#Sorry if this doesn't make sense

[bpdqu33n]

repeat it with me :

ROMANCE-AVERSE AND ROMANCE-REPULSED AROMANTICS ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR AVERSION/REPULSION!

ROMANCE-INDIFFERENT AROMANTICS ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO CARE ABOUT ROMANCE!

ROMANCE-FAVOURABLE AND ROMANCE-AMBIVALENT AROMANTICS ARE NOT LESS AROMANTIC FOR ENJOYING ROMANCE IN SOME WAYS!

FEMALE AROMANTICS ARE NOT 'QUIRKY' PICK-MES OR OLD MAIDS!

MALE AROMANTICS ARE NOT INCELS OR MISOGYNISTS!

NON-BINARY AROMANTICS ARE VALID AND SHOULD BE SUPORTED AND ARE NOT FADDISH!

ALLOSEXUAL AROMANTICS ARE NOT WHORES OR PROSTITUTES FOR HAVING SEXUAL ATTRACTION AND NOT ROMANTIC ATTRACTION!

ASEXUAL AROMANTICS ARE NOT INCOMPLETE OR MISSING SOMETHING!

AROMANTICS DON'T OWE YOU A RELATIONSHIP!

AROMANTICS DON'T OWE YOU LOVE OF ANY KIND!

[vargdottern]

starting an episode off with crowley going absolutely crazy over not being able to find aziraphale (especially after basically telling him that he doesn't need him) is one hell of a choice

ALSO THE CHOICE OF MUSIC WOW

[christronomy]

i had an insane chan thought few days ago but unfortunately (or thankfully?) i forgot what it was and i am forever upset.

though i have an equal one i guess if u don't mind me sending this to you;;

my brain has been severely corrupted by chan wanting to pull out before he cums because no protection(maybe like first time going raw) but instead what he doesn't expect is you wrapping your legs tightly around him and giving him no chance and he just stares widely with big puppy eyes while streams of 'sorry's and 'please let me go' escape his mouth and you just, hazily say "it feels like a waste[if he lets his load out anywhere else but you]" while rubbing your own tummy

as he empties out his load while lustfully staring at your fucked out expression, hes determined to fill you to the brim with his cum every time you fuck. in every position possible. he deserves it..you deserve it. a quick way to chan's breeding kink awakening.

sorry this got so long fjskdhshdj he makes me want to eat glass in the most affectionate way ever

i have actually passed away and am typing this from my grave rn. holy shit anon you're so big brain for this. i agree 1000%.

i love the idea of it being the first time he goes in raw bc it's bc you begged him to do it. "just this one time, please? it'll feel so good, promise." and he can't help but just say yes, cause the way you ask is just so sweet and cute and he'd do anything to please his favorite girl ever. he just didn't expect you to do that—the way you wrapped your legs around him tightly to stop him from pulling out. he swears he's never cum that hard in his life, and you just look and sound so pretty when he fills you up that now he's hopelessly addicted to it. best believe he's never gonna use protection with you ever again.

[pinkcottoncandyss]

my brain explodes every time i see your art DVFSBUKLFDSVJKBDFSVKLHBBHKFV

I’m working on developing/changing my artstyle right now, and I want it to have more texture, similar to yours. Do you have any tips on how you do that / brushes you use?

thankyouuuuu

fish

Yes ofc! One tip I have is to simply go with the flow, I notice this much more when I paint canvases and the way I paint is quite "chaotic" (I don't have the patience to let the paint dry) and I usually do things in a hurry. I'm an impatient person (and personally I HATE taking more than a day to finish a drawing, I get so focused that sometimes I forget to do my things while I'm painting) and so is my art! So I tend to render and color at the same time (Sometimes on the same layer). Most of the time I don't even know what I'm doing and I just do a big mix of things that I like :)

There's my pencils

[sideblogfornothing]

You know what, it's so fucking weird to be a rich stereotype, while being broke.

Like in Israel ppl immediately assume me to be rich cause I'm American, but outside of Israel ppl assume me to be rich cause I'm Jewish 😭😭😭

God, I fucking wish.

[southdiamond89blogging]

There's something about the line "There's a girl I have to see," in ICHBW that just warms my insides. Because despite the years of travel and torture that Odysseus and Penelope faced while apart from each other, despite the dire circumstances under which they finally reunite, and despite the fact that Odysseus isn't even sure if she'll accept him at this point, their love is still there. Unchanged from when they were young. Despite all of that, she's still his girl.

