#so he’s flexible you say…

[fanning-the-flames]

This holiday season I am thankful for Sect Leader Jiang, who would not hesitate to step on me if I was in his way.

Mean Sect Leader Jiang is now a thing I like to draw.

#Jiang cheng #mdzs #the untamed #cql #sect leader Jiang #so he’s flexible you say… #he can be so mean and we love that for him #he thinks being mean is a deterrent but occasionally it’s reinforcing

[gaytedlasso]

Passenger Princess Ted is enjoying the roominess of Rebecca’s car that she let him and Trent borrow for their day trip. Meanwhile Trent is blue screening and has almost wrecked the car 12 separate times.

#this is a result of the discord saying: what if Ted is flexible and I had an aneurysm #Ted knows exactly what he’s doing and adjusts positions so they don’t die #eventually #but not before being a little shit and winking at Trent #grey hairs a gift for my wife and also me cuz he deserves grey #Crimmlet made that bracelet for Ted #btw the background is a photo I painted over a bit to blend cuz why not #alright the end of my tag rambling. look at Ted’s thighs #sketch.art #tedtrent #tedependent #Ted lasso #Ted lasso fanart #also if you ship Tedbecca and wanna view this pic with that lens that’s fine idc #I don’t ship it but Ted thighs are for all lmao

[quinn-pop]

genuinely i could not sleep until i drew this. sewing jokes ft a very confused kirby

at first i thought this idea was silly but i mean. it probably would be a big deal for the prince of patchland to be made of synthetic fibers, so uh

bonus doodle of me when i actually am sewing lol (sorry for the anatomically incorrect iron)

#yeah it’s anatomically incorrect (like everything i draw) because i really didnt feel like getting a reference #okay here’s your explanations #singer and brother are both sewing machine brands lol #inter facing makes stuff stiff #smth not cut on the bias won’t stretch as well (basically he’s saying they’re not flexible. i didn’t mean literally but ig you could #interpret it that way. idk whatever) #tulle is a light and airy fabric yea but it’s also a bit stiff and scratchy so…don’t tell kirby that i guess #anyway these made me giggle and i lost sleep because!!! #I kept thinking about them for so long #and now ive had awful insomnia all week and have hardly slept lol so hoping posting this will help (I wish) #but i have more ideas so i might do more later #kirbyposting #kirby #prince fluff #king dedede #also fluff just looks angry a lot i promise he isn’t #can interpret as kirfluff #btw i suck at sewing so feel free to correct me

[thedreadvampy]

Jujitsu class got me showing up to work with somewhat suspicious bruising and a sore neck from being choked. 10/10 would recommend.

#red said #gotta say like as someone who. the majority of physical abuse I've experienced has involved being thrown around #dragged around and choked #there is something weirdly emptying about these classes #i think it's less the learning to defend against it and more the idea that I'm doing it in a safe place #like with people who don't actually want to hurt me physically or emotionally #and I'm allowed to fight back and i won't be treated like I'm trying to hurt THEM physically or emotionally #I'm not particularly good at it cause I've got the strength and flexibility but i keep forgetting what I'm trying to do #like OK GOT OUT OF YOUR LOCK GOT YOUR ARM CONTROLLED. wait what was the next bit? oh no i lose. #but i often can't even cope with people TOUCHING my neck and not only did we do several moves that involved pushing on each others throats #but when i sparred with the tutor he had me in two different chokeholds plus one i wriggled out of and i had a GREAT time #it's SO DIFFERENT to do stuff where you trust the people you're with #EMPOWERING not EMPTYING those are very different words

[july-19th-club]

love an ending that is 'happy' in that a desirable outcome is produced, but made complicated by the fact that the protagonist has given up something integral to themself in order to make it so. it's sort of uncool in some circles to admit you LIKE when characters give up something really cool for something pretty basic, but it's all about context and quality of storytelling, right? that sort of conviction - this is a part of my personality that i am permanently renouncing access to, and it's my choice, and i'm going to miss it, but i'm not going to regret it - that's compelling. ending in which a character who loves nothing more than the rush of finding the answer to a question is handed, one day, a puzzle they just don't want to solve. and that part of their life is over, but it's not a bad thing. maybe the answer doesn't need to be known. maybe not knowing it opens you up to a creative mindset you never had before. character who gains some kind of special power chooses to give it up not because they no longer love the ability, not because it hasn't improved their life, but because this thing they love comes with costs, is getting in the way of a life someone they love or loved and lost would want them to live. i'm glad it turned out this way. i miss the missing thing with all my heart. i would let go of it again if i was asked to choose.

