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Bless nefelegy for making that video about how bad and casual misogyny is within OC Artist communities

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I'm going absolutely feral over this

Pleaseeeee read it

GUYS

GUYS THIS FIC

UGHHHHH

Jftjrjfhirhtidhfdvv

ITS SO GOOOOOOOOOOD

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58754314/chapters/149726953

LITERALLY TOP TIER TOGACHAKO FIC

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GUYS

GUYS THIS FIC

UGHHHHH

Jftjrjfhirhtidhfdvv

ITS SO GOOOOOOOOOOD

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58754314/chapters/149726953

LITERALLY TOP TIER TOGACHAKO FIC

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something about grace’s instinct being to get herself and her husband out of there at the first sign of trouble and leave everybody else there to deal with the unknown danger, and this being the thing that actually dooms her and by extension all the other characters too… she makes bo go outside to get the car which gets him killed, then remmick is able to use bo’s memories to manipulate grace into inviting the vampires in. something about the lack of solidarity being everyone’s downfall. is this anything.

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Remmick is just straight up evil

I watched Sinners, I decided to make the grievous mistake of going online to hear other peoples thoughts. Why do I keep seeing this idea that Remmick isn't evil, or meant no "real" harm, or even that he genuinely wanted to help others? Remmick is literally a personification of the american idea of Cultural Assimilation, the idea that in order to truly make it and be american you must strip yourself of your actual cultural identity and become just "American".

But the truth about cultural assimilation is that it means to embrace and replace your culture with whatever white people decide is best. When Remmick turns people, he doesn't let them sing their songs or dance their dances. They all sing Irish folk songs, they dance Irish dances, they do the culture that Remmick decided was the best and most unifying.

He has no care for their own culture, and wants them to literally give that up so that they can join him and his weird vampire cult hivemind. In the end, however, it is all about control. He gets to be the center of everything and the one everyone turns and looks towards, the one everyone agrees with.

He only wants Sammie to join and is enamored with him because he sees Sammie as a shiny new toy he can potentially buy. Sammie has a good voice and writes good songs, he wants Sammie's creativity and passion but does not give a single fuck about how or why Sammie is that passionate or creative. He even says as much, "I don't care about your stories".

He is just straight up EVIL like the worst. He is not a sympathetic villain or misunderstood, or even someone with an opposing but equally as viable point. I don't know how to explain to some people that cultural assimilation is quite literally one of the worst things to ever happen to a lot of POC, but especially black people. The whole point of the ending is that Sammie doesn't give up the blues or making music, he continues to make the music HIS people made instead of giving it all up to assimilate and join the church.

The music is the thing that connects people because Sammie is sharing it with others WILLINGLY (not by force or by having someone haggle him about it lol) Sammie's music and by extension Blues as a genre allowed for a lot of people from all different walks of life and cultures to express their pain and suffering, which is the whole point of it.

Anyways, I could really ramble forever but yeah fuck Remmick lmao he's not even an interesting villain, and is so obviously just an evil dickhead. There is no nuance there, the guys just lying about actually wanting to care or be nice to people or unite them all as one. It's really giving "We're all one race, the HUMAN race" and "All Lives Matter!" type shit.

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My fav sinners tweet so far

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i’m genuinely so obsessed with the theory that remmick was a fíli like sammie because what do you mean he used to have the same gift. what do you mean it was another thing he loved more than life that was taken from him. what do you mean he can’t use it to see his ancestors again. what do you mean.

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Omg @demphen loooook

They shipping Loustack on twt and I lowkey need it badly

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Awh fuck, it’s friday

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Book Two Cover complete!!!!!

Book one cover

This one was REALLY REALLY FUN just because it was so completely different from the last (because i wanted it to be the same but tonally inverted) symbolism.

Also Drift looks really cute :)))))

Uh Anyway. Go read @notwhelmedyet’s fic if you haven’t already <3

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Finally! A full-body picrew that has my hair length :D

Thanks demphenn for tagging me >:333333

I went a lil more fictional with mine

Maybe starting a tag chain thingy?? Idk make one of you want!

@ladybluebellz @demphen @haunted-house-md

In case no one reads the tags, the red hat is for Alabama not MAGA. Roll tide!

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Ill admit ive never been that into laurence (any his variations really) but something has been really bothering me since rewatching parts of MCD.

What really caught my attention about MCD Laurence is that he starts out as this well adjusted, loyal knightly and charming guy- and then after he becomes a shadow knight you just see this slow decay of him. Like hes slowly losing parts of himself and its causing him to become more and more unstable to the point where by the end of season 2 hes honestly kind of terrfying.

