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tottallytoby · 1 year

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i need you guys to understand my vision here

#like. listen.#in canon she could pull any mare if she wanted #in *my canon #guys shes my favorite can you tell #you get to fill in who shes talking toand youre probably correct #big beautiful stupid lesbian #mlp #my little pony #my little pony: friendship is magic #mlp fim #my art #mane 6 #mane six #applejack mlp #applejack #mlp applejack

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yaka-arrow · 11 months

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I’ve been eaten alive by an AU that @rhapsodicalfreddie and I have been just chewin’ on the last few days, where the mutiny comes early for Yondu and Yondu bolts with Peter to the last person he ever thought he’d look for help again—Stakar Ogord. Lots of tension, emotions, etc, but a new Ravager crew means new leathers.

#Gotg #guardians of the galaxy #peter quill #yondu udonta #stakar ogord #my art #like. listen.#never have I wanted to draw Peter so quickly in ravager blues #also adult!Peter is fully referenced off a promo image so

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sobredunia · 1 month

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do you understand why I said VOACT Starlo needs the cat ears now

this is insanely funny to me because I already drew a starlo with cat ears a few months ago and it looked like this

#nathan's notes #like. listen.#his head is not shaped for cat ears. at all #inquiry-for-the-lamented

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honeybyte · 2 months

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there is one thing that bothers me a little bit on here, and that's the definition of "chubby" that's applied to some of my designs.

i'm kind of known for putting weight on my characters, and that's good, that's what i wanted! people have weight to them, they have fat and muscle and organs, and i want that to be felt when i draw, it's important to me.

however.

some of the characters i draw will be skinny little things, or have a lot of muscle, and people will interpret that as fat or chubby. i do draw fat/chubby characters, but some people will apply that to any character i draw, and it feels like some of ya'll have lost the plot of what fat characters actually look like.

#like. listen.#im not mad but it does worry me when you guys apply the word Fat to any character w any kind of body mass #i draw donatello fat but #someone called my juno fat and im looking at him and im like. how. i made him dorito waisted

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basilpaste · 1 year

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all the scarvi rivals are autistic but nemona is especially autistic to me.

#like. listen.#penny has flat affect-y autism and arven was 'such a good child' until he 'started acting out in class'#but nemona? yeah this kid got infantilized in school! she was 'too energetic' and 'too disruptive'#shes *obsessed* with battling. its 'abnormal'.#i know what you are.#pokemon #pokemon scarvi #rival nemona

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kylermalloy · 10 months

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im so curious of ur attack of titan presentation. 👁️

In reference to this post

Omg Yuki—the way I genuinely considered sitting down and making a PowerPoint presentation 😂

I won’t. I could—but I won’t.

There’s a ton of cute presentations on this website about “why you should watch this show uwu it’s so good and the characters are adorable and it’s got a great message you’re gonna love it!” and, well…that’s not Attack on Titan for me.

Aot is…a curiosity to me. I do really like a lot of the characters, the animation and music are gorgeous, and the story is sufficiently intriguing. And yes, ultimately, it does have a message I can get behind (War Is Bad. Stick to the classics.) but it wasn’t a show that grabbed me instantly. I had to simmer in it for a while—and I do mean a while.

I suppose mostly what I want to talk about is the Disk Horse, which I kind of hate to do because tumblr is allergic to nuance—but. I also like to talk. So here I go.

(This is going under a cut because I CANNOT shut up. Also, I’m going to get into some dumb fandom drama nonsense and I would like to hide that in order to maintain my dignity.)

I actually first became aware of aot BECAUSE of the discourse. I had more posts on my dash claiming that it was a Bad Show and Don’t Watch It than posts that…actually told me anything about it.

Eventually as I started easing into exploring anime, I decided to check it out. Out of morbid curiosity, mostly. I wanted to know what was so bad about it.

For the first three seasons, I was a little clueless. An annoying protagonist with questionable morals? Main characters attached to some sort of military organization? The protagonist being the Exceptional One, the savior because of his unique abilities? …guys, these are all standard shonen tropes, and I’d only watched like…five animes at that point (I’ve now watched, like, ten. My immersion rate is s l o w.)

Then I reached the end of season 3, and I wen “ohhh.” Not because everyone who’d been insisting it was Bad were right, but because I could actually, finally see what they were talking about.

