#stealth ship

[gwynlain]

credit: ktellewriterstuff 💖 🌷 ✨

[whirligig-girl]

One of my biggest and best commissions yet. Torchship: Forbidden Space cover art, commissioned by Gorn. This cover art is for an audio drama podcast taking place in the same universe as @torchship-rpg, following the crew of the Mary Gilham-32. I'll let Gorn explain:

The year is 2169. The place? The Aquilian De-militarized Zone. All that stands between Humanity and a Second Aquilian War. A buffer zone encompassing countless stars and civilisations, cut off from the greater galaxy by a crumbling treaty. It falls to the four Cosmonauts of stealth-rocket Mary Gillham-32 to explore this Forbidden Space. To find new friends, to supply aid to those who need it, to discover the wonders of the universe. And all without starting a shooting war with the Divine Aquilian Empire. Introducing: Torchship: Forbidden Space. A scripted, fully casted audio drama. The pilot episode, 'The Quality of Mercy', will release later this month on spotify, itunes, youtube, and any podcast host you can think of. Thumbnail art by the excellent Luna Rose

Announcement on twitter:

I had a lot of fun with this. Gorn was great to work with, and I got feedback from the voice actors for their character designs. Although I was given a framework, a lot of the character design was my own work and I'm quite happy with the result.

The characters are cosmonauts in the Interstellar Union of Republics' Star Patrol. They are flight engineer Holmes, an old Aquillian War veteran and cyborg, astrogator and psychic Martin (who is not from Mars), Yureli, the Martian hacker signals specialist, and Stevens, the welsh doctor. And don't forget the Mary Gilham-32, the faster than light stealth rocket ship.

Image ID:

Large text reads Torchship Forbidden Space. Digital art drawing with black background. A rocket ship with two rocket nacelles with glowing red lights on the front, and two warp drive rings, is in the background. In the foreground are four Star Patrol Cosmonauts. Holmes, a very tall bald woman with cybernetic implants and an orange engineering jumpsuit. An orange robotic arm similar to that on a mars rover or space shuttle Canadarm is perched on her shoulder. She looks at the viewer sternly, with a yellow glowing eye. Martin, a purple-eyed woman wearing a navy blue astrogation minidress, is on one knee and holding an ACER laser pistol, looking half-lidded at the viewer. A blue-green wispy aura or halo surrounds her head. Yureli, a short curvy woman in signals purple jumpsuit with a cute face and octagonal glasses, is kneeling and paying attention to a bulky scanning device with some cassette tapes. Stevens, a man with a goatee in mint-green medical jumpsuit, looks smugly at the viewer with his hands behind his back.

[elven-butts]

Shepard stop smoking at the gym! Why, it’ll kill me? 

[jeeaark]

I make silly reason for team split up So I don't have to draw so many people at the battle

Shadowheart gets an honorary mounted combat feat with Armored Owlbear

Karlach gets a horn-orary mounted combat feat with Strange Ox

Astarion. Has a blast with Ulma

I couldn't think of a silly for the Jaheira and Halsin though. Probably the most professional in these kinds of situations, doing leaderly things with the harpers. Somebody has to be the serious ones around here!

But then there's last-minute-silly-scribble Minsc. I like to think he's helping Nine-Fingers out in the sewers. Putting the fear of Minsc in the hearts of nearby mindflayers. For various reasons.

[super-paper]

I feel like Toga and All for One have many similarities, but I am unable to articulate as to why I feel this way.

I think it's safe to say that AFO is an intentional foil to Himiko, Tenko, and Touya at this point! I've discussed how he shares body motifs with all three of them before, but his backstory more or less cemented that he's supposed to be read as "the worst possible extreme and the worst possible conclusion" to each of the trio's respective origins and overall stories.

As for how Himiko and AFO foil each other, specifically:

Cannibalism as a metaphor for Not cannibalism

Let's get the obvious point outta the way first, lol.

AFO and Himiko are both established as children that society wasn't prepared or willing to care for-- AFO was born during the advent of quirks where "paranormal" children like him were treated as diseased and shunned (or worse) by the rest of society, while Himiko was born during an "era of peace" where civilians are expected to maintain said peace through endlessly conformity and complacency-- outside of pro-heroism, civilians are essentially expected to role-play as though they've returned to "normalcy" (i.e. pre-quirk society) and the fear of being labeled as "abnormal" (despite living in a post-paranormal society) drives them to shun those who can't easily conform.

