#their thought process behind the whole thing

[diyasgarden]

pregnancy 👀❣

Art has always wanted to be a dad, so when you tell him you're pregnant he is ecstatic. He is on google trying to learn everything that he thinks will be helpful for you (from finding something that will help reduce your morning sickness to how to help with your fatigue). He always ends up on subreddit for expecting mothers, and so sometimes his sentences starts like this: "Well Cindy from Ohio said when she was pregnant for the first time...." He shows up to every appointment, and always asks the doctors questions. It ranges from just questions about baby's development to about what is best for you too. Things you probably would have never thought of yourself, but he wants to make sure all your bases are covered. He is also one of those dads who talks to your bump pretty much all of the time. He'll talk about his day mostly, and it's cute sweet to see.

Tashi is a planner. If you're having a child together, you guys have been together for sometime (at least couple of years) and she personally thinks you're both ready to have a child. Of course, she discusses this with you as well, and when you're both on the same page you start IVF treatment. Random donor and you decide that one of you will carry the baby while the other's egg will be used. If she is the carrier you dedicate the entire pregnancy to making sure she has everything she needs. She has pretty bad morning sickness, but you're always there to help her. You'd do pretty much anything she wanted in general, but now especially because she is pregnant. If you're the carrier, than Tashi is there to dote on you. She balances the line between doing what she knows is best for you and the baby, but also what you want. She does tease you for all your weird cravings, but just for fun. Nothing that could ever make you cry (she understands that your hormones are over the place). She finds talking to the bump silly, but she loves playing music for your child.

Patrick has never wanted to be a parent. He isn't sure if he would be good at it, mostly because of his complicated relationship with his own parents. Your pregnancy is a complete accident, but when you decide to keep it you kind of expect Patrick to disappear. But wouldn't that automatically make him like his own parents? If this kid is going to be born, shouldn't he at least try? Sometimes you wonder if he is staying out of some sense of duty, but it's Patrick so that's silly. He wouldn't even be able to explain why he is staying, he just knows it's what he wants. He doesn't really know the whole pregnancy process. He tries his best. He shows up to all of your appointments, even though he looks slightly out of place there. He teases you about your mood changes and cravings, but gets worried when you do anything that seems too strenuous (even if it's something small). He will hold back your hair if you have morning sickness and will come up behind you and hold up your bump to relieve yourself of the weight. He says talking to the bump is silly ("the baby isn't born yet, it can't hear anything"), but you've caught him whispering to it when he thinks you're asleep.

PS: If you like the Patrick HC here...well keep an eye out for a fic I'm working on

[queen-of-hawkins-why-ler]

"The making of ST5 documentary" oh so you mean Finn, Noah, Winona, David, Charlie, Shawn Levy, and the Duffer brothers' commentary on Byler, how long they've known about it, how they used acting and direction to create the slowburn relationship, and the cultural impact they believe it will have

[forbiddentaako]

a little sketch as a treat bc im thinking its repo the genetic opera au hours

this is more of an actor's au type thing bc im wrasling with whether or not the necessary changes to repo's plot/hazbin's characterizations would actually make sense for this to be a real au

but i really want to draw some screenshots from the movie as them so started by just doing a quick ref of some of the character designs

husk/angel as the graverobber/amber sweet next mayhaps

[skeletoninthemelonland]

😭😭

[welcometogrouchland]

Stephanie Brown and Dick Grayson: I Am Going To Be A Good Parent To Pass On The Good Parts Of My Tumultuous Childhood/Give Someone Else What I Didn't Have Growing Up

Vs

Damian Wayne and Cassandra Cain: You Could Not Pay Me To Be A Parent For Fear I Would Continue The Cycle Of Violence

[starlooove]

The woobification of Gotham rogues needs to be studied

[dwangan-wonpwa]

*shakes the kokichi* i believe that the mercy kill plot was real and that you were accusing gonta to incriminate yourself even further, but i also believe that framing part wasn't concretely planned and that something—most likely linked to the (false) conclusion that gonta was apparently a much better liar than you and possibly might have been putting on a mask of a pure idiot—caused you to snap. SO WHAT IS THE SOMETHING?! WHAT WAS THE SPECIFIC REASONNNN???

