#emphasis on PERSON.

[vulturvolanss]

ngl as an autistic person I look at how ppl treat alhaitham and go yeah none of you would like him if he wasn’t hot. and it makes me sad. like at this point I wish he was a little weird looking or something so that people would just. leave him alone. not subtle constantly making him a robot in aus or treating him like he’s violent or cruel or any sort of mean when that’s just patently not true. y’all see a guy that doesn’t bother masking and says things like “I want everyone to live the lives they want to live” and say he’s a bastard

#octopondering #people are out here missing the entire point of his character #admitting they just hate him #and use him purely as shipping fuel. and it makes my blood BOUL #*boil #ka/veh is out here exploding in frankly ugly anger if you phrase things not the way he wants it #and people aren’t making posts about HIM saying they hate him/wish violent things on him #I dunno. this isn’t about anything in particular this is just about almost a year of seeing shit I didn’t want to #alhaitham ain’t perfect but god he’s a good person still #emphasis on PERSON. #anyway. this is just exhausted rambling I just. yeah. there’s a lot of pent up rage about how people treat him versus his roommate #if you think alhaitham is cruel or heartless or robotic or anything other than a flawed but genuine person you didn’t read/listen to the aq #or his character stories #or his voice lines #just. yeah. never been this fiercely protective of pixels in my life but as usual the genshin fandom sucks and makes me fume #OH YEAH. PPL ARE ALSO DECIDING TO ARGUE THAT HES RACIST. WHICH IS SO WRONG I CANT EVEN BEGIN TO FATHOM THE REACH. #you are allowed to just dislike characters. dont have to justify it esp if it’s made up #anyway. rant over it’s just 2 am and I’m thinking

[kash-phia]

contagious ☀

#pokemon #pokemon hgss #trainer lyra #rival silver #soulsilvershipping #kashart #ah this falls in line with my hc of lyra having a very unique laughter haha #she is a loud person in general i think and the type to leave a very strong impression #her rival used to find her noisiness annoying...emphasis on the used to lol #it has a different effect on him now #whether he realizes it yet or not lmao

[albino-parakeet]

Did I nearly cry multiple times while drawing this because I was listening to Safe and Sound by Hannah Jern-Miller on repeat… yes.

Couldn’t think of a background so you get the silly page it was drawn on.

Flat colors and a Timelapse undercut:

(Flash Warning‼️‼️ I am very indecisive when it comes to shading so a heads up)

#camp cretaceous #chaos theory #jurassic world chaos theory #jwcc #jwcc bumpy #jwcc ben #Stepping up as the person who draws the dinosaurs better than the characters lol #Honestly love this one sooo much more. #I might add timelapses to my posts. Emphasis on the might. #I used that one scene from S2 as reference cause it’s really cute and I can still see bumpy doing that to older ben.

[hajihiko]

❣❗❣❗❣

#Hajime hinata #Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Sdr2 #Super danganronpa 2 #Danganronpa 2 #Danganronpa #Kuzuhina #An art #I am FEELING goofy and good tonight #Emphasis on feeling. tonight is a Feel night! That's a very good thing btw pretty rare #Sometimes when you feel the Joy you just want to scoop up the nearest person and Care them silly. (Pictured) #Yeah okay no thoughts just good vibes! I should be working on a WIP AND I AM but I had to Express

[neversetyoufree]

I think this point got a little lost amid the general fandom glee at Dominique and Vanitas bonding (or at least it did for me), but looking back at chapter 60, the implications that this scene has for Vanitas are fucking wild.

It's not the only aspect of her relationship with him, but a huge cornerstone of Dominique's feelings toward Noé is the fact of her absolutely massive crush on him. Like, as much as she's venting about how he frustrates her, Dominique's thoughts on Noé in this scene are the thoughts of a woman that is canonically in love with him. And Vanitas apparently thinks/feels the exact same way.

