i’m back! i was gonna wait until next week but a couple of you guys asked some good questions lol

idk but saying tyler being a manipulative serial killer means he can’t be with wednesday is genuinely so funny to me like baby this is the addams family we’re talking about. being a manipulative serial killer should put him at the top of the viable choices for wednesday list.

Exploring some concepts for a slightly older Ghost!! I imagine them as about 8-9ish during the game.

I’ve been neglecting them in most of my AUs lmao, I think it’s time for some Ghost centric stuff shxhxjxj (also they’re VERY fun to draw)

After killing the Radiance, the siblings take some time to rest and recuperate, and at some point decide to try and rebuild Hallownest. Hornet takes over Deepnest, taking her rightful place as Queen, while Hollow becomes king of Hallownest. While Ghost is technically the crown prince, it’s more in name than anything, as they would rather run the Path of Pain handcuffed in the dark than have that kinda responsibility (also they’re like. 13 by this point)

Some tidbits about their design and this AU for those interested:

- They resemble their mother more than PK, and as a result their horns are more like branches and grow to resemble antlers!!

- They also have a faint wood grain pattern all over their body

- Vessels typically have small glowing white dots on their bodies, and darker spots on their face and horns (I’ve been referring to them as soul spots and void freckles shbxxn), and you can generally tell whether they’re more proficient in soul magic or void magic depending on how many of either they have!!

(E.g. Hollow has a few void freckles, but they are COVERED in soul spots, meanwhile Ghost has a few soul spots but they have a TON of void freckles).

When they come into their power as Shade Lord, Ghost’s soul spots are swallowed by their void, and as they get older more void freckles appear until their horns are entirely black.

- I like the idea of Ghost’s power as SL showing in their physical form more as they get older, like their mortal body can’t contain their entire being, so it leaks out in the form of wispy void hair, void freckles, etc etc

- When they started rebuilding, there became a sudden need for formal clothing once again, so Hornet raids every closet in the White Palace to cannibalise the different dresses and robes into something presentable (luckily Ghost fits into most of Hornet’s old stuff)

(Assume the White Palace appears again at some point (finding PK’s corpse is a VERY fun time for Holly ahahaha))

- With the discovery of kingdoms beyond the Wastelands (via Silksong), the siblings start reaching out in the hopes of establishing some trade routes, and getting some help with the rebuilding effort

This opens some opportunities for visits from neighbouring royals (and pooossibly some new friends for Ghost, they need to meet people their age lmaooo)

hirohiko araki has achieved the schroedinger’s cat of lgbtq+ representation where there is definitely some kind of queer shit going on but nobody knows exactly what it is.

i adore them

https://archiveofourown.org/works/56431954

"Hey guys, this is my boyfriend!" Buck said, and he watched all their faces go slack in shock, which was weird but Buck just barreled past it, "His name is-"

"Tommy?!" Chim sputtered out.

Ok, apparently they'd met. Buck turned to his boyfriend to see an equally shocked look on his face.

"Uh, hey guys." Tommy said, still sounding a bit shocked, before he turned back to Buck, "You didn't say you were at the 118."

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Or the one where Buck was already dating Tommy by the time he joins the 118 in season 1, so the firefam gets to hear all about his 'hot pilot boyfriend' but it isn't until Buck finally introduces him that they realize they already know him.

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Wips and sketches from the insta live this morning 💕 sharkdrew and pirate Neil, fisherman Andrew, and possible design squid Jean

the thing about the adult gaang movie is even if it’s somehow done really well, i don’t wanna see aang and katara as adults, that will actually make me really sad. whereas if sokka is the protagonist that’s fine because i already think everyone should heal and find fulfillment after the war except for sokka. i think sokka should get worse. i think sokka should continue collecting mental illnesses like they’re pokemans creatures. a qing dynasty court intrigue film with sokka navigating ba sing se politics (and iroh can feature as he dispenses occasional wisdom. but sokka is just like “call your son”), or a xai bau spy thriller (except tbh this one would work better as a novel), or even just. a mai and sokka roadtrip movie in the style of an early 2000s stoner comedy (this one would have no artistic merit but it’s also probably the best idea ive ever had). these are but a few examples of the many ideas i have for movies that put my favorite guy through hours of suffering without having to depict my other favorite guys as anything other than the precious babies i know and love.

