#tell me if i should tag other characters

[hamms-uwu-12]

I know Halloween just passed, but I still want to post the pics of my Jimmy cosplay I used in the Comicon this august where I met Giancarlo Esposito :D

and some other photos with cosplayers (already posted on my ig, but I love those images a lot) everything under read more, so it's not that long.

and a picture with one of my friends (@breakfasttime456, dressed up as mighty from bomberman jetters) as I was heading out.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for an incredible 500 days of love and support. I offer you: answers to questions that no one has asked.

(As always, more can be found in the tags <3)

[tar-thelien]

Look I´m a full believer that you should ship what you want and not harass others for their ships BUT

Lately on the Sauron/Mairon tag I´ve seen some people say he wouldn´t be interested in men!??!? Like I´m sorry to break it to you but he literally saw the most beautiful woman to ever exist and instead of thinking about his own desires he instantly thought "my boss would be so proud of me if I gave her to him."

WHAT´S NOT GAY ABOUT THAT CREATURE!?!??!?

Also on a smaller note the few posts that say Sauron could NEVER be gay are literally calling people weird for shipping him with men?? So, could we please just go back to shipping the mass murder with who we want to and stop bothering others with who they ship him with?? No?

So ship who you want and have fun, talk with those who ship the same and all that, but don´t go in and accuse others for having the wrong ship :)

EDIT: just to make sure everyone understands I DON´T IN ANY WAY SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO POLICE SHIPS OR SHAME PEOPLE FOR THEIR SHIP OR ACCUSING THEM OF NOT FOLLOWING CANON ETC ship who you want and don´t bother people who have another ship and try to "teach" them about your ship if they don´t ask for it.

[ineed-to-sleep]

What if we fell in love and you died LMAOOO what then

[angermango]

"Oh, I know very well. How the puzzles beckon so sweetly...

As expected of you, Layton.

Only an honest death will cure you now."

...

expanding on that Lady Maria vibe for Descole from the first Laytonborne post, and that famous boss intro.

Descole would make a hellish boss fight, i know it. i mean have you SEEN how he moved during Eternal Diva and with that big ass sword? now imagine that with Soulsborne-scale strength and possible other additional powers.

plus his theme could be pretty easily adapted into a Bloodborne boss style piece I think, just add more orchestra heavy brass and cellos and some ominous Latin chanting choir and presto. that organ goes so hard too.

[whateverthought]

I think I would have enjoyed Rhaenyra more if they had kept her mean. The second you make a character a Saint, I immediately despise them

[very-poorly-drawn-tgcf]

Go work off that debt Xie Lian! ....with an extra babysitting job.

Meme template for y'all under the cut + examples I made.

Anyway hopefully next episodes won't take too long. The thing is. The Ghost Groom arc is a lot longer than I remember. I'm still racking my brain over how the hell I'm gonna summarize it because I am not going every single instance

[touchlikethesun]

i’m trying to break out of it but, when it comes to their relationship dynamics, so far no fic has managed to top the one skiing au where bokuto and akaashi try and convince kuroo and tsukki to be in a poly relationship that i followed religiously back in 2015, like. (almost) no other fic has managed to tap into what i find so appealing about that group’s whole dynamic, their humour their earnestness their chaos as four, the way akaashi and tsukki balance kuroo and bokuto’s energy (except everyone knows the real trouble is tsukki and bokuto), and like the individual dynamics are incredible too, every pairing just worked so well, even ones i wouldn’t have considered before like kuroo and akaashi. like how in 100k words did this author manage to develop every relationship just so damn well??? there should be way too many moving parts, at least one of the dynamics should have fell flat or fell to the background but none of them did ughhhhh oh my god it’s so good i just need like. a dozen more fics exactly like it rippppp like i’m watching s2 (again yes ik) and all i can think about when i see the four of them interact is “wow that author really nailed their dynamics, what they wrote is exactly how those four would be in 10 years time” god fanfiction is incredible

[moeblob]

Look, I just think it's VERY funny and on brand that I thought of an entire premise of colorful characters for half the cast and immediately drew the only one void of color.

