#yes. that is their appeal.
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there are two reactions steely heads can have when they're told that steely dan is indeed boring, either
"you're wrong, shut up."
or
"yes."
both are valid and both are simultaneously true.
#everybody's talkin' at iz...#steely dan#i've had people tell me they're boring before and it's like#yes. that is their appeal.#why do you think so many boring white people like them (me)#seriously tho- i love them cuz they are just very simple and pleasant jazz rock but they have the most insane deep cut lyrics of all time
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The Allegiance of the Ascended Vampire and the New God of Magic
#bloodweave#baldur's gate 3#bg3#gale x astarion#astarion x gale#gale dekarios#astarion ancunin#yes this is about astarion helping gale defeat mystra and take her place with the crown in exchange for gale helping him with the ritual#the ‘they can make each other worse’ part of their relationship turned to the max#I enjoy them being reluctantly soft for each other more but from time to time I just think about how powerful they could get together#toxic evil boyfriends. take love and twist it up until it’s unrecognisable#I like to think that astarion approached gale with that offer after realising no one else in camp is gonna help him#and that he can use gales own hunger for power which backfired when astarion actually became emotionally invested in gale#and after gale kept his word despite everyone’s concerns astarion changed his plan from not fullfilling his end of the bargain to actually#helping gale kill mystra (mostly so that gale could belong to him and him alone. and letting him take the place as a god bc having a god#at you beck and call is definitely appealing. especially one as eager to please as gale)#anyway what I want to say with this is please please please let me kill mystra i don’t even care if the weave gets destroyed again
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Just a gal and her Stone Monkey
this image pose template from here
HC since SWK cane change his size, the same applies for his Azure Dome form. So he can be as big as a mountain, or the size of a big yaoguai, or normal sized (whatever normal sized is for the Stone Monkey)
Much later on:
Slight NSFW under the cut
#szynkART#guess you can say he did eventually get that kiss on the lips#and much more than that#no one. absolutely no one:#me: why yes thank you for asking they did do the deed while he was in his Azure Dome form you're welcome#will I eventually make more suggestive art of Stone Monkey and Oz?#Stay tuned for more!#later. maybe. I make no promises#unreal how attracted I was to the giant stone monkey during the giant battle#starting to see the appeal in king kong I guess#cepheus baskerville#black myth wukong#black myth wukong oc#sun wukong#sun wukong x oc#sun wukong x reader
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Imagining Zuko having a secret crush on Katara throughout book 3 is soo good and angsty and peak drama. What if you tenderly touched my face during a shared moment of vulnerability, and then I betrayed you anyway. What if afterwards I couldn't get you out of my head, so I tried kissing another girl in hopes that might fix it. What if I came back to you, but you hate me so much now that being around you feels like getting my heart ripped out, and I have no one to blame except myself. What if I fell in love with a girl who despises me.
#zutara#zuko#katara#atla#'how can you ship zutara when katara spent most of the show hating zuko?' that's part of the appeal you see#zutara has major 'doomed by zuko's own past mistakes' energy#haunted by the narrative because its always a 'what if' zuko wasn't so fucking dumb (affectionate)#yes katara does forgive him eventually#but until then the 'tormented male love interest' energy that zuko has is a whole romantic drama by itself
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Queer media really changed a lot since I was a kid. It used to be that your only options were to try to find a DVD of Rocky Horror, Rent, or The L Word and watch it without your parents seeing. Nowadays, however, you have your pick from a wide variety of shows that got canceled in their first or second season.
