#that’s one way to hit it off

[cinnamonsikwate]

"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White

#dungeon meshi #shuro #toshiro nakamoto #look you can hate him for other things but this is very clearly a case of cultures (& personalities influenced by these cultures) clashing #shuro is japanese/east asian-coded and laios is european white boy #i am not japanese but i also come from a collectivistic society #pakikisama is a filipino value both prized and abhorred #it relies heavily on being able to read social cues and prior knowledge of societal norms #shuro being from a different country/culture is important to his character #his repressed nature is meant to contrast with laios' open one like that's the point #they both had similar upbringings but different coping mechanisms #shuro explicitly admits that he's jealous of laios being able to live life sincerely #anyway the point is they were operating on different expectations entirely and neither had healthy enough communication skills #to hash things out before they got too bad #re his attraction to falin i personally believe he unfortunately mpdg-ed her #she represented something new & different. a fresh drink of water for his parched repressed self #alas not meant to be #i'll be honest the way ryoko kui handles both fantasy & regular racism in dm is more miss than hit for me #i don't doubt that a lot of the shuro hate is based off of marcille's pov of him #marcille famously racist 😭 #characters' racist views don't often get (too) challenged #practically everyone is casually racist at some point #anyway. again if you're gonna hate shuro at least hate him for being complicit in human trafficking & slavery #he couldn't help falling for the wrong woman goddamn 😭 #calemonsito notes

[bugeyedfreaks]

#powerpuff girls #ppg #blossom #bubbles #buttercup #boogie frights #this episode is actually super awesome for all of the cool monster designs #probably one of my faves i gotta admit #also man just... imagine this in your mind's eye okay? #being a little kid and watching this on a crt television late at night with all the lights off #literally the only way to watch old ppg episodes #like i really want to buy an older TV and do that again it would be so fun 😭 the first season of the show just hits different that way #there's such a vibe that's different from the later seasons... it's just meant to be watched at nighttime

[snakeguy999]

Day 4. "Favourite place"

Wonderful offtober prompts from @echothefreak

#art #fanart #ask to tag #the batter #off game #blood #cw blood #tw blood #the elsen #elsen #off elsen #pentel was the part i replayed most and the one thzt has stuck with me most as well #the slaughter and he way the workers talked about it and the proccesing and basically wveyrthing hit close to home #offtober #offtober 2023

[july-19th-club]

neal 🤝 parker "oh for this con i absoLUTELY need a parachute im going to jump off this building after i steal the shit yes its necessary yes its the only way yes i want an excuse to use the parachute"

#they NEED to get drinks together #their brains go in completely opposite directions i think theyd have a lot of fun together #shes weird in a way he groks because of mozzie. he's like if that australian thief she hit it off with that one time had personality #together they capitalize on parker's solid fbi alias and make peter's life a wonderful hell #white collar #leverage #q

[u5an5]

Theory: The Clone X was not Cody like some people think or even Fives (I know he's been dead for a very long time but so was Boba Fett and look where we are. Plus, Echo was supposed to be certainly dead too; making him Winter Soldier-esque storyline wouldn't be that surprising) or not even Slick.

((Also, now that we've seen his face devoid of any tattoos or scars I think first two takes are definitely not applicable anymore; they wouldn't put that much effort to make him unrecognizable))

Back to the point: In my opinion, The Clone X was none other than...

Fox.

Now let me explain.

Who else, other than X, was loyal to the law and justice dictated by it over any moral or ethic code?

Fox.

Who else was portrayed with such single-minded focus on hunting down traitors of the government he served, regardless of what it was?

Fox.

Who else could know not only Coruscant so well but also identify Rex like they knew each other?

He already was a remarkably successful tracker of traitors, why not make him more efficient by pointing them out for him?

Good soldiers follow orders, after all.

