#does that make sense? LOL

[akuma-ren]

Rafayel's ability to manipulate a situation in his favor is being mistaken for him being a dramatic and bratty person.

His method of manipulation is to be dramatic and bratty

Doesnt mean he's a dramatic and bratty person

[coquelicoq]

In Your 30s asks... your choice for any of the below.

What kind of stuff do you keep on the door of your refrigerator?

How many blankets do you keep in your living room?

Favorite high-effort meal that you make?

Favorite low-effort meal that you make?

Do you tend to bring an appetizer, entree, dessert, or drinks to a potluck?

yay! thank you :)

46. What kind of stuff do you keep on the door of your refrigerator? ohoho. so much stuff. okay so maybe i am a maximalist person lol. every inch of my fridge is covered in magnets (including magnetic poetry in french and english), photos, emergency information, or cute drawings my siblings did for me when they were little. if i were at home i would share some of the poems with you but i'm not home and not confident i remember any of them accurately.

51. How many blankets do you keep in your living room? depends on the season, but perhaps counterintuitively the warmer it is the more blankets are in the living room. this is because the other place in my apartment where blankets go is on my bed, and when it's hot, the last thing i want is a stack of blankets on my bed, so i move them to the couch and then ignore them. currently i think there's three blankets on my couch. in the winter there's usually just one.

55. Favorite high-effort meal that you make? this quinoa/black bean side dish that is so tasty but takes so many hours. i don't even know if "high-effort" is right it's just time-consuming. the recipe is printed and at home so i cannot give it to you unfortunately.

56. Favorite low-effort meal that you make? what is the lower bound here. does a spoonful of peanut butter right out of the jar count? because it's probably not a "meal" but it is load-bearing, so.

57. Do you tend to bring an appetizer, entree, dessert, or drinks to a potluck? i much prefer baking to cooking, so probably a dessert. sometimes a side. but if i can bake something then i am going to do that.

[ponytailzuko]

[ID copied from alt text: A comic depicting an alternate universe where Season 1 Zuko is a mermaid. He's shown on a beach, hiding behind a rock watching Aang and Katara practice waterbending. He thinks to himself, "The Avatar is supposed to be an airbender…" He watches Aang and Katara talk, while continuing his thoughts, "He has the tattoos… and he was waterbending…" Aang notices Zuko hiding and points him out to Katara, who turns. Zuko notices them looking at him and he ducks his head down behind the rock. Aang and Katara straighten up as they notice him disappear. Aang and Katara start running towards where Zuko disappeared, yelling, "Wait! Hello!" Zuko has his back to the rock, scared and thinking, "Shit, shit, shit." Another comic. It shows Zuko laying on the beach. He thinks to himself, "I'm so close to going home." He sits up and says, "Avatar, here I come!" showing that he's no longer a mermaid and has legs. After a moment of silence, he asks, "How do I walk?" End ID]

mermay means i make a little mermaid book 1 zuko au.

[soosoosoup]

treasure planet au, last of the batch (Poppy & Floyd)

[nikoco11]

spider nico (spider bot…. sometime i call him circuit too) ((he’s like what if spiderman sucked ass))

[ofswordsandpens]

actually I do want to talk about Sally Jackson a tad more because one criticism I've been hearing about her book counterpart more recently is "book Sally is one-dimensional: the perfect mother with no flaws" and that just has me biting my cheek because one part of her book counterpart that I always thought was ripe with discussion and didn't make it to the show is that Sally states that it was selfish of her to keep Percy close. It's one of the last things she says to him before she's "killed" by the minotaur.

And there's so much that we don't know about Sally because we view her from Percy's eyes. From his perspective we know that she's exceedingly kind, she never raises her voice to him or even Gabe, and she endured a horrible and abusive relationship to protect her son from monsters (of a different kind).

But there are things we can piece together from the text: Sally has known about CHB for a long time, apparently since before Percy was even born because Poseidon told her he wanted to send Percy there; she was told that it was a mistake for her to keep Percy close - who told her that, we're not sure, she only uses the phrase they; she's been in contact with Grover through out the school year; she knows that she can't cross the camp boundary line, which means either Grover or someone else (Chiron? Poseidon?) told her that, and that she understood that there was place that Percy would be safe from monsters.

And all of these little details are so interesting because it does make you wonder just how much she did or didn't know. Was her self assessment right? Was it selfish of her to keep Percy close?

On one hand, she kept him close because she loved him, alongside the fear that if she sent him to camp, she would be saying goodbye for good -- so is it even fair to call the act of keeping him close selfish? Or perhaps, much like Chiron, she assumed keeping Percy in the dark would be safer?

But on the other hand, Percy had been attracting monsters all his childhood, she understood camp was a safe place from monsters, and she had apparently been told explicitly that it was a mistake for her to keep him close.

And then adding in the factors of: Percy is her only family in the entire world, she's been suffering with Gabe for years, sacrificing so much in order to keep Percy safe when he's at home... but even that has a touch of sad irony because when we meet Percy in tlt, its at point when he's not really home at all -- he's been regularly sent off to boarding schools, so much so that he's internalized it as his own short-coming.

