#anyway on a lighter note

[oifaaa]

how i differentiate bot and follower is "do they have a human lady in a bikini? if yes then its a bot" lol thats the only bots i get recently lol

have a lovely rest of the day/week! :D

I dont think that's gonna work for my bots friend considering this is what my followers list currently looks like

#ask #anon #its just 500 of these guys all the way down #im begging you if your not a bot change you pfp please #i will feel bad if i block people who just want to lerk #im looking at you pervert-mom your the only one on this list i think could not be a bot #anyway on a lighter note #despite the fact that im poor as dirt #ive just made the impulse decision to buy the first compodium of invincible #a few of my friends found out id never read it #and told me its the best none dc / marvel comic #so should be fun hopefully

[iiryebreadii]

thinking about the light dragon again. ough. going a little insane over her actually.

thinking about how she's just a pretty dragon when you look at her from far away. thinking about how when I first got close enough to see her clearly and eventually land on her back and walk to her head, I was so,,,,, disturbed?? disturbed. by her appearance. the way the eyes bulge out so significantly. the way the pupils are so contracted, the way they're set like a prey animal's eyes, the sort of sickly purple-green combo they've got going on. the too-long face, like one of those over-bred show dogs. like everything about her was a little off. but at the same time, I thought the light dragon was really, really pretty!! she's got those iridescent antlers and golden mane, and that soft glowing energy of the master sword surrounding her.

but then. when you get the master sword and see that cutscene, if you didn't already know beforehand, you almost certainly know now that the light dragon is zelda. and suddenly that distant, beautifully glowing dragon is gone. it's lost some of its beauty because now you know. you've gotten close enough to see the details. those other, more disturbing features of her face are even easier to see now, without the obscuring presence of the master sword's glow.

her design is reflective of her role and experiences in the story. the light dragon's very existence is beautifully disturbing.

she's born from the ultimate sacrifice of a woman wanting to protect those she loves; zelda gives up more than her life (I mean, there's at least an afterlife in the zelda universe as we've seen from the ghosts), she gives up her sentience. and isn't that just intrinsically terrifying?? at least if she had died, she could still be herself as a ghost. but, from what she knows when making her decision, becoming the light dragon practically erases her. of course the light dragon is so unsettling. but she's beautiful too because she only exists because of Zelda's complete and utter faith and love for her knight and the people in her kingdom!!

but man. that final memory. I think it really captures the light dragon's essence. The music, the imagery, everything in that final dragon's tear is just. so beautiful and SO unsettling. if you listen closely to the roar the light dragon makes as she flies upward, you can hear what sounds like a human scream mixed in. which is just. im not ok. i cant even pretend to be normal about that after hearing it. (If you want to try hearing it for yourself and tell me if I'm crazy for hearing it or not, listen here from around 3:17-3:22, headphones would probably help)

ANYWAY. tldr; thinking about how the light dragon's design reflects what you know about her in the story. if you don't know the story yet (haven't found/seen the tears), it's like what you see when you look at her from far away: pretty new dragon with cool blue-yellow aura. but the more you learn (the closer you look) the more unsettling it gets. and then when you get the master sword (symbolically learning the truth of who the light dragon is) then you can suddenly see everything that's so disturbing about her design now that it's no longer obscured (by the aura in the visual sense and by the player's lack of knowledge in the meta sense). am i making any sense here or am i thinking about this too hard

#totk spoilers #totk #im no good at narrative analysis but you bet your ass I can analyze visual designs #and ​the light dragon has a SUPER interesting design #anyway on a lighter note #every time I saw her in the sky after getting the final memory I would just look at her through the scope and be like ''my wife!!'' #had to be happy to see her or else I would start crying again #light dragon #the light dragon #<- which of these tags is hers. idk im putting both

[oingomyboingos]

how painful it is to be surrounded by remnants. i’ve been thinking lately on that word. before I had a falling out with a friend two years ago, I bought the fabric to sew her a bath robe. the fabric store gave me a discount for buying the remnants, the unclaimed, funny bits of fabric left at the end of a skein that no one wants. putting use to the discarded was supposed to have been a fun challenge, jigsawing my pattern pieces to fit, just barely (or fudging it a little).

now those pieces sit under my bed: remnants, once more.

