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Return of Persephone (1891) homage in Blood of Zeus season 3 👀

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How did you figure out the design for Sissi’s Lyoko form? Is it based on any specific culture?

Since Sissi is fairly skilled in the Pencak Silat classes she takes with Ulrich (a fact that is rarely brought up in the show, but a fact I adore nonetheless), I wanted to lean into that Indonesian martial arts aesthetic.

It's not exact, and I may tweak her design later to better represent the robes usually worn in the sport, but that's the origin of her outfit.

And as for her horns-

There's a lot of thematic reasons regarding her bull-like behavior and temperament but for the most part it's because I kept thinking of scenes like this and it always made me laugh.

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The live chat for the Nintendo Treehouse expo today has just been this for the last like, hour

this is hilarious

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Disney's 100th anniversary film should've been a Kingdom Hearts movie

I'm partially joking but okay look,,

I hate Disney too and I am not even gonna waste my breath complaining about Wish in this post because I just do not care about Disney anymore. But it used to mean a lot to me, so I can dream about what a 100th anniversary would've looked like in a world where they didn't completely fall from grace. And I think it looks like a film adaptation of an absurd, convoluted but genuine love letter to old Disney movies. It'd be weird, it'd be cringe, but it would be fun.

And for the love of god, it would be hand drawn in fucking 2D.

I will be taking no criticisms.

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I only just got into the Legend of Zelda series a few years ago with BotW, and I absolutely love it. But every time I play through one of the older games, I discover connections to the newer games and find myself baffled by how many people just like, actively refuse to interact with some of the lore.

Like, the Zelda community is such an amazing place for community theorizing and conspiracies, and the people involved are so smart and passionate about this stuff. But then the moment I try saying "Hey, I think the Ancient Robots from SS and all the glowing-green robots from TP might be related to the Zonai Constructs from ToTK"

or "Hey the ancient guardians from those astral-realm trials kinda look like the Zonai, and also have 3 eyes??"

or "Hey, ancient mysterious flying islands with blocky Jomun-inspired architecture also appear in Twilight Princess and Four-Swords Adventures..."

"...Do we think the writers had this in mind for longer than we thought? Or maybe they're connecting older unanswered stories to try fleshing out the world's history?"

I'll definitely see a few people point these things out but then I see an overwhelming amount of people who just respond with "hmm. Nope. Can't." or "Stop putting so much thought into it it's not that deep."

Like omg who cares if it's not that deep? What happened to forcing Nintendo to retcon in the "three timeline" thing? Where's the pizzaz? Where's the imagination?

These games are so much fun to try connecting together

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I think people need to start talking about both sides of this as the same argument and not as opposites? Direct action is probably the most important thing we can do right now and honestly? An uprising to overthrow the whole fascist system would do way more good than harm. But people also need to be politically active and this wide push to get people to vote is to try getting people to vote for EVERYTHING, not just the big elections that are polarizing and likely rigged anyway. If on a base community level people are normalized to socialism and humanitarian ideals then it becomes easier to have numbers against fascists.

And that then lends to your question- we need to normalize voting because the white people who show up to vote get to swing their election Republican while suppressing the voices of minorities, and a lot of the rest of us only get involved once every four years to be performative. White people dont do enough, convince ourselves that voting is pointless, and then blame everyone else for not being active enough. With that looped back around, spreading that narrative is actively silencing leftist voices.

I dont have a real answer, and its something I wish I saw people talking about way more often because this needs to be something that everyone knows. You're absolutely right on that. And the more impactful thing to do right now is to protest and revolt and make our voices heard that we refuse to live like this, but the outrageously stupid thing is that if we dont have voting numbers in there as well then non-minority groups can still turn their noses and pretend that were all just outliers. The argument isnt that we shouldn't take direct action, its that while were taking direct action we also vote, and do so for anything we can vote for so theres at least a chance for people to un-rig the game. And if that doesnt work, we keep going with the direct action and tear it down. But when we make a new system it has to be one in which people know to vote for their laws, know how to avoid voter supression, and make sure that nobody comes out on the other side thinking that voting does nothing.

so when trump decides to cancel the election altogether what are you liberal heauxes gonna do??? vote to turn it back on????

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I may be alone in this but I really miss how we used to be obsessed with our page theme designs?

Like yes, Im just cranky because I spent a lot of time playing with/learning coding and got my art blog lookin nice n spicy right before people stopped caring about themes. But also, this is the only social media website where you still have freedom over how your page looks and I hate how staff just made the whole thing completely Dashboard/Mobile focused.

Every other site completely did away with individuality years ago and now everything is either Chrome or Dark Mode. For example, YouTube used to have customizable layout themes before Google bought them. You could have fun color schemes and backgrounds that fit with your channel and video style. Sometimes it looked cute and aesthetically pleasing:

Sometimes it didn’t

Or you could just leave it as the default. But you had the choice and that added a layer of discovery to web-surfing. (Forgive the examples, but google is trying VERY HARD to pretend that customizable Youtube was never a thing and I’ve been having such a hard time finding images of it.)

