#By the power invested in me

[demoiselettes]

Oh no, oh no, what is happe-🧍‍♀️🧎‍♀️🛐

Note: credit to the original owners of the pictures, i unfortunately cannot trace the pics back to their source as i saved those quite a long time ago ;-;

[theoldkyokodied]

The Allegiance of the Ascended Vampire and the New God of Magic

[dogerbooger]

Zombiecleo … save me..

Zombiecleo

Save me zombiecleo

The above is an edit

Anyway a little tidbits on my Cleo designs while we are here, for every series I try to give them different stcithes. So that’s why on the different designs different stitches are present lol.

[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

[andromeda3116]

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill

[birgittesilverbae]

Sister "I became skilled at so many things just so I would still have value" Beatrice not having hobbies makes me feral. Camila has her music, Shannon had her art, Mary had her cooking, Lilith has her being-a-massive-bitch, and Beatrice is over there like "I have encyclopedic knowledge of the fighting styles of every woman in this convent, and also I have spreadsheets"

girl, ava shouldn't have to yeet herself into another dimension for you to realize you need a better work-life balance

[marclef]

i uhhh made a little thing for @luigigirl12, a drawing of Library AU Eyhm being protected by a VERY defensive Fake.

dunno what made him like that..... but he sure as hell ain't letting anything touch this cat.

hope you like them 🤗

[jemmo]

i need to personally, publicly thank werner and inu baek for blowing their budget on the license to use this song bc that scene needs to be immortalized in the ‘scenes that will never not make me cry’ hall of fame.

[savage-rhi]

Magenta.

[bardandbear]

the thrilling adventures of Dark Tav

[nanierose]

The funny thing about Laudna and Imogen's co-dependency is that we've seen similar relationships in the past and done well. Vex and Vax, Veth and Caleb to an extent. But in both there was at least one member trying to work on expanding their relationships with others and encouraging the other to do the same.

Here though neither Laudna or Imogen are truly attempting to go outside of the relationship. They've decided they're comfortable with each other and they don't need anyone else. Most of their conversations with others has either been instigated by someone else or happened because the other literally wasn't there to talk to.

And honestly it isn't very interesting to watch. I loved Vex and Vax's arc because of how they both travelled different roads to become more independent but still loved each other. And crucially they had conflict over it. Vex hated that Vax wanted a relationship with Keyleth, and wouldn't even discuss Vax moving to Zephrah until she was nearly dead on her feet. Vax tells Vex to watch out for Percy at first because he's still pissed about his role in her death. Moreover they constantly bicker, don't always agree and will call the other out if they do something stupid. But eventually they both realise their relationship is just as strong and important even with new people in their lives, it doesn't have to be one or the other.

Imogen and Laudna on the other hand are terrified of losing each other so won't even consider doing something that could jeopardise it, which honestly makes the relationship weaker as a result. They rarely disagree, to the point Laudna says she'll join Imogen if she sides with her literal murderer. (Like I'm sorry but that is just bonkers to me. I love my husband but if he sided with someone I hate we're gonna have issues) The closest we got was the gnarlock fight but since then nothing. I'm of the opinion they shouldn't even have gotten together until they worked through this, because now they've further entrenched a relationship that has not had the growth it sorely needs.

Like I'm not saying their relationship can't work, but it's one that is stuck with no signs of meaningful change and for a story that just doesn't cut it for me.

[bloodraven55]

[moongothic]

I LOVE your crocodad theory I'm an obsessed believer but did u ever get romantic vibes from crocodile & robin business relationship? Many people get lover vibes from them & I never understood why. They seem VERY strictly business/stab each other in the back relationship. (Plus crocodile is TERRIFYING).

I think Croco/Robin as a ship exists kind of like... out of circumstance? Kind of?

Quick disclaimer, I only got into OP in like 2008~ish at the age of 13, I can not comment what it as like being in the fandom before that because I wasn't there (and when OP began in 1997 I was like two whole years old). So whatever I say here doesn't come from like, a fandom veteran who knows the entire history of the OP fandom or anything. I'm just attempting to rub my braincells together here

Like in the year of our lord 2023 we have many wonderful Crocodile ships to classify as OTPs and NOTPs etc, but if we go back to like 2006 or so, long before the Summit War Saga was even a thing, try to think about what characters you would have shipped Crocodile with? Because for a long time, the only canon material Crocodile had appeared in was just the Alabasta Saga (+one brief cover story), and we don't really see Crocodile interact with that many characters during the story. Like. Really the only character Crocodile has multiple, extended interactions with aside from Luffy and Vivi is Robin. All the other characters he interacts with maybe once or twice for very brief scenes, so based on canon material alone, there isn't much for fuel for shipping purposes.

