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Mirabel from Encanto and Mirabelle from In Stars and Time/Start Again: A Prologue doing the spiderman pointing meme at each other because both of their stories involve attempting to save a house.
Also both of them have at least one interaction with a guy who dispenses visions of the future and happens to be living in said house in need of saving.
#on a surface level#but also the importance of familial communication#on a deeper level#encanto#in stars and time#start again: a prologue#and yes i know they are spelled slightly differently#but i feel like they are pronounced similarly enough that it still counts#isat
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i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one
his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.
ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication
ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.
#dunmeshi#dungeon meshi#shuro dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#toshiro nakamoto#dont get me wrong i understand relating to a character and hating whoever wrongs them cause youre protective or you relate really hard#but i think toshiros been getting the short end of the stick for a long time now 😭#even his love for falin is misunderstood#he literally states all the reasons he likes her#and none of them are superficial#but hes so closed off and has such difficulty expressing himself that instead of asking her out or smth he just#proposed to her out of the blue 😭#leading a lot of ppl to just assume that he went 'white woman spotted' and proposed#do Not misunderstand me i am#a HUGE farcille stan#obviously#but i dont think toshiros feelings are surface level and i think theyre absolutely crucial to understanding him and his motivations#as a character in this story
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#interview with the vampire#iwtv#no idea what happened on twitter tbh all the tweets were pulled from a very surface level search
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so much of “queerness” is really just consumption, and i think june makes it especially clear.
buy tickets to a shitty festival, buy merchandise, watch this tv show, listen to this artist, support queer small business— that is what modern day western queerness has become. it all comes back to wringing out every last note and coin from working class queer people. we do not have unity, as class divides and transphobia has turned any sense of community into a fine paste. yes, we’re pit against each other, but it’s important to recognize that we’ve rapidly gotten to a point where we simply do not want the same things. we cannot unite under the formerly common slogan of “rights for all”, when racism, sexism, transphobia, biphobia, so on so forth, has been allowed to run rampant in queer spaces. this is no coincidence!
the “queer community” exists, not as a bulwark of lgbtq+ people fighting for their rights, for the rights of their siblings, but as a tool wielded by corporations to gain favor for a month, make extra profit, and by the ruling class to sew division.
and this sewing of discord is not out of random malice, not out of religious fervor, but out of a need to maintain total domination of the bourgeoise. the queer community will forever be successfully divided in this sense, as long as the majority of queer people fail to be cognizant of the class divide amongst ourselves, and even moreso, fail to recognize a collective class consciousness, furthermore failing to see that the only way to truly secure rights for the entire queer community, is a complete destruction of the bourgeois state.
homonationalists and social chauvinists show their colors in full, celebrating their rights (only nationally, of course) that are about as secure as a broken lock under the dictatorship of the bourgeoise. they can forget for a weekend, a month, longer, about the queer people suffering from their country’s imperialist attacks— fuck you, i got mine.
capitalism absorbs these formerly radical movements by depoliticizing them, and what was once a threat to bourgeois domination, has now become a market category. pride is not a political struggle for as long as we do not consciously work to build unity amongst the working class. you have more in common with a working class homophobe than you do a trans rep from lockheed martin.
the business selling you mass produced nylon flags is not your queer sibling. the gay guy closeted in the military is not someone to sympathize with. these people are, ideologically and materially, part of the oppressor class.
if you care about queer rights, you will go out and get organized. this june is not a time of celebration, as the fight is not, has not, and will never be over for as long as the bourgeoise exerts its control over the proletariat.
PRIDE IS NOT A RIOT. join a communist group and do something for once ffs
#and of course this is all pretty common knowledge im just saying things#a lot of my analysis ends up being fairly surface level but. idk if someone wants to springboard off this please do
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every time I see non Asians go by Asian names online I get whiplash bc I'm like o shit another one of me!! then I find out they are a white weeb from Arkansas going by Haru that can't name more than 3 countries in Asia
#ppl used to make fun of me for my ethnic name so now i go by a western one....#but now i guess ethnic names are cool again as long as ur not that ethnicity? we have come full circle#huge difference between cultural appreciation and surface level fetishization btw#this is specifically talking about those that dont actually respect asian culture & use it as an aesthetic or accessory
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this is my take on sonadow
#sonic is all excited and bouncing off the walls like a cat with zoomies#and shadow is screaming and crying and throwing up and bashing his head into the wall like ''GOD FUCKING DAMMIT WHY HIM''#gengar's cool art#sonadow#sonic x shadow#sonic the hedgehog#shadow the hedgehog#sth#sonic series#and of course this is just surface level sonadow#if you want my deep opinion about them please consult the enormous fucking paragraph i wrote the other day
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i emulated (on a purely aesthetic level for now) the trans trefoil knot in my flagmaker. it can also print buttons. all the buttons!!
