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bixels · 3 months
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I'm not getting into The Giving Tree discourse...
#personal#delete later#idk i just saw a post of the “alternate ending” comic on my dash and everyone praising it as an improvement and “fixing” the original#which i kinda resent#while tulli and i was taking my nephew to a book store we walked around the kids section and found the giving tree and we read through it#and i was so stricken by how profoundly sad it is. it's not a happy story#in the end both versions tell the exact same lesson. but one flat out tells you and the other makes you sit with a pit in your stomach#and work to find the answer#i dunno it's kids literature but kids literature is important. i don't wanna discredit anyone's bad memories with the book but also i think#sometimes it's ok to make kids a bit sad and upset with fiction.#tweet that goes “what if romeo and juliet didn't kill themselves and explained to the audience that family feuds are bad”#idk you can't seriously read the original book as an adult and say it's glorifying self-martyrdom#when the final drawing of the book is of an old tired man sitting on arotting stump with his hat fallen to the ground#again i don't wanna invalidate people's feelings if they enjoy the alt version i think it's really nice too. but the original has its#purpose too. imagine if at the end of the lorax they show that the boy did it and replanted the world happy ending#wait they did that in the movie shit#i dunno i just love somber children's literature. tulli and i are talking about moomin right now and how the series ends with the moomin#family just leaving. and nobody gets to say goodbye to them. their friends have to find ways to live with the emptiness they've left behin
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birdblitz · 2 months
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Did it hurt when Yume broke her halo?
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love-is-a-pearl · 18 days
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Can you draw dawn and Serena kissing?
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canisalbus · 9 months
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To me, Machete kind of has the energy of a secondary villain/coldhearted side character in someone else's story that a lot of fans latch onto, moreso than the protagonist. Question is, would he be the villain in anyone's story?
Why, thank you! I'm actually glad to hear he gives off that vibe. I don't think he set out to become a villain but a lot of people certainly view him as one.
#in the 16th century canon he starts out as an introverted but sincerely well meaning guy that never quite manages to find his social niche#he was a sensitive kid and when subjected to enough pressure#his insecurity fearfulness and powerlessness mutate into distrust resentment aggression suffocating repression and self-restraint#I don't think he's a bad person in fact he consistently tries very hard to do the right thing#do his job properly avoid letting people down and get through life with a sense of dignity#but he is supposed to come across kind of cold impersonable and difficult to be around if you don't know him personally (and very few do)#people can sense there's something wrong with him and are put off by it#Vatican is a nest of vipers and as the stakes rise he retreats deeper into his coldblooded untouchable work persona#he has no choice but to start lying scheming blackmailing and eliminating his enemies#in order to maintain his position keep Vasco safe their relationship under wraps and his own head above water#essentially playing by the same rules everyone else in the holy see has been playing with for centuries#eventually he loses his spot as the secretary of state and is manipulated/forced to take on a role in the roman inquisition#and if people were sort of iffy about him before being the authority overseeing trials torture excommunications and executions doesn't help#and since he has so few allies and such an infamous reputation he's an easy target for scapegoating whenever necessary#towards the end it dawns on him that he's become the kind of twisted cruel corrupt person he used to fear and despise#and the guilt moral injury and abject self-loathing had largely sapped him of his will to live by the time the final assassin gets him#answered#anonymous#Machete#Vaschete lore#he thought his dream of priesthood would make him a better person more worthy of admiration safety and love but he climbed too high#and got roped up in the dangerous games that take place under god's nose and slowly got strangled to death
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skyward-floored · 3 days
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For the doodle thing, Wind wrapped up in Warrior's oversized scarf? No pressure of course. Have a good day!
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Shouldn’t have wrapped yourself so tight there, Wind
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Hiii fellow camper(s)! Would you want some chocolate strawberries- and emotional support worms?
Have fun at camp!! Can't wait to meet everyone
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donnie's a big fan of the crocheted worms :]
@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion
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0m3n-0f-d3ath · 2 months
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Otto lives rent free in my mind
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I honestly can’t articulate how much I love that image, It makes me so happy 🐟‼️
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Dw otto has revived many kisses💥‼️🐟
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incorrect-fnaf-quotes · 3 months
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Initially, Springtrap does remember why he’s in the saferoom. He remembers it all clearly enough during the days and weeks that follow the springlock failure.
But, as time goes on, that changes—as does a lot of other things involving the rabbit as he continues to spend his time in there.
As the years grow longer, he can no longer remember. He can no longer recall why he was at the pizzeria in the first place—he doesn’t recall destroying the animatronics.
Springtrap doesn’t remember encountering the spirits—he doesn’t remember them being apart of the reason. He doesn’t remember the water.
As Springtrap laid there, he tried to think of what could have caused this—why he was there, but it just... never comes back to him. And at some point, he just gives up on a ton of stuff.
Cassidy and the rest of the souls know what happened that day, but he does not.
