#such a punchable face

[nabexis]

So like. Did anyone else notice that Jayce doesn't immediately shoot Viktor? He only powers his hammer on AFTER Viktor has opened his eyes. Below is Jayce's reaction to seeing Viktor (his Viktor, from his universe, not the future version of him) for the first time after walking into the dome. For the first time in months. That's like. A look of wonder. Almost reverence.

Assuming the Jinx/Rictus/Vander fight is cut to real-time after Jayce has gone into the dome, he's staring at Viktor for like. 5 minutes.

My interpretation here, of Jayce's expression just before Viktor finally opens his eyes to see Jayce in the room with him, he's committing Viktor to memory, before he has to kill him.

Edit: I almost missed it but like. HE IS SMILING For like 2 frames it's an outright smile. He leans in towards him, too. I cannot handle this.

[north-noire]

William and Henry working at Fredbear's together (they don't have any blueprints yet, god help them both)

Inspired/redrew from this tweet

[hymnoeides]

hi ant！I've known abt you recently but I've been attracted deeply both by your gorgeous art and adorable characteristics.You are so cute lovely and I really like you！btw thanks for generously sharing your wonderful artwork for us( you are so prolific！🥹🥹)

Then I am bit curious abt how will you design Antinous？I want to hear your thoughts regarding him like.thank you so much for answering！wish you gooooood day！🥰😝

Aaaa thank you so much!! 🥺 I’m so honored you like my works and such ueueue….

I think the image of Antinous I have in my head is… I always imagine him as a little way more snobbish rude noble rich kid alongside the violent villain HAHSHW so he’s a bit more pampered looking to me.. idk if I managed to capture that well,, quick scribble w a new brush！🤲

[tavvoc]

[pommedepersephone]

"Little hellions" had me rolling.

Ya'll need to see this

[limonnitsa]

this is so them help

[mikurulucky]

And the award for fiction's most punchable face goes to...

🏆Jimmy, from Mouthwashing!🏆

What an asshole! 🎉

[tealvenetianmask]

I have some thoughts on why we hate Cash fucking Buckzo so much.

I mean, I see other bad dads from HB get mentioned, but none with the frequency and absolute ire that Cash gets. And I feel it. Every time I'm rewatching and I see his extremely punchable face, I get angry again.

I think the reason we feel more burning hatred for Cash than for, let's say, Crimson, who's objectively done more horrific things, is because Cash reminds us of people in our own lives. Crimson is . . . a shockingly terrible person . . . but he hasn't hurt us personally. Cash (*cough* the parents who have some of his traits) has hurt A LOT of us directly. Let me explain.

Cash is every parents who:

Made their kids feel disappointing/worthless/worth five bucks and a condom

Made kids compete for their love and approval

Set up a golden child and scapegoat system

Taught us that our worth comes from achieving things

Exposed kids to adult concerns and dangers WAY too early

Made children feel responsible for the troubles faced by the family ("don't you want to be able to help me and your mama out?")

Threatened their kids

Did stupid things (fireworks in a tent???) and blamed their kids for their own mistakes- presumably

Generally used kids for their own needs instead of meeting the kids' needs.

Most people (luckily) didn't grow up with parents who did ALL of these things, but some did. And a whole lot of us experienced at least some of them growing up. I didn't even mention the heavily implied alcoholism- and that impacts a lot of children too.

So yes, I hate this guy partially because I'm very much a Blitz kinnie, but ALSO with just a couple of minutes of screentime, he managed to trigger a whole lot of people's childhood trauma.

Anyway, it looks like we're in for more (flashbacks at least), so buckle up!

[better-call-mau1]

Rebels Rewatch: "Iron Squadron"

Unexpected Sato backstory??? And other fun things!

Oh hey, the rare Star Wars planet that is not one single biome!

My son looking cutely contemplative. :)

Hera's the first to mention that Sato has "connections" here, and my brain automatically assumed family even before the reveal.

This freighter the kids are using is a YT-2400, which apparently was kind of a big deal to Legends fans because of some dude named Dash Rendar. This is not my area of lore expertise so I won't comment on that, but I will observe that if fanbros had an expectation of seeing that guy in this episode then it makes more sense why they got pissy when it was revealed the crew was upstart plucky kids instead.

