#they look ridiculously similar

[camuvibes]

ok

why do they look like they’re related (edit: this somehow turned out to be my most popular post wth-)

#cookie run #white lily cookie #lilybell cookie #i mean i know they're in separate games/universes but still- #the red/dark pink eyes #both of them being based on lilies #they look ridiculously similar #long lost family member arc when /hj #edit: i have remembered that lilybells aren't actual lilies but it still doesn't erase the similarities- #and blue lily cookie? she definitely has cousin energy #edit 2: realized white lily is a bit too old to be immediate family (aka sister) to lilybell so she might as well be like a grandma to her #maybe clover and lilybell are both her grandkids or sth

[atmothart]

Wouldn't lizard fashion be something like spikes and scales and a frilled lizard collar?

Like so?

(Bonus art under the cut)

#thank you anon I've been wanting to draw proper lizard fashion for a while and this gave me the motivation I needed #dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula #lizard fashion #The colours I chose here make Drac look like Harry Du Bois - which is appropriate given how I tend to depict his personality in my shitpost #bonus under the cut featuring Dracula's Weed Smorking Girlfriends #personally I really like the theory that the three vampire women are actually dracula's wife and two daughters #since the book never actually calls them his wives and the two subordinate girls are specifically described as looking similar to him #the idea that he turned his family but is no longer capable of loving them (or being loved by them) adds a whole extra layer for me #because he still goes through the motions - goes out to get them food (babies) and provide for them/fulfil the role of a patriarch #but its hollow and loveless and done out of strange obligation/habit - like an echo of being alive #BUT for the sake of comedy I will always draw them as his three weed smorking girlfriends because it's just funnier #or rather as I like to think of them - his three weed smoking EX-girlfriends who spend all day making fun of him and and freeloading #I'm going to tag any art with them in it from here on out as #the ex-wives of dracula #he's going to england to escape their ridicule

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Every time someone refers to dinosaurs as "lizards", when a) dinosaurs are archosaurs, not anywhere closely related to lizards in the slightest (birds, however, ARE a form of dinosaur) and b) lizards are their own uniquely adapted thing that isn't just "generic reptile", I take 260 million points of damage you know, the amount of time its been since dinosaurs and lizards shared a common ancestor

#palaeoblr #dinosaurs #lizards #reptiles #birds #I take similar amounts of damage whenever a prehistoric reptile that's at all generic-tetrapod looking gets described as “lizard like” #do y'all realize how specialized and unique lizards are #they are ridiculous #please stop reducing them like this #and also just stop misunderstanding dinosaurs they're still here and ravens WILL fucking CUT you #stop increasing the number of hate crimes against corvids they're going to wage war on us #am I kidding? I do not know

[inthecarpets]

Thinking once again about how beautifully and nuanced Ryoko Kui crafted Toshiro and Laios' relationship. And how in a way the many interpretations and types of reactions say a lot about the viewers' lives and perspectives.

How sometimes two people might want to be polite, might want to be kind, but due to their differences, misscommunication and their own personal flaws they will only end up hurting each other. And the longer their misscommunication lasts, the more it hurts. How sometimes if people spoke sooner it wouldn't get to be so bad.

And how reactions say how quite much everyone been in some kind of situation like that. We assume the best and the worst intentions in each other.

We have to deal with a person who can't stop bothering us. Deal with a person who seems a little shy but they are nice but actually no, they secretly hate us. Situation where someone pretends to be a friend or for some forsaken reason forces themselves to hang out with us. When it's hard to confront someone. When we are too much. When we are in the wrong without realising it. When it's hard to be confronted. Being in a situation you wish you were confronted at the start. How sometimes confrontation is near impossible. Taking a risk of confrontation in general. Not being able to find the right words. Not being able to utter them.

Sometimes we'd all rather to point fingers and call each other names instead of realise the flaws of the world that we live in. How sometimes there Sure are bad people and bad intentions but sometimes it's also just all a bad accident with good intentions on both sides, and lack of education.

Ryoko Kui crafted such a very nuanced and beautiful story. A story with details such show the readers and viewers' feelings and perspectives and shortcomings when interacting with other people. And yeah, i think that's beautiful. Bless.

