#this must be addressed

[flamingthespian]

I like how Neuvillette used his position as chief Justice to literally put a law on the books that says it’s illegal to misgender his kids. He said “if you refuse to she/her my daughter I will see/you in prison 💙”

#ngl I was pleasantly surprised to see the phrase ‘they must be addressed with she/her pronouns’ in Genshin #like legit. written that way. #tal talks #genshin impact #Neuvillette

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

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#paperwork #phonecalls #this was a few weeks ago and I made several calls and talked to only two humans #and made no progress and gave up and ate some ice cream #went to the office in person today and waited for a thousand years for my number to be called #(after having gone 2 days ago only to be told they were understaffed and given an appointment to come back today) #and HOPEFULLY have solved the paperwork troubles but I must wait a few more weeks for things to arrive in the mail. #bleh. #one of the humans I talked to took down my email address and said he'd send me more contact info #but alas it never arrived #maybe he got my email wrong. who knows!

[3-aem]

i also don’t want to portray myself as faultless. my work isn’t ai and it isn’t copied. but nk will say i Had old pieces that were copied and referenced ai. Yet it isn’t good faith when i apologize, state how i took accountability, and explain thats definitely not the case today because i learned my lessons- to respond with well you made these mistakes in the past so how can i believe you, you are lying, and have not changed.

so i quit. how can i prove myself then besides what i mentioned in the last post. my question is will you even ALLOW me to prove myself. each time i must explain, i place a spotlight on something that was resolved agreeably with the artists, resolved by removing the works, and resolved within myself by learning from it. but by not saying something i also allow You to concoct narratives and have to watch people spread them around and come to me demanding apologies. it is a very uncomfortable very distressing process that has worn me down completely.

never mind that other artists who have copied have not nearly been requested to apologize as much as i have been. never mind that they were forgiven when they removed the works or even when they just say sorry and don’t remove the work at all. But you still choose to hound me afterwards for doing just that?

nk has stated that i have not fixed this. and that i must address it. how many times though? for how long also? who on this planet starts the conversation by recounting all their mistakes, especially when they know they are resolved.

i have had to learn my lessons through cruelty like yours. trust me its a trauma i have to bear and they are not lessons you then forget.

my anger and my feelings of defeat come from the fact that even after nk was still talking like i had not even attempted to make progress. just look at your tone here.

#im going to fking throw up this is the last time i will ever say this #do not come begging to be for another apology i am done #i will never address this issue again okay #i need to say this because no matter what when i see people supporting me now i feel guilty #i recognize it is just because i hate myself #it is because i havent accepted i made mistakes #but i cant accept it because people cant accept it #i cant accept it and i cant move on #and that is why i think its best to leave art #i cant make work i am proud of anymore #i dont want to list names of artists #but i will say that when king chris reposted my work without credit i viewed it the same as when i referenced other artists work #but there was no callout no request even from the comments for credit #and he has millions of followers #i felt like i could not stand up for myself because i have this history #because of this history i can never properly defend myself i feel i must always kneel to it #even though i have changed and realized i was wrong i still have to acknowledge it always

[quenepacrossing]

🌥️ dreaming of nordsea by @nordsea-horizons

#where do i even begin #caroline is consistenly one of the freshest most unique creators we have on tumblr #i dont see the combinations she does done by anyone else #this island was such a breath of fresh air #it flowed so well and it was so pretty #my ​pictures dont do it justice #must visit #acnh #animal crossing new horizons #acnh dream tour #acnh da #acnh dream address

[jahiera]

as we exit the period of people overly woobifying astarion we will enter the period where people who don’t like him will wildly over-exaggerate and misconstrue flaws he doesn’t even have as a way to combat the woobification and the most painful thing about it will not be that people are talking about his flaws but that they’re not even addressing the right ones

#breathing through my nose reading excessively combative takes knowing that they’re rooted in annoyance but my god they’re also #so so bad. so so so soooo bad. #like that’s something literally addressed in his main arc. it has the answer. you don’t have to like it but don’t misconSTRUEEE IT #anyway it’s fine. I need to be back in the vacuum of silence when the game first dropped and it was nothing but me and my thoughts on it #I PREFER my ideas and my thoughts and my conclusions without all the noise and input I don’t know why I Engage in the popular thought #I must not engage in public opinion of my favorite complicated characters. engaging in public opinion is the mind killer. #‘haha I killed him immediately’ I could not care less about your opinion. in fact I care even less than I do about the #‘astarion is my smoft smol bean’ people. and I also hate that. #complaining /

