#but like. his willpower...

[canisalbus]

i decided today was as good a day as any other to learn how to 3d sculpt and then trace and animate the model…

so i made a little machete to spin in my head

(i still want to fix the snout length a little so it looks consistent, but i feel like it’s a pretty good first attempt at this)

hope you have a nice day and nicer ones to come! :)

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[fyllophobia]

[chaozfantazy]

I need to shoutout the Chance player who shot his flintlock at me (Telamon) because I walked up behind him and scared him apparently

[ilkkawhat]

[kevin-winfield]

Neil Josten & Seth Gordon - Mirror Image?

EC, Nora Sakavic// Blue Iris, Mary Oliver// The Moon in the Well, Sylwia Górak// Blessing, Mia Bergeron// The Illusion Of Calm, Derek Hare//Hydrangeas, Susan Ashworth// moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice’, fatima aamer bilal//The Foxhole Court//Sunlight Breaking Through, Christopher Osborne// The Sirens, John Langstaff// Sydney Mortimer Laurence// ‘i am your mould, but the shape of you is true absence, leaving me purposeless.’ fatima aamer bilal

[kuixotic]

has anyone connected this, does anyone hear me

willpower of steel, fluidity of emotions, knowledge from the past, something like that

[dol--blathanna]

Thinking a lot about Orym choosing a rabbit when asked what animal he would pick if cursed with lycanthropy.

Because, it makes sense. Orym is small, quick, agile, jumps well, and is highly perceptive. That definitely evokes rabbit imagery. But a lot of Orym’s identity is also tied up with being a protector – giving people AC bumps, the shield being as much a part of his fighting style as his sword, even his title: Saviour Blade of the Tempest. He wants to be a “Shield that protects Exandria”; his priorities about saving the gods are less about the gods themselves, and more about protecting the people of Exandria from the unintended consequences and bloodshed of releasing Predathos. And it would’ve been very easy to pick a large, strong predator to try and evoke the sense of a protector – a wolf, for example, an animal associated with loyalty and protecting its pack. Yet Orym chose a rabbit.

And I think that’s interesting, because rabbits are often seen as ‘cute’ animals – but they’re also a prey animal. In fact, they’re a common food source for many animals across several ecosystems: foxes, wolves, wild cats, dogs, birds of prey like eagles or owls, coyotes, stoats, and humans (and that’s just off the top of my head). Rabbits are skittish, easily frightened; to be rabbit-hearted is to be timid or cowardly. They are not generally associated with fierceness or prowess in fighting. Mice and rats are prey animals too, but typically seen as vermin (rabbits are sometimes seen as vermin too, but a farmer could eat a rabbit – they wouldn’t eat a rat). Deer are prey, but they have hooves and antlers that bring a danger to hunting them, for any animal – the difficulties of hunting rabbits are more related to their evasiveness, speed and good hearing than any life-threatening danger they might pose. Rabbits are, first and foremost, prey animals. They are killed and eaten, so that another animal might live.

Which made me think a lot about one of Orym’s other key traits: self-sacrifice. Bait and switch doesn’t just bump up his ally’s ACs, it specifically switches their place to put him directly in harm’s way. Goading attack is meant to encourage enemies to attack him instead of his friends. He literally made a deal with a hag, essentially exchanging his own life for power to protect his friends. How many times has he gone down in a fight? He’s not the only tank – but unlike Ashton (and Chetney, who also uses ‘self-sacrifice’ in his fighting style with his blood curses) he has no abilities to reduce the damage from the hits he takes (barbarian rage and the werewolf form).

(Side note: I think it’s pretty interesting that Chetney, the wolf, has attacked Orym, the rabbit, more than anyone else when losing control. That Orym’s facial scar was given to him by a friend, not a foe).

