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"i'm teaching a monkey yao a forbidden method of immortality!!!" girl... what were YOU doing knowing a forbidden method of immortality
[ID: A three page comic done in white and shades of purple. Characters are uncolored, but have shading.
First panel has Patriarch Puti and Sun Wukong walking in an enclosed back garden, with Sun Wukong looking up at Patriarch Puti seriously as his sifu speaks. Patriarch Puti says, "These techniques, although effective, are dangerous. They are teachings outside of known doctrine. What you have done is stolen the creative powers of Heaven and Earth, intruded on the dark machinations of the moon and sun."
Second panel has Sun Wukong considering this somberly. He says, "Sifu... That's..." He processes for a moment, and says "Wait-"
In the third panel, Sun Wukong looks up at Patriarch Puti with a knowing mischievous grin, while Patriarch Puti looks very tired, as if he already knows what SWK is about to say. Sun Wukong asks, "If they're so unknown and forbidden, how do you know them then?"
Fourth panel has Patriarch Puti simply stating, "Wukong, as the next generation, your responsibility is to learn from the mistakes of your elders." Sun Wukong responds, "ha okay." In the background, with the caption "Several hundred years ago," there is a flashback of a young Patriarch Puti running away as a strike of lightning barely misses his feet.
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#journey to the west#jttw#xiyouji#sun wukong#monkey king#patriarch puti#puti shifu#had two concepts for patriarch puti in my head and was not sure which one im gonna go with#one ver is where he was just as reckless and a menace as swk in his youth but he either mellowed out as he grew older#or somethingTM happened to make him realize his actions have consequences#and thus he has a soft spot for swk because he sees a bit of himself in swk#second version is where he's always been serious and mellow but now that he's this old he kinda regrets not acting out more#and thus he respects swk's boldness and wishes to somewhat nurture that boldness#🤔 but now i think im going with an in-between ver#being a puti shifu who was very skilled and bold and gifted in his youth but all his rebelliousness was spent on more self-serving things#rather than fighting any injustices in the system like swk#nd now that he's older he regrets that and he's a teacher now wanting to pass his skills onto new generations to do some good now#<- btw re: the wording of swk 'fighting injustice in the system'-#-i am a swk apologist <3 yaoguai rights <3 but i also dont wanna give off the impression that i think he was 100% entirely in the right-#-villain swk rights <3#but yeah i think while he was at puti's school (constantly reminded he's not a human or immortal) he was moreso of the mind:#'fucking sucks that yaoguai are mistrusted and not treated the same'#and that remains his core motivating factor but as he grows more power and leaves puti's side he kinda kinda loses sight of that a bit ykno#as he gets more megalomaniac yaoguai warlord#anyways yea#swk was still right tho <3 <- correct
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The thing is Rhaenyra didn't need to make babies with Harwin. I don't care if she wants to be with him, that's fine, but moon tea was right there in two separate episodes. She didn't need to have children to have heirs to the throne, and no heirs is definitely better than "obvious bastards posing as trueborn" heirs when it comes to future stability of the realm. It's not like the Targaryen family would end if she didn't reproduce - her brothers and sister and their families could carry on the line, and in the event she became queen, her brother would be heir. Not having babies with your husband isn't necessarily unheard of in this world - infertility happens.
I could even be sympathetic to her if she made a mistake and got the tea wrong once and oops! Bastard baby. But three? That was definitely on purpose and a very big "rules for thee but not for me" moment. Like I don't care if she should have the right to have babies with whoever based on our modern views but doing it back then with all that was riding on her to follow the rules and uphold the law as an heir was expected to do was just stupid and dangerous to everyone around her. Sorry girl if you wanted to prevent a war being fought over you succeeding the throne you needed to have done better.
