#yeah I like this series too

[coldgoldlazarus]

The centerism around Harry Potter and especially Hogwarts Legacy is so frustrating to me, not just as someone who is against JKR, but as someone who was and on some level still is a Harry Potter fan.

'Cause yeah, I grew up with the books too. I have lego minifigs of the main characters from when I was a kid. I have a house scarf mom crocheted for me, that I still wear because it keeps me warm in the frozen hellhole of winter. I have, when the mood has struck me, considered writing fanfic and trying to fix some of the things JKR broke. I still believe there is a better story in there, about a child living in a cupboard under a staircase discovering magic, that runs counter to everything she's since turned it into.

But even with all that, I don't buy anything for it anymore, and (this post aside, I guess) I don't talk about being a fan. There are so many other things to focus on instead, it's really that easy. My nostalgia isn't worth doing actual harm to actual people.

And as much as part of me wants to defiantly tell JKR that my enjoyment doesn't mean support for her shitty ideals, I also have to deal with the fact that until she's dead and her estate no longer pushes for transphobic and racist legislature, that is objectively false. And beyond that, I will always have to contend with the antisemitism that was baked in from nearly the start, and all the other myriad bigotry that trickled in on top over time. We can't just separate the art from the artist when these problems exist in the art to begin with, and it's really frustrating that people keep pretending otherwise.

Yes, there is still something to enjoy in this series that isn't completely tainted by blood libel and transphobia, but at this point? It won't be found in any of the current stuff. You can't play the antisemetism game and pretend it isn't antisemetic. You have only so much time and money in this world, and there are so many other things you would do better to spend them on, so why insist on this?

Speaking, again, not as a JKR hater right now, but as a fellow Harry Potter fan... it's really so much easier to just not buy the damn game, and to watch other movies instead, and to just go read another book.

#not a reblog #harry potter #anti harry potter #anti hogwarts legacy #anti jkr #rant #opinion #so frustrated with these people #yeah I like this series too #but not enough to keep supporting a bigot #so why is it apparently just sooo hard #for the rest of you?

[mo-mode]

We’ve all heard of mansplaining. Now get ready for: PJO book purist-splaining. It’s like mansplaining, but every time you even think about liking a change made in the show, they jump down your throat with “ACTUALLY in the books…” because the show is “doing it all wrong” and the change is “so out of character” and “doesn’t even make sense :/”

#I know I’m hitting a wasps nest like a piñata rn just let me go out with a bang #reason for this post: #I’m currently being jumped by the book purists in like half of my silly little headcanons #‘but in the books’ yeah i know i read them too #I’m convinced that if they don’t ‘correct’ you then they’ll spontaneously combust on the spot #blink twice if you need help #if you like the books so much then go read those instead of my blog thanks #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo series

[catsharky]

I'm sobbing and clawing at the screen begging Larian to just let my Tav give more hugs because so many of these characters need it.

WIP cause this is getting colours, I just like how the lines look

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #bg3 astarion #my tav #sharky's tav #she's a tiefling bard #also surprise! I'm not dead #Baldur's Gate just has me by the throat and it's not letting me tap out until I see the end credits #there's a new tattoo on my brain next to the Mass Effect one #I'm hopefully gonna do a 'BG3 characters get the hugs they deserve' series #Astarion was obviously first because. yeah. #Rolan's likely next cause I'm fucking gone on him too love him would kill and die for him would rip the heavens and hells apart for him #If Astarion hadn't swooped in and snatched my heart first I'd be real pissed that Rolan wasn't romanceable because hhhhhh #sharky art #tav: ember #oc: ember

[scribbling-dragon]

missing ranchers forever and ever and ever (a redraw of THIS from a year ago)

[click for better quality! + closeups under the cut]

#i haaaate drawing shirts. i hate them i hate their stupid sleeves #and their stupid collars. it doesnt make sense and its stupid and difficult #its why i never give tango any. i cant do it more than once #anyway. RANCHERS! in honour of the wip currently sat at 10k that made me sad abt double life again (it's fluff. why am i sad) #juno.art #double life smp #dlsmp #jimmy solidarity #tango tek #tango tek fanart #jimmy solidarity fanart #double life fanart #life series #trafficblr #traffic series #solidaritygaming #solidarity gaming #tangotek #life series fanart #also yeah i kept tango's colours the same as his secret life ones. he just looks really nice with the pinks etc #(dedicating this to my mother too. who looked and went “aw what a lovely bf and gf” #and then stared at me awkwardly when i said neither of them were the gf. she did like the drawing tho

