#the concept is real cool tho

[koszmarnybudyn]

One day I will draw Fantasy high fanart without Riz in it but today is not the day.

Also alternative black and white versions:

[time-slink]

glasswing butterfly.. :)

[fuckyeahxenobladechroniclesx]

Today's weekly XCX model is:

Millesaur (en060801)

[boyfriendgideon]

as yr favorite local jason todd fan sometimes i get so fed up with the apparent inability of most dc comic writers to write a class conscious narrative about him.

and yes, i know that comics are a very ephemeral and constantly evolving and self-conflicting medium.

and yes, i know they’re a profit-driven art medium created in a capitalistic society, so there are very few times where comics are going to be created solely out of the desire to authentically and carefully and deliberately represent a character and take them from one emotional narrative place to another, because dc cares about profit and sometimes playing it safe is what sells.

and yes, i know comics and other forms of art reflect and recreate the society within which they were conceived as ideas, and so the dominant societal ideas about gender and race and class and so on are going to be recreated within comics (and/or will be responded to, if the writer is particularly societally conscious).

but jesus christ. you (the writer/writers) have a working class character who has been homeless, who has lost multiple parents, who has been in close proximity to someone struggling with addiction, who has had to steal to survive, who may have (depending on your reading of several different moments across different comics created by different people) been a victim of csa, who has clearly (subtextually) struggled with his mental health, who was a victim of a violent murder, and who has an entirely distinct and unique perspective on justice that has evolved based on his lived experiences.

and instead of delving into any of that, or examining the myriad of ways that classism in the writers’ room and the editors’ room and the readers’ heads affected jason’s character to make sure you’re writing him responsibly, or giving him a plotline where his views on what justice looks like are challenged by another working class character, or allowing him to demonstrate actual autonomy and agency in deciding what relationships he wants to have with people who he loves but sees as having failed him in different ways, or thinking carefully about what his having chosen an alias that once belonged to his murderer says about his decision-making and motivations, you keep him stuck in a loop of going by the red hood, addressing crime by occupying a position of relative power that perpetuates crime & harm rather than ever getting at the root causes, and seesawing between a) agreeing with his adoptive family entirely about fighting nonlethally in ways that are often inconsistent with his apparent motivations or b) disagreeing and experiencing unnecessarily brutal and violent reactions from his adoptive father as if that kind of violence isn’t the kind of thing he experienced as a child and something bruce himself is trying to prevent jason from perpetuating. because a comic with red hood, quips, high stakes, and familial drama sells.

it doesn’t matter if it keeps jason trapped, torn between an unanswered moral and philosophical question, a collection of identities that no longer fit him, and a family that accepts him circumstantially. it doesn’t matter if jason’s characterization is so utterly inconsistent that the only way to mesh it together is to piece different aspects of different titles and plotlines together like a jigsaw. it doesn’t matter if you do a disservice to his character, because in the end you don’t want to transform him or even understand him deeply enough to identify what makes him compelling and focus on that.

and i love jason!!!!! i love him. and i think about the stories we could have, if quality and art and doing justice to the character were prioritized as much as selling a title and having a dark and brooding batfam member besides bruce just to be the black sheep character are prioritized. and i just get a little sad.

[beefybluewerewolf]

I said what I said

[nejackdaw]

Man... I love the concept of Eragon's spellcasting so much. Usually spells draw on some sort of mana pool, in books and games, and if there's not enough left you simply cannot cast the spell you want to cast until there is.

Magic in Eragon doesn't care if you have enough "mana" left. Spellcasting in Eragon says "you invoked something ancient, and it is going to draw off your life in order to do what you asked, even if it kills you." You cannot stop once you start. Spellcasting is incredibly dangerous and takes a ton of training to (1) know your limits and what will go beyond them and (2) slowly, slowly increase that limit.

If your endurance and constitution are high enough, you can cast a complicated spell and come out of it feeling exhausted and kinda like shit, but it's done now. If they're not high enough, all you can do is sit there and slowly die knowing you made the wrong choice.

