#very introspective

[aerequets]

this post was the catalyst for this comic, and i was also thinking of a desi song lyric (tere dil ke sheher mein ghar mera ho gaya / in the city of your heart, my home is made) and just... hmmm.... leaving your mark.... making a house into a home..... when the marks a child inevitably leaves behind (messes, scribbles, and in this case stickers) eventually fade away as they grow older and you're left with the memories stored in what hasn't been erased....

im not verbalizing it very well but catch my drift?

[orcinas]

crocodile having fucked doffy before dumping his ass for dragon is excellent because it means that 20 years later when dressrosa arc happens, yet another monkey d man comes along to steal one of doffy's "possessions". i know he was seething about it.

[carlsdraws]

[traceyc-uk]

Pride Week: similar to this post a doodle dump of Nfy x Chris @diana-bluewolf

[belllaboratories]

brah i havent even played double exposure yet but what did they do to my buddy warren? not cool, man. anyways what if they were long distance friends and warrens arc in lis meant something

[formulanni]

Alex Albon as The Hermit:

The Hermit suggests that you are in a phase of introspection where you are drawing your attention inwards and looking for answers within. You are in need of a period of inner reflection, away from the current demands of your position.

This is a call to embark on a journey of self-discovery, embracing our true spiritual self and inner wisdom.

Tag list: @st-leclerc @rubywingsracing @saviour-of-lord @three-days-time @the-wall-is-my-goal @albonoooo @ch3rubd0lls

[thatshadowcomic]

I hope this is meaningful for someone other than just myself.

View them as brothers, friends/rivals or lovers it doesnt change that Shadow has a deep respect and admiration for Sonic.

Sonic is what shadow was meant to be: a hero.

Shadow failed to be that when he needed to, and that haunts him. He feels like a fake, a failure. Sonic reminded him that you still be a hero, even if it's just for yourself. You can come back from failure and find people for you.

If you let one failure determine your fate, "you'll never find your way". Be the hero you need, as cringe as it sounds.

In a way, sonic is who shadow aims to be one day.

[goldfishinaplasticbag]

unironically angel’s design is baaaasically what i headcanon like, 35 year old tim to look like. in my secret “Tim Drake is Everyone’s Big Brother” fic at least.

except with a lot more soft smiles and toying with his “younger brothers”.

it’s so hard to be me with a billion poorly written and unfinished fics that nobody will understand until i actually write them good and post it. gah. one of these days i’ll post this specific one because it rattles in my brain a lot, only being amplified by angel and dick in my main fic

[cloudinal]

Another year has passed-- happy birthday

It's incredibly tiny, so here are the music+player details! The idea is that the MP3 player is showing the time signature, and the threads of Neku's clothes are forming to resemble sheet music :)

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Sometimes I think I am the most boring person around with the most unspectacular life but I guess that can't be true if I have literally hundreds of handmade-by-me unique creatures suspended in the air above me at any given time and that probably sounds exaggerated or fantastical to most people. But no it's just my life and I got used to it.

[whimzycle]

Hi Whimzycle! I'm a HUGE fan of your art, it makes my days brighter and I absolutely love how you draw Aster! <3 I started enjoying ROTG and the GOC saga again and I was wondering if you felt comfortable sharing your top 3 fanfics! :)

Thank you so much!

Daawwee thank you!! I appreciate it!! I used to be intimidated when it comes to drawing Bunny but lo and behold, he is the only one that I drew the most out of all the rotg cast lmao.

As for fics though...[Sweats in majority of the rotg fics I read are Jackrabbit centric]

I'll try to keep it as neutral as possible though lmao

Top 1. Prelude to Time Feelers by atimefeeler

I'm sorry I know I said I'll keep it neutral but I really can't help it. It's a really good fic, Jackrabbit notwithstanding. In my defense, the romance isn't really romancing, really they're more queer platonic that's why I like it very much. This fic is so good, genuinely. It's a reimagine of events that happen in both the book series and the movie. The fusion of both media is really well-done and it's world-building even more so! It features perspectives from Mother Nature, Bunnymund and Jack. So like, essentially, you get Mother Nature's backstory, Bunny's backstory and Jack's pov all in one chapter. It's great I love it. High tier, 10/10 fic. Though if you really aren't comfortable with the Jackrabbit part of it, it's cool. I still think you should give it a try lmao.

