#idk if that's correct but im using it

[sweetberry-roebuck]

I've been into tf2 for over a year and my little pony since I was like 10 and somehow I only now realized that I like the main casts of those two things in very similar ways, and they're. Idk. Structured extremely similarly, being a close knit group of protagonists (one group being best friends, one being mercenary coworkers) who basically share the main character status equally (twilight is obviously the main main character of mlp but the other 5 are just as important on an episode to episode basis, and just as popular) and have easily recognizable and exaggerated personalities in the same way. All of the mercs and all of the main 6 are extremely distinct characters built largely to bounce off each other in funny and interesting ways, to be wildly different in aesthetic and mannerisms even within the confined settings of their stories. They're incredibly easy to ship with each other, with many fun dynamics existing within their canons, and even less obvious ships that people come up with still feel interesting and dynamic because of how strong their characters are. They're also incredibly easy to reinterpret, fem merc designs or blu team designs or even just headcanons constantly remix the recognizable traits of the mercs, and mlp redesigns and headcanons and reimaginings of characters are so popular I probably don't need to explain those. Anyway I fuckin love both of them and all the miscellaneous interpretations of the funny little ponies and funny little mercenaries :-) I don't have particularly strong headcanons or designs for any of the characters in either property so I delight in seeing different ones. Thank u fanartists I love you.

[alexisnotstraight]

i dont know shit about dan and phil, but i have a lot of mutuals who get posts about them in my dash very often, so here's all the information i have gathered about them purely based off of tumblr posts.

they're gay

they're dating eachother

they're not dating eachother

they do comedy

they sing

they sell things

they wear clothes

they have existed for quite a while now

they like mcr (good taste if so)

they are youtubers

one of them know how to play the ukulele

they're trying to get rid of evidence of something

they do shows, not sure about what but they do

they're gay

they're youtubers

one of them wore tiny shorts once and people were either happy or mad about that

they do gay stuff on stage

idk how much of this is right, but thats what my brain has absorbed over this couple of months

[redyrmes]

leo + some pepitos im so happy theyre back wahh

[afterthelambs]

WHITE RASHOMON TIME

The first time we ever see Akutagawa use rashomon on any other item of clothing except his black coat (in the main manga series), it's this scene.

He uses his shirt, which even Atsushi is surprised by because even if he knows it can happen, this is the first time he (and we the audience) has seen this happen.

And it's so important that rashomon is white in this situation. We all know the symbolism behind red = 'bad' and blue = 'good' (with nuance, since the port mafia has done good before), but black and white is also a significant color scheme. Atsushi's predominant colors are white because he is on the 'good' side, but he has black in his color scheme too because he has that dark past. Meanwhile Akutagawa is predominantly black, but he has some white in his color scheme. He's not pure evil.

The Beast universe leans into this color symbolism heavily, since Akutagawa's color scheme there isn't white but grey. Beast!Aku wasn't as 'good' as main universe Atsushi since he still has that darker mindset that he has to grow out of.

WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO WHITE RASHOMON

The first time we see Akutagawa use Rashomon on any other clothing besides the black coat--the coat that Dazai gave to him as a welcome symbol into the Port Mafia-- he uses his white shirt. And the first time he uses a white rashomon, he didn't use it to attack. It was entirely to sacrifice himself and save Atsushi.

Akutagawa has saved Atsushi many times before obviously. Dragging him off the Moby Dick, working together during the cannibalism arc, etc. But in all those scenarios, he was never putting himself on the line to do it. He either had nothing to lose by saving Atsushi, or mutually benefited from it.

But this time? He knew he was going to die, he knew what it meant, he never intended to be the survivor. And he did it anyway. Some people have theorized that this was still for personal reasons (that he believed this is how he proves his worth to Dazai) but it doesn't change the fact that this was an act purely of saving. It is so fitting that Rashomon was white at that moment.

[wikipediafag]

I am Mahmoud Helles, the owner of the donation campaign. The campaign aims to expel my family from Gaza and expel my wife to Egypt due to her serious condition with a kidney injury. Please enter my page and then share. https://gofund.me/53fa2830🌹🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🌹😭😭😭

Yes, of course i will share — Wishing all of you well. I will be participating & i hope and ask that my followers and mutuals will too

As detailed in their posts & gofundme, Mahmoud needs help for his four children and his wife. They have repeatedly faced displacement in Gaza over the course of five years. His wife requires URGENT medical treatment for her kidneys, and, in Mahmoud's words "her condition is deteriorating due to the lack of treatment". More information is on his page, @hillesmahmoud, as well as the GFM link above.