#clone assassin #commander fox #star wars tbb #i know that hes got killed really early after Order in comics but i would honestly prefer him to die this way #the bad batch spoilers #commander cody #arc trooper fives #tcw slick #cc 1010 #star wars #sw tbb #sw the bad batch #the bad batch season 3 #tbb theory #we dont even know for sure how he looks like cause in one moment we see corries without helmets all of them have standard paintjob #idk if its just animation error but because of it we cant be 100% sure fox ever regreted it without him being shown grieving with rest #hes just taking a breath when fives is dying and personaly i see it more as him rolling his eyes that rex is being mushy with traitor #but there are 3 clones behind fox when hes shown and then the one taking off his helmet stands beside 2 others so it may actualy be it??? #and if he DOES regret it imo is more in 'shame i had to do it' rather than 'shame i did it' way if you know what i mean #hes just doing his job and hes GOOD at it. not his fault that him being competent is bad for the good guys #my point is: outside of one page incomic that can be at any point made noncanon or recontextualized theres no evidence that it cant be him #they already retconed more important things. why not this? #i think its likely that in case im right we can assume that all named corries were made into CloneX #none of them appeared yet despite how much of action happens on coruscant #and only thorn died on screen; in a way preventing him from being viable option nonetheless #three hits point blank months before Order seem unlikely but theyve done weirder things so him returning wouldnt be THAT weird so uhh idk #but yeah cx-02 is tech #winter soldiering doesnt stop #i mean THIS could be fox/other corrie but it being tech is way too cliche oportunity to waste it on them (derogatory towards disney) #pls disney let corries hunt down traitors like they used to pls

[super-paper]

afotaro is the elephant's foot of toxic old man yaoi but that's not gonna stop me from memeing on it, y'know, as a coping mechanism.

#my hero academia #mha spoilers #afotaro #all for one #dank mha meems #tw: child abuse #what do you mean afo manipulated kotaro into fucking his wife. hori???? 😭😭😭 #give nao to me you utter loser i wouldn't need some ancient eldritch comic book shill to convince me to make love to my beautiful wife-- #more seriously tho #I've said it before that AFO and Tenko's dynamic is meant to be viewed as a story of abuse told through a lens of fantasy #and these chapters cemented that impression in the best (worst?) possible way bc so many abusers get close to the parents-- #--so they can have unrestricted access to their children + be trusted to be left alone with their children #Hori has really hit the nail on the head so it's disappointing that so many people still downplay Tenko's victimhood #and view this chapter as him ''falling off as a villain'' (wtf) #also the idea of AFO appearing to the Shimura fam wearing different faces/fulfilling different ''roles'' is so fairy tale coded I love it

[rubbish78]

Gerard Way dressed as a clown introducing the next song before casually catching a rat plushie thrown from an audience member

in Berlin, Germany on 06/12/2020 (x)

#what the fuck is he even talking about #too much is happening in one gifset #she be clowning #gerard way #mcr #my chemical romance #decay era #or maybe it' swarm era whatever #tw: flashing lights #rubbish78gifs #my gifs #hit the x to go the link/video #sorry the captions are off because one gif is bigger than the other

[thealogie]

I continue to be baffled by book fans who are fixated on the crowley resurrects the dove scene so to counterbalance that energy I am going to fixate on how they omitted the scene where Crowley sinks a duck (and has to resurrect it) and where Crowley “tries to” hit a hedgehog (and misses)

#what’s that animal? You know the one that crosses so slowly across the road and then you swerve to make sure you hit it #and then a car coming the other way swerves the other way and goes off a cliff? #And then that night you and your companion have the greatest sex of your lives because you’re both sharing a secret?

[ohitslen]

I GOT IDEA ☝️🤠‼️‼️

I think that Wolfwood has strong hands not only in the sense of strength but also in resistance, so when he punches or smacks Vash on his prosthetic he doesn’t really feel too affected by punching the hard material and barely notices it like yeah it’s harder than flesh but it’s whatevs

In addition to that, he has found that with Vash he doesn’t measure his strength a lot so sometimes he hits him a tad too hard

So to expand my panicked “oh shit sorry” eldest sibling Wolfwood response agenda when he accidentally fucks up, sometimes he will smack Vash’s left arm playfully and Vash will hiss in pain or act a little too real (not so exaggerated) when he gets the hit, and indulges in the way WW is all oh no oh fuck sorry uh did it really hurt that bad while Vash is doubling over in pain when he’s actually pressing down a laugh

It always takes Wolfwood a little too long to realize it’s not his actual arm and when he does come to realize it, he gets embarrassed but the violent kind of embarrassed and he hits him so hard Vash always considers not doing it again