#stories where people give up something beautiful to live ordinary lives because there's something in the ordinary life they want more #a very common variant of this is of course the 'immortal character renounces their lifespan for a mortal lover' plot #which is fine and all #but i like more nuanced versions . like my tobias animorphs epilogue idea where he and his mother reconnect more permanently #and one day when he's at her house they have a long. long talk. about what he is going to do now. it's been years but he's still #in this holding pattern of grief and solitude. but his mother is his one anchor to the world of humanity. and she's not getting any younger #and hawk lifespans aren't getting any longer. and they spent so much time away from each other #and he says. i miss her like an amputation mom. how do you keep going? #and she says. not missing your father because i didn't know that i loved him and he was gone was worse #and she asks hm if he's sure he could be human again. if he could give up his hard-earned flexibility of form #and he says we've been sitting here talking for three hours. little late to second-guess it now #this got away from me . but you see my vision #writing tag #animorphs i guess also lol #q

[larrythefloridaman]

saw a post. thought 'crimson and dani would both say this. but mean it to different degrees.' accidentally got enamored with the idea of them awkwardly gravitating toward eachother during some fancy party at a casino that they're both having an agonizingly mid time at. you know how it is.

#cpu kerfuffle #cpuk crimson #cpuk dantoinette #crimson's flat as a board from every angle but if you think the guy who bragged about how Flexible he is on in-universe international tv #isn't showing off goods he doesn't got then i don't know what to tell you. hence the windows and the thigh slit dress #also dani card suite suit bc of ryan saying smthn in the miitopia streams about her and a card suite motif #formalwear is so fun to design sometimes

[lisbonsteresa]

YEAH

#oh i just love this arc i love the bosco episodes so much i really do #there's so much to them there's so many things to enjoy there's such a wealth of silly little things to think about but even just this #it's just - bosco was never going to LIKE jane! because of professional dislike/distrust towards him (and also because of the lisbon thing) #and jane was never going to LIKE bosco! because he 'took' red john from him (and also because of the lisbon thing) #(and both of those lisbon things are different things i could talk about for so long but they're also the same thing deep down) #neither of them wants to lose what they have with lisbon (and neither of them are in a position to take the next step they may want to) #meanwhile lisbon is faced with this - unspoken; implied; hinted at; blatantly said; and then right back to implied - choice #between bosco('s strict by the book way of doing things) and jane('s flexible more than a little unscrupulous methods) #and she chooses jane. multiple times. explicitly. #(because he will always choose her but she'll always choose him right back) #and watching that play out? fantastic incredible amazing and that's not even touching on all the other implied shit that goes on #like it's one of the times i'm most like 'i get what you say you were going for here but i'm not sure YOU get what you actually did' #(also when you add in that they're still coming off the craziness of the s1 finale.....like 16 more layers to consider...time of my life) #tm

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

Opinions on Dream? :^

SO many feelings about him omgg rant under cut please forgive me

okay so i don't really talk or draw him much cause honestly,,,most of the times i just think he's a bit....boring? or more accurately plain? not in a mean way either but just in a 'fades into the background' type of way like don't get me wrong!! he's a really nice friend to his peers, his feelings about his powers and aura making his relationships harder to navigate and trust along with his whole conflict with nightmare and morality about what's good and bad IS very cool!! and i love it whenever they write him to be complex and not on this black and white mentality or when he's just straight up following along his friends with no free will or with a dubious purpose without ever addressing his issues or feelings! it's just unsatisfying to me :')

or when they're making him the 'naive' and oblivious, (sometimes childish?) character being marked as the obstacle and villain along with the other star sanses from the fic's pov, always talking about doing good things while fighting his brother and not hearing him out about the balance, (and for weak reasons most of the time. like it's been so long and you STILL haven't sat down with him when he's, generally, basically begged you to just have a talk? guys please :'( ) or when they go for the victim sad dream always missing the old nightmare, where corrupted nightmare is the incarnation of evil, with no sympathy or emotion except anger and sadistic glee, killing and hurting everyone and dream's just trying to protect the multiverse and dream's always been in the right. such extremes!!!

