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[mimikinyuu]

i cant give him funny face penalty when his face is cloth and thread…

(ooc: comm is from @realpokemon !!!! please commission him she was an absolute delight to work with)

[markscherz]

I put it to you that Scaphiophryne marmorata is peak frog.

Why?

Well first, it's pretty round, which is key.

Now get a load of those fingers.

Big, expanded discs at the end, ideal for climbing.

But what's happening back there with those toes? No discs there. Those are good for walking and hopping around on the ground.

Now, let's gently turn them over

First, excellent tum, 17 out of 10, no notes.

But what's that at the base of the foot? Those big projections? Yep, those are spades. This climbing, hopping frog is an excellent digger!

I like to think of these Scaphiophryne as all-terrain frogs. They're basically good at everything. They defy our categorical labels of 'arboreal', 'terrestrial', or 'fossorial', and say 'por qué no los tres?'—but in Malagasy, so 'nahoana no tsy izy telo?'

[rongzhi]

Shushu loveyou~

English added by me :)

[lenoue]

wincest fuck like dogs in heat, fingers cuffing wrists tight, arms squeezing windpipes, bruises on the back of thighs, high pitched moans edging on screams

samdean groom each other like bonded cats, stick together without personal space, steal soft kisses and go to sleep feeling one another's hearts beating

i hope that makes sense

[youhavethesun]

I am so suspicious of you if your favourite buffy character is not buffy. like wdym. she’s literally everything what more could you want from her

[cockworkangels]

tried really hard to capture some of his whimsy

[alienssstufff]

Does Scar pose for the vod thumbnails? These are so charming and he’s so expressive 🥰

[nadiajustbe]

I think the most beautiful thing about writing of Howl and Sophie's pair is that they are written as people before being written as a pair. Let me explain this very quick.

The thing about book Sophie and Howl is that they are not really fully fitting into any "classic" romantic trope. They are not exactly enemies to lovers, as their angry chats are definitely cannot be considered a life or death battle, they are not rivals to lovers because the only aspect of rivalry between them is the cleaningness of Howl's room. They are not friends to lovers, as their relationship just doesn't fit into "friendship" structure at the very start, nor they are roomates (yes, they live in the same house but that's not the core aspect of their relationships). Of course, you can go on and fit the name of the trope you found specifically for them, but that's the thing.

They simply cannot be processed through a pairings lenses only, in order to understand how they act in relationship you need to analyse them separately, as a characters first of all. Cause that's what the book itself does!

Sure, it doesn't have a whole lot of romance instead, but it gives us time to learn and observe the life of incredibly written, alive characters, understand them as personalities first of all, while slowly immersing the dynamic between two characters (in this case, Howl and Sophie) into work. They are written as personalities, both being fully separated and interviewing, changing eachother's point of view.

It's difficult to find a trope for them. They're are not a trope. They are Howl and Sophie, and that's probably the only way their dynamic can be properly described. Just as real people, they are not really fitting into the boxes of linial character progression, but go way deeper into being complex, filled with little differences and moments only people with their personality can have in romantic (or any different) kind of interaction. They're imperfect, and silly, and multidimensional and the reader knows them well enough to imagine them interacting way beyond of what the book says to them.

They are being people before being a ship, a pair of a trope — and that's why they work so perfectly charming in the end.

Howl and Sophie are unique in being themselves.

[ichijokaoru]

I haven't done digital art much recently, but it's kuuga's 25th which is cause for celebratory goichi! 💖

kuuga is my favourite show ever and I can't even begin to express how much it means to me... the anniversary feels especially precious as I was born on the very same day that it premiered to the year, so we turn 25 together 💕

the watermark of @magentameows refers to my art sideblog ☺️👍

[ranticore]

among worldbuildingy art/writing spaces what I'd most like to see more of is the phil pullman school of core concepts which exist only to serve a story - the purpose of a daemon in his dark materials is very obviously a story device and we never need to know how it works because it doesn't have to make sense and he certainly didn't bother explaining it. some things are just there to facilitate a story's existence

[purple-confusion]

Early morning downtime

Commissioned by @strange-thing-mystifying :)

In which they just have a nice calm quiet time for once (never in canon)

[lostsyren]

The way he bridges the distance as soon as he picks up she’s feeling worried, following her eyes when she looks away.

He tries to make her feel better.

You’d think he’d be angry. Maybe skeptical. Or aggravated. He’d just revealed his big plan– shouldn’t she be happy? Excited? Why is she not impressed?

But no. He reaches out to her. He holds her. He includes her.

“We’re gonna make��both of us…this is our future…”

And even though he’s the one consoling her in the scene, she finds a way to make him feel better. She’s rubbing his back, almost preemptively assuaging him for her betrayal.

They’re both inadvertently trying to make up for their mistakes in this relationship.

Rafe cast her out. He othered her as a pogue, a hookup, a girl unable to meet his standards. And here he is fixing that by showing her he’s serious about them.

Sofia sold him out. She stabbed him in the back, and hurt his trust. And here she is stroking his back trying to comfort him while he thinks he’s comforting her.