#There was a comic i'm not going to name. it started nice but then it shown kind of a similar situation i guess #except it was from another side. and differently depicted #an overly excited character shown up and they shown a big keen interest in one of characters around Mc i think #and the Mc and the characters around them simply looked and thought it's some annoying weirdo even though that overly excited #chara haven't done anything That big and ridiculous yet- #they known each other for literally a split second #and idk what happened further but i thought to myself that it felt cruel to bring such assumptions so quickly on someone #and i felt i couldn't continue reading it as we had no perspective of that 'weirdo' right in front of me #carpet talks #dungeon meshi #laios touden #toshiro nakamoto #shuro #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #relationships #dungeon meshi toshiro #dungeon meshi shuro #dungeon meshi laios

[aalghul]

I respect haters very much but people who disguise their hating as some kind of activism annoy me so much. the idea that you need to justify or moralize why you hate a character is funny but also really makes me roll my eyes

#I promise you can say you hate a character just bc you do. you don’t need to explain why it’s because you’re a feminist etc #I promise. you look just look ridiculous when you then go on to like a character that very similar stuff applies to #just hate unabashedly. free yourself

[ludoka]

*Gasp* Henry Jekyll from Monster High became a monster to escape the suffocating human society!

#Imagine that Victorian society was stricter in that universe #They were normie puritans #Everything that was related to monsters was prohibited to a ridiculous level #Red wine was illegal because it looked too similar to blood. #And that was associated with vampires #No red meat because that is the favorite food of werewolves!! #monster high #jackson jekyll #holt hyde #mh

[moreaugriffins]

yknow what i'd love to see more of in Ghostbusters?

the og Ghostbusters having little mentor moments for the new Ghostbusters

Loved that Ray was along for the ride in Frozen Empire, he wanted to get stuck back in, and he wanted to help Pheobe and Podcast with the mystery

but it would've been great if just occasionally Ray (or Peter, or Winston, though they weren't interacting with the new guys on a personal level much) just dropped a couple of tips he'd learnt from his time, or just helpful anecdotes from back in the day - the kind that you're confused by at the moment but later make you go "oh shit, that's why they told me"

#rambles #ghostbusters #ghostbusters frozen empire #I know we see them like a year or two into official ghostbusting so they already had most of the mentor moments #but god i think it wouldve just been fun to see little moments #Trevor getting confused by antics or plans and winston just being like #look - if you think it's ridiculous i find it's best to shut down #the idea before ray gets too excited by it #“what if that doesnt work?” #“pray that your body won't ache in every way by tomorrow” #or ray looking over an ancient artefact (like that sphere) and nodding being like #it's from [insert ancient civilisation]. you can tell by #the language #and podcast (or pheobe) asking “how can you tell? it's similar to [insert other language]” #yes but you can tell by the curve of these symbols. trust me kid - when you have to research dead langauges a hundred times a week for #years you start to tell the difference. I actually made a handy-dandy reference sheet to make it easier #idk what tips or stuff Peter would give - he's giving “use talcum powder and double socks for those boots. youll thank me later” energy

[illithiddatingsim]

…a little close there bud

#….not like i mind or anything #he’s still so lovely to me……. #*spends an action to lean in for a kiss* #bg3 spoilers #i didn’t want to fight him in the shadow cursed lands sooooo #i got to experience how fucking ridiculous he is in the fight vs ketheric #which ended up working out all right because i kept metaphorically smacking his sanctuary spell out of his hands before he could cast it #what i could hear of his bits of dialogue during the fight made me sad tho :(( i wanna look up the full set of lines later #poor bastard. need to go find some fix it fics for him #anyway #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #kar'niss #kar’niss #karniss #so many similar yet slightly different ways to tag his name…. #spiders cw

[thedreadvampy]

The thing is I am definitely not happy or chill in the Immediate Sense lately but I am, big picture, so fucking happy with the person I am.

It's like. My brain was made by and for consistent trauma and since that trauma stopped about 5-7 years ago, it is incredible what the amount of resilience and cleverness and flexibility and thoughtfulness I developed to survive can do when it's not being all spent on surviving. like I had a hundred ton weight on me so I had to get REALLY STRONG to stay in the same place and not get 100% crushed, and when that weight came off I found I can use the strength it used to take to stand up and I can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

I was talking to my mum the other day and she said, "you've got the 'fuck it' energy at 30 that most women don't find until their fifties at least" and I'm like yeah man. Imagine how unstoppable I'll be in 20 years.

