#Eyes Like Coals

[puppyeared]

weird dog

[drzibs]

my favorite fae-cursed war criminals……

as cats bc i have yet to brush up on humanoid anatomy

this version has kremy’s silver eyes thats really the only difference

[ also no pigtunia bc i forgor :( ]

[front-facing-pokemon]

[siflshonen]

I know it is in part The Point, but sometimes I think about how every major and important relationship in BNHA is in some way deeply touched by the systemic issues of their world and I get a little bit emotional. The villains’ backstories are all obvious cases where things did not work out well for them at all, ever, but it’s true of everyone. If Kirishima hadn’t felt so pressured into one definition of manliness he’d have become closer to Mina faster. How if Toshinori didn’t think it is good, right or normal for one dude to put his entire life into a singular, inflexible goal he would have family or friends and the ability to make a better connection with Izuku faster. How if Iida weren’t so rigid about the rules and duty befitting his inheritor position he may not have swung so hard in the other direction when revenge was on the table. The entire Todoroki family situation from top to fucking bottom and how the pressure of success and perfection twisted all of their relationships while influencing why they were stuck together socially or at least publicly with Enji. Hawks’ whole caged bird schtick and how it separated him from Twice and yet also the other Heroes. I think about how nicely it is encapsulated with how poorly Izuku and Shigaraki understand or know one another, how bad they are at listening to one another, and how it makes it clear the two opposed each other without having a clue about what the other actually believes or understands to be true but feel entitled enough to decide that it is wrong.

And then the sappiest part of my brain takes over and thinks that if their setting wasn’t riddled with so many preconceived notions-if all was right with the world- Katsuki and Izuku would have loved one another always and never mistrusted or been afraid of that.

[doll-elvis]

this picture just made me fall to my knees, lordy I would do anything for big daddy 😫

[evelyn-onfire]

DIGITAL CIRCUSES YOUR WITCHLIGHT CREW

i got a little silly and made some silly goofy designs <3

[the-chattering-tower]

@revukanfendrenim's progens love cyan secondary apparently and oh I absolutely cannot blame them. Nor am I complaining. Lookit my boys

(Skin is Gildermane Starscape by SilverLately)

[girderednerve]

reading/listening to a book again, this time it's 'blood runs coal'

yes that's the book that they are supposedly going to adapt to star cillian murphy. it's about the murder of jock yablonski & his family. if you are unfamiliar, jock yablonski ran as a reform candidate in the UMWA in 1969, and was murdered along with his wife & daughter as the result of a conspiracy by the UMWA president, tony boyle. yablonski ran on a platform of union democracy & transparency, improved workplace safety (especially regarding black lung), increased pension benefits, & a more adversarial relationship with coal operators. the UMWA at this point was deeply, aggressively corrupt & its leadership often employed violence. in the early twentieth century, under the charismatic & tyrannical leadership of john l. lewis, UMWA was one of the most active & successful labor unions in the country, & it was one of the first to integrate. by the middle of the century, it had settled into a collaborative relationship with mine owners. blood runs coal opens with, of course, a detailed & horrifying description of the 1968 farmington mine disaster, in which 78 miners died on the job in a horrific underground explosion. boyle showed up to say it was unavoidable & to commend the company's safety record; need it be said, the disaster was not unavoidable & the company did not, in fact, have a commendable safety record, &, moreover, he made the speech to widows with 78 members of his union in pieces or suffocated to death on the job. farmington kicked off a huge pivot in labor organizing in appalachia, & was one of the catalysts of the black lung insurgency. which matters deeply, on its own & in connection with jock yablonski's legacy—arnold miller, the reform candidate who took the presidency in 1972 after the corrupt election jock yablonski lost & was murdered for, was one of the leaders of the black lung movement & a black lung sufferer himself.

anyway so far it's a pretty good book! i don't really care for true crime as a rule (ghoulish) & i am taking this book more as microhistory; it's still a little interested in crime details for me, &, surprise, i don't think it spends enough time talking about black lung. i'm only halfway through though & so far it has focused fairly tightly on its major characters (tony boyle, jock yablonski, yablonski's murderers), & i suspect the back half will spend more time on the broader labor context. this is not the order i would have gone in, but then i don't care about selling books to true crime enjoyers i care about black lung & labor history, & the broader context of labor organizing has not really been present in this book. i have been thinking a lot about what an active, engaged union can do & to some degree what it can't, which is interesting.

interested in your thoughts if you have read this book, or please feel free to recommend me a labor history book!!

[tanadrin]

so even though Germany has lots of lignite, the toxic fumes and lower efficiency than nuclear make it work not pursuing? and i assume nature conservation is a second order benefit too

Don’t forget the carbon emissions. Germany’s climate strategy so far as been to shut down its nuclear plants, burn more coal and gas to make up for the lost capacity, and then kick the can down the road. It’s absolutely terrible policy. Unfortunately the only major party that is pro nuclear doesn’t care about the environment, thinks global warming is fake, and hates queer ppl, so the best case scenario to can hope for is we buy more electricity from France.

[sigma-el]

I was just here, sketching to help me fixing ideas and concepts of characters I write about... and while I was messing with Xangr's hair of the period he left the mage guild to listen to some obscure designs, I fell on... Darra. @downontheupside

Hi, 2E male Darra.

[thelastsaiyanprincess]

talking to new people stresses me out soooooooo much. whole time im thinkin "why me? what are you trying to get from me? what will you do if i dont give it to you? you bein nice now but how long will this last?" its overwhelming af 😭😭😭

[genderfluid-druid]

finally learning emotional intelligence as an adult in my 30s feels like playing with goddamn tinker toys while i watch other people my age building these beautiful emotional ecosystems out of hand carved mahogany. but the alternative is to continue being glib and dismissive of every emotion i experience for the rest of my life so 👍 pass me that green rod i guess. and do you see any more hubs

[disemboweled-fish-pastry]

☆ Can we please talk about my poor guy having back problems??? Thank you. ☆

Look at this sad, pathetic excuse for a chair my honey has to deal with for a majority of the day. Darling, let me trade you, gamer chair isn't great for ergonomics either, but anything is better than this hell scape you put yourself through on a daily basis. No wonder he opts to go to the internet cafe as often as he does. Is this some twisted part of his masochism? Honey... there are other ways, you don't have to do this to yourself.

[gemwolfz]

frogposting special episode: Cool Frog Facts! ranging from "documentation of canon" to "headcanons i pulled out of my ass that may or may not even be canon compliant". maybe kind of boring ohwell. may or may not add a transcription later depending on motivation

[faebriel]

usually i am such a human c!niki truther. i just think she's some guy. But let me let you in on a little secret. i think fallen angel c!niki who forgot about all that and now operates under the assumption of just being some guy is a little bit cool too

[lepertamar]

*shaking this book like a dog with a puzzle treat* why do the chapter(s) depicting eliya’s manifestation (wind over the open desert, unstoppably spinning metal wheel) parallel the prologue scene of tamar roaring into the open desert and up erezel plateau on her motorcycle with the wind rushing through her hair in such intensive and attentive detail