#rather than fight

[yume-fanfare]

Do you think Tori did that thing where whenever he runs out of actual arguments with Tsukasa he says "You're only like that because you're an only child if you'd grown up with siblings I bet you would've been wayyyyyyyy less weird" and then he watches gleefully as Tsukasa has to try to talk himself back into a position where Tori won't just play the Only Children are Strange card (it's impossible. Once he brings out that one there is no coming back you just have to accept that it's impossible to defend yourself from the fact that you don't have any siblings and maybe you could bring up that both of your families are rich as hell so it doesn't matter but then again it kind of does because that's an entirely different set of stuff happening so in the end you just concede and try to say something about it being surprising how big that ego of his seems to seem considering he's shorter than a twelve year old and hope that will just do the trick of getting you back onto the high ground by virtue of him being so aggravated he completely forgets about the fact your don't have any siblings)

SFDDGHJHKHGJGKS he 100% would oh my god. esp because part of the reason tsukasa is often weird about kohaku is because he wants a little brother to pamper soooooo bad tori would tease him so much over it dlfjdmfjdmfm "tori-kun said im weird because im an only child so ill show him just how good of an older sibling i can be!" "bon, ya kidnapped me once" (tori isn't even paying attention or anywhere near them)

#i was going to say it would be even funnier if he had started playing that card when they were kids #because imo he's at Least 4 or 5 years older than his sister so like. #''you wouldn't get it because you're an only child but im smarter because im an older brother'' #''you've been a brother for like a year!!!! it doesn't count!!! your sister does nothing but cry'' #but at the same time #im pretty sure tsukasa Relied on tori when they were that small #rather than fight #so maybe tori can even make a case for: ''plus *i* always took care of us as kids it's the older brother instinct'' #''im the oldest one of us!!! and you only got us into trouble!!!!!'' #ahhh but i really do love how much tori loves his sister <33 #beloved siblings <333 #enstars #starpros sunshine #preguntas

[ruegarding]

one thing abt thalia and percy's dynamic that is often overlooked is that percy was punished for the same things thalia was rewarded for. there's a prophecy abt one of the big three kids? percy is treated like a liar and thief and ppl refuse to talk to him. thalia? everyone respects her (including gods!) and assumes she'll do a great job saving the world. thalia is accepted immediately at camp and threatens the place percy spent two years proving he deserves. percy wants to go on a quest to save his friend? he's an attention seeker and glory stealer. thalia? well, she's the obvious choice. thalia comes up w a plan to win capture the flag that's basically "leave everything to me" and percy comes up with a plan that's basically "if you see a good opportunity, go for it," but percy is viewed as the control freak.

what i'm saying is percy had every reason to resent thalia and he didn't. he chose not to. and thalia had every reason to look down on percy and didn't.

even when they were fighting, i never saw it as a power struggle. they were being pit against each other, and instead of doing what everyone expected them to (kronos was fully expecting thalia to kill percy), they chose to love and respect each other. because they're not their parents. they're just two kids who started cracking under the pressure but refused to break.

#i think the most telling moment of their dynamic is when thalia is seduced by the power kronos offers her #and rather than viewing her as a threat and fighting her #percy talks her down. bc he knows her. bc he respects her. bc he loves her. #and she chooses him(them) over kronos and the power #anyway i miss thalia so much she should've been in every story all the time #thalia grace #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo hoo toa #big three kids #percy #thalia #min talks pjo

[ruporas]

good mornings throughout the travel

[ID: Two comics of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun Maximum. The second is underneath the read more.

The first is in four panels and follows Vash and Wolfwood through hotel rooms. First, Vash and Wolfwood exit adjacent rooms, and Wolfwood has sparkles floating around him as he exclaims, “Rise and shine! Ready to go?” Vash frowns, displeased, and says, Urk— Good morning to you too.”

Next, they’re in a room with two beds. Wolfwood is awake and fully dressed. He’s sitting on the bed and smoking, back turned away from the viewer and he says, “Wake up already, sleepyhead.” Vash sits up with his eyes still closed and yawns before saying good morning. After that, they’re sharing a bed, and Wolfwood gets up and says, “Morning, sunshine. Time to get up.” His body shadows Vash from the sunlight. Vash is still lying down with a blanket draped over him as he mumbles good morning.

Finally, they’re embracing in bed, both shirtless. Sunlight shines on them, but their contact allows their shadows to drape over their faces. Vash smiles, kisses the top of Wolfwood’s head, and says, “Good morning, Wolfwood.” Wolfwood sleepily says, “Mph, g’morning, needle-noggin’,” snuggling into on Vash’s shoulder. End ID] ID CREDIT

TRIMAX Vol. 10 Spoilers under read more // bonus comic

[ID: The bonus comic starts with Vash asleep in bed, fully clothed with his hair half-black. Someone says “Good morning,” and Vash says, “Morning, Wolf—w...” He trails off as Livio, holding a plate of food, stares with abject shock.