As their shared venting reaches its fever pitch, Vanitas and Dominique both reach the exact same ending point. Noé is stubborn and overly straightforward and unrelenting, and both of them feel helpless against it. And they say as much!

They say as much, and then they both cut themselves off and flinch away in the exact same way, as though they've said too much. They've revealed some deeper truth about their feelings and the ways that Noé's force of personality affects them.

Dominique reacts this way presumably because she touched a little too close to the reality of her romantic feelings for him. The thing cut off at the end of "Since he's like that, I—" is some expression of the depths of her incredible fondness for and attraction to him. And Vanitas apparently feels the exact same way as Dominique. He expresses almost the exact same outward sentiment and catches himself and flinches in the exact same way. So if Dominique is speaking here in (albeit frustrated) love, then what emotions is Vanitas speaking from?

#we all know how much Mochijun loves to make meaning with parallels #so 'Vanitas feels the exact same way about Noé as the woman that's in love with him' cannot be a coincidence lmao #it certainly must mean *something* about him ;3 #And while I know I'm not the first person to have this thought #amid all the friendship/solidarity glee. I think the gay little implications deserve extra emphasis too <3 #vnc #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #vanoé #vanitas #vnc vanitas #the vano�� agenda #vanitas my beloved #english major hours #long post #ID in alt text #Noé arqueueviste

[clonerightsagenda]

I am not going to say TLT is about fossil fuels because it's about a lot of things and it's reductive to boil it down to anything, but a society fueled by necromancy/death magic/corpses is reminiscent of our society fueled by and built with petrochemicals (oil, natural gas, plastic), and given that within the necromancy framework the role of the cavalier is to be metaphorically, literally, and/or spiritually consumed, it's interesting that the first cavalier was the planet Earth. This new world is still based on devouring the planet.

Does this make Paul a metaphor for nuclear fusion I'm joking but I suppose the question Alecto must resolve is whether we can escape needing to consume to survive.* And maybe we can't - stop trying to make your carnivorous pets vegan - but can we find a method of consumption that's less destructive?

(Some people may see Paul as that answer but I am a Hater who isn't into ego death.)

#nona the ninth spoilers #nothing in this post is an original thought. I'm just Chewing #and obviously given the increasing emphasis on the characters' Maori heritage #this may come down to a colonialism vs Indigenous knowledge question which.... #will be interesting to see Muir tackle as a pakeha person writing Maori characters #this is also the decolonization/unsettling question we face irl #can we abandon our extractive mindset and listen to Indigenous people to treat the land respectfully #the locked tomb #why this

[plisuu]

when it’s someone you care about, you give them what they need

#dragon age #dragon age fanart #dragon age inquisition #iron bull #iron bull x inquisitor #iron bull x trevelyan #connor trevelyan #my art #this is significantly spicier than my usual flavor of posts #but this has been eating away at my brain for too long #friends with benefits emphasis on friends #trying to #force myself to post more art #it is HARD #it took me 30 minutes to convince myself to post this #also bull is the only person large enough to make connor look normal-sized #i love that for them tbh

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Name twinsies!

(Based on the community consensus about LWJ's grey horse's name)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #equineswap au #xiao pingguo #little apple #lan wangji #lan wunian #Took some inspiration from Pio's incredible art of horse wangji because i am merely a student in the art of horse #anyhow when I asked yall about lwj’s horse I did not think it would result in a overwhelming consensus that he’d just use ‘Wangji’ #its funny as hell in canon but as an equineswap? Pure Gold #I also really need to emphasis that the ponies *do talk* in this AU. They are a co-existing civilized species #LWJ (horse) is just a quiet guy. And Little Apple hasn't been around a lot of horses #so she thinks her talking donkey roommate who suddenly switched personalities is an exception not the norm #little apple is constantly violating politeness norms by only addressing the pony’s accompanying human and not them #LWJ has achieved that alicorn immortality in this AU so yeah #this human girl was absolutely named after the horse. Possibly *by* horse lan wangji #sometimes a horse girl raises a horse and sometimes a horse raises a horsegirl #thank you once again to tumblr user clintbeefwoods for suggesting Lan Wunian as another name! It’s very well suited for her! #and i can tag the lan wangjis’ separately now <3

[mayasaura]

Call me a hopeless goth, but I kind of like the Ninth House's funerary practices and I wish we knew more about them. At least, I like what they could be: what I imagine they once were, before their culture was shattered.

