#thank u this is hilarious

[abd-illustrates]

☔ Lixin ☔

More art from this week's video! In which I made a more Genshin Impact OC’s! Second to last – (but certainly not least) – is this sword-wielding meteorologist from Liyue with an electro vision and a 100% chance of running into thunderstorms! ☔

[DO NOT EDIT OR REPOST TO OTHER SITES / ACCOUNTS]   ♻️reblogs are lovely tho!♻️

[8pxl]

since AI has gotten prolific posting art on social media has been so fun 🤪

[starwarsanthropology]

Ah yes, my favorite fictional family, Knife Revenge and his sons [checks notes] Shadow, Glove, Space Napoleon, Martyred Bestie, and Jaing

[haveyouheardthisband]

were the back to back buckcherry / chuck berry polls because someone submitted them like that, or did y'all just decide to do something funny? i'm delighted by it either way

They were submitted like that :p

[evelynpr]

Zhongli for the Genshin ask game please!

Genshin Character Ask game: Zhongli <3

There are entire several page long essays about the cultural inspirations of his character, stories, design, everything. Imo, he is Genshin's favorite in terms of level of cultural inspiration and pride to this day. You can read about a lot of them here!

One of these is his left thumb ring, which is called a 韘 / Shè in ancient China, and 扳指 / Bān Zhǐ now, implying he can shoot arrows with his left hand!

The English translation did not do justice for a number of translations in his 2nd Story Quest, which you can read about here!

Most notably, Azdaha (aka Re Tuo in Chinese), wrote a whole poem about just how amazing Morax is, and that the title of the question "No Mere Stone" is also inspired by a Chinese poem: "我心匪石 不可转也, 我心匪席 不可卷也"

[pixlokita]

My condolences for the burnout, especially since even mentioning the character in these times is...oof. TwT But speaking of Into the Pit, how was the game? OwO Anything you enjoyed in particular bout it?

Gosh I know ;-; something about certain characters just got so overwhelming to the point of my brain being like “welp! No more of them for now!” And idk how long that’s gonna last >>; but not gonna force it if it doesn’t bring serotonin TTwTT👌

I loved the game so muchhhhh aaaa I replayed it four times I just can’t get thru the nightmare mode tho because it got permanent deaths (・´ω`・) that’s so unfair !!! Maybe if I get some mods or something :0c I’ll have to look into how that’d work >>

Fave part tho?

Hehehehehehhehehehehehhe 💖💖💖💖💥💥💥💥💥

[bonefall]

while i do agree with the sentiment that bloodclan should be more nuanced as an entity i still believe it is wrong to portray them as the necessary "response" to clan injustice (haven't read the books in years but i am pretty sure that bloodclan started with no connection to the clans) / an opposition to the clan's flaws. some of the thing scourge did was out of selfishness and bloodclan isn't the other colour of the black and white debacle with the clans. the clans are heavily flawed yes, but it isn't realistic to completely say that their structure had no redeeming qualities altogether and that all outsider groups is fundamentally better than the clans.

all clans and groups are flawed in their own way and i believe we shouldnt brush past the things that other groups (the sisters and what they do with their toms *cough cough*) did solely to be able to degrade the clans and their culture.

Buddy, you're setting up a strawman. I promise you that if you look into the reduxes I've made of BloodClan, Guardians, The Sisters, and the Tribe, you will see that I don't make any of them a "flawless" alternative to Clan life.

Nor do I say that the Clans have no redeeming qualities. In fact, you can browse the "Clan Culture" tag to see the various expansions I've made to show how these traditions, values, and technological advances make Clan life so alluring.

The overarching theme of BB is that the nature of culture is change. For better AND for worse.

With respect, I think there's something insidious in the wording of "the things the other groups did." We're talking about fan responses to a work that consistently demonizes and degrades foreigners to make the Clans look like the "best way to live," justifying xenophobia. These are not real groups, they are writing choices.

In the franchise with some pretty extreme examples of misogyny, the authors said "What if bizarro world where women rule and have no men... woag..." and only includes a single Clan-alligned member of this culture, with a BAD opinion of them, who can't even do his diplomatic job because he HATES them so much.

In the same franchise that shows Fireheart getting bullied, facing prejudice, and fighting a murderous tyrant who publically executes a mixed-race character, their endgame villain is an outsider, like him, but this one IS a godless heathen who HATES love and friendship and banned families.

In the VERY same franchise which made its first non-malicious group barely able to get through an arc without needing to be saved by Clan cats, totally unable to defend themselves, framed as "whiny" for not wanting their clearly 'inferior' culture to be forcefully changed.

