#i suppose...

[bovineblogger]

i was struck w madness and made some cave painting inspired drawings of winged cattle.... save me aurochs

[graegrape]

at long last... it's done... here's my part of this year's ghost swap exchange for @siverwrites (hosted by @fyeahghosttrick!)

i decided to mash 2 of your prompts together (a/j/c fluff and cabanela's Odd Gift Giving) - i did Not think i'd end up making a 7 page comic but alas, here we are :'D... i hope the characters aren't too ooc and the overall messiness is excusable!! i really love your writing so i hope you can get some enjoyment from this <3 happy ghost swap!

[skunkes]

its my [quick before sleeps doodle] and i get to choose the [incorrect anatomy]

[grand-line-shenanigans]

Hey Ging. Answer the question, Ging.

[charmac]

Hi! Do you have any thoughts on Mac and Mrs. Mac’s relationship? I find the whole McDonald family dynamic so interesting, but especially after season 16/frank shoots every member of the gang I’ve been fascinated by those two. You always have such impressive, well thought out answers!

Thank you!

I do have a lot of of thoughts regarding Mac's upbringing, especially in terms of his relationships with his family and how they clearly affect his current-day relationships and misconceptions of love, but I'm not sure I've really fleshed that out so, great question.

First of all, I have a gripe with Frank Shoots Every Member of the Gang, as it really insanely retcons Luther's age. Mac Kills His Dad established that he was 59 at the time, which would have made him a teen when he had Mac. Shoots establishes that Luther's dad served in WWII and wrote him letters during that time, which means he had to have been born before 1945, and would have been at youngest in his 30s when Mac was born. It's not like it's a huge issue, but it does change some previously-thought dynamics. (Though, the fact that they weren't younger-cast in A Sunny Christmas does better-align with the idea that they were in their 30s when they had Mac.)

There was/is always kind of the vibe that when they were together, pre-Luther going to jail, Ms. Mac did really love Luther and vice-versa, and Mac was more kind of like a by-product of unprotected sex more than he was a part of the family. (I mean, they named him after the Hamburger Clown). Luther clearly love(d) him as the idea of having a son, someone who could carry on his bidding and his name, but doesn't love him as the child he actually has. I think Ms. Mac didn't love him as the idea of a son and doesn't love him as the child she has, and never did. BUT she did love Luther, and Mac observed that as a young kid, his parents loving each other but neglecting him. Looking at Christmas, we can kind of assume the order of anything in Mac's childhood home was Ms. Mac > Luther > Mac. So for his early development he was kind of sidelined, saw no love from his parents toward him, but did see love between his parents (in a definitely not healthy way, as it goes).

We know in the deleted scenes of Sunny Christmas that Mac's dad is going to prison probably right after the events of the video tape... I honestly think it's reasonable to assume that Mac's screaming that woke up the residents of the house they were robbing might have been probably was what led to Luther being arrested (with whatever warrants he had hanging over him catching up with him once he had been detained). So, does Ms. Mac blame her son for her husband being locked up for the next 25 years? Probably. She didn't even want him, didn't care for him, and then his obnoxious behaviour was their downfall.

Back to Shoots, I did really like it for what it gave us in terms of (Char)Mac childhood lore. I think it definitely wasn't a shock for them to drop the cigarette lighter line, but it was a hit to the chest for me. Everything I kind of assumed before, re: didn't want or care about having a child equated to strictly-neglectful, Mac clawing for the love he saw his mom give his dad, now with his dad gone even more-so, and being brushed off, now escalated to retaliation in response to Mac failing to be brushed off. Sometimes the dismissive, grunting and not moving from your chair approach just doesn't work on a hyperactive little bastard like Mac, sometimes you have to make him shut up by giving him something else to fuss over. I think Ms. Mac probably hoped that would be what breaks through his skin, makes him realise she doesn't love him, but Mac only sees it as a warning, a pause, a try-again-later, mom's just in a bad mood.

Presently, what we see of Ms. Mac is almost always the same: completely indifferent. Shrug, cough, I don't care at all about you. Mac's a serial killer? Yeah. Mac's dead? Ok. You're gay? Meh. She'll fuck with him though, sure: your dad is actually Dutch. You wanted these letters that meant something to your father? I needed toilet paper. Who cares. She doesn't love him, never has, never will, and Mac has no ability to understand that.

