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some rushed doodles of our new goat darling........I have so many plans for them
#cult of the lamb#cult of the lamb fanart#cotl goat#my art#theyre so cute.....i can't wait to see what they do.#personally i hope they have a wonderful relationship with the Lamb until the Lamb's aching desire for kinship with their cousin species-#turns into the Lamb becoming more and more fearful of their own usurpation....bringing them to the conclusion that they must consolidate-#power and take whatever power the goat has#or the Goat is not truly alive! perhaps just a remnant of a memory of Vessels' Past. who knows.#anyways theyre very cute. will draw more later#my terrible baby Black Phillip
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🌍🦦 We’re otterly excited to sea-lebrate World Otter Day! 🦦🌎
Whether they're floating, sliding, or just being their mischievous selves, these adorably aquatic, pawesome pals never fail to bring joy to our musteliday.
It’s time to unleash your inner otter and join us in a round of ap-paws in celebrocean of World Otter Day!
#monterey bay aquarium#theyre truly otter this world#having a shelluva good time#keystone species fur the win
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Writing a Final Battle: Kung Fu Panda vs ATLA
every day i think about how the po & shen battle at the end of kung fu panda 2 is everything the aang & ozai battle at the end of atla should have been and get frustrated at the wasted potential all over again.
i’ll cut the show some slack in that the personal nature of po & shen’s relationship was never going to be possible in atla given the 100 year time jump, and that ozai himself wasn’t personally responsible for the air nomad genocide, which naturally undercuts their individual connection. but given that the final agni kai fulfilled the character-based conflict of the finale anyway, it fell to the aang-ozai battle to represent the thematic one, and it fell incredibly short where kfp 2 absolutely delivered.
it’s threaded throughout the narrative of the movie that po and shen are two sides of the same coin: black and white, yin and yang, goodness and madness. they both see themselves (po in kfp 2, at least) as orphans, plagued by fears that they were abandoned and unloved. both flee from a past they’re too afraid to face, tormented by wounds they believe won’t heal, shackled to a destiny they refuse to give up. the existence of one threatens the survival of the other; shen is foretold to be defeated by a warrior of black & white, while po cannot be the dragon warrior, the title that gave him a home and identity and belonging, in a world without kung fu — the world that shen is trying to create.
even without po’s personal connection to shen as the one responsible for his mother’s death and the loss of his community, thematically the two mirror each other perfectly. and it is this mirroring that makes the moment of their divergence so impactful and essential to the narrative: that while po stops running from his past, shen is never able to do so. it’s in making the choice to accept what happened to him & find peace in who he is that po triumphs over shen, and so illustrates the themes of the movie perfectly: that your past need not determine your future. that you cannot avoid your destiny, but you can shape the road you take to meet it, and that choice is yours and yours alone.
where po exemplifies the choice for peace, for healing, for acceptance, shen represents the choice to perpetuate violence, pain, self-loathing — and the brutal, inevitable self-destruction waiting at the end of that path. a classic writing technique for a thematic conflict, executed brilliantly: to have the hero and villain rise or fall by the virtues they stand for.
now compare this to aang and ozai.
i’ve talked before about how this battle fails from a character perspective for aang, but it also fails thematically as a result. following the constructed narrative up to the southern raiders, what should have happened in this battle was aang winning because he drew wisdom from different places, using bending techniques and knowledge from all four nations, and ozai losing as a consequence of his own destructive pride and reliance on firebending alone. instead, the unity vs individualism, balance vs domination theme set up from the start with the idea of the avatar falls completely by the wayside as the battle focuses on air nomad pacifism vs fire nation violence instead — an unsubstantiated, last minute ass pull of a conflict chucked in for no good reason.
but fine, we’ll bite. it’s not a bad conflict, in theory, just poorly set up. the execution might still have worked, if not for the fact that a) the means of this pacifism is entirely unearned and b) the choice to save ozai’s life is not about ozai at all, but about aang.
po’s victory feels earned because not only did the movie set the means of this victory up well in advance — introducing the chekhov’s gun of the dew drop and inner peace in the first ten minutes — it also perfectly aligned his external conflict (defeating shen) with his internal conflict (coming to terms with the pain of his past). in other terms, it’s the classic Want vs Need: po’s want (saving kung fu) is only achieved through first meeting his need (accepting who he is and where he came from, in its entirety).