#red said #i don't know that i can express this clearly but it's the most encouraging thing in my life #my mum's always been proud of me but just lately she seems to actually really admire me #like she's genuinely impressed. she thinks I've surpassed her. i don't necessarily agree but it's a really nice quiet joy. #anyway like this sounds super up myself and it kind of is. #but also it's part of realising just how heavy the weight I've been carrying around with me for 25 years was #like not to be ridiculous but i have realised again this week. that it isn't that everyone's been raped that much and doesn't talk about it #i just have been raped an Unusually Consistent Amount. i have spoken to a lot of people who have had much more horrifying things happen. #I'm not sure I've talked to more than a couple of people who've had a similar level of total consistency of abuse from all angles #and the one is not heavier or harder to bear that the other. but. i think i spent most of my life listening to people's awful experiences #and going ok well nothing i went through looked that bad so it's microtrauma #obviously microtraumas build up but still. #then the older i get and the more i have these conversations the more I notice that stuff which to me is a microtrauma #is a lot of people's defining trauma. and they're reacting appropriately which means i am SO SEVERELY UNDERREACTING #told my friend the other day about a time someone who i still like and respect was having sex with me when i paralocated my hip #and then just kept getting really annoyed with me for not being ready to have sex again while i was literally crying with pain #until i caved and just tried to find the last painful position #and my friend was like pal what the fuck that's horrific #and i was like i mean no that's normal I've had sex with like maybe 3 or 4 people in my life who i haven't had similar stuff with #like i am genuinely thrown when i am allowed to say no to sex and have it be the end of the conversation. and not end up having sex #out of guilt or out of physical coercion or through physical rape. and i have had sex with probably like 40 people at this stage? #and I'm not sure it's as many as 4 i haven't had that experience with tbh #so like. I'm slowly coming to terms with the idea #that i may have actually been doing a hell of a lot of heavy lifting. #like i developed a sense of self that can survive being constantly crushed and at this stage is fucking diamond.

[wonder-worker]

I heard that Edward IV and Elizabeth Widvile were known to be very beautiful. Were there any reports on their appearance at the time?

anon 😂

But yes, contemporaries and post contemporaries in the 16th century were pretty much unanimous in praising their appearance. I'll list some of the ones I could find:

Elizabeth:

'The most beautiful woman in England' ('la plus belle fille d'Engleterre') - Jean de Waurin

'Her very great beauty' ('sa tres grande beaute') - Jean de Waurin

"Her beauty of person and charm of manner" - Dominic Mancini

"None of such constant womanhood, wisdom and beauty" - Hearne's Fragment; its author was one of Edward IV's servants

"A daughter of prodigious beauty' - 1469 Continuator of Monstrelet's Chronicle

"Both faire, of a good favor, moderate of stature, well made and very wise" - Thomas More

Edward IV:

"The beauty of your personage it hath pleased Almighty God to send you" - James Strangways, Speaker of the Commons in Parliament

"The king is a handsome upstanding man" - Gabriel Tretzel, travels of Leo of Rozmital

"A handsome prince and had style" - Oliver De La Marche

"In the flower of his age, tall of stature, elegant of person" - Croyland Chronicle

"One of the handsomest knights of his kingdom" - 1469 Continuator of Monstrelet's Chronicle

"A handsome and worthy prince" - Pietro Alipranto

‘...Tall and strapping as the king’ - John Paston, Paston Letters

"He was young and more handsome than any man then alive" - Philippe de Commynes

"A man so vigorous and handsome that he might have been made for the pleasures of the flesh" - Philippe de Commynes

"The handsomest prince my eyes ever beheld" and "I don't remember ever having seen a man more handsome than he was" - Philippe de Commynes

"A very handsome prince" - Louis XI, from the Memoirs of Commynes

"He being a person of most elegant appearance, and remarkable beyond all others for the attractions of his person" - the Croyland Chronicle, referencing Edward a few months before he died

"He seized any opportunity that the occasion offered of revealing his fine stature more protractedly and more evidently to onlookers" - Dominic Mancini, writing shortly after his death

"He was a goodly personage and very princely to behold...of visage lovely, of body mighty, strong and cleanly made; howbeit in his latter days, with an over liberal diet, somewhat corpulent, but nevertheless noy uncomely" - Thomas More

Etc.

I'm tagging @edwardslovelyelizabeth because I think you got a similar ask?

I hope this answers your question, anon! I don't generally pay a lot of attention to the physical appearance of historical figures (I find it pretty irrelevant), but in this case, it ultimately does play a role in both Edward IV and Elizabeth's historiographies for better and for worse, and seems to have actually been a personal prop of Edward's kingship, so I don't mind discussing it :)

