Sorry if this sounds rude but what made you ship belle x sully?

By the way the ship is still very cute and I'm starting to ship it myself!💛💙

Hey there! Don't worry, your question didn't come off as rude at all.

I know you asked me this during Belle x Sulley Week, and I really wanted to answer this during that time, so I'm sorry for the long wait.

I'm very glad to hear that you think Belle x Sulley is a cute ship and that you're starting to ship them. That makes me extremely happy because that means my posts about them are working. 🥰

Okay, what made me ship them was when I watched the Disney Mirrorverse announcement trailer after it first dropped back in March of 2022. But the precise moment was when Belle and Sulley smiled and nodded at each other while they protected each other from the Fractured. And after that, I kind of became obsessed with thinking about what their interactions would be like and concluded that their personalities mesh really well together, and thus the Belle x Sulley ship was born!

Thanks for the ask @acidicleafbat !

I would like to know about Zetsubou?

You know that scene from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei where the resident perfectionist Chiri-chan try to perfectly cut a strawberry cake but the more people come in to get a piece, the more irritated she gets with calculating so in the end she throws the whole cake into the mixer and made the disgusting smoothie out of it? I started to make a Bad Batch version of the scene. :DDDDD

My original plan was to redraw this scene but since summer the Tech in my head drastically changed and I don't think the skittishness of Chiri really suits him anymore.

Also there is a plan to make this an animatic instead of a comic, maybe with the 501st instead of the Bad Batch, featuring Dogma or Echo as Chiri.

Me thinking about your toothbrush tag

Ha ! That one seems to be a hit with the hornies homies 🪥

NO BUT.

you can't be too gentle with it, but also not aggressive. you gotta apply *just* the right amount of force.... back and forth at the right angle..... oops, looks like someone is gagging a little bit.... oh? you need to breath yeah? baby can't take it? the little sounds on the back of the throat..... mouth open so wide with sharp teeth full on display.... you have to be thorough too lest a piece of spinach gets stuck....minty aftertaste....yeah.

yeah

For the show all your WIP ask game:

I am interested in the "assassin fox" and "shotsooooo" - please elaborate on them and show us what you got? :3

Assassin fox is actually this post I made out of spite, when I saw someone being a fucktoast over fans who publicly dared share their fantheories about CX-02. I hate season 3, but I hate killjoys more. The art is still in wip.

But the other one... Deadshot with short hair. I think I keep it, he is cute with it. ♡( ◡‿◡ )

see the most imp part for a ship to work is the ""tension""........ do they hv the tension?? changjin??

listen I'm a full believer that tension is fun and good, but sometimes you just need a couple that's the walking embodiment of the sparkling heart emoji, y'know? tension is fun in books or tv shows but sometimes I just wanna witness two people be stupidly in love and obsessed with each other. I wrote out an entire paragraph about them maybe having tension theoretically but then I deleted it all because I remembered the 2ks and how their push and pull dynamic is all for show and 90% of the time they just hang out together and do domestic shit. it works because they're so incredibly soft for each other.

also, not to bring minsung into this but those bitches don't have tension either and they're THE couple of the century. they locked eyes as trainees and fell in love immediately. they're newlyweds. they've been married for 7 years. they have big stupid crushes on each other. they're soulmates. minho looks at jisung like he hung the fucking stars, moon AND sun. jisung sighs all dopey and happy whenever minho so much as LOOKS at him. tension? don't know her.

Looking forward to the new chapter of UtB! Also I learn a lot hearing your thoughts on fandom culture, and I was wondering why you think puritanism is getting stronger? Lately I’ve experienced it a lot both online and irl.

Hi anon,

I could write like a 10,000 word essay on why I think moral puritanism is getting stronger in the world, and how that intersects with increased moral panic, and 'anti' or fancop behaviour among fandom.

But I think there's more than one reason, and that at the centre of it, is the radicalisation of political extremes alongside the disdain for human life and education in the USA specifically. In non English-speaking cultures, antis are often considered a uniquely American phenomenon, for example. (They're not, but I do think some of the problems start there).

And from there it's necessary to look at:

The high presence of evangelist religion and their millions in USA politics in particular, and the influence this has on the news and government systems from the top down, affecting legislation, what we see on the media, what gets censored, who gets impacted (SESTA/FOSTA etc.) and so on. When companies like Paypal or similar say they won't support certain sites because they don't support sex workers or explicit artwork, we see extremist perspectives being normalised into the mainstream. Puritanism becomes baked into the system, and accepted as normal. And it has a domino effect, taking one thing away usually means to another thing being taken away, and by 'one thing' I usually mean like... equality, access to basic human rights, and more.

