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so uh...got distracted from something else I was working on a reddit break...I found a comment about Ohma Zi-O going shopping for eggs alright I couldn’t resist!!! sorry for bad quality, I posted it on reddit first and since I’m using a different device to use tumblr on I had to save it from there and that’s why it looks weird
[context if you are wondering: quarantine and not being able to go outside but the riders are surely able to since the suits have gotta be sealed like a hazmat suit and they immediately thought of Ohma Zi-O going emergency grocery shopping]
Short hair but I usually like it up. I don't like horror or rom-com's, I prefer action adventures or fantasy(but I guess if I had to choose, horror)! I don't like most tea or coffees cause they're to bitter, but I guess coffee cause I love the smell. MOON! Why not both, hit up a coffee shop for snacks and have a picnic, or, or, when its cold you can take a walk through a park and then go the the coffee shop! I value all kinds of love, but above all I value familial love the most so I suppose I'd have to go with platonic.
are you a hair up or hair down kinda person? horror movie or a rom-com? do you like coffee or tea? are you moon or sun? park or coffee shop? romantic love or platonic love?
I curse you all with this abomination
Why'd I do it? I don't know-
The quality went down with the green screen. Forgive me, I was limited with the models I had. Side note, I don't know why Springbonnie is blue. I couldn't fix him.
(I'll post a version without green screen later.)
Happy birthday Xingqiu because I wanted to impulsively start an art project
pat hill
(i blame @funkybeyondbelief for this bullshittery)
Got bored, made a shrine.
(it’s a work in progress for, Nyx, Poseidon, Demeter, Artemis and hades! I’m going to be adding in and rearranging stuff later for Athena and  Hephaestus!)
Just some peacemaker sketches! Got bored and decided to do an Aged up AU—
Enjoy these random sketches! There’s another post I have to figure out how to link to this about Nightwings powers, I liked the head cannon so much I put my own spin on it, where if there’s a night wing hybrid even if they don’t get the powers, they get false marks, but don’t worry, in this AU, peacemaker still has the ability to see the future, but only every now and then, and it’s usually just something happy!
Now who told me to volunteer to bake all the mf cakes for Christmas AGAIN 😭😭
There are six(6) cakes in the oven rn, it's past 3am and I'm sitting here waiting for them to finish baking 🥹🫠
My feet hurt 🤩
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (I'm sorry)
Ok, I’m immortal. I’ve fallen off so many cliffs that my adrenaline doesn’t even kick in anymore, I’ve accidentally ingested 5X the lethal dose of caffeine, I’ve accidentally drank bleach and wasn’t even nauseous (I said ‘2/10, wouldn’t try again’), Ive lost so much blood that I should’ve been at the ER but was just fine and cleaned it up, I’ve been hit by a semi truck (only like 25MPH tho, I still got knocked pretty far) and got up and was just really dizzy, etc.
I thought it was luck, but the lethal doses scratched that out. I thought it was plot armor, that was obviously out the window pretty quick. I thought it was one of the Eldritch deities I have the favor of (don’t ask, I’m not really sure how it happened either.) they didn’t do it. I was so confused… until I remembered
I always say ‘I LIVE OUT OF PURE SPITE FOR REALITY’
I CAN LITERALLY INFLUENCE REALITY IF I PUT IN ENOUGH EFFORT BUT I DIDNT REALIZE I COULD JUST FORCE SOME RULES OF REALITY TO NOT APPLY TO ME
IVE BEEN LITERALLY IMMORTAL OUT OF SPITE SINCE I WAS NINE- HOW DID THIS HAPPEN????
Y'know if you really think about it "i love meat" and "i love nuts" are the same thing.
But also the opposite.
Why do I do this
Ok so I have Instagram and sometimes I post pictures of my self on there. EVERY TIME I DO THAT I GET SOME PERV TEXTING ME. so moral of the story. Don't do what I do
Cars Headlights
Cars is a 2006 animated Disney Pixar movie that follows the race car Lightning McQueen through his journey of self-discovery and getting over his ego. The movie has two sequels (creatively named Cars 2 and Cars 3), as well as a short mini-series and two non-Pixar Disney movies, Planes (2013) and Planes: Fire & Rescue(2014), that focus on the planes in this universe. In this essay(?), I will be focusing primarily on the first movie, and there will be mentions of the sequels.
As a child born in the 2000s, I have seen Cars and Cars 2 more times than I can count, and these movies have consequently burned themselves into my mind. Despite the place they hold in my memory, they do not share a similar place in my heart. In my effort to gain a sort of love for these movies, I am going to add feminism and gender politics. I am not really answering questions but just proposing them.
PART 1: Miatas and their tatas
At the beginning of the first Cars movie, a pair of Lightning McQueen superfan Miatas flash their headlights at Lightning. When they do this, the implication is that they are flashing their tits at mcqueen, a joke aimed at the adults watching the movie with their children. While the moment is brief and no more than a throwaway gag, it provokes many questions for me in regard to gender and sexuality in the Cars universe. While it is scandalous for these cars to show their headlights, it is normal and expected for the vast majority of cars to always have their headlights out. What separates these groups is whether they choose immodesty or have no choice but immodesty. Cars with no covering for their headlights lack a natural choice for modesty and are allowed to be immodest in a way the other group, through no fault of their own, cannot. By the nature of their birth, blinky light cars are forced to conform to a set of morals and modesty that those around them do not. This makes me think of the difference in treatment of men’s tits versus women’s tits. Men can walk around shirtless all they want with no repercussions. It is normal for men to go full frontal at the beach or pool in a way that would be shocking and illegal for women. If anything, efforts to cover men’s tits will be seen as more immodest and more taboo than it is not to cover them. This matches the cars that do not have blinky headlights in the world of cars. In this logic, cars without winky headlights are men, and those with them are women. Women are expected and forced to coverup their boobs because of their average relative size compared to men and social conditioning that sexualizes women’s tits. Like the cars with headlights that can be hidden, the fat deposits granted to cis women at birth (more accurately puberty) cause them to be othered by the other half of society. Women have more there than men most of the time and are motivated to cover up. If you have DDD boobs, you’re gonna to want to support them and consequently cover them. This natural feature of a person leads to them being naturally drawn to a place of modesty. On the winky eye cars, their natural state draws them towards modesty as, at rest, their headlights are closed. While they might not always want their headlights out, like how women don’t always want their tits out, headlights are an important bodily function for these cars. Do these cars face oppression for their natural traits like women do in our society? If these cars are driving at night, is there the risk that those around them will be distracted by the usage of a stigmatized and sexualized part the same way we stigmatize breastfeeding mothers?
