#commitment anon

[my-castles-crumbling]

Anon Advice Asks - July 12

commitment anon, angel anon, behaving nonbinary anon (new), reverberating anon (new), she/they anon (new)

Commitment anon

Everything is resolved with D & K. K has fully acknowledged that he had overreacted and apologized (ooc, but healthy!!!) and D apologized for springing the confession on him when it was a horrible time to and for trying to force him to talk. which was amazing. I'm so very happy for them.

Or I think I am. Still haven't dealt with the whole feelings thing. I am going to therapy now, and it's been sorta helping. We're focusing on my anger management, which is a big problem for me. But idk. Nothing has changed on this. I feel like my emotions or whatever they are at this point are just imposters. Idk how to explain it. It's like, I just use them as a front for whatever I'm actually feeling, which tends to be absolutely nothing or anger. Or that they are just fake in gen. I feel a whole ton of anger. I keep thinking therapy will help, but maybe it won't. Maybe I'll stay like this.

Uhh. Thanks for all your help. Dunno what to say now, but you are awesome at this. Thanks again.

Hi! <3

I'm so glad things are resolved! and I'm so glad to hear you're in therapy Remember that therapy can take time to work, and it's not a straightforward process. But it's SO worth it, and I promise you that you'll look back after a while and see real progress <3 I'm so proud of you for working on your emotions and your anger!

Sending love!

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angel anon

Hey! It's angel anon again (the one w the bullying and the death threats and all that shit)

Well. I graduated last week, with a 1.2 average (1 is the best grade u can get) and i still haven't really fathomed the fact that i will just. never be back there with those people.

But I'm doing better, and I'll continue to get better. I'm going to a new, rlly cool school after summer and I'm rlly excited!

So thanks for helping me w all this i guess? And i hope you have a lovely day!

Hi!

wow it sounds like you got amazing grades! Congratulations on graduating, that sounds like a huge relief as well as a great accomplishment! I'm so excited for you about your new school!

If you think about it, lmk how it goes in the fall, I'm wishing you luck! <3

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behaving nonbinary anon

How do I know if I'm non-binary? I know I have always rejected stereotypes about women and been laughed at for it, but I'm sort of not sure if non-binary is the right word for what I feel. I don't want to appropriate this identity from the people who look and behave more non-binary than me, if that makes sense.

Hi!

Okay so on the one hand, remember that rejecting gender norms doesn't necessarily make you nonbinary. You can FEEL like a girl, but just not want to meet the stereotypes.

On the other hand, there's not one correct way to be nonbinary! There's not any correct behaviors or look!

It's more about how you FEEL. Do you feel like a girl? Do you want to be a girl? If not, then it might be that you better identify with some other gender!

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reverberating anon

hi cas :))))

i have some pretty bad intrusive thoughts generally. they just sort of seep into my mind and it’s like i can hear them reverberating around my head. (redacted)

Hi!

Okay so I'm not a professional in any way but I've been diagnosed with OCD and these sound similar to how I felt before I was treated. remember that intrusive thoughts aren't YOU. They don't reflect your wants, desires, morals, or personality. But if they're bad enough that they're affecting your life or causing you stress, then it could be a good idea to seek out help from a professional. It SUCKS to deal with these thoughts all the time and can be super distressing. But take it from me, it's not you, and it can be treated <3

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she/they anon

Sad because I’ve been using she/they pronouns on myself and I don’t see myself as a girl but I can’t tell anybody because they wouldn’t get it so I don’t care that they see me as a girl because I don’t look like anything different but oh my god I would love if SOMEBODY just saw me and was like oh cool that’s a person over there

I'm so sorry <3 I can totally relate to this and it sucks so much. I don't know if it helps, but I see you as a person, and there will be people out there who you meet who will respect your pronouns and see you like you want to be seen- for who you are <3

[shouyuus]

adding onto the vi sleeps shirtless req only now it's college roommatevi! who wakes up to you pounding at her door at fuck-crack of dawn (or midday, if she went out the night before) and who stumbles out of bed, still mostly asleep and wearing only a ratty pair of boxers, to shutyouup answer

(you weren't made for blood pressures this high, and it's only like 8 AM)

xx vi sleeps shirtless truther

18+, no sex, just a nip-mention

JUST. college roommate!vi answering the door, squinty-eyed, her hair an absolute menace, sticking up in every direction, you standing there, wanting to be pissed at her bc its like... the 5th time she's used your stainless steel pot without cleaning it correctly and just leaving it in the sink but -- holy shit -- she's in a pair of old, bright red, calvin klein boxer briefs and nothing else, grumbling at you, the sunrise peaking over her shoulder, casting her in this golden, ethereal glow like --

