OOOOOOOOF I’VE SPENT WAAAAAY TOO MUCH TIME ON THIS SH*T BUT BELLOW DIAMOND IS WORTH IT I GUESS *yeets herself across the room*
So yeah, doing this massive dump has helped me cool down my hype for the ship (it’s still OTP for me, but I’m not fangirling so hard anymore… At least for now :p).
Have a bunch of Bellow D shenanigans, plus a White Diamond, some Pearls, my human interpretations of Blue and Yellow and two chibi versions based off the murals! (I’ll be posting better drawings of the later in the future).
PS: To the ones that consider them “sisters”: your opinion is valid and I respect it, but please, remember that gems don’t have families or sibling bonds as we understand them so shipping them it’s not wrong either. I consider them two rulers that have developed a natural friendship as time passed and eventually fell in love. Don’t start drama in the notes, please. Let us shippers enjoy.
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Okay but honestly fucking shit like this when they show Zuko’s scar side when talking about Sozin and then having the bar pass and have his non-scar side when Iroh says Roku is his great grandfather if EXACTLY the kind of shit that elevates this show to where really no other show has ever come and probably never will
Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.
I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.
Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.
I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y’all gon learn today.
Thank you.
also, cowboy culture was hella gay. like, write-poems-about-your-cowboy-partner gay.
IF people acknowledge it, they play the necessity card– there weren’t any women out on the range, so they had to “resort to men.” this claim completely erases 1) the romantic (not just sexual) writings of actual cowboys, 2) the acknowledgement of cowboys’ potential homosexual activity by writers at the time, and 3) the possibility that some men would deliberately become cowboys with the intent to seek out homosexual encounters.
no one wants to admit it, but cowboy culture was just. so inherently gay.
The first cattle trail was founded by a Cherokee man called Jesse Chisholm
He was also an aid, interpreter and diplomat of several Cherokee tribes, who lead groups of Native Americans away from battles during Civil War since they feared they would be killed in the fighting, as well as being the forefather of cowboys.
Being a cowboy was a really shitty job, it paid next to nothing, it was lonely, it was a massive physical strain on the body as well as being flat out dangerous. Most cowboys died young, and the image we have of cowboys today is a heavily bastardised version which Hollywood strained through with a massive dose of nationalistic propaganda for good measure. Most of the people who claim to love cowboys films would have turned their nose up at real cowboys
“buckwild”
“they horny for this one”
“got it in one”
“shits popping off”
“robust”
“discrete”
“good good/sweet sweet”
“yyeeUP”
“gashapon”
“in a major way”
“am i good?”
“its very sick”
“UH OH, OH NO, WHOOPS, OH NO”
“banger”
“whip”
“straight ____, dog”
“aw beans”
“just that random irreverant south park humor”
“zag on em”
“hachi machi”
“vis-a-vis”
“its real ____, innit?”
“boy”
and also griffins musical way of speaking and putting random emphasis on things
Photographer Mattias Klum from National Geographic gets close and personal with a lion.
“and all of a sudden you feel very small” damn right
IT JUST WANTS TO BE LOVED AND SAVED
please, if you are able, do what you can for the asiatic lion. donate, get involved, spread information. there are only about 300 left in the world, and they all live in Gir Forest National Park in India.
the african lion is also estimated to be extinct by 2050 due to habitat loss, sport hunting, and loss of their prey base to the bushmeat trade. these beautiful creatures could be extinct in our lifetime. the next generation may not ever have the chance to see these creatures, there will be no more cute lion vines, there will be no more documentaries, there will be no more zoos or sanctuaries containing lions. there will be no more lions.
if you have any love for nature, any love for animals, any love for life, and if you care at all about the permanent loss of a species, especially one so beautiful and iconic, if you care and if you are able, please donate to help save lions.
Don’t worry, guys. Carl is clearly a brachiosaurus, which lived during the Jurassic period. (And before anyone says our lil’ boy Steve is a velociraptor and therefore puts our comic in the late cretaceous, aka the time of the comet–that lil guy could easily be a compsognathus or a caudipteryx, both Jurassic-era species of small theropod dinosaurs. So the light getting bigger every night is going to pass by harmlessly, and Steve and Carl can go on enjoying the stars together until they die of old age, since Carl has very few natural predators at his size and I bet he’ll protect Steve, if he needs it (though small, fast and carnivorous as Steve is, he probably won’t).
So it’s all good!!
That entire response explaining how these two characters didn’t die a fiery death but instead lived long and happy lives literally made my day.
