#and i kinda dig it

[xsaintseraphx]

and as you stumble through your last crusade

will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays?

#my art #my chemical romance #mcr fanart #Gerard way #This took like 5 hrs #And I kinda dig it

[richardzk]

Mein Teil - Warsaw, Poland | 16/07/2022

#rammstein #till lindemann #flake lorenz #richard kruspe #paul landers #richardzk #I don't think I've ever had any kind of consistent gif making 'style' #but I did this kinda vibrant thing with a Ghost gifset last night #and I kinda dig it #idk feedback welcome

[depressedhatakekakashi]

Gai’s Legends Arceus Adventures

The team hasn’t really changed much since yesterday. We still have three solid fighters (Kakashi, Dai and Shizune), Two shiney’s (Inoichi and Shibi) and a very loyal tortoise (Ningame)

Shibi and Inoichi will probably not be permanent members, but while they are on the team they will be going through the same training regime as all the other pokemon

They might be wishing they weren’t on the team XD

As for Gai, he actually got some shit done today that didn’t just focus on the Pokedex

Of course he did work on research, and he’s being a bit of a sore loser because Kakashi made up for yesterday’s shiny catching competition loss by filling out 56 entries in his notbook while Gai only gor 55 (gai thinks it’s not enough but the professor is loving both of their contributions equally)

The main thing he did today though was quelling his second frenzied Pokemon

Gai has decided he wants to quell the frenzied Pokemon without battling if possible, which sounds like a great idea except Kakashi has to yank him out of the way of the frenzied Pokemon’s attack at one point because Poor Gai was dazed taking a hit

He made it through without battling though and created a new bond of friendship with liligant, which he has just realized is a fighting type Pokemon.

He sort of wants to add one to the team, but Kakashi already covers the ‘grass/fighting’ section. Two might be a bit much

He’ll have to see what other fighting type options he has :)

#Pokemon au #Taryn plays Pokemon #this went from ‘oh i’ll play a fun game as Gai :)’ to ‘oh i’m gonna make it a mini story!’ #and i kinda dig it

[midoristeashop]

Long car trips mean hunch over my ipad and film dumb stupid videos in restaurants at 11pm 😍 (future me screw u idk if it’s shaky also do not perceive me)

(That one vine)

Also have the things

#I didn’t even plan to use this audio LMAO #it worked ig I just added words #hijack #jackycup #it’s so wild yall car trips fuck me up cuz what do u mean I slept 4 hours straight and now there’s snow #IN CALI?? #ate some bomb ass food tho while filming and my sis just stared at me the whole time 😔 #ig that’s how ​toofthelss greets people LMAO #expressions are fun #I may not animatic but I can sure hope and dream #if u see this no u didn’t #a little loopy it’s fine yall #edit: omgf ITS SO SHAKY I AM ASHAMED #TY FOR LIKING THIS BUT ALSO WOW DO I KINDA HAYE IT #😔 it’s ok I’ll just dig a hole and lay down for a while it’s fine

[carlyraejepsans]

cringe gaymers hanging out. don’t know why but sans always seemed like a rhythm games fan

BONUS:

#undertale #alphys #sans #toriel #Did not mean for that toriel to turn out that cute. It's not my usual style for her but I'm kinda digging it #srsly tho rhythm game freak sans lmao. are you gonna tell me I'm wrong? #He shreds ass at guitar hero #He's nonchalant about it but he is basically unbeatable. Only person who ever made him sweat for it was undyne #And you KNOW what her battle is like #he’s one of the best FNF players out there but he only plays his own mods. no not mods he made himself. I mean mods that put him in the gam #And alphys.... Alphys is alphys. Nothing more to say #myart

[solarockk]

