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I TOTALLY FORGOT TO POST HIM HERE !!! After almost 3 weeks, Sandnyan on a motorcycle is done and it was so worth it! I had so much fun animating this whole project and it turned out so much better than I imagined. I got to mix two of my fav GitM AUs in the process as well and that was such a blast!!!!! The char belongs to @/venomous-qwille on here though, he is not mine!

Sadly though because the file is so big you guys don’t get the full quality version !! Some of the background is fucked Ik due to this sadly as well but I hope it’s enjoyable nonetheless ^_^

Also a coatless ver!!

Anyways scurrying back into the depths teehee

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YIIIPPEEEEE neat fellows

i love them

(fool and misuta fromm ghost in the machine by @venomous-qwille)

kaBOOM

uncolored version too because why not :-0

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“Misuta, this behavior is most unbecoming~” - GITM: Three of Pentacles

IT'S FINALLY DONE HOLY SHIT!! I really hope you guys like it! Details under the cut!

@venomous-qwille *bows* this was one of my favorite scenes so far in the fic!! Can't wait for more bots to finally show up I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED FOR NOVA AND SOMBRA!

Uh, also, the term 'Comely Thespian' lives in my head rent-free now and pokes me in the ganglia every few hours 👀 I SEE YOU FOOL!

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i just couldnt stop thinking about this

ghost in the machine belongs to @venomous-qwille :D

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If Nerdy Prudes Must Die got a muppet adaption I think Max should be the only human because it would be so funny to see a guy enact terrible violence on a bunch of puppets like the level of cartoon violence you could get to would be insane and also it would make Literal Monster really funny bc not only is Max acting like a monster, but beside the rest of the cast, who are all muppets, he'd kind of look like a monster as well

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Man, don’t even assume that it’s someone who doesn’t know the myth. Me and my dad did the same thing when we saw it live and we’ve been into Hadestown (and for me Greek myths generally) for forever. That shit just wrecks you sometimes.

Got to see Hadestown for the first time ever today (and it was amazing oh my god I had no idea what I was missing) and I'd just like to give a shout out to the poor soul in the audience who had clearly never heard the myth of Orpheus before, because when Orpheus turned around at the end the audience was dead silent except for this one very audible gasp of "no!" from somewhere in the crowd. And after Euridyce was gone and Orpheus dropped to his knees in grief, all anybody --cast, audience, the uncaring gods, etc -- could hear was muffled weeping from the same person

#cause here’s the thing #to know how it ends #and still begin to sing it again #as if it might turn out this time #hadestown #musicals #hadestown live #musical theater #theater #greek mythology

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Rewatching the original animated X-men series in preparation for 97, so of course I’ve also been seeing a lot of X-men posts. And, as always, I have strong opinions on what people on the internet say. Most of the time those opinions are “how did these people read/watch X-men growing up and not get that they’re the villains” because people are being bigots and are upset that their favorite heroes aren’t. But sometimes I’m stuck being frustratingly close to agreeing and my strong opinions are much harder to voice. In part because you don’t want to walk into the Discourse Landmine, but also in part because there’s so much to go over on the take.

Case in point: the “Magneto is right, Xavier is wrong” take, where my main problem with people is more the lack of nuance than the base take. And I know most of the people saying it are also doing it in part as a joke and get the nuance is there, but it still irks me.

Let’s be clear, in general, Magneto is not right, but he isn’t wrong either. Xavier isn’t wrong, but he isn’t right either. Obviously it’s partly dependent on whoever is writing at the moment, but also depending on which individual take of Magneto’s or Xavier’s you’re talking about. Yes, sometimes Xavier is frustratingly, harmfully liberal. Yes, sometimes Erik is doing the best possible for mutant well being. But there’s a lot of wiggle room with individual portrayals, and I think Xavier deserves justice for it. I’m not saying Magneto is just a villain, Stan Lee himself didn’t see him as such, but depending on the writers he can certainly be wrong.

Xavier is wrong when he focuses just on mutants with “useful” powers or conventionally attractive and human looks. He’s wrong when he puts the safety of bigots over the safety of the mutants they’re oppressing. He’s wrong when his only way of helping mutants is through the system. He’s wrong when he’s sending the X-men out to fight mutants more than bigots. He’s wrong when he hides he’s a mutant to avoid the stigma, even when the reveal would help solidarity and public trust. He’s wrong a lot.