#unfortunately gotta tag this one as#anti rhaenyra targaryen#she really chose to do that. at the cost of the entire realm#obviously the show makes you hate aegon more but going off a more book slant. aegon would've made the better ruler#under otto/alicent guidance#people who literally ran the country for years while Viserys was ill or busy with legos#they would council him better than daemon would council rhaenyra I can guarantee that#team black priorities are serving their own interests#team green priorities are serving the realms interests above self#the whole love vs duty thing. duty is better for ruling
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man. there's something about these two being forced to sit in this room and stare at each other, having a battle of wills, for more than eight months. they're both so desperate to win, there's gotta be like... a level of personal enmity to it that far surpasses even the enmity they've had since trigun volume 2. and yet, they're also very much the same. both people who don't really give a shit about themselves and only continue living because of knives. both trapped here by knives's orders.
trigun is truly the story of vash the stampede and his 5,000 foils
#i feel like this isn't worded very well but idk how to word it better. especially without bringing up later volumes#also i realize legato is here because he WANTS to follow knives's orders but like. his entire self is built around serving knives#he's trapped by his own desire to be useful. it's all he has#yoshiposts#trigunbookclub
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imagine waking up not feeling yourself. just a bad day but your boyfriend mingyu knows immediately and knows just what you need. you are already trying not to smile as he's running his fingers through your hair, lips on your skin, on your lips. mingyu mutter on your lips as he undresses you slowly along with himself about how pretty you are, how good you are for him.
his hand moves between your legs making you moan his name as he feels how wet you've gotten for him. his index finger circling your sensitive clit as you lift your hips only for mingyu to push them back down. "be patient for me baby girl. i wanna make you feel so good. you just lay here for me, yeah?"
you nod and whine out soft moans as he moves between your legs, he gently slides one up making you comfortable as he reaches between to line himself up with you before sliding into you so deeply you lose your breath hearing him do the same.
it isnt long until he is thrusting so hard into you that you aren't thinking about how bad your day started but instead only about him. you are only thinking about his cock being buried deep in you. you are only thinking about the light squeaks of the mattress as you are railed into it.
mingyu groaning against the side of your head about how perfect you are as your hands grip at his forearms before his lips move back to yours swallowing your moans before he mutters that he loves you into the kiss as he takes you through your orgasm and his own.
#mingyu smut#mingyu imagines#seventeen smut#seventeen imagines#im having a bad day this is entirely self serving
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one of many the fall of the house of usher v succession hot takes (of dubious validity):
people are for sure going to to say that Camille (wears high-waisted pants a lot, has a somewhat angular haircut, fails at her job, obnoxious but wounded, does PR, is white) is the Shiv parallel of the show, but I would argue that Victorine (desperate to prove her worth in a world that Does Not Care, thinks she's a lot better at being sneaky than she is, destroys her relationship with her partner while trying to validate her place in the family/company, APPEARS to have a special relationship with her father as a Daddy's Girl but is actually being manipulated and emotionally abused by him) is the much stronger Shiv parallel
#the fall of the house of usher#like i'm not saying there AREN'T camille and shiv parallels but i'm just waiting to see so many people acting like it's 1 to 1#mostly bc kate and sarah are white women whose fanbases appear to overlap#when the entire tell-tale heart episode.... every time victorian and roderick interacted#i was getting horror!pinky vibes#and it made me SADS.#like basically the only kids who pulled at my heartstrings w roderick were like#victorian and then lenore#and like. i think his relationship w victorine was still largely entirely self-serving#(just like logan's w shiv!)#(camille evokes a similar vibe but victorine plays a similar ROLE and makes me sad in a similar way)#(also t'nia miller acted her motherfucking ass off and let us not walk around THAT)
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a/n; seungcheol x gn reader, comfort, fluff
imagine you are getting ready for another long shift. you are beyond tired, your head hurts a bit, you mental state just dragging. its not that you don't enjoy what you do but sometimes you wish could just call in and play hooky but your work ethic won't allow that.
seungcheol watches you from his desk as you sigh rummaging through the closet pulling put a pair of pants before doing a cute little one legged hop before you lean against the wall to tug them up. he can't help but smile as he leans his chin on his fist and watches you stand in front of the mirror taming your hair as you hum along with a song playing from your phone laying on the dresser.
he could see how tired you were, he knew you almost as well as you knew yourself and as much as you wished you could call out he wished it more. he could imagine also just cutting off his laptop and dragging you back into bed. he would bury his face against the back of your neck and hold you while letting you get in a few more hours of sleep.
