Pira

Just lurking. Maybe one day I'll post about any of my many changing interests

[thatrandombystander]

With the theory that Sora has memory loss and doesn't remember his friends, I'm enjoying the idea of it triggering some ugly feelings of jealousy in Riku (that he thought he'd gotten over) at being replaced ala KH1 and making him extra miserable about the situation. Love seeing my faves suffer.

[luna-azzurra]

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

[princess-valentineee]

This scene is so important to me because girly is literally trying

Shes scared shitless but shes literally trying to do something. Shes trying to summon her keyblade and by the looks of it there's a pretty decent chance she has trouble doing so. Her keyblade is seemingly taking much longer to manifest than its supposed to

Shes already looking down at the beginning of the scene. Seemingly trying to summon it

And she only looks up when the heartless jump her

And yet her keyblade still hasnt manifested.

Girly is literally trying to help but she cant

Shes not just standing around doing nothing shes trying

SHES DOING HER BEST

[creatingblackcharacters]

oh my god as someone with a special interest in music genres and a love of finding alternative musicians outside of the mainstream i have SO many Black artists to suggest. though i'm not sure how popular they are re: the Black community in proportion to my white (lack of) knowledge.

either way:

-d'leesa is a fat Black singer who describes her music as "soft, sapphic, soul" on spotify. she's on spotify, youtube, and bandcamp (which i love because i prefer bandcamp and youtube music to spotify). she's an incredibly beautiful woman with an incredibly beautiful voice and a sound that mixes mid 90s soul/neo soul with a diy electronic sound that as an electronic music who primarily works with the free DAW lmms out of the fact i am lower middle class i particularly love that. i recommend healer and the first song i've heard by her, higher

-tunde olaniran is also a fat Black singer and also occasionally a rapper (from my memories of listening to their songs) and is proudly nonbinary and gender nonconforming, with music that i'd describe as sometimes a more electropop sound, and sometimes an electropop infused rap. they do mostly fairly upbeat, lighthearted empowering songs, and often reference comic book characters in their songs. two songs i recommend from them are "whipped cream daydream", which is a pop banger which features ah-mer-ah-su (a transfem singer who i think works under a different name now) and "jean grey", which GENUINELY references the x-men comics and is a MUCH better song involving a nerd adjacent character than nicki minaj's chun-li (which i hated as a street fighter fan because CHUN-LI. IS NOT A VILLAIN. SHE IS AS STEREOTYPICALLY GOOD GUY AS IT GETS.) you can find their music on youtube music, spotify, and some of their albums on bandcamp.

-ibeyi, who are twin afro-cuban-venezualan-french singers who sing in english, french, spanish, and yoruba. their music is a sort of floaty, experimental sound that takes some influences from certain styles of latin music found in cuba and venezuala. they mainly release concept albums and a whole bunch of weird, left field stuff, with a huge focus on spirituality and mysticism outside of the western paradigms of spirituality in their music: check them out! you can find their music on youtube music and spotify.

-tv on the radio is an indie rock band with post punk and electronica influences with MULTIPLE Black bandmates (i think there is only one bandmate that isn't Black). their music is incredibly awesome; i am one of the few people in the universe who likes yiik: a postmodern rpg and the only way i could describe their music is "it fits the themes of yiik: a postmodern rpg in a sonic sense". their songs deal with heavy topics, like the loss of love, identity issues, being treated as only your race as a Black man, and post 9/11 politics, among other things, as they've been around since 2001. they also have a lot of free jazz instrumentation in their music, and the lead singer, tunde adebimpe, also plays synthesizers in addition to singing, which is very awesome as i love synthesizers so so so so much. you can find their discography on youtube music, bandcamp, and spotify!

-one of my favorite metal bands in general (and i've listened to a LOT of metal), black pantera. honestly they cross over between thrash punk and thrash metal but i firmly see them as metal due to most thrash punk music having annoyingly short run times, so they're trash metal to me. they're a band consisting of three afro-brazilian men playing often conscious and political tracks against and about (as in criticizing) the brazilian government and particularly anti-Blackness in brazil. they're also incredibly catchy! listen to CORRE because that will not get out of your head. it's a song about shapeshifting into a panther and eating donald trump and bolsonaro and other corrupt government officials it's so cathartic. love these guys.

-tassia reis is an afro-brazilian rapper and singer who makes both conscious and catchy music about Black empowerment in an anti-Black country such as brazil. her music also promotes female empowerment, including trans women, and empowerment for transfeminine nonbinary people such as travesti, who make up a significant population of femicide victims in brazil. also she's gorgeous and has the most amazing outfits.

