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this aint a PARTAY get off the DANCE FLOOR you want the GET DOWN here comes the GANG WAR you doin all right i got the ANSWER cause all the GOOD TIMES they give y
#art#traditional art#colored pencil#watercolor#mcr#mcr fanart#gerard way#party poison#danger days#tlotfk#killjoys#danger days: the true lives of the fabulous killjoys#im finally feeding all the new mcr followers i got cuz of those two other danger days things that blew up....
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Okay so a little thing I noticed is how this random citizen flinches and calls Nimona "freak" when he sees her. This is actually a lot of people's reactions when they see someone using this style (punk rock ig, vibrant colors). And in my experience a lot of queer, especially trans people enjoy this style. You can see that Nimona's design is much different than those of the citizens', even when she is in her "human" form trying to blend in. Everyone is dressed pretty casually, like you could walk down the streets and see someone wearing their clothes. But Nimona stands out. And a lot of people are judgmental purely if someone stands out and doesn't follow their traditional beliefs, norms and roles.
#nimona#nimona 2023#nimona movie#i could be reading too much into it#i don't know how to phrase this but i hope i got the point across#this just follows the example of how the kingdom advanced technologically#but people's mindsets didn't#so anything that stands out or is different is a threat to their way of life#i've witnessed this in real life#could be another trans metaphor idk#or just a metaphor for people who just don't follow tradition in general#and i don't think they know that Nimona is a shape-shifter just yet
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@jegulus-microfic // january 24 // prompt: dinner // words: 388
“James Fleamont Potter,” Regulus yells. He didn’t intend for it to be a yell, but his nerves got the best of him. “I want to declare my intentions for you!” He thrusts forward a bouquet of flowers. James’ eyebrows furrow as he tentatively reaches for them
It’s a sunny winter day, crisp and cold, but made bearable by the way sunlight crashes down on them. James looks radiant, Regulus thinks. Then again, he always thinks James looks radiant.
“You wanna do what to me?” James asks, bringing the flowers up to his nose, sniffing.
Regulus doesn’t know what to do with his hands now that he’s no longer holding something. He ends up tucking them behind his back, so James can’t see him fidgeting.
Regulus takes a deep breath. “I want to court you.”
“Court? Like date?”
The words bring a flush to Regulus’ cheeks. Date. He could date James Potter. Be his boyfriend, if things go well. Merlin, he hopes things go well.
“Yes.”
“Why didn’t you just say that?”
“Because that’s not how it’s done. Pure Blood Tradition mandates that I declare my intentions, speak with your father, call at your house and then have the honor of escorting you to a planned activity or event outside the home that might please you,” Regulus rattles off.
He’d practiced for weeks. In front of the mirror, under his breath during breakfast, on his way to classes. Barty and Evan had teased him relentlessly, but Pandora had told him it was sweet. Had offered pointers, even.
“Yeah? You gonna wine and dine me, Regulus?”
A cluster of students passes by them. Some cast glances their way, but most don’t pay them any mind, simply heading back to the castle.
“I can take you to dinner, if you’d like that, yes.” Regulus straightens, squaring his shoulders. He hopes he’s exuding confidence. He needs to show James he is capable and dependable and a good match. James, who always takes care of others, deserves someone who takes care of him too. Regulus wants it to be him.
“It’s a date.” There’s a bright smile on James’ face, but he tries to hide it behind the flowers. Tucks his chin closer to his chest, buries his nose in the bouquet.
“So you mean—”
“Yes, I accept your intentions to court me.”
