if I'm gonna be honest I came back to Tumblr bc I heard 12 year olds were fighting

⚔︎ 𝕷𝖆 𝕱𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖊 𝕽𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖊 ⚔︎

Nostalgia made me watch the One Piece live action - And i loved the ships so much it made me want to draw my own spin on them - inspired by both anime and film, but also by antique portolan charts (and their lovely sea monsters) !

• The Baratie • The Going Merry •

tfw you have, like, 24-26 little angels/devils/???s on your shoulder [x]

(id in alt text and under the cut, sketches also under the cut!)

image ID: A Disco Elysium fancomic featuring Harry Du Bois. Panel One: Harry has an angry expression and is leaning forward. On his shoulder, there is a small version of Authority pointing. Authority says: "Tell that guy to kill himself!" Panel Two: Harry, with a more cautious expression, leans back. On his other shoulder, a small version of Empathy has appeared. Empathy says: "Tell that guy to learn love and cherish his life!" Panel Three: A small version of Electrochemistry emerges from Harry's pants. Harry has a shocked expression on his face. Electrochemistry says: "Tell that guy to go get pregnant!"

A Disco Elysium fancomic featuring Harry Du Bois and humanoid versions of Volition and Electrochemistry. Panel One: Harry has a thoughtful expression on his face as Volition, with one finger pointed up, says: "The world is complex and filled with seemingly limitless depth. Always consider the actions and ideologies of yourself and others, as well as their implications, and keep your hope cultivated and alive." Panel Two: Harry looks over to the side, where Electrochemistry is. Electrochemistry says: "You and Kim should make out."

A collection of simplistic drawings featuring Harry Du Bois and Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium. One drawing, in green, depicts Harry with his hands up and with a frazzled expression, alongside two exclamation marks. There are two depictions of Harry as a dog. One shows him with a concerned expression, and the other shows him with a neutral expression and his tongue poking out. There is one depection of Kim as a cat with a blank expression. There is a drawing, in blue, of Harry with his eyes closed, wearing the Insane Mesh Tank Top and the RCM Patrol Cloak. There are two depictions of Kim and Harry standing side-by-side wherein they are extremely simplified. One is in pink, and the other is in red. There is an orange drawing of Kim with a neutral expression. There is an arrow pointing to him, describing him as "deranged". end ID

A SERVE

I-

@galactikburzt hey thanks for letting me draw Apollo!!! I enjoy the : ))

(link to original post)

having writer friends be like

gingersnaps by cathy cassidy is an absolutely diabolical book to give to a tweenage girl actually. Not only is it like "if people bully you for being fat it's ok because you will hit puberty and suddenly become willowy and a true natural beauty and realise you were never even really that fat before anyway", but most egregiously it makes 12 year old girls think dating a fedora wearing saxophonist is acceptable, something to aspire to even

I'm typing up some responses to these asks, and this sounds crazy, but man, I only just realized how utterly in love I am with Yelan's trailer.

I'll make a post where I'll be dissecting her trailer like I did Kafka's, but it really hit me tonight how even in the first 10 seconds, they really emphasize this 'noir' element that it has. Now for anyone who's unfamiliar, 'noir' is often used in a film noir concept, which is a genre of film that usually involves crime, mystery and a lot of moral ambiguity; and its presentation is also quite specific, often defaulting to B/W or de-saturated visuals in bleak or low lighting, often in weather and hours of the day that only add to the setting and mood respectively. Along with this, because it emerged during the 1940s and 1950s, it goes hand in hand with a lot of smokey, smooth jazz music, as that was the era when that peaked.

All of these things are present in Yelan's trailer. Immediately when you load in, you see Liyue Harbor in the background but it's not during the hours during which it's bright or at its most beautiful, no, it's bleak, grim and it's raining, and immediately we hear a slow piano kicking it. And when we zoom in on her and the man that she's talking to, they're momentarily out of focus and we really see the stark contrast of the warmth of the lights and the street that they're standing in while there's something close to a downpour. And god, the reveal of her face, or more specifically, her eyes, is so incredibly delayed that it immediately adds a sense of mystery, but more so, of intrigue, something so significant to her character. But to return to the weather for a second; Genshin is usually so bright and rain isn't exactly the most common— that the rain in this, and the mood it creates, really stands out to me. Instead of the bright colors that we're always faced with, we instead see very desaturated colors which bring it closer to that B/W feeling that is so inherently and intrinsically tied to the 'noir' genre. And the music, ugh, and it continues, it literally becomes so jazzy, none of this can be a coincidence, but now I'm even more hooked to her character. Ugh. It's literally what I said in my NY'E' post, every time I think I don't get more crumbs, I either am given more or I re-watch things and have all these new revelations. Hoyo, this has got to be a strategic and very intended decision, it's driving me crazy.

