#All you need to know is

[ashxketchum]

Trying to make all the characters you want from a single picrew is hard, but I think I did a good job with this one.

Since I made an edit for my Digimon fankids, and my Pokemon fankids , I thought it's high time to give a definite visual to my Beyblade fankids as well. I have talked about the TyHil kids in detail before so I'll only give a brief description but here it goes~

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Toshiro Kinomiya, the oldest of the Kinomiya kids (and all my other fankids included). Always having to play the babysitter role dulls down his personality over time, and he loses his energetic charm as he grows older and becomes more sarcastic and laidback. Tyson and Hilary call him Toshi, but his friends call him Shiro chan, meanwhile all his siblings call him Nii san. [And by all his siblings, I mean Tsubasa and Sho Yagami included cuz they're cousins ✨]

Twins, Natsu and Haru Kinomiya. Their personalities are split equally respective to their parents, with Natsu taking after Tyson and Haru taking after Hilary. Natsu is the only black sheep among his siblings when it comes to school, and prefers to spend his time doing anything that would strike a nerve with Toshiro, or Hilary. Haru can be a bit of a crybaby when arguing, and finds it difficult to spend a lot of time far apart from his brother, and although he declares every year that he won't let his brother copy his schoolwork from now on, he gives in like clockwork to Natsu's demand every single time.

The princess of the family, the youngest of the whole Kinomiya-Yagami tribe, Mirai Kinomiya. Within their house, she's very spoilt and holds the strongest veto, but with her friends she's more quiet and observant than demanding. She takes after Hilary more than Tyson, so she and Natsu don't get along at all, she never hesitates to tell anyone who would listen that Natsu is her least favourite brother.

Finally, my KaixOC fankid, the one oc/fankid of mine that I have always been too nervous to ever introduce or talk about to anyone.

Luca Hiwatari is a very sweet, happy-go-lucky kid. He is very attached to his father, and one of the few people who can easily get a laugh out of him. He makes friends very easily because of his outgoing personality and sometimes ends up tiring his parents out with his busy social schedule. Though in his teens, when he's coming to terms with his sexuality, he suddenly becomes very reclusive which leads to a very tense period in the Hiwatari household. But with patience and acceptance, Kai and Charlie are eventually able to get through to him which gives Luca the courage to be more open about his identity. He's best friends with Fuyumi (YamaMimi fankid) and they practically do everything together, he's also very close to Tsubasa (TaiSora fankid) despite of Tsubasa and Fuyumi being mortal enemies for half their lives. Luca is basically the bridge that helps them solve their issues and become friends.

So that's about it, if you have any Beyblade fankids feel free to talk to me about them anytime! Coming up with fankids is like my literal passion 🤓

[jojiuvr]

norman reedus everybody. cheer and clap for him RIGHT NOW.

[twinfoxtails]

((The person Eri’s cosplaying is KAngel, or real name: Ame-chan, and she’s from a series called ‘Needy Streamer Overload’. 

To put it in summary:

She wants to be a streamer because she believes her good looks are the only thing going for her, and loves being fawned upon.

She’s a yandere.

Ame loves you, the player, also known as ‘P-Chan’.

She’s not a nice person.

Oh boy is she a yandere.))

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[sunbloomdew]

do you ever see a person and you are overcome with incredible fondness? and you just think "oh." but not in a romantic or sexual way you are just filled with warmth and it makes you happy, it just does. and you think "i'm so happy you exist. i'm happy you are somewhere out there in the world, doing your thing". it's love but also not entirely

like people are lovely and i feel it in my entire chest like a burning candle that smells like roses and a sunny day

[hansoeii]

crowley!

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[caputvulpinum]

yeah we might be brothers in christ but so were cain and abel so shut the fuck up before i decide to find a rock about it

[christadeguchi]

if nothing else can save america this zero-year-old fairy baby otter with no gender can. chiitan's platform is love. and chaos.

[adriles]

when we’re done with our overwhelming grief we’ll eat i guess

[lazylittledragon]

one of those 'only wine in the camp supplies' nights [X]

[deathlonging]

we should talk more about cities that are vampires. cities that are cold and wet and sink into your bones and stay there. cities that are hungry and want to live. dead cities that dont know they're dead and suck the life force of their people to maintain the delusion. cities with harbors that are actually mouths; one-way entries. cities that are devastatingly lonely and see consumption as love

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

HOT, SINGLE, UNSTUDIED SPONGES. 3000 NAUTICAL MILES AWAY. Come sail the distance and read Tiger Tiger!

[stromblessed]

Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows

In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.

If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.

So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.

I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?

However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.

Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)

And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.

Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.

It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.

Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?

While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:

She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.

You see where I'm going with this.

When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:

And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD

When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.

MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS

No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.

And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:

Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!

The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.

And, uh

Yeah.

I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.

But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.

Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:

But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.

There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.

After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1:

"LET" her die. Because as Ringo points out, she doesn't "know how" to die.

Kind of like another bird in this show:

[egophiliac]

he did it! 🐍 and it only took...uhhh...well, there probably could've been less punches, but why hold back!

PUNCHES FOR EVERYONE

[chittychittyyangyang]

Listen, you should never film strangers in public without their consent, but I swear there need to be fines or something for people who do that shit in some spaces. For example: I had to go to the ER last night, and some jerk filmed a woman who just came in and was clearly having an asthma attack. She immediately got to go back, and he was unhappy about that. Believe me, I get that it sucks having to wait when you're in pain, but you don't get to pick who deserves care when. The medical system in the US is a nightmare, and the ER could be the worst moment of someone's life. No one deserves to be recorded because some jack ass believes someone doesn't look like they need care.

This is fine to reblog. People who film strangers should be shamed if nothing else.