#and i still left out a bunch of stuff

[dammarchy211]

THE COMMITTEE FOR RAPACIOUS INTERLOPERS AND MANIACAL ESPERS !

drawing dump I definitely can’t fit all of them in but here’s most of em lol. Neo Cortez the founder and Head of C.R.I.M.E. Got a complete redo which I actually Like now so’ll probably expand on him more

[foulserpent]

the Odomache, one of the seven high priests of the God of Warden, in ceremonial armor. Day to day wear is slightly more practical and less purple. lore about this role below

Background: The God of Warden (has many names that would mostly translate to 'God') is the object of monotheistic worship and the official religion of Warden’s five city-states. Core dogma holds that the first man sacrificed God, and used Its body to create a world in primordial chaos. God’s soul remains bound to the world and incarnates into seven ‘faces’, understood to be aspects of the same being. Each face has at least one dedicated monastic order, under command of seven high priests. The seven are functionally the ruling body of Warden, though each city-state has its own leadership.

The Odomache is part of a martial-religious order called the Odonii, a monastic cult centered around God’s ‘lion face’. The role was historically mostly martial and religious, but the recent historical shift towards Warden as a state identity has seem the Odomache become a representation of the state, a living embodiment of its wholeness and sanctity. 

She is particularly tied to the citystate Godsmouth (and the role likely derives from earlier practices before even the formation of the state), and is its chief military commander, and presides over all military rituals to ensure success in battle.

Young girls are selected for the role from the families of ranking soldiers. They are trained for their varying roles for about a decade and care for the prides of white lions kept in the palatial gardens. After a gauntlet of tests and based on their prowess in training, a new Odomache is selected by the previous one, and the role transferred.

The triumphant Odomache then sacrifices one of her lions, in a ceremony replicating God’s sacrifice at the hands of the first human. She divides its body among the heads of the Five Nations of Warden, is painted in its blood, and wears its raw pelt in the initiatory Lion Dance ritual, where she leads the Odonii and her soldiers in a weapons dance.

Neither nudity or sex is taboo in this culture, but profound significance is placed on both (and the body as a whole). A state of nudity is understood as being metaphysically vulnerable and malleable, necessary for transformative rituals but profoundly dangerous. Sex (particularly receiving penetrative sex) is especially vulnerable. The gaze is also understood as magically potent and potentially dangerous (in the form of an ‘evil eye’ curse and related beliefs.

All this necessitates the Odomache's body to be closely guarded (the other 6 high priests have similar practices). She will only ever be seen nude during this initiatory lion dance, after which only her face, hair, hands and feet can be exposed publicly.

The penalty for seeing an Odomache’s nude body is (intended to be) death, at the hands of the Odomache herself, who will be anointed in the blood of the offender to be ritually re-consecrated. The only exception is other odonii, and her attending servants (all people designated women or eunuchs). Celibacy is similarly enforced.

As with anything, there are violations that go unchecked, but there are relatively few Odomache with known scandals throughout history, and all of these ended with their willing ritual suicide, When your body is symbolically identified with the health of the State, the People, and Literally God, the stakes are pretty high (and psychological consequences sometimes severe)

[phantastragoria]

The tragedy that is the majority of viewers not catching onto the fact that Gamora had tons of internal cybernetics and an entirely replaced skeletal system when those are the only things that will remain long after she's gone.

[sevenines]

i wish, really really wish that ronaldo and lars’ shared past was further explored. to me, a follow up episode alone would have made horror club one of the best! their old friendship clearly wasn’t looked over by the staff either, one look at raven molisee’s poshmark tells you just how much he loved young lars and “ronnie”. i always think about the effects of storyboarders leaving; the crew always talked about how collaborative the whole process was, so i can only wonder if those “championing” for more of their fav character(s) took away that passion with them as they left.

unrelatedly, ronaldo x lighthouse gem is a very funny concept.

[agentvalentine]

Look at me I did 4 whole replies on here AND a post about Brad. We're thriving.

[sleepinglionhearts]

Man, just saw a post about it, but renewed my frustration over work nonsense yesterday

Being like, oh, cool! It's disability pride month! We get to switch the displays in the store! I wanna make a really cool display right up front!!