Yelan started as a character I wanted to pull for game-play purposes (was told not to, and then I learned she's pretty much a must pull), and then finally got, to finally playing through Perilous Trail and going 'uh oh', to then still wondering sometimes why I love her as much as I do. And then I realize this stuff, and everything makes sense and I love her even more.

If Edelgard starts a war on cats it would be a CATastrophe. Bad pun aside, it really speaks volumes when people are so enamored and defensive about their fave that they're willing to say "racism, genocide and terrorism is good actually". Fiction may not affect reality most of the time, but it exposes views that some people share that makes you go "yikes.".

I can't believe I didn't even think of that when I wrote it LOL.

For people missing the context, this ask is in response to a reply I wrote on another post.

When it comes to media, it's one thing if there's nuance to the situation and it's not as direct (is she being brainwashed? Controlled? Forced? Somehow unaware? Shown to be conflicted about her actions/what she says? etc). In her case though that's not present and she means what she says. Even still, liking her as a character is fine.

It's different when people start using real life situations or making outright harmful rhetoric, which is something they do both to lift their favorite up and to vilify her enemies (which is why they have to reach so hard, and farther than their arms actually can reach to make up reasons to hate Dimitri. It's not him, it's the fact that they hate anyone who opposes Edelgard, and if Edegard wants them dead they also want them dead. Unfortunately that also turned into demonizing those with mental illness).

Fiction in and of itself doesn't affect reality or indicate what a person is like irl, but their behavior toward others is no longer fiction. Story wise you could argue it makes an interesting character to have these flaws and villainous traits, but it's another story entirely when people double down to insist their characters' actions are just and they go into detail to force it down people's throats - 99.99% of the time unprompted, when that character actively associates with people who have willingly and intentionally committed genocide and aims to do the same herself by finishing the job.

Which you'd think she wouldn't because... those same people wiped out all her siblings, but okay. Somehow the CoS is worse than them. I guess bc Agarthans are human at the end of the day, so no matter how inhumane and atrocious their actions are, they get a pass as long as there's a non-human in the vicinity. Racism typically goes hand in hand with genocide, so. Yeah.

It's not even just that though - it's how the arguments go that indicates if a person is just trying to defend their favorite. If they start brainlessly spewing harmful rhetoric at real people, and if what they say would actively defend real life issues, it's concerning. It's the manner in which they defend their favorite. If the way they argue is exactly how American-hard-rights defend themselves, it starts becoming uncomfortable for people and no longer applies to just fiction.

If what you argue sounds exactly what irl politics sounds like, that's a pretty powerful indicator of who you're dealing with. It doesn't matter if they are or claim to be American-left (specifying because Random said it's different in Europe!). If their arguing points shit on all the values American-lefts stand for, they are not, whether they like it or not, arguing for the left (which all stans claim to do, and then they start regurgitating American-right political stances, extremely often at the expense and discomfort of actual American-lefts. Might I remind you that one of them, a straight man, used abortion and gay marriage both being legally in jeoprady as a gotcha to argue for Edelgard).

It doesn't matter what you claim you're doing. If your arguments actually start reflecting things that can be real, you need to be careful about how you word it. Houses deals with a political atmosphere very heavily, which shouldn't have really been a problem... but it got too close to real life politics within the fandom and people's true colors started to show.

It should have been "I love Edelgard but damn some of what she does is fucked up" and not trying to vehemently defend every singular word she's ever said. As I've mentioned in my very lengthy "why the writing failed Edelgard", the writing is partly to blame for people being divided on her, but it's the fans' own faults if they can't draw a line between liking her character and supporting things in a way that makes it sound like you'd support them irl.

