#and the faces show little to no emotion

[boygirlctommy]

watching ark: tas and <3 the animation is so bad even my dad can tell

#my post #i am. what #what. what. what. #who made this. who let this happen. #i know nothnig about the game idc about the game. one why do the people look like that two why do the people move like that #this show drew me in and LIED to me the animation in the trailer i saw was beautiful and not the stilted oddness that is the actual show. #AND WHY DO THE MAIN CHARACTER AND HER FRIDGED WIFE HAVE THE SAME EXACT BODY. #its not even an issue where every single woman has the same model!!! because there are other women and they look DIFFERENT #not hugely so but!! the only difference between helena and victoria are their hair and eyebrows and the colors. #they are the same height the same build the same face shape the same nose #i thought they were sisters or cousins at first.. #also why was the inside of the evil roman guys tent ORANGE who looked at this and went you know whats an intimidating and roman color. #ORANGE. GIRL WHAT? #AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE VOICE ACTING??? its like entirely a celebrity cast #why is gerard butler driving the bus all of a sudden #i knew it was celebrities before going in but im still disappointed and sad. they sound really bad. #and the lipsync is almost always off by like half a second #and the faces show little to no emotion #sorry um um um im just. im having so much fun watching this show aha. #the show feels like a videogame. i was talking about it to my brother and he said ark doesnt have a plot its like rust and minecraft but if #there were dinosaurs. ok. sure #why is this WRITTEN like a videogame though like it FEELS like im watching a letsplay or one of those edited together videogame movies #this feels like when i watched sonic adventure 2 but sonic adventure 2 looked better

[cliveguy]

im in actual hysterics. neil gaiman toiled for years in the google docs mines trying to write a fitting sequel to the acclaimed book he cowrote 30 years ago. and he came up with basically that fanfiction that exists for every gay man ship. the b plot is a lesbian coffee shop au with ocs because the original text didn't have any women you could ship together. i feel like i kept dying every 5 minutes while i was watching but then michael sheen squeal or put on a feather boa and i'd be instantly revived and the torment would continue. i'm physically sweating. i feel like i've just been heavily beaten by two pale coconuts.

#um.txt #I CANNOT STRESS HOW MUCH I HAVE READ AND WRITTEN THIS EXACT FANFICTION FOR MULTIPLE SHOWS. WHAT GOES ON. #on a technical level absolutely terrible tv. terrible writing. reminds me that connections and contracts are everything. #on an emotional level i need to lie in a dark room for a moment and i keep thinking about michael sheen's sad little face

[quirkle2]

anybody else rly rly ill about the amount of grief in his eyes in this scene

[original screencap under the cut]

#qkdraws #id in alt #ayyyee surprise trigun content #vash is rly fun to draw <- girl who says literally everything is fun to draw #except shoes.fuck them thangs #anyway yeah the look in his eyes here rewired me a little bit #imagine animating human emotion so viscerally. who did this.who thought this was ok #apparently im incapable of drawing pointed faces i have to round them out. or ill die or smth #i wanna draw him more but i 1) need Energy and 2) i will have to draw his prosthetic #this isn't an excuse i Will draw his prosthetic im just whining to whine. i ain't no quitter #vash the stampede #trigun stampede #trigun #trigun vash #shoving this in the drafts before i go to bed.hi it's Draft Jay here coming at u live at 1:30am and Starving #literally so hungry.somebody save me <- too worried abt waking her parents to make food #enough of that tho i didn't expect trigun to be so .fucked up #i mean it's a show abt a fucking pacifist gunman who has a brother named Millions Knives.that's so fuckin stupid /pos #who knew how horrid it would get (not me.now i know tho <3) #uhh ur regularly scheduled mob psycho stuff will be back soon in the meantime[passes out]

[jazzzzzzhands]

Sticky note doodling when I'm supposed to be working.... Again..

SIGH

#holding my sticky notes in my pockets #those are my emotional support doodles tyvm #help i dunno how to draw mistletoe #jazzsketches #wally darling #my beloved #i must draw him better when i have the chance #Christmas doodles.... #so u know there are no pencils at my job i have to doodle in PEN #i wish there was a way to show a kissy mark without lipstick #can just a heart represent that? #i smooch him and leave little hearts on his face #i need to hurry up and redesign my puppetsona #for reasons

[ilovecoelacanths]

This is a story about a book that changed my life.

It's also about how amazing libraries and authors and people who care about sharing cool things with curious kids are. Also, fish (especially fish). It's kind of different than what I usually post but it's been bouncing around in my head basically since I started this blog so here you go, I hope you like it. This is the reason I love coelacanths so much, and why I think everyone should know about how amazing they are.

When I was little, I loved going to the library. My little brother and I would pick out way too many books and the librarians always had to come over to override the 30 book limit at the checkout stand (they pretty much knew us on sight and were ready to override it as soon as we started heading over to check out). After we finished getting our library books, our mom also let us look through the free pile that was in the foyer on the way out. It was mostly old library books that the librarians just needed to clean out, but there were a lot of books that people brought when they cleaned out their personal collections too (especially teachers, and there were a bunch of books with old school library stamps inside). The free pile didn't usually have a lot of things that interested me, but one day when I was poking through it I found a book called Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth, by Sally M. Walker.