And ALOT of that is reflected with how his relationship with aphmau starts to shift. He goes from this sweet, suave and honestly pretty silly personality, to being so obsessive and vindictive towards her.

Theres this one scene, at the end of ep 95 S2, where aphmau has just essentially seen a ghostly image of aaron and is really shaken up by it. Laurence comes to sit with her and ask her about it. And at first, it genuinely seems like hes just trying to get her to open up so he can support her. But then it quickly spirals into him demanding to know why she cares about aaron so much and why shes greiving so hard for him, like its a problem. He becomes so aggressive and condensending to the point where Garroth has to intervene and he walks off.

In this moment you see how far hes really fallen, he goes from semingly reasuring and gentle, and by the end of it hes disrepecting a dead man, who gave his life to save both his brother and supposed love of his life, who he travelled and fought along side with for months, who close to the end of his life was taking care of an orphan (something he comlimented in aphmau), and hes thowing all of that out the window because hes taken Aphmau's attention, due to the fact he fucking died.

After that happens, aphmau has a conversation woth vlyad where he basically tells her that laurence has to accept what he is and go to the nether or else hes gonna go insane, and that the only reason he came back is because hes "chasing a fantasy". Aphmau responds by suggesting they get cadenza over so that he can be with family, and vlyad says she can do what she wants but implies its pretty much inevitable that laurence is going to hit a breaking point. And hes completely right.

Before laurence even gets to speak to cadenza, he eavesdrops on the conversation where aphamu reveals shes pregnant, and just immediately peaces out, out of fear that hes going to MURDER HER.

Not to mention that in that conversation, cadenza herself tells aphmau not to tell laurence because shes scared of how he would react. He has gotten so unstable that his own sister, who loves him more than anything, can recognise that he is a danger to some degree and shes RIGHT.

All this paints a stark contrast, the laurence we first met vs the man he has now become. Its tragic because its this inevitable downfall brought on by an act that was completely selfless, him sacrificing himself that got him turned into a shadow knight in the first place.

Even this is eventually tainted, his selfless act becomes a selfish one as he seems to cling to aphmau's love and affection as an emotional crutch. Aphmau obviously loves and cares for him deeply, but not in an explicitly romantic/sexual way. And if she doesnt love him the way he wants, then why is he suffering through this? Why did he bother to sacrafice himself at all if theres no reward? Its honestly horrifying how pretty much everyone who loved and respected him, makes what should be incredibly out of place predictions on him, but they always end up being right except for aphmau. She cant accept that hes changing and theres nothing she or anyone else can do change that. Its gut wrenching.

This all lead me to beileve that i didnt give enough credit to his character. I love this. This is the type off tragic story telling im here for. Theres so much more to this character than i ever expected.

Heres the thing.

Why the fuck do laurence's biggest fans seem to just completely disregard this? If you believed a good portion of the fandom, laurence is just this sauve uwu sad boy who was unfairly rejected and ignored by a woman who demamded the world from him.

Im dead serious, i saw people saying that laurence "deserved better than aphmau", that he deserved someone who recognised the sacrafice he made. Which like- there is so much to unpack there.

First of all, aphmau did recognise his sacrafice, she did love him and try to support him in the best way she could, even when literally everyone around her was saying it was a lost cause. She did everything she could for that man and forgave so much of what he did while struggling with the calling and she got nothing but shit for it.

Second of all, no the fuck he doesnt?? As illustrated in the examples above he did not respect Aphmau's boundaries. He did not respect her feelings. And by the end, he didnt even respect her bodily autonomy. Lets be honest here, he basically abandoned everyone he apprantly "loved", because bro tapped it before he could. She loved him so much, but because he wanted something she wasnt willing or able to provide, that being explicitly romantic and sexual attention, he just didnt see it. To try and argue that hes the real victim here, is in the same vain of "nice guys finish last". Him being kind, compassionate and selfless- shouldnt be reliant on whether or not this woman will fuck him or not. That is an insanely misogynistic way of thinking.

But most important to me in the context of this analysis- what is there to like about laurence with this interpretation? What possibly sets him apart from the gazillion other brunette pretty anime bois? Am i to gay for this? Is there something im not seeing?

I understand fanon can wildly divert from canon, and i understand that alot of this is probably down to the fact that i find dissecting and critiquing canon more intresting than reinventing it through fanon. Im locked into the Baldurs gate 3 fandom and i had the same experience there (laurence fangirls got NOTHING on Astarion girlies). But both experiences have left me with the same question- what draws you to a character, when all you do is boil them down to their most generic aspects?

I find Laurence intresting cause we are seeing this man crash out and become a monster in real time. And i dont see how he is worth even an honourable mention, when you take that away.

