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New FNAF clown Jackie from secret of the Mimic!!
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#michael afton#fnaf jackie#circus baby#Ennard#the mimic#paper pals#fnaf eleanor#sister location#fazbear frights#secret of the mimic#ALL THE stuff coming out from PAX is so cool#I wish I was there to peep it myself BUT maybe next time pff#ALL THE secret of the mimic info is super neat#it has a demo there it seems it does take place in the 70s#IN a toy factory btw#but the biggest drop is of course Jackie#the animatronic that was in the SOTM trailer#now having a fully realized design#sheâs like a jack in the box! her arms can extent#obviously I had to draw Jackie immediately#I LOVE her design#she joins all the other fnaf clowns in the series â¤ď¸#rip to Michael and the other fnaf protagonists though pff#Iâm super curious how Jackie plays into everything but I canât wait#love the silly clown girl â¤ď¸â¤ď¸â¤ď¸
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New rogue in Gotham
#melo's art#dpxdc#dcxdp#danny fenton#jack fenton#White coffin au#It takes a few months before the Bats find out that âFatherâ has the body of his son inside what they thought was a tool box
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Anyway Iâm a clown because this is how I chose to costume myself as a female Orc for a renfaire
In my defense, it was nearly 100 degrees out and being sexy is fun
#I do look p hot ngl#also Iâm my defense I didnât have time to make anything new so I had to pull something from my previous costume box#I donât like the belt angle but thatâs cause I had to take out some things tucked into it so I could effectively sword fight#half orc#cosplay#renaissance faire#dungeons and dragons#dnd cosplay#women with swords
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Finished the Arkham series today so i wanted to post an old doodle of my favourite little loser. Iâve had no idea what to draw recently so Iâve been pretty absent but Iâm trying my best to not over criticize myself and just dump the art that i have stockpiled
(The gay version)
#soursart#dc fanart#tim drake#dc robin#my favourite thing is drawing characters who have had the absolute shit beaten out of them#heâs just taking a little break is all he had a long day#he needs to be shoved in a box and kinda just left there i think itâd be good for him
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Remember: The burning sensation is part of the process.
#Mouthwashing#blood#body horror#Emphasizing here that this is in reference to a media and character and not a cry for help on my end.#Mouthwashing is one of those games that tickles my brain and checks all the boxes for my niche interests -#-but it wasn't something that got the silly comic part in my cortex firing up. My analysis brain is eating well though!#What said...It is impossible for me to see this scene and not say out loud: âMe in the middle of my work day".#While there is a lot more going on with curly I personally resonated a lot with his struggles with burnout.#Burnout feels like mouthwash to me. That you keep rinsing out your mouth trying to get rid of the rotting smell#but it's just surface level solutions. The real cure requires something far more significant to actually make a difference.#The job 'is hard' and 'everyone struggles'. It's part of the process right? You're tired? Anxious? Depressed? Us too! Chin up!#Actually I resonated with a lot of things within Curly (this is a curly positive space - he's not perfect. He's just human).#One thing being his desire to see the good in people and believe in their potential.#Because here's the thing. Some people truly do just need someone in their corner who stands by them so they can grow and improve.#And some people will take advantage of your kindness. You focus so much on their humanity while you stop being a person to them.#The horrifically toxic relationship persists because Curly tries to see the bigger picture and believes in the good within.#Anyone who has lived through constantly trying to reframe the hurt as something else knows-#-just how many excuses your brain will make to avoid cognitive dissonance. It's human psychology.#Jimmy sucks so bad. But we the audience have the privilege of not having years of baggage associating him in our minds as 'friend'.
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What's that on your cape, superman? Oh that a feral child. Wait what?!?
Superman was just helping a family out in the middle of near the woods by finding their lost daughter who was playing around with her imaginary friend.
Only to land back down with the little 6 year old girl, who jump out of his arms to hugs her mom as she pointed back at Superman's cape.
"Superman found me and dany, but now Dany won't let go of Superman's cape.." Said the blonde haired child with twigs and leaves in her hair and mud on her pony shoes.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Superman. Susie just have a very active imagination and talk a lot about her imaginary friend dany that she found in a broken box at the park a couple weeks ago." The mother said embarrassingly shushing her child who whined that dany is real and right there holding Superman's cape.
