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[ducktracy]

Who is your favorite director for Sylvester?

THIS IS AN INTERESTING QUESTION because i don't have a concrete answer... as much as i love Sylvester (which is a lot!), he sure has a track record of being paired with characters i enjoy Less, and thusly not really allowing me to revisit his shorts as much as i should

i really like Bob McKimson's Sylvester. i love how much of a shleppy, awkward loser he is, and i'm ESPECIALLY fond of his design in the earlier McKimson shorts... Crowing Pains is one of my favorite LT shorts! and the first Hippety Hopper short is gorgeous, really a damn shame we didn't get to see Manny Gould animate more of McKimson's Sylvester... i like the more "personable" angle McKimson takes his Sylvester. unfortunately, most of the McKimson Sylvester shorts are Hippety Hopper shorts, and if you have seen one you have quite literally seen them all. some occasionally fun moments in them but the sheer adherence to formula, as well as McKimson's growing burnout, make for some rather tired cartoons. can't say McKimp uses Sylvester to his full advantage, but that's also what i like about his cartoons, i guess? i will say i'd rather watch a Hippety and Sylvester short than a Tweety and Sylvester, even if the latter has a greater possibility of being better directed

Friz Freleng is probably my answer since HE MADE HIM and most of my favorite Sylvester shorts come from him... but there is also a burden in the form of a little yellow bird 💔 i much prefer Freleng's solo Sylvesters, i like when he's more of a person than a cat and is able to freely rant and be his awful disenfranchised self. and that's why i like McKimson's Sylvester, because he is his own character instead of someone's house cat... all of my favorite Sylvester shorts are directed by Freleng! but usually devoid of Tweety. Canned Feud, Kit for Cat, Stooge for a Mouse, A Mouse Divided, Peck Up Your Troubles, Back Alley Oproar...

and since i'm listing directors, maybe this is funny to say since you'd think my pig bias would be strong but i have no real strong feelings on Chuck Jones' Sylvester. he exists! the cartoons are fun! but i don't really flock to them one way or another. i like that Laff Riot (rip 😢) made Porky Sylvester's owner, though... which i guess is a trend started by Kitty Kornered, huh? more established of a pattern than i thought

[anthonyed]

the loaded avengers tower (alt title: tony stark gotta catch em all!)

it started with natasha actually. or maybe not. it was pepper calling tony for a meeting about a clean energy source and then a bunch of old asshats challenging his theory and tony said "how about this? in ten months, you'll see my name as your new guiding torchlight in the middle of new york and all of that would be from clean energy."

then he lit the tower up, held a champagne glass to celebrate for less than 20 seconds, then fast forward 24hours later, there is just an A up on his supposed middle finger up to stark industries shareholders - heck he even designed it to resemble a dick. well, as close as he could sneak that design in without pepper stop the funding at least

two months later, pepper left him. something about a break, not break up, tony. and tony could never understand that kind of recess in a relationship but he just rolled with it. so he got boring, got bruce a floor beneath his and the tower is all shiny and new again but he's got a side project going on, a big idea and all about regrouping and one day he caught the sight of the Jaeger in his closet and he realised he was smiling a second later in the mirror

shit, he thought, he actually missed natasha romanoff

so he decided to be subtle and sent virtual invites to all the other four avengers. thor never answered, rogers was left on read but the spy kids suprisingly decided to accept it. tony wasn't there the day they moved in. in fact he was oceans away in tokyo, sipping sake with t'chaka discussing vibranium but when he returned to the tower, he spotted a two video game consoles on the communal floor's coffee table and jarvis updating the increased number of occupants in the building

so yeah, it started with tony and his blasted ego but the rest of it - housing criminals and murderers - was all because of natasha

"she's my sister," natasha said in that tone which immediately raised tony's hackles up and shut his next question cause spy twins were spy triplets suddenly

yelena belova, came first, as an extended family of natasha then their apparent father who natasha really gives a lot of disgusted face to but guy could rival thor in his boiterous energy. maybe put those two together and it would be fantastic, or just calamitous to the entire new york city depending which way you wanna look at it

somehow, these two extended family addition made rogers think that he could bring his own stray in because tony was looking a murderous raccoon one morning as he exited the elevator and he stopped right where he was with a hushed, "jarvis?care to catch me up?"

in the next ten seconds, tony underwent an out of body experience between hearing "james buchanan barnes, sir" from jarvis and watching yelena belova tug the back of that murder raccoon's hair and push a steaming cup of something into his hand

coffee is that way, tony thought. coffee is that way, coffee is that way, i am here for coffee and coffee only do not look at me ohmygod pepper is gonna kill me

he got his coffee along with a rare steve rogers smile and a whispered "sorry i didn't tell you earlier," and then he was about to reply with something when another new face popped put of the elevator and tony pointed at him "who's that? who're you?"