#they're so silly your honor#no voldy in this setting#just regulus following traditions bc he wants to do things The Right Way#he is so very precious to me#didn't know how to end it but they go on a date and regulus is so nervous he knocks over a glass of water#and james is so charmed bc poised nd proper regulus is a flustered mess#regulus black#james potter#jegulus#jegulus microfic#mil's microfics
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An alt design (redesign?) for my demon slayer oc, koharu
Wanted to incorporate the little clouds inside the cape for more coherence with the other two Ebisu siblings, and figured that since they’re the main “researcher” of the family, and the one with the least physical strength to offer, their design should lean slightly more into academia with the cape and the hat! Was thinking of making it a tonbi (overcoat with shoulder-cape down to sleeve length and inner jacket) but I think the single long cape makes the design overall easier to read :)
#kimetsu no yaiba#kny oc#demon slayer oc#I am. in love with the outfits of the meiji to showa eras#i honestly can’t say much because I’m not Japanese and all I know is from rudimentary amounts of research on the internet but#I really enjoy the way capes and hats from western designs combined with more traditional looking clothes like kimono looks#I think koharu would wear the cap and cape in cities and surrounding areas where it’s more common to see a student around#whereas the haori is saved for mostly rural missions where looking like a student is impractical#the cape has the added benefit of making it very easy to hide their sword in broad daylight#they don’t put it through the belt because the way that the sword tilts forward is pretty obvious and could get them arrested#so the string on the belt loops lets it dangle more vertically to follow the legs more and be inconspicuous
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Y’all ever think about if Sora falls to darkness that inside his heart will look like the Destiny Islands falling again
#i do a lot#kingdom hearts#one of the biggest reasons i think we’ll see something like this in canon. briefly at least#not only would parallel ddd w ven’s heart/armor no longer there to protect sora#and roxas and xion gone from sora’s heart too. so sora would be alone#and actually there as opposed to in the RoL/awake when riku dives in#but also there is no way nomura’s gonna pass up the chance to bring us full circle like this. he loves making his characters revisit/relive#worlds and memories like this to make a point. and sora’s heart was sunset in ddd… following kh1 the dark and stormy night comes next#The thought of sora and riku reaffirming their love and friendship here when it broke the first time the islands fell#both of them having to in a way relive this horrible night for the final time#but riku doing the total opposite of last time. trying to save sora trying to stop the darkness from consuming everything#being totally honest with sora. reaching his hand out for sora but this time he’s not being consumed by darkness.#he’s become the light in the darkness. and they finally reach each other they finally grasp hands. I’m chewing on glass#i don’t think sora would ‘fall’ to darkness in the traditional sense#thematically i think it makes more sense for him to be faced w another martyr choice#though his own negative feelings would still be tangled up in there. and this would parallel kh3#and if sora chooses to let darkness into his heart to save others it’d also parallel kh1 w riku choosing to open the door/let the darkness#into destiny islands at the risk of others#god it’d be just like kh1 but we’d be playing as riku and he’d be the one looking frantically for sora#a reversed dynamic. but now they understand each other’s pain and feelings so they can reach each other#figuratively and literally#i love parallels i love symbolism i love themes kick my ass !!!!
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Present for Shang Tsung
#mortal kombat#cienie's art#shang tsung#featured a gift from bi han who can be heard in background XD#shang tsung finding a present when he had never get one and his own self was going to kill him without any regret?#Yep. All kindness should be treated with suspicion#i like to imagine that mk1 lin kuei still do not follow any religion but the giving gifts around christmas was adapted as family tradition#to cheer up Tomas when he was younger and still grieving and because it was Mother's idea Bi-Han follows it#and along the way made a present for shang tsung (a warm sweater so he stop complains about cold XDDD)
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Hey Sergle, how does one learn how to draw? Like, I am in my 20s, can barely draw a stick figure, and feel overwhelmed whenever I try to look up tutorials. Do you have any advice on how to start?
my Unprofessional advice on how to start in earnest, is to do it the way little kids do when they start learning to draw! which is to not approach it as learning at all. sitting down and scribbling out whatever comes to mind, reading a book or watching a movie and trying to copy the way the characters are drawn. draw a page full of cats. do it while you watch tv. doing all that w/o the Grown Up impulse to be embarrassed that you're new at a skill.
#I don't care if this advice isn't structured- i think this is the more fun way to learn!#I could send you a masterpost with links on tutorials and How Tos and Beginner Guides For Dummies etc but that's not.. the way I think#that it should work.#you could take a class or follow tutorials you find on yt and that's fine too. but like you said#it's overwhelming that way. bc then it feels like homework. and then it feels like there's a Certain Way to do it#and if there's a certain way to do it then that means there's a wrong way to do it.#oh the second part of this advice is to use physical art supplies. digital art is amazing#but traditional art and the practice of putting ink to paper is satisfying in a tactile way that digital art isn't#and you don't have to Set Up any art program to have the exact like. tablet settings you want#idk baby you should just pick up some art supplies that inspire you and get the ball rolling#steal some watercolor from hobby lobby if you must! paint some flowers. or some shit! have fun!#sergle answers
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An independent Courier would actually hate being in charge or enforcing standards in New Vegas. At least in my mind.
They made Vegas independent but I feel like that playthrough/style so clearly makes it apparent it isn't for them. They are making Vegas a place where people can live freely, like how House genuinely didn't care what people did but without the behind-the-scenes Big Brother surveillance he did. Having every family, faction, and other influence group or person comes to them about alliances or rules would be draining, and boring, one note.
In an independent Vegas, The Courier is also Independent. They like getting rid of lines and borders that impede freedom, they like to help give people the tool but I don't believe they want to be the one to shape it.