Superman chuckled a bit amused and played along as he kneed down in front of Susie.
"Is it OK that I bring dany with me? I'll make sure he'll be alright with the other imaginaries." Superman said with a gentle smile while Susie looked at him and back at what behind superman before whispering in Superman's ear.
"Okay, but you promise to feed him green food? He really like the green candy rocks best but doesn't like spinach either." Susie whispered as quietly as possible but it was pretty loud enough to be heard around the adults.
Superman nod a bit before saying goodbyes as he flies back off to meet with the rest of the justice league with John Constantine.
"Um... Superman..?" Zatanna asked a bit as she was staring at something.
"Yes?"
"I think you accidentally brought a feral child with you..." zatanna said pointing at his cape.
Which superman turn to see that there indeed was a feral thin child, wearing dirty mud covered clothes, twigs and leaves stuck to what seem to be black over grown hair that hang down to his bottom as he was clinging onto his cape with tiny tiny boney hands completely mesmerized by it.
As Superman reach his hand to gently pull the delicate looking small hands away from his cape.
CHOMP.
"Sweet mother of pear-" Superman said with a winced painfully as his hand was bitten and nearly was halfway engulped by the tiny child who growled menacingly even though it look cute with is daring blazingly blue eyes glaring at him in a warning while holding half of his hand that was starting to bleed hostages between sharp chomper.
Wait..
Blood...?
Superman froze a bit as he stared at the feral child holding his bleeding hand in his mouth, not letting go even if he tried to pull away before looking at the rest of the justice league with a panic and shock look on his face.
#dc x dp#dpxdc#danny phantom#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dc x dp prompt#dcxdp#de aged danny#superman#clark kent#clark think danny is a kyptonian which is kind of true.. but he ain't the father#feral child danny#Susie found danny in a broken fenton containment box far from amity park#danny consciousness was thrown out the window long ago for now and his obsession is the one taking the wheels at the moment
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Coppy Youtooz Collectible Figure ⢠$30.00
IN STOCK IN TUMBLR'S US BASED WAREHOUSE AND SHIPPING RIGHT AWAY. THIS IS NOT A PREORDER NOR A DROP SHIP.
Toner goes in the back! Here comes Coppy, everyoneâs favourite office assistant in this official Tumblr x Youtooz collab!
Coppyâs rectangular grey body sits with trays sticking out on each side as arms. He has two green handles in the middle of each bottom drawer. Just below his mouthâs opening, you see a green button adjacent to a black panel with yellow buttons. Atop the lid is Coppysâ eyes and eyebrows. Coppyâs double-walled window box shows various pages floating down with a gradient dark blue background.
3.5 inches tall
Featuring matte, embossed, protective outer sleeve
Custom-sized plastic protector for maximum protection
About Coppy
Coppy was first introduced as an April foolsâ joke, which took Tumblr by storm. He is an animated office assistant and copy machine. Coppy was created as a parody of another well know animated office assistant.
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"little miss prairie faerie" is a cute name actually... (but I won't use it if she doesn't like it)
#neopets#illusen#aquanutart#thank you faerie festival for letting me support my childhood fave#even though i stumbled into the festival five days in and was randomly assigned a team because i was too late to choose#i was like yesss i can get rid of all my junk from the plot--wait i can get a faerie doll??#nevermind. i have to do this RIGHT#okay! time to rediscover my addiction to cheat!#...okay! time to restrain myself from spending all my free time on cheat!#i used to sit there obsessively playing cheat! on dial-up back in the day#also due to the festival i won at cheeseroller for the first time in my entire life. then i was too happy with my honey cheese to donate it#as a kid i didn't know how to play cheeseroller because i didn't know what cheese name to enter#i just sat there staring at the empty input box trying to think of a name of a cheese out of my head. it was very frustrating#i kept playing cheeseroller after i won because i was so happy i finally figured out how to play but i haven't won again since then#my one honey cheese remains my treasured prize. no i did not donate it#anyway my determination to farm 8-point items ended after one day when i realized how much time it takes to play cheat!#and i switched to 6-point but then missed a day and wound up with not enough points to get the staff#but i had actually been agonizing anyway over how i wouldn't end up with enough points to get the staff AND the faerie doll#simple choice now. i can have faerie dolls guilt-free
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đâ¨đwelcome.. heâs here :3 đâ¨đ
#FINALLY!!!!#so scary actually posting himâŚ#fall out boy#my art#ita bag#my store#ipod bags are going to take a little longer#i wanted to post them at the same time but iâm basically out of money that isnât in my emergency/surgery fund lol#theyâll be available soon though i just need to order some boxes the right size#hopefully i set up the shipping alright just message me if u have any problems with it!!
