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I 💗 Beauregard “Pop Pop” Lionett and her 12-pack abs

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When you read enough comics your brain starts having a "Yay my wife is here" reaction when you see Lois, too.

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As I’m sure no one who’s seen my recent reblogs is surprised to learn, I’ve been really wanting to crochet something Dungeon Meshi related. So behold Kensuke!

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once these 15 million different stressful situations resolve themselves I’m gonna be so normal again. I can be normal and not exhausted

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Fantastic 4 x F1: "Johnny's racing suit reveal! Tried to add some fun references to the sponsors ;)

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Long may he reign

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i wanted to try putting more of chimera falins design in that new falin dress figure-- ig having a dress with that much underboob wasnt classy enough for what they were going for LMAO

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I've gone fifteen years on this website without absorbing any information about homestuck and I'm not about to start now

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my biggest takeaway from the critical role campaign 4 news is actually that with brennan dming and matt at the table, there’s finally a chance for laura “pc romance sniper” bailey to hit matt with the romance beam and i think that’s beautiful

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People used to comment on web comics.

People used to comment on fanfiction.

People used to comment on fanart.

People used to comment on OCs.

I hate "content" culture.

I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.

People used to be excited about the art that other people created.

People used to want to share that excitement with creators.

I hate this future.

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I was looking at Leverage fic on AO3, read the tag "hand job" and thought "I don't remember that episode" in all seriousness before it hit me

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anyways the genius thing about the way john gaius has set up his empire - and the genius thing about the way TM has structured the books - is that there are multiple ways to view him. gideon the ninth starts by painting him as this unknowable and inscrutable god figure - the King Undying, the Kindly Prince of Death! - and through most of that book he is more of an emblem than anything. a symbol of dominicus, the patriarch of the nine houses, the divine being of whom the eighth house has a massive fucking portrait for some reason, and ultimately the key to what sets this version of the solar system apart from our own.

harrow the ninth strips him down. he’s not just a god anymore. he’s a cool god. he makes shitty jokes. he eats peanuts. he fucks his friends on the dining room table. he tells our main character that he sees her as a daughter figure. he shows emotion; he makes mistakes; there are things that he cannot do. if gideon the ninth introduces him as the wizard of oz’s huge and intimidating head, then harrow the ninth is john pulling back his own curtain to show the man behind it. see! he’s kind of pathetic! he’s Just Like You!

and both of these images of john ultimately serve the same purpose, because they both play to his favor. whether you fear him or you woobify him, you have fallen into the trap he has set for you. because nona shows us an even truer john, a john who doomed the world and fucked it all up, a john convinced he was in the right even as his friends killed themselves in front of him. if harrow pulls back the curtain, nona peels off his face.

it does make me wonder whether there is a secret, smaller, fourth john gaius that will be explored in alecto the ninth. alecto is the only being in the universe who really and truly knows him. she knows what he’s done and why he did it. she chose him for a reason. beneath the god and beneath the god pretending to be a man and beneath the man pretending to be a god - is there truly just a man? is there anything left?

tl;dr version: john gaius is like an onion. john gaius has layers too

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It's punk to be a good person 🦸🏻

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a better drawing of katara parka design

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Namari warmups!

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* vibrates excitedly * !!! There is not enough Time in a week to draw all the things! Have a redraw ♡

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