But Xavier is right when he focuses on teaching mutants to love themselves and teaches them to control their powers and use them for good. He’s right when he says mutants and non-mutants can live in harmony. He’s right when he send the X-men out to destroy government/private property that’s being used to hurt mutants. He’s right when he takes out all his students, “attractive” or not, to speak up for mutant rights. He’s right when he sends the X-men to break innocent mutants out of prison/jail/unlawful containment. He’s right when he opens his institute to all mutants, so they have a safe place to go to. He’s right when he gives X-men choice and training for hard experiences, be it the choice to hide their powers or be open with them, to break out of jail/avoid arrest, or wait and go through an unfair trial for the sake of mutant visibility and legal precedent. He’s right when he finds places like the institute around the world. He’s right when he himself is on good terms with Magneto and works with him when it’s necessary for mutant good.

Don’t get me wrong, a lot of writers put Professor X as a filthy liberal. It sucks. Focuses on performative acts, letting fascists take ground for the sake of “civility,” and putting minorities at risk for the sake of optics, those are all bad. But sometimes liberal acts can be tools in the tool box. Voting isn’t gonna solve shit, but it can make it go downhill slower. Putting gay people in media isn’t going to end homophobia, but it will normalize gay people. Testifying before Congress for mutant rights might not be the flashiest or most effective way to get mutants’ rights, but it is a way to advance public opinion and slow anti-mutant laws. Just that isn’t good enough to beat the liberal accusations, but combined with the actions of some incarnations it genuinely changes their context. We can’t ignore all the times that Xavier has actively sent the X-men out to break laws and destroy government property for the sake of mutant well being. As much as we joke about the X-men being liberals, they usually aren’t afraid to break laws, break property, and raise hell for the sake of their people. And don’t forget that lot’s of “peaceful” acts of protest still cause disruption and still make a difference, even when it seems liberal on the surface, and can be organized by genuinely leftist people. Lots of Professor X’s portrayals could be genuinely leftist.

Likewise, Magneto is right a lot. He’s right when he says mutants shouldn’t be forced to stay in places where they’re being violently persecuted. He’s right when he advocates mutants fight back when bigots attack instead of just taking it. He’s right when he takes in mutants despite how palatable or useful they are. He’s right to actively fight fascists rising to exterminate his people. He’s right when he gives no fucks about the law when it comes to protecting minorities. He’s right when he creates a safe haven for mutants.

But boy, Magneto is also wrong a lot. He’s wrong when he says mutants and non-mutants can’t live together. He’s wrong when he says non-mutants are inferior. He’s wrong when he gets upset at mutants for wanting to live in harmony with humans. He’s wrong when he invalidates mutants who are upset with where being a mutant has gotten them, without helping them through the complicated feelings it brings. He’s wrong when he frames the X-men, a fellow mutant group, for his crimes. He’s wrong when he says mutants should exterminate non-mutants. He’s wrong when he thinks a mutant ethnostate is the end-all-be-all of mutant rights.

Erik is the kind of antagonist you get. He’s right on a lot of things. He has a lot of emotional appeal. As a (let’s be honest, gay) Jewish holocaust survivor, you know he’s coming from experience with his tactics. He genuinely doesn’t hate Xavier in most incarnations. But that doesn’t mean that in the incarnations where he literally calls for genocide, he should be let off the hook. Violence and resistance are important to most leftists movements, or even just mildly progressive ones. Be it a civil war to end US slavery, the riots at Stonewall, slave rebellions, or any number of revolutionary wars, sometimes active violence is necessary to stop the passive violence that minorities go through while oppressed. At the same time, it’s a fundamentally leftist ideal to believe in rehabilitation and the importance of people changing. And it’s also important to remember that genocide is bad no matter who’s doing it. Letting the genocidal versions of Magneto off the hook because it was “for mutants” is the same logic that lets Israel get away with how it treats Palestine.