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#Iâm just gonna put these here so I can rant about all the issues I see in the#so like I as an idiot was like letâs see if I can do a style study on qwille using my favorite boy right#but qwille a brain works in mysterious ways cause like Iâm trying to hard to firgure out how they know where to put stuff#and of course the rendering is like that in between fully rendered and that more soft vague#which is gorge#but my brain when I do it is like you need to fix you need to fix this looks bad you suck blahblah#not to even mention the anatomy#which is completely fucked here#I canât do shoulders to save my life#and he looks so dumb sitting on that box#like whatâs wrong with his shoe#I know somethingâs wrong#I think I need to take a moment#Iâm caught in one of those logic loops rn#blahhhhhh
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#daniel ricciardo#dr3#yeah i'm still here in this video#so many people talked about the old daniel over the past year or so and I think he started to take that to heart and believe it#but removed from all of that nonsense I think he's recognizing that he wasn't what fundamentally changed actually#I'm about to get deep in the tags of this post so look away#there's a quote by emily mcdowell that i've been thinking about in terms of daniel these days:#âFinding yourself" is not really how it works. You aren't a ten-dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are also not lost.#Your true self is right there buried under cultural conditioning#other people's opinions and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are.#âFinding yourselfâ is actually returning to yourself.#An unlearning an excavation a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.#and here daniel is returning to himself#unlearning the bullshit that they placed on him#stretching out his limbs from the boxes they tried to cram him into#Anyway thinking too deeply about this multimillionaire that I do not actually know but who I know...ya know?
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Pop Goes the Rabbit!
#finding frankie#finding frankie game#finding frankie fanart#zeistyâs heavy hitters#finding frankie spoilers#just in case tag#tw eye contact#for my peeps who need that tagged#first off: forgot real frankie doesnât have five fingers#second off: does anyone see my vision. thatâs a jack-in-the-box.#i know this isnât the frankie that pops out of the box. but i like his swag so he gets to take a crack at it#he forgor to tie his shoes!!! somebody needs to tell him!!!!! /silly /j
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do you happen to have that page that talks about the beauty standards of each race?
Yeah sure. While scavenging pics for this I found this neat reddit compilation & chart & theory talk too. I had um, way more to say than I anticipated (I know you only wanted the one page. I have nothing to say for myself. Like most topics in Dunmeshi things snowball because theyâre so interconnected. MercyâŚ) so, many races and observations are only mentioned near the bottom.
Beauty standards and race in Dungeon Meshi
Not pictured thereâs also how elven society is harsh on visibly disabled people, and how the demon took away Mithrunâs silver eyes and ears to take away his pride. Thereâs also how Senshi might have fit in with the orcs more easily because of the dwarven wide body shape, and how they tend to have more body hair too I suppose. In the extra on orcs we see Senshi living with the orcs and he gets judged because of the hierarchy rather than his looks.
What is fashionable also differs from culture to culture, and thereâs how tattoos only seem common with elves, though dwarves and others do also sometimes have some. They seem to not raise much brows, which makes sense since for many essentially theyâre for professional (magical) purposes especially with elves. Gender roles also differ in type and importance, but generally they are similar to irl ones for the races we see. Elven society seems to be the least gendered, which would be an unsurprising logical outcome of having lesser sexual dimorphism aka they look more androgynous. Comparing fashions and gender roles and how they affect beauty standards would be a whole other compilation and conversation. Kui has great worldbuilding partially because sheâs got such a good grasp on sociopolitics and geopolitics. History affects cultures and beauty standards greatly. Kuiâs oneshot Distant Utopia was very eye opening on her way to worldbuild and the consideration she gives these things, I do really recommend reading it.
