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toodrunktofindaurl · 7 months

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new sweater

#imodna #southern gothic #imogen temult #laudna #critical role #ooooold sketch i only posted on patreon mooonths ago #from episode 6 lmaooo #one day they'll get that very important sweater #Zhudanna mentioned knitting for Laudna #it's essential for the plot trust me #maryneart

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avalencias · 2 months

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red moon rising….

#critical role #my things #imogen temult #we’ll not talk about how I haven’t been caught up in too many episodes I just love imogen #this did start as portrait practice but very rapidly……….evolved so here we are #as i’m sure you’ve all sussed out i’m incredibly stressed out and that’s why i’m drawing again #cheers!#ok also in reality I enjoyed this one bc it was a different….method of drawing/rendering? I was essentially re-showing myself how to do it #throughout and frankly I think it worked out for the better #so there’s that!#im sure I have the actual timelapse somewhere too……….

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prokopetz · 2 years

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I recognise that the media trope where one member of a same gender couple is super classy and the other is a total bro is, in some respects, replicating the whole “so which one of you is the man?” thing, but I’m willing to give it a pass because it’s also extremely funny.

#media #tropes #gender #gender roles #gender essentialism #especially if the classy one utterly unhinged and the bro is the long-suffering voice of reason

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canisalbus · 5 months

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To me, Machete kind of has the energy of a secondary villain/coldhearted side character in someone else's story that a lot of fans latch onto, moreso than the protagonist. Question is, would he be the villain in anyone's story?

Why, thank you! I'm actually glad to hear he gives off that vibe. I don't think he set out to become a villain but a lot of people certainly view him as one.

#in the 16th century canon he starts out as an introverted but sincerely well meaning guy that never quite manages to find his social niche #he was a sensitive kid and when subjected to enough pressure #his insecurity fearfulness and powerlessness mutate into distrust resentment aggression suffocating repression and self-restraint #I don't think he's a bad person in fact he consistently tries very hard to do the right thing #do his job properly avoid letting people down and get through life with a sense of dignity #but he is supposed to come across kind of cold impersonable and difficult to be around if you don't know him personally (and very few do)#people can sense there's something wrong with him and are put off by it #Vatican is a nest of vipers and as the stakes rise he retreats deeper into his coldblooded untouchable work persona #he has no choice but to start lying scheming blackmailing and eliminating his enemies #in order to maintain his position keep Vasco safe their relationship under wraps and his own head above water #essentially playing by the same rules everyone else in the holy see has been playing with for centuries #eventually he loses his spot as the secretary of state and is manipulated/forced to take on a role in the roman inquisition #and if people were sort of iffy about him before being the authority overseeing trials torture excommunications and executions doesn't help #and since he has so few allies and such an infamous reputation he's an easy target for scapegoating whenever necessary #towards the end it dawns on him that he's become the kind of twisted cruel corrupt person he used to fear and despise #and the guilt moral injury and abject self-loathing had largely sapped him of his will to live by the time the final assassin gets him #answered #anonymous #Machete #Vaschete lore #he thought his dream of priesthood would make him a better person more worthy of admiration safety and love but he climbed too high #and got roped up in the dangerous games that take place under god's nose and slowly got strangled to death

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thelastharbinger · 1 year

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Tenoch Huerta on why the idea that “hard work always reaps its rewards” isn’t true. Talent and hard work alone doesn’t guarantee entry into certain spaces (you’ll always be sidelined even when you’re included), but it will determine your longevity once you force your way in.

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suntails · 8 months

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a father's love

#SNIFFLIGN AND WEEPING. IM SO FUCKNH NORMAL ABT THE KNIGHT OF DAWN. SNIFFLES. I LOVE HIM #guys u dont get it anytime i think abt him i start tearing up its so TRAGIC. being essentially pushed into the role of a knight for his kin #and pushed to kill briar valley's princess when he clearly doesnt want to. for the sake of a POTENTIAL to save the man who took him in. for #the sake of keeping his love happy and saving her father. to have a kid who you care so deeply for that u both give him up to a better futu #putting him to sleep for who knows how long so he can live in peace. even if it means you wont be in the picture. even if ur dead. SNIFFLES #im CRYIGN im MUSHY ABT IT. FUCKJIGN SUE ME #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #knight of dawn #ch 7 spoilers #book 7 spoilers #UUAGAAGAHHHHHHHHH #suntails #AND SILVER!!!! so resentful of what his og dad did. so guilt ridden of being his descendant. bearing the pain of a crime he didnt even comm #of leaving malleus with no parents. of killing the PRINCEiSS of his KINGDOM that hes been sworn to protect. the feeling of treason in his <#him trying desperately to push this away while completely paralyzed over the weight of his realization and crumbling to it. AUGGHGHH #sorry im normal (lying) (lyign) (extra lying)

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soraka-in-warhammer40k · 2 days

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Recent grimdank memery has reinforced my belief that the only reason BigE did not make any Lady Primarchs (that we know of) and subsequently Lady Astartes was that he was genuinely scared of them.

