#and the final is a bit of a mess

[lit-in-thy-heart]

one fic completed for merwaincelot week :D

[aethersea]

I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.

it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"

plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.

anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.

[kathairoette]

A short story about a new collar.

Based on this AU

[artuurle]

(AU)

What if you died and something divine loved you so much it couldn't cope with that fact? What if they tried bringing you back but the result was wrong?

More doodles + rambles below:

Now What if what came back was just off. Looks at the divine without the memories that went back decades. It looks, behaves and works in a way just off enough in a way to make the god unable to look at it. it's not you. it's not. it can't be.

.... but what if what got pulled back was still you, but its- YOU'RE wrong and broken in ways you cant understand anymore.

The apocalypse draws closer and closer and you don't know why every day that passes you seem to be falling more and more apart too. The god is gone. You are alone.

....Anyway yeah i fucked up a perfectly normal Lovestory Au. i gave it anxiety is what i did. sorry for horrid typing in 2nd person trying to explain stuff im bad at explaining <3 i draw, not write for a reason lol.

[nenoname]

stanchurian candidate and stan's inferiority complex+needing external validation more than anything, i'll never hate you

[apricustar]

when it comes down to it, when you're really, truly in love, it's about stepping into their life and everything that comes with that--mess and all.

this is the undeniable truth laying the foundation of buddie--the undeniable truth they've woven throughout all the current canon couples. it's a ribbon that's threaded through both buck and eddie's respective list of failed relationships.

in a lot of ways, love is an unfolding—not an undoing, but an unfurling: the slow, achingly tender process of being known, and knowing in turn. it’s feeling safe enough to open yourself up entirely. to love and be loved is to be at rest, at peace; it is not a performance or something you perfect. it is allowing someone to witness your pain, your chaos, your history—and not turning away when they do the same.

take maddie and chimney: from the very beginning, he doesn’t flinch at the weight she carries—doesn’t try to fix it or rush it. he simply stays. he isn’t swayed by the shadow of doug—not even when the shadow becomes far more real. he meets her where she’s at, even when all she has to offer him is friendship. he never asks her to be more than she can give. he’s there—consistent, dependable, loving in his safety and presence. she takes a step, he is right there, taking his cues from her; from everything she says, and everything she doesn’t.

so much of bobby and athena’s love is rooted in mutual understanding, in the depth of the pasts they carry, but i think one of their most raw moments comes when we learn about athena’s ex-fiancé. we know athena to be a powerhouse: independent, fierce, and capable. she gets shit done on her own. she is her own partner. and we see bobby struggle a bit with fitting into that space—with finding his footing in a relationship where the other person doesn’t naturally lean on him. but bobby? bobby doesn’t try to force his way in. his love is in his patience; similar to chim, it’s in his dependable nature and consistent presence. he waits, he listens, he offers himself; and knowing athena as he does, he gives her what he knows she needs even when she herself can’t, or won’t, ask for it. when the case is finally solved, it’s bobby she goes to, whose arms she breaks down in. there’s is an intimacy born from quiet knowing and learning. love, here, is not about rescuing—it’s about witnessing. and staying.

karen and hen!!! again, so many different moments i could bring up. but the one i thought of while first thinking about this post was when we get the background of their relationship—specifically with denny. when hen tells karen she didn’t say no to eva, karen leaves; not because she doesn’t love hen, but because she isn’t ready for the gravity of that choice, for the responsibility that comes with it. and still, when all is said and done, she comes back. love isn’t linear. there isn’t always a clear-cut answer to things. karen returns, ready to choose all of hen, not just the easy parts. and in doing so, they build something solid. they co-parent. they raise denny. they navigate life together, as partners.

so, buddie. what’s wild is that this exact pattern—the showing up, the choosing, the stepping into the mess—it’s been baked in since day one. it is an integral facet of their entire relationship!!!!!!!! from the moment buck helped save the guy with a bomb in his leg during eddie’s first shift, they have each other’s backs. without fault, without expectation.

