#any explanation...

[v-the-anon]

*she just shifts a bit side to side as she sits…. wondering what to say now….. she wasn’t very good at small talk…*

*She leaned back... before standing up and just locking the chest...*

[mochasucculent]

Was looking at refs and since Viktor has two different leg braces I was wondering, do we think he wears them simultaneously?? The refs don't perfectly line up perspective-wise so it's hard to tell but parts of the one he wears during the Hexcore scenes look like they could maybe line up with the brace that he wears over his clothes, but also some parts really don't and look like they'd be super uncomfy. Also HOW does he take these on and off. Experts weigh in

[adelarsims]

SLEEPYHEAD FACE OVERLAY

once again i don't have energy for a proper post, but i was asked about this overlay a few times, and i fugured you just want an item and not a fancy post about it anyway, so here it is. all ages, all genders, doesn't cover your pretty freckles, grab it and run.

DOWNLOAD: SFS

big thanks to @sammi-xox, @soju-vibe and @nesurii for details

[bunnieswithknives]

As much as I love angst I think it would be funny if he just didnt give af

[egophiliac]

WAIT when did he get FANGS

[queenerdloser]

that mark (very recently!) was so fucking pissed about helena using the wrong name for gemma that he went to immediately do experimental brain surgery as a giant fuck you and then DIDN'T anticipate his innie self getting pissed when he got helly's name wrong really underlines how much mark doesn't think his innie loves helly and also doesn't consider his innie to actually be him at all.

[zillychu]

sometimes you black out and just an entire Persona 5 AU in one night

did I ever settle on a design for phantom thief! Siffrin? no. anyway,

NOT fully mirroring the P5 plot!! it's a bit different! a few were hit with the obligatory anime teenager beam

Siffrin gets arrested for allegedly attacking someone with a knife! this did not happen. while trying to help someone, he in fact got knifed in the face and lost an eye.

the adoption system is about to drop their ass since they're nearly an adult and no one's too happy about the aggravated assault. fate drops him at Nille's doorstep, who takes pity on him but insists she's only housing his ass for some extra cash. Bonnie acquires another felon a sibling!

showing up to school looking like shit (anxiety, no sleep), with an eyepatch and a natural silent intensity, no one really questions if he's stabbed someone. everyone's pretty sure he's killed someone actually.

Mira and Isa are charged with helping the new local mass murderer get settled, and they slowly start to uncover the real Siffrin hiding under all that apprehension. Odile, the school nurse, is all kinds of queer so she's got these kids' backs. as the story progresses, they each have their own character arc around biting back on authority (Isa gets the courage to transition, and Mira stops straightening her hair)

what about everyone else's outfits? that's the fun part! SIFFRIN IS DOING ALL THIS PHANTOM THIEF SHIT ALONE

well not totally alone. they've got a weird cat now. they can talk (Siffrin wishes they didn't) and has a concerning amount of knowledge about the metaverse for being an amnesiac! (this worries them too, they just try not to show it)

the OTHER fun part is that Siffrin is doing half this phantom thief stuff in the metaverse, half in the real world. good news is, he has the magic metaverse stuff irl! bad news is he has the magic metaverse stuff irl. yeah it helps keep him from getting caught, but law enforcement starts rising quickly to military arms when you start breaking physics while also being a theater kid about it.

the meat of the plot is surrounding Siffrin's struggle to fit two lives into one, and how his friends are WAY too perceptive to keep this up forever. but they have to, because they've only barely convinced their friends to accept them. if they knew he was some evil freaky magic terrorist (he's not, but like, who would believe him when he's doing seemingly evil freaky magic terrorist things!), they'd turn him in, they'd be scared, they'd HATE him!!

btw there is no rival for Siffrin. he's his own rival. lets give the "I'm terrified I'm manipulating my friends" twink actual mind alteration powers and see what happens :))

[leupagus]

Tuesday's House Budget Vote and what you may not have heard about

I'm reposting this from a reblog of a really great post about the work that Representatives Mullin and Pettersen did in voting against the GOP budget on February 25th, because I don't want to detract from that message.

Instead, I want to talk about the larger implications of H. Con. Res. 14 itself, and why the Democrats risked so much (in Mullin's and Pettersen's cases, actual harm) in order to show up for this vote.