#a lot of this is like how ncr started but then lost its way#the courier would like a democracy but like one that is truly run by the people like if public votes or letting people split off and embrac#their traditions instead of a universal standard like house changing the tribes caesar wiping out so many cultures and the ncr whole thing#with their money being worthless in territories they have not taken control over cause people dont want to#the courier doesnt want to be house 2.0 and i see that so often in peoples interpretations of that ending and I just dont think its the cas#like theyd stay to help it stablize for a but ultimately i think theyd leave to clean up any loose ends or just travel the mojave like#a lot of the dialouge good or evil is very much like the courier doesnt want the responsiblity to be placed on them rather they choose what#they want to take on that is not presented in sort of a scenerio where they losely rule NV cause everyone else would go to them even if the#say they arent in charge#i at least for the follower quest tell them their choices are theirs and no one elses so i see that as their outlook so im biased#cause im also good karma just for how nice I am and I like doing crazy adventure shit and its actually hard to have fun when everyone hates#you for being legion#anyway make of this what you will#fallout#fallout new vegas#fnv#the courier#courier six#courier fnv#the strip fnv#robert edwin house#caesar’s legion#new california republic#independent vegas
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@annasghosts I didn't want to pile on that post any more lol but I wanted to reply to this because it's interesting.
To me headcanon always implied something that could feasibly be canon. Like, to me it means "in my head, this is basically canon". So presumably something that you think would fit believably into existing canon but just hasn't been confirmed. So a headcanon would be "I think Vernon Dursley is a chelsea supporter", like u can't just go "I headcanon that the avengers came to hogwarts and were sorted into a secret fifth house".
It does seem like it's been warped over time. In some ways I think this is okay, such as saying "my headcanon is that Sirius was gay" even though iirc jkr said he wasn't*. Because even though it's not true in terms of the author's intent, it also doesn't contradict canon in any significant way. There's no concrete information either way in the actual text and it doesnt (or shouldn't lol. anyway...) change anything about the character or the story.
however since most of the fandom has Pretending There Is No Info About the Marauders disease, this just leads people to use 'headcanon' to mean "any random thing I made up on the spot which I personally would like to be true" to the point it has no meaning lol. Since the fanon Marauders are basically just OCs at this point, their "headcanon" are just character traits that they've given to their original characters. Which is kind of funny.
*edit: apparently jkr did not say that and I misremembered/was misinformed. BUt I do think it's likely that he wasn't intended to be gay, so I think my point stands anyway.
#im edgy in that i always have sirius as gay or bi but dont ship him with anyone lol#ALSO that post by the marauders stan who read the books for the first time and got upset upon reaching SWM#'nooo my sweet baby boy james would NEVER act like this'#thats what u get for putting ur trust in a man#they should rly give the marauders era ocs their own names like poor things#'this is lysander moonbright my harry potter OC'#following in the tradition of the GREATS namely ebony darkness dementia raven way
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On one level the book is about the life of a woman who is hardly more than a token in a great epic poem, on another it’s about how history and context shape how we are seen, and the brief moment there is to act between the inescapable past and the unknowable future.
Perhaps to write Lavinia Le Guin had to live long enough to see her own early books read in a different context from the one where they were written, and to think about what that means.
-Jo Walton
#thinking of how her last four novels between 2004 and 2008 show a progressive blossoming of interest in classical literary traditions#following nearly half a century's worth of a career where she seems to actively avoid the influence of classical or medieval europe#idk. but i think this explains annals of the western shore as much as lavinia.#she gets so interested in what it means to share the same stories across space and time (and class and gender and nationality)#to be united in a community by having the same poetry#and in such an obvious way thinking about classics as a discipline is an incredible way to work through that#and i do think its an interest that must come out of having witnessed her own work unite people in community across time#if you're talking about the way stories and poems bring people together across time...#i read the texts passed on to me by renaissance humanists and 19th century philologists and byzantine monks and late antique scribes...#and they're the same across time and space but they're also not#and to have seen her own work reach people across space and time and be the same but also not... that must have been incredible#so: did living long enough to see her own early books read in a different context and to think about what that means#drive her to think about classical literature as she clearly was for the better part of a decade?#mine#reception#anyway i gotta think about this and email [redacted] tomorrow
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Nooooo guys haha i dont have any insane thoughts OR feelings about this song......