"you look good babe." you glance over to seungcheol at his words before wrinkling your nose up. "yeah? i should have gotten up earlier and took another shower. i slept with my hair wet." seungcheol moves from his desk and comes to stand behind you wrapping his arms around you before leaning to put his chin on your shoulder as he looks at you in the mirror.
"your hair looks great, i love it like this. you needed the extra time to sleep. hey..." you meet his eyes in the mirror and smile at him tiredly as he squeezes you into a hug before leaning to kiss your neck making your body warm as you suck in a breath and close your eyes.
seungcheol smiles at your reaction and speaks against your skin knowing you will leave soon but he can love on you until that moment comes. "i just want you to know that i'm proud of how hard you work and you got this okay? one more shift...then tomorrow we sleep in until you want to wake up."
you laugh softly into a smile as you nod and lean back against him for a moment. "i'd really like that. i love you cheol." he smiles at your words and leans up to kiss your cheek as your alarm goes off signaling you need to leave in order to get ot work on time. "i love you too baby. let me know when you get to work."
#seungcheol fluff#seventeen fluff#svt fluff#seungcheol imagines#seventeen imagines#svt imagines#scoups fluff#scoups imagines#seungcheol#scoups#seventeen#svt#this was entirely self serving#did i have a little cry while writing it? yes#im so ready to have a few days off from work
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oh OH hO spicey ohhh having a spicey little tantrum about the boromir tag don't listen to me at all do NOT listen I mean it I mean it this is so petty
#text post#Gonna go ffffucking crazy- people have to bend so far over backwards to make Boromir bad that they just full out ignore his entire characte#and bend even further over backwards to make the elves all better than him too like jesus christ#oh is it BOROMIR who would be bitter about dying in the defense of Rohan??? whose despair is just so self serving and requires legolas to#slap him out of it yes uhuh that seems reasonable seems like BOROMIR would just hate the idea of dying for allies he so clearly loved#when in the full actual canonical scene of his death he dies for two random guys he met five months ago and all he has to say about it is#he failed he is sorry he has paid#BOROMIR definitely doesn't deal well with his own looming death and would definitely snap at other people about it ignoring all the decades#he has been under the looming shadow of death and has been known as not-grim and loved by many and has done his duty almost like#that is literally all his life has been up until this point#and of course of course it's ARAGORN who he's supposed to be fighting for because he's SOO impactful on Boromir's psyche he meant so much t#him apparently ggrsfsfgrrffffggfrgr#everyone wants to hit boromir oh yeah he's so annoying his hopelessness is such a burden and everyone else has to deal with him#if ANY of you go looking for what I'm talking about and do anything about it I'll slaughter you myself these are such inside thoughts the#comic is good#I shouldn't even be angry it's the natural conclusion from a story that tells you Boromir is bad but does not spell out that it's because h#isn't 'faithful' to god#they just tell you he is 'too despairing' and he 'desires power' and he 'doesn't have hope' (hope being a proxy for faith and Boromir not#believing in Aragorn means he doesn't believe in Eru's chosen leaders and his 'grand plan')#despair being a sin because it means you are selfishly giving into your own desires for a good life for you and the people you love#rather than accepting that all is God's plan and this life is only meaningful if you are defending Eru's right to the throne of the world#But that isn't spelled out so for despair to be treated as evil in the story people apply a secular understanding of 'bad despair'#already a TERRIBLE idea btw genuinely awful to percieve hopelessness as a personal moral failing#I suppose thats it actually the major reason it gets to me cus hopelessness and despair is a base aspect of my existence like#I am in despair pretty much constantly and I know a lot of other disabled people with similar sentiments#and the urging from people to 'have hope' is at this point sickening and infuriating and maddening to me it is disconnected from my reality#WHICH is demonstrably why I care about Boromir and Denethor so much no one meets them where they are no one sits in their reality with them#they are deeply relatable in their dealing with dispair namely; they just live and accomplish and strive along with their sarcasm and#black humour through their dark grueling lives and do what duty demands and try to hold onto their crumbling family relationships#and then they each have uniquely cathartic ends to those lives
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Listen, in a land of supernatural monsters where combat has always decided who is right you've gotta know how to throw your hands (no you don't I just like martial arts):
... Also because of how I'm formatting this this'll have to be a multipost thing. At some spots if you go over the image I have included some notes on the character's placement.
