#during this period

[whetstonefires]

Hey here's an angle on the Jiang family dynamic and its impact on Wei Wuxian that I haven't seen discussed:

Wei Wuxian grew up seeing Jiang Yanli routinely having her agency cut off and denied in both large (betrothal) and small ways. That were largely tied up in her gender, sure, but this was also a family containing Yu Ziyuan. A daughter in this household had every chance of having her gender treated as of secondary importance.

She just had to earn it.

The way Jiang Yanli was hemmed in and her potential as an independent actor dismissed was at least as strongly correlated with her failure to be a powerful sword cultivator.

So Wei Wuxian's total refusal to let anyone know that he'd lost access to his cultivation and his violent reactivity against being diminished or condescended to during his Sunshot-to-death period, when before he was pretty immune to being looked down on, could have a lot to do with having been presented with this clearly labeled diagram of how your personhood gets stripped away when you are, by the standards of your society, disabled.

#hoc est meum #like jiang cheng's desire to die about it also has this #but he had some specific shame issues #and the realistic assessment that rebuilding his sect and getting revenge was now impractical #and his problem was never really feeling like his place in the world was actually going to be taken #just like he failed to deserve it #whereas wwx had his secrets to keep but even after he'd lived up to most of his obligations #during this period #and i think it's what he's so mad at himself about looking back #during the Empathy flashback #that he valued his pride and clinging to his status when it turned out #it did jack-all to help and he got everyone killed #(Present-Day wwx is not an objective source on himself lmao) #and this in turn is why in the present-time of the novel he's so willing to lean into the indignity of mo xuanyu #he now has nothing to lose and it's liberating #but during his march-toward-death era having any more of his self-respect and conceptual status stripped away was agony #because it felt like an unpersoning #and some of the disability angles around this come up in fandom sometimes but #the fact that he internalized the idea that not having this specific type of power means you lose your personal freedom looking at jyl #doesn't really #and i think she Very Much informed his relationship to #power gender disability and #marriage #mdzs #wei wuxian #jiang yanli

[chasingthewesternsun]

Mad we didn’t see thrawn in ep 3 but happy i got to finish my dumb comic (҂◡_◡) ᕤ

#star wars #thrawn #ahsoka series #ahsoka show #grand admiral Thrawn #morgan elsbeth #ezra bridger #ahsoka #comic #star wars fanart #thrawn fanart #artwork2023 #myart #LISTEN! this came to me during stressful period idk if it’s even funny but I made it and I’m inflicting it upon all of you #haven’t made a comic in forever and I forgot how hard they are wtf you have to do the same thing so many times #trying to go with my gut humor and be looser and not over stress about art too much #also trying to simplify

[chloesimaginationthings]

YOUR DESIGN FOR TEENAGE MICHAEL IS SO KFJSKD CUTE :3 !!

I have to draw him again, when he’s less in destress

#ask reply #I’m glad yall like him!!! #I have more sketches of him when figuring out his design #I’ll probably share those on my Patreon #he teeny tiny #itty bitty #long hair for teen Michael has always just made sense to me #fits the time period and the vibes #for my design of him #I like to think Michael started cutting his own hair during his teens #into adulthood and that’s why his hair is so jagged and spikey #this is just for my design btw not Michael as a whole but I think it’s a fun quirk

[cemeterything]

the thing about 2019 tumblr is that it was bad in a way you really had to be there to understand and the romanticization of our own loneliness was dire but at least we had the moomins. it was worth it for the moomins.