"what, cupcake?" and her voice is gravely with sleep but you really can't focus on anything else bc... did you even know her nipples were pieced? you might've had an inkling bc she has some strange aversion to ever wearing proper bras so you've kinda maybe noticed the shape of them through all her tanktops and band tee's but -- now they're just right there --

"uh -- uhm --" you stutter, your brain short-circuiting way harder than you'd imagined, the dirty pot still in your hand, though it's held slack at your side bc really -- what the fuck are you supposed to say to this?

vi quirks an eyebrow, clearly confused and more than a little annoyed. she glances down at her chest, rolling her eyes. on any other day, she might've teased you, but she'd had a really late night last night and its one of the few days she doesn't have morning practice so she really doesn't appreciate you cutting into her sleep.

"c'mon princess, it's not like you haven't got a pair yourself," she says, shifting her weight from one leg to another, making her tits bounce slightly. you jerk your eyes away, cheeks going so hot you think you might get 3rd degree burns.

"just --" you cast your eyes up towards... anywhere but vi's tits, "the -- do you --" you sputter, grasping for a coherent sentence. but for some stupid reason, the only thing you can come up with is "i was... gonna make breakfast. d-did you want anything?"

vi stares, half-incredulous, half-confused.

"breakfast?" she glances at the large alarm clock sitting atop her half-opened drawers. it blinks a steady 7:48AM at her in dull red LED lights.

"nevermind -- i -- it was stupid. sorry for waking you --" you turn on your heels, feeling the room closing in around you, your fingers shaking around the pot handle.

"jesus, princess -- unless you're offering up yourself on a silver platter, don't ever wake me up at 7am again for fuckin' breakfast --"

vi's door clicks closed but you're left peering over your shoulder, eyes wide as dinner plates. because did she say what you think she did?

after a few solid seconds on blinking at her closed door, you scurry away to the kitchen to soak the stainless steel with bar keeper's friend, frowning down at the foamy mess in the kitchen sink, doing everything you can not to think about what it might look like if you did offer yourself to vi for breakfast.

you sigh, blowing a strand of hair from your face, frowning down at the stainless steel pot.

maybe next time.

[loudclan-clangen]

So, here is the pitch:

AU where Siltsplash finds out they are pregnant around the same moon that Eklutna gives birth to the boys. (Rather than an AU where Owl doesn’t cheat because then we wouldn’t have Song, Dance, or Dash and that won’t do)

It makes the betrayal even worse because it’s even more pointless since they were going to give Owl an heir.

Anyway, meet Spindlekit

She will eventually go blind I imagine, but if Owlstar suggest she retire she tells him that he should retire for being old lmao.

Warrior name is open to suggestion

I love her and I’m so mad that she doesn’t exist now.

The fact that Song doesn’t have a little sister is a CRIME. This is what he was born to do.

Not only am I okay with it, I would love to see it!

You are so right, here's a flashback that was cut for time from Moon 28:

Erminepaw has had a crush on Songpaw since they were in the nursery together, he just never called attention to it. He honestly probably doesn't even register that it is a crush, he's doing that thing that kids do where they're like this is my best friend, of course I want to marry him that's how everyone feels about their best friend. Nothing out of the ordinary here! Just my best friend that I must be holding hands with at all times for best friend reasons!

Yes! This is Fox----, he has been causing problems since the literal day he was born. You've met both of his parents, but I would be a little bit surprised if you guessed them correctly. Parental drama is kinda part of his whole deal. He's one of the first 3rd generation cats born in Loudclan.

I have SO much advice, about the images, the recommended size is 1280 x 1920 pixels, that's always a little too short for my panels, so I try to aim for 1280 x 2000 - 3000. It still deteriorates them a little bit, but people can always click on them for better quality. Bigger text and variation in values also help for readability regardless of size. (value meaning how light or dark a color is. if you want something to stand out it's more important to change the value than it is to change the hue generally speaking.) As for grabbing attention, I would recommend making sure that the image you're trying to show is visible above the cut off for longer posts, posts with only text visible are a lot less likely to get interaction. That being said, the most important thing for the longevity of your blog is making sure that it's something you are doing for yourself. There's nothing wrong with liking when your posts get attention, but it's not likely to happen for a long while (I think moon 5 was the first time I got double digit likes which was three months after I started.) I appreciate all of the love that Loudclan gets now, but if I had started with that as the goal I never would have been able to reach the point of it happening. (I actually started posting Loudclan with the intention of proving to myself once and for all that posting art was not a viable endeavor for me, so... I'll consider that a successful failure!)

