#especially with my fave characters!

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

Who is the small guy? Is that the mod? His hair is noice.

(This (gender-neutral) guy?

Yeah, that's me, the mod! The OP, the artist, the mun, Bean/Ben/Ruben, whatever you want to call me!

And thank you~ It's always a great hair day when you are a cartoon~)

#ooc post #did not spend an absurd amount of time on an ooc post but here we are #but yee that's me and I like to draw myself a lot #especially with my fave characters! #and yes I am small! I am Peppino height!!! (Or at least my hc for him: 5'3) #but I do draw myself extra compact #okay now I go to bed for real I accidentally stayed up for an extra hour to draw myself 7 times #2 of which you see before you! #idk if the others will see the light of day Imao

[hersweetrevenge]

#blorbo from my shows #glup shitto #feel free to tag your most underrated or unknown blorbo #daneposting #how dare you suggest such a thing #of course this isnt about dane #(it is) #but its also about every actor for whom i have watched some truly mid content #because they were an extra in it 15 years ago or in it for 15 seconds #rohan campbell #brian van holt #bill moseley #brad dourif #especially brad. the way he is the foundation my writing blog was built on #and for all my random glups who i decided were worthy of main character energy #the things we do for our faves (watch mid media)

[junkanimate]

I let the brain worms crawl around, so here's an art dump

#lego ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #cole brookstone #ninjago geo #lostshipping #nya smith #lloyd montgomery garmadon #ninjago #my art #everytime new episodes come out I watched them and I'm just an emotional mess for the whole week #okay first I'm a strong beliver that Cole got hurt when he first arrived at the land of lost things #so at first he stays because he needs to rest/heal #and then he discovers about the hoarder so he decides to stay to protect the finders #and in the meantime you know geo andc ole discover that they kinda like each other #I don't think this vision of the events is any way shape and form controversial #you knon when you watch a character and you just start to cry? #this is me with half the cast #BUT ESPECIALLY COLE AND GEO #my fave actually got a boyfriend I'm emotional

[fridka]

Quaquaval 💖

#my art #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #quaquaval #i really wanna write my thoughts on this game but there’s so much discourse ;/ #it’s such a fun game and I love most of the new pokemon and characters #especially compared to swsh in both regards #but some of the flaws are pretty goddamn hard to overlook specially considering how much $ the pokemon IP rakes in #that being said I am having an absolute blast with it #I’m doing an all new birds run #and plan to do another run afterwards where I use some of my other new faves like mabosstiff and houndstone

[queenlucythevaliant]

Okay gang, here's a silly little game. I've assembled six teams of blended Narnia and Tolkien/LotR characters. Here they are:

For bonus points, tell me in the tags where you're going on your road trip, who has what role (driving, snacks, aux) on the road, and what you'll stop off and see along the way

#this is shameless inspired by the lotr national parks poll #but the crossover potential is just too good #also for characters who wouldn't reasonably fit in said VW bus just handwave it #everyone basically fits okay? #narnia #pontifications and creations #ask me hard questions #tolkien legendarium #i myself am going with team 5 (to no one's shock) #we're gonna hit national parks across america #Bilbo and Treebeard can trade off as DJ #Eärendil gets to help drive and navigate #Lucy is in charge of snapping pics out the window #Reepicheep can lead us in some road trip games or something idk #i feel like this would be a really lovely group to just sit and stare at natural beauty in silence together #which is kinda my jam #occasionally pointing out something really especially lovely #would be fun #edit: as if I left put your fave character I'm sorry both these series have about a million so it was bound to happen #and for Narnia in particular I was trying to bias it towards Narnians rather than friends of narnia #also i was seriously tempted to do a 'team dragon' which would be all the tolkien dragons + eustace haha

[fromtheseventhhell]

I ignore about 95% of the conversations surrounding Arya having killed people because, outside of Arya stans, people refuse to include the context of the very violent circumstances she experiences + her trauma which influences her actions. She wasn't destined to be a killer and her being forced on the run, having to survive during a war (at times on her own), having to witness countless people being tortured and murdered, being enslaved as a prisoner of war, having to witness the deaths of her family, etc. are all hugely important factors. Not to mention the times when her life is literally on the line and she has to make tough decisions to ensure her survival. The only time her trauma is acknowledged is when people are using it to prove she's "too far gone", otherwise it's essays on how she hasn't suffered that much. It's so boring how people ignore well-developed characters just to reduce them to one or two aspects of their story. And this treatment is only for certain characters; let someone mention Sansa being part of the plot to poison Sweetrobin and all of a sudden, people can understand being forced to make questionable decisions under difficult circumstances.

