Here There Be Dragons

Hello~ Adult she/her here. I run a multifandom blog for anime and cartoons, sprinkled with humorous stuff for flavor. I also write fanfic for a bunch of different fandoms; my writing blog is hollowmashiro. Feel free to message me!

[occudo]

They wear suits, but they don't even know basic etiquette.

Based on @cowardsexual 's post of a very sleepy phm science team and Grace's teacher instincts

[monsterritory]

Book canon is correct and eating is a personal and private activity, Movie!Rocky's just a freak (/affectionate, positive, adoring, loving)

[kiapet2]

My explanation for the book v. film difference on Eridian eating customs is that movie!Rocky was full-on bluffing.

Like he was just calling human eating disgusting, what was he going to do, say "okay actually the way Eridians eat is so incredibly gross we do it in private sound-proofed rooms"? And cede the conversational high-ground and sense of species superiority to Grace??? Nah, it looks beautiful, definitely.

Then Grace says "show me" and Rocky is stuck now, he's committed. So he just bucks up and goes all-in. It's not like he'll see the human after this is all done, he can pretend it's totally normal just this once.

Eventually before they reach Erid Rocky is gonna have to come clean, and Grace will laugh at him for an hour straight.

[yayxstitch]

[yayxstitch]

I took some of your many suggestions and made it better.

[gaycatastrophe]

[yayxstitch]

You right you right

[kakushimiko]

May I add a suggestion?

[zinjanthropusboisei]

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These pictures are killing me

[scarfanon]

There are many animals I expect to see in caves, but I can confidently say that this was not one of them.

[maneater-mela]

The elephants yearn for the mines

[beggars-opera]

They crave that mineral

[sketchupnfries]

I finished reading Project Hail Mary, and this idea got mangled in my brain

[sketchupnfries]

Some Project Hail Mary book based sketches since I friggin love it and the movie so much.

[sketchupnfries]

The part in the Project Hail Mary book when Grace thinks about warming up his burrito with the spin drives sent me

[sketchupnfries]

Some moody Project Hail Mary sketches since I wanted to mix it up in between my silly sketches

[sketchupnfries]

I saw a comment on one of my sketches if Mark Watney's survival lectures/tips would be on the Hail Mary's ship laptops. I also felt like drawing a lil sketch about Ryland essentially just eating microwave burritos for days.

[jabberding0]

it's just a little bit of wind

[ailithnight]

Walking tents are always fun, but the pants are what killed me. Then, fresh off that death, GIRAFFE.

[redpandarascal]

in conversation about white people who go to Japan and expect their knowledge of anime to culturally carry them, I was once posed with “it’s like if there was a Japanese guy who was obsessed with spongebob and came over here and thought he could get by just communicating in spongebob quotes.” This is a false equivalence because if such a man existed we would crown him king. We’d love him. Americans would fucking love that. sometimes I get sad that this isn’t a real guy I can invite to a party.

[hong--zhi--zhu]

[frustratedasatruar]

[rainbowgod666]

Ok the last one got me laughing actually

[hockeydiva]

my collection

[sagetsukimura]

My piece for Haunting Heroes Discord server WCT. The theme was 'Wings'.

I'm so happy with this one guys

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[vielens]

[fishbonesart]

Care for a drink?