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The Iron Man Noir art I did for the @transistorpoweredheart-zine!

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the pokke incident

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thoughts on Katy Perry/Justin Trudeau?

It genuinely doesn't even compute. It gives me a feeling of unreality. Lots of things nowadays make me feel like "we can't be living in the real world, this can't be happening" but this is by far the most lowest stakes thing that makes me feel that way

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looking for opinions both from americans and non-americans: what would you consider to be the big 4 american cities in terms of like, vibes-based cultural impact?

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This was done for @/faltinians DTIYS on twitter. heres fem!tony rollerskating, keep her safe

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"dolphins are completely evil" I actually don't think we should assign human morality to animals with no concept of law or civilisation with an intelligence roughly equating to that of a toddler

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Red-tailed elephant mosquito, Toxorhynchites haemorrhoidalis, Culicidae

Found from Mexico down through southern Brazil, this species is one of many mosquitoes that do not consume blood. Adults eat honeydew, sap, nectar, and other plant and fruit juices.

Photo 1 by kyukich, 2-5 by nonomay, 6-8 by fedecrc, and 9-10 (for scale) by wilsonlombana

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If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

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oh so i DIDNT post this huh

big honkin comm for a friend featuring the most unloved bugs of all

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extremely funny to me that harley quinns real name is apparently harleen quinzel, a name that sounds less real that harley quinn. they should do that with more comic characters. batman real name batthew manning. daredevil real name darius devilson. doctor strange real name. well okay that one doesnt count.

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For the fanfic trope thing: soulmates au

howdy anonymous bee! thank you for asking 🍯

soulmates AU: C-

okay hear me out, hear me out. the concept! is very meaty and compelling. but i find what i am most interested in is most often the thing that's given the least amount of screentime in soulmate AUs. and that is the ✨worldbuilding✨ i think all AUs that fundamentally redefine a core tenant of society (ie. omegaverse, werewolves are known, magic, etc.) should actually radically shift the norms and rules of the universe in question. ie. how do arranged marriages work? is there a religion around soulmates? how do jobs/medical benefits/etc. have to curate themselves to adapt to the possibilities of someone forming a bond? does bonding happen instantly without pain or notice? what are the physical feelings, can it be played with or replicated or stimulated or suppressed? how does it affect sex - what are the KINKS stemming from this? how are tattoos allowed if the soulmate name is tattooed? if not, how do we see the bond, what does it look like chemically? and how do you fake being someone's soulmate? what are the implications for people working in high stress environments if they can randomly lose control and focus? what are the implications of using soulmates to a job's advantage, through telepathy, senses, etc.? if having a soulmate is so lauded, where is the discrimination and devaluation systemically of non-bonded peoples? is this actually a nuclear model or do you have bonds for all types of relationships a la sense8? WHERE ARE THE MATCHMAKERS/BOND INVESTIGATORS? WHERE ARE THE POLY PEOPLE AND POLY BONDS AND AROMATIC AND ASEXUAL BONDS! HOW DO PEOPLE TRUST OTHER PEOPLE PRIORITIZING THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WHEN THE THREAT OF A BOND LOOMS THAT WILL SUBSUME THEIR PLACE IN A LOVED ONE'S LIFE AND SO ON [shaking the gates let me innn] i'm not asking for 250k on it, just from a carrying out the premise to the second layer of explanation. what if ! we treated soulmate AUs like a magic system and consider its implications and limitations as they affect the actual structure of the narrative. i think we the audience would buy into these AUs so much more deeply, if those considerations were met. and that's my stance on that. but they really are fun and juicy and i am a romantic, so wow. to blave. #fated. i'm a sucker for it.

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ask me to grade a fanfic trope!

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iron man 2's "iron man is killing tony" route is very straightforward and makes a lot of sense, the chunk of metal wedged into his ribcage is poisoning him. meanwhile in the comics it's like By some kind of comic book magic anybody who isn't tony wearing the iron man armor will have their head fried and they will turn evil bc it's not attuned to their brain waves Also by the way every single iron man armor up until model 16 has been slowly destroying tony's body and his ability to heal from injuries on a cellular level (he fixes this quickly offscreen)

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Tony’s life is such a Mood

The Invincible Iron Man issue #97

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Sketch of my variant Tony Stark au where he ends up working with the TVA in a somewhat similar fashion to Loki…. He ends up running off to do what he wants because FUCK the TVA!!

He’s very precious to me….