aang, on the other hand, is given the solution to his external conflict through lion turtle ex machina, and Rock of Mega Convenience, neither of which was found as a result of his own choices or autonomy. it’s like if po showed up at the final battle with shen having skipped the entirety of the scene at the soothsayer’s, and yet is able to redirect the metal balls anyway because… well who the fuck knows, just go with it.
and that’s bad enough, except then it’s compounded by the fact that aang gets his Want (maintaining his people’s values & his moral purity) by doing… uh… *checks notes* Fucking Nothing. there is no Want vs Need here at all; aang didn’t have to sacrifice anything, or undergo any internal struggle, to receive the power of energybending. (and no, being “pure of heart” in order to energybend doesn’t count — a potential moral decline or losing air nomad values through assimilation to a changed world was never an arc set up for aang, and so cannot be counted as a feasible Need.)
and as the cherry on top of this clusterfuck of terrible writing comes the moment where aang chooses to spare ozai, a scene intended to convey the triumph of the air nomads’ compassion and pacifism over the fire nation’s brutality, a scene meant to have incredible pathos and meaning… and which accomplishes neither of the above.
po trying to spare shen is genuinely moving because the scene is framed around shen. it’s about the fact that despite every terrible thing shen has done — in that moment po sees in him only someone as lost and confused and pained as he was, someone clinging to a grand destiny to cure, in vain, the wounds of the past. someone po himself might have been in another life, another time. po’s compassion is for shen and shen alone, with no ulterior benefit to himself, and you get the sense that deep down — at least for a moment — shen wants to believe in the kindness and hope po is offering. that’s what makes it genuine and gives the scene such gravitas.
by contrast, the scene between aang and ozai is framed around aang, not ozai. aang is the one who wants to spare ozai. aang is the one who benefits from leaving ozai alive, because he doesn’t need to sacrifice his morals or beliefs. aang is the one getting his wish, not ozai — who would likely choose death over defeat and losing his bending anyway. this isn’t helped by the fact that the fire lord is inherently a far less tragic & compelling figure than shen because a) he exists largely as an antagonistic force than a character in his own right for most of the series, and b) aang and ozai don’t have an existing relationship to add depth to this moment, the way zuko and azula do.
as such, the one-sided nature of the conflict only strengthens the impression that saving ozai’s life is all about what aang wants, not ozai — which makes the message of the scene seem a lot more “if you’re the hero, you’ll get everything you want with absolutely no cost or consequences” and a lot less “compassion always triumphs over cruelty” (which was probably the intention).
ultimately, the po vs shen battle works where aang vs ozai fails because:
1. the themes embodied by the characters manifest beautifully in their individual arcs, and in their eventual victory and defeat, respectively
2. they contrast each other thematically and narratively, and their individual endings are earned through their own agency from start to finish, with their external conflicts being linked to and resolved through their internal character struggles
3. the set up of the conflict is carefully planned and thoughtfully executed, and the payoff follows through perfectly every step of the way
tldr: kung fu panda will always be the superior asian-inspired fantasy about a chosen one confronting his destiny as the saviour of the world & the day we can acknowledge as a society that po’s character arc is a thousand times better and more well-written than aang’s is the day i will finally know peace.
#anti atla#atla critical#aang critical#kung fu panda#if i am not yelling about how kung fu panda is the closest we as a species have come to perfection just know i’m truly gone
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CAN U DRAW HU WITH LITTLE BUTTERFLIES AROUND HER??? I THINK IT'D LOOK SO CUTE :33
yes i can! thank you for the request!
#danganronpa despair time#drdt#fuit gumy art#requested situation#hu jing#it truly is remarkable what a few days without the invasive species can do to these situations. how peaceful!#I should change it.
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stuffs
nightwings: bat-like. nocturnal. have the most unique roars.
mudwings: gator-like. throat pouches for bullfrog-like croaks
seawings: have insane variety in fin layout. wings are smaller to aid in swimming. subspecies of deep-seawings that can sustain the high pressure of the depths but are smaller and more sensitive to light
skywings: bird-like and have feathers in certain places. have a layer of transparent eyelids to protect their eyes. very flight focused.
hivewings: dozens of subspecies based on different invertebrates. tails resemble more of wasp abdomen. they are also subterranean.
leafwings: are more like flowers rather than just leaves. very colorful as a result. some are poisonous.
silkwings: have a subspecies based on moths. also have a 2nd pair of front legs.
