#lesser fire

[i-m-snek]

Very sassy, confident lesser fire girl :)

[sylvieserene]

Something weird I have noticed in the CRK fandom when it comes to ships ESPECIALLY Purelily

I recently saw a tweet on twitter talking about Elderlily and ShadowVanilla on how people should give new ships a shot instead of shooting down them down instantly which IS a valid point BUT the problem starts when they assert the fact that these two ships hold more "merit" and "intimacy" than "other ships" (which in comment section they directly agree it's aimed at Purelily)

This is a HUGE problem I see both in the Elderlily fanbase + ShadowVanilla fanbase. The sheer hate for Purelily.

Like have a look:

Pure Hatred and unwillingness to accept that opinions can co-exist.

Unwilling to see reason when tried to be shown. Only answering in hatred.

Further more...

From starting with generalising Purelily shippers to accusing all Purelily shippers to misinterpret/misrepresent/mischaracterisation PV and WL to accusations of the entire fanbase being bigoted, homophobic, misogynistic or accusing the entire fanbase of being bad including whataboutism posts stating "oh yeah? I wonder which shipper base sent actual death threats and doxxed someone?"

For the record, Im gonna say yes, a few people from specifically the purelily base have done these BUT generalising the entire shipping community as bad and labelling them as problematic is NOT okay.

THE ACTIONS OF ONE HORRIBLE PERSON DOESN'T DEFINE THE ENTIRE FANBASE!

Misrepresentation/Mischaracterisation/Misinterpretation of characters have happened in ALL of CRK shipping communities. That very much includes ShadowVanilla and Elderlily.

So accusing one fanbase of doing those and pretending that it doesn't exist in your space is kinda hypocritical I believe?

No fanbase is exempt from controversy. Every shipping space has had atleast ONE problematic individual (Eg: N*zi ShadowVanilla controversy from Twitter) but now if I start saying "*gasp* I wonder which base drew those horrific things?" Would it make any sense? No. Cuz one person doesn't define an entire fanbase.

So let's make one thing clear, none of the shipping communities are "pure" or "innocent" of anything. All of them have problems and individuals with issues depending on how far you're willing to dig.

So accusing a single shipping community of being horrible while saying others are not is not okay.

Not all ShadowVanilla and Elderlily shippers are good people, same as Purelily shippers.

Which brings me to the point, "It's 2025, grow tf up and stop shipping purelily" mentality which also brings me to my original point lol

These were sent to a purelily artist on Twitter (redbeanyearnin).

Their crime? Shipping purelily.

Look at the civility, ladies and gentlemen! /s

This is also a side of shippers who actually aren't purelily shippers 😊 how naive and innocent messages 😍❤️ /j

But this is the great evidence on how all of these shippers aren't angels. They are the same people accusing Purelily shippers and the ship itself as being horrible.

Im not gonna comment more on this.

But this just proves my point on how no shipping base is angelic. All of them have screwed up individuals.

Anw...

What does year/time have anything to say about what you ship? I see this comment thrown across very frequently in the fandom which does confuse me quite a lot but seriously um why? Is there some sort of subscription that's getting over in these recent years which denies me the right to enjoy something niche? Or I MUST ship what the popular ship is atm?

Just why....? Where does this mentality come from?

More importantly, why does one ship has to be "superior" or have to had more "merit" than the other?

Just why?

Why can't we simply accept our differences in preferences and move on?

Like...I personally don't ship mutual ShadowVanilla, I find the one sided part more compelling but that doesn't mean I will say it's "better" than the mutual one. I can appreciate the mutual one too. Same for Elderlily. I see it as platonic, a familial sort of relationship between a Mentor and Mentee or yes I'm gonna say it Father Daughter.

Personally, I find their age difference extremely uncomfortable which is why the moment I learnt this guy was older than her ancestor's ancestors, I shipped it as platonic. Same for ShadowVanilla cuz age is a factor for me personally but I won't blame others who look past it cuz firstly these are fictional characters and secondly, all of them are immortals so I can understand it although I find it uncomfortable myself.