LIKE!! i hope i'm not the only one that thinks a 500+ year old should have had enough time to idk. learn things? about people and manipulation and deceit? after knowing what the villagers did to night? about the bad things in the world and how there's a lot of grey areas in life and that he maybe reflected on his past enough to process and ask himself if there should to be a convo to settle his differences with nightmare (and you can make nightmare the stubborn one too! or have them BOTH be petty and imperfect and have some things wrong and some right at the same time like why do i always see the good guy vs bad guy cliché with these two when they're the perfect example of why positivity doesn't have meaning without the negativity!! as long as there's a satisfying evolution or growth that doesn't leave me empty i'm good yknow?)

plus i believe dream really isn't as dumb as people view him. i do get some of you saying he probably can't read or write since that's actually a pretty interesting idea to explore! but in general please let him have emotions other than pure sunshiny happiness or endless sadness like he's gotta have more depth than that! let him make mistakes, have flaws that don't just make him the bad guy that's always in the wrong by default, and be angry or suspicious or jealous or bitter or battling his mental health problems/depression or malicious or smart or witty or mischievous and silly or sarcastic or ANYTHING dude i just want him to be put into different scenarios where he can be serious or lighthearted like it doesn't even have to be long or perfect but make him feel real.

it could definitely be that i don't read or see much art about dream or really look for it hard enough but also i just. i feel bad for even saying this fr and i wanna be honest about why i don't enjoy most stories about him cause he always gets the worst treatment along with ink!!! especially ink omg the poor guy has it the worst i think like wow do they mess him up :'(

always one dimensional in non shippy fics, or too plain or easily replaceable by other, more entertaining people in the significant other's life in most of his ships like man. i have read fics out there that made me genuinely FEEL and root for him and love his character so much it restored all hope for me!!! but i can only name one on top of my head and the others? it's been so long i don't even remember their names i just legit feel terrible cause i love him still and i can't find many headcanons that fit my interpretation of him yknow?

not to say people who write him very happy, mislead or sad are ruining him like that's silly- if i see something i don't like i just. move on bro i wouldn't force people to feel or think the same way i do about him cause anyone can have whatever headcanons they want!!! just talking about what i personally look for in him and why i can't exactly find it since most of the stuff out there just isn't my cup of tea :')

hopefully i didn't set anyone off with this rambling opinionated essay i just pulled hhh xD i know i know he's a popular character and i know a lot of people like dream so *sobs* please please recommend me artists and fics about him that you think is good it's been so looong since i've read or seen anything new that makes me attached to this little guy aughg<33333

#ask #rambling #delete later? #probably xD i just wanna love him SO much but sometimes he's just *sigh*...forgettable #i tried to explain myself but also it's like 4 am and i skimmed through the proofreading so don't take this too seriously HHH #like really even when i do read good fics about him he's not on the forefront of my mind and it's painful to me :'( #i used to see him as my third fav but now? ever since i've read and seen characters who get heavier more in depth plots? #i can't say it with as much confidence :') and dream lovers out there i am not bashing your choice or even your headcanons #to each their own but i really wanna hear someone be passionate about him in my feed or askbox like TELL me about him #i've seen ink rants out there that are FIRE like so true!!! but where's the dream defense team??? #maybe it's just me tho :') btw i still like cream but not the same way as before if i'm being real #it feels the same...all of it and it makes me wanna bite something ARGHGG #i know i know i ship some stuff that's basic too hhh but dream and cross are always written the same and dream is too innocent #and nightmare is too weird in some of these fics like if MY brother ever tried to literally attack my hypothetical partner???? #i wouldn't give him the :'((( sad face and weakly tell him to 'please stop...you're hurting him'' like NO girl they're TWINS #they're the same age i would tell him to BACK off and not insert himself in my love life after years of ignoring and fighting LIKE #especially since most of the time cross is actually good to dream and all- so he doesn't have a good reason to disrupt his bro's dates #UGH i just have so many opinions but basically i would love him a lot lot more than i do now if they also let him be more flexible #and shake things up like with shattered and stuff! gimme alternate versions of him even if it's too ooc like we do for all the other sanses #jaa i am SO sorry you had to read all that dude thank you so much for passing by :'D

