DexIsActuallyMyName

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[thesadboy]

Gonna try this again, this time, focusing on just character busts. If you’re interested, contact me thru Discord, my handle is dasadboy0647

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[thesadboy]

Older Eiko and Iruma.

I know they haven't talked yet, but I feel like it'd be cute if they do manage to talk and Eiko's crush on Iruma is equally adorable and funny to me. I like to think that as adults, he will manage to save her again, but much more deliberately. Here, he's asking her if she's okay and she's starstruck by being bridal carried by her crush

[thesadboy]

Jinmao

A boy who wishes to be seen for who he is and a girl who could see him eye to eye

//

I've been holding off on this piece and I finally made it! I'll also be honest and say that initially, this ship wasn't my cup of tea but I began warming up to it towards the latter half of season 1.

[thesadboy]

My own take on adult Iruma!

I love the idea of Iruma growing to incorporate different parts of his loved ones into his look, so that was part of the idea behind this design! The pockets are inspired by Clara's (and are in the shape of Alikred), the white pants come from Azz, and his sleeveless shirt comes from Ameri (but it also references Derkila). And of course, his coat-cape has Irumeanie’s color scheme, his school uniform’s design, and Grandpa Sullivan’s ruffles.

[thesadboy]

I just got Monster Prom, so I may be getting back to my Brian/Vera brain (heh)

[killianalistairremus]

Hi guys! They unblocked Tumblr in the Philippines!!! YIPPEEEEEE

Anyways! Since I’ve graduated from college, I’m revamping my commissions to make some money while I’m still jobhunting!

Here’s my comms info and a link to my Caard for more info! Message me if interested, but I’d appreciate just a reblog even :3

Killian’s Main Page

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[metaorigin]

idk if any crew already established like the character lore/backgrounds of the saja bys

but my interpretation is that only jinu is actually old as in the only human who turned demon

the other saja boys were recent additions how recent idk yet

theyre all half demons unlike jinu

hence their hair colors

whilst jinus is you know natural human hair color because he was originally 100% human

if i had to like make a headcanon about it… its they each come from a different generation of Hunter x Demon love

but they got found out early on after birth and so the demon parent got custody by default as the Moms either had to kill the child or outright chose to abandon the abomination they gave birth to

Celine was the first hunter who refused to abandon a demon hunter hybrid because she loved Rumis mom maybe platonic maybe something else? /shrugs

explains why they all have such good voices and kinda well easily slide into idol life basically

[thesadboy]

Wait but the other Saja Boys also being half-demon hybrids sounds interesting, you're kinda cooking there...

[xtec]

me finding out my mutual is one inch taller than me

[deergirlslut]

Put your height in the tags

[sabertoothwalrus]

I'm glad a lot of people headcanon apollo justice as trans (and I agree) but my hot take is that he's the kinda guy that goes on T and learns he has the male pattern baldness gene. he hits 30 and turns into this genre of man:

like you knowwww his business card has a logo that's just glasses and beard

[sabertoothwalrus]

him and klavier

[whitepeopletwitter]

[morbid-arachnid]

White people at it again. The Flayed Lord’s name is Xipe Totec, he’s one of the main dieties in Aztec culture. He is primarily associated with fertility and agriculture, and is strongly connected to renewal and rebirth (the flayed aspect is supposed to symbolize how corn, a major crop, sheds it’s outer layers). Aside from that, we know *very* little about mesoamerican cultures. What we do know mainly comes from retellings and accounts from Spanish conquerors, who of course had a biased perspective. Finding a new temple is a huge deal, because when the Spanish were systematically wiping out our culture, they made a point to build churches over preexisting temples and shrines. A lot of the churches are still there, but the Mexican government considers them historical buildings, and as such no one is allowed to dig under the churches or excavate the area. There are countless temples we haven’t seen because they’re under these churches. Finding a temple we can actually study is such a big deal!

[lesb0]

It really is a big deal! also, mesoamerican art history/anthropological research are actually very robust and rapidly growing fields of study. A big problem for what white people call “Aztec” research before the 90s was that, yes, a huge number of readable personal accounts were from the Spanish. The others were written in Maya Nahuatl which used two forms of glyphs, the iconographic type, and the logogram type. 

