#im gonna be honest with you guys

[kc-art-stuff]

post-patrol burgers and fries

[natdocx]

URL SONG GAME

A whole ass month late but here we are! I was tagged by @artofdoubt to spell out my url in songs. Thank you so much for the tag and sorry for taking so long to do this <3

Tagging: @badasssupertash, @bbelovas, @bisexualdagger, @elysean, @eyeh0rr0r

@flowersandrage, @iamannaish, @momentary-ecstasy, @sunsongsa, @van-egmonds

And ofc anyone else who sees this and wants to do it 💜

N – No more drama - MAMAMOO

A – Autoclave - The Mountain Goats

T – Trattengo Il Fiato - Emma

D – Don't Shut Me Down - ABBA

O – Oh Comely - Neutral Milk Hotel

C – Consejo de Sabios - Vetusta Morla

X – XOXO - Jeon Somi (전소미)

[hollis-art]

is this anything

[toytulini]

listen im ace and im pro kink at pride and whatever, but the way some of yall are wording your posts in response to the backlash against it is uh. really taking me back to the ace shitcourse era.

yall know theres nothing wrong with being a "virgin", right? that its not inherently shameful to have not had sex, to never have sex, even if youre not ace, even if you do want to have sex someday, like, its fine that you haven't had sex?

maybe if your problem is that theyre trying to police your behavior and shame you for expressing your sexuality, you can say that? instead of resorting to "haha stupid virgin gets no bitches" like my god. do you not hear how fucking regressive that attitude is? i know, i know, youre "joking".

get a better joke

[aroaceleovaldez]

forever disappointed in Rick for, when presented with the decision of "what band t-shirt do i give Nico to signify his character and style," having Nico wear a Ramones shirt when the opportunity for Nico in a Welcome To The Black Parade shirt was RIGHT THERE. PEAK EMO AND IT HAS A SKELETON ON IT-

[lunar-wandering]

do y'all think Macaque is falling back into the role that Azure and the others put on him by remaining on the outskirts of the group because he thinks his input/presence is unwanted (and yeah his presence isn't really wanted by MK and the others BUT. something about the fact Macaque is placing himself at the edge of the group, the edge that Azure and the others pushed him to, doesn't really sit well)

[katartstrophe]

Crowley and his star babies!

I made this for the mini reverse big bang with @gaslightgallows, who wrote this very sweet fic to go with it. The original sketch looked quite a bit different, but his fic was so sweet I wanted to change the piece to match it.

thank you to the @do-it-with-style-events mods for another fun event, you all work so hard to make these collaborations go so smoothly and you are so appreciated!

ETA: the link has been fixed! Apparently I forgot how copy and paste works…………

[frankenruth]

In every universe three annoying nerds find each other & in every universe two are left behind what who said that. who said that

[turnipoddity]

I was talking to a friend about your art and when I showed them your tumblr they said they recognised the art from somewhere. They pulled up the Saw tag on Rule 34 😭😭

IM SORRY???

[whorejolras]

hey 18+ fanartist's and fanfic writers in the les mis fandom! want an adults only space to fuck around and play barbies with your favourite french blorbos?

i made les mis if fantine had a gun (18+ only) because i wanted an adults only discord server, and knew some other adults wanted that. i also made it because i've been wanting a server for fanartists and fanfic writers to share their art and writing WIP's, promote their stuff, and bounce ideas with each other.

if you want weekly fanart and fanfic prompts, coworking seshes, writing sprints, and to talk les mis with some of the funniest motherfuckers around, join les mis if fantine had a gun (18+ only) 🫶🏻

thank you @whoretaire for making the flyer 😍

[unordinary-diary]

Blyke and John: Parallel Characters

I’ve written multiple entries about this,

[x] [x] [x]

But I’m back to make a comprehensive analysis about the glaring similarities between these two. I’ll try not to repeat myself here.

‼️SPOILER WARNING for the whole series‼️ but this mostly focuses on the story before John’s suspension.

Firstly, this scene:

ch. 121

This conversation takes place near the beginning of the Joker arc. It’s after John targets Zeke, after he targets Juni, and the day before he goes after Seraphina’s kidnappers. The timing is important.

“If someone hit your best friend, would you let it slide?”

That question is supposed to remind us what John does to people who hurt Seraphina: hunting them down and sending them to the hospital. Blyke shooting a destructive beam really close to John was an example of a trait they share: they both blow up violently when people mistreat their friends.

John’s downward spiral carries strong themes of hypocrisy. He’s angry at the world, he’s angry at himself, and as a coping mechanism, he chooses to believe that everyone else is as bad as he is. That means that most of the traits he hates others for are the same things he hates about himself. In this scene, Blyke is unintentionally calling out this hypocrisy: “What I did is no different from what you do”.