Of course, Orym isn’t the only character with self-sacrificial tendencies (FCG wins by a landslide), but I just can’t stop thinking about how weirdly perfect it is that he chose a rabbit for his animal. Rabbits are prey animals. They are eaten, so that other animals may live. Orym takes the hits, he goads and switches with his team mates to put himself in danger, he makes a deal with a hag at the cost of his own life. He’s a soldier, throwing his life away for a cause over and over again because Ludinus must be stopped, because Keyleth has put her trust in him, because it’s the only way to protect his friends, to protect everyone, because it’s the right thing to do. Orym is a rabbit. He’s always been a rabbit. That day in Zephrah, it could have easily been Orym who died instead of Will and Derrig – “unfortunate but necessary sacrifices”, as Ludinus viewed the attack. It’s unfortunate they had to die, but it was for the greater good, according to Ludinus. It’s unfortunate that a rabbit has to die, but it will feed a family of foxes, or stoats, or even a hungry human, so it’s acceptable, right?

Orym is a rabbit. He is giving himself to a greater cause that could very easily kill him – he already willingly signed his life away to Nana Morri. Because that’s what rabbits do. They die to feed others.

And the theme of being disposable is present across the entire group, not just in Orym – Bell’s Hells has been called a “party of NPCs” before. Aside from FCG’s death, I’d say Laudna perhaps fits this theme the best: she was literally murdered and hung from a tree simply because she looked similar to Vex, acting as a warning to adventurers she had never met before. But FCG’s death was – rightfully – viewed as a terrible tragedy by the group. Laudna’s decision to remove Delilah, finally freeing herself from her abuser and emphasising she is more, and deserves to be more, than just some disposable puppet – this was rightfully viewed as a very good thing! But Orym seems to be embracing this identity of self-sacrifice instead, rather than this mindset being properly challenged or acknowledged as a bad thing. After all, there’s no time. There’s too much at stake. Keyleth, Bell’s Hells, all the memories of those who have died in this fight, all the people who might die if Predathos is released and kickstarts a second Calamity – they’re all relying on him, right? A rabbit feeding so many animals with his sacrifice. And it’s not malicious compared to the way that, say, Delilah killing Laudna was an incredibly evil, fucked up and unnecessary thing to do. If Orym died to save everyone else, well, at least everyone else would be saved, right? Saving lives is good, isn't it? How could he complain?

Because rabbits are prey animals, and Orym is a rabbit too. Destined to die so that another animal may feed.

Except, that’s not true. Rabbits are more than just prey. They’re highly social, and thrive best living with others. They’re playful, they enjoy running around and kicking their legs just to show their enjoyment. They’re inquisitive and mischievous, even being associated with tricksters in some folklore and stories. They’re also associated with innocence, playfulness, spring, youth – all manner of things, depending on the story or culture. And they’re not helpless, either, even if they might be thought of as such. They can bite and scratch and draw blood quite easily if they want to! In fact, freezing up isn’t their only response when being attacked by a predator, they are known to fight back if cornered. They can sprint quickly, they have excellent hearing and senses of smell, they know how to evade predators.

Rabbits are prey, and they are also survivors. They have their own social dynamics, their own habits and dislikes and preferences. They are more than just a wolf’s meal. And Orym is more than a soldier, too. He’s more than a “necessary sacrifice”, he’s more than just a shield and sword. He deserves more than to die for a cause. He deserves a happy ending, just like everyone else. I hope he remembers that.

Orym is a rabbit. And the message isn’t that he shouldn’t be a rabbit. It’s that rabbits are worthy of surviving, too.

[skrunksthatwunk]

majima "no one can kill you except for me" goro vs terminally ill kiryu kazuma. guys. guys is he gonna pull the plug on him. they wouldn't do that to us right that's like evil

[nessiefynn]

I feel like I remember you

[pkmoth]

GAY PEOPLE >:)))))))))

art trade with @nanaten!!!!!!!!! took a little while because i wanted to be really extra with it but i really like the result!!!!

(goofy ninten face under the cut that didnt make the final version)

[petrichorium]

okay ooh tell me more:

what does your siren call sound like? are you aiming to sink him or save him? does he know? does he resist or are you simply that alluring? does he crash willingly? what does he see when he looks in your eyes? have you ever called before? has he ever sank before? will you spare him? has he ever heard anything so sweet?

Oughhhh I am quite simply aiming to devour him im afraid………

In my head this is something of an au where it’s More Normal (idk very POTC esque in vibe) bc siren in the op canon doesn’t quite have the same mystique but there’s still a haki/willpower element to certain people being more capable of resisting siren songs, so shanks has encountered quite a few and been entirely unaffected. Which is why I take him by complete surprise………

I call to him as the sun’s final light dips beneath the sea. He’s ashore, taking a walk on the beach quite some ways away from the others, and I’m hidden in the waves watching. I don’t tend to venture far from the deserted island they’ve landed on and Ive never gotten the chance to hunt anything so handsome, it has me pouring my all into my song—this yearning thing, beckoning and full of promise.

