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[diueliz]

I keep trying to express how much helly/helena as a character does it for me but I can't phrase it well. Suffice it to say I need to eat her

[emerynn-art]

was feeling kinda down this morning so i drew max six times and that seemed to do the trick

[andhumanslovedstories]

There's so many horrible things happening in America right now that it has been interesting to see what individual horrors hurt me personally the most. I grew up going to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Musicals, plays, concerts, that weird bust of JFK, playing around on terrace during intermissions, putting on a velvet dress that you're going to ruin dropping a milk dud in your lap and not noticing until it's fully melted, wearing the pinchy shiny shoes that are the training bras of women's formal footwear, operas I didn't like but did love, jazz I didn't understand but still fascinated me, red carpet, big stairs, the absolute nightmare amount of experiences I had as a new driver as I repeatedly got trapped in the Kennedy Center's fucking private DC island or whatever the hell is going on traffic-wise, free performances on small side stages, getting to see an enormous production on the Center's most enormous stage, all of which was accessed by walking through that a long, tall hallway lined with flags of the world that made you feel like a dignitary attending the most important even in the world.

And now Trump's taken it over. He fired its board. He appointed one of his loyalists to run it. I want to throw up.

Sometimes I miss DC so much. I love the Pacific Northwest and expect I'll live here for the rest of my life, but this isn't my hometown. I grew up the edge of the District. I've lost cumulative years of my life stuck in traffic on the inner loop and outer loop. Because of the Smithsonian, it used to be so baffling to me that anyone ever had to pay to get into a museum. I've used the Washington DC zoo as a shortcut to a different part of the city because it's free to enter. You couldn't count the amount of knockoff Spider-man popsicles that I've eaten sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. My reading tastes were molded by Kramer Books in Dupont Circle. I spent afternoons walking around the National Mall, normally just a big empty field until there's an event--book fair, country music program, international cuisine, whatever--at which point for a day or a weekend or a week it becomes a sea of tents and stages. I went to protests outside the Capital and the White House about the war in Iraq. I froze my toes off watching Obama's 2008 presidential inauguration.

It seemed like everyone's family touched the federal government in some way. Everyone's family had moved here because they were military or state department or a political consultant or worked with an NGO or some other reason that meant you had to be here, in the nation's capital. Plenty of people had connections to the federal government that we more hush-hush. Like kids in class straight up going, "I have no idea what my parents do for a living. They're not allowed to tell me." High schoolers regularly, accidentally drove into the CIA parking lot and got escorted out because the premises were that accessible. My family moved here because my dad is a reporter who ended up covering international trade. (Imagine how much his job sucks right now.) He switched beats one summer to cover the White House instead. He got to fly on Air Force One. He got official Air Force One M&Ms. I was SO disappointment my dad didn't work there for Bush to call on him by nickname.

Every day my family got The Washington Post. I read the comics and the kid's page, then the rest of the Style section, then Metro, then news. I learned to read from it. We wrapped our delicate Christmas ornaments with its pages. We used yesterday's papers to clean our windows because they didn't leave streaks. I took journalism in high school. You can't IMAGINE how much and how frequently we talked about Watergate. When Post changed its motto to "Democracy Dies in Darkness" after Trump's election in 2016 that meant something to me. I knew Bezos owned the paper now, but that was still my paper, and the motto spoke to something I fervently believed: if people just knew what was happening, they wouldn't allow it to happen. If you expose a problem, people will naturally agree that it is a problem and that we should do something to fix it. Flash forward to Trump's third fucking campaign, and the newspaper wouldn't endorse a presidential candidate. Chickenshit cowardice. Then they change the motto. "Riveting Storytelling for All of America." Eat shit. You're nothing now.

Politics in America is just telling everyone how much you hate Washington, DC so that they'll elect you so you can move to DC. Well, guys, the city fucking hates you too. Republicans will never give the District actually meaningful political representation because no one in that city would vote for them. It's not just the policies; it's the contempt. No one in the new administration loves the city they schemed and lied and stooped to take over. It's just iconography to them, and all they care about is taking that iconography for themselves. Trump doesn't give a shit about the summer program for the Kennedy Center. He has never seen a show at the Kennedy Center. When he was president, he never attended the annual awards. He's trying to destroy one of the most significant places of my life and I'm genuinely unsure if he has ever stepped for inside of it.

[elkian]

So I never really questioned Kabru and Mithrun's dynamic given what's coming up, but that episode really emphasized some stuff to me. We know already that long-lived races, particularly elves, have a tendency to dismiss the other groups as being childlike. But the sheer infantilization that everyone, and specifically Kabru, have to deal with in that episode really hammers it home.

When Kabru mentions his adoption, pretty much all of the Canaries start immediately treating him like a toddler. And we know from flashbacks in the manga that he received pretty much the same treatment from his adopter - I wouldn't say he was quite treated like a favored pet, but it's much closer to that than any kind of healthy relationship dynamic.