#my art#traditional#dndads#im reading so so hard into this song. too hard probably. anyway#idk why im so obsessed with holly smith. i mean ok i do know.#its because scary was very obviously infatuated with her in some way and i would follow my awful girl anywhere in the whoooleeee world....#ANYWAY.... idk maybe ill futz with my holly smith design a bit more
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day 9 - 6am nightcat
#daily nightcat#hi new followers (there’s a lot of you!! thank u) sorry to immediately disappoint you with a traditional thing#comp day so i’m up way too early and realized. i forgot to schedule a post and likely won’t have time to draw one#so you get this today#rain world#rain world fanart#rain world slugcat#rw slugcat#slugcat#rain world art#rw art
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i am pro-satanism btw lol
#got followed by some religious c@tholic blog whose dni was like ''no satanists''#how are you emo/scene and hate satanists?#such an ignorant opinion tbh#it's literally just a criticism on traditional hateful religious ideas#honestly as a queer who was raised c@tholic i feel way safer around most satanists than i do many c@tholics
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for some reason I feel like I could make a post with the exact same cadence and frustration that shippers feel when trying to convince people their ship is real, just on the opposite side
#like i love y'all#i just think some of yall take it too seriously yknow?#the fact that the people you ship have explicitly said that they don't want to put traditional labels on their relationship#and you still go out of your way to insist they have a typical relationship#like it just cracks me up#lexis thoughts#i lost three followers for this post hahahahaha
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Tomorrow/later today brings good news for people who like The Silt Verses and 8 minute long narrative folk songs
#seal's apocalyptic rambles#tsv#sealapocalyptic says music related words#could I have cut it down? maybe. will I? No!#I have in my heart like a. fanfic academic paper about the folk music tradition of the followers of the trawlerman#maybe i'll write it someday#because I've spent a lot of time thinking about my tsv songs#and the recurring phrases/interconnectedness and how that its probably reflective#of the natural evolution of folk songs and you could connect them together#return to the river is explicitly. to me. an evangelism song that is new and drawing on those old tradtions#and yet recontextualizing them in a way that makes them fundementally more#idk palatable outside the context of people already in the faith yk?#anyway it's the fabled promised bride song I've been talking about#for a million years at this point
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i actually just really like the dynamic of apple and maddie being together, like not in a romantic way; but regardless it's genuinely such a FUN pairing??
like the contrast between those two is such a fun dynamic to play with, because on one hand we have apple, who is a complete stick in the mud, she is basically the posterchild for ever after high in a sense.
she's a stickler for tradition and is very obviously gunning for her destiny. she's someone who likes rules, she's someone who likes order; in fact, she's someone who enforces rules and order. apple is someone who's rather straightforward and very neat and orderly. she carefully plans out each and every thing to make sure that she's on top of everything, and to make sure that nothing can go wrong; she leaves no room for error. apple is also someone who doesn't like chaos, who doesn't like disorder, she doesn't like having elements that she can't control (which in this case could be raven choosing not to sign etc. etc.) and again, apple white is someone who loves structure.
maddie is a bit different obviously. maddie is a proud wonderlandian through and through and damn if she's going to let someone give her shit about that. maddie speaks in riddles. she wears a giant fucking hat out of which she can pull out every known thing to man apparently. she can interact with the narrators of their world and is, i think, the only who ever came close to realizing that their world is one that is fictional and they are just characters.
maddie is nonsensical. she is the opposite of order, the opposite of someone who follows rules and plans and the opposite of someone who loves structure; which is, in this case, apple. maddie is someone who can very easily do the impossible, like eat rocks for instance, if not told that this feat is impossible. she thinks outside the box in all occasions. she's fiercely intelligent and wise but her way of thinking is so unorthodox very few are able to understand her. maddie likes being free i believe. she likes having the freedom to do what she wants, hence she also likes her destiny because the mad hatter's destiny is a rather flexible one.
regardless, i think it's such a fun dynamic to have. you have someone who desperately clings to rules and plans and schedules and orders and who constantly builds upon them and supports them and backs them up in order to feel some semblance of control.
and then you have someone who could not give less of a shit about these rules, who could give less of a shit about conforming to the ideals of ever after high, and who is rather well off simply living in their own way, as they would wish to, without having someone to impose regulations or boundaries upon them.
apple is, genuinely, order exemplified. she is everything that is Ever After High; she follows her destiny to a T, she doesn't want anything else, has never wanted anything else, because this is all she's had in her life. she wants to have control over all things at all times because in the one instance where she wasn't in control, where she was going to drown. she clings heavily to destiny, to order itself, because she feels like it's the safest thing she has; the most sure thing she has.
maddie is, in a sense you could say, chaos exemplified. she's the opposite of what apple white is. maddie likes her destiny, sure, but she's not hellbent on enforcing the ideal of destiny; she'd just rather everyone be happy and free to do what they want. there are no sure things for maddie, someone who is a refugee in a strange new world, someone who had her home ripped away from her. they are no sure things for her but she doesn't let that get in her way, because she realizes that you can't control everything and she ends up much better off for it.
and i think it's such a strange dynamic, these two. the person who fears the loss of order the most and the one who easily breaks it on a whim.
#eah#ever after high#long post#sorry about that#wanted to make a silly thing on apple and maddie#and it spiralled a bit out of control#whoops#apple white#madeline hatter#ever after high and it's fucked up concept of destiny you've gotten to me yet again#also maddie casually eating rocks will never not be funny to me#her power is LITERALLY doing the impossible unless stated otherwise#and apple is not up for that wacky nonsense#yk she's just someone who is very happy to follow tradition and her old-fashioned ways and call it a day#she doesn't WANT to see any alternate routes#the contrast#i love it
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