#with an abnormal job

[petit-papillion]

The journalist's question is cute and it's so healthy that he has people around him who treat him the same way. It's cute when she said you're still Madame Pascal's son, but I noticed that she paused and then she said again, you're just someone's son. You can see that she hesitated to talk about his father and I find it very kind of her to have done so.

It was a great question and although people have asked him similar questions before, the wording made it special for sure. I thought the answer was interesting as well. We see Joris go with him everywhere, but he is from that close friend group whom Charles has known since he was a kid, and they are like his family. I love that he keeps his friends and family close to keep him grounded. It is so easy to start thinking you are all that when people constantly pay you compliments, want your autograph, and you are generally just the center of attention.

I also love how in Miami he spoke about just trying to still have a normal life, do his own shopping, etc. (Interview linked below for anyone who missed it.) We joke about his terrible parking jobs, but forget to think about what it must be like for him to just do a quick run to a store to pick up something, or that he still fills up his car himself at the gas station, and that he regularly drives himself to Italy in his own car, rather than being driven (or flown) around.

[bitchslapblastoids]

Was thinking about how much of a normo I come across as irl, how I’ve felt a lil odd person out at their shows bc of being a bit older (29) and looking so aggressively normal, how generally confused people in my life would be if they knew about my d&p obsession, how thoroughly i mask weirder traits and essentially codeswitch to suit the mainstream, etc.

i feel kind of fish out of water when I imagine how all the people that populate my tumblr phandom ecosystem are likely presenting to the world irl (I.e. more visibly queer, counterculture, and so on). But then I think maybe the most visible phannies are the ones with the most curated, alt, deliberate daytoday lewks/style? So maybe what I’m picturing is off base? But then I’m also basing this off of what audiences look like in audience footage, m&gs, etc.

Sooooooo i would like to know… do you guys feel like you present as someone who may be Deeply Online and obsessed with two gay nerds from the internet? Or do you hide it and fly under the radar, masking as a total normy and living a double life?

(To clarify I don’t mean you’re like out and about wearing the fringes boob sweatshirt lol I more mean vibes and overall lewk yk?)

[ratboyvince]

Sly needs more credit for how completely and immediately down bad he was for Michael.

I don’t believe in love at first sight but Sly was by all means enjoying some mysterious cowboy eye-candy in episode 73.

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

do you mind if i ask what the workout program you've referenced finishing and restarting is? i am looking to get into more of a routine and your program sounds cool!

i have been working out with caroline girvan’s stuff for almost two years now! her long programs all involve weights (i have a pair of adjustable dumbbells which are pricey but a good investment and don’t take THAT long to be cheaper than a gym membership) but she also has a playlist on her youtube channel of bodyweight workouts she’s put up. the program i’m (now re)doing is her epic heat series, which is all 30 minute workouts. fwiw when people on her subreddit ask where to start people usually say you can technically start anywhere because the workout is a guide you meet at the level of challenge appropriate for you (i am still years away from being able to match her for weights OR reps and there is the occasional move she programs that i straight up can’t do and i just switch or do my best even if it’s like… “do a 40 second push up” ok well i can do like an 8 second push up, lol. i also take a lot of mini mid-set breaks when i need them and also pause the video if i like REALLY need to catch my breath) the typical recommendation is (1) the ultimate beginner 6 week program on her app which is worth a month or two subscription if you’re new to strength training and you can swing it (i did this last year when it came out and it was really helpful both bc it’s slower than any of her other programs and builds up starting at 3x a week and bc it’s the only program where she talks you through the moves) (2) if not, iron because it’s slower paced than her others or her 24 day advent calendar because it’s got the shortest workout durations (that was the first one i ever did bc the app hadn’t launched yet and i really liked it even though the first full body day left me so sore i couldn’t walk for like 3 days and it took me much more than 24 days lol. i also redid the first couple workouts when i finished and it was cool to see that my body was already adjusting and a lot of stuff had gone from Am I Dying? to a mere Incredibly Fucking Hard, lmao). she has a 1-week program called beginner epic on youtube but it’s like, an intro to her style more than for true beginners. ofc i have no idea what your experience is i am just trying to be thorough and cover all my bases!!! lol

[blissfulrain12]

Curly's Not a People Pleaser

Or at least not as much of one as the fandom paints him as. Curly is perfectly capable of being stern and commanding as long as it has nothing to do with Jimmy. And to be clear that's not simply because Jimmy's his friend but because Jimmy's his abuser. Curly is firm with Swansea over Daisuke's foam incident, he doesn't give in to Daisuke asking for more sweetner, and he's firm with asking Anya for the gun when he thinks she might hurt herself.

