#covering my basis

[transexualpirate]

cannot express how important remus sanders was to me. dealing with intrusive thoughts came out right around the time where my intrusive thoughts were reaching what i consider to be extreme proportions and eventually causing me to self harm over them, and seeing for the First Time thoughts that you don't want to be having in not only a morally neutral perspective but also as just a silly, stupid, goofy thing to have was so game changing for me at the time. sanders sides ily forever

[oifaaa]

So I asked yesterday what I should draw and a lot of people said baby Jason someone said I should draw him at a gala and someone else said I should draw superman so decided to combine them all so here's Jasons first gala and meeting Clark for the first time

[sunset-hourglass]

So I was listening to a song called Lagtrain by Inabakumori yesterday (It's a wonderful song, you can listen to it here) And I hyper focused on one of the frames and went "Huh...Y'know I could see Siffrin here." And then, well, I tried to draw it! Here's the frame specifically:

And here's the piece I made from it (Spoiler warning, just in case!):

Featuring (from right to left) Siffrin, Loop, Mal Du Pays, and what is supposed to be Ghost Siffrin! I figured I could spin the original frame into the different versions of Siffrin, since there's only really four I could recall from the game! (I know the arms are a little funky, but I tried,,)

[rise-my-angel]

Okay but what if Jon is actually a really good singer, but he has no idea because the one time he tried as a child, Ned nearly had a heart attack over it, and had to gaslight the poor boy into thinking he was terrible and shouldn't try ever again. Now Jon just has zero inclination to sing ever, but on the off chance he ever does, god help him depending on if it's in front of someone who knew Rhaegar once upon a time.

[moe-broey]

Fellas can you take this somewhere else. Maybe. Just not in the fucking halls. Thanks 🫡

I couldn't resist drawing out these tags I wrote on a dif post LMFAO

Moe just has...... SO many problems.......

Close-ups of my fave shots!

The elusive Líf...

[themagicalkidproject]

your art is wonderful! could you maybe do one for strelizicenic OR magicoric? whichever one you prefer!

Magicoric was requested by Anonymous! I am STILL going too fast for my friend and Alt ID guy, so those will be added later!

Magicoric is a term coined by @foxtrotmagic describing a coric gender influenced by Magiccore! This flag was created by @sunshinepride!

This Magical Girl has a Magician Theme! She uses She/Her Pronouns and Magi/Magical/Magicalself, Illu/Illusion/Illusionself, Tri/Trick/Trickself, and Bla/Blast/Blastself Neopronouns!

Blast name is Pendragon, after the Pendragons, a former duo of magicians who had the coolest name I could steal! Pendragon can create illusions, but they'll fall apart once someone knows they're fake.

Her Magical Girl Weapon is her Tophat, from which she can pull any object she desires! As usual with Magical Kid Weapons, there are some caveats- magi cannot pull out weapons or money of any currency, nor can magi pull out anything that wouldn't reasonably fit in the hat. Fortunately, quantity doesn't matter- if a single dove could fit, then Pendragon can summon a whole flock!

A useless fact about bla is that blast is stupidly cocky, even when her illusions have collapsed. The only way to break her overconfident persona is to draw blood, which is very hard to do- after all, she's cocky for a reason!

The Magical Kid Project is a project wherein I steadily turn Pride Flags into Magical Kids! Requests are open through my inbox! Commission info is under the #commissions tag, I have a deal on Magical Kid Portraits!.

AN: Why did none of you tell me I uploaded the wrong image lmfao

[doppiopinkman]

he has emerged once again for the weekly tradition of serving it up silly style

[didyoulookforme]

non 75 ramblings:

i crave a matcha latte every weekend and a friend recommended one which turned out to be the best one i’ve ever had.

but it also turns out that every time i’ve gone, there’s this beautiful boy who works there and i literally turn to mush each time he speaks to me. so much that the first time we ever spoke he complimented my hat and i almost ran into the door on the way out.

i can’t.

but i also need that fucking matcha 😞

[zukosdualdao]

okay i'm reading the transcript for the unaired pilot so here are some thoughts

it starts with sokka and katara (here named kya) having already found aang, and we don't see it, and zuko is already there, actively attacking them at the start. while starting in media res can often be the better choice in a narrative, i think it was smart of them to show the moment they find aang and katara de-icebergs him because it's so important as the inciting incident of every main character, the world regaining hope, and the ultimate fate of the end of the war.