So when Mithrun stands up, gets in his face, looks him eye-to-eye and says: "You're plotting something. I'm going to find out what.", that? That is the first time in this scene - maybe in his life - that an elf takes Kabru seriously. Mithrun has his own thing going on, but regardless of his reasoning, he addresses Kabru as a person and an adult. As someone with complex motivations who could potentially trip him up. I don't doubt Kabru has in the past used that infantilization to his advantage, but it's blatantly obvious that he doesn't enjoy it. Who would? So Mithrun starting their relationship by treating Kabru as a peer explains a lot about their dynamic down the line, in my opinion.

Kabru doesn't have to prove his humanity, his personhood, his adulthood to this man, one of a group infamous for how they treat younger species. It must feel like one hell of a paradigm shift.

EDIT: I've seen it pointed out on this post and others that Kabru also shows Mithrun understanding and decency and sees him in a way that others haven't been and I think that's a very important parallel and good point.

[thesassyravioli]

likes charge, reblogs cast or whatever

[mamawasatesttube]

what if the kon & clark tag was actually about kon & clark and not 5893298 ~batfamily~ fics? can you imagine? can you imagine a world where it was possible to go into superfamily tags and actually find things about the superfamily? can you imagine? waiter, why are these rodents in my soup? this is not what i ordered

[xieliansbignaturals]

I'm coping sooooo well.

[panathemas]

bb also likes these ships

[baby-xemnas]

kid has the most normal reaction to killer being in danger - shock then instant fear induced rage. its cute how he wears his emotions so openly

law freezes the fuck up but in a way that his brain goes into an overdrive the gears are whirring in his head so quickly it's actually dangerous for his head. he will turn the world upside down to keep a single hair fall off of bepo's head

meanwhile luffy has a proper reality break. even tho it happened before. with logic and rationality he could be handling it sane-ly but Nope. no world where zoro could be hurt (youve seen him hurt so many times will you stop reacting this way??? no.) thats too wrong to wrap his mind around he has to be taken there immediately so he sees it with his own eyes that you are lying and no zoro is not in danger

earth to luffy hello

[miralyk]

Respectfully, I was surprised not seeing you draw yourself as a fox and your face uncensored, you look cute!! Also, with your joke with your computer hauntings and assassin's creed 2, what about altair, are you playing assassin's creed 1 or playing out of order??

aaaaa thank you so much, i'm coming around to more self-confidence and being okay w showing my face! i'm still going to draw myself as a fox though, we'll see about me switching back and forth w either fox/human depending on whichever feels better, haha

as for gaming, yeah, i recently finished playing prototype and am now replaying ac1, ac2, and ac3 this winter break bc of nostalgia! i'm finishing ac1 atm and simply haven't doodled or said anything about it, but rest assured, the ghosts of desmond's ancestors (and co.) are freeloading on haunting my computer rn LMAO

[bougiebutchbitch]

gonna become The Enemy (an aggressive and vitriolic anti) but ONLY for the characters played by spn actors on The Boys. out of spite

[jimmyspades]

"Let's call it The Blacklist. That sounds exciting! That’s why we’re all here, of course. My wish list. A list I’ve been cultivating for over twenty years." THE BLACKLIST 1.01 "Pilot/Ranko Zamani (No. 52)"

[tomatette]

Random thoughts while re-reading 'Dark Rise/Dark Heir' #1

Okay, knowing what I know after reading both books, I wonder *why*. His mother obviously didn't send Matthew to help Will out of the goodness of her heart. She told him to run when she was dying.

Not to save Will - she would have killed him herself if she could. So ... to keep him away from those who actually want to bring Sarcean back?

Why send him to the Stewards? Did she hope they would figure him out and find a way to dispose of him?

Ugh, I love how everything makes perfect sense when you first read it, and still make perfect sense - just in a completely different way - when you re-read it.

[rumov]

like i get thats it ur life ur opinion but its just kinda weird with pernico? like i love your art of Nico /gen but I just find it to odd to ship pernico :(

it feels wrong to thing that when they first met each other Nico was mentaly phycisaly esc ten

andpercy was 14,

and as a former ten year old w a crush, its more like a "holy shit man he is cool" not a "Gods dam 😮😮😮😮"

like no super duper bad hate, it just an odd ship and it makes me rlly sad my fav Nico artist ships pernico :(((

i don’t think i’ve misled anyone so i’m not really sure why you’d be surprised about this. i’ve been posting percico since march, this isn’t anything new

the age difference seems moot. nico is the youngest in the cast so EVERYONE is older than him. it applies to every ship. will is 2 years older, leo and jason (other popular ships for him) are 3 years older. but it’s specifically percico that catches all the flak. is 4 the danger zone for whatever reason?

also i already answered an ask like this that was way more eloquent

[non-un-topo]

*chef's kiss*

[masochistartt]

wait wait James and Jamie's signet rings match??

they do <3

james in 2x08

jamie in 3x03

silver band, black stone, i want to say they were probably like. father-son gifts for jamie when jamie signed his premier league contract with city but that's just my Thought