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[endermen-impasta]

March Drawing Comp Raffle!

< Since next month is March, and our birthday month of course, I am going to start a drawing competition because why not? Birthday celebration of course! This drawing challenge is going to be inspiration one, mostly because March tends to inspire us! >

Important Information:

→THE RAFFLE WILL END FEBRUARY 29th

→ WHEN IT STARTS IN MARCH MAKE SURE TO USE A #mari'sMonthofFortune OR TAG ME IN THE POST!

→ YOU CAN POST THE ART WEEKLY, DAILY, OR ALL AT ONE TIME ON MARCH 31!

→ WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED April 7th!

Rules and Prizes:

#1 )) It must be creative, don't just draw the object or scene, through people in there! Animals! Whatever works for you!

#2 )) Add COLOR

#3 )) If you win and want to give the prize away to someone else, you can! It doesn't matter.

#4 )) HAVE FUN!

→ Anyone is welcome to do this competition, you can use OC's, character from a show, your Sona, your friends, a random person you saw walking Tuesday night, the cute cockroach you saw on the ground, ANYONE! Doesn't matter!

(( First Place Prize ;; A piece of APPROPRIATE art of their choice ))

(( Second Place ;; Fan Art of OUR choosing ))

(( Third Place ;; A mention and love for the art you made :D ))

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[alukaforyou]

undecided on the hair 👽

[fratercrucis]

you know it's over for john winchester when baby sammy pulls this move

[backjustforberena]

I'm really annoyed because I rewatched "Maryland" and now I have all these questions and thoughts and potential fic ideas. I didn't need this. I didn't need this at all.

[sammygender]

trans headcanons of the winchesters are always extremely fun to play around with and i can see most of them. but one that always rings slightly false to me, despite a love for it due to self-identification and the fact it’s definitely interesting, is transmasculine dean. simply because if you’re going according to canon this would require him to have transitioned at some point prior to johns death, probably much prior, probably as a youngish kid. and i genuinely do not think that ever could’ve happened. he values johns approval too much and is too scared of demanding too much of him.

like even aside from whether john is Actually transphobic (i doubt he’s like Cartoonishly transphobic he probably would be annoyed by it slash not care much, interpret ‘not caring’ however you want) just the whole Thing of coming out where you’re like. “Hey dad im actually a human person who has an internal sense of self and such that doesn’t happen to be You 2.0 and am not the gender you thought i was and i feel emotions to such an extent that i actually like need to transition”…….

no fucking way dean would ever be able to do that to john while he’s still alive. please. teenage transmasculine dean would be like Well yeah sure i want to be a guy but that’s not an option for me whatsofuckingever. and crucially he’d be like that even if he knew entirely about trans people. now this is why transfemme dean works so well. because you just know it would take her at least thirty years to even consider it for a singular second.

on the other hand transmasc sam works so well because you can picture teenage transmasculine sam realising he’s a boy and promptly making it part of the whole entirely justified and very cool and fun teen angst rebellion FUCK YOU DAD thing. he could let spite carry him to the point of coming out. dean? he is burying that shit deep.

[travelingtwentysomething]

I want to grow romaine lettuce, cucumbers, red and yellow or white onion, Roma or other tomatoes, cilantro, dill, celery, carrots, red potatoes and russet potatoes so I can always make soups and salads and pico de gallo and salsa.

But I don't want to do the work. Because I am a lazy heifer.

If anyone wants to build a garden on my acre, I'll water it according to your instructions and occasionally pull weeds or whatever, and we can split the veggie haul.

[inthesp0tlight]

kat is always gonna have a really special place in my heart, but the longer i write mj, the more into the weeds of who she is and why that i get, the more madelaine just ... IS her. thinking about making the FC swap permanently.

[samsblades]

SAMIRA MOHAN WANTS ME SO BAD !!!!!

[amplexadversary]

Completely self indulgent post but here's one of the post-canon scenarios I have in my head for G Gundam.

Maybe skip this post if you don't like dark themes. Not all of what I've outlined is dark (most of it isn't), but I do cross the line past what appears in the show in regards to DG cells and abduction.

The shuffles all get roped into restoration projects on Earth between the 13th and 14th gundam fights, partially to have something to do alongside their training, partially out of inspiration by the common points of the Kasshus' and Master Asia's goals, and partially because netting their countries some decent publicity is likely to earn them favors during the Gundam Fight's off-years.

Sai is contacted by Kyral about an effort to clear out the infamous buildup of trash and cadavers on Everest; he wants Sai to leverage Neo China's help as something of a reparation kind of deal and Sai goes sure why not.

Sai recruits Argo because Bolt Gundam is built to withstand the cold, and he thinks Argo and Nastasha could help reverse engineer that quality to enable the use of their Gundams as both heavy work equipment and protection from the harsh environmental conditions that normally prevent this kind of operation.