Curly only crumbles when faced with Jimmy's distress and anger. Jimmy's abuse of Curly pre crash is emotional where he makes Curly his emotional punching bag. When Jimmy gets upset he makes it Curly's problem and Curly has learned to respond by fawning and freezing to appease him. This is why Curly comes across as people pleasing. If you don't notice the abusive dynamic between the two people pleasing becomes the answer even though Curly doesn't show signs of being a pushover with the rest of the crew.

[wolfsbaneandthistle]

The dreaded gender (?) update… The Enithian genders are more of a caste system, only ever being labeled as ‘gender’ because of how it affects sexual relationships.

And it’s a really bad system! It only has advantages for a handful of very powerful people- it’s really just a way to control how people can act and work. But it is the standard on modern-day Enith, and while it’s not held nearly as strictly on other planets, it has become the standard for the galaxy at large.

[gingermintpepper]

"Man Ginger, why don't you like doing lineart for things?"

BECAUSE IT TAKES TOO LONG AAA

Art for me is usually more about getting the broad strokes of an idea out so I can more easily visualise it when writing/planning. This, unfortunately, does tend to clash with my innate need to be good at the things that are important to me but I think I've gotten better about embracing the 'messiness' of my style over the years.

That said, LOOK AT THIS HYAPOLLO WIP I'M WORKING ON?? POLLIE'S COMING OUT SO GOOD LIKE??

I usually describe Apollo-as-Agreus (Agreus is the name he takes on while he's mingling with the mortalfolk) as having gold-brown hair both because he born a brunet in my story and because the word 'xanthos' in and of itself implies something that encompasses an entire spectrum from true-blond to auburn? My visual shorthand for this has been to just have Agreus' hair be a duller blond than the sunstreaked cloud colour of Apollo's more divine hair but MAN I was NOT expecting to love properly attempting to represent Agreus' hair this much! Ugh, I'm so excited to finish colouring this set of images!!!

[cursezoroark]

bad future is my favorite arc + doodles

[throughpatchesofviolet]

Revisited Lobotomy Corporation, and now I'm crying.

[moritzakgae]

helloooo tumblr!!!!!! i’m going to try to get back into posting here regularly… i’m having some spring awakening related visions lately and it’s only right i share it on here…

WE ARE BACK TO MORITZ TIME BABYYYY

[they-bite]

we’ve officially forgotten what the word ‘normalize’ means bc why did i just see an instagram post that started with ‘let’s normalize graphic design jobs’

[kuruk]

when I was a dishwasher/cleaning freak at my school's food court, I came back to work the next semester for one day when I had just gotten covid and then I nsver showed up again and I didn't call in or give notice because I was too shy and sick sorry. because every time I came home from work when I wasn't sick, I would get pain all over and fever and severe chills literally after every shift for months. so doing that with covid killed me bad as soon as I got home I've nevdr been that sick in my life I felt like I was about to die.... to be fair I was super embarrassed and ashamed about it but well I was much less lazy than the other dishwashers who kept getting fired and such and thr panda express chef went up to me randomly to tell me how hardworking he noticed I was so yeah maybe if they hadn't been paying me 10.50 an hour I would havr said Sorry

[real-life-cloud]

Literally woke up from my alarm. Snooze. Falls asleep for ten minutes and dreams about getting ready for work. Wakes up and I'm not ready for work . Evil

[ruporas]

i've been wondering- what do you think of vash and ww's relationship to pain? do u have any thoughts on it??

cuz i was just thinking like. obviously they're both extremely resilient and don't care much if they get hurt in the process of achieving whatever, but like... as for the pain specifically, i have to wonder.

cuz i'm reading trimax for the first time and toward the end of the sand steamer mess kite basically asks if vash even feels pain. and i mean... he has to, since not that long ago he just hit the floor with a dramatic blood splatter lmao. but like.

is he just suppressing visible reactions? or does he just not feel pain unless it's above a certain level?

and i wanna know about ww too if you have thoughts, i just haven't gotten that far in trimax :')

forgive me if my wording is all over the place, i havent been very elegant in my words Lately, but i am always down to talk about specific shit involving vash and wolfwood,

if we're just talking physical pain, yeah, i think they feel pain normally!

