#It's not supposed to be an attack

[42starsintheuniverse]

Sokka & Zuko- The Invisible Winner of the Kataang/Zutara Debate.

Please don't take this as "Shipping War Bait", I'm doing a character analysis of ATLA about my opinion on which close Zuko relationship makes the most sense!

I feel like fandom treated Zuko/ Sokka as a crack ship but like?? That's never made sense to me.

Firstly I personally think that Aang will always remember how the fire nation destroyed his people. No matter how much he consciously says he forgives Zuko (& the fire nation) I would BET that unconsciously there's still something deeply hurt in Aang that can never truly be healed about that. As a result, Aang would not be able to LOVE Zuko as close as his other relationships. It's one of those hard to swallow pills but it's just how I interpret the characters. Aang's body has that bias, the deepest parts of his mind won't ever forget the horrific fact that his people are dead because of Ozai, and Zuko is Ozai's firstborn.

I know Aang's whole thing is that he preaches forgiveness, but here's the thing... We aren't always aware of how deeply our trauma affects us. Sometimes you don't hold a conscious bias against people... You hold an Unconscious bias. And to me, Aang holding an unconscious bias against Zuko, and not being as close to him, makes sense.

Toph could honestly work with Zuko, I think she's also a good contender for closest relationship. Though I see it in either a platonic or romantic sense (depends on the vibe). I think there could be a bit of 'fandom implicit bias' there in having Zuko and Toph constantly presented as platonic only. Like, Toph is disabled, she's blind... Do we ever question that maybe we don't like putting her with people romantically because she's disabled? Is Katara the one people ship Zuko with romantically- because Katara is more traditionally attractive? Toph is short, stocky, has short hair, is brash, and blind... Like, there's a chance she doesn't get the same treatment as Katara because she's not traditionally attractive in the way Katara is.... Something to think about.

-All that being said, I like Toph and Zuko as having a close bond either romantically or platonically. I think it's funny that they're both born rich kids, I think it's funny that they only have one fully functioning eye between them (and the comedy and hijinks that leads to). And they do work really well together throughout the show, Toph forgives Zuko when he accidentally burns her feet. And Zuko clearly appreciates how chill Toph is- she doesn't have PERSONAL bias towards Zuko as the son of the Fire Lord, in the way that the other three do.

Moving on to Katara, I have a similar sort of feeling there. It's made obvious that Katara SAW her mother die at the hands of the fire nation. It was traumatic, it was horrific, and because she was a child watching it- that is likely a DEEP core memory. In the context of the show, Zuko helps Katara find the man who killed her mother, because it's sort of a levelling of the scales. It doesn't even make Katara LIKE Zuko, it makes her neutral towards him. He helped her to basically right a wrong (that's her perspective). So yeah- for the same reasons, I've just never been convinced that Zuko and Katara could have a strong and intimate relationship because of the deepness of Katara's trauma. It takes a significant amount of time in terms of the show for her to even start talking and trusting Zuko at all. Doesn't FEEL like good romantic potential to me.

But Sokka, Sokka is the best fit of them so far. The thing is, Zuko and Sokka have a lot of different experiences- but shared values. Consider the things they've had to deal with, Sokka had to handle a huge level of grief & pressure as he quickly became responsible for his family and community at a noticeably young age. Then consider how that parallels (it is not THE SAME, but there is a PARALLEL) to Zuko's abuse & exile. They're both young men, they're both conditioned to think they should be a certain way (Sokka a warrior, Zuko a tyrant). Sokka is creative & inventive, which mirrors how Zuko has to create a new emotional source for his fire bending- once again, these are parallel elements of their characters, and demonstrate how they could relate to each other.

Sokka as a character is also slightly more separated from the association between the fire nation and the death of his mother- compared to Katara. Once again, she saw it happen right in front of her as a small child, Sokka was slightly older when the event happened, and didn't see it first hand.

There are some more generic elements of their characters that might suggest gay subtext; such as Sokka's hypermasculinity being a masking behaviour so no-one would think he's attracted to men. (Most people understand why that is; but if you don't know- leaning into very masculine things as a man, can make it feel like people won't question your assumed "straightness").

