Batfam sketch dump I’ve been sitting on for months 🦇

To think I’m going to have to wait one year until I seize this guy by his uniform bell the second his banner is here…

Same song I took the lyrics from for a previous post. "Belle" from the french musical version of Notre dame de Paris

Is it too early to build pride merch inventory?

a while ago i saw a post by @sideblogdotjpeg about how the cycles in c3 seem a lot more personal/familial. and i kind of went insane in the tags at the time and i’ve been thinking about it a lot since because like…

you have the heroic cycles that the band of boobs parallel/break on this large scale. the idea of these broken trios of adventurers is there throughout the campaign, but they really start to engage with it towards the end— with the divine hearts, and thiala, and the wheel of suffering/wheel of joy idea. the thing hardwon says as he takes the divine heart, that no matter what anybody chooses from then on it’s with love in their hearts, i feel is very relevant to how they break the cycle. they love each other, and they choose over and over to hold each other tighter rather than be driven apart.

and on the other hand, you have duck team’s refusal of fate vs their family’s resignation to it. look at swag working with mothership, oliana’s contrition, and the stuff that is currently ongoing with gowan. you know— sol is a version of swag who fully rejected mothership and found his friends instead. callie refused to be a part of her family’s business, and her love for the wild and the serpents is giving the world a chance. calder, when he makes the deal with ultrus, telling callie and sol that he trusts them to save him. and now calder is refusing to sit back and let gowan handle things in the ice knife.

it's not that duck team aren't trying to save the world. they are. and it's not that the boobs didn't have a personal connection to the cycles they were breaking. they did. but it's like... well... how do i put this into words. right--

the song melora's boon plays when the boobs arrive at the heart of the world and speak to melora. when she talks to beverly about duty, shows him the places he faltered and how at the last second, he gets back up. (later, when they face thiala, bev doesn't go unconscious once. at one point, he's the only one standing.) for sol, this is the song that plays when he expresses his fear of going down again. when he admits to callie that he's scared of the day that she and calder are down and he's the one that needs to stand up alone. when callie says she's not afraid of that day, and sol finds himself empowered by the mushroom in his chest. the moment that sets up sol's long death monk ability, where he's able to refuse to go down and keep on fighting.

melora’s boon is also the song that plays for moonshine’s boon at the heart of the world. there are actually two songs in this scene, hardwon’s is different, and the transition back happens when melora says there’s a part of herself that moonshine hasn’t embraced. when she speaks to moonshine leading her people to a better future like an alpha wolf leading her pack. for callie, it plays when she tells hardwon and sol that she’s a liability and she needs to change— to embrace winter— in order to get calder back, even as they reassure her that she doesn’t. it also plays when callie asks the others to help her protect honeysuckle while he’s weakened. when they promise to lead honeysuckle home and free him from his connections to gromdal.

the writing on the wall plays when the boobs reach the court of gods. there's the wall of prayers there, and they hear the prayers of the people of bahumia, reaching out to them. prayers of protection-- for and by them. prayers that put the future of bahumia in their hands. for callie, this is the song that plays when she sees aryox's carving of her reaching the cave. when she realizes her mother acted the way she did because she could see what was coming in the future. when she realizes her mother was leaving the world in her hands.

the songs that the boobs first encounter at the end— when they’re basically demigods stepping up to face thiala— return for duck team in these personal moments. when sol finds the strength to refuse death. when callie talks about embracing winter, her mother’s season, something she eventually finds strength in, to save her friend. when callie asks the others to help honeysuckle, one of the serpents that she’s promised to protect partially due to the harm her family caused to the wild. and when callie realizes her mother saw the future and acted as she did because of it, pushing callie to walk the path she’s walking now.

anyway. this was a post about naddpod music.

everyone told me she was terrifying but they didn’t tell me she was so cool and nice

I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.

It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.

By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.

Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.

the premiere link for ranboo bakes a cake 2 is live ! 30 minutes to go :]

This is a comic idea that’s been going around my head for a bit, but I’m not entirely sure how to draw it yet, so I just decided to use the comic creator to get my point across, since I thought it was funny. I’ll probably draw it one day. But some things I wanted to draw but couldn’t get across due to limited sprites is that they all have shocked and/or terrified expressions hearing this, including Dark Cacao, Pomegranate and Dark Enchantress

But yeah basically in my head the Sovereign of Darkness is like this eldritch being that even the Cookies of Darkness are scared of, if only because while they know that’s Dark Choco’s body, they’re fairly certain that isn’t Dark Choco talking to them, corrupted or not. And they also know that whatever it is talking to them isn’t a Cookie, but aren’t sure what it is, only that it’s some powerful being. Only Dark Choco has any semblance of knowledge of what it is, and he can’t talk to them right now

Bonus points if you know who I got that Sovereign dialogue from. Honestly their monologue also nearly perfectly fits my interpretation of the Sovereign. And not gonna lie, the voice kind of fits too

But yeah, take this I guess. I’ll draw it at some point

Women will freak out all the live long day about how the agricultural revolution destroyed women and then also somehow deny that feminist motherhood/childrearing is possible but bestie-if human beings existed before the agricultural rev (and reproduced) and agriculture was the impetus to the creation of patriarchy….then our foremothers already did a version of feminist motherhood that deserves looking into. You can also just look at the various matriarchal and matrilineal (although only matrilineal is less helpful) societies that have existed historically for social patterns/structures that are liberating to women because they exist. Patriarchy is temporally and structurally bounded aka. not inevitable.

I really really hate the idea that the human race deserves to die off. Human beings are not defined by the selfish and horrific actions of the few, please keep in mind all the women and girls you condemn when you condemn “the human race”. Should they pay for the crimes of men? I think they shouldn’t. I think humanity has value beyond the destructive capacity patriarchal social relations and I know that these relations have a context and a history-which means there is a time before….it is not inevitable.

Historically humans have lived in harmony with nature and against it, we have lived in societies were women were free and societies were they were not-there is absolutely no reason we can’t learn from our successes and our failures to craft something that isn’t harmful-that is entirely within our collective power to do-that is when we decide to believe it is a possible and useful project to undertake (and if you feel this is impossible, I sincerely urge you to look into political and economic revolutions of the past where people did accomplish things previously thought wildly impossible).

uhhh ray in a wheelchair cause i’m thinking about getting one for myself cause my cane is not enough

fukuchi: “i’m so sick of you two fighting it is driving me crazy,,, so you’re going to sit here and say five things you like about eachother.”

jouno: “i think it’s really cool how you are always so useless unless we’re directly involved in combat.”

tecchou: “i think it’s really neat how everything about you is just a collection of false promises you make to yourself to excuse your actions.”

jouno: “i love that despite being a terrible partner you can’t be single because being alone would force you to acknowledge how unbearable you are!”

tecchou: “i love the sound of you viciously sobbing and hyperventilating when you are experiencing severe emotional distress.”

jouno: “i really like how statistically you will probably die before me!”

fukuchi *shocked at the twos responses*: “oh my god you two where did you learn to talk about eachother that way?!”

A lesson in how to look sexy as fuck while dressed in a silly costume with even sillier face paint.

Sex kitten.

I’m the type that can and will cry if think too hard <3

You could post cute pics and get validation from strangers on the internet while you wait.

Fr tho I hope you're doing okay ❤️

What do you think I’ve been doing 😂😘

I like the little creature in your pfp! Who are they? I’d love to know more!

That’s my sona/mascot, Pancake! :] I designed her kinda randomly way back in 2017 and they just Stuck haha

There isn’t a whole lot to say abt her, but the whole pancake motif happened because I was id-ing as pan at the time so . PANcake GDHGDH But like I said I ended up liking their design A Lot so they’ve stuck w me and changed with me over the years <3