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raveartts · 1 year

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#raveartts #httyd #how to train your dragon #light fury #dragon art #anyways so i was trying to study what method was used to draw the httyd concept art #and eventually i think i figured it out #it's (colored) pencils with alcohol markers #i was unsure if it was digital or watercolor at first tbh #also they definitely use toned paper which i simply do not have #so I gave it a shot by mashing up some of the light fury concepts for fun #i didn't fully finish coloring it bc i got tired #but i think i captured The Look at least a little bit #style replication isn't really my thing ofc but for a first attempt. you can see it resembles the concepts #.....also honestly. this is unrelated #but i've never fully watched httyd 3. i tried numerous times but i could never get my full attention on it #i'm sorry it's just. so bad omg #i think the light fury's design isn't as awful as people make it out to be #but she just doesn't look like she belongs in the universe either #SHE'S TOO FUCKING SMOOTH MAKE HER ROUGH #though the way she's animated is very nice to look at ofc

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def-not-kaz-brekker · 8 months

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controversial opinion but inej ghafa is literally terrifying and (obviously) such a queen.

like she literally held a stadwatch guard at knifepoint after creeping up on him and whispered (I don’t remember the exact quote) “I like it when men beg, but nows not the time” like??? Queen?????

And the end of the crooked kingdom where she cuts pekka rollins after threatening him, and switched alby’s toy lion with a crow?? Fucking terrifying?????

My love for inej knows no bounds and she is undeniably a powerful and scary woman

#idk if this has been said before #leigh bardugo #inej ghafa #she’s fucking terrifying #and I love it #it honestly makes her such a good character #i understand why my homeboy kazzle loves her so much #I love her your honor #pekka Rollins shat his pants so much tho it was fucking hilarious #“I like it when men beg’’???#queen #six of crows #grishaverse #also unrelated but her determination is so admirable #climbing a fucking incenirator isn’t for the weak #did I spell incenirator right probably not #inej ghafa appreciation post #she could stab me/murder me and I would say thank you #agskajshajah my queen

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tarotmantic · 8 months

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i will never justify why i like deh bc i don’t have to actually. i can just like it no qualifier needed

#this is inspired by a post but by no means a direct response #im just sick of anyone who ever says they like deh following it up with an ‘even though it sucks’#u can just say u like it #also it doesn’t suck okay it’s not problematic bc that doesn’t #doesn’t mean anything #the story isn’t trying to tell people to lie about knowing dead kids it’s not a moral lesson #the music slaps #have ur issues with it whatever but stawp with the shame #no media is without flaws #deh is not objectively bad as much as people want to believe that #honestly no one gets to clown on deh when dark romance is insanely popular on tiktok #by which I mean clearly we can understand that media doesn’t have to reflect real life morals #it doesn’t have to be pure and clean #im literally so cold rn #that’s unrelated #let people enjoy deh guilt free #let the tiktok girlies enjoy mafia stalker fiction #live and let live!#do i main tag this #dear evan hansen #deh #dear evan hansen (2021)

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pagesofkenna · 1 year

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this is a bit of a D&D movie spoiler and I get that it's the lowest stakes take possible, but I think it's silly they tried to give Chris Pine's character a Bard NPC statblock when he's clearly a Mastermind Rogue

'there's already a rogue in the party, edgin plays the lute' yeah yeah I get it, we're clearly supposed to think he's a Bard walking into this movie, but he's got no magic to speak of, which is actually kind of a relevant and noteworthy plot detail. he's not actually casting Charm Person or Friends or anything, because those are actual spells with spell components we never see him use. He's just got a high Charisma score and the Master of Tactics class trait

Edgin Darvis should be a Mastermind Rogue with the Entertainer background and probably the Inspiring Leader feat

like, he definitely seems to have some of the non-spellcasting abilities of a Bard (is that Bardic Inspiration or the Mastermind's bonus action Help we see?) and obviously I recognize this is probably intended to be a bit of a rules fudge to showcase how not everyone has easy access to magic in this setting... but a nonmagical bard is a rogue!

plus, reading him as a Rogue means his Lute Bash is adding sneak attack damage and that's why that's his only utility in combat and yet it works