It's even worse that all that nonsense picked up really badly right around the time Ukraine got invaded and Putin was out there spewing nonsense. It became a sensitive issue to have people defending Edelgard invading other countries proudly with false claims/propaganda, because the arguments fell perfectly to a T in line with what Putin was doing.

Evidently that didn't matter to the people who never touch grass and waste their time and energy only thinking of defending Edelgard instead of just enjoying her character, but then, they don't really even enjoy her character; they just enjoy their made up version of her who fights for what they want her to fight for instead of realizing what she's actually doing. These people would be damn easy bait for irl politics and it shows. Dangerously.

So for anyone arguing about your fictional favorites, remember that context is important and how you treat the topic(s) at hand are just as important. I absolutely adore a villain just like Edelgard because of good writing, and there are points I can actually defend him (if you've been on this blog for more than like a week you prooOOOObably know who I'm referring to AT THIS POINT lmao). That doesn't mean I'm going to call invasion, racism, etc good and just for his better talking points to be achieved.

In my opinion Edelgard ended up poorly written because the writers wanted to be bias in the context of the story but couldn't properly justify the atrocities. I'll be honest, if this is how they handle (main) female villains, I'd rather just not have them. I'd rather go back to the days of Petrine and Hilda who were side villains and allowed to be as disgusting and horrendous as they wanted.

If writing a lead villain who is female won't work because they can't stop pushing their bias into the writing (don't even look at poor Petra, she got SKEWERED in CF and especially in SB) and it reflects poorly, I just don't want it. I know men at the writing table for some wild reason throughout the years have been unable to properly write females (which like, why. Just write human beings. But no, they seem to act like females are a different entity entirely), but if that's going to remain the case, I don't want them to write them in situations like these because they clearly can't handle it. They treat Edelgard as a trophy wife who has to be perfect for them and not as a complex, legitimate person.

Mind you, I also made a post before about how Edelgard is separated from other female villains by being drawn as "attractive". Ishtar gets treated much better than other female villains as well, with Heroes going as far as to outright shit on canon and give her an alt where she "joins the Liberation Army", which... the whole point of her character and her fighting in that war was that she was on the opposite side but wasn't a bad person. I could argue similar things for Burian, but that's more headcanon/literally based on just his death quote lmfao.

Point being, Ishtar is drawn to be attractive. Petrine and Hilda are not, and are outright villainous, terrible, not complex people at all (Hilda is a hypocrite, but she's not complex). Edelgard was drawn to be attractive, and was thus not treated like a villain proper. Unfortunately this got warped into the fandom we know now, but... like we both said, the way they argue for her is pretty telling and honestly pretty scary. Let's not forget that they've spewed death threats at people simply for not liking Edelgard.

No, that last sentence was not a joke nor an exaggeration. In a way it makes sense though, considering they defend genocide, racism, etc.

day 8 of posting my favourite bears in trees lyrics:

i'll wear the smile //

oh so heavy, oh so heavy //

cause i'm always running to the great blue atlantic //

my heart bleeds oceanic

Simply Won't Believe It

Every Moonbeam Every Feverdream

🌼🐌 what was that we read about a clean suit ... ? 🤔 // @greedbent

THE CHILD IS CAKED IN DIRT, and yet perfectly content despite it, for cleanliness is a small sacrifice for a Bit of Fun—and for the making of a Surprise! Kaz had given her so many nice things, and Ari was desperate to show her appreciation.

The tiny Mud Monster stood before Kaz with a toothy grin, a bright set of eyes, and a pair of little hands that offered out his Special Gift: a mud pie! Stones, twigs, and leaves were used as sprinkles to decorate its face. She hoped with all her heart that he’d like the arrangement!

“ fff … for you, please—” Ari happily began, taking a careless step closer to him. “ —for mr. Kassie! ”

i made this quick sketch for my friends birthday for his vw rapunzel au, might as well share it here too!! teehee

@writingperhaps liked this for a starter !

' - and what exactly are you the doctor of? ' the resemblance was uncanny, albeit decidedly less stylish. a sharp gaze dragged down the form before him and back up, tilting their sunglasses down the bridge of his nose to reveal distinctly inhuman irises. he's been told they're rather fetching.

' anthony j. crowley, at your service - et cetera, et cetera. '