#anyways this is so fun! uwu

[kazz-brekker]

finished reading the golden enclaves and idk if this is a hot take but i feel like it had better exploration of the importance of communal unity and the necessity of societal change than like 99% of books that people like to classify as hopepunk these days simply for not just being like "working together is so good, i love community, together we can accomplish so much and change the world for the better <3" and was instead like "yeah, this work is going to be really fucking hard. it's going to suck, and it's going to be unpleasant, and people are going to hate you for doing it. and maybe you'll feel like giving up because it feels like too much, and being complacent and just going along with the status quo would be easiest. but you still need to do it, because it's what needs to be done, and eventually the world will be better for it."

#i feel like so many books people classify as hopepunk are like 'uwu working together is so fun i love other people let's fix everything <3' #and el higgins in the scholomance is like 'listen up fuckers your houses are built on torture dungeons and we ARE going to change that' #'and i don't care how much you hate it because that's what has to be done' #pie says stuff #the scholomance #the golden enclaves #naomi novik #books #anyway. good conclusion! love when someone looks at a walk away from omelas situation and is like Fuck No

[utilitycaster]

It's sort of inevitable in D&D, especially in a game with a lot of calls to the idea of fate and a lot of complex parental relationships, that you'll touch on breaking cycles, but man do Imogen and Ashton seem to be lined up to be some of the most clear examples of it: Imogen, suddenly leaving her home, trying to learn about herself and stop her nightmares and get rid of her powers, becoming frustrated when information is scarce, even flirting with the idea of joining the Vanguard when it becomes an option...but deciding against it, staying with her friends, even finding a different way to ease the worst aspects of her powers will still retaining what's good. And Ashton, also broken and of burning purpose, also seeking power they believed themselves to be owed, but, in theory, fated not to deceive and destroy but share their gifts with someone else and use it to end a cult of personality rather than start one. They are both one really bad experience away from becoming their parents, but they have the opportunity and the information not to make the same mistakes.

#also. any old kingdom books fans in the house thinking about...sealing that which was once sealed with remnants. bc i sure am. #anyway. what this is getting at is like. ashton and imogen's appeal IS that they are VERY close to their shitty parents #but have the power to choose differently (and in imogen's case have done so) #critical role #imogen temult #ashton greymoore #i'm SO ready for Rau'shan based on the hints i think it will be a FUN fucking trial to get the spark. #edited to include a clarifying final sentence bc people were doing the uwu they're so GOOD thing again #i HATE the uwu they're so good thing. what are you all. Calvinists.

[tinta--branca--art]

i dont think im gonna finish this one so here,, be free my sons

#one piece #one piece fanart #trafalgar law #donquixote rosinante #donquixote corazon #donquixote doflamingo #donquixote family #op #god !!! this one stopped being fun so im putting a pin in it for now #i got what i wanted across but i need to go become more comfortable w rendering i think #anyway !! these guys. goot lort #i keep thinking about them they make me so sad so !!! hhh !! yknow #listened to era mata-lo by paus for a lot of this because. i mean. it fits #get u a crime family that silences you out of love hatred betrayal care #okok i go think abt them some more uwu #tintabrancaart

[wraithsoutlaws]

The day passed in blood, liquor and black lace. Not so unlike the others. He expected the debauchery, the violence. The symphony of gunfire. An NCPD Enforcer set ablaze beneath the neon sky, the sound of it's burning only deafened by their laughter. But he did not expect the cake. He couldn't remember the last time he had had one. Sometime long before. Before he was this. Before the callouses and the scars. He could hardly even picture it now—delicate hands ripped away from the flame of a birthday candle. Another life, one that no longer belonged to him. He plucked a chocolate frosted cigarette and placed it between his lips. An attempt to hide his smile. "You make this all by yourself?" "Fuck no. Klepped it from some fucking kid." "Smokes too?" "Took 'em from your glove box." "Fuckin' devil." "Happy birthday, Dag." The words rang sweet as the cigarette tasted. Like none he had had before.