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Do you have any evidence of Roxy playing with the plushes in her room? Mostly because I would like to see it

Okay so I don't have like. The most concrete evidence in the world here, I'm mostly just looking at the environment and thinking about what it says about the characters and stuff. With that said, I'm also not the only one that noticed this (can't remember where I've seen people mention it before but I know I've seen this around a few times in fics and posts and stuff) so I dunno take this as you will

The idea Roxy plays with her plushies comes maingly from how the plushies in her room are arranged and a little from how her plushies are in the most random ass places sometimes. I don't know if there's more locations than the ones I'm about to show you because I don't have the game and can't just wander around looking for them, but here's what I know for sure!

First, Roxy's room!

Roxy's room is the only one of all four rooms on Rockstar Row to have the plushies arranged somewhat properly and not just left strewn about the place. Most importantly though, some of them are placed in ways that make it look like they're doing something. Here's the screenshots of all the ones in there:

So there's two sat nicely against the base of the kids motorbike ride, with one looking out the window and one looking towards the vanity table. Then there's one sat at a racing arcade cabinet as if it's playing it. There's two laid on the couch like they're taking a nap or just relaxing. There's one on the table either watching the one playing the game or maybe doing some imaginary other thing. There's another on the table, lying face up with a bunch of wrenches, a little shampoo bottle and a helmet so small it's the perfect size for the plushie next to it. Then you have one plushie driving the go-kart and running over another plushie from behind.

Yeah, the ones on the couch might be a little bit of a stretch, but some of these just kinda make it look like Roxy intentionally put them there to display them or to set a scene up. Like the table could be a pretend parts and services or something, hence why ones lying on its back with all the wrenches and stuff. They all just seem a lot less randomly placed, ya know? I think it's pretty cute ngl!

And then you have the Roxy plushies in weird places! Here are the ones I noticed (again, I don't have the game so these are screenshotted from videos I found):

Gonna quickly explain this one by saying I misremembered it a little bit, but it's still relevant. This random little room in the loading docks area, with nothing but a Sunnydrop poster, a staffbot staring at the door and two wet floor bots, has the Glam Roxy plush collectible in it. Bit of a weird placement given Roxy is literally never in this area to my knowledge and this is typically Chica's territory, so it makes me wonder what the hell it's doing in this werid ass room. An old idea was that Chica was playing with the plushies one day and stuck her in Gay Baby Jail or something.

Though, now I'm looking at it, if Roxy put it there, you could see it as leaving a plush down there to keep these guys company or for them to protect her or somethig? I dunno. A bit sad if she put herself in Gay Baby Jail though lmao but anyway...

This one is located in the Kid's Cove boat! I'm pretty sure that aside from the Golden Sunny plush and regular Moon plushie collectibles, this is the only plushie in Kid's Cove. Which is to say this is the only plushie I noticed that was actually visible. Given the light from the left is from a TV screen playing nothing but static (what's up with that??), this plushie was having a movie night or something. Or someone's living in the Cove. Or Roxy's made herself a secret hideout in the Cove. I dunno, but you see how the little drinks can is within the plushie's reach and all the... maybe sweets near its feet? I dunno whats going on with the shoes and the tiny Roxy mask, maybe there was a dress-up thing going on, who knows? I dunno if this is Cassie's secret hideout and she was playing with a Roxy plushie but regardless! This is a weird ass place for a Roxy plushie when everything else around there is Sunny and Moon themed!

