#in the west at least

[sweetgaleria]

Help a college student graduate by answering a survey!!

Hey!! Are you over 18 and in the miraculous fandom? Then this is for you!!

Hi everyone, this is my last semester of uni, and one of my final projects to be able to graduate is to write a scientific paper. I'm writing an article about adult fans of children's animation, specifically Miraculous Ladybug. My goal is to understand what makes adults (like us) want to join fandoms centered around shows aimed primarily at children, and to do that I'd love to hear directly from the source! The survey takes around 10 minutes to answer, it's 100% anonymous and it would help me immensely!

>>Click here for the survey<<

I need at least 30 people to answer, but honestly the more the merrier! I've also made a little thank you gif at the end, so if you see it let me know! If you have any questions feel free to send me an ask, as well!

Please reblog so it can reach more people! Thank you so much!

#what do we love (or hate!! I know people are here bc they dont like the show as much too) abt miraculous that #makes us want to spend so much time thinking and creating things for and about it? #miraculous ladybug #i am once again asking for your support #insert bernie sanders meme here #alskdjasd #no but really if you answer this it would help me so so much #and i'll be so thankful #i will reblog this post a bit frequently so please be patient with me 😭😭 #also the point of this is not to shame anyone for watching kid's shows in any shape or form #i just love animation and kids cartoons too #my first intentions with this research were to ask why do we mostly view animation as a kid's genre instead of a technique to tell stories #in the west at least #but it was too broad of a question and I dont have enough time to dedicate myself to it #so i narrowed it down to something i'm familiar with #which is why i went for #so uh anyway #pls reblog #and answer my survey #thank you so much

[brechtian]

do u read early modern drama n do u have a fave?

I mean yes & like. Look I’ve read the other big ones like I’ve read Molière’s plays and Life is a Dream and even some Thomas Middleton but like. Nothing really has anything on Shakespeare like as far as early modern drama goes there’s no real competition. My favorite Shakespeare is King Lear, though :)

#Charline i am going to assume u forgot Shakespeare was early modern shdjf if ur asking if there r any other early modern playwrights I love #tho the answer is meh not rly #none of the other English playwrights were as good as Shakespeare & outside of England everyone was cursed with the plague of neoclassicism #in the west at least #Charline

[jhonnyhotbody]

It gets ransacked every week

This was them b4 they got their wives

#It's hard to eat that many calories okay #and who wouldn't want Alfred's leftovers #even if his dead rn #Stealing is bad #This post does not condone stealing #B4 the married speedster got married they had at least a singular spring cheese in their fridge #bart allen #Stealing from a rich is okay tho #wally west #flash family #This applies to stealing from Oliver #batfam #batman

[pummelingbat]

Persecution Complex, or: "Just You, Me, And The Weight Of Your Dead Girlfriend Between Us"

#reanimator #reanimator 1985 #herbert west #dan cain #danbert #bride of reanimator #my art #this is the only comic piece from my zine im gonna post here i think. im trying to show SOME self restraint. #but im too geeked abt how this one turned out... want to share The Vision #i may get scared and delete. im shy abt my comic writing. but. #have an early installation in the Gay Herbert West Character Study ive been drawing all year. #shoutout to tumblr auto cropping longer posts now. so i at least dont feel inconsiderate formatting this vertically lol.

[perjuryfan]

this is not a joke

#russia #ukraine #russia-ukraine war #knowing people that care about politics online is so wild. they'll tell you about this an hour before it reaches the west #all my love and support to the innocent russians that will suffer from this #and all the ukrainians that have been facing the brunt of the war. hopefully this at least throws a wrench in the russian military

[imriel]

I need more of wally and babs friendship please

#if they want to include babs so badly in titans #at least give her more dynamics #these two are hilarious back in the 90s #dc comics #barbara gordon #wally west #batgirl #oracle #the flash #titans #comics

[hunrising]

What’s baffling to me is that according to what western governments/media said these past days, hamas shouldn’t have attacked civilians in response to the violence they’ve been suffering for decades because it violates international laws, and I agree, civilians shouldn’t have been victims of an attack like this. However now, according to those same people, Israel has the absolute right to defend itself and have no other option but to respond aggressively, no matter how many civilians get caught in the crossfire, and thus also violating international laws? I’ve been racking my brain to see if I’m missing something, or if all of these politicians and journalists are intentionally contradicting themselves in order to please each other?

