#at this point i'm just rambling

[god-of-knk]

I think the funniest thing about our empathy/sympathy is that, while we can't be fucked to care for most things that happen to most folks, it changes drastically when it's an animal. Even to the point we've never been able to experience grief over a person's death, but host broke when his cat died. We simply cannot care about the loss of human life. It's funny and strange and I'm never entirely sure why.

[egophiliac]

missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉

[eddieangel]

She is upset. She's sad and i can't fix it. I want to take care of her, i want to be helpful to stop her from hurting.

I asked for a week, she said yes. It'll be alright. She has so much love in her heart so it'll be alright.

I'll take care of her, i'll make sure she's alright

[hauntedvulcan]

Surprisingly enough I've never really tried to sing the TOS theme song

[cloudfishcg]

referring to the cleanup arc

[azurityarts]

PMD fans you already know what time it is

[quadrantadvisor]

Even after learning their secret identities, the hero community always insisted that there was something inhuman about the bats. No one doubted that their intensive training had a lot to do with it, but it never quite explained how they could evade a Kryptonian's super senses, how they could melt into shadows, how they could function so long with little food, little rest, little oxygen if need be. Most people dismissed their uneasy feelings, but there was something strange about the bats, something uncanny, something that made them different from the arrows and other vanilla human members. And, slowly enough that no one really noticed, it was getting stronger.

Until one day, during a diplomatic meeting with the ruler of the Infinite Realms, when High King Phantom turned to Batman and his brood and literally brightened. "Oh! I didn't know you had liminal members!"

Or: through a variety of factors (proximity to death, their own death/near death experiences, exposure to the Lazarus Pits, the favor of Lady Gotham, immersion in Gotham's own cursed ambient ectoplasm, being a close knit group who continued to expose eachother, etc.) the batfamily have been becoming liminal/ecto-contaminated without noticing. The powers they're developing have been subtle, and align with the skills they expect to have, so no one brought it up when they started being able to hold their breath beyond human limitations, or got so sneaky that they literally seemed invisible, or had a lucky miss when they expected a bullet to go right through them. And they always exuded an unsettling aura of fear, so no one else thought anything was out of the ordinary either. By the time they meet Danny, Gotham counts as one of the most fiercely defended ghost haunts on the planet, with so many territorial liminals patrolling the streets.

[tragedytells-tales]

Six characters MK's from LMK AU's to make fanart of, for enrichment and practice, final!

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Possessed MK AU requested by: @sc6rl3t

New Past AU MK by: @lululocomo | Requested by: @estellardreams

Harbinger MK AU requested by: @milkywaypudding

Shadowpeach Bio Parents Second Star AU MK by: @kyri45 | Requested by: @writing-heiress & @goldentigereyemania

EPICTM Legendary AU MK by: @ducky-dawn47

If you requested something and I didn't do it/have a request in mind, then I'll likely draw it for round 2 or just for fun at some point!!

This is a list of summaries for every AU

Champion of Destiny:

MK got possessed long before his first fight with the Lady Bone Demon. A curse was whispered between those harsh words she sewed into his mind that day in Spider Queens lair. And what makes a better champion than a king or a warrior? Something absolute, something destined, someone crafted by a goddess herself.

A harbinger.

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The New Past:

"After getting in the Pillar of Heaven, the cycle end and MK cannot go back home. With the help of Nuwa and the color stone, he was send to the next cycle so he could live a new life without the burden of being the harbinger of chaos.

MK, now fully a mystic monkey, arrived in this new cycle at the time of Journey to the West, but he have no idea at what point of the book he is! Is it during the pilgrimage? or way before?? he don't know for now, but he will soon know."

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Nuwa's Path, True Meaning of Sacrifice:

With every beginning comes an end. Such is the world's cycle, written by the pen of a lone child. The little Harbinger awakens and is thrown into the end of the world. Powerful malicious demons roam a mortal world that has been abandoned by its heros, and the Harbinger fights to survive until he reaches his purpose. Or nearly dies to the Lady Bone Demon.

