#that's how it's done ;)

[tampire]

Selphie casts The End on Diablos

[randomfoggytiger]

Mulder Becomes a Father

When the fatherhood hits

the hums come quick.

[acurtist]

Some of the tropes I am eager to incorporate:

1. Enemies to lovers. 🤣

2. Secret double-agent 😂

3. Twilight's multigenerational Romance 😜

4. Romeo and Juliet style 🐕

5. Tortured Harem Queen 🤡

6. Tragic Cinderella 💦

7. Misunderstood Terrorist 🫦

8. Pride and Prejudice Realism🥹

9. Jane Eyre U-turn 🐸

10. Prince and Pauper Simulation 😆

11. John Wick+Matrix Mashup🎭

12. Humble Help Pie 🩰

Just kidding, I'll burn down my WIP and hang all my CHARACTER before I add any of these. 👀

[junksterrr]

Amyl and the Sniffers || Amy Taylor

[litapeanut]

The retelling of Medusa's story isn't getting better

A review of Percy Jackson and the Olympians season one

I've not read the source material, but from what I watched, the series is a generic mainstream fantasy show, with Percy being the blandest protagonist ever, despite everyone else around him stating he is special, he literally does and says nothing that resonates this specialness.

Particularly, the thing I found irksome is the third episode where Percy goes on to kill Medusa. Sure, the show made a point that she is no mere monster and included her origin story, but, she is still seen as a quest to be accomplished, and she gets beheaded anyway ( just censoring that with the invisible cap doesn't make it less brutal, I also saw people applauding the invisible cap treatment, as if women being brutalised is okay as long as they are brutalised in a more humane way😂), and furthermore, her head is shipped to Olympus like a common parcel. None of the micro progressive changes matter, because she still ends up the way she is in the original story. I'm not against female characters dying, but female characters dying in a tropey and pointless way.

Let's look at the original Greek mythology, it is a story so well-known that non-classics-professionals are familiar with. The essence of the story boils down to: 1) Medusa is a victim of feudal misogyny and victim blaming; 2) she is being objectified as a quest to conquer and a weapon to use even after her death. The original story is ugly. If you want to keep the story as it is, you have to keep the ugliness too, no wishy-washy sanitisation is going to make it "better". One good way to handle this is to acknowledge the ugliness and offer modern critique, especially in a fantasy show set in contemporary times. The series' way of handling is dodgy, since it is literally a retelling that preserves the core element of the original story invented thousands of years ago, without any updated criticism. (Well, if I want the original version of the story, I'd read a non-fiction book about this matter, not watch a modern fantasy story.)

Perhaps my disappointment came from my expectation that I hoped Medusa could somehow become an ally without having to die, since it's the 2020's now, we probably moved on from the binary hero-vs-monster trope. I still remember that episode from the 90's Hercules cartoon series I watched as a kid (also produced by Disney) in which Hercules came to understand that not all monsters are malefic, and he makes friends with Medusa in the end; more importantly, Medusa lives. This is yet another good way to reimagine the old myth by taking a wild leap. It's sort of sad that a silly cartoon show made more than twenty years ago has a more nuanced understanding than our current production.

How we view non-human beings in the fantasy world, more or less, reflects our attitude on other people who are different from ourselves in real life.

[catnipster69]

That's How It's Done

Dean was sick of shoveling this goddamn snow. They were only staying at this house for a few weeks, and it wasn’t like the owner—some random chick Dean’d never met that was a “friend” of Dad’s—made sure the heat worked.

Across the street, a neighbor, if you could call him that, started up his snowblower in a sudden rumble and blurp of exhaust. Soon, he was jetting snow off the sidewalk onto the street. Happy as a clam. Dean threw his shovel down in disgust. Just—no. Not when he still had to chop firewood.

Sweaty from exertion, he brought in an armful of logs and dropped them next to the fireplace. He threw one on the fire and enjoyed the hiss as the snow burned off.

Sam yelled from the kitchen where he was making breakfast, “Dad’s gonna be pissed if you don’t shovel the sidewalk.”

Dean rolled his eyes, went into the kitchen, and stole a piece of bacon from the plate next to the stove. “Don’t you worry your pretty little head about it.” He tousled Sam’s hair, and Sam jerked his head away and made a pfft noise with his lips.

Later that night, after the world had gone to sleep, Dean snuck out and crossed the street. He picked the lock on the garage door, and there it was. He wheeled it back to their house and started her up. Snow cannoned out the chute in a satisfying plume, and Dean sang to himself as he marched up the sidewalk. After, he returned the blower, locked the door, and went back to bed.

Sam’s eyes glittered in the near dark as Dean took off his clothes and crawled under the covers of his bed. “That’s how it’s done, Sammy. That’s how it’s done.”

[hastalahamon]

this mianmian

has bigger balls than all the men in that room

[uwudonoodle]

How to shut down transphobes.

This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

[w1lmuttart]

The lake town

[starrysharks]

ghanaian miku

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

I feel like "chat" in that context is just the newest iteration of "listeners" or "[insert area name here]" that you get at concerts and from call-in shows. Go back to before mass communication, you got "good people," "citizens," and "countrymen" in political speeches and the bloodsport debates that used to decide trials.

[qiinamii]

new guy in the Express

bonus:

adding more to the whimsy

[littlelightfish]

Funny things I found out playing with language setting in Netflix while looking episode 15:

Chilchuck's scream sounds HAUNTED in brazilian portuguese. Give it a try if you can.

(You can hear it here)

In spanish dub, Senshi says: "tocó mis senos de hombre", which means "he touched my man boobs" in Spanish. And I think that's the best dub line one so far.

[0sbrain]

alternatives for ai to design ocs

hero forge

picrew

the fucking sims 4

your local furry artist

bitmoji

shitty photoshoped collage

DeviantArt bases

zepeto

making edits of your favorite character

searching "dress up game" on the app store

learning how to draw