#I’m sorry I know I keep going back and forth with the topic but 1) I genuinely can’t stop thinking about it #and it feels wrong to stop thinking about it #and 2) I’m truly trying to understand how they can get away with lying and openly saying #‘we’re okay with the ethnic cleansing of palestinians’ #i understand the reason on their basic level (they do not care about brown people) #but surely they should at least pretend that they do? #I don’t know I feel like I’m being gaslit on a global level rn #because I know that as brown/muslim people we are never 100% safe in the west but this feels like it’s on another level #palestine

[parkercore-69]

what can i say guys i’m a sucker for toxic yaoi (i’m perpetually single and i cry to car seat headrest)

#is this too specific #toxic gay men #my loves #reanimator #saw 2004 #hannibal #theres more most likely #trobed bein like the LEAST toxic ship i entertain #they were codependent guys come on #herbert west #dan cain #danbert #adam stanheight #lawerence gordon #chainshipping #man we’re just goin through all of em #hannibal lecter #will graham #hannigram #!! #yeah dish out those unhealthy gay men #while we’re at it #batjokes #its mostly ironic but like #they’re direct foils #foils have always been a bit gay to me #like wym you’re direct opposites that fill each others gaps in a narrative #uhh get a room?? #i went ham on tags #more tags than actual post core

[ghost-bxrd]

I love your art so much, can you draw some Talon!Dick Birdflash (preferably with wings? And fluff 🥺) Maybe soulmate au if you’re feeling generous? Thx!!!

Hi anon! Of course!!! I’ve been dying to do some ship content 💚✨

I’ve never drawn Flash before so I hope this comes close enough? Anyway I hope you enjoy this little doodle. I’m thinking of this as a kind of “reunion” scenario 💚

#birdflash #sketch #doodle #digital art #talon dick grayson #with owl wings #been using barn owl for reference #somewhat at least lol #dick grayson #Wally west #flash #fanart

[tornado1992]

Little four year old Tails fainting, Sonic takes him to the emergency room and they do some x rays and stuff and discover that he has internal damage in most of his abdominal organs besides some broken bones that never healed properly and Sonic feels so guilty because he thinks it’s because he’s been “dragging” Tails to fight Eggman alongside him. Tails tells him that he was in pain from a while back before he met Sonic and he thought it was normal because even if he was hurt being with Sonic made him feel so much better than he’s ever felt before so he thought he was already cured from whatever was wrong with him and the pain he always felt was just a permanent side effect.

#now Sonic’s the one who feels like fainting #west side island when I catch u west side when I catch u #somebody sedate him before he goes full ass murder #he would spent the next 72 hours hugging his little bro because wtf tails no pain it’s not normal no you find deserve to feel pain #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #sonic and tails #unbreakable bond #they’re brothers your honor #love is the best medicine in the world at least to Tails #baby miles tails prower #baby tails #haha remember my baby tails doesn’t cry headcanon haha I made it worse

[shopwitchvamp]

me the absolute first split second people are acting up in the shop

#yes unfortunately we have to have a blacklist at this point of people not allowed to order anymore #this was actually *more* of an issue back in the day when i was selling handmade crocheted plushies lol #but like explain to me why this has happened with more than one person at this point: #they buy something #then a week or two later they email us/post/leave a review saying how much they hate it and we suck and that they want to return it #then they never send the thing back #continue to go on about how mad they are about it #still never send it back #then they TRY TO BUY ANOTHER THING???? #what is that about #was it just wanting the first thing for free? like trying to bully us into letting you keep it for free??? i don't get it #if you hate it so much why would you order again ???????? #anyway #do this and your order will 100% be canceled #pls never return #thankfully this only applies to like 3 people currently haha #vs the dozen person long etsy blacklist i had for plushies #lots of people wanted them for free or at least i suspect that was what was going on.... it was the wild west out there #exhausting

