#did I think of that til just now?

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Since I drew Peridot again I been thinking about something that always bothered me. I'm not just talking about the whole "omg steven universe characters shrink lmaoo" it's that her entire design just gets worse. The big-ass boots are essential for balancing out her massive head

#I drew them too big here but blaaaa #could I have just copy-pasted her old legs? #yes #did I think of that til just now? #no I did not

[kittyandco]

does anyone else get so upset when you think about all the things that happened to your f/o... all the things they went through? all the things they haven't healed from? the pain that they may still be enduring? how you can do your best to help them but you can't protect them from everything. so you just love them the ways they needed before, how they deserved. and you see them happy because they finally accept, at least in some ways, that they do deserve it. they deserve love like all beings do

#i get so upset when i think about it for too long; i'm there for them now but there was nothing i could do; wanna go back and protect them #i'm like this with everyone i care about (real and fictional) and sometimes it's hard #it's about hans this time. i just can't believe all the things that happened to him #no wonder he's terrible! no one cared about him! why should he care! all he knows is pain and neglect! except from me! #i know why he sees everyone else as worthless because that's exactly how everyone he knew saw him first; he was supposed to be loved #they all used him up til he was nothing and that's all he knows #i can't even read certain parts of a frozen heart again because i just cried so much the first time... he didn't deserve that #no one does #and then the comics detailing it all even FURTHER #he was like any other innocent kid and seeing that progression hurt so much. i could get into the details but ugh #hux's age of resistance comic did the same thing. i can't even look at the first 2 pages; it's too much. i just want to hold him #anyway... i'm fine :') i've made a post like this before but i'm feeling it so hard right now #self ship

[woah-uhuh-uhuh-uhuh]

whats that joe iconis? you want *me* to be in charge of the jeremy outfits from now on?? well if you insist....

#ngl i dont think he would have the confidence to wear anytihng like this til hes like 23 but #um have you considered what if he did and he got to be fluffy and express himself right now #like have you thought about that ////lh #jeremy heere #bmc jeremy #jeremy bmc #be more chill #bmc #my art #my posts #jeremy #art #wuuujer #posts #<- thats me making a tag for my own jeremy dont worry about it sldjkfdslkf #hes converging with flint lockwood now i really have to backpedal #i wanna do a closeup of his and michaels phone cases i think michael would bully him #btw my headcanon for his queerness in this image is he just opened the possibility of identifying as something other than cishet #and is like oooh i might be aro and nonbinary or something #may or may not be true in the long run but thats how he feels now!!

[vvitchering]

I think maybe everyone should cool it with the “weird cult” comments regarding the covert, honestly. It wasn’t that funny to begin with but now that it’s the popular describer it’s starting to become a little uncomfy. No one is forced to join, no one is forced to stay. There’s a ton of parallels between them and real world cultures and religions and I just think MAYBE we need to be a little more aware of what message we’re sending when we say “haha that group of people who are in hiding because their lives were/are at stake and who practice anonymity to survive and follow certain rules that I don’t personally understand or like are a weird cult”.

#maybe we should lay off that word #I’m not the first person to say this obviously but now it’s starting to make me a little 😬 #really wish this season had done what it should have and explored Din’s relationship with his faith #then maybe we’d learn more about the covert and Mandalorian culture and people wouldn’t feel the need to use this kind of language #they’re not a cult they’re just a group of people trying to survive in a universe that would prefer they did not #and that hits home for a lot of real people watching #anyway there’s that #the mandalorian #everyone a Din stan til we talk about how his faith is still a huge part of his character and his life #although the show really really needs to address how all of the events so far have changed his mindset #personally I don’t think he wants to leave his creed behind #but I think he would benefit from reevaluating what it means to him Now as opposed to when he took it as a child #the fact of the matter is: the covert and the creed are Important to Din on a fundamental level #would he enjoy you running around calling his family a cult? probs not #mine

[sallymew4]

"Such a massive skull....

It must be hiding an equally massive brain!"

TerukiWeek 2024, Day Five

Hair AND Trauma...