Aikido
Judo
Kendo
Iiajutsu
Wing-chun
Taekwondo
Kyudo
Boxing
Togakure-Ryu
Iga-Ryu
Baguazhang
Hung Ga
Savate
Capoeira
Hojutsu
Zui Quan
Jujutsu
Tai Chi
Hapkido
Araki-Ryu (Primarily chain focused)
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wake up sapphics. my Oops All Girls™ trigun au just dropped
#this was entirely self serving and I'm not the least bit sorry#trigun#wolfwood#vash the stampede#knives millions#vash and knives go by the same names but wolfwood goes by nico#and yes you can call her father#me and shelternmberone have been playing racquetball with our trigun brainworms and I'm having a total blast#llama makes it lesbian
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I was looking for boot ref pics and then came across this painting
Oh my fucking god???????????????? Putting this one in the ref folder bcs oh my god??????????? They did not have to serve this hard?????????
#some random ass scottish lord and his bro from the english civil war era#and yet it is the single most slay painting ive ever seen in my entire life#paintings like this ensure me that i can really just draw any pose for historical stuff and it will never be too over the top#17th century twinks my fucking god#also its so important to me the difference in poses 😭😭😭😭#WHY IS THE GUY ON THE RIGHT SERVING SO HARD??? WHY DID HE FEEL THE NEED????#but yknow what! good for him#honestly he is how i imagine emperor seb(with longer hair tho)#the hair is literally perfect#the pose? mwah!!#oh my god and i just found a painting of their third brother and is serving just as hard#they died in battle pretty young </3 at least they got to slay first#also the painter made a bunch of self portraits and theyre just as twinky! good on you sir!!#his art is really amazing tbh :D new thing to reference yayyyyyyy#unfortunately the era is a bit before my AU but hey still good to look at#catie.rambling.txt
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sometimes I feel guilty for disliking my parents, or moreso how they acted when I was a kid sometimes. because nowadays they're great. they're absolutely fine. so it would be ungrateful to say they're bad parents? they spoiled me as a kid if anything, they kept me safe and all that too.
but at the same time, them being good now doesn't change the fact that I needed them to be good when I was still growing. it helps nothing for them to be good parents now that I'm an adult and already fucked up from them. it changes nothing that they were slightly traumatizing when I was still developing and growing as a child
#mine#childhood trauma#parental abuse#I've recovered from most of those trauma symptoms I developed#or well... at least I cry and feel less dread when someone raises their voice nowadays#cry less*#I'm still an overly timid people pleaser with no self respect#who's too afraid to do anything to ever upset people even if it means ignoring my own comfort#because that's just what worked best as a kid#fighting back and getting upset just made things worse#doing things wrong would always instigate something#so I just learned to do things perfectly#and to accept what's dished out to me without making a fuss#I don't know if this behavior will be healthy in adult life though...#it has served me well through childhood but will it serve me in the workforce?#if things had been the opposite#if they had acted the way they do now when I was young#and been terrible now instead. maybe I'd be able to deal with them healthily?#maybe my entire personality would be different#not sure where I'm going with this#but I'm just wondering who I could've been if they had been a little nicer or a little calmer about things
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I've spent way too long trying to make sense of optic-color meaning in TFA
#my art#scatter#maccadam#tfa#tfa perceptor#tfa jetfire#jettwins#MAN I THOUGHT I WAS ONTO SOMETHING WITH PURPLE BEING LIKE A MALICIOUS SELF-SERVING NEUTRAL#BUT THEN A COMIC INTRODUCED PURPLE-OPTIC'D DECEPTICONS AND LIKE CMONNNN#DONT EVEN GET ME -STARTED- ON GREEN OPTICS#ANYWAYS *gRABS A SHOVEL* JETTWINS AND PERCEPTOR ARE GONNA HAVE WAY MORE DEPTH EVEN IF I HAVE TO MAKE THAT DEPTH#LISTEN. EVERY OTHER AUTOBOT IN THE ENTIRE ALLSPARK ALMANAC HAS BLUE LENSES E X C E P T PERCEPTOR!!!!!!#custody battle au
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The thing is, Sonic is very chivalrous with Shadow. And even though Shadow kinda has pick up on how it seems very exclusive to him, he doesn’t see the irony of it.