#🐉 #and the web weaving which i think was popularized during that period. thats pretty good too. #as someone who struggles with web weaving im endlessly impressed by people who post those

[chronurgy]

Gortash designs and builds mechanisms so I imagine he has to be able to sketch fairly decently in order to sketch his projects and designs. And I'm imagining a pile of charcoal sketches of Durge, done over their entire acquaintance, starting out with sketches of them in battle and then slowly becoming more detailed and intimate and as they do, the titles changing from things like "The Bhaalspawn" and "Bhaal's Chosen at Their Bloody Work" to "The Chosen in Contemplation" and finally just Durge's name

#it's speculated that the individual pictured in these sketches is [name] who was thought to have resolved the absolute crisis #But the existence these drawings may suggest it was merely a hoax to improve their reputation #Idk man I just love the idea of Gortash keeping this series of sketches of durge #I admit a crazy fic idea I've been rotating is the idea of an art history commentary set 100 years after the events of the game covering #The art found in Gortash's estate after his death and how people would interpret it and their potential relationship #And link to first hand descriptions of the time and academic papers and all that #Stuff like “see Elerrathin et al for analysis on the class dynamics of formal portraits and new money during this period” or something #enver gortash #dark urge #dark urge x gortash #durgetash #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers

[witchfinderlieutenanttable]

#jjk #incorrect jjk #satosugu #actually yes #incorrect jujutsu kaisen #geto #jjk shitpost #jjk memes #jujutsu kaisen #geto suguru #me during exam period be like #rizz #this is how i flirt #2007 suguru is my spiritanimal

[little-pondhead]

Your Ancient History, Written In Wax

-

Danny knew he should have put better security around the Sarcophagus of Eternal Sleep. It wasn’t even Vlad who opened it this time! The fruitloop was too busy doing his actual mayor duties because for some godforsaken reason, the man got re-elected.

No, it wasn’t Vlad. And it wasn’t Fright Knight, either. Nor the Observants. Who opened the Sarcophagus, then? Danny didn’t have time to find out as Pariah Dark promptly tore open a hole in reality and hunting Danny down.

The battle was longer this time. He didn’t have the Ecto-Skeleton, as that was the first thing Pariah had destroyed. The halfa had grown a lot over the past few years, and learned some new tricks, but apparently sleeping in a magic ghost box meant that Pariah had absorbed a lot of power. The bigger ghost acted like a one-man army!

Amity Park was caught in the middle of the battle, but the residents made sure it went no further than that. Vlad and the Fentons made a barrier around the town to keep the destruction from leaking. Sam, Tucker, and Dani did crowd control while Danny faced the king head-on.

Their battle shook the Zone and pulled them wildly between the mortal plane and the afterlife. Sometimes, residents noticed a blow from Pariah transported them to the age of the dinosaurs, and Phantom’s Wail brought them to an unknown future. Then they were in a desert. Then a blazing forest. Then underwater. It went on like that, but no one dared step foot outside of Amity. They couldn’t risk being left behind.

It took ages to beat him, but eventually, Danny stood above the old ghost king, encasing his symbols of power in ice so they couldn’t be used again. He refused to claim the title for himself. Tired as he was, Danny handed the objects off to Clockwork for safe keeping and started repairing the damage Pariah had done to the town. The tear he’d made was too big to fix, for now, so no one bothered. They just welcomed their new ghostly neighbors with open arms and worked together to restore Amity Park.

Finally, the day came to bring down the barrier. People were gathered around the giant device the Fentons had built to sustain it. Danny had brought Clockwork to Amity, to double check that they had returned to the right time and dimension.

Clockwork assured everyone that they were in the right spot, and only a small amount of time had passed, so the Fentons gave the signal to drop the shield.

Very quickly did they discover that something was wrong. The air smelled different. The noise of the nearby city, Elmerton, was louder and more chaotic. Something was there that wasn’t before, and it put everyone on edge.

Clockwork smiled, made a remark about the town fitting in better than before, and disappearing before Danny could catch him.

Frantic, Danny had a few of his ghost buds stay behind to protect the town while he investigated.

He flew far and wide, steadily growing horrified at the changes the world had undergone. Heroes, villains, rampant crime and alien invasions. The Earth was unrecognizable. There were people moving around the stars like it was second nature and others raising dead gods like the apocalypse was coming. Magic and ectoplasm was everywhere, rather than following the ley lines like they were supposed to.