[the-girl-with-too-many-ideas]

My life has been completely taken over by Baldur's Gate 3 (I'm like 35 hours deep into this game, and I'm pretty sure I'm still in the beginning, idk). Now I really want an AU where Shen Jiu turns out to originally be from BG3 who ended up in PIDW for some reason. Ends up eventually being dragged back and becomes Tav. Goes through the entire journey, healing himself (and the group of misfits he somehow managed to pick up) along the way.

Only to end up back in PIDW after everything is said and done. Shen Jiu then proceeds to have the most gut-wrenching breakdown. Meanwhile, his companions think he died until withers tells them his alive. They then decide to undertake another long journey to get Shen Jiu back.

So while Shen Jiu is going through the stages of grief (and perhaps getting some closure and confronting his past), his companions are doing everything they can to get to him.

[raccoon-smiles]

Edel dying and becoming Uzura is one of the most powerful things to me in Princess Tutu to me. She is a great parallel to Mytho. Mytho loses his emotions. He lives without them, and he has to learn how to deal with them again when he get's them back. Edel never had feelings. She never got to learn. She had to be reborn to properly learn her emotions. Some day I want to do a breakdown of this because Edel and Uzura are the same but different. I think Uzura joining Drosselmeyer at the end is also really important. She fulfills the same job as Edel, but now she is her own person. Unlike Edel who was always told she is a puppet without emotions and had come to "pretend" to have emotions, Uzura is a girl with emotions first and informed she's a puppet second. I truly believe Edel had emotions because she has no logical reason to do what she did if she didn't care for the main cast. She even died expressing a want to see Mytho and Princess Tutu dance together. Wanting something is an emotion even if Edel says it is all pretend. I believe Edel was compartmentalizing her feelings because of her identity as "just a puppet." Uzura is a second chance. Uzura gets to feel freely. Being a puppet isn't something to hold her back. She loves. She's curious. She's a person.

As someone who has highly compartmentalized their emotions to the point where they have trouble identifying that they have emotions, Edel and Uzura are so special to me. When I have tried to start feeling again, I often get called childish and told I'm overreacting. This has led me to stop trying to feel and go back to compartmentalizing. I think this is why Edel had to die for Uzura to get to feel. Because only a child is allowed to deconstruct emotion like that. I love the little wooden dolls. They are everything to me.

[luna-the-cretar]

I imagine Marius, since turning, has been stalked by roses. Like, if he’s able to sleep in a bed alone, he finds a deep blood red rose on his pillowcase (which smells like some odd combination of roses, blood, and sex). If he finds himself sleeping in a room, but not by himself, then he finds a rose in a vase on a table in the room, the color and scent changing based on who he’s sharing the room with.

However, if he’s unable to sleep in a bed, then he’ll find a random rose along the path, or will stumble upon a whole garden of them (even if there shouldn’t be one there). If he enters a building, he’ll see a rose on the mantle, on a table, etc. Whenever he brings it up, the owner will be confused. They’ve never had a rose to display, especially not a fresh one.

The roses are always fresh, always vibrant, and always pungent, even when they shouldn’t be. How on earth is there a fresh rose on the mantle in a dilapidated tavern, that has been abandoned for decades?

Deep down, he knows where the roses keep coming from. And the rest of the party knows too, even if they don’t bring it up.

[jukebox-wait]

the more i draw them the more disheveled they become

[drowningparty]

I have some thoughts re: Kayne / godhood (spoilers for intermezzo)

I don't think Kayne respects any of the other gods. He definitely doesn't respect the King in Yellow, he knocked him over the head w/ an oversized mallet to give him amnesia and stuck him in Arthur's head and reduced the Dreamlands to "a lawless waste" for a laugh. He also destroyed his city for the hell of it. He doesn't fucking care. He's rude to John, ignores him, says 'Arthur' when referring to both of them. I thought I noticed this undercurrent of quiet animosity, but felt vindicated during 40 + Intermezzo b/c he was suddenly soooooo loud! Ignoring & talking over John? Check. Telling him he's not special like Arthur? Check. Saying he'll torture him worse than Arthur just because he can? Check. My theory is it's b/c John's still a god, technically. Like the whole, choosing your own name + path... you'd think would be something Kayne could sympathize with (as much as Kayne can feel sympathy), but...........no. He knows John is easier to manipulate w/ fear (he can send him back to the Dark World w/ a snap of his fingers), and saves his faux sympathy for Arthur.