#terukiweek2024 #i wanted this 1ne 2 b a little silly #i think its funny that ritsu thought he just had a bigass noggin when he first met him so i played off of that :) #also the trauma is ritsu's raging jealousy of teru's enormous intellect in case you couldnt tell [joke] #AGAIN I THINK ITS HILARIOUS EVERYONE DID HAIR AND TRAUMA CUZ I KNEW I WAS GONNA DO THE SAME THING #ritsu teru friendies is so funny 2 mi. like they are crazee #i like the wig btw guys. like actually its so fun to just draw upwards and have it kinda fizzle out #now im out til birthday day..... gotta work on that 1ne gang........... #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mob psycho fanart #teruki hanazawa #hanazawa teruki #ritsu kageyama #kageyama ritsu #implied terumob as always

[yellowocaballero]

i dont know if this something you put a lot of thought into but it seems like you might and im curious so, what are some of your favorite themes to write about/the themes that interest you in writing or media?

Oh wow, good question. I put both a lot of thought and very little into the themes of my work. I always sit down and decide what I'm saying, and the meaning of the story, but some things always emerge in the writing. I usually discover what a story is actually about as I'm writing it. It's usually only after I finish the work that I realize what themes I had put in there, which seems like it should be bad. I think this means that a lot of my themes come through subconsciously. They're typically just...things I think about a lot.

I think the one thing I keep on coming back to is *tumblr voice* the mortifying ordeal of being known. That entire article, including the image of walking down a hundred stories of hell before reaching heaven, reconfigured my brain. It's just so damn hard to exist in a world with other people in it. There's an inevitability to hurting each other, but the love's worth it. Playing The World Ends With You at a vulnerable age primed me for obsession with this. That one quote from The Little Prince, ya know.

Generational trauma, cycles of trauma and abuse, and the long-term impact of trauma comes up a lot for me too. How being fucked up makes you fuck up others, the long-term consequences of being fucked up, the coping mechanisms we develop as a result. The ugly side of trauma and mental illness, the way we lash out and hurt people. I talk about escapism a lot, and the impact that has on you and the people around you long-term. This is usually exemplified through amnesia plotlines. This is a deep cut, but the Warchild series by Karin Lowachee had the best take on this I've read in a book.

Non-traditional love. I end up writing a lot of sibling dynamics, but I like creating unnamable and undefinable relationships. A lot of things I write just become very aro and asexual narratives. Love that saves. Love that isn't enough, but it still matters. The other side of love, which is grief.

I could go on. Forgiving yourself. Struggling to determine how to be a good person. How your identity & the intersections of your identity affect who you are. Power and power dynamics. A LOT of man vs self stories, like a lot a lot (I'm not overly interested by villains). The experience of being mentally ill and navigating the world as a mentally ill and/or disabled person. The differences between navigating the world as a man or a woman. I write a lot, so a lot of stuff tends to come up, lol. Roleswaps - fucking, somehow, for some reason, WHY, WHY DO I WRITE SO MUCH OF THEM -

Thanks for the ask, I had to do some self-reflection to answer it! I never really realize I'm writing about these things until I am, again. They're just all part of my framework of how I understand the world. Everybody has those, but when you're a writer it's easier to pull them out and microscope them.

#my asks #my writing #i really like writing experiences different from my own #i think it helps foster a sense of empathy and my own skills as a writer #a lot of my own writing is just informed by a feeling of “irl [and/or in the narrative] nobody gives a shit about this person but I do” #in their own ways dimitri & marc/stephanie brown/fox & clones/diamond & pearl clans #are people who nobody cares about or likes #severe mental illness; poverty; Every Clone Metaphor Ever; indigenous people #idk. didnt fully realize i did that til just now. spite i guess. #dunno what's up with THAT one there's no reason for THAT #oh well

[basilibino]

Season 8 was like 6 years ago(I feel old) and I know ppl have differing opinions on the Mr Echo thing (but it was intended, made it to storyboard and blocked animation and then dropped, soooo) but. I can see his recruitment p easily tbh. Bc the whole reason Dr J was in that lighthouse was because he was resurrected, forced there, and ordered to build Skulkin vehicles by Samukai. But Samukai in the flashback we see has already been deposed as leader of the Skulkin/Underworld. Which means the orders to do so most likely came from Garmadon.

And since Mr. E is one of the head honchos, he's likely an early arrival to the team, so I don't think Harumi has a whole lot figured out at this point, she's just got her Trauma and some Bad Influence Friends and an obsession with Lord Garmadon. So. Like. Plausible deniability road trip that she's just visiting important markers of Ninjago's recent past, all of which involve Lord Garmadon in some meaningful way; its sightseeing, its cathartic, and it gives her time to develop her dream Motorcycle Gang/Resurrection Cult. She's not looking for anyone at the Lighthouse, but she is looking for vehicle blueprints so she can be the Koolest leader on the block. But oops she looks in the basement and there's an Echo.

