#thank you for sharing!

[cheekylittlepupp]

Hello! I wanted to share my drawing of Astarion with you. It is referenced from a Durge playthrough screenshot. I added some of my own flair with piercings and a different pattern on the doublet. I am playing as a Guild Artisan fighter elf... and my headcanon is that I draw Astarion so he can see himself.... and because I am the artist of the group. So I picture myself drawing by the campfire.... and Astarion strolls up like, "What are you doing, my sweet?" :) feel free to share. My website is www.taniapomalesart.com and my instagram is @taniapomalesfineart

Ahh, this is gorgeous!!!

#asks ~ #inbox ~ #the details and everything :") #thank you for sharing! #astarion

[ominous-signs]

Hang on I got a cool pic I took that might be relevant!

Context: the wild clouds in the background were the front of a massive storm cell encountered while driving. Inside it, the winds were so fast it was shoving cars off the road, rain so heavy you couldn't see three feet ahead, non-stop lightning right overhead. This picture was taken while we were ahead of the storm. Looking at it, you could see it rolling towards you. Wrong Way, indeed.

Official ominous sign

#oooo a case where the environment around elevates a relatively normal sign to ominous status LOVE THISS #thank you for sharing! #official ominous sign #o.s asks #sign #signs #wrong way

[anathemafiction]

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It looks amazing! ❤️

#thank you for sharing! #Are those two Romanus? #The world isn't ready for two Romanus xD #fanart #MC #The Golden Rose

[matchstique]

Cat for Mikey

Featuring my kitten Miso Skrunkle

#ask & answer #matchart #kitty cat #black hole #good good kitty #thank you for sharing!

[the-kr8tor]

bro.

hear me out. I saw this art au of atsv and it’s a au of them all being actors

And like r and hobie are dating or r and hobie like meet on the set and r is a background character or sum

OMFG!!!!!! THE WAY MY EYES ZEROED IN ON HOBIE IMMEDIATELY!! 🤣 I'M LOOKING RESPECTFULLY

I am listening 👂

I have no words at how much I love actor AUs!!! My reaction to this fanart solidifies that lmao 🤣

Imagine the press tour and being partnered up with Hobie and it's very chaotic, you two are all giggly and joking about that the interviewer feels like a third wheel 🤣 Also taking pictures with him on the red carpet!!!! AHHHHHHH!!

I would make an actor socmed au but I have no idea how to make those lol I'll stick to writing full fics lmao

An actor au request perhaps? 🤔👉👈

#ask answered #hobie thoughts #🫶🫶🫶 #thank you for sharing!

[paperbrain-kun]

Decided to update the pricelist. Share it if you feel like it, DM me for more info! Forgot to mention that I only take prepayments.

Here are examples of my works and what are the differences between colourings. :)

Simple:

Complicated:

I also do portraits!

#commission info #sigal boost #commission #very important to be honest #but I don't want to whine too much #thank you for sharing! #artist #art

[lindagoesmushrooming]

hi linda!! i found my first mushroom of the summer today ☺️☺️ he was very photogenic

Indeed, a very handsome fellow! 😊

You're lucky - aside from several types of polypores (most of them perennial), I haven't found any mushrooms this summer yet. 😞

#thank you for sharing! #amanita #Amanita pantherina or excelsa? #it's funny I can't tell them apart in photos because one is poisonous and the other one is not #Amanita pantherina has non-striate upper surface of the ring #mushrooms #fungi #mycology

[kedreeva]

hello Ked! I don't know how to thank you for years of joy following your blog, but this guy happened to me last night and my first thought was to share with you, as a lover of critters. so here!

People that live in places where they can just find lizards at random are so lucky. He's beautiful!!

#thank you for sharing! #lizards #good things #asks #people say nice things

[blindmagdalena]

Hi, Amy! How are you?

You know, I've been having a lot of thoughts about Homelander's relationship with both Ashley and the rest of the Seven, and wanted to share them, if that's okay :)

Although at first glance it really seems that Homelander just hates his team, I think that it's a bit more complicated than that.

Sure he likes to bully them, intimidate them and generally just play mind games with the team. He's a sadist for sure. However, I also think that he rationalizes his mistreatment of them as "toughening them up".

I've had a lot of teachers (and one terrible boss) who had this mentallity. They use the people bellow them as pounching bags, an outlet for their own frustrations because they know they won't face any repercussions, but they don't see it as an abuse of power. They think that this mistreatment helps to build character and it's necessary.

In a way, they think "they are doing us a favor", and in my mind that's exactly how Homelander sees his relationship with the Seven. "Oh, they re weak and pathetic and so bellow me, but it's okay, I'll make them better" basically.

