#tangled vibes

[sadbeautifutragic]

made my first granny square today

[p0is0ngirlx]

“𝒻𝓁𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝑔𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓂 & 𝑔𝓁𝑜𝓌..𝓁𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑒..”

[viridessense]

Sankta Alina of the Tower

EVER SINCE THE THOUGHT CAME TO ME IT'S BEEN HAUNTING ME BUT THINK ABOUT IT: SUNSHINE! ALINA! RAPUNZEL! PARALLELS! ALINA GROWING UP IN A TOWER BECAUSE SOMEONE WANTS TO USE HER POWERS FOR THEMSELF!!!

Ok, first, go read Like Breathing by Silberias. And then come back.

Ships I'm aiming for: Zoyalina, Darkolai, HEARTRENDER HUBBIES, the rest still to be determined.

CW for ...jaysus, lots of shit. Minor character death (Alina is an orphan that does not change), possible Stockholm Syndrome, captivity in a tower... magical exploitation of a child. Mother Gothel is her own content warning lbr. She's not in this but unlike disney I'm not beholden to making this kid friendly so...be warned. The dove is not quite fried through but it's certainly not doing any dances. Now, with Amplifier!Alina in mind, think about tiny, maybe 7-y.o. Alina going through the Fold with her parents. Her parents were desperate for her to have a normal childhood. They knew what she was, and that once it got out she'd be ripped away from them and put to the seemingly insurmountable task of fixing Ravka. They also knew that most saints had lives that ended horribly. To some it might have been selfish, to slip away in the night with an entire country's salvation stashed in the cargo hold of a makeshift sandskif, but to them it was the only option. As of now I'm a little iffy on the details about what exactly happens next, whether it's the volcra or the blazing, uncontrolled heat of a little sun summoner with too much power and too little control that ends up claiming her parents. Still to be pondered (and of course consider what would lead to maximum angst).

Either way, tiny Alina eventually finds herself wandering the desolate sands of the fold, in a little bubble of light. And then she hears a buzzing. She follows the sound, because what else, and eventually she finds...a tower?

She spends the next decade in this tower, being raised by a dragon knight, the bee lady and the bear dude. Another thing that. needs some deep pondering, but I'm thinking the other two only realise way too late that Lizaveta isn't being entirely altruistic in her handling of Alina. Put simply, Lizaveta knows that the Sun Summoner is her best bet at getting at the Darkling. Definitely going to invoke some Mother Gothel vibes. I'm thinking Juris and Grigori do what they can to pin down Lizaveta at some point so Alina can make her escape, and maybe it's Juris who tells her to find Aleksander. The result, however, is a jaded, hurting but rather skilled Alina escaping from the tower, wandering the fold again. This time, instead of a tower, she finds a sandskiff full of people fighting for their lives. It's really rather simple, killing the volcra and enveloping the skiff in a sphere of light. There are stunned introductions, Alina boards the skiff, and then witnesses a fierce debate. The First Army soldiers want to finish their voyage to the West. The Second Army, represented by a stunning, terrifying girl in a blue coat is insisting on going back East to take the Sun Summoner to the Darkling. Alina tries not to interject. She's looked forward to this her whole life, seeing the sun, the real sun for the first time in a decade. She wants to see people, outside the pressure of the fold. She remembers what Juris told her. "I would like to meet the General, please. Miss?" The squaller girl blinks at her, and then nods once, "East it is."

This is just kind of an outline thing! There's way more going on in this verse because I have 0 self control.

[starzknight]

Heeey i'm back with Eugene...

[jiiniix]

oHo

[fictionadventurer]

I have to talk about Chester Arthur. His story makes me go crazy. A mediocre president from the 1880s who's completely forgotten today has one of the best redemption stories I've ever heard and I need to make people understand just how cool his story is.

So, like, he starts out as this idealist, okay? He's the son of an abolitionist minister and becomes famous as a New York lawyer who defends the North's version of Rosa Parks whose story desegregates New York City's trolley system.

Then he starts getting pulled into politics and becomes one of the grimiest pieces of the political machine. He wants money, power, prestige, and he gets it. He becomes the right-hand man of Roscoe Conkling, the most feared political boss in the nation, a guy who will throw his weight around and do the most ruthless things imaginable to keep his friends in power and destroy his enemies.

Because Arthur's this guy's top lackey, he gets to be Controller of the Port of New York--the best-paying political appointment in the country, because that port brings in, like, 70% of the federal government's funds in tariffs. He gets a huge salary plus a percentage of all the fines they levy on lawbreakers, and because he's not afraid to make up infractions to fine people over, he is absolutely raking in the dough. Making the rough equivalent of $1.3 million a year--absolutely insane amounts of money for a government position. He's spending ridiculous sums on clothes, buying huge amounts of alcohol and cigars to share with people as part of his job recruiting supporters to the party, going out nearly every night to wine and dine people as part of his work in the political machine. He's living the high life. Even when President Hayes pulls him from his position on suspicions of fraud, he's still living a great life of wealth, power, and prestige.

