#stripes doing shit

[tigerdrachin]

gonna draw my favorite poly (texcalhoma) cause I can

you guys choose poses please :3

[tigerdrachin]

ohoho yes I do-

couple’s t-shirt idea

[egophiliac]

Do yoy like their silly little dance

the inside of my brain at any given moment:

[blu-ish]

Real smooth

[front-facing-pokemon]

[slightlymessier]

didn't dan stop saying 'what can i say' after he saw that compilation. i fear for the lives of the outfits about to be roasted

[starsinthenigth]

★unjuraka, poppe the clown★

CW: minor blood, axe. all poorly drawn.

[bl00doodle]

DOODELS

[ghostie-gengar]

bringing zoroark suit N back for halloween!

[tigerdrachin]

I am in desperate need of gay cowboys

give me caltexhoma content PLAES

gimmi them being muah

I BEG

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Hey, hey, I just wanna pop in here real fast and say that I've just discovered the funniest fucking trans head canons/aus, and that's the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles trans head canons/aus where they have no fucking clue that they're trans because Splinter doesn't know turtle anatomy.

It's the best. Holy shit. It's hilarious dog. They're so fucking stupid, it's great. This is my new favorite thing. They just find out one day that they've actually been trans this whole time because their Dad just assumed all of them were male. But surprise bitch! One/all/whatever of your sons actually had XX chromosomes the whole time!!

This is like... assigned cis at birth lmao

This is fantastic

[paul-simon-juggling]

Such a good video I found from Paul and Artie's 1982 tour of Japan!!

[ursanic]

Look at my Yuri Manga boy cosplay

[s0fter-sin]

i’ve stopped expecting interesting animation from bones. the star and stripe fight is cool but like every other fight/moment in mha, it’s only cool bc the source material itself is cool; bones does nothing to elevate the manga

they rarely try to experiment with colour and style. i saw so many colourings of the moment star and stripe made a giant version of herself out of the air; people made her look like a cosmos, like it reflected and bent the sky around her, doing so many inventive things and for the anime to just make her an outline against that godforsaken sky? i’m disappointed

but people will take me saying i’m disappointed and spin it to me saying the fight was bad. it wasn’t, just like most fights and moments in the anime aren’t bad but that’s all bc horikoshi knows how to draw. they never do anything beyond that; they never try and adapt it. whether it’s bc of time, direction, budget, or what have you, they will never do something truly inventive with their colouring

i’ve said this before and i’ll say it again, it’s not just that the sky is blue; it’s what the blue sky represents and that is an unwillingness to broaden their colour palette or atmosphere to support the changes in the tone of the story. the story isn’t just “will midoriya get into his dream high school and achieve his dream job?” it’s child abuse and societal systems and their dysfunctions, it’s racism and morality and is it right to try and save someone who’s determined to destroy the world just bc they are also a victim?

look at the finale of atla, a show that mirrors the narrative tone of mha; it starts out bright and colourful and vibrant to match the happy and small stakes nature of the story and as the tone of the story changes, the environment changes to reflect that. the siege of the north pole? everything goes blood red when the moon spirit is threatened, then goes completely desaturated when it is killed with only fire bending having any colour. the day of black sun? uses a solar eclipse to change the lighting. the entire sozin’s comet fight? has red skies and lighting to show the threat

bones abject refusal to change anything about the art itself is a detriment to horikoshi’s complex narrative

[purple-petrichor]

Gero and Scars

MarriageToxin Theory Time: Gero is horribly scarred. Specifically, on his torso.

Let's explore this:

>>Already has a facial scar

Gero is a bit unique among romcom protagonists for having a visible facial scar. And that one looks CHEMICAL. We know that Gero's upbringing was rough--was it due to his harsh poison training? If so, there's no way that treatment didn't leave other lasting marks elsewhere on his body.

>>Clothing as cover

Through the series so far, Gero tends to hide his body. He's shy to begin with, leaping away from nudity (with Kinosaki in chp 1, and with Ushio chp 91). But this also applies to himself as well. Gero is largely conservative about his own clothing.

He wears big, baggy clothes. Never goes anywhere without his coat either (although the character profile notes this is due to his job--lots of poison compounds hiding under there). It's relevant to note that we haven't seen him shirtless yet, despite other male characters (Sound User, Ushio's gym-obsessed uncle) stripping down.