[turtleblogatlast]

Love the thought of Leo just casually being well traveled to absurd degrees. Like one day they’re facing their new Big Bad of the year and like, Draxum or whoever says that the key to their fight is located somewhere in, like, Latvia or some place, but no one knows where to start.

Then Leo’s like “oh I know a place” and when asked how the heck he could know of one it smash cuts to Leo falling through the ceiling of said place due to a portal mishap.

Also love the idea of Leo, being as accidentally (and then later, purposefully) well traveled as he is, sometimes taking his family on outings to different places all over, maybe to some new Yokai spots he found along the way.

In these places, Leo 100% lets his bros get scammed by tourist traps.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rottmnt headcanons #bro was so excited about buying stuff that he didn’t realize it was a scam until too late #so now he’s super sus of all that BUT super willing to laugh at his fam for making the same mistake #anyway yeah I love Leo being well traveled because it honestly makes sense? why NOT use your teleportation to travel if you can do it fast #all his portal mishaps in the series as well as that time he accidentally went to Paris (+ once a diff dimension?) live in my head rent free #Leo destroying the stall of some random family’s restaurant in Paraguay and having to work it off the rest of the summer #he’s just like ‘hey guys I’m heading out’ but doesn’t mention it’s for a part time job in a different country #he only knows like English and Spanish BUT he’s picked up on a lot of other languages too due to his misadventures #tho he mostly knows a whole lot of various swear words #leo about to tease donnie for getting banned from witch town only to remember HE’S banned from a place in Turkey: 😬 #he keeps trying to find where he accidentally put his brothers in Tahiti but he can’t find it and he’s so salty about it lol

[pterosounds]

Chappell Roan @ House of Blues, Chicago, IL - 10/4/23

see more in the series

#chappell roan #chappellsource #chappell outfit series #my post #mmmmmmmmm yeah. yeah when picking the shots to post i was like is two ass pics too much? and then my friends all said no so here we are.

[sherrymagic]

"Who said I was human? I am a moon. Can an alien be friends with a moon?" June Wanwimol as LUNA in Episode 3 23.5 (2024)

#june wanwimol #23.5 #23.5 the series #23.5 degrees #23point5 #23point5gifs #23.5edit #aylinluna #gmmtv #gmmtv series #thai series #thai gl #lana.gifs #this is the one i like less of the ones i made so far grrr #had at least three other rows here but the coloring results didn't pass the insane perfectionist test #and i don't really like at least two other rows here but then the set would've been too short so... yeah #if anyone's wondering - green subs is aylin and lilac subs is alpha #userbon #uservix #userlovevivi #useragatha #usersasa #usersbru

[genericpuff]

vent post

#and before anyone who hates my shit says “yeah because you ARE a loser way to have self awareness for once” #i promise you this would be me with or without the LO fandom LMAO #anxiety is a hell of a thing #and as much as i internally guilt myself into thinking it would be better if i just shut up and hid away forever #i also know that's the trauma speaking because the adults around me always told me to shut up #and even as an adult i still encounter people who talk over me and make me feel like i'm not allowed to be outspoken #but the pen is mightier than the sword and all those years i've spent being spoken over i've been honing my penmanship #i have fun talking about the things i talk about and i don't have any less right than anyone else to do it #i am cringe and i am free #self post #vent post #altho on another note i do wanna make time this week to go find new series to read #too many of my favorites have turned to shit and it's taken its toll #i KNOW there are better comics out there that are genuinely well made #i already have a few that i'm reading that i love but i need to balance out the good with the bad more lol #i just need to take the time to go find good stuff instead of pouring so much of my attention into the bullshit that doesn't deserve my tim #i think both things can be true #i can have a lot of fun dissecting and writing about series i don't like #while also nourishing myself with good works that restore my faith in this medium #“perfectly balanced as all things should be”