Sonic was a King, and if he had grew up as his peers had expect him to, he would’ve expect that sort of reverence from Shadow. Not viceversa.
He is gentle because he wants to, and because he loves Shadow already, he doesn’t view him as weak, he just can’t stand to see him hurt.
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#growing up sonic hated the way people waited and groveled at his feet#sonic is confusing to shadow because to a degree shadow expected him to act that way as royalty#but when sonic proves he isn’t like that shadow just as quickly pivots into thinking sonic must instead be trying to prove something else#for a good time now shadow has only behaved in very self-serving ways#he’s had to live with different personas and facades for years now#where the difference between freedom and imprisonment is based entirely on how he appears to others#so in his mind the fact that Sonic would treat him this way MUST be self-serving for Sonic in some way#and in a way i suppose it is but not for the reason Shadow thinks#Shadow is having a hard time fathoming that Sonic would ever treat him like this because he cares about him and not for selfish reasons#Sonic’s other friends he could understand#but Shadow? never#after all how could he?#anyways not to go off in the tags but im so glad ppl see what im putting down lmao#mdlhea#text#asks#anonymous#sonadow
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Ok ok ok I'm not Tryna start discourse but bluestars prophecy was my first ever warriors book and bluestar will always be my favourite so I'm gonna make some counterpoints to you about her being a Smajor character
bluestar has always been led by an intense loyalty and dedication to those she loves and cares for - this includes her mum, her sister, her clan, eventually Firepaw when he joins the clan, and she has a VERY strong moral compass when it comes to doing the right thing - when she sees thistleclaw teaching tigerpaw to hurt a then baby scourge she very much discourages it and is against it
Afaik scott is Not like that, he doesn't have an emotional or love-driven moral code, he does things because they're smart decisions in the long term or because he wants to. Granted I havent seen a ton of his stuff but I have seen his limited life and 3rd life perspectives and he is very much a singular team player there, there to look after himself and well if people align with him that's great he's got allies (jimmy and Martyn) but he won't go out of his way to care for them
Bluestars defiance of starclan in the first series is BECAUSE she gave herself to them and what the warrior code demanded so much - yes she broke clan rules by having kids with crookedstar but she did everything in her power to make sure they'd have a happy life and felt terrible that thrushpelt was willing to say they were his to save her reputation. She didn't do it out of a selfish want, she only ever wanted to help her clan and those she loved, and her becoming clan leader is emblematic of that want. When she rejects starclan so wholeheartedly in the first series it's because THINGS KEEP GOING WRONG WHEN SHES TRIED SO HARD TO STOP THEM FROM DOING THAT - starclan has never cared about the sacrifices she made to keep her loved ones and clan safe, she lost her mother, her sister, her kits, her mate, literally everything, and things STILL KEEP GETTING WORSE. it's not a demand that she deserves to have everything good, it's a cry for help that shouldn't something go right after she's tried so hard???