But even with that, I would NEVER say that Purelily is "superior", has "more merit", better "intimate writing" than said ships irrespective of if they are popular/canon or not.

If you ask for respect towards your shipping preferences, the least you can do is GIVE that respect to others as well. If you don't, then how come you keep the expectation that your opinion will get respected when you can't peacefully co-exist with another part of the fandom who may hold different views than you?

In simpler words, I kinda find it highly disrespectful and hypocritical that some people out here can't keep themselves from attacking others for shipping things differently than them? Like...why?

Why can't we all ship whatever we want instead of shooting down each other's ships and calling one more superior/inferior than the other?

Like for me as an example, I don't like a lot of ships but I either don't share my opinion on it or tend to ignore it instead of going "omg MY ship better! HUH HOW DARE YOU SAY MY SHIP IS BAD"

At the end, Shipping is subjective and we're all here to have fun so instead of playing the blame game on who is worse, who has done more horrible things, why can't we simply focus on the positives?

All ships have merits and demerits. All of them have issues. Heck, even the characters aren't perfect and they also have a plethora of issues.

WL isnt a perfect person, she's morally grey and a highly complex character. PV isn't a baby or a simp who gets jealous everytime someone breaths in WL's direction. EF isn't obsessed with WL as people in the fanbase make him to be. Just like PV, he chose his job over following WL and even when he knew he had a choice to revive her, He didn't instead he kept guarding the tree. SM isn't a good person and has caused several wars, genocides, torture and murder.

NONE of them are as perfect as people make them to be. NONE of the fanbases if considered in majority truly get them.

So it really makes zero sense when ppl say "PV should stay the hell away from WL", "WL is getting between them!"

People really need to stop objectifying these characters just cuz they don't fit their shipping preferences/agendas.

All of these characters and their ships have certain merits and demerits to them so why must we say that one is better than the other?

Why can't we all enjoy what we simply like?

Why can't we just agree to disagree instead of shitting on other's tastes?

Why must ONE particular shipping fandom get the brunt of it?

So tldr, I just wanna say, While it is true, people shouldn't shoot down new things without even giving it a shot but that doesn't mean the new thing is "superior" than the old thing suddenly just cuz one likes it more. If you find it great, that's fine but Idt anyone has the right to say that one thing is more inferior than the other.

Please give the respect to others that you expect. If you get insanely defensive about your own ship but shit on other's shipping preferences then expect to get that back.

You can't be like "Nooooooo don't say bad about my ship! You're a hater" and then be like "damn your taste in shipping SUCKS. This ship is so trash. MY ship is SOOOOO much better :)"

Sorry for this rant. I just find the entire situation of the fandom highly frustrating.

[motorway-south]

i know its pointless to debate meaningless tumblr litcrit terms but "haunting the narrative" as a concept gets thrown around all too much for my liking. you can't use haunting the narrative to describe absolutely any character who was grieved over (especially if the character functionally exists within the narrative to die i.e. the dozens of dead dance era targs)

i think to truly haunt the narrative the central thread of the story needs to be a clash of interpretations over what the characters intentions or feelings were (or at least a clash of perceptions). the first one i can think of is Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennesee Williams

in this story, cathy is a young woman who witnessed the death of her cousin sebastian last summer, and she wars with sebastian's mother violet over what exactly happened, who sebastian was, if cathy is or isnt mad. it's revealed that sebastian was queer and also kinda a predatorand also catherine was super into him, and obviously violet doesn't want this getting out. cathy and violet both mourn the versions of sebastian they each have in their heads: as a mommas boy or a sexy older cousin, while they both aim to stamp out the secret they both hold about him. but sebastian is slowly revealed to the audience in a careful peeling back of his character, in a way that his ghost physically occupies so much of the page

the other example is the titular rebecca from rebecca by daphne du maurier, who's character the audience and narrator have to uncover entirely posthumously through mr de winters or mrs danvers or whoever else. the narrator is literally haunted by rebecca, but the narrative form is too - it is deciding what her intentions are, and how this untimely death with resolve itself in the characters

its why i balk at the idea of robb stark "haunting the narrative" (no hate to robb we love robb here). first of all hes alive for 2.5 books but second we don't really uncover more about him after his death. his siblings mourn him but theres hardly a question of what his legacy/intentions/or character were like before his death that is reshaped afterwards

[fisheito]

... peace on planet bottom, then there's whatever this is

[wordsandrobots]

All right, to heck with it. Here's the basis for how you do something like Char's Deleted Affair and actually have it play into Char and Haman's characterisation rather than fucking them over six ways to Sunday.