[skrunksthatwunk]

kinda thinking about how the women who serve as maternal figures/raise kids in yyh are never quite ready for it. genkai's an arguable exception, but like.. atsuko had yusuke at 15, shizuru's basically in charge of kazuma full time in her early 20s/late teens (depending on version) with very very absent parents, and even shiori is given a kid she wasn't expecting, in the form of an old, old demon rather than like. a regular, blank slate ass human baby. and although shiori seems to do quite well with kurama, kurama can never be honest with shiori about who he is, or much of what he's seen. if he was, it'd probably make things far more complicated and overwhelming. atsuko, no matter how much she cares for yusuke, Could Not Have Been and thus wasn't ready to have him at 15. her attempts to make the most of that situation have had middling success at best. shizuru has also been placed into a parental role. we don't really know how long she's been raising kuwabara, but that's.. probably still parentification anyway. she shouldn't have to do that, and she shouldn't have to do that so young. and i think some of her coarseness with kuwa is out of frustration with her own inexperience + inadequacy + uncertainty, his not cooperating, and their parents for putting this on her in the first place. the ones who know the full extent of their situation grow desperate and it squeaks out in unpleasant ways, and the one who seems unbothered by it is the only one who has no idea that she's in way over her head. and i mean. ok. gonna preface this by saying keiko is NOT yusuke's mom in any sense of the word. but she does take care of him in a way atsuko couldn't manage to. she's often looking after him and cleaning up after his messes and stuff. she takes him on as a responsibility, and that is, in a way, a caretaker role. not to say that it SHOULD be her responsibility, but it's how she ends up being.

and when the stress of trying to make someone take care of themselves or be kind or good or Whatever goes awry, again, the violence and arguing and distance and ugliness of caring for someone reveals itself.

and i wonder about that. for a series dedicated to physical fighting as a form of communication, what does it say that this extends to the complicated, quietly desperate situations of so many of the women/girls it depicts, whom our more central characters were shaped and raised by?

hell, even hiei touches on this, because hina loved hiei, but there was no way she was prepared for him, obviously, nor for the pain of losing him. rui (whom i also see as a sort of caretaker figure to hiei, inasmuch as either of them were caretakers) literally throws him off a cliff because she couldn't face down the village elders, and out of some mixture of care for hina and, likely, fear for her own survival. and the guilt and pain of that killed hina and deeply wounded rui.

it's like motherhood, this thing that's so often treated as sacred and beautiful, is a kind of stitched up, painful, eggshell-walking thing that hurts parent and child and it's just. oughh

[beanghostprincess]

Sorry I really didn’t mean I’m attacking you or your ship. I also don’t think it’s a red flag, most gay men I saw don’t really like shuggy either. I mean, probably the entire world prefers any other shanks ships? On almost every site, con or store there’s always tons of mishanks and Bennshanks and never shuggy. I get it’s also about dynamic and connection those two pairs have, like with the parallels to other ships the base for them is extremely strong. But the minimal shuggy does speak volumes. I genuinely wonder about this. Shuggy is unpopular and again while I do agree there’s strong connection between “rival ships” I don’t think that’s the only reason… and like…. Buggy is ugly, isn’t he? He doesn’t have cool style, doesn’t look cool, makes ugly faces all the time, also is a coward. I like him as comedy character and shanks brother though!

I understand where you're coming from when you say Shuggy is unpopular amongst some people (actually, before anyone says anything. It IS an extremely popular ship in Japan but I have seen A LOT of hatred towards it in this side of the fandom, so that's what I'm talking about when I say it's unpopular). I have talked about this before. And I have said a lot of times that the reason why is often because people only focus on looks and Buggy is not conventionally attractive for the fangirly twinkified sexualized gaze numerous sides of the fandom and the general audience seek. Like, I am not forcing people to ship them, but I have had people admitting the only reason they don't is because of the looks, and I personally believe that is a very (despite valid, of course) dull way of seeing ships. And respectfully, I don't care that other gay dudes or all the people in the world agree with you. It's not a red flag to not like Shuggy, what it is a red flag, though, is to come into people's inboxes to do what you're doing!