And she's flipping out bc??? A Ninja???? In the Lighthouse basement??? I mean it makes sense that it would be this one but???

Except this rusty old robot has no idea what she's talking about with this Ninja stuff, he's just waiting for his dad to come back.

And Harumi pauses.

Because how long has he been waiting? He's not sure, he had no proper way to measure time in the basement, and he doesn't have the best view of his clockwork heartpiece. But it was after his father saw a strange ship docking; Echo was worried it was the People who had locked up his father in the first place, but instead his dad sounded happy when he saw whoever was out there. It could have been a front, though, as clearly it was never safe to let Echo back out. Then Dr J popped down briefly, while everyone above was resting, to tell Echo he was desperately needed elsewhere, that it wasn't safe to bring Echo, but that he'd be back in no time.

And the pieces are fitting together for Harumi. And she's like. Your dad's dead, bro.

And he's like. What? Did he die doing what was needed of him?

And she's like. Oh, no. He died a few years later.

And he's like. Why didn't he come back for me????

And she's like. Probably because they kept him away.

And he's like. Who's they?

And she's like. The Ninja I was talking about earlier.

And it surely can't be hard in universe to find pictures of Zane and Dr J post s2-pre s3, so she pulls one up and shows Echo who is freaking out bc why is that one kind of like him and Harumi explains that that was the droid his father created first, that he became a Ninja, and that hes probably the one who took their father away and kept echo waiting for years.

But Echo has doubts, shocked as he is abt a new older brother, he wants to believe the good in the situation so he's unsure. But Harumi mentions that the Ninja's failures to uphold more than their self preservation/interests has led to uncountable losses and devastation in Ninjago time and time again, before delving into her own story. And she seems so kind, and so hurt, and I do think there's a genuine connection btwn these two that forms from this shared emotional torment that they decide came from the Ninja, and now Echo is more receptive.

And then Harumi gets to start her Garmadon pitch because wait! If Echo was made here, then that could only have happened because of Lord Garmadon. And she reiterates that he's the reason she and her city could have even survived The Great Devourer. And maybe Echo's family-by-creation left, maybe they were untrustworthy and lacking, but that's OK bc if you look at it all a certain way, Garmadon is more of a father to Echo than Dr J was. And Echo is a vulnerable, overwhelmed mess who just found out his dad fucked off for years without him and also died, and also he has a brother??? Who their dad clearly seems to have favored??? Did they even know about Echo??? Did they delight in their life free of him???

Basically. Kinda Spinel-core but getting abandoned and left completely alone does that to you. Especially when the first person to find you after being abandoned is a deeply hurt and misguided teen who is probably kinda desperate for someone, anyone else to see the Ninja the way she sees them.

#i was thinking abt the idea of citrusshipping #and how it could have flowed into Mr Echo. with morro as the vengeful influence tinting these #one sided experiences to associate ninja with loss #but theni was like 'wait a sec tho bc Harumi does that also and its her gang called the sons of garmadon #and if youre very carfeully squinting and cherrypicking out pesky details and nuance. like harumi would be. #echos existence is thanks to Lord Garmadon. and there is no better replacement dad than garmadon. you should be a son of garmadon. #and echo would probably listen and she could get him out the lighthouse and off the island' #and anyway i kinda ship Harumi and Echo now? #i like citrusshipping its funney but i think i actually ship this dynamic now #its. fucked and manipulative but its also like. genuine and just. two scarred young people and harumi gives echo her distorted view #of the world as the gift of her love #so its like she wasnt trying to manipulate echo. not like she was trying to manipulate Lloyd. #but she did take someone in a v fragile state and begin shaping his worldview to match hers. unconciously but still done. #like i can also see her bringing him to the mainland and she and UV and Killow are his tethers which means everything he sees radicalizes #him further...and draws him in closer to the fold #anyway if he and harumi smoochie kiss then shes why he got rebuilt in Crystallized. also i think mr F stands for 'Mr Fun Guy' #echo zane #harumi jade #ninjago harumi #quietmystery? #idk what the ship name would be but im here for it #mr e ninjago #mr echo #echo/harumi #tbh i said i kinda ship it now but it could also be friendship #sons of garmadon #...ok til abt the morro-echo-harumi trio hcs and Yes #this is just more of a like. canon compliant ish take where morro is still gone from the narrative #love the idea of the 3 in a vengeance trio tho

