#they have facial hair though and i get so wigged out by my characters with facial hair because im not confident in drawing them

[greenieart]

WIP (need to add shading and lighting + figures possibly)

My BG3 Tav Kellon’s spot at camp! I haven’t even posted anything about Kellon yet lol but I was having fun with designing the environment here

[lackadaisicallizard]

Costumes

Yes, I know it's halloween and I tried to write angst but I couldn't do it.

So enjoy this bit of Halloween fluff instead.

“Don’t laugh.” 

James is clearly trying very hard to keep a straight face. “I’m not laughing.” 

Regulus scowls at his husband. “Why on Earth am I dressed as a discount Dolly Parton right now, James?” 

“Don’t act like you don’t know what costume it is. You know exactly what costume it is.” James’ resolve falters and his lips curl up in amusement. 

Yes, Regulus does know what costume it is. He is currently wearing blue jeans with cow-print chaps, a white and yellow top, and a red cowgirl hat complete with a fake red plait that’s fetchingly draped over his left shoulder.   

“Why do you get to be Woody and I’m stuck with the frilly yellow fabric?” Regulus walks over to the mirror next to the wardrobe and glares at his reflection as he tweaks the cuffs on his ridiculous sleeves. 

James isn’t put off though it seems as he comes to stand behind him, his smile wide now. “If it helps, you look very cute in cow-print.” 

Regulus rolls his eyes. “Are you telling me you have a thing for cowboys now, Potter?” 

James laughs lightly as he wraps his arms around Regulus’ chest and his own hands subconsciously move to hold them. He can’t help himself. James Potter and his strong arms have always been his weakness. Well, one of them anyway. 

“Nah I have a thing for you,” James bends down to kiss his cheek, his next words low in his ear, “although now that you mention it, the chaps…” 

Regulus rolls his eyes. “Keep it in your pants, Potter, we’ve got places to be.” 

As if on cue, the bedroom door is flung open and the world’s most adorable Buzz Lightyear comes bounding in. “Daddy you said you’d be ten minutes and it’s definitely been way more than that!” 

James lets go of Regulus’ chest, but keeps his right arm wrapped around his husband’s waist as he turns to face their son. 

“Sorry Harry. I was ready in ten minutes but your papa was taking his time as usual.” 

Regulus hits him lightly in the stomach. “Maybe if I didn’t have to figure out how to pin my hair up so it didn’t show under the wig, we’d be leaving on time.” 

James nods. “It does look good, love. Don’t you think so Harry?” 

Harry nods too, a mirror image of his father. “You look just like Jessie! She’s my favourite you know? Well, after Buzz.” 

And how could Regulus do anything but melt at that comment? Because this is the reason he agreed to the ridiculous outfit- his son’s request for them to dress as his favourite characters from his favourite movie. 

Harry is and always will be his biggest weakness. 

Regulus finally smiles now, fully and properly, and moves to kneel down in front of the grinning six year old, adjusting the helmet that is slightly wonky on his head. “Buzz is my favourite too.” 

“Really?”

“Absolutely. How could he not be?” 

“Exactly! Daddy says that his favourite is Rex.” 

“Yes well Daddy is wrong as usual.” 

“Hey!” Regulus turns to his husband’s mildly hurt facial expression. 

“Two against one.” 

“We win!” Harry exclaims and James’ face immediately shifts back to a smile. He scoops Harry up, careful not to damage his wing in the process. 

“I guess we’ll have to watch it later to really decide a winner, won’t we?” 

Harry looks at Regulus who is now standing next to them. “Can we, Papa?” His voice is brimming with excitement 

“Let’s see how we feel after trick or treating, yeah?”

Harry thinks on this for a second before nodding. “Okay.” 

“Speaking of which, we’d better get going before all the good sweets are taken,” James says as he puts Harry down. “Why don’t you go and grab your bucket and we’ll be out in a second?” 

Harry furrows his brow and Regulus speaks, “I promise I won’t take forever this time.” 

“Okay,” Harry says, easily convinced, and he rushes back out of the bedroom. 

James turns to Regulus, his smile soft and his eyes glinting with the same joy that he just saw written across their son’s face. “Are you ready?” 

And as Regulus takes one last look at himself in the mirror he no longer sees a stupid cowgirl costume that his husband made him wear. He sees a stupid cowgirl costume that belongs to his son’s second favourite Toy Story character. And while the former may not have been enough of a reason for him to pull on a pair of leather boots and go outside to be seen by the general public, the latter definitely is. 

So he answers with a nod of his head and a tone more resolute than he ever thought it would be under the given circumstances. “Let’s do this.” 

“To infinity and beyond?” 

“Don’t push it, Potter.”

[haven-flare]

Wanted to give my two cents on the whole wuwa character design. The person saying that having distinct facial feature is not aspiring or interesting needs to watch their wording especially towards POCs.

Most game always suffer from same face syndrome. This is mostly prominent with the females. No matter what a distinct a character looks like with their hair color or eyes. You plaster them on another character they practically identical. Genshin Impact and League of Legends suffer this big time.

Genshin Impact

(Link to where I got the first 4 images: https://m.hoyolab.com/#/article/11600510)

League of Legends

Besides their face ornaments you would believe these are all the same characters right? Nope! They are all different characters.

This is just for a skinline. When compared with the other female characters og skinline they still have all the same faces.

As far as I know the males have distinct facial features.

https://www.tumblr.com/freyito/751527973863178240/i-need-people-to-appreciate-calcharos-nose-bump?source=share

Same person has point out that Taoqi is a thicker than most of the female girls and I agree. Look at the comparison.

Small things like these make the game interesting and unique. Ethnic features and facial differences are important to everyone because it makes the character feel unique and we can relate them physical.

Not everyone is going to have the same eye shape, lips, nose, and mouth. But society excepts us to have the same feature and shuns/discriminates those who lack them or chose to embrace their features.

Which is why character creation games like Baldur's Gate, Elden Ring, Sims 4, and Cyberpunk allows players to adjust and modify their character to look like them so they won't feel like they need look a certain way.

Sorry for the rant. That post really trigger me.

First of all, thanks for sharing your thoughts. A rant it may be, but it was really interesting! Mainly because I didn't think about it from this angle before, but now that you mention it, it's so obvious :9

As a person of color myself, it is a little disheartening when non-white characters look the same but with a different shade of skin, lmao.

I don't play LoL, and haven't actually seen anything about it at all, so I hadn't seen this, though it doesn't surprise me. It's a common joke that women have less variety in their designs than men, and it gets pointed out a lot.

It's mostly modern anime poisoning or something, it's in the water I swear. Where it's just the same character but different colors and personality...

About the Genshin vs Wuwa thing, I agree that the comment of "faces" not being enough seems almost... insensitive? I don't know how to describe it, but I get it. They are so focused in the intricate clothing of Genshin and the large amount of accessories and at the same time disregard what actually matters when it comes to uniqueness, lol.

(In my eyes, clothing in character design, doesn't have to be incredibly decorated, it can be either way as long as it portrays accurately the character that's wearing them. So that whole argument is moot to me, since it's just a matter of stylistic choices and how you wish to portray an environment, etc, etc.)

Meanwhile, the fact that Genshin only uses like two bases for their characters feels like they've streamlined their design production to pull out 'bangers' each time. Just dressing up the same doll each time, changing out the wig and repainting their faces. I still like some designs from them, but it's clear they don't put much effort in the actual body of the character LMAO, they just let the fancy colors and accessories do the talking.

Anyways, hopefully we get more characters with more unique traits instead of some outfit change, both in Wuthering Waves, and in other franchises.

[braveclementine]

CTV Footage Shows. . .

Warnings: None

Copyright: I do not own any Marvel characters or locations. However, I do own my OC Elizabeth Lightwood. I do not condone any copying of this.

"What's going to happen to your friends?" Bucky asked behind Steve. Steve was flying the Quinjet and Bucky was sitting in the chair behind him.

Steve sighed and shook his head, "Whatever it is, I'll deal with it."

"I don't know if I'm worth all this, Steve." Bucky said.

"What you did all those years, it wasn't you. You didn't have a choice." Steve said.

"I know. But I did it." Bucky sighed.

Steve looked behind him. Bucky. . . he looked so familiar yet not at all. Steve liked the long hair though. He smiled a little.

Bucky unlatched himself from the back seat and carefully sat in the one next to Steve. Slowly, he extended his flesh hand to rest on top of Steve's. Steve turned his hands slowly, lacing their fingers together.

"I missed you." Bucky whispered. "So much."

"I've missed you too." Steve murmured, squeezing his hand. He looked at Bucky. "She helped you a lot, didn't she?"

Bucky smirked a little, "I almost wish she didn't have that soulmate of hers. Could've shared her. I liked her a lot."

"Yeah." Steve chuckled, "Me too."

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"The doctors say he shattered L4 through S1." Tony said. "Extreme laceration to the spinal cord. Probably looking at some form of paralysis. Or would be, if Elizabeth hadn't healed as much as she did. He might not even need braces now." Tony sighed.

Elizabeth had also run the minute the cops had shown up, letting the rainbow light take her up to Asgard, while glaring at Ross and flipping him the bird while she did it. Not that Tony really blamed her. Y/N had looked distraught as they had arrested her, putting her in the van with the others.

The Raft. They were taking them to the fucking raft like they were the top criminals of the world. He supposed it was only because they were part of the Avengers.

"Steve's not gonna stop." Natasha said next to him, looking out at the compound grounds, "If you don't either, Rhodey's gonna be the best case scenario."

"You let them go, Nat."

"We played this wrong."

"'We'?" He scoffed, "Boy, it must be hard to shake the whole double agent role, huh? It sticks in the DNA."

"Are you incapable of letting go of your ego for one goddamn second?"

"T'Challa told Ross what you did, so, they're coming for you." Tony said. Maybe he was trying to warn her, maybe trying to scare her, maybe even trying to hurt her. He wasn't even sure at this point.

"I'm not the one that needs to watch their back." Nat said, before turning and walking away. Tony turned to watch her go. His own arm would have been in a sling, but Elizabeth had healed that when she had gone as well. Funny, considering she had been the one to hurt his arm in the first place.

Suddenly, his watch beeped and he tapped it to get a picture of a dead man in a bathtub on the holographic screen. "What am I looking at F.R.I.D.A.Y.?"

"Priority upload from Berlin police."

"Fire up the chopper." He said.

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"The Task Force called for a psychiatrist as soon as Barnes was captured. The UN dispatched Doctor Theo Broussard from Geneva within the hour. He was met by this man." F.R.I.D.A.Y. said, showing Tony a clip of the doctor attempting to get into his car.

"Did you run facial recognition yet?"

"What do I look like?" F.R.I.D.A.Y. retorted.

"Uh, I don't know. I've been picturing a H/C head." Tony responded.

"You must be thinking of someone else." F.R.I.D.A.Y. responded cheekily.

"Must be."

"The fake doctor is actually Colonel Helmut Zemo. Sokovian Intelligence. Zemo ran Echo Scorpion, a Sokovian covert kill squad."

"What happened to the real Broussard?" Tony asked, scanning all of the military pictures of Zemo.

"He was found dead in a Berlin hotel room." F.R.I.D.A.Y. said, pulling up a larger picture of the one Tony had seen on his watch. "Where police also found a wig and facial prosthesis approximating the appearance of one James Buchanan Barnes."

