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Covering: SLG run, issue 10-12 (“The Gate,” “Tyrants,” and “Phoenix”)
After a long hiatus the spell is broken, we live again we're back to finish up the mainline SLG comics. Whoo!
For context, I’ve never read these comics before! I’m very excited to finally experience the canonical Season 3. Previous posts can be found under this tag.
Terrible photos of the hardcover editions plus rambling commentary below. As always, under the cut to spare your dash!
Honestly, this is probably my favorite mini-saga/set of issues in this book. Pretty much everything is firing on all cylinders. Greg Guler doing the art for a whole issue is a nice treat. I LOVE the historical flashbacks in Gargoyles all the time always, and having “modern-day” Brooklyn along for the ride is fun. Man, it turns out I do want a TimeDancer spinoff after years and years of being pretty “meh” on the idea. At this point, I’m sold (anything for MORE KATANA! But I’m getting ahead of myself, eheheh).
Finally, Brooklyn gets to escape from the constant presence of the lovebirds. He really needs to be careful what he wishes for XD And of all the places and times to end up, it’s…. dun da da DAH! Scotland, 997 AD. Why, nothing at all significant could be happening back then :)
Except… MARY AND FINELLA ARE BACK, BABY!!! LET’S GOOOOOO! They’re still being hunted by High King Constantine because he’s still a gigantic prick (no surprise there). And he’s acquired some terrible new cronies: an eager-to-prove-himself teenage Gillecomgain, Gillecomgain’s dad Mail Brigti (with a real chip on his shoulder), and the sorcerer Brother Valmont. Soooooo… between this guy, the sorcerer Valois, and Father Vasquez, we have three bald guys, seemingly with an interest in powerful magical artifacts, in Scotland between 971 and 997, whose names all start with “V”. Significant? I’m choosing to believe so. In what way? Remains to be seen…
The Phoenix really dumped Brooklyn in the worst possible place, though. ARROW’D! That’s flippin' brutal.
Finella leaning into the idea of the general populace now thinking she’s a witch is interesting, and I kind of love it for her. She REALLY wants to use magic, and maybe (maybe??) she starts to get kind of close near the end of these issues (“seeing the shape of the spell”... OOOH! Good for her!). But I wonder what it could mean. Hopefully something intriguing down the line :D Brooklyn’s quick-thinking enough to swoop in to rescue the ladies, despite being twice-injured (and personally, I don’t think he needs to be worried about being singlehandedly responsible for ruining human-gargoyle relations in this time period, they’re pretty fraught as they are—but IS intriguing that he’s worried about it/blaming himself. Obvious character growth since "Awakening"... but once again, I must ask: HOW CONSTANTLY STRESSED IS TIMEDANCING BROOKLYN???). Regardless, all three fugitives high-tail it away from the pitchfork-wielding locals, and Mary and Finella continue to watch Brooklyn throughout the day while he’s sleeping in their cart.
(More thoughts about Finella: This is presumably the first time she’s seen a real live gargoyle before! She’s pretty chill about it too, honestly. I’m REALLY interested in the fact that she may have had a son as well. That’s some more historic/folkloric truth seeping into Gargoyles lore that wasn’t present in "Avalon, part 1"… curious what, if anything, old King Kenneth had to do with him in the Gargoyles version of events…)
But what’s got Constantine so gung-ho about continuing his genocidal campaign against gargoyles? Why, it’s threats to his power, of course (also: he’s a gigantic prick). Those threats come in the form of (the late) King Kenneth’s adult son Maol Chalvim, and (the late) King Duff’s son, also named Kenneth and known (rather ironically) as The Grim. Maol Chalvim’s father allied with gargoyles to defeat Constantine’s father (See Dark Ages issues 1-3), so Constantine is making sure these two cousins can’t do the same to him. The pair ARE allied with Findlaech of Moray, though—Findlaech, before he was a dad! We would be getting SO MUCH John Rhys-Davies voice acting if Season 3 was animated. Alas!!!! T^T
Sidenote (positive): The panel borders and comic pages becoming white during the daytime scenes in these issues, when the rest of the pages are black because they take place at night, is a great touch. Another instance of these comics firing on all cylinders.