[donttouchtheneednoggle]

realising you're trans is like realising you've been driving in a clown car all your life and infinite clowns of misery and uncomfortableness and dysphoria have been squished into what looks like a completely normal car and once they start coming out they don't stop

#me rereading a vent fic about chest dysphoria i started in 2021 #the same me who didin't accept i had chest dysphoria til this year 💀 #'oh yeah that was just a phase' no bestie you repressed it to hell #and once again i WAS trans in 2021 i was nonbinary i was just also blocking EVERYTHING out #mine #gender adventures with neednoggle #i need to be nicer to myself ive only properly known for coming up to 4 months #vs 21 years of not knowing #im doing ok #i think im still enby now as well #jus in different way #some of it is hilarious anyway #i mean how much transmasc fic can i both read and write over several years #feeling incredibly comforted by and connected to #in a way nonbinary fic did not make me feel #and not have something click? #just feeling like a bad enby™ #yeah all my transmasc fic? none of it was written with a jot of self awareness except half my bill and frank one #honeslty i think they were what tipped the scale 🤣 #ok enough outing myself for today lmao

[faunandfloraas]

me wearing the trackie dacks i got from the mens section that are 2 feet too long so i pull them up to my boobs and tuck them into my socks so i dont trip and die

#all so i can have actual pockets #for real tho what the hell was this outfit #i never ever noticed til the other day bc most the song hes in a close up and then when i did notice i was just like ? #i think bride changbin in his veil had distracted me up til now

[ef-1]

#im on out of cape town and on dry land again 💃 #having a Berrys and cream ass breakfast #trisha paytas: IM FREEEE WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIIFFEEEEEEE #anyway in Sicko Mode when drake says 'i did half a xan 13 hours til i land; had me out like a light. slept thru the flight 🎶' #well. me? i took a vali before my flight but then i had a mental breakdown and started crying on the PLANE! thanks again Aubrey Graham. #genuinely fine now i just thought its funny bc i was crying and thinking about drake lying to me. #DRAKES A LIGHTWEIGHT!!! half a xan? bitch ! #jk... unless #+ note its prescription i wasnt getting belligerent or anything

[mrsdulac]

As far as I’m concerned Tanta Sila is Frey’s godmother and Tanta Prav and Tanta Olas are her aunties.

#feeling incredibly emotional about these women #can’t stop thinking about sila prav and olas being there for cinta #despite not necessarily agreeing with her falling pregnant (it was forbidden for them after all) #and how they all appear at the end to help frey find her power and defeat cuff #even after the danger is passed they appear to her again grateful that athia is saved #and call me crazy but i firmly believe that even now they’re still with frey #i just…i did not expect the end of this game to devastate me like this #it hurts in the best way #can’t wait til friday so i can buy the dlc!! #forspoken #frey holland #tanta sila #tanta prav #tanta olas #tanta cinta

[keeps-ache]

if i could be any little creature on the earth i'd be one of those little robot-dog toys that kind of suck

#just me hi #i know they suck my sibling had one once and it was okay hfvsh #it could do backflips but it also banged its head into the floor every time it did so it was kind of painful to watch lolll #but besides the suckiness i just think they're neat :> #they can roll around and that is very cool to me #sometimes they play music but the speakers are horrible but they're trying so hard bhfs </33 #/anyway. i actually had a point to this but i forgot what it was #if i was a sucky robot-dog toy that costed 60 bucks with terrible wheels and worse speakers i think i'd go and travel the world #why travel the world? i don't know ! just makes sense to do something like that #i think the little things would like to travel the world :> they can't move very well and aren't taken to many rooms and their batteries di #quickly but i think despite (or maybe because) of that they'd roll around busy streets and explore spots that would be hidden by the usual #tourist #it's just a neat thought :) #//okay.. on my way now lol #i keep staying up to ungodly hours by accident and i feel so flat hfhvsh #stayed up til 5 on saturday bc i got caught up telling my siblings a story. stayed up til 4 last night doing the same exact thing fhhsv #i don't learn lol !! #but ye gonna see if i can get my sludge brain to work. as my brother says; toodledoo #//edit: also their hearts are in their batteries and every time you change them they love you more. okay Now bye fhvsbvhfvs

[coco0milkshake]

Gonna be spreading my ‘Rusty befriends and takes care of Nine’ propaganda because I REFUSE to believe they leave him alone in the Grim

