#uhh do i main tag this...

[voltrixz]

shitpost thing while i go work on other stuff, mysterio and electro best friends real and true to me

[feelo-fick]

more misc au art... (the last two are unrelated but shh)

GAAAHHHH i promise ive got actual stuff cooking im just scared to post it/motivation to finish art Hard :"D clutching my head... always forever 24/7 thinking about them...

[ghastlyaffairs]

for something as trivial and simple those feelings sure are hard to get rid of

also made a gif a version for fun + alt version with no tears under the cut

the gif is in very low resolution...this is a feature (i could make it bigger but that would require saving each frame individually and than glueing it all together. also i feel like low resolution suits it better. aesthetically and fits the mood)

[jils-things]

my mains in ranked matches C:

[vynnyal]

Finally finishing totk

[moodlesmain]

Hi. Look at this.

I just spent two days straight making a digital conspiracy board trying to piece together my favourite genre that isn't really a genre and more just a very particular niche which doesn't really have a name.

If you want to look I reccomend downloading and zooming in on the image to read everything LMAO, I want to try and convert it to a page on my neocities at some point so its easier to view but for now you guys just get a big ol' jpeg. You're welcome :)

[inkieflame]

Old art from 2024

Uhhhh, no I don't ship this normally, idk what possessed me to draw this. I blacked out and woke up to this. Anyway.

Have a Cleo and Martyn, enjoy

[shkika]

The more I think about W1 and Gabriel the more I realize that unlike with V1 which (imo) doesn’t feel like it has much of a deep super strong opinion on Gabriel. Not resentment at least.

W1 does not like him. It in fact hates him. like a lot.

On a deep personal level it absolutely despises that angel. And it makes me think of just how cruel it would be to him in the second fight and I honestly wish I had drawn Gabriel even more injured in that one comic, than just his heart being torn out. I think W1 would want to make him into minced meat.

When you combine the most bloodthirsty over-confident hyperactive maniac with the pettiest cunt robot alive it makes for one sadistic little guy when it feels wronged.

There’s something very magical about Gabriel experiencing torture in hell and being brought down to the level of sinners that call out his name for help or for strength. In the same way he doesn’t hear them, God does not hear his calls.

In those moments he realizes this is not a fight for redemption. And that it really isn’t to be found in hell. When the entire idea behind Christianity should be to seek redemption and forgiveness, to better yourself. To know god is ever loving and forgiving, it feels like there’s no one to hear him out. Or anyone else.

And for what reason? And who does this senseless torture benefit.

And so the campfire scene in my au would probably be skipped.

[slashpaws]

i can't believe weed is illegal in utah. you mean michael afton went through ALL THAT and couldn't even hit a blunt about it?

[thetisming]

just found this in my notes????

[knizuu]

Fellers

This was the thing I got gifted :3 !!! If you like my Luxury AU, you’ll probably like this too..ehhehe [WARNING/silly: I CRIED READIMG-

*fanart for myself because gosh…I feel bad for my own boi now

[mc-tummy-blur]

Didn't expect the year of our Lord 2025 to get into Alan Rickman, but I guess that's how it goes sometimes

The year of getting into an actor that so far I have only seen portray maladjusted men

[gayhabit]

was talking with my wife the other day about glenn and alfie watching shows together. i feel glenn would be opinionated

[smilepebble]

ok funnyposting aside here's my spoiler free review/recommendation of trigun (1998). it's a bit long so it's under the cut

trigun is... a show that you can watch! and by that i mean it has its really really good moments... and it's really really bad moments. i won't water it down: trigun has significant flaws that caused me a lot of frustration at times. that said, i still found it to be an overall enjoyable show.

here's the basic concept for those uninformed: trigun is a sci-fi western set on a desert planet riddled with inscrutable ancient technology. the most notable of this technology are the plants, giant lightbulb shaped power sources that a lot of people rely on.

the story follows the life of vash the stampede, a bandit with a $$60,000,000 bounty on his head. our secondary protagonists are meryl stryfe and milly thompson, associates from an insurance company whose job is to find vash and mitigate the destruction he causes. what meryl and milly find, however, is that the $$60,000,000 man is actually a happy-go-lucky pacifist who loves donuts. hijinks ensue.

trigun has fantastic worldbuilding and fascinating themes, along with some very cool cinematic moments. it has a great overall concept as well, and it plays around with your expectations of shounen anime. the show is also not afraid to challenge and question its own central theme of absolute pacifism: even if you don't kill anyone with your own bare hands, if you've still hurt someone, or deprived them of their resources, are you really not responsible if they die because of that? is that truly pacifism?