(On his end, he’s ensnared with the first note. He sees me in the water, the glow of my eyes and the billowing cloud of my hair. That haunting melody sinks deep into his chest and steals the breath from his lungs before the water has even brushed his feet, and he’s drawing closer with the sudden, zealous need to draw me into his hold. He knows with a burning certainty that if he could touch me, I would never disappear; that time would stand still and we could float forever, fulfilled and whole, entwined for eternity…)

Yasopp is the one who sees the thrashing. It takes the combined strength of Beckman and Lucky Roux to pry me off their Captain, hissing and spitting—they’re both left with more than a few claw marks but it’s nothing on the bites that litter Shanks, who still struggles against his first mate’s hold and babbles desperate pleas to feel my touch again.

The deepest of his wounds will surely scar, a ring of teeth over his bared shoulder, an imprint of the ones I bare in a crimson snarl before I finally dart off, teal green scales glinting in the moonlight.

Uncharacteristically shaken from the event—their stalwart Captain still too incoherent for any proper questioning—the Red-Haired Pirates set sail as fast as possible, eager to leave the island and whatever inhabits the surrounding waters behind. And soon Shanks does return to his normal self; a bit sheepish, but bright and jovial and wearing the marks without shame as they heal.

Days after they weighed anchor, however, he spies the glint of deep teal scales in the water.

He watches my head surface, breath hitching as it tilts in playful curiosity. And though he knows, rationally, that he ought to turn round and tell his officers, a much more rapacious voice tells him that no other can be allowed to see me.

Now bone white, I bare those teeth in a grin.

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

( TOME AU ) tfw you wake up in the abyss of the game youve loved after 4 fucking years and your first thought is "where the FUCK is my HAT" (hopefully i can make this into a comic ??? or something. idk)

[whatthehali]

how inconsistent ant is in the playoffs realllllly frustrates me. When he shows up he's a clear cut top ten in the world guy but for his last two post seasons it feels like he's only capable of showing up like that 2 or 3 games in a series. And when he doesn't show up he doesnt even really have "second-best player on a good roster" impact, he has like, decent role player impact.

If you want to be a superstar and the best player on a contending team, you cannot lose a 2pt game on your home floor to go down 3-1, and you DEFINITELY can't do that in a game where you have 5 turnovers and 5 made field goals. An equal number of turn overs and field goals is just utterly unacceptable.

He's not on a particularly young or inexperienced roster and the roster doesn't have glaring issues like the lakers or nuggets, his team showed up today and he simply was not good enough

[arttsuka]

Someone on reddit made a nice comparison regarding Toothlesses face, here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/httyd/comments/13xcriy/how_toothlesss_design_has_changed_throughout_the/#lightbox

I thought you would want to see it, it shows the differences quite nicely

This just reminds me why I love his design in the first movie even more.

I'm seeing everyone say his model for the second and third movie were the same but I don't think so? They must have worked with his head, at least a bit, because there are differences. His mouth for once...

In the comments I found this other post too

https://www.reddit.com/r/httyd/comments/qasmwo/toothless_head_comparison_by_durkishdragon/

I still think he looks way more on track with the designs of the other dragons in the universe in the first one. He looks like a dragon.

[mako-neexu]

GOD why is it always the white haired golden eyes men😭

[bonnieisaway]

there is fucking HATRED in that mans eyes. that is PURE MALICE, dawg. this is the face of a man about to violate the fucking geneva convention. this is a man ready to do 25 years to life. never have i seen so much goddamn pure spite in this motherfuckers eyes holy fuck how did blackbird not just instantly shit his fucking pants LOOK AT THE MAN. THAT IS BLIND RAGE. THAT IS SPITE THAT MOTHERFUCKER HAS NOT MUSTERED SINCE THE GIRL IN WHITE. OH MY GOD. THAT FUCKER MUSTERED ENOUGH RAGE TO KILL A SHADOW KILLER