#bad guy/good girl

[mmkin]

I was a big fan of Darkwing Duck when I was a kid. Absolutely loved the show and would watch it with much anticipation after school and all that jazz. I loved many of the episodes, but ‘Beauty and the Beet’ was my first taste - as far as I can remember - of the good girl/bad guy pairing, something that years later I still love. Although back then I didn’t know I had a thing for that, but this episode always stuck with me, and I couldn’t help but feel bad for Bushroot and wish he and Rhoda had ended up together, especially a few episodes later when he tried to make a bride of his own out of a flower and ended up with a potato monster. Recently, my partner decided on a lark to add Disney Plus to our cable package, and I’ve been binging on old shows I enjoyed back then. Tale Spin, Mighty Ducks, Bonkers, etc etc, and naturally Darkwing Duck was something I could not help but watch. And boy howdy, streaming is one hell of an experience, being able to watch all these lovely episodes back to back.

It was a real trip watching ‘Beauty and the Beet’ from an adult perspective. I still wished Bushroot and Rhoda could have become a real couple, but I definitely see the issues (i.e. Bushroot wanting to mutate Rhoda against her will) and if I knew that fanfiction existed back then i probably would have crayon-written a story about them being together (and it would have royally sucked, me being a little kid and all)

But damn if watching that episode again doesn’t make me want to write a fanfic now. I still love me a villain/good girl pairing and it’s nice to actually be able to put a name to why I often wished the bad guy would end up with the girl instead of the hero, lol.

(I do not claim ownership to any of the images above - the first 4 are scrrencaps and the fifth picture is a fanart I found on Google a while ago from what seemed to be a Russian site)

(Edit - I have now published the story and there’s 2 chapters available so far!)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/47306602/chapters/119200648

[theolivetree123]

Art block sucks.

ANYWAY HERE’S ADEUCE AS GGBG

AAAAAAA I LOVE THEM but now my wrist hurts these took me forever

[kayshasiemens]

Rising from the dead to share this painting and then disappear again

I have spent over 90 hours of my life on this thing because I have had the brain rot for the last 2 years of my life (almost 20 if you count when I first read the comics) and it had to express itself somehow

Hope this dramatic bitch feels appreciated

(A Dream of Morpheus, handmade egg tempera on panel, 12x18 inches...if by any chance you'll be at SDCC or Gen Con, I'll be at booth 934/936 at the first one and Art Show #13 at the second one - come see the original, maybe get a print, or just yell/cry about Sandman with me?)

And here, have some more details - I had fun combining some favorite elements from both the comic and the show ♡

[heartorbit]

can i get a magical girl set please

[thejudeduarte]

I....I think I might be in love with Ravi Singh, I don't....

[mxmoonjelly17]

They’re married ur honor

[limewire3d]

too lazy to make proper art rn so here’s a shezow and shezap as ggbg screenshot edit i made for fun

[cheemsroniakalittleguy]

Good Girl Bad Girl 🎶

Song is really good I had to draw this :D

[miasmultifandomdump]

It annoys me how so much of modern discourse around female characters is, to be frank, misogyny repackaged as being progressive.

If a woman's strengths and interests are associated with being feminine, such as cooking or enjoying nice clothes or being kind and compassionate, the entire fandom jumps on her as stereotypical or weak. It's seen as cool to bash on "women's work", never mind that your average misogynist has been doing it for decades, hell, centuries, and the jobs that are mocked as women's work are actually pretty essential to humans surviving and thriving.

And then, of course, if a woman shows the slightest hint of nonconformity, the entire fandom jumps on her because "oh!! she's trying to be not like other girls!! she wants male attention so bad!!" It doesn't matter how she is to the other girls in her life, if she wears combat boots and listens to punk instead of Taylor Swift, she clearly hates every other woman ever according to certain parts of fandom. It couldn't be that she's neurodivergent or LGBT or hell, even just a tomboy, she has to hate every other girl on the planet. /sarcasm

AND JUST TO CLARIFY. These tropes can genuinely be negatively done. The traditionally feminine girl can be a weak character and the tomboy girl can be an ass. But when you're calling a girl a "pick me" just because she doesn't live up to your idea of what a woman should look like or what you think feminism is... congratulations. You've simply repackaged sexism and called it woke. And lots of girls who see this crap online are going to suffer for it but hey, it was never actually about them, so who cares, right? /sarcasm

Anyway, to all the girls reading this post, you go ahead and be who you want. Be a princess or a president or a pop singer or a punk rocker or hell, all of the above. You're not a "pick me" you're not a "handmaiden" you're not trying too hard to be "not like other girls". You are fine. Don't let pseudo-woke nonsense get to you. It's just white noise.