Idk I had a dream last night that used Eragon style magic and it was like WOAH

[mutalune]

me when people hate on aos trek:

[warrior-of-waistbands]

can you draw harold in his monster form you know what i talking about

unfortunately I cannot, because I have no idea what he looks like 😞

But I can give you this :) :

[mintbees]

So here we are. Thy thoughts about them MineCon Live 1.21 revelations?

oh ye i totally forgot to share my thoughts! well i think the new structure is very fun and the autocrafting is absolutely huge and-

HOLY SHIT A NEW GREY BRICK BLOCK LETS GOOOOOOOOO

[loverdude]

I hate getting blood drawnnn

[freakova]

hear me out

[cheemken]

Knight what if we made an AU where Hilda, Hilbert, and Iris are the human forms/hosts of Reshiram, Zekrom, and Kyurem

Like the three dragons are definitely weaker then how they were when they’re were the Original Dragon. But like what if being split apart made them to weak? Cause I’m sure if energy for one body got split apart for three different bodies then it wouldn’t be enough to support it for long

So imagine sometime after the war with the two brothers, instead of turning into the stones to regain their energy and heal up, they instead find a host to take over so they can stay awake and heal at the same time

I can’t think of a logical reason for Kyurem to find a host as well. Just didn’t want to be left out ig

But idk if the three dragons would switch hosts every few decades when their host is getting older and they can’t survive of the low energy anymore, or if the three dragons asked a favour from Arceus and practically made the twins and Iris almost immortal

Like the three of them still age, just verrrry slowly. I imagine they became hosts at age 10 and 14 but in present time they’re teenagers/young adults. Or if we go with the first option, Iris, Hilda, and Hilbert just happen to be the newest hosts the three dragons have chosen for the next few decades

I don’t think it’s painful or energy draining for the host, it’s more like they share their energy together so they both benefit from it. Like the dragons get to live and heal, and the host gets cool side effects cause they’re technically part dragon and fire/elec/ice type now

But anyways, what do you think? Pick whichever one you think makes more sense or you like more

Actually one more thing, if we’re going with the three of them being the original hosts. You know how old people will tell younger people “you have it easier than I did when I was your age” Iris can technically hold that over Draydens head causes she’s probably 300+ years older than him lmao

Ohhh👀👀👀

Wait no that's cool tho I'm such a sucker for that kinda au bcmdnd hahah reminds me of Venom hahaha

Idk, I like the concept where they're the most recent host, idk those kinda concepts are cool, it's like Venom—

No but y'know, how did they even managed to find the kids, and decided they'd be hosts. Cause if it's like the events of BW, then N got the other stone before the twins?? Or maybe in this au, the twins came across the stones while out on their journey, and like, yeah the Dragons showed themselves and promises them power?? Or maybe they told the twins that they just needed somewhere to stay, and ofc they were probs still so young they believed what the dragons said, so they didn't fucking expect for the dragons to actually share their bodies, becoming their new hosts hfkdbd

Like that's also a bit fucked y'know, cause you're like, living w the fact someone else is sharing your body, and no one else knows, and not like you can get them out too, as they have enough control over your body as they do. Like that must've messed with them y'know. Idk if the dragons are like good in this au, but if not, imagine how much the kids are actually suffering tho

Pfft tenfold for Iris fucking imagine bc Kyurem's like, the most empty between the trio, some of his features are also seen on Iris, as if they're really becoming a singular person rather than just Kyurem living within Iris' body. Like imagine some of his scales on her shoulders and her arms, sometimes her eyes turn gold, her nails become sharp like claws now, even her teeth are sharp, her voice would sometimes sound so raspy, as if she was left in the cold for so so long, and she's trying to hide it from everyone else. And Kyurem wasn't nice either, he still wanted power, wanted to find Zekrom or Reshiram to take their own power again, to become the Original Dragon once more

And like yeah, they get cool powers and such, but y'know, they probs don't know how to control it, they probably hurt someone on accident and they have to live w the fact that they probs almost killed someone too. Also it'd be cool if they also had the memories of the dragons hahah like imagine also having to live with the fact that they know what happened in the past, all the destruction, the deaths, everything. Like that's gotta fuck em up hahaha

[something-about-sunflowers]

God I hate when ‘they’re like siblings’ headcanons get popular. You wanna view them as siblings? Go right ahead. But don’t call people gross for shipping them, not everyone views the dynamic in the same way.

Extra irony being two of them fully making out. ‘Don’t be gross’ I’m not the one who saw these two kiss, on the mouth with tongue, and thought ‘Oh, they’re like brothers! ❤’

[eunhos]

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[arolesbianism]

Dancer 🤝 Helmet being low empathy despite literally having different flavors of mind reading

[welcometoteyvat]

thinking about it again and my favorite sumeru subregion is probably the girdle of the sands (newest one, released 3.6) just because of the heaps and heaps of zoroastrianism refs and iranian mythology sprinkled all over the place it’s absolutely so cool. also sorush.