#with special cameos from:

[cyanbeetle]

Does anyone know these guys

[cartoonqtpie]

Julia and Animal bonding over rabbits

[triple-u-vvv]

I love how the whole cotl fandom is going insane over the new 2 embers trailer but it’s literally just

Anyways I will currently be connecting red string to photographs in a secret room like a conspiracy theorist until the next one comes out

[gunsatthaphan]

#full circle.

[edithdraws]

Listen they barely interact face to face but Adam Warlock and Mistress Death have the funniest dynamic of all time actually.

[eternalsnowfan02]

Sometimes I think about the fact that Rook actively avoids garlic because he doesn't want the strong smell clinging to him. And then I think about the fact that Epel carries around a secret container of onions in his pocket to make the Pomefiore food more exciting. And I just... I feel like these two quirks must have collided at some point, right?

Right.

[winteriron-trash]

rdj the (whitewashed) electric boogaloo

This is a reminder to everyone who's excited about RDJ's casting as Doctor Doom that this casting is whitewashing. Victor Von Doom is a Romani character and has been a Romani character since his introduction in the 1960s. (Fantastic Four Annual #2 [1964]) Not only that, but his Roma identity and the persecution he and his family faced due to it is integral to his character, it is what forms his identity. (Books of Doom by Ed Brubaker) Even if on the off chance this casting is meant to not be Victor but instead be some variant of Tony or whomever else becoming Doctor Doom, it is damaging to the character to rob him of that important cultural background. Doctor Doom does not exist without that history. Fans have been pushing hard to cast Doom as a Romani actor for years, especially since the MCU has whitewashed other Romani characters. (Wanda, Pietro, etc) This casting is not a celebration moment, it's fucking heartbreaking that the MCU repeatedly ignores the important and nuanced cultural backstories of characters.

I know I can't change anybody's mind on whether or not you want to be excited about RDJ's return to the MCU. But I do think at the very least you should be mad that the MCU is baiting us all and destroying nuanced and interesting characters for the sake of self-referential easter eggs and nostalgia bait. Because that's what it is. Feel how you'd like to feel about RDJ's return, but personally, this is soul-sucking. I had such a deep love for the MCU as a teenager, it was obviously something incredibly formative to me, especially Tony Stark. This isn't recreating what I fell in love with the MCU for. This is turning a well-planned and artistic storyline of adaptations into cheap cash grabs and fan service. Because, I think we're past the point of being able to call the MCU an adaptation of anything. They can use existing characters' names and powers, but to say they're being properly adapted is laughable.

This is not an adaptation of Doctor Doom. This is RDJ the Electric Boogaloo because Marvel's fear of losing the interest of dedicated MCU fans overrides their willingness to tell stories that are genuine to the characters. I don't know what there is to be excited about that. The MCU has lost its authenticity and aside from a few projects, feels heartless. Every movie is a copy of a copy. This announcement isn't something celebratory, it feels like a death knell of a cinematic universe that's so desperate to cling to relevancy it's resorting to nostalgia for a character/actor who hasn't even been dead for a decade. We're not getting anything new, we're just rinsing and repeating the same song and dance.

I get it. I love Tony Stark, his death destroyed me and I to this day, rue the ending he got in Endgame. It misunderstood his arc and it robbed him of a satisfying conclusion. But the solution to that isn't dragging the corpse out of the grave five years later to whitewash an existing character with rich and interesting nuance, just to forcibly tie his existence in the MCU to Tony. Whether he is a variant or not. Why would you want someone else's fave's legacy to be destroyed simply so your fave's legacy can go on? Hell, if we were really all so hellbent on the return of RDJ and/or Tony to the MCU, we have the multiverse for a reason. There were other ways to do it that didn't whitewash and ruin someone else. This just. Isn't something to be happy about.

[cosmikazie]

Art Request #2: Survivor and Enot play Rain World

art request by @scrufflesksunnide

[ratatatastic]

"Battle of Alberta, right? It was my first game: Calgary, Edmonton. We would play them in the preseason, and you know—trying to make the team I'd always be asking him to fight in preseason, always. I'd be runnin' my mouth—like, tryna fight the biggest, baddest guys, tryna make an impression.

And he would never fight me. He'd always tell me, like If you make the team, I'll fight ya. You don't have to worry about that, but I'm not fightin' ya preseason. And I totally respect it, I'm not gonna chase him down. It is what it is. He's established—I'm looking for my chance.