George gets involved because someone he knows has a distant relative who died on the mountain a century ago, and they wanted him to check in with the forensics team on the project. This detail is important because eventually it becomes clear that there is a mystery to solve (that I myself haven't figured out all the details of yet but broadly know the setup and conclusion); DG-infected people are disappearing and not being investigated due to stigma. Our heroes are naturally going to be pissed about this, and will need an "in" with the field if they want to do anything about it.

First massively self-indulgent element: The forensics/body identification team inexplicably includes the real-world author Kathy Reichs, who somehow exists in this universe, and there's a little side bit about her having written a Bones book right before the 12th fight that featured a cooked cadaver found inside a gundam after entry into the Earth's atmosphere. There are a lot of weird coincidences in the book that parallel the DG incident, which creeps everyone out, but the similarities are merely born of the writer threading the needle of being believable and interesting in a way that became very true to life.

What does become relevant is when the Shuffles eventually meet up, she's able to explain the implications of a bunch of weird shit the fighters discovered (also Marie Louise read her book, and one of the in-universe liberties Reichs took writing about the gundams' black boxes that she explains in the afterword leads to ML realizing something important; that Neo Germany does not have its gundam's remains.)

While the Everest project is happening, Domon, Chibodee, and Allenby all want to continue their training somewhere on Earth, and receive a proposal from (an OC of mine who is) a historic preservationist (and an acquaintance of Allenby's): she has acquired the grounds of an abandoned castle in Europe* after submitting a plan to restore it, and needs to hire people to help with the labor.

*the castle is probably somewhere in Germany because I also want this pitch to have drama over Schwarz (pre-13th fight), Schwarz (Kyoji), and Schwarz (the next guy who was supposed to inherit the mask when the older ninja retired). Also Germany is fucking pretty.

In exchange for the help of the three gundam fighters, they and Rain get paid, plus room and board anywhere on the grounds, plus full access to the grounds and miles of sparsely-inhabited countryside for training purposes, and the privacy and ability to practice with their gundams that comes with being in the middle of fucking nowhere. Rain sets herself up to work a clinic in the next town over as well as practicing pro re nata wilderness medicine (I'm convinced every medic supporting the gundam fight would need to be able to do this.)

The group involved in the Castle project sticks around for a time, makes some good progress, and engage in occasional Shenanigans that come up when you put a bunch of weirdos in a Situation.

They aren't in town a lot save for Rain, but when they are they eventually start to pick up on gossip and news about the Mysterious Disappearances correlated with DG cell infection (as well as details that turn out to be important later). Eventually Rain brings this to Domon and Chibodees' attention and they decide that, yeah, this is tied to the DG, this is their problem, they should convene with the rest of the Shuffle Alliance about it.

Also of course Schwarz is involved because I'm the one writing this; the culprits' DG-tissue harvesting operation relies on having him captured and helpless, using cells from his body to "update" other victims' DG infections to a less aggressive strain. One thing I haven't decided is whether I want a reinstantiated Wong to head this shit, or make up my own morally bankrupt opportunistic asshole looking to twist the DG to their own benefits. I also need to decide where on the planet the center of all this insanity is, and it needs to be a place that isn't going to have any unfortunate implications (because that's a genuine risk with dark story elements)

... That's about as much as I have that is thought-out enough for me to explain. I return to thinking about this scenario a lot because it puts most of the characters way out of their element (and has a bunch of details that appeal to me specifically), and it kind of evolved into an incomplete plot outline that I don't currently have any plans to flesh out.

I think it's an interesting enough direction to go, because it follows through with a lot of the themes present in G, but takes advantage of the genre shift to avoid DBZ-crazy power scaling and adjusts the conflict more to a matter of where the main characters' prowess is most effective (Both in and out of the gundams. I'm assuming there are a ton of guys similar to Michelo's gang that just need fighting interspersed with everything else I described. In fact, kicking Some Group of Douchebags out of their protection racket is probably how team Castle even gets ahold of evidence related to missing persons.)

[cherry-bomb-ships]

Real talk I think Cherry Coading and R. Marie should switch evil genius partners for a week and see what happens

[hellafluff]

Currently obsessively thinking about a silent hill from Mary's perspective. Starting in the hospital, the nurses replaced with doctors, faces blacked out except for white shiny gnashing teeth. She only has in her pockets a note written on hotel stationary that says I'm Sorry.

Escaping and meeting a young man, cute and a lil awkward, who says you look a lot like his girlfriend Maria, and shes missing too? Can we look for her together?

Hes... sweet, a bit quiet. He gets very close to Mary often, pushes her boundaries, but this is all weird and strange and maybe hes just scared. When she mentions it, however, he makes a rude remark abt Just Wanting To Help Her but backs off.

They get seperated when the Red Pyramid Thing, unchanged in this version, comes and attacks them both, but chooses to persue him.

Laura is still there, and when Mary and her meet they cling together. She talks about an awful, ugly man she met earlier, and to watch out for him. She helps guide Mary through a maze like area before the Other World sets in and separates them.

