#//That moment definitely changed him

[tenisperfection]

Eddie saying “Yeah I’ve just been meaning to talk to you about something” before telling Buck about the legal guardianship....bestie do you mean since the shooting or since you changed your will a whole year ago? 😂

[be-gay-do-heists]

trying to figure out damien moreau’s whole set up is a nightmare

[stars-self-ships]

It should come as no surprise to longtime followers of both this blog and my main that I take great joy in designing self-inserts for my favorite franchises, whether it's to see how well I can capture a certain vibe or just so I can have a good visual of what I'd look like in that universe to kiss my beloved F/Os— though, if I'm being honest, most of the time it's the latter!

Doing so has been easy for the most part, as a lot of the franchises some of my most treasured S/Is hail from don't necessarily have a complex visual style. Take for example Psycha, who was easy to design outfit-wise after basing it off of an outfit I would wear, or perhaps my Centaurworld S/I, who was even easier to design as all I had to do was draw a toony version of myself with a deertaur half!

Given my recent adoration toward my latest hyperfixation Winds of Change, it was a given that I would design a self-insert for its universe, and I was already brimming with ideas for what a fantasy version of my fursona would look like in the world of Alestia! However, as a contrast to most of my other favorite medias, Winds of Change boasts a very detailed visual style and outfit design for its cast, which meant my S/I would have to follow suit as to not look too out of place.

And about two weeks of on-and-off work later...

I can finally unveil my Winds of Change self-insert, Micah Winddane!

(Check out underneath the cut for a lengthy deep dive on the creation of the above drawing as well as a full view of this sheep seer's weapon of destiny!)

Gosh, where do I even begin? There is just so much that I want to talk about when it came to designing Micah Winddane that it's tough to find a good place to start!

Because Winds of Change has an all-anthro cast, it ended up being a given that I— yet again— would be choosing to model my S/I after a sheep, much like my fursona, Psycha, etc. However, rather than using Psycha as a base as I had for my fursona, I actually modeled Micah Winddane after an actual breed of sheep... the Leicester Longwool!

True to their name, Leicester Longwool sheep are notable for their overly lengthy fur, and given that my hair is currently at the longest length that it's ever been, it felt only fitting to design my Winds of Change S/I around them! This also meant that I would be using a more golden color for the hair as opposed to the usual 'tan-white' color most of my other sheep S/Is have, and if you look closely, you can even see that there's a distinct fur pattern on his face!

With sheep specifics out of the way, let's focus on Micah Winddane's outfit. If you read the tags of my first Winds of Change related post on this blog, you might have seen that I first wanted him to be an 'anxious but good-hearted visionary with a cool fantasy robe'— which, to be honest with you, was how I had been envisioning him throughout my time playing through the game's prelude!

The only reason the whole 'cool fantasy robe' aspect didn't stick around for long, however, was due to a certain set of characters in Winds of Change possessing such a look... The Triumvirate, antagonists who are shrouded in mystery underneath an iconic white robe with a yellow trim.

Not wanting my S/I to be dressed too similarly to the big bads, I had to opt for something a little more modest, and in line with the outfits the rest of Winds of Change's cast wear. I took to Google to cherry-pick several medieval outfit designs, and took my favorite aspects of each one to combine together into a base outfit.

For a while, the above lineart was just about all I could come up with. Of course, it looked a little bland by this point, but that was merely because I hadn't given him a good coloring, yet... but that was another hurdle of its own. I knew how I would color his fur and hair, but what about his clothes...?

Thankfully, Winds of Change's canon provided a solution. Around the point of the game where you receive the all-powerful Blade of Exodus— which we'll also focus on in due time— you also are given a change of clothes... clothes that are described as a 'combination of Valessa and Fortaime's outfits'.

It's a good thing that the base design I had already drawn didn't stray too far from a hypothetical mix between Valessa and Fortaime's clothes, and it even served as a good basis of how to color Micah Winddane's own. I color picked certain colors from both their designs to use in my S/Is and was soon able to settle on a color palette that I liked!

... but the design still felt particularly lacking. The colors looked great, as did what I had for an outfit, but the more I looked at my current progress, I felt as though something was missing... and then, I had a brilliant idea— if I couldn't give him a robe, what if I gave him a cape?