-monna brutal is an afro-brazilian nonbinary trans woman who makes conscious hip hop that is also ridiculously catchy and can and SHOULD be partied to. i first found her with DOLLAR EURO, a feature she did with tassia reis, where i didn't know what she was saying (as i do not know brazilian portugeuse) but i KNEW from my time listening to various rap songs that she had FLOW and TIMING!! and once i...admittedly had translated her lyrics through google translate on my favorite album of hers, vista grossa, i fell MAJORLY in love. her lyrics, which includes the line (loosely remembered from said google translate) "black trans women from the hood invented hip hop" was deeply political as it was intensely fun. she also has two songs that use navi from legend of zelda and the bowser castle theme from super mario world respectively and it is NOT annoying, and in fact makes the song more fun and catchy. please listen to monna brutal even if you don't know brazilian portuguese she genuinely has talent.

You know, I normally feel like lists should be shared on people's personal pages, but at this point, I don't even care anymore (I'm not saying that in a mean way). Thank you for sharing! @thishazeleyeddemon sorry bout that time, I see there'll be no holding the flood gates back 😭

[ghostfiish]

fanart of fanart sort of piece for @bidulgie's cool print which is extremely good and i'm glad i got to buy :)

i like how danny's eyes have a pink outline in that piece. it's very splatoon and looks cool so i wanted to try to draw them that way too. also testing out more @thedawner brushes :)

[bidulgie]

After lots of hours I've finally completed my DP illustration! I'm glad I got to include a lot of my favorite ghosts!

Close-ups!

Prints will be made soon!

[goldensunset]

kh4 drop system between sora and kairi don’t get my hopes up like that. one of them is supposed to be dead in quadratum one of them is supposed to be alive in reality there was a cosmic mix up bc of what sora did to bend reality. and so the universe keeps trying to right itself out and put sora back in his world and kairi in the other world it keeps reverting to how it should be but sheer force of will binds them where they are back again and that’s how we get a drop system. maybe they even like kinda possess each other like in melody of memory. ‘sora wake up and see’. shush i cant keep dreaming like this i know if there’s a drop it’s gonna be between sora and mickey or donald+goofy but let me dream

[fearoffun]

we crode

[goldensunset]

NOW YOU SAY IT AAAAAHHH GIRL NOW YOU SAY IT NOW YOU SAY YOU REMEMBER did you just recently have that memory come up or did you always know the name and vague appearance of the place and you did in fact lie to sora about not even knowing that much. awesome. only now do you drop this yesssss the payoff of that ominous foreshadowing of sora thinking the place looked familiar

you know before they confirm that hollow bastion was a full world called radiant garden you might be inclined to think kairi is saying she used to live in the castle proper (like all the ff characters but whatever) i can definitely see how one might take away the impression that kairi was the princess of that world. like not all the princesses of heart are regular actual princesses but like it’d be so cool. i mean she WAS taken into the castle and experimented on for a while and ansem calls her ‘princess’ in a manner that could be interpreted as mocking, endearing, or respectful all at once. my awesome evil laboratory dad

and like. she just doesn’t care. doesn’t care about the insane lore implications of her life. i think what little she remembers of her old life she regards with deep fear and insecurity and pain. she’s content to put that behind her and be a true islander. but also. ‘used to play’ already past tense like . meaning she thinks the island is never coming back? or meaning even if they return things will never be the same between them and they just can’t go back to playing like innocent kids do. or like that it’s not the same if the three of them can’t be together because heaven knows if they can ever get riku back. girllllll

[starlightwayfinder]

Miku’s most Kairi-coded outfit 👑🥀

[kitifulnines]

so that trailer huh

[star-shapedfruit]

Wait a fucking minute.

The number 4 is often associated with death in Japanese culture and is considered an unlucky number.

Kingdom Hearts 4 is dealing with Sora's 'death' in Unreality. Why did this take me so long to connect the dots.

[luxmoogle]

He's soooo cute~ ⋆ ˚｡⋆ ☠︎︎༒︎˚｡⋆

[xiondaily]

Day 70. NamiXi as a consolation prize since they are really the coughing baby against the SoRiku hydrogen bomb in @misnamisshippingkingdom's KH Shipping Tournament . Maybe next time my fellow yuri warriors!!!

[sillysharkk]

a heartfelt reunion (?)

[kellcarr]

Stable Night 💫 I love painting stables!

[sadartsypenguin]

Watching Naruto finally and people weren’t exaggerating these two are gay as hell