Both AFO and Himiko's "first sin" involves the "consumption of their fellow humans," which they both commit when they are too young to fully understand what they're doing-- and both acts of consumption were initially tied to their attempts to fulfill a basic human "need" that wasn't being provided for. Himiko drank the blood of a friend whose smile she envied after years of having her own smile called "creepy," AFO was a starving newborn whose mother couldn't provide him milk or protection and whose cries were ultimately ignored by everyone else. When Himiko takes someone's blood and "becomes someone else", she finally feels good "about herself". When AFO takes his mom's quirk and uses it to drink her blood, he no longer feels hungry and no longer has any reason to cry out for help/attention. Thus, AFO & Himiko ultimately learn and internalize that in order to fulfill their own neglected needs, they need to take from others.

Something something re: "the catharsis that comes with finally """"embracing your true nature'"""" so you can finally become what your family always feared you'd be (POV: you are 14 years old and utterly doomed by the narrative) (and so is the main object of your ""affection"") (puberty is a bitch ain't it!)" something something

To Himiko, the consumption of others becomes a way to "become somebody else"-- someone the world will treat more kindly than they treat "Toga Himiko." She feels the urge to completely drain the blood of anyone who has the life and relationships that she desperately wants for herself. Before that, drinking blood was simply her way of expressing admiration/affection and fell under the banner of MHA's definition of "pure love" (i.e. love as imitation). Himiko showed no inclination towards completely draining the blood of those she loves until her psychotic break with Saito, and she is notably able to restrain her supposed "urges" around the LOV despite loving them deeply. The "urge to drain those she loves completely" isn't actually tied to her quirk, but to her desire to "become someone else."

To AFO, the consumption of others became yet another way to rob them of their autonomy-- by taking away "a part of them" and forcibly turning it into a part himself in the most base, unsettling, and crude way possible. Before that, his consumption of others was simply driven by his instinct to survive. AFO's "urge to take" is tied to the preconception that no one will provide for him or look at him UNLESS he is taking something from them-- like Himiko, his quirk merely makes it easier for him to act on urges that don't actually stem from the quirk itself. AFO's warped perception of other people balloons wildly out of control by the time he reaches his teens, and finally cumulates in him ""eating"" the glowing baby out of jealousy:

*Kills someone over their follower count* Man, AFO is nvr gonna beat the "was a tiktok e-girl in his previous life" allegations

AFO and Himiko both "consume" other people out of jealousy and a desire to make up for what they feel they lack as individuals-- but an important distinction between the two of them, I feel, is that Himiko's consumption of others is ultimately driven by her desire to connect with other people while AFO's consumption is instead based on fear + mistrust of others. It's the difference between "Consumption as wanting to become a part of someone and become a part of the world they live in (+ consumption as a way to become a part of the world by living vicariously through someone else)" and "consumption as forcibly making someone a part of you and forcibly taking away their connection to the world."

Speaking of "consuming someone who has traits you envy in an attempt to make those traits your own" *pointedly looks at AFO's dynamic with Tomura* ...........yearp.

It's only after Himiko's human needs are finally addressed by Ochako, that Himiko learns the desire to "give" rather than take. I feel that this is probably one of the core take aways of the series while more or less being the "end goal" of the OFAFO plot-- "endless giving without ever taking" (All Might becoming the number one hero at the steep price of himself and Izuku almost destroying himself in the process of trying to emulate All Might) and "endless taking without ever giving" (AFO full stop, as well as society itself towards both the heroes and villains) are both extremes that only cause more people to get hurt. There has to be reciprocity. It has to be "One for All -AND- All for One." Give -AND- Take.

Side note: Himiko's favorite food being pomegranates also strikes me as ironic when you remember that Hori is gigantic mythology nerd-- In both art and mythology, it's not uncommon for pomegranates to be used as a visual for "flesh" and for their consumption to be used as a stand in for cannibalism. In greek mythology, pomegranates are known as the "fruit of the dead", and are believed to have originated from the blood of Adonis. There is also the legend of Persephone, who was cursed to remain within the underworld for six months each year as the price for consuming six pomegranate seeds while in hell.

The Buddhist legend of Hairiti/Kishimojin also stands out for framing pomegranates as a "cure" for cannibalism, by offering them to man-eating demons in lieu of flesh:

As for AFO-- it's been pointed out by several different people that he shares several parallels with the greek titan, Cronus, who is most famous for having devoured his own children whole.

