I believe most fansies have ignored hotshot for far longer than my personal liking. I would like to say that the boy is my son and i love him with all my heart and soul. I will make you consider him. So now consider hotshot who adores flowers. Let me explain.

He loves the smell of them. He loves to look at them. I always like going around saying that hotshot came from a big family with 11 older sisters. Imagine the excitement he has every year when its one of his sister’s or mom’s birthday and he gets to pick out flower bouquets to give them with personal hand written/drawn cards. Over the years, he would take note of all their favorite colors and flowers and preference on boquets. He’d always try to give his father flowers, and it’s not like he didn’t appreciate it, moreso he simply doesn’t like flowers as gifts for himself. Birthday’s however, sometimes require a long time to wait. So hotshot upped his game and tackled valentines and mother’s days and anniversaries (with their personal partners of course)

This hc is very modern au centric btw don’t mind me.

He also loves tattoos and has littered tattoos all across his body. Not to achieve a full body look, but just enough for decoration. And all his tattoos are in fact flowers. One of his favorites is his floral tattoo that wraps around his whole neck, like some sort of wrapped boquet. It was red roses, because as basic as it is he still loves them nonetheless. He kept the coloring simple within the striking black lineart, simply shaded red rose petals and green leaves with the occasional thorns. The thorns are more prominent on the back of his neck. To name a few more of his tattoos, there’s a long drawn dark purple orchid flower slightly wrapping around his right arm from just below his shoulder to his wrist. It’s a stem with multiple orchids and was given enough space between each other to leave out a lot of naked skin. There’s also another design on his stomach a bit to the side which is a knife embezzled in a bush of thorny roses. Let’s be real, as much as he is soft and gentle he’s still tough and craves violence. Then there’s also one on his upper left thigh, daisies, which can arguably be said slowly creeping up to almlst reach his waist (purposely planning out the irony of putting a flower design that symbolizes purity and innocence on his thigh lmaoo yeah i’m not getting into that i’ll let yall’s imagination run its course) His second favorite tattoo has got to be the one on his back. It’s two nearly identical tattoos on either side of the back of his shoulders. It’s a carefully designed tattoo of the Korean national flower, the mugunghwa or the rose of sharon sticking out from their individual branches. It was one of the things he does to keep himself touch with his Korean heritage, seeing that he’s the only sibling that has spent the smallest amount of time growing up in Korea. He’s got a couple more tattoos, mostly floral themed but also a few miscellaneous item designs but this is as much as i can think of rn.

Other than gifting, hotshot also loves receiving flowers. He isn’t shy about his love for flowers, but admittedly only a handful of ppl knows abt it. Bcs let’s be real, no one expects a nearly 6’6 bulky athletic gym body dude to be excited to be given flower boquets. He has been teased a couple of times by the people around him who is considered just an acquaintance (i.e. random classmate or neighbor), but with one death glare at them and they back down. That’s how scary he can be. His friends (spot, albert, and the rest of the brooklyn kids) will gift him regular boquets on the special occasions (i.e. birthdays or graduation). But ike,his beloved boyfriend, has always tries to one up himself from flower boquets. Like yeah he still gives hotshkt regular flower boquets, but if he can help it he will give him the most unique boquet. Some of hotshot’s personal favorites has got to be the hot wheels boquet, the strawberry chocolate covered boquet, the 20 dollar bill boquet, and the assorted sweets and chocolate boquets. (I’ll let yall imagine what each of these look like lolz) but at the end of the day, hotshot loves flowers. Give this man flowers. Now.

speedy screenshot redraw with kalim for day 4 - scarabia (insert devil emoji here im on desktop) also jamil was supposed to be here i just got lazy

DnD character for a friend's campaign I'll be playing in soon-ish! Meet Maz Magigoat!

Im a creep Im a weirdo

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theyre super affectionate besties that hold hands to me :]

"I don't know how someone who dislikes insects as much as you gets stung so often- have you seen Poppy for this?"

