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After doing Rei’s birthday doodle, I remembered that I’d started this Minako a while ago. Zoned out and finished it. 

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Hunger Games didn’t really eat holes in my brain the way that it did for some other people but god the opening lines. The opening lines. Katniss wakes up in bed and immediately, instinctively reaches beside her, only to find the bed empty and cold. Before we even know her name – before we know literally anything about her or this world or her place in that world – we know that she loves someone. We know that she is reaching for where Prim should be, sleeping safe and warm beside her, but Prim is not there. She is not there, and her half of the bed is cold and empty. People talk about characters being “doomed by the narrative” when most of the time the character was literally just a well-foreshadowed death, but Prim WAS doomed by the narrative. It’s the very first thing we learned. It’s the most key, integral, important piece of information we’re given about everything that is about to happen: Every single choice Katniss makes is to protect her little sister, and it isn’t enough. In the end, Prim still dies. Prim was dead before the story even started. Katniss, reaching. Prim’s side of the bed was cold and empty. There is no version of this story where Prim could have been saved. Katniss, reaching. The very first thing she does in the series. She wakes, and she reaches, but Prim is already gone. THAT is how you do Doomed By The Narrative. Edit: Also it is key that there was literally nothing Katniss could have done differently. If she had not acted to save Prim, Prim would not have survived the Hunger Games. But by acting to save Prim, Katniss accidentally kicked off an entire rebellion and ultimately massively increased the amount of danger Prim was actually in. The key is that this is irrelevant. If Katniss had done literally anything differently, Prim still would have died. If Katniss had faltered or changed course at any point, Prim still would have died. There was never a point where Katniss could have changed Prim’s fate. There’s no version of this story where Prim lives to see the end of it. She’s dead before the story begins. That’s doomed by the narrative.

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an older Dragon Age commission that I still really like (because Fenris) ✨

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vampires have been drinking human blood for centuries they don't give a fuck about guys on eight different antidepressants. they were sucking on asbestos factory workers

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fixed it

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Thorin in the books is constantly described as over-important and full of himself. His character was also, annoyingly, basically turned into the main protagonist of the movies. So even though that kind of sucked, book Thorin would probably have loved movie Thorin a ton. So many big speeches. Perfect.

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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

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Tbh? I don't like Paul. I don't want Paul. I understand that Paul serves an important narrative function and that Paul is the best possible ending for Camilla and Palamedes given their situation, personalities, and relationship. However what I really want is for Camilla and Palamedes to attend the ATN wedding as two individual humans and for Pal to be a lightweight who loses his tie in the garden fountain after three drinks and for Camilla to do exactly one shot with the group, keep Gideon from ripping the sleeves off her dress shirt, and absolutely kill it at lawn games during cocktail hour. Since this scenario is a wild tonal mismatch for the series and also Palamedes was already dead, this was unlikely to ever happen. However Paul is the final nail in the coffin for the theoretical existence of this scene and I can't help but resent them for that

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Caption this? I’ll go first! Talk about playing your cards close to your chest, ey Remy? 🤣

I so desperately needed to see Rogue being the absolutely outrageous flirt for a change, and this was an absolute blast to draw. Part of me wants to make it into a sequence

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Dropping in for a new mission.

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you wouldn't last a day in the asylum where they raised me

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Keeping Up with the Cullens - BD Episode 5, pt 2.

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harrow nova actually being named harrow nova is crazy. like imagine ur parents taking half of both ur names bc u cant play piano

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“But canonically in BG3 vampire bites don’t make you feel like you took two doses of ecstasy right after hitting the best fucking blunt Halsin ever rolled”

Ok I hear you but like have you considered – what if they did

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So it’s all fine, right? 😂

(Thank you to @g33kmama for sharing this gem)