So I get called up, we're playing Edmonton in Edmonton: Battle of Alberta. [He's] over there on the other side, and it's like the coolest thing ever... you know, the buildup was crazy 'cuz I knew if the opportunity presented itself—if the game went the way I hoped it would, I would get an opportunity to fight him.

I remembered in warmups tryna skate by the redline initially just kind-of gettin' a feel for it—to see if I have to say something or whatever... He's got no bucket on, his big, bald head is glarin' around, he skates by the redline with the biggest smile on his face, and just gives me the biggest wink...

At that moment I knew Okay, he remembers. It's gonna happen at some point.

We were up 1, I think it was 2-1 going into intermission or whatever—Oh, no, I think it was 1-1 and we had just scored so the position I'm like Yeah, I don't know if I can fight him now because we have the momentum and we're winning the game. I don't want to lose a fight, then we lose a game and now I'm, like, never getting a chance again.

You kind-of gotta play the game within the game like [...] there's an opportunity to fight, and there's an opportunities where you shouldn't fight. Things weren't looking good, then they score and now we need a spark. I'm like Fucking perfect.

I just skate by their bench and I'm like It's time, big boy! He jumps out, we line up, and he goes We squarin' up or we goin' right away?

I'm like I'm not fuckin' squarin' up with you right now! We're goin' right away!

Drop em, we go right away, grab each other. I know he's a lefty so he's gonna let go—let's go of my right arm before he throws one. I threw one. Big boy went down, he jumped back up pretty quick. I don't know, I tell people all the time, I'm like I would've been in the league fuckin' 2 years earlier if there was good footage of this fuckin' fight!

For some reason—For some reason, the cameras cut out. I don't know if [he] had his cousins working the cameras or something that night, or if they're in the video room or what happened.

That was my first NHL game.

It's funny 'cuz Chucky was there—Chucky's there and he knows, he saw, he always laugh when I say that I would've been in the league earlier 'cuz he knows how things like that go. You get a little bit of energy and buzz around ya, and then kind-of momentum takes you a little bit further but unfortunate[ly], I missed that opportunity but I don't regret a thing.

[...]

The opportunity was there, I just—unfortunately, for whatever reason, the Hockey Gods said not yet." (Ryan Lomberg reminiscing over his first NHL game/fight) (x)(x) (please go watch the second link to see lombos giant smile as he tells this story jfc)

and other genuinely bonkers things to say about a hockey player in your first fight... like why did this need to be said like that...what

[saltinesy-spoons]

Wow, I'm really failing at this whole "draw every day for a month" thing. Here we see jade as a magical girl using both the prompt "dog" and "witch"

[streets-in-paradise]

I should put that on my bio:

" I'm the Cassandra of fandoms, ask away for all your fandom predictions. Don't want to believe it? No problem, time allways proves me right. "

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

the league of gentlemen are cowards for not having herr lipp (or any of the other characters tbf) flirt w/ reece or mark whilst they were wearing those suits in the film honestly lol...

[cienie-isengardu]

MK1 as it is except this is Johnny's cinematic version of events and he take some artistic license here and there...

[bookdragonquotes]

[r00tpackl0ver]

WHAT ??? THEY'VE BEEN TRAPPED IN CRUSTY GIFS???

I love love love silly 2000s internet style gifs. So of course, I had to subject them to the treatment. It was surprisingly relaxing to make...

Wait whats this cut doing here is there some sort of bonus-

I MADE SOME FOR HORACE TOO!!!

Listen I'm not obsessed w/ him like the main three....but he still a lil guy (platonic). AN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE PACK. I FELT HE DESERVED ONE TOO! This is for any Horace fans out there he is a guy.

[muserepeats]

praise you like i should

chapter 4/6: steal my sunshine

By @muserepeats for @calculated2stagger

Maybe Rue is someone she can trust with the secret she’s been unable to voice since New Year’s Eve. 

“Well, it’s a little more complicated than that.” Lexi bites her lip and steals a glance in Rue’s direction. Her friend is quiet, leaving space for her to feel out whatever she needs to say next. “The way it started was kind of… unusual.” “Why, because you met at a party and kissed at midnight? Seems like some Harry Met Sally romantic comedy shit.” “No, it’s not that. We kind of –” Lexi pauses to take a deep sigh. “We, um, started out pretending to date each other, because we both wanted to push Cassie and Ethan together. And then we both kind of fell… for real.”

The chortle from Rue’s throat is strong enough to shake the headboard. Thankfully, there’s a look of delight on her face. “Okay, now it’s an actual romantic comedy.”