Yk what I want? I want a very early stages post canon labrumisu, but from Chilchuck's POV.
Imagine mister 'interparty romance is the devil' visiting court just to see these three circling each other like a pack of uniquely unhinged cats.
And of course he sees it immediately, he's nothing if not perceptive and he's seen this happen so, so many times before. Kabru is hardly subtle in his fascination with Laios, who trusts him in turn more than nearly anybody else. He can see how close Mithrun and Kabru still are, even when there's little reason for the former captain to even stay in Melini. He can see where this is going. And he can see the disaster it's gonna end up in.
So he's just staring at them in horror, trying to figure out what in the world the dynamic here even is and glaring daggers at Kabru all the while for seemingly being the linchpin of this entire bullshit situation.
King, his adviser and a fucking foreign noble?? Who thought THAT was a good idea! Is nobody else seeing this?? (no lol) Why is nobody objecting to this politically unsound love triangle that could literally ruin the kingdom they've only just established??
The anger! The distress! The despair when he first sees Laios getting all giddy when Mithrun so much as talks to him. Because hell, now he can't even blame the entire situation on one pretty boy insisting on having fingers in every possible pie, on political and personal level both!
And then they just. Quietly get together. All three of them. And Chil's just watching from the sidelines in complete bafflement because he's invented infinite worst case scenarios for how this will implode in all of their faces and destroy their friend group and topple the entire country and--
Instead they do. This. He'd be relieved if he wasn't so goddamn mad that he's spent months worrying about this shit just for them to resolve it in the least dramatic way possible.
Fuck this, he's taking a holiday.
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"Hey, there were 3,000 people at that convention. You were the one I thought wasn't boring. That says something."
sick and twisted there aren't more fic for the absolutely insane meet cute of bailing a stranger out of jail simply bc he wasn't boring but also implies that house was already aware of wilson pre-arrest which like? hello?? HELLO???
like okay fine. let's say house was just at the bar already; that man was looking
on god how is this not half the fic written after 5x04 birthmarks aired??
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i am so glad theres someone else who also thinks lmk executes its ideas and themes much better than toh. rip belos you will never be lady bone demon
TOH wasn't that strong in the themeing department in general (though I'm not well-versed in that show). I remember finishing the finale and being like....damn. What was the overall message of this show? ("Weirdos stick together" maybe?) Does toh have any consistent motifs or symbolism? If memory serves, not really?
Like, you rewatch episode 1x01 of LMK and MK goes "Well...I am invincible. *sigh* Anytime I try to do anything, I just gunk everything up!", and you're like. Woah. The Sun Wukong parallels are that strong from episode 1x01? Invincibility/Immortality and hurting the people you care about? No matter what you do, it leading to pain? Holy shit.
Contrast that with TOH where it's like, in episode 1x02 Luz learns she's not "the chosen one" and that the boiling isles are very different from the magical realms she imagined...which is kinda undone by the reveal that the Titan chose to show Luz the Glyphs. And while Titan Luz is very fun, it's not thematically sound—which is just kinda that whole show, you know? If you're not thinking about it that deep, then it's like "holy shit cool concept!" (which is totally valid of people), but if you do it's pretty empty. (Hi Hunter getting flapjack-based teleportation powers. What was the point of this.)
Which, I think this becomes super apparent with the Luz and Belos foil. Luz and Belos had a lot of interesting parallels (both of them being humans in the isles, each coming there wanting to fulfill a certain "role", for Luz being the "Great Witch Azura" and for Belos/Philip being a "Witch Hunter General", the whole "protecting the things you love" deal). And then, where does this all go?
It leads to Luz being told "no. You're the good guy and Belos is the bad guy! You could never be the same! Belos is motivated by his own 'need to be the hero'" (which was definitely what Luz was motivated by over the course of the show, even if it was more innocent, but whatever), and riding off of tdp s4's "In the name of love, you will do things so dangerous and vile—you will never be able to forgive yourself" and the lmk s3's "to pain" scene, it fell really flat for me—like it's not bad, it's just really mid.
(Post where I go on a rant about Luz's s3 arc being kinda lame)
And then, you have the LBD & MK foil. You have MK's s4 arc. The "to pain" scene is such a unique "you and I are not so different" moment—but it's also relevant to the whole show. And LBD is right, doing what you think is right does lead to pain. Like, even looking at MK's journey over the seasons, every action has had it's consequences.
Saving Pigsy and Tang in 1x04? Spider Queen snagged MK's hair and that let her dominate the city later. Stopping DBK in 1x10? That freed LBD. Stopping SQ in ROTSQ? That gave LBD access to the trigram furnace. MK trying to gain more power in s2? Well, "Now do you understand? From the start you never had what it took to defeat me. All your power could do was make me stronger." SWK leaving in s2? "You're the one always running off, trying to get more power or more sources of immortality." Trying to get the Samadhi fire in s3? Opps, now Mei has this uncontrollable flame within her. Monkey King running off to fight LBD alone so MK doesn't have to? He get's possessed. Freeing SWK from possession? Now LBD has the power to fulfill destiny. Attempting to free your friends from the scroll? Now Peng and Azure are also free. Trying to get SWK back? His scroll piece has been split in half. Stopping Azure from destroying all of reality? Now the Jade Emperor's power is without a host, flower fruit mountain is destroyed, and you can't help but feel they played into the puppet master's hands.
It's thematically consistent and banging. Like....anytime they try to do anything, they just gunk everything up. Like....sometimes you hurt the people who care about you the most. Like....whether you want to help people or not, everything you do can just make things worse.
AND MAYBE. Just maybe, you can also leave the world a little better than you found it. The pain that's been caused doesn't undo the good that's been done. And I guess I think that's more interesting that just like..."no! you're intent was good and theirs was bad!", you know?
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some drawing references for an offset cane hand pose. Meant to do this outside for good lighting but it decided to rain all day lol.
There will be better versions when it's not constantly thunderstorming since I need good lighting and also someone else to take the pictures.
[ID: Two cropped photos next to eachother, first from the side, then the front, showing a white hand holding a cane with a black foam handle, black wrist strap, and the metal of the cane painted in stripes of purple, black, and blue. In the background you can see the model's striped blue shirt and shorts, and a white sheet with a pattern of black squares. End ID.]
And painting version for arm pose and the front of the cane.
My arm looks orange because I forgot we have yellow lights in the hall and colorpicked from that lol. oh well.
[ID: Two lineless digital painting versions of the same images as above, showing more of the picture, with the person standing sideways on a white background, with the tank top drawn as solid blue, and the stripes on the cane now revealed to form the trans progress flag, with stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, yellow, white, yellow, pink, blue, black, and purple. End ID.]
anyways feel free to save for drawing references, that's why I made this. There's not enough drawing references for people using canes, so I'm being the change I want to see in the world.
I'm uploading a bunch more to the web archive, currently loading, I'll add the link here when it's done. Tumblr keeps eating the pictures when I try to post them here.
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Sometimes I see people creating really cute lovey dovey ship art of their OCs (or they're yumeships), and I look at Rylie and go "ahhh I wish I could draw really lovely ship art of her with someone"
But I never do because honestly. I kind of see her as being on the aroace spectrums? She gets butterflies over seeing romance content and thinking about it, but when it's made reality she'd be the type to become uncomfortable with it. I can see her having several close lifetime friendships, maybe even one very close life partner, but I couldn't say it would be romantic......even if it were I think she's the type to be a little more "distant" and focused on her own interests and desires, lowkey the type to leave her family at home to go on a cool Pokemon adventure akdjfjskf it's not like she doesn't want to cherish her time with those around her, she would just want the freedom to act according to her desires and not be held back by anyone
and I think she fits the broad definition of asexuality well, probably more sex-positive if anything! But idk the kind of content I want to draw regarding shipping, it doesn't quite fit Rylie in my mind hahaha
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