#wait no.. please don’t

[ahsokalegend]

One of my favorite choices the Apothecary Diaries made was making the Emperor a “normal guy” (as far as I know as an anime-only). He’s not evil. He’s not hindering Mao Mao’s journey. He respects the concubines.

If anything his lack of autonomy and presence as the most powerful person in the country further enhances the show’s themes of working within the confines of class and gender inequality.

The previous emperor was a horrible, horrible pervert. Okay, then this emperor only weds women of age… Until he’s forced to take his father’s precious wife due to politics. The current emperor reasonably avoids her.

Eunuchs exist? Bam! now the surgery is outlawed, but this will create a reduction in male labor around the palace.

The emperor clearly favors few women. Well, now he must recognize a concubine with a powerful politician father playing the system.

He supports Mao Mao toeing the line of social expectations for women, but hasn’t removed the law against women preparing medicine. It makes one think, if he wanted to, could he make the change at all? For every two steps forward, he’s forced to take one step back.

In this universe even the Emperor is limited by social pressure and the expectations of his station. His life and that of his children is out of his control, and if that isn’t such a compelling piece of world building I don’t know what is.

If that’s how the author twists the narrative of the Emperor you better believe her female characters dealing with women’s issues in this society are even better written.

[theoldkyokodied]

Really quick doodles of a few scenes from the stream yesterday. Including combat flirting taunting, gale’s magnificently distracting shoes and.. whatever you wanna call gale agreeing to give 15 gold to astarion 😐😑😐😑😐 (that’s me blinking)

[kensatou]

“if you could pick up another language, what would it be?”

“i’d go russian. i’d love to know what geno says or has said over the years… i’d love to know 🥰 i just want to know (giggles) 🥰”

[frm9pm]

Doodle exercise

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The Mirror of Ecidyrue by starbrigid

Another Mask Behind You by lettered

Tea and No Sympathy by who_la_hoop

Recursion by Tessa Crowley

The Ordeal of Being Known by louisfake

The Changing Lights by lazywonderland

Far From The Tree by aideomai

Heal Thyself by astolat

Who we are in the shadows by Quicksilvermaid

All Our Secrets Laid Bare by firethesound

Sealed with a Kiss by Faith Wood

Two to Lie and One to Listen by fluxweed

[j-liz]

HEADCANON: Becky 100% gets her first Tonitrus Bolt when she snaps and publicly cusses out a teacher for being a jerk.

You think so, huh?

[lilhawkeye3]

i’m not gonna hold your hand when i say this one:

sunrise on the reaping does not recontextualize the rebellion that we see in catching fire and mockingjay. y’all are just too used to “chosen one” hero narratives and don’t understand history.

what SOTR does do is give personal background on some of the specific rebels we meet through Katniss. but it does not all of a sudden tell us that the rebellion existed before Katniss gave Peeta the berries, or before she sang to Rue. too many of y’all thought that and so Suzanne Collins had to shove it in our faces this time.

y’all read too many percy jacksons and harry potters and “here’s a special person destined to save us all!” that’s not how movements work in real life.

the reality is there are many many names involved in rebellions and revolutions that are lost to history. part of that is because they are killed and no one is there to tell their story. part of that is because anonymity was required to be an effective part of the movement. and part of that is because sometimes there are things that are more important than an individual.

MLK Jr and Malcolm X didn’t spark the Civil Rights movement. Nelson Mandela didn’t spark anti-apartheid movements. Susan B Anthony didn’t spark the suffragette movement, Rosa Parks wasn’t the first to be denied seating on the bus, and the list goes on. It’s not that these people didn’t do things for these revolutions or that they were puppets, but my point is they’re the names most people attribute to them.

Katniss is just in the right place at the right time with similar enough ideals and actions for the rebellion to uphold as a symbol.

and think of the war effort we see in Mockingjay. it takes years to train soldiers. it takes years to manufacture that many weapons. it takes years to even get Plutarch where he is in SOTR, let alone as a gamemaker in THG. and of most of the rebels Katniss meets who die for her to protect the cause— they aren’t young kids roped along into it. they’re middle aged and older.

none of it magically happened in the span of a year after the 74th games. nor do revolutions necessarily wait for the right person to come along to bandwagon on. sometimes it happens, like with Katniss. other times it’s planned (off of a real event, just recreated under better conditions i.e. Rosa Parks).

anyways. hope that gives y’all something to think about bc i’m really tired of seeing this take elsewhere

this has been another tea time with hawk ☕️🦅

[erandraws]

The world is frightening.