You CANNOT DO THIS to me anon- "the canadian city"- YOU MEAN JUNEAU? YOU MEAN THE CAPITAL OF ALASKA JUNEAU?!?! JUNEAU?!?! CANADIAN?!?! When I catch you anon- anon when I catch you-

Come here, anon. I just want to talk. I just want to have a word with you.

[accidentcache]

Touya would def be down to arson with you on your period. It makes him feel better

it keeps him out of the dog house for saying stupid shit

[ysaefinn]

hi vale !! i’ve been busy with work and didn’t want to clog your inbox more than it already is but i cannot stop thinking about mommy!sugu who works as a nurse,.

like you think regular mommy!sugu is a smother-holic? oh boy. he’s got nothing on nurse mommy!sugu. TUHHH and he sosososo totally scoops you up in his arms after a rough shift and asks how his favorite little patient is doing UGH i need him!!

-🍎

Contans: a sprinkle of mommy kink and really really light infantilization, some sugaslightinguru, very very mildly kinky

APPLENON!!! HELLO HI!!!!!!! how have you been honey omfg i missed you so 😭😭 NEVER SHY AWAY FROM FLOODING THE INBOX!!!!!!!!! My only concern is the wait really TAT i love the asks and the anons and mommy sugu believers you are all very very dear to my heart TELL ME EVERYTHING!!!!!

ISGJSGDJDHDJHDJD HOLYYYY FUCXKIINGGGG FUUUUCCKKJJJJKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK actually pulling my hair out rn TATARTATATATATTATA MATERNAL CARETAKER MAN PUT IN A CARETAKER POSITION OMFGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!! God he really WAS MADE to be a nurse huh TvT not really a fan of that one sugurse panel bcuz that wasn't even my husband and we're all exploding kenjaku with our brains rn.

While I'm a believer that he's attentive and caring to each and every one of his patients (womb-controlled man) you still manage to stand out to him and he's by your side immediately. Gently cooing at you, holding your hand on the way to your room, promising to be right back so you wouldn't be scared. You're just so tired and frail and shaken up he can't help but want to keep you forever TAT

Look........you know how i feel about evil care taker who purposefully sabotages you to swoop in and scoop you up in his arms, not my favorite, not crazy about it FAKE CARETAKER i say.......but for THIS SUGURU and only for him, ill let it slide, I'll allow it but with a lot of parental control.....meaning he just ghaslights you every now and then into being good and staying put in the clinic "oh sweet thing...your blood pressure is awfully high today" "honey you're burning up, lets run some tests" "Feeling dizzy? You poor thing, I'll check you right away and put you to sleep after, olay?" and well.....his big fat degree speaks for itself, are you really going to argue with the professional? And let's be honest he CAN pull strings to keep you if he really wanted to... justification isn't needed.

It's not that he wants you to be sick all the time, but desperately needs to be completely responsible for your wellbeing and nurse you back to health each time you come down with a minor cold, he wants you to be healthy bcuz of HIM

I imagine this dynamic would be pretty undetermined, he DEFINITELY wants to be your main caregiver till the end of time. But it does work in his favor with how unsure you are of the whole thing, he's very caring and touchy, but he smiles at all of his patients and never neglects any of them!!!!! You never really heard him use any petnames for anyone else before tho, and sure he swapped shifts with his coworkers many times and eventually made it so that he could be assigned to you only. But that's just bcuz he's worried about you in particular!!!! You have greatly underestimated how long you'd be stuck here, There seems to be something wrong with you every so often. Well good thing you have him at least, the rest of the staff don't even look your way....how odd.

It doesn't take him much time to be all over you. It starts off with the typical "come here let me warm you up, its very cold tonight" and before you know it you're being scooped up bridal style to cuddle on his lap and ask "how his favorite baby's feeling today":ccccccccc APPLENON!!!!!! GET HIM AWAY FROM MEEEEEE, he starts lulling you to sleep in his arms when you express how lonely you get at night from being so isolated, its not like it came out of nowhere either, he'd always hold you close when drawing your blood and let you squeeze him as hard as you'd like, sometimes even pushing your head into his chest during a particularly painful procedure. It goes from "nurse" to "geto" to "suguru" to........."mommy"?? It was only a joke until it wasn't, when you sleepily whisper it to him in his arms he's right there to feed more into your attachment, telling you that he'll always be here for you, to take care of you properly, that when you finally get discharged he'll still still visit you, that he'll even scoop you up and bring you to his home instead where he could keep and tend to you forever <333