But Blyke’s just trying to connect with John here, he has no idea what John’s been doing. And John, of course, doesn’t give a shit about what Blyke has to say. This line was here for the audience to notice.

They’re both so similar, but their similarity immediately causes tension between them because, well, John was on the wrong end of Blyke’s protectiveness.

I really love the way this was written— there are so many flashbacks to this scene, but they remember it differently. John remembers the part that hurt him— he’d describe it as “the time that jackass shot a beam at me”. Blyke remembers the part that hurt him, or rather, hurt Remi: “the time that jackass hit Remi for no reason”.

Blyke and John are both hotheaded characters with strong ideals. They’re similar enough that Seraphina points it out:

(ch. 80)

As Blyke grows as a character, he becomes more like John: sticking up for low tiers and speaking out against the injustice in the world. But while Blyke is doing that more, John is going in the opposite direction, until they are fully opposed to each other.

Speaking of Blyke’s character arc, it took me a few rereads to actually understand what part of him changed. His kindness, selflessness, bravery— all of those things were there from the start. Blyke’s character arc was about becoming more aware of his surroundings, and how his carelessness can harm others. Blyke was never malicious, but after X-Rei and integrating more with the school, he becomes aware of people suffering around him and how he unintentionally contributes to it. He becomes less reckless, privy to the flaws in the system he grew up not questioning, and uses his power more responsibly. He even comes up with a more controlled way to wield his ability. The part of Blyke that changes is his maturity.

Part of John’s character arc is also about being careful. It’s not as close of a parallel as other things are, but one of the things that John works on during his redemption arc is holding back. Both of them learn self-control throughout the series, and for John, that means acting early before his emotions spiral out of hand.

Adding onto my first point about the two of them wanting to protect their friends— the fact that they can’t do that makes them both angry and desperate. For most of the story, the “block” that prevents John from protecting Seraphina is in his head. It’s his own trauma that holds him back. The block that prevents Blyke from protecting his friends is, guess what? Also John’s trauma! Parallels abound.

Another thing I noticed in Episode 80 is this:

Notice that when Seraphina says “I’d take that over strength any day,” John is looking at the camera. He’s avoiding Sera’s gaze. Seraphina is saying she prefers honesty over strength. John is very strong, and very dishonest, but Seraphina thinks the opposite because John is so dishonest. John appears to be reflecting on this disconnect.

In relation to this analysis, Seraphina is actually pointing out a major difference between Blyke and John. Beyond that, she’s praising Blyke’s traits, (less strong but very open) above John’s traits, (strong as fuck but a liar with his pants on fire). Furthermore, John really cares what Seraphina thinks of him. Knowing that she would think less of him is the main reason why he spent so much time and effort preventing her from catching his lies.

This leads into my main point here: Blyke is the “goody-two-shoes” version of John. Or, more accurately, the person that John wants to be. Blyke has a clean track record and doesn’t really get into trouble. He is respected and left alone by the school without being hated and feared, he de-escalates conflicts without taking things too far, he doesn’t lose control, he’s someone Seraphina thinks highly of, hell, even his grades are better! Blyke represents everything that John wants to be, and the person that he could have been if he’d gone down a different path.

But, crucially, John is also what Blyke wants to be. Well, not wholly, but his ability? His strength? It’s one of the things John hates about himself, but Blyke wants that strength so desperately that he risks his life for it over and over again.

They’re both desperate to be like each other, even when they hate each other the most. Neither of them have any idea how alike they already are.

I don’t know what Season 3 holds in store for us, but I do hope that John realizes that Blyke embodies who he wants to be, because mutual jealousy would be a very interesting dynamic to explore in my opinion. I also hope that it ends up being something they can bond over, by helping each other accomplish their personal goals. (Blyke being another helper in John’s character arc, and John helping Blyke train.)

A side note: John beat up Blyke four separate times. That’s more than any other character, which is interesting because John’s main rival is supposed to be Arlo. For reference, John has beaten Arlo twice, three times if you count the time when Seraphina intervened, and he only beat him unconscious once. But John beat Blyke to the point of passing out all four times, the worst of which being a shot clean through his chest. (shoulder? Unclear. S1 finale).

It’s odd, isn’t it? Out of everyone, Blyke is the one who John physically hurt the most. John’s only grudge against him is an old memory from episode 33, of an event that didn’t actually harm him. John’s grudge against Arlo is much more serious and again— that’s his main rival. So why is it that he’s so much more violent towards Blyke?

The problem here is that I’ve been thinking about these fights as “John picking on Blyke”. And that’s… kind of true? But while Blyke didn’t start any of these fights, they were all consensual in a way. He didn’t seek to fight John, nor was he ever happy about fighting John, but he was always a willing participant.

