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calicobigamy · 9 months
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Essence of a Babygirl (a tumblr joke essay)
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Babygirl, the term has spiked in popularity, but what is a babygirl? Is the term a bit more complicated than at first glance? What is the essence of a babygirl? Today I will be answering these questions. 
Urban dictionary describes babygirl as thusly:
“A term used towards grown fictional men who have the fandom in a loving chokehold.”
A Mashable article titled The internet's 2022 horny dictionary defines babygirl as
“... a term of endearment for when a man is being cute, comfortable in his masculinity, or weak in an evocative way.”
These descriptions are wholesome. They create an avenue of masculinity that can be vulnerable and attractive at the same time. A term for a type of masculinity that creates room for a multi-dimensional character in fiction. Various fictional characters have been affectionately dubbed as “babygirls”. One of the most well known being Leon Kennedy from the Resident Evil franchise. 
However the term is also used to describe characters that are remarkably not wholesome. Characters like Izzy Hands, played by Con O’Neil from the incredible show written by David Jenkins called Our Flag Means Death and Marvel’s Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, have been called babygirls. This must indicate a spectrum of “babygirlness” that scales from wholesome to not wholesome. 
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A good babygirl can be seen at a glance, but what makes these other characters part of that babygirl spectrum on the negative side? As my colleague (@robogart) and I studied the issue we realized that negative babygirlness included more nuance. 
We created a study group to determine what attributes make up a bad babygirl. Included in our study was: Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death), Gal Dukat (Deep Space 9), David Xanathos and Oberon (Gargoyles), Anders (DA2), Yami Bakura (Yugi-oh, 4kids Production), King of All Cosmos (Katamari), Patches (Fromsoft), Ratagin (Great Mouse Detective), and the Six Fingered Man (Princess Bride). 
The five characteristics that we found amongst all of the babygirls we picked from various media were: being decidedly not wholesome, pathetic, emotionally unhinged and dastardly, but all in all containing some kind of charm. 
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We went through and put all of our babygirls to the test with our system. The results were surprising, with Izzy Hands coming out decidedly less babygirl than we predicted and Ratagin being the epitome of babygirlness. 
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What did these tests show about babygirlness on a whole? The spectrum ranges from morally good characters to bad, but all share a few common traits. However they express their vulnerabilities, either as completely unhinged or emotionally accessible, we as the audience are captivated and find “their weakness evocative”. Another aspect that is continuous through the spectrum of babygirlness, whether good or bad, is that a babygirl is secure in his masculinity however he chooses to express it. Babygirls on either end of the spectrum do end up having a “loving chokehold on their fandom”. Those people in the fandom are not necessarily of quantity, but of quality. Especially for the baby girls on the “bad” end of the spectrum. 
In conclusion a babygirl can be summed up as a fictional male character that is evocative in his vulnerability and at the same time confident in his masculinity regardless of his moral compass.
Co-Written with @robogart
THANK YOU FOR READING ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF THIS SILLY LITTLE ESSAY!
Please feel free to copy and paste the bad babygirl diagram and see where you babygirls fit!! I am excited to see your favorites!!
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problematicsubmarine · 8 months
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nullphysics · 3 months
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Company mandated 3-5 minutes of “kissing with tongue”
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crossoverheaven · 8 months
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Since this was brought to attention, Lelouch was accused of illegal moves and cheating to win, so the game is on again. Can Lelouch win legitimately and prove them all wrong about how he plays?
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furiarossa · 27 days
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"Nice arm for a little bro" 
"Nice arm for a mortal human".
More for our "Vlad Masters and David Xanatos are actually brothers and finally found each other again" AU. We should find a shorter name for this. Hmmm... Found Billionaires? Billionaire Bros? (Like this one, BB). Also, we like to draw muscle and men with ponytails, don't judge us.
[Oh, and a lot more of our Gargoyles fanarts: Here’s the Gargoyles tag]
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I love how Xanatos, who will be our main villain, was first shown in full daylight, looking expectantly up at a castle it sounds like he's been trying to locate for some time.
It's his assistant Owen who we watch emerge from shadow, cool and collected and worried about costs.
Given we don't know the roles of all the players yet, this could be a nice little misdirect. Xanatos is full of life and eager and bulldozing on with a passion that doesn't consider 'astronomical costs.' Those are usually traits reserved for protagonists I feel like. So maybe the villain will be the man close to the wealthy guy. Perhaps there's internal strife and betrayal. Own is far more suspicious than Xanatos just yet.
We move on to more explicitly stated risk. Not only is this venture incredibly costly and we don't yet even know why Xanatos is undertaking it, but he just ran alone into a castle known locally to be haunted, which we didn't know before, though certainly we could see that there could be risk of going into ruins that may be structurally unsound before.
I also really love that after Owen mentions the cost, Xanatos's response utterly ignores it, and he's looking at Goliath as he first speaks over Owen's concerns. Just, 'hire the crews!'
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mirrorfairy · 4 months
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i had all these drawings from a few years ago in my drafts that never got around to being posted so here they are now
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fave-fight · 8 months
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ROUND 1, MATCH 45
NO MAGIC, POWERS, WEAPONS, OR ADDITIONAL HELP FROM OTHERS
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David Xanatos:
“This guy always wins. It's because he makes sure every situation is one where he will, in some way, benefit/win. It's why the TVTrope, The Xanatos Gambit, is named after him. Man regularly goes toe to toe with mythical gargoyles, and those guys have superhuman strength while Xanatos is just a guy. But he is also stinking rich - he bought a whole ass castle and transported it over the sea to put it on top of his skyscraper and regularly builds robots and laser guns and shit for fun. He also is seen in the show (season 1 episode 10 i believe) to practice martial arts so like. He aint going down easily. And even if you think you won - he planned for that all along!”
Light Yagami:
“I could beat his republican ass”
“He would go out like a little bitch after getting one good punch in, and I think that's supremely funny. I just want to see him get his ass kicked, is that so much to ask? Look at his face, it's SO punchable.”
“You know what? I want this mf to get beat up. I saw L is also here and I want L to beat him up.”
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servicereward · 5 months
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Buena Vista Style Guide, Disney's Gargoyles (1994)
Size Comparison & Color Callouts
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alpacoartwork · 10 months
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Caught up on Gargoyles comics so here’s some fan art I’m still fond of.
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mandareeboo · 11 months
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SCREAMING Goliath really went "nope get yours Davey."
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kirwell · 6 months
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these two would probably hang out ,,
two swanky billionaire business men with very specific obsessions that would have people concerned if they knew
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makiruz · 1 year
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The only self-made millionaire is David Xanatos, who got the money to start his business by traveling back in time to the 10th Century and setting up a then regular coin to be delivered to his younger self in 1975 when the coin is an antique so his younger self could sell it.
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nullphysics · 2 months
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crossoverheaven · 8 months
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furiarossa · 1 month
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More sketches for my headcanon that David Xanatos and Vlad Masters are actually brothers, but were separated by unforeseen (or expected... but maybe I'll get into that later) circumstances. They are finally together again! Will the inventor of the Xanatos gambit, the greatest speed chess player in the world, be able to help his cringefail little brother who is actually half-ghost?
[Oh, and a lot more of our Gargoyles fanarts: Here’s the Gargoyles tag]
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