[orcelito]

thinking about.............. this. when vash calls wolfwood a coward vs his thoughts immediately post-legato.

trimax volume 2 chapter 4 VS volume 14 chapter 2 (pages from @trigun-manga-overhaul)

vash, caught up in his ideals, calls wolfwood a coward for resorting to killing for survival. these words are Cutting for wolfwood, & he spends the next several chapters thinking about them. he knows he can't live like vash does, not as a normal human, bc it would Kill Him. (and, of course, when he does try to follow vash's ideals, it Does end up killing him.)

fast forward to after wolfwood's death. vash is forced to kill legato, and... he has this thought. he thinks back to that time with the thought of, "Did it feel like this for you, too?" we see by his expressions throughout this scene that he feels Horrible for it, the very act of killing going against his staunch moral code...

but he couldn't bear to let wolfwood's sacrifice be in vain, so he killed someone.

and he now knows how wolfwood felt in that scene. he understands the fact that this has Never been easy for wolfwood. it's Never been a matter of cowardice. vash remembers the words he said to wolfwood, now with the knowledge of how much those words must have Hurt Him... and so vash cries.

the worst part is that he can never apologize for those words, because wolfwood is already dead.

#speculation nation #trigun #vashwood #trimax #id in alt text #trigun spoilers/ #trimax spoilers #fanny's trigun analysis #fanny reads trigun #trigun meta #idk if this really counts as meta but it's an analysis of this moment so im counting it #anyways ive been thinking about this for. months really #i directly address this exact thing in chapter 3 of ITNL #ive been working on that chapter's re-edits today. so i wanted to reference these moments to better dig into that part #got to thinking about it in depth tho & wanted to make a post. so. Here. #weep with me. i can never get over how guilty vash must feel for this.

[shimmershy]

I'M GOING TO CRY, THE SPRITES IN THE NEW NEWSLETTER ARE SO CUTE

I haven't even read the rest of it yet. I wasn't expecting another newsletter yet because there already was one for the fall, but YAY Halloween update!

#things i say #<-i have a tag for that now #i was caught off-guard by the use of my name in the first part. 'It seems to be addressed to Volta.' me: 'WHAT? Oh yeah #'i must have input that when signing up for the newsletter'. silly.

[femmeconomics]

i will literally defend to the death women talking about getting an "ick" about male partners. yeah it’s kind of a dumb term but it serves its purpose. it’s my view that what’s talked about as "getting the ick" is actually looking back, rather than being looked at, often for the first time in a relationship. when you’re not caught up in the performance and charm of your relationship, when you’re a little disengaged, when you’re just looking at the guy. and you start to think … am i attracted to him? have i ever been attracted to him? and so yeah sometimes it’ll be tiny innocuous things. i don’t care if watching her boyfriend order dessert in a restaurant or carry a water bottle or eat messily or cry is the sudden tipping point when she takes a step back, really looks at the guy, and goes "what am i doing? i don’t even like him" like good for her for realizing and getting out. listen to your gut.

#there are a lot of popular posts im vaguely addressing but there’s not a specific one #but i hate the implication that it’s down to women being shallow or callous or enforcing misogynistic stereotypes on men #especially the last one that’s so fucking bold to claim #we KNOW women are socialized to believe we must be in and be fulfilled by relationships with men #which means there WILL be sudden moments of realizing that you have not once considered your own personal feelings about that man #i think women should talk about it more if anything #it’s a very real phenomenon and we shouldn’t ignore why it might be so common a feeling #rose post

[bulgogisland]

Salemfalls DA-1169-1911-5728 By @hayescrossing on Instagram [2/3]

🎃🕷🕸🕷🕸🕷🎃🕸🕷🕸🕷🕸🎃

#i can't find their account on instagram? #they must have changed their username #if anyone knows their new account pls lmk and i will link it #i love this island #so so so many pumpkins #DA #october da tour 2022 #acnh #dream address #animal crossing #animal crosing new horizons #ac #gif #gifset #multiple gifs #halloween #spooky island

[asksam]

Did I use mine and Brett's bruises to make a makeup cover up tutorial video for TikTok? Yes, yes, I did. I've done some before for when I cover up my tattoos and uh, hickies, but I felt like I should do one for this kind of thing too. I think once I'm healed up for good though, I'll make the opposite on how to look bruised for cosplay reasons.

