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Jeanne D'Arc

bongwaterwiz

been a minute since i’ve drawn them

thingsforangel

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mkthedingus

astrxchoi

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Back on here after 4 years of leave, what's up y'all lmao

Hello, I'm going to deactivate/delete Tumblr, because I don't use it anymore, you can find me, if you wish to on Discord at: brave_cereza and on Twitter at: @chickmen_chip

Both of these places are where I'm most active, if you want to message me on Discord, please don't hesitate to link your Tumblr account or simply telling me who you were on here, chances are I won't remember everyone!

autistichalsin

PSA that has been given 100 times already but needs to be said again:

The reason you, gen Z queers, need to be kink positive isn't because you support those kinks. It is okay to be disgusted by them, actually.

The reason you need to support kinksters is because "these kinks are disgusting" is the framework the alt-right is using and will continue to use to outlaw you. They don't think you're any different from the guys at Pride in leather puppy suits. They think your ENTIRE EXISTENCE is sexual. They think you holding hands with someone of the same gender, or existing as a trans person at all, is the same as a straight couple playing tonsil hockey in public.

YOU ARE A FETISH TO THEM. That is all you will ever be to the alt-right. They will never see you as human. When they talk about "our children being exposed to sexual perversion" they don't mean BDSM like you think they do. They mean YOU.

The only way to preserve your own existence is to fight for the right of kink to exist, because the instant kink becomes taboo or outlawed again*, rest assured, the alt-right will become MUCH more transparent about just what they think about your existence.

When you harp on about disgusting kinks and how they need to be hidden or outlawed and how they're harmful and everyone who does them is (insert thing here), you are giving the alt-right the tools they will use to imprison you as soon as they have unchecked power to do so.

THAT is why kinksters have been part of the queer community, part of Pride, from the start. Because the only way to keep our community safe is by truly ensuring everyone has unlimited sexual autonomy so long as the activity is taking place between consenting adults. It's just like how abortion-related laws are the lynchpin for all manner of medical autonomy laws.

The queer community can't stand without kinksters and vice versa. Even if you yourself aren't a kinkster and find them disgusting, like it or not, that is just how it is.

*Sodomy was illegal in Texas until 2003 and the law is still on the books, just not allowed to be enforced thanks to Lawrence v Texas, which SCOTUS has said they have an interest in striking down

bemusedlybespectacled

In general, "this thing is bad because it disgusts me" is reactionary thinking that the right uses to discriminate against literally everything. They will deliberately talk about the grossest possible things (or what they think is the grossest possible thing) in order to justify their bigotry.

The classic argument against being gay? Bringing up anal sex. A lot. In as graphic terms as possible. Just talking a lot about poop and anal prolapse and other viscerally disgusting things... and then using that as the reason why two men shouldn't hold hands in public. Because holding hands is actually signalling that you practice coprophagia, obviously.

(I am not exaggerating: spend any time listening to someone like Alex Jones talking about gay men, or reading anti-gay pamphlets from the 90s and early 2000s, and it's just nonstop discussions of poop and poop-related things)

One of the classic ways of othering immigrants? Talking about how disgusting their food is. Koreans eat rotten cabbage. Chinese people eat dogs. Fuck, there's a scene in It's A Wonderful Life where Mr. Potter is trying to flatter George Bailey and get him to give up the Building & Loan (while being extremely bigoted about the people George Bailey is helping), and he calls Italian immigrants "garlic-eaters." Because garlic is gross and smelly, obviously.

Women? Talk about how gross menstruation and vaginas are.

Trans people? Call a neovagina an "open wound" and wring your hands about how testosterone makes people smelly and hairy and ugly.

Unhoused people? Complain about how they're pissing and shitting in the street.

It is okay to not like stuff! It is okay to feel disgust! But I promise you that there is something you find totally normal that other people find gross. You cannot make disgust the basis of your morality system.

alithographica

As promised, welcome to

Fun biology in TOTK’s designs

I'll keep this post updated as I go through the game. I'm going to skip the more general identifiable things like apples (they're based on apples!) because there are tons of more unusual species to talk about.