PLEASE CONSIDER D0NATING. EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS.

this gfm was vetted by @/fallahifag and @/el-shab-hussein vetted fundraisers masterpost, number 170

[pikhachu]

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

POINTS

ANOTHER POLYSWORLD ENJOYER /pos

REJOICE!! POLYWORLD BE UPON THEE!

[pseudokap]

xiv is like that one post of the trans person who got top surgery tattoos but didn't actually have top surgery and was really controversial for some reason. do you see my vision

[kogglyuffs]

they tryna flirt in their mother languages.......i think

[moeblob]

I am really tired of a situation rn.

[partysnake]

spinning this guy around so hard in my brain rn you guys have no idea

[tsukasalover]

I can think of a lot of reasons why I like and have gotten attached to tsukasa more than any other fictional character and i think if i had to keep it simple (or else id be rambling for hours) id say

1. He’s so interesting. I usually pick up the extremely mischaracterized blonde characters anyways but he gets my brain working real hard. its almost 2am and i cant think straight but theres something about his duality that keeps me glued to him and the amount of Layers he has and how removing even one layer or completely ignoring how both his huge ego and kindness + selflessness coexist can really mess up your perception of him. There was something quite short i wrote about how both sides make him. Well. Him. back when his colofes dropped since i was so annoyed at the people Not getting it (while most never even read the STORIES 😁) anf ive been screaming this for a year now Please. Also the way his dream and being a good big brother go hand in hand have captured me. I really like fictional siblings and they fill something personal i miss and Looove looking at the roots of characters. Discovering where this and that and connecting events to what started their behaviors or helped their personality bloom. So seeing saki and toya play such an important role in his life keeps me HOOOKEDDD. I took the bait like tiny fish. Dont regret it. Never will. I like my fictional characters like layered cake. Thats basically how i see them. I had a yummy chocolate cake with so mant layers the other day 🤤 but anyways. I also really like when characters have to learn and grow as people after making really bad mistakes or being straight up assholes so it really took a while even after mainstory but once i got to see more of him with saki and read dazzling i was like. This is the guyyy. Youre mine now lets go. I dont like perfect characters but.. you see.. when characters who have (sometimes way too much) confidence and are dramatic yet are shown to truly be good people who enjoy making others happy… alright.. now im listening… Sign me up…

But really he has almost everything I’ve ever looked for in a character. Starting with the fact that he’s a theatre kid. And blonde. Of course emu nene and rui + more fictional characters have made their way into my heart and ive gotten attached to them on very Very personal levels but when it comes to this Idiot who wants to be a star and reminds me of a dog its something that i dont even know how to explain sometimes. Why is he here? What are you doing inside of my head. Ill never have one solid answer because he takes up too much space in my mind and i become incoherent too often when talking about him.

2. Ignoring my first answer, He is ugly. My favorite punching bag. Cartoon character. Begins floating when he smells pie. I dont know anymore

3. he just like me fr (Which is terrible i dont like that)

[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.

[octarineblues]

in Blue Beetle, I love how Jaime Reyes went to Gotham University - there was a moment in the movie when after being chosen by the scarab he was like "this is fine, strange things (superpowers) happen to people all the time" - and I am sure that his time in Gotham prepared him for this bullshit. Khaji Da could have chosen any member of the Reyes family, let's be honest, because they're all pretty fucking cool. But it chose Jaime because he's got first hand experience of the absolute fuckery that is Gotham and so would be one to just roll with the situation. And he absolutely did.

[chickenpidgepies]

Slight NSFW mention

Sexuality

Is it asexuality if someone still enjoys (good) sex but doesn't like...care about who the sex is with. Like they do but they don't. Like I've never once seen a person and think "oh I want to do sexual things with them" because of them.

It's like I'll want to do specific sexual thing first and then in my mind shuffle through the few people(fictional or not) that I would not hate doing that with, flipping through them in my mind like trading cards.

Because it's always felt off using the ace label idk why but it's never felt right applied to me?? But It seems by definition not incorrect??

Help I don't what's going on or what am I

[thedisablednaturalist]

literally no one has used my listed pronouns (literally next to my name on teams). So much for pride month :/