[buccellato]

Going a little insane thinking about how from Knives' perspective, his olive branch for Rem was rejected by his childhood perception of her loyalty to humanity, but Rem was assessing the situation as both a ship official and a parent and definitely making the choice she thought would maximize his and Vash's survival chances...like, if she was following duty as a crew member first and foremost, she'd head immediately to the bridge and tell the boys to head to the escape pods via comms or something. But instead she spent valuable minutes ensuring that Vash and Knives were safely strapped in and ready to escape, and then turned around to minimize the ship damage. Plus she had no actual way of knowing whether the plant ships were on a crash course, either—and while tristamp Nai can survive completely without food and water, no version of Vash has been shown to be able to do so completely (plus all other versions of Knives are shown at least drinking lol). So from her perspective she didn't just need to save both her kids and the humans on board, she also would've needed to save as many dependents as possible just so the boys had a way to stay alive.

She did the best she could do as a parent in that scenario, and Knives forever locked himself into a traumatized child's reasoning for her actions and blamed her to cope with it and then never reassessed from the perspective of an adult due to his, well, issues with everything. That's rough buddy.

[silverstarssart]

Hey guys. If we manage to get to a season 3 of AGGGTM. What if we see Pip and Ravi reuinite. What then. What then.

[rainalexisart]

I finally done with this

[also I spell the character name wrong]

Not going able to fit all tags

[sciderman]

and water is wet

[maelswife]

Welcome home colored emo Mael sketch

OKAY SO he CLEARLY listens to like, ptv mcr evanescence and stuff.... also sum 41 and LP and fall out boy and falling in reverse... (I definitely didnt just name the bands that I personally listen to)

AND HE HAS BLACK ROOTS BC, LUDOCIEL, AND THEY BOTH HAVE NATURAL BLACK HAIR but he bleaches and dyes it because wooahh hes different hes so different guys (his hair probably falls apart everyday) ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა and imma say theyre like... mid 20s and Ludo is like almost 30

Fit check

listening to pierce the veil as we speak

GONNA DRAW MATCHING ALT GOWTHER TMR WITH HIM CAUSE BOYFRIENDS!!! cant do it now cause im eepy..

[bumblingbabooshka]

My name is [BRUTUS] and my name means [HEAVY] so with a [HEAVY] heart I'll guide this dagger Into the heart of my enemy

Something about having absolutely no choice in who you marry. About being literally forced by the law to spill blood - to accept this stranger as your husband over a man you truly care for or accept the fact that the man you love might die because you put him in danger. Something about risking becoming the wife of a man you've never even seen before a few minutes prior because you know anything would be better than putting your beloved in harm's way. Something about the trust inherent in that decision and in the way she speaks of it after. Truthfully, T'Pring doesn't know the captain and she doesn't know Spock. Either one of them could have taken her as their wife but she does know Stonn. She knows that Stonn will remain by her side no matter what. They made a plan together. They have an agreement which T'Pring believes will be upheld even though the plan changed with the arrival of Kirk. Stonn will always be there, always, and Stonn will be hers. Something about the language used around T'Pring: Ownership, subservience, non-personhood. T'Pring is an object that Spock can win. She cannot reject him, she has no say in the matter other than having Stonn 'claim' her instead. Even when Spock leaves after being very clearly rejected by T'Pring he says "Stonn, she is yours." as if despite her clear rejection he still owns her and is must formally 'give' her to Stonn. But the language T'Pring uses around Stonn is a break from that: "There was Stonn who wanted very much to be my consort, and I wanted him." Stonn who wanted very much to be HER consort and she WANTED him. The language here is very particular - It's not, for example: "Stonn wanted me to be his wife" - he is HERS. And she WANTS him. There's a mutual affection there and a strong trust - a trust which seems to be well founded since Stonn (though silent) stands by her side at the end of the episode. <- That might seem small but if Spock would reject her for 'daring to challenge' (again, the language is not 'because I don't want you' but more of an implied disgust at her having the AUDACITY to reject him) then it's not a stretch to assume that it'd be considered an insult in the TOS Vulcan society to NOT choose Stonn as her champion after a prior agreement. Anyway T'Pring was a woman in an impossible situation within a society which saw her as more of an object than a person and she wanted Stonn and Stonn wanted to be hers and she trusted that he would understand if she had to publicly pick someone else to ensure his life would be spared and he did understand.

[toxooz]

been sick as a mf dawg but i managed to draw the ol Ollie n Kari halloween costumes for this year🤘