#cyberpunk 2077 #oc: dagger #dum dum #x: perfect drug #cyberpunk photomode #cockroach will eat that whole cake cartoon style before they get a slice #and he'll steal the cigarettes too #i wanted dd's party hats to resemble the horns he definitely has (in my imagination) #dagger refused to wear his so dd took it #anyways they have a crazy fun wild day in the city and then drive out to the badlands to snuggle UwU

[mamawasatesttube]

this isn't like comics-fandom specific by any means, but one thing i do think about semi-regularly is that like. some people are so insistent on stuff being "for fun" so that they can justify never actually thinking about what they're doing, and that's... idk man. in a world where we are inundated with propaganda and bullshit all the time, media literacy, critical thinking, and reading comprehension skills are pretty important. and yeah like no one can have their brain running at max capacity 24/7 but you still gotta like... put in SOME critical thinking. otherwise you just get people being like SO WHAT if this comic is really racist??? you can't ask me to think critically about how it portrays characters of color!!!!! im just here for fun!!!!!! and it's just like. dude.

#rimi talks #kinda rambly but im thinking about a post i saw yesterday. and also a post i saw a few weeks ago. and a different post i saw before that #comics ''fans'' who go ''there's just so many comics so every single interpretation is valid and i don't have to think about anything-- #--bc im just here to have fun uwu'' my beloathed. one of the posts i refer to was about morrison's talia lmao #''dont call me racist for preferring the racist version of talia so i can make manpain for white guys!!!'' is an actual take i have seen. #and like there's a difference between writing shit that's inoffensive but just poorly written vs writing shit that's racist #but if you don't have critical thinking or reading skills. can you tell the difference? #and if you espouse the view that critical reading skills don't matter in hobby spaces. you sound white lol #anyways like i said this is kinda rambly and not about any specific thing #but i am very sleepy in a library so you get my unfiltered thought process. jazz hands

[betasuppe]

The party never ends!♡ An upright version of my favorite digital disaster because I'd personally love to fling him around like an old rag doll uwu♡

#rinzler my boy are you having a good time????? #i wanna chew him like a dog toy or one of those fidget chew necklaces you know??? #love a character so much you personally want to destroy them & kiss each molecule before you build them back together uwu #anyways #i drew this whole pic upside down #consider my humor when i tried turning it around & actually didnt hate the result lol #fun stuff yo #nok draws #nok digital #i guess????

[pinkyjulien]

━ The RVC00N Dumpster 🦝

🟨 Candy Dress

For Fem V 10 Colors - RGB leds & transparency!

🍈 Refit for Hyst's EBB Push Up available 🎒 Compatible with Equipment EX

🔹 On Nexus

#Cyberpunk 2077 #Cyberpunk 2077 Mod #Mod #Female V #Fem V #Clothes Mod #US Cracks #Blue Moon #Purple Force #Red Menace #eeeyy I had fun with the shooting 🤏🤏 #hfhgf modding dedass is so fun from A to Z even with the honks in between #weighting and refiting is hella frustrating- testing mlsetups in game and not being satisfied too #but in the end its fun UwU and it SHOULD be fun thats the whole point #ANYWAY ENJOY #us cracks are babies

[ahatintimepieces]

Scully, you're not going to believe this... but remember that ahit pokemon au that's a mash-up of the coliseum games and detective pikachu where Snatcher is an Eevee that can see shadow pokemon and Hattie is going on a journey to find her missing father, Luka Andersen, while rescuing shadow pokemon from Team Mafia and more? Yeah. It's been three years but I finally updated! In this chapter, Hattie confronts the C.A.W agents! I don't know how often I'll update but I hope you enjoy! Until next time!

#ahit #a hat in time #ahit snatcher #ahit hat kid #ahit caw agents #ahit grooves #lol #i had written the first two paragraphs back in 2021 #so i stared at the document like 'what are you supposed to do here?!?!?!?' #but it worked out in the end i think XD #writing the caw agents is fun #but also just makes me want to very badly get to the seals again #i wove them youw honow uwu #but we've got a long way to go because the goal was to make it follow the areas as you unlock them in ahit #so..... there's a lot to do before then... #anyway thank you as always for reading and for your lovely comments!

