#and it wouldnt be complicated either

[destinysbounty]

One thing that kinda chaps me about how the Ice Emperor is typically characterized by a lot of the fandom is that if you really pay attention to how he behaves in the Ice Chapter, he isn't the aggressive, confrontational villain he's often made out to be. In s11, most scenes we see of the Ice Emperor actually depict him as a very passive and sedate character, preferring to rest on his throne and contemplate rather than taking action. He never acts unless Vex implores him to do so, and even then he usually defaults to the less ruthless choice until Vex cajoles him into opting for something more brutal. The first time we see the IE defy Vex in any capacity is when he chooses to spare Lloyd rather than killing him instantly. Judging by Vex's surprise at this, and IE's unabashed trust in his advisor, I would hazard to guess this is the first time Zane has ever pushed back against one of Vex's suggestions.

This is not to say the Ice Emperor is without cruelty or brutality. He is still a very menacing presence in his own right, and he absolutely has gallons of blood on his hands. That cannot be understated. But on his own, without a wormtongue whispering in his ear, I personally think the Ice Emperor would have been...well, not necessarily a kind person, but significantly less ruthless. He's a passive and dare I say tired person who prefers to sit on his throne and wait for orders rather than taking any form of initiative on his own. He's barely even a leader or a tyrant in any true sense of the term, really -- he's just a glorified weapon Vex keeps stored on a shelf until he's needed.

This actually makes sense when you consider Zane's element. Ice is in its very nature a slow and sedate thing. Temperature is shaped by the speed and movement of particulates -- the faster molecules move, the hotter things are. Whereas when things get colder, molecules move much more slowly. (That's perhaps a bit of an oversimplification, but I'm not going to give a lecture on thermodynamics in a post about silly lego people). And the Ice Emperor...well, he's very much encased in ice. He has to physically pry himself off his throne, and the staff has long been frozen to his hand. The whole world is in a similar state as well. Entire swathes of the population have been cryogenically frozen, and the world is so cold that it's exceedingly difficult for fire to thrive. And many other fans have speculated that the reason Akita is able to look the same age despite decades passing is because Zane's corrupted ice has overwhelmed the land so profoundly that everyone is more or less frozen in time.

Ice is a slow, sedate, passive thing. It does not demand anything of you except that you cease movement. Likewise, the Ice Emperor in his truest state is a sedate, passive character, only stirred out of his meditations when Vex compels him into action.

True, he's often depicted as a generically ruthless tyrant in most iterations after s11, but those can usually be chalked up to Zane's unreliable self-perception. This is how Zane interprets his behavior as the Ice Emperor, rather than the actual reality of how he truly behaved. Zane resents that part of himself, and that resentment has warped his understanding of who the Ice Emperor truly was. Which in itself is rather tragic considering Zane's identity issues. That is to say, Zane is so terribly blinded by his trauma and self-loathing that not even he can see himself for who he truly is.

(Cough cough that one quote in Dragons Rising: "Zane had such impressive shoes to fill. No one could ever live up to him, perhaps not even Zane himself.")

Anyway, even if people disagree with this interpretation of the Ice Emperor's character, I personally find it much more compelling to view him not as a generic murderous tyrant...but as an old, tired machine who cannot conceive of his personhood outside of his own weaponization.

By extension, this actually makes Zane's post-s11 coping process a lot more complex as well. The popular narrative is that Zane needs to learn to accept that what happens wasn't his fault, that he had a whole chorus of extenuating circumstances working against him, and that it's actually quite impressive just how many things had to go wrong all at once for him to become evil. And that's fair, but I also think the truth of the matter is more complicated than that.

Zane knows, deep down, that the Ice Emperor's actions weren't his fault -- and that's exactly what terrifies him. Because if he accepts that he was little more than Vex's mindless weapon, then he has to admit that his greatest fear has come true. He spent decades as a mindless, soulless machine, only ever acting on the will of another person, all while being endlessly manipulated by a cursed artifact, rather than having any true agency of his own. When his friends tell him it wasn't his fault, it's not a comfort but rather a painful reminder of how long he spent as someone else's drone. When the people of the Never Realm forgive him and let him return home unobstructed, a part of Zane resents it because it means they, too, acknowledge his absence of free will.

