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i cant believe hoyoverse killed off my favourite npcs are you fucking kidding me

my friend literally pulled wriothesley five times in 200 pulls as a f2p. at one point he literally got two wrios back to back. he didnt lose a 50/50. when is it my turn to be happy

some lineart of my main genshin team sleeping that i dont know if i'll finish or not. colouring is hard leave me alone

my little princess, in't she beautiful <3

i sometimes think about how kaveh's career as an architect also reflects his own character right back at him. when you look at a building, you only see the perfect final product, not the blood sweat and tears that went into creating the design, nor the countless hours of construction that went into making it a reality. it simply exists in the moment as itself. simultaneously, kaveh has crafted a perfect facade for himself. no one can see the suffering that he's had to endure to get to this point, to achieve this mask of absolute flawlessness, they only see him as the "light of Kshahrewar," the builder of the palace of alcazarzaray, one of the greatest students to ever graduate from the akademiya. they don't see his crippling debt, the fact that he became homeless to finish his magnum opus, or his alcoholic tendencies that developed as a coping mechanism. they too, much like the viewer of a great piece of art, only see the final product that perfectly hides ever flaw and blemish, every mistake from prying eyes.

elon musk should kill himself elon musk needs to kill himself elon musk would make society as a whole better if he killed himself now

the outspoken architect (and his greatest admirer)

bonus: morosexual meme except its the opposite. this goes both ways btw

fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

i’m literally begging people to start tagging their shit on ao3 properly. tell me why i looked up hobie brown & miles morales only for more than HALF that tag to be also tagged as hobie / miles?? It’s either & or /, so unless the situation in the fic is unique you gotta tag it as one or the other, for the sake of my sanity please im begging you

Something something the ATSV artstyle affect

I saw someone on Tiktok say that Hobie Brown’s identity as an anarchist is played for laughs, and that the impact of his message is reduced by turning anarchism into a “joke,” but I’d have to say I respectfully disagree with that idea.

Sure, when we first meet him, Hobie’s attitude is blasé at best. He takes the time to banter with Pavitr and Gwen, makes jokes about not believing in “teams” “consistency” and “comedy,” and later calls a giant, universe-threatening hole in the ground a “metaphor for capitalism.” All those quips are designed to make the audience laugh, to endear us to him and maybe make us take him less seriously, but those things are all said while he is wearing the mask.

Even within the movie itself, it’s established that Spider-people are jokesters. Part of their identity is their ability to play serious situations for laughs, and Hobie is no different. The only exception to this rule would be Miguel O’Hara. I think that the worst thing the producers could have done would have been to immediately make Hobie a no-nonsense guy, because that would take the spotlight away from O’Hara and make him less of a unique character.

It’d also make anarchism seem miserable and negative, which isn’t a good look for any ideology. Why does it need to be pessimistic? Why can’t there be elements of light-heartedness within it?

Furthermore, when we reach the Spider society, and Hobie removes his mask, his demeanor changes. He becomes more straightforward, telling Miles outright to not “enlist until [he] knows what war [he’s] fighting” and begins to take what he needs in order to eventually use the Society’s technology against them. He seems inconsistent initially, but one thing that remains constant throughout is his distrust of the establishment. Truly, his attitudes of being anti-authority and anti-establishment are a key part in helping Miles and setting up the events of the next movie.

If they wanted to paint anarchism in a negative light, they would have made Hobie’s beliefs invalid, they would have made the Spider Society a force entirely for good, but instead they made it so his views are warranted. He was right to rebel, right to be distrustful and distant, and his actions directly result in Miles’ escape and Gwen being able to form a new team of Spider-people to support Miles in the next movie. 

Thematically, Hobie embodies the central theme of rejecting the status-quo and fighting for something better despite the odds. He’s one man infiltrating an entire organization of Spider-people in order to take it down from the inside, and he does it. In the end, he succeeds. If that’s not a positive depiction of anarchy, I don’t know what is.

Hobie’s influence, and anarchism itself, is a driving force in this movie. I don’t truly understand how one would say otherwise without nitpicking fine details and ignoring the bigger picture.

you know hobie's a good character because i left the theatre and immediately went oh i have GOT to be more of a nuisance to authority

if i had a nickel for every time a supposedly “devout” (but actually heretical) pc in calorum had a realisation about the nature of divinity itself, becoming the only people in the world to understand reality as they do, in the last moments before they are brutally slaughtered by members of the very church they pretended to serve, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?

HE DIDN’T GET TO TEACH HER HOW TO PLAY CHESS IM GOING TO THROW UP

Sam posted a very special Twitter thread about our lil grassroots attempt at winning an Emmy

“I hope you find what you’re looking for, but I don’t think I can be a part of it.”

"I'm starting to feel like no secret was worth this."

[Image Description: Two-page comic of a scene from Dimension 20's The Ravening War, featuring Thane Delissandro Katzon and Colin Provolone. Alt text is provided and copied below the cut. End ID.]

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Page one: Quichéi peers into the mouth of a dark cave and says, "Wait a second," and sees a faint glowing light. He says to the Deli and Colin, "Who has the balls, huh?" and heads in. Deli says to Colin, "Colin. You said it before." Colin says, "I said we have balls, but is this balls?" Deli says, "Aren't you curious?" Colin replies, "I'm curious, but I'm not curious for what this group might do in there."

Page two: Deli looks to Colin and says, "What does that mean?" It cuts to a grayed out flashback, of Karna telling Deli, "Kill it." Deli stoically lifts his spear to stab the fungi creature as a disturbed Colon asks, "What are you doing?" In the present, Colin - spattered with the remains of Queen Pamelia - answers Deli, "I think you know what it means."

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Do you ever think about how Colin told Deli about his past because he didn’t care what happened to himself after what they’d done? Or how even though they were fighting, and Deli had been yelling, trying to intimidate his skald into staying, there still hasn’t been any mention of Deli telling anyone Colin’s secret? That even though they fell away from each other and there was obvious animosity in their final moments together, Deli still didn’t reveal that information, knowing how it would hurt Colin if he did? Yeah.

“what value does a thing have if it is given freely?” (½)

I think about this quote a reasonable amount

Half of the problem with trying to draw riz gukgak is figuring out how to draw his fucking hat

Run, Ruby, run

Come on Provolone!