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Writing and creative hub for Prix. Under construction! May have some reposts, but it will be of my own work.

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - SnowBaird 100x100 icons

Cross-posted from my Hunger Games sideblog @districtxii

Making icons primarily for dreamwidth, so they're 100x100 pixels, but you can use them. Due to their size, they will appear pixelated when zoomed in on the post, but if you right-click and look at the images themselves, they have been sharpened and optimized for appearance at 100x100. If you feel like giving credit or interacting with the post, I would appreciate it!

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It’s Always Sunny in Domino City - A series of connected one-shots to include slice of life moments and at least a few moments of plot. Current installments include:

The Gang Graduated High School

Honda Isn’t Good Enough

Jounouchi is a Freeter

The Consequences of Underage Drinking

This series is inspired by YuGiOh: The Abridged Series, the actual anime of the original YuGiOh series, and other self-referential and self-indulgent sources. It is a canon-divergent AU where by the time most of the characters have graduated high school, Atem and Yami Bakura are still around. Yami Marik is not because no one likes him as far as I’m aware. The characters represented in the above moodboards are those who have already had a significant role or whom I anticipate will. If you would be so kind as to check out this series to see if it is something you’d like, please leave a kudos and if you really like it, leave a comment. I appreciate any and all feedback!

Please do not remove this caption from this post. I can’t stop you, but it would undermine one of the reasons I did this. If you would like me to post a few of the above to individual posts, please message me and elt me know about your interest. I appreciate reblogs a lot!

Credit: Most of the actual humans in the above pictures are various celebrities that @tsukinotoxic​ helped me find. However, a few of them are excellent fans and cosplayers I found on the internet, so I’d like to credit those where I know where this source is! The Marik image is located here. The Bakura(s) image is located here. I also looked to this edit for proportioning ideas.

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This team is not a social club. | Young Justice | Dick Grayson - B-01 | Kaldur’ahm - B-02 | Wally West - B-03 | Conner Kent - B-04 | M’Gann M’orzz - B-05 | Roy Harper - B-06 | Artemis Crock - B-07 | Zatanna Zatara - B-08 | Raquel Ervin - B-09

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The passage of time depends entirely on where you’re standing. Relativity Theory: it’s so romantic, but it’s just so… tragic, too.

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One day you realise that…

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1x03 // 1x10 // 2x01

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Rocinante: Workhorse (Insp.)

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A dumb PowerPoint Presentation to tell you about The Expanse.

Disclaimer: I have only seen Season 1 and the first episode of Season 2 at the time of making this. Certain perceptions or details might be wrong due to this. I wanted to make this because I wanted to be creative and to tell others about the show.

Works Cited:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/4721qk/title_card_wallpaper_1080p/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/730udi/this_is_beyond_rmildlyinfuriating/

space-facts.com

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emblem.svg

http://avstimuli.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-expanse-episode-6-bottom-recap.html

https://www.inverse.com/article/27137-the-expanse-ships-design-season-2

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_Game_of_Thrones.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mass_Effect_logo.png

The Expanse has two seasons currently out and a third slated to premiere in April 2018.

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(Almost?) Every Episode of Arrow ➸ An Innocent Man (October 31, 2012)

I could have taken you anywhere. Could’ve taken you home. I brought you here.

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Thea remarking on her family’s Lizard Capitalist ways. 💘

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(Almost?) Every Episode of Arrow ➸ Lone Gunmen (October 24, 2012)

Look, I don’t want to get in the middle of some Shakespearean family drama thing.