Then in 1880, his beloved wife dies. While he's out of town working for a political campaign. And he can't get back in time to say goodbye before she dies. Because he's a guy who has big emotions, it absolutely tears him up inside, especially because Nell resented how much his political work kept him away from home. He has huge regrets, but he just moves in with Roscoe Conkling and keeps working for the political machine.

And then he gets a chance to be vice president. The Republican Party has nominated James Garfield, a dark horse candidate who wants to reform the spoils system that has given Conking his power and gave Arthur his position as Port Controller. Conkling is pissed, and he controls New York, and since the party's not going to win the election without New York, they think that appointing Conkling's top lackey as vice-president will pacify him.

They're wrong--Conkling orders Arthur to refuse--but Arthur thinks this sounds like a great opportunity. The only political position he's ever held is Port Controller--a job he wasn't elected to and that he was pulled from in disgrace. Vice President is way more than he could ever have hoped for. It's a position with a lot of political pull and zero actual responsibilities. He'll get to spend four years living in up in Washington high society. It's the perfect job! Of course he accepts, and Conkling comes around when he figures out that he can use this to his advantage.

When Garfield becomes president, Arthur does everything he can to undermine him. He uses every dirty political trick he can think of to block everything that Garfield wants to do. He refuses to let the Senate elect a president pro tempore so he can stay there and influence every bill that comes through. He all but openly boasts of buying votes in the election. He's so much Conkling's lackey that he may as well be the henchman of a cartoon supervillain. On Conkling's orders, he drags one of Garfield's Cabinet members out of bed in the middle of the night--while the guy is ill--to drag him to Conkling's house so he can be forced to resign. He's just absolutely a thorn in the president's side, a henchman doing everything he can to maintain the corrupt spoils system.

Then in July 1881, when Arthur's in New York helping Conkling's campaign, the president gets shot. By a guy who shouts, "Now Arthur will be president!" just after he fires the gun. Arthur has just spent the past four months fighting the president tooth and nail. Everyone thinks he's behind the assassination. There are lynch mobs looking to take out him and Conkling. The papers are tearing him apart.

Arthur is absolutely distraught. He rushes to Washington to speak with the president and assure him of his innocence, but the doctors won't let him in the room. He gets choked up when talking to the First Lady. Reporters find him weeping in his house in Washington. Once again, death has torn his world apart and he's not getting a chance to make amends.

Arthur goes to New York while the president is getting medical treatment, and he refuses to come to Washington and take charge because he doesn't dare to give the impression that he's looking to take over. No one wants Arthur to be president and he doesn't want to be president, and the possibility that this corrupt political lackey is about to ascend to the highest office in the land is absolutely terrifying to everyone.

Then in August, when it's becoming clear that the president is unlikely to recover, he gets a letter. From a 31-year-old invalid from New York named Julia Sand. A woman from a very politically-minded family who has been following Arthur's career for years. And she writes him this astounding letter that takes him to task for his corrupt, conniving ways, and the obsession with worldly power and prestige that has brought him wealth and fame at the cost of his own soul--and she tells him that he can do better. In the midst of a nationwide press that's tearing him apart, this one woman writes to tell him that she believes he has the capacity to be a good president and a good man if he changes his ways.

And then he does. After Garfield dies, people come to Arthur's house and find servants who tell them that Arthur is in his room weeping like a child (I told you he had big emotions), but he takes the oath of office and ascends to the presidency. And he becomes a completely different man. His first speech as president mentions that one of his top priorities is reforming the spoils system so that people will be appointed based on merit rather than getting appointed as political favors with each change in the administration. Even though this system made him president. When Conkling comes to Arthur's office telling him to appoint his people to important government positions, Arthur calls his demands outrageous, throws him out, and keeps Garfield's appointees in the positions. "He's not Chet Arthur anymore," one of his former political friends laments. "He's the president."

He loses all his former political friends. He's never trusted by the other side. Yet he sticks to his guns and continues to support spoils system reform. He prosecutes a postal service corruption case that everyone thought he would drop. He's the one who signs into law the first civil service reform bill, even though presidents have been trying to do this for more than ten years, and he's the person who's gained all his power through the spoils system. He immediately takes action to enforce this bill when he could have just dropped it. He becomes a champion of this issue even though it's the last thing anyone would have expected of him.

He oversees naval reform. He oversees a renovation of the White House. He still prefers the social duties of the presidency, but he's respectable in a way that no one expected. Possibly because Julia Sand keeps sending him letters of encouragement and advice over the next two years. But also because he's dying.

Not long after ascending to the presidency, he learns he's suffering from a terminal kidney disease. And he tells no one. He keeps going about his daily life, fulfilling his duties as president, and keeps his health problems hidden. Once again, death is upending his life, and this time it's his own death. He's lived a life he's ashamed of, and he doesn't have much time left to change. He enters the presidency as an example of the absolute worst of the political system, and leaves it as a respectable man.

