#re: ability

[majimaisms]

@mister-astringent @incurablyromanticsblog okay. listen. i go back and forth on this ALL the time. and i DONT KNOW. because. on one hand. how can majima NOT be doing speed. like for gods sake. Look at him

at the same time. i feel like he would think it's "cheating". he takes so much pride on being *able* to do things. doing drugs to help him with his performance would be admitting to himself that he had to *resort* to that. and it would make him feel like absolute shit about himself. and i think majima tends to avoid doing things that make him feel bad about himself. like. to a pathological degree

and would he use drugs for the escapism? again, i think he would think that's lazy. his drug of choice for escapism is stories and theater and acting. he just loves pushing himself and he's like... got this fitness freak mentality about this stuff i think

and i think the "he's GOTTA be coked up" thing is like. it's just part of the mad dog act. he *wants* people to think that. but i don't think it's actually true. cause see the point about "cheating". plus he's especially in a position during y3 where he needs to be at his best, because he's being entrusted with the whole clan *and* he's on babysitting duty for daigo. he needs to stay sharp and idk if he'd risk his performance suffering, he takes this stuff wayyy too seriously even if he doesn't show it

[hinamie]

Hi! I love your art!

Is there anything non-spoilery you can say about Choso in the atla au? 🥺

WAAAhh thank u !!! tbh as fond as I am of the design I came up with for him in this au there's.....really not much to say abt him either....he's a pretty minor character but because of the nature of the role he /does/ play there's not much non-spoiler material involving him that isn't just . the same as canon :'<

however in the interest of not leaving u high and dry here is a rare excerpt from the Lore Scroll and a quick draws of him looking menacing for u ! i hope that will suffice in lieu of Actual Information <3

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[splinterclan]

I hope this ask is okay to send ^^; but silver spoon by Erin LeCount feels like a bess song imo (/pos)

AUGH IT'S SO GOOD!!!

This especially hits but the whole song describes her subconscious thoughts when not wanting to join the clan so well! And the song sounds amazing too, def going in my playlist ;o;

YEAH This is good for them! It captures that longing of their early relationship too

Very good!!

I don't have one but I should make one! I just dk where I'd host it since I don't use spotify - maybe youtube? I will think about it ^^

[thatonecrazysidekick]

I can't believe it--my third Shadowpeach artwork ever, and I'm already putting one of them in a dress...

Macaque only escaped because the skirt looked weird with how little space was on the page; I had to settle for a weird ruffly pant leg instead.

He won't be so lucky next time...

[fluffalpenguin]

[see-arcane]

Madam Mina, lying down, yield herself as usual, but more slow and more short time than ever, to the hypnotic sleep. As before, came the answer: "darkness and the swirling of water." Then she woke, bright and radiant and we go on our way and soon reach the Pass. At this time and place, she become all on fire with zeal; some new guiding power be in her manifested, for she point to a road and say:— "This is the way." "How know you it?" I ask. "Of course I know it," she answer, and with a pause, add: "Have not my Jonathan travelled it and wrote of his travel?"

Mina, my good friend, my liminal lady and favorite train fiend, are you perhaps trying to bluff away some Supernatural Radar pinging of yours? 👀

[phantomrose96]

Just a fair warning that rezero season 3 just started so if you see any of that in the wild that's probably why

im not Fucking strong enough for this. I'm not Fucking strong enough for another season of solipsistic faux-intellectual self-masturbatory misogyny... the anime. im gonna kill Subaru myself.

[sleepyminty]

This is in way geuse giving the blessing of these two

[soracities]

if we should protect children because they are vunerable, this means you would protect cruel children who bullies people who different than them then. the children who responsible to trauma for someone else's entire years

You're assuming that "protecting" children is the same as absolving them of responsibility and that's not what I said. All children are vulnerable, because all children are children; they don't come out of the womb with a perfectly working moral compass anymore than they come out of it waiting to hurt people--they're vulnerable because their understanding of the world is entirely at the mercy of what we, as adults, consistently tell them and show them. Children behaving cruelly aren't exempt from that--they learn that cruelty from somewhere, or someone. Your job, as the adult, is to make sure they understand that it's unacceptable so it will not happen again--but your job is also to ask why someone that young is behaving this way to begin with, so you can ensure they become better.

