#look hes a funky lil man

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

(loosely) that scene from potc... its so Them i think...

[tacogoats]

Thinking about a Durge who has rejected Bhaal, and whatever person they used to be, but still secretly longs for their lost memories. A Durge that, despite the answers the man could give them, would never re-ignite that strange passion they were shown they once had for Gortash. A Durge that has, for all purposes to the others in their party, moved on. A Durge that, six months after that day atop the Netherbrain, at a party celebrating their new life, receives a strange letter with an even stranger gadget hidden inside.

The meeting at the inauguration was a strange one. Despite Gortash's very obvious elation at seeing what he'd called his 'dearest friend', the man had no hesitation very proudly detailing the Dark Urge's grand scheme; their grand design for the world to be.

In front of all their friends and 'new' lover, of course.

They were furious, and rightly so. Gortash must have known what he was doing. To isolate them, to bring them back to him. The person who accepted them for all they were, all they are, and all they could be - together.

It wasn't enough to win the Dark Urge back to him, and although they'd tentatively teamed up in the end - he had died. Not by the Urge's hand, but in some ways, his own. The group had left Gortash's body within the Prism, and simply moved on. There were bigger problems, and no one really was sad to see him go. Right?

The Urge remembers a letter found in Moonrise Towers. Gortash liked gadgets, according to Ketheric. Evidence was abundant enough with the Steel Watchers, among other things. The item is strangely shaped, entirely too small, and with a simple touch, comes to life.

It reminds them of the strange picture they had seen at the Iron Throne. Gortash's visage shone through a glass, moving, talking - warning them to leave. Answering them, praising them for listening.

What a strange contraption, they'd thought all those months ago.

And then, now, there he was again. A picture, in their hand. A moving picture. Speaking with his voice, wearing his weary face - so, so weary - but not the same as before.

This had passed already. The voice did not answer them this time. It was simply impossible - the man was dead, but not quite gone in this moment.

He speaks of the inauguration like it had just happened. His joy at seeing his favourite 'assassin' again, which he says with a sad smile and a moment of silence. A heavy sigh follows, rubbing at his eyes - which they can see are so much darker than they last remember.

He is tired.

Gortash speaks of their time together, before Orin - and how Orin torments him day and night now that they had both confirmed the Urge's return. She appears with their face, taunting him some days. Other days she sends assassins that wear the same, and he simply cannot let his guard down anymore. But he knew it was them that day.

They can see the exhaustion that pulls down his features, makes his words heavier. This is not the Archduke speaking to him in this moment - it is a tired, broken down man that has just seen a ghost.

Yet they cling to every word anyway, because even though this is a broken down man who is terrified of the ghost - the man still hopes the ghost will remember him, too.

They don't. But he doesn't know that, not this little picture of him, anyway.

The picture says that if they are seeing this recording, it means he is already dead - and although he had planned to sway them back to his side, he may not have been given the chance, and refuses to allow the opportunity to share what the two of them once had slip away.

He would gift unto them the memories that he could, even beyond death. The bloody ones, the happy ones, the painful ones.

And he talks, he smiles, he even cries.

And so do they.

[theswedishpajas]

The man truly can’t take a genuine compliment 🙄

[pipe-murder-furina]

Congrats on the crown Guoba specifically

[nixotinix]

Ok! During my first Monster High Tumblr kick, I designed my version of G3!Jackson. I mentioned somewhere that I hadn't settled on a design for Holt. Well, after far too long, I've finally gotten around to designing my Generation 3 Holt! Unlike Jax's redesign, I changed quite a bit. So without further ado, here he is!! (+ A couple G3!Jax/Holt sketches :3)

I'm p happy with how he came out!! Cringe culture is dead and I think he should be allowed to over-accessorize. Hope y'all like him! That's all for now!!

[keeps-ache]

everyday there's somethin goin on. like the day. or somethin like that

[whalehouse1]

Random younger than the OG Titans: That Arsenal is such a bad role model, did you know he used to -insert whatever traumatic part of his backstory DC likes to present to make him a “morally ambiguous figure that shouldn’t deserve sympathy”-

Dick, Wally, Garth, Donna, Kaldur and Connor: LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE $&+%$!!!

-meanwhile-

Roy to the OG Titans’ kids and their friends they met later on in life: So back in the day x was so stupid they would y.

[reploidbuddy]

Time for the last member of Silver’s family in his future, Granpa Bronze! <3 He’s like my favorite.

He’s Platine’s dad and a mink (that’s where Venice gets some minor traits that make people confuse him for a mink). While he doesn’t have a fancy power or skill like the rest of his family, he’s pretty good at being sneaky and can fit in smaller places others can’t due to quills and things like that... or well, used to, he’s heavily out of practice. But what he’s not out of practice with is sweet talking and bargaining. The amount of chocolate (it’s rationed in their time) he can get and save up just by being cool with his neighbors and exchanging things with them is incredible, and he makes a mean hot chocolate! Getting one of his is as much of a treat as being taken to ice cream.