#sonic prime #I read like 3 fics about their dynamic and now I want more #the whole reason nine was like that because he was alone and had nobody til he met sonic #and you’re telling me he loses his only friend and has to live the rest of his life alone and hated by everyone??? #nah I don’t think so #can I rant for a little bit? #Thorn and Rusty are hypocrites #Thorn kicked out the scavengers and literally starved them #and she attacks them everytime they go looking for food #yeah the scavengers shouldn’t have been uhhh what’s the word #taking more than they should and destroying the jungle #but Thorn didn’t have to STARVE them when she could’ve just explained why they shouldn’t do that #yeah they forgave her but what makes Thorn different from Nine #when he’s doing the same thing she did yet gets hated by everyone (except sonic ig) #and Rusty has definitely hurt people considering she worked for the chaos council #and is the reason why the No Place gang almost sunk like a few times #again what makes her different from Nine? #AND (I forgot which episode) when Sonic was talking to Nine he was actually listening and probably wouldn’t have attacked #if literally everyone didn’t show up like- 😀 #and Nine took it as another betrayal from Sonic and panicked that turned into anger #and Sonic didn’t even reassure him or told the group off because he FINALLY got some progress #only for it to go down the drain #like was that revenge for Sonic not listening to THEM the last 2 seasons? #anyway I feel like Rusty would be the one to understand Nine the most considering they were both used by the council #rusty rose #oh yeah Nine Sails and Mangey deserve to be brothers #miles nine prower

[lesbiangiratina]

Straight up kinda thought they were about to kiss here is it really possible for a gear and a forbidden beast to fall in love

#machine translation can not parse most of what eddie is saying. but testament certainly says some insane shit to him #they like. empathize with him to the point where they dont understand why he wants to stay alive so bad LOL? #like ‘yeah being an artificial lifeform with opposing wills (human memories vs gear instincts) fucking sucks. why dont YOU want to die .’ #thats crazy. mostly because this was written like. just going off their win quotes lol?? #and yeah those definitely acknowledged their connection perhaps even parallels + testament’s empathy for him #it didnt really get expanded on til ac+ Like a year after this doujin was published #SORRY FOR LIKE. GOING NUTS OVER WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY 2007 FANFICTION #i jjust think testament and eddie are interesting. also the art in this chapter is gorgeous shoutout UHHHHH #soutetsu. they did not put any kind of link in their comment space :( oh well it wouldve been dead now anyway. #the kat goes meow #gg #totentanz

[lpsotd]

i just finished up some commissions and i wanted 2 ask if i could get some pets to draw!! u always show off really cool pets i dont recognize and thatsss swag ^_^

another ask that i am uh [flips through notepad] over a month late to !! very sorry about that. anyhoo, if you're still here and are waiting for those pets to draw, i am giving you husky #2297, peacock #869, and skunk #253 !!

#yall gonna have to bare with me on how late i am to these asks #stuff is crazy these days and i am quite busy #when i do have time to myself i am doing everything else but posting here #not that i dont want to #im just always doing something else and dont think about this blog til it's super late in the day/night #i love my little blog and i have no plans of stopping it any time soon #im gonna be on your feeds for quite a while! #did not mean to flood these tags i just. needed to say this i guess #maybe i should've made a separate post for this? #ah well its here now #[ 🎨 ]

[majimassqueaktoy]

the other rgg boys are hairless because rgg didnt bother to model them with body hair but spiritually we know they should be hairier- Majima however is hairless because he goes to a salon and gets a full body wax every friday afternoon at 3pm on the dot.

#he waits til when you turn your console off to go make dinner and he runs down to the salon #like hes a regular all the girls know him hes in every friday so that hes fresh for the weekend #Its true he told me #its why his legs were hairless in those fishnets #the image with his leg up behind his head while some nice middle aged beautician waxes his ass hair is just funny to me #i can see it clear as day in my head #I think nishiki would get his chest waxed tho #and I think young kiryu and nishiki heard about shaving making you aerodynamic so they did that #but once kiryus dadcore he isnt bothered with being aerodynamic anymore #saejima should be hairy tho #and he should have a fat ass but like. apparently we arent allowed to have ANYTHIN in this world #akiyama should have hairy ass legs like he should always have chest hair peakin out hes just that kinda skank ya know #rikiya should be like ultra hairy dont ask me why i just believe it #like if he made it to middle age (rip baby) he'd be one those fellas with mad back hair n stuff 💗 #baba would be pretty hairless... partly just from genetics but he prob has a shave now n then. #anyone else 🤔