Overall, the really interesting thing I've noticed is that many of the more unique Earth-based lifeforms in TOTK are super ancient, like predating dinosaurs ancient, which is a really cool tie-in to the overall time-hopping plotline of TOTK. Specifically, they're found in the new areas (caves, depths) while the surface remains a bit more normal.

(There will be no plot spoilers in this post, and also I've barely gotten into the plot because I'm spending all my time wandering, so shhh no spoilers in the tags for like a month please.)

Most recent additions: More lilies, irises, wild ginger, spiny bones, pigeon extravaganza, plus added some more real photo comparisons to old stuff.

PLANTS

Bryophytes my beloved. Bryophytes are among the earliest land plants, waaaay predating flowers and even seeds. In our world, they’re small by necessity—they lack vascular systems to help move water around like other plants, so they have to stay small and moist (hence their frequency in caves in TOTK—though they do need some light in real life.)

In TOTK they’re quite large and I think that’s very sexy and art directors should give us big bryophytes more often

Anyway, there are three types of bryophytes: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. First image pair is a moss, second is a liverwort. Those red-brown and palm-tree-like structures, respectively, are their reproductive structures.

Real liverwort photo © Graham Calow, NatureSpotUK

Not yet spotted: Hornworts! Did they forget the third bryophyte sister :(

I think these next guys are probably lycopods (specifically club moss, which is not a true bryophyte moss, thanks science.) Very old, but vascular, so they're a bit more evolutionarily recent than bryophytes.

Real photo © Gloria Hanley Schoenholtz, virginiawildflowers

All the enormous curly-topped trees in the depths: Ferns! They curl like that until they unfurl. Another very old plant, though younger than bryophytes and lycopods.

Real photo via The Cosmonaut, Wikipedia

Brightblooms and some of the other giant plants in the depths: Possibly based on a cycad? Again, a very ancient plant lineage. At this point, evolutionarily, they've developed seeds—that giant cone in the center is called a strobilus, and that's the seed structure.

These next few plants are angiosperms, meaning they produce flowers. Angiosperms are a more recent evolutionary lineage—still many millions of years old, but it took a while to develop flowers as a reproductive tactic.

Sundelions (left) are a fun recolor of a lily. There are also some scenery lilies (right) in various places—there are yellow ones that spring up when you turn on a lightroot (which gives them literal and thematic connection to the surface) and several other varieties, including tiger lilies, throughout Hyrule. Fun note, the sundelions appear to only have 5 stamen, while other lilies in the game (correctly) have 6. Seems to be an intentional decision to make it a more distinct fantasy species.

These next ones are Peruvian lilies/Alstroemeria, just used as a scenery plant but a very fun inclusion. Fun fact, not true lilies, so they're not deadly to cats like true lilies are.

Real photo © Dick Culbert, Wikipedia

Plum trees: These are also called out as plum trees in game! There's a journal in Kakariko that refers to the plum orchards.

Okay I'm a little proud of figuring this one out. Bomb flowers blend a few botanical references. Superficially, the fruit resembles a type of seed pod called a capsule—specifically it's very similar to a poppy capsule. The little red thing in the center is a nice addition to resemble both a flower stigma (reproductive part that leads to the ovary) and a bomb fuse. Now, poppy capsules disperse their seeds via wind, but there are other plants who do explode their seeds outwards as a dispersal tactic! This is called explosive dehiscence.

There is one tree in particular called the sandbox tree, AKA monkey-no-climb or dynamite tree (yes, really.) Their capsules look more like little pumpkins, but are known for violently exploding when ripe—they can launch seeds at 150 miles per hour (250 km/h) and spread them roughly 200 feet (60 m) away. The photo comparison is a poppy capsule but you should def go look up dynamite tree videos.