I know that’s a lot of rambling to say something a lot of people already know, but as much as I love the “magneto was right” memes and the posts making fun of liberal X-men, I don’t want the genuinely leftists parts of the X-men to go unappreciated, nor the genuinely harmful parts of Magneto’s ideology excused.

#x men #x-men #xmen #x men 97 #charles xavier #professor x #magneto #erik lehnsherr #leftism #liberals #media

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more silver sebek angst

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Reblog for larger sample size whatever

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Finally have the mental fortitude to jump into whatever the hell Beast: the Primordial has going on. Pray for me. Depending on how insane the book makes me I might spitball some of my own ideas to reflavor, since I’m already painfully aware of the… shortcomings there, but I also see potential for the idea when not written be a serial abuser. Wish me luck.

#chronicles of darkness #beast: the primordial #beast the primordial

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as much as the concept of Jesus being a fairly normal lad has its charms, im personally very intrigued by the idea of him being just… extremely weird. not even in a mystical sense, just…….staggeringly BIZZARRE. 

you go to the well to get some water, and here’s Miriam’s boy, staring at the sky, completely still. his expression is unreadable. you hazard a hello and ask how he’s doing, and he slowly, unblinkingly, lowers his gaze on you (he’s 8 and is missing his frontal teeth, not that this is making you any less uncomfortable) and says “I cannot speak of the state of my being, Nathan son of Saul, my brother, but rejoice for the water you shall take today will be as pure as the soul of the children of Heaven”

…you start sweating

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This you?

I NEED THAT PILLOW

#its beautiful #especially for me as a Starkid fan #but also. #i KNOW im not the only one who misread ducks but still went to reblog #had to do a double take #the like it once #then unlike it and like and reblog again with a pure mind. #god bless #silly #christianity #yes i am gay why do you ask

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i wanted to draw the lords in black wearing black (rbs > likes, this took forever haha)

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Psa for all the new people coming in. I'm sooo queer. My pronouns? Any. My gender? Transed. Yes I'm christian. Yes I have read the bible. Does that give you the right to go to my blog and be homophobic or any kind of bigoted? Absolutely not! If the idea of homosexuality is so weird to you you might not want to be here. I can get freakier

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Constantly thinking about the effects of being literal God on the young Jesus’s psyche. Like, was he waiting patiently, daydreaming about the day he’s get to meet each apostle, his closest friends? Did he weep at night after he and Judas shared a heartfelt moment, knowing that he would be betrayed and Judas would die in the potter’s field? Was it frustrating to be a baby, newly born and experiencing the world for the first time yet also deeply aware of how much was out there for him to experience?

Perhaps there was a time where baby Jesus had to be comforted every night by Marry and Joseph, because a kid bullied him and he knows the kid will feel bad but he also knows that the kid is going to die young and never get the chance to make it right. Maybe when the order to kill the young boys went out, the baby Jesus’s tears weren’t those of infant need but of grief for all the young boys he doomed by being born. Or he played matchmaker in the yard, as other kids played, knowing who would marry who and why and how much they loved each other.

But he was still just a boy. He knew so much but knew nothing, he could do everything, but nothing, he loved so much but couldn’t express it, he grieved a thousand times every day and celebrated ten thousand. And no one knew. Perhaps he cried when Judas left his room after a long talk, or perhaps he giggled, knowing how much more they would share before it was soured.

Constantly thinking about how Joseph probably died long before Jesus did. Did Jesus know? For a time did he stay uncharacteristically close to his father's side? Did he trail at his back? Did he grieve for the living?

#oops im rambling #sorry girlies its my inner autism #church coulda got me hooked if instead of sitting there in silence while the pastor droned on #the adults would actually talk with me about the deep philosophical concepts my ten year old self was contemplating #this and my intense hyperfixation on animals leading me down the path of philosophizing about animal afterlife #i think jesus would let the dogs into heaven. #maybe he had a childhood pet that he missed too #religion #christianity #silly #creative writing #bible #new testament #jesus #jesus christ #judas iscariot #mary #apostles #fellas you don’t know how hard i worked to dumb down the homoerotic subtext in this one #I know the other Christian lads will find this one day so I tried to make it clear I wasn’t EXPLICITLY reading Judas X Jesus into this #I saw it #but I didn’t SAY it

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I am not okay what the fuck