#arya stark #asoiaf #fandom nonsense #I'm just so uninterested in the same boring repetitive conversations where people debate fanon characterizations...boring! yawning! sloppy! #Sorry?? I guess that she hasn't had the benefit of being in a castle the whole story with relative safety #but people trying to demonize a child who has one of the most harrowing and violent journeys for the decisions she's been forced to make #is ridiculous cause why are you more worried about how Arya reacted then to the actual situation she's in?? #If they're feeling especially faux-progressive they'll pretend to care about Daeron and cry about how innocent he was #but of course this never leads to criticism of Ned or Westerosi society...nope just calling Arya a psychopath and nothing else #At this point it's just jealousy because they know their fave never would've survived what she did and not only did she survive #but she showed off incredible skills and intelligence + has only learned and grown more + constantly gets her importance reinforced #yeah I'd be mad if she wasn't my fave either 🤭 #the disconnect between Arya antis and George is so funny cause they twist themselves in knots over how /evil/ she is and then there's #George calling her a character everyone will love ooooh shouldn't have picked one of the author's faves to hate on 🤷🏾‍♀️

[lagosbratzdoll]

On Daenerys, Colonisation and Race Discourse within the ASOIAF Fandom

This has been on my mind for a good long while and honestly, as much as I would like to leave discourse in the pits, it has been bugging me intermittently over the past few weeks.

Far too many of you get on here and call people who like the fictional dragon-riding family, neo-Nazis and that sentiment is so prevalent, that white people feel comfortable telling me a black woman that I am a neo-Nazi for rooting for Daenerys Targaryen. I am upholding neo-Nazi power fantasies for wanting to see a little girl live at the end of a story. I am a neo-Nazi for wanting to see the rape survivor have the family she aches for and children with the man (or men) she loves.

Then, those same people go on spiels about how the systemic erasure of those who sing the song of the earth and other old races is not colonialism. That their removal from their home is not displacement but an agreement between two equal parties. The fact that the only place where those who sing the song of the earth exist in the present timeline is north of the wall, surrounded by the bones of their dead, is not a travesty. That the expulsion of the old races from their home isn't that bad and should not be condemned. 

Instead, people argue, completely seriously, that the harm that the First Men and Andals have caused is centuries in the past, so essentially the slate has been wiped clean. The logical leaps that are required to arrive at such a boneheaded conclusion are truly mind-boggling, and those who make such arguments are not good people. 

I am unsure how one could read those books and come away with the impression that the old races do not mourn the loss of their home. I am unsure how one could read The Last of the Giants[1] and Ygritte’s reaction to both the song and Jon’s dismissal of the ethnic cleansing of the giants then believe that the old races and the free folk have moved past their displacement. 

In Westeros, from the Wall to the broken arm of Dorne, they all speak one language despite the fact they are all different ethnicities and they all landed on the shores at different times. That is not the case in Essos, we have been introduced to at least six languages and in A Dance with Dragons, Tyrion notes that the Valyrian spoken in the Free Cities has evolved into nine distinct dialects, and they are well on their way to becoming different languages.

How would a continent as large and diverse as Westeros maintain its hegemony over the people if not for forced assimilation, discriminatory practices and violence? The brutal repression required to keep one house in power for thousands of years is nothing to sniff at. The suppression required to keep the vast majority of Westeros worshipping one (or seven) gods. The systems in place ensure that language does not grow or evolve amongst the highborns at least.

Centuries before Aegon's Landing the maesters were the definitive educational authority and even now centuries after, nothing has changed. The grey rats still decide who learns what and when they learn it. There's one in every highborn home, all correspondence passes through them, they are the healers and the councillors.

The circular logic gets even more blockheaded when you factor in the fact that Daenerys is far from the only white character in the books. She is not the only character who wishes for home. She is not the only character who draws strength from her ancestors, her bloodline and her magical creatures. 

