#those are my suggestions anyway

[bunnymajo]

OKAY this might be a really stupid question, but I adore magical girl anime, and I’ve really been in the mood for like… a darker/more adult (?) magical girl show… But sooo many of those are like, really bad. Do you have any recommendations for ones that are good? 😭

On the lighter end, maybe ArtisWitch? It's short & episodic but some of the later episodes explore some more complex themes.

Somewhere in the back streets of Ura-Harajuku, a witch and her mysterious shop serve those whose wishes have gone unheard, giving them an opportunity to unlock their hearts' greatest desires. Believing this to be an ideal arrangement, the proud apprentice witch Nina strives to fulfill her customers' wishes while her power and influence grow accordingly. However, not all wishes are meant to come true—and not all of them lead to a happy ending. As Nina is compelled to peer deeper into the human psyche, she soon discovers the dark side of a witch's obligations, and her ambitions begin to clash with her wish to comfort the entire world.

Another short one is the movie "Glass no Hana to Kowasu Sekai" (shortened to "Garakowa") it barely counts as magical girl but the leads outfits are so reminiscent of magical girl outfits I'm pretty sure that's what they were going for

Dual and Dorothy are two programs. Their job is to enter the various worlds containing the memories of people across many timelines, deleting worlds that become infected with viruses. They come across Remo, a girl who has lost memory of who she is, who is searching for "the flower garden." However, they soon begin to learn not only about Remo's true purpose but also about the state of the world outside.

Last one is sort of a half-recommendation, because while I think it's a compelling story with good visuals, I think a lot of it's messages are complete baloney. It's Earth Girl Arjuna! It's pretty environmental heavy, which is fine but the solutions it proposes are uh, not good. If you wanna really dissect something that's good weird at best and "what the hell no??" at worst, give it a shot (also warning for the pro-life messages in episode 9)

 The series follows Juna Ariyoshi, a high school girl chosen to be the "Avatar of Time" and entrusted with saving the dying Earth. 

[astro-b-o-y-d]

Everyone else in the fandom: Making lots of angst regarding Bill's parents

Me: References a goofy Homestuck comic from years ago

[bluepandadraws-log]

PregnancyMaxxing(inspired by @the-mic-drop and @actuallyjustabiscuit 's fuckin' hilarious comments on the Fallen Over comic)

[odd-chips]

Here's a big post of some of my doodles of [Cap'n and crew] that I haven't posted yet! Couple are comics, couple are shitposts, you know how it goes.

(Also have some extra character tidbits beneath the cut!)

Cap'n (she/they) has become a Spongebob-adjacent "married to the job" type with sprinklings of "they are not immune to rose-tinted Company propaganda". Cartoonishly loyal to work, she's more upset about lying to the boss about her condition over actually becoming a monster on work time (though she isn't particularly a fan of being a monster, either).

Skeets (she/her) was already implied to be pretty optimistic and curious, but I've doubled down on this. She's constantly curious about entities and the state of her co-workers, asking questions and absorbing new information. She's also extremely lucky when it comes to encountering entities.

Mav (she/him), as implied by her nearly leaving Cap'n behind in the first comic, has become a "I won't hesitate, bitch" bitch. Split second decisions aren't an issue for her, she WILL shoot first and ask questions later. (She also now has a gambling addiction, haha. LOVES betting credits on things)

Kid (he/him) is now Irish. I will not elaborate. He's kind of literally the same otherwise. He's also in major inherited debt because of a Company-caused clerical error, but don't worry about it.

Uh. That's about it, I suppose!

[ananinidraws]

Based on that one meme

He's fine guys, don't worry

More doodles under the cut

A bunch of kissing sketches (that got... a bit more heated than intended. listen i promised it started out wholesome with the bottom ones, but then i blacked out and whoops /silly)

I do not know how to draw kisses 😔

[nsharks]

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[duskerot]

i disappear inside myself / my friends don't know it can't be helped

[Pure You - Nothing But Thieves]

[unexpectedbrickattack]

short king and his shorter kings

[whisperingn1ghts]

Toxic Yuri.... Save me

Reference below!!!

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

Some Ford doodles

[cowsaresushi-coral]

they're my toxic lovers fr

anyways i found out how to use pixmix.

who in the world made that ref image. someone forward them that i think they're so funny and this is the only time i've ever drawn kissy kissy

[perenial]

What are good books about explorers, if I may ask? I'd love to get into some harrowing survival (or just trying to survive) stories.