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I need more jock! regulus fics like he was also an athlete okay and he’s a black so he never does things in halves. I need regulus being buff or if not at the very least having the biggest sleeper build of all time. I need him to appear all calm and collected until his favourite quidditch team/football team is on then he goes crazy - he yells and screams and has zero filter. I need him to do workouts at home cause wdym he’s going to slack in the holidays he’s a black - just jock regulus guys
#did i crawl out of a ditch to post this#yes yes i did#WHY ARE THERE SO FEW JOCK REGULUS#like i get the appeal of him doing ballet/figure skating or whatever#but have you considered BOTH#he also does field hockey and idk like wrestling on the side and the flexibility makes him unstoppable#he’s a double threat#also he plays quidditch#!!!!#like he’s supposed to be the fastest#so ofc he works out cmon people#please i’m begging more jock regulus fics guys#regulus black#marauders#marauders era#marauders era funny#marauders era textpost#harry potter#jegulus#james potter#starchaser#sunseeker
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Graphic design is my passion
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So I wanted to make these kinda look like a 50’s ad for a department store or something like that…really tried to utilize how nice the character designs from Clone High really are 💕
#y’know I would move on from Clone High if the art style wasn’t so damn appealing#I love you Clone High art style and character design#also congrats to Tara for her Emmy!!!#joanfk#tubfucius#yeah I know they both broke up shut up I can draw what I want#actually I could have switched their partners but then the colors wouldn’t match#clone high#fanart#clone high fanart#clone high jfk#clone high confucius#clone high Joan#clone high Harriet#my art#roxi's art#upa style#UPA#yes the show is more upa REVIAL style but again I do what I want hehehehehe#retro#1950s#1950s style#listened to a lot of Muzak while drawing this#actually helped a lot#if you take a listen you’ll understand exactly what I mean haha
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Mostly Hiring manager, but HR manager and PR manager too
#elden ring#elden ring varre#white mask varre#varre#white faced varre#tarnished#tarnished oc#varre x tarnished#tw; blood#suggestive#no jokes or humor this time sorry#just Varre being Varre#I know I usually stick to humor stuff but this clawed through my brain like an eldritch horror#I actually hate 5/11 Varre faces I drew here but I did my best#sometimes homeboy is gonna look like a lil gremlin and there’s nothing I can do about it#but also those other 6 /11 faces are the best I’ve ever done so I’ll take it#never been more clear to me how I unconsciously push myself to do harder things#like we got crazy hand angles with defined knuckles and fingernails#we got the upward angle face that doesn’t look like shit#we got form fitting lighting that is passable#semi accurate fabric physics#did I not give a fuck about the BG#yes#but I’m here for Varre sex appeal not rendering bricks#also misericorde magically changes scale throughout the whole comic#lmao oops#most detailed environmental lighting I’ve done too#Christ the lengths I go to for deranged fictional men#at the very least I feel like the dialogue isn’t ooc#me fighting for my life to make sure Varre looks like the same damn character between each panel
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I just read a pilot for a TV show that two incredible people are trying to get made and HOO HOO! OH HOH! I can't tell you who either of them are or what the show is about but DAMN! I hope this gets made! I hope I get to be in it! HAHA, EXCITING! SICK, EVEN!
#one of the cool things about being in the acting industry is getting to see all the cool stuff that people *want* to make#before it gets all its edges sanded off in development to make it more commercially appealing#I get to read some raw uncut scripts#And be like OOOOOO oh my gosh imagine if this actually got MADE#before all the cis gatekeepers say “Hm but does the trans villain need to be quite so aggressively trans? Is this alienating people?”#YES IT IS AND IT RULES
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It's so fascinating how certain character ships have such charged chemistry off the bat you know they smash nasty, and then there are others that are just inherently nonsexual, like they have Barbie genitalia or something.
#yes poolverine belongs to the former#dunno about the latter#that tends to interest me less#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool & wolverine#deadpool 3#deadpool#deadpool x wolverine#poolverine#logan howlett#wade wilson#wolverine#actually I can think of the latter#tom holland's Spiderman is like white bread to me#that actor holds no appeal or flavor#im sorry#but it is the truth
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People that are like "oh i didn't like Donna Noble in runaway bride but once her season started i changed my mind" are bastards fools and COWARDS. she's SO fucking iconic in runaway bride. Yelling at the doctor so hard he imprints on her. being too hungover to notice cybermen. Yelling at the doctor so hard SHE imprints on HIM. Being bombarded by questions she can't answer by breaking down into sobs and then giving the Doctor a little wink bc they are IN CAHOOTS!! Jumping in front of the doctor saying "don't you hurt him" after only knowing him for a few hours. Also being like "something is deeply wrong with you" and knowing EXACTLY what his fucking problem is after knowing him for less than a day. Seeing the creation of Earth and cracking a little joke. She is Queen she is Mother she is Every Moment!!!
#donna noble#tennant doctor#doctor who#people are like “she kind of sucks and is a bit shitty and self absorbed in runaway bride” YES THAT'S PART OF THE APPEAL#I LOVE HER IN NO SMALL PART BECAUSE SHE KIND OF SUCKS!!!! GOD!!!
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I think the other reason I don't really get into ships as portrayed by fandom culture is that it seems like the mindset is more like. "I want these characters to be in a Romantic Relationship(TM)" instead of "I want these characters' relationship to be romantic"
What I mean here is that, so often I see pairings enacting romance tropes to the point of heavily altering or downright replacing their original dynamic - as if the people behind it only understand romance as a series of checklists to tick off. Couples like to kiss and sleep in the same bed and flirt with each other, so it doesn't matter who the characters are, if they're a couple then naturally they'll do those things, right??
