#feels so appropriate.

[cyarsk52-20]

kcyars520

Feb 4

All. Of. This. That little man was taunting her, which is what finally made her say something. It all started with him. Had he kept his mouth shut, we wouldn’t be here. Or better yet Had he not shot her, we wouldn’t be here. It’s really that simple.

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#so happy he touched jail #luckily it was her #cause if it was any other women #they would have their family members #put him under under the ground #Y’all saying free Tory #I’m screaming fuck Tory in the rear end inmates #I’m not glorifying rape in prison #But he deserves the absolute worst punishment possible for what he did #Like he was asking for it #i’m so glad that illegal immigrant gremlin is in prison #That’s why #those ten years #were sweeting TO ME #and Kelsey’s #pathetic reality #of being passed around by F list hood dudes #feels so appropriate. #Best of luck to Megan and Megan alone #❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #This whole case had me changing my opinions and views(at least for the moment) #celebrating the police and the system #being xenophobic towards Canadian people #posting stories with reader plus white celebrities with fluffy or smutty material #nearly being racist towards black men #saying that some of them nigcels deserved to be another hashtag #and backing the death penalty. #megan thee stallion #i’m not sad for her #i’m outraged

[kcyars520]

All. Of. This. That little man was taunting her, which is what finally made her say something. It all started with him. Had he kept his mouth shut, we wouldn’t be here. Or better yet Had he not shot her, we wouldn’t be here. It’s really that simple.

#so happy he touched jail #luckily it was her #cause if it was any other women #they would have their family members #put him under under the ground #Y’all saying free Tory #I’m screaming fuck Tory in the rear end inmates #I’m not glorifying rape in prison #But he deserves the absolute worst punishment possible for what he did #Like he was asking for it #i’m so glad that illegal immigrant gremlin is in prison #That’s why #those ten years #were sweeting TO ME #and Kelsey’s #pathetic reality #of being passed around by F list hood dudes #feels so appropriate. #Best of luck to Megan and Megan alone #❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #This whole case had me changing my opinions and views(at least for the moment) #celebrating the police and the system #being xenophobic towards Canadian people #posting stories with reader plus white celebrities with fluffy or smutty material #nearly being racist towards black men #saying that some of them nigcels deserved to be another hashtag #and backing the death penalty. #megan thee stallion #i’m not sad for her #i’m outraged

[catmask]

sometimes while i think about that while a lot of adults did not treat me very well as a kid i also get a lot of 'in hindsight this person was so good to me and i didnt even realize it until now' as an adult. today i was thinking about how the first anime convention i ever went to was when i was 10 and i asked the man working the manga cafe what manga was/what a good place to start was (because the con was very overstimulating for me and i had gotten lost) and he asked how old i was before recommending yotsuba and asking if i wanted any water or something to eat. its really simple but theres a lot of bad things that couldve happened or he could've been careless in his recommendation, but instead yotsuba has remained one of my favorite manga for years, and probably a large portion of why i continue to read manga as an adult... i think adults who try to involve kids in the world safely/kindly even in little ways make so much more of a difference than they ever really know.

#and i know that sounds silly like YES. it was just a bookr ecommendation #but i feel like a lot of people either dont really care about whats a good starting point for younger kids in their shared fan spaces #or dont really take the care to recognize different peoples ages would effect what they would both enjoy or #be capable of engaging with #not to mention theres a lot of manga that would NOT have been appropriate for a 10 year old to read #so the fact that he askedd and even asked what sort of thing i liked at the time #was very sweet. i think about him a lot and i hope hes doing well #txt #scratchpost

[ato-dato]

I don’t think they’re ugly. But I think the number of times Jean has begged him to buy new clothes is astronomical.

#and this is his work appropriate stuff. think about the stuff that’s too disco to even consider wearing to work. imagine. #I just love the idea of Harry rediscovering his apartment and finding out that green/orange combo was the most normal it’s gonna get #anyway #I have a bunch of de comic ideas but I’m feeling a bit down in the dumps about my art lately #so it thought I should practice drawing him a bit more #disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #harry du bois #harrier du bois #hdb #jean vicquemare #jean viquemare #which one is it??? #kim kitsuragi #de fanart #kimharry #kinda #kim x harry #harry x kim #art #artwork #my art #fanart #digital art #drawing

[ryuucae]

Entry for a Lucina zine from last year; I'm still quite fond of the composition!