That was illegible up until a boy raised on Maya archaeological sites, David Stuart, was awarded a MacArthur genius grant (the youngest ever at 18) to study the glyphs. he was able to read them as well as his first language, solved several codes, and then other academics were able to easily translate codices and ruins. that was over 30 years ago, so now we are working with about 50 fully translated Nahua codices and hundreds of fragmented ones. there are many beautiful ruins and ancient sites like these all over South America, but the Spanish did make sure to build on top of many very important ones. restoring pyramids and temples that were plundered and destroyed by conquistadors and centries of war before them is crucial to ancient Mexicatl research, but the colonial churches above so many of these sites are also unfortunately historically important sites themselves. Mexico city is also an ancient city; it would be really difficult to excavate where families have built their homes for over 20 generations. 

If you need a quarantine binge one of my favorite professors at my alma mater has uploaded so many free fun lectures on Maya, Peruvian, Nahua art and visual culture here :-)

[transitranger327]

Mesoamerican deities are not the fictional “old gods” of Lovecraft that are only out to get you. They were seriously worshipped by serious people, and it’s bullshit that people reduce them to “Lovecraft but Mexico”. Like, have a ponder about why a culture would worship a god who has no skin. Real life is not fiction!

[noctumsolis]

Now I’m not trying to say that these are equivalent, because that would be both false and condescending, but I hope it might help people to see this deity in a more fitting light if I draw a partial parallel.

My example comes from English and Scottish folklore. This is a spiritual perspective of the agrarian people of England and Scotland with centuries, perhaps millennia, of history and which existed alongside Christian beliefs. Alongside, but not integrated with.

It is the story and song of John Barleycorn, a personification of corn (in the traditional UK sense of barley, oats and wheat) who must be cut down, flayed and otherwise beaten and assaulted. Not out of ill will or revenge but because when John Barleycorn is dead, then he may rise again and the crops with him.

Agrarian peoples have always understood that death is a vital prerequisite to life.

Wherever you are in the world there are probably traditions with these ideas baked in. It would do us all good to understand them.

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

[onsomekindofstartrek]

Absolutely. One of my favorite examples is Citizen Kane. It’s a breathtakingly beautiful movie about how a traumatized child becomes an authoritarian billionaire media mogul with apparently no soul. It was written, performed and directed by an anti-fascist who was a leader in the racial integration of the theater. It’s a movie that was timely in 1949 and remains relevant to this day, possibly more than ever.

And yet it’s also a product of 1949. Despite Welles’ track record on race, it barely has a black character. Its sexual politics are not blatantly offensive, but its female characters still exist to be props in Kane’s story. There’s a lesbian-coded librarian who’s very shrewish and cold to the reporter for no reason, and that’s probably not a coincidence. Its sole Jewish character is not the most negative stereotype ever, but there are definitely some very dated ideas about Jewish men still clinging to his character.

And we have to say, hey, this is a piece of art, it’s a window on a time that’s worth understanding, and it’s part of a conversation worth having about power, money and fame. What does it say that in some ways Welles failed to live up to his progressive ideals at time? What does that say about him and what does that say about society in 1949? And how does that inform and/or conflict with the themes of the film?

People with limited understanding of media can’t engage with a piece of art without either wholeheartedly endorsing its creator or wholeheartedly condemning them. And it’s like, both of those responses have their time and place, but much more commonly… artists are human and art is our window to understand them, perhaps their failings, the reasons for those failings, and what good they did or failed to do in light of those failings.

[thesadboy]

The TvTropes page for @presidenthades’ fanfic series “A House Full of Daughters” has now been made! It could still use some more tropes though, so if anyone wants to add, feel free to do so!

[ms-demeanor]

Hey you know what sucks is predatory companies that make you enter your email address so that they can harass and advertise to you to access resources you might need to keep track of expenses after a disaster. So, uh, fuck them.

If you need to track the cost of things like hotel stays, pet kenneling, medical care, etc. after a disaster you can use this worksheet.

If you need to create an inventory of your home for an insurance claim (and if you'd like to do this to keep someplace safe before a disaster) you can use this worksheet (two pages, instructions on the first page, worksheet on the second).

And here's a FEMA document with numbers for disaster relief groups and a checklist of documents that you may need to have replaced as well as a description of what to do if you had cash in your home that was destroyed and can possibly be replaced.

[ms-demeanor]

Bringing this back because there are a ton of people who are going to need it. A lot of stupid bullshit disaster recovery companies will be reaching out to people whose homes burned down. A lot of people whose homes burned down will be searching for resources that come from websites that require them to give up personal details in order to get worksheets and tools.