Char is flapping in the wind after A Baoa Qu. Haman is a product of the Zeon upper classes, a newtype raised in the middle of a fascist cult of personality.

Char has just lost both the things he defined himself by for the last however long, his revenge and the glorious newtype future Lalah represented. Haman is trapped in rounds of lab testing and a social hierarchy centred on the people who got her older sister killed.

So they meet and to Char, Haman is a replacement goldfish for Lalah, while to Haman, Char is someone genuinely in awe of her abilities, who will flatter her for what she can do.

Which is fine for a little while but solves precisely zero of their problems. They're both still stuck on Axis, in the middle of nowhere, dwelling on their mutual lack of purpose.

And slowly the cracks set in. Because where Lalah was the sunny uplands, Haman is the cold, remote mountain peaks, and more than that, in some ways she reminds Char of Amuro instead, and he still isn't used to feeling scared by someone else's combat ability (he never gets used to it). And Haman is too acute, too tuned into the currents of her surroundings, out of pure survival necessity, to overlook a faltering heart.

Maybe she tries to pull him closer, as the one thing in her life not defined by the Zeon cause or her treatment as another weapon to ensure Zabi supremacy. Maybe we steal the one good idea CDA has and she catches a glimpse of his real past through her powers, a moment of crystal clarity about the man before her, which naturally causes him to angrily freak out, how dare she pry into his mind?

But the break isn't the anger itself. No, it's the realisation that beneath Char Aznable is Casval Rem Deikun. The one person who might be able to root out the last of the Zabi influence on Zeon and rebuild it into something positive, something that truly serves newtypes, rather than a fantastically corrupt bunch of old men.

And Char refuses to do that. Has refused to do it all this time, for no reason other than his own dislike of the spotlight.

Thus his cowardice condemns Haman to an existence in the cold, unforgiving reaches of space, in the clutches of a cold, unforgiving society, while she proves to be a prickly real person with needs and stuff that require consideration, rather than a pure guiding light to ease the emptiness in Char's soul.

So Char runs back to the Earth-sphere to give revolution a try, and Haman wraps herself in the cloak of her loneliness, warping Neo Zeon around her, because what else is going to keep her safe?

There. That took me about five minutes to think through.

[yourfaveisintersex]

Winter from Wings of Fire is an intersex polyamorous coffee bean transmasc (link), and his variation is Estrogen Insensitivity Syndrome (EIS)!

Requested by @mewos-laptop

Intersex flag-only and original polyamorous flag edits under the cut!

[refinedstorage]

why do characters nowadays in games and 3d animation in general have such silly head vs body/shoulder proportions tho???

Big ass heads on tiny shoulders what gives it makes everybody look like stunted babies?????????

(or are my eyes just wonky????)

[onesizedgirl]

Naur because why the costumes in r*p are so horrendous good god what was the budget? Three peas and a leather boot?😭

[kublakola]

something about Helena cutting that egg into pieces so small she doesn't have to chew... something about severance being used to erase all struggle and inconvenience from your life... something about dividing yourself again and again until your identity is segmented into tiny, easily consumable pieces... something...

[graphene-duo]

-> mech enters, placing some equipment for the diamond cutters. not much aware that duo had been in the room. <-

@therobotisspeaking <- <- :>

Tucked into the corner of the room silently flipping through an Extreme Gear magazine (and processing maybe half of what he's reading) as he is, it's no wonder Duo went unnoticed. Upon hearing footsteps and glancing up, Duo just sort of... stares. Quite impolitely, really. Though perhaps he can be forgiven considering that he's never seen something like this rusty robot in his life? Or perhaps not.