Imagine an entire legion of people like Calladayce Kesh or Bayezara Aggonades. Either they wipe themselves out on the spot or become the most dangerous force in the galaxy. One insane transhuman woman is an individual outlier. Two insane ones are hinting towards a pattern...

#warhammer 40k #wh40k #adeptus custodes #i love the idea that with the custodes gender roles are essentially reversed #they are equal in strenght but the ladies are just so much more dangerous due to being completly unhinged

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gendrie · 1 month

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ned told arya, on page, that she is a stark of winterfell and she has a duty to her house therefore she needs to grow up in order to best fulfil her responsibilities and arya "vowed" that she would do so while thinking she had never loved her father so much. she completely embraced the idea of community that was one of ned's most fundamental lessons for leadership

#arya doesnt want to be a housewife #but as lady of WF in her own right #she would NOT be #im arguing that she would essentially be its lord #but thats apparently too complex of an idea for this fandom #they're all chugging the gender roles kool aid and theres nothing i can do about that

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archersartcorner · 2 months

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Back in Far Harbor gang… I get they probably didn’t want to extend a cutscene where the player had no control out too long, but I do wish in the Acadia meeting that you can eavesdrop on they brought up Nick 😭 but they do Not so here’s me making up scenarios. The Usual. 😏

#my art #described #fallout 4 #dima #fallout 4 dima #nick valentine #also like the idea that Nick & Dima have internal fans and when they get Super Emotional u just hear WRRRRRRRRRRRRRR WHDBDJ #also playing with the idea that po is a psyker/has a ‘sight’ equivalent that’s. essentially just in-game save-scumming LMAO #rly hoping that’s not an idea I’m accidentally stealing from someone. PLS lemme know if someone else has used that and I just Forgot 😭#but ye essentially when faced with the more decisive moments. Po might just pass out and ‘experience’ all of the options -#- (akin to garnets future vision in SU I’d say!) and that helps him determine the best path forward #thought sometimes when it’s a smaller decision he doesn’t pass out. just experiences some light fatigue and then -#- ‘oh ya btw that trunk is trapped. yea you’ll get blowed up if you just open it.’ ‘…. well thanks for relaying that .0001 seconds before-#-I opened it PO.’#but anyway. all that to say that’s what Nick’s referring to when he said po probably ‘saw’ it and then encouraged the path #po meanwhile is upstairs looking through faraday’s diary - I mean uhhhhhhhhhh the other secret stuff. def not his diary #anyway. DiMA’s not biological but there is an importance to him to him and Nick’s relationship. he’s stupid protective of Nick -#- who probably doesn’t appreciate being the ‘little’ brother all that much. but that’s just how DiMA’s rationalized their ‘roles’#I just like em hehe

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tomaturtles · 4 months

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:3✌️!!!!

#mari makinami #mari makinami illustrious #neon genesis evangelion #rebuild of evangelion #nge #toma draws #shout out to mari for fulfilling an ESSENTIAL role in the eva cast (the pink one)#her lore eludes me kinda but shes so fun and cute i like what she brings to the cast :3 might rewatch the rebuilds to get her more sometime #that or check out that one manga chapter with her and yui... curious about what they have going on #no clue what i was doing with the plugsuit i referenced two figures and both had a different plugsuit design. i tried

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shorthaltsjester · 10 months

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the venn diagram of people who actually understand pelor’s complexity and the people who understand vex’s character is a circle and a very small one at that

#it’s about them both being secretly kind hearted with harsh and dickish exteriors to protect the things that matter to them #like. please rewatch c1 and the info we get about pelor in it #where it is reiterates time and time again that pelor faced a significant brunt of the calamity. who watched ioun get struck down.#who shares a plane with sarenrae after her believers were essentially extinguished #and tell me again how his actions (of which we have. still very little info) are unreasonable #they are Absolutely asshole actions #but yknow. vex was also inclined towards asshole actions when her loved ones/the stability of her life was threatened #anyway this isn’t discourse this is just how i feel about two of the fandom things that irritate me the most and their correlation #honestly i don’t super want anymore vm cameos for a While but also i would love a vex one if it was regarding pelors champion stuff #especially now that we won’t have deanna around #vex’ahlia #pelor #the dawnfather #vex’ahlia de rolo #critical role #my posts

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adastra121 · 6 months

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Every once in a while, I think about how MC and Rime’s dynamic is the funniest and saddest thing ever.

Because…MC stole his life. Then his weapon. Then his job. Then his boyfriend. And then, depending how you play it, MC also steals his heart.

#it’s hilarious #I just feel so BAD for rime the entire time #can you imagine being him? being in his place?#well I mean I guess you can because you do exactly that in Felix’s route ahem #but the one you love robbing you of a peaceful and dignified death — only to fall in love with the stranger they summoned by accident #and then that stranger ends up in possession of your power and your weapon and your role in the team #all while YOU’RE STILL ALIVE — I mean YEAH you might have come back WRONG but damn #you are RIGHT THERE #if anyone cared…they probably don’t — they seem perfectly happy with your cheap knockoff #yeah that would make anyone a little bit spiteful #and then the punchline is that you never end up getting revenge for any of that because you too become enamoured with said cheap knockoff #that’s so tragic — and so funny #I love the path where we become friends because that’s essentially how it goes #stealing his heart either romantically or platonically — both work #I miss fictif’s last legacy #I kind of fell out of the app before dorian so I don't know if they ever finished that story #fictif #last legacy #rime solano varela #rime varela #felix escellun #felix iskandar escellun

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iintervallum · 10 months

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and i kiss her again

edit: the finished version is here!