(no concrete ideas for unlisted tribes yet)
#wip#fanmade worldbuilding#i dont know wof lore but i like the concept of divergent dragon species#living on a continent#how did they evolve so divergently on such a small continent anyway#a biological mystery truly
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i recently went to the actual WH website, saw the cannon Barnaby after months of tumblr brainwashing *cough cough more realistic barn cough* and was taken aback, like i had to look at him for a few seconds. I choose to blame you and that Weevmo feller' for this
you. you haven't. you haven't looked at the actual website? you haven't looked at The Actual Project? i. im.
respectfully,
What.
#im actually speechless. how. why. extra Why#i just. HUH?#if i didnt already have a headache i think i would have one now#this. this actually makes me a little sad#you havent looked at the actual project before? you havent Enjoyed its Splendor and Horrors? do you even know what its about???#its such a good project... the source is phenomenal why would anyone bypass it#the richness of the characters... the layered story... the audios... the secrets... the Beautiful Site herself...#rambles from the bog#months of tumblr brainwashing... i need to sit outside and stare into the woods for a while idc what stares back#are we as a species truly salvageable. are we#i mean. yes. im being a bit dramatic but this also greatly saddens me#ok im being healed my cat is making intense eye contact while purring louder than a jet engine & making aggressive biscuits
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does anyone else miss the mornings after big sleepovers when all the kids would wake up at different points in the morning, whispering and wandering out for breakfast
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I keep thinking that this Gojo is just like Sukuna. I truly don't see much of a difference between them beyond the human/curse point of view
#If not Sukuna then some other more palatable special degree curses like the one he just killed that talked about the new humanity#It truly looks like that I don't know#Trying to be unbiased about the pretty concepts I take personally#and trying to ignore the silly fact that Sukuna's domain is literally called temple of evil or something (makes one want to ask#so many things like why the hell does he call it such? isn't evil good for you? Isn't a species kind of thing?#Why are you adhering to human notions and conceptualisations if you seem so beyond them and think nothing of them?)#Gojo is quite terrifying from a curse point of view. He is cruel and merciless. He can't be reasoned with and he is playful. He has his fun#His powers are not much different in structure from those of a curse and he said that the power capacity of a sorcerer comes from birth#So it's ontological. It's not just skill. It's an essential differentiation. Just like curses#It's just... I don't know. It's almost as if he were a curse himself. He talks about emotions being the source of curses?#Maybe that's the difference? Was Sukuna born that way too?#I don't know. I keep thinking that he is quite idk monstrous in a very Sukuna way. He isn't terrible like Sukuna is like with the kids#But he is human after all. He does adhere to human categories. Sukuna is something else#And yet Gojo uses the kids. He draws lines and he is caring and gentle and sweet in his way#but he very much uses the kids and is a bit flippant about it. And he is human#I don't know. It seems completely intentional this similarity between Gojo and the curses and Gojo and Sukuna in particular#Sukuna seems interested in Megumi while Gojo seems interested in Itadori and idk I just keep thinking#but I'm not even know about what or how#I find this man very hard to trust haha the parallels are intriguing#I think this piece of worldbuilding has potential as well as their characterisations#I hope the author will do something with all this#I talk too much#Jujutsu Kaisen#Gojo Satoru#Sukuna
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He's here to turn in the Wanted Dead or Alive Bounty(dead) and even brought some flowers as well, much to his brother's embarrassment
Hickory could've gone without seeing his brother's strange attempts to flirt.