The photo of the CTV camera that looked like Barnes and Sergeant Barnes military photo were pulled up side by side.

"Son of a bitch." Tony sighed. "Get this to Ross."

"Yes boss."

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"So? You got the files?" Tony asked as he stepped out of the chopper. "Let's reroute the satellites, start facial scanning for this Zemo guy."

"You seriously think I'm gonna listen to you?" Ross asked quietly. "after that fiasco in Leipzig? You're lucky you're not in one of those cells."

So this was why they didn't want to sign the Accords. Fitting. It made sense.

Tony followed them into the rooms where they were being monitored. He stopped when he saw Wanda, in a straight-jacket with black ties. He continued walking until he was let into the room where they were all being kept.

He suddenly heard clapping and then Clint's voice, "The Futurist, gentlemen! The Futurist is here! He sees all. He knows what's best for you whether you like it or not."

"Give me a break Barton." Tony said, walking up to his cell. "I had no idea they'd put you in here. Come on."

"Yeah, well, you knew they'd put us somewhere, Tony."

"Yeah, but not some super-max floating ocean pokey." Tony protested. "This is place is for maniacs. This is a place for-"

"Criminals?" Clint stood up. "Criminals, Tony. Think that's the word you're looking for. Right? That didn't used to mean me. Or Sam, or Wanda, or Y/N. But here we are."

"Because you broke the law." Tony explained.

"Yeah."

"I didn't make you."

"La la la."

"You read it. You broke it."

"La la la la."

"You're all grown up. You got two wives and kids. I don't understand, why didn't you think about them before you chose the wrong side?"

Clint stood up quickly. "You gotta watch your back with this guy." He called out and then slammed his cell window, "There's a chance he's gonna break it."

It hurt. It really did. He'd fought with Clint multiple times, even when he didn't expect it.

"Hank Pym always said you never can trust a Stark." The man that had shrunk and grown said, leaning on his cell. He didn't look spiteful though and Tony registered the name in the back of his head as a future possible enemy.

"Who are you?" Tony asked and kept walking.

Sam was facing the back of his cell and didn't turn when Tony stopped in front of him. "How's Rhodes?"

"Elizabeth healed him up. They're gonna fly him to Columbia Medical tomorrow to see if the magic is affecting him for worse. But he seems to be okay. Might have a little trouble walking but with some physical therapy he'll be okay." Tony answered. "What do you need? They feed you yet?"

Sam turned and Tony could see the huge bruise that covered his cheekbone. "You're the good cop, now?"

"I'm just the guy who needs to know where Steve went." Tony answered.

"Well, you better go get a bad cop because you're gonna have to go Mark Fuhrman on my ass to get information out of me." Sam said.

Tony sighed, quickly messing with his watch. "Well, I just knocked the A out of their AV." Tony said. "We got about thirty seconds before they realize it's not their equipment. Just look, because that, is the fellow who was supposed to interrogate Barnes. Clearly, I made a mistake. Sam, I was wrong."

"That's a first." He quipped.

"Cap is definitely off the reservation but he's about to need all the help he can get. We don't know each other very well, You don't have to."

"Hey, it's all right." Sam said. "Look, I'll tell you, but you have to go alone, and as a friend."

"Easy." Tony nodded. Sam gave him what he needed and Tony quickly rebooted the systems and then walked over to Y/N's cell, "Baby?"

She sighed and stood up, putting a hand against the cell window. She never looked more beautiful than when he couldn't touch her. She parted her lips and look up at him through her eyelashes. "Tony. . ."

"I was wrong." He whispered.

She nodded her head a little and then asked, "How's Everleigh?"

"She misses you. I'll get you a plea deal and you'll be home soon, I promise." Tony said quietly.

Y/N nodded. "Just. . . do what's right."

"I will." He whispered, putting his hands against hers on the glass, then turned and left.

"Stark, did he give you anything on Rogers?" Ross called after him as Tony started to get back into the helicopter.

"Nope. Told me to go to hell. I'm going back to the Compound instead. You can call me anytime, I'll put you on hold, I like to watch the line blink." Tony smirked, letting the helicopter door slide closed. Once he was in the air, he stuck his finger on the button, letting the suit cover his entire body.

His chair slid back into the tail of the helicopter, dropping him down into the sky. He zoomed off in the direction that Sam had told him they were going.

And down below the clouds. . . a little something tailed him.

[vveakfish]

do you have any thoughts about the core four whose gender(s) are basically just a trans fruit cocktail that you would like to talk about? because I would love to listen

oh boy DO I !!!

I have So Many thoughts about them Anon, so thank you for giving me an excuse to try and put it into words beyond “Damn, these bitches trans! Good for them.”

Honestly, there are so many different ways to explore these characters genders based on how you choose to interpret their life experiences, and their aesthetic changes, and their relationships with each other. I am of the belief that any of them could be trans in any direction

But, that said, I Do have particular gender headcanons for YJ that i am very fond of, so thats what I’ll be talking about today.

(Small disclaimer. I have not finished all of the comics referenced in this. I am using the information i have to inform these, but you know, i might come back to this post at some point in the future and look at it like “wow, i don’t agree with any of this anymore.” And i think thats okay.

I’m just here to have fun, and i thoroughly enjoy these little guys, and think abt them alot, so enjoy

(also if you dont want to read 4.1k words of blorbo gender analysis, or would like to avoid spoilers for Superboy (1993), Young Justice (1998) & (2019), and Red Robin (2009) in varying degrees of detail, or you just want to see what lables i assigned them, scroll down to the bottom <3))

lets get started.

Bart:

Bart's gender is the most complex, but his thought process about it is also the most simple. I think his view of gender would be very much influenced by the fact that he grew up in VR in the future like…

A body is just an avatar, do what ever the fuck you want with it.

That said, the lil guy has always given me transmasc vibes. These vibes, however, are by no means binary.

He understands that in the 21st century a lot of people do not have his sort of “throw things at the wall and see what sticks” approach to gender, so he’s okay with being put in the box of Boy™. But his gender is a lot more * hand waves vaguely *

Clothes don’t have gender in his eyes, they’re fabric you put on your body. Wear what ever you want forever!

Bart in skirts is something i have seen many people draw/talk about before, and its something i agree with wholeheartedly. He likes hair clips, and like, those loud (actually loud and visually loud) beaded bracelet type things that ravers wear. He like nail polish. He doesn’t grow facial hair, but he wouldn’t care if he did. He’s not on hormones, but he definitely considered it for the bit. “Gotta drink my boy juice” Kind of vibes.

For him gender has Nothing to do with performance, its all about comfort. About wearing what feels right, regardless of whether or not he’s adhering to expectations of masculinity.

Yes, he Will wear that god awful outfit out of the house, haters can die mad

Cassie:

Anon, I need you to understand how much i love early yj98 cass. She is everything to me — her process of coming to terms with herself, and being able to watch her start to feel at home in her own skin. It makes me absolutely feral.

lets see if i can explain why… succinctly

When we first meet her in yj98, her identity as “Wonder Girl” is this sort of amalgamation of What it Means To Be A Hero in her eyes. She has her party city blunt bob wig (Because Diana is who she looks up to), the gloves, leather jacket, goggles combo (that so clearly take inspiration from Kon).

At this point in her life Wonder Girl is not really her. Its very clearly a mask she’s putting on. which is what makes it the perfect avenue for her to explore gender expression without it having to actually be about her gender.

I think the part that specifically makes me feral though is her… we’ll call it admiration of Kon.

The girl is a self proclaimed Superboy stan + theres all the weird not-drama between Cassie and Cissie over wanting attention from Kon. (And i say Not Drama bc its like… Kon flirting with cissie (which like… have you met 90’s Kon?? he flirts with everything that moves) and Cassie being upset that he’s Not flirting with her. and cissie is just along for the ride. She’s not quite as much of a flirt as kon is, but she has her moments)

All of this to say i feel like its impossible to have a conversation about Cassie’s gender without also talking about her experiences with comphet and lesbianism.

At the beginning, Cassie sees Kon — this cocksure, conventionally attractive boy with powers that (at first glance) seem very similar to hers, and felt something about it. And, in the way of teen girls who have been told since grade school that they’re supposed to like boys, Cassie comes to the conclusion that what she feels for Kon must be romantic in nature, right?.

All of this, the jealousy over Kon and Cissie flirting, basing her costume off Superboy’s (intentionally or otherwise), the fact that she wont let her team see her without the wig and goggles at all for so much of yj98. To me it all reads as the tangled mix of undiscovered lesbianism and gender dysphoria that the poor girl simply doesn’t have the words to define yet.

So, then what IS cassie’s deal with gender???

i am so very glad you asked.

She, too, is a transmasc of the nonbinary variety.

I think her relationship to femininity is complex, and ever changing. She doesn’t feel comfortable performing femininity the way the world expects her to, but she is also part Amazon. And i think having a relationship with both Diana and Donna would greatly influence how she felt about femininity as a whole.

The Amazons are strong, their femininity isn’t about beauty, or being soft spoken — it isn’t about Men at all. On Themyscira, to be a Woman is about bravery, honor, skill, and in some ways, divinity. Getting closer with her Amazonian sisters would change her relationship to womanhood immensely.

But it still wouldn’t feel Right. She would be able to see that womanhood can be defined differently, but that wouldn’t change the connotations that womanhood had as she was growing up. She’d never be able to lean into it the way Diana or Donna do — they both grew up only having woman defined as strong and brave and confident. Their experiences are not analogous.

The baggage of growing up a girl under the patriarchy wouldn’t just… vanish because she sees that it Doesn’t have to be that way. In some ways, the knowledge that it didn’t have to be that way could make her dysphoria all that stronger (especially if she hasn’t quite deciphered that dysphoria is what she’s feeling).

but i think there would be a point where two things sharpen into focus for her.

fiirstly she has a big fat crush on cissie king-jones.

and second (which would only come AFTER realizing her feelings for cissie) is that what she feels for Kon is Not the same as what she feels for Ciss.

She didn’t want to be with Kon romantically, she just wanted his gender.

I could see her experimenting with wearing a binder, liking that she can get rid of her boobs if she isn’t feeling them that day.

She already has her short hair, and her leather jacket and jeans, and shes big and buff and strong (because she deserves to be butch!!! okay???).

I still think she would use she/her pronouns, but she wouldn’t be picky ab it (if she gets called sir while at the pizza place, she’s not going to correct them.)

But here’s the kicker — I think leaning hard into her masculinity would be EXACTLY what she needs in order to actually ENJOY expressing femininity again.

When putting on the mask that is ‘womanhood’ becomes something that she can Choose to do, rather than something that is being forced on her, it can be pleasant. Like playing dress up.

She has a new appreciation for it, especially since her friends respect her gender, and she knows at the end of the day, when she takes the makeup, the clothes, and the wig off, underneath it all she’s just her.

(Small addendum re: TT’03 Cassie’s fem phase. I have Many thoughts about this as well, and while they end up in roughly the same place, i exploring her experience with comphet and her decision to dress in a more traditionally feminine in that run is something id like to explore in another post (once i’ve actually read the run too.)

Cissie (bonus):

This one should be shorter than Cassies, mainly because my reasoning for it is much simpler.

YJ'98 (#11)

She lists all these names, all of them feminine except for Fucking Ralph. “One weird phase” she calls it.