But you’ve seen it now.

And it’s filled with so much beauty.

And you’re part of that now.

You’re part of what makes it beautiful.

[lygma-nygma]

Being a batfam fan is funny because people will make a post like “here’s my headcanon-“ and it’s just something that’s directly canon to the story then post about major canon events and get everything wrong.

[voiddragoncat]

Sonic 3 Spoilers sort of!

From the moon.

Drew this the morning after I saw the movie, trying to mess around with a more loose style and paint-y brush. Very experimental but I kinda liked it! Took about an hour to make.

It’s completely from memory so I know I got a bunch wrong, I’m probably gonna draw the scene again once proper screenshots are available bc it was so pretty

Also, something I was thinking about the entire time they were on the moon out of their super forms:

[gaywineauntsstuff]

imagine that in order to know if someone is an hallucination or not, dick throws something at them if they catch it is really them if it goes through how ever it is an hallucination and everyone just thinks that that is how he just greet people

Oooh that’s fun! I will now ask that everyone reblog this with a weird way dick avoided dealing with the hallucinations

I’ll start

I like to imagine that dick has enough people on direct comm so if he says something in response that doesn’t turn out to be to a real person everyone’s just like. Oh! Dicks on comms.

Even like babs bc I love the non existent beef between the titans and the bats so they are 100% not on the same comm line and babs can’t break cyborgs security so she’s just like “oh look he’s talking to the fucking titans again” and minds her business

And the titans are like “oh he’s dealing with the bats” and leave him be bc they’d rather die than deal with the bats

And Donna from the grave is violently face palming at her idiot and his collection of idiots

[ideologyofone]

Okay since the Timebomb team up is official

What if Jinx is the one who puts this in his hair herself 🤭

[centaur-dreaming]

Jean not understanding why Renee saved him until he’s leaving the house in just his helmet and gloves and breaking every speed limit on his way to do exactly the same thing for Jeremy

[kazaarb]

Think of what we could do… together….

[vic-does-battlecats]

Ik that the Erins will not handle her well at all but I’m so interested in Moonpaw’s sister as a character actually (Maybe more so than actual Moonpaw tbh…).

The writing of the book and even the warriors website treats her as if she’s Completely Evil (going so far as to literally name a character trait of hers as ‘malevolent’ on the website) but like… This isn’t just an evil spooky spirit cat being evil just Because. This is the ghost of a kid who never got to grow up properly, never was properly parented, who had to live vicariously through watching and interacting with Moonpaw when she was a kitten. She had nobody else who could hear her, no other contact with anyone else. And Thunderclan refused to even acknowledge she EXISTED whatsoever, even hiding it from Moonpaw herself. So when Moonpaw suddenly needs to focus without someone chatting to her all the time, and begins to treat her sister like a nuisance and literally begins ignoring her… it would make sense that said sister, who basically has the mindset of a jealous, hurt, abandoned kid, would be mad about it. This is her ONE CONNECTION WITH ANYONE. So her being all ‘if I can’t be with you in your world, you’ll be with me in mine’ makes sense. Moonpaw is all she has. I’m on your side voicepaw….

[theoddholloway]

Sorry in advance for the frickin’ overwhelming amount of Armin….

I drew the boy. He’s so annoying, and I love him. Practically every version of him in the parody show. Leave it at that……

Also, nothing can beat the quote, “Eureka! I think I know what we have to do! We have to get the key into the lock somehow!” Like, yes Armin! That’s exactly how a key works! Good job 👍

Alright, sorry again. I hope your eyes aren’t burnt too much from their sockets..

[marisatomay]

“I can’t believe Tom Cruise of all people would stand up for his agent, a Muslim Libyan-American woman, who was being publicly blacklisted for her support of Palestine and calling out the ongoing genocide, including making a rare in-person appearance to CAA headquarters in LA to express his support for her. What a strange person who can ever guess what opinions he will have.”

Look. I’ve studied Tom Cruise a lot. One could even call me a Cruisologist. (Not to be confused with. Well.) And, it’s actually really easy to predict Tom Cruise’s opinion on something. The tricky part is whether it will be made public in a timely manner or not and, if it’s made public at all, will it be a lede buried in favor of pushing a narrative sold on background by a studio exec he pissed off because he didn’t roll over and take their bullshit.