[artsytrashpanda-art-blog]

When you realise the newcomer who's helping you is a fiery, explosion-loving maniac gremlin who isn't scared to blow up everything for her mission

#at least that's how I played Aloy #fire is the answer 🔥🔥🔥 #*insert Elmo on fire meme* #CHAOS #kotallo #hfw kotallo #horizon forbidden west kotallo #aloy #hfw Aloy #hzd aloy #horizon forbidden west fan art #hfw fanart #hfw #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #my art #artwork #digital artwork #sketch

[system-threat-detected]

Horizontober day 13: Lounge

Gaia gang cuddle puddle!!

This took too long to draw, maybe I’ll color it later

#horizontober2023 #my art #hfw #horizon forbidden west #Zo #Varl #Alva #beta #aloy #talanah khane padish #Seyka #erend #Sylens #kotallo #I love drawing cuddle puddles but GOD do they take forever #sylens is the least pleased to be here #but he's still here and that's what matters #Kotallo was banished to the edge because Tenakth armor is so gosh darn spiky #otherwise I think he’d make a good pillow

[coyoteclan]

There are 330 following this blog now HI

Thought I'd share some territory concepts I've been working on! Both for Coyoteclan and a second clangen blog I've been debating, which is set in the wild west :)

I'll write a little blurb for each little area under the cut for those curious about these locations (and separate images)

Coyoteclan

Fallen-Tree Coyoteclan's Leader den and clan meeting place. The tree is ancient and hollow, the entrance coated in the scratches of long-gone cats. The Leader calls meetings from atop the tree, while the deputy sits on the rocks below.

Thunder River A small collection of waterfalls that eventually lead to the sea. From here, you can hear an ominous, melodic sound coming from the beach.

Graves of the Fallen The resting place for Coyoteclan cats. Coyoteclan prefer to commune with their dead here, but still go with the other healers during halfmoon.

Sweetwater Wilds

Trail of Blood Untamed land filled with bandits and danger. Not only are there plenty of predatory animals living here, but it's a popular hiding place for many outlaws.

Canyon of Stars A place for communing with the stars. Sheriffs and Healers visit often for guidance, though some bandits are known to come here in secret.

Hareshade's Dawn Not really a place but this is the Sheriff of Sweetwater Wilds lol I really like her but she's SO TRANSPHOBIC she is BULLYING the only trans cat in the clan and I cannot stop her

#I'm so heavily considering doing this wild west clan you have no idea #I've been writing like. a whole wild west themed system for the clans too I've been having fun with it #I gotta do more with coyoteclan before I so something like that but. something to consider #I'll at least post some art of it over on my main even if I don't do a blog #rn these are mostly just bg practice bc I want to get better at doing them (I hate drawing bgs <3) #art #clangen #warrior cats #coyoteclan #coyoteclan territory #the map is next on my list I promise #I am just Very Bad at maps

[leroibobo]

etz hayyim (“tree of life”) synagogue in chania, crete, greece. the building dates to the 14th-15th centuries, and was originally a venetian catholic church. it was acquired by chania's jewish community and converted into a synagogue in the late 17th century. chania's jews were deported due to the holocaust in 1944, after which the building remained abandoned until restoration in the 1990s.

romaniote jews are the oldest jewish community in europe and one of the oldest in the world, thought to have lived in and around present day greece since before 70 ce. they have their own liturgy that is unrelated to the more commonly used european ones (ashkenazic and sephardic).