In my eyes, Zane post-s11 is someone who feels that he needs to be blamed, needs to be hated and despised and shunned -- because if people hate him for what he did, then that means it really was his fault. And if it was his fault, then that means he didn't lose his free will after all. It means he didn't spend 50 years as someone else's empty plaything. It means he didn't spend more of his life as a mindless weapon than as a true person.

Yes, Zane needs to learn to stop blaming himself for the Ice Emperor's actions...but how can he let go of the blame when it's the only thing keeping him sane?

[skunkes]

before i was able to access any gender-affirming care, and for a little while afterward too, i truly believed that there was no pride or joy to be had in being trans and that there was something wrong with me for not being cis. it's a long journey but i hope that one day you come to a place of love, compassion, and understanding for your body. i hope the HRT helps, i hope that every little secret fluffy hair you grow erodes the hatred and misery just a little, i hope for you to reach a place of pride and adoration for the transformative work that you are. find a way be proud of being cheye my brother, that's more important than anything.

i like being me ! i dont dislike my vessel as a whole, i suppose. im mostly okay with what i have. im sure I'll like it all more when everything falls into place, but not entirely.

but the not being cis thing will always be in the back of my mind i feel. not a present thing, cause well, why cry or be bitter over what we can do nothing about. but i think itll always engulf me at times... not proud of it, im not really proud of any identifier of the self other than the being sterilized thing LOL its just something i am, in the same way that im not proud of my favorite color being blue, or my current favorite food being stuffed bell peppers. its just something thats There. (Except it'll never change and it makes me sad lmfao. I cannot imagine there being any joy in it...)

[midwestfemmeprincess]

literally how are we the same year in the same major and I have to explain this much to you???

[xxacidrain39xx]

dawg i wish i could be honest about being trans to my moms side of the family but theyd probably hate my guts for it

[one-with-the-tree]

By the way, all my stories I have written and am planning to write will (for now) just remain as webnovels/online stories you can read for free on Wattpad. I am also working on setting up my own website where they can be read for people who don't like Wattpad.

I'd love to go into actual publishing someday but it's honestly just really, really daunting for me. I'm not at all looking to go the traditional publishing route with an agent and a publishing company, so indie would be the way to go. But even that seems really daunting to me, and I fear my writing would never be good enough to ask people money to pay.

So, at least for the foreseeable future, all my stories will remain available to read for free on the interwebs on Wattpad, and eventually on my own website once I get that up and running.

I'll just link my WP account here for those curious: www.wattpad.com/user/Skylacine

I've written quite a few short stories and novellas and my first full-sized novel is almost complete. They're all xenofiction, mostly about wolves.

[tvmblrsillyman]

0 days without yearning for tumblr live as a better service

[moonstandardtime]

love my digital art class but god it is filling me with rage and hatred for adobe.

[heavenlydevil-95]

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[mithliya]

honestly it still baffles me that theres genuinely people on here who think women from the most homophobic regions will pretend to be lesbians & be polilezzes while actively living in that region

[female-woman-wiffman-lass]

I want to be a man, but like, non traditionally. I want to be a guy whose a girl but I wear guy hat so well. Like, I'm such a girl but only in the way i fit. Call me a girl but know that boy is my last name. I love my assigned stuff, like, yeah this vagina and these tits are cool but also I don't identify with it? No yeah, I appreciate them, just not in a traditional womanly sense. I treat my innie genital, talk about it, as if its my dick but also a hole is a hole, and I'm a guy sometimes dammit.

It's not fair. I'm venting and stuff and it's not well articulated but that's just how my feelings are. Trust me, treat me like a boy just accept that I've got this body, but also, treat my like a girl whose just a guy. Why can't it be simple. And also, you perceive yourself with a nkt easily explained complex identity? In this economy? With your mother?