Getting a cart to go start selecting books from our wide array of children's books, picture books, YA novels, adult fiction, nonfiction, etc that I know feature disabled characters and people and that I've seen sitting on the shelves for a while, our previous book buyer was always suuuuuper vocal about finding books w disabled characters, after all, representation just MATTERED SO MUCH to her,

And then being absolutely dumbfounded when we BARELY HAVE ANYTHING outside of characters w ADHD/Autism. MAYBE anxiety. PERHAPS a character has cancer. THE FAINTEST SUGGESTION of a wheelchair in one book. Huntington's? Question mark? In another? Conditions resulting in disfigurement/amputation? The concept could possibly exist in this book, uhh.. maybe...... anything else? Ha! Not on these shelves I fucking guess?!

Like.... we have a ton of books w queer rep! Different body types! Different skin tones! Teach your toddler about social justice! Transgender characters! Nonbinary characters! The alphabet but we're making it gay! At least one book, I think, with asexual characters! But no, we don't have our self-empowerment books anymore or the little guide to sexuality and disability, we have Buddhist monk advice for anxious people, but nooooo we DON'T have that cool book that talked about disability activism anymore, and definitely not in time for July!

I know she and I were at odds before she left, and I know my specifically putting "National month of..." prompts up on my desk calendar after she expressed it was "so difficult to find out what each month is the month of!" probably really irritated her, but I'm like. Appalled that she hadn't been ordering to restock for disability pride month since she always made such a big deal about having books like that in the store.

[sonknuxadow]

NOOOOOO i caved and decided i would just buy the lps from the target website anyway and they decided to go out of stock as i was about to check out. throws up

[write-it-motherfuckers]

I’m so sorry for doing this again Darlings, but the power to my house got knocked out last night and I’ve only just gotten it back and been able to start charging my phone. I don’t think I’m going to have enough time to write up anything today. I’m so sorry Darlings, I’ll try again tomorrow I promise 😭

I love you all dearly, stay safe Darling ones 🖤

[ronkeyroo]

I have so many questions about your truple! Like how do each of the wolf twins show they love your oc?

And ask you may!! I love talking about the wolf trio and their shenanigans/relationship so much! :’D

They show their love in a variety of ways...♥ I chose to illustrate some of the more...Wholesome ones!

[girlwithfish]

I love triggering myself thru voice recordings from 2023 that I didn't even know were on my phone

[starbuck]

BYE AGAIN!!!!!

[redysetdare]

I always kind of felt weird watch queer youtubers and videos and I think I've found out why. It has to do with wording - and I don't think they mean to be but a lot of the way they word things excludes the idea of asexual people existing.

it's this idea that queer media that doesn't have sex in it is somehow lesser than queer media that does. It's this idea that if queer characters aren't able to talk about sex than it's "sanitizing queerness for cis heterosexuals". that teens not being horny is unrealistic. That queerness in inherently tied to having sex.

And while I understand that this might not be what they mean - that yes the desexualization of queer people is a thing used to sanitize the idea of queerness to a non-queer audience... some of the way that these statements are worded excludes the idea that someone can be asexual and that asexuality is queer. it excludes the idea that people, like me, went through their entire teenage years not having or wanting sex. it shows a bias that people think that asexual media is lesser than. that people who don't want to focus sex aren't queer enough or queer in the right way.

I understand what they are trying to say: that they want queer media that's just as messy and sex filled as the straights seem to get. that they want queer media to be unabashedly weird.

but the way they word it sometimes. it makes me wonder how they actually feel about asexual people. because they sure aren't including us in their discussions on queerness.

[deus-ex-mona]

tmw you give someone concise instructions but they ✨just do not get it✨

[dmclemblems]

i just think it’s really cute how dimitri waves goodbye to the lord of the route you’re on. even after all the fighting and even though they all know the war could continue even after fighting battle together, he’s still so polite and humane toward them.

i also like how they changed the angle of the scene specifically so that you could see that he was waving directly to the lord of the respective route.

[stockholmgf]

i completed tasks and accomplished many small goals today. unmedicated even!

[queer-crusader]

I think the realisation of my trip next week is hitting and I'm trying not to spiral but the anxiety is catching up to me so fast, I've not felt like this in a good while