Sidenote (negative): Unfortunately, I get a LOT of the human characters mixed up in these issues. This isn’t the fault of the art or the story per se (though... it's definitely not helped by the art style changing every issue), it’s just that I can only keep so many white men with similar facial features and beards straight in my head ^^; Having to go back to GargWiki a LOT to reference the family tree of Scottish royalty just to understand their relationship to each other as well. I’m grateful to everyone who put in the work, here!! Rereading Dark Ages helped as well. I think I finally have it straight XD
Anyway… we get to see Constantine’s cruelty first-hand (because he’s a GIGANTIC PRICK!) and Brooklyn comes to the conclusion that he needs the Phoenix Gate from THIS century in order to get back home to HIS century. Both of these things lead to a very striking final page with… DEMONA! End of issue :O
Issue 11 involves a lot of pieces moving around and preparing for the battle between the forces of Constantine and The Grim. Constantine shaves his head (becoming Constantine The Bald) and takes a great interest in Gillecomgain (and his scars). Brooklyn gets MORE trauma by visiting Castle Wyvern and seeing the results of the massacre again, realizing he can’t access Goliath’s half of the Phoenix Gate without putting Goliath at risk. MARY LEARNS THAT TOM GETS KINDA-MARRIED, ahaha (sad that she was apparently ALSO in 1995 Manhattan when Tom was and neither of them knew, but… maybe there’s hope of them meeting again later?) And then… LUNFANEN CLAN LET’S GOOOOOO!
This is just going to be me commenting on the stuff I got wrong in my own fanfic because I couldn’t wait to finish it before reading these comics. FIRST OFF, the clan (or cell) is really small T^T Second of all, the actual number of gargs in the Sruighlea cell is given (WHY) :/ Third: wow, those two panels really ARE my beautiful daughter True’s only appearances. Boo. BOO!! I stand by all my decisions to write a fanfic about her based on her one (1) line of dialogue, I just… need to adjust some things to be a touch more canon-compliant (not surprising. But BOO!)
^ MOST IMPORTANT PAGE EVER AUUUUUUGH ^
Tl;dr though, Demona wants to kill people. She wants to kill people on ALL SIDES of this conflict. Already displaying that black-and-white thinking, only three years after the massacre. That feels a *tiny bit* early based on future events showing her complete hatred of humanity being a *touch* more gradual… but she’s nothing if not opportunistic, so it doesn’t feel out of character in the slightest.
Finella and Mary bring Brooklyn to the Grim’s camp. Finella is a well-spoken and persuasive lady who knows how to handle herself <3 Brooklyn realizes that if he wants to keep the Grimorum Archanorum safe, The Grim is going to have to win this battle, and in order for that to happen, he needs to find Demona, and get these humans in an alliance with the remaining gargoyles of Scotland (I appreciate his fourth-wall-breaking educational PSA to The Kids, and surprisingly it gives some weight to his insistence that Gnash actually “hit the books” later on).
MORE BROOKLYN TRAUMA as he discovers more shattered gargoyle clans and at last comes face to face with Demona one night. He manages to (eventually) keep his cool about it though, in the name of doing what he must (AND he manages to trigger Demona’s guilt about her role in the massacre, which she totally deserves, and tries to lie her way out of). It’s interesting that Demona now thinks Brooklyn survived the massacre because he was in the rookery. She has such a good memory though, I wonder how long it takes her to realize his story doesn't check out. Regardless, his manipulation of her during these issues really adds a whole ‘nother level (SPITE!!) to her singling him out in “Temptation”. They really are more alike than different. So that’s fun!
The full-page panel showing the front AND back of Constantine’s head, plus Gillecomgain’s “Oh yes, your Majesty!” is so good and creepy. A+.
And then… it’s battle time! Really epic panels and coloring on the last few pages of issue 11. The two-pager of the gargoyles entering the fight is also REALLY choice. I haven’t talked about itty-bitty Bodhe yet, but… poor kid! LOL. Definitely in over his head.
All this gives way to a menacing cliffhanger courtesy of both Demona and Brother Valmont, with the future of Scotland hanging in the balance as we enter issue 12!
(Speaking of which, the cover of 12 is SO funny. I’m surprised Disney was OK with it back in the day. Also, the art in the issue itself can be so VERY anime. Ben Dunn is the artist here ^_^)
Finella the w... waifu...
But the battle! The battle is pretty intense. Brooklyn’s moment with his rookery brother is cute. Demona’s not interested in cute, though, she’s more interested in bashing skulls in with a mace and insisting to Brooklyn that Goliath was always way too trusting of humanity.
In terms of human match-ups, it’s Constantine vs. The Grim, Gillecomgain vs. Bodhe, and Mail Brigti vs. Findlaech. And then… Brother Valmont uses the Grimorum, upgrading his single-use fire arrows to a fiery rain (reign?) of death. Both Maol Chalvim and Finella recognize the Latin, and Finella and Mary duck under their cart just in time. A handful of gargoyles are not so lucky, though… including the other blorbo-from-my-comics, Sacrifice (her characterization really is virtually non-existent here, so I’m grateful for Dark Ages actually fleshing her out!!). Second is heartbroken, Demona and Brooklyn are horrified. Brooklyn takes Valmont’s hand off with his sword(!!), and though Finella reaches for the Grimorum, it’s Demona who gets it, and ends the spell.
