#Simple Reflections

[astearisms]

fionna and cake drawings before and after watching the episodes so far. it’s nostalgic and somehow cathartic and poignant and relatable and—it just started

[and-corn]

11:49, december 2, 2019

[johnnyshrine]

★ 067 // “Kiss Collab”

[starlightwoofwoof]

Hiii it's me again and I have two things to say.

Thank you for liking my post of Broken Dreamer I'm glad you like her!

This been on my mind for a while. What if some of the toons were Kamikotized in an alt universe? Cause I had some ideas. Glisten - Reflective Love (Powers based off self love), Rodger - La Detective, Sprout - Plant Protector, Cosmo - Pastry Guardian, Looey - Comedy King, Shrimpo - Boxer Aggression (him getting Kamikotized would be funny ngl)

Heyyy!! First of all, you’re welcome, Broken Dreamer is very cool :]

two, omg I love that idea so much, I feel like I don’t make Kamikotized fandom characters that often but I really want to

now, I didn’t draw everyone BUT I did do Kamikotized! Glisten and Rodger :] (maybe I’ll do everyone else later on, idk-)

oh yeah I kinda feel like art block’s sort of brewing in my brain rn so uh- feel free to give me some DW x MLB AU doodle requests or give me your silly rambles about my AU!! I’ve been thinking a lot about how the villains would interact with each other if they met lol (just- don’t be weird or harass me or anything okie ty)

[selfhealingmoments]

[wlwgoku]

Simple Fausty to get out of my art slump

[its-leethee]

4x07 // 7x04

Devastating parallel, yes; but I want to elaborate on that conversation in 4x07 between Claudia and Terry, because it exposes Claudia's fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of healthy loving relationships.

Claudia sees the plants moving because of Terry's magic, and the conclusion she jumps to is that he's controlling them. Given the coercive nature of dark magic, I'm not surprised that Claudia would think that. Terry corrects her misconception, explaining: "I have a very good relationship with plants. When I need something, I can depend on them."

It's a core theme of the show, love and trust; stronger together; we need each other.

Love and trust build a kind of strength that is much bigger than we each possess. To have that kind of strength, it's not enough to love someone. You have to trust them to share the burdens you carry.

This kind of reliance is something that Claudia struggles with, because when has Claudia ever been able to depend on others to respond to her needs?** Claudia knows, despite how desperately she needs someone, no matter how deeply she loves them, it doesn't mean they'll stay with her. It's a cruel truth that she learned when she was very young:

Biscuit had been the oldest of Barius’ collection of strays, all of them named after things in his kitchen, and Claudia’s favorite. It wasn’t fair that she’d died. She hadn’t even been that old. All her kittens still needed her, didn’t they?

For Claudia, love means never leaving. She doesn't can't won't trust that people who leave will come back to her, because she's been betrayed too many times before:

“Aaravos left me too, huh? Like dad and Soren, and my mo—" Claudia’s throat closed around the word. Lissa had left her years ago, but the space she had owned in Claudia’s heart remained. It was a dark place now, hard and hateful, its edges raw as a wound that had forgotten to heal.

She'll accept other's trust in her, but she won't reciprocate on it. She uses trust as a tool for control. Just like Aaravos. Just like dark magic.

And that's why her relationship with Terry failed the way it did.

Claudia used Terry's trust. To protect him? No. To control him. To protect herself.

Deep down, she's afraid that there's something wrong with her, that she keeps failing to keep the people she loves in her life because they can see--

I've been messing things up, and everyone's been angry with me. What if they're right? What if I'm... not good?

Would allowing herself to share this vulnerability have kept every one of her loved ones in her life? No, of course not; but in the end, love alone wasn't strong enough to keep him by her side.