#wmacstarter #bruises cw #injuries cw #/did sam address WHY they're bruised ? no no he did not #//okay but now i must finish getting ready for work i close 3-11 tonight so :sob:

[mostlymaudlin]

was starting to hijack in the tags of that post i just reblogged but ohhhhh it is so juicy to me that the end of TKM is just part of the rising action of andrew's character arcs. and yet the way the novel leaves off, you can have so much hope in the ways its going to continue -- especially because neil proves to us on the last page that he's going to fight like hell to hold onto him whatever comes next.

it's just !!!! all andrew's deals are done. neil's big happy moment of relationship security comes from the fact that andrew didn't deny its existence lol. BUT neils correct to be happy about this, because he knows andrew is a black & white thinker, and he's entering unchartered territory! all his lil lies he uses to duct tape his sanity together are coming apart, and that break is going to be FASCINATING. i doubt it'll be explosive or anything -- andrew's more the "quietly self-destruct climax" type than the "defeat the mafia thru the power of sports climax" type -- but it'll sure be something interesting. and then once it all breaks, we know he'll have neil and kevin and his family and the foxes to help him heal -- and he'll have to believe it when they show they care about him, because he literally doesn't owe anyone anything

#i think thats why all my aus put andrew in his Self Destruct Era #because im just so positive that he well on his way to that at the end of tkm #actually im amending the tags a bit bc i think what i sometimes end up doing w him in aus is a product of the fact that my stories rarely #have extreme external plot elements #like andrew never thinks neil DIES lol #baltimore is so fucking integral to andrews development #he did not have time to do the full self destruct 'oh no can i live without him' era because #he literally got tested on that and he FAILED HAHAHA #so he def knows that he needs neil #the crux of the conflict still is -- can he accept this without hating himself? #because if THATS not addressed then eventually his logic is going to warp #and hes going to do stupid shit #and yeah :) i love when he does stupid shit and then ppl are like #NOPE. unfortuantely you have fucked up severely #and in order to get back what you cant live without #you must board the Self Love Express !!!! #its a journey lil man!!!!! #youre gonna hate it!!!!!!!! youre gonna go on it anyway!!!! #SCRMEEEEAMMMM i love andrew minyard

[simmaster]

hey what the fuck is wrong with them.

#collecting scenes and stumbled across this i forgot how weird it actually was #sorry if its been posted before i just feel ill #why did malcolm not react at all why did they both go along with it instantly they make me sick #we call ollie a perferted little freak (and are right) but at some point it must be addressed how that applies to malcolm too #micah.txt #ttoiposting

[nellasbookplanet]

Having finally read the Nimona comic (it’s very good, everyone please go read it) I can’t help but find describing it as being about the power of incredible violence to defeat an authoritarian state, as I've seen done, to be both kind of misleading and ultimately reductive to the story as a whole.

Yes there is incredible violence in the comic and it was in the end what tore down the corrupt system, but it was also Nimona's downfall, destroyed her relationship with her only friend (and led to her (temporary) death by his very hand as he could no longer stand by her and her actions, even as he never judged her, recognized her role as a victim and tried to save her until the end), put countless civilians in danger, and ultimately did little to nothing to address how to actually fix the problems of the system to keep them from returning. In fact, Nimona as a character shows little interest in fixing anything. She suggests killing the king and having Ballister take his place, despite Ballister neither wanting this nor having the experience to pull it off (and would, in fact, only result in replacing one king with another rather than lead to an entirely new system, as is often the case with bloody uprisings). When people start dying from the illness they spread, Ballister wants to immediately stop it; Nimona suggests they let more people die to further rile up hatred and anger against the institution. Nimona isn't a good guy looking to save people; she's an angry, hurt girl looking to hurt those who hurt her and those who have the potential to hurt her in the future (even when Ballister is one of those people). She is the villain the state turned her into.