The Ninth as we see it is a civilization in its death throes. It's a utilitarian horror show, hollowed out by tragedy and stripped of all dignity and sentiment, but we have good reason to think it wasn't always like that. They have a history of fine textile production and poetry, and occassionally forming hero cults to celebrate cultural icons. There used to be families who raised their children communally. Before the sea of tiny coffins, the Ninth may have known how to live, and even how to mourn.

There are glimmers of what their death culture might have been like in Harrow's prayer beads: made from the bones of her ancestors, a tangible link to her history and community. And in Gideon searching for her mother in the leek fields, imagining that a woman she never met is still present in her life.

In a living culture with a functioning community, the use of human bone as a crafting material could make mundane objects into momentos, ways to keep loved ones close after their passing. The skeleton servitors could be seen as a way individuals continued to care and provide for the community, even after death.

If their dead are routinely exhumed to be added to the chore rota, it would make sense for the exhumation, cleaning, and raising of those bones to traditionally be a cultural ritual like a graduation or funeral. Most of those skeletons would have had living friends and family working alongside them, when the Ninth still had generations. The skeleton sweeping the chapel used to be someone's uncle. People in these cultures do mourn death. We've seen them with the corpses of people they knew, and they're not completely desensitized; just very weird. There's a throw-away line once about Harrow having a pet peeve about personalising the skeletons, which means it must be fairly common to do that. What was to stop previous generations of the Ninth from getting scolded for putting funny hats on Cousin Balbus's bones? Nothing, that's what. Balbus liked hats, anyway, so I don't see how it was disrespectful.

I'm sure Wake didn't get a ceremony when she was raised as a servitor; the main beneficiary would have been Gideon, and god fucking knows no one ever went out of their way to make her feel like part of the community. I'm betting no one does raising ceremonies for anyone, anymore. The Ninth is as good as dead, and no one ever taught the youngest generation how to mourn. But for ten thousand years, the Ninth successfully lived in very close proximity to mundane natural death. It's fun to imagine what that looked like.

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #tlt worldbuilding #like.... the Ninth is based sort of on a medieval Christian monastary #in the small personal living quarters heavy emphasis on religion and communal living spaces #medieval monastaries were full of culture and gossip and functioned as a fairly close community #and when you factor in that the Ninth was hereditary and one of the commmunal duties was childrearing.... #you get something much closer to a smallish tribe or clan #the prayer of the Locked Tomb has been passed down unchanged for almost ten thousand years #that takes INTENSE social cohesion and a strong commitment to cultural ritual #the amount of Ninth culture we will never know because we came in after their extinction event.... man....

[originalartblog]

your skk is so real and true to me. like its Them

this is such a great thing to hear I'm ✨🥺✨

I like to think I can mostly keep them in a permanent "status: ????". is it romantic? is it platonic? could it be both at the same time? perhaps queerplatonic would be a better term? I don't know you're the reader you tell me. The important part is that they got each other's back and can be stupid together and perhaps get their dose of cuddling while they're at it because they need it. Whether they kiss or not is so secondary to me but I NEED them to yearn for each other's company in big and small ways both.