He does it again at least once a week, and Wolfwood somehow falls for it every single time and the beatings get worse than the one before that

#Vash is canonically a little shit so many times we need more of that #that one ‘my arm fell off’ from the beginning of tristamp is what prompts me to think he jokes around with his prosthetic often #also WW hits Vash really hard we’ve seen that. but when he doesn’t mean it to his primal instinct wakes up and he doesn’t know what to do #as another possibility I think that he would be like yeah idc whatever boo to you and your weak ass #but would be extra careful the next time he considers hitting him #by extra I mean slightly less hard which isn’t saying a lot #this doesn’t have a point nor is it really that deep. It’s just a silly thought #old brother Nico and young brother (for minutes most likely) Vash will behave certain ways in my head #and it’s always hilarious to me specifically #trigun #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun stampede #vashwood #lenssi rambles

[2hoothoots]

obligatory brainswap shenanigans

as a bonus, here's how they all dress themselves, because getting stuck in someone else's body for a few days isn't long enough to need to buy new clothes but it is long enough to think to yourself if i don't get out of this outfit immediately i'm going to die. transcript of the scribbled notes under the cut

raz-as-dogen:

his own shades kept falling off his face

desperately searched Dogen's wardrobe for something more business casual than a hoodie

this was the best he could find

lili-as-raz:

eyeliner, obviously

Raz hates that shirt (he can't stand velvet) but Lili loves it

jewelry is her own

dogen-as-lili:

literally just his regular hoodie and sweatpants

hey. it still fits

#psychonauts #future superstar agents au #lili is immediately gleeful about how TALL she is now. the novelty doesn't wear off even after repeatedly hitting her head on things #raz makes it work but he really scares a lot of people who hadn't realised there was a brain swap going on #because he's very talkative and assertive and outgoing and dogen. Isn't #dogen's just like. eh. he kinda takes the whole thing in his stride #in terms of things that happen to him on the job this is one of the less weird ones honestly #they get stuck like this for a few days because [insert reason here] because i think the goof potential is strong #i have a couple of scribbled expression sheets as well that i might post #because it's fun to draw the ways they all emote on a different set of features #polish

[itspileofgoodthings]

every day I think of CS Lewis talking about how you never know what’s going to set someone off and about how when he was a teenager he fell in instantaneous love with this girl who was putting up party decorations and said “don’t you just love the smell of bunting” while sticking her face in the bundle of it she was holding

#I say instantaneous love but I am being delicate #it just. it makes me SCREAM #I remember reading it in surprised by joy and feeling like I’d been hit by a thunderbolt #because of the sudden insight into the teenage boy’s mind and psyche #it must just be an absolute storm in there #also just. YEAH. the truth that we can so knocked off course by one tiny thing another person does and they don’t even think about #it’s the intersection of the inner and outer worlds #like your internal world suddenly being LIT UP by some external action #that catches at your heart or imagination in exactly the right way #and you’re just sitting there reeling and they have no idea #it is. one of my favorite things about people #also it’s just INSANE #Lewis loved to put private and strange emotional experiences into words #*the truth that we can BE so etc. (my stupid typos)

[bubblegeon]

I came to save you.

#pending train #jdramasource #usedramas #asiandramasource #asiandramanet #dailyasiandramas #usercm #akaso eiji #yamada yuki #mygifs #jdrama #pt gif #ep 10 #i would have wanted to put this whole scene all in one set #but alas they chose to be long drawn out and dramatic and ilove them for it #even if this takes 5 whole sets il do it to remember them by #the way yuto took off his cap just hit differently he was a whole nervous wreck #meanwhile here comes naoya barrelling through the crowd with intent and purpose and i just CANT with them

[katierosefun]

okay so now that i’ve officially finished watching leverage i just want to say that maybe i’m obsessed with this show on multiple levels and something about how it hits so many itches in that it’s about found family and it’s about fucking over bad, rich guys (no billionaire bootlicking in this show! and i fucking love it) and it’s also about how sometimes the bad guys are the only good guys you get and it’s also about how we are all stronger together it’s about how at the start of this show, we have all of these characters who are largely used to working alone and being alone and yet the show concludes that ultimately, we are better when we are together and by being together, we might be able to leave something behind that is bigger and brighter for the next people in our generation and no man is an island and no person is meant to beat goliath on their own or whatever