"Zuko [View from behind as he turns to his soldiers.] I want the Avatar. Improve your firebending [Frontal view of soldiers.] or you're swimming home in your armor. [Close-up.] Again!" while the zuko we meet in the premiere is supposed to be cartoonishly (ha) antagonistic, there's not the same focus he has here on berating or threatening his crew/soldiers. there will be in the storm, but i've always seen that as being one of if not the first times his treatment of the crew reaches quite that level. yes, he's ordered them around and been generally unreasonable, but the impression i get is that things have gotten a lot worse on that front specifically since aang's return and zuko was actually chasing something real, so it had been building for a couple of months.

there's this weird moment where "a huge sea serpent" emerges and scares the gaang, which makes me wonder if maybe they later used that idea for the unagi, though it actually reminds me a lot of that moment in the awakening, so maybe it got recycled.

also momo is here already? i thought this was a pilot as in, testing the first episode, but maybe it was a spec script for a more of-the-week episode? or aang already had momo with him, along with appa, in the iceberg?

"[Frontal view of Aang laughing.] And he's not my boyfriend." Aang is visibly disappointed at this and Momo flies off, seemingly angry." katara has a "he's not my boyfriend" moment with sokka in the premiere, but aang's not actually around to witness it, so that's interesting, and kya's declaration (while i don't know it would have been voice-acted) seems like it's written a lot more matter-of-factly. the narrative already sets up the KA ship as one where we're supposed to root for aang, who either doesn't know or is actively worried about how katara might feel for him, to get the girl in early canon, but it feels even more explicit here. (i specify early canon, even though this arc is pretty significant throughout all of canon, because i want to note that the whole "will aang get the girl or will he be lovelorn and sad about it forever" is already there in the first episode. that's what's "baked into canon".)

there's an interesting scene immediately after where aang is instructing kya to feel the energy from the earth and channel it "through her roots", which i think is supposed to more obviously set him up as an experienced bender with a spiritual understanding of how it works that what we see in canon. the only other character i remember talking about roots in this way is when iroh advises zuko to "break his root" during the agni kai with zhao in the southern air temple.

"[Frontal view. He leaves, pushing Aang out of his way.] Right, so once again, I have to do everything. [Camera pans left as he leaves and Momo lands on Aang's shoulder. Wide-view of the beach with Sokka in the foreground as he exits to the left.] You better hope I find some food or you'll find me eating Momo." this comes right after sokka orders aang to go find them some food on the "island" (so i don't think this is supposed to be them at the swt) and kya-katara insists they can't let aang wander around on his own because the world needs him. it's interesting because sokka's resentment of aang is far more born of mistrust and pragmatism in the premiere, and by the time they're traveling together, while they might not always agree and do sometimes poke at each other, sokka's resentment actually fades away remarkably quickly. here, sokka doesn't seem to like aang... at all.

"Cut to a frontal view of Kya, tying a rope to Appa's horn, and the camera pans right to reveal Aang relaxing on Appa's head. Aang Quick Kya, [Frontal view of Appa.] let's go swimming before Sokka gets back. Kya [View from behind Kya, who turns to Aang as she talks.] I'm impressed, Aang. You finished tying your end alrea- [She notices Aang hasn't tied the rope to the bison. Frontal view of Aang.] Aang, what have you been doing all this time? Aang Me? I, uh, I was just watching you. You know, trying to learn your technique. Kya [Close-up.] This is your bison. You taught me. Aang [Frontal view of the two.] Yep, it appears I taught you well. And thus the master passes the reins to the pupil." kya-katara laughs as this aang makes a joke out of it and hands her a flower, but this moment specifically highlights aang not doing work they had evidently agreed to do together, despite the fact that, as she points out, appa is his bison and he's the one who has more experience tying (what i think are meant to be?) his reigns. this reminds me a lot of an interview i read (i'll see if i can find it later) about bryke's initial concept of aang being a "trickster hero". he enjoys life and is funny and playful but the downside of that is that he does not always engage his responsibilities and sometimes he (or the narrative) actively makes a joke out of that. like, sure, it's irresponsible, but aang gonna aang! certain stans like to act like it's not part of his character, but even though this moment isn't in the show as a final product, we do see moments like the ones where he doesn't want to help katara carry "her" supplies, where he doesn't take waterbending training seriously even though that's the whole reason they came to the north pole. even as aang does (arguably; i think it goes a little too back and forth) start to accept more responsibility with his role as the avatar, katara is consistently shown to be doing the brunt of the domestic labor when it comes to the gaang. it's not a problem that aang has this flaw (he should have flaws! characters are less interesting without them!) but that the narrative never truly treats it as something he should learn and go from, and with katara there to pick up the load, i'm sorry, it has icky implications. it just does.

