the lights are down

When Godzilla is a better parent and he’s the “movie monster” XD

what are my masc options for this style

Is there anything sluttier and slightly more homo for the mascs out there or can I just mix and match from all these examples

on another note, watched The Mummy (1999) the other day and I couldn’t help  feel like the O’Connells and the Addams (Addams Family Values (1993) would get on really well ya know? The O’Connells are basically the pastel adventure version of the Addams, surely they would just be vibin’ over tea and crumpets in an extremely haunted mansion having a ball of a time

Jonathan and Fester and Cousin Itt watch from the bar, where Lurch and Thing are making the drinks.

Me, every time consume a new piece of fictional media: New AO3 Section Unlocked

The most stolen piece of artwork on this planet is the vector of Kiba howling from the Wolf’s Rain opening and it actually drives me insane.

Did it ever occur to y’all that this might predate a late 90’s anime? Like it’s some sort of natural phenomenon? Like, I dunno, a wolf howling to its pack at night?

Did it occur to you they still stole an image from an anime? Even if it can happen in real life they still stole that image!

Right, so now I’m gonna look it up and see if there are drawings of that (very iconic) pose dating to before Wolf’s Rain.

And, while the pose and backdrop are the exact same, those two images have different tufts of fur, so at the very least, I think someone did a redraw. Does anyone have photoshop to flip the images and compare them better? I’m on mobile

Huh. It genuinely looks like the bottom image is the mirror flip of another image from Wolf’s Rain, but I still don’t feel like bandying accusations.

Wolf’s Rain came out in 2003 and a vector made from tracing a still from the anime was made shortly after by a fan. Since then the image has be taken and reused thousands of times passed off as a stock image for years and it’s such a poular stock image it has ended up as logos for small businesses and such (which says more about the people who ‘designed’ the graphics more then anything lol). But the style of Wolf’s Rain is pretty specific and if you’ve seen the anime you’ll notice the stylistic traits in the vector. The image isn’t some random wolf howling, it’s Kiba, a vector of Kiba. The vector just got thrown around so much over the years it’s better known as a stock image but it’s an obvious trace when you know the source. It’s literally everywhere if you look up ‘wolf howling’ and it just makes me laugh. Wolf’s Rain wasn’t terribly popular compared to other animes released at the time and is much more of a cult classic, so its funny to see Kiba everywhere even when people aren’t aware. I’ve personally seen him on car decals and a logo on a local restaurant and it’s hilarious.

I’ve also seen this a million times im diffrerent places and every single time I’m like. Yep. Another stolen Kiba.

oh my sweet summer child

Couldn’t you just pause it???😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

COULDN’T YOU JUST PAU-AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Pause???? 😂😂😂😂 Oh man, how old is this poor kid?

What I can tell you as a transgender woman is that occasionally I will read trans woman characters written by cisgender authors. And I can pretty much always tell when the author is cis, even if the character is portrayed respectfully, because they get some details wrong or something. But I certainly don’t think that they shouldn’t be allowed to take a stab at it, and I actually appreciate any representation that isn’t egregiously harmful. And I certainly don’t think that only transgender women should be allowed to write transgender women because then it falls on me, and that’s rather tokenizing, isn’t it?

Also it seems like demanding that only #OwnVoices authors should be allowed to write certain characters is an excellent way to enforce a situation where most books are about cishet white people.

And no: you probably won’t get all of the specific details of someone else’s lived experience correct, in much the same way that most authors don’t get all of the specific details about how, say, nuclear reactors or space work. But so long as your character passes as realistically human and not a one-dimensional caricature of what you think that other types of people are like, then I think that that’s reasonable.