To me, Cissie is a transgirl through and through. She has this huge list of femme names she tried on while she tried to find the one that fit best. She mentions ralph in this off handed way, as if its not important, and i think thats just her way of dismissing her deadname as something of little consequence.

(that said, i think there’s lots of fun to be had with transmasc cissie, or tried transing-her-gender and realized it wasn’t for her Cissie. But as a transfemme, tgirl cissie is So important to me <3)

Kon:

other people on here have made posts about Kon’s gender that are much more coherent than this will be, but i’m putting the words down anyway. bear with me.

Kon’s experience with identity (especially in his earlier years) is almost entirely about the external rather than the internal.

Kon has his whole life planned out for him from the moment he opens his eyes. It’s simple really — become Superman.

So you have this freshly hatched teenage boy, saving the world as Superman (not the Only one, but definitely the coolest one (Kon would argue)). All eyes on him, all the time. In some ways, performance is inseparable from who he is. From the very beginning, everything he does is on display.

He starts his life with a Name (Superman), a life path (…again, Superman), and all the confidence of a sixteen year old jock with nothing but wins under his belt. then it all gets taken away.

Turns out Clark ISNT dead, and the world doesn’t need its pint sized superman anymore now that its got the real thing.

enter Superboy

Kon’s entire identity, his whole purpose for being alive, was to step into the shoes of a dead man who is no longer dead. So where does that leave our genetically engineered test tube baby?

lost, and extremely confused.

But he’s good at using his charisma as a shield, and even better at keeping himself busy. His problems aren’t there if he doesn’t have the time to think about them, right?

and i think that’s true about his gender as well.

Similar to Cassie, his discovery and exploration of his gender feels incredibly tied to his sexuality (to me). If you’ve read sb93, you know Kon’s deal with women. He is cute & conventionally attractive & he's like superman with a fashion sense, so of course there are people fawning over him.

And he loves the attention. He likes that people want him, or that they are looking at him. The issue is he doesn’t have the life experience to realize that their reasons for paying attention to him are often very shallow, manipulative, or selfish.

He isn’t treated as a person very often. He’s a brand, a product, a tool, a weapon. He’s arm candy, he’s a photo op, he’s a headline, he’s a paycheck. And it takes him a long time to be able to tell the difference between someone Liking Him & someone Using Him.

For the longest Time, Superboy is all he is. He doesn’t have a name outside of that identity (except for the various pet names the women in his life give him (kid & pup, mainly)).

And even when Clark does give him his real name, Kon-El, its still Attatched to his identity as Superboy.

I dont think that he would really even be able to start dissecting how HE feels about his identity until he’s much older.

Part of this would come from the space to be someone else that gaining a civilian identity would give him. As Superboy, the goal has always been to stand out, to be seen, to shine like the sun.

As Conner Kent, he has to blend in. He doesnt want to draw attention to himself, or the Kents, or Clark. He has to fit in, which was never something he had to do as Kon. And i think it would kind of chafe at him — but he wouldn’t really know why.

I think he’d chalk it up to how different of an experience it is. Not being loud, having to be normal™. And so i think he’d just… continue to play the part. For a while anyway.

And like, part of being Normalest Boy Conner Kent would also involve actively un-queer coding himself for the sake of fitting into the ecosystem of Smallville High. and its like…

Young Justice, as a friend group, is SOOO queerplatonic. The lines between romantic and platonic intimacy are so blurred, and Prior to Kon’s YJ days he he was also like… living with these woman who he had complicated relationships with that also blurred the lines between platonic, romantic, and sexual (…looking at you, Knockout).

So learning where the line is when it comes to how he can acceptably interact with his civilian friends (particularly the boys) would Really open his eyes to just how close he is with Bart and Tim, and how similar his feelings for them are to his feelings for… lets say, Simon Valentine.

But i dont think That is what would actually tip the scale. I think realizing that these feelings for his friends aren’t considered ‘normal’ would make him shove them down deeper. As ‘Conner’ anyway.

from here it could go two ways, right?

Either we get Teen Titans ‘03 t-shirt Kon, who sheds his GNC 90s swag in exchange for adhering closer to traditional (read; boring) masculine gender roles.

or we get a Kon who leans Harder into his punk roots, but its a conscious choice now.

(this isn’t even digging into how he would feel once Jon comes into the picture, because while Kon cares for that boy Deeply, his feelings abt the new kiddo in the family could also be very complicated. But that’s a post for another time.)

Personally i prefer the second one.

Kon has always been a curious kid, i love the way he makes pop culture references, and how he bases his behavior off of 90’s teen tropes that he Most Definitely learned from TV. In his early days this wasn’t done in a research way necessarily, but he Did want to learn what it was like to Be a Teen™, and TV was the easiest way to figure that out.

(and, playing in the space of Kon adaptations, his love of media/pop culture, and just over all thirst for knowledge, are present both in the Reign of the Supermen Movie, and in his iteration during the n52 (which is one of the few things i personally have internalized from reading n52 Superboy/Teen Titans)).

But post gay awakening, i feel liked he’d be interested not just in behaviors, but also the context of them. Digging into punk as a subculture rather than as an aesthetic. Learning about its connections to queerness, and community, and self expression. And i think this would be extremely freeing for him. (especially if this were around the time of Jon becoming Superboy v.3, but again, not the point of this post.)

this all culminates in Kon being like yk? gender just… isnt for me. Like, it takes im a long time to get to this point, but realizing that the path that was set out for him is just one of the potential paths he can take, and while he might not know where this new path will take him, its his, that that matters.

And also like, Because his friends are who they are, he’s seen different versions of queerness, and transness, but i think it would take him a bit to see himself as someone who Isn’t Cis bc like… he doesnt have dysphoria in the traditional sense.

He’s still the beefcake he’s always been, but i think he’d start playing with makeup when he realizes it makes him feel good (he shows up the the cave one day with smudgy eye liner and Cissie is immediately like a) you look so good and b) can i Please do your makeup? (and then she does it, and he looks so pretty, and he gets these weird giddy feelings that he doesn’t realize is gender euphoria until his friends start talking abt gender euphoria)

His uniform starts to get more personalized too, like the designs where he has knee patches, and all his little belts, and stuff. maybe he starts experimenting with showing skin. bc he deserves it

(’its for maximum sun exposure!!!’ is the what he tells clark… he’s not sure if clark bought it or not)

And hey, exploring gender presentation more as Superboy might help him do the same as Conner. Cassie will take him thrifting, he’ll try of a flowy skirt or a sun dress or something and then its Over. Gender euphoria part two, electric boogagloo.

In the end, its about realizing that adhering gender roles (and truthfully, any socially imposed ‘rule’ about self expression) is something he can simply Choose not to do. And i think this freedom would be something that benefits him in his civilian life as well.

His gender is: literally what ever, man.

Tim:

Ok, here’s the thing about Tim and gender, right? I think he’s kind of just comfortable as he is. He’s good at playing the roles he needs to in what ever situation hes thrown into. ‘Robin’ and ‘Tim Drake’ (and even ‘Tim Drake-Wayne’ if you want to split hairs) might be masks he wears, but that doesn’t mean they’re any less him. if that makes sense. like…

Lets look at the differences between Bruce (or Brucie) and Batman for a second. They really are different people. Batman is who bruce is at his core, ‘bruce’ is this sort of liminal space between the cowl and his public persona, and then theres Brucie™, and well, you know how he is. These are personas that Bruce puts on.

With Tim its like he just highlights different aspects of himself when a situation requires it. (oh no, the autistic!Tim head canons are being loud today.) But like, he’s Always been masking. And i think this is something he would look at as like… getting a good grade in adapting. or something. He’s comfortable, all the roles he plays are ones he’s familiar with, and he doesn’t really question who he is outside of who he needs to be.

That is, until Caroline Hill makes an appearance.

I feel that the decision to go undercover as a woman was a wholly practical decision in the moment. It’s what the mission required, and therefore tim stepped up. Its just another mask, right? Surely this wont awaken anything in him…right?

But this is an entirely new mask. And i think it might like… shift the way he looks at/thinks about the other masks he puts on. He was able to step into a role that was very foreign to him, and it Worked. (and he felt pretty, which like… woah, thats a new feeling. and he kinda liked it? file that under ‘thoughts he doesn’t have the bandwidth to process right now.’ Bruce needs him back at the cave! its time to debreif! and he has a biology test tmrw! no time for gender scaries!!!).

I think it would take a while for him to be able to admit it to himself though. Because like… hes Not uncomfortable with his body, but he also keeps thinking about how good he felt dressed up femininely, and how he felt powerful, in a way. That putting on that mask felt just as good as putting on his domino.

Personally, i think itd be funny if instead of coming out right away, Tim doing undercover missions essentially in drag becomes a recurring thing. And i imagine some people give him a hard time. (not in a transphobic way or anything, i just mean like, teasing him fondly or what ever.) (Also, i like to imagine that when cissie Did kons makeup, bart and Tim jumped in there too bc like hey why not, and hoooooo boy, if Tims egg hadn’t cracked before then, it sure would have cracked after.)

The thing about him is, i’m not sure if he’d come to the realization himself. You know, that he would like to present femme sometimes, in a situation that has Nothing to do with a mission.

I could see Tim convincing himself that its a pointless or frivolous desire, which is Why he relegates his time presenting femme to when he can prove that it’s useful.

but i have this image in my mind, right? Of him, taking his makeup and wig off, and hes chatting with whoever is in the room with him (literally anyone else mentioned above… or Dick). And Tim’s just talking about how he wishes he could present this way in situations other than missions.

and the other person in the room is just like… i mean, you literally can.

and hes just like…. shit you’re right. i Can :0

I could probably go further into depth abt this, but i think this just frees him to start playing with gender more as Tim. and start to recognize when he’s feeling more masculine, more feminine, or somewhere in between.

His gender isn’t consistent, its this thing he’s constantly listening to, and trying to understand. but in the mean time, he can paint his face, and wear pretty clothes, or dress like just Some Guy, or be a hedgehog dressed in traffic light colors, or what ever his heart desires.

As far as like… how He describes his gender, i think he’d say something corny like bi^2 (bi of both the sexual and the gendered varieties). Or shrug, handwave, generally give a non-helpful vague description. Or tell who evers asking to buzz off.

(small addendum wrt Kon and Cassie in TT’03. I haven’t read this run yet, so i didn’t really include it in this post. But i Do have thoughts about what might cause the two of them (my gnc besties from my comics books) to lean sooooo hard into traditional gender roles after being So Queercoded in their other appearences. Before i talk abt that though, i want to read the comic. So, that will have to be a post for another time)

ANYWAY, heres that TL;DR i promised.

Bart: NB Transmasc Cassie: NB Lesbian (of the transmasc variety) Kon: Agender Tim: Fluid (bi-gender) + Cissie: Transgirl

Thank you soooooo much for giving me the opporrtunity to ramble abt the silles and how Not Cis i think they are. Love you forever.

