tracks like silverstone and barcelona, and it does require an idiosyncratic riding style by current motogp standards. a style mastered by the man who has been there all this time. spending years, years, and years patiently working and developing. it was paid by the silverstone win, and it looks to pay more in catalunya too: taking the sprint win from second on the grid, overtaking pecco bagnaia into turn 1, and in the race... there's not even a pecco bagnaia to overtake.

let's go back to 2022 for a bit. the aprilia were good at catalunya in 2022 too. taka nakagami of honda went bowling into turn 1 at the start, taking out alex rins and damaging pecco's bike in the process, taking him out of the race. it was a horrific crash which saw nakagami's head getting run over by pecco's bike, crushing his visor. thankfully, nakagami didn't suffer any serious injury and was back racing for the next round at germany. but, with pecco out of the race, quartararo, still with that magic supply at that time, dominated the race. a frustrated aleix espargaro banged his bike with his hand, unable to mount a challenge from second, on the last lap. he went to the outside of turn 1 to celebrate because, well, a second place is still a good haul of points.

on the last lap.

he saw people behind him still hauling ass and going past him, and the horror on his face was palpable even from behind the visor.

aleix "salvaged" a 5th place finish in the end. he sat on his bike motionless on the outside of turn 1. the exact place where he celebrated a lap ago. absolutely broken.

in the 2023 edition of the race, pecco bagnaia is out of the race due to a horror highside, which saw him ending up lying sideways in the middle of the track and getting his legs run over by brad binder. the race was red flagged due to the combination of that and an unrelated turn 1 crash involving his teammate, now-ducati factory rider enea bastianini and four other bikes. on the restart, the aprilias of aleix and maverick vinales now lock out the front row, and after fending off a jorge martin spurt, top gun maverick and captain espargaro were line astern in p1 and p2. after hanging back for a bit, aleix finally made a move with 5 laps to go into turn 1, taking a deserved p1.

no matter the combination of drivers, aprilia were on the verge of an entry on the record books: it's gonna be their first double podium, let alone a p1 and p2. but, isn't it much sweeter that it's aleix? the man who stuck with the team during the bad times. a true heartwarming story where devotion does pay off. and a chance for redemption for the previous year to boot. with the dominating reigning world champion gone, clear track ahead of him, only one obstacle is left.

will aleix remember that it's the final lap

welcome to a moment in history.

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I'm jealous of kids today being able to grow up with the amazing YA books being written now ("now" for me being within the past 15 years or so), but I still read them even though I'm not Young. Here are a few of my favorite YA authors and books, in no particular order:

Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here TW: mental illness, suicidal thoughts I adore that there's a whole epic fantasy battle thing that we see pieces of in the foreground, but the book focuses on the characters in the background who are dealing with their own stuff.

Alice Oseman, Radio Silence and Solitaire TW: suicidal thoughts, emotionally abusive parent (RS), self-harm (S), eating disorder (S) You might recognize Alice Oseman as the author of the Heartstopper comic and TV series. They wrote novels too! Really good ones, although that's not surprising. Solitaire's protagonist is Charlie's sister Tori, and its events take place a year or so after the start of Heartstopper (possible spoilers for season 3, who knows?). Radio Silence is set in the same town I think another year later, and Aled (who was in the comics, but was renamed and somewhat reimagined as Isaac in TV Heartstopper) is a main character though not the protagonist. Nick, Charlie, and Tori make very brief cameos.

David Levithan and John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson TW: I can't think of any major triggers in this book, I apologize if I missed something. Obviously both of these authors have independently written other excellent books, but this one is my favorite, mostly because I love Tiny Cooper and his musical so much. This is the lightest (i.e. not dark, and not heavy) by far of the books here. It's mostly really fun but occasionally serious.

Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun TW: bullying, homophobia, suicidal thoughts, death I read a review of this book that basically said enough with the artsy language and metaphors, so maybe it isn't for everybody, but I found it brilliant. It encapsulates a thought or an idea or a feeling in a way you'd never expect, but that you relate to immediately. Also I think that having the POV switch between twins, but two years apart (one twin at 14, the other twin at 16) with a major life-altering event in between, is an amazing way to tell this story.

Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor and Park and Carry On TW: bullying (E&P), abusive family situation (E&P), vampires (CO) Eleanor and Park is set in the 80s with all of the requisite 80s accessories, and characters that will make your heart break in different ways. Carry On is a sort of Drarry fanfic spoof (and supposedly written by a character in a different Rainbow Rowell novel!). But the characters are so well-developed and engaging that you stop seeing them as caricatures and start caring about them in their own right.

Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and The Haters TW: vulgar talk (really just teenage boys trying to be gross), dysfunctional family situation (M&E&DG), death (M&E&DG) I can't overstate how much I love the writing style of these books. Always entertaining and often hilarious, it jumps from normal prose to an outline, to a film script, to a bulleted list, and always turns out to be the perfect way to show whatever is going on.

What's most important to me: In all of these books, the young adult characters are real people who are complicated, and surprising, and funny, and passionate. They may have serious problems but they can have fun and be silly. They screw up but they try to fix things. They love and support their friends, and their friends love and support them. Often there are parents who are also real people doing their best; I appreciate that in a YA book! For the most part these books don't have magically happy endings, but they do end in a good place, with hope.

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what do you think of the Dark Multiverse Flashpoint comic ?

OMFG I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT. SO. MUCH!!!! actually it's my favourite story featuring thawne ever (rs is just a lot more to unpack and obsess over so), not only it was absolutely perfect in relation to thawne's character and his pov (i actually have the release date marked on my calendar as 'the day thawne finally learned to Think') and the way of him moving on from his obsession with barry (which was STILL gay af, have you even seen on what finger he wears barry's Reminder ring??), it basically saved me as it came out few months after the f*nish l*ne which like. genuinely broke me, thank fuck i was taking a gap year at the time. like the very thought that there actually is a universe where thawne gets to be happy without any enforcements, erasions and restrictions was such a relief and reassurance and surprise because the LAST thing you'd expect when stanning a villain is a happy ending for them even if its alternate(especially right after the f*nish l*ne.), i couldnt possibly describe it. and the 'fastest man dead' line?? and the 'there was so much more that i might have achieved had i not been so focused on you'?? AND the way he's so calm and confident here?? AND the use of all his powers?? AND the way the whole thing resembles doomworld from LoT's season 2 but infinitely better?? AND THE WAY HE GETS TO BE JUST FLASH NOW LIKE HE WANTED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING BECAUSE BARRY BURNED TO DEATH TRYING TO REGAIN THE SPEEDFORCE CONNECTION?? TOP NOTCH. CHEF'S KISS. BEST THING DC EVER PRODUCED. EVERYONE GO READ DARK FP NOW