If interested in leftover sales, please take a look at the project account here ^^

#lucina #fire emblem awakening #fe13 #fe awakening #art #illustration #digital art #drawing #wow something that is not FF14 #I saw this zine app and wanted to apply even though I don't draw FE anymore because Lucina means so much to me even now #Idk if this is me reaching too far but I think I first started feeling like I was nonbinary when I saw Lucina dressed as Marth #I thought it was SOOOO cool #I still think of it to this day #So thought it would still be appropriate to participate

[quinnonimp]

cquackity nation is this anything

version thats actually following the meme format ^

#i was gonna draw him at schlatts funeral & use my time-appropriate design #cause it wouldve been funnier #but i didnt feel like it #so he just stays as las nevadas q #c!quackity #dsmp fanart #dsmp #quackity fanart #art #doodle #cw blood #tumblrimp

[magicshop]

seokjin + iconic solo performances for @cordiallyfuturedwight ♡ [cr. namuspromised]

#btsgif #btsedit #seokjin #kim seokjin #jin #bangtan #bts #mine #mine:gifs #mine:ksj #cordiall #cordiallyfuturedwight #annie #annietrack #rjshope #userp #userpat #raplineuser #useremmeline #i didn't have a lot of time but i hope you still like this #and that i've queued this for an appropriate time fjfgfjg #HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAREST KAYLA<333333333 #I hope you have the loveliest and most wonderful day #you are a bright light in this fandom and i am so happy to have met you #and for the privilege of enjoying your beautiful sets and flirting with you all the time <333 #you make me feel warm and i want to smooch your face!!!! meet me at the park i'll be the one on one knee :(((( #i'll have my picnic basket ready this time<3 #(btw i hope you appreciate the fact that i had to rewatch the astronaut multiple times to make this #and i cried every time<3) #happy birthday darling<3

[gentil-minou]

Nobody talk to me ever again I'm too busy thinking about these two pages

#SHE WAS SO BRAVE AND STRONG AND AMAZING THIS WHOLE ARC AND FINALLY SHE FEELS SAFE ENOUGH TO CRY AND AHHHHH #YOR IS INDEED ANYA'S REAL MOM YES YOR BEST MOM #sobs forever #age appropriate responses to stress my beloved #spy x family #spy x family manga #anya forger #yor forger

[cairoscene]

Brian David Gilbert on Sad Boyz

feels fandom relevant.

[ID: A series of screen captures of Brian David Gilbert speaking on a podcast: "The thing that you invest your time in can feel so important to your identity that occasionally you feel, like, you need to close it off from other people in order to keep it safe. And I think that's where a lot of nerd culture, all that gatekeeping stuff, all of the toxicity stems from that thing where it's like, "In high school I didn't have a lot of friends or connect with a lot of people, but I did have this comic book, and now this comic book is super popular, but these people don't like me. That must be because they're not real fans."" End ID]

#feels very appropriate recently #oh you didn't read those comics? or these ones? or any? you're not doing it right #oh you're not including my favorite character? you're not doing it right #your fic/headcanons/meta annoys me? you're not doing it right #like come on these comics are 80 years old #obviously fanon vs canon is a battle that exists in almost every fandom but it's been esp prevalent in this fandom i've noticed #let's be real guys the comics are sometimes really bad and sometimes fanon is really good #anyway i watched this and it felt applicable #so that's my two cents #gatekeeping #fandom #etc

[abstrekt]

KISSIES!!!! My contribution to the @startrekwintergiftexchange , with Trip/T'pol relaxing for @cornflakesdoesart !!!

#star trek enterprise #st: ent #startrekwintergiftexchange #trip tucker #t'pol #trip/t'pol #fanart #animation #dont look at their hands please skfdsjhfsjdghf #PRETEND I KNOW WHAT IM DOING #its very scrungly looking thanks tumblr dot com #I swear it looks better on a desktop :p #they're so regular to me your honor #I feel like trip's attention span is wayyyy too short to meditate appropriately-- hence the vulcan kissies #tri'pol

[heliianth]

blah

#i need to learn how to make captions again i feel like most of mine are so lazy LMFAOOO #tbh i feel like it’s appropriate considering i don’t even edit out the ui #sth #heliiart

[cyarsk52-20]

kcyars520

Feb 4

All. Of. This. That little man was taunting her, which is what finally made her say something. It all started with him. Had he kept his mouth shut, we wouldn’t be here. Or better yet Had he not shot her, we wouldn’t be here. It’s really that simple.