Livio says, “I’m sorry.” Vash, smiling but sweating, says, “No, it’s my bad...” Livio repeats, “I’m sorry.” Vash says, “Geez, stop apologizing,” and cuts off Livio’s “I—” with a “Good morning, Livio.” Livio quietly mumbles, “... Good morning...”

Vash sits up from the couch he was sleeping on and looks down, thinking, “... That’s right. I won’t wake up to you anymore... I have to get used to that...” End ID]

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #i just think. when theyre traveling for a long time together #sleeping in the same inns sleeping in the same rooms potentially as they get closer #realizing they dont need to pay the fee for 2 bedrooms if theyre comfortable fighting back to back #realizing they dont need to pay the fee for 2 beds after one night of being forced to sleep in same one since all the 2 beds rooms ran out #and being comfortable with it - and then after their feelings are shared #realizing theyd rather sleep and rest peacefully next to one another #and wake up slowly and enjoy the mundane while they can #i drew ww waking up first bc i dont imagine he sleeps much tbh. i think vash is a light sleeper too and more often than not #and vash goes to bed just bc he knows if he tries to leave ww would follow him #i also think vash never had someone stand guard for him before even if that isnt what he wants out of ww to do. but knowing that ww is #there means that he can actually sleep peacefully without worry that someones going to drop on him immediately. i think he'd get used tothat #and ww -- as he opens his heart more to vash -- gets comfortable staying in bed a little longer #sleeps a little better -- especially when they start to share a bed bc there's a warmth there that he can't help but cave into #bc he hasn't had that in a long time. #ruporas art

[ca-3]

Omori × Persona 5 All Out Attacks!! 💜🔪

follow up to my former post, now we have Basil and Mari ✨️

#omori #persona 5 #omori game #omori basil #omori kel #omori aubrey #omori hero #omori mari #omori headspace #omori fan art #ca3 art #crossover #video games #THESE WERE SO FUN AAAAAA #basil gave me shit again tho only cause his file kept lagging for reason #but it survived!!! THANK GOD #also i know mari doesnt fight but i wanted to draw shes a princess i adore leave me alone #i imagine shes kinda like how futaba works #more of a ultimate support character rather than combative #persona 5 royal #P5 x Omori

[felsicveins]

I think John Dory should have 7 (evil) exes and you have to defeat all of them in order to date him.

Choose your fighter 💥💪

#i probably wont make 7 ... probably #three is already enough to draw for #and tbf i dont think jd and cory ever dated?? #w/e!!!!!! #that means jd is ramona #then who is scott? we need a scott #and a wallace but hes straight? no ... i would never do that to a wallace parallel #anna kendrick is already there so thats easy #trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #brozone #trolls oc #trolls ocs #jd trolls #john dory #uhh #maybe it would be like a sing off rather than a fight #so whoever the scott parallel is would be a really really good singer #u know whats funny? jd isnt even my favorite brother #he might not even be second #but i like making little exs for him so what ever : )

[starflungwaddledee]

from: @starflungwaddledee to: @post-it-notes7

message from santa: "happy holidays post-it-notes! 🎄🥳 i know you very politely only wished for a few modest things- characters high fiving, or struggling in christmas attire- but i hope you'll still enjoy this given that i kinda went the opposite direction entirely! i'm an enormous fan of your work and most times you post anything i wind up browsing your art tag from tip-to-tail in enraptured delight. as such, i thought it was only fair i give back something a little more significant in gratitude for all the joy your work has given me. i knew i wanted to do a comic, so i was thrilled you already had a whole storyverse for me to work from!! this scene seemed the most obvious choice (chapter 8 of "wishful thinking" on ao3) given that i enjoy a dramatic fight scene 😂 i tried to stick as beat-by-beat to the writing as i could and worked in as many details as possible; i hope it'll be fun to see it envisioned this way! merry christmas! ~starflung 🎀🔔 "

#phew... this is by far the most ambitious piece i've ever posted here! 12 pages! this is why i've been so afk from other work haha! #shout out to the poor mods who sent through assignments and received no small amount of all-caps panicked screaming from me in response!! #me?! draw a gift for THE post-it-notes7!? immediately knew i had to overachieve to stand any hope of being up to the bar haha #if you feel these characters look a little different to how i usually draw them- that's totally on purpose! #i worked really hard to match post's designs and styling for them rather than my own; seeing as this was a gift! #actually think it stands out a *lot* surprisingly- given that they are still the exact same orbs. really interesting to compare to my usual #i hope some folks will notice all the details from the story in here! if you've read it and you recognised it please let me know! #genuinely hoping someone just recognises it on the first page. iconic canyon fight... what an honour to draw for this fic tbh #also thank you to the mods for handling all the wips and progress on this ridiculously sized entry from me with such grace #it's being posted on my personal blog due to length for anyone wondering. should be seamless... fingers crossed. #my art #my comics #meta knight #galacta knight #hnk secret santa #cw violence