Still, adult Star Wars fans really have got to stop mindlessly hating on teen/kid characters.

"They're attacking the Empire head on!" I mean, y'all have a Corellian freighter too and you do that all the time. I guess the YT-2400 looks way more civilian grade to them, no obvious modifications.

Why is Kanan in the turret, guys? Yeah yeah I know he has the Force to help him "see" but this is just... silly.

Hera still operating under the impression that it's a civilian ship. I mean technically it is but also you're in the Rebellion Hera, we literally just had an Imperial ace talk about how y'all use whatever ship that flies a few episodes ago lol.

You know the trick with the cargo crates is actually pretty clever. The YT-2400 obviously has very little actual armament aside from the one top gun, very easy to lull your enemy into thinking you're harmless.

Lol Zeb accurately calling that Iron Squadron is "a ship-full of Ezras".

I haven't commented on it before but sometimes Ezra just sits like such a typical teenager, using the furniture in all the wrong ways.

Big fan of the slightly vulnerable note in Sato's voice here.

Lol Ezra and Sabine's faces here.

"If you like a junk pile." "Be nice." A+ adorable banter moment, love it.

There goes Chopper antagonizing other droids again.

Mart is surly and grumpy and looks like a shaggy kitten and I love him. <3

Gooti trying to diffuse the tension in the room by offering waffles. Relatable.

Mart honestly sounds just a bit like Dark Side Drunk Ezra, the undernotes of anger in his voice, insisting that they have things under control and don't need help. Honestly it was kind of an amazing and interesting idea to put Ezra alongside a bunch of (slightly) younger kids a few rungs back on the character development ladder to contrast how much more mature he's gotten.

Mart confusing different Imperial ships for a Star Destroyer is also a great running gag. Sabine gets so annoyed lol.

Lothal still looking relatively pretty.

I would really like to praise Lars Mikkelson for making me creeped out by the most innocuous of scenes with Thrawn, all the man has to do is comment on Iron Squadron being interesting and mildly insult Konstantine and my skin crawls, ggughhhh.

Thrawn setting up lesser officers for failure again.

Relating to deliberately casting Ezra as the more mature one, it even extends to how they keep posing him this episode. He's not more than a year or two older than the Iron Squadron kids and yet he feels so much older in his bearing and manner of speaking.

The shoulder nudge and the way Sabine goes, "Hmm?" makes me think they're improving this on the fly.

I've joked before about this looking like a cute family photo but it's still true.

Spaceparents be skeptical lol.

Chopper just whacking the panel with hammer. XD

"This might be just a planet to you, but it's our home!" Hoo boy, that's the heart of it isn't it? Ezra has been through this exact thing. So he understands the instinct to dig in and fight back. But like Mon Mothma would later remind him in Season Four, you can't save every planet right away. Sometimes you have to retreat and regroup, and come back stronger later.

Sometimes you have to leave home.

It doesn't mean you don't fight. It just means you don't let your fear of loss make you stupid.

Once again leaning on that message of "How we choose to fight."

This is purely in the realm of headcanon but Mart's obsession with suicidally charging a Star Destroyer makes me think that might be how his father died, or something similar to it at least.

Gooti and Jonner sharing a look like, "Uhhhhhh maybe they have a point about our ship being way too small to take on the Empire alone."

Yeah, no, I'm sticking with my idea that Mart has just a little bit of a death wish and wants to go out taking revenge against the Empire that killed his father.

Precious little rage bean. <3

Sabine reminding Ezra not to get in trouble with Hera for disobeying orders again.

It's okay Sabine, he's learned that lesson lol.

Subtle animation appreciation moment: The sheer floof to Mart's hair. I can't believe how much volume it feels like has, just from the way it shifts around his head.

"I am all the family he has left." :((((

STILL SO MAD THAT WE NEVER GOT MART'S REACTION TO SATO'S SACRIFICE AT THE BATTLE OF ATOLLON.

Right, continuing with the Mart-is-literally-Ezra-from-a-couple-seasons-prior parallels, Mart's disbelief and delight at the Ghost coming back for him.

