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a look of my brain this past month

#Be Quiet Kimura #Kimura Edits #i've been like. hyper zoned out and holed up in my head.#occasionally dms from ppl will snap me out of it for a while but then i got back to this lkjhgfdsfghj #'hey kimura how've ya been' 'luigi rotation party while caramelldansen plays in another room' 'ok.... goodbye'

bedrock-to-buildheight

Obligatory meme reference

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dadith

zelda sends link back (oot)

Sketch of one of my favorite scenes in Ocarina of time! (A bit of artistic interpretation of course, i like to picture a sort of sisterly/maternal role for zelda in this scene as she gives link his childhood back, bitter-sweetly)

PART 2

this game is my roman empire

He’s such a snot nosed kid, i can see him singing skibidi-toilet or some shit

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chaotixmidnight

Thanks fellow friend for having me draw rouge again! >3

Rougie and Chao

like if you think everyone should try black lipstick reblog if you think everyone should try black lipstick share if you think everyone should try black lipstick reply if you think everyone should try black lipstick ignore if you think everyone should try black lipstick

yorgen-sh

The Chinese shoe manufacturer decided to demonstrate the indestructibility of their shoes

mirensiart

the legend of yuri: twilight sapphic

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pokemonarchive

Blastoise & Piplup GX (2019) - Remix Bout Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita Cosmic Eclipse

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descendant-of-truth

I think the other reason I don't really get into ships as portrayed by fandom culture is that it seems like the mindset is more like. "I want these characters to be in a Romantic Relationship(TM)" instead of "I want these characters' relationship to be romantic"

What I mean here is that, so often I see pairings enacting romance tropes to the point of heavily altering or downright replacing their original dynamic - as if the people behind it only understand romance as a series of checklists to tick off. Couples like to kiss and sleep in the same bed and flirt with each other, so it doesn't matter who the characters are, if they're a couple then naturally they'll do those things, right??

And that's where the whole thing starts to lose me, because I would assume that the appeal of shipping characters is, y'know... the characters? Rather than just, the idea of a couple? If I'm thinking about how it'd be cool for them to be in love, my first thought is always "so how would they show it," because just like everything else about a person, the answer is going to be different on a case-by-case basis.

Maybe the characters involved aren't really into kissing, but they like arranging date activities. Maybe they aren't committed to the structure of dating at all, and just want to be around each other whenever they can. And even if they are the types to like doing traditionally romantic things, that doesn't suddenly erase whatever else they had going on before they started adding that on top of it.

I'm not saying that the more typical romance tropes and activities are bad, just that they're applied kind of excessively, regardless of whether or not they actually work for the characters involved. I want to see my favorite characters having relationships that are true to who they are, not what the stock depiction of a couple says they should be.