You're staring. You need to say something before you're noticed or this is gonna get awkward fast. Duo decides to let his magazine cover for him by quickly looking back down at it, then making a show of shutting it with an audible slap of glossy paper and looking up.

"Oh, uh, hi!" Good start. "Didn't see you come in, sorry." Don't ask why one of their legs is a circular saw, that's probably a touchy subject (and stop staring at it!). "Whatcha got there?"

[i-m-snek]

Same snake, in two different lightings! I have no idea why my camera did this. Her actual colors match up better with the first photo :) Fairly confident little girl, lesser fire possible enchi :)

[fromtheseventhhell]

Another round of asoiaf "prettycourse", another round of people ignoring Arya's self-esteem issues and how it relates to her arc because their enjoyment of the series hinges on an 11-year-old being considered ugly.

[state-of-franklin]

All Brimstone Angels enjoyers should make me a mutual and talk to me about this series because I will combust. 10 years from now I will still combust.

[silverior968]

Bringing back that old concept of mine of Anton and Saracen being adopted brothers (kind of? Anton takes him in after Saracen accidentally burns his house down so it's more of a guardianship but they treat each other like brothers)

[Image ID: A digital drawing of 4 figures. In the middle there are drawings of Anton and Saracen when they first met. Anton, a irish and eastern asian man, is drawn looking like he's in his early 20s and very lanky. He's wearing a brown tunic that has been ripped and sown back together on the chest and is covered in blood. The front of his tunic can be opened at the chest, showing his scars. In addition to this he's wearing a rope as a belt, brown trousers, dark brown socks and brown leather shoes. He's holding a sword and crouching slightly. Saracen is around 11 years old with wavy dark brown hair and light brown skin. He's irish and near-eastern, and his eyes are also dark brown. He's smiling happily and is wearing a doublet with a lace collar, knee-high trousers and stockings, all pink and purple in color. The doublet is pink with darker pink stripes, and the trousers are dark pink with purple stripes. His shoes are purple with small heels. His belt and collar have a purple bow. To the right of these drawings is a drawing of Saracen, looking about 23 years old with a moustache and hair that is less tidy now. He's grinning and still wears the same lace collar with the purple bow, although they have discolored slightly. His belt is also the same, but he's wearing a green, less fancy doublet now and brown trousers. To the left there is a drawing of Anton, still looking like he's in his 20s, with a gray tunic with a white collar and a warm gray cape. He's smiling now, and no longer as thin as he was before. The artist's signature, Silverior968 is overlayed over the image in purple. /End ID]

[frogletscribe]

I feel kinda bad that i kinda melted out of the avatar fandom.

like i still enjoy the content but i dont have the drive to make any more content for it myself and my brain has largely moved on to other stuff (Dragon Age, Love and Deepspace, etc).

I dont want to delete my blog but like 90% of ppl im pretty sure are just here for avatar stuff, and its a sideblog so like interaction is hard here anyways. But ive also met so many lovely people thru this blog and dont want to just disappear.

I also dont see myself updating my fic any time soon its already been over a year lmao maybe once fire and ash is out or if they ever give us more frontiers of pandora ill have a resurgence for it but idk right now im in a weird wishy washy place since ive already more or less checked out of the fandom.

Idk i might just pivot into a more general fandom blog like i was talking about a while ago or my main/art blog will get more active 🤷‍♂️

[partikron]

The Balam Group and Demonology

Balam is one of the two major corporate factions on Rubicon that dominate the exploitation of Coral on the planet, and their name has a pretty cool origin.

"Balam" is the name of a king of Hell found in the Lesser Key of Solomon (specifically the Ars Goetia), a grimoire written in the 17th century that lists out 72 demons, their traits and their sigils. The demon Balam is described as either three-headed (one like a bull, one like a man and one like a ram), with flaming eyes and a serpent's tail, or as a naked man riding a bear (old-timey demons were weird, y'all). Balam is said to be in command of 40 legions of spirits and can make men witty or even make them invisible.

It is also possible that the name could be a reference to a word in Mayan culture (B'alam) meaning "jaguar", but most mech games and anime trend toward biblical references, so it's likely the name derives from the Ars Goetia, instead.