"Protecting" kids is not ignoring when they hurt or torment others, it's not refusing to teach them consequences or right from wrong, it's not "zero tolerance" policies in schools that treat a child being bullied and the child bullying them as equal instigators, and it's certainly not protecting them from recognizing, and atoning for, the pain they have caused someone else. You don't have to make peace with the now-adults who hurt you when you both were kids, but you cannot let the horrors of your own childhood impact how you treat or respond to the children living theirs around you right now, either.

You don't protect kids so they can get a free pass for bullying or tormenting another child. You protect them because kids are impulsive, emotionally reactive, and profoundly social (which means deeply impressionable) human beings who are still learning & processing insane amounts of information every day about what it means to be alive, to be alive as yourself, to be alive as yourself with other people. Protecting them is realising that you can't isolate the responsibility of a 10 year old from the bigger responsibility of the literal grown adults around them, adults who are in charge of teaching them about the world and how to behave in it. Whether you have children of your own in the future or not is completely irrelevant to this; we all become those adults eventually--no matter what happened to us as kids.

[katabay]

hi katabay!! this is prob a wack question lowkey but i was just wondering how you read/know so much?? i love reading the descriptions on ur art bc they’re so interesting and i Wish i could do that LOL

tbh a lot of why I read so much is because growing up, money was tight and the library was free. and now I'm broke as an adult, but the library is still free & also I spend a lot of time on public transit which is also is "free" reading time

a large chunk of what I read for fun is actually non fiction- it reads like poetry to me, and I like seeing if I can apply stuff I read when I was going through public domain stuff from the lancet to. uh. borderlands or something. it's kinda fun for me!

usually the process is: I'll have A Question about something while I'm reading and after, I'll see if there's An Answer somewhere & there's no real limit to what I'll read until I satisfy the curiosity, I will chase that thread down until I've run out of thread and hit a wall lol (and ofc the time honored tradition of watching a cool movie/show/comic and then going to see if the writers/producers/artists have their own favorites and check all of those things out)

anyway, my thoughts jump around a lot so I keep track of things in a commonplace style notebook; while I'm reading I'll take some quick notes abt anything I thought was interesting or really banger turns of phrase I want to remember for inspiration and list any questions or themes I want to explore later in a dedicated margin. I'll come back later & either answer my own questions in a different color (so it's easier for me to find), make a book list of additional things to follow up on, or just circle back with additional thoughts I had since then (or comic scene ideas)

lmao you can tell I have trouble wrangling my thoughts in order, I forgot to say: tldr; if you'd like to give my approach to whatever this is a shot, I'd recommend getting a notebook you wont mind carrying around and just write down shit you think is cool when you come across it & why bc the 'why' is the fun part to explore

[sir-adamus]

"Do Not Fall"

i really wonder about Ambrosius's warning

he knew the Ever After was down there, and it's not really any more dangerous than Remnant, and there's a known exit, so as ominous warnings go it's very strange

but it makes me think that the Relic spirits might be forbidden from sharing information about the Ever After or the Brothers' pasts (it's never even hinted at in either version of the creation myth about them, and it's clear Oz and Salem never knew about it), and that Ambrosius using that dimensional space for the central location was exploiting a loophole - gambling on somebody falling in and ending up in the Ever After and finding out what's going on

[recurringdragon]

i got to 7⭐️ village quests in this

[taffywabbit]

right now I kinda feel like I've just gone through an entire season of character development in the span of like a week. I'm very tired, physically and emotionally (I also just cleaned my whole bathroom at 1am, because sometimes when you're already on a streak of dealing with difficult/unpleasant/tiring stuff it's easiest to just keep knocking out more of those things while you've at least got that momentum) but at the same time I feel weirdly powerful and fulfilled as a person right now. the sigh-and-flop-onto-the couch-with-my-phone I just did felt a lot more earned than it has in a while

[coochellati]

…Am I wrong tho?

[thematicparallel]

about to read the new hunger games haymitch book & the epigraphs alone made me go like ( ; ﾟДﾟ)

[cow-wizard]

it's actually really sad funny how minor my complaints with dai seem now