[todayisafridaynight]

#rgg #ryu ga gotoku #yakuza series #ryu ga gotoku 7 #yakuza like a dragon #yakuza 7 #masato arakawa #snap sketches #area man draws for himself for once HI #celebration for the fact aoki plush will be clenched in my fist soon so i can beat him against my table #ik i always say i love masato's design as is for a corp goth look And This Is True. //HOWEVER// #i wanted to see what else i could do ..... for funsies.. .... also im goin to my moms next week which means im also going to hot topic #SOOOOOO LOL #i also wanted to practice drawin his wheelchair more since I Struggle. shoutout to the like #hundreds of wheelchair model pics i looked through to grab a pose and Look At Chairs jVLAKJ #but yeah i hit daigo with the gothification beam had to do it to masato too #i solemnly swear this is not how im gonna draw masato all the time. god in heaven thatd take forever #but yk just wanted to have fun :} #mk bye im hungry #there's a version of this where i gave masato purple lipstick but i didnt like how it looked #like ik i love how his lips are In Fact purple before he injects himself but it just doesnt look right with how i drew it #k bye i think im playing dondoko until my school's dining hall opens. why tha hell it suddenly openin at 5PM now ...

[harunefrog]

I drew a thing!!! You know this one!!!

#isat #in stars and time #isat siffrin #isat isabeau #this took like the whole week #it probably wouldn't have if i didn't decide to redraw the template entirely from scartch #but you dont get it #i REALLY wanted the stars to have four points #anyway #im gonna probably do more sketches now #like get back to the sonic ones #or more AA au #if anyone is more familiar with aa case writing hmu because i have no idea what the hell im doing #but i really want to make this fangame #wait i haven't mentioned it before i am kinda working on an aa fangame for isat #but i wanna hold off on doing too much spritework until i have AT LEAST the tutorial case figured out #and i have literally no idea how to write a case that's like not very difficult and makes sense #anyway yeah i should probably stop this rant #OH WAIT ONE LAST THING #i know nothing about the series this art trend is from i just know people draw ships like this and i wanted to do it too #harune draws #I forgot i have to tag my art if i want it to be findable later

[threegunbrainrot]

i dont have any trigun mutuals so i'm just gonna ramble my thoughts into the infinite void of tumblr. and im sure others have touched on this same topic but

it almost seems like vash is getting softer with every new installment of trigun? like incredibly consistently and incredibly specifically.

let me explain.

i'll start with tristamp and work backwards; the tristamp vash we all know and love there is incredibly adverse to violence.

more often than not he ACTIVELY refuses to fight and just WON'T draw his gun. this post loosely counted the amount of bullets that he shot throughout all of season 1, and almost ALL of them (like to an insane degree) were dished out against knives, who vash knew was strong enough to take the hit.

the few times vash does draw his gun against a human in tristamp, it's as a blunt force weapon (against the badlads gang and livio, for example) or to disarm others/save someone with ricochet (like shooting the punisher before wolfwood can kill livio).

he just doesn't shoot people. at ALL.

then if we look at 98 trigun, things change drastically.

here, vash isn't afraid to hurt people a little if it means more will be saved in the end. of course he never kills, but he actually shoots people here. not only that...

he holds a casual, sarcastic conversation while pointing his weapon at people.

he constantly shoots at limbs to immobilize people, fires warning shots extremely close to peoples' vitals, and performs several very insane trick shots throughout the show to wound those with armor.

tristamp vash wouldn't even draw, but 98 struts around firing warning shots into the sky and singing about bloodshed for intimidation! i'm not sure there's a single episode where he doesn't shoot someone at least once.

...so what about trimax, then?

(PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD)

he is so. shockingly. violent.

of course he never kills. of course he's still trying to save people, but there's this anger in him that i was completely taken off-guard by reading for the first time.

tristamp vash is so soft he's painful to watch. 98 vash makes a heartbreaking effort to be as silly and nonthreatening as possible, constantly making himself out to be the fool. but trimax?

he's... literally grief-stricken and out for revenge. explicit revenge. he's angry and he's hurt and he lays his intentions out so clearly. he's making THREATS.

seriously:

hunting legato. HUNTING him.

it's not even a matter of drawing his weapon anymore. he does it constantly, and fires just as much. never to kill, but he doesn't joke around the way 98 vash does. the most he'll offer is a sunny smile to reassure others and nothing more.

i'm not that far into the manga, either. i'm sure there's countless more (and probably better) panels to convey this side of trimax vash, but i suppose it also says something that i've found so many panels depicting this so early on.

but the progression of vash's personality is fascinating regardless.

from a tortured, angry loner desperately trying to cling to his morals for rem's sake

to an equally devastated man who devotes himself so completely to acting the role of the fool

and finally to the sad, chronically depressed shell of a person in tristamp who refuses to so much as draw his weapon.

#trigun #trigun stampede spoilers #tristamp spoilers #trigun 1998 spoilers #trigun 1998 #trigun 98 spoilers #trimax spoilers #trigun maximum #trigun maximum spoilers #vash #vash the stampede #ok god just trying to cover my bases with all those tags #the last thing i wanna do is spoil anyone #this is such an incredible series and i want everyone to enjoy it in its purest form #but yeah i could ramble about the different vashes aaaaaaaalllll day #i kinda wanna compare all the ww's too cuz even if the differences arent so violently distinct theyre like twice as intricate #but vash's relationship to violence over the years is the most fascinating thing. he's so quick to fire in trimax and 98 for the safety of #others- both with wildly different mental states behind those bullets- but tristamp just. doesnt. Period. #tho admittedly this s1 tristamp has kind of turned out to be the prequel. i wonder if he'll be quicker to the punch in s2 #anyway god gonna stop rambling now. this post was mostly just for me anyway cuz i wanted to put my thoughts in order #ill be surprised if this goes anywhere #trigun spoilers

[nebulaeyedfish]

"Scar-!"

Man it's actually been like a year since I first watched 3rd life with @secondarysourceblock and I can't believe it's taken me so long to draw something from it. It was a very different style of MCLP than I used to watch back in the day (race to the moon, anyone?) but it really is a lot of fun haha.

See pinned for Commissions!

#third life #3rd life #3rd life smp #third life smp #limited life #traffic smp #traffic series #hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #grian #mcyt #nebulaeyedart #I've been watching a lot of grians hermitcraft serieses now too they're pretty fun #good as bg noise #I've just started scar's season 9 series too #but yeah massively different style to back when i watched stampy & squid and that #like i say probably closest in style to RTTM? #mannnn i WISH they'd done the 3rd life style of session for rttm #can you IMAGINE #i know the proximity chat mod probably wasn't a thing then but the best bits of rttm were when they were messing with the other teams #if ONLY

[boysbeloving]

KP two-year anniversary event; Prompt 4: Tension

kinn putting cheese in hot noodles while sitting at the table with vegas and porsche is PEAK TENSION

other bodyguard be like 👀👀👀👀

porsche be like 👀👀👀👀

vegas be like 🙄🙄🙄👀👀😌😌👀👀

kinn be like 🍜🍜🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀 🍜🍜🤤🤤🤤☺️☺️☺️☺️

shoutout to the MVP

#and i'm like 🙈🙈🤣🤣 #mofo adds ANOTHER CHEESE SLICE...babyboy that's entirely too much cheese for 2 strands of noodles #oh well... #i personally do put cheese in my noodles yes...so yeah i relate to kinn #but it is RARELY this tense....it does get very close to it when my dad walks in on me making noodles #that's......VERY TENSE #ANYWAY #kpanniversary2024 #kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #kinnporsche la forte #kpts #kinn theerapanyakul #porsche pachara #vegas theerapanyakul #mile phakphum #apo nattawin #bible wichapas

[desultory-novice]

Silliness aside, while i was gathering images from Moonlight Mansion for that last post, I uh... realized something kinda BIG...

That towering manor, with the big "M" doorway? A symbol like that kinda reminds you of a certain airship.... ...But no! Surely that decorated "M" stands for "Moonlight!"

Oh, wait.... Oh no...

On the gate...is that......? IT IS!

