#what sparks joy

[papier-ciseaux]

Quick note: while I love to spread awareness, talk about my experiences, answers general question, etc., I'm not all-knowing. More specifically, I don't know you. So sending me an ask, on anon, with personal info about yourself in hopes I can somehow rule out a judgment on your own identity...? is not gonna get answered.

I don't wanna be rude, but that’s your shit to figure out pal, not mine! I don’t know you one bit! It's sweet some of you think I can help, and I'm willing to have a conversation in PMs or something, but I can only give pointers and generic advice.

I'm really not comfortable with people asking if they're 'allowed' to be something. I do not make the rules, because there are No Rules. It's free real estate baby!

[ellmovy]

i draw so much hetalia you wouldn't believe

also tumblr exclusive because it's too suggestive to put where my family & coworkers are:

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Wei Wuxian eats a watermelon. Yep!

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[randomshipperhere]

I tell you guys this has got to be the vibes of the fics.

[mamawasatesttube]

impulse (1995) #50

happy "bart fucking GETS tim" day ♥

[spark-circuit]

My Trailblazer: nah bro you won't catch me going near the Masked Fools' Tavern. who KNOWS what kind of nefarious pranks and schemes are going on behind closed doors..... 🤨

Sampo, Sparkle, Giovanni, Aha secretly in human form, and some of the other Masked Fools:

[ninjasmudge]

BIRFDAY GIFT FOR @animemoonprincess​ based on his hc that maq is really bad at horror

[dragonsbluee]

I see your gay uncles of the straw hats Jimbrook and raise you old, gay, heartbroken, pirate captians who find a loving, romantic relationship in each other as they watch over a group of chaotic youngsters.

Because Brook and Yorki had a heartbreaking goodbye, and Brook spent 50 years mourning, but now he has a second chance. He wasn't expecting anything, but then, lo and behold! A handsome, kind, capable fish man enters stage right, and Brook is smitten. Here is someone who understands the grief of losing a captian and partner, then having to take their place to hold the crew together, but ultimately watching thier crew fall apart or suffer due to factors outside their control.

For Jimbei the last few years have been a whirlwind of chaos. He was looking forward to a new adventure full of chaos of his own making and choices. Now, enter stage left, this fantastic, enigmatic, adorable skeleton (and he's a musician!), who is a wonderful presence on a ship full of younger pirates. Jimbei never really moved on from the loss of the Sun Pirates, and hasn't had time to mourn all the friends he's lost in the past few years. But now he finds companionship and comfort in Brook. Someone who doesn't expect him to move on, let's him reminisce, but keeps him from getting stuck in his mourning. He's never thought of romance seriously before, but now he finds himself wanting.

The two meet in the middle, center stage on a ship of dreams as they forge a new one together. They still keep and work towards their individual dreams but find pieces of each other in them. Brook looks forward to the day he can introduce Laboon to Jimbei, and Jimbei has promised to translate the whale's words for Brook. Jimbei will see freedom for his people and finds motivation in every new song Brook writes and story he tells. Together, they find peace, calm, and rest. They find excitement, companionship, and a harbour in the other after years of storms.

[reds-skull]

This took actually 4 hours, 3 of them just trying to make the easy way work (spoiler alert - it fucking didn't), last hour I just gave up and fixed the textures manually.

Thank you to @hauntedbubbles for the models and plug-in to import them to Blender! You can find that on this post.

You might ask why... I spend 4 hours trying to make this fucker dance. And that's because I wanna see them be silly and Activision is not gonna give it to me, so I'm making it myself.

[chick-with-wifi]

The Machine: Interesting fact. Root: Oh? The Machine: The name 'Sameen' means 'precious'. Root: *delighted gasp* A few hours later Root: Your name is Sameen because you're precious! Shaw: Your name is Root because you're the root of all my problems.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gearing up for the stat boosts

MDZS Disco Elysium AU Part 3 (Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 4)

[canisalbus]

Sorry but we were speaking about history in a part of one of my classes and when the Vatican came on. I had to draw the sad dog man.

Machete is now immortalized in my class notes. It’s in spanish by the way, which is kind of funnily appropriate considering latin is very close to spanish.

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[thatswhatsushesaid]

if lan xichen thought it was 'cool' of nie mingjue to try to kill jin guangyao at any point, he would not have placed himself between baxia and jin guangyao. which is something he does, every single time. because he does not think it is okay for nie mingjue to try to kill jin guangyao.

can whoever has had the jin guangyao hateboner for the past week, like... go outside for 5 minutes the next time they feel like shrieking about how much they hate jin guangyao into the danmei confessions askbox. maybe take up birdwatching. cross-stitch? pet a cat.

just some suggestions.

[thefrogdalorian]

Spent my day doing Hot Girl Things and reorganising my shelves and I'm so happy with this one!! Gorgeous gorgeous girls have a little shrine to Din Djarin in their bedrooms 🫢

[halfratsalready]

I hope they put Jack Rose on one of the jack cards because it would be funny. That’s the only reason. I just think it would be funny. Symbolism is cool and all (I’m feral for symbolism) but I need them to do it for the bit ☺️