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Spider-Man: MENACE
THANK YOU so many people have stolen/reposted this comic!
amazing would love more menace spidey
Thoughts on GOTY Clair Obscur: Expedition 33??
time to put on my favorite shirt
You drew that yourself!?
I like that smile. Something about it has kindness in it.
i made a muppet print for no discernible reason
Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖
Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!
I spent like 5 hours editing this gif frame by frame to make this shitty edit that I wanted to exist
I was about 30 minutes past having scrolled by this when my Tumblr feed bugged, and suddenly every single post was replaced by this one. Not even reblog spam or anything, it just plain overlaid the existing posts, tags and all. I've never felt more in-tune with what it means to browse Tumblr
Hello everyone I’ve been away from this page for a while FOR GOOD REASON! I’ve been working with a good friend on some really exciting stuff! Some of it being press on nails! We collaborated on this Jojo’s part 5 nail set! I wanted to post it here for obvious reasons. Dm for info if you’re looking to get a customized set yourself!
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yeah that's exactly what i was saying
(suddenly serious) what i was saying was that Dungeon Meshi has some really well-written characters that also have flaws. half the cast constantly gives Laios shit for being socially awkward, Laios forgets about the basics of human decency a couple of times when interacting with Izutsumi, the funny late-story villain squad are 80% convicted criminals, basically every character is a bit racist in some way, and, yes, Marcille, everyone's favorite silly little disaster lesbian, gets the "ick" about Tall-men portraying the characters in her favorite romance novel because she thinks they're too ugly and pouts about the idea of Falin (her dear beloved Falin) wearing clothes that she would be happy and comfortable wearing because "that stuff is for men"
i feel really silly talking about this but a weird thing that happened for me when the Dungeon Meshi anime took off and the fandom really exploded was seeing how weirdly cutesified a lot of fan depictions of the characters was. the "canon versus fanon" of it all, if you will. a week or so ago there was a bonus comic drawn by Ryoko Kui that got spread around Twitter about a What If situation in which Laios got eaten instead of Falin, and people were shocked about the idea of the party basically immediately giving up on the idea of saving Laios, including at least one "why does the writer think she knows so much" joke (i'm hoping it was a joke), which really baffled me because it just made sense to me that the party initially wasn't all that close to Laios (besides Falin, obviously). the relationship of the main cast is something that grows over the series. please read that carefully: the main cast does care for one another, they care for Laios, it's just that it's something that is developed over the course of the manga... and even that idea was too much for some fans
i'm probably going to sound really snobby, but i think there's a lot of people who are more fans of the fanart than the actual series...
i was mainly being silly when i was like "yeah let Marcille be weird about gender" but i was also kind of serious because it kind of is a prominent part of her character. it speaks to the world she lives in, what she values and finds important, and if you think about it, it actually speaks a lot to the subtext around her and Falin: Marcille hates "gross things," Marcille hates being uncomfortable, Marcille thinks women should be girly, and men should be masculine, and yet she willingly journeys down into a gross dungeon and eats weird monsters in order to save Falin, a woman who likes bugs, fucking around in the dirt, and pants. what do you think that implies about Marcille?
i appreciate writers that don't smooth all the rough edges off their characters. in Kui's case, we all know she's put massive amounts of thought into the world Dungeon Meshi takes place in, and the views of her character reflect all these thoughts. i don't think Marcille being "conservative" is an accident- i would go so far as to say that i don't think the "contradiction" of Marcille's love of Falin is an accident. i think this is all the sign of good writing, and i think it's a diservice to the writer to try and make these characters more "palatable" (and fit all the corny "found family" memes lol)
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Proving a point to my boyfriend.
PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry
I’ve never hit reblog faster or harder.
Big news from Tartarus I'm just so proud of him
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What's so 'free' about Chaos?
Chaos is an ideology based around people having the right to do whatever you can make happen.
Which means you have to be strong.
Which means you have to eat well so you can build your body up. You have to have lots of time to train your body. You have to have time to rest and heal so that the physical stress of that training doesn't cause permanent damage. Or you can train in magic. It's unclear what that actually involves, but it is presumably equally as resource-intensive and involved.
So you have to be on top, because only the people on top get that kind of luxury.
At first Chaos will be a free-for-all. Eventually, the people who are already strong will come out on top. That's only going to be a small handful of people! Most people will be slaves to their new rulers.