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

“Batman may not kill, but he also doesn’t need to save you 😉😏”

Ok then he shouldn’t have freaked out so much when Garzonas fell lol

#even if Jason had pushed him just considering everything he knew about the dude should’ve been enough #also worth mentioning that maybe you should’ve just trusted your son #but yk what. he says he’s able to ‘keep a level head’ if the crime didn’t happen to anybody he knew personally #(Batman 414) #which (imo) perfectly explains his bleak reaction to the horrors that happened which enraged Jason so #in Batman 424 #anyway i digress #so he DOESN’T need to uphold his so-called almighty code to it’s highest standard #so long as it allows narrative flexibility? got it. #kelseethe

[afieldinengland]

thinking about oliver francis reeder phd director of communications to the opposition again

#and the government eventually of course. as always i am deadly serious when i say i think ollie reeder got the party back in power #because it is the longer and the lesser and more perpetual murder and also because i believe he was very very good at his job indeed #he learned from the best. and outgrew him #the new political animal demanded by the post-spin post-truth age is a slick little turncoat with no spine or principles #as chris addison himself said if you look at the cabinet– any cabinet– ollie is everywhere these days. nothing behind the eyes because #spinelessness means flexibility. and he can manoeuvre around all the bear traps that men like malcolm set because he watched him lay them #helped him. lay in them as bait. dear god. ollie reeder as spin doctor in chief and sick boycaesar is a terrifying thing indeed #as i've said i think he must have been so much worse because he had no morals. the fact he didn't know when to stop as a churlish #undergraduate of a spad became the fact he didn't give a fuck about stopping as machiavel-elect. he'd have terrorised mr tickel himself #the impact of one man. or bringing out what was already there like a babe in the belly #stand in the dock of the inquiry malcolm tucker and shake thy gory locks at him #the thick of it

[roobylavender]

this is definitely one of my more controversial stances but while i believe oliver queen absolutely has to be played by a white man i don’t think bruce wayne necessarily has to be

#like when you read gl/ga it’s kind of impossible to posit oliver as anything other than white #his whiteness is crucial to how he navigates the world bc he has an enormous tendency to speak over people of other races as to how they #should perform liberalism bc he feels like his island experience and foray into socialism entitles him to lecture others #he’s well meaning but ultimately there’s no way you could get that across if he was nonwhite. it would defeat the purpose of the character #bruce on the other hand is a little more flexible bc yes whiteness does contribute to some of his privilege etc #but he’s historically more sympathetic to petty criminals and willing to parley with people from socioeconomically disadvantaged communities #so i think you could make him like. partially non white maybe and explore his ability to connect but nonetheless fail to understand some #deeper nuances bc of how wealth and isolation from poverty shelters him and shapes his naive idealism #and as a disclaimer i don’t mean to say this from the perspective of someone who happens to be more invested in bruce and oliver #*bruce than oliver #i just think if you’re going to make nonwhite fcs they should contextually make sense #and oliver to me does not make sense at all as anything other than a white man #to be deleted

[dirtbra1n]

for the first time ever. in my dirtbrain ideas Guy capacity. I’m thinking about sasamiya. like this is a very stream of consciousness thing but like on paper miyano is the character I have the LEAST to say about WHICH ISN’T A DISS OBVIOUSLY. love that fudanshi. but also his immense gender is SO INTERESTING. (and a little why I have like. so many opinions about depictions of him. different conversation)