[finalgirlminamurray]

for the new year i thought i’d start making some progress on laying out my ideas for my sort-of ocs/au setting, so here’s something i’ve had on the back burner for a while: the closest thing to visual depictions of the main four sawyer sisters that i can make. this is sort of a precursor to the big lore dump post i'm planning to drop soon about them

since i can’t draw (yes, i know anyone can learn with practice, but i don’t have the patience or discipline required for that) i’ve spent a lot of time playing around with picrews and similar icon makers to create my ocs’ likenesses as they exist in my head. these characters are maybe a bad choice for trying to recreate in picrew but i think this one gave me the best passing, if simplified, resemblance to how they look. this inherently makes them a lot cuter/prettier than they really should be but i had fun. you can probably tell who’s who from this 

design notes and other notes under the cut, as well as me actually using proper capitalization for once:

Patience should really have some gray streaks in her hair, but with this one I could either make it all gray or all black, and I chose the latter so she’d look more like herself. I’m sure everyone who’s played with these knows how hard it is to get older-looking characters in general - but she is supposed to be younger than she looks, and younger than her canon counterpart probably is anyway.

She has darker blue eyes and her hair is naturally wavy when it’s down, which it isn’t often. (Most picrews don’t have many good options to show her hair in a bun like I was picturing, so this worked out.)

The cigarette is there because it seemed right even though I don’t actually imagine her smoking that often. She probably does it when she’s alone, maybe when she needs an excuse for a break.

I liked making her look pissed off and about to snap at someone, but maybe can’t right now since she’s in public or something. The second they get home at least one of her sisters is going to get it—

I think their mother had black hair and brown eyes, and their biological father who they don’t talk about had lighter brown hair and blue eyes, and the girls inherited a mixture of traits, some of them also coming from their grandparents. The younger ones have no way of knowing how much of their father is in them physically - there’s no pictures of him in the house. Patience is the only one with any clear memories of him. 

Chastity can be one of the hardest characters to make in these things but also the most fun. It’s just hard to find one that lets me get her hair right - this was the closest, and I still had to mirror-flip the image and give her a fancy scarf. (Just imagine the plate is where you’d expect it.)

Flipping the image also meant I had to sacrifice the approximation of her birthmark being on the right side, but it’s kind of hard to see anyway. If there are options for scars or other facial markings, I usually give her something blue-to-purple colored on her left cheek, and since she always has the palest available skin tone it usually shows up.

She has black hair and pale blue eyes, though that point isn’t always obvious when she’s wearing sunglasses (if there’s an option for pink or purple-tinted shades and/or heart-shaped sunglasses, that’s what I’ll give her). She’s meant to be kind of unsettling-looking (the “staring into your soul” eye color). I think she takes after their grandmother the most.

She does need glasses and has worn them since she was about seven, but she prefers sunglasses now that she’s older, because her eyes are especially sensitive to light and it just looks cooler, even if it doesn't help her see any better.

If I can’t get the right hairstyle, I’ll just give her long, straight black hair and say she’s wearing her usual wig (also helps explain the lack of visible head injury). 

She’s usually wearing a lot of accessories, but this one’s limited with how much I can give her. I think she pierced her own ears with a heated sewing needle when she was 14 and only didn’t get in trouble because it took a while for Patience to find out, and in the meantime she hadn’t gotten an infection. She strikes me as the type to like making jewelry out of random small objects, so I like when the game has that kind of thing as an option.

She’s got a very cultivated aesthetic, and I’m usually going off the right vibes when I make her. I can almost always have her flashing a peace sign, though.

(Other things I like for her: dark eyeshadow that makes her eyes look all the more sunken, chipped black nail polish, stars and other astrological designs in her accessories, multiple necklaces at once, a splash of brighter color like hot pink or rainbow motifs, and of course as many pins as you can fit on her jacket or vest. I see her as someone who perhaps ironically started presenting a little more femme after coming into her queer identity, but very much in her own way.)

Temperance is sometimes the easiest one to make and sometimes the hardest. I can usually get a bloodstain to pass as her birthmark, if that’s an option, since people do tend to mistake it for one.

I used to have a harder time finding picrews that had long, wavy hair as an option, but it’s gotten better. I can’t do much to make her look perpetually windswept and kind of greasy, but I can make her look at least a little unkempt.

Her hair is dark brown, not black like her sisters, and she has brown eyes because I’ll only take inspiration from their canon counterparts’ actors if it suits me. I want to create a good amount of contrast between her and Chastity; they’re definitely fraternal twins.

I liked this jacket for her because it’s the right color and it looks like it has pockets, which are very important to a girl who’s always carrying a bunch of stuff, including things she picked up on the road. Plus it looks like she’s got some kind of bag over her shoulder, too. 

I also liked this expression for her because she looks kind of sinister and sly like she does right before going for a knife. I could have had her grinning cheerfully like her twin but it seems more fitting for how I write her to have her be the sinister sniler instead

I love when one of these has the jewelry option of a bird skull necklace because that’s part of my ideal image for her even though her canon counterpart doesn’t have one (that we see). I’m also fond of this picrew since it has that option and also a necklace made of teeth for Chastity - I might share my designs from that one someday after refining them a bit. Any sort of bone-related accessories really contribute to matching her vibe.

(Also I like when I can give a character only one earring, because I think Temperance only has her left ear pierced since Chastity offered to do it after her own went smoothly, but then she started bleeding and Chass, still not quite accustomed to that kind of thing happening to her sisters, freaked out a bit. Temperance, of course, didn’t mind since she finds the sensation of pain more interesting than anything, and she left it asymmetrical because it looked cool.)

If a picrew has a diverse enough range of skin tones (which they should!) I’ll make the other three sisters slightly more tanned so Chastity will stand out more; with Temperance it especially makes sense since she spends the most time  outdoors in the sun.

Also, if I’m working with a full-body dollmaker (which I don’t do as often; I’m not that good at coordinating outfits even for fictional people), I’m more likely to have her wearing a long skirt. She dresses primarily for her own comfort and practicality, and anything you (or your sewing-inclined younger sister) could get more pockets into seems fitting. I’ll note that I won’t put the girls in anything I couldn’t see their canon counterparts also wearing, for what it’s worth.

Lacey is of course the hardest to make unless you remind yourself that she’s not wearing her mask here, and even then it’s often hard to get her looking right. This might be a version of her that’s a bit younger than in the main timeline.

The vibe here is wide-eyed, innocent, slightly nervous farm girl who just noticed a stranger in her kitchen, and is still caught in the brief moment between fight and flight mode before she whacks you over the head with a sledgehammer killing you (hopefully) instantly.

She has beautiful big brown eyes and light freckles even though she doesn’t expose her face to the sun very much, because it seemed right.

I think out of all the sisters, she physically takes the most after their mother. She has her hair, her eyes, her build, probably most of her face even if she doesn’t see the resemblance…

She prefers her hair shorter for convenience, and she likes being able to change her appearance quickly with the masks, which helps her shift easily to whatever persona she’s taking on for the situation. She still is sometimes fond of accessorizing “secretly” under the mask, though.

(She was standing in the bathroom doorway watching Chastity and Temperance try to pierce their own ears the whole time, and when they turned to her and offered to do hers after Temperance’s bloody disaster, she fled the room. Years later she took Chass up on it and now sometimes privately wears her mother’s old jewelry. She gets the sense Patience might not like it if she knew her sisters were going through their mother’s things, but Patience never goes into their mother’s room herself, so who knows how she feels about it.)

She’s pretty equally comfortable presenting more “feminine” and more “masculine”, and the masks help - she finds it kind of fun to be able to try on a lot of different identities like that, including experimenting with gender. Sometimes their dinner guests aren’t very nice about it, but they’re never around for long anyway, are they?

She's the one who looks the most like her canon counterpart in my head, which is part of why she can be the hardest to make in a way that looks distinctive.

I should stop now because I have a whole big loredump post in the works with more information about these characters and I still haven’t gotten to Lacey’s section yet and I need to save details about her for that. But enjoy this as a teaser of sorts in the meantime 👀

[practically-an-x-man]

Talk Shop Tuesday: When it comes to character design, how much influence does your OC’s faceclaim have over it? Is it just a close estimation of what they look like or is it 100% how you imagined your OC?

Ooooh good questions! Thank you!

Talk Shop Tuesday

So... when I first create my OCs, I actually don't have faceclaims for them at all. And up until a few months ago, I didn't even think about finding faceclaims for them. The reason I started finding faceclaims was mainly for the benefit of my writer-friends here on tumblr - it makes it way easier to trade art, moodboards, etc. when you have faceclaims to use as a reference.

Basically, the faceclaim has no influence on the character design, because I design the character first and then try to find a faceclaim that's close enough. Sometimes I get lucky - Jimmy absolutely looks like Ben Whishaw for me, and Nell Tiger Free is perfect for Rae - but most of the time there are details that don't quite line up. Here's a few examples

Rhea Ripley's facial features are perfect for Ophelia, which is why I chose her. However, Ophelia is taller and curvier, her hair is curly rather than straight, and she wears glasses.

Erin Kellyman as Robin was the first faceclaim I ever ended up choosing, and I'm really happy with that choice... except that Robin's eyes are meant to be blue

I have two faceclaims for Eris: May Calamawy and Alia Shawkat, and they're both almost accurate. May Calamawy's facial features as a whole are closer to what's in my head, but Alia Shawkat's eye shape and freckles are closer. And in my head, Eris is a little darker-skinned than either of them, but they're still the closest matches for most of Eris' features.

And then, of course, I have the OCs that just don't have faceclaims. Kestrel has no faceclaim, because I intentionally designed them to be a little... we'll say genetically inconsistent. Sure, someone with their features probably exists somewhere in the world, but it would be rare, since they're a shapeshifter who chose their own appearance rather than having to luck out on any genetic determination. I also don't have a faceclaim for Spider yet, though I've been searching - again, it's not that his features don't exist in the real world, but I haven't found any celebrities or actors that are close enough to use as a faceclaim.

Anyway... yeah. I design the character first, then find a faceclaim that's like... Hollywood-close (like if they were cast in a movie adaptation, it's a decent match but doesn't have to be perfect, with the idea that they'd also have access to wigs and makeup if needed)

Thank you so much for the ask!!

[hardcore-direwolf]

As we know, not every single character we grew up learning has been appreciated in comic books and television shows.

For example, Blisstina Utonium from the reboot of the Powerpuff Girls for taking Bunny's purple color, being a different race, and having blue hair.

I watched the music video to "Neva Play" By Megan Thee Stallion & RM of BTS when it first debuted on YouTube for inspirations for the romance between two characters in my YJ fanfictions.

I decided to give Raquel Ervin aka Rocket this kind of special treatment where she'll be like half-Genesisian, her journey with Orion got my attention and I know a black queen like Megan Thee Stallion does anime cosplay.

For starters, the first thing is the haircut to the hairstyle cause this queen's gonna need a glow-up.

Megan's neon blue wig in the video fits well for the length and style for the Cosmic Defender, and Blisstina's bright cyan hair would make Rocket look cosmic as a galaxy so far away in that brilliant color to paint our Sky Gal in a new light.

Next up is her irises, Blisstina was meant to have violet irises in the show to match the teal hair and chose to do that cause cyan goes well with purple.

I found a few DeviantArt sketches of Rocket having violet eyes and purple streaks, which fits the concept of her aura...thank you ActionKiddy for drawing your version out.

While concepting that into Rocket, I stumbled upon a comic book involving our black queen fighting two white Karens and using elemental powers that gave me this idea...Avatar Korra.

Korra has elemental bending, purified spirits, does pro-bending, fought Equalists, and has a god mode in the form of the Avatar State...this will fit perfectly for Raquel.