Out of the big 5, we know the least about gnomes, but their sheet does say both culture and region are similar to dwarvesâ and they end up being confused together often, so we can imagine the beauty standards are similar to dwarvesâ as well.
I wanted to touch on this in a post eventually, but how one daydream hour page said half-foots tended to be curvaceous like in the artwork below puzzled me for a long time, all the half-foot characters we see during canon are rather slender and lanky after all, Chilâs succubi also being more curvy than plump. Economics are for sure a factor in that I imagine, the half-foots characters we see are all implied to be some flavor of poor or malnourished, as are half-foots depicted as empoverished oppressed minorities in general. Even comparing the artwork with the half-foot sheetâs depicted average half-foot, the ones on the left seem bigger. Wouldnât it make sense though, if unlike dwarves half-foots donât have similar naturally wide bodies, yet due to idolizing dwarves they work towards having a similar body shape/type to emulate them?
Itâs said half-foots tend to stick to pretty ethnically homogeneous regions (aka half-foots-only communities) unless they move to the big city with ambition to try and make it big (like Chilchuck and his wife & kids did), and thatâs interesting imo because then that would mean that in a ton of half-foot communities, they rarely see or interact with dwarves whom they try to emulate. Of course, one thing about beauty standards is that when they get adopted, at one point it stops being "this is how dwarves look and so this is how half-foots should look" and just becomes "this is how half-foots should look", most people feel as though beauty standards arenât learned but innate, so I figure the half-foots wouldnât have any problem still seeking dwarvish traits when there are no dwarves around.
Thereâs also stuff you can glean here and there if you want to extrapolate more. Like how in the race swap artworks, Mickbell is only smiling in the dwarf portrait, and Rinâs elven portrait looks very close to her elven one- Rin who is stated to be beautiful in her profile blurb. Benichidoriâs extra does teach us tallmen can definitely have harsh beauty standards, but also since the text portrays her as very dysmorphic thatâs likely reflected in her thoughts to a much more intense degree than is common, not an accurate strict baseline to go off. Ah, Kabruâs blue eyes are also why he and his mother lived a rough life in Kabruâs hometown, but that seems to be regional. Good post here on the topic of Kabruâs blue eyes and ties to irl history. Thereâs a lot to be said about Kabru being a man that in many ways is close to elven beauty standards, and how that might have affected or been affected by his upbringing with elves + his persona as someone that can effortlessly charm most people. Marcilleâs section here in this essay also goes into Marcilleâs struggles to fit in with the ideal image of an elf.
Looking human
Also notable are beastkins and demihumans: Demihumans are all dehumanized which makes people treat them worse. So if you differ from the visual idea of "human" (an in-world subjective categorizatiom just as much as demihuman is) most people do judge you negatively. Elves and dwarves get to fight about which type of human is considered the prettiest, but demihumans are below tallmen and half-foots, they are considered as simply below the beauty contest, incompatible with it.
Onis are perhaps the demihuman people we know of with the least cultural influence on the dunmeshi world, and with less intensely different appearances than other demihumans, but even them are treated as lesser than human, treated as beasts to slain for reputation points or useful strength to have around and command. Itâs said their "magnificient horns" and fangs are often shaven off when the oni lives in tallman towns, so you could easily make the argument that onis are denied the right to have their own beauty standards, having to conform to other peopleâs and going through mutilation to take away features they might otherwise have taken pride in. Inutade was bought by the Nakamotos from a dangerous sumo fighting ring that got one of Inutadeâs tooth broken on her first and only fight. Remember when I said different fashions existed in dunmeshi and how those could also affect beauty standatds? Like the elves, if you look at the portraits pages that include a lot of characters that arenât in the story you can see distinct cultures within the same races, for example one young elf is bald which is in sharp contrast with usual elven long luscious hairstyles, and thatâs especially true for onis I think. Maybe not only from different regions but different eras as well⌠They have a bit of population in the very north of the western continent, so I like to think some of the ogres live in very cold, maybe even subarctic conditions. The point Iâm getting at here is that within a race, culture/ethnicity like with Kabru as well will also influence them, different communities will have differing beauty standards. The oni history blurb and third row first collumn portrait remind me of Mongolia (which historically was a lot of different nomadic communities with different cultural identities as well. Something something, the oni empire experienced a decline and then tallmen overpowered them, and now theyâre governed and split apart by stronger social classes & slavers and the richness of culture was hurt for it), but obviously many of them are dressed and look rather japanese, makes sense considering living in/close to Wa, and first row second collumn portrait reminds me of ainus which again would be logical considering geographical placement, though Iâm far from an expert. Interestingly, ainus are indigenous people both in Japan and Russia- Perhaps the northern western continent ogres are meant to be closer to Russia than Canada like I imagined? Ok tangent over.