With that in mind, I feel like the act of consuming blood has an almost mythological edge to it for these two (outside the obvious reality-based social stigma of it lol)-- the act of "eating" others, regardless of intent, is what condemned both AFO and Himiko to hell. But Himiko is offered a way out of that hell and ultimately finds salvation in allowing herself to be "consumed" in turn, while AFO just doubles down on eating every rando beefcake he can get his hands on while giggling like a school girl (and yet, when the chance to eat Toshi finally presents itself, he totally fails to capitalize on it. mfer can't even "cannibalism as a metaphor freaky gay sex with your dramaturgical foil" right smh 😤).

As an aside, when I say "people generally read into MHA too literally and expect entirely too literal conclusions for what is largely a fantastical story about abuse/trauma/coping mechanisms," how MHA depicts ""cannibalism"" through Himiko is actually one of the examples that comes to mind lol. So many people think that death or jail is the only appropriate conclusion for Himiko's character because it's the "only realistic conclusion" like they aren't reading a story where people have tape dispensers for arms lmfao.

OMNOMNOM-- (On Mouths)

:D

Not much to elaborate on here, mouths (and smiles) are AFO and Himiko's shared body motif in MHA's narrative. AFO's mouth is his only distinguishable facial feature during Parts 1 & 2, Himiko's smile/mouth is her defining feature and how others perceive it is a source of trauma for her. Her villain outfit is notable in how it covers her mouth/hides her smile while also resembling AFO's act 1 mask:

*squish*

During the final war, Himiko puts her mask on and hides her mouth immediately after being rejected by Izuku. This is symbolic of a lot of different things, but mostly, it drives home how she is no longer interested in talking things out and has "fully embraced being a villain." Ochako understands what's at stake and spends the rest of the fight trying to "take the mask back off"-- she understands there is something behind Himiko's villain mask that she needs to save.

Meanwhile, Toshi smashes past AFO's mask during Kamino and finds there is simply nothing underneath it-- reinforcing the idea that AFO has made "being a villain" his entire identity and that there is nothing worth saving behind his mask. However, Toshi was also the one who "smashed" AFO's facial features away in the first place. AFO definitely deserved getting his head popped, but in the context of MHA as a whole, I feel like AFO and Toshi's dynamic only highlights the overall tragedy of the hero/villain system and why it's a good thing that the new generation is starting to challenge it.

It is worth mentioning that mouths are frequently used to mask and dehumanize within the context of MHA's narrative, but this isn't something exclusive to AFO and Himiko ('sup Toshi) (''sup Tomura).

(I don't actually have anything else to add here lol)

Demon Child, Demon Lord

AFO and Himiko also stand out in how they're both framed as having been "born bad"-- Himiko by her parents, AFO by himself and the narration. Discerning readers already know that this is a crock of shit.

Child for One sees the Demon Lord being surrounded by people who provide for him out of fear while he's stuck living in isolation and squalor with Yoichi, and decides the only appropriate reaction to this is to make a children's comic book his entire personality (he's just like me fr)-- He embraces the idea of becoming a demon and shedding off his humanity, and immediately starts self-styling himself off a generic biz-caz corporate shmuck (lmfao).

Unlike AFO, Himiko resists the label of "demon" as much as she can-- she styles herself as "a cute high school girl" despite being a middle school drop out because she realizes the world will treat her a little more kindly this way (but only a little). Himiko longs to be seen as human, but is made to feel like a monster instead.

What I find interesting is that AFO himself outright admits that he lacked the ego/awareness necessary to "consciously" take Yoichi's quirk when they were children-- yet, both he and the narration continuously frame the siphoning of his mother's life, quirk, and Yoichi's nutrients as though they were intentional, malicious acts. AFO leans into this framing and builds his whole identity around it until that framing is finally pulled away from him literal seconds before his death.

Being "human" to Himiko means going back to a time where she was loved and accepted unconditionally. Being "human" to AFO means going back to being that screaming infant who no one would look at.

Like it or not, everyone is human in the end little dude.

Other Miscellaneous Similarities:

This one doesn't require much explanation-- through prioritizing their own needs above all else, AFO and Himiko both dehumanize other people the same way other people dehumanize them. Himiko is still a child, however-- and she is ultimately saved by her desire to be accepted and form genuine connections with others. Her final fight with Ochako is as much about getting Himiko to see Ochako as "human" as it is Ochako acknowledging Himiko's humanity. Once again, it's all about reciprocity/give-and-take.

""join our family and let me raise you! :D *hard cut to a burning orphanage*" AFO being genuinely puzzled that ppl aren't jumping at the chance to raised by him is my favorite running gag in mha.