Her full Genesisian form is bright teal hair, her natural cocoa skin, and neon violet eyes with butterfly tattoos and bands on bands of lean.

Since Rocket was given a Terminan tech by her adopted father Icon, this also gives me time to grant our black queen some metahuman superpowers like Blisstina Utonium and make her a Powerpuff Girl as a cameo to tribute the franchise from Cartoon Network.

That's right guys, why not give her a family by adoption with Icon and Chieftess...a Terminan man and an Amazonian woman.

Arnus and Nubia fit perfectly for good parenting figures to Rocket, even training her and taking her in as their own child.

I went on Earth-27 Fandom for details on Nubia to see the full description and saw her human name...Candace Osei.

Nubia will be combined with Storm to form the Amazon Goddess of Weather and let her teach Rocket how to use her powers for good.

I combined the full inspiration with Kida from "Atlantis", the whole plan is to fuse Storm and Kida to get a warrior princess with weather powers that becomes a secondary mentor for Rocket.

Augustus and Candace was shown to be dating at Earh-27 Fandom, though we know Icon lost his wife Estelle Jackson in a tragedy.

Here's where I met by "Neva Play", I love RM so much and his voice makes me feel like I'm in love...don't you BTS fans agree?

Matt's half South Korean by his mother Urania | Elizabeth Sung and he's an Osmosian by his father Ragnarok | Curtis Blackwell.

The lethal combination of Sunder, Ragnarok, Aggregor, and Sasuke's Cursed Seal of Heaven form at level two will help me do this trick cause this boy got a serpent tongue of an albino white-horned viper with deadly snake venom that gives his fans a forbidden love bite by a kiss of death.

The webbed hands and feet with black clawed nails, the deep shadow rings circling around each sunken eye, the notorious facial scars, the dark matte blue lips, the dark gray skin tone, the bright red irises with light yellow sclera, the wings on their backs that matched their hands, the forked snake tongue with venom as his aphrodisiac saliva to trap any prey as an apex predator, the vampiric canines acting as sharp fangs, four small flesh-colored horns on their foreheads, the long black to white hair, the hulking muscular bodies, and much more.

Matt has a chin scar in a form of a cross and Curtis has a nose scar in the form of a star.

Matt wears Sunder's metallic mask with two black indentions around both of his eyes to match his hero suit, which was an inspiration to the Rooters and Sunder himself.

He wore the short-sleeved black Amalgam Kid armor with black fingerless gloves, spiked shoulder straps, spiked wrist bands, gray holsters on both sides of his spiked belt, with three metal straps around both of his upper legs, his famous padlock necklace, black combat boots with thick metal soles and accents, and have metal piercings and snake tattoos.

I changed his name from Nathaniel to Matthias by reading a profile from , because I have to combine my OMC Onslaught member with two villains...Neutron & See-More.

The first name "Matthias" came from three major inspirations, the first one will be Dracula's former alias in "Castlevania"...Matthias Cronvqist, the second will be Beast Boy's slacker cousin Matthew Kevin Logan, and the last reason is a commission made by AMTModollas on DeviantArt about Matthias "Matt" Logan aka Corvus of the Blue Lantern Corps.

I love how DeviantArt user "glassheartgurl" made her second OC Beren in the OG Teen Titans art style, he reminds me so much of Goth Boy, and I want to put a tribute down for him on Matt by using his suit inspired by Robin's arc as Deathstroke's apprentice...all black and no hints of orange, the belt with the red icon on the buckle, let Matt have black to white hair in an ombre color scheme, and just keep Sunder's mask to bring out the metallic accents on it.

His full name has officially been turned into Aggregor | Matthias "Matt" Kevin Blackwell aka Amalgam, his father is Ragnarok | Curtis Devin Blackwell aka Shift [Portrayed As Devin Levin], his mother is Urania | Elizabeth "Elise" Sung aka Dynamite [Portrayed As Elizabeth Levin], his uncle is Greithoth | Rufus Hector Blackwell aka Bunker [Portrayed As Van Kleiss], his aunt is Titania | Magdalene "Maddie" Levin aka Atomica [Portrayed As Black Knight], and his cousin is Skirn | Lauren "Laura" Nevaeh Blackwell aka Breach [Portrayed As Circe].

The names before the "|" are their Osmosian names...birth and honorary, I decided to put Carl Creed & Mary MacPherran's aliases to Matt's other family members...thank you Marvel Comics for these kinds of variants.

I then added two villains that's been defeated by Kevin in UAF...Aggregor and Ragnarok, and it was perfect for the full concept between metahumans from "DC Comics" and the retconned Osmosians from "Ben 10: UAF".

The last name "Blackwell" comes from Element Woman's surname from DC Comics, which gave me the plan of an unstable chemical mutation by a gene bomb filled with mutagen and alien DNA that turns him into the super-freak...a dynamite rather than a bombshell.

That will fit for S3 with a blend of UAF S4, this would bring out mental problems for insanity and an unquenchable thirst for absolute power.

His username when he's gaming and racing is "Kev 11", the reason behind it is to bring out the qualities of my character portrayal, and it's working out really well in my opinion.

I let Metamorpho be his mentor for having matter manipulation, elemental shapeshifting, molecular reconstruction, chemical transmutation, and energy absorption...it fits well cause look at this image below of these two men in their merged forms they can revert by their elemental mutations as retconned Osmosians without having any shapeshifting limitations aka disappearing consequences by an ancient radioactive meteorite called the Orb of Ra within the God's Eye Pyramid.

Metamorpho is dubbed as the Elemental Powerhouse, and Matt will be dubbed as the Chemical Dynamite.

There's many elemental compounds in a wide variety in the periodic table, giving me faith on chemistry classes and modern science whenever it comes down to bringing in superpowers or metagenes...occurring naturally in an immortal's human body like Metamorpho's developmental states of solid, liquid, gas, metallic, plasma, and much more...atomic theory won't stop pleasing me when it comes down to mixtures.

Dwayne McDuffie did a great job with that concept and giving me some hope to create this kind of OMC...may this legend rest in peace for his famous works.

Do you guys agree that Matt fits well as Rex's protege?

For the concept of a yellow component from Osmosia, it has to be metallic like pure gold and from the meteorite radiation as a star...I chose the Yellow Star to put an inspiration on DNAngels.

If you've seen the previous post, I'm doing this technique with classical elements and picking four main characters to be captured as DNAngels.

I picked the Red Sun for Superboy, the Blue Moon for Wonder Girl, the Green Comet for Starfire by the Starheart, and the Yellow Star for Amalgam by the Godseye.

The next post will be redone, but is edited by a former one...I'm using my brain and other knowledge to form concepts on this particular kind of matter.

Sayonara guys!

[charlescueves]

This is my suspicion for the Chapter 2 murderer in Danganronpa Despair Time. ALSO IM SO SAD THEY DIED THEY WERE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER I LOVED THEM SO MUCH ���

*SPOILERS AHEAD FOR DANGANRONPA DESPAIR TIME AND SUPER DANGANRONPA ANOTHER 2*

I THINK J IS THE KILLER (with evidence)

Here’s my theory: What if arei was dead for a while? I know what you guys might be saying, “arei appeared at breakfast, she couldn’t have been dead!!” But let me say this: what if that wasn’t the REAL arei we saw? If you have watched/played Super Danganronpa Another 2, you would know the case of the second chapter. For those who don’t know, the murderer basically dressed up and acted as the victim in order to screw up the time of death (so the people think the victim was alive, although they weren’t). What if it’s the same scenario here? In an earlier episode, Teruko stated that there was MULTIPLE outfits for each character. Meaning that Arei had multiple duplicate outfits. And then there is the dressing room, which holds many wigs and could potentially hold eye contacts. This gives the perfect opportunity to dress and act as Arei. In addition, Arei did not say a WORD in this episode. Yes, she was present, but even in the moments where she was present she was quiet and had her hair covering her face. Isn’t that a little odd? I mean, we’re literally talking about Arei: a girl who insults people and starts trouble any second she can. Isn’t it off for her to be quite? We already established the duplicate clothes, wig, contacts, unusual behavior, and hair covering the face. So now, let me explain my theory. I think J is the killer. J, as we already know, comes from a family of ACTRESSES. Even though she wasn’t an actress herself, she still should have known a thing or two about her mothers career. Also, J is cold and introverted, so if she was acting as Arei, Arei’s weird behavior at 1:56 could be explained. Another thing that further proves my theory is the conversation between Teruko and Veronnica. Literally the ENTIRE conversation they had was about the ability to tell somebody based off of their face alone. Veronnica LITERALLY SAID “if I put on makeup, contacts, and new clothes, would you still be able to recognize me?”. I mean cmon guys, the evidence is right there. Teruko literally admitted to not being able to tell apart facial features, so it would make sense if Teruko didn’t notice that J was acting as Arei.

IN CONCLUSION:

I think J killed Arei for the purpose of getting away from Arturo. Arei bullied her too, so that could be an alternative purpose. She probably asked for Arei to meet her in the computer lab, saying that she “has Areis motive and wants to discuss it with her”. Arei would meet up with her, in which J would smash her head into the computer lab wall (in the video, a dent is seen in the computer lab wall). Also, in the beginning of the video, MonoTV says that J tried going into the gym to train. That confirms that J works out, meaning that she has the strength to punch Arei into the wall. After this, she could’ve hid Arei in her room. Nobody goes out as night, so nobody would see J with Areis body. Then, she would have time to disguise as Arei, and meet up with the others during breakfast. Since Teruko is confirmed to not have the ability of telling peoples faces apart, she wouldn’t have noticed J being in Areis disguise. That’s probably the reason “Arei” didn’t talk, because J has a deeper voice and Arei has a high pitched voice. If J talked, then it would be obvious she isn’t actually Arei. Like i said previously, J could pull of such a feat, especially with her mom in the acting industry. Why did she do this? I’m assuming it was to throw off the time of death. The same case happened in Super Danganronpa Another 2. The murderer faked being the victim to throw off the time of death.

After hiding Areis body, J waited for everyone to go away in order to hang Arei in the playground. I believe that she WANTED IT TO LOOK LIKE SUICIDE. What I’m trying to say is that Areis real cause of death was from getting her head smashed in the wall; not because of being hanged. In order to cover up the true cause of death, J hanged her in the playground. A lot of people knew about Areis backstory, so it would “make sense” for her to commit suicide. You might be asking, then why did J dress up as Arei? It’s because she wanted to draw the suspicion off the hole in the computer lab. If “Arei” was seen after the hole was made, then she couldn’t have possibly been killed by said hole. Therefore, everyone would be forced to believe that hanging was the cause of death, and that the death happened AFTER breakfast. If this plan doesn’t work, i think J would blame it on Nico, as Nico was seen “trying to kill ace by hanging”. So it would seem as if he used the same technique on Arei.