I look around my room and spot others: remnants of a piece of something that once fit into a bigger whole. An old concert poster conjures up the smell of spilled beer and grinning in the flashing lights. On the bookshelf, a handmade ink drawing put into a floating frame so that I can read the message scrawled on the back in a hand I will never read again. The wall holds last summer’s harvest, a handmade wreath I wove out of lavender dried from a new friend’s yard. I wonder how long it will be before it joins the rest.

#a sad poem (?) for you all #being in your mid twenties sucks because everything you thought you had built collapses #sometimes it’s your fault. sometimes you don’t even know what you did. #anyway on a lighter note #what is the word for skein when it’s fabric and not yarn? I can’t remember #just jill's stuff #writing tag

[sodacowboy]

WOW

#my head hurts!!! #but it literally only stays Gone if I wait for it to get bad before I take meds #like bro wtf kind of??? #anyway on a lighter note #guys with bangs like the frame your face kind of straight across ones??? #yeah they’re kinda hot #I need more men doing this NOW #please please please masculinize this haircut I am begging #(that being said I’m pretty happy with my curtain bangs lately so)

[whyismangososour]

one small thing I absolutely hate about trans and gender discourse nowadays is the overemphasis on pronouns because not only does it reduce me as a person to what pronouns I use but it also always leads to the most awkward and uncomfortable situations where I have to explain my gender to strangers when I really don’t want to and almost no one else but me has to

#genderqueer problems i guess #anyway on a lighter note #the amount is gender euphoria I get #seeing gwen stacy in across the spiderverse #has absolutely changed my brain chemistry #so it’s not all bad out here

[citrusdownn]

one of my main hcs for the stoker brothers is that one time when danny came back to london from whatever trip he was on tim suggested they dye their hair together (and on their own)

after danny disappeared he didnt re-dye his hair but he kept the bits bleached

#tma #tma fanart #the magnus archives #the magnus archives fanart #tim stoker #danny stoker #on a lighter note #tim for sure owns those boxers with the hearts on them #no one can tell me otherwise #ill drop more stoker hcs at some point #tma spoilers #?? kinda #idk if danny counts as a spoiler but ill put the tag anyways #citrus art

[obisamya]

4-5-1 Season 3, Episode 3 TED LASSO (2020-2023)

#ted lasso #tedlassoedit #tledit #shandy fine #ambreen razia #zava #maximilian osinski #gifs. #has it been long enough that we can acknowledge what they did to shandy was fucked and she was actually very fun and had potential? #it's like. the downside to colourblind casting where they think 'oh we're casting a woc yay diversity!' but then they dont change anything #about the role to fit the fact that the character is now a character of colour #so then you accidentally get shit like this. where they were trying for something funny with her storyline/how she got fired #but instead they've unintentionally made her an unfunny caricature that all her rich white lady superiors think is incompetent #treating the One woc we had for this season this way is just so nasty #but anyway on a lighter note. i love how unhinged shandy's convos are. this one and the one she has w roy. just love the energy she has

[neptunesailing]

hades art dump + some whiteboard doodles

#nep draws things #sketch #oh shit how do i tag these things. um. #hades game #hades supergiant #zagreus #thanatos #is that it. i think thats it. anyway if you follow my main blog youve probably seen my insanity over this game ^_^ i wanna get around to #drawing some of the other characters but i just. shrugs. theyre cool to me ok. i think ill draw uhhhhhhhhhhh persephone next maybe???? #anyway i believe there should be more wholesome artists for this fandom bc some posts here are uh. um. Yeah. ^_^ < has seen the Horrors #watch me never post for this fandom again sasdfkjjskdfkj it feels so cold and empty. there is no life or warmth to be seen here. #ik ppl are there in the community but it doesnt Feel like other fandoms ykno. its scaryyyyy anyway im keeping to my main communities fornow #ANYWAY on a lighter note the gameplay is sooo addicting...... aourgh. i was also gonna say smth else but i forgot #posting this from my drafts before i go to bed lol gn