He doesn’t have anything that allows him to go out with his family after curfew, but he’s an awesome alibi and staller when authorities try to find out what’s happening. He’s a great actor for his best role: the confused elderly man. His record or holding someone on the phone while not telling them anything is thirty minutes. They hung up.

He remembers the old times when he was a kid and his own mother would tell him how things had started to slip and the entrance of the Negas in the system. That’s when she showed him the old history book from her own youth, from before that time. He treasured it and kept it safe for years until Venice started showing big interest in history. He’d read it to him and Silver when they were younger like a bed time story (but Venice enjoyed it much more and while Silver sometimes skipped it or fell asleep quickly, Venice would drink it up and he’s heard of every single story of Sonic and his band of fighters). Bronze ended up giving that old book to him once he was a little older and would take good care of it.

[mandalorian-loving-mandalorian]

the strange man makes me so viscerally uncomfortable and i can’t articulate why

[kxllerblond]

The fact this lesser known Gosling era has like minimal live recordings is honestly my villain origin story

[kiribold]

things in OPLA that felt particularly queer-coded

Zeff and Garp telling war stories over a romantic candle-lit dinner

Luffy climbing on Zoro's chest right after he proclaimed he needed him

"I'm his first mate"

Buggy sitting like a hoe in his intro shot

Buggy being mean and bitter like he never got over that one ex

the Pirate Cat crew and any character with lil whiskers

Helmeppo's growth after a bad haircut

the cute animal hats the biggest toughest Marines wear

Zoro holding his third sword in his mouth

Sanji and Zoro bantering mid-fight about what Luffy needs

the found family vibes of the Straw Hat Crew

Koby bringing Luffy his wanted poster and telling him he's a "wanted man" while looking at him softly

honestly everytime Koby looked at Luffy like he was his whole world

Dracule Mihawk

Zoro asking Kuro if they met before at the Funky Bar

Sanji's customer service

the general worldbuilding being so campy and goofy

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

please tell me this manga/comic/show exists i do not wanna have to make it

okok I've posted about this before but I'm watching animation content on youtube again while getting work done and by GOD I WANNA TALK ABOUT THIS AGAIN

There's a specific concept I want to consume as content/art so badly but it came to me in a stupid dream. BUT. Sometimes, a dream means I DID see a hint of it somewhere and my brain accidentally plagiarized it which provides me with the teensiest sliver of hope that exists already and I don't have to work on it

It's a kind of a reverse isekai, right? But instead of an instant portal, it's time passing. And what I mean by that is that it's a Sun Wukong story, but the branch off is that after the main events of Journey to the West he gets either water temple'd or trapped in magic sleep again, not for a few hundred years but a few THOUSAND.

He wakes up to an incredibly far-flung China that remembers his myth and only his myth.

The art style that operated in this dream was sort of. Textured but 3D? Think nimona's buttery lighting but instead of emphasis on light and shapes to operate with the stained glass and solarpunk-medieval style the models are textured in a way that just invokes traditional brushwork and colour bleed even in a more cyberpunkish setting. Think like. Whenever there's a night scene the astigmatism glow of lamplight bleeds a little, like ink feathering on paper.

It's a little bit of a Steve Rogers treatment in a way, the world has moved past him, but also completely mythologized and capitalized on that mythology. Rather than treat that man out of time narrative as an aspect of backstory, it's the MAIN character narrative, because this ISN'T a world that needs him. This world is doing pretty okay, actually.

This a story about him.

Not about his feats or how cool his powers are or the 8 gajillion things the magic staff can do but just.

How ya doing, bud?

From the vaguely coherent notes that I could garner from my sleepily typed googledoc, it seems that I wanted this to be a love letter of sorts to the Asian diaspora experience? A specific sort of loneliness? Where the world you experience has a sort of disconnect in that it makes plain you belong there but you also don't, you never have, and there's no way to go "back" but going forward feels like groping blind through the muck. How much right to the past does he feel like he has? When it's been built into something he can't recognize and is clearly important to other people.

I want the pickup of the plot to gain him friends, family, maybe even a conflict or two but the stakes should never elevate vis a vis physical enemies to battle.