#hence why i have no kissing on my blog except the ONE time i made dazai kiss chuuya's chin to distract him during video games #i like to make them intimate but i feel like physical and emotional vulnerability is more impactful (especially for them) #disclaimer: those are personal preferences and i do enjoy romantic skk a lot AND they can kiss all they want #i'm just also a big fan of how bsd basically has no romance (some crushes) and puts the emphasis on relationships of all kinds #which are all super important in their own ways whether the characters want to or not and not one kind comes before the other #aroace people raise your glass with me for a toast #ask answered #not art #bsd #skk #bungou stray dogs #soukoku

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i wanted to try my hand at slamming Home with the puppetification beam. i told myself i wasn't gonna get attached. im attached. not sure about the outfit tho

#hes in my head now. rent free. #BITES HIM BITES HIM BITES HIM ARGHASBDASKJNA #in my mind hes in the same height category as poppy/barnaby/howdy #that is to say: Tall. Big Guy. #hes also mute! i think he can still like... creak? bc hes still Home yk yk i want him to keep his main attributes #also bc his mouth cant really open. those teeth are Fixed #ITS 6 AM IM SUPPOSED TO BE WRITING A COVER LETTER NOT THINKING ABOUT PUPPET!HOME #now im like 'oh what are his dynamics with the neighbors whats his personality what does he do' #BRAIN PLEASE BE QUIET I NEED A JOB #neurons said no job only welcome home #emphasis on the Home #scribble salad #welcome home #hes a big ol friendly guy... #im fairly satisfied with how he looks #i think he resembles his canon form enough #and i hope hes noticeably similar to wally! i tried to have him echo the little man in little ways #also please bear with me im not used to drawing glasses. at all #i need to give more of characters glasses huh.... get that skillz in

[keepin-it-on-the-d-l]

The “Gen Z and Uncultured Dndads Listener” experience is not getting 30% of the references they make but their laughter is so infectious that I’m laughing anyway

#emphasis on uncultured bc I only recently started playing video games and at this point I am too afraid to ask what army of two is about #it took me two listen throughs till I looked up what a blade pose is #didn’t know Jodie foster was a real person until I was done season one #‘you know how in blade runner-‘ no no I do not #is this too niche this might just be a me problem #dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies

[aballadforbarbatos]

inspired by a hetalia piece of mine i found yesterday. this is actually lowkey kinda long i didn’t mean to do that

mc eating solomon’s cooking

you are hungry.

you KNEW you shouldn’t have turned down satan’s offer of lunch at hell’s kitchen but you were so exhausted and you mistakenly thought there would be food in the kitchen

you should’ve known better. smh.

someone needs to go shopping because there is only a stick of butter and an identified plastic container with something purple inside

not you tho you’re dirt poor. flat broke, even. pockets empty, wallet lined with dust

your stomach growls. your eyes dart between the unidentifiable substance and the stick of butter. the idea of eating butter makes you physically gag, so you turn to the container

the container has a note with “solomon’s” attached to it, and then a bigger note in belphie’s handwriting next to it

why are you clarifying it’s yours. everyone knows. nobody is taking it. WHY IS IT IN OUR FRIDGE

you’ve never actually had solomon’s cooking before

yeah there was that dinner where the pair of you cooked different dishes from the human world, but everyone was voicing their disapproval before you could try it, so you just didn’t.

it IS solomon’s though, so you decide to have a little. just a little. he won’t even notice that someone’s been into it.

pulling the container out of the fridge, you scoop a little bit into a bowl. it’s not quite as watery as you expected- in fact, it reminds you a little of mud. a deep purple mud with stuff inside.

hey, this is capsicum (bell pepper)! where’d he get this from? okay, now you have to try it- finding such difficult ingredients must mean it’s worth eating, right? right???

do you heat it up or just eat it cold… you decide you’re in the mood for a hot meal and open the microwave, shoving the substance inside

(“uh actually the house of lamentation doesn’t have a microwave” if u don’t think they’d get one because mc mentioned it once in a conversation you’re severely wrong)

pulling it out and now it’s bubbling. but like the bubbles are so slow in popping the surface because of how thick the purple stuff is

you lift your spoon. are you having second thoughts? coward behaviour. truly a wimp. you can jump in front of lucifer on a rampage but you behave like this in front of food? cowering before what could vaguely be described as soup?

apprehensively, you put the spoon in your mouth and swallow. if you spit it out you might stain the carpet

“oh.”

a pause.

