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thenocturnenarrator · 5 months

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#art #my art #digital art #digital illustration #undertale #utdr #safe utdr #frisk undertale #frisk the human #frisk fanart #undertale fanart #frisk #frisk dreemurr #undertale frisk #save point #determination star

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shapelytimber · 3 months

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Disco maul be upon yee

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Hey remember when legends though it was a good idea to have vader in white (hate that on every concievable level btw) ? Maul would have pulled it off

Mean lesbian maul is now my comfort character to draw kgkfkfkfjf you will probably see her again not sorry xoxo <3

Surprise alt version :3c (cw blood) and process below vvv

White is a bold color to wear for carnage <3

This (hopefully) has some maul lockdown vibes :) but please bear in mind I only read half of it 5 years ago and remember nothing- this is a shot in the dark hope it landed somewhere

PS : why this top ? J'aurai bien fait la guerre pour ces étoiles moi lgigjglgl deso je suis beauf

#really not in the mood for backgrounds rn so u get khaki the ugliest color (I was really determined to make this work-)#darth maul #star wars maul #maul #star wars fanart #star wars prequels #star wars #disco aesthetic #art #my art #digital art #illustration #fanart #sith lord #cw blood #star wars sapphic au

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lazycranberrydoodles · 9 months

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i think the barbie movie would have a profound psychological impact on hua cheng

prev comic / next comic / follow for still more hualian barbie movie content because i am not done

bonus angsty version 🎉 i hate love expressions just a couple tiny lines on the mouth and eyebrows and it goes from silly to sad

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#this is a haha hua cheng devoted joke but idk it’s nice to think about how much of his identity and self worth is placed on xie lian #obviously since he was 10 most of his major life choices were to serve the crown prince #but in the interval time he became one of the most dangerous men in the world and decided it was his responsibility to create a ghost haven #he works on artistic mastery and alternatively brokers deals with and evades assassination attempts by heaven #if asked i think he would say he only does good for dianxia’s sake (What Would Dianxia Do) and is actually a bad person #and similar stuff about his combat and art skills #theres a question here about how much of his success is due to being such a determined person and how much #of it is luck from ‘the savior’ reversing the star of solitude #how much hua cheng is left when you take away xie lian?#he would say nothing #xie lian would say a billionaire genius playboy philantrophist etc #tgcf looooooves to talk about destiny and free will and so do i #all this to say if it was in character for hua cheng to cry at a movie hed be sobbing #this can be read as pre or post confession btw #the poll decided which version of the comic was the ‘main version’ above the cut #tgcf #art #comic #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hob #mxtx #my art #barbie #barbie movie #tgcf meme #lmao

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human-rocket · 3 months

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Guiding Light | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | [next]

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#my art #obikin #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #star wars fanart #star wars comics #star wars the clone wars #sw tcw #sw tcw fanart #sw fanart #guiding light #im determined to hit all the tropes with this series

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seagreenstardust · 1 year

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When Katsuki Bakugo needed saving, Izuku came up with a plan where Todoroki, Iida, and Kirishima went rocketing across the sky to reach him.

When Izuku Midoriya needed saving, it was Katsuki, Todoroki, and Iida who went rocketing across the sky to reach him.

Both times, our Twin Stars decided to set their own needs aside and allow the other’s trusted friend to take the lead in bringing them home. Izuku knew Kirishima was the right choice to get Katsuki away from the league quickly and safely, and Katsuki knew Iida was the better man for the job of catching up to Izuku and bringing him back.

Can we please just take a moment to appreciate the parallels. Please.

#bkdk #bakudeku #mha #bnha #I was rewatching Deku vs Class 1A #(easily in my top three favorite eps btw)#(if not the top)#and the parallels slapped me in the face multiple times #Katsuki really is showing how he’s finally pulling even with Izuku emotionally #he’s been beaten over the head with Save to Win for literally the last two seasons of not longer #and his guilt for how he treated Izuku for years has been eating up at him #he has to bring Izuku back to UA and he has to apologize #but he let’s Iida take the spotlight #he recognizes he’s not the right person for what needs to be done so Katsuki helps Iida get there and let’s himself wait for his turn #he’s working as part of a team #he’s putting Deku’s needs first #and he’s determined to apologize for a lifetime of what he acknowledges at last were very bad and hurtful decisions #and we see it in how his rescue of Izuku parallels Izuku’s rescue of him #i can’t with these two I really can’t #twin stars but actually #wonder duo #happy ending when because I literally cannot accept anything else at this point

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cantsayidont · 4 months

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When attempting to critique the values of a long-running franchise like STAR TREK, it's important to draw a distinction between superficial issues and structural ones.