He makes a token effort to seek re-election, but because of his health problems, he doesn't mind at all when someone else gets the nomination. He dies a couple of years after leaving office. The day before his death, he orders most of his papers burned, because he's ashamed of his old life--but among the things that are saved are the letters from Julia Sand, the woman who encouraged him to change his ways.

This is an astounding story full of so many twists and turns and dramatic moments. A man who falls from idealism into the worst kind of corruption and then claws his way back up to decency because of a series of devastating personal losses and unexpected opportunities to do more than he could have ever hoped to do. I just go crazy thinking about it and I need you all to understand just how amazing this story is.

[bmj-arts]

Spiderdads Tangled AU 🕷️✨

i was feeling silly im sorry

lylascal

[pennumbra]

Polished up an old sketch! Some friendly kitchen competition between Adira and Varian. (Hector is off-screen peeling potatoes.)

[lemurballing]

im no dead im just tired. random sonic wips be upon ye

[egginfroggin]

*Drops these* whoops more redraws

Stan is having a day, okay.

Ford is being unsettling in (reluctant) true Gothel fashion.

Someday I will figure out how to arrange words inside speech bubbles.

Transcription: First page First panel: Mabel: "I have magic hair that glows when I sing." Third panel: Stan: "ya WHAT"

Second page: Ford: "If it finds even the slightest bit of sunshine..." "it" "destroys" "it"

(program: krita; time: about 3.5 hours)

[pixie-yuni]

That’s how I imagined their first interaction would look like 😗🍻

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

May I request a drawing of Apetrully? I love the way you draw him he’s so adorable! Also the fact of Nohands trying his best to make sure Apetrully doesn’t get captured due to his own innocence is amazing!

((I still wanna make fanart for you, you keep giving us all this amazing art!💖)

Sure you can! ;3

a lil monkie man wondering when he can stop hiding <3 + bonus doodles of Mr. No-hands and Latifa in bg hehe ;)

(And thank you! <3 you are so sweet for your kind words and wanting to draw something for me!! I wish I could say what I want, but i will be honest, whenever someone asks me this, my mind sorta blanks out? xD Im sorry I have no idea what to answer, im so flustered and flattered that you said that, its already enough to make me happy ;D)

[sloasis]

Eddie teaching Buck how to dance at their wedding but he's clumsy as hell 🌷

[lothalnyx]

Reasons for why Kanan Jarrus/Caleb Dume and Flynn Rider/Eugene Fitzherbert are one and the same.

they're both brown haired men with goatees and a nose that's hard to get right (kanan's nose is hard for me to draw ok)

Both changed their names and their true loves were the first to know their true birth names

Kanan: Flynn: Caleb Eugene

Kanan and Eugene were alone at a young age Kanan: Eugene: order 66 orphan

after they became these cocky scoundrels and ladies men (idk about eugene i think they implied it??)

they both met and fell in love with 18 yr old women with beautiful voices and green eyes

said women did not take any of their “charm”

ahem

Kanan and Eugene were hopelessly in love with them while Hera/Rapunzel took more time Hera - rebels s4 says it all Rapunzel - Eugene asking to marry her a bunch of times

These women were on a mission and Kanan (in A New Dawn) and Eugene were just along for the ride (oh but it became more)

Hera: Rapunzel: Empire stuff lanterns

Hera and Rapunzel are both optimistic and able to see the good in others

Kanan and Eugene both left their previous ways of life to be with these women

Kanan and Eugene went on a lil adventure with Hera/Rapunzel after meeting them!

They both revealed something about themselves to Hera/Rapunzel in times of peril

Kanan - being a jedi, stopping falling catwalk front crushing Hera Eugene - his real name, when the cave was filling up with water

Kanan and Eugene both come to rescue Hera/Rapunzel when they were kidnapped and proceeded to die/almost die (close enough) oh if only Hera had magic tears

Kanan Jarrus and Eugene Fitzherbert were lost for a long time, and then they found something and someone to live for

the only difference between these two is that Kanan and Hera didn't kiss after their adventure in A New Dawn like Eugene and Rapunzel and Kanan is in Star Wars so naturally he died before he and Hera could have the happily ever after Eugene got

[duckduckpato]

my fairy AU headcanons:

hiccup (summer): tinker fairy. specializes in inventions for the woodland creatures.

rapunzel (spring): pollination fairy. helps with the pollination process and takes care of flowers until they bloom.

jack (winter): frost fairy. leaves messages for the other fairies and creatures by creating patterns with frost.

merida (fall): animal fairy. mainly helps animals with the migration process.

[triona-tribblescore]

HITOK!! HI :DD

I was doing warm-up sketches and ur boys popped up outta nowhere. Was also re-reading ur tangled au this morning and its just so good, makes me wanna draw more fr!! (everyone needs to go have a look at it, its super interesting :D )

sending u good vibes today uvu <33

@hitokshellart