#(western ones at least >_> )

[zvaigzdelasas]

I mean. I literally do???

#the entirety of pakistani media is a plot by a shady islamist style organization #basically what they say right after this #'news' broadcast #self described gender critical ppl just love racism and western centrism #like im probably one of the ppl for whom 'do you usually read [non western] media??' rhetorical questions is least applicable lmfao

[swamp-cats-den]

This is so funny.

When the westerners see a post complaining of russophobia they imagine a young queer intellectual stuck in russia, hating the regime to the core and being all bleeding heart for the suffering Ukrainians.

Meanwhile, the same very person complaining of russophobia in one post boasts about literal war trophies brought from the occupied Ukrainian territories by their war criminal father in another, fills their artworks with modern russian military symbols, and tags the posts about their relatives participating in invasion with 'lol memes'.

It is honestly funny how much goodwill russians are still given for absolutely nothing while Ukrainians have to constantly prove that we deserve, well, to at least not be massacred.

#the person I'm talking about literally came to one of the posts by a Ukrainian to whine about russophobia #and there was another post where smb very naive was talking with them at how unfairly the westerners treat russia #and saying that those people would probably hate Ukrainians too #like dude at least take a look at the blog of the person you're speaking to #they're literally cheering on the genocide of Ukrainians their family actively participates in #I doubt those who hate this user hate Ukrainians too lol #some of you have never been targeted by the artillery and drones and missiles for your nationality alone and it shows #Ukraine

[lydiaalin]

on today's episode of trying to finish wips that have been sitting there for months

#I WAS going to work on like. friends' gifts and stuff but like #head empty and I at least had the sketch done for this one #and yet. still don't have the patience for it so goodnight #lydiaalin #yweyn #western au #her name is a kladruber named abaddon 🤍

[yuriinadress]

Remember when yuri on ice was canon in steven universe

Yeah me too

Steven Universe (2017-2020) #4

#2017 was a good year for yoi inthe western media you least expected #anyone else remember the arbys ad? i do #or that one chocolate company #yoi #yuri on ice #yuri!!! on ice #steven universe #yuri plisetsky #victor nikiforov #yuuri katsuki #otabek altin #victuuri

[sailforvalinor]

It’s probably been said already, but I think the reason I find myself gravitating away from modern western media and towards anime/k-drama/what have you is that I would so much rather watch something that’s maybe a little cheesy and overdone, but fundamentally earnest and heartfelt that knows what it is and isn’t ashamed of it, than something flashy, glossy, and manicured trying to appeal to every possible demographic and above all trying so so desperately not to be *shudders* cringy that it somehow manages to be so in every possible manner

#I think video games currently are one of the only pieces of media being spared this—at least mostly #because video games aren’t quite as universally enjoyed they have room to be genre-specific and make things that might only appeal to very #specific demographics. it’s really the only western media I’m at all optimistic about at this point #media #discourse #media discourse

[everyones-least-favorite-bard]

been thinking abt the western au a lot lately

hes not this young in the like mainline of events for the au but i thought itd be fun to doodle him before he builds his lone star persona

#hes divorced at this point too i should say #bro does not once catch a break. king of no killing more like king of no winning lmao #i think out of yhk hes the one who like visibly ages the least but its more because hes looked 34 since he was like 17 #ill drop yjh and hsy later #orv #orv western au #kdj #kim dokja #omniscient reader #bard draws

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

the absolutely Vivid reality based chronological dream i had last night. man

#i got a job at like... an automobile warehouse or something? #we had to change a large trucks tires... #and i was sent to get some more from across the block or whatever #and its more complicated than that - there were conversations and interactions with people etc #and i was trying to find it but it was all like... in this corridor shopping mall? #the signs were western themed and listed items that you could get in that store #though i think it was all free? #anyway at some point it opened into a restaurant and i had a friend there who was carrying a plate for people who left prematurely #so i of course started shoveling it into my mouth - free food! but their manager caught us #and i had to be all 'hey i work around here im just lookin for tires and no one was gonna eat this anyway' #it was like... a rice/mango/cream thing...? strange because i dont like mangoes! #long story short i had to go back for the tires bc i wound up forgetting them. something about a dog.... #i was too late in getting the tires so i had to go sort rubber bolts instead :/ at least the warehouse was cool #absolutely unprompted #but it was very. linear. and it felt very real. like it was genuinely a place and a job that could exist #like i remember what the outside loading area looked like. the packed restaurant. the corridor. the warehouse. the lockers. the hallway #IF I HAD A BETTER MEMORY I STG I COULD MAP IT OUT #god i love my dreams. they're always plot based and im rarely myself <3

[kirkwallguy]

dai is actually fun when you're not a hater. unfortunately i am a hater. however i am also a lover.

