#modern conflicts

[captain-price-unofficially]

Shocking footage exclusively published by Al-Jazeera shows Israeli occupation forces demolishing the ancient Greater Mosque in Khan Yunis. Another video from an Israeli soldier's GoPro captures the raiding of a mosque and the burning of all Quran copies inside.

[temeyes]

brotherly embrace

[chipsncookies]

I've been playing the arc suit stories in pokemas and I love it so much. I have to redraw this scene

[casscainmainly]

Stephanie and Cass have such a complicated dynamic to me that I can never fully enjoy any dynamic/trope that's slapped onto them, like 'golden retriever x black cat' or 'sunshine x grumpy' or whatever. They're almost always inaccurate because Steph and Cass are both multifaceted and three-dimensional women who can't be boxed neatly into categories, and assigning one of them as the 'optimist/happy one' rings false at different stages of their relationship. What I love so much about them is that they can't be boiled down to one thing. It's refreshing to have a relationship between two women that holds space for all their flaws, nuances, shifting feelings, clashing morals, and more. Of course anyone can call them any trope, it's all good fun!! The appeal for me though is how static tropes don't really apply to them.

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Marvel Prowl I love you sm

[pahatarcarabosse]

As I mentioned before got in to Titanomachy during my animatic making. Resulting Hades & Persephone art.

And young Hera being wooed by young Zeus (just after the last battle of Titanomachy, his markings/hair are from the first use of the Lightning Bolt)

But yeah these resulted me fleshing out them (old Olympians) half accidentally for my EPIC AU, especially Hades who will show up there.

[jesncin]

this Clois comic is inspired by something my comic prof mentioned in class- he's a huge Superman fan but he said he's doesn't like Clark and Lois as a couple traditionally. He prefers Clark and Lana together because "Lana loves Clark for who he is, and Lois loves Superman- the idea of who Clark is". And he's not entirely wrong!

Classic Lois likes Superman because he's the macho guy and Clark is a wimp in her eyes. Once Lana was introduced as her natural opposite (loves Clark over Superman and knows his secret identity), Clois as a couple became harder to root for as an endgame. Canon is aware of this, so usually their way to combat this is "Clark doesn't feel the same way for Lana". in a way that doesn't feel convincing.

Still- I think this dynamic just needs more nuance and attention. I don't see this "Lois loves Superman, Lana loves Clark" dynamic as a problem- I see it as the basis for a compelling love triangle. The best love triangles have it so there's no perfect couple, and everyone is flawed in some way.

[varilien]

halloween idea: werewolfwood ??? :]c

okay sorry this wasn't going to be vashwood but i put on a couple random werewolf movies while working on it and they were consistently SUFFUSED with romantic themes so. coughs.

werewolfwood as ever has a cranky face but a soft little heart :)

[laurachouettepoetry]

A soul is a monstrous thing, weaker than the heart yet stronger than the mind. What you can’t give your heart, feed your soul with— and reveal everything hidden.

Laura Chouette

[mouthtapedguy]

Reality is in beta

[captain-price-unofficially]

Footage shows moments when an Iranian missile hit the Israeli War Ministry HQ in Tel Aviv. 13 June 2025

[corvidclub]

the parallel between Lestat marking all the tenor's flat notes and Armand writing all his aggressive director notes for Claudia on the 500th performance... the performing community of Paris better thank their lucky stars everyday that lesmand didn't become a real couple because there would be no survivors

[starfallforest]

god I just love the idea that rafayel is conflicted by a love from the past that he may not even fully or properly understand and his modern pursuit to avenge lemuria

a duty to a past love that’s cursed him and a duty to protect his people and his home

and current rafayel, the rafayel living this life, may not have even been actually around to be a part of either of those but he is still bound to both at the same time in ways he can’t even comprehend

so juicy so juicy I’m licking his face rn

[nicorobinphd]

every time a writer has batman refer to his children & mentees as his “soldiers” i get a step closer to sending frank miller an envelope full of anthrax.

new writers read pre-crisis (or even just like any pre-1990 writer other than marv “my self insert fucked a teenager” wolfman) comics challenge.

[kindlespark]

i get why ppl say that babel was too 'telling not showing' with the cohorts' friendship; robin's internal monologue says his cohort were all in love with each other, but we mostly get dialogue of them fighting *cough* and letty being racist *cough*. i just think that that was kind of the point!

robin is a great flawed protagonist and most importantly an unreliable narrator, and the disparity between what he tells you and the dialogue scenes we actually get feels intentional to me, because you can feel the disconnect between what robin wanted and his reality. when he was still in love with babel, he wanted their cohort to be a perfect romantic ideal, wanted to think their fights were overcomeable, that ramy and victoire felt the same that he did. but the cracks were there from the beginning; their relationships were always fucked up. the effects of colonialism/imperialism robin wanted so badly to ignore had doomed them from the beginning. babel in ramy or victoire's perspective would be wildly wildly different because it's clear they did not have robin's privilege

i just love that robin is like truly such a damn liberal for half the book, never truly committing to hermes, holding onto his whiteness and desire to belong, and that this flaw is what dooms his relationship with ramy. people celebrate babel for its scathing critique of white feminism, and they should, but it's also so damning of liberal activism too imo. robin as a protagonist exemplifies the way fellow poc will often uphold racist structures for their own benefit and to avoid complicating themselves--and that this will always be a futile selfish endeavour. robin must, like all of us, come to the conclusion that he will never belong while this system remains intact, that his privilege isn't worth the suffering of those alike him, and that resisting it however he can is the only moral and just thing to do. wow i got sidetracked but robin swift wasian character of all time fr