View on Twitter

#so happy he touched jail #luckily it was her #cause if it was any other women #they would have their family members #put him under under the ground #Y’all saying free Tory #I’m screaming fuck Tory in the rear end inmates #I’m not glorifying rape in prison #But he deserves the absolute worst punishment possible for what he did #Like he was asking for it #i’m so glad that illegal immigrant gremlin is in prison #That’s why #those ten years #were sweeting TO ME #and Kelsey’s #pathetic reality #of being passed around by F list hood dudes #feels so appropriate. #Best of luck to Megan and Megan alone #❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #This whole case had me changing my opinions and views(at least for the moment) #celebrating the police and the system #being xenophobic towards Canadian people #posting stories with reader plus white celebrities with fluffy or smutty material #nearly being racist towards black men #saying that some of them nigcels deserved to be another hashtag #and backing the death penalty. #megan thee stallion #i’m not sad for her #i’m outraged

[moony-2001]

The real-world impact of Lore Olympus

i.e. do your research Rachel

Trigger warning: racism, fetishization, appropriation, mentions of SA

Long post ahead

A while ago, someone told me that Lore Olympus was just a silly little comic written out of boredom. That it was made to be "funny". They told me that "[I] can't hope [for] an extremely [well-written] story when it was just made with the intention to make something goofy" and that if Rachel actually wanted to make something serious like I had, she would write a book and not a comic.

At the time of this exchange, it was past 1 a.m. and I was exhausted. I did not want to argue with this person and it simply wasn't worth my time or energy in the moment.

But looking back at that (mostly one-sided) interaction, I can't help but think that there is so much wrong with that point of view. Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion about Lore Olympus, whether good or bad. But Lore Olympus isn't just some silly little nothing comic about nothing important. It is a comic that actively appropriates and erases Greek Culture. It is a comic that has no respect for the actual stories that have been passed down over thousands of years whether by word of mouth or written text. It is a comic that perpetuates a false narrative and harmful stereotypes about characters or certain groups of people. So, no, it's not just a silly little comic.

Incorrect information

Here’s an example of what I mean:

When I was doing research for my post about the 10 year time skip, I looked up Leuce to reconfirm the little information I knew about her. Wanna guess the first thing that popped up about her?

A Lore Olympus Wiki article.

Okay. How about Minthe? Hundreds of pictures of her from Lore Olympus and a LO Wiki article as one of the top 3 results. Both character are horribly represented in LO and unfortunately there isn’t really any documented stories or records that can refute how LO paints them. Because of this, other characters in Greek Mythology like Leuce and Minthe, whose stories have little to no documentation, stand to suffer the most harm from deliberate misrepresentation on Rachel’s part.

Of course well-known and better documented figures in Greek mythology face slander as well. What about Thetis or Leto? How about Apollo? All of their portrayals in LO are HORRIBLE. I have seen people online absolutely drag them to filth not because they're upset about how the character is portrayed compared to their mythological counterpart, but because they have no knowledge of how they are actually portrayed outside of LO. They just assume that's how the characters are. Similarly, people who have either very little or no prior knowledge of Greek Mythology and Culture would look at the comic and go "Yep, sounds legit. It must be true." and go about thinking that what is portrayed in LO is accurate to what was transcribed thousands of years ago.

Creative interpretations and racism/fetishization within LO

Don’t get me wrong. Creative interpretations and artistic liberties can be great. When they’re done tastefully. I personally think if done correctly, a Greek myth spun in a modern way has the potential be very good. But that's not what we were given.

Characters like Minthe, Leuce, and Thetis (all nymphs btw) are portrayed as trashy tramps who put out and are used as a foil sabotage Persephone and/or her relationship with Hades. Compare that to Greek Mythology where in the Iliad, Thetis is very well-respected by the gods, particularly Hera. Unfortunately, other similar characters like satrys (and basically any character that isn’t a god) are usually portrayed as a low-class POC that can be easily exploited, manipulated, or used as a temporary villain/lover/pawn to “get back” at Persephone, our white-coded protagonist who can do no wrong.

Additionally, there is a clear race/class bias against characters like nymphs in LO. We see many cases scattered throughout the comic of gods like Hera or Aphrodite referring to nymphs as "trash" or "low class" or the idea that nymphs do not belong with gods being heavily implied if not outright said. I cannot tell you how often I've seen Minthe be called some variant of "cheap" by the readers of LO. Even Persephone (who created the flower nymphs) treats them with such disrespect. She frequently calls them some variant of "stupid" or "simple" like saying how they're not the sharpest crayons in the box even though she's the one WHO MADE THEM. However, it's so odd not really to note that nymphs like Echo, Amphitrite, or Psyche (who was previously disguised as a nymph) are not discriminated against. This is because they are liked or trusted by the gods they are around and ergo are often portrayed as the "good ones", which is a disgusting mindset to have.

We also see the fetishization of nymphs in the comic that is disturbingly similar to the fetishization of women who are Black, Asian, or Latina. It is a known fact that Hades has a flower nymph fetish. Not only is this implied in the comic, but Rachel stated it outright in an old Patreon post. Nymphs are also generally treated as sex-symbols, disposable, and as a lesser-than. Zeus frequently displays this behavior by abandoning nymphs he knocked up in the mortal realm.