But I think what I've touched on is more relevant because it's very much tied to THESE specific characters, and how they interact, and how they could relate to each other.

TLDR; Zuko and Sokka work as a ship cos they have less things stopping them (barriers to intimacy & trauma to heal from). And they have probably the highest relatability to each other's lives, allowing them to trust each other and open up, compared to the other characters.

#ATLA #zukka #atla zukka #sokka x zuko #writing analysis #character analysis #character study #shipping #ship discussion #Please don't start huge fights about this #It's not supposed to be an attack #It's supposed to be a deconstruction of the relationships #I just hope people understand that

[itsafreetrialofdeath]

master tacticians at work

#my art #bg3 #bg3 gale #bg3 astarion #bg3 lae'zel #bg3 mol #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 raphael #supposed to be a quick little haha funny chess dog redraw #got sidetracked rendering raph and just kept going whoops #(he’s my favorite character) (I want to attack him <3) #and yes he is eating the pieces whenever mol turns around #anyways my tadpolyculeTM is dumb of ass (minus gale) cause I always change their stats #so thank GOD he was there to just give me the answer

[aiyanakopa]

can I get some fourth squad appreciation!

#none of these were supposed to be coloured! I got carried away 😩 #hange zoe #moblit berner #nifa #mobuhan #(if you like) #abel #attack on titan #aot #shingeki no kyoujin #shingeki no kyojin #snk #art #fanart

[nelkcats]

Haunted City

Danny could admit that pretending to be a "regular ghost" was pretty fun. He could hide in one place and scare people who were waiting for an open door and a creepy laugh.

Honestly, Danny could do a lot more than that, the ghosts people believed in were nothing like the ones he knew. He wondered if there were simply different types of ghosts, or supernatural creatures; it was quite likely, considering that the ghosts of the Realms weren't even of the same dimension so it wasn't a fair comparison.

Anyway, the halfa had spent a couple of days "haunting" Gotham. The place was too leggy and they needed a little excitement in their lives. Of course, this led to some rumors about a spirit suffering or something similar, he didn't really care.

The "heroes" of Gotham didn't seem to share his opinion, going through all the places that had been "attacked" (they were just jokes) and looking for some explanation before calling Justice League Dark, Danny had fun scaring them a little in the process.

But he wasn't too interested in being exorcised, banished or whatever they did with rebel ghosts, so he settled on a mansion that was too big for its few inhabitants. Scaring billionaires was almost therapeutic, although the butler didn't seem too impressed by his (minimal) efforts.

#dpxdc #Immortal Danny #Danny gets bored very easily #so he started traveling to different dimensions #and looked for ways to have fun #In this case he decided to pretend to be a ghost from stories #the weak ghosts that scared people by opening doors or crying #It was almost too easy #but he supposed it made sense since he was a ghost already #dp x dc #dc x dp #Gotham looked sad #Danny wanted to cheer them up a little #harmless scares would surely help #The Gothamites were a little confused thinking they were being attacked #although some of them had fun #the bats investigated it anyway #Alfred knows there is a prankster in his house #But it's not doing any harm and no one has asked him about it #and he lives with detectives #they will figure out eventually

[riant-draws]

tw for panic attack, eyestrain (last page), swears

@tsunochizu's backwards through the snow!! this fic is my lifeblood

this scene's from chapter 15, in which iirc sig is like "ok pebbs is acting weird as hell time to get to the bottom of this" and pebbs wants some modified neuron flies for extra storage (which sig can send him the blueprints for), which ends up in them having a very... exciting video call

also I belatedly realized that the author made designs for sig and pebbs in btts but haha I am not redrawing pages~

this took me over a month I'm not even kidding

*dies*

#rw backwards through the snow #chapter 15 #tw eyestrain #eyestrain #panic attack #five pebbles #rw five pebbles #5 pebbles #rain world #rain world art #rw comic #no significant harassment #rw no significant harassment #this was supposed to be a short scribbly thing #because i need to stop being a perfectionist #it kinda worked for the first two pages #fic art #long post #riantart

[theysangastheyslew]