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quibbs126 · 2 months
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could you do a blackberry x adventurer fankid if you havent already pretty please :3
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I can’t really say that I made this because of the aforementioned “I haven’t drawn anything in a while” post, it’s just because I was scrolling through my requests and remembered that I was in the middle of drawing her before and thought “might as well finish”
Anyways sorry, this is Blackberry Scone Cookie
So if I’m being perfectly honest, I don’t entirely know what her deal is. I know that, unlike her father, she is very willing to acknowledge that she’s rich and uphold that side of her family. She’s also at least outwardly, very similar to her mother in being generally reserved in her emotions. I think one idea I had for her is that she does cool things, she just does with a disinterested face, which kind of just heightens the coolness
Okay so I’m gonna be completely honest, I am now going to just make something up as I write. That top part was in part for me to figure something out
Outwardly, she seems disinterested, but she has plenty of emotions, you just either need to pay attention to her actual words instead of tone, or you just need to get close enough to her for the mask to fall. She also has quite an interest in stories of magic and in mystical artifacts, though she prefers simply reading about them over going out to find them. Also, despite her interest in the subject, she just doesn’t have that much of an ability for magic/the occult, and has difficulty seeing ghosts (best she has is that she can sometimes see Onion), which is one of the reasons she sticks to simply reading about them rather than going out herself
While she has respect for her father in how he goes out on his own to seek out treasure and artifacts, she just doesn’t understand why he hates his rich life. Her only real guess is that he sees it as clashing with his adventurer persona, which she thinks is kind of stupid. She’s also pretty much the one running the estate while he’s gone (she’s an adult by this point) and being the one to actually deal with things such as house guests. Not to say Adventurer was an absent parent, and he’d actually take her along when she was younger on some of his expeditions, but he can disappear sometimes now
She doesn’t hate her parents, and it’s not like they were horrible parents to her, but she feels distant from her mother due to her lack of ghost abilities, and some amount of resentment for her father for being so attached to this persona of his and his disdain for his actual heritage, especially since she’s fully accepting of it and it unintentionally makes her self conscious about it
She’s not super sure of her place in the world, but for now she’s just trying to do her job as a member of a rich family
Hm, so I ended up writing more on her than I thought I would. Ah well, not a bad thing. Well, design time
So her name’s Blackberry Scone due to me headcanoning Adventurer to be some sort of shortbread or biscuit (I know they’re the same thing in other countries, but I’m unsure as to what kind of biscuit he is now). Scones are kind of like biscuits, add some blackberry and there you go, blackberry scones
A potential name was Blackberry Cobbler, but I think I prefer scone, especially since I made her more rich-seeming
Blackberry scone:
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So almost everything I made of her, outside of the small sketches and some of the colors, I made a couple weeks ago while waiting at the dentist’s office, and I mostly blocked her out of my mind after that as a result. So I don’t really remember a lot of the design process
I feel like I gave her that hairstyle to make her look “cool”, but then I kind of threw that aspect of her character away. But I still like it, so she keeps it
Also, her suit was originally a bit more reddish, but I changed it today to make it more purple so it’d fit with the color of the scones. They don’t really look that red, so I changed it. But I think now the colors may not all look the best together
I feel like I may have made her colors all a bit too similar to each other, and/or not given her enough, but I don’t really know what else to change
Also when I came back today, the thickness of the lines was bothering me. Maybe it’s because I’ve been dabbling with the Syrup brush now, but I think I need to play with line width more now, since some of the smaller things like the brooch feel like they have too thick of lines
I don’t think her design is necessarily bad though, it’s mostly color wise I have issues with
And yeah, that’s Blackberry Scone, I hope you enjoy her
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tswwwit · 4 months
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Does this mean there’s some TLC producer frothing at the mouth to get familiarAU Dipper on My Strange Addiction? Bc if I saw a dude was married to a killer rocket launcher robot my first thought would be “wow, he really should not have that.” But also my second thought would be “wow, that guy’s a real pervert”
You absolutely know there is! The hard part is getting Dipper to agree to show up.
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i-really-like-phrogs · 11 months
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Also if you don’t mind, could I request beetlejuice + bettyjuice together saying trans rights? :O
You heard em’ folks!! Trans rights!
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ifindus · 8 months
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can I request icesay? (iceland and seychelles) I think she is my favorite girl to ship iceland with💕🙊 and omg the contrast between them☀️❄️
Sure! ✨
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buglaur · 2 years
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calloway family reunion ✧
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hanafubukki · 2 months
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*stares cutely at my malleus angst comic wip that has very similar lines to what you wrote*
[in reference to this fic]
Hello Fruity 🌺🌷💚
Absjsjshs It seems we Malleus stans are going through it with him and we also want to put him through a blender too 🤣
It’s just…he’s so relatable in so many ways? You know? So you can’t help but feel for him. The loneliness, the isolation, no one understanding you or taking the time to, the mask of a role given to you, the fear of loss, etc, etc.
When you think about it, Malleus is always outside looking in. Always the protector just like his gargoyles.
Watching as others played house or returned home. Others always having a place to belong, while he had to sneak away or he was locked away.
…okay but enough of my rambling Absjsjshs
A cute wips you say 👀👀 fruity, fruity, what do I need to do to get you to show me this comic of yours?? Absjsjshs jkjk
Ahhhh I hope one day you can share it. I’m very curious to see it. I know it’s going to hurt but to see Malleus express himself will be worth it 😭💞
The pain, the suffering, finally having his voice heard after being locked away most of his life. With no one to hear his cries.
For him to finally, finally, let it out. I’m just 😭😭💔💔
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Do the Vargas brothers or NA twins ever work together as pairs?
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coolerhope · 1 month
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Gravity Falls His Dark Materials/Daemon AU
where Stanley's daemon falls into the portal with Ford while Ford's daemon stays behind with Stanley.
I'm thinking that Bill manages to drive a huge wedge between Ford and his daemon, maybe convincing him that daemons are just useless dust particles, that they are just basically shadow puppets illuminated on a wall. (Besides, Bill doesn't have a daemon so Ford doesn't need one either).
And then after Ford finds out about Bill's true colours, he locks his daemon away in a room somewhere in the house in a fit of paranoia/to protect it from Bill.
...And in the multiverse, Ford is very overprotective and would eviscerate anyone who would even attempt to touch Stanley's daemon.
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