sick of playing ring-a-ring roses with myself

I can finally show my piece for Born From the Waves, @naminezine!

the idea idea of my piece is a journey through the art, with her art style evolving from pencils sketches to complex paintings, collecting inspirations from various worlds. Her friends gave her lucky charms and souvenirs to be with her during her journey❤️

I've also used a couple of real paintings as reference!

art student namine!

So..... Those Strelitzia and Naminé parallels, huh?

Who did we last see Streli with again?

Namine is finally done! Protect her at all costs!

just artist things™ ft. namine🎨

KH3 Ending - Riku and Namine

It's now available as a keychain, you can get it here:) https://ko-fi.com/holleysartboutique/shop

some day “milf is a slur” discourse will break out and there will be no survivors

good news OP, quite a few people were upset that we called our yuri milf game a milf game, and were even further scandalized to learn it was for a “yuri” game jam because yuri is a bad word also now, too, for some reason

!!! @xekstrin you can’t just mention a yuri milf game and not gives us links to plug it!! I want to know!! I want to know about the yuri milfs!!!

It’s called Love On The Peacock Express  you play as a cocky detective on a train full of milfs who have mysteries to solve

I didn’t know @tealesbian was a game developer

I was onboard for that until I learned that the game was funding baby-murder :(

this post really has everything huh

The notes on this post are like the elephants foot

Great post guys

I had a dream recently...

That I was out playing pokemon go, and people all over the world had started seeing this new pokemon popping up. Like out of nowhere this little thing started appearing occasionally. No word from Nyantic or The Pokemon Company about when or why they had released it. The pokemon was called “sleepytired” and it looked like this.

And you couldn’t catch it, the ball would just go straight through it. People were data mining and shit trying to figure out how to catch this thing but they couldn’t. Eventually they would just have to give up and leave the encounter.  After a few weeks of people reporting sightings of it, and no word from Nyantic, some creepy shit started happening…

What started happening was, if you entered an encounter with a “sleepytired” with the AR on it would manifest in the real world. But it wouldn’t do anything. It would just float there, watching. 

So people being curious started doing this whenever they could, and these things would just manifest and stay there. Obviously this was causing problems because these things would just be floating menacingly in local parks and in the local McDonald. And they couldn’t be moved, because anyone who tried to move them or touch them would be struck by sudden, intense, chronic fatigue that seemingly had no cure. 

The last part of the dream I remember was watching a news broadcast telling people that pokemon go was now illegal, and to avoid touching or disturbing the creepy little things that are now just about everywhere.

i love the pedestrian-to-car staredown when you see them go from a rolling stop to a full stop. like that's what the fuck i thought. vehicularly manslaughter me about it

Imagine if you will a complete inversion of a boorish American on St. Patrick’s Day. Imagine an Irishman who aggressively celebrates the Fourth of July with unabashed gusto, who desperately tries to claim the significance of some alleged 1/32 American heritage, who wears a shirt with an eagle turning into an American flag and who drinks a specialty red, white, and blue novelty beverage until he collapses in a pool of tricolor vomit. Imagine some guy so invested in a superficial, touristy version of Americaness that he will nervously call the side with his $20 “authentic” hamburger “freedom fires” out of fear of offending. Imagine a guy who upon meeting any American will try to strike up a friendly conversation by asking them what their favorite gun is and talking about how personally inspiring he finds Abraham Lincoln.

You must understand, as you prepare to read the May 24th entry of this novel, that this Irishman is Bram Stoker.

I thought this was going to be a serious post about American identity politics and then you slapped me in the face with that ending.

am i wrong

“FMA is bad because it portrays war criminals as sympathetic, likable people” bro that’s the point. That’s the whole point. That is THE point. Did you think Ethnic Cleanser is some kind of special category of person that gets separated away from all the Good People at birth? Did you think there’s some kind of barn full of Genocide Doers that only gets deployed into the general public during world wars? Did you think assholes who do terrible shit in real life are never charming or likable or capable of doing good things and helping people? One of the best parts of FMA is how we the audience realize that some of our core protags have made irredeemable choices, and we have to reckon with the fact that they’re still people, with the unalienable rights and qualities thereof. Sorry if the Problematics aren’t constantly wearing a dunce cap and a list of all their crimes and this makes the media incomprehensible to you  

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That time Aunt May poisoned the Chameleon when he was disguised as Peter.

I never saw the last page and for years l thought that aunt may literally killed a man.

You can tell she didn’t kill him because arsenic doesn’t taste like almonds–it’s cyanide that tastes like almonds. She doesn’t go around killing people, she’s got no reason to be knowing that stuff. However, saying it makes for a marvelous stall while you’re waiting for the ambien to kick in.

Aunt May’s the shit.

Okay, but what if not all mutations (a la X-Men) are actually helpful? The powers supposedly come from an evolutionary mutation, after all, and some of those hit dead ends - not everyone ends up ‘the fittest.’

