#topic 7

[lloydfrontera]

on the topic of jealous javier i love the idea of lloyd bemoaning that no one ever approaches him and complaining about how everyone in lorasia must be incredibly superficial if him having a plain face is enough to make people dismiss him out of hand and being blissfully unaware of the amount of poor souls that try to get close to him only to be met with the most handsome and terrifying motherfucker on the planet glaring murder at them over lloyd's shoulder daring them to try it just fucking try it

[ruporas]

pre-trimax

[the-awful-falafel]

I really hope Rick and Morty as a series will finally move on from portraying Rick's love for Morty / his family as this special, redemptive trait that Morty just needs to open his eyes to. Or portraying it as something Rick just needs to be emotionally honest about, finally admit in a grand gesture, and then everything will be healthy and resolved.

Two things can be equally true: Rick can sincerely care about Morty, deeply enough to be tender with him, showing gestures of affection, being protective of him, being truly proud of him... and can also constantly let Morty down, put him in mortal danger, make Morty feel responsible for his emotional health, treat him awfully and in manipulative controlling ways, and not be there for him when it matters most. His love is real, but is also a fickle thing that Morty cannot always rely on. That uneven dolling out of affection is exactly what entrenches the abuse and damages Morty further. Even now that Rick is slowly improving as a person, his simultaneous love and unreliability persists in milder ways, and the long pattern of abuse leaves deep scars on his grandson.

In my opinion, it makes perfect sense for Morty to see Rick's care for him as this unreliable, dangerous, and potentially non-existent thing, but also to paradoxically crave it nonetheless. Every time he lets his guard down and starts to trust Rick too much, he's been kicked in the nuts for it to varying extents-- even recently. I don't think he actually believes Rick cares nothing for him, but he's been trapped in this cycle of good and bad for so long that his self-worth is eroded and wholly defined by his grandpa's conditional affection, and he's scared of and dependent on it simultaneously. Even if Rick became truly healthy and openly caring from now on, that won't change how he's screwed up Morty with his behavior.

The series isn't going to make any meaningful progress if the writers keeps cycling around the superficial "does Rick care? does Morty know how deeply Rick cares?" question that they've asked since Season 1, instead of progressing to more meaningful, realistic questions about what Rick's love even means after all the past seasons of codependent abuse, and how much it should be worth to Morty in the end. (Ideally, much, much less than it's worth now.)

Yes, Rick cares. Yes, he loves his family deeply. But as with many forms of abuse, that's part of the problem.

[tapakah0]

Okay... a little serious talk (nervous, don't like such a topics but I won't go anywhere if won't bring it up)

In the next month college will start again, that means I'll have... much more less free time... or I'll be staying up all nights (And I will, because I want to create, but my health doesn't like it at all *chuckle*)

I don't work, all my day I literally draw (and if I have an opportunity to freely draw while I can, I will), but sometimes I still have to take commissions because... I don't like to ask for something and feel uncomfortable if it's something that I didn't earn myself, I have something that I need and sadly it isn't made out of grass *giggle*

The point is, I'm 100% I will be working on "Agnes" animatic in my free time, aaaand I can make some kind of monthly subscription (on boosty, sorry if it is unusual for you, but it's the only option for me) where I can send all wips, scream about what I want to show or add, I'm pretty sure I will be working on more than 1 animatic simultaneously and will be screaming about it too (that means I will stop shitposting and throwing wips every few minutes on tumblr and then delete to develop your paranoia XDDD (And Cass won't see anything, two rabbits with one stone), pretty sure you can ask me some questions here and I will try to answer, I was thinking about streaming process of animation but not sure that it will be interesting (it will be quiet)

In the end, of course, I will be publishing everything! I always do, I don't keep anything for myself *giggle* It's just, I think if there's any point for it if there won't be anyone. In that case I will continue taking commissions anyway and keep animating, just in slower pace~

I will delete it later if it's a useless idea

[todayisafridaynight]

[mediumguyenergy]

thinking about Bunny with all of his faults, and terrible jokes and humour in general, just absolutely loving Henry the most out of everyone in the entire world and him being the one that Henry killed with his bare hands

[rosy-crow]

“Found you.”

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

dnkinktober day 17: brat (taming)

….except i cannot use a normal color palate for the life of me

[e-adlirez]

Almost seven years of having this book,,,

... Only to learn in the year of our Lord 2024 that this is a Taylor Swift reference

Vanilla you clout-chasing binch /lh /affectionate

[frostfires-blog]

S2 is officially in production!!!

[loveletterworm]

Unimportant but slightly funny thing i just found and had never seen mentioned before: The variable used for displaying what chapter you started your deltarune save in on the light world’s stats screen (oddly not the dark world’s...?) is called “krispreservationsociety” (society for the preservation of krises)

i actually somehow never noticed this was a thing that displayed at all this whole time i suppose i just never looked at this screen in chapter 2...

[makorragal-312]

Season 2 Buck: "At least when I date someone, I date them."

Season 7 Buck: "I'm keeping my options fluid."

[rayjeff]

why does life have to be so hard

[vigilskeep]

I think the way people go about justifying in-world homophobia and sexism through andrastianism is so interesting to me. like it’s evident that it’s not religiously based, or it SHOULDN’T be. like yeah you can argue that the whole Andraste/Maker thing is an idealized relationship but there’s no condemnation of same-sex relationships in any Andrastian text that we’ve seen.

also if the church is so powerful in southern Thedas and a matriarchal concept at that, where does the sexism come from? probably also from the idea of normative conformity to need for traceable bloodlines. (another point I like to drag here is that in Andrastianism, I believe what they consider to be “original sin” is Envy? And not performed by a woman? vs Eve in the Bible with the fruit and how everyone blames her LMAO)

anyways take that with the caveat that I don’t have spoons to elaborate much on my own musings

yeah it’s interesting! i think that’s down to assumptions both the writers and fans have made i.e. fans sometimes assume that culturally christian experiences are universal and all homophobia operates in that same format. the sexism is more a failure on the writers’ part to fully think through the consequences of their worldbuilding and also a failure of imagination to even conceive of a society where sexism is not foundational, which is especially true when you look at the myths they felt forced to create (ser aveline and astyth the grey) to explain why it’s possible for women to be warriors

[ruler-of-thorns]

Meleanor sketches

[egberts]

i no longer argue with people on facebook. it wasn't good for my mental health at all. instead i just drop my morally superior take and then laugh react when people try to argue and they get. so. mad.