#cr spoilers #wip #laudna x imogen #imodna #southern gothic #my art #critical role #i'm super behind on c3 but i still think that making this is important #spoiler culture isn't real because i'm defo going to still be hyped when i finally encounter this episode #edit: i'm interested more in the ship now that they're together since it raises some interesting possibilites #since what was holding each other back i feel in the past was this unspoken SOMETHING like imogen was not saying what she truly felt #and now that its finally brought out into the open maybe other things can be brought out too! like maybe for once they can actually disagre #or not be so attached to each other since they now know for sure that the other loves them in the way they love them #essentially the security of a defined realtionship helps them more in the long run if you get me #as much as i love undefined and messy relationships #they can be very very tricky #like qpr work so well because the parties involved define it as such #it cannot work with ambiguity #i'm still holding onto the idea of them being qpp as well as laudna being some form of aspec #though i do acknowledge that thinking your unlovable is different from the inability to feel romantic/sexual attraction #those two can still...exist together #case in point me #i thought for a long time that no one would like me and still struggle with that #but i myself in addition to that find romantic feelings comes after an emotional connection(demiromantic)#so yeah i still view laudna as someone on the aspec spectrum for that reason #but i'm open to people reasoning it as other things too!#like sure i view them as bi4bi but lesbian headcanons are valid as well #just don't be a dick about it and say that its “impossible for them to be into men or masc-presenting people”#we can just have differing opinons maybe #phew i really did a long vent in the tags so sorry about that LMAO

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queenlucythevaliant · 2 months

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Also for the record, the whole White Witch-enchanted food thing still would have worked regardless of when the story was set. Kids like sweets, especially magic ones that symbolize temptation. The WW2 sugar rationing is not the pivotal element here

#the ww2 aspect of narnia is interesting flavor but like. it's not really essential #lots of books are inextricably linked to their historical contexts such that they can't be properly understood without them #i honestly don't think lww is one of them #the turn of the century setting of mn is far far more important to the story proper than ww2 is for lww #bc of the role it plays in genre and the influence of lewis's childhood on the story #the evacuation of london has one (1) essential story function: it gets the kids into a strange country house and away from their parents #you'll notice it gets dropped entirely in subsequent books #it's very interesting set dressing and definitely cool to play with #but narnia is not at its heart a ww2 story #if anything it's a ww1 story #narnia #idk why but I'm feeling very salty today

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homostacis · 3 months

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hey what if you and your twin brother were the central protagonist and antagonist of a character-action franchise and must therefore fulfill your narrative roles that inherently place you in conflict with each other

#save me dmc 5 as metafiction save me #like theres this extra layer of the story thats like dante and vergil must fight because the narrative demands it from them #especially that final fight where neither party is really at odds with each other and theres this profound sense that the characters #almost wish it didnt really have to be this way? but they accept it and reminisce while they can #thank god nero was like this shit stupid as fuck!#also another reason why i think his moment of stopping them is so good #its him essentially kicking them out of their narrative roles and taking over as the protagonist #he said my narrative now and it works dante even says he can go with vergil cause neros here #cause yeah with nero taking on the role of the protagonist dante and vergil can like actually be brothers again lol #they dont have to be defined by conflict #stories that in general reflect on characters playing roles in the narrative will never not hit for me #dmc #dante #vergil #nero

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scurvgirl · 1 year

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[A sending stone vibrates, a hand meaning to deactivate it accidentally activates it instead.]

Beau: Hey, Hey Caleb. Yasha's got this new green bean casserole recipe she wants to try. Can we have some of your green beans?

Caleb, audibly breathing heavily: ah, Beauregard, I'm, uh, a bit busy at the moment. [More heavy breathing]

[A pause]

Beau: IS IT ESSEK?? HEY ESSEK!

Yasha, softer than Beau from present: What if it's not Essek, that would be awkward.

Caleb, still breathing heavily: Ladies, please, now-

Beau: Of course it's Essek, who else could it be?

Yasha: I don't know. Caleb is a handsome guy, maybe...

Beau: Nah, it has to be-

[Essek rises and leans over to the sending stone]

Essek: Caleb and I are currently indisposed, we will message you back later about the green beans.

[A brief cheer is heard before a Silence spell is cast on the stone]

Caleb, reaching for Essek: Now, where were we?

[In Zadash]

Beau: I fuckin' KNEW it!

Yasha: You're so smart, babe.

#scurv writes #mighty nein #mighty nein reunited #critical role #critical role spoilers #shadowgast #beauyasha #something something about payback #beauregard lionett #yasha nydoorin #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #im just going with they have special sending stones that can essentially be used like cell phones on speaker #pumat is a talented guy. im sure he figured that out

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