Beezle of Destiny

BOO! It’s a nerodivergent bitch! LoA account@froma-certain-pov JRWI/LoA/whateva I want

[frankenmouse]

It is so ridiculously easy to gain a reputation for being competent by just reading signs.

This is not metaphorical. I mean actual, literal pieces of paper/plastic/metal/whatever explicitly erected to inform the public.

“How did you know this was the right trail?” I read the sign.

“Wow, how did you know what that flower is?” There’s a SIGN.

“How did you know we needed to use the side door?” THERE IS A SIGN POSTED ON THE FRONT DOOR.

Just…why are we having such different experiences of the world? People can read. I KNOW they can read. There’s nothing wrong with their vision.

Just. READ. THE. GOD. DAMN. SIGN.

This also applies to:

Syllabi

Instructions

[ararapimros]

Gillion Tidestrider you are so Orpheus to me…… ough…

[willgrahamscock]

[theebbestboy]

[a-sentient-cup]

[virtualgirladvance]

[sausaged-rat]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[aka-lonne]

Did anyone say anything about big fish Gillion?

Close ups under the cut

The sketch too. I'm especially proud of the hands

[yesterdayiwrote]

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

[zaziki1412]

Reblog cause FACTS

[pandrintotheaudience]

Riptide Spoilers 119-131

Aurora primrose in the span of a few days

Found out a kid she met years ago is a wanted pirate

Watched both of her mothers freeze

Got pulled into the same guys pirate crew

Traveled deep into the ocean for some random fish man who apparently is the chosen one and was BANISHED

Watched the same fish man kill his sister

Be told that she was a doppelgänger

See some (pretty fucked up) stuff from the fish guys childhood

Meet FINN TIDESTRIDER a world renown author who is the fish man’s grandpa

Go on TRIAL for some guy YOU NEVER MET

WATCH AN OLD FISH GUY RIP THE CHOSEN ONES HAND OFF

CUT A RANDOM WOMANS LEG OFF

FIND OUT THAT THE KID YOU KNEW IS NOW CHAMPION OF DEATH

WATCH THREE ALMOST FOUR OF THE GREAT FOUR LEVIATHANS YOU WORSHIP LIKE GODS DIE

WATCH THE CHOSEN ONE AND THE GUY YOU TALKED TO LIKE TEN YEARS AGO KILL A MAN

WATCH THE BODY BE DRAGGED DOWN TO HELL

WATCH AS THE CHOSEN ONE EXPLODES INTO RED LIGHTNING AND EXPLAINS HOW HE MIGHT BECOME A FUCKING LEVIATHAN

SAIL ALL THE WAY BACK ON ONE OF THE ONLY FRIENDS YOU HAVE LEFT

WATCH AS HE MORPHS INTO AN ELDRITCH CATFISH EEL THING

GO TO ALLPORT THE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD AND WATCH AS IT CRUMBLES AROUND YOU

WATCH AS THIS RANDOM DRAGONBORN JOINS THE PARTY THAT EVERYONE APPARENTLY KNOWS

SEE TITANS FIGHTING IN THE SKIES AND WATCH THEM FALL INFRONT OF YOU

WATCH AS ONE WHO IS APPARENTLY THE WOMANS GRANDMOTHER RIPS HER OWN HEART OUT

Oh and did I mention finding out that the one…weird, nice kid…you met ten or more years ago RELEASED AN ELDRITCH GOD CAPABLE OF DESTROYING THE WORLD

ALMOST SEE YOUR ONLY FRIEND THAT IS STILL OK FROM YOUR HOME DIE

Fall unconscious multiple times

And finally as your healing some random guys youve never seen before…get captured by some evil guy who guess what? Knows the kid you talked to ONCE when you were a CHILD

Aurora primrose…Jesus Christ please lie down and rest you poor poor soul

[starrcatart]

one of my favorite things i’ve ever drawn for riptide

little list of everyone included:

Gill, Jay, Chip, Aurora, Finn, Lizzie, Gryffon, Edyn, Queen, Ollie, Alphonze, Old Man Earl, Arlin, Pretzel, Drey

[aka-lonne]

Jay and Gillion carrying the weight of expectation and a blessing they didn't ask for.

Gillion and Chip who barely had a family growing up.

Chip and Jay who really want to be pirates for the freedom of living their lives however they choose and to belong somewhere.

The Albatrio, all having been betrayed by family, by the ones who were supposed to take care of them, by authority; all of them constantly fighting for a chance to keep a family, to stay together.

[writtengriffin]

Mother.

[magnusmurdo]

BOUT OF MADNESS! BOUT OF MADNESS!

I have loved every episode of UPP, genuinely on of my favourite pieces of media ever, well done to all the crew!

ART NOTES

I had my dookie art history booooooo exam so this was my little treat now that I finally have some me time.

I love how this came out! I have become more sure in my own personal style and confident in my mental image. [Nothing wrong with with using a reference, using one doesn't make you any less skilled. I just mean its handy for me to be able to better translate the images from my head to the drawing, and also save time from looking for/at a reference, I can just do it.]