What is there left to be compelled to?

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Spotlight: Jazz is peak Prowl being able to comfort Jazz even though Jazz doesn't want to open up about how he's feeling and Prowl completely respects that

i love their dynamic so much here and in "all hail megatron", it's such a shame that their connection ended up being completely forgotten in the rest of idw series... reading "optimus prime" and coming across that one frame, observing what we have had and lost because the authors couldn't keep in mind how and who they were writing... it actually hurts

you guys. you guys! why are you doing this to us. why is it so hard for you to keep track on your story!! why do we have to see their relationship... fall apart?? without a decent look at it?? somewhere out there, in the background?? we're just left with the fact that they are over or maybe never even were there in the first place

prowl and jazz had so much potential at some point of idw history. the way how well they worked together despite all the difficulties, how sincerely prowl supported jazz even though he remained very closed off and aloof the whole time, how he really tried to be a good loyal friend, respected jazz's personal boundaries, didn't push, didn't go too far with his concern, didn't except anything in return and was just there to help... a rare bright moment for this version of my poor boy :'D

there were so many opportunities to develop this further, to show how they could exist in the new cybertronian future for which they had gone through so much hardship, how could they fight all the problems that were coming down on them, together, exactly as it was on earth. but, alas, we have to accept that they were quickly brushed aside and forgotten. a little time passes and they become strangers. forever. their entire bond is just erased. because that's how idw works with their characters...

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Imagine you live in a tiny coast town in idk fucking Georgia or something. Everything is fine and dandy but one day King Charles and the Pope publicly declare war on your town because the pope told him your mayor kidnapped Prince William. Then, you remember that one guy Will who showed up like four months ago and is pretty quiet and keeps to himself and doesn't do much besides sit in the fields all day. Everyone starts searching for him to get King Charles off your backs only to realize he has completely disappeared.

This also does absolutely nothing to explain why the Pope is backing King Charles, UNTIL you remember your Mayor's DA is actually the Pope's BROTHER who ran away because he didn't want to marry some random royal person he didn't know. Little do you know, that the rando royal is actually Prince William, who has been kidnapped for real this time- by the pope- but is being held in an underground bunker in the okefenokee swamp.

Anyways, you're trying to figure how the fuck your town of maybe 300-ish people is going to fight the british navy and fucking spanish inquisition. The mayor, handling this remarkably well, makes two phone calls. The first to the Mayor of Washington DC, who is lending you the national guard since your mayor saved him while he was being held captive by an anarchist terrorist group one time. The second is the governor of Louisiana, who agrees to lend some humanitarian aid because your mayor walked his daughter home after she got lost on a chicken farm once. Then, the pope decides to pillage and raze the fuck out of Louisiana, partly because they were offering to lend aid, but mostly because the pope knows the governor's son is your mayor's side piece.

Now, your tiny town is full of the national guard and 20,000 cajuns that are simply itching to terrorize some monarchists. Also that bishop that you were pretty sure was just spying on your town comes in and denounces the pope and offers to fight for your mayor. Lastly, your mayor meets King Charles and the Pope at the town limits, and the mayor, ever wanting peace, offers to marry the pope, who takes a confusingly long time to say no.

Then the battle happens and your army of the national guard and 20,000 cajuns absolutely rock their shit before things start to turn for the worse and just when all seems lost Prince William shows up and absolutely decks King Charles in the face, throwing such a legendary haymaker thrown hard enough to be heard throughout the whole battle, ending the fighting instantly.

The Battle of Phoenix Drop was fucking wild.

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finally, a team 7 to complete the set!

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decided to put these in a bit of a chronological order as i can’t help but form a story behind the scenes. it’s a storyteller’s habit. and yeah i do have an idea i would genuinely like to explore with gail simone as a crossover comic. 

i don’t want to be the writer for this. but at the same time i always found diving into these things and exploring the character chemistry was the best way to get an artistic feeling for it.

this is also how i usually develop my own stories.

anyhow, while many think this is me drawing some shipping, in fact this a proof of concept for an adventure story  featuring lara and diana. Gail simone at some point asked if they would kiss and i gave it some genuine thought. i am a character first kind of a writer, myself, so i contemplated this. then i decided, yes, probably.

after all, romantic subplots have been the bread and butter of adventure writing since its inception and i always liked that aspect of adventure stories.

 i hope this puts some things in context from my end XD

and while there will probably be a few more of these, there will be no nsfw pics. after all, camera pans away from indiana jones in those moments as well  XD

okay… there may be a chance of a kiss… but that’s about it.  (edit, i added the rest of them here along with the antagonist)

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I was 7 and discovered that stories could have sad endings

fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.