I think this is b/c he likes humans. Sure, he also likes killing them, but I don't think those impulses are mutually exclusive. Kayne's the most "human" of the gods we've met. He talks like a human, makes pop culture references, looks passingly human, etc. I think he envies them, in a way? They have a freedom I think he lacks as a god, even though they are confined to one timeline. We still don't fully understand how gods work, but from his description alone it sounds like he thinks of them as limited. They have incredible power compared to mortals, they exist outside the piano... but are confined to a single key. Which sounds to me like their path is predetermined and they're not intended to develop free will. Kayne's an anomaly b/c he does, or tries to.

He wants to put humans in an antfarm, perhaps as a demonstration of his free will. That's all Carcosa was, right? An antfarm. He wanted to play godzilla, smash the ants. Arthur's another ant in a different farm, and he watched his entire life play out across several verses to try to figure him out. What makes him unique is he dies in every other verse. Kayne can't figure out what makes this Arthur so special that he survives when all the others don't, but it implies he did something right with his free will, that this version is an "anomaly" like Kayne. He respects that, b/c it means this version of Arthur has done the same thing he has: taken control of their narrative. Even Kayne choosing his own name is an example of that. Becoming Kayne, rejecting the title Nyarlathotep and all the baggage that comes with it, the expectation to be what his father wants, a messenger for the outer gods (although he may still want that, I expect whatever his intentions are re: the Black Stone, they're his, not Azathoth's).

Arthur is usually a mirror for character's to see their humanity reflected, but instead of seeing his humanity (b/c he has none), Kayne looks at Arthur and sees himself. Which... surprised me? He seems so confident in his godhood, I thought he just viewed Arthur as his fave toy or human, like even in the S4 finale I found it hilarious how he kept going: "why can't you all just be more like Arthur???" apropo of.....nothing, but he didn't treat him like someone he identified with, so it caught me off-guard when he compared himself to Arthur, but that's big for a god! and I think it supports my thesis he envies humans for their freedom. Their roles aren't as "established" as a god's. Humans have free will, something he had to kill every other version of himself to gain. Even then, I think absorbing his alts (???) or whatever he did after killing them to become more powerful fucked him up, may have driven him mad if he wasn't already when he started this exercise in defending-himself-from-ever-getting-deleted, like he doesn't sound okay when he's talking to himself.

TLDR: Kayne thinks Arthur's special b/c he lived, when all the other Arthur's in Kayne's Arthur-Killing-Experiment died! (: Kayne can't figure out why, but he likes not knowing why. He likes humanity b/c of their freedom, b/c he's a chaos god who wants as much freedom as possible. And he's aware gods are fallible, they can be deleted, which takes all the romance out of godhood. Kayne's the most powerful god we've met b/c he's taken steps to emulate humanity's free will, the thing that makes Arthur "special," but what makes Arthur "hard to see" is probably his humanity. As much as Kayne likes humanity, I don't think it's something he can truly understand, which is why he enjoys sticking humans full of pins and trying.

I think it's neat Malevolent prizes humanity over godhood. Even gods seem to value humanity over godhood. John wants to become human. Yellow wants acceptance from a human. I think Kayne holds humans in higher esteem than gods. Those who look down on humans or try to 'ascend' and leave behind their humanity, like Larson, are clearly in the wrong. It's not seen as a weakness to be human, and even the parts of humanity that are usually written off as a weakness (our rage, grief, violence, desperation, etc...) are viewed as strengths in Malevolent, and I fucking love that about this show.

Anyway, I'll, uhh, shut up now.

[theodysseyofhomer]

Tbh just looking through your blog it seemed like you had things to say about Athena and Odysseus and idk why I've never really focused in on them before but I am. Intrigued! Are there instances in the odyssey you wish were explored more in epic or discussed more in general?