Edit: WAIT I HAVE ANOTHER THEORY 😭. What if Ace didn’t try to kill himself? What if he is genuinely telling the truth? I’m not saying that Nico had anything to do with it, he was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time. I’m thinking that Ace was attacked by J, yet didn’t die because of Nicos help. Basically, I’m trying to say that Ace’s incident and Arei’s death are connected. I mean, the hanging of the 2 most suicidal and hated characters can’t be a coincidence. I think that Ace was the first target, but after J realized he was alive, she went for Arei instead. I’m sticking with my J culprit theory (sorry guys). J was also a victim of Ace’s “bullying”, so she could have a motive for killing him too. I believe that J stole Rose’s paint cleaner, used it to make Ace faint, and then tried to hang him. Because of the fact that wire is a terrible hanging material (as it can’t really snap a neck), it didn’t kill Ace. Nico saved Ace’s life, but Ace doesn’t know that because he woke up WHEN Nico was taking the wire off of his neck; hence the fact that Ace thinks he was trying to kill him. Then the events i explained above took place. I know a lot of people suspect David, Whit, Eden, or Nico. I hope its not them , because it seems a little TOO obvious. I also have a theory about Arturo being the killer, so please let me know if you want to hear that.

So yea, this is my theory, sorry for it being so long. I’m genuinely upset because Arei was my fav 😭.

[twistedtavern]

My list of the top twst characters that need a redesign (In reverse order) ft. my Malleus and overblot slander

5. Trey

Why does he look like that. Why has nobody reused the my hero academia joke yet. I look at him and I feel no respect for him. If he looked directly at me and started talking, I would feel and immense urge to just turn heel and walk away while he was mid sentence. Not because he's frightening or anything of the sort, it's quite the opposite, he simply looks like he has nothing worthwhile. Like, yeah, he's supposed to be unassuming, but not flat out uninteresting. At least make him look more like the well-meaning dilflet he was meant to be, cowards.

4. Vil

Kool Aid hair, enough said. You are supposed to be THE fashion and beauty icon, what happened. He looks kinda weird in the actual game render with the poses where he looks smug, but his dorm uniform looks lovely with his hair tied back, so that's why he gets a lower spot. Also give him more detailed makeup.

3. Lilia

He looks 12. He is at the very least 600 but if he entered a bar everyone present would get arrested on the spot. I hate "immortal but looks loli/shota" designs from a moral and artistic standpoint. His hair gives him a pass though those are some bitchin hair floofs.

2. Overblot Leona, Azul, and Jamil

What the fuck is up with overblot Leona. Why does he have ink leggings. Put some shoes on that dusty bitch. He looks decent from the waist up, but from below it's a trainwreck. Just have the fucking skirt cover his feet bro. Sorry sir, it says no shoes no service on the sign outside.

Also, can Azul just like,, HAVE a design? ANY design? My boy has ZILCH. He lives in the water and yet posses ZERO DRIP. People shouldn't be able to just remove the barnacles from him and get an octopus model that looks like he's just regular. They did him so dirty.

For Jamil, all I have to say is ink facial hair and WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE

MALLEUS MOTHERFUCKING DRACONIA

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS. YOU CAN MAKE HIM LOOK PRETTY IN OFFICIAL ART ALL YOU WANT, IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT HE IS A DISGRACE TO DRAGON DESIGNS EVERYWHERE. I LOOK AT HIM AND AM JUST FILLED WITH AN ARTISTIC RAGE. SEND HIM BACK YOU SLUTS YOU DIDN'T LET YANA FINISH DRAWING THE POOR BASTARD.

At least give him a tail. Just a tail. Please. Or claws. I can settle for claws. He got a weave for those fuckin two strands and he couldn't afford the whole wig. Just PLEASE. ANYTHING. HE'S SO MID. HIS HAIRCUT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS A REJECT FROM SPLATOON. HIS DESIGN SAYS NOTHING ABOUT HIM AS A CHARACTER. THEY MADE HIM TO BE HOT BUT THEY FUCKING FAILED.

I hate his design with the fury of a thousand suns.

[sleepy-shutin]

i hope you don’t mind me sending this to you, i genuinely appreciate your presence on my dash and seeing the work you put into informing people. i guess it just feels so alienating sometimes as a DID system, like trying to connect with other DIDOSDD systems. i haven’t had this experience on tumblr really but there was a period of time i tried to join the very few (at the time) anti-endo discord servers to try and connect and it was honestly just..uncomfortable? like, all of them forced us to have a system name, which the majority of my system doesn’t really like at all. weirdest thing ive ever experienced in them though is that i’m 99% sure one of them like, copied my alter who was active in them? right after she joined and made an intro post, like within a few hours, someone made an intro post with an alter with the same exact hair color (unnatural color so it was less common), similar facial appearance in general, very very similar personality at a surface level, name started with the same letter, which again maybe i’m overthinking it but it just felt so strange and left a bad taste in our mouth. i’ve just felt very alienated as a system sometimes because i don’t relate to the tik tok image of like, very obvious switches with full blown cosplays every time a certain alter is out, and it makes me doubt myself a lot because we don’t like having a system name, we don’t do wigs or makeup when we switch, we don’t have typing quirks or any fictives at all, we don’t sign posts or have pluralkit bios, and some of my alters are honestly just similar to each other in personality and/or appearance. not fakeclaiming anyone who does do that at all, its just all been so different from what i’ve experienced and it’s made connecting to other systems really difficult. thank you for reading though and your posts, you definitely don’t have to reply if you don’t want to.

i relate a lot to your experiences, so i'm going to be very blunt about my opinions here. full warning, this is a bit long because i rambled, but i have a lot of thoughts on your experiences here.

i came into the community around 2018, and it's been an experience watching everything unfold the way it has. i went from people not really knowing what my disorder is to it being incredibly hypervisible, but like, only one particular aspect of it; alters, and even moreso, fictives.

i don't like being in a lot of system spaces, because they put so much emphasis on things like syscourse when i genuinely don't care that much. and then almost no matter what i do, either side is always throwing horrific misinformation in my face and when i try to correct it, they call me ableist, say i'm fakeclaiming, or get upset because i'm "invalidating" someone, even when i'm saying "that's not how it works, here's what you could be describing". most of the time i'm even afraid to use parts language in these spaces because i'm afraid they'll blow up on me for using the preferred language of my system, lol.

they put so much emphasis on syscourse, having a system name, using pluralkit, who's fronting, alter age? oh if you're a 5 year old part you can't talk here even though you're the part that handles most of day-to-day life, and if youre a fictive of [x character] then you should apologize for existing because you did horrible things in source, except if you criticize my hyperfixation, actually fictives aren't source and i'm literally neurodivergent and a minor.

for the record, we don't really have a system name either, we just have a kind of collective name. we don't experience super clear-cut switches. we don't always tell people who's fronting. we just kind of live our life like normal, lol.

i have a very fast-paced job. one that's fast-paced enough that i can't pay attention to myself internally all the time, or always know who's fronting. it took me around two months since starting this job to realize just how much i was switching at work because i simply couldn't pay attention to how i felt internally, and most of the switches between my co-host and i are more internal.

i've had to pay a *lot* of attention to figure out who's fronting at work between my cohost and i. i'm starting to get into the rhythm of it, but the switches are *far* from noticeable to most other people, and often times slip under our own noses quite a bit as well.

i've also seen and experienced a lot of fakers, people clearly being mistaken about having DID, and things like you described; stealing alters. all of which happening to be in anti-endo communities particularly populated by minors/teens.

ive known a bunch of people that claimed to have DID and clearly did not have it, either by faking or by being mistaken about their experiences, and most of them were anti-endo minors. i don't mean that there's really a connection between faking/being mistaken about having DID and being anti-endo, because my experience is incredibly limited and i choose not to interact with the system community at large at this point, but rather that i see a connection between misinformation and people that want to spread misinformation that fits their narrative, as well as the stigmatization of being wrong about having a mental illness. many of these people hate endos and don't even have an argument as to *why* endos are bad outside of a vague "they're ableist".

all of these people had incredibly poor understandings of how DID works, from being close to final fusing while still living in an incredibly abusive home, (not possible), to "malicitors", to claiming trauma that they could not claim because they had "source memories" of said trauma, thinking "fusion is murder", or even worse, "integration is murder", thinking being polyfragmented is just having 100+ alters and that's it, etc. all of these things obviously being based in not having access to reliable resources relating to DID and filling in the blanks with poor understandings of what they've read online and always taking what other people say at face value without sources or critical thinking.

i kind of want to get a bit into why this might be happening, because it helps me to understand what's going on, how it's not normal, and how i can ignore it when i see it happening.

a lot of the younger DID community especially has incredibly misinformed ideas about how DID works, and turn it into "fictives disorder" or "alters disorder" and have a shockingly narrow idea of how your system should work, and if it doesn't fit like that, you're weird. when in actuality, the way their systems are working is actually not at all the norm for DID. not that they're all outright faking or mistaken, but putting this highly specific presentation of DID on a pedestal does no good for anyone, especially for people who mistake kinning and normal teen experiences for DID, which i suspect is the case for many.

i've known too many people that copied other people's alters, used fictive pseudomemories as a way to keep other people in relationships with them, spread misinformation about DID and how it works, rolled over and accepted someone clearly misinformed about their experiences and validated them as totally completely normal for DID when they're not, and overall creating this toxic bubble of misinformed ideas on how DID works to be okay with people acting like fakers or misinformation on the side of anti-endos does not exist.

having DID does not make you an expert on the disorder. doing the research and putting in the actual work to understand DID makes you someone who can speak on it as a whole. you are only able to speak on your own experiences with DID until you've actually looked into clinical sources.

if you haven't done the hard research on DID, you can't actually speak to how it "really" works. you need to do the research on the disorder to start fully understanding how it works, because DID *does* have a structure, it *does* have rules, it *does* have specific functions, even if you can't see these things. it *does* have a specific way that it works. read the research and you will see it.

god, shout out to that one server that used akinator as a "resource" for new alters in a new alters help channel, or all of the servers that use lists of media you "could be from" to "help" new alters, lol. or all of those carrds that explain you're on earth to new alters, when amnesiac barriers that high are not even remotely normal.

that's part of the reason i dislike when people say "DID isn't a trend!"

#systemsfordream was a tag that was trending for, what, a couple days? maybe a week? systems are unbelievably hypervisible online right now, and the community is primarily populated with teenagers that are constantly helping their friends "realize" that they're systems. i'm not going to fakeclaim any one person to their face, but if you think that there isn't a not-insignificant portion of the community that is either faking deliberately, or mistaken about having DID, you're fooling yourself, and i'm tired of pretending like it's not a thing just because someone will get upset at me because they feel i personally attacked them for it.

they don't realize that having the disorder does not make you an expert on it, and it's going to take more than a week of "questioning" and some twitter threads to figure out if you actually have DID or not.

as much as i hate to say it and plenty of people would hate to hear it, DID is a trend right now. because the "quirkiness" of mental illness is a trend right now. because a portion of the youngest generation is getting to their edgy teen years and is deciding to rebel, to figure out who they are, etc, and are growing up differently, where everything is hyper-marketed, everything is algorithmic, they are fed whatever content they like the most by all social medias, and are not even remotely anonymous anymore, and if anything, it's less entirely on them and more on, well, (gestures vaguely at the state of the world right now).

if anything, i see this as an incredibly abysmal symptom of a larger problem, but that's a post for another day, lol. or maybe just a long rant for my journal.

TLDR;

the way tiktok and #systwt portray DID is not a normal experience for how DID actually works, and you should not feel bad for not fitting into it. tiktok and #systwt spread massive amounts of misinformation on how DID works, are hostile to people that correct them even nicely, and only uplift information that fits their narrative because it's what they want to hear, because many of these people *want* to be systems for one reason or another, so they cherry-pick misunderstood information. that's why they only use unsourced carrds created by other 15 year olds as their sources on DID instead of anything reputable.

this isn't to say that this presentation of DID is *never* real, because i can think of plenty of ways it can be. but it's not the only way DID is, and it's not the most common way DID is.