Oh yeah and there's also another itty bitty helmet off screen to the right. Maybe the story is that this Roxy was driving the boat but it sunk or something? I dunno. I'm convinced those tiny helmets are for the plushies or some other toy cause there's a height limit on the go-karts they are not letting babies drive go-karts lmao

These two are in the dressing room style area thing of the Superstar Theatre. There's a good few plushies dotted around here but look! The one on the right is keeping the endo company! :)

Anyway, I don't know where the others are. I know there's a good few of her plushies just fucking everywhere in weird places and someone had to put them there, right? Her room having them all arranged like that is the only reason I would think Roxy's putting her own plushies everywhere though. I just think it's kinda cute that they usually seem very deliberately placed there by someone and given the whole murder scene going on in her room, Roxy seems the most likely culprit lmao

[cherry-dr0p]

🔷️❤️ TWO SIDES OF A DIFFERENT COIN

Decided to draw two favourite science guys (TECHNICALLY ENGINEERING IS A SCIENCE ACCORDING TO THE INTERNET DONT YELL AT M- /j)

Anyways, they're pretty much two of my favourites for vastly different reasons, though if we're honest, these two have a 0% chance of getting along (at least in my head, they wouldn't. I honestly don't see it happening).

Though l do like to imagine them meeting somehow. It's funny to me tbh. They'd 100% hate each other, Im telling you.

Even better, Imagine Godzilla hypothetically found his way into Midgar along with Kenji

Even better including Godzilla into the equation. Hojo's dumbass would see the big fella and go "Hmm yes, new test subject." Despite it probably having a strong chance of crushing him or brutally throwing him like a lifeless ragdoll once he gets near.

Anyways here's the sketch (that I like far more than the final product);

And to add a few extras,

Kenji Noda doodles !!! Hes up in my classroom now too. Everyone shall see him >:3

(Also have a funny Pintrest image I drew with Kenji because it made me giggle)

Thats all anyways. Im done torturing the one character who doesnt deserve it <3

(Hojo does LMFAO)

Edit: Sobbing because Ive realised I made spelling mistakes when I drew the comic last night

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

i think beastars would've worked way better if the desire to eat the meat of herbivores by hunting them down and killing them wasn't inherent to all carnivores and wasn't this like... weird uncontrollable urge. as a story that muses on what would happen if an animal society with parallels to ours existed, its an interesting concept but it falls apart -really- fast when people attempt to compare it to the racial dynamics of our reality (the author heavily advises against this, but I think it's a significant issue if people continue to think of it this way regardless of her intent). and it also falls apart when considering something like harm reduction and rehabilitation. with the latter point i would chalk that up to an issue of execution and lack of understanding on the author's part

god this post is so much longer than I thought it'd be uhhh

carnivores viewing herbivores as a potential food source is something that's considered inherent to being a carnivore. Not the craving for meat or adequate sustenance, but viewing another sentient living being as food which i think is a significant difference. It's treated as a matter of fact within the text and isn't disputed in any real way. In fact, a lot of the really ... "questionable" (understatement) societal dynamics are presented as like. just being the way things are with characters accepting it without any real heavy objection to it in some instances (there is a specific story in beast complex I'm thinking about right now). Haven't even touched upon the gender bioessentialism but maybe I'll get to that in another post

There's a strange sort of Both Ways dynamic between carnivores and herbivores where herbivores have the significant disadvantage in physical strength but outnumber carnivores by a large margin. Herbivores are also significantly more represented in some career prospects while carnivores have to follow social rules to be as non-threatening as possible. (As a note female carnivores are presented as straight up not being as dangerous or aggressive as the male ones. and while there are ones that predated on herbivores they're portrayed as mentally unwell or manipulative, or in some cases their predation has a twinge of sexuality to it... male carnivores generally are portrayed with a bout maliciousness in their predator instincts until they receive treatment and "go back to normal")

Let me summarize what I think wouldve been far more interesting to consider: how punitive justice doesn't work to prevent crime and doesn't stop people from repeating crimes, how people who lack resources are driven to desperation and how that can enable them to commit violent acts, how oppression isn't born out of fear of the oppressed group but rather a means of seeking domination over the oppressed group.

I really hesitate to put carnivores in the role of an oppressed group and with what i can gather from beastars I'm starting to think that was avoided on purpose, but I'd have to reread it in order to give a better analysis

I think it'd be interesting overall if the issue was that carnivores aren't getting enough sustenance and in turn are quite malnourished. Maybe they didn't eat meat of herbivores but instead the meat of non-sentient fish, but that was viewed as a slippery slope that leads to eating herbivores. Stuff like synthetic meat or anything resembling meat (and like the manga, stuff like bugs not counting) was banned. So even though fish meat would be a worthwhile option to consider, it is still illegal due to moral views despite the illegality causing far more damage to society as a whole. This could Still be like, not ideal in a story sense I feel like but as beastars exist right now it's much more concerning

I've read the entire manga and yes I know fish meat was considered a solution at the end but the whole thing was so fuckin flimsy that it felt like a bandaid solution to the problems that were portrayed in the beginning

[tsubakura-enraku]

"Well, Zuifeng...? Now that we are well acquainted again, shall we dance just like the old days?"