[stillwatervoid]

i want to write my first fic for invincible but there’s noooo braincells happening up here, so i just wanted to ask, any random headcanons u have abt the invincible universe? maybe it’ll jumpstart smth in my empty noggin </3

Hey love, I don’t really have headcanons for the entire Invincible universe, but I do have a few about Viltrumites, which involve Mark too—though fair warning, none of them are exactly SFW, so I don’t know if you wanna dive into those 🤧

For example, Viltrumites… okay, this one’s kinda embarrassing to admit, but I (and some of you too) headcanon that Viltrumites have huge dicks. Like, really massive. And of course, that includes Mark Grayson having a big cock that the reader loves to ride 😌🫵🏻

Also, I have this reeeeeally random but persistent headcanon that Viltrumites have second genders—kind of like an A/B/O dynamic? In my mind, when Mark gets his powers, it’s not long before his second gender shows up, and I know he’d be an Alpha. But then he starts struggling with all these new senses and instincts he doesn’t know how to handle, while all the humans around him are chill because, well, they don’t go through that.

And then Mark starts picking up this specific scent around reader that drives him up the wall, but he can’t mention it bc you don't even notice. Then his first rut hits. And oh boy. All he can do is lay there, burning up, imagining what he’d do to reader if he could. It gets him through it, but it also wrecks him. He doesn’t want to ruin anything between you, and the way his Alpha instincts take over honestly scares and embarrasses him. So Mark just suffers in silence, lowkey feral, obsessing over reader in the most desperate way 😭

Another personal headcanon I have is that male reader is Mark Grayson’s first-ever gay panic. Like, his whole life he’s genuinely believed he’s only into girls—he’s never even questioned it—until he meets reader. And then suddenly he’s noticing things about reader he wouldn’t notice in other guys. Like… why does he think you’re kind of hot? Or cute? Or weirdly charming?

At first, he brushes it off—like, sure, he can admit when another dude is good-looking, that’s normal, right? But it’s different with you. It’s not just noticing—it’s staring. It’s being entranced. It’s lingering, way too long, on how your smile makes his stomach twist. It’s getting flustered when you stand too close or say something even remotely affectionate. He’s left blinking like an idiot, and he hates it.

In my canon, Mark goes into major denial. Full crisis mode. He just can’t admit it to himself—because he thinks he’s so straight. Like, the word “bisexual” doesn’t even exist to him. So he starts thinking something’s wrong with him, like deeply wrong, and it spirals into this whole inner mess of confusion and repression.

Which, of course, only leads to more longing. More tension. More repressed feelings and intense stares and angsty late-night thoughts he can’t push away. He yearns. He yearns hard. And I eat that up every time.

...Anyway, I really believe something’s gonna spark in your head soon. Personally, I daydream and fantasize a lot, and honestly, the sky’s the limit. There’s no right or wrong way to do it—just write what you like, however you like it. Someone out there will definitely love it just as much as you do 🩵

[the1trueanon]

he has done nothing wrong ever in his entire life

(pspsps! go play Great God Grove!! it's really really funny and sweet and heartwarming and good!!!)

[rickybaby]

I’m sorry if Franz/Frank is inside joke I’m going kms bc WHAT

I need it to be known I was sitting in a work meeting and I didn’t immediately click on the notification because I was convinced it was an ad only for me to be hit by the force of a thousand watt and I had to pretend as if I hadn’t just witnessed the simplest most enduring act of friendship OF LOVE!!! Because Daniel actively scrubbing all public signs of him ever being an F1 driver, him distancing himself completely from the sport but YET he’ll post that tiny vid in his checkered shirt on his old tractor on his farm miles away from everything …

the craziest thing is that no one can even comment on that post and it’s literally just Max with his hundred emojis because what is it if not a little nod to his MOST SPECIAL GUY. To let him know he might not be there but he’ll always cheer the loudest for him??? If nothing else, it just shows that Daniel still very much still watches the races. Still knows the inside jokes, probably texts Max about it all. He still loves. He still loves this sport. Enduring love despite everything

[ahappydnp]

I can easily picture them in the future saying "go ask your dad" 😭

except it's a gag because they only say it when they're within 0.5 feet of each other. just sat side by side on the couch saying go ask other dad

[my-castles-crumbling]

Anon Advice Asks - February 25

snarky friend anon (new), waxing anon (new), commitment anon, shy anon, confuddled anon

snarky friend anon

hi cas!

i have this friend who i don’t really know what to do with?