It'd be about 2/3 of this sort of narrative drawn story and the other 1/3 just hogwild worldbuilding and design

I've looked at a few other journey to the west adaptations but they mainly just use him as a funky lil action figure hero that's there to be cool as hell and save the day

99% likely this is just a thing my brain is made up and I'd need a several million budget and about 25 additional skills to start the ball rolling but hey, worth it to ask yall again

[sluttyminghao]

(7k sleepover :D) the entirety of hhu + joshua give me “bf who lets u do whatever u want with him” vibes. like you basically drag him around and he just follows u happily like a lil dog, or he just sits still in front of u as u practice putting on makeup on him (HEAVY on cheol) idk maybe i’m just craving a soft and pliant cute bf rn >:\

seungcheol: he would let you do whatever you want, to an extent? i think he's pretty lenient and isn't going to tell you what to do/not do, but he's going to give you stern advice if u know what I mean? but I totally agree that he'd be such a pliant bf and would let u do makeup and his nails and dress him in pretty clothes bc it makes you happy

joshua: he's a pretty boy who secretly loves when you put pink and purple eyeshadow on him and put all your cutest accessories on him. he probably looks like he came out of an anime with the amount of makeup and funky hairclips he has on but he doesn't car e because he loves seeing you happy and deep down he actually loves the look

wonwoo: he will follow you around your apartment like a lost puppy if he hasn't got his head stuck in a book. he just will melt over your body and you can manipulate him into any position you want. he may be long and lanky but that doesn't mean he isn't a useful portable heater. also loves when you snuggle deeper into him <3

mingyu: the puppy of all puppies. this man is putty in your hand and he will do anything and everything for you. he becomes your hand swatcher when you go to sephora or an equivalent store, lets you try new hairstyles on him, and lets you drag him everywhere bc he's so infatuated with you and doesn't want to leave your side

vernon: I feel like he's a little less hesitant to do some of the things mentioned above, but will do them anyway because he's a certified simp. he probably doesn't like the pink and purple eyeshadow, but would definitely let you try a bold red lip or blue highlighter on him. also seems like the type to secretly love being dragged everywhere because it gives him ideas for where to get you gifts for special occasions

[powdermelonkeg]

Holy moly I just beat all the shrines. PLEASE tell me you have theories cooking because I am losing my mind here 😭

Ancient Hero's Aspect theory time.

Look at this funky lil guy.

See this man?

Not a Zonai

Biologically, cannot be a Zonai, or Zonai-Hylian hybrid. There's a major feature of the Ancient Hero that gives it away, but let's start with the basics.

This is Rauru:

He has large ears covered in fur from the top of his head, golden horns, a third eye, and white hair with colored edges. His eyelashes are white, green, and gold, and the sclera of his eyes are white.

Proportionally, he's built more like a Zora than a human. His hips are low, with his torso the same size as his legs.

Let's look at Mineru and compare, to account for variation in Zonai physiology (the sample size is bad, but there's not much we can do about that):

Large, fur-covered ears, a third eye, white hair with colored edges. Her eyelashes are white, pink, and gold, so we can assume that some of these colors are from makeup, but her sclera are still white.

(Model ripped by WhiteMageSunny on DeviantArt)

Like Rauru, she has those weirdly proportioned hips and torso. No horns, though, so that could be a male Zonai thing, or just a him thing.

Bonus evidence, in lack of sample size, the dragons:

The three elemental dragons all have the same kind of hair as Rauru and Mineru, fluffy with spiked ends that have colored edges. And we know, from experience, that dragons keep the hair of their previous forms as their mane:

Now for our little scamp.

First off, his skin is gray-green. Not an indicator of itself, could just be a different fur color.

However, he also has:

Red, silky hair with no secondary color

Black sclera

No lashes

No horns

No third eye

Pointed ears on the sides of his head

We've established that the horns aren't a requirement, so that's also not a direct indicator. Maybe he's missing the third eye because that's a royalty-is-different trope. Maybe the red hair means he's half-Gerudo, and the ears are a byproduct of that. The black sclera is weird, but not entirely unforgivable. Zelda's done weirder (see Yeta and Yeto, or King Zora and Ruto).

(Model ripped by WhiteMageSunny on DeviantArt)

And now we get to the proportions. There's no strangely cinched waist like Mineru and Rauru have. The legs are proportional to the torso in a way that's almost human.

Still could be half-Hylian or Gerudo, right?

Wrong. Look closer.

That is a TAIL.

Neither Mineru nor Rauru have tails. But there's something even more damning here.

Mineru. Five toes. Plantigrade (on the floor) feet. Big toe to little toe, like a human.

Rauru. Five toes. Plantigrade feet. Big toe to little toe.

Hero's Aspect! Four toes! Two large middle toes! Cat toes!

Digitigrade (catlike, heel raised) feet! That spoke on the end of the sandal never touches the ground!

Where did the tail come from? The black sclera? The change in skeletal structure? The literal paws for feet?

This is not a Zonai. I'm calling it a Lomei, and I rest my case.