Cersei draws strength from her family’s iconography, and the Stark children (Jon included) all draw strength from their direwolves, their home and their blood. Sansa, Arya and Bran wish to return home and their home was built on the indiscriminate murder and displacement of the indigenous peoples. Their home is built on centuries of rape, murder, exclusionary practices and sexual slavery. 

However, if we give the nonsensical argument that time erases crimes air; the Starks, Lannisters and Tullys are warring to settle personal grievances in the present timeline. As a consequence of that war, thousands (a modest guesstimate) of small folk, minor nobles and even some major ones have been raped, tortured, maimed and killed.

Despite all this, no one writes meta after meta about how Sansa and her siblings must surely die for justice to be had for those who sing the song of the earth, the free folk, the giants and all the old races that fled beyond the wall.  

People write meta about Cersei and how she must die, but those are typically more misogynistic nature. They typically argue that she must die not for the “crime” of being Lannister, but for the “crime” of being Cersei and “ruining” Jamie. 

I would not mind criticisms of Dany and her peace-focused approach to ending slavery because the approach is naïve and she gives the slavers far too much ground. However, she is learning, growing and self-critiquing. At the end of A Dance with Dragons, she has decided to embrace fire and blood, her knight is breaking the false peace which is a necessary step forward.

What I find offensive is people saying that she should have planned better before she abolished slavery. And that the death, violence, and sickness that arises from her quest to eradicate slavery is somehow worse than the death, violence, and sickness that already existed in Slaver’s Bay. 

This argument often downplays the horrific conditions and suffering that exist(ed) under the slave system in Slaver's Bay. Such arguments are often in poor taste and prioritise the lives and comforts of the slavers more than the people they have enslaved.

I would not mind criticisms of Dany if people applied that same critique even-handedly. The same people who believe that Jon and Bran have done much to rectify the evil that their ancestors perpetuated believe that Dany has not done anything to right the wrongs of her ethnic kin. They praise them for the non-existent steps that they have taken, but in the same breath, they condemn Dany for not being able to immediately end the plague that is slavery. 

It is perfectly alright to not like fictional characters, no law requires you to like certain fictional characters over others. However, what is not right is making broad accusations about those who do, it is beyond the pale. It is disgusting, and annoying, and trivialises real-world issues to score cheap points against fictional characters.

Equating the survival of a teenage survivor to the restoration of a fascist house or neo-Nazi power fantasy when such designations do not exist in the world of ice and fire is strange behaviour. Saying that the teenage survivor will eventually be manipulated and raped (again) before ending up dead on her manipulator's blade is also strange behaviour. 

Dismissing the horrors of colonialism, especially when the text shows you that the involved parties are still affected by it, is not normal and often veers into real-world imperialism apologia. While criticism and analysis of characters and their actions are valid and even encouraged, it is essential that we do not resort to sweeping generalisations about other people and that we keep criticisms of characters grounded in the text. 

[1]  

Ooooooh, I am the last of the giants, my people are gone from the earth.

The last of the great mountain giants, who ruled all the world at my birth

Oh, the smallfolk have stolen my forests, they’ve stolen my rivers and hills.

And they’ve built a great wall through my valleys, and fished all the fish from my rills

In stone halls they burn their great fires, in stone halls they forge their sharp spears.

Whilst I walk alone in the mountains, with no true companion but tears.

They hunt me with dogs in the daylight, they hunt me with torches by night.

For these men who are small can never stand tall, whilst giants still walk in the light.

Oooooooh, I am the LAST of the giants, so learn well the words of my song.

For when I am gone the singing will fade, and the silence shall last long and long.