I know you don't mean to attack me or anybody who ships them but your tone does wonders showing otherwise. Your perception of shipping is just based on looks and the fact that you came here, to a blog that explicitly ships these characters and is fond of Buggy, talking shit about one of the characters' looks... Is just straight-up mean and not following the social etiquette this site should follow, which is "let people do whatever the fuck they want".

So with all due respect, what makes you think I won't find your questions offensive in any way? Because you keep talking bad about a character I like in my inbox for literally no reason. Do you expect me to admit that the ship is unpopular because Buggy is ugly and boring? Well, I do admit people view him as ugly and only a comedy relief, but I don't. Expecting others to find beautiful and interesting the same things you do is having a very close-minded vision that One Piece's plot itself is against.

By the way, you're showing that you clearly don't like Buggy in the slightest because you're only talking about the traits that you find negative about him. But of course, you like him as comedy relief. Of course, you like him as a character in Shanks' story and not as a character himself. Despite Buggy having lots of depth. Your perception of these characters seems, in my opinion, extremely empty and, as I said, only based on looks. And you're free of shipping whatever you want however you want! But please, please, don't do this anymore. This is just petty high school mean girl behavior. Even Regina George would word this in a more polite way.

So, as a little advice for you, let people ship whatever they want without questioning their favorite characters! I am sure you will live a more peaceful life!

[reel-fear]

If you want my opinion, I think we should give Lone Wolf the benefit of the doubt, yes it does look a little bit cheap in some areas but the game does look pretty fun and both the art and characters are still on point. Alice and Sammy are also returning so that’s a plus! I think it’s best that we stay optimistic for this game and Bendy’s future.

That's fair and I respect your opinion, I think my thing is I'm worried people are too optimistic about Bendy's future games being better than the ones they've already created because the team behind Bendy is very anti-listening to feedback. Which means it's likely these games won't improve unless fans make a bigger push to be more critical of them and show the devs they won't spend their money unless the team can prove they care about this franchise and aren't gonna let the polish drain just because it makes more money.

I criticize Bendy not because I want it to die or be bad, I only do it because I hope one day either 1. A competitor rises up and gives the fans essentially a better version of Bendy that they deserve and they can use my feedback and others to see where it can be improved. or 2. The bendy team listens to my feedback and the general fandom's to make future games better. Plus generally get their act together.

As it stands the trailer is rushed and cheap, which is bad because a trailer for a game should be the most polished part of the affair. I mean this is what is supposed to convince people to buy the game when it comes out! I had the same problems with The Cage and I'm unhappy to see this becoming a pattern. [I mean that's a game I'm even more confident is going to horribly crash and burn cause I honestly don't know why'd they make a midquel to a game which everyone hated the ending of-]

Look. I understand some people feel a sort of loyalty to the Bendy devs, it's hard not to feel like you're in some sort of friendship when it comes to such a small indie team. But at the end of the day you have to remember defending them when they mess up only gives them more reasons to ignore feedback and most of all you don't know Mike or Meatly as people outside of what they Choose to show in their public image. So when the public image they've crafted is one that's bad and leaves people worried about how the games they're making are gonna turn out. Nobody can be blamed but them. And if you really care about them and/or Bendy it's better to boost feedback even if it's negative.

Like sure Sammy and Malice are returning but look at the treatment they got in Dark Revival! Meatly and Mike have never addressed how poorly done the original characters were in that game and I think it's cause far as they're concerned it was perfectly fine and people are complaining about nothing. [That or enough people didn't seem to care for it to matter to them whether that point was valid or not] Despite the fact Sammy was shot down for a gag after finally speaking up [and was in a ton of Dark Revival marketing material] and Malice was nothing more than a rip off of her chapter 3 self with no interesting changes, we never got to hear her thoughts on how the world is doing, on how she feels now hearing her enemy, the ink demon, was supposedly killed, or on Wilson, the keepers, etc. I mean it was a huge waste and with the promise Sammy will be 'restored to his Chapter 2 glory' I want to call this poor writing out now rather than wait for the cage to come out and pretend I never saw it coming.