Danny returned to Amity.

The fight with Pariah had taken them through space and time. Somewhere along the way, they had changed the course of history so badly that this now felt like an alien world.

How was he supposed to fix this?

-

In the Watchtower, The Flash was wrapping up monitor duty while Impulse buzzed around him, a little more jittery than usual. The boy was talking a mile a minute, when alarms started blaring an alarming green. Flash had never seen this alarm before, and its crackling whine was grating on his ears.

Flash returned to the monitor, frantically clicking around to find the issue, but nothing was popping up. No major disasters, no invasions, no declarations of war. Nothing! What was causing the alarm?

Impulse swore and zipped to a window, pressing his face against it and staring down at Earth. “Fuck! It’s today isn’t it? I forgot!”

“What’s today?” Flash asked. He shot off a text to Batman, asking if it was an error. The big Bat said it wasn’t, and that he would be there soon.

“The arrival of Amity Park. I learned about this in school; the alarm always gives me headaches.”

Flash turned to his grandson, getting his attention. “Bart,” he stressed. “What are you talking about?”

Impulse barely glanced over his shoulder. Now that Flash was facing him, he could see a strong glow coming from Earth. “The first villain, first anti-villain, and the first hero,” he said anxiously. “They all protect the town of the original metas. They’re all here.”

“Here? Now??”

“Yeah? They weren’t before, but they are now. The first hero said there was time stuff involved, which was what inspired me to start practicing time travel in the first place.”

“I’m not following.”

“It’s okay. We should probably go welcome them before they tear apart Illinois, though. The history I remember says that some of them freaked and destroyed a chunk of the Midwest during a fight with each other.”

“WHAT?”

#dpxdc #pondhead blurbs #liminal amity park #I’ve seen stuff like this in the mhaxdp fandom and I eat it up every time #basically the fight with Pariah caused the town to jump through time a little #and while they THOUGHT they were keeping everything in #shit leaked out and tainted those points in time #so technically #historically and genetically speaking #Amity Park is the origin point for the meta gene and Danny made history as the first hero #because Clockwork is a little shit #everyone embodies a basic ability and it has grown from there #the flash family are direct descendants of Dani (speed force Dani for the win) #Dash is the reason super strength exists #so on and so forth #go buck wild #bart learned about it briefly in history class in the 30th century #practically hero worships them #booster gold knows about them too but in contrast to Bart’s excitement #booster is fucking terrified because there was a period where Amity Park rebelled against the US government #and he’s from that specific time #he learned to fear phantom because he lived during that part while Bart is from farther in the future when those issues got resolved #guess who’s chosen to welcome the town? >:) #if you’re wondering what happened to the GIW #they turned into the branch Amanda Waller runs #Danny is the first hero #Vlad the first villain #and Dani the first anti hero #there’s an arc where Danny is trying to fix things but clockwork won’t let him into the timestream and all the heroes are horrified #because yeah Danny is the OG but if he goes back in time to fix his ‘mistake’ what will happen to them?

[canisalbus]

How do you draw so frequently???

I'm starting to think I probably have some passive ADHD so I end up always admiring ppl who can just constantly do stuff, it's like a dream, your art is also like a dream, Vasco is also a sweet dream, I really like Vasco, he looks really sweet

I set aside a little bit of time every evening just to draw, it's become almost like a wind down routine for me. It helps if I don't treat it as serious 100% effort hard mode art time, I usually multitask a little on the side, watch a movie or take breaks to do little chores around the house and art just sort of happens if it happens. Lately I've been making mostly personal low pressure feel-good pieces.