The kobold sheet says theyâre especially sought after as slaves because theyâre "adorable", but locally in the western continent theyâre repeatedly said to be seen more as ferocious and dangerous. The dehumanization is most apparent in the first comic below. The language barrier and conflicts no doubt worsen this by a lot, but I think itâd be hard to deny that their canine appearance makes the dehumanization worse. "Theyâre ferocious beasts, theyâre demihumans, they canât be communicated with". Most characters in Dungeon Meshiâs world are desensitized to slavery and most characters are prejudiced one way or another. Point being, kobolds are fully removed from human beauty standards, but no doubt for kobolds, other kobolds are more beautiful than humans are. Theyâre assumed to be an uncivilized bunch, but just like any other people they like to aforn themselves with nice clothes and jewelry and keep themselves clean and groomed; they too take care of their appearance and take pride in it.
And the orcs! This one we have the most contact with in canon, with not only there being foreigner characters from the ethnicity or hearsay of their homelands and culture but full on contact with a community. We get to see up close what theyâre like and what they think, and of course in turn theyâre our introduction to how demihumans are harshly looked down upon and seen as inferior, less human and thus less worth valuing and less dignified. Itâs text that orcs are ugly to most humans and humans are ugly to most orcs. Since I judged they didnât need accompanying explanation the pictures showing this are in the pictures dump at the top.
God forbid you sell vegetables to orcs my god- but then again they do basically mandate adventurers to kill any orcs they come across so yeah the world isnât above that even a bit.
So yes, my main point here is simply that orcs are yet another evidence of the physical ideal of "human" being an important beauty standard for human societies globally.
Izutsumi is our glimpse at how beastkins are treated in the world, and in Wa at least thatâs ending up being caged and mistreated as part of a freak show. Izutsumi hates her appearance and wishes she could leave the feline part of herself behind to only be human. Interestingly, not that we have a lot of info on them so this is very much a take with a grain of salt situation, but there seems to be less stigma around artificial beastmen, those who can shapeshift at will. The main difference is of course appearance, that most of the time they simply look like average tattooed humans. Artificially creating humans is an illegal practice, and no doubt itâs not well regarded, but being able to hide that makes them less likely to be discriminated at any moment, or even just discriminated less intensely. Again, looking human is important, not only for belonging but for safetyâs sake. Beauty standards rule the world with harsh hands.
Mermaids and fishmen
Ok weâre done now right? Right-! But wait⌠WaitâŚ! Mermaids and fishmen are said to be demihumans too, special separate cases to the main three demihuman species however, which is also represented by how mermaids and fishmen both are in the Adventurerâs Bible chapter Monsters meanwhile ogres, kobolds and orcs are in the chapter World. Theyâre an interesting topic because they directly tackle this topic, not only in a meta way for the readers but also making characters themselves struggle to quantify their humanity with the goal of knowing wether they should be eaten or not, especially Chilchuck. Chilchuckâs "is it really just a matter of feelings?" mini arc.