nonbinary, lesbian, trans, and bi pride flags, constructed to be somewhat more visually distinct than the stripes ones (which is important, for people who have trouble w/ colors)
solomon’s knot, figure-8 knot, trefoil and different presentation of the trefoil, respectively.
the rainbow flag’s cool though? so i’m not suggesting any changes to that. the stripes make sense in making a rainbow…
#flagmaker#buttons#knot theory#i was too lazy to do the actual math#so like if you render it with more then 3 colors#it's not the trefoil knot#it just looks like it#on a surface level#i'll do the proper knot calculations eventually...#when i'm done with exams i guess
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Ralsei has in his mind put himself as the least important out of his friends to the point of being kind of irrelevant (which chapter 2 sort of conditions one to accept with the running gag of him being ignored) but Tenna acknowledges him frequently as one of Kris's friends without any hesitation, however a not insignificant portion of this acknowledgement is in the form of recognizing Ralsei as some sort of marketable plushie creature worth $32.99 MSRP. And Ralsei genuinely does try to have a heart to heart with Tenna about his abandonment issues but due to his Ralsei nature he just ends up saying "It's okay you just have to accept that you're going to die one day so that you don't make anyone worried" which is really bad. I think they should be friends but have a mediating party present at all times to stop them from instilling brand new and much worse worldviews into each other
#dt#mypost#deltarune spoilers#Ralsei really attempts reassurance by going “It's okay. Our lives are not of value” it's really bad. Ralsei buddy you gotta sit this out#(I think being that absurdly terrible at that is an interesting trait especially since he's surface level positioned as “the nice one”.#I am clarifying for some reason just in case someone misinterprets my saying “this is really bad”. Probably nobody would )#deltarune#<- I am retroactively maintagging this because everybody loves my awesome post.
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try this at home!!!
#diary#vash the stampede#surface-level take: are my problems even real if i'm so easily distracted by goofy red anime man#the truth: focusing on something you love can pull you out stupid funks if you just open your heart and let the sunshine in#idk this has happened 2 days in a row and frankly if i have to dangle keys in front of my face to snap me out of it then so be it#vash is soooo cool you guys.........#we're married btw
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"kabru doesn't even like laios"
meanwhile, kabru:









#i dont even mean this as a romantic thing necessarily its just people do not understand kabrus relationship w laios at all#he was chasing after laios the whole time how could you say he hates or doesnt like laios#labru#kabru#laios touden#dungeon meshi#anyway the characters and relationships in this series are so good and so complex but ppl are incapable of seeing past surface level#and its frustrating
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takes like these show such an immense lack of any attempt at meaningful understanding of transmasculine perspectives and experiences that it genuinely makes my head hurt. like you do realize there is a difference between not FEELING pressured to do something, and not EXPERIENCING pressure to do something, right? of course you do, but you read a few personal posts about transmascs experiencing euphoria and made a bad faith generalization on our entire social position.
sure, transmascs may feel less pressure to be attractive as personal affirmation of our masculinity. but a misogynistic society at large still continues to pressure us to be attractive and feminine. of course it is born from misogyny, but like we have been screaming for YEARS, we are still affected by misogyny.
a huge proponent of the targeted violence towards us is demonizing the effects of physical transition- about how transitioning makes us ugly (which OOP directly contributes to in this post) and ruins our value in womanhood to the potential men who want to fuck and marry and impregnate us. trans men are correctively assaulted to feminize us, largely because our oppressors see us as "deviant women who must be fixed by forcing us back into femininity, and eventually beauty." there is a literal book titled "irreversible damage" that outlines how we are "coerced into destroying our beautiful fertile bodies."
i have heard countless stories of transmascs seeking physical transition who were equally denied, because a psychiatrist deemed them as currently attractive women in their prime, who must have their value to the patriarchy preserved at all costs.
and ultimately, if despite all of this, we continue to reject white supremacist feminine beauty standards and find joy in our transition, a misogynist society that believes we have no value outside our current or potential attractiveness thinks we would be better off dead, lest we tempt other women to abandon ship.
transmascs are not your enemies! we are not experiencing wildly different things! i promise you that trans people across the spectrum will always have far more shared experiences than unique ones!
i am reaching out my hand to you, so we can stand taller and stronger against the white supremacist patriarchal pressure placed upon us both. will you reach back and grab it, or push me to the ground in an attempt to escape and save yourself?