And all of this isn't to say "Omg Sally is actually horrible" or to assert definitely that she is selfish... but more to speak to the fact that in the books, she's not an all-perfect 2-dimensional mother. And her self-assessment of selfishness is something that is really interesting to explore and debate given the implications of what she apparently did (or did not) know about the godly world. I feel there's even an argument to be made that Sally being "selfish" could be a reflection of Percy's fatal flaw.

[chaomother]

just a reminder my askbox is now closed for all types of requests!

[bacchuschucklefuck]

doing chibi is a good design exercise bc it forces u to think on shapes n essential details, essentially thumbnailing ur designs. its also a terrible design exercise bc it ends up looking cute no matter what

[stealerofthe2ndbraincell]

There's an aspect of Original!Elias Bouchard that makes me so sad to think about in a weird kind of "meta" way.

And that's the fact that he has to be labelled as the "OG" not as Elias.

Technically speaking Elias has been dead for years. It's Jonah that's taken over - literally having his eyes removed and replacing them with his own and living as him (he even seemingly keeps his "old fashioned haircut" on Elias' hair).

And yet we as the audience don't often call that form of Jonah "JONAH". Instead it's Elias, cause he's been Elias for 4 series at this point.

"Elias started the apocalypse", "Elias beat that old man to death with a metal pipe" when it was never really Elias in the first place.

He's been so robbed of his own identity that not even death can spare him; all of Jonah's actions in his body are recognised as him.

(Btw this isn't me saying you can't call Jonah!Elias straight up Elias, I do that regularly ofc. I'm just being emo rn lol)

[coolshadowtwins]

What if spirit swords worked like soulmates? Not like in most fics where you get a sword that matched you from the sword wall but where, as soon as a spirit sword is forged, there is a soul that is meant for it out there. It won’t change souls until that destined soul dies.

You could force a spirit sword to work with you, but it won’t be happy. No one will be happy here.

Yue Qi chose XS not only because of its power, but because it felt familiar. And it felt familiar because it was supposed to be SJ’s sword. Idk, maybe it keeps trying to call out to SQQ over the years, and SQQ doesn’t know why YQY’s sword keeps bothering him lol

And SQQ’s sword? Didn’t have a soul destined at that moment, because it was meant for SY, who wasn’t there yet. So SQQ could pick it no problem, because it wasn’t trying to fight to get to someone else.

If this is ‘SY becomes SQQ’, people note that his sword works a lot better for him now! But now YQY’s sword is both behaving better and extremely depressed.

If it was ‘SY becomes anyone else’, that causes a whole lot more of chaos with the scenario I accidentally made here. SQQ’s sword is now fighting to get to SY, YQY’s sword senses a potential opening with SQQ and starts fighting double time (which would be an awful thing while tied to your life force) and SY just can’t seem to find a cool sword that will work with him!

(Where’s YQY’s sword? Uh… I feel like the funniest answer is somehow Xin Mo. Binghe gets out of the abyss with his cool new sword and then the evil demon sword gets thrown into the pot)

[constarlations]

Pokémon Timeskip Series: Battle Legend Lyra 🍒🍂

One of the two Johto-Kanto champions, Lyra is best known for her bright and cheery down to earth attitude both on and off the battle field! She likes to travel ALOT you can find her in coffee shops in Kalos or surfing the waves in Alola or just about anywhere with her Fiancé, Silver by her side and never turns down a challenge to a good battle (even if she accidentally sweeps the other person’s team whoops) Her favorite drink is boba tea, her birthday is March 4th, she has a crippling gatcha AND otome addiction, and is 165 cm tall but that’s all for text no one is gonna read aaaaaa-

Drew out my timeskip Lyra due to me wanting to update a few things in regards to her design (can’t believe it’s been almost two years since my timeskip designs HELP) but I hope you enjoy!

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[uncharted-constellations]

Skipping ahead a bit because we’re a bit unfinished with the c-di fam, so anyways~

The smallest feral menace, why anyone ages him up to be the wise one is Beyond me.

[ashthewaterghoul]

As someone with dissociative issues, I cannot shut up about how much I love Copia’s dissociation in RHRN.

Just that flat-out refusal to accept the horrible facts of life (in this case Sister dying). His mind trying to manifest the reality he wishes for, and the confusion as he slowly sees what’s actually happening again.

The way how confused he is when he’s suddenly changed into his black robes.

The hazy way he sees reality and his own imagination blending (Sister being tended to by a doctor while he tries to ignore it).

The. Fucking. Balloon. Sequence.

Copia wants away from his problems, so his mind flies him away until he literally crashes back into reality.

The balloon was great way to show it bc I know when my issues start, it does feel like I’m floating, like I’m in a different realm to the rest of the world.

I love it all and how it was done. Tobias Forge, you are a GENIUS.

[neutralizedfates]

This is so random but it’s so funny that with the release of the book of bill it kinda canonically states that bill is 12 years old. Like I just rember the huge controversy over bill dip bc well dipper is 12 and bill is a billion! But then the book ten years later in an unprecedented 4D chess move says the bill is also, technically 12, like mentally? For his species? So now they’re both hilariously 12 and the ship has backwardly become unproblematic.

[aardvaark]

the leverage team would have had a games night… once. everyone cheated so much and in such increasingly extreme ways that all mentions of monopoly are banned in their headquarters (this makes talking about marks who monopolize the market very confusing)

[yeonjune]

YEONJUN ✙ L'OFFICIEL HOMMES China August 2024 Issue