He finds sanctuary on Flower Fruit Mountain, where the Monkey King protects his kingdom from chaos. Even if it means adopting it 🥴

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Shadowpeach Bio Parents Second Star:

After the events of last year, including becoming accidental fathers, fighting heaven, and figuring out parenting through personal development, Macaque and Wukong decide that it's time for their own take on Nuwa's idea. They're ready to create a kid by themselves, and MK gets a new sibling that he's definitely gonna ignore his parents for!

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Legendary:

"A world where Wukong and Liu'er were separated very differently from Canon, and where Demonic and Celestial Courting is far more important to the Legend of the Monkie Kid.

Follow the Monkey Trio as they navigate a world of heartache, persecution, harassment, retribution, justice, and eventually...

Reunion."

[lazylittledragon]

cringe culture needs to die because when i was 17 i printed out the entire player's handbook and monster manual with my unlimited school printing credit and also wore a black velvet cape the first time i ever DMed and somehow still thought i was too cool for dnd novels. who tf did i think i was fooling

[aethersea]

I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.

it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"

plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.

anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.

[nicoriice]

no need to ask, he's a smooth operator 🫡

[bonetrousledbones]

im just ramblng here but im not gonna lie fellas it really does kinda suck, just a little bit, that ppl genuinely just refuse to ever take papyrus seriously as a character. & tbh i think his absence in deltarune has somehow been making that worse??

like i agree that knight papyrus isn't very plausible from a narrative standpoint, but it's been frustrating to see ppl start acting like it wasn't ever anything more than a silly joke or crack theory. outside of the extremely-obvious-Holidays, papyrus is by far one of the most fitting candidates for the knight's identity & he still has yet to be anywhere near as solidly debunked as basically every other pre-ch3 knight theory has been (other than, again, the obvious)

to me it almost feels like the longer we go without him being involved in anything, more people are starting to treat him like he's just a shallow joke character instead of, yknow, a character

and like. yeah papyrus is goofy as all hell. he is a very very VERY comedic character who i'll admit is rarely, if ever, written seriously, even in the actual game he comes from. but the thing that makes him a great character is when you look at him underneath all that silliness

and the thing is, that's what you do with literally every other character already. that's how most ppl engage with undertale/deltarune's stories in the first place. but when it comes to papyrus specifically, for some reason, people just. don't even want to entertain the idea that there could be anything more going on there at all

all these theories about sans & what could possibly happen in dr for sans to get stuck in ut or whatever, & then papyrus is just like. there. he has nothing to do with anything, ever. even tho he & sans are both canonically stated to have arrived in snowdin at the same time

i have genuinely seen more people suggest that deltarune sans straight up left his brother behind before they ever considered that papyrus could perhaps, maybe, possibly, also be weird & mysterious

every weird thing he ever says is either taken completely at face value or used as evidence for yet another theory about sans and sans alone

man. idk man. it's sucks‼️‼️‼️

[somegrumpynerd]

Thinking about how Nightmare has 4 mortals and 3 of them are so so bad at taking care of themselves

[beachhotdog]

it fills me with a sense of happiness, hope, and pride reading posts from people expressing how happy, how seen and validated they feel about being able to be trans in veilguard, about being non-binary and having this fact be respected, acknowledged in-game without any further criteria beyond "i just am"

there's no needing to prove you have the correct body aesthetic, no checklist of traits or matching parts, no questions just 👍👍👍

rook is not alone, taash is not a one-off, there are npcs spread throughout the game just existing as trans and non-binary being held to the same standard: "i just am"

when i was first exploring my gender identity i kept waffling on non-binary, but back then you had to be as androgynous as possible and that sure as fuck was not happening for me lmao

is it perfect today? no lol but it's getting observably better 20 years later

thank you, bioware, for creating this incredible game and giving people the ability and peace to just be

[rorydrawsandwrites]

Sophia the safe being a dominatrix is such a smart choice not just because leather clad dripping with ice thick dommy mommy is hot, but because the dominant party in BSDM has to look out for the submissive and make sure they feel secure and aren't damaged mentally or physically in the long run. I like her

[gwinver-art]

Some Thespius doodles as I'm figuring out how to draw him in my style!

this is how I'm naming my layers now help