Fortaime's baggy scarf was my main inspiration in settling on a shoulder cape, and the instant I had the idea of giving my S/I one, I wasted no time in adding it to his design... and I'm so glad that I did, because it made him look SO much better!! I knew that I wanted his cape to be a shade of blue (My trademark favorite color), and settled on a faded shade since a more vibrant blue looked a little too shrill amidst the other colors.

Lastly, since my Winds of Change S/I is the foretold Seer, he would need to be equipped with the aforementioned Blade of Exodus throughout his adventure. However, upon coming up with the idea of giving Micah Winddane a large sword sling to carry the blade on his back, I realized something...

... the blade only has two canonical appearances from what I've seen, and only one of which— being found in the game's logo— shows it in full color. I was thankful to even have a visual of the Blade of Exodus, but only having the linked image to go off of in terms of color made redrawing it a bit tough, as I would have to improvise a bit to make it look less desaturated.

And what started out as improvising turned into a slight stylization of the Blade of Exodus' colors! Throughout the game, there's a large emphasis on how obvious it is that you're the possessor of the blade, and I decided to give the blade colors that stand out from the otherwise dull colors of Micah Winddane's outfit!

... uh, wow. I think that might just be my most in-depth design deep dive I've written yet. But everything that I wanted to touch base on has been accounted for, and with all of it written out at last, it feels so wonderful to finally get around to sharing this design with everyone as it's one of my ultimate favorite self-insert designs I've ever created!

[thaitheseries]

And when White said "However, at that moment i sympathize with Dan." I started to cry

[formashimataichi]

Excuse me if you’ve talked about this before, but I was wondering how you felt about the development of Taichi’s mother? I appreciate how Suetsugu is really intent on giving all of her characters such depth, especially when mothers in media either tend to be perfect or evil… but I also feel conflicted (and not just with Taichi’s mother, but other characters as well) about it. I think the pressure (and especially what his mother said about only doing things you’re good at) inflicted on Taichi by his mom had a really negative impact, same with Shinobu’s stilted relationship with her mother, so it’s honestly felt kind of out of left field to see them become more understanding, maybe, of their children (those characters in particular). So I was just wondering what you thought! I’ve always loved your thoughtfulness towards Chihayafuru and your meta is always really interesting, so :)

I've talked about their relationship casually from time to time, but this is a good place to consolidate all of my thoughts on it! Taichi's relationship with his mother is perhaps one of the most interesting to me in the entire manga, namely because it captures so well that complex entanglement of pressure and love and distance that is so overwhelmingly present in the relationships between so many Asian parents and their children. It's really fascinating to see the ways in which her upbringing impacts his behaviors, because it doesn't just extend to how he perceives competition—her ideology also influences his approach to masculinity, to friendships and romantic relationships, and to his own personal convictions. His mother is more or less entrenched in his entire being, and even now, he's still in the process of unlearning so much of what she vested him with since he was a child. He's been raised this way for nearly eighteen years, and recovering and growing from the extents of that kind of mindset takes an enormous amount of time and effort. It's why I've never really been surprised by the fact that he still continues to face mental setbacks. For such a long time, his mother dominated the mechanics of nearly every decision he made, so naturally, he's going to experience more doubt and hesitation after he starts to separate himself from her, as significant a development as it is on its own for him to claim personal agency.

All of this is to say—Taichi's arc, to me, is a very distinctly open-ended one that focuses heavily on the ability to be able to move forward rather than necessarily on the conclusion to a process of healing. Even after this story is over, he won't be entirely home free. It will be a process of many days, months, and years for him to slowly evolve from the kind of person he used to be, and the same ultimately holds for his mother, as well. I don't think her support of Taichi at the Qualifiers or her conversation with Suou during it is supposed to be some marker of closure on the trauma that she's inadvertently inflicted on her son, but I do think it's a nod to the fact that, as a parent, the cards are always in your hands. If you want to, you can change for the sake of your child, because you love them, and you want what's best for them. There's no guarantee, obviously, of her entirely changing her ways, but the fact that she's been made cognizant of her ability to be better for the sake of her children is really what sticks out to me as emblematic of Suetsugu's overall message about personhood. It's not so much about being able to see that you will achieve the end goal as it is about being able to see that you can make efforts to reach it at all. To take that first step, and the second, and every step thereafter—that's what's most important, and what's what makes Taichi's arc overall so compelling for me. He has no guarantee of success, no guarantee of getting the girl, no guarantee of being able to feel happier, but he stills makes the effort to try once he realizes that the chance to do so is always there, and that he may end up more at peace with himself for the fact of it.