sam wilson, rogers and said man answered and tony decided he's better off facing the crazies in the office than the bunch in the tower at that instant

someone had this saying about rescuing a stray once and you gonna keep doing that, or something along that line or another, tony's not really a literature enthusiast that was more of a pepper's forte which speaking off - pepper hasn't stepped back into the tower after that day they parted and they're still not broken up, she still cares, he still kisses her - it's all kinda status quo but she hasn't threatened him with murder yet, so that's good news

better news is thor coming back and they all went for a school trip to a hydra bunker where barnes went murder dog on half of their troop, shot strucker between the eyes, got the sceptor out along with three new shuffling baby mutants who stuck to his back like baby opossums

it was all kind of fascinating as well as mind blowing how it was a successful mision without a hulk out and a brand new three teenage occupants for the tower

"at this point, you might as well get pokeballs and run around yelling gotta catch em all" rhodey sniggered on one of his visits.

it was memorial day and he was plastered. so was rogers on an asgardian concoction with his head on tony's shoulder while bucky barnes sat on the longer couch further, fully sober with his loyal baby birds by his feet.

tony's personally grateful that he's not the one forced to be a foster dad to teenagers because he's too young for that kind of responsibilities but he's still impressed - very impressed as a matter of fact - with how barnes seem to be handling it all with a practised ease

later, steve would say it's cause bucky got used to caring for steve when he was skinny and sick and maybe there's a truth to that but those kids have their second favourite person as well; wanda with natasha, pietro with barton and bob surprisingly tags with yelena for an even longer period of time than he does with barnes

but nobody tells barnes that because than he would get jealous and a jealous barnes gets drunk and alexei always makes it his job to never let anyone be drunk on their own so they both would get drunk and everyone learned the hard way one time when they found the shooting rink thrashed to a point that tony refused to speak to any of them for three days - which for tony, is a personal record in all his 45years of living

speaking of too young for fatherhood though, one day bob comes home with a new teenager who appeared uncharacteriscally exuberant to see tony stark and tony kept seeing the boy quite often then onwards and he's called peter parker, living with his aunt may and he's going to school with bob and his best friend also includes ned and tony happened to learn all this in the next two weeks because bob is a menace with sad puppy eyes and peter is worse and maybe tony is becoming bucky barnes. either way, he got three of his own velcro babies attached to his side all of a sudden, shuffling along wherever he goes and sometimes he lead them to bruce's lab for distraction and makes his escape but he's happy -

he realises one day - walking into a bustling communal floor late one sunday with more people he can count on two of his hands and they are all his family; from 100 plus years old super humans and a norse god with his girlfriend and her friend and some occasional asgardian friendlies and reformed spies, teenage mutants and humans too, like sam and rhodey and these days, pepper comes by too whenever she feels like she can deal with all of this madness - that he is genuinely, for the first time ever in his life, happy

guess it was a great decision after all - building a clean penis tower in the middle of the new york city

[bakawitch]

Tornshipping fae au where human Malik gets lost in the woods and enters the fae realm somehow. He finds a little cottage where a cat sith Ryou lives, who allows him to temporarily stay with him until a new gate opens into the mortal realm in their close vicinity. Ryou is a little cold and standoffish, but the way he carries himself and the random acts of kindness he shows Malik cause the human to eventually fall for Ryou. The fact that the cottage has a 'there was only one bed' situation definitely doesn't help Malik with his infatuation. Luckily (or unluckily depending on how you look at it) for him, Ryou rarely sleeps in the bed, much less the cabin unless Malik specifically asks him to. Ryou is also sort of charmed by the human and asks a lot of questions about the mortal realm and Malik himself as he slowly warms up to him.

Malik doesn't leave the cabin or its garden for safety reasons (eldritch fae who are definitely not as kind as Ryou), but he often wishes he could because Ryou wanders off into the foggy woods very often and despite knowing that the cat sith can take care of himself, he still wants to be there and protect him.

One day, while Ryou is out doing whatever, an eldritch fae enters Ryou's cottage and corners Malik, trapping him in a dead briar. Malik is very confused because he thought these type of fae specifically needed to be invited in, and they stayed away from Ryou's cabin by default. Fortunately, before anything bad could happen to Malik, Ryou arrives just in time and asks the fae to stop what he's doing. He explains Malik's situation to it and the fae reluctantly let's the human go. Ryou then introduces the unfamiliar creature to Malik as Bakura, his husband.

