And Here's Rozenmarine, Requested By My Bf @oldmagerambles To Do Next Lol

Mandrake about his son, Dagda (2)

Rats (ah whoah)

Copia and nameless ghouls as rats...singing rats. Just a silly doodle that I thought was cute :)

Seeing tumblr users talk about how small Ratigan is compared to the other disney villains and just imagining an obsessive victorian lady keeping him as her pet.

Doing my part to promote this masterpiece of looniness!

Go see The Day the Earth Blew Up in theaters if you are able to.

(also pre-order the blu-ray while you're at it)

Weird and wonderful compilation of strange bird noises.

i want to talk about this idea the fandom has that curly didn't do anything to help anya. the fact of the matter is, curly didn't do anything to help anya on screen.

when we first join the conversation, anya's already told curly about the assault and is just updating him on her pregnancy status. we're never privy to what that first conversation looked like, what anya said or how curly responded or what decisions were made about it. but given that anya confided in him twice more about the situation (that she was pregnant and later that she had told jimmy), i have to assume his response to the initial assault disclosure was sufficient enough in her eyes that she knew she could continue confiding in him.

this exchange reads to me like "what to do about the assault" has been an on-going conversation between them, but curly has limited options to help her. but if he could figure out something to do, he'd do it.

let's look at the options available:

report it to HR. i don't think this option is very viable for a few reasons:

first, pony express doesn't seem to care about its employees. there aren't locks on their bedroom doors, there's only enough food and oxygen to get them from port to port with no emergency allotment, there are more crew than cryopods, they're not allowed to sleep for more than 5 hours a night, etc. i don't think they would have done anything to support her even if they had reported it.

HR may even blame anya for the assault, they may say that it happened because of something she did or did not do. it's her responsibility to take, not theirs.

second:

(thank you to @mudstoneabyss for pointing this one out to me)

curly needs this money because he's considering changing careers, which is likely to result in a pay cut or some amount of time job-hunting without income. swansea has a family back home he needs to provide for. it's daisuke's first year on the job and what a piss-poor welcome a pay cut would be, and he's an intern so the pay cut may be all or most of his salary. jimmy is living in poverty. anya has no savings.

it's entirely possible anya asked curly not to file an HR complaint not only because it would make her financial situation worse, but because she doesn't want to ask him, swansea, and daisuke to literally pay for jimmy's actions.

third:

even if curly did file an HR report he may have been told to do nothing. it's a long trip and they need all hands on deck to make the delivery on time! productivity over employee welfare. it's his job to keep the peace but keep jimmy working.

given how much stress curly's shown to be under, it can be assumed being captain is an extremely taxing job with a lot of both assigned duties and off-book duties. it may not actually be feasible to run the ship without a co-pilot.

maybe all he could do was talk to him.

2. go to the police. are there even police in space? i have to assume so because the alternative poses way too many questions. so there's space police. curly and anya call them and they come to the tulpar and dock on the ship and do an investigation and what happens to that limited food and air supply? the late delivery fee?

i'm a psychologist and my first psychology job was working as a crisis counselor for my county. my primary job was to sit with rape survivors as they had their rape kits done and support them as they made their reports to the police. this may not be true everywhere or across the board or in this dystopia but in my experience the police won't take a rape case seriously, or will have limited options to prosecute, or maybe won't even take the case at all without a rape kit.

so curly and anya call the police. they're going to have to file with HR too, to let the company know what's going on. and now anya has to pay for an HR complaint, a late delivery, and a rape kit.

is she going to get this paycheck at all?

3. curly acts on his own accord. this is the one that makes the least amount of sense to me, personally.

if curly just beats the shit out of jimmy then what? now jimmy's mad and embarrassed and takes it out on anya. we're going to confront him and risk making her suffering worse?

curly can't lock jimmy in his quarters for the duration of the trip not only because, as i said, maybe having a co-pilot is necessary for the ship to operate, but there are not locks on the doors.

curly can't lock him in the cargo hold because a) pony express would probably be beyond pissed off about that and who knows if the crew's pay would get docked or curly would get fired or if dragonbreath would sue them all for property damage and contamination. b) how do we get food and water to him? let him go to the bathroom? we open the doors and he busts out and who knows how violent he'll be then.

curly isn't going to kill him because a) that's one of his oldest friends, and i don't care what he's done or how angry curly is or how badly he wants to help anya, i really don't think it's realistic to think he'd be able to separate the anger from the love enough to end his life. b) it's cold-blooded, premeditated murder. it'd be one thing if curly caught jimmy in the act and killed him in defense of anya, he could maybe get away with that. but after the event is over? curly's going to jail for that, possibly for the rest of his life. if you worked at the post office and a coworker told you your best friend since childhood raped her are you clocking out and going to his house and killing him? it's not reasonable. i'm also just really floored how often i've seen this option brought up on the "prison reform abolish the police no matter how bad you are you still deserve human rights" website.

i also don't think it's reasonable, realistic, or kind to ask curly to act on his own accord without consulting anya. for curly to go against her wishes or act without her consent, that's further taking agency away from her. that's another man deciding what happens in her life. even if curly wanted to beat jimmy up or lock him away or kill him, maybe anya asked him not to.

