#that was very. shippable

[lanarchers]

Mario and DK in the movie. That’s it, that’s the post.

[papanowo]

get a grip loverboy !!!

[chyarui]

Little homage to my favourite commander, clone, and character in all of Star Wars. This is for you Commander Cody, Kote. After drawing Fox I couldn’t not draw this man. His ability to balance his competence with his insanity is just fuckin incredible. This man will one second snap at a shiny for breaking Obi-Wans concentration, and in the next sucker punch a droid and dog pile Grievous. Icon. Also hm I wonder what the ring around his neck is all about. And his keychain for that matter…

NOW ABOUT THE TATTOO. Though Cody’s the commander, I can’t imagine that he wouldn’t have gotten at least one tattoo. This one was inspired by a fic I read a while ago (The Things You Didn’t Say by Anonymous on ao3, highly recommend) where ***SPOILER*** Cody reveals to Obi-Wan his tattoo, half the open circle fleet. As the open circle fleet directly symbolises Anakin and Obi-Wan, the fact that Cody would explicitly only get Obi-Wans half tattooed over his heart… It makes me feral guys, I couldn’t get the idea out of my head.

The last drawing is just a design idea I had that didn’t really work out when I added colour, but still really enjoyed. I thought about just drawing a full helmet like I did for Fox, but I needed you guys to see his side profile. I love this man so much. Also the stress caused by Rex, Anakin and Ahsoka combined caused him and Obi-Wan to have matching greying temples, just endless suffering with those 3.

[snowygray]

jerejean is my soul but jeanee is my heart and kevjean is my lungs if that makes sense

[voxcam]

what

[ace-lost-in-motherfucking-art]

get a load of these guys

[swan2swan]

Look, I know she's evil and pulling the strings and there really WASN'T a choice, it's just the illusion...

...but DANG, the fact that she looks down and sees that Kenji caught up with Brooklynn, and doesn't freak out but just sits down and watches as all her friends run up...

...it's sick.

Again, it's manipulative, she has the Death Remote and an Atrociraptor, and Brooklynn knows she has both of those things...but there's also a question of whether or not Soyona would have Actually Used Them.

She already teased Brooklynn with her chance to leave before, back when she left the car. She baited Brooklynn to come after her. And it's more than possible that her motion for the remote was self-defense: if the Nublar 5 had chosen to storm the plane and/or wrestle Brooklynn away by force, she would have obviously used Red to protect herself.

But would she have killed them if Brooklynn had chosen to go with them?

There's no cut back to Soyona when Brooklynn looks back. No glare. No sign of her raising the bracelet and pulling out the remote.

It's not impossible that she would have let Brooklynn go if she'd chosen not to follow. She destroyed the lab and cleaned up her trail, she has business to take care of, the kids would have plenty of issues that would be fun to discuss, and she didn't really give Brooklynn too valuable of information, and had more than enough leverage to keep herself safe...so why not let it play out? Why not gamble a little? Have some fun?

And she wins.

She gives Brooklynn a choice, and Brooklynn chooses her. And it's really sinister if Soyona was going to let her go.

[magicwhiskers29]

Been dwelling on this for a while now, but aro Kabru is soooooooo interesting to me

Like, he's this guy who's often called a lady killer and whatnot by his friends because of his charms, but his intentions behind those are entirely nonromantic, and he even seems to have a kind of clinical view on romance, at times.

When he smiles at people and winks, he's trying to come across as friendly and approachable, not flirty. Because he's deeply fascinated with people, but in a like, wants to study them under a microscope kind of way. His party jokes a lot about him being a hit with women, but we never see him attempt to actually romance anyone. It's his facade that he wants to use on just about everyone, because he wants to be liked so he can be close to people and be able to immerse himself in other people's lives.

A lot of people criticise him for the casual way he treats Rin, with romantic gestures, whilst his canon stance on her is that he sees her like a sister. To my knowledge, it's unclear if he knows she likes him, but this is Kabru, so it's not unreasonable to assume that he's deduced as much. And yet he kisses her just to stop her casting anyway. It's such a clinical procedure. Kabru sees it as the most efficient and safe way to stop her, so he goes for it. And yeah, they both look like monsters to each other, but he so casually kisses a girl he probably knows has romantic feelings for him who he views as just like a sister.

It's not a big deal to him because he doesn't feel that way about her. Maybe won't feel that way at all. His perspective on romance is consistently like looking through a window, just studying other people's views on it, because it doesn't mean much to him.

When he edits Mithrun's backstory for Laios, he cuts out lots of what he sees as complicated, both out of respect for preserving Mithrun's privacy, but also just to make it simple enough for Laios, who has so little interest in human matters or motivations, to understand. And he centres it on a tragic love story! He thinks that Mithrun's love for a woman, and his jealousy over his brother having her interest instead, is a good, simple core motive. Romance is just a plot device to simplify and explain Mithrun's past motivations. Romance to Kabru is just another facet of people to study, something that makes them do things, and something that paints a broader picture of them.