Taichi and his mother are mirrors to each other, in a sense, and I think seeing the ways in which he's changing for the better will ultimately reflect on her for the better as well, even if we won't necessarily see the effects of that at length. There's a lot about her behavior as a parent that's still been maintained, like her overbearing nagging or her overall disconnect with karuta, but those behaviors were also compounded prior by the fact that she refused to give Taichi the space to think or breathe at all. The distance between them now is still a very painful thing—at all times I am thinking about him saying she's too noisy, and the sort of confused, stricken look on her face in response to the comment—but it's also a helpful distance that I think will allow her over time to better control her impulses and work to understand him in whatever small capacity. A relationship not necessarily entirely mended or free of the red in its ledger, but one steadily, silently working on its way to being so. I really enjoy the poignancy of that.

[miroana]

Sabrina: Ladybug, wait! I have something to tell you!

Ladybug: What’s going on?

Sabrina: Chat Noir needs your help! He can’t join the fight until you bail him out.

Ladybug: Excuse me, bail him out? Is he, like, in prison??

Sabrina: Yes, exactly!

Ladybug: That dumb cat! What did he do this time?

Sabrina: He was cruising 35kmph over the speed limit in a stolen sports car and my dad pulled him over and said “papers.”

Ladybug: Okay, and?

Sabrina: Well, apparently, Chat Noir just yelled “scissors!” and sped away.

Ladybug: yep I’m gonna kill him

[worstloki]

Why was thor calling him a fool tho instead of actually being concerned like a decent person?

thor has a history of struggling to show emotions (particularly caring/showing affection/loving ones) that he seems to intend. his dismissive attitude is what makes him emotionally constipated and a tsundere - especially in comparison to Loki who often vocalizes/makes evident his feelings and is at the recieving end of Thor's unfortunate attempts at giving him attention.

just kidding.

it is entirely possible Thor was shocked after watching Loki get impaled, or he'd told Loki not to interfere in his fight but he did anyway. imo that was just Thor and Loki interacting with Thor trying to throw a semblance of normality to the situation. Like. His villain brother just did a whole load of good things, didn't betray him when he easily could have, and now just sacrificed himself to save him/help save all the realms. That's also why I reckon he brings Odin up? He didn't want Loki to die and of course he went to do exactly that (because of course he did--) and Thor at least doesn't want his brother to die thinking they're on bad terms.

[eijiroukiriot]

there’s definitely a lot to be said abt season 1 bkg and how it’s understandable that people wouldn’t like him if they didn’t watch further into season 2/3 to see his character development but his arc is definitely like. taking off from the start. the fact that he desperately runs up to deku and cries “you didn’t save me!! and you’ll always be below me!!” after the sludge villain incident aside his entire personality changes between then and when he starts UA - no more cocky, fake smile, singsongy persona after the first day of high school, from then on it’s all resting scowl and intimidation through the tough guy act instead of the confident one. just episodes later he has an actual panic attack after losing to deku in the heroes vs villains exercise. idk so much has happened since then that i haven’t thought much abt the beginning in a while. bkg is at his absolute worst in the first episode and from then on it’s all a downward spiral that carries him towards his positive development 

[harryjpotter-shitpost]

Harry: [about Ginny] Then we had a little...eye contact.

Sirius:...Eye contact? Well I hope you were using protection

[olliedollie1204]

anyways does anyone else agree that guillermo is going to reject nandor turning him into a vampire at some point next season or is it just me

[skelerandom]

Y’all have seen the music video Blow by Jackson Wang right?? Cuz I recently just seen it (like literally ten minutes ago) and my brain stopped working. I don’t know how I hadn’t seen the video until now but holy fucking shit

[inedibleperiwinkle]

Smooch your giant cowboy. 