It’s all so devastating. Sofia knows she can stop it before it all goes to shit. But she’s passive, arrested in the moment. Rafe is unaware. He’s trying to fix it but he doesn’t know the problem. He’s dynamic but detached from the reality of the situation

They’re both ruined by their character flaws– Sofia hindered by her passivity and inability to react. And Rafe hindered by his egotism and inability to see past his own worldview.

Maybe if Sofia fessed up now, she could’ve stopped Rafe from signing on with Groff and stymied their demise. Maybe if Rafe truly saw why she was upset, he could’ve seen past the shiny prospect of a future he envisioned, never bothering once to include Sofia in that ideation, and gotten to the crux of their issues.

But no. Instead Sofia opts to just rub his back, wordlessly signalling her guilt– rooted in stagnation. And Rafe just resumes with his plan, ignoring her qualms– drunk on his own concocted vision.

[isuggestforcefem]

https://www.tumblr.com/isuggestforcefem/782383791093301248?source=share

What about intersex people? Their relationship with their agab can be a lot more complicated.

In some cases, intersex people start developing traits opposite of their agab, usually when they hit puberty. If they took steps towards preventing their body into developing into something they don't want, wouldn't that be the same as transitioning?

In other cases, intersex people might have different genitalia from what they're expected to have. I'm not aware of how gender is assigned in these cases, but if they tried to align the mismatched pieces of themselves with their agab, would they still be cis? Even if they started taking hormones or got surgeries to become who they wanted to be?

They'll often face the same experiences and obstacles as trans people, regardless of whether they align with their agab or something else. Especially in the case of intersex people, who don't align with the sex "binary," their agab is often just a word on a document to try and categorize them in a system that doesn't make the effort to acknowledge their existence.

Shouldn't we let them decide whether or not they were transitioning, rather than defining them as "not really trans" for trying to be their agab? Shouldn't their own experiences and feelings about what they went through give them the validation to define themselves?

Well you see generally if you take steps to align yourself with your assigned gender you’re probably cis.

[ineffabildaddy]

for the love of god stop calling david tennant a twink. he's a 53 year-old man!! even if he was gay he would be so far off that category now

tall and thin does not magically equal twink. call him a hot noodle or something instead idk lol

[avpdculture]

avpd culture is if i talk to you sometimes, you matter to me. if i still have not abandoned you, despite all my ups and downs, you matter to me. if i interact with you, no matter how rarely, no matter how clumsily, i care about you. if i'm still here, for you to see and know me, even if a little, you're very important to me. and i want you to know that

~

[casscainmainly]

Hi

i wanted to ask, in canon, cass is able to speak normally and fluently but struggles with writing and reading and dyslexia right?

From what i've read that seems to be true, but i haven't read modern cass stuff besides bg 2024 where she seems to be able to read and write aswell

She does indeed have a language disability! From Batgirl (2000) #67:

Important part is that while she does struggle to read and write (more than speaking), Babs points out the she "can learn". We know from Gabrych's earlier issue (#58) that Cass has advanced significantly at this point in her reading skills:

It's still a struggle, but I think at this point her skills are speaking > reading > writing (and speaking is not completely fluent). Another thing we know from Batgirl (2008) is that Cass attended ESL lessons and got tutoring from Alfred. Beechen was trying to explain evil!Cass though, so whether you accept this explanation for her sudden fluent English is up to you. I think this is a copout since we didn't see this progression, and it's immediately followed by N52 anyway. But to answer your question about modern!Cass, honestly it's all over the place. We can start with Tynion's Detective Comics (2016), which remains the modern run that focuses most on her disability. Basil's Shakespeare lessons improve Cass' language ability, to the point where Babs says:

This is markedly different from pre-52, in that Cass seems to be a better reader than a speaker. So modern!Cass is reading > speaking > writing in terms of skill. This is supported by Batgirls (2022), where Cass is seen to be a huge bookworm and reads Steph's letter in #14. I think Batgirls overshoots this a bit because we don't see her struggle with reading at all, erasing her disability to an extent - this is my qualm with the current Birds of Prey run as well in regards to Cass' dialogue. Modern comics are hit or miss in terms of how they handle, or if they even address, Cass' disability.

Writing is the field least explored both pre- and post-52. We know from Batgirl (2000) #2 that Cass does practice writing, or at least she did at one point. As far as I recall we don't see her write again? Cass can type - as far back as Batgirl (2000) #30, we see that she can use a keyboard. We also know from TT's Nightwing that there's a family group chat, though Cass mostly sends emojis. Typing with a keyboard reduces the cognitive load of making sentences, so it's likely Cass is a more confident typer than she is a handwriter.

In general, modern comics have focused most on the speech aspect - Tynion's 'Tec, Batman and the Outsiders (2019), Batgirls '22, Batgirl '24, and Mariko Tamaki's story in Festival of Superheroes generally all focus on speaking over reading/writing (in contrast to Batgirl (2000) which touched on all three areas). The preview of Batgirl #7, though, has Cass listening to an audiobook as she reads, so Brombal is highlighting Cass' reading disability! Even if it's not all that visible in Cass' modern appearances, her disability is still a huge part of her character!!!

If you want a fairly in-depth look at the history of Cass' disability (until 2023), check out @dailycass-cain's post!