#caroline talks #leverage #not to be like. emotional but. #i am emotional actually! #i'm just. i get emotional thinking about all of the characters #and just how complex they are #nate with his alcoholism and his rage against the world and how he's arrogant and angry and sad and yet i think he cares so much #he cares so much about his team even if he can be a bit of an ass #sophie who adopts a million personas at the blink of an eye and yet has her own loneliness about who actually knows her #parker who keeps herself closed off bc y'know trauma in the foster care system and yet she learns to express herself and trust people #eliot who resigns himself into thinking that he's a monster and yet he starts to do some good and just. winds up protecting everyone in his #new family which. MAN i can't express enough how much that storyline means to me too #like when is a monster not a monster? / oh when you love it or whatever #and then there's hardison who's so incredibly bright and warm and can talk his way out of most situations #and then he hits a wall when all that brightness and wit and intelligence still might not get him out of a scary situation #and that's. that's when he needs people too. that's when he needs his team #and like. there are so many important points in this show #but like one of the ones i like to think about. #is just like. that you could be incredibly good at whatever it is you do #but you need people. you need a team. you need to trust others and together you can do amazing things #individually they're great #but together they're unstoppable and i think about that a lot #no man is an island and it takes a village or whatever! #also unrelated but i also find it a little funny (i'm sorry) that i finished leverage literally the night the implosion news came out

[bonefall]

Hi Bones!! Thank you for you hard work on this project and for sharing it with us!

I've seen your posts about weird representation of society (regarding the "natural order of things") in xenofiction, especially in lion king, so I wanted to ask:

could you recommend any xenofiction media that has all (or most of the) animal species sapient? Or is the only solution to make just one or two species sapient while the others (especially prey) are plain animals?

Really sorry if you've seen this ask from me before - my account had a weird laggy period when I couldn't send or receive messages and asks, so I don't know if you got the previous one! I just know that now it's fixed so I double all the asks sent haha

Honestly I'm not totally sure! If any 3rd person has some good recommendations for "every being is alive" xenofiction types, feel free to weigh in.

If you want to jump in with me though, I am following the webcomic Africa. It updates every Wednesday. Africa is about a mother Leopard on the verge of a great ecological disaster, the relationship between her children and the animals around her, and the strength of both instinct and choice as the characters face an uncertain future.

Since it's ongoing, I still don't know how it's going to end and can't judge it as a full work! But it's absolutely fascinating and I think the author is doing a fantastic job so far. Bonus points for the way it portrays humans, btw.

No more spoilers though, if you're interested, it's on Webtoons.

(I'm also planning to read Oren's Forge soon. Ask me about it again in a few months over on Bonebabbles and I'll give you my thoughts)

As an aside though, funny you mention it because like... ever since I was a kid I've had a story I want to tell with the premise. It's a scintilla I've kept close to me for well over a decade but haven't done anything official with. So this is actually a theme I've thought about a lot.

It's rare to see it done well though because like... its very premise butts heads with reality. The "natural order" that an animal follows is not something it moralizes. A tiger doesn't have the capacity to think about how fucked up it is to kill to stay alive, the deer doesn't know that if its population isn't controlled it will destroy the forest.

They're animals. They don't HAVE that agency. Your dog does not care about being sterilized. A snake doesn't differentiate between a pinky and an adult mouse except in terms of if it will fit in its mouth. But the minute you put human morality in there... they have the ability to reason, create and agree on the rules of a society, make choices about MORALITY.

If nothing is going to change about their world, you just end up putting human arguments about "natural order" in their mouths and, well... start telling a parable justifying this "natural order."

(Genuine) Does what I'm saying make sense? Animals DON'T rationalize or negotiate. HUMANS do.

So the minute you're approaching a world with that logic, like it or not, you are invoking those "arguments from nature." And you're putting them in a being that is not fully an animal or a human, but an anthropomorphic mix which CAN rationalize but WON'T make an effort to change their world.

(Which is why tbh the best examples i know of are works with a theme of "change.")

