#tell her Jay!

[cinamun]

Little Swimmers | Part Two

Lot Credit: @rheya28

[valeovalairs]

and thus commences my school jrwi doodle dumps for this year

There’s this one too but I already posted it lmao

[kala-mies]

We'd play our parts and be people later

[kindaasrikal]

Do you think Cole used to help Nya with feeling comfortable in her own skin again and feeling flesh and bones, as well as acting alive again, whilst also helping her keep her form and be more conscious and sure of it after merging with the sea, simply because he gets it?

Ghost Cole you will not be forgotten.

[introspectivememories]

sorry but do you ever think about the fact that the bernard we have today is a direct amalgamation of everything that happened in his past and i know that sound like such an obvious statement to say but it actually kills me to know that you can draw a direct line from who he is today all the way back to that sixteen year old boy who watched his best friend bleed out. like it is the defining moment in his life. it fundamentally shaped who he is and the person he's become. he is the bernard we know and love not despite the grieves shooting but because of it. because the gangs all got together and shot up his school. because tim walked out of that room with nothing but a baseball bat. because his darla got shot. because he watched her gasp and cry as she died. because he watched the blood coagulate around the wound. because he sat there and held her hand as her life drained out of her. because he walked into school that day with a joke he knew would make her laugh and her nose would scrunch up and she'd snort a little and tim would roll his eyes at him and call him ridiculous and instead he walked out with a bloody white shirt, blood under his fingernails, and two friends less. because, even now, almost half a decade out from the shooting, he thinks that if he closes his eyes, he will always be that stupid, scared little sixteen year old, holding the cooling body of dead best friend.

[rainofthetwilight]

redheads my beloved <333 trying a new way to render hair 👍

oh and also have this suit jay doodle too dhfhdjgk (excuse my shitty handwriting 😭)

[waterghostype]

not so tall now are you

[avephelis]

GAY PEOPLE. mainly jayjay

[penofwildfire]

You've heard of "Jay doesn't regain his memories but falls back in love with Nya anyway because their bond is just too damn strong", now get ready for "Jay does regain his memories but ends up asking if he and Nya can take their time before getting back together because they've been separated a long time and they've changed as people and he's still kinda recovering from the last several years so he's just not really ready for a serious relationship right now."

[fred-the-dinosaur]

loving the glass onion posting but I'm really sick of the 'birdie Jay stops flirting with blanc because wearing sweatpants makes you 'fruity'' or whatever post. because:

a. bit sick of the idea that we're still perpetuating homophobic and toxic masculinity principles in this day and age, at least amongst ourselves. straight people clocking gay men for wearing a 'girly' sweatpant company feels threatening, not really like a cute queer in-joke. especially given the current climate.

b. I don't think birdie Jay WOULD stop flirting with a gay man. I bet she's the kind of woman who likes to put her hands ALL OVER her hot gay friends at the club because 'is fine you're GAY and I'm a WOMAN and it's impossible to sexually harrass a MAN right?'

c. THAT'S NOT THE REASON. she doesn't make sweatpants for her friends to wear. she makes sweatpants to profiteer off the pandemic and lockdown. blanc saying he wears sweetie pants tells her he's not a disruptor. he's not in her class. he's a MARK.

THAT is why he's off the flirting menu.

(Also this is exactly blanc's game. we know he's doing this. he's TRYING to look hokum and naive. he's trying to make them underestimate him and distract from Helen being a fish out of water too. pity this little bit worked on you too.)

[teehee-vibes]

DREY FERIN DISEASE call that…. I dunno, fucking scurvy I guess

[orionis13]

Lil sketchies from riptide 111 we got serious mode (good jay n gill scene) and silly mode (silly)

[here-there-be-drag0ns]

Jay Ferin's character being an exploration of the complications and nuances of love and loyalty between opposing groups is so fucking important to me

Jay's overarching character arc is about unwavering loyalty and refusing to compromise her beliefs while also adding to and readjusting her understanding of them as she grows and gains new experiences!! She will not stand down on her insistence that the navy is not evil, that at their core they mean to do good, but she adds to that belief with the knowledge that their intentions can be twisted and corrupted, and that that doesn't make them evil but it does mean they're not necessarily 100% correct or trustworthy as she had previously believed.

At this point in the story, she has sided with the pirates because she knows the navy's corruption runs too deep to change without people she cares about getting hurt, but even with this strengthened loyalty, she also still refuses to agree with the other pirates that the navy is irredeemable and she pushes them to find understanding and compromise wherever they can. She makes it clear over and over that her loyalty to her family and the people she was raised with does not have to be given up for her new loyalty to the pirates and she stands strong in this value when making decisions about what to do with the Navy/Pirate war.

Her determination to find a middle ground and make her friends on both sides of the conflict understand that they don't have to be enemies means so much to me because everyone else around her is insisting she has to choose and Every Single Time, Jay Ferin says "no, i wont choose, i love you both and goddammit I'm going to make you see it."

[codecicle]

we as a fandom are drawing jay ferin TOO PRETTY. make her fucking mid

I AM ALWAYS FUCKING SAYING THIS!! She should be gross and sweaty and off-putting, constantly covered in grease from inventions and smelling like a mix of oil, sea salt, and fire. give that woman acne and pimples from irritated skin, since they can't shower often and she's always covered in grime that gets into her pores. you have GOT to make her mid, you have GOT to make her "unattractive". be more powerful than the council. destroy them with your mind and also body hair on characters

[slozhnos]

i think that the way the great gatsby musical is portrayed is somewhat through the lens of how gatsby saw the story.

[shiraishi--kanade]

I have Words to Say about disabled characters in Proseka but I'm especially kind of... Eeh about Saki, because of how perfect she is.

I've talked about this before but Saki is just not allowed, by the narrative, to be flawed. We have some very, very brief moments of anger or lashing out from her (NSNF, Doll Festival in particular), but aside from that Saki is just... So cliché and surface-level regarding her disability. That especially reflects in how the writers handled her relationship with Leo/need.

Yes, she is not angry at her friends for, let's call it what it was, abandoning her (besides Ichika). She is not upset with them or feels betrayed by them. She just forgives them for doing that because she's a good friend and that kind of person, to not dwell on the past and just look forward. She's only really upset at her illness, rate, and herself.

Do you know how shitty of a story that is to sell to disabled people? Oh look, this character suffered a lot and then their friends just stopped visiting them at some point! But no big deal though, they're all good! She doesn't hold a grudge against them so it's actually totally understandable and fine and you should look up to that attitude.

Sure, Saki isn't upset with Honami and Shiho. My point is that she fucking should be. I know their reasons and I don't care about them; what they did is shitty and I hate how the story just moved on from that and we never confront that again and probably won't. Why the hell not? It would make for an interesting conflict and story. It would make Saki an absolutely stunning character, and reflect many of our struggles with loving and caring for people that don't understand us and don't stand with us. Why do we have a story we do now, where Shiho and Honami's fuck up only bothers them but not the person they hurt?

Oh wait, I know the answer: because god forbid disabled characters be anything than inspiration porn.