#transandrophobia#transmisandry#anti transmasculinity#trip talks#tumblr is where nuance goes to die#you really cannot talk about ANYTHING as a transmasc right now without having your words twisted into a strawman#god forbid we talk about euphoria or someone will use the most surface level bad faith interpretation of it as a core part of their-#-transfeminist theorizing (where we always end up being labeled privileged/oppressors)
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yeah.
#laios is the type of guy (to me anyway) that seems really handsome on surface level but never got any action with any (potential) romantic#partners because they got weirded out by him#and hes old enough to know BASICALLY how a kiss goes#but hes never had the experience to try it for himself#and yk. kabru knows how to kiss people#labru#kabru dungeon meshi#laios touden#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon
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Part 35 of Arc II (Part 61)
mikey bout to give himself the magic equivalent of a hernia lmao
⇇ | ⇽ | index | ⇾
#rottmnt#rottmnt michelangelo#rottmnt oc#residuum#rottmnt residuum comic#c#g#youre trying waaay to hard there bud#we won't be getting *super* into the mystic stuff#really just surface level stuff#for uh. reasons#that you will see ...eventually#anyway mikey will be learning magic for a bit :)#:)#the eyeball yokai and the dullahan are married <3#what the yokai is saying there vis a vis casting ability isn't really... accurate#since in residuum Everyone is capable of learning magic. it just takes some a Lot Longer to learn it than others#they just didn't want to have to train people for a while before they could get to the good stuff#also they don't want the mutants to start teaching each other magic lmao#...or the humans#tw arachnophobia#tw spiders
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I know those eyes.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#wen qing#wen ning#Sibling similarity but you only see it when you realize they have the same soggy eyes.#These two always struck me as a bit of a play on Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli for 'siblings who contrast each other.#But after spending a lot more time marinating on Wen Ning I actually think they are way more similar that is initially apparent.#Sure their surface level personality traits are pretty contrastive. But they both are so willing to risk their lives for what's right#Who raised them? In a story so full of examples of how parents shape their children - why are these two lacking in parents?#I imagine that Wen Qing is the older sibling and so her morals of 'help those who need it no matter who they are' got passed a long.#But how did *she* arrive there? Was that instilled within her or was it a reaction against bearing witness to callousness and cruelty?#We'll never know..the only thing I can say for certain is Wen Qing is *so* soggy in the audio drama.#She's like the ant with the bindle. It's a hell of a way to bring a previously sharp tongued character back into the narritive.#Side note: Thank you all for being so patient and kind while I took my break!#It's been a very chaotic few weeks and I didn't realize how bad my burnout was getting. I'm back and ready to keep drawing again!
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Willow Bark and Chamomile Bookbind


I've handbound @ssschrodingers-cat's LU fanfic Willow Bark and Chamomile! Took me a long while since I've been really busy with work and irl stuff, but I'm proud of the final result!! I will also be making all the files public in case anyone else would like to make their own binds :D Check below the cut for everything!
I feel that my handbinding skills really improved since last time (save a few nicks i gave myself LMAOO). It's definetly not perfect but it's probably my best so far. I really love this fic and its been in my brain ever since I read it. And now it's in my hands! If anyone else wants to bind this for yourself, I have shared all files necessary below! I would love to see if anyone does it too!
I do not give permission for any of these artworks and files to be re-sold. It is for personal use only.
#my art#artwork#artists on tumblr#digital art#art#linked universe#fanfic binding#bookbinding#tsukibinds#lu legend#lu time#lu warriors#lu hyrule#lu four#lu wind#lu sky#lu twilight#lu wild#I could go on and on about all the symbolism i put in these artworks#i dont know if its really surface level or if I'm really clever#probably the former LOOL#wont be able to do any more binds for a while#since im moving away#but im glad i managed to finish this just in time
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if yuo sleep in the stillwater every night u can unlock the secret gaysex ending
#my art tag?#pathologic#daniil dankovsky#artemy burakh#burakhovsky#cw medical gore#but as a surface level metaphor ig#cw blood#timblr keeps refusing to post this i claim homophobia
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