“oh, what the fuck?!”

this is GOOD.

you slurp down the rest, now rather mad. everyone else was going on about how it was the worst thing they’d ever had, and you’d just believed them?! you are NEVER making that mistake again,

you moan embarrassingly loud. thank god nobody else is left in the house because how would you explain to them that solomon’s cooking is so amazing that you are involuntarily making noises

if it was just one person, you’d think they were just lying so they could have more for themselves. but it was everyone, which is probably why you were so convinced in the first place

lesson learnt; demons and angels have weak tastebuds, because you’re going back to the kitchen for seconds.

as the microwave heats up the bowl, your D.D.D. buzzes. it’s lucifer asking about your activities- you tell him you’re having a snack before studying

he says he didn’t know there was any food left in the house

you decide to ignore this last message because the microwave beeps and you go back to scarfing it down, sating your stomach and silencing its growls

“shit.”

“he won’t even notice it’s been eaten,” - you, about half an hour ago

IT’S ALL GONE?? HOW HAVE YOU EATEN THE WHOLE THING AND NOT EVEN NOTICED??

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO EXPLAIN THIS TO SOLOMON??

well you ate it all, so the least you can do is clean it, you suppose…

later that night, when everyone is back, and someone has gone shopping, solomon comes sauntering through the door and opens the fridge

“wh- who ate my soup? did you guys feed my cooking to the rats again?”

satan doesn’t look up from his book. “yeah, like anyone would eat YOUR cooking.”

you sink a little into your chair, suddenly becoming very interested in devilgram

“mc might tolerate your petty little comments, satan, but none of that changes the fact that there is no soup in this container that i specifically put in here. look, belphie even wrote a note!”

mc might- you stifle a laugh as your favourite cat fan scowls. asmo and mammon are not quite as successful as you. belphie stirs from his sleep, and mumbles something like “get it out of our fridge…”

solomon sighs. “i’m not mad, i just wanna know. mc?”

you don’t answer. maybe he’ll move on? yes? yes?

“hellooo? mc?”

no. okay, out with the truth then

“i ate it! i’m sorry, solomon! i got really hungry and there was seriously like no food left in the house, so it was between a stick of butter and your cooking, and i thought i’d take a risk, and i only wanted a little bit but it was so good and i accidentally ate the whole thing-”

you can feel your eyes welling up with tears at the thought of solomon getting mad- or even worse, being disappointed- at you. you cross your fingers and hope that he forgives you,

you totally miss the horrified and disgusted looks from the brothers. even belphie has properly woken up at this point to stare at you in disbelief

“well, mc, if that isn’t one of the most romantic things i’ve ever been told,”

what.exe

container forgotten, he comes around to your spot on the couch. puts a hand on your cheek and just pretends the others are not there

staring into his eyes helps you to drown out mammon, who knows how he’s doing it

uses his thumb to brush away your tears, there’s a small smirk on his face but would he really be solomon without it

he kisses you quickly and gently

when i tell you. the room goes into absolute UPROAR

mammon rips him away from you, that boy is dragging him away to who knows where in the house. belphie and satan are following, you suspect solomon is going to be taught a lesson he won’t forget

“if i cook more for you, i can have more kisses, right?” he calls out- mammon’s frown grows deeper

“okay!” you call back, your cheeks warm and a giddy smile on your face that simply just won’t go away

#lmfao putting emphasis on hetalia to scare people #i have never personally tried solomon’s cooking idk about y’all #but maybe it is nice and the rest of you are just sensitive #obey me avatars #obey me satan #obey me mc #obey me swd #obey me shall we date #obey me #obey me solomon #solomon’s cooking #headcanons #solomon x mc #om! solomon #solomon x reader #solomon x you #obey me solomon x reader #obey me solomon x mc #obey me solomon x you #fr took a screenshot of all these tags gd there’s so MANY lmfao

[mikimeiko]

The Sea Beast (Chris Williams, 2022)