The party asking themselves "Should we eat this?" is very common, and often they end up playing a little loose on morality, like eating the red dragonâs meat despite it having digested Falin. Not unsimilarly Marcille freaks out a little over the vegetables they harvested having been grown with fertilizer, aka largely human poo. Half of the motivation of "should we eat this perhaps sentient creature" is out of consideration and compassion, but more strongly and more often, the characters struggle with a sense of taboo at eating something too closely related to humans. Even, feel uncomfortable because of the deepseated impression that eating it would dirty them in some way. Cannibalism is an interesting and relevant topic in many ways, but what I want to mention is how thereâs the more or less universal belief that committing cannibalism inherently taints you as a person and turns you more monstrous, morally but also literally depending on some myths such as w*ndigos and onis in some cases, like in Touge Oni. Marcille and Izutsumi both express a fear of eating monsters turning them monstrous. Maybe this is part of what Laios was hoping for, honestly. There are two fears here, if eating a demihuman monster constitutes as cannibalism or not, and so, will eating it taint you because itâs a human, or will eating it taint you because itâs a monster? You are what you eat, until itâs a little too literal. You morally are the means by which you get your food, and you physically are the result of your nutrition. Dungeon meshi manages to mix an exploration of humanity with the theme of food because our relationship to food is very deep and complex, psychological as much as physiological.
In the end, the characters sort of shrug and accept that theyâll never quite understand the world of mermaids and fishmen and how they operate, and what that means about them. Laios is the one always challenging these notions other characters take for granted, itâs not obvious to Laios why people are softer on mammals than other animals and plants, itâs not obvious to Laios why people would be afraid of eating a monster just because itâs a monster, itâs not obvious to Laios why some food is gross to Marcille but not fish testicles, itâs not obvious to Laios why you should immediately regard orcs and kobolds badly.
"Cows are probably closer to humans [aka closer to being human] than fishmen, though theyâre clearly intelligent", dehumanization to lessen empathy towards them to be able to eat them. Meanwhile, mermaids seemingly have a less noticeable "civilization" or intelligence, they hunt in groups like fishmen, but they donât use tools and such, they feel more primal and similarly instinct driven, and yet⌠Do they attract sympathy more? Mammals, humans, is it because of their nature or because of their appearance?
Both the nature and appearance of fish are ones people donât typically sympathize with. "Fish donât feel pain", "goldfish only have 5 seconds of memory", "itâs okay to keep fish in completely empty bowls too small for them until they die from it", so many lies and misconceptions exist that make people less considerate of them. The average lifespan of a goldfish is 10-15 years, the record is 43, but theyâre not seen as lives that really matter, so a lot of goldfish die in a few weeks of bad aquarium conditions. Thereâs a lot of research on animals evolving to look cute and appealing to make some predators want to kill them less and parents want to care for them more, including humans. First good google research result gave me this credible short article on the topic. In Chilchuckâs weighing wether a fishman is far enough from being human or not to eat, "face is 100% fish" is his biggest argument for it being more acceptable. The face, the most important thing for empathy and recognition. The face, the decapitated fishman one that falls into his hands next chapter.
To quote @room-surprise: "Chilchuck can't explain why it's wrong to eat the merpeople, even though it's NOT complicated. But the problem is Chilchuck would have to accept and acknowledge that the merpeople might be people? And that's outside of the worldview he passively believes, so he can't just say that, because he doesn't think that's true. But that IS why he "feels" it's wrong. And it's all you'd need to say for Laios to understand! But it would require acknowledging that maybe the way they're treating and talking about the merpeople is wrong."
The idea of Chil not being able to grapple with how maybe some monsters are more humans than they seem, him who had been an advocate of half-foots rights, half-foots who get undermined and treated as inconsequential sacrifices⌠Grappling with how he could relate to the merpeopleâs situation almost, and pulling away because itâs so existentially horrifying. I do not want to see myself into an hostile fish-faced warrior I canât communicate with. In a way this also relates to Chilchuck being the only party member who doesnât see Izutsumi as a cat in the relationship chart, the only one to treat her with full human dignity. He knows the struggle to be taken seriously, he knows being infantilized and he knows what itâs like to be treated as less than human.