#this isn't really normal for me either I'm typically way WAY more shiftless #I've been unusually productive during these past few months but I may slow down sooner or later #drawing Vasco/Machete stuff is nice it gives me some badly needed serotonin and results in this positive feedback loop #so I keep making more #I also switched to different antidepressants earlier this year and I'm thinking maybe they have something to do with it #perhaps they reconnected some wires in my brain and suddenly drawing became a lot easier and more enjoyable who's to say #I'm just trying to make the most out of this creative period while it lasts #answered #anonymous #own characters #Vasco

[eggsplice]

we're the last ones left

#set during scottish safehouse period tee hee #the magnus archives #tma #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #jonmartin #scopophobia #eyes #trypophobia #artsplice #i just wanted to digitize a sketch .. what happened

[scintillyyy]

hey remember that time in batman #450 while tim was still in training to be robin when bruce found out that the joker was still alive and he paid for tim's entire boarding school class to go to japan to get tim as far away as humanly possible from the joker & because bruce didn't want tim to see him if he lost control upon seeing the joker & bruce hired a man named yodo to stalk and watch them the entire fucking trip just to make sure they were safe the entire time....

bc i remember that

#listen....bruce was genuinely so worried about tim during the training period... #like. pls. im begging. #bruce was actually so worried about putting tim in the position of robin & that's actually good angst #anyways i think about yodo a lot. who are you sir. what do you do. #how does bruce know you. #tim drake

[milktea-grn]

hair gel things

#still trying to figure out how to draw him please grant me some grace during this awkward period #i saw a pic on pinterest on the days progression of gelled hair and just thought about roman my bad #i love his shaggy hair so much #it gives me the teensiest sense of a bit of a trad goth vibe a little classic robert smith spice the softly spiked nature #pls uneerstand me you just get it #roman roy #succession #my art #reblogs are welcome

[land-of-solace]

tell me why I gasp and sit at the edge of my seat every episode as if I haven’t been reading the pjo books religiously for over a decade

#like why am i shocked i knew this is what happened #the drama of it all has me freaked #i feel like a kid again except this time im in the comfort of my home snuggled with my cat instead of reading during my lunch period #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percy jackson show #percy pjo #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #percy series

[persnickety-doodles]

Korra sketches 💞

#persnickety doodles #alicia draws #lok #Korra #been seeing a lot of korra negativity during my brief periods on the internet #and i'm just here to share some korra

[an-inspired-eternity]

well you see ma'am, funny thing! i've not been able to attend classes because i was designated a child soldier

#shitpost agenda #shut up richie #wizard101 #i only play these games during the free periods and before w101 only had the worlds included in the first arc #so now i can finally actually do wysteria

[morganbritton132]

Eddie, to his Tiktok audience: We got new followers on here, so just wanted to let y’all know that you don’t gotta tell me about how your mom made out with my husband in high school. Everybody made out with my husband in high school, including apparently his “very straight” best friend. The only thing Steve’s had more than concussions is mono.

Steve, in the background: You can get mono from drinking after someone!

Eddie: You can, but you didn’t.

#During the brief period of freshman year where Steve wanted to be an actor he auditioned for the school play and got cast as the wizard in #the Wizard of Oz (the role Eddie wanted) and then a week before the show had to drop out because he got mono #Eddie has never forgiven him for it. Eddie didn’t even get to fill in for him someone else did #eddie munson tiktok saga #steve harrington #eddie munson

[stil-lindigo]

the dredger.

a comic about closure.

(buy the digital copy of the comic anthology here)

creative notes:

#i wrote my best stuff when i was at my very worst mentally #both RED and Patchwork Canary were written during an emotional pit #i struggled for a while. thinking about that #especially since those two came so easily to me back then and its so difficult to write anything like it these days #but i think id trade being happy over writing Only Bangers any day #closure #i made this comic series about the worst period of my mental health ever and now its over #its 10pm #and i dont know who i am #and thats fine. ill figure it out as i go. #thank you for reading #and thank you for your support #i promise my next project wont be as sad #stillindigo art #comic art #stillindigo comics