||🍍• No, because I still haven’t gotten over the fact that Shadow wanted to get Amy a birthday present, is canonically shit with computers, but still tried to figure out how to get her concert tickets for Hot Honey…

…urgh, fucking end me…

THE BAR HAS BEEN ON THE FUCKING FLOOR!!

Silence in the library

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on february 1st!

older designs because why not :O

THE HOT TOPIC ICONS - GIR VS SHADOW

Alright I know I'm supposed to be reblogging all my current likes I've neglected to reblog but I just had a crazy idea hit me!

I'm sure most of you are familiar with the great Tumblr Sexyman wars of 2022-2023 right? Well I have a little social experiment I would like to try on this fateful evening April 11th 2024.

I RAYNE OFFICIALLY DECLARE THE FIRST EVER WAR BETWEEN HOT TOPIC'S GREATEST ICONS!!

not a fan of dadow but shit man it does kinda make sense sometimes idk

ok sorry the OTHER thing about lucienne is like. as previously stated she is dream's handpicked emissary from the waking world to the dreaming she's the diplomat in chief she's the translator she's the bridge. because the dreaming is, in a very real way, dream's own psyche, this is tantamount to giving lucienne a tremendous degree of access to his interiority and by transitive property also tantamount to entering into a deeply emotionally intimate relationship with her (unimportant for the purposes of this post whether that relationship is platonic or romantic).

now, in general, looking at the pattern of dream's close emotional relationships—dream doesn't share himself with people as a rule (beyond the access that all things that live have to the dreaming; but i'm talking about his self here, the one he doesn't like to acknowledge he even has), but when he does share with people, it's with people who have some shadow on the soul, so to speak. just looking at attested relationships in show canon, his deepest emotional connection seems to be with death, who embodies the duality of light and dark even better than he does himself. calliope is the muse of epic poetry—heroism and tragedy—and also bears the sort of divine pride that led her to cut dream off for hundreds or thousands of years when he wronged her. the less said about that other guy, the better, but he's no sunshine-rainbows-unicorns type—he's a soldier of fortune, a bandit and a killer, a man who profits from the sale of human life. even best bird matthew, in comix canon, had a sordid past that will maybe be partially retconned for the show but has still been gestured at.

dream likes the complicated ones. he's drawn to them. they speak to something in him that he won't acknowledge in himself (he has to be Whole, fully integrated, without reservation, because he is the king and he is the dreaming and if the dreaming ain't whole then the universe is in trouble—but he feels that ache nonetheless).

all that is to say: when people try to portray lucienne as dream's Designated Well-Adjusted Neurotypical Friend, i begin to harm and maim.

He's trying so hard. Sir you're too old for this, put the knife away.

How the fuck has Patricia McKillip never won a Hugo or Nebula. Fake awards.

Forgotten Beasts of Eld and Ombria in Shadow didn't even get fucking NOMINATED?!

Meanwhile s1 Jang Uk:

I looove love love playing with the classic 'big tough guy rescues and protects small sort of pathetic nerd' type handsome prince story that Otasune has going on initially, but i also fucking ADORE playing with the inverse; Snake as a man needing saving despite how often he takes the role of hero in others eyes, Otacon seeing this man so battleworn and tired who has been denied any peace or a normal life and feeling such compassion and hurt burning in his heart for him that he makes a vow to stay by his side and protect him. Scrawny beanpole of a man holding this clone soldier in his arms when nightmares come for him, trying to calm him down from memories of the hell's he's walked through; whispering softly to him, reminding him he's there, he's safe. Helping bandage his wounds and massage his bruised muscles and caring for him when he grows tired and worn down; all with a look in his eye that suggests at rage bubbling silently over the fact the man he cares about has to endure this much. I just really like when Hal is in that protective role of trying to be the stronger one for Dave, this sweet sweet man with a big heart taking a look at the man under all that lore and legend and thinking who is taking care of you? Who is keeping you safe at night? Are you all alone, why must you endure this alone? I just. Clenching my fist. I fucking love when Otacon is strong in his own way, and protective in his own way; he might not be a supersoldier, he's just A Guy, but he cares and he see's the man behind the legend and decides to stick by him like his guardian angel and aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa They are both everything to me

I can't believe people are still on 'He is not a kid, he just looks and acts like one'. As if on it's own it's not enough. He acts like he knows what he is doing? Kids are not brainless.

And with him being cosmic being that live 'long' so the aging process will not be human/witch like, and with the show stating and portraying multiple times that they are a child... Having a one eighty on him in the last final episode and making him an adult would be too weird after all of this.

Collector is not even a full villain, but an antagonist, a very powerful one, but still. Villain spot still belongs to Belos.

Sorry but like

I think it needs to be said at this point

trying to formulate my opinions on The Spot by holding my sister as a captive audience while i loudly rant around her apartment

never thought i'd say it. not happy about gay sex

gwen only being at spider society for a couple months and saying she voted against the go home machine is so fucking funny to me because like hkdjshfjkd holy shit were they individually hauling villains home before this lmao