[fowlaroundtown]

More art for the Middle Aged Mutant Ninja Turtle au @hamburgrr and I have been working on! Here’s some concept designs for Mikey and Donnie!

Check out some other character designs over here

#yeah Mikey and Donnie are the two oldest in this #it’s fun UwU #funfact about the giant soft shell turtle! (the species Donnie is here) #they actually grow to be bigger than alligator snapping turtles. #so in short. big fucking guy. #I’ll go more into detail about their personalities and backgrounds later rn it’s sleeby time #anyway #tmnt #MAMNT #Middle Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles #Mikey MAMNT #Donnie MAMNT #Mikey tmnt #donnie tmnt #tmnt au #my art

[cherry-bomb-ships]

Hey guys I know its 3am and I gotta be up in 6 hours but uh

Yeah just dropping this here and running ty, probably not gonna do much more but I liked the idea 👍🏼💖💖💖💖💖 (also just looking at it now i realized i forgot to draw the headphone cord hrnshxbf oops ignore that)

#im honestly a bit eepy so im not as energetic but. remember the episode where mojo turns everyone in the world into dogs 👉👈 #thats thats what this is 💖💖💖💖💖 tbh ive been wanting to do this ever since around when i started shipping w him ehehehe #also i made my s/i a cocker spaniel cuz my gf who is a dog expert said thats what i'd be 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 #like the idea of being the first one he tests the anubis head on and then i just get to be buppy #the way the turns would table cuz now he can hold me and. idk i just get to be a cute dog for him idk #its not weird dont make it weird 😳💖💖💖💖 #anyway transferring my s/i design to dog form was fun! i know its not gr8 but i like it and also its almost 3am so i no longer care #peace and love uwu #ruby rambles #my art #💜: loving you's a felony #🍒🧬: emotional processing lag #ok to rb #its not that good but i probably wont do anything more with this so ya know. take it 😅💖💖💖💖 #self ship

[boy-above]

venti is already an adult i am so tired of some people insisting the 2600(+) year old depressed alcoholic god is a child because he looks feminine. i'm tired of people doing "adult venti" designs as an excuse to make him more masculine. there's female characters that have the same proportions as he does but they dont "look like they're 12" to these people because they're women therefore femininity is acceptable, but a male character having feminine proportions means immediate infantilization for any male character no matter how obvious it is that they're an adult. "adult venti" my ass you just made cisgender venti / adheres to gender roles venti 🙃🙃🙃

#to be clear i know there's Some ppl who also try to insist that some female characters are kids despite being obvious adults but they're not #NEARLY as common as people who do it for male characters because people can't seem to accept a cute male character at face value #the reason this makes me feel so strongly is that i'm an adult who looks 12 and has never once been correctly clocked as adult by strangers #and im also a man. and i have a round face and big eyes like venti and it's just important to me okay #those little 'uwu' anime boys yall love to make fun of resonate with me. they're men who look like me #obviously i'm not cute like them but LMAO you get the point #venti is an adult who frequents bars and has verbatim 'i'm well above drinking age' #anyway thanks for coming to my angry tedtalk #marshal gets harshal

[dykemerrilll]

re lrb in any case to me astarion’s arc is less about regaining agency than becoming aware that he already has it and has to act like that. there's a distinction between agency as a material fact, ie having the ability in theory to make your own decisions and act on your desires, and the awareness of having that agency.

i'm no psychologist, but in my experience one of the most helpful steps in recovering from mental illness has been the awareness of my own agency ─ yes, sometimes I feel as though my life is completely run by my intrusive thoughts, but invariably getting out of that place has involved a recognition that ultimately, I am the one in control of my thoughts and I have the agency to work through them. that doesn't mean that it isn't hard, or time-consuming, and sometimes I don't succeed in the way I'd like, but nonetheless the ability to at least try is and always has been in my power.

in baldur's gate 3, your companions appear with varying degrees of agency (aside, obviously, from the tadpole they all share). they range from gale, whose current situation physically and magically restricts him but who at that moment in time doesn't have many other immediate restrictions on his day-to-day actions, to wyll, whose every move is watched by his abusive warlck patron.