Real photo © PommeGrenade, pixabay

Fire fruits (and the other elemental fruits) grow on the same generic plant that looks kind of like it has grape leaves. Fire fruits resemble a specific botanical thing too though—the black netting is a papery calyx (part of the flower) seen in a nightshade genus, Physalis (golden berries, tomatillos, etc.)

Real photo © Helene Rogers, Alamy

I think this stuff is an Asarum, AKA wild ginger. I was actually puzzling over it until I walked past some today and went HEY

Not sure of the exact species but they're very green and heart-shaped and love being dense and low to the ground.

Real photo via David Stang, Wikipedia

Irises: Love irises, one of my favorite flowers and words, very happy to see them in game.

MISCELLANEA

Cup lichen! Lichen is not a plant, but a symbiotic structure of an algae + a fungi. Cup lichen is just a type of lichen formation that has a kind of vertical cup-like structure.

Real photo via Bernard Spragg

Geology crossover! Go look carefully at some of the whiter walls in the depths—they look like they have fossils of coral and other undersea hard-structured animals in them.

ANIMALS

Sticky lizards: Based on Diplocaulus, a very early (now extinct) amphibian! Their skulls are wacky. We're not sure whether the long sides stood out separately or were smoothly connected to the body by skin flaps, but the separate arrow-like shape is the most popular rendition.

Deep firefly: Might be a stretch because it could just be a multi-winged fantasy critter, but I think the "wings" and antennae are very reminiscent of Anomalocaris, an ancient aquatic arthropod.

Update: Other folks in the notes/tags have pointed out that they're probably based on a cryptid that's especially popular in Japan: skyfish AKA rods! They show up in photos and people think they're an alien lifeform. In reality, they're an optical blur created when a lower quality video captures intermittent flaps of an insect's wings, leaving sort of a many-winged smear in the photo. Thanks to all who left info!

Little frox: Another stretch because it totally could just be a Hinox-like frog, but every time I see the little ones I can't help but think of like...Ichthyostega, Mastodonsaurus, Eryops, and other early amphibians. They were pretty hefty—little frox size or bigger—and had with little waddling legs. This is less "I think it's definitely this" and more "it makes me happy when I picture frox as primitive amphibians."

I haven't detailed many of the scenery animals around Hyrule because most are identifiable with the camera function—it'll tell you that a certain animal is a heron or porgy, for example, and those groups are real, even though the exact species is made up. But I think the pigeons are fun because they're all crested pigeons. Pink-necked green pigeons may have also been the inspiration for the color palettes on the wood and rainbow pigeons.

Both pigeon photos via JJ Harrison, Wikipedia

Spiny bones: Not a specific critter, but those spiny bones that you can find lying around Eldin Canyon are vertebrae—possibly from the same thing that left those big rib cages around? The top spike is the spinous process where muscles attach, the littler spikes on the side are the transverse and articular processes. The dark O in the center is the spinal cord.

Also I made a friend who finally recognizes my purpose in Hyrule.

That's all I've got for now! Will add more as I keep playing.

cameleonvermillon

Man, I could write an essay on why Bayonetta doesn't hate Luka, and cares about him, and enjoys his company, but some people are so dead set on mischaracterizing him for the sake of shitting on his existence that I don't think it's even worth it

cameleonvermillon

You know what, I am dying on this hill

Anyone who thinks Luka is just some annoying stalker Bayonetta is stuck with and only tolerates him is either ignoring any context surrounding Luka and his story, or only played Bayonetta 2.

The first thing about Luka is that he thinks he's the protagonist of his own story. Thats how he's set up and written in the very first game. From his ridiculous monologs to him surviving the most ridiculous situations that only the thickest plot armor could provide, Luka has the makings of your run of the mill cookie cutter main character.