**What about Aaravos? shhh This isn't about him--

--4x07 // 7x04 // 5x04 // Rise Again // 2x02 // Lost Child // 6x01 // Puzzle House // 3x07 // 6x08 // 7x01 // 7x09

[quietwingsinthesky]

the thing is, i don’t disagree that what and how you choose to write about things is a reflection of you, the writer, and cannot be divorced from your beliefs and biases. but to assume that anyone can perfectly pick out your beliefs from a piece of fiction you’ve written is an extremely weird and paranoid thing to claim, especially if you’re positing that the secret truth is that the writer is a dangerous person and they’re “revealing” that through fiction that upsets you, personally. at the end of the day, the artist is not the art, and no matter how upsetting, no matter how much you dislike it, no matter how much it disgusts you, you don’t know the person who made it and you can only guess how who they are shaped what they made.

like, really, is it more likely that the secret “belief” that’s being revealed when you’re reading something that is really upsetting to you is that the author is a secret Bad Person™️ who wants all of this fantasy to happen in real life, or that the author knows it’s a safe and normal thing to create upsetting works of fiction and so did that.

[anghraine]

I know it's well-understood at this point that Kirk/Spock is much more of a nerd4nerd ship than a nerd/jock thing, but it's just been kind of percolating around my mind that both of them aren't just space nerds but space nerds who were personally bullied.

Like, 18-year-old Kirk was targeted by an older bully who combines "total asshole" with "the most grating man in existence":

MCCOY: Well, yeah, I'm beginning to feel a little bit picked-on, if that's what you mean. KIRK: I know the feeling very well. I had it at the Academy. An upperclassman there. One practical joke after another, and always on me. My own personal devil. A guy by the name of Finnegan. MCCOY: And you being the very serious young— KIRK: Serious? I'll make a confession, Bones. I was absolutely grim, which delighted Finnegan no end.

This was five years after Kirk survived a genocide, btw, and likely well before his stint as an Academy instructor known to be strict and demanding (which is the period the "stack of books with legs" description of him comes from). By the time he's 33, fifteen years after all this, it turns out one of his deepest fantasies is just beating the shit out of his bully, but only if he can do it According To The Rules (the replica of Finnegan sneers, "Always fight fair, don't you? True officer and gentleman, you").

Spock, meanwhile, is viciously targeted by his Vulcan peers for being biracial from at least age 5; he's described as being tormented by other boys by that age, and "at home nowhere except Starfleet." I think he'd have been 18 or 19 when he left for Starfleet and it's... the least bad of his options, but he seems to have spent his entire career among humans and being persistently subjected to raw racism and profound disrespect for his culture at every turn.

Like, their histories of being metaphorically shoved into lockers are not identical or anything, but I think it's interesting that they both have them.

[mayordea]

kagamine (personal designs edition)

updated rin’s shorts just a smidge in light of her latest design :)

[momentomori24]

This may just be me, but I think if you ship a canonically very abusive, manipulative and toxic relationship, you don't get to judge or call anyone degenerates for their own fucked up ships, actually.

[sticksandsharks]

is there a way to buy the tracking add-on for postage if we already bought the scrb physical book during the drop last weekend? i was so anxious about not missing out on this restock that i just rushed through the purchase when i got the alert email from ko-fi, and i'm only seeing the little faq now by pure coincidence :')

Aye, this is still possible to do! Just buy the tracking add-on with the same username/account/e-mail that you purchased the original order and I'll be able to find your initial order in my datasheet. I'll update the data export on my end and upgrade the shipping when I buy and print labels this weekend.

[snailtongue]

Riptide of Chincoteague

[ID: Riptide, a silver dapple Chincoteague pony with a large blaze, shoulder-deep in clear, reflective water. The pony's reflection is mirror-like underneath him.] via

[selfhealingmoments]

[blossominthewoods]

We grow to know that we don't know. And that is all we truly need to know.

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

and another thing!

Autistic with allistic child = autistic parent

Autistic with autistic child = autistic parent

Allistic with autistic child ≠ autistic parent, stop fucking calling yourself that it’s not okay