Now with TUMBLR, you can still edit your HTML to look like ANYTHING and a lot of people got really good at coding as a result. If you found out that someone you followed had a dope theme, it was exciting just because it was fun and cool to look at. Now that most websites are mobile-focused, they’ve all lost their panache and nobody has the incentive to make individual blogs anymore. And I understand why, but I’m a mad nostalgic baby about it.

Can you imagine if websites started allowing this kind of artistry again? Sure, not everybody uses desktops anymore but it would be nice if your personal social media pages could have, y’know, personality? Your youtube page could have unique layouts, play buttons, video boarders, playlist cover designs (I mean beyond custom thumbnails). Facebook could give you customizability for the design/font of your posts or different ways to showcase photo albums. Hell, maybe even do some fun things with mobile themes, idk. 

It’s just wild to me that websites like Tumblr and DeviantART are the most shat-on websites on the internet and yet they’re the only ones that aren’t forced to be Google Clones. Idk if it’s capitalism or what, but I’m so bored of modern websites. Bring this shit back!

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All these nintendo leaks got me in a doodle mood and I love this dumb shark-dog from Diamond and Pearl. What leak do y’all want me to draw next?

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Hey nerds I'm not dead! Just super hyperfocused on this Avatar Renaissance. Have a Toph!

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And then about a year later you find out that “Sir Jason Toronto” was an undercover foreign war leader who literally invented the Airship

Can we please just acknowledge the sheer absurdity the “Kuzon’s Parents” disguise scene:

Deadass Katara just stuffed her shirt with melons, did nothing else to even pretend that she was older than 14, Sokka put on what was probably an incredibly fake-looking beard and pulled the most shakespearean accent he could muster. 

They just saunter on in with their son who looks literally nothing like either of them, but also almost the exact same age. The headmaster probably just thinks “Fuck it. Okay. Benefit of the doubt. I’m not particularly well-versed in the ethnicities of the colonies maybe this is just normal. Adoption maybe? Good skin care?” 

And then when he asks their names, Sokka just comes out guns blazing with surnames- which is implied (but not confirmed) to be sort of nobility status. And not only is their cover story that they have surnames in the first place, but that their name is Fire. Wang Fire and Sapphire Fire. 

Can you imagine just being a Canadian school principal meeting a student’s parents for the first time and you just see these rogue teenagers showing up saying “Hello yes my name is Sir Jason Toronto and this is my wife Poutine.”

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#hello my name is yeehaw nevada and these are my parents desert nevada and sagebrush nevada HOW DARE YOU LEAVE ‘YEEHAW NEVADA’ IN THE TAGS ADJHFKASJDHF

Can we please just acknowledge the sheer absurdity the “Kuzon’s Parents” disguise scene:

Deadass Katara just stuffed her shirt with melons, did nothing else to even pretend that she was older than 14, Sokka put on what was probably an incredibly fake-looking beard and pulled the most shakespearean accent he could muster. 

They just saunter on in with their son who looks literally nothing like either of them, but also almost the exact same age. The headmaster probably just thinks “Fuck it. Okay. Benefit of the doubt. I’m not particularly well-versed in the ethnicities of the colonies maybe this is just normal. Adoption maybe? Good skin care?” 

And then when he asks their names, Sokka just comes out guns blazing with surnames- which is implied (but not confirmed) to be sort of nobility status. And not only is their cover story that they have surnames in the first place, but that their name is Fire. Wang Fire and Sapphire Fire. 

Can you imagine just being a Canadian school principal meeting a student’s parents for the first time and you just see these rogue teenagers showing up saying “Hello yes my name is Sir Jason Toronto and this is my wife Poutine.”

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I'm in full support of the femdom kink and from what ive seen of that community its weirdly wholesome, but one of the funniest/dumbest things I tend to see is "if youre not sure if he's a sub, pay attention to see if he cleans up after himself, self-grooms, cooks, doesn't interrupt your sentences, etc. If he does any of this hes secretly a sub!"

Like honey, doing the bare minimum to be a functioning/clean human being might not be common among The Straights but it isnt a sexual kink calm down.

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Holy shit wait-

Okay so we have an idea but we need help with it

Can we just like, collectively start trending hashtags that gaslight Trump into thinking that all of his advisors are secretly planted liberals?

The conspiracy is JUST DUMB ENOUGH for him to believe. Like "Noooo Donny it all makes sense now! The reason your presidency has been so awful is because the LIBS! Theyve been planted by AaAAaaAntifa all along to trick you into making a fool out of yourself! It would be impossible for this all to have gone so poorly if they were TRULY republicans! Your advisors dont want you to use mail-in-voting because they want to trick you into thinking that the conservatives are secretly weak and that you cant risk having more liberal votes- but the truUuUuth is that theyre trying to surpress your poor Republicans stuck at home!! It runs deep bunker-i mean- Donny boy!"

