#this is old but worth posting here

[magicalmikuri]

Nonbinary flag color picked from Secret Squirrel.

[koinotea]

pajamas gay boooiissssssssss SOCKS-

[mamawasatesttube]

i am going to say something that is . well i don't think it's controversial in that i don't think it has been said enough to cause controversy to begin with but skjdfhjds listen. hear me out

tim/ber/kon <<<<<<<<< timiveskon

on the one hand you have an uphill battle to convince me why these characters would even give a shit about each other (plus i mean megfitz massacred their characterizations and thats a whole extra mess) and generally it just reads to me as just treating kon as tim's spare love interest uwu without any care about his character.

but on the OTHER HAND.... timiveskon? chefs kiss. kon and ives are instantly bonding over nerdisms. they are both standing on the table and yelling about the rereleased edition of return of the jedi and kon is going on about how he has the original literally downloaded into his brain and ives thinks that's the sexiest thing he's ever heard and tim is just sitting there consumed by lust while they both yell about greedo. it practically writes itself. come on

[marietheran]

reading AITAs to do with abortion is so painful because the question will be "Am I in the wrong for pressuring my 16yo daughter to get an abortion?" and the answers will all be "No, of course no one can expect you not to burden the girl with this for the rest of her life because you feel her child will be a burden on you" and "Tell her horror stories about pregnancy and being a single mother; that'll frighten her into compliance 😊💖😚"

[charcubed]

Look, I personally lose nothing if Lokius doesn’t become explicit canon. And if that were to become the case, I’d also have no regrets for saying for years that that would happen in the show by the end ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I’ve said it before, but by now it would be Disney/Marvel’s loss, NOT mine. Whoever wasted or limited the potential would be the idiot, not me.

I’m simply never gonna feel crazy for noticing what’s happening in a story or silly for daring to hope it’ll be brought to fully satisfying narrative completion. That's just a me thing. Maybe this is because at heart I’m stubborn! But I’d like to think I’m not unreasonable. I can’t control whether writing stays consistent or censorship is overcome... But I just do my best to construct solid arguments, and as long as those arguments remain solid, I stand by them :)

I know not everyone would say the same, or they consider this to be "hope" or "optimism," but I see it as logic based in noticing what the text of a show/story is doing. And personally I also consider blatantly evident subtext to be "canon enough," so if we get my personal minimum, my happiness may still outweigh any potential disappointment for me.

However. Here's what I've come here to say today, in reaction to things I've seen floating around in the fandom:

While I do understand on some level why people worry that Lokius won’t be more explicitly canonically romantic because it could be censored by Disney.... At this point, I don’t understand how people can think Loki/Sylvie will still happen.

As of right now, there’s no way to argue for that in my opinion. (I'd like to see someone try.)

The show has set up a fun but very simple situation from basically the start:

They made romantic love a point of relevance in the show’s story. More specifically, they pointed out Loki's desire for a "real" romantic love, and had him learn the lesson that he doesn't deserve to be alone. They didn't HAVE to do all of those things and tie them together. They CHOSE to make romantic love relevant – and they have actively continued to choose to do that, to the point of including a mirrored dark love triangle in s2 ep3. That narrative thread simply has to be fulfilled.

So if they deliberately established that Loki wants and needs a “real” love, and his relationship with Sylvie was referred to as "fiction" so she cannot be a real love for him.... Who does it have to be?

Obviously it has to be Mobius. And of course, the whole show points to Lokius also, for countless more reasons than just this simple breakdown. But pointing this element out is the simplest argument one can make.

So either...

1. They take Lokius to full narrative completion with explicit canon, as they should and as I expect them to,

or

2. Loki's desire for a real love is left unfulfilled, open-ended, and/or made clear through subtext that it's Mobius.

Those are the options, if you ask me!

This is aside from how Lokius’ love story is now even at the core of the show’s themes and plot, which is an insanely strong vote in favor for their future canonicity.

But for the purposes of this post, I’m talking about whether we'll get explicit romance specifically, like a love confession or a kiss – and I do actually genuinely think we'll get both of those things. I'm not trying to force you to agree with me, but just to be clear, that's where I'm at with it and have been since 2021 lol.

So in regards to worrying about Loki/Sylvie...

They were never really a romance (yes, even in season 1) and they sure as hell aren't now. I can’t imagine they'll become one even IF Lokius is left subtextual.

So what actually remains to be seen is if the writers got to go all the way with Lokius, or if that central queer love story was censored on some level in the end.

My hot take is no one should be ~worrying~ about Sylki at this stage of the game. Free yourselves, people.

If the story starts abruptly going in a Sylki direction, even with only 3 episodes left, I will certainly be the first to say so lol. But I simply sincerely, truly doubt that'll happen.

(Hot take in the footer: this is not the post to get into this at length, but in case this comes up… In this house we do not use the word "queerbaiting." It is a useless, nearly-meaningless, insufferable term that devalues the legitimacy of subtext and queercoding more often than not; it's rooted in the idea that media must hit arbitrary and inconsistent checklists often set with cishet approval in mind; and it perpetuates a focus on the false and harmful myth that many creators are "cowards" instead of leaving room for nuance and the fact that industry censorship still exists.)

[spamton-deactivated19970420]

the pinned post

im a spamton blog. i'll rb general ut/dr stuff, but it's mostly spamton.

i like to organize my posts with a tagging system so it's easier for me to look through old stuff.