The presence of certain billionaire TERFs in UK politics actively working to destroy legislation over there gives a platform to hateful, bigoted extremists of all kinds, including Nazis (as seen in Australia recently, during a TERF event where Nazis turned up in open support). Also, I'd like to add that a lot of anti/fancop thinking is generally SWERF, anti-kink and eventually TERF in nature, and often homophobic and transphobic even when it's perpetuated by queer folk.

A long-term attack (we're talking over several decades now) on education (especially the humanities and any area that teaches critical thinking) including gutting the funding to libraries, colleges, high schools, primary schools and not increasing the pay of teachers, decreasing the general intelligence of US citizens in IQ tests across multiple metrics (except spatial reasoning). This, combined with the lack of emphasis on teaching nuance and critical thinking, means you get people primed to make didactic, black-or-white decisions and often are prone to radicalisation and black-or-white thinking. There's an increasing lack of ability to understand complex or even reasonably moderately complex thinking tasks. A great example of this was re: anti-vaxxers who said 'if masking works so well, why do you need vaccines' because there was a complete inability to understand that just because something works well, doesn't mean it works 100% of the time. There was a consistent inability too, to grok things like the swiss cheese model. That's not the only reason people are anti-vaxxers and there are some extremely smart people who are anti-vaxxers, but among broader populations, a lack of basic appreciation of nuance and risk mitigation in health was a huge issue. (And it's fairly easy to see this happening in many fandom discussions when we discuss how racism in fiction is generally not great, but that rape in fiction does not cause rape in reality.)

I know the above paragraph is long and unwieldy but it doesn't actually come close to capturing a lot of my thoughts on this so slafkjdsa it'll have to do though. The tl;dr is 'the government said philosophy and critical thinking isn't worth money, so a lot of people don't know how to do it, and anyone who can do it is often attacked or viewed with suspicion' (see also: The increasing suspicion and hostility towards experts in their field x.x). (Oh see also: A lot of people thinking YouTube videos count as 'valid research' for their viewpoints, and a lot of folks just...not ever learning how to research in general).

Something something social media privileging inflammatory and provocative takes as well as clickbait etc. encouraging people to often say things in the worst or least nuanced way possible.

The systemic attacks on democratic processes in the USA (and the UK and Australia and many other places).

The loudest and most obnoxious voices are often the people saying the stupidest shit. As in: It will feel like puritans are everywhere (and there's definitely more of them), but they're also just louder and getting more attention than they used to. It's misleading. Anti-vaxxers are actually a tiny minority for example, and antis are a minority in fandom, they're just...the loudest and the most willing to try and murder real people to defend the rights of fictional characters.

Er so. That's some of it anyway. There's more, absolutely, because I could talk about the presence of puritanism in a lot of levels of our experience/s, whether you're religious or not.

It's frustrating writing about this because I fall into the same trap of knowing that I can't talk about this in as nuanced a way as I want to, even if I get to do it in 1000 words instead of like, a miserable amount of characters on Twitter. Anyone thinking 'but it's not always like that!' or 'but not in every situation!' like trust me, I know. But if I sat here caveating everything that deserves a good caveat this post would blow out even more.

Basically if you try to stop educating your people as much, don't teach them how to research, debate or learn (yes, you have to learn how to learn), and don't give them access to basic needs, and gut your democracy/s, and the people at the top believe a fictional being cares if they're virgins or not or have abortions or not, and you don't care if people commit genocide against the children of your nation because that's not as important as the right to kill them in a moment of anger..., and you create a world where the children of your nation are primed to develop PTSD due to the fear of being gunned down while learning, you create a really great environment for radicalisation, extremism, the safety and comfort of puritanism (i.e. following very strict rules in the hope of fixing what's wrong with the world) while people look for a solution to why they feel so empty and hopeless in their lives.

here lil buddy have these. -gives 3 candied apples- One for you, one for the sad one and one for the angry one! Everything is better with yummy food

They're just in my head and don't eat....but I can. Thanks.

expression practice with the 501st's finest

What wanheda's dagger fics do you have?

I have two so far:

Echoes of You (Within Me), which is a canon verse ABO. This one is completed.

And my current WIP Whims/Winds of Fate/Destiny This is a modern Vampire/Werewolf AU where Lexa is a badass Vampire Queen and Clarke's a Werewolf.

Oh my god did you see the teaser shsbzbzbsbn

mate

M A T E

I'm only like 1/4 of the way through the fucking THIRTY ONE TRACK ALBUM?????

I'm d y I N g

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers 💖

Hi sis! Thanks for the ask 😊

Okie dokie, here we go!