nonetheless, your companions benefit from being shown that they not only could have agency at some point in the future, if they break their pact/shar's curse/free cazador/free orpheus/fix the infernal engine/get the crown of karsus, but they have agency now and must therefore use it responsibly. wyll is already to some degree aware of this, i think, even if it's only because he is so morally forthright ─ he's one of your companions who remains actively trapped by their abuser during the game, yet he refuses to kill karlach because he knows that would be wrong. even within his severely limited circumstances, he makes a choice, he demonstrates agency. in the shadowfell, shadowheart ─ a cult victim subjected to extreme psychological and religious abuse ─ has the choice whether or not to kill aylin, and can make it either way.

astarion, at the point at which you meet him, has just been given freedom for the first time in, essentially, his life. it's no surprise that he doesn't know what to do with thise newfound agency, and doesn't recognise it for what it is, given that he literally cannot remember ever having control over his own life. that's deeply tragic, but it doesn't erase the fact that he has control over the things he does during the game. those actions (for example, given i am still talking about that last rb, talking about the children he kidnapped and gave to cazador as though they were nothing), are things he has agency over and is responsible for. nonetheless, he acts as though he does not, lurching from one attempt to gain power to another (killing the druids to suggesting you use whatever's in moonrise to your advantage), because his own self-perception as someone completely powerless is so overwhelming. he must accrue power because that is the only way he can make sure he's safe and can never be hurt again. it's just that that self-perception is not completely accurate, he does have agency; if he makes choices that result in moral wrongs, those moral wrongs are his to bear.

i'm not getting at astarion here, I don't mean to imply that he's at fault for this attitude. it is, obviously, the natural response to 200 years of enslavement and abuse. kind of the whole point of the game, of all of your companions' quests, is that if people are hurt and abused often they will feel as though their only avenue towards power is to do the same to others. but being severely traumatised doesn't make his behaviour okay; he doesn't get a free pass to do whatever he wants because of cazador. you can like him, literally who am i to say otherwise (i like him too!), but don't just excuse everything he does or get rid of the most interesting parts of his character because you're unwilling to grapple with the fact that as it stands in the game, he's morally incredibly complex.

i think there's a tendency to assume that a character either must or must not have agency, and to present it as a binary, because for some reason it's used as a shorthand for moral culpability, when in reality the relationship between agency and culpability is significantly more complicated. i haven't really been getting into coerced choices here because that's a whole other kettle of fish (though i will give the necessary disclaimer that my stance on this is quite clearly influenced by the fact that deep down i'm a bit of a virtue ethicist). nonetheless, while this is my pop philosophy take and i'm not trying to impose this overall moral framework on people, i think it's pretty reasonable to say that lack of agency does not mean that what you did was not wrong.

implying that astarion is at fault here would be indicative of the very attitude I am trying to oppose ─ the idea that people either have agency or don't, and if they do bad things with agency they are evil, but if they don't have agency they are victims. astarion is both ─ he is the victim of horrendous, harrowing trauma and yet he has done bad things and in fact visited that same trauma upon other people. there's no escaping this, and i think it would be bad for astarion to just brush everything he did for cazador under the rug because he did it for cazador. he still did those things ─ he might not be culpable, i do not think he can be considered as such, but there's no way you go through all of that and don't feel guilty for it.

notably, if shadowheart kills aylin and wyll kills karlach (if he can? i actually don't even know if he can do that, but hypothetically), they are still responsible for that action and it was still morally wrong. they have to deal with that: part of dealing with it can be to recognise the coercion they were subject to, but the fact that they lacked agency doesn't just erase the wrong or mean it was never wrong in the first place. likewise, astarion becoming the ascended vampire is still obviously a terrible thing to happen for him and everyone else, and is in no way justified just because it might finally give him the sense of safety and control he craves. the whole point of that moment is that even when he is being retraumatised, when he has returned to the place and person that hurt him, astarion has the capacity to choose, and to choose the right thing. acting as though his trauma means he has absolutely no agency whatsoever and so never has to address the fact that he can, at various points, greatly fuck up, just removes one of the biggest themes of his whole character.

tldr: astarion has agency, one of his greatest challenges is realising that he does and that he must use it responsibly, and acting as though that is not the case does a disservice to his character and the story it is trying to tell. also it is deeply deeply boring. the end.