Criticism is a good thing for Bendy, we should embrace it rather than shunning or discouraging it. I hope most of us can agree on that. Even if I seem harsh, I would rather lean towards that, than risk going too easy with my words and being ignored by the devs.

[ananinidraws]

Something i made for the now dubbed Sanrio Squad heheh <333 All outfits are based on one of the Sanrio online polls that happen every year (this one in particular is the 2018 one)

The people featured here are @formal-frog-shoes, @yinyangle and @1dkreally (dk has his as his pfp hehe <333)

[angelicdonuts]

So super awesome and amazing person asked me for more oc content

So obviously I had to draw them!!:

FOR THE 100TH TIME!! THIS IS PRICKO!!!

MY FAVORITE OC... LIKE... PERIOD!!

They're also a pico's school oc heeheheehehe :3

They/them pronounss.. nonbinary and lesbiann.. huguuhhhhuubbv and the love of my life <3

Here they're 17 years old :3 (u can tell by their hair gwwwuuauaawaahhgh I'll make a chart for them soon I swear)

hhuuuuughhhggghbbbhv I'M almost 17 years old... what the helll

Anyways!!

I have literally no idea how i'll share their lore with you guys because there's just so SOOOO MUCH to them oh my balls dude

May-be via... comic.....?

Who knows!! For know I'll just tell you guys little facts about them!!

1. You guys should know this already (I hope) but they're best friends with Pico Darnell and Nene :3 !! Yay!!

2. They're from Sacremento, CA, and moved to Philly their freshman year of highschool :33 ! Promptly meeting Pico on their first day !! Yaaay!

3. They may or may not have a little something something going on with nene!! who knows >:3 !

FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONSSS AAAAAA I LOVE TALKING ABOUT MY OCSHFBVHFHGHD

[bibibbon]

Mel Medarda for the character bingo?

I wanna use this post to clarify that you can send me an ask about any character in a show that I have talked about here.

I have so many thoughts about mel she is my 4th favourite character in arcane!!!

I love her as a morally grey character. Her relationship with ambessa. The tragic fact that mel is similar to her mother ambessa drives me insane. The fact that mel does love her mother after all that happened and that ambessa also loves her daughter again drives me insane. The fact that it is implied that ambessa probably saw aspects of mel in caitlyns character drives me insane.

Mel's desire for legacy to put piltover on the map and for it to be great so she could prove her mother wrong, so she could gain the attention and even love of her mother again drives me insane. You can so heavily see how mel's noxus upbringing has affected her views and outlook on life. How she views relationships to be transactional and heavily conditional drives me up the walls. You see it in the way she interacts with people in season 1, how distant she seemed in the early acts, how she isn't depicted to have a close relationship with characters even elora and her relationship heavily remind me of what silco and sevika kinda had.

There's something really interesting in how that part of her that viewed relationships as transactional could have been fully unlearned in season 2. Jayce's relationship with mel is the first on-screen relationship that mel has that we get to see her open up about things, jayce is a catalyst for mel. The more she is with him, the more she unwinds, and we see more of her, we get to see past the richest person in piltover image that she has and we see the motives that she has.

Her view of relationships being transactional is a double-edged sword for her because it is tragic from a character perspective that she doesn't get to form deep connections. In a way, her view isolates her. I also think that it's a character flaw that she has. An empath who is almost afraid to connect to the people, almost avoiding her own calling?

Mel's view ends up interwoven into her political stance, which has its good and bad. She is a social engineer. She can easily get what she wants and would poltically manipulate the situation to achieve it. Her desire and ambitious drive for legacy end up contributing to the oppression of zaun (something that she, jayce, and partially viktor, share in common)

She like jayce and viktor are all ambitious, and its through that ambition, they are able to achieve 2 major things, which are the creation of hextech and zauns independence. I was quite annoyed with how her character was handled in season 2, especially because it ditched the political plot line, which is something that mel's character thrives off. I was expecting her to fully start to contrast her mother, to form a partnership with lest and through this partnership she starts to understand her own failures as a Councillor when it comes to the undercity.