From helping rebuild settlements to teaching/further developing food production in barren regions to repurposing their odm gear into a leg brace for a certain someone, you know that post-Rumbling, Hange would find so many ways to stay in the action 🥲

#i get so emotional when i think about all that they couldve contributed #and staying busy would really help with the mental health part of recovery too #this was supposed to be a mix of both levi and hanges post-series activities but his snowballed into a comic so thats for next time oops #hanji zoe #hange zoe #levihan #levi ackerman #aot fanart #snk fanart #attack on titan #snk #shingeki no kyojin #shingeki no kyoujin fanart #132 who? #click for better quality #i maed dis

[jinglebunns]

YIPPEE WE RISE!! This is my piece for The Magolor Collab!

I chose to draw the (hypothetical) scene in which Magolor first read about the Lor and Master Crown. I had a lot of fun hiding easter eggs (heh) in this piece!! :] Please check out the whole project, it's really amazing!! 🥚✨

Also shoutout to @desultory-novice for making a brush with the Halcandran symbols, they helped a lot with the books :]

#art #kirby #magolor #return to dreamland #return to dreamland deluxe #art collab #for the easter eggs #there's the drawing of kirb and magolor on the side #bc magolor says in game that he knew of kirby before they met #and i'd like to think magolor thought kirby was cool or wanted to be friends #there's the cast shadow from the star mobile adding to mago's shadow to look like the master crown #the tile at the center of that shadow is supposed to look like the gem of the master crown too #the crayons on the floor are dedede bandee kirby and MK pointed as if to attack #kirby's crayon being pointed the other way wasn't intentional i literally just noticed now #but it could mean whatever #and also i referenced tome trackers from rtdl deluxe for the design of the room

[mothbii]

Ok but why did I think that Armin and Eren were actually going to kiss for a second???? 😭😭

#LIKE THEY WERE POURING THEIR HEARTS OUT SAYING THAT THEY'LL BE TOGETHER FOREVER #I LITERALLY SAID IN MY HEAD “wow the eremin truthers really winning with this one lol” AS A JOKE #AND THEN THEY LIKE RUSH TOWARDS EACHOTHER????? #LIKE WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO THINK??? #attack on titan #aot #eremin #armin arlert #eren jaeger #eren yeager #attack on titan spoilers #attack on titan final season

[aengelren]

Whoever animated this did it with one hand down their pants

#i said it #they sexyfied him #cabin Eren was supposed to be domestic but aye I’m not complaining #Aot end #the end #attack on titan #eren jaeger #shingeki no kyojin #eren #aot #eren yeager #anime #mikasa ackerman #mikasa

[bellamysbooklover]

Whoever is attacking ao3 I hope you sleep terribly tonight, step in a puddle, have wet socks all day, and step on a fucking LEGO YOU PIECES OF SHIT

#ao3 #ao3 update #i am going insane #what am I supposed to do #without my perfectly currated fanfic #I was 300k words into a 400k fanfic #and it was marvelous and now I have nothing #it’s been going down periodically all day #I hope whoever is attacking them has to worst day tomorrow

[pinkd3mon]

Ado my beloved

#kirby #kots #kirby of the stars #kirby fanart #hoshi no kirby #adeleine #ado kirby #im very fond of her original design #my design is a mix from both #i love her she's very silly #now that the series is going full speed ahead on the ancients lore i wonder if Ado will be more involved #what is she even doing here how did she get here #she's supposed to be extinct #do you think Magolor had a heart attack when he saw her #and wanted to question her but Dedede immediately stopped him because that's his daughter #I'm very fond of the kirby 64 squad in general #also yes the Elfilin part is them having a flashback because that's their tormentor #and here we are!

[royalarchivist]

I love the QSMP. Not only has it introduced me to many amazing international creators, it's also introduced me to the French and Brazilian community, who are so sweet, funny, and chaotic in their own unique ways. I love seeing fans sharing their culture and learning from one another, and I myself have learned a lot this past year. I think it's incredible how QSMP brings so many different people together – all of us united in our love and passion for this project and its goals.

