This post is what got me to first join Tumblr :)

Texts From Superheroes

it was so much funnier in my head i promise

Okay this is actually really inspiring.

The only Great Lake I’ve experienced is Lake Michigan (specifically the Chicago lake shore) and it always felt remarkably lifeless, to the point that it was uncanny the next time I saw how alive the oceans are. But of course, it wasn’t always this way—thanks to decades of pollution followed by the introduction of invasive zebra mussels, it’s now incredibly lifeless and empty in comparison to what it once was.

So for the mermaids living there, it’s full-on post-apocalyptic.

Vast mermaid cities in the deepest parts of the lake, now mostly deserted except for a few scavengers. Makeshift settlements among sunken machinery off the Indiana shore. Jankily-constructed algae farms to try to keep local ecosystems alive. Warring factions that defend their territory with weapons made from the razor edges of zebra mussel shells. The occasional historian trying to preserve the memory of what the lake once was.

And the shared heartbeat of the survivors is the drums of war. They know humans did this, and they want to strike back. They don’t have the numbers or the tech, but they’re innovating, finding new ways to survive and thrive. And with all the metal that’s been dumped into the lakes over time, they’ll soon have the resources for vengeance.

Could I get some Great Lakes mermaid lore/stories, please?

This isn't for a game or a book or anything. I just like the Great Lakes and think they should have cold-adapted freshwater mermaids in them.

Like they are huge and very deadly freshwater seas. Why do we not discuss mermaids living in them?

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This Valentine’s Day we all need an inspiring rival who we share values and insane competitive tension with. There should be services for acquiring a nice glamorous nemesis, just saying. I am deprived. 

I desperately crave a friendship like the teen titans have in Gabriel Picolo’s art

A couple of commissions I did for RWBY LOFI 3 ☕️🍂

From my other blog! If you want a custom schematic transit map, hit me up :D

Commission Info

This is a first for me, but I am officially opening for commissions! If you have an idea for a schematic transit map you want me to make, now’s the perfect chance.

My rates for the moment are a base fee of $20, plus $10 for each route. So for example, that’s $30 for a single line, $50 for three lines, or $120 for ten lines. Branching, short routes, and overly complicated networks are case by case. Simple backgrounds and legends are included if desired.

Here are a few examples of my work!

I don't know how widespread these are, but I have never seen black on a popsicle before.

(I made my roommate try it, and they said it just tastes like a regular strawberry popsicle.)

C’mon guys...

It wasn’t THAT bad…

…Or was it?

The next inevitable Doctor Jekyll reboot should star Mr. T, who would stay disconcertingly out of character—that is, until…

To place a blossoming kiss upon your lips.

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Our eternal spring

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[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

Hey I found something I thought you'd like 'cus you like g/t

weirdstuff

Also I hope you don't mind this as my language of appreciation for someone is sending lil' stuff to them that I think they may like.

thabk you

ps. I love your work on DA

Oh this is fun; thanks for sending it my way!

I'm very touched you reached out to me; and I'm incredibly glad you like the lil things I make! :D

Some last-minute Intuition theories

So Intuition is apparently coming out today, and we finally get to find out why Monarch hasn’t tried using the Snake Miraculous yet! That’s been one of my biggest questions about season 5—on the surface it looks like the perfect power for him, considering how often victory is snatched away from him by a last-minute surprise. And the episode summary suggests that Monarch understands this.

I haven’t been to the future yet, but I still feel like using these final moments before the episode’s release to try to anticipate what’s going to happen.

Spoilers abound; be warned!

Theory 1: Monarch already tried using it

We know the Snake Miraculous is difficult to wield well. Aspik failed to take down Desperada over twenty-five thousand times, and she wasn’t even all that tough of an opponent. Understanding everything about a timeline is impossible, and part of Ladybug’s reliable success comes from how she’s always able to react to anything that Monarch does, no matter how surprising. A time loop won’t change that, even if it does remove Ladybug’s ability to catch Monarch by surprise.

So what if Monarch already tried and failed to use Second Chance to manipulate an outcome through his advantage? That could have happened with a fight we’ve already seen, where the outcome shown was the one where he gave up continuing to try. Like Aspik, he’d have learned the hard way that a second chance doesn’t give you the ability to get things right. Viperion’s success was because he worked with the power rather than trying to twist it to work how he wanted it to. But Monarch’s exchange with the kwamis in Destruction shows that he has the opposite approach, and that won’t go well for him when messing with the timeline.

So if he already tried and failed to use the power, he’ll be reluctant to rely on it any time another power could work instead. And this would explain why he didn’t use the Snake Miraculous in any of his plans like the one in Deflagration, where he was closer than ever and needed every possible failsafe. Since he can only wield five Miraculouses, he doesn’t think it’s worth it to have one of them be the one he doesn’t understand.

Theory 2: Monarch is already using it constantly

While the first theory highlights Monarch’s weaknesses, this one serves as a reminder that even though he’s always failed to defeat Ladybug, she’s also always failed to defeat him. Because Monarch is cautious, to a fault—we shouldn’t forget how long he spent making the power transfer system for the Alliance rings to ensure he wouldn’t risk losing another Miraculous. And even if he doesn’t use powers as their kwamis intend, he’s very good at finding exploits and using them in clever ways. Just look at Optigami—we could be headed for a plan like that in today’s episode.

So if he understands the potential power of the Snake Miraculous as a failsafe, he might be very reluctant to use it at all recklessly. We don’t know enough about how the Snake Miraculous works to be sure if this could work, but perhaps he’s able to regularly make save points that he can go back to if he loses a Miraculous or if his identity gets revealed. He’d only need Sass to transform him if he actually needs to travel back, so that’d be why we’ve never seen him use that Miraculous.

Theory 3: Sass has been tricking Monarch

Even though the kwamis can’t directly disobey their holder, we saw in Destruction that there are loopholes to this, and Sass is a master of those. He’s a smooth talker and a quick thinker. Perhaps he always manages to convince Monarch that the Snake Miraculous isn’t worth using, or perhaps he’s encouraged misunderstandings of how it works. He’s the sort of person where it’d be surprising if he weren’t trying to undermine Monarch, and it’s just a question of how he’d go about doing that.

It’s also important to remember here that Sass has the ability to use Second Chance on his own. However, it doesn’t seem like something that could’ve happened offscreen considering the chaos that occurs when a kwami uses their power without a holder—and it’d also be hard for Monarch to not notice that, which would prompt him to order Sass to not use that power. Perhaps he’s simply already given Sass that order offscreen, or perhaps Sass just doesn’t have a good save point to go back to. (It’s unclear if he can only go back to the most recent one—would that still be the one in Ephemeral? Can he only go back to save points of his current holder? So many unanswered questions.)

A final note

One thing to keep in mind with all these theories is that Intuition chronologically takes place before five episodes that have already been released, and we haven’t seen the Snake Miraculous used in any of them. So whatever happens, this episode definitely isn’t going to cause Monarch to decide to use Second Chance more frequently going forward. And since he still has all his rings in later episodes, we know he isn’t going to lose the Miraculous today.

So I doubt today’s episode will significantly change the status quo going forward, but what it’ll hopefully change is our understanding of it—we’re about to know more about what Monarch’s doing and why, and that can have some major implications, including in episodes we’ve already seen. After all, when time rewinding is in play, the past can be just as full of surprises as the future.