These are free documents you can download to keep track of disaster recovery expenses or make a list for insurance claims.

I know people are exhausted and frightened and not thinking about stuff but start a folder in your email for receipts for things you're paying for right now so that you can fill out these forms later.

Don't enter your info on a random website or you're going to start getting calls from scammy companies.

And here's a story from the LA Times with advice for people who lost homes or businesses during the fire; one of the primary pieces of advice is DON'T RUSH. Take your time to make decisions and look over any paperwork that anyone wants you to sign.

[psychotic-gerard]

i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

[orchidvioletindigo]

There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.

For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.

[trials-era-sam]

[magnetic-rose]

NYT has been discouraging reporters from sharing photos of luigi mangione - not due to concerns for his safety but to dissuade sympathy - and refuses to post his alleged manifesto in full. and today, they published an opinion by bret stephens about how brian thompson is the "real working class hero" of this story.

reddit deleted luigi's account, which was completely innocuous and consisted mostly of him giving out advice in health subreddits. they're also deleting any post that includes his alleged manifesto and banning users for sharing it.

luigi yelled that this was "an insult to the intelligence of the american people" while he was being dragged by police and news pundits are framing it as a deranged and violent outburst. news media are picking apart details of his life to paint him as a cold-blooded and mentally ill individual. even something as innocent as playing "among us" with friends is being framed as some insidious look into an assassin's disturbed psyche, ffs.

news media are also capitalizing on luigi's supposed "bizarre and impossible to understand" politics as an obvious way to paint him as a scary individual when the guy is... a centrist, at most. whose views are similar to those of your average college-educated white guy.

multiple news media also keep harping on about how luigi comes from a rich family. an obvious attempt to break the class solidarity that's been formed around this case by continuously trying to tell us "oh he's not like you guys" while ignoring the now pretty well-documented accounts of his multiple health struggles throughout the years.

and all this, and he hasn't even been found guilty of the crime he's allegedly committed. luigi is, as of right now, still innocent until proven guilty. and the news are trying to tear him apart because they obviously fear the symbol he's becoming for low and middle class america.

[bogleech]

Even if he turned out to not be the shooter, the way they're treating him is shameful and the way they're framing him for his suspected crime should be just as eye-opening either way. If Luigi isn't the guy who shot Thompson, the media simply made a second martyr. I wonder how many more they'll keep making before this saga reaches some conclusion? I'm confident it won't be the one the want, either way.

[wizardhecker]

I fucking hate game apps. I wanted to play tetris the otherday so I figured there must be a simple tetris app out there its the most basic game. But every app is like heres your daily log in bonus of 10 gold! You get 5 free plays a day. Here's an ad. To replay a level costs 1 diamond. You can eart gold by earning points in levels. 1000 points = 1 gold. You can exchange 550 gold for one diamond but we have a sale right now that they only cost 500 gold. Heres an ad. You can buy a loot crate of diamonds for 5.99$! You leveled up! Heres 1 free diamond. Youve run out of free replays for today, would you like to buy some more diamonds? Heres your daily tasks, make sure to log in every day this month for a free reward chest. its free! Heres an ad. Would you like to sign up for this credit card to recieve 10 free diamonds? Invite a friend and you can earn points! Ding! Youve leveled up. Heres an ad. This is our special bonus play weekend, you get one free replay and a pack of diamonds only costs 4.99$. You can use your gold to purchase new skins for the tetris blocks. This ones shaped like cats! It costs 100 diamonds. You need to collect them all. Free to play, may be some in-app purchases.

[lucyvaleheart]

I agree with literally everything op is saying and I don't want to detract from their point but this website here, specifically for mobile games (though they intend to eventually branch out to other types) is creating a database that flags those exact types of predatory things. It also flags games as safe, so if you want to look for safe mobile games this is an invaluable resource.

https://www.darkpattern.games/

It also has definitions, explanations, and examples of all the different types of psychological manipulations games pull on the website so if anyone ever tries to give you "just don't spend money, it's easy" you can send them this

[mothman-etd]

Oh thank god, I lost my link to dark pattern some time ago and I thought I would never find it again.

[cryingbard]

That's not fair.

(If you want to see me vent I'm on tiktok, @cryingbard)

[subbygothkittytransgf]

Thank you for putting these thoughts into words and art.