#the sea beast #chris williams #it's a very good children movie #with emphasys on children #which means that while i enjoyed the themes and the story and the characters #everything was very explicitly stated and it spent a lot of time establishing things that... didn't need establishing for an adult #anyway a nice watch and i will recommend it to friends with children #films i watched in 2023 #i made this #i just want a tag for the things i personally put out into the world

[thedreadvampy]

unwarranted Cis Opinion but I'm getting really uncomfortable w people responding to bathroom bills by posting pictures of trans men like DO YOU WANT THEM IN WOMEN'S BATHROOMS

bc like. no they're men. they should be in men's bathrooms unless that feels unsafe. but. it really feels like it's not helpful to lean into the idea that seeing someone presenting masc or being read as a man in a women's bathroom means You're In Danger.

like I know several butch women and NB ppl who are really scared around being on T or getting top surgery bc they're not men and they don't want to be in the men's bathroom, and in that circumstance stuff like growing facial hair or reading more androgynously can be really fucking scary when people are being primed by propaganda to be on edge and hyperreactive to anyone who doesn't look like their idea of a Cis Woman.

and I'm not laying that at the feet of the people saying "hey uhhhh trans men are men and don't belong in women's bathrooms" bc it is not their fault. it's the fault of a concerted effort to make it difficult and dangerous to be trans or substantively gender nonconforming in public.

but at the same time idk I guess it just worries me cause sometimes it feels like "you fools! you are worried about this group of trans people bc you think they're the Lurking Danger of Men In Bathrooms? WRONG! the Men Making You Feel Afraid In Bathrooms are actually THESE trans people!" when in fact neither of those groups using the fucking bathroom is a problem. just piss and mind your business. people need to go where they need to go.

anyway this country is a hot fucking trash fire that somehow accelerates its descent into open fascism more every day so it's all super good and normal. so don't take this too seriously tbh cause it's somewhere near #2535654476457899009765 on the list of priorities for Queer Discourse right now when the fucking human rights commission is actively rescinding protections from trans people. Please ignore my gibberish.

#red said #i get that the point is to follow their logic to its logical conclusion like SEE THE EFFECT IS THE OPPOSITE OF YOUR STATED INTENTIONS #but a) the lawmakers already know this tbf #and also b) ultimately you still do end up making a lot of tweets that look very very very like the original scaremongering abt trans ppl #and transphobes and ppl who are unfamiliar with trans stuff alike have repeatedly and consistently demonstrated either an unwillingness #or an inability. to understand the difference btw a trans man and a trans woman. #and meanwhile idk it does feel like most posts like this are tacitly reinforcing the idea that you SHOULD be scared of masc-presenting ppl #it's putting so much emphasis on clockability. and the truth is not everyone using the bathroom does or should have to pass perfectly. #if a trans woman who looks like one of these trans men needs to piss. a woman with stubble and short hair and muscly shoulders. #SHE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO PISS IN THE WOMEN'S BATHROOM. even if she doesn't look like a cis woman. #if a trans dude looks like a girl he still doesn't belong in the ladies unless he personally feels the need to go there for his safety #if someone is not actively bothering you harassing you or treating you with aggression it's not really any of your business is it #maybe that's a trans man. maybe that's a trans woman. maybe that's a woman or dyke on T. maybe that's a cis woman who just looks masculine. #who gives a shit? a key factor in ladies bathrooms is that they have fucking cubicles. unless someone is making it your business it's not. #and if they are then the problem isn't that they're the Wrong Sex/Gender it's that they're behaving badly/disrespectfully/threateningly #which is also a problem when cis women do it!!!!!

[hatchetverse]

Why do they fucking hug during the first song. Sometimes they make me feel insane

eyes closed hugging your best???? friend???? the intimacy. im FINE

#in minute THREE of the play #curtwen #spies are forever #i put two pics there for EMPHASIS #these homosexuals will be the death of me #hah #personal #emz liveblobs saf