franky n iceberg's relationship is definitely one of the more compelling dynamics that i've seen so far (to me). they can't be in the same room without resorting to fighting. so much bitterness, so much anger, so much resentment. because franky is franky -- and he can't change that. and iceburg knows that. they're polar opposites. oil and water. iceburg will never forgive franky for what happened to tom. for destroying their family, even by association. and god knows franky won't forgive himself. stood in front of a sea train even though it almost killed him...... to the point that he was so mangled he had to rebuild himself with metal..... all for retribution. but they're devoted to the ties between them. iceburg -- sturdy, frozen, larger than life -- sobbed because he was so glad franky was alive. he hadn't lost him too. and franky, despite knowing he had little left in water 7 except painful memories, stayed because he wouldn't let iceburg be taken by the government. he'd protect him in a way he'd failed tom. its complicated and its NOT easy but they're family and they love each other no matter how much it hurts (to the point they coexist in a city as enemies. as ship builder and ship demolitioner. mayor and crime lord)
Superhero comics are human stories told at superhuman scales, is it really a wonder that the story of Jason and Bruce reads like that of an assault and inadequate response?
Joker is a man in your community who hurts people. He keeps hurting people no matter how your community tries to punish him or disincentive him. He hurts strangers, he hurts friends, and eventually he hurts you.
Your father is the most influential person in this community- something like the headmaster of a school or pastor of the local church or even the patriarch of a large family. You expect that after this man has hurt so many people, targeting you would be the last straw.
Itโs not. Bruce canโt cross the line. Canโt exile him, canโt expel him, canโt excommunicate him, canโt disown him. Because everyone is redeemable. Because he canโt ruin a studentโs future. Because the Lordโs grace must reach the troubled. Because family sticks together.
No instead itโs your own fault. You knew he was dangerous so why did you allow him near? Reckless and impulsive and asking for trouble. Itโs your disobedience to your father that caused this, and if there is a person deserving of pity here it is him, because he is the only blameless one.
No his guilt isnโt narcissistic self-flagellation it is indicative of his nobility and selflessness! To demand that he act, to ask him to betray his deep convictions- that would be selfish! Overemotional to the point of irrationality even.
Don't worry. Your attention-grabbing, leg-revealing outfit has been put on display so everyone can be reminded that you asked for it, and the other children will cover their ankles and obey their father from now on. The man preying on your community hurt you because you tempted him. You went after him, you allowed yourself to be alone with him, you treated things like a game.
Rest assured the other children know how to behave so as not to provoke him. They've all spent time around him, and he never hurt them like he hurt you. The problem was you, and the problem has been fixed.
u can call ur skull-head deer oc literally anything else u don't even have to change the design
PLEASE. THIS IS A ONE INCH HIGH BARRIER: JUST DON'T USE A WORD. IT'S NOT HARD.
It's a frightening lack of respect for a group to go "hey this is our culture/religion/mythology? Please don't use that word" and apparently all the white people are like "but what if I did anyway to make my unity horror game 0.01% scarier?"
Just use a different word! Call it a deerman, deer god, forest spirit, whatever. Try to care at least a little when someone says not to use their culture for entertainment.
Here's a list of deer in mythology. If you have to have a mythology-based creature, you can go find one of these that's not THE ONE YOU'VE BEEN SPECIFICALLY ASKED NOT TO USE.
Alternative words/terms/names to call the creature the internet made up: -The hungry ones -The stalker -Forest spirits -The antlered beasts -Blood starved beast ((thank you bloodborne)) -Famine incarnate -They who come at night -Geoff -Anything else you can come up with Literally use the creativity you used to design your creature and give them a name that hasn't been stolen from a culture you don't understand.
i'd like to add that the original creature isn't even deer based, and has nothing to do with deer, the creature that has a deer skull you see in art and movies is like...arguably a different thing
For folks who donโt knows what word is being talked about: W*nd*go. In addition to the above, I wanted to clarify to anybody who is confused (my understanding) of why itโs censored in the original post and why Iโm choosing to censor it when interacting with above posts: I have been told that youโre not supposed to use the real name so as not to attract its attention (like the true name of the bear being lost because so many cultures called it taboo, or inverse to why many Jewish folks censor G*d/god in their writing)
While Iโm not a believer in anything supernatural, itโs a pretty low bar to clear to justโฆ not use a sincerely held cultural belief outside of its context and stripped of anything but questionable aesthetic, particularly when you yourself are not of that culture (see: yes it actually is different from all the Christian mythological โreinterpretationsโ)
I'm native american and my tribe is a subdivision of the Algonquin who first told the story of the Wendigo and you are all spreading a lot of misinformation that is very frustrating to me, it feels like an uphill battle to keep explaining this, please read.
This is like the third or fourth time I've reblogged this but I'm doing it on my other account because I don't wanna keep spamming my poor followers with the same post.
If you are not indigenous you have NO RIGHT to tell people how we feel about our stories and myths. You do not KNOW what our sincerely held cultural beliefs are. And as a matter of fact, you are painting us all as the 'noble savage' trope by assuming that we are all so cripplingly superstitious and we so deeply believe in our monsters that saying the name of one is offensive to us.