The vote in question is starting the first of quite a few votes for the upcoming GOP budget; it's not a done deal by any means, this was just the vote to get it started, so to speak. But it was still a very, very, VERY important vote, because not only would failure be catastrophic, but so would a win that just barely squeaked by.

And this one squeaked like a fucking mouse in Murray's Cheese Shop.

Speaker Johnson has been waffling on putting this to a vote because there were several outspoken GOP members who talked a big game about opposing it. Usually this doesn't matter, since most bills get some bipartisanship, but at present the House is in GOP hands with only a three-member margin of error, with two seats vacant (note: those two vacancies are FL 1 and 6, which are holding their special elections on April 1 — lol — and which are EXTREMELY unlikely to flip but hey miracles happen! Donate or phonebank if you'd like!). And Democratic representatives have been voting in a bloc against...well pretty much everything the GOP's been pushing through since Trump took office. Not only that, but this budget is legit unpopular with a number of Republicans, so much so that Johnson pulled the vote at first on Tuesday because he knew it would fail if the GOP members who'd threatened to vote against it actually went through with it. What he needed was to either convince them all to fall in line, or resort to cheating.

So he did both!

He and Trump strongarmed all but one of the GOP holdouts into voting yes (Congressman Massie is in many ways a turd in a toilet, and his reasons for voting no were bad, but he did stick to his guns, I'll give him that). Reports of Trump actually screaming at one of the (female, naturally) GOP holdouts are...well, unsurprising, but that's how panicked they were about getting this bill started. Usually the Whip does this work, but Tom Emmer's been laughably bad at it and so they had to get Trump to actually do some work. Which is itself sort of astonishing. But even then, they weren't sure they could get it done.

Which leads us to part two of Johnson's plan: blatant cheating. During Pelosi's last session as Speaker, she allowed for proxy voting in light of COVID and, you know, the general state of things, but the second the GOP got back the gavel they nixed it right in the bud. This puts the Dems at a disadvantage right now because at least three of them are out for medical reasons — Mullin and Pettersen, as well as Congressman Ra��l Grijalva who's fighting cancer at present. (He was the only Democrat who couldn't get to the floor for this vote, fwiw, and anyone who insists he should've can suck my left tit.)

So Johnson adjourned the House for the evening, sending everyone home, but told the GOP members to stay and then tried to rush through the vote before the Dems realized what was happening. His hope was that enough Dems would be caught flat-footed/not see the recall notice/be asleep watching Taskmaster (whoops that was me) by the time they got the message to get back to the floor. That way he could lose the holdouts but still pass the budget onto the next phase.

However! While Nancy Pelosi no longer rules the Democratic caucus with her iron fist and fabulous coats, my man Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries learned quite a lot from her (and is pretty fucking genius himself). Not only did he and the other House leadership expect this kind of chicanery from Johnson, they had planned on it.

Because here's the thing: Mullin and Pettersen didn't get on a plane at the last minute on Tuesday; they'd gotten to DC on Monday, without telling anyone they were in town. They actually hid from the GOP members all day Tuesday in order to lull Johnson into thinking he had more of a margin than he did; if the GOP holdouts really had voted against the budget, then it would've failed. Which would have been a biiiiiiig problem for Johnson and Trump.

As it is, it's still a biiiiiiig problem for Johnson and Trump, because now they know just how razor-thin their margin is. More importantly, they also now know that the Dems will fuck with them just as much (if not more) as they will fuck with Dems. Congress (and the USA in general) has operated for years on the assumption that Democrats operate in good faith, while taking it for granted that of course the GOP ratfuck as much as humanly possible.

This moment is a chilling one for the GOP; they can't assume anymore that Dems will play fair or fight clean. Which seems like a very small thing in the larger picture right now, I know, and I also know that people would love for their Democratic representatives and senators to be more vocal and angry in public ways. I get that!

But this move on Tuesday night? Is actually going to have far bigger consequences than any meme or viral video or clever soundbite from a politician. Democrats are no longer playing by the rules that the GOP's ignored for years (if not decades); they're playing by the GOP's own rules, and they just might win.

[morganbritton132]

(Same universe as this, this, and this)

Wayne gets off work at 7:00AM. It takes fifteen minutes to drive home. Twenty if he stops to get breakfast, but he doesn’t today.