#honor among thieves #i love this movie with a passion. fantasy heist with a reward for doing the homework? wow i already DID the homework!#also while writing this post I was doublechecking his statblock and saw he has SEVENTEEN D8 HIT DICE????#YALL THESE ARE HIGHEST TIER CHARACTERS??? whoever wrote this statblocks was JOKING #its honestly kinda funny at this point. these statblocks are garbage except as interesting NPCs you could refer to #not in that these statblocks are horrible on their own or anything theyre just. completely unrelated to the actual movie lmaooo #edgin is level 13 at best #and even that feels like a biiiiiiig stretch

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macbethz · 3 months

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I think hazbin hotel is part of a common trend recently where things call themselves “adult” to mean like saying bad words but still have the themes of and are structured like children’s shows

#like even 90s edginess still usually seemed like it was trying to be aimed at adults #this and stuff like gen v is identically structured to children’s media except with swears and penis #even the ‘jokes’ are structured like kids shows #ALSO unrelated to the point here but the depiction of addiction is so out of touch it’s unbelievable #child’s understanding of like drugs and sex work as a concept #warlock wartalks #honestly I would respect it a lot more if it was just a kids show #you’d barely have to change anything

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silly-little-headcannons · 1 year

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Julian gets a little confused when it comes to queer things and doesn’t really know how to show his support, especially to the Captain.

He ends up showing his support by begging Alison to buy any sort of rainbow capitalism related thing he sees online, and making a show of pointing out rainbow stuff and being like “gay rights :)”

#julians also bisexual #but I honestly think that’s unrelated to how he shows his support #this is based off my own dad #he gave me a pride uno deck for Christmas once #just because it was pride related #I thought it was so sweet honestly #bbc ghosts #julian fawcett #julian ghosts #julian fawcett mp #captain ghosts

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this-cannot-continue · 11 months

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omg! world's most hyperspecific self-indulgent crossover just dropped! (it's the locked tomb. it's a nier automata tlt au.)

#look im mentally ill about both of these series ok? ok.#2b9s are soooo necrocav to me #eighth house because uhhhhhh. ok fine its because i wanted an excuse for them to keep their funny little blindfolds #BUT ALSO i think the spirit stuff is a good stand in for hacking and theres a lot of potential w/ soul siphoning. you know. for suffering.#although it would be funny as hell if 2b was second house and 9s was ninth #second or fourth house honestly might be a better fit but i think the religious overtones of the eighth r interesting too #unrelated ill take any excuse i can to put 2b in masc outfits #i really do think i am uniquely ill about this game ANYWAYS read tlt it goes so hard #nier #nier automata #tlt #the locked tomb #fanart #crossover #my art

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addamvelaryon · 1 year

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DEAD THINGS IN THE WOODS. DEAD THINGS IN THE WATER.

I was once again thinking about how Patchface has a tendency to say some rather odd things, and if you view the phrase "under the sea" as an indication of death/afterlife, the things he says take on a more sinister connotation:

Patchface rang his bells. “It is always summer under the sea,” he intoned. “The merwives wear nennymoans in their hair and weave gowns of silver seaweed. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.”

— A Clash of Kings, Prologue

Patchface was capering about as the maester made his slow way around the table to Davos Seaworth. “Here we eat fish,” the fool declared happily, waving a cod about like a scepter. “Under the sea, the fish eat us. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.”

— A Clash of Kings, Prologue

“Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish,” the fool muttered at Davos. He bobbed his head, and his bells clanged and chimed and sang. “I know, I know, oh oh oh.”

— A Storm of Swords, Davos V

They found Her Grace sewing by the fire, whilst her fool danced about to music only he could hear, the cowbells on his antlers clanging. “The crow, the crow,” Patchface cried when he saw Jon. “Under the sea the crows are white as snow, I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.”

— A Dance With Dragons, Jon XI

Patchface jumped up. “I will lead it!” His bells rang merrily. “We will march into the sea and out again. Under the waves we will ride seahorses, and mermaids will blow seashells to announce our coming, oh, oh, oh.”

— A Dance With Dragons, Jon XIII

“Under the sea, men marry fishes.” Patchface did a little dance step, jingling his bells. “They do, they do, they do.”

— A Dance With Dragons, Jon XIII

Patchface drowned but survived under mysterious circumstances:

The boy washed up on the third day. Maester Cressen had come down with the rest, to help put names to the dead. When they found the fool he was naked, his skin white and wrinkled and powdered with wet sand. Cressen had thought him another corpse, but when Jommy grabbed his ankles to drag him off to the burial wagon, the boy coughed water and sat up. To his dying day, Jommy had sworn that Patchface’s flesh was clammy cold.