And that is kind of the point I see the story making. Not 'you need incredible violence to tear down an authoritarian state' as something good and celebratory, but rather 'an authoritarian state will ultimately lead to its own downfall by creating monsters of its own making, and while said downfall is needed the fact that it has to happen at all is deeply tragic because there are no winners here'. Nimona isn't a villain-villain (the true antagonist is obviously still the Institution), but she isn't a hero either. She's a tragic figure with a tragic end that the state brought upon itself by mistreating its people. She doesn't stick around to help rebuild and heal, and she doesn't (to our knowledge) get to see her home become a better place. It's a bittersweet end where the very person who tore down the oppressors is too broken to enjoy the end result. It isn't a story about rebellion, it's a story about the inherent and justified self-destruction of authoritarian systems.

(Writing it out like this, I realize that, thematically, it’s very similar to n.k. jemisin's broken earth trilogy, which you should all also read because it is incredible and not very friendly to authoritarian states.)

#nella talks books #i finish reading something. i enjoy it. i must immediately and loudly throw my thoughts of it into the void #(actually it's been like a week since i finished reading. must organize my thought first.) #nimona #nimona spoilers #long post #having written all of this i really wonder what nimona got up to after the comic ended #did she find it in herself to heal and help rebuild? #did she just continue her cycle of loneliness and destruction? #hm. maybe i should go looking for post canon fanfic #sorry for the long post but seeing complex narratives get reduced to quippy gotchas is my villain origin story #'you need incredible violence to tear down an authoritarian state!' sure but please also address the unavoidable cost of this #and how focusing only on the violence and not on the rebuilding and the people will only destroy you in the end #while making no lasting change. other people still have to stick around and do all that

[twstmagica]

Magical Girl Yuu's First Day pt 4

“Listen dude, I don't know what kind of cult thing you’ve got here and at this point I don't care. I just need to get back home before my mentor freaks out.”

This time it really isn't Yuu’s fault she got lost!

“Cult?! Night Raven College is the most prestigious school in all of Twisted Wonderland!”

“Cool story bro. You still kidnapped me.”

“The black carriage does not kidnap – !”

“The what?”

So according to Birdman all students are recruited via some spooky carriage and horse that Yuu does not remember seeing.

Actually she can't remember anything of how she got here. The day was Tuesday, or maybe Wednesday?  She had been getting ready for… something important. Something that had the adult magica gearing up. Yuu remembers a sense of urgency, this had been different from the usual fiend attacks. 

What happened? Did something go wrong? 

For the first time since waking up Yuu feels truly scared.

Panic rises as she tries to go over what enemies could have the power to transport someone while fogging their memories.

Meanwhile!

Totally oblivious to Yuu’s mental crisis, Birdman was reaching his own conclusions.

“... truly weren't meant to be here then that could explain why you couldn't be sorted. I suppose there's nothing for it. Step back in front of the mirror, young man.”

Finally Crowley looks back at the child, Yuu, and takes in his state.

One hand is tugging at his hair while the other grips his strange magic pen. The boy’s eyes are unfocused and he rocks his weight back and forth from one foot to the other.

Hmm.

Hmmmmmmm. 

That’s probably not good. If only Crewel were here to deal with this instead.

Remembering the damage from earlier, Crowley approaches cautiously. He keeps an eye on the hand holding the oversized pen and grasps Yuu’s shoulder in a clawed grip.

Yuu does a full body jolt but listens when Crowley tells him to approach the mirror again

*Return to sender!*

…

Nothing happens.

Yuu’s anxiety is getting out of control, so she tries channeling it towards something more productive. Specifically anger.

This mirror!

First he calls her a freak, now he's saying her home doesn't exist. 

“I cannot discern –”

“Well, is there anything you do know? Or should I do this place a favor and break you out of that frame!”

For the record, Yuu wasn't actually going to break the mirror. Squakface still wasn't willing to risk it as he dragged her out of the room.

Crowley guides Yuu to the library where they spend some time looking for references to her home city Duskfront.

Eventually Yuu asks what the books are referring to when they say Twisted Wonderland.

After some more back and forth Crowley concludes that Yuu must be from another world. 

Yuu is like okay bro, a likely story.

She’s still concerned this might be a plot, and thinks it's pretty convenient that they happen to be on an isolated island.

Crowley suggests that they shelve this for now and he offers to house Yuu in an unused dorm.

Yuu is not having it and tries to walk out, determined to swim back home if she must.

Crowley protests, despite the many complaints from both students and staff alike Crowley does in fact have a sense of responsibility. And while this particular student is, for whatever reason, unsortable, he cannot allow a student to just walk out. Not even one as unruly as Yuu.

