#yep both of them

[phoet]

*clutches the most drenched, miserable, pathetic, drowned cat wretch of a man to my chest, shouting into the eye of the storm*

HE IS BABYGIRL TO ME!

[rafesthroatbaby]

passenger slut 🤤🙋🏽‍♀️

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[missallanious]

Local Jobros questioning their respective Jojo’s sanity (and character judgement) as they compare notes on how they met/became friends

Set in my silly lil Viking au because they canonically interact 😔🤌

[tekitothemagpie]

I think, when they met each other, both Luffy and Zoro had that deciding moment about the other, whether or not they wanted to be crewmates and sail together.

This is that moment for Luffy :

And this is that moment for Zoro :

[the-overanalyst]

has anyone else noticed the parallels between mizuki and emu bc there's actually so many. to get the surface level stuff out of the way first, they're both pink girls who like cute things and are really close with their older sisters. beyond that, they're both outwardly the happiest member of their unit but only because they bottle up any negative emotions. both of their friends have to push so hard to get them to open up. they're both afraid of endings, but they deal with the fear in different ways. mizuki keeps her distance and tries not to get attached, while emu clings to everything as tightly as she can. that's because emu's goal is to preserve good memories while mizuki's is to avoid repeating bad ones. it makes me wonder what the dynamic between them could be like

[ivyithink]

His dark child, his love, evil of his evil. The one who broke his heart.

[keithkog]

McClain got McClaimed -Stupid joke Pidge made

-Keith

[lavernius]

Locus and Lopez vs. dehumanization and seeing your own humanity through someone else

AKA 1.5k words worth of me trying to justify a random pairing I've been trying to sell people on for 5 years. Feat. a lot of my own introspection on both characters, CW for mentions of abuse.

It's kind of easy to assume that Locpez as a ship only exists because Locus is one of the few people who understands Lopez and one of even fewer who has had an actual (off-screen) conversation with him with full mutual fluency, especially since they interact directly, like, twice in canon (Objects In Space and the "Holy shit he's bilingual" scene from The Federal Army of Chorus). To be honest, that was my initial reason for shoving them together whenever I got into RVB and there was literally no content for them because no one was really considering them together in any capacity but a brief, funny passing interaction.

I do think language is an inherent motivator in their relationship with each other. It's a catalyst. Spanish, of course, is perhaps the most obvious thing they share--Locus being a Latino man and Lopez being the same in a convoluted and meta-racist metaphor. Beggars, choosers: anyone who knows how I operate knows I lean into reclaiming their depictions for my own brown person machinations. For Lopez it's the beauty of meeting someone who not only understands him, but isn't going to belittle him for the language he speaks or imply it'd be easier if he learned English. Locus will just listen to him talk and respond without commenting on the language barrier; Lopez isn't exotic or abnormal or "broken" for it, he just speaks Spanish, big deal, Locus speaks it too.

For Locus, it leans more toward reminding him of who he used to be when he was a simpler and kinder person. His culture seems like a forgone part of himself in many ways, but even if only because he's so distant from his humanity that he doesn't remember HOW to embrace his culture, or what the point of cultural pride even is. Lopez is like, reverse culture shock for him, where Locus is very familiar with Spanish as a language--grew up with it, learned it young, whatever, he canonically understands it and given he's Latino it's easy to assume it could be his native language--but has divorced himself from it so much to be malleable to his abusers that hearing someone speak it so unabashedly feels new. It's the lack of it that makes it so foreign, but it's so ingrained into him that it's easy for him to just slip back into it.

And Lopez being so stubbornly proud of what he is plays into that language dynamic, yes--now that there's someone who will listen and not judge, he has room to be adamant and own his monolingualism, and having someone as aggressively, straightforwardly prideful as Lopez forces Locus to recognize the beauty in the language too--but it applies on a grander scale, which is what I suppose the point of this post is: Locus and Lopez don't just share Spanish, but also histories of abuse and dehumanization, of being overlooked as living, thinking things in favor of taking advantage of their skills. And the results of this abuse manifest differently in both of them, but they're alike in just enough ways that their differences stimulate each other into bettering themselves and reflecting on what makes them, dramatic pause, human.