[slimeshade]

Visit - and a bonus challenge:

#hollow knight #the hollow knight #troupe master grimm #into the nothingness (au) #slimes art #watch as I draw random segments from my stuff #rather than writing them orderly hgfdhd #'what is happening there?' a fight against the statue‚ that's what #I missed drawing comics also‚ so this was nice

[heartorbit]

the star you've longed for

#PLEASE WATCH REVUE STARLIGHT!!!!!!💥💥💥💥💥 #project sekai #revue starlight #pjsk #emu otori #nene kusanagi #emunene #prsk #proseka #yuri win. i make my fav pairing fight tothe death #HAPPY EMUNENE WEEK LOOOOOL #Can i be hinestni think this sucks it took way too long cause i forgot how to draw for a week #im seeing demons and stuff. i feel more normal now. Also you may recall emu has a big hammer for revstar #thats the bottom of it the gem thing all the weapons have hers is sharp #i remember seeing meta post abt how mahiru has a blunt weapon because she never actually aimed for the lead role #rather she only wanted to be by karen's side. so her weapon wasnt capable of cutting anything in the first place #Fastforward to the movie and well LOLLLLL #though i think its funny in the movie her mace is still mostly used for i timidation againstbhikari.. bc again shes not winning for a lead #revue starlight youre neat. maybe i like revstar. #<- has been insane for 4+ years #Needed their pose to be smth where nenes weapon isnt visible because I DONT KNOW WHAT WEAPON TO GIVE HER. OOMFS HELP. I NEED A NENE WEAPON. #i thought some sort of polearm/spear/halberd etc something with range but that can be ambitious #but i feel like smth with that much footwork needed doesnt suit her.. And she cant hsve a sniper i dont think thatwould fucking work #aruru gets pistols in the revue but aruru also is Ummm well shes uhhh. [screaming] [car crash] #throwing knives would be funny wouldnt it. Put that gamer aim to use #idk if the emunene week tag is on here but i'll donit anyways #emuneneweek2024 #i remembered to switch which account this pists to for the first time in like 3 pists. so you get to see all my tags this time #rather than accidentally posting it to the wrong account and having to dekete and repost andngoing IM NOT WRITING ALL THAT AGAIN.

[humanerrers]

12.16.23 in Tel Aviv

(via @AmiDar on X)

#i am sick of the antisemitism-inflected ceasefire posts #that you see on this site #(obligatory Not All Posts) #I have been posting less about particulars #bc I could feel my posts descending into Good Jew territory #yes these are my beliefs but I am tired of being called fascist #for voicing hope for a political solution #rather than a bloody revolution #which wouldn’t fucking work anyway #just create more suffering and death #so anyway let’s amplify Israelis #who are fighting for their shared future #end rant

[ambrosiagourmet]

I was checking some emotional responses for Laios and was curious if he ever cries at all or if he’s full cold sweat/upset expression guy… I don’t believe he ever full cries but he does very slightly tear up both times Falin is revived :’)

#ref #a lot of times when he’s really going through it he gets very grim and quite rather than outwardly expressive #which - and this is total conjecture - but I feel like in part that might be a thing he learned from his time w the military #idk why exactly I feel that way I guess it’s just how much his expression in the ‘yeah I got beat up by my classmates back then’ panel #reminds me of some of his expressions during the fight w Shuro #which feels like one of the top times I would expect him to push over into crying out of anger/frustration/hurt #anyway. I love Laois :’) my guy….

[notchainedtotrauma]

Okay, but maybe the lesson here is to leave AAVE alone so that it doesn't lose shape and meaning, and goes from some "cool" slang to something that white supremacists appropriate and then shape it into an unrecognizable dogwhistle. Like..."woke"...

#stories from the void #this is actually strategically savyy #leave AAVE alone #and you have less semiotic information #available for white supremacists to appropriate and utilize as vectors of communication #since you would rather bash your head against a wall #than respecting Black people #interestingly enough fighting against antiblackness #actually benefits you

[jahiera]