this is truly set in motion when buck gives carla to eddie. he bears witness to eddie’s problems with finding childcare and doesn’t hesitate to step in and offer a solution that is deeply personal to him. carla isn’t just a recommendation—she’s someone buck trusts, someone who supported him through his own mess. and he hands that over to eddie, because that’s what buck does. he sees a need and he fills it. he steps into the chaos, into the overwhelm, and with his actions says: you don’t have to do this alone.

and eddie accepts it!!! not just carla—but buck’s presence. his help. his heart. and from there, it builds on both sides. not in grand, sweeping gestures, but in steady, consistent moments of being there. of knowing each other’s silences. of anticipating needs. of showing up. of existing together in life’s most happy and sad and scary and terrible moments and knowing being together is better than doing any of this shit alone.

over the course of 7 seasons, they’ve built a life around one another without ever needing to define it. and isn’t that the most honest kind of love? the kind that just is, because you’ve chosen each other so fully, so completely, that no other reality makes sense?

this isn’t subtext. it’s not speculation. it’s the same emotional blueprint we’ve seen over and over in canon couples: vulnerability, mutual care, mess, and the willingness to stay anyway. and buck and eddie? they’re already living it!!!

and that’s why it feels inevitable. because the show has always told us that real love is about staying through the hard stuff, about choosing someone every single day, especially when it’s not easy. love is partnership—being there through it all and helping one another heal. it’s a willingness to hold space for each other’s vulnerability; a willingness to grow and learn together.

like thomas told buck back in season 2, a real love is not something you found, but something you made. buck and eddie have been making it all along.

[stealingpotatoes]

Oh my GOD I've fallen down the rabbit hole of your glorious skywalkers apart AU and quite apart from being ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED, I have to know if my boy Cal is around in it?!

yes but i never really developed it!! ok we all know i'm never gonna finish that comic script i'll just tell u guys -- in said script, after leia and anakin free Padme, they find out Luke was taken somewhere else which, after a family recon mission, they find is FORTRESS GODDAMN INQUISITORIUS! (which they assume is bc luke tried to use the force to stop the initial arrest, big mistake huge)

anyway all this to say cal's involvement was a tiny-mentioned cameo to explain why anakin knew how to infiltrate nur (the exact line i wrote in the never-finished-script was "we met this jedi survivor a few years back" + comments abt said survivor inflitrating nur 10 years ago yes it was that unsubtle) -- the idea was they had run into one another on a short mission in the past and then gone their separate ways!

[baladiumdrive]

My take on FFXVI's ending - a fancomic

Here's my sad final fantasy xvi short fancomic on which I spend more time than anticipated

[buwheal]

uhh more of that warmup page i do for breaks lol. The real question is how do i mimic this in the pixel askbox style..

[zylphiacrowley]

[a2zillustration]

(It's ok Yurgir will respawn in Avernus)

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[ilikecarsandlike4people]

They'll write about you on magazines✨

[humanmorph]

THE SHIT THAT YOU HATE / DON'T MAKE YOU SPECIAL

oh gucci

[quietbirdee]

donnie doodles because he's fun to draw c:

[nots0nu]

Finished this earlier. then I expected although it's a very lazy post..didn't want to do any animation or tweening..

[ruskatuskapuskasapuska]

It's here it's here it's here it's here it's here it's he-

Rambling and pics below (kinda nsfw)

Raaaaaaghhh my preorder is pre no moreeeeeee!! I've been waiting for this for almost a year now yippiiiiii (my wallet hasn't tho (+ i have the hospital towa preordered now as well, i hate this game /affectionate))

Tried taking some "cOoL PeRsPeCtiVe" photos (the figure was kind of a pain to set up tho, so I didn't try out different variants after assembling it once)

Here's a close-up and the face variants (I was kinda surprised that they did the right eye differently for these (especially since it barely shows from underneath the emo hair), not complaining tho (I'm glad to have a good clear ref of the eye))

My Hisoka noodle stopper fig finally has a toilet-buddy (my sense of humor is really nuanced and intellectual btw) ("this could be us, but I'm a shy pooper")

And here I just felt his left hand was looking a bit empty (I realized that the L is facing the wrong way only AFTER taking the picture but I think it's funnier this way (I'm too lazy to fix it))