I had such a nice week with my baby I love them so much

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hi hey hello. you should go check out @u3pxx 's piece for the mea culpa zine I just made a fun and silly continuation of it because im normal about it <3

more fun and silly shenanigans under the cut

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thinking about saiura

hayleyyyy ….. <3

ALSO the show draws a very clear line between how Ed acts when he's upset and processes his emotions and how Blackbeard acts when he's gone off the deep end.

Ed repeatedly retreats, hides himself somewhere safe, and tries to process his feelings of inadequacy and hurt. we see it when he hides in Stede's bathtub, when he hides in the blanket fort, when he leaves dinner at Mary and Anne's to curl up on the sofa under a blanket. FURTHERMORE we see Ed post-Kraken turn in s1 and in the first episodes of s2 crying alone in the captain's cabin, sighing wistfully over the wedding cake toppers, and just generally being a sad little lump of a man who is hurting

the violence Blackbeard displays is only ever in public, performative. He cuts Izzy's toe off in s1 to announce his return to this aggressive, violent persona that Izzy has demanded of him. He pushes the crew to violently raid ships and gets in Frenchie's face to intimidate him and shoots Izzy and makes Archie and Jim fight each other. and part of that is him pushing them to kill him in a way he can't bring himself to do (he always outsources the big job), but it's very important to remember that the way Ed reacts to being left by Stede and the way Blackbeard is being violent and traumatizing the crew are two different things entirely.

one is a reaction to being left by the man he loves and feeling unlovable, and the other is the direct result of being told he needs to be a monster and an extended performance of being that monster (and way of shielding himself from the threat to himself Izzy presents at the end of s1).

Ed and Stede are both men desperate to be seen and understood for who they are and not what people have told them to be. Stede tries to create a pirating environment that embraces softness and talking about your feelings, but he's still so caught up in running from himself and his problems that he has to go home and fix things with his family before he can truly live that way. Ed is suffering and feels like a monster because he's been told his only worth is being this fearsome pirate persona, and being that thing hurts, so he makes sure everyone else becomes that thing and hurts along with him.

it's not until the final episode that Ed realizes being a fearsome thing doesn't have to hurt, being capable of violence doesn't mean you are a monster, sometimes it's a thing you are (a thing you do) to protect the ones you love. you're not a dick, life's a dick; you're not your father just because you're capable of violence, you're a man who has something worth fighting for

*holding a baguette like a microphone* Mr. Cryptid are you aware there's a new Walten Files episode out?

Yes, I saw it ^^ Martin blew me away with his animations

This week alone has given me material for both Soldered Wires and The Graveyard Shift (*especially* The Graveyard Shift), but like a cartoon, they piled on one after another right as I started work on a couple of projects and it's hard choosing what to work on first with my ADHD

Rest assured, content shall come soon!

The Quantum Arachnid!... ➥ also known as SpideRoo - - A redesign of my old Spidersona design for Roo :) - click for HQ/Better quality - -

The Swedish Spiderman of Earth 3105- After being stabbed in the heart and barely kept alive by a special spider bite, Roo was given a mecha-heart and what would normally be a gift of powers, but is equally a curse for him as a superhero. After being bitten, he found out that parts of him can go invisible, he [stupidly] tried to utilize this and buff his suit, but failed, and completely corrupted his suit's systems...

- - Here's a 3 pg doc w/ info about his Suit, Abilities, Lore and Other Facts :) - -

[ No text Ver., No text + No glitching Ver., and Old design under the cut ]

(below are two details from his old Spidersona ref sheet that I just love and can't help but share :))

what remains of us?

c!tntduo through the ages :)

you all know that audio from bladerunner? "you look lonely i can fix that"?? my brain wouldn't let me rest until i haven't drawn that with Sun n Moon

but jokes aside, really self-indulgent comic bc both Security Breach and Ruin came out when i was at a low point mentally and helped me greatly just be able to move forward and get through each day (and i won't even be getting into how much these 2 fictional robot jesters have helped me refind my passion for drawing)

i really hope that more people can relate to this :))

Hiiii just wanted to say hope you’re doing well!

Haha, I'm just kidding! I am actually doing a lot better nowadays– thank you so much for sending this message to check in 🥹 I really hope that you're doing well too! 💕

I admit February was really hard for a variety of reasons, but I have my partner to thank for pulling me through because he very heavily advocated for me to just to step back for a bit, get offline, and to give myself a small daily period of rest/distraction by chipping away at our backlog of shows we've been meaning to watch 😂

As a result I've spent the last month effectively sobbing over My Hero Academia lolll 🫣 On top of that, I've been trying to fit in some of my other hobbies like journaling and tarot into my daily routines again~

Mixing in some new fictional blorbos and spreading out my attention to other activities that have been known to ~spark joy~ for me in the past has really helped to alleviate the difficulties that popped up from the last couple of months! 🥰 and as an added bonus, it shuts up my brain for a few blissful hours everyday lmao 💗

a friend who'd wait :)

So evil that I have to work to live instead of reading books and chilling full time instead.

yurusanta: the ✨gift✨ that keeps on ✨giving✨

do you ever just remember stuff you used to watch as a kid and go hunting for it. i just remembered a bunch of old warrior cats videos i used to watch in like 2009 and started watching them and god. i still feel so much affection for these videos. but also, like. you just had to be there i don't think anyone in 2024 is going to get anything from watching demonslyr Warrior Cats spoof vids if you hadn't seen them as a child in 2009 you feel me

@silverlizard012 Funny you ask! Even funnier I’m answering a whole six months later

Unless the Sexyman Descendants dolls have detachable limbs like some other (actually real and not made up) fashion doll lines do, the mainline Martha dolls really only have the top of her head as a removable piece.

However! The special edition Bright Side Of The Moon Martha doll has a removable hand, stomach, and tail, using strong embedded magnets. :D

original sexyman descendants concept by sparkerinparadise

I love my husband SO much but sometimes he says he's going to bed at like 10 PM and I'm like oh sweet I can work on my stupid little fanfictions for a little while before I go to bed myself and then forty five god damn minutes go by and he's still futzing around and coming over to the couch and lying on me and wanting attention and I'm like my dearest darling I have been ON for the past ~15 hours with maybe 20-30 minutes where I was truly alone with no responsibilities, I love you but please go to bed and leave me the fuck alone for a little while.