... but despite the great themes and worldbuilding, trigun is also a 90's shounen anime. which, in most cases, means it's going to be misogynistic. and... oh boy is it. im mostly going to be talking about meryl and milly, but pretty much anything i say can apply to every other female character in this series. like it's Bad. but anyway.

oh meryl stryfe and milly thompson... you did not deserve this... as previously stated, meryl and milly are our secondary protags. and overall, they're important to the plot! but, well, that's pretty much all they get (aside from some good character designs). meryl and milly are almost immediately fit into misogynistic little boxes. they're designated vash and wolfwood's love interests (side note: i don't respect wolfwood. im calling him nick from this point on). milly is characterized as this stupid and naïve girl who loves her family as well as getting drunk and taking off all her clothes. meryl is characterized as (possibly my least favorite type of misogynistic characterization) the "annoying naggy bitch" type character. but don't worry they both have character arcs! ...all revolving around their respective male love interests! it's frustrating, to say the least.

alongside meryl and milly being reduced to misogynistic stereotypes, they are also subject to a lot of sexist jokes, typically made by our male leads. you get to hear groping jokes, "WOMEN, am i right???"-type jokes, everything inbetween, and more. a good amount of which comes straight from our protags mouth! and of course vash is not a real guy whom i can punch in the face for doing so. but it does make it a little hard to like him as a character (same applies to nick). and don't get me wrong, i did ultimately like vash and nick as characters. but the sheer amount of misogyny that comes from those two eventually starts to detract from the effectiveness of their stories. ill get into this a bit more later.

... and of course trigun is a 90's anime, so the racism is also there! im not sure it's as in your face as the misogyny, but it is very much present still. most, if not all of the major non-white characters (and there's not a lot) are either racist stereotypes, villains, or both. all of the towns our main characters visit and all of the crowds in the backgrounds are mostly white. and as our main cast travels the world, there is little to no change in architecture, food, clothing, traditions... there's no distinct cultures! which makes most locations in trigun feel very plain and replaceable, which hurt the overall themes about the wonder of humanity and such! i find it both boring and extremely improbable that humanity settled on a desert planet and built only american wild west looking towns. when your fictional world features only one kind of biome, you would want to create some kind of variety in your locations, so they're memorable, right? well, not in trigun.

trigun's issues hurt its story significantly, and additionally, like many older anime adaptations of manga, there are pacing issues. in trigun's case, i felt that the bigotry directly correlated with that pacing issue. when you mistreat your characters and world like this, it hurts the overall story you're trying to tell. while i really enjoyed trigun's climactic episodes, the impacts of those episodes feel damped because of the aforementioned mistreatment. trigun's misogyny especially eats directly into its screentime; screentime that could have been used to develop our main cast, so that when they go through big emotional moments, it feels deserved: like we, the audience, and the character have worked to get to this point. but it just didn't feel that way to me.

and of course i am well aware that trigun (1998) is only a 26 episode adaptation of a longer manga. ive yet to read the manga, but i am looking into it, and hoping with my entire heart and soul that the pacing is better lol. im also aware of the 2023 anime, which i may check out at some point (although ive heard they get rid of milly. boooo).

but anyway, that's my general thoughts on trigun! i have other thoughts and nitpicks on it, but i don't really have a space for them in this post. would i recommend trigun? yes, but only if you have a high tolerance for the aforementioned bullshit. despite how much longer my complaints were than my praises, like i said, i found it to be an overall enjoyable experience.

now if you'll excuse me, im going to go sit out in the snow and watch vash the stampede scuttle off into the sunset like a scarab beetle. it's really quite a beautiful sight you know

[edwardwonghaupepelutivrusky4th]

technically if it's not simmered in the champagne region of france it's a sparkling best boy friend

[gaesnek]

NO ONE TOLD ME RON STAMPLER WAS IN HILDA

I CAN'T TELL YOU WHO HE IS IN THE STORY BC DECENTLY BIG SPOILERS(gowatchhildaitsareallygoodshowandmovieandthenbacktoshowiprommisepleaseitssofuckinggood)BUT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IVE ALWAYS THOUGHT RON LOOKED LIKE

sure it's not THAT similar BUT IT'S (glenn) CLOSE ENOUGH FOR ME