And that's where the whole thing starts to lose me, because I would assume that the appeal of shipping characters is, y'know... the characters? Rather than just, the idea of a couple? If I'm thinking about how it'd be cool for them to be in love, my first thought is always "so how would they show it," because just like everything else about a person, the answer is going to be different on a case-by-case basis.
Maybe the characters involved aren't really into kissing, but they like arranging date activities. Maybe they aren't committed to the structure of dating at all, and just want to be around each other whenever they can. And even if they are the types to like doing traditionally romantic things, that doesn't suddenly erase whatever else they had going on before they started adding that on top of it.
I'm not saying that the more typical romance tropes and activities are bad, just that they're applied kind of excessively, regardless of whether or not they actually work for the characters involved. I want to see my favorite characters having relationships that are true to who they are, not what the stock depiction of a couple says they should be.
#amatonormativity#fandom#shipping#media discussion#fandom culture#analysis#meta#This would be easier to illustrate with examples but I don't wanna sound mean by targeting specific ones right out the gate#And yes people are just having fun with their metaphorical dolls and I respect that#But also. they get to find other people playing with their dolls in the same way that appeals to them all the time#I gotta play all by myself over here with how difficult it is to find the things I want
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Okay so I'm like 80 episodes into Yugioh and my biggest takeaway as of right now has been people are sleeping on Mai Valentine, she's probably the most interesting character in the show so far. My second biggest takeaway is that if Seto Kaiba existed in real life he would be the kind of person who watches Yugioh and makes Limp Bizkit AMVs of Seto Kaiba.
#yugioh#yu gi oh#ygo#and yes i'm watching the dub#i'm a digimon kid#the terrible localization is like half the appeal to me
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A pair of birds of prey for days 15 and 16 of @hermitadaymay !!! Definitely not a day and a half (?) late
#my art#Hermitaday#hermitadaymay#hermitadaymay2024#hermit-a-day may#Hermit-a-day may 2024#Hermitcraft#hermitcraft fanart#falsesymmetry#falsesymmetry fanart#welsknight#welsknight gaming#welsknight fanart#WHY DID I DECIDE TO DRAW THE STUPIDEST POSE FOR FALSE AND ARMOR FOR WELS AND WINGS FOR THEM BOTH ALL IN ONE DRAWING…#These cunts have six total hours tracked on them… I didn’t even do a background because they took so long…#and thats not even counting looking for armor and feather references like this took two straight days#I’m very proud of it though#anyways they’re NOT related I was in the middle of drawing and realized they looked uncannily alike. So I made the wise decision to give-#-Wels the same mole I give False and the same little lower lash because they’re nose and eye shapes already matched#they’re not siblings (shown by one of them not even being an actual raptor bird) but they do look uncannily similar#and I’ve decided now that my False and Wels like to just lie to people and say they’re twins for fun.#They both have fucked up doppelgängers they would find it funny.#anyways False is a red tailed hawk (specifically a dark morph)#and Wels is a peregrine falcon#armor is so hard to draw guys never draw armor it SUCKS. I did get to have Laois Dunmeshi Touden on my screen for reference the whole time-#-I was drawing Wels though so it’s not all bad#still baffled I draw the human body part of that pose for false so easily though. Fully believe I was possessed by one of the Greek muses-#-or something because I do not know enough about anatomy to have that shit memorized but it looked normal when I looked at it so. Shrugs#anyways YES i will get to Etho tomorrow… I may just draw him WITH Joe because I wanna draw him but I don’t wanna think about posing two-#-difference pieces… though then I’d have to pose them together… but the appeal of putting a Kakashi cosplayer and a muppet next to each-
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Freaks (affectionate)
#I got out of bed to make this#and I SPECIFICALLY picked the monster hunting pic#so y'all better appreciate it#anyways half the appeal of the ship is they match each other's freak#anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar#this was what was wrong with s4 there was no one to be Nancy's Yes-Man#like they still were a little crazy but 2k miles apart#also love Jonathan here like u heard her we're going monster hunting now sell her the bear trap#nancy's emergency credit card came in clutch#jancy#jonathan byers#stranger things#nancy wheeler#st textposts
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i like labru more than kabumisu bc i want to see kabru get worse more than i want to see mithrun get better
#no hate to mithrun really#its just so much funnier#also you dont need to fall in love to find new desires or to just get better in general#like i get the appeal of that fr but lets not lean TOO far into 'a relationship will fix everything'#labru is just infinitely more fun to me#theres so much more room for them to interesting things to me#like yes falling in love but also building a kingdom from the ground up? building trust in each other? learning from each other?#idk its more fun to me that kabumisu#delicious in dungeon#dunmeshi#labru#kabumisu
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