whenever i mention fanfic or tumblr or anything like that at all he gets really snarky and passive aggressive and it just doesn’t feel great

i know that he just sort of feels like i’ve moved on without him, because we used to have a lot of the same interests and now my interests have shifted and his haven’t

i can 100% understand how it would suck from his perspective, but it seems like i’m always walking on eggshells around him, trying to avoid certain topics

and even if i do it seems like he makes it about them anyway?

i’ve tried asking him to ask his parents for therapy (his family is very well off and he says his parents wouldn’t have a problem with it) but he doesn’t want to have that conversation, but i don’t really know what to do

his mental health is kind of shit and he worries a lot about losing friends but also he’s kind of been treating a lot of people kind of shitty (he’s a really good person, i’ve been friends with him for like 5 years) and just taking his anger out on them

if i mention anything like this to him he just spins it into a “sorry i’m a horrible friend” this and im really at my wits end

he’s not happy, and him taking it out on me isn’t making me happy either

anyway i have no idea what to do :)

Hi!

I'm so sorry, this sounds so frustrating.

Honestly though, the only thing you can do is tell him how you feel. If you've told him that you feel like he's being unfair and he just gets angry, then there's really nothing you can do.

The thing is...yeah, he might end up blaming the change in your friendship on you, but the reality is, the cause isn't your new interest in fanfic. Regardless of that, you're still trying to communicate. HE is the one shutting you out. And if he chooses to do that, he's going to lose you. You can't keep pushing a friendship that hurts you just to help him not get hurt. That's not fair to you.

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Waxing anon

honestly, hon, I'm not sure if hiding it is best. this might be the push you need to ask for some help, you know? I know it's so scary to admit that you need help like this but you deserve to feel happy and to not want to do these things. so yeah...I don't know if telling you how to hide it is the best idea.

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commitment anon

Hey Cas. Commitment anon again.

So, for context, D knows that K does not like him now, and we've had a pretty big fallout. They aren't friends anymore, but I still am with both. It's kind of confusing and hard to just try and not take a side of one story, especially when I know there is one extremely different interpretation from the other. It feels like I'm ripping myself apart trying to balance both of my friendships and my maybe-still-there crush on K.

I text with D and talk at school with K, usually. D. Knows about my crush now, and he's kind of neutral with it, but I know he feels betrayed.

D and I still talk almost everyday though. We've talked about the fallout and K a lot of the time. I usually comfort him when he has panic attacks and breakdowns, but the thing is whenever I do that it feels like a chore and I know it shouldn't. I don't even feel any sympathy or compassion or empathy. Or any emotion at all. Nothing is there and I think nothing really has been.

I've always known that I don't really feel many emotions like that, but I've thought about it and I don't think they're there at all. Like, I realized that whenever something bad happens, but emotions don't really change. The sorry's aren't really genuine, it's just. Courtesy I think. I don't feel sorry, but I don't feel selfish, or anything. It's just blankness.

I know that's wrong, too. I should feel at least a little, but I don't. I don't feel bad when I say something rude, or when someone dies, or when someone is crying. It's just fake apologies and comfort. I think I'm broken. Or something like that.

I don't even know what to do anymore and I can't tell my friends because they won't understand, they'd just get mad that I've comforted them without really feeling sorry. They'd hate me if they knew and I don't want them to.

Hi <3

I don't think you're broken and I don't think your friends would hate you. Honestly, there's a lot of reasons why someone might (not) feel like this, but it does make me think that maybe you need to talk to an adult about it. NOT because you're broken, but because sometimes when people feel like this, it could be because of something that happened in the past. I think you deserve to understand your emotions, and to do that, you might need to talk to a therapist or someone similar, you know? Are you able to do that?

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Shy anon

Hi cas just checking in

how're u doing?

How do you deal with blatant or underhand sexism coming from an adult in your life who you are currently unable to escape from.

XOXO

Shy anon

I think it depends. If they're someone who you rely on for something life-saving (food, shelter, etc) then unfortunately, I wouldn't push too much. Instead, focus on the future, and readying yourself for a time when you don't have to rely on them anymore.

If they're NOT someone you rely on, I'd ask questions. Like if they say women belong in the kitchen, be like "Oh, so men aren't capable of cooking?" You know, get them thinking about how stupid their ideas are.

Also congrats on your AP test!

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Confuddled anon

Hey its confuddled anon!!

I have an update.

Drum roll please!

He.... got arrested today! That's right folks, he is about to be a felon with a count of breaking and entering ✌️💅💋🎀✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

So yah, absolutely not confuddled anymore, very much clear that I have zero romantic feelings for him. But seriously, what kind of idiot do you have to be to break into someone's house and just hang out there??