It's also a form of revenge, because Homelander went through abuse as well while he was in the lab. So, now he believes that pain and humiliation is something everyone should go through because it will make them stronger. This helps him justify his own suffering too. Because if pain isn't necessary to become better, why did he have to go through that?

I think (weirdly enough) that this is particularly true when it comes to his relationship with women.

In his mind, Alex's death was not just a way to intimidate Starlight. It was a loss she needed to experience to "understand the situation she was in". That's why during the interview he held her hand and even said that he missed her, acting like everything was fine between them. Because what he did was for Starlight's benefit so she doesn't have a right to hate him for it.

His issues distinguishing reality from fiction (as in marketing and PR stunts, branding, etc) also played a role in that, but that's beside the point.

AND ASHLEY!!?? I have so many thoughts about how he actually is, deep down, VERY fond of Ashley but feels the need to terrorize her bc she won't be a useful paw if he goes soft on her. Even if she's just using her, you don't hang over the most sucessful company of the world to someone you hate.

Yes, everything he does is horrible and ill-intended, but he doesn't realize it!

He thinks he can hurt people and still have an emotional connection to them, because abuse is just an intrinsical part of any relationship. That's what Jonah Vogelbaum and Vought taught him, and that's why he's always so dumbfounded when people turn on him.

(Poor thing, he really needs to be commited at this point 😩).

aahh wow, so many good points! i agree that Homelander absolutely ascribes to 'tough love,' like pushing Ryan off the roof. that is undoubtedly exactly how he was taught to fly, too. you've nailed his warped perspective on how he goes about teaching people lessons.

though a good deal of his bullying, especially in regards to A-Train and Deep, seems like him lashing out against them for not being his dream team. he's at his worst with them when he feels small and insecure. he treats them as extensions of himself and his image, and when they fail to live up to that, it infuriates him.

i don't know if i entirely agree with the latent fondness beneath his bullying of Ashley: if he is fond of her, i don't think he's aware of it at all. to me, it seems much more like she's his designated adult. a frazzled babysitter. someone he has terrified into being loyal and responsible for all the company related nuances he doesn't understand. it makes so much sense to me when you take into account what Starr said about Homelander having the emotional intelligence of a 14-year-old. she's his stand-in for Stan Edgar.

he's pretty openly doting when he has fondness for someone. Black Noir is a very good example of this.

that said, fondness is different from attachment. i do think he's both attached to and reliant on every member of his team. a teenager who lashes out at their friends and family is still very much reliant on those same people.

i like what you said about him viewing abuse as an intrinsic part of relationships, and something that shouldn't cause people to turn on him. it's fucked up and tragic, and his perspective definitely IS very skewed, but he shows us several times that he's actually pretty soft when it comes to his loved ones.

when Ryan has a panic attack, he doesn't scold him or tell him to get over it. he removes him from the situation, gives him space, and then empathizes with him. obviously he's much softer with his son bc he's actively looking to change the way he was raised through his son.

ultimately to me, Homelander's sadism doesn't come across as quite as meticulous or well thought out as he'd like people to believe. he's a wounded, frustrated child taking out his pain on those around him. he uses fear and torment to get his way because that's what was done to him, and yet he expects them to have the same weird reverence for him that he had for Vogelbaum.

#i hope this makes sense i'm feelin off my game today #but i LOVE your analysis here it's so good #thank you for sharing! #homelander meta #homelander #ask and you shall receive

[laurasimonsdaughter]

I thought you like this idea for a story I had one time: It was about a pair of ancient dragon siblings having a feud that was, literally, tearing a country apart. The solution ends up being calling their even more ancient dragon mother to scold them into behaving. And then have a nice meal with her. She don't get that without some good recipes.

Fantastic idea! I always endorse tattling to giant beasts' moms~

It's a very mythological concept in general, to have the feuds and reunions of ancient creatures or entities have a huge effect on mortal life without this even necessarily being their intention. Reminds me of the traditional story Jarita Holbrook (cultural astronomer at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa) talks about it in this interview:

"My favorite myth is from the Batammaliba people in Togo and Benin" in Africa, said Holbrook. In this myth, the sun and the moon are fighting during an eclipse, she said. The people "encourage the sun and the moon to stop fighting." "They see it as a time of coming together and resolving old feuds and anger," Holbrook said. "It's a myth that has held to this day."

#clueless-rarito #thank you for sharing!