Cheese/Oreos.

When people like my ships.

Listening to music while daydreaming.

Chatting with my friends.

Sleeping 💤

atlas and quinn's relationship is hard to really put on a family tree but yknow how mlp cant decide if twilight is spike's mom or big sister sometimes and depending on the specific conflict she can be one or the other? just imagine that

I like how in a way the religion in your rainworld universe really is just Fuck It We Ball jshhsj. Should we spend thousands of years building Giant Meat Computers to calculate the very VERY unlikely chance that its possible to ascend without trying or using the spooky void fluid? Yeah sure fuck it lets give it a go. Jerry get the blueprints!

I MEAN THAT'S CANONICAL TOO THE FUCK!!!! pointing fingers at My glorious person, tsk!!!

i forgor about it at first but yeah, the reason why the Itties became a thing in the canon stuff n therefore in mine too is cuz the Ancients were too lazy to cultivate properly combo'd with "oh no i don't wanna get echo'd :(". one peep corrected me on the presence of echoes in the timeline n like yeah those basards became a thing way before the Itties

the whole religion basically became a subject of manipulation of the wealthy 😔 so it shifts from the idea of the religion bein a "fuck it we ball" into the sad reality of the billionaires and such wanting an easy access to things for themselves. god dammit the Itties exist because of Ancient versions of jeff bezos bro fuuuuuuck

any ideas on how to get more confident in your art or just things you make in general? I struggle a lot with my thoughts and always talk myself out of trying to get better at art because of stuff so was just curious if you had any thoughts on the subject? thanks !

HI HELLO! I'm always up for hyping up fellow artists!

So, I used to struggle a lot with being confident in my art to the point where I solely relied on other people's opinions of my art to validate my self-esteem. It really sucked and dampened my enjoyment of drawing quite a bit. But one thing that helped shift my focus that I eventually realized was this:

I wasn't letting myself be proud of my own work.

It is not self-aggrandizing or wrong to simply be happy about something you have created, to look at it and go "Y'know what? I really like the way I drew that nose. And those flowers look AMAZING, actually." It's perfectly normal and healthy to hype yourself up and in fact, I encourage it! Be your own hype-man! Look at an old drawing you made and instead of only focusing on what you think looks bad, just focus on what you think you did well! Give your art three compliments today, I promise you it will make you feel better about your art skills.

Of course, that's not to say you can't critique your own work, or that you should blind yourself to what you can improve on. But you are your own worst critic, and often times people fail to remember that proper critiques and constructive criticism include mentioning things you enjoyed about the work alongside the potential improvements.

Bullying yourself or beating yourself up is not constructive, it is destructive. And thoughts that don't have your best interests in mind are not thoughts worth listening to.

And another thing, you need to accept yourself where you are. You cannot do better than your best and that is ok. With time and study and practice, you will improve. But if you don't let yourself draw in the first place, then how are you going to get better? Like a very helpful person once said: "bad art is good art because you made art."

And one final note: Art as a general, overarching concept is not something to "get right," it is not something with cut and dry rules that must be followed to the letter of the law. It's a form of expression. It is a product of passion that is tailored to the individual. And it is beautiful. When you let yourself pour your heart and soul into a piece and share it with the world, people will see that; even with any technical mistakes that you may have made, what people are going to notice and latch onto first is the love you have for art and the passion you carry for the craft that shines through what you make. So when you love what you do, other people will too :)

Like my mom always tells me: seek to express, not to impress.

I hope this advice helped ya out my dude and I want you to know that I'm rootin' for ya in your artistic journey! Art can be tough and really frustrating at times and I'm proud of ya for makin' it this far and seeking ways to improve!

I hope you have a good morning, good day and a goodnight, wherever you are Anon! ♥️

My husband informs me, with a grain of salt for the fact it's been a few years, that Alm even questions why the hell they're in the Thabes Labyrinth upon entering and whether it's worth it or not to disturb what's basically a slumbering tomb for some treasure. So the justification for them being there is ?????? and you have to go through multiple maps ahead of it (including the sea) in order to reach it so it just kinda. Happens. We suspect it's to loosely connect to the Valm arc we guess??? It's just a farming dungeon you can get great items from easily, but narratively... No reason.

okay so between that and confirmation from @fayesdiary it sounds like Alm and Celica really did just decide to hare off to Archanea for no discernible reason because they wanted to add a post-game dungeon with Grima.

And I mean. I'm all for Grima content but they could at least have tried to come up with a better excuse for it???

i originally sent this meme to kee (@newlibrary) and now there's a plot....i know how to do one thing apparently lol