#My man shoved flowers into the head and everything#Truly an out of touch romantic#DeltaDickory#DickoryDelta#Delta Dawn Trolls#Dickory Trolls#Trolls Delta Dawn#Trolls Dickory#Delta Dawn#Dickory#The flowers do having meaning btw#Apple Blossom: I prefer you before all#Wild Rose: Pleasure and Pain#Dessert Marigold: Life and Death OR Spiritual Healing#not sure how accurate they are but that's what I found lol#Anyways Let Dickory fall for a later that could kill him#He deserves it as a treat#Also I do gotta ask why does Delta have a chest? Like no other female troll does#Becuase it makes no sense due to them being an egg laying species#Unless you want to argue that Delta and Delta alone has a platypus situation going on#Or the weirdest fat distribution mutation#cw: decapitated head#Goat!Dickory#Goat!Yodelers#Goat!Hickory#Hickory Trolls#Trolls Hickory#Hickory#AcousticInk#AcousticGraphite
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i wish steven universe went more into the watermelon stevens (said no one ever, but hear me out!) i wish they went more into how steven made a whole society and abandoned them, just like the diamonds do, just like rose did. and how it demonstrates that having such immense powers very easily leads to a disregard for life.
#steven universe#revisiting them in future would’ve been perfect! this is like#the most diamond thing he’s ever done#(though technically they did it with cactus steven but the watermelons are a whole group!!)#and now he’s left them behind and they absolutely idolize him#there’s so much wrapped up in the watermelon stevens you can go on forever#i wish more people would see escapism for the great episode it is because of this!!#but they are vessels for an infinite amount of topics#in escapism it’s how arguing about methodology (pacifism? violence?) truly does not matter to steven at this point#he’s about to face WHITE DIAMOND and he /could/ debate over whether he should ‘kill her’ or not (ugh)#but what matters most is getting the job done#and in change your mind’s case that was achieved through… changing your mind!#i also love the idea that the watermelon stevens tell the story of gemkind as a whole#steven banishes them to their own business and gives them one parting message#one goal to achieve#(to understand baby melon’s actions)#what if that’s what happened to the gems? they were made once but then abandoned with only one goal implanted in their minds#to carry out forever and ever?#(make more gems)#ohhh gems-as-robots framing how i love you so much#also just to toss that in here it’s fun to think abt the watermelons as an invasive species (which is steven’s va zach’s interpretation)#just like how the gems are invasive to earth!
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a colored and lined sketch of a friend of mine as a togeuta! Really proud of this one!
#star wars#star wars fanart#art#ilustration#togruta#portrait#sw art#This is I think my first ever colored and lined portrait of anything#The coloring was really fun tho#So many pretty colors to work with#I truly love drawing togrutas#They're like my favorite alien species ever#But anyways#star wars art#artists on tumblr#digital art#digital illustration#constructive critism welcome#Star Wars
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i wonder if you could hypothetically make a specific stone mask body upgrade for human-pillar man hybrids
#rambles#the idea is kind of fascinating since humans are like below-below the food chain for pillar men#like a half human half pillar man hybrids existence would probably shock both pillar men and humans since the species are so far apart#why os that genuinely so captivating as an idea for diavolo...#i shouldve wrote jorge joestar instead and made half pillar man diavolo a thing truly#instead of that weird shit where giorno and diavolo were a system instead of doppio and diavolo...
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If you’re still doing the ship rating- Camilla/Palamedes because I’m sorry but fusing into one being in a Catholic inspired text is just not a platonic thing to do and “yes, my whole life, yes; always and forever, yes” is not a platonic thing to say before said fusing
I MEAN... I have no idea what "platonic" or "shippy" means in the context of Camilla and Palamedes, because they are the apex of codependency. In a series that's all about codependent relationships, they raise the bar to new unparalleled heights. They are obsessed with each other. Quite literally two halves of a whole (Paul. Just Paul)
I'm struggling a bit to articulate this but, basically: I get why other people may not read them as romantic or sexual, but ultimately I think it doesn't even matter because they're so much MORE than that. They are such a disaster gordian knot of fucked up and devotion and overwhelming feels that reducing it to whether or not they're fucking seems ??? kinda pointless to me??? because they're each other's whole world. They lived in each other's pockets for years and they shared a body for months. They are each other's whole universe and decided to fuse their souls forever rather than letting one of them live on while the other died. They have SO MUCH going on; what does "platonic" even mean in this context?
tl;dr: I personally do read them as shippy. But also that's not even in my top 3 most noteworthy things about Camilla and Pal, because every facet of their relationship is so rich. I don't even see it as a question of "shippy", I just see it as "it's impossible to disentangle them from one another." They're just. THE MOST complete package. Absolutely completely life partners. Deeply fucked up and they wouldn't have it any other way
(On that note, when I see posts about how the Sixth House have therapy, I think... they absolutely do not. Just because Camilla knows how to do breathing exercises it doesn't mean they are in any way well-adjusted. When Pyrrha Dvue tells you to dial it back, you know you have an issue!
