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wooly-browniebear

I made some Nie brothers samples cards for Valentine’s day, I hope you like them!!! <3

thrandilf

I was seized with the sudden urge to make these and could not continue my day until I did

Blue Lions

Black Eagles

thrandilf

More valentines memes to terrorize your friends and loved ones with!

golden deer

Black Eagles

thrandilf

Finally, Black Eagle cards to further your romantic relationships -dabs-

Blue Lions

Golden Deer

tinsil

tellius tellius tellius!

using palettes from [here], there’s jill for @kingukarp in palette 11, ike for @theheartmaker02 in palette 5, & soren for both @theheartmaker02 & an anon in palette 6

cucumbersncheese

OH MY GOD I NEED THIS VOICED

danceintheskies

gay rights

yagaminoue

Another painting of one of my favorite Fire Emblem units! This one was for a Fire Emblem tarot project, which you can see more of here: https://twitter.com/fecompendium?lang=en The Queen of Cups is described as a woman who is loving and tenderhearted, nurturing and compassionate, and is kind and gentle with all creatures. And I think that fits Titania to a T. :)

yagaminoue

Jill Fizzart

chynandri

i got so mad i had to illustrate it for myself

bonus: tiddy

chynandri

ike won the voting gauntlet!! ✊🏻🚩[ike voice] it was all for you ✨

caemidraws

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blddyds

field trip with the professor (though im sure its already been done before)

deadblogggu-u-deactivated202010

messy thing just to get my thoughts down

pixiebeetle

i love this

antique-scarecrow

*takes a moment to figure out my color palette*

#not autistic myself but #this deserves to b rb

over-the-misty-mountains

I've seen six episodes of The Untamed and so far it really is like

Wei Wuxian:

over-the-misty-mountains

Meanwhile Lan Wangji's just like:

bemusedlybespectacled

one of the things that pisses me off about pop culture’s idea of kirk is this notion that kirk is like

an asshole

like not just in the sense of being a womanizer (which is also not supported by canon at all) but in the sense of breaking rules for no reason, fighting because it’s fun, and winning on luck rather than by intelligence

which

we know that kirk is better than spock at 3D chess (because he plays on intuition and a knowledge of his opponent, rather than on pure logic). so the idea of him being a mindless thug just doesn’t fly. and we see him risking his life over and over again to help various alien cultures. kirk’s main trait isn’t assholery, it’s optimism.

let me explain that a little bit: kirk is supposed to be the middle ground between spock (mostly logic with little emotion) and mccoy (mostly emotion with little logic). spock’s flaw is that he sometimes fails to consider human emotions and reactions when making a decision; mccoy’s flaw is that sometimes sentiment can cloud his judgement about what the correct course of action is. kirk is supposed to have spock’s intellect with mccoy’s human feeling and understanding.

the added bonus, though, is the optimism. in general it’s a love of humanity and a belief in the goodness of others; more specifically, we see kirk gamble a lot. the corbomite maneuver (which he pulls twice) is explicitly compared to bluffing in poker. kirk often chooses risky options if it means helping people (rescuing spock from the space amoeba in “the immunity syndrome,” for example). kirk doesn’t beat the kobayashi maru because he likes to win or because he thinks he must win because he’s hot shit: kirk beats the kobayashi maru because he doesn’t believe there is such a thing as a no-win scenario.

miss me with your kirk shaming and stop confusing him with zapp brannigan

thisisnotahetship

Yes, the problem is that some people think that “not believing in no-win scenarios” simply means getting his own way all times. For a starship captain, “no-win scenarios” are deaths, conflicts that can affect entire species, destruction on an interplanetary scale.

Kirk refuses to accept that these things are inevitable not because he is smarter than everyone else and knows better, not because he has to prove that he is a fucking badass, but because he heartily believes that “there are always possibilities”, as Spock would say, and when lives are at stake and these depend on rational action - on his actions - he will always seek and demand from others that hidden alternative that allows them to solve the problem at hands with the least possible loss of life, whether friend or enemy.

He refuses to accept hopelessness.

sidsky

I like to think that a good chunk of Kirk’s refusal to believe in no-win scenarios stems from Tarsus IV.

In the middle of a catastrophe, a butcher rose to power who decided the only “logical” action to take was to kill half the colony to keep the other half from starving to death.

And what happened?

The Starfleet supply ships arrived early.

Early enough that they could have saved everyone. If Kodos hadn’t decided it was hopeless, and incinerated half a colony.

So you get this kid who’s survived an eugenics-influenced massacre that, had the people in power refused to give up hope, never would have happened.

Is it really a surprise that that kid would refuse to believe any situation is hopeless?

What did they think he would do when faced with a test that’s literally designed to be unwinnable? Were they really surprised he’d call the test itself a “cheat,” and find a way to beat it out of protest?

He’s seen what happens when people give up too soon, and he’ll be damned if he’s not going to find another way.

hellenhighwater

I get flak from other Trek fans for being an Original Series fan who wasn’t born in that generation, but the real draw of it–and of Kirk in particular–is its refusal to see the future as bleak. The original series consistently delivers positive social messages, expresses belief in humanity’s ability to do and be good, and almost always finds a way to a happy ending. Sure, it’s campy, and Shatner can be…a lot. But it’s insistence on optimism makes it a rarity among all the sci-fi produced before and since.

I think too often people writing space stories get caught up in angst and explosions, and forget that we also need hope.