#utility ships

[swtechspecs]

Republic Engineering Corporation Shieldship

Source: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Del Rey, 1996)

[lotus-pear]

free will is drawing ur two favorite characters together and making them gay

[krysmcscience]

Saw this post and couldn't resist because,

1.) @tesscourtes' human!Bill is a lil cutie-patootie menace that I very badly wanted to draw, and,

2.) I have a - M I G H T Y - N E E D - for any version of human!Bill to find any way he possibly can to annoy Ford a whole lot :D

Also, 3.) I like to headcanon that Bill's knowledge in The Sciences is mostly limited to 'Ways I Can Make A Really Cool Doomsday Portal', and everything else he knows is just a slapdash mix of the stuff he remembers from whatever schooling he went through on Euclydia, a whole awful lot of lucky guesses (which he WILL gaslight you about if you tell him he's wrong), and - naturally - conning all the rest of the answers he needs out of any more educated saps who are unfortunate enough to be around him at the time (answers which he will then proceed to take credit for), so as far as I'm concerned, this "outfit" is perfect for him.

Ignore the shitty backgrounds, I am sick to death of doing backgrounds, I just want to draw goofy shenanigans, okay???

[comfort-character-central]

This is your sign to create something selfship/self-insert related for your own enjoyment (without the pressure to be perfect).

[soupsandstars]

You should do a lil scotch of Charlene McGowan and Jackie McGee on a coffee date…

[ecoterrorist-katara]

I’m so tired of wlw background ships in mlm fandoms.

mlm shippers almost never develop wlw ships to the degree that the audience feels invested in them. The conflict and character development and love story rely on tropes rather than actual narratives, yet fandoms act like they’re doing wlws a favour by shoehorning in this shitty “representation” when it’s just golden retriever x black cat over and over and over again in different fonts.

To be clear I don’t blame anyone for not having big wlw ships, because most major media out there do not have two fully fledged female characters you can ship together. If you want to write mlm ships, good for you! If you want a lazy wlw ship in the background, that’s fine! But don’t act as if the fandom actually cares about them, or that anyone did the legwork to make them characters that you can care about. Most of these female characters are never properly developed in the canon source material, and they’re almost never properly developed in the fanon material either. You can always tell by how these women are like, one archetype + gay (sporty gay, feisty gay, slutty gay etc, like some kind of gay Spice Girls). Yet fandoms just love to act like these background wlws mean so much & have the best love stories & everyone just should ship them. It’s all so performative.

wlws are not an aesthetic. wlws are not 2D happy couples to round out your queer utopia, a queer utopia that somehow still manages to foreground men. Women are always treated as 2D characters in narratives, except now there’s a subgenre where these 2D women are gay. Groundbreaking.

[nordfjording]

there's a new carbon footprint calculator out adjusted for the nordics and its great and all (lists me as about half of the average norwegian) but it also pinpoints how hard it is to make these accurate because the "best tips for how YOU can improve!" are very much along the lines of "take the train!" no trains in my region. "stay at your vacation destinations longer and fly less!" i don't go on vacations. "eat less meat!" i buy 1 pack of salami per month. "buy fewer eggs!" i haven't bought an egg in several years. "take the bus to activities!" i don't have regular activities.

[pigeonstardrop]

Something I want to see more in fics is Maxwell being so sick/dazed/out of it that he mistakes Wilson for Charlie

Short, spikey black hair, red clothes, black gloves? Yeah close enough, especially to a guy in desperate need of glasses and running fever of 103

[theshadowrealmitself]

a lot of the time it sort of seems like most of the fandom likes peter with other superheroes so his supporting cast is mostly window dressing.

Is this an mcu fandom thing? I’ve read a lot of shipping fics with Spidey and with him x other heroes you can tell a bit when the author is more familiar with one hero over the other, like sometimes with spideytorch fics it’ll get into a lot of Johnny’s exes and villains and stuff like Lyja and Crystal and Namor and MJ will only be touched on without mentioning Gwen or Felicia, but then other times the author will focus on all the people Peter knows and MJ will usually even be an actual character in the fic while Doom and generic aliens and vaguely just “supermodel exes” get mentioned for Johnny

I should also state I usually read fics where the relationship is developing rather than established and it’s the main point of the fic, and when the romance is the focal point, it makes sense to me that other characters and stuff will fall to the wayside (now, if it was just generically a Peter fic, and all his peeps were barely even mentioned, that’d piss me off, you can’t downplay the significance of Harry and MJ and all them in his life), but I wouldn’t really think of them as window dressing, they’re just secondary characters in a romance fic

But we could be reading v different types of fics where they aren’t treating his supporting cast v well at all, I do filter out a lot

And I suspect it’s mcu stuff, only because I know that sadly enough there’s fics in that fandom that don’t just write out aunt may but will even villainize her (and not even in a fun “what if this character was a villain” way), so I could see that section writing out MJ and Ned

[eternitycongregation]

YOU. YOU'RE THE TRANSFEM INTERSEX RATIO PERSON. I LOVE YOU.