Anyway. Nobody is well-adjusted in this series. Love that for them)
#tbh. I put CamPal on the same level as John and Alecto#except possibly more obsessed with each other because they actually belong to the same species#like: I can accept that people read their relationship in different ways as long as we all agree#that whatever they have going on is fundamental and lifechanging and they can't be parted#campal#truly deeply MUTUALLY OBSESSIVE ALL CONSUMING LOVE wtf is GOING ON THERE#anyway i clearly am not doing the ship game anymore bc i lost the post#but i'm always HERE to chat about devotion's casualties#anonymous#ask
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🐾 Agent 8 and Agent 3 species swap?
‼️ Ngl I've actually thought abt this concept before (but never posted anything abt em)
Here they are tho !! They went out on a coffee date :3
Hairstyles aren't final ngl ☹️ Mainly cuz I'm!!! Struggling to make them unique yet still pertain to the special design their original hair has
Here's also some headshots w/o any gear (even tho the doodles are kinda janky)
#not my species-swapped agent 8 using the same hairstyle as my normal agent 4 would LWJDKWJD#they truly are (found-family) siblings 🫡 (which ngl might doodle species-swapped Agent 4 and Neo Agent 3 sometime now hmm)#art ask game#ask#splatoon#splatoon oc#splatoon agent 3#splatoon agent 8#agent 24#art#fanart#doodles
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One big thing that gets missed in the conversation about native plants is that when considering a plant, you really should ask two questions:
1. Where, specifically, is it native to?
2. Within that region, what ecosystem conditions does it live in? Will it thrive where you intend to plant it?
I cannot tell you how many times I've come across a plant labeled as native that doesn't even grow in my state. Sure, it's native to the continent, but not this side of the rocky mountains! That's not nearly specific enough if your goal is to support endemic animal species and the overall ecosystem.
You also need to consider what conditions that plant needs to thrive. One example I see a lot of here is planting understory plants in full sun. They're stressed out, they're getting sunburnt, and they're slowly dying. People will also try the reverse, planting praire plants in deep shade, and wonder why they're all floppy and anemic looking. Plants may be native to your area, but they still have specific needs and you will have much greater success if you match the conditions you have to a plant that will thrive there.
A third, extra credit question is a two parter: is it endemic (aka, unique to your region) or does it have a a broader, or even circumpolar distribution? I mean, check out the range maps for Henderson's shooting star & twinflower:
Twinflower is found across the northern portions of Eurasia as well.
The second part is, are any of the vulnerable species in your area depending on it? An example from my area is Viola Adunca, which has a pretty broad range,
But is also host to multiple fritilary butterfly species in my area, some of which are on the decline and some of which are no longer found in my state. Due to habitat loss. Both due to human activity (agriculture, subdivisions, etc) and human inactivity (banning the intentional burns the Native peoples did, that maintained the Oak savanna ecosystem, leading them to be "invaded" by non-fire adapted Douglas firs, another native species. Also at the same time making the region more vulnerable to bigger and more devastating wild fires).
#gardening#native plants#native species#intentional fires were key to managing ecosystems throughout the west#and when our government killed#removed from the land#and then banned the remaining people from setting fires#we did so much harm to not only the ecosystems but also endangered ourselves#on top of the truly reprehensible behavior we showed to native peoples#I don't think people realize how much we changed the ecosystems here by banning fires#hunting beavers to near extinction#and killing off the bision and turning the land into range land for cattle & sheep
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New OC :3
Meet Kay/Thirteen - Subject K-13 - An experimental spiruling kraken created to become a destructive weapon
He's just really tired though
#my spiru babies can't normally kraken on their own!#they don't produce enough ink to maintain it#so the only 'krakens' that truly exist are very much experimental#splatoon#splatoon 3#splatoon 2#art#my art#oc#splatoon art#original character#splatoon oc#my oc#fanart#splatoon fanart#splatoon fanlings#fan species#splatoon fan species#spiruling#spirulings#kraken#oc: k-13#tw: body horror
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