The monsters in Mary's Silent Hill are almost all larger then her, and many masculine in appearance. They attack her head, try and choke her. Certain ones cough and gasp, arms thrashing wildly and thrashing on the floor when knocked down. Some seems to have exposed, black lungs that stutter to breathe. If Angela and Eddie are the same in this version, then their boss fights remain the same. The Abstract Daddy just as horrifying to Mary as it is to Angela.

Every reunion with the man, hes different. Less nice, more haunted looking. He starts to call her Maria, and barely acknowledges her if she corrects him. Following his advice leads to darker and more dangerous areas. The Red Pyramid keeps coming and chasing him away, but shes always collateral damage when that happens.

Eventually, she makes it to the hotel. Hes waiting for her in the hotel room, haggard, almost unrecognizable from the man he was when they first met. He has a monologue about how she's been sick, and hes been trying his best to be there for her. She doesnt understand, she doesnt know him, shes NOT Maria! She never will be. She starts coughing.

He makes to leave but at the last second turns, and hes a monster now. Large, fleshy, imposing, always trying to suffocate her under thick hands. Upon his defeat, two Red Pyramids arrive and stab at the dying thing over and over until finally impaling themselves.

There are different endings still. She remembers her disease, and her murder, in most of them. In the best ending she leaves the town with Laura, likely still ill, but alive again. In one of the worst, she wakes up in the trunk of a car, as water begins seeping in.

[sun-marie]

So! Turns out this game's ending hits just as hard the second time around 🥹😭💗

[arolesbianism]

Ok yeah I accidentally missed some logs ELLIE MENTION LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO

[lost-where-the-forest-would-grow]

OH YOU THINK THE EARTH IS PERFECTLY ROUND DO YOU? HOW QUAINT. WELL IT ISN'T. THAT'S SIMPLY AN APPROXIMATION. EVEN SAYING IT'S AN OBLATE SPHEROID IS AN APPROXIMATION. OUR FORMULAS FOR THE EARTH CAN ONLY APPROXIMATE THE TRUTH. TO ASSUME THE EARTH ISN'T A SPHERE AND THEREFORE MUST BE A TURTLE IS A FUCKED UP LEAP OF LOGIC.

NOW WITHOUT GETTING INTO THE STUPID ASS EPISTEMOLOGY AROUND APPROXIMATING TRUTH. DUALISM IS NOT ABOUT THE SUPERNATURAL!!! IF YOU STOPPED STARING AT THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL ON AND TURNED AROUND TO SEE THE TRUTH YOU WOULD REALIZE HUMAN EXPERIENCE IS MORE THAN THE MATERIAL WORLD (Republic BK. 7).

YES THE WORLD IS OF MATERIAL FORM, SAYING SO IS NOTHING MORE THAN A BORING TAUTOLOGY. THE EXPERIENCE OF THE HUMAN MIND IS GREATER THAN SIMPLY THAT OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD. THE MIND AND BODY ARE BOTH DIRECTLY LINKED TO THE PHYSICAL WORLD, YET DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT; THE MIND CANNOT BE REDUCED DOWN TO THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND REMAINS ONTOLOGICALLY DISTINCTIVE (Chalmers's Conceivability Argument for Dualism, 2001).

YOUR ARGUMENT RUNS UPON THE FALLACY THAT WE EXPERIENCE THE PHYSICAL WORLD, THEREFORE OUR EXPERIENCE IS THE SAME AS THE THE PHYSICAL WORLD. QUALIA IS AN EMIGRANT PROPERTY OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND EXPERIENCE OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND THEREFORE IS DIRECTLY LINKED TO IT, NOT SOME SUPERNATURAL AND SEPARATE IDEA.

Bibliography: Republic BK. 7, 514a - 518b, (Ch. 9 'The Supremacy of the Good', pp. 240-245) Retrieved from: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=nlebk&AN=688165&site=ehost-live&custid=s1165276&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_240 Brueckner, A. (2001). Chalmers’s Conceivability Argument for Dualism. Analysis, 61(3), 187–193. Retrieved from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3329232

The concept of a “favorite color” is so funny

[connormoving]

like these r soooo ugly and boring to me which is CRAZY bc i loveee rococo fashion and like i know this is a starter story so you dont wanna be giving people like the best things ever but its just a little bit cognitive dissonance when youre supposed to be playing as Marie Antoinette and youre getting outcunted by a random girl from 20s nyc*

*this is a joke just for me bc i think the outfits from gotham memoirs r also mostly rly boring

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Trying to decide on a hair for an Izanami Nendo

Her pic for ref:

So I got this guy (Kaoru Hakaze), who would require painting:

But this guy (Ronald & Mebiyatsu) seems good too (and I wouldn't need to recolor...if I pretend she has whiter hair rather than grey TT0TT):

BUUUUT then there's this guy (Shogo):

Who might be more perfect....I dunno I think Kaoru has the better fluffiness (bangs going the opposite way tho ;w;) but Shogo is basically all packaged to go!