For Vash, he is the master of repression throughout Trimax, so I think naturally, he keeps a strong face no matter the level of hurt, whether on the outside or inner. It's just in his nature to not allow others to worry about him by pulling through with a fake smile or in some cases, he feels like he deserves the pain inflicted on him so even if he's getting pulverized to shit or threatened against his life, he'd default to a silence as opposed to screaming in agony that might make people think he isn't feeling anything. It's probably also second nature for him to no longer yelp or cry at pain after the amount of years he's spent getting hurt, but i think this only applies if he isn't emotionally involved in a fight (which is rare, but it happens in ch. 38).

In terms of physical pain, he seems to feel it like how regular humans do. I've thrown together some examples where he goes owchie owchie owchie that aren't too spoilery:

The Emilio scene is kind of why I don't think he's just playing up the theatrics of feeling pain, though I do think he would on some occasion, especially since he roleplays with children all the time. Verbally saying "ow ow ow" could potentially be an instinctive reaction too or maybe a source of comfort. But yeah!! I think Vash has always been able to feel pain and it's not like being a plant has lessen his ability to do so. Any resilience built is tacked on due to him being alive for 100 years and being a guy with a clear painted bullseye on his entire figure that ends up getting him shot and scarred.

In the end, the pain that gets to Vash the most will always be on an emotional level rather than physical, but Vash is such a genuine person and so present when it comes to other people that even if it's a pain he can take, it'll still hurt him terribly in more ways than one.

For Wolfwood; I think in general, those under the Eye of Michael have a strong resilience to dealing with pain due to the regen potions and the amount of training forced on them. I don't think we ever get the full description of what exactly those in EoM endured throughout their younger years, but we saw WW get shot at an early age in chapter 12 and we can assume it happened more than once. Over and over again until he won't even flinch against it just like how killing without hesitation was attempted to be drilled into him. I don't really know how it works scientifically… but I fully believe that he's mostly numbed to the physical sensation of it and it's the psychological part that gets to him more. Wolfwood himself is a naturally skilled fighter too, not that that really has anything to do with his dealing with pain, but I think his focus and attention on a battle and his stubbornness to win kicks an adrenaline that allows him to ignore the pain.

Though, his body also gets sore and tired just like any regular human does and there's this instance where he goes owie too:

(While NOT as much as Tristamp WW does where he's cracking a cold one every goddamn minute, I do think Trimax WW has gotten used to taking regen pots and thus, can afford to be careless and not give a damn.)

So, physically, technically in canon, they don't really have anything that specially makes either of them unable to feel pain, but just as you said, they're incredibly resilient. And ultimately, the both of them are affected emotionally/psychologically that hurts them more than the physical aspect of it, considering how physical pain is almost a daily chore for them to deal with (Vash being hunted for sport for majority of his life + Wolfwood being involved in experiments/killings for majority of his life.)

I think Trigun in general, while showing physical pain being a strong factor of hurt for regular people like us constantly seeing civiilians get beat up or shot, it tends to boil down to the multiple varieties of pain when it comes to those who deal with physical pain often (Gung Hos, Vash, EoM members).

I didn't know where to put these comments but here are extra thoughts:

They're both evidently really good at hiding their pains or any mark of vulnerability. They both could have a hole in their chest and go days without anyone else noticing so long it isn't killing them.

They're both pretty reckless during battle, but I think for Vash, he already tries to avoid violence at all cost and thus, do in a roundabout way lessen his own chance of getting hit in hoping to not stir that violence against another. As a result, I think Wolfwood can be way more reckless and ends up getting hurt more unnecessarily as a result of it.

They both are capable of healing at quick rates so I'm sure that allows the pain to feel more temporary, less of a risk to sustain, and to further hone in not caring too much about getting shot. That only applies for themselves individually though because every time they see each other get hurt, they're always so so worried despite knowing the other will be fine.

i'm pretty sure i repeated myself like 800 times, but i hope this Answered the question SFGMSDKGSMDKH i also tried to be vague enough in my wordings and focus only on the beginning-ish of trimax so to not spoil! i hope u enjoy ur reading of it!!

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

So anyway, today is Earth Day.

And you know the rules:

(For Godzilla's and Mothra's checklist rather 😜)

Maintaining the Balance of Nature

Keep Titans (and humans) in check

Avoid dumping garbages (and radioactive wastes) in his ocean territory (MV Hedorah would've born)

Patrolling everywhere to make sure there are no Titans steps slightly out of his/her orders

Advice the humans to practice their routine for the sake of the planet

Making sure he got a nice nap with his wifey. Do not disturb them or you'll regret this.

(Meanwhile, to Battra's checklist)

DESTROY HUMANITY FOR THE SAKE AND WILL OF THE EARTH

[simcardiac-arrested]

random ass doodles i’ve done over the days