And what if this is actually the explanation for Peter Parker’s extraordinarily bad luck? He actually is a mutant, but he has a terrible power that only causes him pain and grief, and the only reason he’s still alive is because he got those spider powers. And no one’s figured it out because they’re distracted by the spider powers and don’t notice that the luck is literally unnaturally bad.

I was talking to my sister about this, and she put forth the suggestion of Peter getting a mutant power suppressant collar put on him and I just… that would be amazing? Like, no one knows where Peter’s powers came from for the most part, we’re got all these mutants running around, it wouldn’t be a stretch for some anti-mutant jerk to just assume that he’s a mutant, catch Peter, and toss him in with all the other mutants they’ve captured for whatever purpose.

Cue Peter announcing to the rest of the captives “Don’t worry, guys, I’m not actually a mutant - my powers still work just fine!” and breaking everyone out. Except, as they get farther and farther into the escape, Peter starts getting more and more concerned because. Nothing is going wrong? At all? This has been shockingly easy? Everything’s going according to plan? What? By the time they’re out the door, Peter’s started actively trying to distance himself from the rest of the group and be annoying and unlikeable, because this is too long without something going wrong, someone’s going to die if this keeps up.

But no one dies. They get back to the X-mansion with minor fuss, Professor X runs some tests because Peter’s freaking out and it turns out, oh, you actually were a mutant, your power is just the worst power ever.

Peter: “Soooo… what I’m getting out of this is, if I keep wearing this collar, I won’t have such constant crappy luck?”

Professor X: “Well ideally it would be best if you learned more about your power now that you’re aware of it and-”

Peter: “Sorry, just remembered that you wouldn’t let me join your super-team so I don’t have to listen to you byeeeeeee~!!!”

And he makes it home in time for supper and life just gets better. Though Peter keeps getting surprised by stuff. Ex:

Peter: Wow, I haven’t stepped in gum in, like, a week. Weird.

MJ: That’s… actually pretty normal for most people?

Peter: What, seriously? Wild.

(snorts) A+ additional content, can’t stop picturing Peter somehow acquiring more of those suppressant collars, so he can learn how they work and build either build himself a new one if the first one he gets breaks or stream-line the design to make it more comfortable and less obvious to wear, because he is high-key Not Going Back To That.

It would also be interesting to see peoples’ reactions to that sort of thing, especially if this is in one of those universes where normal people know at least vaguely about the suppressant collars, not so much from a superheroing standpoint (he can always wear the thing under his costume and just say “yeah, trying a new look”) but from people in school.

‘cause I can see that covering a wide spectrum of reactions, from the people who have no idea what it is and think it’s just some new ‘look’ to the people who do know and approve (because that’s the ‘responsible’ thing for a mutant to do) to the people who think it is high-key disgusting that he’s wearing that thing for various reasons (either under the impression that he’s being played by the system or forced to wear it (I’m not saying MJ is ready to cut someone when she first sees it, but hoo boy, I’m not saying she isn’t, either)). If even a small fraction of the school knows about those collars, wearing it in public means he’s basically come out as being a mutant, and that news will travel fast, it’s high school.

The thing is, though? It’s also happening in a situation where Peter’s supernatually bad luck isn’t in play, and it’d be really interesting to see this play out in a situation where the worst-case-scenario isn’t automatically the most likely.

Also it’s canon that mutant suppression collars cause terrible headaches, so Peter could potentially solve that problem

Oooh, yeah! And if he can’t do it on his own, it’s also canon that he knows a magical surgeon who could potentially help him figure it out!

Peter: EYYYY, DOCTOR STRANGE! My favorite doctor-type person! Help me figure out how to make these stop causing migranes so I never have to take it off again, pretty please? I’m not quite sure which bit of me head it’s causing to hurt.

Dr. Strange: (is so shocked that someone’s asking after his medical knowledge as opposed to his magical knowledge that he’s halfway through a consultation before he realizes what he’s doing)

Non-mutants starting to wear mutation-suppression collars as a sort of protective-coloration display.

Because seriously, imagine if you could just put on this thing and it would tell everyone that 1) you have powers of some unknown varietal that -might- make you quite dangerous, and 2) you may or may not have compunctions on taking off the collar and whipping some serious ass if people are unpleasant to you.

Other non-mutants wearing them as a solidarity display.

Still other non-mutants wearing them because Shiny.

All of a sudden you can’t tell SHIT about who’s a mutant or not besides 1) if they’re wearing a collar they may or may not be a mutant and may or may not be willing and able to unlock it themselves, and 2) if they’re not wearing a collar they may be either a non-mutant or a mutant with a nonvisible mutation.

Also collars that pretend to be mutant-suppressant collars but actually don’t do shit.

Some Brotherhood type makes a series of portraits of mutants doing mutant things with collars on as a “you can’t shackle me” type display.

Annnd we’re back to the previous status quo except mutants are slightly more cool now and half of everybody has a new favorite fashion accessory.

No Snakes, Yes Snakes

It’s No Snakes Tuesday

It’s Yes Snakes Sunday

Why does water take so long to boil I hate it here

Huh i wonder if theres a helpful lil fella in the notes to tell you why