#bg3 #i logged into tumblr on my laptop to type this out instead of learning how to use a pivot table #hence the abrupt change in capitalising I #i keep going on about this because it's a general attitude towards trauma and mental illness that drives me completely up the wall #yes life is hard yeah you gotta take steps to make that better #yeah thats tricky. sorry. gotta be done though #anyway i could literally talk about this all day like. gale or lae'zel and agency is a WHOLE thing and i could rant about those two for day #but this is getting too long as it is #also obligatory disclaimer that this is in no way a commentary on anyone's gameplay #im not trying to do a 'omg if u ascend astarion you're a terrible horrible person forever' or anything #i think it's great and fun that you can do that and explore his character that way #this is directed at people who just try to make him like uwu traumatised little baby who has never had any agency ever #in his whole entire life #and so cannot be morally responsible for any action he has ever taken

[sysig]

Request 2: Drider Scriabin being aesthetic and spooky! Thought about how if you wear a headlamp outside at night, all the sparkles in the grass are tiny reflective spider eyes (personal experience with camping) and with his mirror lenses being reflective, it sparked a mental image of scary spider man in the dark with his 'eyes' being the most visible thing by torchlight (or spell light). If you want, maybe something with pretty spiderwebs in the background because Spiderwebs! Are! Cool!

Day 14 - Crackle crackle ✨

Bonus original resolution:

#Requestober #My art #Pixel art #Vargas #Scriabin #Edgar #*You hear something move around in the dark... Roll perception #Whew really under the wire with this one! Lol #I saw it in my head as having simple animations - like Edgar blinking and Scriabin's lenses flashing and the light wavering #But even this is still nice uwu #The spiderwebs aren't particularly central hmm #It does make me want to make a sparkly web like what the Ilwrath have sometime - another time! #I've just been really itching to play with pixels again ahhh #I feel like I always talk about how they're such a forgiving medium and so fun to work with but that's just always the case! #Edgar got the most detail work this time around - his shiny gold accents were really fun to do haha #Scriabin's presence is very understated hehe #I brought back his multi-lense glasses design for sillies ♪ #I also didn't know about sparkly spider eyes at night! I'll have to try that some time #I haven't noticed it with Baby either but I try to shine soft light on them anyway haha

[torra-does-stuff]

Lol

Lmao

My very alpha take on an Anthro Saint, still tryn figure out what clothing style they would wear

no I wasnt inspired by the heretic series at all what do you mean

that definitely hasnt been a huge brainrot of mine for the past few days

#rain world #rain world spoilers #anthro slugcat #saint rain world #torra art #really didnt want to be too derivative off pansears work #they did a really good job making their scugs so #its kinda hard not to be super inspired by their work #anyway this took like 5 minutes at work #ascension saint will always be fun to draw uwu

[yeopwo]

"only friends is so toxic" "is sex the only thing this show has?" "this is so toxic for queer relationships!" girl.... its almost like thats the point no? also when did queer representation have a requirement to be wholesome? we can't be messy bitches at all? booooo!

#this is a joke. #if u actually hate the idea of fwb in a show idk man maybe dont watch it? 😭 #im so sorry to be a bitch but if u go out of ur way 2 look for smth u hate n interact with the fandom then its on u man #only friends #anyways if u actually h8 the show for idk the storyline or smth tht u thot could have been done differently #tht added to the show or took from the show thts different LOL #but anyways..... have fun guys why is every1 so uptight 😭 #only friends the series #also this is made by a gay man like guys i think he knows gay rep 😭 #not everything has 2 have a bow n glitter n be uwu

[mxgicthot]

Blorbo moonboards based on this quiz, what color your love feels like

Inspired by @into-the-daniverse post, it was such a cute idea I had to join in >:3c

Haleth got warm burnt orange and Erden got bright sunny yellow

#This was so much fun I love aesthetic boards uwu #I never thought I would associate yellow with Erden but anyways... #oc : Haleth #oc : Erden