Based on his upbringing and the past 20 years, I think he has a complete misunderstanding (and at this point inability) to recognise and understand what love is, mostly because of his mother. Because she just, doesn't love him, never did, but Mac thinks that parents have to love their children, that's a fact in his mind. If he has a mom and a dad they do love him, they have to, especially when he was a little boy, right? His dad loves him, he's just in jail so he can't show it, but his mom is here. And mom did love dad, he remembers that, he saw it, so he just has to make himself known, she can love him too because she's capable of it and she's his mom. He loves her, he says it over and over, she never says it, but she just doesn't see him because she's busy, working, or making a home for him, or just for some reason she's not paying attention... So love for Mac is fighting neglect, love is refusing to be ignored, love is pestering over and over because if you can get away with your bombardment without a finger being raised, without being scored by a cigarette lighter, they must really want you to continue... they must be waiting for you to really prove yourself before they show or admit their love for you. There are people in his life who have to love him, it's like a law, so they'll admit it as long as you keep asking, keep making yourself known, keep trying to prove yourself... and if it comes to the point where you're getting burned, stop for a minute, take a step back, and reevaluate how (or when) you can try again...

[welcometoteyvat]

IF IT IS FATED, MORAX, WE WILL MEET AGAIN

"You came to me not as an assassin, and so I was willingly sealed away."

"When you reach the end of time, those people, those past and future relationships predetermined by fate... they will be waiting for you"

also scrolled around and found this poetic masterpiece (taken from reddit)

[richesthermit]

A Jellie stimboard! ❀ requested by @gaydeathberries ┈ with sage green and cat paw stims!

x . x . x / x . 🐾 . x / x . x . x

[cervidaeic]

you ever get so bored you're like. yeah, i could jack off right now.

[pigeonrocks]

Fuze save me. save me fuze. trying to get a better grasp on how to draw him :P

doodles under the cut <3

[honeybeekao]

kiss, marry, kill except it's aro beam, transgenderfication ray, live with them for eternity.

[pumpkin-patch-cat]

I'm actually kinda bothered by this?

It's cool that people will get to play these older titles on the switch in one game, but I'm still waiting for the localized versions of Ginsei and Tsukikage no Shou for the Switch.

Which will probably never happen. *le sigh*

[verm1c1de]

"zim is too old fur dib so its pedophilia" "zadr artists always draw zim tiny thats pedophilia" SO WHICH IS IT!!!!!

[ipfy-dot-tif]

new thing just dropped!!

[timidtresleches]

Real quick OC art bc I'm chuffed with it, Lil Hal kinsona except it's not a kinsona and more just an OC version of Lil Hal??? ieuch??

Pixel art my beloved

[dusknoirtheexplorer]

hello, sir! what are a few tips you'd give to some budding soon to be explorers?

Why, I am honored to be sought for advice!

For those who are just beginning, I believe the most useful skill is learning to safely navigate dungeons with as little risk to yourself as possible.

Let's visualize the distance between myself and this opposing Rhydon with a grid.

To rush carelessly into a fight will merely result in you being stricken first, so one could bait a foe into coming closer by performing a basic attack at the empty space before you...

However, as we are in an open area, we have other options.

While not applicable in narrow passageways, advancing diagonally is another useful method to close the distance.

This provides opponents with less opportunities to make use of ranged attacks to harm you from several tiles away. Of course, you must take care to not step into the attack range of another Pokémon when doing so...

Be sure to study your surroundings and make full use of them!

Additionally...

Though they are acquired gradually, IQ skills can be amassed to help you and your teammates traverse through various situations far easier.

Here are some I acquired, as a visual example of some available to learn.

Please don't hesitate to approach me if you require further information!

[084392]

mega evos but uhhhhhhhhhhhh....

well! lopunny i just wanted the full opposite of the canon mega and went the angora rabbit route? sableye already has gemstones growing out of its body i figure that the mega stone amplifies that somehow? and makes them grow faster and stronger but also makes them hungrier(do NOT let them eat the mega stone itself)