#crestwood is genuinely good i wish the rest of this game was this good... #i also did the fallow mire just before which is also good.... #but i'll probably go to the western approach next which is one of my least fave areas 😑😑

[the-badger-mole]

the way you cope is insane when aang canonically is kind and respects culture, he wouldn’t even marry a water bender if he was that uptight y’all need to heal it’s been almost two decades making salty headcanons is just insane n don’t help when u can easily be proven wrong😭

HE RESPECTS CULTURE???? ��🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆 Thank you! I needed that belly laugh. What a way to start my day. Bless your heart.

#atla #anti aang #anti kataang #you're right tho #he was at least neutral on most cultures #most of his disrespect was only for one culture in particular 🙃 #hey defend him in the western air temple #i need another laugh #it's been 20 years and you still don't know how to block users and tags? #get a life stalker

[getosugurusbangs]

guys…. what bllk character(s) do you think i should draw as a cowboy??

#i love coming up with cowpoke outfit ideas for characters #it’s so so fun #love me a good cowpoke/western theme #but give me your thoughts #i have at least one character in mind i think #bllk #blue lock #me.txt

[soldier-poet-king]

I very much try to live by a 'most generous interpretation' ethos and just try desperately to believe everyone is trying their best to seek and do Good, even though our understanding of it is always necessarily incomplete and limited, I truly do believe most people are fundamentally searching for that, but oh man sometimes y'all make me read theological opinions on this site that's not just 'i severely disagree but see how one could get to that opinion even if I think it an awful conclusion' but more like 'this is the worst thing I've ever seen and I wish I didn't have eyes'

#rare W for catholics bc we be arguing about everything but at least theres SOME common grounding #arguments about quote unquite being saved. and who's really saved. and all that. im #imma be real with you chief. peace and love to all but calvinism is a crime #this also includes not strict calvinism but all the debates abt predestination and the elect or even just #*fully accepting christ and being saved* #like nulla salva discourse amongst catholics is bad dont get me started #but at least there is SOME basis for universalist and anonymous christian arguments #i mean. like. yeah im way way lefter than most orthodox theologians. obvs #but yall really out here still arguing about who's saved?? FOR REALSIES??? #have you considered. its far more complex and the soul and the divine cant be fully contained in human terms #and its so much broader and more terrorible and more wonderful than we can ever comprehend #now in a mirror dimly. etc etc etc. #anyway the transcendence of it all. the beauty and terror of the holy. #tbf the eastern orthodox have this one correct. they really got it. #faith tag #like peace and love and all due respect but also. this is why religious trauma and scruples is so widespread in western christianity. like.

[torgawl]

i'm seeing people commenting on this new toji art as if it symbolises gege placed toji in heaven even after everything he did and i know it's mostly a joke but i feel like this is actually an interesting thing to talk about. as we all know, jujutsu kaisen is a heavily buddhist inspired story. having in account all the situations gege has made use of this element, which i will add here:

(the first two are illustrations for chapters 89 and 90 of the manga, before gojo and kenjaku died, and the latter for chapter 180)

i think it's safe to say halos aren't used within the manga to be associated with the christian connotation (except for hana, even though her holiness and the one she serves also aren't traditionally christian by context clues we had so far). halos in buddhist art are actually used to depict enlightened beings, which correlates a lot more to toji than whatever christian symbol ever could. however, i don't think it's clear if gege has used halos in jjk with this specific meaning in mind. so far only gojo, kenjaku/geto and rika have been drawn with halos over their heads, as shown above, despite not being the only dead characters. additionally, all their halos are drawn different, taking shape of things relevant to them (gojo has the infinity sign; rika has a flower crown which can be associated with marriage; and, kenjaku has two halos, one within the other, possibly symbolising him residing inside geto). this could relate to toji as he's the only one with a simple halo, and also the only one within those four that is deprived of cursed energy. in my view, this new toji illustration doesn't mean gege sees him as a saintly figure or someone who would go to heaven - that's also why gojo and nanami are shown their own versions of the afterlife at the brink of death - but, most likely, that gege depicts him as a character that has reached an unparalleled understanding of his own existence and transcended death.

