Yes this poll is very biased in favor of North America lol

no other anime woman can compare to hana. it was love at first sight for me...

Literally a French pastry called a gougar

The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)

Project X Zone (2012)

Aoko my beloved...

- Jeffry McWild “continue?” sequence, Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown (SEGA AM2)

I haven't been following you for that long but I wanted to say that, as a trans woman, I find Lindsey such an empowering character. Seeing a woman who is big and powerful while also being beautiful and unabashedly fem makes me feel a little more hopeful that I can achieve the same thing someday, and I don't there aren't many other characters who make me feel the same way.

And as a lesbian, I think she is pretty. (muscles... <3)

Anyway I hope none of that was weird to hear from a rando in your asks ^^; Thank you for sharing your art!

This is so beautiful + wonderful to read, thank you so much for sharing this!! <3 <3 <3 I'm humbled, and hope that Lin continues to be this character for you ;w; <3 I originally had her as an outlet for everything I liked as a kid growing up but didn't let myself have due to being made fun of or being looked down on for it. Femininity was not "Good" for a time (though there's def a conversation around why it was like that + still kind of is). Over time, that became a bigger part of her character and it's something I try to keep as an integral piece ;v; she helped me heal with a lot of things, so I do genuinely feel so humbled + warm when I read this. Keep being you + keep being beautiful. Or, take a nap. Naps are good, too. (And Lindsey approved xD)

I SAY, I SAY, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT’CHA GET, YA OVERGROWN FOSSIL! YA RIGHT THEN THERE LET YOUR PRIDE GET THE BEST OF YAS AFTER YOU SWAT A TEXAS-SIZED FLY, THEN YA ACT SURPRISED WHEN THE BUILDIN’ YA HIT DECIDES TO SHOW YA HOW A GAME O’ DOMINOES WORKS! Y’AINT NO SPRING CHICKEN, NO I SAY, YOU AIN’T NO YOUNGIN’ ANYMORE! YA GETTIN’ OLD, LIZARD BOY! OLD! THE ONLY THING YOU’LL BE KING OF IS THE DIRT IF YA KEEP THIS UP! IF I WAS YOU, I’D TAKE OUT THE BIG MAMA OVAH THERE WITH THE GOOD OL’ FASHIONED ELEMENT O’ SURPRISE! SO GIT TO IT, BIG MAN!

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So I recently had the thought that Superman as depicted in the DCAU canon probably has the best-articulated-by-the-narrative and most-consistent character flaws of any Superman I’ve seen, in a way that’s enabled by the long-formedness and consistent creative vision of the series.

He’s got an Atlas complex that grinds the gears of his equally-durable, equally-capable colleagues in the Justice League. He has deep-seated fears of moving the wrong way and breaking something or someone, which is then upstream of some moderate control issues. He’s got anger problems, although it’s rare for someone to push him far enough that this takes center stage; you see this with Prof. Hamilton in the series finale of STAS, but also in a number of fights against opponents strong enough that he starts getting frustrated. When the stakes are lower, he can be cocky bordering on genuinely vindictive; there are lots of examples of him rubbing his opponents’ noses in it when he finally gets them on the back foot, and it’s shown in flashbacks that he was genuinely kind of a dick when he was a teenager and hadn’t completely sorted out what proportional responses looked like. He doesn’t always think through the implications of his grand projects, be that the implicit threat-escalation posed by the expanded JLU, or the massive disarmament project he spearheaded that turned out to be part of an alien invasion scheme. There are probably more of these that I’m forgetting. The final roundup here is that he’s a good guy. He’s far and away from a perfect guy, with perfect judgement. All of this amounts to something that’s more coherent and specific than the contradictory, subject-to-eternal-revision mess you could assemble from his 60-something year publication history in the comics, but nonetheless with a substantial-enough runtime that all of these traits can be put on display again and again.

In turn, this allowed the collective DCAU continuity to get away with at least three “what if Superman went rogue” plots- four if you count the mind-control situation in Legacy- specifically because they did the legwork to establish the concrete neuroses and psychological vulnerabilities that might cause this specific version of Superman to go rogue. It was never completely insane that Luthor might figure out the exact set of words, actions, and personal losses necessary to coax this depiction of Superman into an authoritarian partnership for the supposed greater good. It’s not completely insane that this depiction of Superman, if pushed far enough, might lose faith in the collective judgement of humanity and decide to put the world and all his loved ones in a bottle. And when the Cadmus plot rolls around in JLU, it’s as effective as it is because they’ve already advanced two roads-not-taken, established what levers you need to pull to make this specific version of this guy cross the line, and that Cadmus and Luthor are pulling all of them. 

I emphasize the specificity here, because the flipside of this are Superman-gone-rogue narratives that jump right to that as the cornerstone of the continuity, with no real opportunities for juxtaposition. A major issue I eventually developed with the Injustice franchise is that despite its pretenses of being an alternate universe, there’s no established continuity that it’s deviating from, bar its own. To some extent I feel as though it’s banking on the audience transposing their gestalt-understanding of Superman and the broader DCU- hell, their understanding of the Justice Lords arc in particular- in order to elide that they’re playing extremely fast-and-loose with the specifics of what has and hasn’t happened to Superman in this continuity. The DCEU is a runner-up- jumping right to the Damocles-sword of a bad-future after two movies is jumping the gun, in the same way everything about the 2010s DCEU was jumping the gun. I think you could plausibly attack TDKR’s portrayal of Superman under this logic, although I personally wouldn’t- but that’s its own post.

Point being that you can’t sell me the upset of a paradigm if you never established it-you need to set up the pins before you can bowl worth a damn.

POV: Pinkzilla glowup

brb going outside to wistfully observe the reflections of the shop lights in the wet streets

Everyone says that the eagles should have just carried the ring to Mordor but people who really know their lore know that they were actually stuck in some sort of hotel