BLORBO FROM MY COMICS NOOOOOOO! John Rhys-Davies characters stop being sad over the loves-of-their-life challenge (impossible) (failed)
But NOT before Mail Brigti snuffs it, which Gillecomgain sees as Findlaech having dealt a killing blow to his father, rather than the now-vanished magic arrows. Which gives some really fun background to Findlaech’s assassination in 23 years :3 Ah, the endless cycle of vengeance in Gargoyles… good, good stuff.
EATING THIS PANEL FOR BREAKFAST yum yum yum
The Grim triumphs over Constantine, finally living up to his name (while Gillecomgain, again, looks on in horror). Then the Phoenix appears, much to Brooklyn’s apparent frustration at not being able to find out how this conflict ends (oh Brooklyn… you’re so innocent. Don’t you know that it’s “never the end?” Also, not how history works ;)) Brooklyn manages to talk the Grimorum out of Demona’s hands by distracting her, saying she can control the Phoenix with her half of the Gate, and Mary and Finella manage to talk their way into accompanying Brooklyn out of this time period. And so…
The story ends a mere forty seconds after it began, with Brooklyn 40 years older, Hudson, Lexington, and the Coldduo rejoining the clan, not to mention KATANA(!!!!!), Gnash, Fu-Dog, and Egwardo (I’m… finally going to start spelling that correctly, ahaha). This clan is fuckin’ BUILT, and that’s the end of the mainline SLG run!
So… yeah! This trio of issues were REALLY solid, definitely my favorite in the book. I honestly don’t feel like I have that much more to say about them, except they’re the ones that have the most “dwell time” in my brain. There are so many little gaps to fill in, but in a good way c: And if I were to rank the issues in this book overall, it would probably be in reverse “episode” order. “The Journey” issues have some of my least favorite art and coloring, but they DO have Macbeth in them, so maybe they get bumped a little higher than Halloween? I REALLY liked the art in Issues 4 and 5, though, so… I dunno. Maybe it’s a draw?
Ok, for real this time, we’re going to take a break from canon and go back to Marvel for the next installment of me going through the reprints. Join us next time, when we discuss the ramifications of Lexington thinking he killed a man (whaaaaaaat?). Yeah, I know.
obviously i want to believe that max bialystock wouldn’t have named names before the house unamerican activities comittee but like, he obviously sang like a canary
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We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.
Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky
Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*
You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.
*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.
okay, for those interested, here is a full timeline of how we got to Count Binface:
1977: Star Wars is released, featuring, of course, Darth Vader
(Pictured: Darth Vader)
1984: Director Todd Durham releases his Star Wars parody movie, Hyperspace, featuring Darth Vader inspired villain Lord Buckethead.
(Pictured: Hyperspace poster featuring two Jawa-esque aliens flying through space in a shopping trolley.)
1987: Hyperspace is released on video in the UK, under the new title Gremloids.
(Pictured: Gremloids cover in the style of the original Star Wars poster, featuring Lord Buckethead.)
To promote the film, Mike Lee, the owner of the distributing company, ran for parliament as Lord Buckethead. He ran in Margaret Thatcher's constituency, Finchley, in order to get on TV. Lord Buckethead was representing the Gremloids party.
(Pictured: Lord Buckethead on TV with Margaret Thatcher.)
1992: Gremloids is re-released. Lord Buckethead rides again, this time against prime minister John Major in Huntingdon. (Here's a fun fact about Huntingdon: I was born there! :D) 87/92 Buckethead seems to have leaned pretty hard into the space supervillain thing, with campaign promises including 'demolish Birmingham to build a spaceport'.
(Pictured: Lord Buckethead on TV with John Major. Other notable candidates include Screaming Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Loony Party.)
2017: comedian Jon Harvey, having recently watched Gremloids and learned of Lord Buckethead's candidacy for parliament, decides it's a great bit. He runs against Theresa May in Maidenhead. 2017 Buckethead seems to have a wackier and also more political approach, with campaign promises ranging from nonsense like 'nationalise Adele' to gesturing at actually sensible policies with stuff like 'lower the voting age to 16 and restrict voting after age 80'.
He also made an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. As with his previous incarnation, he was a member of the Gremloids party.
(Pictured: Lord Buckethead dabbing on stage with Theresa May.)
2018: Director Todd Durham asserts his legal ownership of Lord Buckethead. Jon Harvey opted not to go to court over Buckethead and handed over the reins. Todd Durham extended an invitation to anyone who wanted to be the 'authorised' Lord Buckethead.
(Pictured: the new Lord Buckethead.)