"Superficial" in this sense doesn't mean "minor" or "unimportant"; it simply means that an issue is not so intrinsic to the premise that the franchise would collapse (or would be radically different) were it changed or removed. For example, misogyny has been a pervasive problem across many generations of STAR TREK media, which have often been characterized by a particular type of leering-creep sexism that was distasteful at the time and has not improved with age. However, sexism and misogyny are not structural elements of the TREK premise; one can do a STAR TREK story where the female characters have agency and even pants without it becoming something fundamentally different from other TREK iterations (even TOS, although there are certainly specific TOS episodes that would collapse if you excised the sexism).

By contrast, the colonialism and imperialism are structural elements — STAR TREK is explicitly about colonizing "the final frontier" and about defending the borders, however defined, of an interstellar colonial power. Different iterations of STAR TREK may approach that premise in slightly different ways, emphasizing or deemphasizing certain specific aspects of it, but that is literally and specifically what the franchise is about. Moreover, because STAR TREK has always been heavily focused on Starfleet and has tended to shy away from depicting life outside of that regimented environment, there are definite limits to how far the series is able to depart from the basic narrative structure of TOS and TNG (a captain and crew on a Starfleet ship) without collapsing in on itself, as PICARD ended up demonstrating rather painfully.

This means that some of the things baked into the formula of STAR TREK are obviously in conflict with the franchise's self-image of progressive utopianism, but cannot really be removed or significantly altered, even if the writers were inclined to try (which they generally are not).

What I find intensely frustrating about most modern STAR TREK media, including TNG and its various successors, is not that it can't magically break its own formula, but that writer and fan attachment to the idea of TREK as the epitome of progressive science fiction has become a more and more intractable barrier to any kind of meaningful self-critique. It's a problem that's become increasingly acute with the recent batch of live-action shows, which routinely depict the Federation or Starfleet doing awful things (like the recent SNW storyline about Una being prosecuted for being a genetically engineered person in violation of Federation law) and then insist, often in the same breath, that it's a progressive utopia, best of all possible worlds.

This is one area where TOS (and to some extent the TOS cast movies) has a significant advantage over its successors. TOS professes to be a better world than ours, but it doesn't claim to be a perfect world (and indeed is very suspicious of any kind of purported utopia). The value TOS most consistently emphasizes is striving: working to be better, and making constructive choices. Although this can sometimes get very sticky and uncomfortable in its own right (for instance, Kirk often rails against what he sees as "stagnant" cultures), it doesn't presuppose the moral infallibility of the Federation, of Starfleet, or of the characters themselves. There's room for them to be wrong, so long as they're still willing to learn and grow.

The newer shows are less and less willing to allow for that, and, even more troublingly, sometimes take pains to undermine their predecessors' attempts along those lines. One appalling recent example is SNW's treatment of the Gorn, which presents the Gorn as intrinsically evil (and quite horrifying) in a way they're not in "Arena," the TOS episode where they were first introduced. The whole point of "Arena" is that while Kirk responds to the Gorn with outrage and anger, he eventually concedes that he may be wrong: There's a good chance that the Gorn are really the injured party, responding to what they reasonably see as an alien invasion, and while that may be an arguable point, sorting it out further should be the purview of diplomats rather than warships. By contrast, SNW presents the Gorn as so irredeemably awful as to make Kirk's (chronologically later) epiphany at best misguided: The SNW Gorn are brutal conquerors who lay eggs in their captives (a gruesome rape metaphor, and in presentation obviously inspired by ALIENS) when they aren't killing each other for sport, and even Gorn newborns are monsters to be feared. Not a lot of nuance there, and no space at all for the kind of detente found in TOS episodes like "The Devil in the Dark."