IT'S DARK META KNIGHT! And all the BAT imagery everywhere too...! Ahhh! I can't believe I'm just now seeing this!?!

:cue "Damn, bitch, you live like this?":

But I will be taking those stained glass windows of the Guardians of the Mirror World as more evidence for my "Dark Meta Knight was a mole who truly cared about the Mirror World" theory though!

(And maybe the grave stone is for the Mirror Meta Knights, like when I theorized they'd all died and that's why DMK's such a loner...)

#Kirby #Kirby series #Dark Meta Knight #cw: language #How did I never see this before?? #Did everyone else know about this already?! #Moonlight Mansion is DMK's goddamn HOUSE #And of course you find Shadow Kirby right outside the gates!! #DMK why are you so...!! :cries in misunderstood character: #The fact that he chooses to fight you in Radish Ruins. He loves old ruins. Just like Meta Knight does...!! #All those books too... tossed aside... broken mirrors... #Yeah this does absolutely nothing to de-convince me that something baaaaad happened to DMK and the others... #DMK Defense Force

[idlesuperstar]

My. Sounds like a love story.

#justified #raylan givens #boyd crowder #that's it that's the show #ok so my love language is making gifs of otps even if there are likely to be a million gifsets out there already #am I only just now watching this show from 2011 you bet I am #have I plunged headlong into obsession already after only one and a half series oh HELL YEAH #conversation with my pal who recced this to me after I'd watched three eps #me: 'did you make me watch this so you can talk about your crush on timothy oliphant? because thanks now I have one TOO' #him: 'I have such a crush on him. He's Chris Isaak hot!' #which from him is the highest compliment #(solidifying my long term suspicion that my bestie is not 100% straight but then again didn't everyone want to shag 90s ewan macgregor??) #anyway thank you all the fic writers for au-ing the hell out of this and giving me raylan/boyd for days #also fucking 1000% credit to walton goggins for making boyd so INSANELY MAGNETIC

[turtleblogatlast]

I’ve gone on and on about how Leo wants to be who Splinter finds is the ideal person (which just so happens to be Splinter’s ideal version of himself) but I have yet to really touch upon how Donnie is the one who most directly parallels Splinter himself to an honestly shocking degree, Raph’s taking from Splinter’s teachings and parenting has resulted in an unhealthy mixup in the different dynamics of a family versus a team, and Mikey is the one who is simultaneously the most focused on family and the most intrinsically himself which both leads to his better grasp of mystics and honestly what just might be the healthiest dynamic with Splinter.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #it’s late so I’m just speaking from the top of my head haha #anyway yeah #the Donnie Splinter parallels are crazyyy tho #I always see ppl say Leo is just like splinter but no Leo WANTS to be like splinter but he’s more a Karai #meanwhile Donnie exhibits many of Splinter’s traits and behaviors #basically Leo has taken on many perceived Lou Jitsu attributes #including his stance his most flaunted skills and his overall demeanor #while honestly being more of a quiet and determined soul at his core that is most like Karai - with the same hope and love for family #we see the more Karai aspects of Leo throughout the series but most blatantly with Future Leo’s portrayal and how Casey Jr talks about him #Donnie though - rather than Lou Jitsu he has many Hamato Yoshi attributes #it’s funny too because Donnie ALSO parallels Draxum in many ways #(you know who else does albeit to a much lighter extent? Mikey) #make no mistake I super wanna get into Raph having a hard time separating team and family and just sorta jumbling them together #but that mindset can be unhealthy! #SHOULD I GET INTO HOW RAPH ALSO PARALLELS HAMATO SHO IN SOME WAYS AS WELL AS ATSUKO #not to mention his direct parallels to OROKU SAKI HIMSELF #and Mikey - I actuallly have a touched briefly upon how his individuality and sense of self has led to his greater control of mystics #but I do think it’s interesting that he has arguably a more healthy relationship with splinter than the others as well? #idk it’s late #and I may be talking about nonsense BUT #I gotta stop here bc I’m very sleepy but I’ll probably be back in these tags rambling more later lol #would just like to add that splinter loves them all very much he is just a flawed and depressed man with a lot of untapped trauma #which unfortunately ends up affecting his boys to different degrees