#i've made a post regarding halos in jjk before but now it feels relevant to address 😂 #so i decides to rephrase my old post which was originally tied with gojo being the only one of the four that hasn't 'cheated' death yet #but i'm choosing to ignore that for now #i hope this makes sense? #i see the halos as figurative at least and don't think they're supposed to be taken literally by western ideologies #so here's sort of an analysis on why i think gege draws toji with an halo #toji fushiguro #jujutsu kaisen #jjk 💭

[skrunksthatwunk]

#banana fish #yut lung lee #lee yut lung #im not going to explain myself. jk um yll's two looks are women's clothing and dysphoria sweaters #or at least like 80% of them #and when characters mistake yll for/compare yll to a woman there's zero pushback or correction #and yll talks about being girly on the inside too and just. idk ok #like no i dont want to compare yll to western gender standards but yll wears chinese women's clothing/hairstyles #it's not just different cultural standards it's intentionally wearing fem clothes from that culture #look maybe estrogen would give her something to live for idk #like all hcs i think there's a bunch of other ways to view yll's gender that are good but idk i like this one 👍 #also to be so real i just hit characters i like with the transgenderfication beam a lot so #i think i saw a gimmick blog doing this question but uh. i dont feel like finding it and submitting sorry #hope its ok if me and the other like 40 bf fans on here have this one #thats so crazy i just noticed the color palette i chose.... more like blue lung lee am i right

[whump-in-the-closet]

In a Wild West setting, whumpee gets tied to a horse and dragged behind it in the scorching sand. Maybe down the main street. Maybe with their hands restrained, so when it's finally over, their face is scraped, their tongue is bitten, blood tasting like iron, and they can barely stagger away.

#whump writing #whump #whump prompt #whump community #whumpblr #whump ideas #whump scenario #whump stuff #western whump #i know this is actually kind of accurate #because it happened to that one guy in true grit #so cinematically accurate at least

[hualianisms]

i love how fanghua are so danmei coded. fang duobing as the protective nianxia ml whose life was so monumentally changed and shaped by a shifu he met only once when he was younger but whose small act of kindness moved him so deeply that he spent most of his life trying to get stronger, working hard to finally be able to catch up to and be worthy of that glorious shifu that he so admired.

except he finally meets that shifu again years later as an adult and he's finally caught up to him but now their positions are reversed - li lianhua is now the sickly one, and fallen from grace; fdb is now the (physically) stronger one, the young hero, and he becomes friends with and falls for llh who he now no. longer wants to be the disciple of. instead, he now wants to protect and care for li lianhua like one protects and cares for a lover.

#mysterious lotus casebook #fanghua #fang duobing #li lianhua #莲花楼 #huafang is also danmei coded. incidentally huafang is the most popular mlc ship on lofter by far #either way they are so danmei coded so GAY coded #llh obviously reciprocates; the most obvious evidence is in the deleted scenes in the scripts; so many lines abt how much fxb means to llh #anyway ik i simplified what llh and fdb are to each other in my prev posts but that post was just to explain to western fans who said they #didnt pick up on fanghua romantic hints/coding. but ofc their rs def has layers and complexities #but to me most of all llh (llh not lxy) & fxb are Equals. the show goes to such great pains to establish them as equals #it doesn't have to be romantic no one has to ship them we all have our own preferences #but at the very least theyre literally canonically best friends #in the show they very explicitly are & acknowledge each other as equals. best friends. zhiji. *equals*!! #anyway i love how they reject and transcend social hierarchies to form their own unique relationship on their own terms #their real rs is something that cant be easily defined but the two of them have chosen the word zhiji for it

[kirnet]

i still have to tighten everything up but i think i have a fun new setting for a dnd campaign :D it’ll be set in a big magical floating city that is situated in an overlap of a lot of different planes, and where portals to these planes naturally open up. Adventurers are hired to go into these portals and retrieve rare materials or artifacts for magical components and work either as freelance parties or work under companies. And of course there’s gonna be a lot of infighting of different company factions and black markets and sky pirates bc of course i want sky pirates. Also has the benefit of keeping one set location to focus on while still allowing me to send players to cool new locations!

#ramblings #its reeallllyyy fun for me now i just need to start fleshing out some factions and quest arcs #i like it too bc this feels like if i ever want a break someone else can hop in an dm for a bit? we can do a few wild arc and come back ya #lots of magic tech and high fantasy stuff but also a western feel? its pretty much a frontier town #i think after the first one or two arcs there might be an incident tm to make things more tense and up the stakes #or maybe well just keep on the little missions and see where that takes us #i am sending their asses to the shadowfell at least once. i loved bg3 act 2 too much to not #i just need a name for the city… something cool and snappy…