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

as someone who grew up in Amsterdam, don’t even get me STARTED on prostitution here! one thing being the fact that walking down the street near the red light district I have had BROTHEL OWNERS joke about “HIRING” me whilst I was simply walking by as an eighteen year old girl! or to witness hordes of men ogling the prostitutes, knowing they would very happily pay to rape you too. knowing that women are nothing but a product to them. but those are simply personal qualms… then to be silent about the horrors of the prostitution itself and how our policies and government assist human trafficking and child prostitution/abuse…

god it must be terrible growing up there … we went to amsterdam on a school trip once and our (male) teacher insisted to show us the red light district. it was traumatising, i was literally 16 looking at women naked in windows, knowing what is happening where the curtains are closed. in my hometown in germany there is a street and i remember that already in elementary school kids would make jokes like „haha i saw your mother in [name of the street]“ like way before any of us had sex or interest in sex we already knew about prostitution and where it happens. this is what growing up in a country like the netherlands and germany where prostitution is legal does

#thank you for sharing! #ask #anti prostitution

[giggleme-green]

soo i made my papayas but is uglyy

TINY PAPAYA- I LOVE YOUR PAPAYAS!❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

The silliest cutest things ever 💗

#late response #papyrus #undertale #papaya #PAPAYASS!!❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 #thank you for sharing! #artists on tumblr #TINY PAPAYAS XOXOO

[anathemafiction]

I saw this on twitter and I can't stop thinking about golden rose

It's beautiful. I can't stop looking at it.

It reminds me of Lotr — the peaceful Shire, and the mystical Rivendell. Honored it reminded you of the Rose. 🌹

#now I want to read the trilogy again #thank you for sharing!

[young-royals-confessions]

I saw that darktwistedgenderplural showed anon from the flight's message to people in order to interest them in watching Young Royals. So since I've been asking my bff to watch the show for some time but nothing has worked on her, I went the darktwistedgenderplural route and showed her anon from the flight's first message. And she honestly went "Oh. I want that excitement." But since I complained a bit about some stuff of S2 (mainly Rousseau's screen time, sorry) she said "but I bet that excitement died for S2" so I showed her anon from the flight's S2 message and she was sold. We actually watched the whole show last night/this morning. We only stopped for some short power naps because she was dying to know what was going to happen so we basically devoured both seasons in record time. She was grateful she was prepared for the love triangle but thanks to anon from the flight's warning she took it a lot better than I anticipated and of course now she's incensed about S3. And about Omar's beauty and talent too! To the point that guess who got herself a partner to travel to Omar's concert next year? Yes , me! We already bought our tickets and all. Or I guess we did, we were sleep deprived but I'll check.

Thank you kind anon from the flight for your wonderful messages, you're a rockstar and I'll forever be in your debt. I hope you will read this (if the kind sweet owner of this great blog allows it) and if you come out of anon you'll let us know because I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to be friends with you. I'm sending this as anon because my bff sometimes checks my tumblr but I'll talk about it in my personal soon and I promise I'll follow you right away.

YESSS this is the best!!

#thank you for sharing! #anon from the flight #young royals #💜💜💜

[a-faggot-with-opinions]

Another different anon chiming in -- I'm actually getting peer support starting next week to try and build up the confidence to go to queer community stuff again. I started engaging less as I transitioned because a lot of the spaces I was in treated shit-talking men as a normal bonding activity (because lbr, it often goes beyond """venting""" and everyone knows it). Moved cities a couple of years ago and didn't bother trying to connect with the community because what's the point? To sit there and listen to a bunch of people talking about how I can't love, how my attraction to women is predatory (great thing to say about a bi man! Not at all exactly the same as what straight society says about us! /sarc), how I'm privileged now and shouldn't even call myself a feminist?

One of the things I'm planning to ask at peer support, since it's run by an org that also hosts events, is just "if someone in your space is going on a tear about how men are evil, and I ask one of the facilitators to step in because that's harmful to me, will the facilitator take my side or let them do it?" because frankly I can't be in spaces where that kind of behaviour is accepted. We're talking casual gatherings here, not specific mental health groups or anything. Like if you really need to talk about how Men Are Evil go out to a coffee shop with your friends afterwards so you can be sure you aren't hurting the trans people who are also in the group, it's not fucking hard (it's what my friends and I used to do!).

#asks #thank you for sharing! #biphobia #transandrophobia

[willgrahamscock]

pet pictures, m'lord

Theres Silver, the grey tabby; Daedalus, orange; Mini, the white chested tabby; and Blaze, the three tone kitty.

Me too little buddy

#alex answers #I love these kitties #thank you for sharing! #sirpickledlemon