Some of Lopez and Locus's defining personality traits to me are their shared low empathy (forcibly learned on both of their parts) and the way they feel so alien in any group they're a part of. They're people with a lot of potential who don't care how others see them (at their worst, especially in Locus's case), but are limited by someone who only sees them for their usefulness (Sarge, Felix) and doesn't truly see them as a person. Lopez may be a Red, but they don't really care about anything he says, so he's just a wrench to them. Locus has Felix, but he doesn't recognize that Felix has one-sided power over him and is keeping him on a short leash; he's a shield and a weapon. They're tools, they don't have feelings, and if they realize as much it's a fault in their programming, they can and have to be steered back into place.

They're reflective of each other in this way. However, they're not identical in disposition: Locus resigns very easily to what he's told to be. He had more hope once, made attempts to be humanitarian, but was swiftly taught that kindness is suicide and that the point is to survive, no matter the cost. It was easy for Felix to take advantage of him by saying they needed each other when Locus was at his worst, because having kindness ripped out of him gave Locus little else to rely on but his hands. Locus has no room for questions, because a rulebook is absolute. It takes a reminder of what he used to be to make him falter, but even when Santa is showing him one of the inciting incidents of his "soldier" mindset, Locus can't stop himself from resigning to the mindlessness that Felix and the UNSC have already taught him.

Lopez feels trapped and is hyper-aware of it. He'll listen, but only because there's nothing else in the world for him. He's subservient but not in the same way Locus is, because he's angry about his situation: he knows it's not fair, but what can he fucking do about it? He was made to be Red Team's mechanic, and every word he says falls on deaf ears. He carries this self-awareness like a shield, like a threat: he could do something, but there's no point because his nature as a robot defines him. All he has is a sharp tongue and his hands, and the Reds only need one of those things from him. He revels in being able to complain and reminds himself that he's meant for something greater, but he's so fatalistic that he won't take action.

The balance comes from this anger. They're so alike in how they see the world and how much life has mistreated them, but they don't fully understand each other despite it. Locus sees Lopez as privileged for having a team because Locus has never had people to belong with, but he doesn't understand that Red Team isn't a safe place for Lopez. Lopez thinks Locus is misguided for letting himself believe he could ever be reduced to a mindless weapon, because Lopez has only ever been an object and Locus can't comprehend what that's really like. They see each other for their imperfections first and foremost and it frustrates them mutually: "You could've fixed this sooner, you could've escaped the grief, why didn't you try?"

It's this back-and-forth that they both need in order to reflect on themselves. They're harsh people who don't want to be coddled and admonished, but they're not making forward motion on their own because they're both stubborn and tend to decathect before they even recognize they CAN feel. They refuse to see themselves as human, but they can only see the humanity in each other, and they're both so alike that it could make them hypocrites. For a robot, Lopez's anger is so potent that it's alive: Locus sees more feeling in him than he's ever felt in his own life. Locus wants to be a weapon so bad, but he doesn't realize an object doesn't have heart the way he does, doesn't mourn the years it spent under someone's thumb, doesn't want to fix itself.

They're both brutally honest and they both need brutal honesty. They get along WELL by nature of being as similar as they are, but they argue so much because they want to understand each other and don't realize they already do. They're mapping details of their reflections. It's great: Locus is so hurt that he can only see the damage he causes, Lopez is difficult to hurt and notoriously good at fixing things. Lopez wants true accountability and retribution and Locus has cultivated complicity and guilt to perfection.

After Felix, Locus needs room to command his own life and put others in place when they overstep his boundaries, but he's scared of becoming Felix, so he also needs an anchor to keep him grounded in reality and reasonable. Lopez has never had real control over his own life before and would kill to have the power to make small choices and do as he wants, but he's a very private person who also needs a lot of space to work. They balance each other out and know the other's limits so well that they can easily go "You're hurting yourself and I'm not going to let you get away with it."