Idk anymore. No one else thinks like this probably. I don't want to change my body, but if I like masculinity, to be like tat, I feel like I owe it to myself to follow thru. Like, if I don't change or modify, I won't actually be able to call myself, 'not completely a girl'. Fuck that.

I'm going to kill myself or something it's top bright out to have thoughts like this.

[dustlakeca]

thinking about angie again. could june and her ever become friends? were they friends before?

[littlegeecko]

What is you head cannon relationship between Shedleysky and 1x1 can you spill the tea these dying times!

Ty for asking, i love talking bout my aus!!!

Short answer: Shedletsky/Telamon and 1x1 exclusively have a mentor/student relationship with an insane power imbalance (/neg) but they are also, very aware, of the fact that they're cut from the same fabric, hence why they used to look like literal twins in the very beginning. 1x is Telamon, Telamon is Shedletsky, and Shedletsky is 1x.

Now, if you want a more indepth reading on how i visualize their relationship, here's the long answer:

(cw: self harm)

During the time i've spent looking at fanart of these guys i see a lot of people picturing them as either father/child or even brothers, and while i find the familiar connection adorable i simply couldn't do the same with (my) Telamon and Shedletsky.

(My) Telamon is a narcissistic, highly sadistic non-robloxian semi-god that lives on The Heights, often known for being both the strongest fighter in all around Roblox and the most feared by those that only read about him or visited The Heights to try luck and catch a glimpse of him, but often eye contact meant trouble with this guy. People would leave gold , studs and gem offerings for him in hopes he won't come down one day and randomly kill a bunch of people. (as he HAS in generations past)

However, after some especific events that pushed him into believing he was becoming "too soft" for his position as the God of Chaos, he decided to create a clone of himself; one that would be made from his deepest hatred towards the simpleton Robloxians and clear enjoyment in Hurting People For Fun, but this being wasn't one for Fun, it was simply wired into it's system. He called it 1x1x1x1.

In my AU, Telamon and 1x1 have a very complicated relationship if you try to read them as "family", but if you read them as the same guy to an extent, things start to make way more sense. Telamon is constantly (literally) beating into 1x1 this idea of destroying things, hurting others and generally not having those "soft" emotions he himself is starting to feel. "You don't this/that" "you don't need to interact with others, much less robloxians" "If someone comes your way for a fight, always go for the Kill, just like i taught you" "NEVER let anyone make a fool of you"

"Maybe one day you'll become strong enough to wear the Domino crown...when i'm DEAD by your own hand, that is. Hahaha!"

Granted, Telamon never told 1x they were made to be anything else but that, an extension of himself that represented everything Chaos is meant to represent. 1x1 had no strong opinions about this either, simply following Telamon around and never meaning to rebel against him for "lame little softie feelings" towards anything under the Heights. 1x1 was a sadist themselves.

You could say, Telamon creating, teaching, and torturing 1x1 was some sorta self-harm on himself, for having his reputation crumble by his own shameful desires, for DARING to enjoy things like Food and Music by those inferior beings, for having his heart race and his face heat up at the thought of someone In Specific. He couldn't beat some sense onto himself, his own pride wouldnt allow it, so he made a literal dummy, with his FACE, he could shape and twist into what he thinks he SHOULD be, with no outside influences that could lead it to the same path as him. And it worked, a little too well.

So well, it got him killed.

1x1 didn't kill Telamon, instead he tried to stop 1x1 from getting the Domino crown by dueling him, but this creature was far too gone, using all of Telamon's tricks, and some new, causing Telamon to use all of his own power and eventually exploding, and falling unconscious. 1x1 then escaped, someone else will take care of him later...

After this, Telamon came back around thanks to Dusekkar's care, his right-hand man, and his mind seemed to be broken beyond recognition.