But passion can often evoke strong emotions, and these strong emotions aren't always positive.

The past few months, I have seen multiple waves of hate, bad-faith generalizations of communities, and racist remarks directed at fellow fans – especially those who are part of the French / Brazilian community. This kind of behavior is inexcusable, and is in direct conflict with the mission of QSMP, which is to break language barriers and unite communities.

We are a global community with a variety of people from different backgrounds. Miscommunications may occasionally occur because of cultural differences and/or language barriers, but we should use these moments as opportunities to learn and engage with other people rather than assuming the worst about them and starting fights.

Although certain issues can be resolved with communication, sometimes it’s better to block and move on. Avoid spreading negativity or hate, and save yourself the headache of interacting with people who are just looking for someone to argue with.

No matter what community we're a part of or what languages we speak, we're all here to have fun. Please remember to be kind to each other. We have more in common than we have in conflict.

#QSMP #mod talk #Additionally: we should avoid stereotyping entire communities for reasons I hope are obvious. #I think everything will work out in the end #I don't typically see this kind of stuff on here but I figured I'd post this anyways since I'm posting it to Twitter too #It's understandable that emotions are high because of everything that's happened to the QSMP community the past few months #but it's very sad to see fans attacking each other #everyone's a bit on edge it seems. I rarely use my personal Twitter but I opened it today and saw some close mutuals snapping at people #then after stepping away and calming down coming back to a conversation and apologizing #it's sad to see everyone in this state #So... comments from the peanut gallery I suppose. I do hope this helps someone though #I don't usually post things like this because frankly- #I don't think every single drama / controversy / whatever necessitates a public statement from every single member of the fandom #but I've been thinking a lot about this #Anyhoo. Hopefully I can start sharing clips again tomorrow. I've been moving the past week and life was hellish #hopefully things ease up a bit now

[purplepixel]

#24 just breathe for rise disaster twins for the drawing prompt thing? :)

#24 Just breathe + Leo and Donnie

I had too much fun with the color

#this was supposed to be a doodle #oops #my hand slipped #speaking of hands #rise turtle palms are made of rectangles #roles couldve been swapped but i chose this #mainly bc i see it less #uhhh #cw panic attack #just in case #im convinced leo doesnt know what hes doing #but he tries his best #itll be fine #rise donnie #rise leo #disaster twins #art prompt #pixels tortles art #rottmnt fanart #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #angst #rottmnt #tmnt

[nelkcats]

Vengeful Knight

When Danny moved to Gotham he didn't think that would be a problem, his rogues agreed to let him go (or at least, most of them) and it was a good opportunity to get his college degree.

Of course, you can't spend your whole life with ghosts without getting attached to them or having them getting attached to you. Although most of them had promised, Danny was well aware that not all of them were going to keep that promise.

A good example was Fright Knight, who instead of staying in the Realms decided to move in with him and provide additional "protection"; the halfa figured it made sense, since he was now "heir" or whatever, he was just setting him back a few years.

Fright Knight took his job very seriously, mostly hiding in Danny's shadow and keeping watch. That was fine until the halfa got caught in a rogue attack in Gotham and inevitably, Frighty decided to do his job and press a sword down their throats.

Danny escaped from there soon after, but this trend continued to happen (rogues, muggers, even cops, anything "dangerous" ended up with a sword around his neck).

When he read in the Gotham newspaper about the "spirit of a knight" and "Gotham's recent problem with nightmares" he knew he had to do something about it. He was almost certain that people were going to consider him a vigilante or worse, a bat.

Besides, the nightmare dimension was getting pretty crowded and Danny didn't want to be part of the trauma of half the population in Gotham.