There are obviously some things that are off proportionally but I this the intentionally messy style makes it work and I need to stop looking at it or heavens above it'll never be finished!

Process:

Software: Procreate

I used the dry ink brush the outline which I kept very loose and used it for harsh shadows.

for the colour/ lighting instead of focusing on being exact I used a large weird brush [idk what it was, it was like a grungy paint one] to loosely ERASE the highlighted areas into the shadow and was more particular on places I wanted to emphasise.

I then added a bounce light [THEY ARE MY LOVE! I ONLY RECEANTLY STARTED DOING THEM AND THEY MAKE IT SEXYYY] with a slight green hue [harmonious to the blue but contrasting to the red if we wanna go all colour theory but also becaiuse it felt right.]

Added text, red eyes and finally a noise layer to associate it more with horror and kinda maybe slightly stretching that he was not in his right mind.

I've looked at it too long now but I had fun making it!

I hope you like it and have a lovely rest of your day!!!

[elliotisreallycool]

baby’s first character line up here are my designs for my riptide zombie apocalypse fic

this took me DAYSSSS

[danielglubglub]

An Aurora design I did a bit ago. Making everyone a fish, no one is safe…

[saga-ordsmed]

Another thing about ATLA that never ceases to work me up is how dirty the show did Hama. She appears in a single episode and confronts us with one of the most politically and humanly devastating histories in the series. She gives the only (!!!) testimony of the Fire Nation's state campaign to eliminate Southern waterbending and emerges as one of the richest arcs in the series, at least in potential, but it remains unrealized: cultural annihilation, abduction, torture and incarceration, ingenuity under absolute deprivation, escape, and survivorship in enemy territory as a diaspora of one. However, at the end of the day, she is a crackling victim who passes on bloodbending like a curse. The episode concludes with Fire Nation citizens dragging her away in chains, emphasizing that they'll lock her away indefinitely, basically never seeing day or moonlight again, reproducing the very trauma that forced the conditions on her under which Hama developed bloodbending.

The episode doesn't really ask us to understand bloodbending as an invention born from torture and genocidal violence, but primarily as a horror "Come to the Dark Side, Katara"-test because the reveal is directly linked to the abducted Fire Nation villagers. We don't even bother about Hama's motivation beyond "They deserve the same" (as if what Hama did was in any way symmetrical or proportionate. As if they want me to believe this old woman who can only bloodbend during the full moon could reproduce the carceral torture environment specifically designed to exterminate her bending lineage. This is not a reasonable "both sides are bad" situation.)

The Fire Nation removes water, community, bodily autonomy, hope, and any ordinary means of escape. Hama still feels the charge of the full moon every month, studies and experiments for years to find power in the one remaining source available to her: the water inside living bodies. She invents a technique in a place optimized against waterbenders and perfects it to the point where she can control the fine motor skills in another one's hand to open the cage that holds her. As far as we know, she doesn't even kill the guards when she walks out. Bloodbending is horrifying, but it is also an astonishing act of ingenuity. The Fire Nation reduces her to helpless flesh, and she weaponizes flesh itself against her torturers and murderers of her people.

We don't spend any time on what bloodbending meant for Hama because the succession of events structures the reveal entirely through the judgment of the Fire Nation citizens and Katara's guilt. I think Hama deserved more ambiguity (compare it with how much grace and depth the story gives Iroh, who cracked jokes about burning Ba Sing Se to the ground, laid seige on the capital for almost two years straight, which certainly starved the poorest people of the population first, and is still allowed to return as liberator, leading the charge and is the one burning the Fire Nation banner) and Katara deserved to feel more conflicted about bloodbending: both disturbed and mesmerized. Bloodbending is born from the Fire Nation's machinery of extermination, which makes it unquestionably a technology of resistance, power, and dignity.

The narrative never asks what the Fire Nation made, what justice could look like for someone like Hama, or what Katara owes to a survivor from her destroyed tradition. It asks whether Katara can defeat the scary old woman and agonize over learning that skill. When it comes to metalbending or lightningbending, it mostly gets framed as extraordinary achievement. Bloodbending is terrifying and intrusive, yes, but so was what its creator had to endure. The technique is inseparable from the brutality of the Fire Nation's annihilation of the Southern waterbenders. The show should've sat with the immense political and ethical weight it created itself, instead of making it evil and resolving the episode with the abhorrent picture of the elderly prisoner of war being dragged away by the people who destroyed her culture with false moral high ground and pseudo-vindication.

Edit: Here's a follow-up if you liked this post so far.

[polartss]

Suddenly I'm holding the world in my arms

[apriicus]

i'm at a point in this podcast where i feel comfortable publicly posting some of these doodles

[razzmothazz]

piwates

[shark-in-a-bowl]

My friend just pointed out that gillion tidestrider (Just roll with it), and Dally (wakfu) are very similar characters. Both are non human guys who are all about honor and destiny, a little dumb sometimes, are self sacrificial to the point of being frequently damaging, have issues with inadequacy, are wildly impulsive, have links to the gods of their people, and are knights with sentient swords. Can someone please draw fanart of them together one day I think they deserve it <3