leo :)

he/they - trans, queer, ace - this is now a rottmnt blog apparently - leo_of_the_seas on ao3

[cowardsexual]

like as far as headcanons go I can't get over how perfectly the "stratt digging her nails into the palm of her hands" tic works on a symbolic level. of course she stains her hands with blood. of course it's her own.

[mammalianmammals]

Marbled Cat (Pardofelis m. marmorata), family Felidae, Sabah, Borneo

photograph by Raymond Voo Zhong Hao

[leonalmalsy]

Sam keeps making earworms.

[threeottersinajacket]

eurydice lock in

[from-and-for-nerds]

Until confirmed otherwise, this scary lion is wearing a sparkly dress

[space-feminist]

"why we build the wall" from hadestown is really gonna trip up future media analysis students. they'll be like "ah a piece of media from the 2010s referencing building a wall to keep out the poor, clearly this is a reference to the president of the united states from 2016-2020", and then their professor will have to be like "actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010"

[gatherround]

how i hope this conversation goes from there is like:

"actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010 and the original song was written in 2006"

"so she knew about the wall 10 years before Trump proposed it be built?"

"well, let's talk about that...

...but that wasn't when the wall was first built...

...this shift in the '90s marked the start of an enforcement philosophy called Prevention Through Deterrence, which basically says that if crossing is made more deadly, fewer people will cross (fact check: it just means that more people die on the journey). From the start, the purpose of the wall was not to physically to stop people from crossing -- it was to make it more deadly to do so.

...and we can also look at the song metaphorically and expansively, as a reference to the policing of migration, to company towns, to gated communities, and the physical and metaphorical walls that throughout history have kept people in and out and defined who does and don't belong.

Sources: 1 & 2 / 3 / 4"

"...how did you just say a hyperlink?"

"why worry about that when you can use this show as an entry-point into a deeper understanding of capitalism's investment in coercive control over human migration, and its long history in the United States?"

"so the song only seems prophetic because the long history of policing and militarizing the border has been ignored, and treated as an outsider position by Trump rather than the continuation of bi-partisan policy dating back decades? and it can be seen to reflect larger patterns of capital controlling people's movement in order to extract land, labor, wealth, and ultimately life from them?"

"and the song slaps"

"....and the song slaps"

[the-seelie-court-official]

thank you so much for this well-researched response tho because, as a texan, the very concept that trump invented the idea of the border wall made me kinda. reboot. not mad at op! just surprised at the difference in our life experiences

[josephinecarttanneur]

The cool thing about being an artist is that you can always redo the fanart you did 10 years ago when you had the vision but not the skills

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

[lesbiansforboromir]

everyone stop reblogging this I hate to be reminded of my own good advice

[werewolf-transgenderism]

oh my god I just saw the cutest thing in the world. little Black girl with beads in her hair for the first day of school and the beads were pink then silver then a bunch of yellow then beige then grey to make them look like pencils 🥺🥺🥺 brb I will draw an artist’s rendition

[werewolf-transgenderism]

^ like this. waaaaaugh 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[galacticdummy]

the wayne royal family

[foxbirdy]

A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

Prints & PDF

[spicy-apple-pie]

I have not read the entirety of Batgirl yet, but if it doesn't have Cass cussing David out, I'm suing dc

Commission Info / Kofi (members get comics a week early)

[halfratsalready]

How does she somehow get prettier and prettier with every season Siobhan Thompson you are stunning oh my goddd

[ohxxlapetitemort]

It's fine to look your age btw and people in their 30's aren't elderly and decrepit

[cdplayer]

"sound of the summer is this song" WRONG. its cicadas

[cdplayer]

for the 40th to 200th million summer in a row

[fiercewillworm]

he's been finished for a couple days but man i'm bad at taking photos. anyway, the mini ceaseless watcher.

might update him with a pendant or some props, but either way he'll be given away as a gift. i plan to make him a matching boyfriend eventually, stay tuned.

[laaani-lei]

back to my regularly scheduled programming of fluff <3