Malik is obviously shaken about his crush already being married (+the attack) and he becomes very conflicted about his feelings towards Ryou. Bakura stays for a while, and him and Ryou go out together at night, leaving Malik alone in the cottage with his thoughts. Bakura's presence becomes more prominent, and Ryou stops spending as much time as he did with Malik. While Bakura is out one time, Malik and Ryou get into a fight that ends with Ryou running off out of anger. To Malik's confusion, only a cat returns.

When Bakura returns, he explains that as a cat sith, Ryou has the option to shape-shift nine times before ultimately being stuck as a cat forever. He usually does this when he's upset, and Malik finds out that this is his fifth transformation. Bakura asks what Malik did to anger Ryou, but Malik doesn't really want to confess to Bakura since the argument was about him and Ryou's relationship. From that day on, it's Malik, Ryou the cat, and Bakura in the cabin. Bakura tells Malik that a transformation for Ryou can last up to decades depending on how upset he is, which causes the human to feel very guilty and regretful about the situation. Since Ryou doesn't talk now, Malik is forced to engage in conversation with Bakura and comes to realise that he's not as much of Ryou's evil husband as he thought so. Some stuff happens, and Malik eventually apologises to cat Ryou for what he said after him and Bakura develop a fragile friendship. Bakura might be seducing Malik for lols at this point to entertain himself and Ryou.

In the 'finale', Malik gets attacked by a changeling in his shape (Yami Malik), and after the weak creature somehow incapacitates Bakura, he's forced to find a way to defeat it in Ryou's absence. Malik gets pricked by something weird in the forest, which gives him enough power to disarm (literally) the changeling. Ryou jumps in at the final moment in his human form to save Malik from being driven mad by the fae magic in his body and stops whatever evil plan the changeling had going on in the background (possibly a summoning of a fae version of you know who).

Malik has a heartfelt conversation with the still alive changeling about purpose in life and what not, Bakura and Ryou thank him for his help in the best way possible *wink wink*, and a gate finally opens back to the mortal realm. With a heavy heart, Malik returns to his world, leaving his partners behind.

Years later, Malik still has the scar on his finger where he was pricked, and he still feels the fae magic coursing through his veins. He feels out of place in the human realm, and his presence often has a similar mentally overwhelming effect Ryou and Bakura had on him. One day, something draws him back into the same forest where he first got lost, and he finds the gate to the fae realm open again. He crosses over without a second thought and finds Ryou's old cabin with ease, still standing on the same foggy clearing as it once did with the now fully healed changeling watching over the garden where Malik left him and Ryou and Bakura inside.

[jadenoryuu]

(Imagine: Le me, caving in on my curiosity about Mashle, then watch a couple of episodes while having lunch and finding too many things similar to HP that I had to check TV Tropes and discover that the manga/anime is a parody of the books... There's so much Crack, I *need* to keep watching it!)

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[sparkystar26888]

when I think of “goblincore” I think of scroungy and dirty and jewels and short and scruff and dark forest and scorblo. What the fuck is this shit why is there sun and bright stuff give me “oh that’s scary give it to me now”.

[arise-children-angel-is-here]

Who tf is she? Well ask @m3l0man14c :3

That's the rough coloring. I'm gonna show the actual finished one with actual detail. But for now take this crap TvT

@allhailthedumpsterfire has given the namevibe: Liza.

So now, her nickname is Liza ✨

[thelovebudllc]

Zendaya's 2025 Met Gala Mani Included a Custom Red Shade

Key Takeaways Zendaya attended the 2025 Met Gala wearing a chic white zoot suit and large hat. She paired it with an extra-long red manicure, which included a polish made just for her. Fresh off of her 2024 co-hosting duties, Zendaya had the pleasure of attending the 2025 Met Gala as a guest. Not that that made her take the easy route with her look. Walking the red carpet in a custom white…

[skulltasticc]

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[brittanyjewelmiller]

“A much nicer version of the Nuts 2 You album cover including me and my sisters. We are heavily featured on the album, so we deserve to be included!”

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

For those who needed to hear it today

[threeicedcreams]

Waht if we kissed on the pokemon legends z-a anti homeless architecture bench,

[owenthetokencishet]

So-called "free thinkers" when their friend has to pee

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[crabussy]

slightly furious reminder that fish do in fact feel pain and do in fact experience fear and distress when in pain since people seem to love spreading the myth that fish don't feel pain. what is it with people assuming a creature is incapable of feeling pain or emotion just because it doesn't have complex facial muscles. come on gang

[climbingthefloors]

the us banning tiktok over fears of chinese influence prompting americans to flee to xiaohongshu (which translates to little red book - the same name as the famous red book of mao zedong quotations) and form instant connections with the chinese… you can't make this kind of irony up