"Kya [Frontal view.] Look, Aang, there's a bigger picture you're not seeing. [Close-up of Aang.] Bigger than me, Sokka, and Momo. [Frontal view.] You're the Avatar, start acting like it." wow. kya is a lot blunter with aang than the show lets katara ne about this. i understand why the writers in the actual show didn't want her to be that way right off the bat - she's coming face to face with the hope that she's always had and she and sokka need to contrast each other on this level - but in the show proper, katara rarely gets to be so critical of aang. and even when she is (like in the warriors of kyoshi), it's always tempered by the fact that the narrative is, for some reason, treating her like she's in the wrong, too. even when her “wrong” is being upset that aang isn’t taking things seriously.

"[Imitating Kya.] "You're the Avatar, start acting like it." [Frontal view of Aang.] If that's the case, shouldn't I be using my skills to help. [To Momo.] Exactly, I can't let anything happen to Kya and Sokka. They're the only family I have, besides you. [He moves the ball to right and the camera pans right slightly.] If I were about to be eaten by a pack of angry hog monkeys, you'd save me, right? Yeah, I thought so.'' they use this moment to showcase aang's immaturity, because whether or not he genuinely misinterprets her words or (it seems more like this to me) willfully interprets them to his own perspective, aang is just not listening to kya at all here. she asks him to think about the big picture, but all he can focus on is the right now. it's nice that he wants to help them, and sweet that he considers them family, but he isn't thinking about the big picture, about the fact that he only has airbending training and they need him to stay alive so that he can learn the other elements and start acting as a representative of the people by embracing his role as the avatar. in a way, though i see why they changed a lot about this pilot (the pacing feels way off and kind of surreal), they do seem to be actively setting up to force aang into an actual arc where he must eventually overcome these flaws... in a way that the show just never quite lands on.

"Zuko [Frontal view from behind Kya.] Search the island! He's probably hiding under a rock! [Aang suddenly flies in between everyone and the shot pauses to show him smiling.] Ah! [Side-view of Zuko as Aang flies up and around the compound. Zuko points to him.] Get him!" he's probably hiding under a rock hshshshhshs yeah this iteration of zuko feels. much more mustache-twirly in a way i'm glad the show itself leaned away from.

"Aang [Frontal view.] What's the matter, Zuko? Can't handle me alone? Zuko [Frontal view.] You want your friends? Come and get them." yeah, kya and sokka have definitely already been traveling with aang for a bit, based on the fact that aang is familiar enough with zuko to taunt him using his name, so that earlier encounter was definitely also not supposed to be their first.

"[To Zuko.] Hey! [Close-up aerial view of Zuko, with Sokka, tied up behind next to two soldiers.] Untie me and fight like a real warrior! [Frontal view.] I'm talking to you, scar boy! [Close-up of Zuko's scar as becomes visibly annoyed. Frontal view of Sokka as the two soldiers slide away. Muttering.] Yeah, tie me up with ropes." it's so interesting that they had sokka explicitly making fun of zuko's scar here (to try to antagonize him into a fight). i think this could have been an interesting commentary on how heroes can also do and say things that don't always align with our moral values, because they're not perfect - though, notably and obviously, i just don't want my words twisted here, this is not worse or on the same level as zuko capturing sokka and using him as bait. and it's not like i'm gonna disparage sokka for trying whatever he has to in order to get out of a bad situation; he is not the aggressor here. it's just an interesting moment. ultimately, though, i understand why the creators didn't want to include a moment like this in the actual show and instead chose to have the only characters commenting on zuko's scar in an ableist way be zhao and azula.

"Zuko [Close-up.] Come on! Fight back! Cut to a close-up of Aang, who laughs." zuko getting frustrated with aang mostly reacting defensively, rather than actually fighting him, and aang just laughing, is genuinely fascinating! definitely see that trickster element here also. i think there's more than one way to interpret zuko here, and it probably depends a lot on how this moment is animated and voice acted, but this could be zuko getting frustrated because he's Aggressive and Wants A Good Fight (TM) (which seems more in line with this unairee pilot's first glimpse of him) or it could be a subtle acknowledgement that zuko wants aang to fight back because otherwise he is just attacking someone needlessly, and he doesn't want to confront the fact he has an actual conscience about that. or it could also be that he wants aang to fight back because otherwise he is left feeling incompetent due to the fact that he is giving his all and still struggling while aang barely has to lift a finger to deflect him. i think both of these interpretations could bleed into each other and would be more in line with the zuko we see in the actual show.