And the longer they rule, the harder it's going to be to depose them. The subjects are likely to be badly fed and worked to exhaustion. THe rulers will have the leisure time and nutrition to get stronger still.
The subjects don't have freedom. They don't have the strength to take it unless their ruler actively fucks up. Hard times, contrary to the common wisdom, rarely make strong men - mostly hard times make broken, bent, twisted, weak men.
The rulers don't have freedom. There are things they have to do to remain 'free.' They can't choose to pursue anything other than strength. They can't waste time painting or philosophizing or building model trains or doing artistic bodybuilding or anything that doesn't translate into strength, because if they get too weak, their subjects will rise up or another tyrant will conquer them.
And even if that revolution happens... is anybody any more free? There are, likely, about the same number of rulers now. And about the same number of subjects. Some small handful of people, people who have the potential to be strong by some accident of birth, will take some other handful of people's freedom. Everyone else stays enslaved.
Chaos is about freedom, as long as you don't think 99% of people count. Under Chaos, you can do whatever you want, as long as you want to commit violence.
When Lucifer proclaims Chaos as an ideology of freedom, he's lying. It's an ideology about him being King of Tyrants.
Man this post has inspired me to talk about the ending to SMT V, because it actually partially supports what is being said here. But like, spoilers for anyone who hasn't finished that game yet. So no one read further if you aren't caught up on that.
Okay, so the fact that Chaos is a flawed solution is pretty much canon for all the reasons you said, Tyranny is an inevitably in a world with no rulers. However, in SMT V, there is an odd implication, that Lucifer didn't realize the flaw in his ideology? Like yes, Chaos leads to tyranny, but he legit thought if he kept killing whoever was in charge everything would be fixed if he kept doing it. But it obviously doesn't fix jack, and God keep slithering back up, the metaphor being enhanced with the inclusion of the Mandala System or whatever.
Ultimately Lucifer lets himself die to try and end the cycle, truly destroying the means of gods and demons being made and giving up his throne to someone would presumably manage things to stop similar things from happening again, but for realises.
The sequence of events feels a little crazy to me, because like, how does he not understand that cycle of Anarchy when he's that old. Like did he actually understand it, but thought "I'm built different so its fine" up until the end? Was he really the King of Tyrants then eventually just got tired of it? I wish I more people that like SMT because god do I want to hear someone else's perspective on it.
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Ngl I read like 7 issues of the 2099 comics (90’s version) so I don’t know Lyla’s origin if it was ever explained.
BUT. I like to think Miguel coded her when he was drunk and had a grand old time writing her personality
when he woke up the next morning he realized “damn this code is good” but drunk him thought it would be funny to hide the code that makes up her personality in a bunch of mess, everytime he tries to edit it she stops working so now he’s stuck with a very useful but extremely bratty AI
Oh I read the 90s version and all material with Miguel in it, and I assure you the implied reality is pretty dang insane. Which is, pretty much everyone has an AI assistant, Miguel bought Lyla like anyone else would, and he had so few social interactions with people that he didn't realize Lyla was becoming sentient until she proclaimed she was in love with him and tried to kill him.
Also Miguel after that would refuse to hard reboot her or anything and begs his ex girlfriend to bring her back instead of just getting a new AI because Lyla is the only real friend and connection he has in his life.
Her becoming sentient and having feelings is completely unexplained because Miguel is so lonely he refuses to investigate it and risk losing her.
Ngl I read like 7 issues of the 2099 comics (90’s version) so I don’t know Lyla’s origin if it was ever explained.
BUT. I like to think Miguel coded her when he was drunk and had a grand old time writing her personality
when he woke up the next morning he realized “damn this code is good” but drunk him thought it would be funny to hide the code that makes up her personality in a bunch of mess, everytime he tries to edit it she stops working so now he’s stuck with a very useful but extremely bratty AI
Oh I read the 90s version and all material with Miguel in it, and I assure you the implied reality is pretty dang insane. Which is, pretty much everyone has an AI assistant, Miguel bought Lyla like anyone else would, and he had so few social interactions with people that he didn't realize Lyla was becoming sentient until she proclaimed she was in love with him and tried to kill him.
Also Miguel after that would refuse to hard reboot her or anything and begs his ex girlfriend to bring her back instead of just getting a new AI because Lyla is the only real friend and connection he has in his life.
Her becoming sentient and having feelings is completely unexplained because Miguel is so lonely he refuses to investigate it and risk losing her.