I hear the word “allegory” get thrown around a lot when it comes to aot, and…honestly, I don’t think that’s the right word. An allegory is a direct, deliberate parallel with either a real life event, or another story. Aot is not an allegory of anything. Now, does it use some real life elements as worldbuilding and narrative devices in its own story? Yes, and sometimes to a “yikes” effect.

But this is a fantasy story that takes place in a fantasy world about races of people that don’t exist. The parallels can be drawn, but it’s not an intentional allegory.

Think of the difference between Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia. C.S. Lewis was very clear both in his writing and when talking about his work that it was a Christianity allegory. Aslan represents Jesus—created the world, died for its sins, all knowing, all powerful, does not always intervene, eventually edged out by a false god at the end of the world, etc. etc.

Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings took a lot of inspiration from his experiences in World War I. Read anything about LOTR, or watch any of the movies’ supplemental material, and that’s one of the first things you’ll hear. BUT—did old John Roald Roald intend it to be a one-to-one allegory? No.

The orcs are not the Germans. Humans and elves aren’t the English and French. This is not a fantasy retelling of real-world events—it uses elements of real-world warfare to enhance its own narrative. The faces in the Dead Marshes. Frodo’s life-altering trauma. The hobbits’ return to an unchanged safe haven, only to find they have changed irrevocably. Sam’s/Faramir’s introspection on the “evil” of the men they fight.

Aot does the latter, not the former. And while using imagery we associate with Jewish persecution and the holocaust…isn’t a choice I would have made when writing a story, it wasn’t a deliberately anti-Semitic choice.

We can talk all day long about how it’s not a wise choice, and how the implications can have ramifications—but this wasn’t something the mangaka did out of long-held prejudice, whether conscious or unconscious. I mean, do you really walk away thinking we’re supposed to HATE the Eldians? (If so, get better reading comprehension.)

I guess that’s what my Attack on Titan presentation should really be—teaching people how to read and therefore understand the themes and story correctly. Either that, or I could just make a ship chart and explain why Armin deserves to bang every single character, and in what order he should do so.

#asks #beloved yuki #there! now i don’t have to worry about your url changing lol #<3 #like. listen.#i’m not saying there’s no problems with the narrative #I’m not saying there are some things that make me go *teeth emoji*#but does that make the story evil? worthless?#no that’s reductive #attack on titan #also i have a terrible contrarian streak #if someone tells me not to watch something or that it’s bad? i’m gonna watch it and find SOMETHING good about it #and if the best part is the silly ships and aus that i create with my friends? so be it

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midorikawa-lettuce · 2 years

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this is absolutely NOT why Kish was a creep to Ichigo by kissing her, but can you imagine for ONE second with me, that the reason Kish decided to start off his interaction with earth’s main warrior with a kiss was because he suddenly got a harebrained idea in his head like “huh there’s a LOT of humans and currently only One Me to deal with them so this fight’s gonna be rough. What if...perhaps...I just seduce their warriors instead :) yes, brilliant plan this will ABSOLUTELY work”

#LIKE. LISTEN.#he's absolutely just being a creep in canon but imagine for one second that he's a total dweeb #who genuinely thinks that maybe just maybe he can get away with seducing the warriors of earth in order to get them to just hand earth over #'pai listen i have spent exactly 5 minutes on the Human Internet'#'and they all think aliens are hot and sexy'#or honestly on the reverse side like look we all know humans as a whole are alienfuckers #what if tmm aliens are like. what if they just think humans are kinda sexy. because to them humans are the aliens.#quotes from catherynne valente's space opera are playing on repeat in my head i should probably go to bed.#lettuce talks #tokyo mew mew

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lo-sulci · 2 years

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why the fuck have there been a bunch of people who don't follow me liking or reblogging random (sometimes months old) posts (but only one each! none of them interact with more than one post!) today

#who are you people. get out of my house.#like. listen.#if it was one person liking one of my more recent reblogs id get that #but i have had multiple seemingly unrelated people liking entirely unrelated reblogs of mine from fucking late august #what are you doing.