It's also really funny because while he was getting arrested I was picking up trash off the side of the road, we were literally being complete opposites.

So... yah! I'll keep you updated about what happens with that :))))

With complete clarity and disgust,

-confuddled anon :)))

Well. That clears that up. Glad you figured it out, lol! At least you know that whoever you date in the future HAS to be better than that! (I certainly hope)

[rawliverandgoronspice]

re: sympathetic ganondorf vs evil for evil’s sake ganondorf, i think this is misrepresenting and underselling what’s actually offputting to people

“i’m evil because i’m evil” or “i’m evil because demise is evil” and the associated lust for power simply for its own sake has always been lame and low effort. there’s a reason it’s “shit tier” on the classic “villain motive tiers” thing

“i’m evil but there’s enough nuance to make the player at least somewhat sympathetic to me even if i’m still ultimately a bad guy” is a good thing that people like? i’ve never personally interacted with a zelda player who thinks windwaker ganondorf ruined the character or anything - he’s generally regarded as the gold standard of villain writing both in and out of zelda. this is roughly “high tier” on the tier chart

“actually TWIST i’m not evil at all, it’s the good guys who were evil all along, i’ve done nothing wrong and i’m completely justified in my righteous quest against the status quo, you’re the real secret true villain for being complicit in preserving it” is technically regarded as “elder god tier” on the motive tier chart but i would personally label it as “oscar bait tier”. these things *can* be compelling in conversation with the existing landscape, but often it comes across as a deliberate effort to subvert the audience’s expectations for the sake of being unpredictable (or worse, for the sake of proving you’re the smartest one in the room). in separate works where this conversation/critique is the entire point (eg. Watchmen or The Boys), that’s not necessarily a bad thing, and the audience sets their expectations accordingly. in an established, long-running franchise, however, this almost always reads as dripping with contempt for the audience, like walking into a room and going “you morons like this shit? let me, a person much smarter than you, explain what it’s Actually about, because you’re an idiot if you’ve been a fan of this series before now”

on top of that, in the context of a series like zelda, this type of story feels myopic and disrespectful to the future of the series. “welp i burned down the 20+ years of lore behind this character so i could do a deconstruction, good luck using them in any capacity in the future, sounds like a you problem”

all this is to say, i think it’s a bit disingenuous/strawman-y to suggest that people put off by this want ganondorf to have 0 depth at all. there’s a lot of room for different kinds of depth, it’s just that the trend of the last decade has been for “depth” to mean “condescending deconstruction”

Hey!

Thanks for taking the time to write this ask, I think it warrants an interesting conversation. To me, there's like, a lot of things about what you're saying, and tbh I do see where you're coming from --in part.

First thing first... No yeah unfortunately some people Are hostile to even WW Ganondorf. It's been a rising trend in the fandom since TotK was released --people being very against the concept of any additional complexity to the character, either not getting it or considering anything he says pure manipulation that doesn't even warrant a conversation, literally making fun of people who were intrigued by this and wanting more out of this particular thread. This position not only absolutely exists within the fandom --less so on tumblr, I'll agree there-- but it's not even hard to stumble upon as a pretty regular opinion that gets tossed around. I had some interesting asks thrown my way, let's say. The idea that Ganondorf is a remotely interesting character that deserves more thought than what he gets is very much Extremely not the norm, and the very fact that you, as a fan, likes him as a guy is perceived as weird and missing the point by a lot of people. Like a lot a lot of people.

So I'll just... I guess I haven't clarified my position in a while, so I will reclarify my position on our favorite evil dude: I do like him perfectly fine as a villain, I do not want him to be "redeemed" by the narrative, I think he works fantastically as an ongoing threat, I think they could make him even scarier and more offputting and that would be super fun and thrilling... and I also think he already is complex. Like, inherently. Everything Nintendo has been putting into him since his first appearance is complicated --even their attempts at flattening him back in TotK do not fully work because they can't scrub him of the extremely loaded ideas they injected into him from the get-go. Nobody forced Nintendo to do a Mega Orientalism when inventing him, nobody made them write the NPCs to have this super weird antagonistic relationship to the gerudos in OoT, nobody made them have all this lore of the one man born every hundred years, raised by twin witches --and then nobody made them press on that tension point in Wind Waker explicitely, and then, in a more subtle fashion, in TP too. Nobody forced their hand when it came to having the strange "round ear" situation, suggesting (confirmed even, in additional canon) gerudos are born unblessed. The fact of the matter is: everything to make the relationship between Hyrule and the gerudos complicated has been there since 1998. There's no need for a Switcharoo to prove that anyone is smarter than the audience: everything messy has always been baked within the worldbuilding itself. It's in the cartridges already!!