[simcardiac-arrested]

unleashes the horrors upon you (the horrors are my gay little ocs)

#hello gays come get yalls food #myart #yes the design notes are all useless. except for like ris’ one maybe #his design is very square bc he is. er. evil #anyway i really like how they all turned out :) my little guys #didn’t even struggle with the colors for that long (lie) #ok maybe some actual design notes or something similar #wt and ris both have lighter hair streaks and wrinkes bc they are. old👍 #and also ris and soar have the same hair and eye color. if u care #cd still has their fucked up eye of course <3 i like what i did with the hair too #bro cuts it themself it’s soo choppy and messy. but it’s ok it adds to the gamer charm #fta has heart shaped hair because. i want hearts to be part of his design tbh #like the gardener has a heart too. so #it’s bc he likes cute things btw. but he won’t admit it so don’t ask him #son giving you the tbh stare…. i feel like they are the type of autistic to make uncomfortable amounts of eye contact #they just dont know when to stop or look away #also their hair is matching with wt’s yayy!!! found family win i think #i mean with son it’s more like forced family but yknow #oc: weaving tales #oc: recognition in spirit #oc: cognitive dissonance #oc: spins on axis rapidly #oc: fates torn again #oc: speaks of nothing

[laesas]

The hands holding yours are not clean either.

VegasPete + Hands || KinnPorsche (2022)

#Disclaimer: I have very complicated feelings about this show and this couple after everything that's happened over the past month #I actually started these in late december for a friends birthday but the colouring ended up so complicated I didnt get it done #and while I'm still untangling how I feel about the fandom and fan culture and the whole situation (tldr: bad sad parasocially betrayed lol #I was so proud of these for my 3rd ever gifset the absolutely insane amount of time I spent on the colouring and masking against shaky shot #like I genuinely had to keyframe adjust about 8 different overlapping layers frame-by-frame for at least 1 of these lol #and perhaps selfishly: I need to post bc I can't bring myself to work on new sets while this was staring back at me every time i opened PS #And I'm proud of it and it meant a lot and even though the shape of the fandom and friendships have changed its still worth something to me #anyway. enough rambling. on to the actual tags lol #VegasPete #kinnporche the series #vegas theerapanyakul #pete saengtham #asiandramasource #asianlgbtqdramas #lgbtedit #vegas kp #pete kp #idk idk idk I feel like this is my one last little love letter to these silly little characters that meant a lot to me #and to the friends that inspired it too #on a lighter note: the caption is an adapted taemin lyric and the colours were inspired by the criminal MV lmao #so like lol its not that deep :') #aaaand post. #bee.gif #kpts

[flumpermergen]

Okay I’ve been wanting to rant about this for a while and I feel like now is the best time to do so after this um… very galpal trailer came out lmao.

But I’ve always found it so stupid when people in the community act as if hoyo would never put any queer coding/queer characters in their games because “they’re a Chinese company so that makes them homophobic (or something); stop trying to spread your agenda!!!!! Not everything has to be queer!!! 🤬" People INSIST that others are just “reading into things too much”.

And listen, I don’t think that any ships or headcannons of mine are actually canon in game and obviously you don’t have to ship characters or think they’re queer that’s totally up to you.

But saying hoyo would NEVER queer code is objectively false. Like, please I’m begging you to look into the HI3 lore/story for just two seconds. There’s even a canonical kiss between Seele and Bronya. They have been creating queer characters for years. I mean come on, you can’t watch that hsr trailer and look me in the eyes claiming they’re dancing in a friendly way lmao.

Yes, there is a lot of censorship from the CCP but censorship is the reason why queer coding exists in the first place. I mean the kiss that I talked about prior I believe is censored in the Chinese release, but the fact that hoyo even tried to include it in the first place is hella commendable and shows that they want to include queer characters in their stories.

That being said, I do think there is a conversation to be held critiquing hoyo when it relates to queer characters such as how a lot of queer coding hoyoverse does is fanservice. I mean hey, companies will be companies and at the end of the day hoyo is trying to sell us a product to get more sweet sweet money. Hoyo isn’t blind; they know when two characters are commonly paired together. Sometimes they play into this to make people more inclined to pull on banners. Black Swan and Acheron are good examples (exhibit a is up above lmao).