[deadmunds-ghostbee]

Rambling thoughts/analyses on each of the stills bc I’m procrastinating:

1. This is episode 4, so we might already be at Aubrey hall at this point (or maybe not I don’t think Violet would decorate with pinks???) He looks kind of angry and very horny so maybe this dance is right before or after a first kiss? Definitely not the first time they’ve danced though, just from body language. Also she doesnt have a dance card again! What does it all meannnn?  Anyway I’m obsessed with the hands. Obsessed with his thumbs and her hair and how close his chest is to her back. The other hand looks like its hooking into her dress almost. Literally don’t know how just a picture can have that much tension. This picture is getting tattooed on my heart along with being pasted up on all my apartment walls.

2. Great possibilities with this one, especially since its episode 2. I assume theyre probably talking about Anthony’s courtship but I love the idea of this being connected to the Deadmund flashbacks. Maybe he taught each of them to fence? Maybe they’ll teach gregory and get emo that Deadmund couldn’t teach him? This shot really captures fun and nostalgia but maybe its just anthony huffing about miss sharma and taking it out on colin. 

3. This one is...interesting? Like the wigs and outfits but I am interested in the location. Is this Eloise’s room? Pen has a reticule and she wouldnt have that in her own home right? It gives bluestocking or professor-y vibes, and it looks like they’re talking about something important. I know there’s a LW plotline, but maybe this is about Eloise’s subplot! In the books she refuses marriage three times her first season so they could be discussing that, or maybe it’s about Eloise’s involvement in a social movement. From what we have seen about extras and new characters it seems like a possibility. There are literally so many things it could be I’ll just stop rambling.

4. From the first episode! My guess is they are discussing “rakes” at the beginning of the episode, have guests, or are talking with Mary. Maybe discussing attending the Danbury ball. Kate seems casual but Edwina is very attentive and upright. Also NEWTON IS JUST FUCKING HUGE JESUS CHRIST. No doubts he could knock someone into a body of water with all that weight on him. Other thoughts: Kate’s wig looks weird but fucking whatever I don’t care. Charitha looks gorgeous and so Edwina. Kate has a lot of that dark teal color in her wardrobe and is giving much older vibes. 

5. From episode three! CVD said something on twitter that made it seem like this was the Aubrey Hall study. Interested by their facial expressions. Daphne’s concerned and he looks weirdly chipper. Probably talking about matchmaking or Kate. Maybe she’s upset he doesn’t want a love match and is telling everyone, or saying  that Edwina and him won’t suit. Hopefully Daphne won’t find out about the premarital kiss. regardless she must be most heavily involved in the courtship, more than colin or benedict or even violet.

6. Episode...er I forget. This will be vague but I wonder what they’ll do with the queen this season? Obviously she’s still concerned with LW and maybe even the activism subplot that will be prevalent. Hopefully more with her and the king, bc she wont be invested in the romance like she was with Daphne and Simon. Whatever it is they’ll have to keep her on screen bc they have a whole show to promote about her soon!

7. Episode 1! I would think they’re lookin bejeweled for the debut in front of the queen? If not then for a ball, but that would mean they got their hands on some money. Either from the Featherington heir or maybe Pen used some whistledown $$$ like she did in the books. Anyway they lookin fly makes me wonder why Pen is still in her old yellow clothes in the still with Eloise. In other news if Mr finch and Phillipa dont get more screen time I’ll commit some netflix HQ arson. 

8. Final pic is from ep 4! (Same as the dancing one hmm). They’d probably be at Aubrey Hall for shooting at least, and it’s interesting that Jack is there but not Colin! Love that we’ll get Kate/Ben content and Kate’s jaunty Danbury-like cap is immaculate. She’s wearing that teal-ish color again, going along with Anthony’s dark blues. It seems like the show is going hard on them being competitive what with Pall Mall, horse racing/riding, and now shooting. We know Anthony is kinda bad at shooting and I’m sure this will just be anther silly opportunity for Kate to show him up but I’m not like, that mad at it. I don’t think she’d actually be comfortable killing a real animal though. Maybe they’ll be clay. Anyway, I love the Kate is a jock content bc we know she doesnt like to read lol. It kind of makes more sense than Eloise being randomly great with guns.

All in all I’m so excited looking at these stills! I think at least some of my predictions will end up being right, and whether some of the topics, subplots, romances, whatever are tackled well or poorly remains to be seen until it’s in front of our faces. In the meantime it feels good to be excited and be overly analytical as I often like to be!

[cupcakeshakesnake]

I rate different versions of two POTC characters

Recently I found out that Pirates of the Caribbean has a manga series of its own. And some comic books. And a LEGO game, though that wasn’t as big a surprise and was honestly more pleasant than not.

ANYWAY here I will rate the different Cutler Becketts because it was quite a ride for me.

I will also rate the different Norringtons if I end up feeling like it while writing the post. (Note: I did end up doing this.)

Movie Beckett

The original. 2/10.

Might be a good character story-wise but overall very hateable. Smug asshole.  Everyone loves to hate him. (Which means the actor did a great job.)

If he existed IRL I'd want to be 50000 miles away from him. Apparently his past is really messed up but you don't find out about any of that through the movies. Might have been a better person if he had a better childhood, but then again the same goes for a lot of villains.

On the list of characters I consider interesting, he is right down there in the burning trash dump with Cave Johnson. Maybe even lower. At least he accepted defeat when the time came and went out with some dignity.

Manga Beckett

AbSoLuTe fUcKiNg CyCLe pATh.  0.5/10.

Might as well be the reason I started this post.

Why is he like that. Why does he have eyeliner. Why is he so... anime villain-y.

He's supposed to be someone who keeps his face straight. Why does he seem to be constantly expressing with every single facial muscle that he is batshit insane.

Movie Beckett at least drinks tea like a normal person. This guy looks like he'd shove the entire teacup into his mouth and just munch it whole while staring directly into your eyes. Also his version of Mercer lacks eyebrows for some reason.

He gets half a point because there are some characters who were, unfortunately, butchered even more than him.

Lego Beckett

Gremlin. 5/10.

He's kinda goofy compared to the other three and also absolutely tiny. He literally strains just to see the camera half the time. You cannot help but laugh at this man. He is also considerably less harmful, given the... nature of the Lego world... and that the worst he can do is order that a bunch of fruit (plus the occasional livestock) be thrown at people.

The only regret - quoting @nebbychan - is that they didn't make his wig taller to compensate for height.

That one comic book Beckett 

The not-Beckett. -10/10. Note the minus sign.

That's just not him. There's no way you can convince me that's him.

It feels a bit like the artist went out of their way to emphasize the characters' appearances but this here is not how caricature works. Maybe they were looking at a different person.

That's not him. That's Pirate Extra #23 in a wig.

That being said, Norrington looks pretty horrible in here too - more on that later.

Alright, now for Norrington.

Movie Norrington

The original. 10/10.

An honorable man. People love to love him. Did not deserve what he got.

Not much to say.

Manga Norrington

Evil Twin Nottington (quoting @dirgeofcerberus111). 3/10.

Why does he look like a one-off side villain from the Hobbit movies. He deadass has that evil grin stuck on his face throughout most of the book. And that up top is NOT what he said in the movie.

Instead of anger stemming from the sense of being wronged and losing everything, this man right here is fueled by bloodlust. Dude looks like he'd murder Will Turner in cold blood without the slightest quiver in that manic grin. Set this guy up on the Dutchman and he could throw Davy Jones overboard.

Losing his ship didn’t just make him a wasted drunk; it turned him into an entirely different man on a molecular level.

What is this man.

Lego Norrington

Carrot man. 6/10.

Sorry my dude, it might not be your fault that you were mistakenly delivered a carrot on your promotion day, but I am going to remember you as 'carrot man' because of that nevertheless.

For some reason, he lacks hair save for when he is not wearing a hat. Unlike Beckett’s, his wig is a magic wig that disappears when placed under a hat.

He looks unnecessarily mean-spirited in Dead Man’s Chest. When he gives Davy Jone's heart (which, by the way, wears a miniature hat. Yes, the heart wears a hat) to Beckett, he's not a wrecked man trying to regain some honor and a smidge of his past life. He's like 'Oh yeah give me that admiral sword, hand it right over.'

But he also slaps Davy Jones with a fish and kind of almost survives if it can be called that, so he gets some points.

That one comic book Norrington

Tames Jorringnon. 0/10.

Barely recognizable. Makes me wonder if they kept the wig because otherwise it would be nearly impossible for readers to understand that this is indeed James Norrington, the wig man.

They did somehow remember to take his prominent nose into consideration, but said fuck it to everything else.

Who is this.

No.

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I tag those who suffered with me: @dirgeofcerberus111, @casual-dark​ @directorhachi​ and @nebbychan​.

[ingravinoveritas]

I need to vent lol: I cannot stand the thought of Anna being in Michael's next Christmas movie on Sky! Why must they put her in everything he does? Why does she behave like the little gold-digger the haters think she is?? Ughh she can't even act ffs! Anna girl, get your own life and your own career. Stop hogging Michael's.

Hi, Anon! Well, as I’ve said before, folks are always welcome to vent/rant on my blog, so I’m glad you feel comfortable doing so.

Regarding Last Train to Christmas, my theory--both when the movie was first announced and still now, as a new trailer has emerged--is that it’s a peace offering, of sorts. That Michael couldn’t (or wouldn’t) get AL a part in the second season of Good Omens, so here she is in a bit part in this direct-to-Sky holiday cheesefest instead.

What I find really interesting is, well...two things, actually. One is that when Michael initially tweeted about the movie last month, it stayed as his pinned tweet for a little less than two weeks, before he changed it to something else. The second thing is the tweets both he and AL wrote just a few days ago, promoting the new trailer. Here’s a screenshot of said tweets side-by-side:

In at least two tweets now promoting the movie, AL has tagged/mentioned Michael, and Michael has mentioned...his hair. Which is all well and good, mind you, because I had a feeling that one of his favorite parts of doing this movie was getting to wear a bunch of wigs and look like a hot mess. (Perhaps revenge for David having 520647 hairstyles as Crowley in GO while Michael had like...one. Haha.) But it is a curious thing that he’s never said a word about AL being in it, and that we perhaps wouldn’t have known if it weren’t for her QTing the initial tweet. 

Also, I don’t know if you’ve gotten to see, Anon, but according to IMDb and a first look picture that AL posted today, her character’s name in the movie is Astrid. So she’s playing a Swedish girl with blonde hair, which...I’m sure the BAFTAs will be coming any day now? Nevermind that you can actually see her acting in that picture (and her focusing on Michael instead of being in the scene or in the moment), along with that one facial expression she really seems to enjoy making. That is Oscar gold, right there. The thing is, if you watch the trailer above, AL doesn’t even seem to be in it (if I’ve missed her, though, someone please do let me know!). So I’m just confused by what her role is supposed to be in this, and it seems like posting that publicity still with Michael is her attempt at hyping up her role to make it look bigger than it is.