The Wendigo is a myth. It is a story. It is a legend. You can say the word Wendigo. Stop going after random strangers you don't know for saying a word you don't even understand. Stop it. Please. It has never been a forbidden word. It isn't even part of the legend that 'saying its name will summon it', you summon the Wendigo by engaging in cannibalism.
The legend itself has an important message about greed and destruction, about selfishness in the face of death and survival. It has been used to describe many variations of greed and selfishness, both in the form of other natives and from invaders. But we don't all believe in a literal evil spirit/monster that will come get us if YOU say the word Wendigo, that's infantilizing.
The language of my tribe is nearly extinct. Our stories have been suppressed for centuries by racist non-Natives. We don't care if non-Natives tell our stories as long as they get the story RIGHT by at least taking it from an original source, because it keeps them alive.
By the way the Wendigo is totally unrelated to deer and does not have antlers, that shit is just made up by non-natives, which also pisses me off to no end. Wendigo is a spirit that possess a human, so it looks like a human, it could be anyone you know, that is part of the message and moral of the story.
(btw I won't be responding to anything on this account, I've said what I needed to say)
THANK YOU
Look I know people mean well, I DO. I'm not saying these things to make anyone feel bad or to be angry, but if you DO want to help elevate Native voices, please understand the difference between uplifting our voices and speaking OVER US. If you want to uplift our voices then find things written by actual natives and reblog it, and ask actual natives and reblog that, interviews, native american websites and books written by natives, etc. And also don't ask one tribe to speak for another because we are not all the same. But by taking one thing you heard somewhere and spreading that around from your own mouth, you're speaking OVER us.
Even if one native told you not to say it, that's one native. I promise the majority of us are NOT overly supersitious. If one native you spoke to is so superstitious that it freaks them out if you say the word Wendigo, then don't say it around them. If you want to protect the virgin ears of everyone with a closely held belief then don't say the name of ANY mythological beast, don't say 'God', 'Jesus', or 'Satan'. (If you think only white/European/colonists believe that saying 'Satan' will summon him, I would like to point to a swath of very traditional Christian native Americans including my own grandfather)
I saw one person say like 'respect the culture and the people who are SCARED of that shit' in the tags and like, once again, that is SO infantalizing. I know you don't mean it to be, but you really think all natives are so SCARED of a story that we get genuinely distressed by you TYPING it on the internet??? And you don't see how stereotypical that is?
Again, I'm not saying this to make anyone feel bad for trying to help, but if you want to help then you will understand this.
To people reblogging posts written by actual natives (not just mine, anyone), thank you for setting an example, it's the only thing tempering my frustration, to see some people out there spread my words without speaking for me, and learning from it. <3
(okay I lied about not responding to anything, this one just hits right)
Important correction!
(sorry for spreading misinfo before)
hehe
weโre almost there (and by almost there i do in fact mean about 427 days left but thats a lot less than 969 so)
it started at 1000 days lol so over halfway there
... โฅ
been thinking about them a lot lately
I have a cara account, if youโre interested I have the same username :)))
all i do is procrastinate and masturbate
sir, the transgender allegorometer is reading at a 3.5 already - if things keep increasing at this rate, itโll be subtext in a matter of hours. in days? it could be text
โsir! a controversy section has been sighted on his wiki page - sir?โ
dont you meanโฆ [turning to reveal my face covered in woke mind virus] โฆHer wiki page?
Wow There Are A Lot of Tavs I Like
FRICK IT WE'RE POSTING BALDUR'S GATE CRINGE NOW
I keep telling myself I'm gonna post BG3 Tav art WELL HERE IT IS. It's a good as an excuse as any to gush about some of my favourite Tavs and Durges I've seen the inn the BG3 community (hard to showcase all my faves, maybe I'll do another, idk, man, I'm eepy). While I'm at it, I might as well parade my twin Tav cringelords while I'm at it. We're being self-indulgent. Who give a shit, let's GOOOOOO.
Goes without saying, but don't freakin' repost, especially without giving, like, real credits and link-backs. Goddamn.
This weird lil bg3 parade is brought to you by my favourite dumbfuck Tavs to play, Eckhart and Emerleigh!
FIRST UP @sharkflan's Tav, Hope!
Starting off with a sweetheart. Sharkfan has an energetic and expressive art style that perfectly straddles scrungly, adorable, hilarious and emotional! Love the colors, and I await every Hope comic and show them to my equally-enthralled coworker. I want to sail the world with Hope and settle down in a best-buds cottage with him.
Next, @jeeaark's Tav, Greygold!
Another sweetheart! Jeeaark's style has a level of detail enhanced by their line confidence. You can feel the energy and speed, as well as the immense love, brought to each panel. Not to mention the expression work is OUTSTANDING. Just like with Hope, I devour every panel posted. I want to unleash Greygold out into the world on a little RC car. Would commit so many crimes for a Greygold Hug.
Next, @velnna's Tav/Durge, Staeve!