[smallblueandloud]

wow, i have so many thoughts about so many fandoms right now that it is inevitable that i will forget all of them before i can write them down.

anyway, let’s do jenkins immortality headcanons!

i haven’t actually read any arthuriana and i MEANT to but like. who the heck cares. not me. we’re going OFF THE RAILS of canon right now.

okay so finx @aethersea suggested that camelot was a magical kingdom and has lost its tether to reality in the same way that the library lost its tether to reality (...frequently) and i LOVE that so we’re going with that.

camelot was a kingdom of magic, one of the only of its kind, and then it fell. her king was wounded and sent off onto the lake and her knights stayed behind to guard her and she was broken from the world until the day when her king returned (in england’s hour of greatest need) and summoned it back.

the three left outside were: galahad, morgan le fay, and the exiled lancelot. they three are immortal. don’t ask me why. i GUESS the holy grail is supposed to make people immortal, but lancelot never got ahold of it, so like, don’t ask me. maybe they’re immortal since they’re of the magical isle and therefore they’re inherently magic. whatever.

galahad (i’m gonna call him jenkins now for the sake of clarity) sees that magic is running rampant without camelot to organize it, direct it. he watches the rise of the library. when the first librarian starts to collect artifacts, he offers his services. who better to deal with artifacts than a knight of the round table? besides, he is noble, and good, and full of justice, and this is something he can do to help.

lancelot watches the library grow, too. but he craves the power for himself and bides his time, growing his resources. jenkins tries not to think about him too much. this is his wisest decision and his biggest regret.

(morgan le fay, of course, entertains herself. jenkins runs across her about once a century. his reaction depends entirely on his loneliness at the time. he knows she’s evil, he knows, and he hates her for it, but he just... he can’t shake the comfort of being with someone who knows him and knows who he is and has seen the magic isle. the years that he tries to kill her, he fails. he can’t forgive himself for the years when he doesn’t try at all.)

here’s my biggest headcanon: jenkins isn’t a fictional, sure, but it’s a similar process. the stories of camelot live and grow and flourish and jenkins feels it. at first, it’s minor - the styles of clothing he remembers change with the fashions of the time. but then it gets more extreme. he can’t remember how formally his king spoke. he wakes up one morning feeling the clank of spurs on his horse’s side, despite spurs not having been invented for another four hundred years. and one day he realizes that he’s unsure what lancelot looked like.

here is how jenkins is similar to a fictional. jenkins belongs to a place that is more myth than fact, and its image changes to fit the times and the popular versions. jenkins’ memories are changed with them. he gets into the habit of writing down every change he experiences. those records are the only things he keeps, throughout his very (very very) long life. books and books’ worth, crammed into his desk in the library and spilling over into the shelves. his favorite versions - the ones that feel closest to the fact he can no longer reliably identify - are sometimes ones that have been lost to history.

(“in no version!” he hears jake insisting angrily one day, “in no version was the outcast knight kind! that never happens, it ruins the- the- the INTEGRITY of it, and the STRUCTURE of it, and NO one’s EVER argued-”

“actually, mr. stone,” says jenkins as mildly as he can. “actually, there was a mildly popular version in the early 1400s that said something similar. it never got out of germany, or well, it wasn’t germany at the time, but they didn’t like writing things down much. i’m not surprised you haven’t heard of it before.”)

yes, jenkins has annotated copies of every version he can find, and yes he DOES have strong opinions about adaptations. isn’t it hilarious? enjoy it for the moment, because--

it’s not just the facts of the story itself that changes in his mind. the faces shift, too. guinevere always matches the beauty standard of the time, or later the most famous actress to play her. while dulaque’s face doesn’t change, jenkins’ memory of it does, depending on who’s been illustrating him recently.

(most of why he is so grumpy in the early 21st century is because he keeps seeing merlin as this skinny child. he doesn’t know who’s in charge of bbc casting but he is SICK and TIRED of visualizing this MORGAN person every time he thinks back to the great and terrible wizard that introduced him to court.)

arthur, though. arthur’s face changes the most. sometimes he resembles the best and most beloved leader of the time. sometimes he is from a painting, or he looks like jesus, or he is simply a famous actor. whatever it is, his face has changed in jenkins’ mind more times that he can count, and jenkins knows in his heart that he has absolutely no recollection of his king’s true face.

he worries, sometimes, that arthur will return to save england - and he won’t recognize him at all.

[redxriiot]

Okay so, for sure, Pro!Kiri would be better with cats, which Good, bc then it’s just seeing this 6′5 man vibing and crooning to a Smol Kitten curled up in the inside of his jacket. And honestly? That’s the best thing ever.

[magnvlia]

@joongkihxnts : ft. kang yejin & heo youngjae

please don’t reblog unless it’s meant for you !

[judewithcigarette]

How it tell my friend that I really miss talking every day with her like we used to without coming off as weird and clingy challenge