Luka is not only a passionate man, but he is dedicated and stuborn too - not to mention caring and kind. He wields a sense of confidence he has no right having, but makes up for it with his charisma and charm. He's no Einstein, but Luka's intelligence speaks for itself when he not only provides vital information throughout the story of Bayonetta 1 (and to a lesser extent Bayonetta 2) but in keeping up with Bayonetta every step of the way. His eye for subtle detail and deduction skills, paired with unwavering determination, make him a fantastic journalist.

The only thing stopping him from being the protagonist is being such a dumbass (and of course, Bayonetta.)

Luka may have had it wrong throughout the first third of Bayo1, but he peiced everything together once he knew where to look. From his journal entries in Bayo2, we know Luka easily adapted to investigating the supernatural. All thanks to his resourcefulness.

Also, like his father, Luka is willing to die for the truth. For however foolhardy you think his quest is, his resolve is admirable. Not many people give their life for their cause.

Speaking of Antonio-

Luka's father was murdered when he was very young, but its clear how important he was to him. Antonio's death drastically alters the course of his life. Not only did he lose his father, but he was witness to it. It leaves such a lasting impact Luka follows in his footsteps and makes his father's final case his entire lifes work — almost dying in the process.

Being a journalist is all Luka's father was. It's all Luka has left of him. We read about Antonio's extensive research into the Umbra and Lumen in Bayonetta 2, and we even read some of it throughout Bayonetta 1. Devoting his life to continuing his fathers work is the only way he can hold onto him. He feels connected.

His search for the truth stems from an unstoppable sense of justice instilled in him by his father - who, as far as he knew, was murdered by one of the witches he was so fasinated by.

Luka following around Bayonetta for 20+ years has nothing to do with any ulterior motives. He was a little boy whose father was murdered, who no one probably believed him when he told the truth. Antonio was already ridiculed for his belief in the supernatural, no one was going to chase a traumatized child's boogeyman.

The only person who could serve justice was Luka. The only way he could was if he proved it. And that meant tracking down the culprit.

He needed to find Bayonetta.

The thing about all of this... is Bayonetta knows this.

We don't know exactly how long, but it's heavily implied throughout the first game Bayonetta and Luka know eachother beyond their first encounter. From Luka recognizing her perfume, Bayonetta commenting on his changed appearance, Luka even tries predicting her position from being familiar with her behavior. The back and forth banter that shows Bayonetta has been subject to Luka's accusations at least a handful of times before. It's been the same song and dance throughout Luka's life, and Bayonetta is painfully unbothered.

If Luka following her around and getting into her business was so much trouble or genuinly irritated her even slighty—

He would be dead.

Full stop.

The fact that she not only lets him follow her around (which she flat out says late first game) but goes out of her way to save him several times solidifies that fact.

(She fucking saunts tord him to freak him out thinking shes gonna kill him then FUCKING straddles him?? Girl you did not need to do that HELLO?)

Luka's existence and plight was initally only amusing to her, but over the course of the game develops into genuine understanding and fondness. She not only comes to care for his individual safety, but explicitly trusts him with Cereza's too. When the two of them show back up, Luka is who she adresses first. He fucking makes her JUMP in SURPRISE when he shows up basically unharmed. This man is one of the few people to EVER catch Bayonetta off guard. It takes her a minute to properly collect herself.

That entire scene Cereza is asleep because Bayonetta and Luka's interaction is the focus!! The point is to show their respective character development!! Their relationship shifts from unsure hostility laced with distrust, to a camaraderie.

Bayonetta starts to show Luka a little more respect by calling him by his name, and Luka no longer believes Bayonetta to be his father's killer. After years of circling eachother like two cat trapped in a cage, they're getting to really know eachother for the first time. They know a lot about eachother, but now is when they understand.

Not much really changes. They still leave eachother to pursue their own end goals, but if you're headed the same direction, why not offer a ride?

Even ignoring all their character development and any possible hints or nudges at a MAYBE 'will they wont they' romance made for a game that was only ever meant to be a stand alone—

With how much Bayonetta clearly cares for Cereza, is it not reasonable to assume she would at the very least appreciate Luka for watching out for her? Like not just because she grew attached, but later learning that she was Cereza? I mean he did his damn best to keep her out of harms way, and though she may not really have those memories she still knows what he did to try and protect her. Even when Luka was still at odds with Bayonetta, he kept the kid safe because it was the right thing to do.