But again, I honestly don’t care that much about AL being in the Christmas movie if it keeps her out of GO 2. I know people have differing opinions on that, but for my part, I want her (and Georgia) nowhere near the second season of Good Omens (for various reasons). So if this is what it takes, I am all for it...

[seokmingiggles]

red velvet.

Anon requested on 201222: "Hello 🥺 I've read ur temptation shua au huhu i luv it. I was wondering if I can request one too 👉🏻👈🏻 just joshua being nice 😇 and naughty 😏 hubby this Christmas hahaha. Thank you in advance and merry Christmas 🎄"

Pairing: Joshua Hong x gender neutral reader

Genre: fluff, very mildly suggestive (not really, it’s mostly humour), established relationship, husband!Joshua, holiday season(?).

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Warnings: one swear word, a tiny talk about a sexual activity near the end (yeah, it's mostly humour).

It can often be tricky planning things properly around the holidays with everything and everyone being so busy. Your husband is no exception. He somehow screwed up the form for renting a Santa costume, so he only gets possession of it after Christmas. Alternatively, Joshua tries to seduce you while wearing a poofy Santa suit even though Christmas was a few days ago.

A/N: Hi, anon! Thank you for enjoying my other Shua piece! I know you sent in this holiday-themed request before Christmas, but I complete my requested pieces in the order I receive them; therefore, it had to wait. But this idea came to me, so I tried to make it work! Merry belated holidays!

(The first two lines are my absolute favourite. I laughed a lot while writing this one; I’m sorry in advance for this mess.)

•• "Well, ho, ho, hello there."

"Joshua, what the fuck."

Alright, you've got to admit, this was an unexpected turn of your day.

You had just arrived back home after your shift at the office, but only to be greeted by your husband wearing a Santa suit. He was decked out from head to toe in the soft velvet material; the costume was complete with a wide belt around his waist, a pom-pom embellished hat, and a matching long, white fake beard.

It was the 28th of December last you checked.

"Okay... How did this happen, Josh?"

"I guess my five looked like an eight when I filled out the rental form," your husband shrugged his shoulders. "I wanted to surprise you on Christmas with the costume, but I suppose it didn't go to plan."

"I think you suppose correctly." You were having a hard time removing your gaze from the unusual sight sat at your dining table. "May I ask why you're wearing it? You know that Christmas has passed, right?"

"I just want to get my money's worth, love." From what you could tell beneath the beard, Joshua was adorning a gentle smile. But it was only fleeting as he deepened his voice to fit his character, "Now, come here. Why don't you sit on Santa's lap and tell me what you want for Christmas, little one."

You were astounded, almost too shocked to laugh, "Are you really going to stay dressed like this for the rest of the night? Can you at least take the beard off so I can see your face, Shua?"

"Oh, ho, ho, you must be a naughty one telling Santa to take off his beard."

"Joshua, good grief," you muttered.

You knew you married a dork, but he was certainly pushing his luck tonight. You decided to humour him and padded your way over to his seated position and plopped down onto his lap.

Joshua instinctively moved one arm to your lower back and the other resting on your thigh to support you on him. "Now, tell me, what would you like for Christmas?"

"I'd like for my husband to take off his goofy costume so I can relax with him properly."

"(Y/N)-ah," Joshua whined, effectively breaking character, with his forehead ending up on your shoulder. You had to move your head out of the way so you wouldn't get smacked in the face by his fluffy hat.

"Okay, okay! Santa," you finally complied (it was suddenly worth it when Joshua perked upright, content once again), "I'd like to wish for the health and happiness of all my loved ones this year, please. Especially my beautiful and funny, yet somewhat strange, husband."

"That sounds like a wonderful wish, little one." Joshua tried stroking his beard, "Do you have any other wishes? Perhaps, if your husband would be a little less strange, as you put it?"

You gazed into his eyes, surprised by the warmth you felt despite how he was amusingly clad in the jolly red suit.

"No," you whispered and brought your hand to cup the side of his face, "he may be strange, but I love him without a doubt."

You could tell Joshua was looking at you with the same amount of fondness from the parts of his face not covered by the costume. Really, it was mostly just his eyes, slightly crinkled from his smile hidden beneath the wig.

"Now, love, will you please take the beard off so I can kiss you? Unless you'd rather I not so you can keep it on," you mumbled. "But I will guarantee you that there's no way you'll get any kisses wearing this thing," you held up the end of the tangled mess of white hair.

"No, no, I think that's a good enough reason for me to take it off."

You chuckled lightly as Joshua scrambled to remove the beard, needing to take his hat off too. His face was flushed from experiencing the warmth trapped from beneath the facial wig, with his hair slightly ruffled by the cap.

"Better?" he asked with hopeful eyes.

"It's a start," you quipped before leaning in to kiss him.

Joshua's eyes fluttered shut as he hummed into the kiss, his grip on your thigh tightened ever-so-slightly.

You felt yourself becoming gradually needier at his touch, only until he dared to speak, "I can't believe you're kissing me while I'm dressed like this."

You halted peppering kisses to Joshua's jawline and groaned at his words. You didn't need that reminder.

You lowered your head to his shoulder and mumbled into the coat, "Why are you like this?" It was a rhetorical question.

"Oh hush, you're the one who married me."

You sat up, "And does it look like I'm regretting it now?"

Joshua pondered, then spoke, "Not a few moments ago when I heard you quietly moan into that kiss."

You sighed in defeat and proceeded to stand from your spot on your husband's lap.

"No, no! Don't go, (Y/N)-ie! I was only kidding," your husband pleaded desperately, standing and reaching out to grab your hand before you could walk away.

With him stood up, you finally got a good glimpse at how the costume looked on him. Joshua was quite tall, yet the red ensemble still looked baggy on his slim figure.

"I think you need to eat more cookies, Santa, so you can fill out your suit properly," you patted his tummy lovingly.

"Are you saying we can go make cookies now?"

You lifted your gaze to meet his, finding Joshua bearing a cheerful smile.

"It would be fitting, wouldn't it?" your hands found his sides as you pulled him in for a hug. The red velvet costume was admittedly soft beneath your fingers. "You're such a goof."

"But I'm your goof."

"You got me there, Shua."

Joshua leant in to kiss you once again, tucking some hair behind your ear in the process.

"Wait," you said after a couple of kisses, "why did you rent the suit in the first place?"

You were then met with silence and a sheepish look on your husband's face.

"I..." he began, stuttering slightly, "W-would you be upset if I told you I wanted to try some Santa-themed roleplay?"

Now you were the speechless one.

You tried to comprehend the situation. "I'm not upset for you wanting to roleplay, Josh, but more-so slightly disturbed at the fact you wanted to do it in a rental costume."

Joshua hummed, "Oh, you're right. That's kind of gross, isn't it?"

"Yeah."

"Okay, I'll take it off now."

"Thank you." ••

[revengerevisited]

A little vent about KH4, because I have a lot of feelings all bottled up inside, and if I don’t let them out I’m just going to continue feeling depressed as I have these last few days. This is not a positive post, so if you’re excited about KH4 or enjoyed KHUX, then you’ll probably want to skip this one.

So, I must preface by saying that I have not watched the KH4 trailer, nor will I be. I was serious when I said I’m no longer interested in canon KH. I have however accidentally seen a few screenshots, though I haven’t studied them particularly closely. That’s the level of knowledge I have going into this.

First of all, I honestly find the hyper-realistic art style and washed-out colors that KH4 is going for to be directly in the uncanny valley for me. It honestly creeps me out to see Sora in this super realistic art style. In fact, he doesn’t even look like Sora to me, more like some random guy in an anime cosplay wig. I’m not saying this to be ‘salty’ or whatever. I genuinely think his hair being a lighter shade of brown and lacking in volume and his facial structure being different with those small eyes is making him not look like Sora at all to me. Like it didn’t even register in my brain that that was supposed to be Sora when I first saw him. It just freaks me out and I don’t like it. I would say that perhaps I will warm up to the style, but I won’t be playing this game so I’m not going to get the chance to.

Second, Strelitzia being here. Now I’ve said before that I expected her to come back to life, especially since we saw her ‘ghost’ in a white coat in KHUX. I also suspect Quadratum is some sort of realm of the dead, or the afterlife for KH characters, with Quadratum also being more similar to our world, and it’s also based on the original concept for FF15 in which death was a major theme. So I’m not surprised in the slightest to see Strelitzia here, only surprised that we’re seeing her so soon. Death has zero consequence in KH, anymore. I guess that at least confirms she’s not in the Black Box.

My issue with Strelitzia is her only purpose in the story (so far) has been to turn Vanitas into a murderer. Her death plus Vanitas being one of the Thirteen Darknesses is the entire reason why I quit the series. I can’t bring myself to engage with any content in which Vanitas is Darkness and/or Strelitzia’s murderer, and that includes canon KH. So her being here is just further rubbing it in my face. It’s more salt in the wound. Every time I see her, it’s just a reminder of the monster Vanitas has been retconned into. Any sympathy that Sora might have had for Vanitas is going to disappear as soon as Strelitzia tells him that Vanitas murdered her. So much for redemption.

Strelitzia and Blaine (I’m calling him that now) both being present just shows that KHUX, bizarre and nonsensical and frustrating as it is, is going to continue to be the main path KH is going down. It’s going to continue with the Thirteen Darknesses, meaning Vanitas is still going to be a villain. I can’t allow myself to care if he gets a so-called ‘redemption arc’ now, because number one I don’t expect that to happen, number two even if it did it would be as poorly written as Vexen’s ‘redemption’, and number three just because Strelitzia is ‘alive’ now doesn’t erase the fact that Vanitas intended to murder a child. I once said I might forgive canon Vanitas if he helped bring Strelitzia back to life as a way of apology, but it looks like not even that will happen because she’s already here and doesn’t need his help. How would an apology between them even go, anyway? If the ‘apology’ between Ansem and Ienzo is any indication, not well-written.

I could go into how Scala is also still being made super important, Xehanort’s real birthplace and training grounds, which just like what was done to Vanitas is a complete retcon, contradiction, violation, and desecration of my favorite KH game, Birth by Sleep, but compared to Vanitas being Darkness it doesn’t really matter, anymore. If Vanitas hadn’t been turned into a murderous monster, and his connection to Ventus made into a lie, I’d still be enjoying the series. I’d be celebrating and excited for KH4 just like everyone else, even if I still think the art style is weird. But I can’t, because my favorite part of KH, the character I held so near and dear to my heart, has been so completely and utterly ruined forever. 

I’ve seen theories about the latest artwork by Nomura, how because Vanitas is standing on the side of Org13 who ended up helping the good guys (Saïx, Demyx, Vexen, and Ienzo), that’s evidence that Vanitas will be redeemed. I’d point out that I already believed he’d be redeemed in KH3, back when his greatest crime was putting Ven in a coma, and I was wrong. Now his crimes are even worse, and I’m afraid that at this point, thanks to what has been done to him, it’s now too little, too late. All the misery and pain I’ve felt these past two years, the ranting and crying and begging for my greatest fear to not come true, all of that is very real, a wound in my heart that will never heal, and nothing can ever take it back. I have to tell myself all this because if I dare to regain hope, then I’ll likely just have my heart crushed again.

So... yeah. I will not be continuing with the canon KH series. I will still finish A Heart and a Half as promised, and finish my fanart WIPs. But I am genuinely uninterested in the series going forward and this shall likely be the first, last, and only time I speak about KH4.