#how do you prep for that!!!!!

[waltwhitmansbeard]

i start dming for the first time in two and a half hours and i'm going fucking BARF

[ash-and-starlight]

The world needs more Yue and Zuko friendship, I squeal just thinking abt the parallels. They deserve a life changing field trip together and if u have abt ideas I’m all ears 👀

Hiii anon this ask fermented in my inbox and in my brain for so long,, so take this??? Post canon yue lives/no war au arts?? Anyway aside from the Parallels and their political position & their duty before hoes grindset I think they could learn a lot from each other. With zuko learning the gift of patience & diplomacy from yue & Yue learning that allowing yourself to feel anger and speaking up can actually be Good.

anyway hypothetical life changing trip outcome: zuko takes an intro gender studies class and yue says fuck

(oh and also must not forget the crush on sokka)

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

fun fact when i was a kid/teen i thought I was gonna go into comic/manga illustration and i realized i still have my weeb sketchbook... from 2013.

wanna take a look?

[naffeclipse]

Imagine if Eclipse's mom survived and once they reunite he tries to introduce us to her

I'm crying, the orca man would be so pleased to introduce you to his mother! He knows she's going to love you, too! She's very sweet, intense, and all teeth but she grins this wide thing that reminds you exactly of Eclipse before she pets your hair and tells you how perfect you'll be! You are already so cute, like a little fish!

[artseuki]

"The fluttering fiend...is drawn towards the masquerade..."

The official footage of the Anime Los Angeles Masquerade is officially out! It was an honor to participate in Such a Cool Event alongside such Cool Cosplayers, all the acts were phenomenal!

If you have a couple hours to kill (or just want to bounce around between acts), I do highly recommend checking the whole thing out! 👉[link]

Cosplay: @aseuki Photography and Editing: bakephotogatari Video Footage: @steamninja

[comixandco]

cleo sertori had a fear of swimming since she was a child and nobody considered for a second that getting stranded on a boat in the middle of the sea then falling into a cave system where she had to swim through subterranean water tunnels to the ocean where she had to tread water until a s&r team found them would be traumatic and exacerbate her fear into full aquaphobia

secretly becoming a mermaid helped her get over her fear but to everybody else her being cagey about the pool party and washing the dishes makes 100% sense when they stop for a moment and consider she’s probably terrified

[generic-sonic-fan]

Sonic having unexpected bits of secondhand expertise that he gets from his friends:

His coding skills wouldn't last a single second against anyone actually competent but he can hack Shadow's Netflix password every time it changes.

He knows how to brew a perfect cup of tea and also how to bake exactly one (1) cake.

Around the specific latitudes that Angel island tends to float around in he goes looking for a particular kind of edible plant that a certain someone showed him how to identify. He likes to snack on it when he's bored.

He's able to estimate the value of a piece of jewelry based off the quality of the gem. Knows the difference between a 'karat' and a 'carat'.

He can look at bullet holes and have a decent guess at the caliber of the gun that shot them. He could also, in a pinch, fully disassemble a HK45 Tactical pistol and put it back together again.

Fishing. You get the idea.

[papirouge]

NOT Argentina trending for them beig mad at their deranged new president 👀

Weren't you guys flexing about being a nOt like a DisneY mOviE🤪 White country that successfully managed to outbreed its mulattos and Blacks, and how your football NT was 'purer' & represented more authentically its country unlike France NT and its "African" players?

See how deep that demonic racist energy shit dragged you in?

that's karma

edit: removed the reblogs because ugly & hateful Argentians started being mad at me for spiting truth 🥰

[bonefall]

Hi Bones!! Thank you for you hard work on this project and for sharing it with us!

I've seen your posts about weird representation of society (regarding the "natural order of things") in xenofiction, especially in lion king, so I wanted to ask:

could you recommend any xenofiction media that has all (or most of the) animal species sapient? Or is the only solution to make just one or two species sapient while the others (especially prey) are plain animals?

Really sorry if you've seen this ask from me before - my account had a weird laggy period when I couldn't send or receive messages and asks, so I don't know if you got the previous one! I just know that now it's fixed so I double all the asks sent haha

Honestly I'm not totally sure! If any 3rd person has some good recommendations for "every being is alive" xenofiction types, feel free to weigh in.

If you want to jump in with me though, I am following the webcomic Africa. It updates every Wednesday. Africa is about a mother Leopard on the verge of a great ecological disaster, the relationship between her children and the animals around her, and the strength of both instinct and choice as the characters face an uncertain future.

Since it's ongoing, I still don't know how it's going to end and can't judge it as a full work! But it's absolutely fascinating and I think the author is doing a fantastic job so far. Bonus points for the way it portrays humans, btw.

No more spoilers though, if you're interested, it's on Webtoons.