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lazylittledragon · 4 months

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can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

#ramble #if you say unalive in front of me i will personally kill you with my hands #you just can't muffle and censor and hold someone's hand through some things #some things are horrible. and they should be spoken aloud and they should upset you. because they are horrible #the second we started kidzbopifying the world was the end of taking anything seriously i think #i'm not even joking i've spoken to people older than me who won't even say the world sex #this isn't the playground you're not going to get in trouble just let us say the word!!!!!!#how am i supposed to listen to you when you won't even say the thing you're supposed to be talking about #yes this is the fault of the platforms with their censorship rules but the fact that we all just go along with it like it's not dystopian #you do know it doesn't stop with cursing right. people are already having to censor queer terms because they get flagged as inappropriate

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wizard-laundry · 5 months

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heeppy hoolida

#listen #likes are appreciated but here on tumblr the best way to show the creators you love that you care is by reblogging their stuff #sharing is caring #i know that i always appreciate when i see art reblogged from the people i follow that i wouldn't have come across on my own #<3<3<3 #EDIT: added alt text to the images

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citricacidprince · 2 months

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Was forced to get a new phone today

#Bluetooth earbuds are the bane of my fucking existence and I hate them so fucking bad #I NEED those wired buds to fiddle with my hands when I’m anxious #I also like not having to fucking CHARGE the things I’m listening to stuff with #I hate this future this sucks bootyass #prince rambles in this chilies tonight

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oflights · 7 months

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the main problem with this time of year is the irresistible urge to get fully into bed at like 5:34 pm and outside is like yesss, yesss do it, it's what you deserve yesss. like is it depression or is it just november

#it's november obvs #december is not like this!!#today after work i shut the macbook i got into bed and i played that fruit tetris game #while listening to something called 'lofi roman empire'#for 1.5 hours #zero wrinkles in the brain after that completely smooth #and then somehow i cooked dinner

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nonebinary-leftbeef · 11 months

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DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

#i've been listening to icarus by bastille #and for some reason my brain fills in 'this is how it feels to take a fall' as 'this is how it feels to take off all your skin'#and like fuck man #and I KNOW that’s technically not a misheard lyric but my post my rules cope #anyway my line now #also probably phrased this poorly but its ok #im allowed to be incomprehensible #as a treat #and then fuckin #from we sink by of monsters and men #the original line was 'please look away dont look at me'#and i kept hearing it as 'please learn a way to look at me'#anyway #shoving this post in the queue but please be aware that i am writing it very late at night #q

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gin-juice-tonic · 9 months

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remembering one of the times i was getting evaluated by a therapist to determine if i was "really trans" or not or whatever and he was like "so if you transitioned to male, how would you dress differently?"

and i was like "i.. dont know. I wouldnt?"

and he looked at me blankly and wrote something down and said "really? you wouldnt wear anything more masculine?"

and i realized i'd given the wrong answer so I just said "I would... wear... suits?"

and he smiled and wrote something else down like "ah! yes"

#scream #like- listen #clothes are not gender- i know this you know this #he doesnt know this #HOWEVER #i literally only wear jeans and t shirts or shorts and t shirts #what on earth am i supposed to be transitioning into wearing??

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variksel · 1 year

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i hate you ai art i hate you "unalive" i hate you youtube premium i hate you twitter 8$ checkmark i hate you nfts i hate you therapy app advertisements i hate you non-chronological timelines i hate you instagram reels i hate you subtle tiktok filters that cant be turned off i hate you family bloggers i hate you ads on true crime episodes i hate you facebook i hate you vr glasses on chickens i hate you dystopian social media

#sorry but genuinely sometimes i feel like we live in a fucking dystopia #i get ads of chat bots designed to look like cute girls who will listen to your problems and it. god #its so unbelievably strange in some indescribable way #how am i supposed to explain that the word unalive makes me want to tear my hair out #vent #rant #idk

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icharchivist · 24 days

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Bro. Cloud. Dude. My guy

That's so rude

you have to understand that Materias are rare and expensive and the core of the magic system of the game, and that Yuffie stole *all* of our Materias and ran away while we were into a huge monster filled regions, and therefore it means our characters had to try to run after her while unable to use magic and more, including healing magic.

In the real scene once they catch back with Yuffie they are irritated because they legit had to go through a grinder trying to catch her back

once they actually get their Materias back and calm down a bit they offer to actually help Yuffie and are like "yknow you didn't have to STEAL from us if you wanted some help. you don't have to do things alone. We would have helped." and then they help her in her problems.

(and she gets to keep a lot of the Materia in the post game too)

Also Cloud has 0 Social Skills and is the type of guy who would say that. I'm sorry if this is how you learn he's a jerk--

#ichareply #anonymous #ichafantalks ffvii #like. listen.#unless you actually survived the 'No Materia' phase of running after Yuffie #you don't get to comment on Cloud's handling of the event---#tbh also he's less mean in the original scene lmao but this is how it's best interpreted

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