C!Scott isn't like that. He puts himself above others and inherently believes he will get the best if he just plays his cards right, and he is good at it, he's very competent at lasting a long time in life series and getting what he wants - the ruthlessness of gem driven by desperation kills him in secret life, Martyn's complete fucking about face kills him in limited life, and I'm pretty sure it's etho who gets him out in 3rd life by luck. He doesn't plan to look after the ones he cares about, because he cares about himself first and foremost. Yeah you can argue when he doesn't get what he wants he gets annoyed, but his is less of a 'why don't I get this don't I deserve it' and more of a 'oh fuck this didn't work. Ok new plan double down on getting what I want by appeasing to people cos they're easy to read and therefore account for'
I don't doubt Scott would make a bluestar adjacent character if he made a warrior cats oc BUT his character would honestly be closer to darktail or ashfur than bluestar and that's that on that.
(sorry you activated 13 year old me's unskippable cutscene sjdjsjsjja this isnt meant to be a serious argument I just love bluestar a lot and love talking about her)
OKAY 1. this is fucking awesome thank you 2. i am going to do something new and exciting (advocate for scott instead of beating him to death with sticks) because unfortunately this bluestar info has only made me believe she is a smajor character even more.
As a general note when I talk about smajor characters as a collective here I’m referring to characters more in the realm of esmp/traffic/rats/pirates/etc, less vampire scott or necromancer scott who are intended to be villainous.
Scott characters tend to operate under a “If I am not a Good Person I may as well die” rule, and consequently abide by a strict moral code to keep themselves feeling clean. For instance: traffic Scott will never go back on his word, he will avoid dishonesty, and he won’t take from others unless he is sure that he can repay them. He will never betray his seasonal primary ally (even when they betray him first), and will often give people things just because they asked him nicely. He stakes a lot of his own identity on this, because it is through being a “good person” that he justifies his superiority (and, by extension, his own existence); in his mind he deserves the best and *is* the best because he is such a good person. When things don’t go his way, he thinks he doesn’t deserve it because he has been nothing but good, so he tries to place a reason. He often assumes that somebody must “have a vendetta” against him, even if this somebody is the world (see: him asking if limlife episode 1 boogeyman is some kind of joke played on him for not giving in to the boogey curse in Last Life.) which is very Bluestar to me, convinced that her misfortunes are a divine punishment.
This is all to say that Scott does have a strict moral code and deep sense of loyalty. Being a “good person” and devoted partner in the ways he understands it are so ingrained into what he is that I think he definitely has the capacity to be a Bluestar if he were raised being taught clan values, even if his internal systems are often built around never letting gross emotions be fully felt rather than what those emotions compel him to do.
#ive always wanted to partake in pointless character debate on tumblr#considered maintagging this but didnt want people looking at your ask weird. sorry yall we serve fucked up scott here#“But bree” you might ask “what about pearl? He wasnt a very devoted partner then!”#and to that I say: pearl isnt a person to him. and neither is jimmy. Scott fucked up with both of them and unfortunately if he is not good-#and justified 100% of the time he loses his entire identity so convincing himself that they are incompetent or crazy so that he#doesnt have to self reflect is how he gets by. he would literally rather kill himself than earnestly admit fault for anything#… huh. about the above tags I dont remember the lore but is there any parallel there with the whole bright heart thing#genuine question bc I do not remember why blue star did that and I dont trust the wiki#(Trying to space out names so they dont tag)#I really hope this makes sense btw bc I feel like I usually list a lot more examples… but im tired#I can elaborate on any point here if need be ig. I dont talk about this aspect of him often because the literal entire fandom does already#Every scott analysis post out there is about his damn loyalty… anyways yeah scotts loyalty is transactional more often than emotional but#It’s still loyalty and also. hard to draw the line between where the emotions stop sometimes because he can stop giving a fuck about—#most things on a whim. How much scott genuinely cares about something is a forever undefinable concept#asks#he is genuinely a very good ally to have usually. like jimmy was very much the exception there#he does like helping people out he does. he’s just also emotionally detached so he tallies his favors and good deeds to bring up later if—#someone he’s helped decides to go against him. If that makes sense#sorry man I just keep talking. I love this blue animal…….#thanks for the ask genuinely I love when paragraphs about characters#anyways im gonna pass out and. Shakes myself STOP ADDING MORE TAGSSS i think im so tired man
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