For example, when Persephone finds out Apollo is dating Daphne, she isn't upset he's dating her friend. She's upset he's dating a flower nymph, beings that are generally considered to be "rare", "dumb", and objects of sexual desire. Ew.

Even on the Lore Olympus website (loreolympians.com) nymphs are regarded as "beautiful", "desirable", and "very exotic". And when they're not described in a sexual manner they're say it with me now regarded as "low class" or "workers" for some kind of god/goddess.

Final thoughts

So not only is the characterization of characters like Minthe or Thetis harmful to Greek culture and the stories that are so ingrained in their society, but it is also perpetuating harmful stereotypes about people of color and women who are confident in their sexuality.

Of course, the characters within Greek Mythology had their own issues. Zeus was a serial rapist, many of the goddesses deemed to be "feminist" by today's standards were actually horribly misogynistic looking at you Athena. But 1. that's just how things were back then (but that does not make it right) and 2. all of the good, the bad, and the ugly is still there in Greek Mythology. They're not denying how fucked up it is, but they're also not changing their history to better fit their own narrative or the narrative of the modern world. It exists, it happened, but now it is studied and called out by historians.

Rachel, on the other hand, is doing exactly that. She is actively changing the Greek's cultural history to better fit her fic's narrative. She is constantly sweeping things under the rug or going "No this is how it ACTUALLY happened". Lore Olympus is marketed as a "feminist retelling" yet somehow, it takes allllll the ugly parts from Greek Mythology (rape, incest, problematic age gaps, dubious consent, etc.), mixes it with a majority of the issues we have in the modern world (white feminism, rape-apologists/rape culture, grooming, fetishization of certain minority groups, etc.) and then amplifies the concoction to 20. Lore Olympus cannot be a "progressive, feminist, retelling" and also have characters that are morally apprehensive/come straight from the ancient myths. It does not work. In fact, IMO it makes all the problems from both eras worse.

News flash: actual cultures that are still thriving today are not your toys. They are not "made up". They matter. Do better.

#anti lore olympus #lore olympus #anti lo persephone #anti lo #lore olympus criticism #lore olympus critical #lo critic #lo critical #unpopular lo #unpopular lore olympus #appropriation #greek mythology #if anyone who is actually Greek wants to comment on this or share their thoughts please feel free #I'm not Greek but I have a deep love for mythology/Greek culture so this is just my take on things

[avephelis]

look technically it's a horror movie okay (risetober 19: scary movie)

#you cannot tell me the twins wouldnt love the rocky horror picture show its like their bread and butter #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #disaster twins #risetober #risetober 2023 #avepharts #i dont feel like tagging more ANYWAY. #BEFORE anyone is annoying about this they are CANONICALLY 16 so the film is appropriately rated and there is NOTHING WEIRD IMPLIED. thankyo

[so-very-small]

reminder: g/t is not about trying to Get A Good Grade In Morality. g/t isn’t about making things palatable to others. you can use those fucked up ideas you have. you can draw that NSFW. not all g/t content has to be Ideologically and Morally Pure. you can do whatever you want actually. preferences and likes in fiction do not equal IRL values. fiction =/= reality. write that fucked up g/t shit

#its…… fiction. its fiction. its fake. all of this is fake #like as long as the content is tagged appropriately then people can do whatever they want ! #sorry i was thinking of my fucked up gt ocs and how i never talk abt them bc it feels like I Cant #but….. thats a self imposed limit. why do i impose it on myself? why do any of us? #ppl talk about how weirdly puritan the fandom is and its like. itll be so until we let ourselves be freaks #i should let myself be a freak more. and you should too!

[a2zillustration]

The final day

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[[ All Croissant Adventures (chronological, desktop) ]]

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#HERE WE GOOOOOOOO #heads up #I scripted over 20 comics for the next events #so we're really...still not that close to the end - don't worry lol #Ah - also - there was a tumblr user a while back who had mentioned wanting to see the bg3 cast helping each other put their armor on #shoutouts to that person for the idea for this one - thank you #I tried finding the post but can't - if you know the user please feel free to drop them in the replies bc it was a GOOD idea haha #Ah - and - for the record - this is the team I took into the final battle. It seemed appropriate. They were here from the beginning. #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #kind of sort of - I never know how to tag these ones where I take artistic liberties lol #croissant adventures #tav #gale #shadowheart #lae'zel #scratch #owlbear cub #yenna #gale dekarios #breadweave #gale x tav #comics #oh one last thing YES croissant and gale could use mage hand to help them do all their ties but that's not FUN and INTIMATE