IN PROGRESS!!! i'm going through all my old posts to add organizational tags. who knows when i'll be done. help! help me!

tag directory below the cut. its a lot!

mostly for my own reference. stuff rb'ed more than once won't have organizational tags on the re-reblogs, just the #rerun tag. all the tags listed have a link!

tags usually go in this particular order

misc tags -> spamton tags -> collection tags -> character tags -> user tag

misc tags

(comments & organizational stuff)

🔹#(words!) just thoughts on a post :)

🔸#myart - something that i made

🔹#spammail - an answered ask

spamton tags

(categorizing the type of spam)

🔹#spamton - it's spamton! any kind

🔸#theOriginal - the 'classic' spamton design...still pretty variable!

🔹#sneo - spamton neo

🔸#addispam - past addison-spamton; usually white hair, pre-puppetification?

🔹#bigshot - past successful spamton; usually red suit, pre-or-during puppetification?

🔸#spex - fan-made 'spamton ex' design

🔹#spam2n - alt spamton design/fan-made 'au' char based heavily on spamton

🔸#tonspam - 'abstract' spamton interpretations that don't quite fit other tags

collection tags

(spamposts following themes)

🔸#spamton burger - intrigued by how common this one is

🔹#spamton mosquito - newsletter impact

🔸#crucified spamton - it keeps happening

🔹#gluetrap spamton - deserved

character tags

(chars that appear in a post other than spamton. here they are alphabetically, help)

incomplete, list in progress!!!

#addisons - #cungadero - #flowey - #jevil - #kris - #lancer - #mettaton - #maice - #papyrus - #pipis - #plugboy - #poppup - #queen - #ralsei - #sans - #seam - #susie - #swatch - #swatchling - #tasque - #tasque manager - #werewire - #werewerewire - #yes man -

user tags

(to keep track of particular artists! tumblr hates searching a blog's posts by user, but it's fine with tags!)

🔹#user:(username here) - i won't be listing every artist here or i'll die

example: #user:spamton-deactivated19970420

🔸#limited - for posts with a deactivated user, or that the user has deleted from their blog

[orcelito]

I just can't get over how pretty some of these page compositions are

[theminecraftbee]

Joe had tried to write a will once.

Well, more accurately, he’d tried to make Cleo write one. After all, she had appropriate custody over an entire ship full of ghost sailors that season! If she’d inconveniently died, it would have been irresponsible to leave her armor stands to figure out what to do with the disaster that had resulted. Simply irresponsible, not to have a will.

Cleo had laughed at him. “Joe, I’m already dead. I’m not sure zombies can legally have wills.”

He’d huffed back. “Zombies can be responsible with what to do after they depart this plane the same as everyone else. Or, the second time they depart? You may have a point on the legality of the matter...”

He’d ended up half writing one too. To be honest, even as they both updated it season-to-season, Joe rarely had much he wasn’t willing to leave behind or loose. Oh, sure, he was terrible at letting go. One of the last through to the next world at the end of most seasons, in fact, too many projects still in the works, too many irons still in the fire. But not being willing to let go and not being willing to lose - those are two different things, now aren’t they? So, honestly, not much in his will. Normally, just who would take custody of any pets he’d picked up. (It was Cleo, and then normally either Xisuma or Scar if she couldn’t, depending on the pet and the year.)

He’d written it in rhyme this season, he thinks, standing alone in front of the spawn egg. Well, as fitting as everything else - no one will be around to execute it.

...and no one will have to. After all, Cleo had, after much cajoling, written hers in rhyme too, and he’s the executor. So, clearly, he can’t die, because that would put Cleo in real trouble if she managed to die a second time. Which she wouldn’t! Because she had a plan!

Maybe, he thinks, Cleo had a point, back then. Joe conquers death, and Cleo’s already died once.

What -

- he stares at the moon so long it burns his eyes, and then he takes flight again, ignoring the growing horrendous heat in his chest -

- what do they need wills for, anyway?

(Nothing at all.)

[calastrophe]

thara and his cousin

[ID: Two digital illustrations of characters from The Goblin Emperor. 1) Full-color shaded drawing of Thara Celehar from the chest up at a 3/4 view with a pale, dull green background. He has pointed ears, pale skin, curly white hair, prominent dark circles, and a neutral expression. His hair is braided with a few pins visible. He is wearing a dark gray frock coat with gray embroidery, a faintly pinstriped dull blue vest, a white collared shirt, and a light blue cravat with a brass ring, which matches his brass earrings. 2) Flat-color drawing of Csoru Drazharan and Thara from the chest up on a pale, dull blue background, at a 3/4 view and facing the viewer respectively. Csoru has pointed ears, pale skin, curly white hair, and a neutral expression, and very vivid dark blue eyes. Her hair is done up into three buns with braids wrapped around and side bangs, and adorned with gold, magenta, and green beads, tashin sticks, and a hair comb, which match her elaborate set of earrings. She is wearing a frogged magenta jacket with gold embroidery and puffy sleeves. Thara looks the same as in the previous picture, though his vest is no longer striped and he has some wisps of hair escaping his braid, and the way his hair frames his face is different. End ID.]

[bcolfanfic]

loveee when i dont know how to let any of my blorbos be happy for too long...love thinking about the concept of (young vets au) bucky's drinking getting to a point that the guys and gale have to go full Intervention of him...all of them crammed into gale and bucky's living room kinda getting read the riot act by bucky in his lashing out </3

[sweet-beezus]

Shoutout to middle school me who decided to turn Sgt. Keroro into all states of matter for my science notebook

[beltransadie]

Here's some AI the Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative fanarts I did 1 year ago

[thelassoway]

Ted Lasso || For Science 🥼 Redux

[agustusmctittius]

Old design on sapphire (xiaolan)

[nucleiaster]

Redesigns of Meden, Etha and Nua i did in july for artfight !

[wolpatinga]