#don't mind the disclaimer

[shadow0-1]

Boy dinner 😋

⚠ Please keep your self ship comments to yourself

[egophiliac]

CROWLEY SSR THOUGHTS

there is zero basis for this, but I can't get this thought of my head

I don't know why I decided to draw it this way

[onefey]

this flopped on the tweeter but i like how it came out so pspspsps dedf1sh fans

[anne-adler]

It's always "Suicide is selfish." and never "Taking your own life. Interesting expression, taking it from who? Once it's over, it's not you who'll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everybody else. Your life is not your own, keep your hands off it. "

[beesinspades]

something something ace people often being told they're not human for not experiencing sexual attraction and/or not wanting sex, something something vash seeing his sex-averse asexuality as yet another thing that makes him even more different from humans than he already is because of it

[revvethasmythh]

sam riegel, returning king of uno reversing the perspective of a parent-child relationship

[incarnadinedreams]

wondering when this fandom will figure out that 'actually modern medical ethics says it's completely fine for a doctor to do literally any procedure they want to without consent to someone they think is having a mental health crisis' is not the enlightened take they think it is. This exact logic has definitely not been used to justify anything problematic at all, ever. :|

I tend to be largely of the opinion that modern medical ethics is irrelevant to this fictional story set in ancient low fantasy China, and turning into a modern medical ethics debate ignores the point of it in the story, i.e. that it was insane and ethically questionable and he did it anyway because he would stop at nothing, he would go to any lengths to protect Jiang Cheng, no matter the cost, no matter how much it might hurt him, no matter how implausible or impossible, whether or not he wanted it, and that was very sexy of him.

But if people are going to keep spewing that sort of nonsense in the tags and bring modern real life topics into it they could at least bother to think for half a second about what they're saying :/

[perenians]

interesting how gale & wyll fans are often the ones who dislike astarion most lmao. it feels a little bit like larian doesn't respect them or their hopeless romanticism, and certainly not their kind approach to the world. out of the male origin characters, it's glaringly obvious that there's a favorite, and it just...sucks for everyone else.

[n0brainjustvibes]

The perfect big sister! <3

Ft. my "Toga Himiko is a Bonesaw" take under the cut:

I'm not very familiar with the superhero genre beyond Worm and MHA, so I might be missing a pre-existing trope - but I think these two share an archetype: Little Girl Villain who juxtaposes extremely gory, visceral acts with a happy and innocent demeanour. Their villain personas epitomise idealised archetypes of girlhood; frilly-dress-and-tea-party '50s little-girl for Bonesaw, and lovesick tween schoolgirl for Toga. These archetypes are anchored to a specific age - the age they were when they lost the chance at a civilian life.

On that note, neither of them got much choice in life, with Toga branded a villain for her Quirk and Bonesaw groomed into villainy by Jack. They both lost their families, and seek a surrogate family in their villain group, whose goal is (ostensibly) mindless destruction.

Is it any wonder that they're frozen in stasis at the age when they were traumatized? I find it interesting that they're both older than their archetypes (Bonesaw, at 12, is pretty much the age of Toga's archetype!) but are unable to move past these personas.

[y2kbugs-moved]

Pavitr: *Makes a comment about how annoying it is that people say "chai tea" when it literally just means "tea tea"*

Fandom, somehow: OMG Chai tea must be his favorite thing!

(Disclaimer: I am white.)

[tardxsblues]

with shortness of breath, i'll explain the infinite

how rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist

[tyrannuspitch]

i don't know why i'm thinking about crimson peak again, but i am, so here you go. some semi-coherent musings:

i've seen a lot of people react negatively to thomas and edith's confrontation in the climax (you tried to kill me / i did / you said you loved me / i do) because they see it as an attempt to "redeem" thomas, and they don't think it succeeds at that. but honestly i've never interpreted it that way?

what i've always taken away from it is more like... thomas just doesn't see the love and the violence as inherently contradictory. like, i'm not saying he currently wants to kill her, but he doesn't seem to see the gravity of the fact that he did. he was raised on violence. all his major interactions with the world have involved someone hurting him (parents; almost certainly boarding school), or him hurting someone else (wives). the only loving relationship he ever had before edith was with lucille, and that's deeply unhealthy on both sides... to the point that when he has this exchange, he's minutes away from being murdered by lucille.

lucille has her own speech about violence and love which frames the two as fundamentally intertwined, and her violence as coming from love, which is both tragic and horrifying in its own way. but i feel like thomas' thing isn't even... that. it's just like... stark coexistence. as an onlooker you naturally want to reconcile these two parts of him somehow, to fold the love into the violence or the violence into the love, but you can't. they're just both true at once. i can't quite put into words why, but i want to call it eerie.

(and i think this is part of the point of thomas disparaging edith's writing, too: he calls it sentimental and simplistic because it's not how he works. he's not just a villain, and he's not just a tragedy. he's both, and he remains both throughout the story. there isn't any comfortable conclusion to him. maybe he wasn't unsaveable, but he also wasn't saved.)

so. as i see it, it's not "he tried to kill her, but he loves her." it's: "he tried to kill her, and he loves her."

like, yes, of course, you're right, thomas' love of edith doesn't make the violence less real. but. it is also true that thomas' violence towards edith doesn't make the love less real. does that unsettle you? good.

[scribe-of-monsters]

Frankenstein AU where Victor, Elizabeth, Henry and Justine have a punk rock band called The Modern Prometheus. Victor plays electric guitar & lead vocals, Elizabeth plays bass & backup vocals, Henry plays the keytar & does songwriting and Justine is their drummer

Adam was created as a well-intentioned (but perhaps misguided) publicity stunt

Elizabeth thinks Victor is way too extra for this, Henry is trying to figure out how they're gonna hide their corpse son from the Ingolstadt deans and Justine just thinks the whole situation is hilarious

Entirely inspired by this song ^

[tearosepedall]

Seen this floating around- Migth as well join

Close up below!

[creativityobsessed]

I love the use of recorded sound in Burrow's End, but also as a recorded sound cataloger I'm entertained by the thought of what media would have been available in 1962. Dr. Winnebacker [?] is recording himself probably on reel-to-reel tape, that somehow wasn't damaged by the radiation that affected the stoats (meaning the radiation didn't produce a lot of heat, and they were stored somewhere with relatively low humidity) - a plausible and fun thought. But even more interesting is the thought of there being video in 1962. Video tape would have been brand new, 2" tape was used in the mid-50s for television, but still not widely available for home use. (Also for reference, your average VHS is 3/4" which means if they are videotape the reels are HONKIN BIG THINGS that would probably take multiple stoats to lift.) If it wasn't that, then they have some kind of system in place using reel-to-reel film, which has its own problems (and is, again, GIANT to a stoat).

Yeah, okay, I'm looking too closely at the details, because this happens to be where I work. But it's fascinating to think about the amount of money and resources Warren Peace nuclear plant had, to have free tape for recording just laying around. Where is this plant? Who is sponsoring their research? What are they doing that gets them such cutting edge tech that isn't at all about the specific thing they're working on?

[gaylightisminetocommand]

Based on extensive scientific investigations I can conclude that being transmasc + being an artist = the absolute worst posture possible. Cause you're not only leaning over when you're drawing but also like 98% of the rest of the time as if that'll help with anything.