HI ok these are all heroic age antarctica-centric bc that's all i've had rattling around in my brain for a solid year and a half now so if anyone has non-polar recs pls feel free to throw em in the replies lmao

if we're talking harrowing survival there's nothing more fucked than shackleton's trans-imperial expedition aka endurance and the ross sea party. the classic here is endurance by alfred lansing (and ofc south by ol ernie shackles but i feel like his own account is less approachable to a first time reader) but i also highly recommend the lost men by kelly tyler-lewis for the ross sea party half of the story that often falls to the wayside.

and we can't talk abt shackleton without getting into scott & the terra nova & the race for the pole which WILL take over ur life if u get into it lol. the worst journey in the world by apsley cherry-garrard is required reading (and so is cherry by sara wheeler, possibly my fave biography of all time), and for a more general overview a first-rate tragedy by diana preston is the absolute gold standard. for amundsen ask @roaldamundsen there's the last viking by stephen r. brown which i haven't read yet but i've heard v good things about (nb: u may be recommended roland huntford's books when it comes to amundsen. read them if u want but he's got a Thing against scott which in turn distorts how he approaches amundsen but then again every polar biographer wants to make tender romantic love to their special little guy so)

OH and we can't forget the northern party aka six guys in a hole (NOT sexy) (well–). there are banger first-hand accounts (especially raymond priestley's) but weirdly enough my fave when it comes to this part of the terra nova story is a polar affair by lloyd spencer-davis, which is technically abt the sex lives of adélie penguins. it was the first book i read connected to terra nova and although it leans more popular history than rigorous biography or historical analysis it rly primes u to understand the fricative relationship between the expedition's two intertwined objectives – scientific advancement and imperialist glory – that were the root of most of their issues.

outside of endurance & terra nova i'd be remiss not to rec The gateway book to antarctic history, the madhouse at the end of the earth by julian sancton. i should have put this first bc this is genuinely one of my fave books of all time, polar-related or otherwise. it's a comedy it's a tragedy it's an adventure it's an insight into colonial ambition (although imo this aspect could have been pushed further) it's a romance for two specific guys it could easily be a musical it might be adapted into a tv show or movie in the near future?? it's an absolute trip i rec it to anyone who stands still enough to let me shove a copy in their hands. read madhouse NOW

finally i want to give a shout out to the australasian antarctic expedition which in comparison is less insane than everything else here but it's entirely possible the guy who was once on the australian $100 note ate his dog handler. so like. read alone on the ice by david roberts

(ps. for more boat books see @jesslovesboats's banger posts ✌️⛵️)

[paaelle]

Uhh references? Okay...

+ those losers

Dale is so ugly wtf

Me and my asymmetrical personal refs (feat headcanons). So good I got those out my way!

I think my favorites are Hazel and ofc Irep

But theres always chance of me simply changing something in the future.

[windydrawallday]

ACTUALLY...

Or "When you are an ace Af artist that's too blind with aesthetic attraction to notice that your art model is flirting with you", happens to me all times BAHAHA COFF.

ANYWAYS! Improvised comic sequence based on an old prompt conversation of these two from a draft of months ago. I never touched it because it was for my Merfolk!AU but after chitchats about this pairing in a discord server I said WHY NOT just do it, Windy LOL.

And here we are. I hope I made someone laugh because I finished this at 4 am but it was worth it X'D. YOU ALL ARE WELCOME!

EDIT: It has a continuation [NOW] ! It's more emotional than comical.

BONUS under the cut! Solo Prowl because HE IS CRIMINALLY HANDSOME FOR A ROBOT WHAT THE HELL. I can't blame Bulkhead for losing a pencil in this way.

[abs0entr0]

hrmg... thinking about fallout new vegas again.... (<-is always thinking about fallout new vegas)

[maxknightley]

broadly speaking I agree with the idea that the flaws of the USSR have been exaggerated by capitalist critics, but I gotta say, I'm not especially sympathetic to the argument "unlike Actual Imperialist nations, the USSR nobly sacrificed its resources to help its backward satellite states Rise Up"

like damn that sure is an argument that "actual" imperialist nations have famously never used lol