#greece #architecture #interior #worship #jewish #romaniote #old & new #my posts #for all u Westerners 'rom' = constantinople referring to itself as the roman empire #so rome/italy is like 'west roman' constantinople/greece/anatolia is like 'east roman' #in the west its called 'byzantine' from 'byzantium' (proto-constantinople) #also it insinuates w roman empire was the 'real' roman empire (despite east lasting 1000 years longer) #in most mediterranean & w asian languages greece/greek is 'yunan/yawan/yavan' (from ionians) or 'rum/rom' (from roman) #in actual greek it's 'hellas'/'ellas' (from hellenic) #in georgian it's 'saberdzneti' for some reason but they also have their own names for a bunch of places #'greece' comes from the latin name 'graecia' #in a lot of slavic languages it's some variation of 'greece'. weird considering most were never/hardly under latin influence #if you think this is a lot just wait until u hear about the all the names for armenia #but yeah these guys were also in a lot of the balkans. if you're from the balkans and jewish you MAY have romaniote ancestry #(at least more recent romaniote ancestry than all other european jews) #not a guarantee though especially if you're ashkenazi #theres like. other jewish groups in europe that predated ashkenazi migration #most of them just got absorbed into the ashkenazi population

[qqueenofhades]

Okay, sort of on that note: I know we are all thoroughly enjoying the Bird App's destruction and drama and firing shots in the air to keep our property values low and complaining about Twitter users moving here and all the rest. But I'm gonna be real with you for a second and offer a Hot Take that might well get my Tumblr elder credentials revoked:

As long as they are willing to play ball with us and understand the rules of the road and etc (and lbr, we have plenty of absolutely idiotic Disk Horse of our own, that will never go away), we should a) actually be glad that they're coming here and b) recognize the far more sinister aspect of Twitter's slow motion Jenga collapse. Because it's all fun and games until the massive human rights violations and democracy destruction starts (or rather, continues). Why is that? Well:

As noted a few weeks ago when this insanity started, the second-biggest investor in the Twitter takeover, apart from Musk himself, was the Saudi government. Now, I have a friend whose PhD dissertation in sociology I have been copy-editing/proofreading for the last few years (he is originally from Saudi Arabia but doing his PhD in the UK). A huge part of his research is about how ordinary Saudis use Twitter HEAVILY, and as a replacement for the freedom of speech they aren't allowed in any other formal aspect of their country, despite many cosmetic reforms and plans for greater international investment and openness. The Saudi government, while tolerating this newfound criticism on the surface, has also routinely jailed these citizens for one critical tweet about them, including those made while the person in question was not in the country. In other words, they're not nearly as happy about this as they like to pretend, even if they're putting a good face on it, and especially during the Arab Spring and other attempted uprisings/calls for reform in the region, Twitter was a hugely effective way to circumvent government narratives and get out community information. After all, it is the biggest communication platform in the world, and anyone can instantly use it.

So, enter Musk: a petty alt-right billionaire who pals with dictators and can do anything he wants by burning ungodly amounts of money. He partners with the Saudis. Two weeks later, Twitter is going down in flames, its entire top legal team has quit, Musk is braying about bankruptcy, advertisers have fled, it's 50-50 whether it survives the year. And yes, this could be because Musk is a sociopathic idiot, since he is. But if you consider that this one evil prick can literally destroy half of the world's only medium of quasi-free speech and community organising just by throwing $44 billion at it... well... that's a lot more sinister than just him wanting to make "free speech" for all the absolute dregs of the Internet who adore him. In other words, it starts to look awfully deliberate, and Musk is anything but a fan of democracy, community organising, and all the rest.

Anyway: Tumblr doesn't function the same as Twitter, we don't want it to, and we are able to laugh at its burning corpse because many of us don't rely on it as our one and only place of meaningful speech and ability to criticize the government. But if Twitter DOES go down in flames, it will be a huge and irreparable loss in a real sense, and in that case, if you see a Twitter user poking their head in here, give them some rules of the road, advise them to change their icon, and otherwise let 'em stay.

#hilary for ts #politics for ts #yes twitter is garbage in many ways and i want it gone or at least massively revamped #but the function it plays for those outside the west is also real #and basically i am starting to agree that musk bought it just to destroy it for his fellow sociopathic billionaires #including him #who don't like anything mean said about them ever #if tumblr can somehow fill even a small part of the information-sharing ecosystem on social media #imho that would be nice