#teevee #star trek #star trek tos #star trek the next generation #star trek picard #strange new worlds #i find strange new worlds largely unwatchable #and this is a major reason why #along with their determination to no-homo spock

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dustykneed · 3 months

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one moment theyre arguing on the bridge the next theyre necking in a turbolift (bickering is their foreplay.) also mckirk is peak "i married my best friend" energy

also i LOVE the idea of bones being inexplicably more flustered than spock over kissing the vulcan way,, theyre both terrible terrible tsunderes but jim thinks its so funny that they play it up sometimes when hes feeling down just to see him laugh

#star trek #star trek tos #tos #star trek fanart #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #spock #s'chn t'gai spock #jim kirk #captain kirk #spones #mckirk #mcspirk #i am proud to inform you all that my close irl (extremely spock coded) calls spock the bowl cut guy #ngl might rework our irl interactions into spones comics because LITERALLY we're platonic but thats the vibe #i love them so much #i also annoy (fondly) the FUCK out of them with puns and rope them into mock arguments over silly funny things like shakespeares innuendos #anyways bowl cut guy it is #for some reason im determined to post daily???#no idea why #also im like slowly assimilating garashir into my pool of Ships so i may be getting into ds9 eventually #yes i get into fandoms SOLELY by reading fics dont ask me how it works i dont know how either #spones fanart #mckirk fanart #mcspirk fanart #dust trek hcs

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pepperoniparadise · 1 month

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“Your focus determines your reality.”

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stararise · 8 months

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evil professor layton: i encourage the use of calculus to solve this puzzle

#star says #professor layton #hershel layton #i think roleswap layton (between him and descole) does this. just gives you annoying tedious puzzles #woe! puzzle requiring you to find a derivative to determine the rate of which sand flows into monte d'or be upon ye

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agoddamn · 9 months

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Something something the parallels of McCoy being unable to separate the salt creature from the Nancy Crater he knew and Mirror Spock from the Spock he knew and continuously making the choice to help people who hurt him

#sorry I'm back on my leonard mccoy bullshit again #draws a direct line from this to the sybok situation #and another direct line to the katra debacle #and another direct line to his determination to sacrifice himself for no apparent reason #love that TOS was clearly written on the back of several napkins over 20 years but it still works! goddamn #leonard mccoy #star trek

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agtavio · 6 months

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been busy, haven't drawn much BUT new blorbo

#reverse 1999 #pavia #my beloved #first four star and fav unit #Agtavious Art #i will over level him i will use all my resources on him #my 5 and 6 stars will be neglected #absolutely determined to keep using him even if it makes everything harder #i have spent the last two days on this game #i still have 5 assignments i didnt complete #😪

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nobody-expects-the-inquisitorius · 3 months

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Have I talked yet about how important it is to me that Crosshair is queer-coded?

Have I talked about how it doesn’t quite make sense why the character who’s consistently stuck to his family like glue and shown absolute disdain for anyone and everyone outside of his squad is the only one to make the conscious decision to leave them and follow Anakin alone on Skako Minor unless there’s some deeper kind of attraction going on here? Have I talked about how his natural dramatic streak seems to intensify whenever Anakin’s around? How he, who we can assume guards his equipment like it’s treasure, seems so willing to let the Jedi hold it? Almost like he’s deliberately trying to impress him?

What about how it’s canon that Sister was afraid of how she’d be received by the wider galaxy? Or how important the theme of feeling othered and hate being fostered as a result between groups of people that really aren’t so different is to the Bad Batch? And how Crosshair is by far the biggest example of that? Do I really need to elaborate on the implications of their Kaminoan purity-and-perfection-obsessed creators that live in a city associated with blinding white and treat any nonconformity/diversity as defectiveness?

I’m just saying

#🎶he kissed a boy and he liked it🎶#watsonian explanations for doylist details my beloved #i don’t think they intended to portray him as queer at all and that just makes me more determined to headcanon it because IT FITS.#i’m gonna write a whole fic about this don’t you worry #if we’re talking specifics i think he’s masc-leaning bi because my gaydar never lies #i just.#mlm coded crosshair is the best crosshair i have SPOKEN #tbb crosshair #the bad batch #tbb #star wars #headcanons #morgan speaketh #queer #bisexual

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claracivry · 1 year

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