I think the fact that Bayonetta subconsciously assosiated him with her beloved childhood doll that we see was deeply treasured by her/Cereza (and continues to do so in Bayonetta 2), says more than what Bayonetta could verbally.

On a final note; there are jokes throughout the game at Luka's exspense, most of which are set up by Bayonetta to fuck with him. Some people find certain moments distasteful or gross, but you cannot have an ass grab and a tit stare represent his entire character let alone what a fucking squirrel claims he does. I swear to god Luka got character assassinated in bayo 2 and its all lokis fault the little bastard.

It is clear from the endinging of Bayonetta 1 how much Luka respects her. Him bringing a shit ton of rosemary to her funeral is not only very sweet and a callback, but shows Luka has faith in her even beyond death. Not to mention this is where Bayonetta demonstrates a moment of honesty — there is rosemary in the perfume.

Luka may make flirty or suggestive comments, but Bayonetta is no better he still regards her with reverence. Hell, several times in Bayonetta 2 Luka mentions in his journals how powerful the witches he knows personally are. He speaks pretty higly of both Bayonetta and Jeanne as impressive fighters and spell casters.

Bayonetta has never needed Luka's help, but he will always provide it.

Part of carring about someone is being there for them — even if they don't need you.

toskarin

even though I knew where it came from, seeing the original image still feels like peeking at a crack in reality

dzamie

meteorherd

okay we NEED to put “camp” up on a shelf where people can’t reach it too because i just saw someone call the mario movie camp like girl what in the fresh hell are you talking about 😭

vinelandthorns

themysteriousmurasamecastle

no fucking way man i refuse to believe this is real

themysteriousmurasamecastle

game-boy-pocket

This is what I mean when I say I'm ready for the whole concept of console generations to end because we've hit a point of diminishing returns when it comes to noticeable change in graphical fidelity. Console generations just feel like a scheme to get you to buy new expensive machines that might not support your old library and will give you a reason to buy more ports and remakes.

ironinkpen

can't believe there are still people out here in the year 2023 that genuinely think aang should have killed ozai

ironinkpen

"even avatar yangchen said—" that's not the POINT, the point is that aang is the LAST airbender the LAST air nomad the LAST person following these teachings, the point is that if he breaks his vows the air nomads will truly die out with him, forever. the point is that the monks taught him all life is sacred and even if ozai is a piece of shit who everyone agrees deserves to die, aang refuses let ozai force him to give up the last thing he has of his people, their lessons, refuses to let ozai wipe the last air nomad from the earth and finish what his horrible family started. the point is that aang beats ozai because his spirit is unbendable, the point is that he takes the man whose ancestors set his on fire and robs him of the ability to hurt anyone ever again, the point is that the Fire Lord ends the fight kneeling before the Last Air Nomad and THAT is the ending aang deserved

smbhax

Bayonetta: Bloody Fate film poster concept by Bayonetta character designer Mari Shimazaki

Source: https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1860536

greenflamethegf

TBH that might even thiner they avrage

nonamehorse

Wtf do you mean plus sized????? Thats a skinny woman?!!! Are these people blind??!!??!!

furbearingbrick

this is the fattest a woman can get before gamers start getting scared

mxnrique

i woulda survived the movie Carrie because i simply wouldn’t have bullied her.

mxnrique

me eating my prom meal while everybody is getting mass murdered because they couldn’t leave that poor girl alone

cinderellaswaltz-deactivated202

Ok, but the thing was she didn’t just kill people that bullied her, she murdered everyone at the prom. Remember what happened to that one teacher that was and helped her? So if you were at the prom you would have died.

mxnrique

no me and carrie see each other so she woulda let me live. rip to yall but i’m different

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