Her interaction with lest was one of my favourites because it really did call out her flaw. You had lest confornt her and say "you're using me to get to her and then what? You take what you need and hang me out to dry?"

Also, I want to comment that I absolutely love the parallels mel has with characters like ambessa, caitlyn, jayce, and viktor.

I wanted mel to connect more to the undercity, and I did point out that she could do it with lest, but she also should have had interactions with viktor. Season 1 didn't show us much of the two, but I really did like their political disagreement and how the series depicts these two as foils. Mel and viktor foils can be interpreted in multiple ways. Personally, I interpret them in these two ways:

It's a heavy parallel into the similarities that mel and viktor have in terms of upbringing. Both zaun and noxus don't allow for one to be so hopeful, for one to have a childhood, both areas thrive on one having to climb and fight for power, to survive.

Through her foil with viktor, this is another way I see her connecting to zaun, taking up her responsibilities as a Councillor and contributing to breaking the cycle, becoming a symbol of progress trying to right her wrongs as a Councillor.

Her foil with viktor is also supposed to show the dual nature of magic. I hate the interpretation that natural magic is good and that hexcore magic is bad because it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The foil is supposed to show the duality of magic. How magic can be good and bad how it can benefit the people and harm them and I see this through both mel and viktors actions (aka they both represent that equilibrium both viktor and mel do good and bad instead of it being mel's magic = good viktor's = bad)

Again, I think another interesting aspect of mel is that she isn't someone who is willing to hold power directly.

I find this aspect of her really interesting because rather than seizing the power and choosing to do what she can and want with it, she usually just has other people seize it. This goes back to her forming transactional relationships that way. I think that this type of behaviour is due to her noxus upbringing how there always used to be a power struggle so she can now avoid this by hiding behind the throne and having power behind the throne instead of claiming it.

Her speech when she was a child explains who mel is as a character and who she ends up becoming. First before mel even says anything ambessa states that for mel to be the best version of herself she must be "both the fox and the wolf" and in the end mel is indeed both the fox and the wolf. It is her becoming that,that she is able to do what's right and kill her mother. Mel is versatile and you see it exactly with the way she utilises her own mage powers, the way that shield is used to both protect but also harm and with that mel unlike any other character represents a dual nature in herself which she fully gains after killing her mother.

Now let's talk about mel's own speech. "We should paint the walls in gold, import crystal chandeliers. Advisors will enter here, but the regent will have her own secret entrance. She should have a kind fat face, clever to mould her subjects but pliable so we can mould her."

Now, this quote to me is applicable to three characters. Mel, jayce, and caitlyn, and this all occurs in different concepts.

This is applicable to mel, especially the we should paint the walls gold. Something something in the face of horror, mel tries to hide herself and, by extension, piltover and zaun by painting herself and piltover gold. Gold is the main colour for mel, piltover, and the council.

By extension, this speech also has the ability to apply to jayce and what mel wanted him to be(in the beginning, her views change, and that's so important). She builds up jayce as the veto head of the council. Jayce is charming. He was able to somehow sway the council to get a uniamious vote to kick heimerdinger out when he was just hated for tackling the corruption in the council days or even weeks prior. The man of progress funnily enough is someone who has the ability heavily influence individuals through his actions but is also someone who is heavily infulenced which is really interesting because between mel and jayce this ends up being a relationship of the two heavily changing and influencing eachother for better or for worse.

Now, (ambessa and mel parallels) this speech again applies to caitlyn. While mel heavily applies this speech to jayce, ambessa heavily applies this speech to caitlyn. Giving caitlyn power in season 2, teaching her how to fight, manipulating, and guiding caitlyn. All of this is something that ambessa does but slowly she starts to be somewhat changed by caitlyn as she sees aspects of mel in caitlyn herself it's why ambessa's right hand man says that ambessa will feel betrayed by what caitlyn has done.

I think that one of the reasons why mel is backing up caitlyn in the final fight with ambessa is to represent mel's growth as a character. This, in my opinion, is supposed to be a full circle moment for mel as she fully deviates from the path she was set on and ends up with new found understanding fighting for what's right.