It really wasn't until Marineford when we finally started getting other characters to ship with Crocodile, mainly the Ever Loyal Daz who seems to be willing to follow Crocodile anywhere (romantic as fuck) and Doflamingo after he and Croc tried to kill each other twice at Marineford (people seem to love a tsundere Croc) And now with Cross Guild we also have Mihawk (and Buggy) as far as shipping options go. And of course there's MORE than just these ships, there's the more crack-leaning ships (like Dragodile and whatever you'd call the Cobra-ship) and some others (Jinbei, Whitebeard, Ivankov, Galdino, Luffy even) etc etc

The only difference is that Croco/Robin got to kind of be like, "the default Crocodile ship" for like 8 years without major competition. And because the ship has "history", even when new ships pop up the one that has been around the longest will still stick out. Not to mention, although we have options now, even those have very little canon material to actually work with when compared to Croco/Robin. Like Dofuwani exists because the two had like three whole pages worth of interactions, but compare that to the screentime Croc had with Robin? It's not even a competition

Not to mention, Croco/Robin is just. Like it's kind of the mandatory het ship. Like there aren't many straight options with canon material to work with, and there's gonna be people who really want to have a het ship with Crocodile if you know what I mean. But also, let's be real. There's a lot of straight women who're horny for Crocodile. Valid as fuck. And Croco/Robin could have like, a self-insert-y quality to it, like some people might be able to see themselves in Robin? Also valid. And that can apply to some straight men too, like I'm sure there's cishet men who look at Crocodile with that "god I wish that were me" energy, who love seeing Crocodile ship fanart with Robin, as they can project onto Crocodile etc. This is also valid. Point is that the ship appeals to cishets by simply being a het ship, but also it might make for an easy ship for a lot of straight people to project onto for one reason or another.

But to be fair, I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I think Croco/Robin has the potential to be a really interesting ship. Like they ARE the Baroque Works Boss Pair, literal partners in crime, the most powerful members of the secret criminal organization who run the whole operation, they worked together by themselves for four whole years, Crocodile protecting Robin by allowing her to hide under his wings. They were together, ready to take over an entire country and obtain a weapon of mass destruction And then Robin betrays him. And Crocodile admits he never trusted her to begin with.

Like on paper alone, this is great material for a juicy romance.

Especially now when we understand why Robin was on the run and why she feared being betrayed, and how looking back at Crocodile's reaction when Robin "reads" the Poneglyph for him, he genuinely seems a little sad about her betraying him (mystery trauma etc). This is a genuinely interesting character dynamic, like even without any romantic context I would love to see Crocodile and Robin meet again in the storyline and like, see what Crocodile thinks of Robin having joined the Strawhats vs what Robin thinks about Cross Guild, how the two might interact etc. They are interesting to me

Like personally, I agree, I don't think the two were actually ever romantically involved with each other (frankly I don't think Crocodile trusts anyone anymore enough to let them get close him like that, dude's been voluntarily celibate for like two decades lmao), their relationship was surely just business-only. And while the ship doesn't personally interest me (just kinda "meh" for me), I do understand why the ship appeals to others and why it's popular to this day

But yeah, I do think a lot of the reasons Croco/Robin is as popular as it is due to circumstance. It's been around the longest, it still arguably has the most canon material to work with, it appeals to lots of people. God knows shippers don't actually need the characters to like each other, otherwise people wouldn't be shipping Croc with Buggy as we speak

[singinginthecar]

ok so unpopular opinion... is it just me that thinks this whole "chart battle" thing is really immature and way out of taylor's league? like yes, billie should've shut her mouth and not made some of those pointed statements. but also... it's billie... i mean i don't know much about her but having seen some of her interviews she genuinely seems like your typical gen z artist who speaks her mind and also doesn't really care too much about how that's going to be perceived. like i doubt she thought it was gonna be a whole situation between these fandoms. also taylor releasing variants right after just seems like..... idk a situation that we could've done without? taylor is a mega titan in this industry... she does NOT need to be in a chart battle with a much younger artist. and yeah i understand ppl who say "well was taylor just supposed to NOT do anything when someone's openly disrespecting her?" no!! that's not what i'm saying at all. she can totally do whatever she wants... but for an artist her stature... i'm just saying that she didn't HAVE to.

[simveridae]

Welcome Home, My Love

Cipher just got home from work, and shares an evening full of kisses and cuddles with his husband Max :)

I got inspired by @theosconfessions posts with their sims that included dialogue and decided to try my hand at story/scenario... things! raaa i love these two so much

[majimasleftasscheek]

Like a Dragon Ishin Goromi exists and I can prove it !

Before the fight against Shinpachi, there is a discussion between two NPCs ;

"So I heard that Okita the Shinsengumi captain is quite the looker. So much so that a woman allegedly snuck into the barracks to see him. But no one know what happened to her"

Someone has seen Goromi !

I saw that!!!!

100% adding it to my headcanon...