Furthermore, when on the Ocean date with Himekawa, Gero wears a FULL WETSUIT. He really covers as much of his body as possible.

>>Hesitance around physical intimacy

Although this is a smaller point, it could perhaps be relevant. We know that Gero is very anxious about touch. Over the course of lots of character development he's become much more comfortable (such as being on Arashiyama's lap) with it, but in early chapters he used to physically flinch away and duck out of reach (Kinosaki, Ureshino). This could hint at a deeper discomfort with touch and physical intimacy--maybe he's subconsciously afraid of what people might 'discover' if they get too close.

>>All for the family

We have heard Gero speak about his childhood upbringing, and it was not a happy one.

The Poison Clan has no problem abusing their children if it means competent heirs. We see 'sensei' hitting him to the point of internal injury. And we also see him as an older boy, trembling as he works with chemicals.

Furthermore, when it comes to facial scars, his cousin Teruaki has one as well, at one eyebrow. It runs in the family, being a trauma that leaves marks both seen and unseen. Come to think of it, it's a bit strange that his sister Akari doesn't have one? If she does, where is it? I swear to god if that was because of some twisted sexist reason like 'don't ruin the girl's face so we can marry her off' ughhh Either way, in the Gero clan, there's no way you get out unscathed. Literally.

>>Survivor of a death game

This has not been fully elaborated on in-canon, but the implications have been fairly strong. The Poison Clan appears to select (or perfect) their heir by having children go through a set of trials. The survivor (?) becomes the official heir. Gero himself refers to this as essentially a death game.

It would be impossible to get out of this kind of Hunger Games without receiving some nasty injuries. Especially given the kinds of chemical substances that these potential heirs may have played with. Not to mention, the scene with him in kimono is the first appearance of that incredibly suspicious scar around Gero's eye, which I suspect may have a dramatic reveal later on. Really, I wouldn't be surprised if his body is littered with scars and/or other chemical burn marks.

What if Gero takes his shirt off and we just see a battlefield.

EDIT: slightly jossed by this counterpoint:

>>Arms

We do see a bit more skin than usual in his cat cafe date! Arashiyama really has a way of loosening him up. Here, the front of Gero's arms are visible, all the way to the mid-biceps. And....there's no scars. No suspicious chemical burns or missing fingertips. Hmm. Maybe he's a miracle heir and managed to avoid all damage except his eye? Or there are scars, just hidden around where the T-shirt covers instead?

[hislittleraincloud]

Oh ew. I dunno what to say about the weird [BRIGHT!] gingham between the stripes on that skirt. Or the weird zipper vest. At least the hair looks better. But that gingham...surely that can't be an Atwood decision 😬

Edit: I suppose it was an Atwood decision to go lighter because it wasn't as ✨BRIGHT✨ in S1.

You can see from her cuffs in both photos that the lightest part of the gingham was grayer in S1's skirt. In the newer pic, the white of her cuffs/shirt matches the gingham. In the older pics, the gingham is darker/grayer. That's why it was jarring to me. (( ETA to the ETA: You can also see that the lighter part of her blazer stripes/the main stripe pattern is lighter as well, when you compare the light quality of the stripes to the white of her shirt. I'm not liking any of it, it all looks like those cheap costumes you find on TEMU or AliExpress. In the newer costume she looks like she's lost amongst patterns...whereas with the old we are focused on Wednesday/Ortega herself. Hopefully it isn't as jarring in motion but. Still yech. ))

And I still hate the zipper vest.

I also hate the sparkle on the stripes of Enid's blazer.

...I should totally work my hate for this into Afterburn. It'd be funny.

ETA to the ETAs: This just reminds me of my short convo with Jany Temime, the costume designer who took over for Judianna Makovsky's and Lindy Hemming's work on Harry Potter 1 and 2 (I had contacted Temime back in the day when AOL was still around/a main source of contact, and when I needed to clarify something because I was designing for fandom when fandom was lacking in everything Potter). I asked her about her decisions re: making the costumes darker in Azkaban...the response was what was expected — darker themes, darker costumes to bring out the fact that they were ageing. Here we have the opposite. That's weird.