Or do you have any recommended reading?

i don't know that i have an athena/odysseus manifesto or anything but i do enjoy them! obviously athena works behind the scenes throughout the odyssey to help him, but he doesn't know that; when they finally interact in person and she reveals herself to him, he reacts with both distrust and a lot of freedom—that man is saying things to his patron goddess that i wouldn't say to my department supervisor. and she's fine with it! she's even like, oh you, this is why i like you ♥️ and then for the rest of the poem he obeys her implicitly while she eggs on the suitors to throw shit at him. which is how i treat my favorite little guys as well.

epic the musical is a pretty different beast; the athena duets with odysseus and telemakhos are by far my favorite songs, but i can't take them too seriously lol. i'd love for penelope and athena to have a duet, i guess! no one adapting the odyssey ever seems to include the scene where athena comes to penelope in a dream (disguised as her sister) and penelope, still dreaming, logics her way into realizing what must be going on and asks if odysseus is still alive. failing bechdel, but still very dear to me

my recommended reading is, as usual, the odyssey itself

[snakes-of-the-undercity]

Arcane Rant -

Rewatching arcane and I realized something; first scenes of episode 3 are a turning point. Not just in the whole ‘establishing Silco’ business, but because if Vander had truly ended up in Stillwater there’s a good chance Vi would have been the one taken in by Silco.

Vi would have blamed herself for his imprisonment, leaving her vulnerable in a similar way to how powder was, but she would have also become something different; greater.

She would have had to maintain some level of sanity in order to be a parent to Powder and a leader to the rest of the kids. Silco’s attack on Vander actually cost him more than he gained in the end, he could have had Vi and Jinx, maybe even Ekko, but he lost all that because of his vengeance and I think that’s the great thing about his character; his failure, flaw, is that he is too opportunistic, too much of an idealist.

That’s why he’s the perfect foil to another character I lowkey hate; Heimerdinger. Heimerdinger is not opportunistic, and that costs him so much; he’s not idealistic, rather he’s cynical and that leads him to believe that there’s only one option for progress.

Silco and Heimerdinger are each others parallel, instead of Heimerdinger and Singed/Silco and Jayce as I originally thought

Back to my original thing though -

Basically the first scene of episode 3 changes the whole narrative. Silco originally wanted to take Vi rather than Powder and he only took Powder because he had no other option. The original plan was for Vi to become ‘Jinx’, for her to become the next iteration of Vander leadership but with Silco’s ideals; instead we got Jinx the unwitting revolutionary, the embodiment of a weapon.

Silco doomed the undercity through his own quest for revenge and I think that’s super fitting and might be a bit of foreshadowing for the coming season (Vi & the underground theory truther right here)

[oklotea]

What’s your opinion on Apple as a Character and Person?

AS A CHARACTER

I ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ADORE APPLE WHITE OH MY GOD I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. It's easy for so many people to focus on all the shit apple gets up to and how many mistakes she makes and how many people she ends up hurting, but oh my fucking god if they ever sat down and thoroughly thought about WHY she does the things she does, how she was raised to become this person who is so hellbent in a cause/belief that hurts more people than it helps, or the myriad of ways she is like, an actual teenage girl who is being groomed and emotionally manipulated by EVERY SINGLE ADULT FIGURE IN HER LIFE--

Maybe they could learn that she is one of the best written characters in the show, and she solos all your faves /JOKE THIS IS A JOKE

AS A PERSON.....

I'm a firm believer that Apple doesn't want to hurt anyone. Look at her. She never had any intention to hurt anyone. OF COURSE NOT! SHE DOESN'T WAKE UP EVERYDAY TO LOOK FOR A REASON TO HURT PEOPLE.

But the thing is, she does. She does she does she does, and it's all because she's genuinely, GENUINELY WORRIED that something horrible will happen to the people she loves and cares about. If they do not follow their destinies. But let's be real it's also partially because she's extremely attached to the destiny system. And she believes that living by it, is the only way to live your life fulfilled. It's a safety net in her eyes. She thinks it's good because of how well the system treats her. BUT JUST WAIT WHEN SHE REALIZES THATTTTTT everything she ever believed about destiny is a lie, darling is her prince Charming, everything is a lie. She's a comphet lesbian. She has never truly liked herself for who she is, if she even KNOWS who she is outside of her destiny.

But back to the matter at hand, I can see that Apple never has the intention to hurt Raven or any of her friends, but she's also so deeply loyal to the destiny system, she makes stupid decisions and she hurts them.