[akkivee]

mtr has my favourite brand of codependency (husbands with their new doctor bf who def cannot survive without each other lmao) but all the divisions have their own versions of codependency and I Like That tbh lol

[moonysfavoritetoast]

my mom literally started lecturing me about how i have to answer truthfully everytime she asks something like when she asked my friend’s adress (i didn’t remember it) she brought that up and proceded to say i knew it when she found it so i obviously just didn’t wanna tell her :// so uh haha then she said she’ll but a lock on my phone so i can’t access certain websites and social medias if i don’t start answering truthfully when she asks me stuff. maybe, mother, there’s a reason i don’t always answer. or why i don’t like it when you have my phone. it’s common fucking sense.

[bethiewhimsy]

thinking too hard about the fact that i heavily relate to marsha thankk you for the dialectics but i need you to leave

[beeapocalypse]

need to do smth w the idea of iterations of grisha displaced in space and time post devouring the unicorns young attempting to kill grisha throughout their life and Other grishas killing those ones in order to assure their life is carried out properly. not out of any concern of timeline fuckery or a genuine wish to live but bc that grisha NEEDS to live in order to suffer the agonies of their life and atone for the sins to be. and these frequent attacks play a big role in influencing grisha throughout their life and its just a constant spiraling case of grishas on top of grishas inadvertently guiding other grishas to make the same choices which they already hate their current self for

[mad-hunts]

@stamour asked: “Need an extra set of hands?” (warning tho love is terrible at cooking bc they refuse to listen to directions 🫶)

whilst in the midst of chopping up carrots, and quickly too, barton's ears caught his guest asking him whether he needed help. he could only manage a contemplative hum at that at first; barton was already done mincing the garlic and almost finished slicing up the carrots, so he guessed that just left the onion to chop up. he'd made up his mind then since it would be kind of rude to not let them help after they so nicely volunteered to do so. barton nodded then, gesturing at the knive-set a little ways away from him, ❝ oh — sure, why not? this whole process would probably go a little faster if i had somebody help me. grab one of those knives over there if you can, will you? ❞ he shot the other a small smile to make sure that he didn't seem too pushy about it.

but then again, whenever he was cooking, it appeared as if barton was almost always in a good mood. so it was probably fine, he thought, while barton dumped the last of the now shredded carrots into a measuring cup. oh... damn, he just realized that he should probably ask how love feels about squash before continuing. what he was making was a very vegetable based dish. barton offered them the onion before he forgot, taking a glance inside the pan currently on the oven, ❝ and now that you've got that, please chop this up for me. it's going to be a part of the sauce that's going to at the bottom of the ratatouille i'm making. you don't have any problems with eggplant or squash, right? ❞ he sent them a slightly skeptical look from the corner of his eye.

it would suck if they ended up hating both of those, but hey, maybe he could convince them to at least give it a try. barton added the carrots to the garlic that was already simmering in the pan and cleared his throat, ❝ i have to say that i was a little surprised that you decided to take me up on my offer for dinner, though i know i did say that i wanted to repay you for what you did for me. so if you don't mind my asking, what ultimately made you decide to accept it? ❞ a soft tap-tap-tap resounded from his sharp nails as he drummed them on the counter, which was a force of habit. barton rose a hand up suddenly like he was trying to nonverbally say ' oh, wait, ' ❝ and by that, i mean pleasantly surprised. not the bad kind of surprise, just in case you were wondering. ❞ a distinct undertone of amusement was now present in his voice as he spoke. it felt like part of him was genuinely intrigued by the fact love did a good deed for him, so this niceness he was putting on might not have been entirely artificial, after all.