Below, you will see Chilchuck draws the line of where they become not okay to eat as when "they already look like mermaids". Above, thereâs speculation that the algae hair is partly to mimic "the mermaidsâ beautiful female form". Is it because mermaids are their enemies and the ambiguity might give them extra seconds to attack or flee? Is it to trick adventurers instead? Itâs striking to me that this is what works, with the adventurers. Sure the fishmen are intelligent, but explicitly here, what makes them no longer acceptable prey to Chilchuck is that they look close enough to a mermaid, close enough to human. Mermaids who of course themselves have this form to entice and seduce and charm the adventurers they prey on. Chilchuck considers the intelligence due to the tridents, but most of his internal debate centers around their appearance, and the image of a fishman skewered sickens him. The power of mimicry⌠Mimic being a beautiful human woman. Mimic being cute, babies being wired to make us feel protective and softened. Half-foots, sometimes pretending to be children for scams or help or avoiding trouble.
The mermaids are only concerned by their differences and not their similarities, and have no trouble treating the fishmen as food rather than peers. To an outside perspective like us, the audience, all these categorization of "more human" and "less human" between onis and orcs and elves and tallmen etc seem stupid and unfounded, but to the people living in Dungeon Meshiâs world, elves may as well be mermaids while onis are fishmen, not alike at all, unworthy of empathy and thus fine to eat.
Ultimately, Dungeon Meshi promotes unity. Itâs about seeking to understand the unknown and the misunderstood, the dehumanized and the inhuman. It shows the good that comes from seeking to understand what you do not, even when thatâs one another.
#Dungeon meshi#dunmeshi lore#Compilation#Ok⌠I think I didnât forget anything. Feel free to point things out or discuss in comments and tags though#Delicious in dungeon#Ik i strayed a bit from the central topic but who knew beauty standards and discrimination went hand in hand /s#Ask me about my dunmeshi kobold ocâŚâŚâŚ.. ask me about my dunmeshi ocsâŚâŚ..#Can we give body neutrality an amen#Tw racism#cw racism#The âwhat are you talking about Marcille. Senshi is handsomeâ gag has 2 layers then doesnât it#Like obvi Marcille is noticing the difference between shapeshifter and og senshi rather than making a judgement#But the elf being *the* one to notice and say âSenshi looks more handsome than usual thatâs weird??â may very well be an effect of living#with elven beauty standards yeah#Meta#I wanted to make a post on the half-foots body type thing and the oni mongolian coding and the chilchuck merman thing so#Three in one đľ why take the initiative when you can just wait for the tiniest opportunity#Chilchuck tims#Analysis#dunmeshi fishmen#Itâs very interesting to think of how there being so many people *that* physically different affects politics and beauty standards#MimicsâŚ. Pacing my room. Pondering. MimicsâŚâŚâŚ#The burnout is over yippee#Ok but for reals though race is largely a social construct. Critical race theory good. Go read Distant Utopia by Ryoko Kui#âYeah sure.â < person who thought sheâd just be grabbing like 3 pics and had no clue sheâd become hyperfocused for hours#The classic societal obsession for classifying and exaggerating physical traits into boxes of innate goodness vs evilâŚ
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Hey, different post than usual, but this is just a PSA for people who may follow or have purchased anything from @/kagebros, or are looking to join any of the zines run by them @/allsparkzines. They have a history (and present) of tracing for profit.
I donât think this one requires an overlay. Itâs a trace of the yolopark bumblebee shockwave model kit promotional image, as a âsketchâ.
Which they changed, once people noticed it! Changed most of it. They traced a different promotional image for the gun, which remained largely the same, even in the final piece (right).
Their matching Optimus Prime poster is a trace of the still from a [ Paramount promo video ], 36 seconds in.
There are several other examples that I canât fit into this post without making it overly long, but if you have purchased or have been gifted anything from them, there is a chance it has been traced.
Regarding tracing as a tool:
Go hogwild! Trace all you want! Tracing is a very useful tool for learning shapes and forms, but like any other tool, itâs only useful if you use it correctly. The ultimate goal of tracing is to understand. Itâs training wheels. Just donât hide and lie about it, because as soon as you do, it becomes plagiarism.
Even within the finished versions of the Shockwave poster, itâs still clear where parts have been traced or copied without understanding. Itâs a shame, because transformers as a franchise having so many toys makes it very easy to make references!