#either anon is making rounds or someone else saw the ask and asked me something similar 🤷🏻‍♀️ #edward iv #elizabeth woodville #ask #also (I wanted to make a separate post about this but fuck it I'll just rant in the tags): #Something I find very interesting (read: fucked-up) is how we have multiple independent accounts praising Edward IV as extremely #attractive at the end of his life #Yet for some reason (aka fatphobia) most historians simply assume that he lost his looks over the years because he put on weight #even though his actual contemporaries (sans Commynes who in any case didn't even see him after 1475) certainly didn't seem to think so #as we can see: Croyland Mancini and More all noted the fact that he had put on weight AND emphasized his attractiveness #because the two are not mutually exclusive in the slightest and assuming that they are is not only incorrect it's also deeply problematic #it's similar to how so many historians assume his health was failing towards the end of his life when we KNOW - we are literally TOLD - #that his illness was both unexpected and baffling to contemporaries #(there is a contemporary reference to his supposedly deteriorating health but as Horrox says this is actually an editorial interpolation) #and the thing that's *always* referenced almost synonymously with this alleged non-existent ill-health is his weight #and the thing is - even if both of these were true they still ultimately wouldn't (and SHOULDN'T) matter. But we KNOW they weren't #and so it's incredibly indicative that historians and general histories STILL automatically assume them - and this assumption #is almost always on conjecture with his weight. (I don't think I've framed this coherently but oh well) #I'm still not over Katherine Lewis's deranged and frankly extremely ignorant epilogue in 'Kingship and Masculinity' #she literally framed her entire perspective on him around his weight with some really ridiculous (read: fatphobic) speculations/assumptions #she's even worse than Thomas Penn who is also revolting (and AJ Pollard isn't much better) #though of course they're not the only ones - almost every historian and general history does this

[tepli-mravenci]

Oh to have the time and energy (and equipment) to make multihour video essays about extremely niche topics

#(i need to rewatch full 9 seasons of a show (200+ episodes) as research for a video I NEED to make one day) #i live in fear that someone else will think of it by the point i get to it hence why I never specifically said anywhere I wanna make it #but its so incredibly niche it's very unlikely #i haven't even looked into if a similar video already exists because i WILL mourn it like an unborn child if someone makes it before me #yes i just finished watching the james somerton hbomberguy video why u asking #okay so i checked and there are a couple of people who all have less than 10 minute long videos about a PART of what I want to talk about #I practically want to amp up that research about 20 times and then draw seemingly ridiculous conclusions about the show #that will make sense if i explain myself

[shentunans]

“I know it’s only episode one, but Fang Duo Bing already looks like he’s one cup of tea away from calling Li Lianhua his Zhiji 知己 and following him around for the entire drama.” - my best friend watching mlc for the first time today.

#what they mean is fang duobing looks unconsciously smitten af but in a cute way like I found a new bff yay #my gifs #mysterious lotus casebook #fang duobing #zeng shunxi #Zhiji means confidant and will forever be referred to as a code word for soulmate from that one other drama with a similar vibe ish #joseph zeng #lord he is going that thing my ult bias does when he drinks things e.e puffing out his big cheeks and looking cute e.e #dmbj cast #cheng yi #li lianhua #li xiangyi #shunxi is ridiculously cute though dear Lord bless his cotton socks

[dad-friend]

one thing i really enjoy on this website is when somebody posts a video of somebody doing something really cool that clearly takes a lot of skill/effort, but doesnt really stand out as particularly impossible

only for somebody else familiar w/ the topic to reblog and go "no i dont think you guys understand-" and explain the genuinely insane level of technical skill, training, precision, etc that goes into whatever was done in the video so that everybody can appreciate it even more

#something very similar happens w/ art that looks cool and then you look at the bottom and the medium used is something fucking ridiculous #like you see a cool photo and then it says 'oil on canvas' at the bottom #or a cool drawing that says 'wood block color reduction print' or something #its always so delightful to see esp when its pointed out or explained for everybody to enjoy

[drbatsponge]

The Tim and Cass twins hc is relatively harmless to me, idc. 😭

#cassandra cain #tim drake #people of different ethnicities can still look similar tbh idk #also there's art where they do look similar #i don't see a problem with it #also it seems like people are just complaining about someone making a really good looking piece of art #like come on guys #if that's what started this that's ridiculous

[levlainurflaurosfanpage]

Can we talk about this?

Can we PLEASE talk about this???

WE GOT HIS COMMAND SEAL

#lev lainur flauros #fgo #flauros #fate grand order #non art post #fgo ordeal call #I remember joking with my friend that its gonna look like a top hat #also I feel like I've seen similar symbol in fgo before??? #LOVE THAT HIS HAND IS RIDICULOUSLY BIG #SERIOUSLY IT CAN COVER COMPLETELY THE REST FOUR HANDS

[sinclairstarz]

i just cant figure out a way to connect my two biggest hyperfixations of all time, community and stranger things, and this MIGHT be the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.

#a community au is ridiculous. #a crossover? dont even joke lad #this is absurd. #all i have in this world is pointing at byler and trobed and saying #‘look… silly best friends to lovers gay boys… theyre similar. right.’ #how can i build a loving a loving world for myself when my love is already divided into two worlds which can never meet. #how can i stand to stay divided forever when all i long for is a feeling of wholeness #this planet is a fucking prison. #stranger things #byler #community nbc #trobed #harpersays