Both AFO and Himiko also have a habit of being.... inappropriately intimate with other people, often to the point where whatever "relationship" they have with others exists almost entirely in their own head. Himiko calls Tsuyu by her first name and gets told to cut it out because this is a privilege Tsuyu reserves for her friends, and Himiko immediately interprets this as Tsuyu offering to be friends. AFO calls his worshippers his "friends" and his cult "his family" and asks that his young victims call him "uncle" like he's a kindly family friend and not the dude who is blackmailing them into betraying all their friends.

Also, neva 4get.....

To think AFO could have also had fun yuri times if he had just stopped being a dickhead for five seconds. Tragic. 😔

(/j)

[antenanotaic3]

A lil talk

[plasticbabyart]

Idiot boy failure and his lesbian girl best friend, who’s gonna tell him ?

[rwac96]

Prompt

Yang has always wanted to have sex upside down with Spider-Arc, and now she finally gets that chance after promising to keep his secret, for a prize.

Jaune fucking Yang upside down while holding onto a web at Vale is not something he predicted, but fuck is it sexy. They better be lucky enough to have no one looking outside their windows to see this.

Plat!-Plat!-Plat!-Plat!--PWALP!!

"Haaah, oh yes!" Yang Xiao Long arches her back as she hangs upside down, stuck to a spun web. "Mhmmf, right there! Don't stop!!"

The Blonde Brawler was naked, her muscular, curvaceous figure stuck to what looked like a spider's web. Placed in between two tall trees within Downtown Vale. Her dragon buns jiggled and clapped each time the pelvis of the costumed figure thrusts back and forth. Garbed in yellow & black, Jaune Arc, known as Spider-Man, pistoned his manhood in and out of Yang's slit. Upside-down sex was the last thing he expected or predicted to happen since being bitten by that glowing spider. But, he had a secret identity to maintain, he prayed there weren't any curious onlookers glancing through their windows.

"Nnngh, Yang!!" The unmasked vigilante spoke through gasps and groans, gyrating his pelvis back and forth against the Powerhouse of Team RWBY. "Ooh, Brothers! You're gripping me!!"

"Because--Oooh, fuck yes!!" She bit her bottom lip, attempting to keep her moans down to avoid attention. "B-Because we're doing it upside down, J-Jaune--Oooh~!!" She coils her legs around her lover's waist, "Or do you prefer if I called ya Spidey...or Lover Boy~?"

Thwalp!-Thwalp!-Thwalp!-Thwalp!--THWACK!!

"Hhhngh!!" He gazes into her lilac eyes, seeing them flash crimson for a moment. "Y-You're enjoying this too much--Oooh, Gods!!"

"Y-You're already balls deep in me--Haaahh, yesss!!" She reaches out to grab his shoulder. "Admit it, hun, you love this~."

[mzminola]

Keyblade wielders Dick Grayson & Cassandra Cain.

Princess of Heart Tim Drake.

[beanghostprincess]

Lawsanuso is great because you have this wannabe-edgy depressed 26 y/o being a freak for superheroes and then two guys who actually aren't that fond of their superhero personalities and would just. Rather not do that anymore. But Law is a stubborn pathetic wet cat and it's more painful to see him go "Well I don't care why would I care about you and your stupid-- Fucking. Idiotic costumes. I don't. Not me. I hate you actually. Fuck you" than to wear their suits again. So they wear them and put on a little dumb show while Law is trying not to show how much he is into that.

[mantiszack]

i stayed till 4 am to finish this last night ANYTHING FOR THE LESBIAN ELVES

[keykidpilipili]

Me: I'm going to check stuff on the author of the Journal for an Atlantis KH fic.

Atlantis wiki: *doesn't cite any source*

Me: Okay then! Disney Wiki?

Disney Wiki: *also doesn't cite any source*

[soundwave-radioandbroadcast]

I remember seeing a clip of an episode Transformers Animated and how Rodimus in that show had a bow and arrow, and you know what?

I think it was very sexy of the animators to give him a bow. I think all version of Roddie should get a bow.

[lucpoch]

Things I did while I was bored

[incorrect-skylanders-quotes]

Stormblade: Oh no, I wonder why there’s mistletoe hanging above us! I guess we have to kiss now.

Stealth Elf: (reluctantly holding the mistletoe on a stick above Stormblade and Nightfall) 

Nightfall: If you want a kiss you can just say so.

Stormblade: (sweating) I don’t know what you’re talking about.

[1-aussiedollar]

Some ref sheets for my headcanons! I have eye colour and shape, skin tone, tentacle colour (+ gradient if they have one), skin details, full name and handwriting! This is just part 1 tho I’ve got more to make

Edit: Only reason I drew Rider’s right eye and not Bamboo or Skull’s is because it’s drastically different (slit pupil and the sanitisation scar)