PART 2: big tits or little, that is the question
The cars all generally have small headlights, and the more attractive a car is, the smaller their headlights tend to be. The character Flo (see Flo’s Diner) is a character with noticeably small/missing headlights. Flo’s headlights are tiny, disguised as dimples. Does minimizing a body part that can be associated with femininity make a car more attractive, like how society rejects femininity in favor of masculinity?
Side note: they could be nipple piercings
Another such car is the background character Kori Turbowitz's, a 2005 Luxomobile Animatic. Kori noticeably has headlight indents but no headlights. While it is not outright stated that she is attractive, I am going to assume that the female sports reporter is attractive, as is often seen in real life. She presents as female and makes me wonder if her lack of headlights is an attempt to conform to the high-speed racing culture she has dedicated her life to.
Now, the character Sally throws a big old wrench in my argument with her bigger and noticeable headlights. I think that this issue is explained by analyzing Sally as a character. Itty bitty titty headlight girlies are trying to conform to the popular beauty standards with their small head lights. Sally has put that all behind her, though, moving to a small town. I believe she is a canonically attractive car. I had trouble finding places that stated what cars were canonically attractive. I am leaning towards she is due to the tramp stamp and Lightning’s reaction to seeing her. Sally is attractive, but in a different way from the other girl cars. She’s not like the other girls, and she’s like the girl next door. Her objectively huge headlights(tits) are a reflection of how she ignores/rejects the popular mini headlight look. Shes a real woman(car) with real tits(headlights). In a move that can be seen as either sexist or feminist, I’m leaning towards sexist, Sally is rewarded for her rejection of popular beauty standards with Lightning McQueen. From a feminist perspective, she is rejecting the restricting standards of society. From a sexist perspective, Sally is rewarded for rejecting femininity and being “not like other girls”.
PART 3: Transformers?
While we do not meet any canonically trans or non-binary cars over the course of the series, it can be assumed that these cars do exist based on the gender parallels already shown between our world and their world. If we had male and female presenting cars, it is reasonable to assume there are also trans and non-binary cars.
Cosmetic care in the movies includes treatments such as paint, stickers, tires, and headlight covers. Is this as far as cosmetic care can go, or is it possible to sharpen or round out angles for gender affirming care? In the real world, you can change the shell of a car, although with much fuss, and it’s probably not a good idea for most people. For trans cars, is it possible for them to change their entire shell? If they can, gender confirming surgery would have amazing outcomes in their world.
Side note: if they can change shells, is identity theft a bigger issue?
CONCLUSION:
Overall, the cars live in a society far too similar to ours out with their beauty standards and sexism, and I think we should blow them all up with gas and a laser.
Works Cited
My brain
If you actually read this whole thing I'm so sorry and thank you so much I wanna hear what other people have to say on this
I just wrote a 3-4 ish page essay on Pixar cars and their headlights/tits what do I do with this
I just wrote a 3-4 ish page essay on Pixar cars and their headlights/tits what do I do with this
friends, teammates, childhood buddy, rival; everything but a lover.
Call me Gallium, Yttrium, Arsenic, Helium, Carbon, and Potassium bc I’m 🏳️🌈 GaY As HeCK 🏳️🌈
you could also replace Hellium with Fluorine and Uranium and it’s still true
Oh God… oh fuck… I’m becoming hyperfocused on a piece of classic literature…
In order to celebrate the death of Dracula here is a sneak peak of an AU I’ve been cooking up
Recently had the flu real bad and I was checking my sleep report on my pokemon themed sleeping app and I was looking through what it recorded and after coughing my lungs out, I randomly went Meow at like one in the morning
I cracked up laughing but I was still sick so I had a violent choking coughing fit in like the ass crack of dawn
Im going insane
So it's 3:15 am and I'm reading fanfiction, like a normal person, and I stumbled apon like the MHA x bungou fandom and I'm like I've read some of this shit before it slaps, so all innocently I go and find that like there is a hole sub class of people who call Ochako is Soukoku's CHILD! Like wot (゜ロ゜)... so yeah BUT THE WORST PART IS IT FUCKING WORKS! So think about it Chuuya has the ability to control gravity that is around him, Dazai can nullify anyone's ability buy touching them... and Ochako's is to nullify the gravity of the objects she touches, like it's fucking perfect.And now I have a new headcannon to how her powers work like if it were an ability, cuz abilities are way more powerful and have less drawbacks (ps tho I still don't like her in canon after the sports festival). I feel that oven it she a part of her ability doesn't actually involve her touching the object it would still be the perfect mix between Soukoku cuz like chuuya controls gravity and Dazai can cancel powers (gravity included) it would make sense that her power would only be to nullify the gravity of objects around her. Like chuuya. I rest my case.
Ps it's 3:40 am now ... what am I doing with my life -_-