Get fake conservative bots to start doing it so that the more nut job right wings would start believing it. Cause heres the thing: theyve disillusioned themselves into thinking that this dude is a good president but they KNOW it's crumbling, and if theyre given a reason to think that the administration are the ones secretly making their God King Tr*ump Look bad, they will fucking RUN with it.

Regardless of what the administration would say in response, theyd all be losing their fucking minds because Trump would go Azula on them and just start firing people left and right until the GOP destroys itself from the inside out.

Or maybe even just hashtags to the tune of #trumplookslikeapussyfornotshakinghands

Reblog this and help me think of Hashtags

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Yes god this dumbass believes literally whatever he needs to in order to look strong and conservatives will follow him like lemmings off a cliff before even thinking about admitting they were wrong about him

#SecretLibs? #mailinvotessaverepublicans? Gotta be something he can’t immediately pick out as an insult

Okay so we have an idea but we need help with it

Can we just like, collectively start trending hashtags that gaslight Trump into thinking that all of his advisors are secretly planted liberals?

The conspiracy is JUST DUMB ENOUGH for him to believe. Like "Noooo Donny it all makes sense now! The reason your presidency has been so awful is because the LIBS! Theyve been planted by AaAAaaAntifa all along to trick you into making a fool out of yourself! It would be impossible for this all to have gone so poorly if they were TRULY republicans! Your advisors dont want you to use mail-in-voting because they want to trick you into thinking that the conservatives are secretly weak and that you cant risk having more liberal votes- but the truUuUuth is that theyre trying to surpress your poor Republicans stuck at home!! It runs deep bunker-i mean- Donny boy!"

Get fake conservative bots to start doing it so that the more nut job right wings would start believing it. Cause heres the thing: theyve disillusioned themselves into thinking that this dude is a good president but they KNOW it's crumbling, and if theyre given a reason to think that the administration are the ones secretly making their God King Tr*ump Look bad, they will fucking RUN with it.

Regardless of what the administration would say in response, theyd all be losing their fucking minds because Trump would go Azula on them and just start firing people left and right until the GOP destroys itself from the inside out.

Or maybe even just hashtags to the tune of #trumplookslikeapussyfornotshakinghands

Reblog this and help me think of Hashtags

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine reality

I’ve been seeing some discussion about Brooklyn Nine-Nine; weather or not it’s cop propaganda and if so, is it more helpful than harmful because it’s had moments where it went out of its way to say “We know cops aren’t like this in real life, but they should be.” Is it even possible to have a show about cops that isn’t propaganda?

I’m fully unqualified to give a real take on this debate. I’m a white guy who likes the show for its comedy. I am ABSOLUTELY not the demographic who should be preaching an opinion on this, and I want to educate myself by listening to people who know more about this subject and have more experience than I do. But that being said, I think most of the people defending the show right now are missing something really crucial. 

It straight-up does not matter if it’s a good show about cops or not. Most people are going to have a VERY HARD TIME watching a comedy show about cops after this, and you are not going to get them to feel otherwise by crafting an argument about why it’s good. I had to stop my rewatch of the show, and it’s not because I no longer think it’s funny, it’s because I feel sick to my stomach every time I see a police uniform. That’s just how people are gonna respond to it now, and no amount of script doctoring or episodes about police-brutality is going to fix that. 

The reality that both the crew and the fanbase are going to have to accept is that the show is going to lose a huge amount of its viewership, and it’s not going to have anything to do with its quality or whether or not it’s propaganda.

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A list of things that we should demand from our cities:

Zero Tolerance policy for violence against unarmed civilians.

Zero Tolerance policy for racially charged assaults of any kind. 

Zero Tolerance policy for covering bodycams or ID numbers.

Zero Tolerance policy for attacking people with cameras. 

Implement a rigid system wherein all officers need to clock their bodycam footage at the end of a shift and have it backed up to a server held by a third party. Deliver consequences if they don’t comply or if the footage-time doesn’t match the amount of time they were on their shift. 

If a criminal is booked, have an ethics committee overlook the footage. 

If a precinct receives a complaint, have an ethics committee overlook the footage. 

Perform an investigation on the precinct if they refuse to share footage or mysteriously lose it.

If any members of the police are capable of, but hesitate or refuse to stop their fellow officers from harming civilians, they are not only failing in their duty to serve and protect, but are complicit in the assaults and should also be charged.

Require psychiatric evaluation every six months to ensure that all cops are mentally stable and fit for work. 

Outlaw any and all chemical weapons or other tactics that violate the Geneva Protocol (Yes, the US military is not allowed to use tear gas during war, but is allowed to use it on domestic protesters. I absolutely cannot fathom how this is still the case).

We can’t settle for baby steps right now. We can’t just limit the ways cops are allowed to harm their citizens. We need to build a system of complete accountability where cops are afraid of harming innocent, unarmed civilians. 

If you agree, share this, spam your representatives, and add to this list if you can think of something else that should be on it.