(138, 153, 206, & 211)

In three out of these four fights, John didn’t even expect to be fighting Blyke going into it. This is significant because while Arlo is John’s main rival, John absolutely fills that role for Blyke. Blyke’s own agency is what leads to most of these events. The reason, narratively speaking, why they fight so much is not for John’s character, but for Blyke.

For John, his reason for fighting Blyke so much is not narrative but moreso symbolic. John is angry at everyone and everything, but ultimately the person he hates the most is himself. It’s only fitting that the character most like him would bear the brunt of his wrath.

As John is having his positive character arc (suspension and post-suspension), he is becoming more like Blyke, and the two of them reach a point where they’re even more similar than they were at the start of the series.

In the Rowden amusement park, John does start to realize how similar they are:

(249)

Additionally, I want to draw your attention to the parallels between this scene:

Blyke and John’s argument in chapter 249

(which the image limit won’t let me add, scroll until you see red hair.)

And this scene:

Argument in ch. 121 (it’s at the beginning)

Two sides of the same coin.

Furthermore, in the S2 finale, Blyke is shown being taken to Keon. There is an implication that by Season 3, Blyke and John will share Keon-related trauma as well. Despite my pessimistic predictions, I do hope that this is a similarity that can bring them together rather than tear them apart.

[cluelessbees]

I was thinking about this post by @howtobecomeadragon about how Will’s costumes make him blend into the bg (if you haven’t yet go check it out It’s sich a god tier find)

And…okay two things

One, I think that the reason why they make hin Blend into the background is to sort of show us how Will feels internally right? Either he wants to fade and hide away or he himself feels invisible to the world. Either way he doesnt feels like hes important/doesnt want to feel important.

(And I feel like it might be a combination of both. He feels invisible so he hides.)

And so like…okay my brain is byler rot BUT IM JUST THINKING ABOUT HOW EVEN WHEN WILL BLENDS AND HIDES LIKE- MIKE STILL SEES HIM RIGHT.

In rink o’mania, regardless of how quiet Will is, how much he hides really or blends into the background, Mike still notices him. Heck- he even calls Will out for trying to fade into the background.

In the van scene, we see Mike give Will all his attention. He’s completely fixated on him as he talks, maintaining consistent eye contact on him.

And not only does Mike look at Will but (shout out to @moonlightmarvey for pointing this out to me) but he SEES HIM SHINING- like if we see the over the shoulder shots that are in Mike’s POV Will is glowing.

In the bedroom scene, Mike tells Will that Hawkins is different without Will. And that he felt that he lost Will.

Mike felt Will’s absence. He noticed Will wasn’t there- and it changed everything. Will’s presence and existence meant something to Mike. He was fundamental to Mike. Like- holy shit no wonder he cries?? He feels seen.

No matter how much Will feels invisible or tries to hide, Mike sees him.

[casstelli]

honestly think neil and katelyn would become such good friends like. in my heart katelyn is so smart and so down to plot and i do really think she respects andrew as a person even though he scares her on occasion so neil would end up getting along w her so well. i think they’d have a very cunty co conspirator friendship.

i also do think that katelyn struggles to forgive andrew for literally threatening her life for no reason in the same way neil struggles to forgive aaron for literally implying he’s a rapist for no reason and i don’t think either is above criticizing their partners so i think it’d be very beneficial for both of them to have conversations like “i can’t believe your boyfriend literally threatened to kill me.” “oh yeah he’s fr lowkey sexist. he’s just emo though don’t worry about it.”

also the katelyn and neil r secretly twins agenda is basically canon and in my heart they r both brown but for different reasons (neil is a quarter pakistani in my mind and also just tan and katelyn is half mexican to me) and i think they’d both find it rly silly that people say they look alike. it’s like delusional girls hyping each other up but instead of about guys liking them it’s about not looking alike.

also their friendship would give the twins aneurysms and after all of the mindless andrew minyard has never done anything wrong ever in his life truthers ive seen on this website lowk need him to suffer a little bit. need aaron to suffer because he’s unironically a blond man.

kateneil bestfriendisms are a must i fear

[nappingpaperclip]

after seeing the absolutely unbelievable conditions Palestinians and all of the other folks from the many places where US imperialism has laid its foundation have to cope with, the possibility of temporarily losing my (lgbt+) rights does not scare me and I don’t think it’s at all a good enough reason to deny any and all criticism of democrats and refuse to even THREATEN to withhold your vote ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[uukipi]

no new art just posting my propaganda of the week

i think everyone in the acotar series should fight over lucien bc hes so cool hot sexy cute and deserves all the love in the world and ik everone wants him!!!!!! *mwuah* <- das him getting a big fat wet kiss!!!!!!!!

[bergoose]

you know it would have been so easy for the try guys not to throw shade at watcher like that takes effort