And Konstantine makes a really stupid decision in the effort to... idk, give himself more glory? He literally has enough ships and firepower to blow both freighters to bits and he insists on this showy mine trap move.

This is why Thrawn sent you by yourself, pal, he wanted to see if you'd croak.

Lol the Ghost took a potshot at the light cruiser as it was passing.

Chopper continuing in the grand habit of bullying other droids.

Ahhhhhhh Sato came! He was too far away to be able to get there on time and he came anyway!

HIS FACE.

Yeah uh, Konstantine? You should have known the mine plan would never have worked as soon as you lost signal contact with it. Also it's really stupid to let them get the ship that close to your cruiser before you try to detonate it.

Mart's little "...Oh." expression. <3 A+ running gag payoff, no complaints.

HNNNNNGGHHHHH YOU CAN'T JUST IMPLY THAT THRAWN AND SATO HAVE SOME KIND OF CONNECTION AND THEN NOT FOLLOW UP ON THAT. At least let us get some Sato backstory out of it, c'mon.

Thrawn calling Konstantine just to rub the embarrassment in.

THIS IS WHY HE DISOBEYED YOUR ORDERS AT ATOLLON DUDE. MAYBE NEXT TIME DON'T HUMILIATE YOUR UNDERLINGS BY DELIBERATELY SENDING THEM INTO SITUATIONS YOU KNOW THEY'LL BUNGLE.

Aw frick.

Don't think about the Kanan-Ezra parallels, don't think about the Kanan-Ezra parallels, don't think about the Kanan-Ezra parallels--

They're adorable.

And we couldn't let the episode close without getting one last gag in by way of Chopper rolling up to R3 and smacking him for no damn reason lololol.

I unironically love this episode and these kids. <3 Fandom was way too mean about this episode, why do y'all hate fun?

There are a few things introduced in this episode that really should have been picked back up and followed through on and yeah, a couple moments are a smidge cringe. But the humor is overall solid and sue me Mart Mattin is precious and I love the depth his existence adds to Sato. AND I WANTED SO MUCH MORE I DON'T CARE THAT I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO LOVES THEM I NEEDED MORE IRON SQUADRON.

*ahem* I'm normal about this episode. Soooo normal.

[jade-of-mourning]

they were all kinda squishy at the start

[nonbinary-arsonists]

my favorite poly ships :3 crazy how the ship containing the most humans is the one that looks like it has none.

(click for better quality!)

[atanxdoesstuff]

this was originally just a sketch but it was too dark to get proper lighting for a postable picture so i transferred it to digital and then did some really basic shading and a bunch of background elements :)

a bit of hoodie for the soul

[cykepedia]

collection of prowl getting sucker punched

[jekisatsu]

Fish is slaying today. Wait till I throw him into a swimming pool

[crystallizsch]

hi so Yuuyu Laya is back??? i guess??? (he's gonna be neglected </3)

this is my previous post about him (a lot of the initial ideas are changed/scrapped now) and in a nutshell:

yuuyu (he/they) is my twst tinkerbell oc and who is one of the first batch of ramshackle members

he's not yuu/mc, he is just called “yuuyu” (which is just a nickname so not his real name)

the “real yuu” in question is in their second year and is officially the ramshackle prefect/housewarden

sneak peak of my very convoluted oc lore below the cut:

[marclef]

what are your thoughts on bruno, the guy who says “nothing compares” and also appears in fakey’s post escape area? i’m also curious to see how he looks in your style, he’s super underrated and deserves more appreciation

Bruno... a very curious case indeed.

i always like seeing other people's interpretations of him! is he Fake Peppino, was Fake Peppino HIM, is he even related, or is he simply just a stranger, the true original owner of "Bruno's Pizza"...

for me, Bruno is just another one of the vicious mockeries against Peppino. meant to be a caricature, but in a more perfect sense: a more "normal", perfected version of Peppino. maybe what Pizzahead was wanting from Fake Peppino, or, maybe, just another thing to make Fake Peppino suffer, from the truth that he's not really who he thought he was.

Fake Peppino surely thinks so, another painful memory, something from his time back at the tower that he'd rather forget. maybe at one time he thought he was "Bruno"... but that's in the past now.

and something, he'd rather much not think about again.