Telamon is not dead, but he now resides deep, DEEP inside Shedletsky's mind; the new being Telamon turned into after using all that power, everything Good about Telamon, everything Human, everything he enjoyed, the child-like curiosity and even selfless feelings he used to hide...Shedletsky is all that, and he remains that, even with that little voice in his head telling him to do Certain Bad Things.

Telamon is gone, physically, but his 2 halves remain wandering the Heights and the Banlands forever destined to fight each other, never to be together again, with hatred in their very bones, and courage in his heart, to protect others.

1x1 despises Shedletsky because everything he was made for was for naught, and Shedletsky simply can't let 1x1 win, not again. With new and old tricks, their swords will do the talking for them. That's the only way they were taught to interact; with violence.

[ceasarslegion]

I wouldnt have thought about JKR in years if you fuckers didn't slap her onto every single pride post to constantly remind everybody about how much you hate her. Crazy concept here but some of us trans people dont like to be reminded of people who want us dead every time youre claiming to be supporting us.

Also im going to be so real here and say that I dont give a single flying fuck if someone is a Harry Potter fan. I care about if they show up for me and defend my rights. Considering the vast majority of people are not chronically online in a tumblr way and dont even know about JKRs terfism its not a good litmus test for anything. Also im going to be so real here and say that you cant be out here pretending it wasn't the most popular children's series of the 2000s that was an utter pop cultural reset, because it was, and therefore tons and tons of people do have complicated feelings, good memories attached to it, and would rather either disconnect it from her or just be left alone about it. Saying that ever having a good experience with HP ever in your life is the same thing as being a violent transphobe is just fucking stupid. The only thing that actually matters is if they show up for trans people, not if they pass your arbitrary test about who was the most woke baby.

[the-wine-bottle]

True suffering is realizing that my friend never finished the svsss extras and never got to Shen Jiu's chapter so she doesn't know all his lore and based majority of it off of what she knew of from the previous novels and spoilers and now I CANT EVEN ARGUE PEOPERLY BC IF I NEVER FINISHED THE EXTRAS I WOULDNT LIKE HIM EITHER! IM NOT EVEN SURE IF I LIKE HIM NOW! His character is so complex, complicated, and sad. She thought he was a predator. SHEN JIU???? A PREDATOR???? NEVER IN MY LIFE!!!!! The man who's afraid of men. The greatest misandrist of them all. The most misunderstood, convoluted, horrible yet endearing at the same time, went through a shit ton of trauma but continued the trauma cycle instead of breaking out, my dear Shen Jiu, they could never make me form a proper opinion on you 🙃.

(She made me think I was tripping for a second when I said he was the greatest women defender of all time, bc she responded incredulous and asked if maybe I was confusing his character with fanfiction-)

(Shes gonna read this and think I'm being over dramatic

This was my argument:

"Wait I still wanna clear things up about Shen Jiu even if you hate him

1- He never liked children, like EVER, he just hated everyone but women

2-he had a LOT of respect for women, especially those that worked within the brothel since he knew how hard it could be, he goes there to be comforted by his Shijie's since its the one place he feels safe and he uses it to gather info

3- he never killed Liu Qingge everyone just assumed he did and he didn't fight back since he thought there was no way they would belive him

4- he has major league trust issues, he never tries to stop any of the rumors about him since he thinks no one would listen to him bc the one person he trusted (yqy) left him

5-Yqy never got the chance to tell him why he didn't come back so Shen Jiu just assumes he abandoned him

6-him and Yqy were confirmed soulmates that could never get together 😑

7- He hated Luo Binghe because he has everything he didn't, a mother, a good foundation, potential and all that, what really did it is Qiu Jiunluo's nickname, A-Luo. What did Ning Yingying call Binghe? A-Luo. Keep in mind Qiu Jiuluo was Shen Jiu's sexual and physical abuser, so Shen Jiu got MAJOR ptsd, which does not excuse his actions mind you but it makes him more like reasonable??? Yk what I mean"

"Bc he DID continue the cycle of abuse but when you know what he went through its easier to sympathize, the thing about him is HE doesn't consider it abuse, since the worst part of abuse for him was the sexual part, so he feels like he's not truely punishing Binghe as long as he doesn't do that"

Ignore how incoherent it is. Some of it was said in the heat of the moment so don't be surprised by typos or anything. This is not important but it matters to me... a LOT. Also I do apologize if some information is false, as I said some things were said in the heat of the moments and I can get confused between fiction and different versions of that piece of fiction, especially when I'm in an argument and I'm typing in rapid fire bursts 🙏🏻.

