The Dumpster That Never Was

Other fandoms come and go but Kingdom Hearts is forever // mobile header by @khnyctophiliac, icon by @lumanae

[taliaxlatia]

Utada was right. wonk uoy naht noitceffa erom deen I

[yet-another-heathen]

The hero of China, welcomed home. Here's my Afro-Chinese version of Mulan!

When looking for the perfect photo set for the @creatingblackcharacters Melanin Beam Challenge, this scene stopped me in my tracks. There's so much love in this moment, and I wanted to capture as much of her father's adoration as I could.

My favorite detail is the waves in her father's hair, where the texture shows from being smoothed and pulled into his bun.

Thank you for hosting this event for another successful year! Happy Birthday, Ice <3

[walkedtall]

a light that never goes out!

[halflightdaily]

AUG 9, 2026

Leave the wind to its echo. The vessel, now toss’d Through the low-trailing rack of the tempest, is lost

[halflightdaily]

AUG 8, 2026

sunlight hits the concrete I shield my eyes draw back, draw the blinds buy more time

[coffeecats900]

If this little reference image benefits anyone at all I was feeling rather mentally ill this afternoon. I love these Sitars.

[goldensunset]

axel being a guardian of light is the funniest thing they could have pulled it’s truly like a combination of ‘got a major totally new type of job at my former employer’s rival company with very little experience even though i was upfront about that’ and ‘rsvped for a party bc i heard my only two friends would maybe possibly be there but i got here way before them and now i have to stand around awkwardly for a long time hoping they’re still coming’

[asukishirayuzuki]

“BRING IT ON, I'LL KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU.” She had nothing to lose and everything to protect. Amid the calamity that falls upon the Enchanted Dominion, she becomes the vanguard standing against its spread. The gifted girl who was once raised to be perfect finally breaks her binds.

Huge thank you to the lovely ⏾⋆.˚ 𝓚 つ き for accepting my art commission and for the absolutely incredible work on Skuld !

[frog-on-top-of-a-log]

Fandom needs more aspec headcannons that actually get explored

There seems to be a weird phenomenon in fandom where people give their aro/ace headcannon to an unimportant side character or the one person that they don’t have a ship for. Every other character is shipped with another person and there is just one single person in their story and that is the aspec character.

And that is shitty for a few reasons.

You cannot only make the “boring” or ”undesirable” people aro/ace. It feels incredibly weird. Those are typically the characters that get sidelined in fics as well. There are outgoing aspec people. With friends and in some cases they are in relationships as well. They aren’t all shy introverted people or science geeks with no desire for a social life. But you don’t see that in fandom.

The other problem is that it seems like you cannot imagine an allo person being single. Choosing to stay single. Like the only way someone could be happy like that is if they were “incapable” of love and had to settle for what you perceive to be a lesser form of happiness.

You also often see the aroace label, but rarely aroallo or alloace headcannons anywhere. The aroace label just gets used as a “this character doesn’t date and is therefore unimportant” box.

The aromanticism and asexuality rarely gets explored any further than “doesn’t date, cannot give relationship advice” (which both isn’t always the case either). People just slap the label on a character they hate and don’t do anything with it. It feels like they are checking a box. “I’ve added an ace headcannon so I can’t be called aphobic”

[donutfrost]

recent vanitas studies

[goldensunset]

the disney aspects of kh get clowned on a lot in the face of the ever-growing original plot but i won’t lie it gets so bleak even right off the bat that like if i was riku in a hell of my own making and i thought i was dead and damned and would never see the friends i hurt ever again and a very kind friendly silly cartoon mouse came to my rescue and saw only the best in me i think the power of magic and whimsy and light would make me start crying maybe

[goldensunset]

if i was in one of the worst mental states a person could experience and michael ‘mickey’ mouse of disney fame came to me like a guardian angel you’d bet i’d put the mouse ears hat on and not care what anybody thought of me

[xehanortsreport]

i feel like every time i try to explain the appeal of ansxig to me i sound absolutely crazy. bc the obvious pairing is xemxig but i am just sooo lukewarm on that. but it's understanding that ansem is very specifically the darkness of xehanort's heart and That, Specifically being attractive to xigluxu is important. to me. the essence of the thing.

[pondrea]

Mermay 💖

[jaysosillyart]

100 DAYS OF KINGDOM HEARTS DRAWINGS:

DAY 68

hold up ven, i got his number

(he did not have his number)

[pierogiy]

every day i learn and grow, too

[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

[doctorglasgowart]

How did they afford all that ice cream? Probably not worth thinking about.