It's a pretty detached view. He's a very shippable guy for a lot of fans (and for a lot of characters in story too, haha) but he's also someone whose idea of romance is just another thing to be studied. He's guy who does a lot of romantic or flirty things, whilst seemingly having no interest in romance for himself at all!

He doesn't feel romantic attraction, but it fascinates him anyway

[hilacopter]

I will probably be burned at the stake for this but I hate how popular ships in fandoms (ESPECIALLY here) are always based on WhO'S tHe MOsT QuEeRCoDEd iN CanOn and not on whether the ship is actually. good. I won't deny that a lot of these popular ships are good and it would be fine if they didn't become the literal fanon norm and every time someone has other ships for the characters or god forbid, doesn't like the ship, everyone goes "we totally respect your opinion and all but they're literally so gay how can you not see how gay they are you dumbfuck-"

[deus-and-the-machina]

ngl I might get crucified for this but I think the dunmeshi yuri/yaoi discourse was stupid and misrepresenting the ao3 factoids. as of today the most written for mlm ship is labru with 69 (nice) and the next most popular has less then half that at 31. meanwhile farcille has 125 out of the 154 F/F ships in the tag. it is by FAR the most popular ship, with the next two most written about sapphic ships being marcille/izutsumi (9) and kiki/namari (4) and also a couple of x readers? so farcille dominates by far

it seems to me that what's going on is that several mlm ships are in rotation in terms of popularity whereas farcille dominates as the singularly popular wlw ship.

and this doesnt mean that the issues people were bringing up about the general lack of sapphic content and the way fandom treats female characters aren't valid, but idk man when farcille fanart is cropping up daily and getting thousands of notes and has about twice more the amount of fics that the most popular mlm ship on ao3 has its like. I dont think this is really a fandom that proves that point.

I would like to see some more variation in smaller wlw pairs to make up the difference though! I dont think I see any tade/izutsumi fics and we need to change that they could be so cute.

[nov5aftermath]

I love Tumblr so much because every time I play murdle I've thought to myself that Tumblr girls would love irratino and logico.

And guess what

They do

[lilacmox]

Sunday morning, rain is falling Steal some covers, share some skin

[ceruleanslob]

i just found out about professor layton vs phoenix wright today and a thought came to mind:

what if whenever phoenix talks about his "friend" who invites him over to europe during the 7 year gap, everyone assumes it was edgeworth when in all actuality, it was professor layton?

idk much about the Professor Layton series but that would be so funny...

[fandomroulette]

Multishipper Madness pt 1

I thought it would be fun to rank my favourite aftg ships for each character. Starting things off with Neil Josten himself. Fair warning, it gets goofy.

1. Neil/Andrew (top Neil pairing, I love their canon relationship, I also love seeing them still together in AUs)

2. Neil/Matt/Dan (genuinely so underrated, pairs best with Kandrew universes imo)

3. Neil/Jean (Raven!aus or Andrew has to be gone for some other reason, but I Love me some misplaced forever partners)

4. Neil/Andrew/Kevin (a classic, I like romantic and qpr versions)

5. Neil/Jean/Kevin (Raven!aus only)

6. Neil/Kevin (can usually only picture them as pre-Kandriel, but I love versions of things where they get together first and Andrew angsts for a while about being left out)

7. Neil/Aaron (Andrew has to be gone, but then it's a guilty fave)

8. Neil/Matt (Kandrew universes/ when Matt and Dan are polyam but they don't open things up until after she moves away)

9. Neil/Andrew/Renee (ok hear me out, I love a version of things where Andrew and Renee have a long standing fwb arrangement - they care for each other but it's not exactly romantic (she's aromantic and he's demiromantic) and then Renee notices Andrew falling Hard for Neil and just supports him endlessly. Neil is initially wary of getting in the way of what they have and Renee is unsure of whether she should back away from things but while Neil is slow to warm up to her I'm a sucker for imagining Renee and Neil as eventually Very close even if it never turns sexual or romantic between the two of them. I just think they would be able to understand each other so well)

10. Neil/Ichirou (butcher!Neil AUs, not usually my thing but every once in a while)

11. Neil/Allison/Seth (fwb only, obv this doesn't exactly jive with Neil's canon sexuality but I love the idea of Allison and Seth trying to one up each other by both trying to seduce Neil and he's just 1000% done with them most of the time but he's also like "sure keep trying to piss each other off by providing me with orgasms")

12. Neil/Wymack (cancel me. Look, it's not like I think it makes canon sense, I just think it would be hot and also melt Kevin's brain in a way I find hilarious)

[bea-l-t]

Why is everyone in aftg so hecking shippable?? Like literally I think I could justify any (within unproblematic reasoning) coupling with any characters except for like Riko and for some reason Nicky.