No one ever explained those two days the fool had been lost in the sea. The fisherfolk liked to say a mermaid had taught him to breathe water in return for his seed.

— A Clash of Kings, Prologue

The previous passage almost seems to echo the following:

He had been the thirteenth man to lead the Night’s Watch, she said; a warrior who knew no fear. “And that was the fault in him,” she would add, “for all men must know fear.” A woman was his downfall; a woman glimpsed from atop the Wall, with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars. Fearing nothing, he chased her and caught her and loved her, though her skin was cold as ice, and when he gave his seed to her he gave his soul as well.

— A Storm of Swords, Bran IV

That's not the only connection that exists between the merlings and the white walkers:

Mormont was deaf to the edge in his voice. “The fisherfolk near Eastwatch have glimpsed white walkers on the shore.”

This time Tyrion could not hold his tongue. “The fisherfolk of Lannisport often glimpse merlings.”

— A Game of Thrones, Tyrion III

Which of course reminds me of Cotter Pyke's ominous letter to Jon Snow:

At Hardhome, with six ships. Wild seas. Blackbird lost with all hands, two Lyseni ships driven aground on Skane, Talon taking water. Very bad here. Wildlings eating their own dead. Dead things in the woods. Braavosi captains will only take women, children on their ships. Witch women call us slavers. Attempt to take Storm Crow defeated, six crew dead, many wildlings. Eight ravens left. Dead things in the water. Send help by land, seas wracked by storms. From Talon, by hand of Maester Harmune.

Cotter Pyke had made his angry mark below.

“Is it grievous, my lord?” asked Clydas.

“Grievous enough.” Dead things in the wood. Dead things in the water. Six ships left, of the eleven that set sail. Jon Snow rolled up the parchment, frowning. Night falls, he thought, and now my war begins.

— A Dance With Dragons, Jon XI

Dead things in the woods. Dead things in the water. Here's the description of the white walkers and the merlings:

Will saw movement from the corner of his eye. Pale shapes gliding through the wood. He turned his head, glimpsed a white shadow in the darkness. Then it was gone. Branches stirred gently in the wind, scratching at one another with wooden fingers. Will opened his mouth to call down a warning, and the words seemed to freeze in his throat.

[...]

A shadow emerged from the dark of the wood. It stood in front of Royce. Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk. Its armor seemed to change color as it moved; here it was white as new-fallen snow, there black as shadow, everywhere dappled with the deep grey-green of the trees. The patterns ran like moonlight on water with every step it took.

— A Game of Thrones, Prologue

They tell of pale blue mists that move across the waters, mists so cold that any ship they pass over is frozen instantly; of drowned spirits who rise at night to drag the living down into the grey-green depths; of mermaids pale of flesh with black-scaled tails, far more malign than their sisters of the south.

— The World of Ice and Fire, The Shivering Sea

Pale and black and grey-green. All frozen.

There is also this similarity of both being said to lay with human women to sire terrible offsprings:

He remembered the hearth tales Old Nan told them. The wildlings were cruel men, she said, slavers and slayers and thieves. They consorted with giants and ghouls, stole girl children in the dead of night, and drank blood from polished horns. And their women lay with the Others in the Long Night to sire terrible half-human children.

— A Game of Thrones, Bran I

An even more fanciful possibility was put forth a century ago by Maester Theron. Born a bastard on the Iron Islands, Theron noted a certain likeness between the black stone of the ancient fortress and that of the Seastone Chair, the high seat of House Greyjoy of Pyke, whose origins are similarly ancient and mysterious. Theron’s rather inchoate manuscript Strange Stone postulates that both fortress and seat might be the work of a queer, misshapen race of half men sired by creatures of the salt seas upon human women. These Deep Ones, as he names them, are the seed from which our legends of merlings have grown, he argues, whilst their terrible fathers are the truth behind the Drowned God of the ironborn.

— The World of Ice and Fire, The Reach

We know the dragons are contrasted against the white walkers, but perhaps the merlings are too:

The big man looked out toward the terrace. “I knew it would rain,” he said in a gloomy tone. “My bones were aching last night. They always ache before it rains. The dragons won’t like this. Fire and water don’t mix, and that’s a fact.”

— A Dance With Dragons, The Dragontamer

Although no one can say for certain exactly what kind of creatures Euron (who, while not exactly THE NIGHT KING, is still very Night King coded) plans on summoning from the sea, but perhaps the merlings are part of his plan.

#valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #dragons #merlings #white walkers #the others #patchface #euron greyjoy #meta #asoiaf meta #text #I would say I'm back on my bullshit but I never did leave it #though this time I'm writing out my thoughts on this a bit more comprehensively #honestly if the merlings are the white walkers of the sea it would confirm quite a few theories of mine #also grrm is a genius but we all knew that #can't believe this idea came to me because I was originally thinking about 2 very unrelated (but actually still very related 🤭) characters

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thedreadvampy · 10 months

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I'm going insane my notes are full of people responding to the communes post going like "this is why we need a state to prevent abuse"

HOW'S THAT STATE-PREVENTING-ABUSE THING GOING? PRETTY GREAT I DON'T THINK.

seriously this is what gets my fucking back up about people in opposition to anti-statism or anti-carceralism they're always like 'oh can you propose a way to 100% prevent abuse or violence' and it's like. Insert I, Robot gif here. Can you?

like I'm not complaining about the lack of attention to safeguarding and justice in anarchist communities because anarchism is particularly bad at it! I'm complaining about it because tackling the issue requires acknowledging that it does exist in every community we try to build and that we have to speak up and deal with it proactively.

abuse happens in anarchist spaces, in socialist spaces, in marxist-leninist-maoist spaces, in capitalist spaces, in religious fundamentalist spaces, in feudalism, in whatever fucking system of authorities you wanna name. the question is how we deal with it and anarchism is deeply imperfect in that but so is every other system I've seen and anarchism is pointing at the better goal, I think - a method of community accountability which focuses on harm reduction, desystematising, and healing rather than on punishment, revenge or cycles of violence.

we're not there yet and we will probably never build a 100% foolproof system where abuse and interpersonal harm never occur. but frankly neither will any other system, human interactions are complicated and messy and sometimes there will be shitshows - our priorities are to reduce the number, severity, fallout and normalisation of those shitshows and figure out ways to prevent, react and support healing.

like here's one key fucking thing ok. I have found the way that anarchist groups I've been in have handled abuse allegations really traumatic and overwhelming and triggering. but that's largely been because I have some faith in the approach and it hurts a lot more to fuck up when you have hope.

but you are fooling your damn selves if you think going through the police or the state is less traumatic and overwhelming tbh. reporting and going through the court system is notoriously retraumatising and miserable for survivors, even when it's done with empathy and support. it also Does Not Work. punitive justice actively intensifies cycles of abuse and trauma.

obviously like. the main problem in these notes is that inexplicably people reblogging my post seem to believe the core thesis of anarchism is sunshine, rainbows and the milk of human kindness not like. hard graft to build tailored systems to meet community need. and you are wrong about that. anarchism has never been about 'building a community of morally pure sweethearts who wouldn't hurt a fly' it's about taking responsibility yourself, as an individual, for the wellbeing of your community, and working together collectively to identify what needs to change and what systems would create that change.

but the secondary problem is a lack of fucking imagination. people act as if an idea for change not being utterly bulletproof is a reason to throw the whole concept away, as if existing systems are less imperfect. babies, bathwater, my guys.

If I say 'this part of how we're organising is likely to present the risk of abuse' that doesn't mean 'we should stop our whole approach to organising' it means 'we should take stock of why that risk is there and figure out how to adapt to manage it.' Criticising your ideas and approaches is a vital part of building a better version of them and it's really frustrating to have any critical appraisal met with a barrage of SEE THIS IS WHY WE SHOULD FULLY ABANDON THIS IDEA FOREVER

like fuck man how are you planning to build a better system if you can't iterate ideas, criticise, finetune, adapt, reiterate, problematise and adjust, and talk about what the fail points might be? how are you planning to build a better world if you reject any attempt to suggest a replacement for the Totally Fucked Hellworld system unless it has already ironed out every flaw before being tried?

the reason I am talking about the cracks in a lot of anarchist ideas where abuse comes in is because I want anarchist ideas to work. I think they're good ideas. (not communes I don't think communes are good ideas I have been clear on this). I want a better, happier, less harm-filled, less abusive, more just world and I think the anarchist vision has the most elements to get us there so I want those elements to work, which means I want to identify what comes packaged in with those ideas that might be counterproductive. so we can do better. so that we can use the good ideas and dump out the elements that are likely to cause harm. you know. like how thinking works.