Yuu really, really, doesn't want to be alone with her thoughts waste any time, but she understands this isn't the type of situation you can just bully your way out of. So with gritted teeth Yuu finally hisses out, “fine!”

Birdface is leading her far away from the main building.

Really far.

How big is this campus?

Finally they reach a derelict building that may at one point have been a dormitory.

“It's a little old, but a building with such character is suitable for such a rambunctious young man.”

“Why do you keep calling me that?”

“Calling you what? Rambunctious? I’d say it's rather accurate.”

“No. Young man. I'm not a guy.”

“What?”

Yuu loosens the sash holding her outfit and pulls back the outer robe to reveal modest, but still visible, breasts.

“WHAT!”

I was going to make it longer but I decided to split the final into two parts and give you this now. Sorry about the long wait (╥_╥). I'm kinda disappointed by how close to canon I've been but I know there will be big opportunity for change later. Specifically with the ghosts.

Ive been thinking about writing some drabbles or trying to draw out some scenes, turns out even making a short comic is hard. Im working on a short piece about the mine based more on the manga than the game. I'll focus on that after the last part of Yuu's first day, but might also do some smaller posts as well.

#twisted wonderland #twst yuu #twst #magical girl yuu #twisted wonderland au #twst au #dire crowley #I'm kinda rushing through this part #the big change comes at the end of Yuu's day #She's about to be a little clumsy :) #Crowley is a conspiracy theorist in this scene #Cant find a student's address? he must be from another universe!!! #Yuu is all like miss me with that bs #I bet he also thinks the world is flat #twst writing #twst drabble

[quietwingsinthesky]

Thinking about the “Careful. That’s my Father you’re speaking about, boy.” line now. Because like. Raphael is the one angel with the perspective of “god is dead/so far out of the picture and not coming back that he is functionally dead to all of us anyway” so you’d think that they wouldn’t care if Dean is an asshole about it. Or at least, that they’d care dean is being an asshole and flippant to them, an archangel deserving his respect, but maybe not so much a little blasphemy because well. God doesn’t care about even the important things, so what’s a little quip from dean winchester?

“That’s my Father.” it’s like. “That’s my Father.” He left home and never came back. He abandoned Heaven, and he abandoned Michael, and he abandoned Raphael. He left. No instructions and a world to run. And Dean Winchester is making jokes while he stands at the epicenter of a godless universe.

It’s more personal here, right? In the show, there’s God, that amorphous idea of something all-powerful that made the world and skipped out on it, and then God, the father who had some kids and went out to get milk and cigarettes and didn’t come home. Venn diagram with a lot of crossover, but what starts in this scene, I think, as talking about the former and only the former, very quickly shifts into being about the latter. Dean’s taking the grandiose, the “Who ran off and disappeared. Who left no instructions and a world to run.” and turning it into the mundane, “Daddy ran away and disappeared. He didn't happen to work for the post office, did he?”

I’m not sure where I’m going with this. Just that there’s a difference between an insult to God as God and an insult to God as the father to angels, and the way Raphael responds to the latter, the way Dean is able to rile them up by pushing that interpretation into the conversation, is interesting to me. Careful. That’s their Father you’re talking about. A deadbeat dad is still their dad.

#raphael spn #idk. dean & Raphael fascinate me. I wish they had more arguments about their terrible dads together #Raphael’s resignation versus dean Winchester’s ability to be soo soo annoying #something about how spn insists that dads must be Respected. but it also knows that they are terrible sometimes. but that it doesn’t matter. #that you respect them anyway. because they don’t need to earn it. they are your dad and that’s enough. #or maybe I’m reading too much into this and it really is that dean is just so annoying #and Raphael doesn’t want to put up with his nonsense #I mean combine it with the way they’re clearly trying to address castiel the whole time and dean keeps butting #butting in. making the divine too human to bear. castiel might hear Raphael’s words and accept how god is to them. #dean hears them and goes ‘oh! let down by your dad huh? this is my wheelhouse.’ #idk. idk. #spn #dean winchester

[devilsrains]

cardcaptor sakura (1996-2000) illustrated by CLAMP

#now we must address the elephant in the room... #my friend (huge sakura fan) calls these the 'comic sans editions' for a reason JKLGJLFGJ #cardcaptor sakura #clamp #shoujo manga #vintage shoujo #mine #my scans