[youkaigakkou-tl]

Hey! This is a weird question, probably, and just nitpicky, but I was wondering if you knew how come Sano is "number 13" (ch43) on the student list in Class 2-3? I alphabetically ordered all the students, surnames first, and he came out on the 20th spot. The students whose surnames we don't know (Odawara, Akibe, Koizumi, Marilyn, Daisy) all place above him, but even knocking them down (assuming their surnames started after the S), he still wouldn't be the 13th... do you happen to know why? ☹️

WOULDNT YOU KNOW IT I ACTUALLY KNOW THIS ONE

your first mistake is going by english alphabetical order, when you should have been going by hiragana order (a-i-u-e-o ka-ki-ku etc etc), which does put sano at 13!

what complicates things is actually that we get another student's index number: Mame at 18 (ch39) ( i have double checked with the jp that its not a typo)

(yellow highlights are confirmed ones, the rest are inferred)

this puts 5 names between 13 and 18 when there's only space for 4

the only explanation i can think of (and probably the case) is because fuji, marilyn and daisy were not originally characters when ch3 (with the class photo) released in the magazine, and were only added in the volume release (citation)

so it goes like:

tanamai makes either fuji or daisy first -> she comes up with the roster index numbers -> she makes the other one (oh no! now theres 18 names that are supposed to come before mame! but she never realised or just didnt update her roster)

(also i think its fairly safe to assume that any students with 1 word names, that either is their entire name or that's their surname, because a teacher would not be calling a student by first name)

[dianagj-art]

You might’ve said before. But what animation software do you use? And what do you refer to use?

But also sorry, for a beginner what one would you say would be easier and simpler to use? I love seeing your animations you make everything down nicely

It depends on what I want to do

for the comics most of the time I just use photoshop, tho i wouldnt really recomend it 😅 is not that much intuitive but it gets the work done for what I need on the comic and is what I normally use to draw so it's easy for me

when the comic has more complicated animation and I need a more normal looking timeline, I move either to krita or lately to clip studio

for example the animation of One rising and the kick were done in krita

Krita is a free drawing software, I almost never use it now, but I do highly recomend it, specially if you are starting out either on drawing or animation, I did my whole tesis in there

I've been trying to move more to clip studio, is a very complete program for drawing, comics and animation, tho is not free, it is on the cheaper side. A lot of my friends use it, and I got a friend who is doing the intro for her show completely there (except post production stuff)

I still dont feel 100% confident on it but is mostly because I'm just so used to working on photoshop and im still going on a learning curve with csp

Clips studio is what I used for these crossover animatics [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is also what I'm using for an original comic I'm working on that is also a mix of comic and animation

Then there's my absolut beloved: Toom Boom Harmony, I started using it while I was doing studio work and fell in love with it imediately, I learnt to use it very quickly, is very intuitive and the parts that are not you can find tutorials about it very easly. I think it was the first program that made me like use vectors to draw

it is a very expensive program, so I only kept it for a few months after I stoped working on the studio (mostly cause I wasnt using it as much as I would want to for the amount I was being charged montly)

but thats the program I used to animate quite a lot of crossovers nonesense:

This early Council crossover animatics [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This 2al crossover animatics [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These fanarts of other peoples' aus [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This crossover comic page:

and while I do heavily recomend it as an animation program, I wouldn't if you are just starting out cause is very expensive, so might want to strat trying your hand at it with krita or clip studio

all these programs have a lot of tutorial videos on yt for bigginers, so you might want to go ahead and watch a few to see what looks like is gonna fit to what you wanna do