I know I’m preaching to the choir here considering Tumblr is not the place most bigots flock to. However, my point in all of this is just to let people interact with media in the way they want to and stop calling queer people delusional when we call out obvious queer undertones in characters. Again, you don’t have to believe said undertones or think any of this is canon, but don’t put queer people down for wanting to see ourselves represented in media.

TLDR: Hoyo is a company known for queer coding and bigots need to let people live.

#honkai star rail #hsr #genshin impact #genshin #hsr 2.1 #black swan #hsr black swan #acheron #hsr acheron #lgbtqia #queer #flump! #I’ve been posting a lot lately can you tell I have a lot more free time??? #anyways I’ve been wanting to talk about this for a while so thanks for reading my little rant #on a lighter note me and who? #I was SCREAMING when I saw that trailer I love women #I wish black swan would kiss my hand :(

[tearsoftime0086]

I was talking about this to a friend a few weeks ago, but I love how Kamille basically starts and ends Zeta Gundam with the same motive - righting a wrong - but the way he internalizes it shows how much he's grown (spoilers below).

Like, when he goes awol and steals the MK II, he's solely in it to pay back the MP who physically assaulted him (which also I could go into a whole other conversation about... dude why did you turn back around when a gundam crashed into the military facility???? anyway). He wants to get revenge for being looked down on, from being toyed around with by the officers on the sidelines. It's a very self-centered and almost egotistical drive.

By the time he's fighting Scirocco however, the rationale is different. Yes, he's still calling out Scirocco for doing much of the same as the MP - watching from the sidelines, messing with people - but Kamille's a changed man. He's now a formal pilot, but he's also learned to love and to lose people, and he's learned that he has the potential to be something more for them. And so he couches this intent in the framework of "sacrificing his life" for it - for a bigger cause, for the people who he cares about.

Until it swallows him whole.

#kamille bidan #i... just have a lot of feelings about kamille. he starts out as such a troubled kid (justifiably #and he's so self-centered because he's going through a lot of pain that as a teenage kid no one seems to really relate with #and the war almost helps him - gets him to meet people #recontextualizes the world and his place in it #until he's willing to give up EVERYTHING and become a vessel for everyone's intent #a;ldkghdks #random musings #anyway someday I'll write up my thoughts on how ZZ handles character development with Judau too since his ending also makes me feel things #zeta gundam #on a lighter note because of kamille's early episode antics I'm only 1 for 3 on convincing my friends to finish watching zeta #what a guy huh #gundam

[lionbearfox]

inktober 21: a friend was telling me today that they really liked a nilou outfit i came up with on the spot for a drawing a few months ago so i took another crack at it :)

#my art #genshin impact #inktober #nilou #messy one today cause i had a busy day :) #i saw my bestie of 9 years!! we r both so busy so its hard to find time to hang out but we did today and it was sooooo nice #got my first person coming onto my posts saying i should draw nahida with lighter skin too 😒😒 #but its ok :) we are focusing on the positives and they got their ass Blocked #anyways i hope you all (my beloved 2 dozen or so followers who are always in my notes) are doing well today :) #id in alt

[funnywormz]

i go absolutely wild for genderbends in the right context. certain kinds of genderbends make me extremely happy. but the issue is that i'm also very picky so i will look at like 99% of genderbends and get mad at them bc they suck and are bad. but that last 1% which are actually good........ unbeatable. y’know. so i continue dredging through the crap because occasionally i find a diamond in there................

#just saw a middle aged dumpy male character i like depicted as a skinny young conventionally attractive woman. absolutely distraught #i love seeing male characters depicted as women so much but you gotta do it RIGHT #not just take a generic doll base and slap some of the dude's features on there. no. #put some EFFORT into it #and for the love of god if a man is fat/older/etc then i don't see any reason why his female counterpart wouldn't also be those things #anyways on a lighter note #that one artist who makes the disco sapphics disco elysium au 100% gets it right #their stuff is so spot on it makes me very happy