Sometimes I can't help myself at all

rip doggy allience you will be missed

Kind of a sequel to this

#they really can't stop killing eachother huh #its always so funny seeing cleo egg on pearl a perfect rappresentation of fuck around find out #also only one yellow in next session... things are about to go wild #secret life smp #zombiecleo #also kinda digging this humancleo design #zombiecleo fanart #pearlescentmoon #even if its just a hand #digital art #mcyt #artist on tumblr #fanart #sol art #mcyt fanart #trafficblr #traffic light smp #life serie #i need to learn how to do backgrounds #or how to use clip studio in general #live laught crane wives #the crane wives lyrics #i love how they are the unofficial mcyt/life serie soundtrack

[theofficialuriel]

girls when Han Sooyoung sacrificed 63+ years of her life for kdj and yjh traveled the galaxies for hundreds of years for him but they can’t even get a text back

#tbf they didn’t get a text back either #or a blink #LOLL #I love this meme format #orv #kim dokja #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader #yoo joonghyuk #omniscient reader spoilers #han sooyoung #jongdok #doksoo #yoohankim #what’s the ship name for jonghyuk and Sooyoung #I kinda dig the ship tbh

[hexedwithluck]

drew baobhan sith cause she's my first lv 100 servant since at least 2018 🥺

#my art #fate/ #fate/grand order #fgo #fate grand order #baobhan sith #tam lin tristan #fairy knight tristan #i just loveee her fake mean girl persona so much i just think chaldea needs more nasty (in a fun way) ppl in it lmao #also let me cook here but i kinda really dig baobhan x medusa #it's so unexpectedly cute. also i may have gotten trapped into fgo again after like a 3 or 4 year hiatus OOPS

[ventiswampwater]

Kurt Russell as R.J. MacReady THE THING (1982) dir. John Carpenter

#the thing #the thing 1982 #r j macready #kurt russell #filmedit #horroredit #scifiedit #mine #a macready gifset? on tumblr dot com? groundbreaking. #<-this is all to say that these scenes have been giffed 7397493849 times before in far more gorgeous detail #but I'm throwin these in the tag anyway. bc we should all ponder our orbs about him from time-to-time #I played around w/colors on these and I'm kinda digging the blue #obsessed w/the fact that universal was leery about hiring kurt russell for this part bc he was ''too young and pretty'' fhsdjfhdsjhfdsjhfd #incredible. valid concerns. he was indeed v young and v pretty here #to use my previous tags: #macready if you read this im free on thursday night and would like to hang out #please respond to this and then hang out with me on thursday night when I’m free #guy of all time truly

[leopardmuffinxo]

**SPOILERS FOR WYLL'S NEW VOICE** Source: WolfheartFPS

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #wyll #i kinda dig his new voice #i’ll miss the old VA though

[maiaczy]

I've been kinda slow with the requests lately coz uni work is kicking my ass rn, but since it's jojolands day I felt morally obligated to do this one

@cailaope

#sorry if it's kinda messy its the best i can do in these horrible conditions of being a student #also CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE NEWEST CHAPTER #POSSIBLY A NEW TEAM MEMBER?? WHO IS ALSO PROBABLY A ROCK HUMAN??? #sign me uppppp #his stand is cool and i really dig his design so im praying that he joins the gang #i wanna draw him once i find some time #also on another note usagi with the confession LMAHSOXHD #and dragona rejecting him immediately.... #hes so silly #GOOD chapter #jodio #fanart #jjba #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jojos bizzare adventure #art #digital art #jojo #jojo fanart #sketch #myart #request #jodio joestar #the jojolands

[grailknightmonty]

its the mounders!

i was possessed by something last night to scribble out some designs for this alliance :D They're just such a fun and silly group, I love their vibes so much already 💚

#secret life #secret life smp #secret life fanart #mumbo jumbo #bdoubleo100 #pearlescentmoon #smallishbeans #joel smallishbeans #gkm arts #digital art #artists on tumblr #doodles #lafakiwi draws #mcyt #mcyt fanart #bdubs fanart #mumbo fanart #pearlescentmoon fanart #i was goin for like. a garden kinda core bc mounding digging dirt garden #i thought itd be cute if they all had overalls or something #and joel has suspenders bc it fits the style but also gives fairground keeper bc of his funny little tower #life series

