lizard-gurl-tm
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Don’t have an AO3 account but I should definitely get one now!
I've started a Vampire: The Masquerade fic!
If you're a fan of problematic queer vampires shooting billionaires and cops while also having wild bloody sex then this is for you!
Thank you if you check it out <3
bunch o' vampire the masquerade sketches
and there was only one vampire horse👩❤️💋👩
(click on the image for better quality)
Oh no
Love creating an episode that registers as a threat
Aww the ballerina monster grabbing his finger! Idk the lore, they’re either his babies or fangirls
Iä, Iä! The Yellow King Comes!
Tester design for the one and the only Has- wait what? There’s like three of him? What the fuck.
He’s just hanging around to mediate their next divorce
yorick is third wheeling so hard oh my fucking god
I wish he’d have been secret serviced years ago, but fuck me what’s new. I know I’ll wake up to his obituary one day and it CANNOT come soon enough. Vote for Biden!
they missed and only shot him in the ear
Noooooo wait—so if John could see his distorted reflection through the mask, then urged Arthur to remain in disguise to “blend in,” KNOWING the other cultists could see him….my dumb PI headcanon is enabled further <3
No hate tho, obviously Arthur and John are The Best PIs, but they’re also so endearingly dumb <3
So John is visible through the pallid mask, which means all the cultists in the hotel could see him while arthur was trying to blend in? Thats awkward Also what exactly do you see if you look at arthur through the mask? I assume you dont just see the king in yellow standing next to him, so is john like a shadow or a haze around arthur? I checked and John actually saw his reflection at the hotel and reacted srangely (never told arthur though)
I dont think he saw himself as a separate entity because his reaction wasnt dramatic but idk
every western movie ever made: The wild west is dying. theres no more room left for cowboys anymore…
me everytime: :(
Re-listening to some Juno Steele season 1 episodes so I can recover from the season 1 ending and continue the story. But I’m still way too mad bro HOW COULD YOU DO THAT JUNO. YOU COULDN’T EVEN THROW HIS LIL NOTE OUT THE WINDOW WITHOUT ALMOST DYING. YOU PATHETIC MAN. I SPIT WHEN I SAY YOUR NAME I CURSE YOU WITH A FELL VOICE ON THE WIND AND I HOPE YOU ARE HAUNTED BY THE IMAGE OF NUREYEV’S NEW LOVER FOR THE DURATION OF SEASON 2!!!11AKSJFH;HAHDJH
Thank you for reading. No spoilers please (maybe I’m still rooting for them)
May the Dread Wolf take you.
>:3
What is the old Dalish curse?
May the Dread Wolf take you.
My guy lasted longer in the DREAMLANDS ffs
Love how the most deadly place Arthur has been to is in fact England. Bros been there for like 4 hours and everything has already gone to shit
It just occurred to me that Yorick was the one who told Kellin that John called his mother a whore.
He remains my new favorite character <3
Whatever you say, Oscar.
💙💙💙
I completely forgot to make an all together post for this lol
Have mercy I just really like this song and show together it's actually living rent free on my Tumblr and mind
I hope everyone understands, when I say “most endangered habitat on earth”, I mean temperate grasslands.
They’re more endangered than tropical rainforests, coral reefs, the arctic tundra, all of those go-to environments that get more of the spotlight.
Where I live, maybe 25% of the prairie remains in a natural state and that number is dropping. Even these fragments are mostly missing the keystone species that maintain their health, like bison, wolves, and prairie dogs. I know this is the case for other grasslands like the pampas and steppe as well. Vast lands empty of many species that used to call them home.
If you live on temperate grasslands, hold onto them tight, because they’ve been exploited like no other land and most people don’t even know how far the devastation goes.
"and if there's a place gods go to die, it's in the silence of places lost, far from those who's eyes bring lies, and far from those who'd charge the cost."
i made more bird/flower malevolent collage fanart :) no quotes version and flower/bird reasons v
I didn’t know Mx. Wellman could terrify me so much with Shanks’ voice, then make me completely flip on that character. Four seasons in and I’m constantly surprised.
JUSTICE FOR YELLOW
I'm sorry but do we know if Yellow regained his memory
or
was he just
yeeted back to destroyed Carcosa still amnesiac
and with Larson of all people?
.😢😢😢
Been binging this podcast for two weeks and I’m absolutely sick about it.
ALSO, Lord Arum is everything. Sir Marc is the best knight. Start with the first episode, ‘the head of the Janus beast’ you’ll LOVE IIT
I have a couple Tpp mutuals who have exclusively listened to Junoverse and I get it, but please listen to Second Citadel I am insane about it
so im going to list some propaganda for why you should listen to it along with Juno
Less time between episodes you can listen to
theres 2 weeks in between every episode anyways, you might as well fill the podcast less void with SC
We have…
Himbo knight
poet always in the midst of a mental breakdown
Sir Caroline
lizard man (autistic)
science lady (autistic)
small shape shifting child must protec
witch wife
worlds most anxiety ridden aroace
horse guy, victim of micro aggressions
sword Druid with 0 self preservation skills
also a genuinely good and inspired fantasy setting (with some sprinkles of sci-fi starting in season 5)
(Almost) all Ko-fi dono requests from Invictuscon this weekend!
Top to bottom, left to right:
Arthur "We gotta eat this guy, John." "Damn"
Angry/Feral Pit Arthur
Noel eating pie
Arthur in a cardigan.
Catboy Larson
John Malevolent meeting Jonathan Sims
Yellow
Kayne "being silly"
Oscar
"Something soft" being John meeting a kitty.
If you're a character in a horror piece of media and you come across someone named John you might be entitled to finantial compensation.
taigen + text posts pt 1/?
he is just so extremely *puts in a jar and shakes it violently* to me
👀🫠
Mizu in London 🫡🇬🇧🌊
Why did I spend an hour on this? Idfk don't ask me personal questions
The beautiful fan art of the trio is by @proxysart
i know she was actually nice to them but this wouldn't leave my head until i made it
Me: Mizu’s gender in Blue Eye Samurai is complex and ambiguous even to him/her/them and that’s part of the richness of the story, not a reason for the fandom to get upset at one another or especially at the show creators for saying they envisioned Mizu as a woman struggling to survive in a society hostile towards her racial background and women in general. Mizu’s upbringing was, to put it lightly, supremely fucked up and I respect the show for leaving Mizu’s gender identity and sexual preferences fairly ambiguous because I think they’re ambiguous even to Mizu, who doesn’t exactly lead a life or display an internality in which this question is any kind of priority for Mizu to answer, even if Mizu had a cultural context that gave the tools the answer it, which Mizu does not. Mizu’s relationship with all aspects of their identity, including their race, gender, sexuality is an ongoing question and dialogue being actively explored in the show itself, without a strict conclusion offered, and a conclusion might never be offered, even in later seasons, as Mizu continues to grapple with identity. In this essay, I will…
Also me: Mizu’s gender is revenge.
Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows
In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.
If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.
So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.
I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?
However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.
Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)
And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.
Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.
It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.
Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?
While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:
She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.
You see where I'm going with this.
When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:
And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD
When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.
MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS
No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.
And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:
Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!
The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.
And, uh
Yeah.
I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.
But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.
Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:
But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.
There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.
After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1:
"LET" her die. Because as Ringo points out, she doesn't "know how" to die.
Kind of like another bird in this show:
