#I made this forever ago and never posted it

[evostar]

Last one!! Mirabel’s design and info!!

(I totally did not forget to post her yesterday-)

Mirabel one of the madrigals i spend a lot of time on! She left 10 years ago like Bruno, just the difference is that she doesn’t say in the walls, she stays in the attic, sometimes maybe in the walls but her place is the attic. How does she know that no one would go to the attic? Cause no one’s been going in there for years 🤷‍♀️ sometimes mirabel goes outside because she doesn’t like it to be stuck in the house for too long yk- the reason she left was because she couldn’t handle the town and the family no more :| since she’s been in the attic she has a adopted quiet a few animals, she named the biggest and strongest cat Luisa since she reminded her of Luisa a lottt! She’s pretty lonely in the attics, 5 years ago she was still in contact with one person (her best friend) but she didn’t want her burdens to be on her so she broke the contact. Meanwhile in those years she has made a lot of presents for her family, they always questioned from who they were from (some even believe it’s from her) they never complained about the presents though.

Currently she loves spoiling Dolores with presents n all that stuff since she’s talking to her!! (Yessss she’s senorita mariposa) she feels bad for lying but it’s needed.Her clothing is also some project that has been going on, she lost her earrings in the years and couldn’t find it afterwards (Isabela was the one who found it and that made her hopes just go higher that mirabel is alive) she struggles with sleep because her schedule is messed up fr- She made her ruana plain and long on purpose! Since it’s a cover, and it keeps her (mostly the cats) warm.

She misses her sisters a lot, seeing them suffer makes her so upset. Sometimes she just wants to get out of the walls\attic and hug them till forever, but she knows that she will never do it. Plus her sisters aren’t the only ones she’s missing, her little sobrinos are also important to her, she misses them too, even if Dolores has never meet her mirabel already feels bad that she hasn’t been there at her birth. Out of all her sobrino’s she misses Camilo a lot, he was like a little brother to her and she feels so so so guilty to leave him. She hates to see him in his current state right now and she would’ve done anything to change it, if she only had the strength.

#encanto #encanto reversed time au #mirabel madrigal #encanto au #my art #someone help her before she goes crazy #she deserves so much fr ☹️🩵

[cryptocism]

character lineup of all the fellas from frequency featuring Thad's initial outfit

#my art #dc #frequency fic #too many thads au #thad thawne #inertia #bart allen #impulse #made this forever ago and then never posted it ripp #truly just my attempt to give them all distinct silhouettes despite being copies of one guy #i changed Seven yet again after this with more claw-esque hands but u get the idea

[digoload]

"I can't find my pa."

"Pa Tubbo will know what to do!"

My favourite genderqueer spoiled daddy's girls

#qsmp #qsmp fanart #leonarda fanart #qsmp leonarda #sunnysideup fanart #qsmp sunnysideup #qsmp eggs #qsmp eggs fanart #my art #i just think that they would get along <3 #also introducing the leonarda design i made forever ago and never posted because colouring is HARD #QSMP sunny

[chinzhilla]

the soulmate effect

#the sign #the sign the series #phayatharn #billybabe #asianlgbtqdramas #userdramas #asiandramanet #boyslovesource #lextag #tusersilence #userpharawee #userspicy #uservix #usergooseras #tobelle #* #*the sign #made these gifs forever ago and never posted them for whatever reason #but now i have an excuse to so thanks tan #anyways absolutely batshit on both their parts <3

[sputnickle]

snooper stamp

#i made this forever ago idk why i never posted jt #my art #art #stamps #stamp making #block printing #snoopy #stamp carving #linocut #lino carving

[himawaari]

the wind rises (2013)

ghibli + postcards 1/?

#the wind rises #kaze tachinu #ghibli #studio ghibli #fyanimegifs #oldanimeedit #animangahive #ghiblisdaily #mygifs #mine #usersenka #userroh #usermoh #kanamesengoku #userkyaa #sleepytortellini #usernikiforova #hanatonin #userrsun #i made this forever ago and never posted #but i'd like to do more of these i think its a fun idea!!!

[mimikyuno]

homura (after a whole movie dedicated to the mechanisms of her inner psyche and set in a world that is literally her subconscious, populated by little dolls that are the manifestation of her emotions and self-hatred, after a whole movie where we get to see that she loves and cares for her friends and above all she deeply loves madoka, after the most heartbreaking scene in the history of anime where she realises madoka never wanted to sacrifice herself, after sacrificing herself to try and keep madoka’s wish alive anyway and keep her safe from the incubators, after being saved by madoka and feeling undeserving of it yet again, after finally giving up on trying to preserve madoka’s wish and creating a universe in which madoka can be happy and her friends too and the incubators eat shit, after showing how much she hates herself for it): i’m evil! i’m a demon! i’m evil incarnate!

people: yeah that checks out, homura is evil.

#people see a traumatised teenage girl who hates herself and decide she’s evil. i’ll nevet forgive people who slandered her #especially that dude who made that video with over 1mil views about how homura was never a good person….. #i watched it years ago and it still makes my blood boil. i remember making angry posts here lol #it fueled me to make my homura defense video essay tho so. one good thing #UGHHH i’ll forever be so bitter about this tho. like u have 0 media literacy skills. #madohomu #madoka magica #homura akemi #pmmm #mine

[pine-needle-scuffle]

1 hour Rouge

#yet again; i found a design i made forever ago that i never posted #so i redrew it :] #rouge the bat #sonic the hedgehog #sth #my art #she is stealing as we speak

[bleaksqueak]

While i work I've been listening to an LP of the Telltale Walking Dead Games (the ones with clementine, I do not care about the others lmao). Ages ago when I played these I was well aware/amused that part of season 2 takes place in Parker's Crossroads/Parker's Run because I grew up right next to it and the detail stood out to me. But I never caught the line of "We'll head to parker's run. It's just up the road from here" until just right now. So I had a sort of "wait, where the fuck are they supposed to be right now?" (search)

ARE YOU SHITTING ME LMAO So by process of elimination, since it's the only city with anything even remotely resembling a large home supply store, that would mean they're in my literal hometown. My tiny hometown in the middle of nowhere that's never in anything that barely anyone knows of. How in the fuck lmao

#shut up pu #random stuff #I guess Howe's would be our Co-Op #I moved away forever ago but my brain often still returns to that tiny town. the biggest city in henderson county. lmaoo #Did they just randomly pick a place on the map for the location... parker's crossroads/run surprised me but it's at least more of a thing #i'm upset with myself for never picking up on that before #sorry telltale but we never had a comic book store you have to go all the way over to the next county for that #also your geography's wrong it's east tennessee that has mountains #west tennessee is all hills #i'm being nitpicky but it's out of amusement #of all the places to end up in a zamboni apocalypse #my poor girl clem lucky she made it out at all #lmao I strongly dislike this series all BUT these games with clementine #and I love her so much #goes to show what a good likable character can do #anyway I'm upset that you don't get to go raid the dairyqueen in season 2 #maybe this is an odd thing to post about but I literally come from a #“the nearest starbucks is 40 minutes away” level of tiny nowhere town #and playing this game when it first came out only to realize this detail about a decade later made me spit my drink out

[aragarna]

Henry's "do not react, act normal" reaction face XD

#ioan gruffudd #henry morgan #forever #forever tv #love his face #still posting gifs I made ages ago and never posted #so posts are a bit messy #but the gifs are too good not to be shared #my gifs

[littleeyesofpallas]

Bleach’s Issue with Queer characters (1/3)

So, someone recently(when i started this draft anyway) left a kind of incoherent rant on one of my posts.  It wasn’t actually related to anything I’d said in the post, and just came across as disjointed babble, so it didn’t warrant a direct reply at the time.  But it did bring up a subject I would actually like to talk about:

How Kubo handles gender queer characters.

I think it’s a little easy to look at the most glaring cases, come to the conclusion that he doesn’t handle representation well, and leave it at that.  That’s valid.  And he’s clearly not well versed or tactful in how he portrays these characters, and it’s really not that unreasonable to judge him for it.  But I also think there’s more going on with it than that really accounts for, so let’s pick at it a little...

By and large what Kubo does is some pretty by-the-books queer-coding villains, and what amounts to casting effeminate men in adversarial roles.  In the big picture, it’s not a good trope to be falling back on: it comes from a bad place historically, and even if Kubo doesn’t mean anything bad by it (and I’ll get into why I think he genuinely doesn’t) it contributes to the momentum already behind it that other, less well intentioned creators and readers inevitably stand to do more direct harm with.

The earliest case of this is actually from Zombie Powder.  Very early episodic villain, Ranewater Calder is a youthful and even girlish looking man who is actually an old man sustained by a youth restoring drug.  He’s a villain of the week type, so the fact that he’s pretty and evil is literally all there is to him.  Moreover, his fixation on youth, his vanity, and his deception (he pretends to be a frail, dainty victim at first) all link directly to his moral character.  Although Calder is himself never made out to be gay, the archetype he's clearly based on is a pretty classically homophobic characterization at face value

But even here it’s not totally black and white...  

There’s a snag in that Kubo’s not writing some 1950s American pulp novel where the perils of homosexuality spell self-destruction or divine/dramatic irony on the loathesome villain; he’s writing a shounen action manga, and it operates on the Rule-of-Cool first and foremost.  Calder isn’t a vehicle for moral preaching by religious conservatives, he’s a highlight character taking up valuable print space in a popular comic.  He’s attractive, he has a cool name, he has a cool weapon with a unique fighting style, and even his vanity and deception aren’t there to make him unappealing, they’re there to make him compelling.

And herein lies the root of Kubo’s problem.  He just likes having cool characters, and he crams them in where ever he can fit them, and that often means in villain roles.  Moreover, although some characters get more vilified than others, even within the scope of villain roles, not all of them get to stick around long enough to be developed as either something other than queer and villainous, or to get the full turn around.  After all...

Yumichika was a villain at first.

And you’ll noticed I hesitated just now at calling it a “turn around” and not a “redemption” or “turning over a new leaf” because frankly, the Shinigami never actually changed alignment.  They were circumstantially the villains of the Soul Society Arc until Aizen turned on them to be the bigger "real” villain.  Technically it was Ichigo & co. that changed alignments from fighting against the Gotei13 to fighting with them.  But relatively aside, Yumichika became a good guy and his favorable portrayal got to outweigh his villainous introduction.

Speaking of which, there’s not a whole lot to go over with it, but Yumichika’s original appearance pretty closely mirrored the profile of Ranewater Calder’s bit in Zombie Powder: a kind of “sissy” prettyboy is obsessed with his looks, and other than just being a guy with a sword pointed at the established heroes making him a villain, that vanity and narcissism make them mean, judgy and vindictive.

But Yumichika came back, and stuck around, and frankly became something of a fan favorite.  And I think this particular development says a lot about how Kubo looks at these situations.  You’ll notice, he didn’t actually have to change Yumichika’s character much to shift him from villain to hero.  Yumichika gets a little less prickly, but he’s still vain and it’s not even something that anyone ever frames as a problem he needs to work on.  In fact, the introduction of his shikai brought into play a new facet of his vanity: Deception.  So we’re back to that Ranewater Calder framework, where the prettyboy has something to hide with his looks, but in Yumichika’s case it’s shown as an almost endearing quality.  He hides his sword’s powers, a reflection of his true self, to fit in.  But this isn’t shown to be a thing to pity, his willingness to sacrifice a part of his own identity is portrayed as a kind of noble restraint.

Now, granted, I don’t think those elements all play nicely together. (In fact, the nobility of his self-restraint is a very dangerous thing to uphold as a virtue) But when it comes to trying to draw a line between message and intent, I think the most pertinent thing to consider as context isn’t actually the villain or hero dichotomy, or even your own personal feelings about the themes in play, it’s the attitude ("attitude" as different from “intent,” mind you) of the creator towards his creations: Kubo seemed to enjoy making Yumichika.

He had fun with his design (the feathers and the weird sweater collar thing) He had fun with the sword, with giving him a secret power.  He had fun writing his vanity rants.  He didn’t have to have Yumichika, he didn’t have to bring him back, and he didn’t have to add to his character, but he did.  He invested his own time and effort and space on the page to him and to making him interesting to have around.

But like I said, Yumichika’s the lucky one.  He came in early, got to have a comeback, and had time to stick around.  But consider that when Kubo was floundering around trying to figure out how to salvage the mess that was the late TYBW arc, he didn’t need to bring back Arrancar, and he didn’t need to bring back the ones he did. (in fact, only the Privaron even make sense in-world, Luppi and Charlotte weren’t convenient choices, they were just Kubo’s personal picks.)  And when he did finally get around to cleaning up the Sternritter?  Bazz-B was an obvious choice to keep, sure (following that Renji/Grimmjow mold of the hotblodded rival who bucks his own organizations rules) but Giselle and Lilttoto?  That was Kubo playing favorites.

Luppi was so short lived, it’s hard to really say anything about him.  He was basically just reusing notes from Yumichika’s first appearance, which again also refer back to Ranewater Calder in Zombie Powder for basic aesthetic and demeanor.  (It’s actually kind of weird that Yumichika never really had any kind of dynamic with Luppi when they fought.)

Side note here, but Kubo really loves to build some of his recurring character types around a certain kind of scene or dynamic.  Byakuya and Ulquiorra both do this thing where they’re supposed to be the stoic unflinching types, but they actually get shocked and surprised almost constantly.  Kubo seems to be going into it with the mentality that he thinks it’s cool when the character who predicts everything and always has everything under control, can’t predict something and doesn’t have it under control, and just reverse engineers a stoic person for the purpose of having them “break character” later.  In this vein Kubo seems to have a real love of very pretty characters shifting into a kind of sinister “ugly mode.”  It wouldn’t serve his purpose to just have them ugly or obviously meanspirited all the time, the ugliness has to be served up in its reveal as that “breaking character” moment, even though that “breaking” moment is itself the core of the character.

Not to get too heady about this little observation, but it honestly feels like something that applies even to Kubo’s broader writing habits; wanting the payoff of a twist, and planning said twist first but then reverse engineering the supporting ruse only as a matter of course.  Just a silly little thought...

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#bleach meta #bleach #kubo tite #zombie powder #ranewater calder #Yumichika Ayasegawa #luppi antenor #oh damn i drafted this forever ago #i kind of never really intended to post it #but i guess i didnt delete it either #i dunno that most of my feelings about not bothering with it have changed #but contextually i've also now made a number of posts about my headcanons with trans characters #as well as bleach's weird glancing relationship with questionable symbols and themes #so i guess while this still feels like an argument not worth making it feels somehow less not worth making??? #if that makes any sense #any way im clearing out drafts so here ya go

[sysig]

When you weren’t looking (Patreon)

#Doodles #Adventure Time #Marceline #Fionna and Cake #Simon Petrikov #Just casually crying at my own art while I make it no biggie #Just ahhhh they do love each other! They want what's best for each other! But they missed each other so much!! And they still are!! #Both that they miss each other in the sense that they're lonely while together - Simon's Marceline was a child and Marcy's Simon was well #Not Ice King but also kinda yeah - and she'll never see him again #It's gotten be bittersweet #It's good that he has his mind! Very good! But he is forever un-changed/re-changed #I think it's canon that Simon was returned to being in his early 30s because Golb ate his age post him getting the crown? #It's not a retcon obviously lol but it's like his future has been retconned canonically in himself that's Gotta feel weird #But it basically undid the Simon that Marceline knew - the man who raised her was un-done even though they both remember him #Both of them just have to not think too hard about it probably :') #But even not thinking about that - Simon is still getting older! He's aging like a normal human again! And everything that comes with that #I love his crow's feet a lot <3 And his hair streak is so chic how did his genes know he would look so cute haha ♪ #Poor both of them - I do want them to be happy! They've just got so much sad! #I also think it's quite funny that all those years ago before I watched AT Marceline was the one fanart I made haha - the more things change #Still drawing her! I wonder if younger me would be surprised #I like her short hair :D Her long hair is lovely - all her hairstyles are lovely! - but the short hair is so cute #Really reminds me of her kid hairstyle ;u; I'm sure that doesn't hurt Simon at all haha #I draw it a lot like Tala's hairstyle as well haha - it's The Kid hairstyle!

[pearl-kite]

insert clever or poignant caption here ((and find a still version of it here))

#kirehn draws #I had an IDEA and this is actually sort of close to it #not quite but close enough #I'll be posting the still as well #I REALLY like how Gale turned out in this one #my idiot child #fhr #fallen hero #fallen hero: retribution #sidestep #forever ago I tried designing some regene tattoos and this is an adaptation of what I ended up with #I made my life INCREDIBLY difficult by trying to overlap four sets of concentric rings I tell ya hwat #and then never used them 🙃 #I do have a front and back design for their torso up but how many times have I drawn ANYONE shirtless hmm? #/shrug #pk:ocs #pk:gale #oh hey I'm noticing that in the migration from ipad to editing in photoshop one of the layer effects faded a bit and I'm not happy >:C

[sluckythewizard]

SHHH SH HEYYY HEY DONT TELL ANYONE BUT... ive been workin on smth since BITB came out..... itsa lil musical animatic involvin kian and becky.... ITS NO WHERE NEAR DONE YET but loooook look im puttin lil screenshots under the cut. its supposed to go along with Am I In Heaven? by King Gizzard n the Lizard Wizard. infact yknow what cmere come sit with be bc ALOT of songs from the 'IM IN YOUR MIND FUZZ' album makes me think about becky and kian. oh my god. those two make me so damn emotional. like Her and I was the first one to rly resonate with me, and EMPTY was another good one, all just stuff about. yknow LOVE!! doomed by the narrative yet burning SO SO brightly in its last moments, holding hands, playing music, THEY WERE SO IN LOVE WITH YOU THAT THE COPY OF THEM LOVED YOU, AND YOUR COPY LOVES THEM TOO. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL, CRUMBLING, BURNING, HISSING, SQUIRMING, MELTING, CLICKING LOVE STORY..

GET OVER HERE N SCREAM WITH MEEE I LOVE SCREAMING ABOUT THINGS

#THIS IS A DRAFT that i made like. months ago. woopsie. #BUT IM CHIPPING AWAY AT IT AGAIN. IT CANT STAY UNFINISHED FOREVER. ONE DAY YOU WILL ALL SEE! YOULL ALL SSSEEEE!!!!!!! #no reblogs either this stays between US!!!!!!!!!! #and if you guys like it enough i might post an old fuckin wip i have all packaged together on youtube. its a VIDEO it goes w the MUSIC!! #SOUND WITH THE MOVING IMAGE?? IVE ONLY EVER DONE IT ONCE!!! #ill post the Lord of Lightning animatic i made on tumblr when i get the chance. in the meantime i ahve it posted on twitter. GO FETCH #but THIS SECOND ONE is out there.. all synced together.. #but its a wip and its rough and old and scuffed and i HATE IT. my son whom i wish was dead #but you can see it. for the small small price of uh. begging. #also ouuhh my god i love becky and kian so much... they make me so emotional.. SOMETHING ABT DOOMED SHIPS... #even as the boat sinks these two clung together so tightly. they really really did love eachother so much. even after ten years of ROTTING #of sitting and waiting and wondering 'where is she?' is she lost? hurt? did something happen? is she okay? did she even want to be here? #does she hate me? did she leave because she hated me? she never wanted to see me again? where is she? where is she? guess ill write a song #FOR TEN YEARS. when i was just busy. i was distracted. so much came up. things got serious. my dream became clear and i had to chase it #i didnt know you were waiting. im sorry. i should have chased the thought of you more. but i was busy. i was just busy. #i wish that i could apologize with the throat that was my own. i hope this copy will suffice. i hope this copy will suffice. UGH

[alrightsnaps]

Silvio Rodriguez, ¿A Dónde Van?

Where do they go, the words we want to say but don't? What happens to those feelings we don't permit ourselves to feel? We like to think they fall into oblivion, but instead they accumulate in our bodies, filling our souls with silent screams. What we don't say doesn't die; it kill us instead. It turns into trauma, into soul-sucking poison. Those words we never say lock us in the past, turning into open wounds. (insp)

#braven #bellamy blake #raven reyes #the 100 #bellamy x raven #i made this edit forever ago but never came around to posting it so... here it goes! #i adore this song and if you don't know it you should give it a listen #apologies in advance for the liberties in the english translation lmao

[strawberrycircuits]

ahahaahhahaha......... clem aroace flag palette ............... lol

lets hear it for aroace manwhore rights!!!!!!!

#drawing this made me realize i have never posted vallen w his actual color palate. oops! #except for that one time but i deleted that forever ago lol #anyways u were so right when u said they shld keep some of the shit they stole #ivw #strawberryscribbles #honestly aroace val is a very real way to interpret them #as theyre being written now they view what they do less as an enjoyable thing and more as a necessity to get by in life #but the issue there is that hes constructed this constantly shifting persona to appeal to as many people as possible n hes kept it up for so #long that hes not rlly sure who they are as a person anymore. Anyways !