She is a teenage girl who is doomed from the start I mean come on I still love her

[thecatundertheladder]

More info for my fsm lives au!

In the first few thousand years of Ninjago's existence, the First Spinjitzu Master was relatively involved with humanity's development. Not in a 'so this is how you make a vaccine' sort of way, but they would help out when crops failed and would travel around Ninjago giving out random bits of advice, all while trying not to interfere with humanity's progress.

(He did have a brief stint as the emperor of Central Ninjago as a young adult, but that was an accident)

Fsm did slip up occasionally with the whole 'let humanity progress naturally' things though, so every now and then a random human would be 'blessed' with the knowledge of how photosynthesis works.

After all, they may of been a child when they created humans but he was also from a much more ancient and advanced realm then Ninjago, so he had much more information about how the world then humans, and even Merlopians, did at the time. I'm talking like they knew clouds were made of water, hygiene was important and prevented sickness, and that stars were made of plasma. Essentially, science was a much more developed field back in the first realm so Fsm knew stuff that a fledgling civilization wouldn't.

Sorry for getting a bit off track there. But basically all this means that some 10-20 thousand years ago (I haven't worked out a timeline yet) the average Ninjagon citizen was a bit more involved in the Fsm's life then modern day citizens.

But over the thousands of years of humanity's existence he has slowly pulled away from them and (once he was sure the humans wouldn't die out due to lack of knowledge) left them largely to their own devices. This means that much of Fsm's life has been reduced to myth and legend in the eyes of Ninjago's citizens (there are exceptions, though, like the monks at the library of Domu). However, he was still a public figure.

Granted most of the legends are essentially fact, however, some key information has been forgotten - such as Nyad, and the Very Important Fact of Fsm not being human.

What this means is when the First Spinjitzu Master suddenly drops of the map a number of decades before Lloyd is born, the humans fear the worst: that he's dead (the Serpentine know better but that's another story). Wu and Garmadon only make the rumours of their father's demise worse by telling humanity the truth; that he's most likely in the Departed Realm. Unfortunately, both brothers have inherited their father's habit of forgetting to tell people things. As a result, they accidentally forgot to mention that their father going to the Departed Realm to visit their friends (the OG elemental masters) is a relatively regular thing, and that they can leave at any time.

Soon after this announcement, the rumour that the First Spinjitzu Master is buried in a tomb filled with ancient artifacts and unimaginable treasures makes it's way through the villages and cities of Ninjago. The tomb in question is actually just a storage facility for all the magical and potentially dangerous items Fsm didn't want in the monastery when raising kids.

All in all, the average Ninjagon citizen doesn't know that the Fsm is alive and well (doesn't stop them from praying to him though). So the ninja, including Lloyd, are incredibly surprised when Fsm shows up to congratulate them on their victory some time after the overlord is defeated.

And, just to add to the potential comedy, Misako - who knew quite a bit about the First Spinjitzu Master as a result of her research and from being married to their son - didn't even know Fsm was alive until he showed up a few days after Lloyd was born to meet his grandson. She fainted.

[buddyhollyscurls]

Yk what fucks me up the most about Geto? How bc we only see him through Gojo's POV and in the Hidden Inventory arcs (least in the anime I haven't started the manga YET so idk if we get more info of him) we don't particularly.... know him that well. Like yes we see through Gojo that he's not eating/sleeping well, we see that he's depressed but there's still so many unanswered questions that we'll never know and things we only get bits and pieces of.

When he died, he said he was never able to live life with a proper smile. Does that mean even when he was working on his cult, he wasn't satisfied? If that's the case, do you think he ever regretted what he did? Do u think there were ever times he lied awake at night wishing he could see his parents again? We dont even know the relationship he had with them. Did he kill them more out of vengeance than "principles?" We can't even feasibly say how long he's been depressed for from that statement. Was his whole adolescence just him hiding his feelings? We know by how much Nanako and Mimiko loved him that he must've been a great guardian to them. But were there things he struggled with raising them? He clearly allowed them to be regular young girls, so did he put them in school? Do u think he actually believed that he could kill all non sorcerers or did he actually not even believe in his own ideology and plan?

I'm asking all these questions because it shows how hard the point of his character drives. That it's so hard to actually see him as a full fleged person bc we don't actually have much to go on and we know more of his powers than anything else.