At 7:16, he walks through his front door to his nephew and… Steve.

Eddie is perched on the arm of the sofa. Steve is sitting in one of their kitchen chairs that’s been dragged into the middle of the living room. Both look simultaneously like they’ve just woken up and that they’ve been up all night.

Eddie says too casually, “Hey, Wayne.”

Wayne says, “Is that boy tied to a chair?”

“Oh yeah,” Eddie nods and then offers no further explanation. Steve, tied to a chair, also offers nothing more than an awkward smile.

So, very patently because he doesn’t think he even wants to know honestly, “Why?”

Eddie looks at Steve. Steve looks at Eddie. Eddie makes a quick gesture with his hands and Steve looks over at Wayne. He smiles, “Exposure therapy.”

Wayne shouldn’t have asked.

[peace-hunter]

I just realized. One thing that Optimus will certainly be educated on by the Primes in the Haunted AU is the various was One Can Kill A Quintesson! Leaving some Autobots confused at times when he's teaching them in return because 'This sounds pretty Specific...???'

It's slightly competitive on the Primes' part because yeah, the Deceptions do got the High Guard being good at killing Quintessons too but. They're the Real Experts. (Are they salty? Naaaah they're not. Much. Kinda.)

AKJSHDK YEAH YOU'RE SO RIGHT I LOVE THAT <333

they got so good at squishing the goddamn bugs and they're thrilled they can save Optimus the pain of figuring out their weak points through trial and error like they did. they're gonna make a pro out of their baby brother in no time.

and if they just so happen to know some of the Decepticons will be majorly pissed off at the fact OP is already on par with the best of what used to be the High Guard when he only has a fraction of their experience... well, happy coincidences, y'know?

and if they happen to teach Optimus how to crack open a Quintesson in just the right way to make some Decepticons see ghosts through him... that's between them and the people they're haunting :)

haunted au

[lemmydex]

you have posted a single evo line but let me tell you im SUPER excited to see what you do with the rest!!!! fully in love with the way you drew the pichu line. Did you base each mon on a specific species or just took rodent traits you liked and made your own interpretation?

First of all thank you :)

Second of all for the whole line i studied pika and jerboas, since I wanted these two to be the main basis for the line. Pikachu itselfwas not inspired by pikas (it was meant to be a little dango dessert before turning into an ambiguous mouse critter), but its too cute of a reference + the body type is very fun for pikachu.

I also just slowly did studies on pikachu itself. Not all pokemon will have this level of depth, but 1. i am much worse at mammals than other types of animal and 2. pikachu is the mascot. whether you like it or not, it has a very good design for that function that needs to be respected.

Raichu originates from me trying to apply jerboa anatomy while also making the line feel consistent, aka how to balance the original pika lagomorph anatomy with the body type of a very different rodent. you can tell me slowly developing its body type and also losing my mind.

pichu was made by me going "what if i made it an ugly newborn rodent". the only noteworth thing is me using the pika (animal) ear shape to immitate pichus original diagonal ears

[mearchy]

disney genderification of mandalorian helmet visors what if i killed you with one million hammers. why the fuck did they do that. the whole point of the gender neutral language and the ubiquitousness of the armor design is that a Mandalorian is a Mandalorian first and foremost and social roles/presentations are not based on sex/gender. they’ve got words for different genitals, probably for different biological processes. but the concept of a man being of different presentation than a woman, or a mother different than a father, a sister than a brother, is not present in the language or the culture. why would you then assert they design their helmets, the most important part of their armor, differently. in a way always associated with certain secondary sex characteristics. do you want me to kill you

[bishicat]

I think he actually really wanted to go :(

[bunnieswithknives]

Dev thinks the Minecraft movie trailer is epic, I think.

He likes nfts and ai art too smh

[jinglejails]

Faith in good

🎀 Below: English translation explanation 🎀

✂️ - - - Korean version under the cut - - - ✂️

[starleska]

hey. new Doctor Who fans (or old ones who haven't been here for a while) who are here because of Mr. Ring-A-Ding. do you know that he's not the only camp, dancing, all-powerful chaos-lord we have?

do you know that this one tormented the Doctor with a Spice Up Your Life dance sequence? 🌹🧸