[magnificentmicrowave]

driptober day 4: cruise wear

#inktober #drawtober #sun dress #catgirl #illustration #drawing #art #fashion #oc #yuno #i aint gon lie i kinda dig this composition #driptober

[anachronistic-falsehood]

Vash and Femininity: Trigun Stampede and its Themes of Bodily Autonomy, Exploitation, and Vague Gender Fuckery

alright sit the fuck down. we're gonna talk about THEMES

I was on Twitter- terrible idea usually, but a couple people I follow made some tweets that got me thinking about Trigun's overall themes, and here we are. So let's talk about some themes in Tristamp! And I'll take a couple looks at Trimax as well, just for fun :3

Let's look at how the showrunners utilize gender roles and exploitation of feminine characters to show how unhealthy Knives' obsession with his ideal of Vash is, and how horrific his exploitation of Vash and the Plants is.

Vash, from the beginning of Tristamp, is someone who cares about people's choices. When people kill others in front of him, he reiterates that whether someone lives or dies is not another person's choice to make. This is something he learned from Rem (a prominent female figure in his life). He refuses to kill people because that is not his choice to make. To kill someone is the ultimate removal of their bodily autonomy. They can no longer make any choices at all; they're dead.

Vash is also someone who has almost no choice in what path his life takes. He's constantly dragged around by outside forces, namely situations that are caused by Knives (which we'll get into later). Vash doesn't make things happen, things happen to Vash. The majority of events that occur are not his fault. He's pushed and pulled in a thousand different directions. His entire life is completely out of his control.

This can be seen as early on in his life as the Fall, something he had no control over and had no idea he even had a part in. Even later, in the ship with Luida and Brad, after he's been rescued from the desert, he's kept in handcuffs right up until he's shown to be of use to them and the Plant on their ship. After that, he could theoretically say "no, I don't want to go to other ships and heal their plants," but he doesn't. He's Vash. He's helpful and nurturing at his core, and these people have done so much for him just by letting him stay, so he'll do whatever they ask, no question.

This carries over into his adulthood. At Jeneora Rock, he goes to look at their Plant at one simple request, doesn't protest when he's dragged into a duel-- he doesn't take initiative unless someone's life is immediately at stake. He lets people tell him what to do and lets himself get dragged around by the wrist. He doesn't even pretend to have control over his life like Trimax Vash does, which I mean. Fair. Why pretend to have a grip on your existence when it's impossible to do anything without a gun pointed at your head?

Vash is a very passive character. He's nurturing, kind, gentle- he's a guy that fits a lot of very typical feminine character stereotypes. If you wrote this same story but made him a woman, I wouldn't bat an eye (but I would definitely be looking at it a lot more critically, what with the amount of stereotypically nurturing/motherly female characters in media already.)

This contrasts directly with Knives. He makes a decision and carries through no matter what stands in his way. He takes initiative. If Vash is a passive character, Knives is an active character. Wherever he goes, he leaves a lasting imprint. He makes shit happen! If outside forces make things happen to him, he'll go out of his way to make sure that particular force doesn't affect him again.

These two tweets I saw are what got me thinking about this originally. I just feel like here's a good place to put them as a segue into talking about episode 11.

Episode 11 is where a lot of this feminine imagery really just. Explodes in your face. IT'S RIGHT THERE. You can't dance around it if you try. And it kind of reaches a peak when the connection reaches 100%, the gate opens, and. well. THIS happens to the Plants.

