artfight attack #4! for @midcarder

😈 ALL HAIL THE DARK LORD 😈

Commission for my good buddy @midcarder for their extremely powerful wrestling lady 😳🥵

Commission info can be found here!

Mitch!

So I've been loving @midcarder 's Interpersonal Chemistry, and I've just been rooting for Mitch to get as many wins as he can (both in and out of the ring)

I need to watch Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure to reach my final conclusion on if she's even attracted to men

random 2007 press conference photo of casey and valentino... save me.. random 2007 press conference of casey and valentino. save me random 2007 press conference photo of casey and valentino

Letting me onto the internet was a mistake

plus i always find it pretty disappointing in my beloved media marketed towards women and girls when a leading man has like. no relationships outside the main character. like cmon, not even a complex but intense homoerotic house-wilson style frenemyship with some buddy of his? thats like the bare minimum

Ever since im not on tumblr so much i get so many more bitches than ive ever gotten but also now im wondering why a 22 year old boy with kissable lips and a habit of wearing joggers everywhere wont hasnt texted me back

desperately in need of one of those truly lifechanging fics that are mostly about interpersonal dynamics and messy inside feelings but like i need it to be abt wrestling . why isnt there a tab on ao3 thats specifically for these kinds of fics. why cant you sort by ‘# of days this is gonna put u outta commission for’

first artfight attack on @midcarder! girls i heard of em

Werewolf Avi || Artfight attack on @midcarder of their best boy!

So, whenever I gijinka a Pokemon, I tend to also shiny hunt them on the side (if possible)

And this time I thought it'd be funny to name every male Salandit I caught before her some variation of Ken

from left to right: Ken, Kenny, Kenneth, Ken 10, Kencelled, VespiKen, Kenthousand

Now I got her last night, but alongside her..

I found this wee little bastard while I was changing locations, after mistaking a normal Gastly for a shiny (ty boo)

And if you know, you know ;)

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i do think that one of the worst things “activist” spaces on the internet ever did was convince young marginalized people that individual people, complete strangers, were their oppressors. no, matt from chemistry class isn’t personally oppressing you because he’s a guy, that old lady at the bank isn’t personally oppressing you because she’s cis, your waiter isn’t personally oppressing you because they’re white. individuals can and do contribute to systems of oppression. but seeing random individuals you encounter in your daily life as your oppressors will do nothing but trick you into punching laterally or punching down because you think it’s “empowering.” you might get a momentary rush of endorphins from snapping at the male cashier bc #menaretrashuwu but all you’re doing is being shitty to a random guy making poverty wages.

i saw a tik tok the other day that like perfectly described this phenomenon, how gen z (and some young millennials too tbh) pushes for systemic justice and equality, but refuses to give that on an interpersonal level, and like. y’all. you simply cannot achieve systemic change if you’re not also working toward interpersonal change. you will do more for your own liberation by treating others with sensible patience and kindness than you will pushing this toxic individualist narrative of “i don’t owe anyone anything and i get to act however i want to people i view as my oppressor.” we need class solidarity now more than ever.

I think the worst tumblr behavior was definitely the old trend of "hey everybody this person you never met says this other person you never met was a toxic friend, spread the word and StAy SaFe everyone!!!"

I think it's the "stay safe" and "reblogging to PROTECT my mutuals!" kind of language that annoyed me the most, like what did that mean exactly? If you mistakenly become casual internet friends with that person you're gonna suffer psychic damage? They're some kind of demon in a human disguise with an actual goal to hurt people? Hey believe it or not people not only grow and change but sometimes the problems in an interpersonal relationship are the once-in-a-lifetime result of precisely the chemistry of those two people under precisely the circumstances they were brought together. I've almost never met someone who was just habitually shitty to everybody. Like I wouldn't be friends with someone who was physically abusive to someone but a lot of those old callouts were just laundry lists of complicated emotional clashes and fights that weren't anybody else's business.

my idea for an adult R-rated Scooby-Doo reboot is this:

the gang meets in college, but Daphne and Velma start out as exes—they broke up bc Velma got too busy and Daphne felt neglected, so Daphne ended up moving on with the nice traps guy Fred from her Chemistry class and Velma’s still a little hung up on her. their relationship development arc is about them still caring deeply about each other and reconciling their friendship.

keep the murder mystery angle, maybe even add some creeping supernatural horror—we’re not using the R-rating for sex, we’re using it to show grisly crime scenes, a la Hannibal. the show operates on a case of the week format that follows the conceit that the culprit is ultimately some asshole in a costume, but there’s an overarching plotline of something deeply amiss: why are these disparate characters doing this in costume? maybe there’s a common link between all the crime scenes that the gang is trying to understand.

Shaggy meets Scooby in the very first episode and takes him home, and when Scooby talks, he immediately is like oh!! cool!! guys, our dog talks!! like Mystery Inc, this could be a link to the overarching mystery of the show.

Scrappy Doo is a shih-tzu named Scrapper who belongs to Daphne and she adores him. he doesn’t talk but he reveals a loyal fighty bastard personality when Scooby translates for him. he WILL kill for the gang, do not test him.

make it very, VERY clear that the gang really likes each other. they want to hang out together and solve mysteries! maybe there’s interpersonal conflict sometimes, sure, but they’re not being forced to solve mysteries together. Shaggy comes over to the girls’ dorm all the time, Fred likes to show Velma what he’s working on and get her advice bc she can provide a fresh perspective, Daphne paints Shaggy’s nails while Scooby and Scrapper socialize.

the jokes are NOT mean-spirited. this has to be said. if there are any insults, they’re the kind of insults you get from a friend you’ve known forever, when it’s more of an in-joke than anything. the exception to this is the police: the cops tell mean jokes like in the Velma show. this is deliberate, bc the gang stands as a sharp contrast to the cops, who are generally mean, incompetent, and mostly just interested in filling a daily quota, and also their pockets. it also provides a good reason why the gang wouldn’t just call the police—the police are at best incompetent, at worst actively corrupt and shameless about it. (also it’s a way to take a potshot at the Velma show’s very small-minded brand of comedy.)