2019: Lord Buckethead, now played by journalist David Hughes, stood against Boris Johnson in Uxbridge and South Ruislip. He ran for the Monster Raving Loony Party, the UK's pre-existing gag candidate party. He ran with a similarly silly manifesto as the 2017 incarnation, but with a bit less of a political edge. His promises included 'All doorways to be increased by 1 foot (30 cm) in height' and 'Nigel Farage to be sold for parts'.
(Pictured: Lord Buckethead and Count Binface square up.)
Meanwhile, Jon Harvey in his new persona Count Binface, also ran against Boris Johnson. Buckethead and Binface face off! Binface ran as an independent with a manifesto once again blending silly and semi-serious promises such as 'nationalising model railways' and 'giving £1 trillion a week to the NHS'. This was also I believe the debut of his promise to 'move the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a more sensible position'.
(Pictured: Count Binface presenting the offending hand dryer, inconveniently close to both the sink and the urinals.)
He has a point.
2021: Count Binface runs for the position of Mayor of London for the first time, with promises such as 'London to join the European Union'. He notably finished ahead of far right party UKIP.
2023: Count Binface runs in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election following Boris Johnson's resignation. He once again gets more votes than UKIP.
May 2024: Count Binface once again runs to be Mayor of London, debuting his now iconic 'build at least one affordable house' promise. Notably, he finished ahead of far right party Britain First.
(Pictured: Count Binface with Rishi Sunak. Also pictured: Monster Raving Loony Party candidate Sir Archibald Stanton with a ventriloquist's dummy.)
July 2024: Count Binface stands in the general election, running in Richmond and Northallerton against prime minister Rishi Sunak. He debuts his promise to cap the price of 99p flakes at 99p. This is his most successful election to date with 308 votes.
(Pictured: Count Binface with Andy Burnham. Also pictured: independent candidate Robert Pownell, dressed as a fox for his own reasons.)
June 2026: Count Binface stands in the Makerfield by-election against Andy Burnham, (recently) former Mayor of Manchester running for parliament with the intention of standing in the Labour Party leadership contest.
(Pictured: Count Binface on BBC's Newsnight.)
July 2026 (this week): Count Binface announces his intention to run against Nigel Farage in the upcoming Clacton by-election. He is briefly the only other candidate in the race and by the time other candidates announce themselves the narrative of 'Nigel Farage vs Count Binface' has already bedded in. And then it was now, and then I don't know what happened.
For clarity's sake, Robert Pownall is dressed as a fox because he's an anti-fox hunting campaigner, and also he will be standing in the Farage Vs Binface election. So that's fun
I was recently reminded of the Rex Morgan MD arc where Rex Morgan is subjected to Precure and it will be entering my working memory permanently I fear. "crunchy rolls?" "is that an ice cream?"
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hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.
I stand by my claim that tumblr users are on average more curious and intellectually playful than users on pretty much any other major website. I've thought this a lot with regards to how many of the popular memes on here are history, science, or philosophy themed, in a way that doesn't just strike me as surface level repetition of a factoid (cf. reddit), but actually represents more thoughtful engagement with an idea. Thinking about all the really clever ways that "this is not a place of honor" has been used and reworked, or the Ea-nasir jokes, or even something as simple as those "juice reward" memes. And the boyfriend memes! Those have mass appeal here, and they're all shit like "yeah we shifted your boyfriend down an octave", "yeah we mythologized your boyfriend", "yeah we compressed your boyfriend into a .zip file". You know, like... for all that's been made of the tumblr userbase's susceptibility to convincingly-worded falsehoods, people here really do seem willing to contemplate things a little harder than people on reddit or twitter do. As someone who spends time on a number of different social media sites, the difference is pretty stark.
And I'm just thinking about this in light of the fact that, as soon as polls are introduced, everyone immediately starts using them to do game theory. Like, not even the usual suspects here, just random tumblr users! And I don't think this is because they know game theory and are doing it intentionally, I think it's because a lot of people here just have that sort of playful, tricksterly intellectual impulse. It's wonderful.
[scrolling through a fandom tag] wrong. wrong. incomprehensibly wrong. wrong but harmless. nice style and color palette but I don't care about that ship. mildly entertaining liveblog update. they whitewashed my girl :( . good joke, reblog. wro--well that's my mutual so I will politely look away. fifteen posts in a row by an innocent rp blog that I don't have the heart to block. take I agree with but op was annoying about it. chapter twenty-eight of a longfic wip. !! GOOD POST !!, instafollowed. bot. technically correctly tagged but uses this acronym for something completely different. museum worthy art piece by a sixteen-year-old from the philippines. wrong. wrong but in a new and exciting way that provokes thought.
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