Top 2. My Stars and Your Valleys by ketren

This is one of the really cool ones lmao. It's a science-fiction au!!! Almost like the likes of Star Trek but it feels more like a treasure planet for me lmao (I've never seen star trek, I'm sorry I'm a degenerate lmao) One of the things that I really like about this fic is how well it incorporates elements of the movie into this fic like oh my god. Especially Jack's initial relationship with the guardians is almost like the movie and it's good, it's great I love it. Oh and the plot!! Goddamn the plot!! It's so eerie and mysterious and I love it. It keeps you interested for the entire duration of the fic, wondering what the hell is happening lmao. But oh! I most love Jack's relationship with his sister, even though it's only at the first and last chapters lmao. They're so good, I love how complex it is. It's a high tier, 10/10 fic!!! Please read it!!!!! It's so good!!!!!!!

Top 3. 188 Hugs by Icka M Chif (mischif)

Affectionate Guardians are my weakness and this fic exploits my love for it. Also, it's Jack and Bunny centric so it's a two-for two punch of things that I love. The title says it all when it comes to the plot lmao. It's essentially an exploration of Jack and Bunny's friendship through hugging lmao. It's a great fic high tier, 10/10. (Although really, any fic from this author is a 10/10) I love how it tackles the Jack is lonely for 300 years bit and the only way to dismantle that is through the power of friendship and found family. Really, the only solution to everything. And I love it, it's great, it's amazing and I feel so much joy over this fic. I really don't need to explain much lmao. This fic is just so good, I'll let it explain itself for you. So please!! Read it!!! So you can experience the immense joy I had when reading it lmao!!!!!!

Now, I know you only said my top 3, but I'm adding honorable mentions because it is a crime if I do not include any of them:

Sparks Fly by Icka M Chif (mischif)

Naughty and Nice by Icka M Chif (mischif)

Not a Guardian by Icka M Chif (mischif)

Advent, Advection by pengiesama

Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio by pengiasama

Looming Shadows by Reidluver

Nights and Nights Again by partingxshot

When Hope Gives Way to Joy by taizi

Other Ways by Asidian

Unique by Asidian

Learning to See by emeralddawn

Mischief Managed followed by April Fools by Neyiea

Allegro Non Molto by tablrcloth

Flower Prompt: Yarrow by melissae-astron

Like a Star by Lunermoon1000

Protege by ProlixEllipsis

[javierduffy]

i wanted to try a digital study

[moonchild-in-blue]

You know, I'm really really curious to see how post-enlistment BTS is going to sound thematically-wise.

In these past 2/3 years, they all had the chance to get uncomfortably honest and, for lack of a better term, liberal, in the way they explore their own sound, in a way we got to see very little of previously. We got the rapline fleshing out their work, and the vocal line braving into full-fledged solo stuff for the first time.

Hoseok, who keeps refining and pushing the boundaries of his sound. Who found his footing and is making it his own. The boy who was born for the stage finally gets to be on the spotlight as himself, standing on the shoulders of BTS's j-hope but going back to his roots as Hoseok.

Yoongi and Joon, who already have an incredibly rich discography, and are digging deeper into themselves - there's healing, there's catharsis, there's grief for a past self and hope for a new one. Between Yoongi's Suchwita and Joon's work on RPWP, there's a lot of conversations about life as an artist and as an ordinary person, about mental health and identity, the creative process, about leaving your youth behind and coming to terms with adulthood and the loneliness it brings.

Jin, Jimin and Jungkook who have finally ventured into longer bodies of work, who have finally got to explore who they are (as musical artists) outside and beyond the Bangtan umbrella. Jin especially with this upcoming tour and all the entertainment content he's been a part of, and gets to do things his own way.