HES SO BOY. MIYANO YOSHIKAZU IS SO BOY AND HE LIKES BEING A BOY like down to his hands becoming more masculine in shape he paid so much attention to that and LIKED IT. SOOOO MUUUUCH and the slowburn development of the ssmy romance is one hundred percent because of miyano taking his time to. Okay yes consider sasaki’s feelings for him BUT WITHIN THAT figure out how he feels about being a boy in this romantic situation context with another boy It’s all about miyano deconstructing the foundations of his ideas of queer relationships as a boy who liked and LIKES bl stories Without the like. self aware queer lenses on because miyano LIKES BEING A BOY SOOOO MUCH. and he’d HATE it if outdated bl logic was applied to make him like. the “girl” in the relationship. he’d hate it. and it’s not like he wanted SASAKI to be the “girl” in the relationship because like. miyano doesn’t want a girl in this relationship. not that he doesn’t want girls period obviously etc etc I don’t feel I actually need to defend my point here but miyano is a boy with so much PRIDE in his being a boy. who doesn’t want to be seen as feminine because he’s a BOY and like there’s complicated juvenile nuances here I’m cutting for length (especially since this is all off the top of my head) and so it’s not like he’s going into thinking about sasaki in the Ew, we’re both BOYS… way because he’s going into it with this biiig fourth wall separation between the existence of BLisms and his like. Life. that he lives. like he’s going into it very clearly aware of the things sasaki was doing (flirting, mostly) (blatantly) but he was contextualizing it like Hey we’re both boys you know people are gonna get the wrong idea right. and I don’t know if it’s necessarily an internalized homophobia as it is just. having this big neon sign sitting in his brain that has been there for so FOREVER that he doesn’t like. look at or think about. so he’s not so much thinking about whether he’s LIKING the flirting and attention in that capacity as he is thinking about how it looks to other people. because miyano is so used to having the reader third person perspective he’s not all that plugged into what it’s like to actually BE IN IT the way he very evidently is.

like I feel like maybe my point is getting lost in translation but it’s just so IMPORTANT to me how miyano’s capital g Gender interacts with his fiction-programmed brain to recalibrate when the way he lives his life shifts to accommodate sasaki shuumei. AND HE IS THE CHARACTER I HAVE THE LEAST TO SAY ABOUT. still trying to articulate sasaki feelings in context with third year friendshipisms and different facets of one’s personality and the joy of Boys Life but. like. I don’t know tfw you’re ssmypilled. etc

#boyisms are important to me. miyano and his gradual acceptance of the nuances of his hashtag boygender #so that it’s flexible and doesn’t have to so staunchly reject ANY sort of femininity necessarily. it’s very good #like he wanted to be 100% sure that sasaki wanted him as a boy. that’s so important to me #smacks him in the shoulder This little fudanshi nerd boy can fit so much gender in him #sasaki to miyano #miyano yoshikazu #was thinking about the kagifacts initiative before this by the way. like the train has derailed significantly but the train cars #are still there. are you following #‘ll deal with that later. whateveeeer #also orv’s your ssmy. i actually think someone on twitter at some point said something about orv ssmy au #but i don’t spend substantial time in the ssmy twitter mines to substantiate whether i hallucinated that or not #if someone did say that though they were right. they were right i hope they receive my psychic beams and write the saga we #(maybe three people) deserve #dirtbrain writing #dirtbrain digression

[somewherebetweenrage]

plotted starter for whichever one of Erik's family members wants to pick up the conversation and explain that this idiot fell asleep and let his tea go cold @wcrriorhearts / @mxndwitch / @survivcrsguilt

Erik Lehnsherr does not get sick. It’s a statement of fact, an acknowledgement of the way the world is; the mutant has had injuries aplenty, but he could count on one hand the number of times he has been genuinely ill. Meaning that, when his heart starts to fail, he is quick to notice.

It’s to be expected really, at his age. Auburn hair has long since greyed, and the strands around his temples are most definitely heading for white. Muscles and joints are not what they once were, and on bad days it can be painful to work with his hands; his days of sewing are long gone. His limp is more pronounced now than it ever was, and he frequently relies on the manipulation of magnetic fields to move about the island with any kind of ease. Erik has reached an age that, to most, would be entirely unthinkable. He knows the time he has left is short.