Here's an example of how I use them:
Luckily for me, the Cybertron toys and models are more or less exactly the same. I don't own the toys, so I have two images from a [ toy reviewer ] on top. Many angles to help me understand exactly what's happening. Granted, I could just ask my friend who does own the toy for him in the same pose, but tracing over that directly would make it too stiff and it wouldn't mesh with my style.
TL;DR: Kage traces, blindly and without disclosure, for profit.
#kagebros#not art#uh idk what to tag this#but watch out?#I'm sure plenty of their pieces aren't traced but really selling two posters with traced art as the centerpiece is a little... hm..#so sue me for being wary ig#take this as you will#edit: remember when I just thought it was two posters. better times#IGNORE HOW WIDE THE REF IMAGES ARE my friends and i were watching the 1080p upscale but for some reason the uploader fuckin#stretched the video out to fit the new aspect ratio instead of keepin it the og#but we didn't know? and didn't notice? until like. we were almost done#and then my friend was like hey guys uh they're not supposed to be this wide actually#uhhhh well thanks for reading if anyone read this to the end!#it's very disheartening to see ppl trace shit and then table with it like... what the hell am i doing then#edit: i also think my friend's cybertron optimus is buried under 50 boxes and askin him to move that much for a toy is a lil embarrassing#tfcon#tfcon baltimore
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my homestuck lps. do you love them
#homestuck#lps#littlest pet shop#ooak#lps customs#lps ooak#sid toy story momence#jade#dave#karkat#karkat lps#took those stupid ass filters off#if you google homestuck lps youll see them i posted them on reddit for the most visibility#dave is straight up not in focus. love that for him#too lazy to pull them out of there display box and take better pics </3#melisongart
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Prompt 89
 The young justice team is in a bit of a pickle. It had been a usual mission, Klarion causing mischief again, before someone had mentioned the date.Â
 The literal chaos lord had shrieked, stopping his attack, and asked for clarification. Maybe that wasnât a good idea because one moment they were in Happy Harbour, and the next theyâre somewhere else with green everywhere and floating islands.Â
 And Klarion doesnât explain- not that they were expecting him to- and just bolts into a⌠wow that is a very big and scary looking castle. Keep? Honestly itâs if someone combined a gothic citadel with a clocktower of some sort.Â
 Not important, because they had chased after Klarion who uh⌠Oh no, that is a Very big entity, that is two Very Big entities that could crush them in their fingers. And they are now stuck in this place seeing as the portal closed behind them.Â
 Honestly Klarion is happy he made it home before curfew! Even if he had to bring his sort-of-friends with him to make it in time. Itâs not his fault, heâs not used to having a guardian, nevermind two! Not to mention siblings, which heâs now the oldest of too, so he has to be a positive influence. Like teaching them how to properly do chaos without destroying a world.Â
 Oh, but this is perfect anyway, one of his dads has been wanting to talk to the speedsters anyway, and his other dad is still under house arrest for the whole, trying to take over the living realm thing. But thatâs not important, he has little siblings to introduce!Â
#dcxdp#dpxdc#dark ages#prompts#klarion the witch boy#young justice#Accidental Sleepover Au#Klarion is just a lil guys- just a lil baby chaos ancient#Pariah is on thin ice with CW & had a choice of either attempt at world domination & getting put back in the box#or work on his previously failing relationship & help him take care of these baby ancients/halfas he found#Look he was stuck in that sarcophagus *so long* and he has an eternity how hard can parenting be#The older a ghost the larger they are#Klarion & Fenton siblings are human-sized#but their ghost-parents are Definitely Not when they aren't pretending to be human-ish#They have the space to sprawl out in their Haunt and they're going to use it!#Poor young justice has no clue what's going on#CW ain't letting them leave because eventually the other speedsters will arrive to get their baby speedster back#And he has Words for them#Klarion: Look at my maybe-friends :D They're good at fighting!#Klarion: I don't like their parents tho- they hang out with yellow-helmet-@!&#Danny w/ his 3 friends who all just finished finals & are tired: Omg did u bring friends over for a double sleepover :O#Danny: That's such a fun idea we can spar and make smores and- aw why are they hiding :/
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