"Zuko: Give up now and I'll make sure my father goes easy on you. [Frontal view of Aang.] You have nowhere left to go. Aang: You sure about that?" hshshhshshshsh one thing's for sure: this zuko is still DEEP in denial about ozai. there is a confidence here that i find strange, though, that his father would actually listen to zuko. and i find this sort of strange because in the show proper, zuko definitely tries to project that confidence, but it is always IMMEDIATELY undermined (whether by zuko Very Loudly insisting that ozai wants him back while being demeaned by zhao for the fact that he doesn't, or when he insists to iroh that ozai will understand why he's crossing into fire nation waters to and iroh insists that no, actually, he probably fucking won't) in a way that it isn't here. i know bryke has said that zuko's redemption was something planned pretty early, but i wonder if it was planned this early. because we definitely see fewer seeds of potential growth here than we do in even the premiere (though tbf, zuko doesn't really become a more sympathetic figure until ep 3 in the show.) if they were planning on it at this point, i get the sense it might have taken a lot longer to peel back the layers of zuko than it ends up taking in book one. we don't get the Full Backstory of why he's doing what he's doing until the storm, but i think even in episode one, when he captures aang, there's a lot of raw emotion in a singular line: "i'm going home." whereas we don't get even the smallest real sense of zuko's motivations in this unaired pilot.

tldr; there are some interesting moments here that i can definitely see how they influenced canon, but i can also see why they changed a lot of what they did. also, they were definitely going for a kya-and-sokka have already been adventuring with aang for a while start, but i ultimately think the exposition the actual show went with served the story well.

[july-19th-club]

dont watch white collar unless you want to be systematically dapperized at once. man i'm used to be normie-to-casual-butch. now im like okay how soon can i get some loafers to replace my sweaty old navy moccasins and how do i know when a vest fits they're fucking. dandyfying me

[transexualpirate]

"we need weirder gay people" you guys lose your shit when queer says the word queer

[oifaaa]

Caved and read the last couple chapters of mha I gotta say they really did the most relatable thing ever by saying 1-A are too busy being adults to actually meet up and hang out in person like honestly have you ever tried planning a hang out session with a adult friend group with 3 or more people in it I swear planning a heist would be easier

[songstep4002]

The strange sapphic phenomenon where All Roads Lead to Hozier (for me at least):

Daisira is one of my favorite ships from the Magnus Archives. I love them so much, they're my tragic morally dubious scary lesbians and I go berserk for their moments. And my favorite animatic that's just for them? A Hozier song.

Katie McGrath was my bi awakening as Morgana in Merlin and over the course of my forays into Tumblr I have been transforming into one of the feral fans who wants to watch everything she's in. So when I find out she's in a music video and go watch it? A Hozier song.

Annapantsu is the YouTube cover artist that made me realize why YouTube cover artists are a thing. Her cover of House of Asmodeus made me gay panic so hard I forgot what gay panic was called. Occasionally she'll release a cover that elicits a similar response and it'll live rent free in my brain for weeks. The most recent of these? A Hozier song.

I'm not a hardcore Hozier fan, but if this trend keeps up, it likely won't be long.

[rise-my-angel]

"Jon is good guy we love him , AS LONG HE STAYS SUBMISSIVE TO OUR FAVE THAT WE SHIP HIM WITH AND KEEPS PRAISING THEM"

Every shipper in this fandom

My boy's only sin is that he is a decent young man.

Like he's not even a character of his own IN those ships. He is literally just arm candy, he has no real agency of his own and lives to serve whatever their narrative is. And the females narrative never revolves solely around Jons.

Like, Jons a strongly opinionated man who quite literally called Daenerys a child and yelled at her in the first like 5 minutes he ever met her. But suddenly hes gonna switch and be so loyal and quiet and only speak up to praise her? Or how Jon was raised with a Lords education and has been a leader in many forms but he will just kneel to Sansa being smarter then him and better at ruling a kingdom then him when she would have no education or experience for that title, when he routinely called her out, argued with her and shut her down in front of all of his lords?

He's not this quiet, submissive man. Jons still a goddamn wolf.

But, Jon cannot be their equal because it takes away from the strong girlboss image they so desperately want their ship to promote. Jons role is to look handsome and always agree.

They do not respect him as a character, they only respect him as a loyal lap dog. He's just an accessory for their story.

It's so insulting, Jon Snow is worth so much more then what any of his shippers do to him.

[moe-broey]

Lif voice KILL YOURSELF NOW‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[theflagscene]

Me in a convo on Reddit: Oh yeah! People irl know I write.

Some other Redditor: I’d die if my family ever found out what I write about!

Me: Uh same 👀👀👀

Meanwhile my mother: You write gay sex really well, your older brothers would be so proud!