Tae, who went the other way and invested in his relationships, who showed us more of himself not through music, but through the way he conducts himself with his friends, outside of the stage.

As Bangtan, they have always been very vocal about all of these, but it's the first time they all got to live life aa creatives on their own. There is a newer, better collective understanding of themselves and each other, and a new layer of maturity and transparency, which has been beautiful to witness it unfold.

I'm so very looking forward to see all of this new knowledge and experience being brought into BTS, and how the new chapter will reflect that once they get together again. Personally I feel like the MOTS series was the perfect mesh of their individual identities and sounds (which makes sense since it was the last Big Thing they did pre-covid that wasn't just a compilation of things like Proof. BE was great but had a very distinct sound and purpose under the Covid context), and if their recent solo work is anything to go by, we are going to see a completely new version of BTS that is bound to surpass all we know from them so far.

[boomerangguy]

Forgotten Firelord

As much as I want to see a well-executed Azula redemption, I also need Ozai to get some attention.

Not asking for a long dramatic arc where he “unlearns imperialism” because that’s never going to happen and trying to moralize through education (especially to a deposed monarch) doesn’t work. Personal values need to change.

So his ‘redemption,’ if we can call it that, is all very subtle and delicate, completely confined to his own thoughts and spanning several decades. The regret has to gnaw at him. He has to spend those years imagining what would have happened if he’d defeated Aang, reliving the day of Sozin’s Comet over and over and over until all his bitterness runs dry and his ‘what ifs’ grow stale.

Reluctantly, he finally admits — maybe just subconsciously — that world conquest would not have satisfied him. That sort of thing cannot offer the deep fulfillment he yearns for, so he starts wondering what would.

Participating in a loving, fruitful marriage. Companionship with his brother. Watching his children grow and flourish. Protecting his own people’s way of life instead of using them as fodder to conquer other nations. Ozai spends years dwelling on what he might have missed, gradually delving deeper and deeper.

He eventually faces regrets that he doesn’t know how to process. Missing his chance to kill Aang becomes the furthest thing from his mind — instead, it’s blindly following his ambition, mutilating his son, exiling his wife, mistreating his daughter, failing as Firelord.

But it’s too late to fix any of that now. All he can do is whisper in the darkness of his cell, late at night when no one else will hear:

“I’m sorry.”

When he finally dies forty years after Sozin’s Comet, no one knows that he had a change of heart — and no one particularly cares that he’s gone, either. The Fire Nation has moved on. Most people had forgotten about him or assumed he was already dead. Just one person bothers to visit the lonely cell where Ozai spent nearly half his life.

Decades before, Aang sent a small gift — something of a gag, but not intended to mock — to the prison for Ozai. To his surprise, the Firelord noodle art he’d made in Fire Nation school is still hanging on the cell wall. Only a few moldy old noodles are left, but there’s no mistaking what it means: The noodle art is how innocent children would have seen their Firelord — the man and ruler he should have been.

He buries the art with Ozai and resolves to find him in the Spirit World.

[recent-rose]

intrigued by the idea that jayce dooms viktor to become the herald because he loves viktor too much to let him die. but mage!viktor could also choose not to save jayce from the storm in order to save himself from that fate, and yet he too loves too much to let go of jayce. endless cycle only broken by their choice to go together.

[genderkoolaid]

i think the problem that arises with "x desire comes from internalized oppression" stuff is not that it suggests we should be critical with our desired and how they are constructed. it's that some people have already decided the correct answer to that introspection. so if you Really questioned your own oppression you would know that Enjoying Sex Work Is Bad! and if you haven't come to that conclusion than you are still brainwashed. it is vital that we respect a person's ability to introspect on their desires and come to a different conclusion about them as an individual. & frankly choice feminism is still choice feminism when the focus is on Rejecting Everything Patriarchal instead of eyeliner so sharp it could kill a man.