:o!! It's me indeed, hello!!!

I'm glad you like the headcanon, she's everything to me tbh. You can safely assume any time I talk about Ratio that this conception of her is in my mind.

ramblings under the cut (CW: vague mentions of intersexism and transmisogyny)

About her being intersex, I usually have two sets of headcanons: one where she has nCAH and the other hyperandrogenic PCOS. Part of why I have this headcanon is projection ofc; but it's also because I like the idea of Ratio in her goal to cure the disease of ignorance, she desires to destroy the false concept of the sex binary. It makes the goal very personal to her, being affected by intersexism, in addition to the altruism.

I think Ratio struggled a lot in her transition journey, because she felt like she had to give up a lot of the things she liked about her body and herself and had to conform to beauty standards she didn't like in her attempts to achieve the Ideal Woman status. I think she used to do extensive voice training, wear full beat makeup, and tried to avoid putting on muscle to give the thin and dainty vibe. Even though she likes her deep voice, a full face is a sensory nightmare for her, and trying to keep her body mass down was unhealthy for her...that's what she thought she needed to do. Her oddly British accent (odd for a character Greek and Roman inspired) is from imitating women she thought of as elegant and refined. She used to wear pumps in her classroom and offices even though she hated how they hurt her feet, because that's what other women wear to work.

And I imagine the Ratio we have in the present is one who is secure in her gender identity that she does not feel the need to overperform femininity. She knows that she does need to be accepted by others to know her own worth. Her body is toned and built, she speaks with a deep voice, wears clothes that are comfortable for her (cutouts for ventilation and a nice pair of sandals), puts on red eyeliner and calls it a look. And you can tell she loves it because of all those statues lmao.

[3llyne]

AND DONE

the sillies

@a-bucket-in-the-void i hope you like how drew you!! If you want anything changed do tell

Also we have to come up for a name (and tag) for this

The Fish bones crew?

The Fish spine pirates???

@lily-nyx @mayfly0678 also h e l p

[poomphuripan]

'Poppy' Parnsuk Tongrob's IG (poppy.dasnanjali) update (t/n: Poppy is the Executive Producer of My Stand-In and Country Director for iQIYI Thailand)

↬ pov: when your physical body has fallen, but your heart is still determined to capture uppoom's moments

↬ the moment

↬ iQIYI ORIGINAL

↬ toobtub toobtub (t/n: UpPoom's fandom name)

(translation courtesy of ane_is_happy)

some previous uppoom moments shared by K'Poppy

[ardentpoop]

I used to read so much fic back in the day lol. sad how tricky it is for me now

[scorched-cipher]

I’d like to see the Tulpar crew try and live one day in the shoes of the Mouthwash Space Tragedy crew, they’ll cave 2 hours in

Big true. Mental breakdowns all around. Also I think Swansea would have a heart attack looking at all the rusty pipes and stuff that certainly would make anyone with OSHA training nervous.

Swansea looking at all the unsafely-wired generators and how they’re right next to the cockpit, ensuring that if anything happened to them that the cockpit would be completely destroyed, rendering the ship unable to be piloted:

[cannedvampirejuice]

theyre best friends trust me

[tomlivingspace]

also which leafpool Yuri ship do u prefer (since there are 9374937) or are u not into leafpool yuri

i was really into mothpool when i was younger because. well bc its was obvious. but most leafpool ships seem very one-note. even mothpool just kind of bores me. but that's the case with most warriors ships tbh like very few of them are interesting in any capacity and if they are people generally tend to just portray them as like. happy couple in love. which is not what im about.

if i were to explore any gay leafpool ships, id have sorreltail be to leafpool what leafpool ends up being to mothwing. a good luck babe russian nesting doll if you will.

but i think what id really be interested in exploring is moth flight x leafpool :) everyones like toxic yuri this and toxic yuri that... well prove your allegiance then. ill wait.