OH WAIT I also remember another that's interesting!! Leafy: Hen into the Wild actually has a fascinating take on it. It's not interested in "moralizing" or really being about an animal society. It's a very emotional sort of movie, and it's about joys in adversity, the freedom that choice gives you, how bad things are going to happen and you can never completely prevent them.

INTENSE movie emotionally, the ending will wreck you (especially in the English translation which leaves out a really important theme making it feel abrupt x_x) but it's really good. Check that one out.

OH and also You Are Umasou. That one has more pitfalls imo (it does try to moralize a bit) but it's super unique as a movie. And is about dinosaurs.

#Don't take my opinions as gospel tho #There's no ONE RIGHT WAY to tell a story or handle a theme #And every person can have a unique reading of any story #Some stories can even be interpreted super differently by going in with different readings #Media isn't a box you take the lid off of to loot for objectively correct objects #It's more like eating a meal #Examining ingredients/tropes and how they were used #Trying to identify what the author set out to do and if it accomplished it in its current form #And sometimes idk chicken noodle tastes like hot saltwater in one moment but then hits different 2 months later when surrounding-- #--circumstances (like being sick or cold) make it hit different #Point im getting at is that we could objectively say 'they used chicken and noodle' in this dish #But analysis and opinions and expressing them are an art of their own #Bone babble #Anyway prolly gonna be quiet the rest of the day so I can do clanmew prep lads #Media analysis #Xenofiction

[all-my-ocs-are-evil]

Grojband, but as a band from an early 2000s shoujo manga

#I was literally just going about my day and then this idea hit me like a truck and I couldn't do anything else until I drew this #I'm apparently still on the nostalgia train and have no real intention of getting off anytime soon lol #next stop? #Who knows! #I pulled up so many reference images for this only to use like three of them T-T #you bet i made a bunch of sketches of them to make up for it! #you can probably tell which two mangas I referenced for this this #also this style is so hard??? #artists just draw like this all the time??? #just drawing laney nearly drained away all my sanity #also yes they are aged up because there is no way that they could look this dramatic and angsty at their actual ages XD #have i mentioned how much i love tumblr #I get to rant as much as i want down here and no one cares lol #grojband #corey riffin #laney penn #kin kujira #kon kujira #anime and manga #artists on tumblr #digital art #fanart #grojband fanart #shoujo manga #artist on tumblr

[tatsumi-rin]

Moral Orel doesn't seem 100% like a show I'd feel seen in if you don't know me but then I remember the episode with the special ed kids and underneath the usual satire on extremist bible belt religion it reminds me WAY too much of how actual special ed departments treated me and other kids growing up.

Like the writers must HAVE BEEN THERE IN LIFE, man. I'd kill to sit down with Dino Stamatopoulos and find out what the fuck inspired him and the other writing staff that day.

#husbandothings #moral orel #bonus fun tag rant? bonus fun tag rant...apparently #in those departments you are immediately written off as a tragic forever toddler by at least 50% of the staff regardless of your disability #there's good ones but the bad ones bring the fun spicy trauma #it doesn't matter how smart you actually are you gotta draw the sad face on that boy on the comic sans worksheet at the age of 15 #in your free lesson spaces that you got because of reasons #if someone tells me they're a teaching assistant or have “qualifications” in autism and special needs development i immediately distrust #because I have never met a neurotypical person with those qualifications who knows how to treat kids like humans especially autistic kids #funniest part? I was mostly in the special ed department because of my hearing and not totally my undiagnosed autism #and a little because of wonky emotional development from get this...a freaking religious school #like i see adults in the show and i see the headteacher who tried to tell my parents i should forgive the bullies because jesus would #even though the truth is way more nuanced but he just wanted to wash his hands of it #it's funnier than it should be because that teacher would fit right in to this show for that and additional reasons I won't state here #my family were atheists but thought the school would be good #the weird thing is at that time as a little kid I liked the idea of believing in god but nothing that happened proved Him to me #and moral orel hits because it resonates with the fact i genuinely believe religion can do good and it's all about the people #the ones who want to use that faith for good in the world and surviving rough crap and not to do things that would make jesus flip tables #that has stuck with me for over a decade as has the people who felt the show reinforced their christianity #but anyway