so i ask, what was curly supposed to do? what did he and anya explore as options? what did anya ask him to do? we don't know and we'll never know. and that was intentional on wrong organ's part.

i don't say any of this to discount or discredit conversations or explorations or analyses about the role The Boys Club, toxic masculinity, and bro culture play into the plot, themes, narrative, or personal take-away players have. i fully 100% agree with, support, and endorse those narrative because despite everything i just said above, it's also true that curly is partially responsible.

it's true that he was irresponsible and an enabler for helping jimmy cheat on his psych exam, but there's no evidence at all that he's a conspirator to sexual assault and abuse, that he was going to cover for jimmy in a court of law. all he said was they would figure it out, and that could mean a whole lot of things.

i think curly has some percentage of the blame for what happened on the tulpar, i just don't think that percentage is as large of a number as a lot of people seem to believe. i'm not asking that we forgive or apologize or absolve curly, what i am asking is that we try to look at the situation with more nuance and empathy and good faith.

i don't think curly was a bad man or a bro who was ignoring anya and covering for jimmy's actions. but i also don't think he did enough to help her. he was never good at seeing the small details amongst the larger picture. he couldn't see jimmy for the dead pixel he was.

i think curly was sleep deprived, possibly under-fed, definitely overworked, and juggling too many balls with not enough options. i think he made the wrong choice, but i think he thought it was the lesser of the evils.

Hey! Unsure if requests are still open but...

Stimboard for Mandrake from Epic (2013), mayhaps?

(I don't know what to add in terms of aesthetics, but as one says "The strongest thing imaginable is the imagination", so do whatever seems to fit...)

yes yes YESS i love this movie!! thank you for requesting!

Mandrake

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Finally finished this fan art of Freya after weeks of working on her 💚

Obviously belongs the most amazing game Little Goody Two Shoes made by @astral-shift-pro

There's my bby girl Vandelle ♡ here's some info that bby forgot to add: Vandelle has a crush on Abigore that unfortunately goes unrequited when the shard takes him over and he was too busy indulging in his bloodlust of vengeance, even got very jealous of Rosette, fearing she'll take her crush away; but they ended up being close friends

Since Abigore's loss, she took over the crew as their new leader in vengeance against Nash Dunes for believing taking her beloved general away, she also gave birth to 3 sons, named Clyde, Clement, and Conrad; where she taught them ways of basically being mini Abigores but in adulthood things go wrong when Conrad falls for Nash's daughter, Gloria, and Clement wanted to break the cycle of vengeance and help his mother in getting better as her grief warped her mind with her vengeance, making her mentally unstable, meanwhile Clyde is gladly wanting to follow his father's footsteps

Though her crusade ended up being stopped by the Dunes, even by 2 of her sons who finally got her to see reason, disbanding the crew and ending the crusade of hers

She later on ends up marrying Rosette, as Rosette ended up having strong feelings for her even while Abigore was alive, much to Clyde's dismay

I'll post art of Gloria, Conrad, Clement, and Clyde soon, even more artwork of Vandelle, my poor girl boss/girl failure ♡

Abigore Melbourne The steel clad Scourge

This is the master post for abigore

Ruthlsss. powerful, and cunning were three aspects well known to his tribe. but one day his hubris got to him, and in a drunken stupor he gathered some friends, sent and took them on a quest for killing and pillaging.

art by @dead-obsith

https://x.com/r3ver1e/status/1652730434000699394 (art by fortis on twitter)

fortunately the target was protected by a young man who wielded two stone swords and his golems that stood by him, abigore lost his friends, his home, and his status all in one night, he swore to kill the guardsman that took his life away. the one he truly cared about the most was the only woman he ever loved, rosette wineblood, she felt great despair when he was gone, but over time she saw the faulty ways of the steeltusk tribe, leaving it behind for the life of piracy, where she leads a colorful and vibrant pirate life. (owned by @dee-t0x)

https://twitter.com/that_sketch/status/1505433137710522369?t=973r3vBAcKrz3G-XKfYu0w&s=19 art by that one sketch on twitter

The once known general had toiled, seeking and schemeing revenge on the halfbreed hero known as nash dunes at his lowest point, after losing his ship, his crew, and his hope, he comes in contact with a shard of an ancient artifact, it promised him his revenge and much more if he vows to find the rest of its form. models by me

present day abigore now leads a whole army, now hiding his true goals under the veil of world conquest, but once again, fate chose something else in mind.. and beside him follows his second in command vandelle quarchette, a windcaller he obtained via a old prison made to conceal and tuck away the world's most dangerous and unstable magic users. character owned by @cometgoddess art by comet model by me

Art by @illwilledomen

Unfortunately he was blinded by the bloodloss he uses the artifact to finish his enemy, but it fails him.. after using the incomplete orb of dominance to transform into the heart of vengeance, he loses control of the orb, and is absorbed into the vessel, where his arch nemesis proceeds to crush it, finalizing the orb and abigore's fate. art by me

also here is a meme i have of him