It's about understanding yourself through someone else and vice versa. Realizing that you share so much that if they deserve good, you do too. Reclaiming pain, experiencing freedom, finding support. They will deconstruct each other to the metal and muscles and rebuild one another over and over again, and they'll never get it perfectly right, but they're both going to learn more and more as they go. Flawless navigation of a road you've driven a million times, forward and back, potholes and all.

[goatsghost]

i know this old news by now, but the fact that this issue could’ve been so cool if they actually took all the batkids’ strengths seriously and hadn’t taken out the two most op bats out in one punch — they really missed out on some amazing fight scenes

[bubblepopsims]

~Bunny Bear Madalyn Marie ft. bunny boop

i couldn't pass up on not putting my bun in these accessories by @1-800-cuupid CC set💘Bunny Bop || VENUS💘

and fits perfectly with my naughty innocent Maddi

[trash-raccoon-boy]

Rumble and savage designs, I made this screenshot edit a few months ago... Like in March or something.

Look at these boys, Savage is the more serious of the two while Rumble is the less serious goofball.

They're kinda like both Macaques kids and brothers, they're his kids cause he did make them but they annoy the shit out of him like younger brothers.

Macaque doesn't put a label on what they are to him since they're just his family, and family doesn't need a label. He'll tell People this, but honestly doesn't care what the hell people call them.

They're both his kids and younger siblings, as well as his clones

(I should just do a Hc post on tumbler one day cause I have to many and need to share them)

I know not headcanoning them as his kids is a unpopular hc, I just don't think Macaque would put a label on what they are to him since they're just his family.

I do love them being his kids hc and do make them his kids in any crossover au I make most of the time if I'm able to. And can definitely see them as his kids.

(I need to stop ranting about random stuff)

[muttsterion]

Recently got back in the saddle and started playing RDR2 again. Although I keep other horses with him I have such a soft spot for the big ol' raven black shire horse Hosea maybe or maybe not intended for Arthur to sell. I always keep mine and name him "Brutus" inspired by Hosea calling him a big brute and feels he just fits Arthur. A big reliable, rugged horse to carry the weight of the heavier loads just as Arthur carries the weight of caring for and being loyal to his gang to the very bitter end. Plus he's just a badass looking beast of a horse. XD

[pixelatedraindrops]

(≧///﹏ ///≦) 💦 💫

[yeyinde]

I love the notdog!soap fic you wrote its so creepy, and def up my fave alley for horror!!! <3 Just curious tho, did you have a specific breed of dog in your head that soap was imitating? I couldnt decide if i pictured him as big bully breed cause i thinks that fits soaps personality, or more like borzoi since they tend to be on the cusp of uncanny valley (I love them tho, they're lil skinnt snoots are cute)

thanks!! i do really like a bully for his personality. i think that really fits. maybe a Bully Kutta, too. Mongolian Mastiff. Beauceron, Kunming wolfdog, Chongqing, or a Belgian Sheepdog if you prefer a more biblically accurate stature for Soap in dog form lmao but a cattledog/guarddog would fit him nicely.

but in my head, it was a St Bernard lmao i love big, dopey dogs. and the idea of this gentle giant just watching you through a crack in your door with a flat, eerie look on his normally loveable, droopy face (and seeing his massive body jerk and twitch) is terrifying to me.

[frodo-y-los-michis]

I don't know if this has been said before but the *one* thing I like about the Spanish dub is that during both seasons we hear two pet names that Crowley has for Aziraphale, both translated from angel, obviously.

The first one is literally the word itself (ángel) which, as far as I know, has no other meaning or connotation. It's literally a descriptive word for the entity he is.

The thing is!! Crowley uses it all through season 1, except for one moment: when he's telling Azi to get in the car after the Anathema incident. What he says then and later in season 2 (every time, even in "he's just an angel... I know", when the word that should've been used is the descriptive one) can be translated to "little angel" (angelito), which IS an actual pet name only used between partners.

I love that it's only used in the second season, it's another way to tell the audience that some time has gone by and that they're a bit closer. All the touches and looks and everything show that, but also the way he refers to him.