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Tiny baby sweet precious Laurel. 💘

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The thing about Black Canary

I’m a couple weeks behind on Season 6, but I’ve been watching. However, I’m also a recently-returned fan who stopped watching Arrow (and lots of things at the same time) mid-S3. I have absorbed a lot of things through osmosis and gifs and reading wikis and so on, because sometimes I need spoilers for fannish activities, and it’s more about the journey it most cases. I’m disclosing this to let you know where I’m coming from, but anyway…

A lot of the time I see some ~discourse~ about how Sara is the true Black Canary because per Arrow she was the first. I also see a lot of posts that complain that Laurel’s becoming a superhero arc was really unconvincing and that they didn’t like it and wanted Sara to stay and so on… There seems to be a lot of “haha, in your face!” kind of victory dance goings-on when Sara gets used as the face of the Black Canary (there was some mobile app; there have also been other promotional materials that are not directly connected to the CW’s DCTV set that seem to use Caity Lotz’s likeness as a model). I think a lot of this is unnecessary, and since I am way more familiar with the front end of Arrow than the current back end of it, even though I’m closing the gap, I just felt like making a post sort of addressing this weird, competitive viewpoint that almost views Laurel as having foisted the Black Canary title upon herself, stealing it from Sara or something, when I just don’t think it’s a fair take on it.

Another disclaimer: this post has fuck-all to do with shipping, so check those counterclaims at the door, thanks.

So here are some things that are true in my view that tend to be used as things to back up the claim that Sara is the proper or true Black Canary and that we don’t need or want another one and that Laurel should’ve been removed because no one liked her or that this was a character development for Laurel that was never meant to happen and… so… on:

Per Arrow, Sara was the first Black Canary.

Laurel began the show as a very slightly more competent than typical in self-defense normal.

Both Oliver and Sara had five years of lived experience combat training while Laurel had none to speak of except becoming increasingly more familiar with needing to defend her immediate self from constant threat of danger over the course of the show. Laurel was often sort of presented as a damsel in distress for both Oliver and Sara.

Laurel’s initial attempts at becoming the Black Canary were extremely ill-advised.

The fact that she was allowed out into the field with the rest of Team Arrow as a fully-participant superhero in her own right when she was is a really questionable in-universe decision even if they were going to allow her to become a part of their superhero team due to her relative lack of experience.

This lack of experience is one of the reasons she died, in-universe, possibly.

However, I think that the conclusions that some people draw from this about narrative direction are simply unfair, and I wanted to point out a couple of things that I think tend to show that Laurel was meant to become the Black Canary all along.

See below for a surprisingly humongous post in sections.

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(Almost?) Every Episode of Arrow ➸ Honor Thy Father (October 17, 2012)

The day I went missing was the day I died. Five years in hell forged me into a weapon which I use to honor a vow I made to my father who sacrificed his life for mine. In his final moments, he told me the truth. That our family’s wealth had been built on the suffering of others, that he failed our city and that it was up to me to save it and right his wrongs. But to do that without endangering the people closest to me, I have to be someone else. I have to be something else.

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(Almost?) Every Episode of Arrow ➸ Pilot (October 10, 2012)

The name of the island they found me on is Lian Yu. It’s Mandarin for “Purgatory.” I’ve been stranded here for five years. I’ve dreamt of my rescue every cold, black night since then. For five years, I’ve had only one thought, one goal: survive. Survive and one day return home. The island held many dangers. To live, I had to make myself more than what I was, to forge myself into a weapon. I am returning, not the boy who was shipwrecked but the man who will bring justice to those who have poisoned my city. My name is Oliver Queen.

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Arrow - Season 1: Episode 13: The Odyssey

Since I’ve been interested in DCTV again, I’ve seen Arrow Season 1 twice at least. For a while, tumblr had convinced me that I didn’t actually like Arrow. I find that fatigue about particular arguments and almost religious commitment to certain critiques of certain characters or story arcs often cloud whether or not I actually like something. Coming back to Arrow after a couple of years, I am honestly surprised by how much more coherent it was and is in some ways that I didn’t appreciate at the time. Sure, it is cheesy and ridiculous at times, as any superhero-media probably should be, but I love the above scene so much.

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Title Cards from DCTV / the Arrowverse 2017-2018.

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