Plants, in both Trimax and Tristamp, are almost always typically feminine-looking. Knives and Vash are the only two who are male or even masculine at all. Knives, as the most masculine out of all of them, is the one trying to take charge, and mould the world as he sees fit, to a degree that is detrimental to both him and everyone else. And Vash-- passive, feminine, kind and nurturing, whose Angel Arm in the manga always sprouts decidedly feminine-looking Plant parts-- is the one being exploited for Knives' plans. It's no mistake that they made the giant plant formation at the end of ep 11 look like a giant woman that almost resembles Rem.

Vash wants people to make their own choices and keep their autonomy when it comes to their bodies and lives. Knives is the exact opposite. He wants all Plants to become independent and he uses Vash to achieve that goal, without asking what Vash wants or even knowing what the Plants themselves would prefer. He exploits Vash for the soul purpose of trying to make these Plants have Independent Plant babies. He's completely incapable of seeing that his choices are not for the greater good! He thinks he's saving them, but none of his actions are for the good of anyone but himself. He’s just violating them for his own gain.

They're really leaning into gender roles for these guys, but in a way that screams "HEY, LOOK AT THIS! ISN'T IT FUCKED UP? LOOK AT HOW FUCKED UP THAT IS. LOOK AT THIS, AND BE UNCOMFORTABLE, AND KNOW THAT IT IS FUCKED UP."

Because it is! It's so extremely fucked up. They're using this imagery and these roles, something that makes most of us intrinsically uncomfortable, to drive home how unhealthy Knives relationship with his ideal of Vash is. That's the point. We're supposed to be uncomfortable with this.

Now of course there's some nuance to it. Like, you could see Knives as somewhat of a feminine and/or queer-coded figure as well, ESPECIALLY if you look at some of his panels in the manga, which could in turn lead to themes about infighting and control within marginalized communities, but that might be something for another post. :3

And there's definitely different ways you could take this! Vash, with all this feminine imagery, could be either transfem or transmasc coded, depending on what way you'd rather see it, which could lead into themes of how people outside the norm constantly face a lack of bodily autonomy and are exploited for purposes outside their boundaries. We could also look at Wolfwood and his lack of choice over joining the Eye of Michael and becoming the Punisher, and how masculine men (particularly men of colour) are often forced into violent roles against their will. If we look at Trimax, the exact same could be said for Livio/Razlo and people with disorders such as DID/OSDD.

There are many different ways you could spin these themes, some of which I don't feel personally qualified to discuss. If anyone who is qualified to talk about Wolfwood or Livio/Razlo or even other characters related to these themes, then god PLEASE add onto this post or make a post and tag me or something. I would love to read it!

Anyway, in conclusion: Vash is a feminine figure constantly taken advantage of and exploited and and he's so incredibly trans/nonbinary-coded that it drives me insane. Thank you

#whiskeys word soup #trigun #trigun stampede #HI. HELLO. THIS DRIVES ME INSANE PLEASE READ THIS #and seriously if anyone wants to make a post about wolfwood or livio/razlo or any other character exploring these themes of bodily autonomy #on GOD. lemme know i wanna read it #well aware that some of this is probably me digging too deep for things that aren’t there but still!!! fun to look at #what is media analysis other than putting on ur queer glasses and picking out trans allegories within stories #it’s been a while since I’ve made a full analysis essay kinda post!! this is how i normally format them bc it’s easier for me to read

[deerspherestudios]

I kept thinking about what if Mychael found the MC’s cat. (Kinda imagine him treating said kitty like one of his chickens)

Idk I feel like animals would just love him (like he’s a Disney princess or something hehe)

#mushroom oasis vn #fanart #submission #aww this is so cute!! #i actually kinda dig how sketchy this is!! #almost makes me wish it was canon </3

[ofthebrownajah]

Rand al'Thor:

#wheel of time #wot book spoilers #listen #i know it's a complaint the show hasn't gotten into this yet much #however! #they kinda have to now that rand is officially named dragon #and the prophecies will fully be in play #tsr is really when we start really digging into this kinda stuff anyway #but when we do start getting into this stuff in the show? #oh boy #rand althor #oh rand my poor boy