Perspective on it is what could change, though --because, except in Wind Waker, we never get even a hint of a sense that we should think, as an audience, that Hyrule's super weird relationship to the gerudos is maybe questionable. Worth thinking about at least. Which, given the optics, is wild to me that to bring this particular can of worms up is still very largely considered crazy talk within the fandom (that, or the Sheikah situation across the series, also insane in many ways). And yes, it would perhaps lead to themes that are a bit heavier than what Zelda has been overtly dealing with (though, again, Majora's Mask exists --and I do find a lot of unpacked ideas in the Wild Era, like the very unquestionned gerudo bridal pipeline, very uhhh unfortunate already if I'm being honest --even moreso because it is unquestioned). But Zelda, when well handled narratively, can do wonderful things with evocative subtext, open doors never fully crossed, a lynchian pressure on what should feel offputting. We don't even need a sad monologue about it. It doesn't even need to be handled explicitely. But I think the pressure point is just better when understood and incorporated in some form, instead of being denied so hard the world itself start to feel incomplete and unlived.

I do want to say... I get what you mean with the whole "oscar bait" thing. There has been, historically and in recent years, a tendency to be driven by an external, almost panicked sense of morality rather than by the internal drive of a story, its internal thematic logic. I also do think it can feel very corporate, very "Disney looking back at its own movies and scrubbing off everything Buzzfeed deemed problematic in 2014 while making everything glossy and lifeless and awful" and it's not that great!!! and tbh I can't say I would trust Nintendo to handle any appreciation for the fact that the story of an eternal golden kingdom cheering on beating the evil outsiders who want to corrupt everything good and pure and blonde about that perfect inherently good place, is like, extremely not neutral. It absolutely is a delicate thread to weave, and I agree that putting a definitive end to Hyrule is probably not the smartest IP move to do. But, Hyrule doesn't have to be condemned as Bad, it can be merely complicated. And ongoing, regardless. To keep on with the Disney parallel: The Lion King would feel weird if we started to peel off the internal politics of the hyenas, it's just not the right place for it, when everything about this story revolves around the Righteousness of the Divine Right to Rule. But if the Lion King was an ongoing series that had been looping on itself for a while... wouldn't it make sense to figure out how to achieve majesty by studying other angles too, eventually? Is it that strange to suggest the exercise is like, possible? That it can be handled with artistry and soul?

I feel like... Yes, to acknowledge Ganondorf's humanity --not even to coddle it, just to acknowledge it-- implies taking in everything that makes him who he is, and that might rattle some foundational ideas about why this ancestral fight is even happening in the first place. I also do not think it means that he must be Good now. He can still punch a child and cackle maniacally, he can still be unredeemable --he can still destroy himself and others out of the most unconstructive spite ever, and we can still see the purpose in defeating him while basking in the "yea....." left in his wake (Wind Waker did that!!! Wind Waker did that and then we had more Zelda games!! crazy how that happened). This is hardly undoable. It does take some narrative skill, and some commitment to taking a bit of a risk, but Ganondorf is genuinely unmanageable as a character if you insist on your refusal to acknowledge his foundations --and I think it's partially why TotK's story is such a mess. He sells a TON, but you can't have him breathe slightly too loud without risking the entire world falling apart. They did try in TotK, so very hard, and to me they still failed--as insane as he behaves, Hyrule still doesn't come out of this looking good or particularly justified, because the very central core of Ganondorf's character is to be subjugated, and then rebelling in a destructive and brutally selfish, uncompromising manner that ends up robbing him of humanity --and the discomfort of that premise will therefore always haunt the conversation. Nintendo dug themselves into that mess. I feel like a lot of the Ganondorf fans I know merely... point at that. At the mess. And I feel like the longer the games avoid this mess, the more coats of spinach green they slather ontop of his skin, and the more nonsensical characterization they pile up, and the more Ganondorf will become a parody of who he once was, and what made him compelling to begin with.

And to top it all off, as if he wasn't contentious and complicated enough to handle already, they leaned into the internet turning him into a sex symbol for some fucking reason??? Yeah I genuinely have no idea how Nintendo will manage this dude moving forward, because to me, he is, at best, an endless source of (very lucrative) headaches, and at worst a ticking time bomb. I'm not sure how long they can get away with that TotKification strategy, is what I mean.