Listen. Listen. Staeve's popular for a reason, the little shit. Velnna's art (and webcomic Stray Souls) is extremely detailed, with the kind of care and compositing I could only dream of. I can't help but try and emulate elements of their style. You don't need me to tell you how gorgeous this creator's art is. And you don't need me to tell you that Staeve is a hilarious mess of a person. Like I said, his popularity is well-earned!
Next up, @ohpsshaw's Durge, Typhus!
Genuine freak. Seriously, what's wrong with this guy. I love him. Marissa, across their different blogs, demonstrates just. SO MUCH energy, with expressive characters built on genuinely interesting shapes. I could stare at these little freaks all day, they're so appealing. Expressive continues to be the name of the game, and goddamn does this artist ever deliver! Typhus is a recent love of mine, but, what can I say. I have a soft spot for characters that say the most Insane Shit.
SPEAKING of insane shit, to round it off, we have @meanbossart's Durge, DU Drow!
Genuinely the scariest Tav/Durge I've ever seen, I was instantly smitten. Meanbossart's art style is the kind of thing I could only ever dream of., If you like highly detailed, highly expressive, anatomically-perfect and extremely erotic gore, I genuinely struggle to think of anyone else I'd recommend. I've made peace with the fact I could never do their art and character design justice. I bow to thee. I happily risk my job so I can look at their art at work. DU Drow gives me nightmares, I adore this extremely messed up Durge. I'd put him in a jar and shake him around if I didn't fear the consequences so deeply.
ANYWAY yeah, HI, BG3 COMMUNITY. I MIGHT BE YOUR PROBLEM NOW. I know I'm literally just some random lil dude but I implore you to give these wonderful artists head smooches...
Maybe I'll make another, because hot damn there are so many great and interesting Tavs and Durges, and I freaking struggled to choose which ones I wanted to draw more this.
(I'm gonna avoid using the named tags these creators use for their tavs/durges so I don't clutter what feel like personal tags. At least, not without their permission.)
Also if any of the artists I've tagged would like to be removed, just lemme know and I'll do so!!! Or if I got visual details wrong, god please let me know. God dammit.
I think I should say that here Smoker allies with Straw Hats again over some shared enemy. It takes place after months and numerous interactions into Zoro's and Smoker's acquaintance with each other. So at this point they're far from strangers, both have long agreed that outside of instances where Smoker's threatening Luffy's safety, they're no enemies
Smoker knew enough about Zoro to be certain that he won't strike him outside of a fair battle, which is why his guard was lowered enough for his alarm to set off with a delay when Zoro grabbed him, only partially turning to smoke before his thought process is abpurtly halted
For @oprarepairweek !
Prompt: First kiss
The Coats and Shoes that Alfred Sees
The coats and shoes that Alfred sees. He puts away, counts and organises.
A man's dress shoes and a woman's heels. A new addition of toddler-sized dress shoes. A tailored coat, a fur shawl, a toddler's blazer.
The coats and shoes that Alfred sees. Their number suddenly decreased.
One pair of child-sized dress shoes. One child-sized coat. Small shoes and small coats, tucked in a large coatroom.
One pair of a man's dress shoes. One tailored overcoat.
Sometimes there's a pair of red stilettoes, sometimes there's not.
The coats and shoes that Alfred sees. Their number suddenly increased. Small sneakers and a small jacket, tucked beside a man's dress shoes and coat. The closet is not so large, on second thought.
A child's neon-yellow, red, and green slippers, sandals, and sneakers. A man's black dress shoes.
A teen's neon-yellow, blue, and pink slippers, boots, and sneakers. A man's grey dress shoes.
A man's neon-blue, black, and yellow slippers, boots, and dress shoes. A man's brown dress shoes.
The coats and shoes that Alfred sees. They belong to men all grown. He dusts and polishes, counts and organises. And one day, he sees it.
A child's beat-up sneakers and well-loved red jacket. A man's grey dress shoes.
Alfred buys new child-sized shoes. A heavy winter jacket to warm the child's bones. Red in colour and bright. Next to a man's black winter coat.
The coats and shoes that Alfred sees. Their number suddenly decreased.
A man's black dress shoes.
Sometimes there's a pair of a man's blue sneakers. Sometimes there's not. The coat closet is the coldest part of the house.
He irons and folds, counts and organises. All men's coats and shoes. He doesn't believe it when he sees it:
A child's little sneakers.
It's a pair Alfred hasn't seen before. He dusts and polishes, counts and organises. And the little sneakers come and go. A cherished guest's shoes.
The coats and shoes that Alfred sees. Their number steadily increased.
Multiple pairs of sneakers, some bigger than the others and multicoloured. Green, black, white, purple, yellow. A man's brown dress shoes.
A child's blazer with dog treats in its pockets, dwarfed by a man's winter coat. A teen's parka jacket with a zipper that Alfred fixes. A man's neon-blue puffer vest.
Sometimes there's a brown leather jacket that smells of cigarette smoke. Sometimes there's not. It turns the whole coatroom's smell into a smoker's lounge. Alfred cherishes it nonetheless.
The coats and shoes that Alfred sees. They fill out the closet's space. He counts and organises, runs out of hangers, and smiles.