#I do not like most of y’all. #Do not call people of colour you do not know neonazis to win points against a fictional character. #It is not my fault that most of your faves are boring and do nothing to drive the plot forward #take it up with george rr martin and stop villifying dany and her (mid) family. #The insistence that we must mind fandom etiqutte is tired as hell too especially because people use it as silencing tools. #“Yes I called you a neonazi but you are the real weirdo for finding my post so really it’s on you that you saw that.” #that’s how y’all sound. #If I see another post that equates enjoying dany to being a neonazi #i will make it everybodys problem. #Took a long break from this fandom because the rancid takes were overshadowing the good takes #and i’ve been back less than a year and the takes are even more rancid than before. #hotd opened an evil door that should’ve remained shut. #Cause why the fuck are there criston cole apologists? Why are there aemond and aegon ii apologists? It is a dark world we live in. #put the last giant at the bottom for my homies who have not read the books which if we're speaking real is more than half of y'all #now that i have gotten this out of my system #it is time to get back to demon slayer #daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #asoiaf thoughts #asoiaf nonsense #if you saw the typos in the first version #no you didn't #edited this to add some thoughts I originally put in the tags because I felt it worked better there.

[clementineskesh]

it's so real and important to me that palisade gets everyone balence posting like we talk about it a lot but valence is truuuuly haunting this narrative and haunting brnine's personal narrative specifically goddamn. they're so important their name doesn't even need to be spoken and brnine has a situationship pokedex which is compelling and fun and great in its own right and valence is still there in the background of all of it

#SCREAMS FOREVER AND EVER. BEST SHOW IN THE WORLD #sorry you can tell valence was tied for my fave pzn character i love them always but also i love balence and also i love brnine!!! #i love brnine and themself and their weird weird perspective on themself and i love their relationships with gucci and jesset and thisbe #and i love all of it but especially valence. #palisade #f@tt

[yamtaroh]

the vbs hyperfixation has been taking a toll on me lately and your silly wacky goofy doodles are fueling it

great!! this is what the audience sees when vbs gets on stage

#yeah!!!!! they're my faves!!!! #i'm glad you like them as well #if i had to choose kohane is probably my fave in vbs ! #they are so fun to draw. especially like this. i love to draw characters like this #thanks for sending this !!!!! hope your day is going well!!!! #doodles #shitpost art #akito shinonome #toya aoyagi #kohane azusawa #an shiraishi #vivid bad squad #project sekai #ask #tasmanian-jevil

[kuramirocket]

I finally watched all of Hazbin Hotel and it's a really good show.

Idk why it's so controversial. Especially episode 4. I heard antis claiming it romanticized sexual abuse or something and idk what they were watching because Angel's story and his song showed how unhappy he was with the situation he was in and that yeah, he was suffering from abuse. But that's antis for you, they can't understand complexity and anything involving sex and mature topics.

Anyways, fans of the show shouldn't be harrassed for liking it. This shouldn't have to be said. People who harrass others for liking this show are on some major bs.

#anyways I think Chharlie is my fave and I def like charlie x vaggie #all of the characters were fun and great especially our hotel crew #alastar is a shady btch and he's obbioualy just using charlie for his own purposes but I like him lol #hazbin hotel #proship safe #proshippers please interact #anti anti #pro fiction #antis dni

[demonbarbers]

the 2023 revival obc kinda ruined me. you give me sopping wet kendall roy girldad little meow meow sweeney todd, you give me deliriously horny achingly human physical comedy queen lovett, you give me aging child star mischievous but heartbreakingly sweet toby, you give me a johanna who is finally not just a princess track or ~crazy~ and who’s trauma is deeply physically felt and is so deeply her father’s daughter, you give mee a sweeney and jo who are finally acknowledged as mirrors of each other and you give me literal hand in unloveable hand… and i’m just supposed to move on

#they’re not all my favorite ideal dramaturgical interpretations of the character imelda lovett remains my number 1 #and i do prefer my sweeney’s to have a level of physical menace josh just can’t achieve for me bc i want to fuck him into the next year #but still. they’re all so perfect together. gaten and maria are maybe my fave toby and jo #.txt #2023 revival #i’m soooo high rn btw #jan 14 SUICIDE loading #jk i’m looking forward to little gay boy toby and especially paul jordan jansen’s sweeney #and i wanna catch nick chris sweeney and jeanna lovett again too #but still. SUICIDE.