I know it’s just a games mechanic thing but I’m kind of obsessed with the idea of the potential learning curve astarion had to do being thrust out into the wilderness and actually fighting for his life every single day after 2 centuries of stalking shadows and mostly using charm to keep himself safe and alive. picking up a bow for the first time in centuries and it’s awkward, unwieldy at first, but the muscle memory slowly returns to him as he uses it more and more—and so does the question of, did he learn to use this while he was mortal? did he enjoy it? it feels familiar, like a long passed hobby he might’ve once had. or having to quickly adapt to using two daggers for actual combat rather than the one he might have kept on him just in case an alley interaction turned sour. astarion having to learn how to fight in a group, when he’s always been deeply, deeply alone in the shadows before. slowly adapting to watching karlach’s back, picking off enemies from the side as they group around her, or picking off an enemy that was creeping up on wyll with a trick shot from a distance. like there’s no way he did any of these things back in baldurs gate, and it’s a special kind of thrill to accumulate new skills, work skills he barely remembers even having, or finding new ways to utilize talents that once would’ve served cazador but now he uses them to save his own life, and occasionally protect his …. friends … with only mild complaining. something makes me crazy about astarion being forced to use his body for centuries to lure people back with his attractiveness and middling charm and NOW he can turn his body into something strong, a weapon that belongs only to him, reclaim autonomy through the ways he chooses to fight and develop skills and abilities cazador never would’ve wanted him to have

#I have a Mini Essay for Every Companion on their relationship to fighting vs autonomy by the way. Unhinged essays #wyll losing his powers at the beginning as he mentions. karlach using her brutality to DEFEND HER FRIENDS rather than fight for zariel #gale flexing spells and talents he hasn’t dipped into in so long while he was isolated away. #lae’zel learning what it means to fight in a group that wants to keep you as safe as they do themselves. fighting for protection. #BITING DOWN. #bg3 meta

[multifandombullshitbabes]

have we ever thought abt the fact that zuko is literally azula's older brother. like she's his little sister. that's his little sister. throughout a big, big part of atla plot, he was actively running away, scared of his little sister killing him because he KNEW she would/could. can you imagine that? your little sibling, wanting more your father's approval than your companionship to the point of death? every time they fought, zuko was fighting his baby sister. azula was fighting her big brother. this is making me so sick. they were 16 and 14 years old.

#avatar the last airbender #atla #atla zuko #atla azula #zuko #azula #hey look i posted a thing #the absolute maddening grief of it all. like what do u mean??? thats his lil baby sister!!! what the fuck!!! #when she was a bby he was probably so protective and they were so small n they must have loved each other then #before the responsibilities ozai put on them. before all that. they were siblings. they loved each other. #until they were taught that did not matter. zuko learned that it did again #despite all the pain of it #azula actively ran away from learning it from feeling that pain #because she would rather be hated and feared and powerful than to ever be weak ever #this is so heartbreaking #i think this hits especially hard cuz me n my sis are like 2/3 years apart in age. like. i could not imagine having to fight her to the dea #i just couldnt. i rly rly couldnt

[noriyucko]

treachery

something something julius caesar reference

i liked the stained glass i did but other than that the background sucked to draw

#im so obsessed with like the idea of #gabriel being sent to kill minos as usual #but like instead of like they fight #theyre like prior friends so minos invites gabriel for a drink #and gabriel kills him while his back is turned… #it just would add sm to like the defaced murals calling gabriel a traitor #and would make his crime all the more horrible #ultrakill #gabriel ultrakill #minos ultrakill #minos prime #king minos #ultrakill art #ultrakill fanart #rather than just them battling and not being friends beforehand

[big-moon-little-moon]

I would really love to see Liam in the next 4-sided dive episode because 1. it's been a while (🎶) and 2. he's been giving us some real good dorym bits after orym has been focusing on *bigger* stuff and didn't talk about (didn't let himself think about?) dorian for quite some time. First orym's confession during the honesty trial and now they realize sending is working and his first thought is "I can call Dorian". Not "we could contact the tempest", not "we can get more people here and prepare a full mission" - no, he will get to those but right now he can call dorian, he can maybe hear back from him he could tell him- he can call dorian. So he does! He tells him to find the Tempest and if he does they could all see him again and then that freaking pause in the last sentence. The emotional damage of that pause, i swear to gods. "If I don't get the chance again..." he could tell him. He wants to tell him. Is it fair to tell him through the stone? Should he feel like this? Sometimes he thinks that's okay and sometimes he thinks it isn't. "...I've really missed you."

And why didn't he answer?

Soldier orym has been in the driving seat at least since bor'dor but the blue bard is still on this halfling's mind and when he is - watch just how fast romantic orym can take over.

#he would rather be a lover than a fighter #but all his life he's been fighting #oh and the implications of that “if i dont get the chance again” after taking nana's deal #the angst... THE ANGSTTTT #bells hells #cr campaign 3 #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #cr orym #orym of the air ashari #cr dorian #dorian storm #dorym #c3e86

[steggymus]

sparring sessions with renee and andrew

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really small process video

#i like to think he’d be better using his legs to fight rather than his fists #especially since he spends so much time running so he definitely has some strength there #also what if he’s worried about hurting his hands after seeing kevin’s injury #neil josten #neil josten fanart #aftg #all for the game #all for the game fanart #aftg fanart #tfc #the foxhole court #andrew minyard #andriel