[qwertyquarty]

sun also wants to murder you

sorry in advance if this is obvious to people who are not me, but i decided to reread solar lunacy and i noticed a couple of funky lil details that point to sun absolutely also having murdery-virus thoughts like moon towards y/n. he’s just better at hiding/controlling them ig.  anyway, this is the little set of lines (near the end of chapter 7) that got me thonkin.

‘restraint isn’t effortless’ oh really? mr. sun sir, are you implying that you, not just moon, also are a bit murdery? now, you could interpret this as ‘sun is speaking on moon’s behalf’, and ye that makes since, & that’s how i read this scene at first too. buuuuuuuuut, maybe sun is a bit murdery. so i decided to look around a bit and oh hey look at this (chapter 9 crumb)

‘Fingers curl in and out like a habit’ hmmmmmm, i’m sure that sun is thinking about stress balls or something, nothing to worry about

(from bamsara, the og post was reblogged, should be right before this one)

man’s really out here pretending to choke y/n huh. how rude. but also, another note here, it says he’s doing it ‘like a habit’, which probably means he’s done this multiple times.  now, those two are definitely the most concrete bits i found, but i had another (relatively baseless) thought. so, if flexing robot hands is definitely dangerous, maybe fidgeting robot hands is also alarming. It could be that any repetitive hand motion is the dca’s way of dealing with intrusive violent virus thoughts. And lemme tell you, sun’s hands do an awful lot of fidgeting when he angy. examples include, this middle of chapter 8 bit (Sticker scratching)

this chapter 6 bit (Fingers clacking against each other)

Also, wanna call out the ‘maybe it’s not just the requirement to be quiet that’s making him jitter’ line, which, i dunno about you, but to me seems to imply that maybe it’s the funky sneky murder virus causing the hand fidgets Anyway, another fidgety bit from chapter 6 (Spinning the pen)

this bit from chapter 5, where sun is definitely thinking violent thoughts, but towards monty (Tapping his mask)

conclusion: hand fidgets in general from dca are their way of dealing with murder virus. sun, while seeming like safer side of the dca, also has violent murder virus thoughts and is dangerous. we just haven’t seen him do the dangerous things yet

[bebx]

One of the things I love about Lokius is that, if you're someone like Thor and you're introduced to Mobius, and you had to appraise this funky lil dude in 10 seconds, you know the immediate, visceral reaction is: HIM?! This folksy guy with the ugly brown suit, haircomb mustache, corny dad jokes, average height, and middle-aged tummy? This guy?!

Because if you've only ever known up to Phase 3 Loki, it's not unreasonable to think he'd go for someone up to his "standards"; someone sexy, alluring, powerful, fashionable, and a little bit dramatic. Heck, that's what present Loki expected, too.

But no, it turns out it's very much THIS GUY, with the slight southern twang, no mystical powers whatsoever--not even basic super strength--and a love for snacks. THIS GUY who has a general calmness about him and whose epitome of joy is jet skis. THIS GUY who manages to find a little bit of purpose in bureaucratic paperwork.

It's objectively hilarious and, from a trope perspective, very sweet. Because a healthy, healing individual would see past the superficial and fall for the heart. All those quirks? Endearing. But what matters most is this person believed in you from the start, when you were at your worst and lowest. The wrinkles? Memories of all those times he laughed, smiled, or worried for you. The white hair? Very stately. Gorgeous, like a silver fox. But maybe Mobius is more of a coyote. With that silly knee-slapping laugh and wily mind. The soft tummy? A reminder of every time you had a heart to heart at the cafeteria or "detoured for refreshments" during a mission. So huggable. So perfect.

And past Loki would be appalled. He'd call it pathetic. This puny mortal? Oh, how low you've fallen ... A disgrace!

Present Loki would be so /offended/ by his own arrogance. By his own blindness!

"Yes," he'd say, chin up, eyes firm. "HIM."

this reminds me of this fic I wrote here where Mobius meets Thor and the rest of the Avengers as Loki’s special someone and they’re all shocked because Loki???? The Loki????? with This Guy????????!!!. I mean not to shamelessly promote my own fic or anything but Loki, a god, ending up with Mobius, a little guy, is the concept that is so precious to me I had to write a fic about it.

and yes, Mobius being just a Little Guy is what makes him so special as a character. we have all these superheroes Marvel introduced us to and then you have Mobius. and somehow he still manages to be such a popular fan’s favorite and also I think Mobius just being who he is is what draws — mind you, not just Loki but also so many fans towards to him. like everything you’ve described about him here is actually what makes me a fan of him. so really, we can’t blame Loki for falling head over heels in love with him here.

Thor’s reaction to meeting this boyfriend of Loki would be so hilariously precious too. but also, I believe it wouldn’t take long at all for Thor to grow overprotective of Mobius because Mobius is a good man with a heart of gold and most importantly, Mobius makes Thor’s brother happy. and Thor will do anything to make sure no one looks at Mobius the wrong way.