[numelfanclub]

my friends begged me to post this everywhere so you guys get to see it too

#numelfanclub #jujutsu kaisen fanart #jujutsu kaisen #satoru gojo #gojo satoru #i love him so much he's such a phenomenal character #him n suguru r my faves 🩷 #especially suguru but i love satoru all the same he is incredible

[baalzebufo]

THE WEIRD AL-CANA - 14. TEMPERANCE- THIS IS THE LIFE

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one of my fave songs today! I know I probably say that a lot but, well. I have a lot of faves ok. this is the life might have been one of the first songs I ever heard by al- specifically, on an old anime amv. go figure. its at least one of the earliest i remember so its extra-nostalgic for me.

anyways temperance is a card all about moderation so i figured it'd be fun to contrast it with the most hedonistic outlook possible ;p

[Prev Card]

#alloyart #weird al #weird al yankovic #weird al-cana #for the curious: it was a lupin the third amv. aka the only anime i was ever really INTO to any degree. especially as a kiddo #still love it a lot and as a result this song makes me cozy and nostalgic for looking up amvs on youtube when i was like 10 #but also its just a really good song. its one of the few al songs that is like. not specific enough i can put it on character playlists #ive had my fair share of faves who are reckless hedonists with too much money to burn whose outlook can be accurately described like this

[goldiipond]

HAPPY 7TH ANNIVERSARY TPN!!!!!!

i thought it would be fun to celebrate by redrawing the first full tpn piece i ever made! this series means so so much to me and im so grateful for it <3

original from february 2022 under the cut!

#skye's doodles #YAYAYAAAAAAAAA i finished this at like. almost exactly midnight last night <3 skye master of deadlines #i am so so happy w this looking at these pieces side by side just fills me w this sense of accomplishment. im proud of where my art is now #especially happy w the improvement in my colors n anatomy... n also using more funky shapes w my character designs #speaking of designs im really really happy w my designs for these guys especially emma and ray. skye faves get the latino beam <3 #the vida was still hell i vividly remember procrastinating on those bastard flowers for a week w the old one. very happy w them though <3 #anyway. im soo grateful for this community ive made some really great friends here. i love yoy #and lastly im thanking ray <3 i genuinely cannot put into words how much he has meant to me over this fixation. he is everything to me <3 #the promised neverland #tpn #yakusoku no neverland #tpn emma #tpn norman #tpn ray #tpn don #tpn gilda #tpn phil #tpn conny

[lily-s-world]

You know what I want from the recent live actions I enjoyed? Casting Announcements!!

I know I'm gonna have to wait at least a year to see new content, so please give me something to hold on to in the meantime, specifically casting news.

#i really want to know who is going to play the characters #especially my faves #natla #atla #avatar the last airbender #netflix #one piece #one piece live action #opla #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #disney + #percy Jackson and the olympians

[siilvan]

i am once again disappointed but not surprised at the COD fandom only caring about “sensitivity” when it’s convenient for them

#telling people it’s morally wrong to simp for makarov #whilst simping for graves or valeria #or ANY character in this damn series #just shows that you only give a shit about ‘sensitivity’ when it doesn’t inconvenience you #‘but he’s bad :(’ my brother in christ. let’s talk about western militaries #price nikolai and gaz literally kidnapped and tortured an innocent woman and child #the UK and US militaries have DEVASTATED vulnerable countries #y’all wanna talk about sensitivity?? then acknowledge how even the ‘good’ characters like the 141 are shitty! #none of these characters are good people! #i cannot stress this enough. eliminating characters because they’re ‘problematic’ eliminates the entire cast. every single one of them. #MAYBE farah would be safe?? i’m not knowledgeable enough to say for certain. but everyone else— 141. los vaqueros. laswell. alex. nikolai. + #valeria. graves. every last warzone operator. EVERY single character is ‘off-limits’ with that logic. #COD fandom is also horribly racist despite pretending it’s not. notice how people only talk about this when it’s white folks being impacted #no one gave a shit when a middle eastern woman and child were kidnapped and tortured. or when fans were romanticizing cartel violence. #or how the SAS CIA and Delta Force have histories of terrorizing vulnerable people; especially in the middle east and asia #i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again before anyone accuses me of smth false: #sensitivity is important. it can co-exist with letting people enjoy problematic things. the source itself is problematic — #ergo. everything that comes from it (even the ‘good’ things) is as well. #you can’t cherry pick which characters people are allowed to be critical of. you can have your faves and have the ones you dislike #but don’t act like you’re doing something noble when your sensitivity is biased. #sylph.talks