And still, he goes on. The mutant is not afraid of dying – hasn’t been afraid of that since the age of sixteen – but dying means leaving his family, his loved ones, and he will take every moment with them that the universe will allow. He will wring as much time from this life as he can, will hold on with everything available to him, until he is forced to let go. In the meantime, he is determined that his family will have no cause to worry, or to fear. And if his heart needs a little encouragement from his mutation every so often, then what of it? Nobody needs to know.

The unexpected wetness on the back of his hand jolts Erik awake, confused gaze taking a moment to focus on the world around him. He’s at home, in his favourite armchair, and Persephone is sitting at his feet, licking his hand in a way that means she’s hoping for either food or a scratch behind the ears. The mutant blinks a couple of times. Did he fall asleep in the armchair again? How embarrassing. A quick glance towards the familiar voices he can hear in the kitchen. Hopefully they didn’t notice his little nap.

Calloused fingers receive another lick, and with a small smile Erik obliges the request, lifting his hand to rest it on top of Persephone’s head, gently scratching his thumb behind one of her ears. His other hand reaches out to retrieve his cup of black tea from the nearby table, but instead grasps only air – it takes a couple of attempts before he realises the mug is no longer there. Forehead furrows. “Did someone take my tea?”

#he is so old i cry #doing old people things like falling asleep in an armchair and letting his tea go cold #he is fully there mentally but his body is winding down i cry #left this vague and open so you can write with whoever you want (tho obv Ella is around) #maybe he can have a bit of a moment with his heart while someones there and he has to admit it isn’t working properly anymore? #idk im flexible :) #heart disease tw #not used that tw before #death tw #visibly he looks like he's in his 80s at this point id say #just for reference #mxndwitch #wcrriorhearts #survivcrsguilt

[thedreadvampy]

god fucking damnit once again I have been asking for necessary information for WEEKS and now we've missed deadline and everyones mad at me bc stuff has to go to the printer without management feeding in and they're like WHY HAVEN'T I SEEN THIS BEFORE and I'm like BECAUSE IT'S EXISTED FOR HALF AN HOUR BECAUSE NOBODY TAKES MY WARNINGS ABOUT DEADLINES SERIOUSLY UNTIL AFTER THEY'VE PASSED.

#red said #i partially fucked up here by miremembering a solid deadline as a flexible one but also I was asking for a brief for like a month #and i got a brief on Wednesday and i was off on Friday. so you know. I'm not taking this one on 100% #this happens Every Fucking Year #and i love my colleague but he's shit at managing this project. i have repeatedly said 'hey i think we need to decide on this' #and based on NOTHING he's kept insisting no the printer will do all that #shock fucking horror come Friday it's 'apparently the printer can't do that we need to design it' #YEAH I KNOW I HAVE BEEN SAYING #and it's an awkward size to fit a lot of info on so it's taken like. 3 hours.

[torenchao]

jerm and a zoroark sittin in a tree. c-a-n-n-i-b-a-l-i-swait that's too many letters isnt it

#petalshipping #postpostgame au #← tis what i call my silly antics #i love when jerm gets 'tricked' by a zoroark and its like #ohh haha you fool i LURED you here using the face of the man you loved who betrayed you HAHA now im going to EAT you #jerm: haha ok :) can we like kiss first or during or after im flexible :) #zoroark: ???? ????????? ??????sure #and jerm lets himself get eaten bc fuck it whats he got to live for #when i say toxic yaoi i do not just mean volo toxic jerm uwu so innocent no. no jerm is toxic too #chao zone

[fellhellion]

Utena truly is a show best experienced imo by not stressing about trying to pin down any one piece of symbolism to a singular meaning. In fact, the show actively rebuffs that kind of approach.

#Chu Chu is used to represent several different things and you can’t pin down his usage to just one element #he’s often used to depict anthy’s feelings when she’s projecting a front #but not always. sometimes he’s used to alleviate tension #sometimes I have no damn clue what he’s being used to say #tunes talks utena #or even Akio and the car. it’s OFTEN being used as a vehicle (ha) for sex but that’s not all #and I really enjoy the flexibility and obscurity to the symbolism #it makes analysis of the show so fun to create and read about