(Also: I tried to not overdwell on all the incredibly complicated conversation re: race and orientalism, but it's borderline impossible to have this conversation without acknowledging that I have never seen a major pop culture villain receive more pushback against "woobification" than him, and I don't think it's a complete coincidence let's say :) )

[kingsmoot]

ASOIAF characters who would be bodybuilders?

canonically qyburn ba-dum-TS

[cosmicjoke]

Levi is not the uwu kind man that you all make him out to be. He is an abuser. He’s hit Eren multiple times, Jean, and even that stunt he pulled with Historia

You obviously need help understanding the definition of abuse, and also understanding the concept of context. Abuse is defined as being a systemic pattern of behavior. Levi hit Eren on exactly 4 occasions within a 4 year period, one of which was an act to save his life from the Military Police, the other times because Eren was actively and intentionally endangering lives, breaking the chain of command by acting on his own and rebelling against the orders of his superior officers.

Historia was similarly endangering lives because she was more concerned with upholding her image as some humble goody two shoes than she was with the lives of her comrades. Levi didn’t even hurt her, just screamed in her face to get her shit together.

All of these people were soldiers under Levi’s direct command. Trained soldiers carrying the weight of a soldiers responsibility to their comrades. You want to make them out to be helpless children to suit your pathetic, warped narrative about Levi. You want to act as if Levi was meant to be their caretaker or guardian, but no, dipshit, he was their commanding officer, and they were soldiers in a military unit, expected and required to follow orders.

I sure as shit hope you aren’t involved with any armed forces of any kind, because you’re the type of person that would inevitably get your comrades killed.

The fact you’re this adamant in trying to paint Levi as something he isn’t, to the point you go around sending copy and pasted anon hate to every Levi blog you can find, shows how desperate you are. You can’t actually find anything to legitimately criticize Levi about, so you have to resort to making shit up or purposefully misinterpreting his actions to paint an inaccurate picture of him to justify your hate.

Why don’t you just admit the truth?

You’re a hater who has a massive bug up your ass about Levi being so loved while your favorite justifiably gets derided as the whiny, piece of shit bitch that he is. You can’t accept that Eren is a horrible person because you see yourself in him, and admitting it about him would be the same as admitting it about yourself. But keep trying, I guess.

[angelpuns]

Can you do a series where Mikey is turned into a baby turtle tot when helping donni like a mini part

As fun as that would be, I just don't really have the time :/ I barely have time to make the Kid Leo comic as it is and I already have so many other projects I wanna work on one day ;-;

I also don't really want to make anything that focuses on other characters (right now anyway)

However I did doodle a little something jsut to see what it might look like

[devotion-disorder]

this is so off topic but I needed to vent somewhere, so turns out I am slowly realizing I have a thing for dude with long hair..

My childhood crush was Helia from winx and the only reason I watched winx was for HIM, I loved him so damn much dude.

then I got into vocaloid, who did I like most? GAKUPO fucking KAMUI..

THEN I slooowly got into anime.. who was my next target? FUCKING TOMOE FROM KAMISAMA KISS AND KOKKURI SAN FROM GUGURE KOKKURI SAN, also we can’t forget YUE FROM SAKURA CARDCAPTOR or UNDERTAKER FROM BLACK BUTLER.

All long hair by the way.. Probably white hair too.

now.. who is my new crush? MAHITO. JUST BECAUSE HE HAS LONG HAIR.

honorable mentions to Zhongli from Genshin, Sephirath from final fantasy and Malleus draconia and Idia Shroud from Twisted wonderland and kite from hxh.

LONG HAIR MALE SUPREMACY 🧍‍♂️🧎‍♀️

anon the way our half our tastes overlapped ASDAHLISUDHALAKJD;aWDUH.........LONG HAIR MEN GANG RISE UP 🗣️🗣️🗣️📢📢💥💥💥🚨

my two faves aka my cutieful amazing wonderful breathtaking pookiebears that did nothing wrong ever actually

[dizzyisdizzy]

my memory isn't the most reliable, but I may have been one of the anons who mistook Miku for being 16, sorry about that lol

I just know I blocked you initially, unsure if I sent a message

Honestly my dear anon it's not a *completely* unreasonable conclusion to make.

Yeah Crypton and fans have depicted older and even younger Mikus, but when the average person looks her up they still find... the original's bio. They've no clue that there's HUNDREDS of Mikus beyond the OG so now we're stuck in this dumb discourse forever and ever.

Why don't Crypton purge the original bios and free us from our eternal torment? Are they stupid (yes)?