(I'm also planning to read Oren's Forge soon. Ask me about it again in a few months over on Bonebabbles and I'll give you my thoughts)

As an aside though, funny you mention it because like... ever since I was a kid I've had a story I want to tell with the premise. It's a scintilla I've kept close to me for well over a decade but haven't done anything official with. So this is actually a theme I've thought about a lot.

It's rare to see it done well though because like... its very premise butts heads with reality. The "natural order" that an animal follows is not something it moralizes. A tiger doesn't have the capacity to think about how fucked up it is to kill to stay alive, the deer doesn't know that if its population isn't controlled it will destroy the forest.

They're animals. They don't HAVE that agency. Your dog does not care about being sterilized. A snake doesn't differentiate between a pinky and an adult mouse except in terms of if it will fit in its mouth. But the minute you put human morality in there... they have the ability to reason, create and agree on the rules of a society, make choices about MORALITY.

If nothing is going to change about their world, you just end up putting human arguments about "natural order" in their mouths and, well... start telling a parable justifying this "natural order."

(Genuine) Does what I'm saying make sense? Animals DON'T rationalize or negotiate. HUMANS do.

So the minute you're approaching a world with that logic, like it or not, you are invoking those "arguments from nature." And you're putting them in a being that is not fully an animal or a human, but an anthropomorphic mix which CAN rationalize but WON'T make an effort to change their world.

(Which is why tbh the best examples i know of are works with a theme of "change.")

OH WAIT I also remember another that's interesting!! Leafy: Hen into the Wild actually has a fascinating take on it. It's not interested in "moralizing" or really being about an animal society. It's a very emotional sort of movie, and it's about joys in adversity, the freedom that choice gives you, how bad things are going to happen and you can never completely prevent them.

INTENSE movie emotionally, the ending will wreck you (especially in the English translation which leaves out a really important theme making it feel abrupt x_x) but it's really good. Check that one out.

OH and also You Are Umasou. That one has more pitfalls imo (it does try to moralize a bit) but it's super unique as a movie. And is about dinosaurs.

[shima-draws]

My first ever DND session is tomorrow OOUGHHH I'm nervous but excited!!

I'm playing as a "human" ranger (put in quotes bc my character isn't actually human but is just masquerading as one), if you guys have any tips on what to do in a first session please let me know I'm going into this pretty much blind lol

It'll be a relatively short session (like 3 hours tops) and I honestly do not know what to expect so. Any advice is appreciated 🙏

[slavhew]

Be nice

late addition. existentialism

[belligerentbagel]

even Atlas has only two hands

vent art

[emptyjunior]

POV I'm the protagonist in a hallmark movie, you're a beautiful, probably white I guess, male lead coming into my room with a flower and a tray to offer me breakfast in bed- I am stopping you Immediately and explaining that my every meal has a complex set of rituals and designated "mealtime talismans" to complete the meal, the phone in hand, the laptop open playing a Jenny Nicholson video essay, the giant flask of ice tea, my "kitchen socks" because the floor in my kitchen is cold so I dress appropriately and now I can't eat without wearing the socks. I refuse your tawdry offering to hand me toast to eat in pure silence and crumb my bed and you don't even know the specific way I butter it, it's LAUGHABLE child, LAUGHABLE

[b4kuch1n]

tdov was like a week ago already but I just wanna say when I came over to vacation slash help my sworn brother move flat he told me, "ever since you said you wanted to get top surgery I've been thinking about it. it's straight up number two on my bucket list"

[itsalwaysforyou]

just remembered a wip i had which was jay at uni meeting normal people and desperately trying to act cool and normal whilst internally screaming about being in a whole new place with all new people and not having his gang with him

[ellies-rambles]

Not to be too sappy or whatever, but Dominic Sessa's success is so very encouraging/inspiring to me. As a prep school kid, I can confidently say that you are taught to go into the business or STEM. This isn't to say the humanities and arts aren't well taught, but that the people you're introduced to through networking and the colleges spoken about the most are not made to steer you in the direction of arts or humanities. Even if faculty don't think that way, an old prep school is an old prep school and those early goals will always be there, it is a status quo that is hard to challenge. I digress, I want to go into film. I love it more than just about anything and I got so lucky with the college I'll be going to, the people I've met, and the friends who will entertain my rambles on film. I'm also - like Sessa - a financial aid kid (or financial aid baddie if we're wanting to lighten the tone), making job opportunities all the more daunting. There is less to fall back on than if I was an arts kid with an incredibly wealthy family. I was once asked by a friend why I was on financial aid - most students do not comprehend life without oodles of money. It is so hopeful for me to see someone with a similar background being successful in the arts. I'm so thrilled with the film community's quick acceptance of Sessa and I think it shows great things for the future of filmmaking. There is power in young artists and money should not be the reason for success - like with many nepo babies.