#red said #totally unrelated but i did also recently watch i robot for the first time #i was unprepared for the level of slappitude #that film is GREAT #it's not a direct asimov adaptation but i think it does a great job with the spirit of Asimov #which is: use the 3 laws to create a locked room mystery and then go ham on social commentary #also they didn't make Susan Calvin a love interest as i had feared i think she's honestly pretty close to Asimov's character #with. this surprised me. probably less sexism?? cause i love book Calvin but she's very defined in opposition to Asimov's ideas about women #anyway these tags are nothing to do with this post about anarchism i just liked i robot

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verm1c1de · 5 months

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addendum to my irken boobs post:

efurry time someone gives purredatory ((as in carnivorous,,)) traits to irkens i lose 1 of my 9 lives

#although if this were true id be very dead by now #nobody UNDERSTANDS... why animals have the traits they do.....#SHAKING MEW ALL BY THE SHOULDERS!!!!!!11 #THEY HAVE TRAITS 4 A REASON ITS NOT JUST 2 LOOK COOL!!!!!!!#see also: i just think carnivorous irkens are BORING #go look at some herbivorous animals rn #honestly this was bcs i was thinking abt irken paws #bcs like. most animals with paw pads are carnivorous or omnivorous #not all of course #like the glorious Guinea Pig #so if irkens have paws they better be like the Guinea Pig #SECOND #unrelated #wait. ill just make a diffurent post #vermi.txt #iz #invader zim #irken anatomy

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equalseleventhirds · 9 months

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the more gomens2 i consume the stronger the urge grows to go 'if x event had happened in the bookverse it would've been y instead'

but that would be fun only for me and like, five select mutuals, and would simply torment everyone else and probably draw the ire of some fans. so i won't.

#honestly i just got out of a recording session which i jumped into shortly after home from work #so tbh i SHOULD go the fuck to sleep #might hang out n reblog some stuff. unrelated stuff. should defs stop watching gomens for tonight.#.....................book!aziraphale in 2023 would not only know what twitter is and how it works but would also have a deep disdain for it #with an additional shudder of horror once the rebranding happened #he also knows what grindr is but has never had occasion to use it. he's got other ways to get dates (telling crowley it's date night).#okAY I'M DONE #good omens blogging #gomens spoilers

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halfway-decent-cartographer · 7 months

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Man, every Belmont really is filled with sass, trauma, badassery and a little touch of being pathetic. It's perfect, keep it up, team.

#castlevania #castlevania nocturne #castlevania netflix #belmont #richter belmont #it really is just a family trait #also unrelated #they really made each and every character go through the horrors this season #its great #love watching these little guys have a tough time of it #and honestly?#after that finale?#probably only going to get worse

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front-facing-pokemon · 10 months

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#meditite #i never understood this pokémon. what do folks call it? a little angry psychic onion baby? that tracks honestly #the diamond mouth is whatever and i always found myself like. using its name as a vocal stim when i was a kid #bc again this is one of the bitches that was a shadow pokémon in colosseum so i know it pretty well. but it's also like not my fave #it's *really* just out here. floats and is blue and maybe a fighting-type? or at least it turns into one when it evolves #lemme check #okay yeah it's fighting/psychic and medicham doesn't change types. honestly in my mind i still see these two as totally unrelated pokémon #they just don't look the same at all. i get the general continuity bc they have similar-ish vibes but they don't look. continuitous #that's not a word i know but it expresses my thoughts well i feel. y'know. continuitous #i'll have more to say for medicham bc team charm but for now it's just this onion baby

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certified-boyliker · 1 year

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I was going through some posts and a lot of people have noted how similar Miri and Rei's reactions are.

I wonder if that's supposed to show Rei re-growing up. Cause I mean, if you think about how he acts and reacts, it is very childishly. He acted semi-childishly when it came to the cat thing

But I mean, we see him and Miri react the same way, and I think he unconsciously sort of sees Miri as a way to re-live his childhood and re-discover things he didn't have much of an opportunity to experience

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radlegowaffle · 2 months

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(not so) doodle page of a friends dnd character magdelene! character belongs to @pixellyix

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spn-static · 5 months

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Being trans is one hell of a rollercoaster

Being confident, being dysphoric, being at a standstill (not dysphoric, not confident, just existing and ignore gender), the whole am I trans thing that happens sometimes

All I want for Christmas is to be gifted negative amounts of titties folks

Someone give me Oreos and a binder for Xmas and I might just kiss you /j

#transgender #ftm #I honestly don’t like Christmas but that’s unrelated #also hi moot friend I see you #Oreos are my fav treat >:D

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