And I'm re-stating all this because, again, no offense to you in particular Anon, but I've been seeing a few people with a sentiment like yours lately. Complaints into a vacuum that don't make targeted critique of anyone's fanworks, gesturing at this broad "woobification" which is apparently out there somewhere over the rainbow, saying things like "well Scourge is selfish" or "well Moonlight abandoned her 13 year old" as if we haven't BEEN knew.

As if we're not all directly responding to these choices. As if I haven't written ESSAYS on this topic.

Since this was about BloodClan in particular though, and you admit you haven't read the books in years, please go back and actually read Rise of Scourge before trying to make critique of the ways fanon rewrites its origin. It's EXPLICITLY a response to the Clans, in the text, that the Erins wrote, it is canon that fanon is working with.

And you want people to take that out and approach it a different way... why? Because it's so incredulous to you that a nation forms in response to a threatening neighbor? That a common enemy through invasions is a way that people might choose to unite, and encourage their new culture to value brutality? Because you don't like the idea of Clan Culture's XENOPHOBIC BATTLE CULTURE affecting surrounding communities??

Could YOU, maybe, be doing this "woobification" thing I keep hearing about? Can I play this stupid game too? What's our stupid prize? Can it be a lollipop? Do we get stickers

TL;DR, ok.

[crimeronan]

Just remembered. Blight Industries is canonically a subsidiary of the Abomination Coven. Luz goes to Darius like “hey so. Hunter and also about five minutes of scrolling through your penstagram feed both tell me that you SUPER hate the Blight family (minus Amity), so I have some fantastic news for you! We’re gonna fuck with them So Hard.”

Luz and Darius can finally bond… over fucking over Odalia Blight…. My dreams come true…

luz, kicking down the door: DARIUS!! I NEED YOU TO BE A TYRANT

darius, not even looking up: i have never done enough paperwork to warrant that and i am Not about to start now.

luz: toward the blight family, specifically.

darius: .......I'm Listening 🧐🧐🧐

[chintzwife]

highlights from the stucky v. pirates poll notes

[cupiidzbow]

im not sure if this has been asked before, but whats your favorite primate?

i like orangutans cuz theyre so smart and cool :p

HI RAD!!!! OUGHHH I LOVEEE ORANGUTANS SO MUCH TOOO!!!!!! they’re my favorite of the larger primate groups they’re known to be very sweet and gentle to the point where some of them can get along with littler primates of different species!!! I always love these pictures in particular 🥹🥹🥹

I THINK SOME OF FAV PRIMATES ARE DEFINITELY TITI MONKEYS ( they’re so round 🥹) black and white colobus monkeys ( I LOVEE their little white babies 🥹) AND SQUIRREL MONKEYS! (so ears! 🥹)

I ALSO LOVEEE CAPUCHINS ( especially white headed capuchins!! ) ( the brown capuchin is the specific species my sona usually is !!! :D ) CHIMPS, GIBBONS AND JAPANESE SNOW MACAQUES!! 🥹🥹🥹

[unhingedkinfessions]

one time i had a fictionflicker (i think) of valentino hazbin hotel and the moment the shift began one of my friends knocked me unconscious. gave me a concussion, but i never had a val shift again.

hey this is so fucking funny. literally beat the hazbitch out of you. good

[fujii-draws]

so im most definitely certain that darkrai is gonna get his ass handed to him (even when he tries to pull What I Think He's Gonna Pull) by dusknoir by end of the comic so now im just imagining him limping all the way back to cresselia and she gives him the nastiest side eye on the entire grass continent while saying something like "failed to reap what you tried to sow? 😒" and he just goes "yeah 😔" before promptly collapsing. nobody goes after dusknoir's kid(s) and goes away clean with it. just ask dusknoir /hj

HEEEEEEEELP

^^^King of Nightmares getting his ass handed to him by a living beachball

[deus-ex-mona]

if the trope works, it ✨works✨ y’know~

[pistashxo]

study

[human-rocket]

Honest to all the gods, that kiss (and the panels leading up to it) is one of THE hottest images this fandom has ever produced for this pair. What an absolute feat to see my entire dash united in 🥵 emojis and reblogs, like we all had the collective FUCK YEAH FINALLY!!! scream lol

Can't stop looking at it, no regrets

😭😭😭 Ahhhhh that’s such a huge compliment- this fandom has made some truly amazing work! I’ve been overjoyed by the response this update has gotten. I was so nervous about posting it!! 🙈 I can’t stop reading all the tags and this message lol Thank you sm!!

[knifebaby3000]

sweet ★