Can you imagine Toph's reaction to that scene in the movies where it took 6 earthbenders to gently move a tiny rock?

I could try but the secondhand embarrassment would kill me first

it sucks how everything has been tainted by patriarchy and as women we cannot do literally anything without it being linked back to patriarchy. like wearing makeup or pink or whatever has been determined feminine by the patriarchal definition feminity, so doing those things means you’re playing into the patriarchy. not doing those things means you’re also playing into patriarchy because it’s a rejection of the idea of femininity, and thus, reaffirms that identifying with feminity in any way is inherently inferior. likeeeee we really cannot win lol… i think a big part of reclamation includes allowing space for people who identify as women to find out what that means to them.

For anyone interested it also looks like Thierry Boyer, an underwater archaeologist who has dove to Erebus, Terror, and Investigator, is giving an online talk on the 24th at 8 PM (EST)

Registration looks to be free!

*Edit to add: this was January 24th, 2024*

idk maybe it’s just me but i really do not give a flying fuck nor do i want to ever find out what crowley’s angel name was or if he used to be one of the other archangels

because he isn’t that angel anymore. he’s crowley, the not so demon but definitely not angel.

and i will admit that this opinion is informed by my trans self reading crowley as trans/enby. because to me finding out crowley’s angel name would be like finding out a deadname, and every time i find out a deadname of someone i know (or even someone i don’t know) i cringe. it makes me physically recoil because that is not and will never be information i need to have. i want to know your name as it is now, and if it changes tell me and i will use your new name.

i like to think it was incredibly intentional on neil’s part to have angel crowley not introduce himself as anything. because we don’t need to know what angel crowley’s name was, it is unimportant information.

i just don’t need to know what is effectively crowley’s deadname because tbh i think anthony j crowley is a sick ass name as is

every time i discover another queer woman character being fucked over by the writer(s) i start biting rocks and breaking things and making bombs to explode big time

bites my thumb I know I already talked abt nicknames they’d call me but I thought about it again and got sick to my stomach (good way ) 💔💔

I should be getting paid to deal with this bullshit

the way people are trying to like…. cancel authors who are considered to have written literary masterpieces because the subject matter of their book/s is/are not morally correct…… makes me legitimately nauseous.

I’m sorry but…. a protagonist does not have to be morally correct. they don’t have to do good things in order to be the protagonist. sometimes the point is that they do really really bad things. not every novel is a YA fiction novel where the protagonists are fighting for some greater good. sometimes they are just bad people who make bad choices. that’s what makes them compelling.

writing and literature does not have to stick to the realm of what is considered morally acceptable. it never has. in fact, through much of history, literature (and art in general) was used to explore the taboo and the parts of humanity that are unsavory, malicious, and tragic. that’s why we’re meant to analyze novels about those things. it’s never surface level, but with the recent shift in what is essentially anti-intellectualism, we lose a lot of that retribution/condemnation of what’s going on that is delivered through symbolism and word choice and description. that lack of understanding results in grossly misinterpreting a morally reprehensible protagonist as something the author condones when that is rarely the case.

i don’t know… I just see a lot of very ‘hot takes’ about novels that all seem to fall into this vein of “I didn’t understand what I read and instead decided that because what happened is bad, the book is bad” which is…. not how books or storytelling works.

literature is meant to be layered. the author does not have to spell everything out for you or state clearly what the intention of the book is. in fact, the reason some books are so compelling is the round about way some authors go about condemning their protagonists for their actions.

we’re meant to read books as more than just surface layer. we don’t have to, but a lot of authors deliberately intend for us to pick up on word choice, scenery description, color choice, as well as subtle actions / positions of the characters AROUND the protagonist in order to understand what they are saying about what’s going on. the protagonist doesn’t exist in a vacuum, there are other elements surrounding them, and we’re meant to understand that just because they are morally reproachable, doesn’t mean that the author is condoning their actions.