Finally, mel and jayce are a tragedy. I will say it's an interesting dynamic with various nuances. They both represent very interesting things to one another. For mel, jayce is a catalyst. He is a symbol of revolution, and he is someone who changes her for better or for worse. Essentially, these two characters have very quick and intersecting paths. Season 1 they may have not had many similarities with mel sharing her past of how she is an exile from noxus, but jayce failing to connect with her even with him, almost being an exile from piltover. Season 2 has them have very direct parallels (could have been more direct had they not dropped their political plot line), with both of them experiencing horror of magic but coming out of it as two very different people. Mels own experiences cause for her to be eager to open up, I imagine that during her kidnapping arc she only had her memories to anchor her and keep her sane (ended up doing the opposite for jayce) she saw a better path but also felt saddled by the revelation of her being a mage.

Her arc with jayce was intriguing to me, especially because I interpret it as a tragedy, and I also interpret them as having broken up after this point in the show. I wanna clarify that breakups aren't always because people fall out of love, I think they still held affection and care for another. You see it in their final scene. You see, their whole reason their argument is so heated is because they held that trust and care that they both felt was betrayed by the other. I think that their paths diverged and that's normal and also I genuinely feel like jayce wouldn't have lived long anyways after coming back from that universe because I think he was dying from that infection and no one can convince me otherwise.

(I am not gonna get into their argument or the other things because I think others have covered that and I think their arcs not having the political plot line that they were supposed to have left that "investment" type of confrontation very underwhelming for both characters in term of their change and growth)

In the end, I am pissed that they dropped the politics plot line for her and that they also made her all alone. I am so sorry, but they shouldn't have killed elora, and we should have seen her form other relationships with lest and other characters. I get a huge part of her character is supposed to be a tragedy, but Gosh, did they fumble so badly.

[meyerlansky]

i realize i keep talking about summertime [the post-war vignettes dctctc installment] without actually like... posting any of it, but it's because i'm still really not sure how to handle the part that would come in between start taking your chances and summertime, because i want to keep gale going down over bremen and bucky going down over munster and i DON'T want curt to go down with them. i want curt stuck at thorpe abbotts essentially sitting out the rest of the war for some reason.

[if he was gonna go down at any point it would've been regensburg and it would've been The Moosburg AU, which WILL live in my head forever but will be a b-side to the whole verse if it ever exists as more than Thoughts]

so like, how to keep him off EITHER mission, and also from getting fucked up in the air AFTER the buckies are stalaged? what i'm thinking right now is, curt and what's left of his crew get sent to a flak house like rosie and his crew; the crew that i used as proof-of-concept for "copilot dies but the plane and pilot survive" [crew #9, pilot sumner reeder] were sent to a flak house and offered ground duties by bill veal after the mission it happened on, so i'm probably just going to transpose that onto curt's crew. and while curt's at the flak house bucky goes to london for drinks and dancing, bremen happens, bucky finds out from the paper and curt SOMEHOW* finds out in the flak house and realizes Oh Shit Bucky's Gonna Fucking Detonate and is like "i have to leave NOW" but the flak house doc is like "well i can't clear you for duty like this :/" and curt's like "fuck off yes you can" and the doc's like "i can't actually :/ but if you took the ground duties deal......." and curt is like "FINE WHATEVER I JUST HAVE TO GET BACK TO TA IMMEDIATELY"

* it's red. red calls him the same way red fielded the scotland check-in call. red likes curt and red Knows.

and then when he gets there like TWO HOURS before bucky, bucky's like "we're gonna make 'em pay right" curt has to be like "..........they wouldn't let me come back unless i let them ground me." and then bucky goes down too. and everything's awful.

......but if curt's alive does bucky need to go to london? would gale send them both off base at the same time? IS THIS A CREDIBLE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES TO HAPPEN IN A FIC? DOES ANYONE CARE IF IT'S CREDIBLE AM I MAKING MYSELF CRAZY FOR NOTHING PLS WEIGH IN