-"Start Here" by Caitlyn Siehl

i think one of the most interesting ways to look at the differences between the series and the movie, is that the first is mostly from utena's and/or akio's perspective, while the latter is mostly from anthy's. and i like how this explains the drastic change in akio's character between the two. in the show he is more charismatic, more powerful, has a larger role in the story, because this is how he presents himself both to us as the audience and to utena. but anthy knows him and how pathetic he really is, and so when we see him in her narrative instead of his own, it becomes incredibly obvious. he can't drive his car, he doesn't have any real control over all the things he pretends to, he panics and kills himself the moment there's even the threat of consequences for what he does. it works doubly well if you read the movie as a sequel, because that's when anthy has truly lost all faith in him and the idea of the prince. he's dead the entire time because he's dead to her.

the gorgug-porter conversation is interesting to me because like. yea for the overwhelming majority of the conversation porter’s being shitty & trying to fit gorgug into a box that gorgug just does not fit into by trying to make gorgug’s relationship with his rage more focused on the aggression aspect of it. but then there’s also this specific thing that brennan brought up again in the ap, which is that gorgug’s relationship with his rage is wholly “this is a tool i use to protect my friends.” which isn’t a bad thing! but that’s his Whole relationship with it, & gorgug seems to place next to no value on his rage in relationship to himself. which is problematic, because it’s first & foremost his rage.

being raised in a household with a sort of toxic positivity largely meant that, whether or not it was his parents’ intention, gorgug internalized the message that more traditionally “negative” emotions such as anger are the wrong response to something. part of the reason he prioritizes his artificing is probably because it’s “fixing” things. in comparison to being a barbarian, which gorgug associates with “breaking” things. good vs. bad behavior, in his eyes.

it’s a totally unacceptable bar to measure a 16 y/o by, but i do think part of porter’s reasoning for not letting gorgug multiclass is him recognizing that gorgug generally does not value anger as a valid emotional response to something, at the very least for himself. & that directly conflicts with what being a barbarian is, because whether you like it or not, that rage is what fuels you. but again, barring a kid from pursuing something they deeply care about in part (not entirely, porter has a lot of more bullshit reasons) because of their fundamental values & world outlook is crazy.

so yes, 98% of porter’s reasoning is pretty shitty, immature, rife with a toxic view that there’s only one proper way to access rage, & generally not a good thing to do as a teacher, but also within that reasoning is the 2% of ‘there is a fundamental part of yourself that you only value if you can use it to take care of other people & you need to accept that as something that can take care of you, too.’ but that’s something to discuss with a therapist or a guidance counselor, not something that should hugely impact gorgug’s academic future.

hi, first off i really love your art. the h/c and warmth really hit me where i live and your illustration style is fantastic. lately i've been obsessed with the post where an unwell milek thinks geralt will leave him behind. was that an ingrained insecurity, assuming his super-witcher dad wouldn't have time for a sickly human kid?

[MASTERPOST] - Ahh, thank you for the ask! Yes, this scene.. I actually saw this a bit differently! It's not about Milek fearing Geralt will leave him behind, he actually wants him to. They need to find his Pa!! I think he often feels like a burden; Jaskier knows this, but Geralt isn't aware of this yet. Milek just wants to pull his weight, especially with Jaskier. A little sneak peak to their struggles regarding this:

Meanwhile Jaskier continues to struggle with his omega status.

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Obviously the structure of an episodic series often requires characters to go from 'complete strangers' to 'close friends/family' in an unusually short amount of time. I get it.

Writers need a 'new guy' in the group to ask questions about the setting that the audience can't, but still (especially in comedy shows) want the fun dynamics that come from all the main cast knowing each other super well. It's one of those functional tropes like L-Shaped Blankets where you're required to suspend your sense of disbelief.

Having said that, I love when writers choose to take this trope and retroactively justify it by later on revealing that the Seemingly Normal Everyman Character is actually as unhinged as the rest of the group— it's just that their weirdness manifests specifically as an ability to form found family dynamics with literally any group they join, almost immediately after joining.

Like, you assumed that they just fit in so well because your group has a special vibe, but then you accidentally left them in the supermarket for like five minutes and by the time you realised and went back they were already Blood Brothers with the cashier.

Characters who are like friendly dogs in that you can put them essentially anywhere, with anyone, and they will just be like “welp! Guess this is my New Family now” and just go along with it.

idk why, but your art is the image my browser uses for tumblr, which means I get to look at it all the time~

Tumblr said “you need a silly little guy to wave at you” and boy howdy is that silly guy waving.