#dpxdc #Fright Knight is quite attached to Danny #ghost king danny #Or at least the successor until he finishes living his “normal” human life #FK wants to keep Danny safe #Danny wants him to stop “accidentally” disappearing people #he knows it's suspicious that people disappear every time they attack him #and sure Frighty will bring them back but with some trauma #dp x dc #dc x dp #the bats are not sure how to proceed #a normal boy is attacked #the cameras start to fail and his attackers disappear #a week later they return without being able to talk about what happened #shaking while saying the word “knight” #what is that supposed to mean? #And why doesn't the normal guy appear on the cameras? #Fright Knight could get them out of the nightmare dimension right away and fix Danny's problems #but Danny is his protégé and friend #and Fright Knight is spiteful

[fieryland]

Walking in on stepbro!eren fucking his best friend Jean is all that’s been on my mind. Coming home a little too early and rolling your eyes at your big brothers moans, assuming he was fucking some random chick he picked up off the street. It wasn’t until you heard a chain of male moans that your curiosity came over you. You edge towards the crack of his bedroom door and watch as Eren has Jean bent over, pounding him from behind as he grinds back against him.

“Fuck, Jean,” Eren groans, hair completely out of his bun and behind his ear— showing off his set of piercings as he keeps his grip on Jean’s hips. “Fuckin’ love this tight little ass.”

You can barely stand straight. Just squeezing your thighs together at how fucking good they both looked and having to place your hand on the door was enough to alert them of your presence. Eren looks your way, biting his lip through a smile and raising his eyebrow as a way to beckon you over. You hesitate, but you step inside once you notice he doesn’t stop fucking Jean. The slapping sound of skin against skin had you ridiculously soaked and warm all over your skin as you couldn’t help but come closer.

“Like what you see, sis?” Eren teases as he lands a harsh slap to Jeans ass. “You should try it, he likes it.” although it seemed like more of a command than a suggestion, you do as you’re told and bring your hands to his perfectly round ass, kneading it and slapping it every so often while he moaned and whined right next to you.

That’s when Eren pulls out, taps his dick against Jean’s plump ass and takes turns with both of you; fucking you and spitting in your mouth as you face him— you were completely drunk off the size of his cock and his quick pace that you barely even heard him talking to Jean. “Shit, yeah. You like watching me fuck my little sis, Jean?“ he rasps, taking his best friends cock into his hand and giving it a few pumps before tightening his grip on your thigh. “Fuck, her pussy’s as good as yours.” he leans down to kiss you, keeping up his pace while Jean watches with his cock desperately leaking precum.

Then it was Jean inside you, giving you sloppier yet still desperate strokes, holding your waist and sucking on your hot tongue as you played with Eren’s balls beside you. “She’s tight, right? My little sis is tight?” he strokes himself, watching intently. “Tell me how much you love pounding her little cunt.” he demands after setting Jean straight, forcing his tongue deep inside his throat and drooling all over each other. “I love it,” Jean mumbles “s’ fuckin’ much, I love how she squeezes me.” he continues his pace.

It ends with you and Jean laid out like literal dogs in heat in front of Eren, letting him pound both of you back and forth, a few strokes here and a few strokes there, it became all too much. So much so to the point where he was moaning your name to Jean, and Jean’s name to yours.

#this was originally supposed to be a one shot #eren x reader #aot #attack on titan #eren #eren jaeger #eren jaeger headcanons #eren jaeger x reader #eren jeager smut #eren smut #eren x black reader #eren yeager x reader #eren yeager #shingeki no kyojin #snk #eren aot #eren yeager smut #aot eren #eren x black y/n #eren x you #eren yeager headcanons #eren x black fem!reader #eren x jean #jean kirschtein x reader #jean kirschtein smut #jean kirschtein #jean x reader smut #jean x reader #jean x black reader #erejean

[blended-ice]

A fun little sketch. Open wide!

#peas n guac #feeding each other is a quintessential love language methinks #u ever try to draw arms and be like. how fucking long are you supposed to be. #and then foreshortening is a thing #wild #college is done for the summer which means my ass gotta catch up on the things I’ve let slide #so I am SO!!! TIRED #I’ve moved like a bajillion (approximate estimate) bricks these past few days #may have ducklings in a few days though v excited abt that #mimi has been obsessively sitting on the nest #and attacks me when I make her leave the coop #but mimi unfortunately your stank ass gotta bathe #sorry ab rambling about my personal life in the tags #I get very excited about my birds #yuri on ice #yoi #katsuki yuuri #viktor nikiforov #viktuuri #id in alt text #fanart #food #tw food