I loved it. I had never even heard of coelacanths before, but this book fascinated me. It told the story of an incredible animal, long thought to be extinct, that had somehow survived for millions of years! It was nothing like any fish I had ever learned about before. I already had a casual interest in marine biology that I can thank PBS Kids and Wild Kratts for (particularly their episode on sperm whales and giant squid, I loved that episode), but this book took it to a new level. I wanted to be a marine biologist so I could learn more about coelacanths.

Like a lot of things when you're 7, that was a phase. Unlike a lot of phases, this one I came back to. After taking a break from my dreams of being a marine biologist to experience the hell that is middle school, one day I pulled a book off my shelf. I hadn't read it in a while. When I picked it up again, I remembered how incredible this animal was, and how much it had inspired me when I was younger, and those thoughts of becoming a marine biologist started to return. I'm in college now studying marine science, and I brought the book with me to school, where it sits next to two other science books that have inspired me (My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall and The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson).

Earlier this year, I was thinking about how much this one book had changed my life and I wondered if I could find Ms. Walker and thank her. I knew she had many other science books for younger audiences, and even another book about coelacanths, so I was sure she had a website of some kind, and I was right. So I found her contact page and wrote her an email explaining the impact her book had had on my life, and thanking her for it. And to my surprise, she responded! She was very kind and we sent a few emails back and forth. She gave me some excellent advice and even told me about some of the people she contacted while researching her book, including Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer herself, the person who rediscovered the coelacanth when it was thought to be extinct! I'll never forget how she took the time to respond to me and how encouraging she was.

But Ms. Walker isn't the only one I have to thank for pointing me toward the path I'm on right now. If I hadn't already loved reading, if I hadn't seen any show or video to make me interested in marine biology, if the library didn't have a pile of books for anyone to take home, if I had lost that book during one of our many moves as a kid, I don't know what I'd be doing right now. There were a lot of things that happened to make it so that I found this book, but I'm glad for every single one of them. They led to me learning about an incredible animal and changed the course of my life. And now, I love coelacanths.

#long post #bee talks #my post #coelacanth #i love coelacanths #omg guys its the long awaited ilovecoelacanths backstory post #it came out kinda sappy lmao but whatever im gonna post it even though its so cheesy #ugh i hate being genuine and showing emotion on the internet it makes me feel so cringe. but whatever. cringe is dead so #also wow look at that i actually CAN use real grammar when i want to #not a single smiley face emoticon in this whole post. why did i do that. i like my little guys #here. here's one. :]

[justanintrovertedweirdo]

Spoilers for the new digital circus episode

THE NEW EPISODE WAS SO GOOD OH MY GOD AAAAAAAA!!!!!!! They totally teased us with that Jax angst, but it was still amazing! They better bring back Gumigoo in a future adventure. Man did not deserve what happened to him. He had his entire reality crushed and just when things were going well for him again, he got deleted. And of course it was Pomni who had to get close to him. My poor girl just can't catch a break. ALSO, THEY HAD A FUNERAL FOR KAUFO. THEY HAVE FUNERALS. I AM NOT OKAY. THE ENDING WAS SO FUCKING SWEET MY GOD!!!! POMNI HAS FRIENDS NOW AAUGDKDVAJSG!!! All it took was for her to get trapped in a digital hell hole. Good for her! Also there's a Kinger plush. I must have it. I need to cuddle him.

#still got a little bit of Jax angst at the very least! #I saw his face when they were talking about the funeral he cares! #love idiot men that don't know how to deal with their emotions #Kinger has a father and daughter relatsonship with Ragatha and you cannot tell me otherwise #THAT SCENE THEY HAD ON TOP OF THE TRUCK WAS SO SWEET!!!! #this episode was just really sweet honestly #I swear I didn't intend that pun #Caine has absolutely no idea how much trauma he's causing these people and I fucking love it #he's so unhinged my god #I also love how the characters react in the worlds kinda show how different people play video games #there's the ones who treat the npcs as if they're actual people #and there's the ones who just want to cause chaos and bloodshed #and the ones in between either have no idea what they're doing or they're just goofing off #I love this show a lot can you tell #the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc episode 2 #spoilers #tadc spoilers

[tatsumi-rin]

Moral Orel doesn't seem 100% like a show I'd feel seen in if you don't know me but then I remember the episode with the special ed kids and underneath the usual satire on extremist bible belt religion it reminds me WAY too much of how actual special ed departments treated me and other kids growing up.

Like the writers must HAVE BEEN THERE IN LIFE, man. I'd kill to sit down with Dino Stamatopoulos and find out what the fuck inspired him and the other writing staff that day.

#husbandothings #moral orel #bonus fun tag rant? bonus fun tag rant...apparently #in those departments you are immediately written off as a tragic forever toddler by at least 50% of the staff regardless of your disability #there's good ones but the bad ones bring the fun spicy trauma #it doesn't matter how smart you actually are you gotta draw the sad face on that boy on the comic sans worksheet at the age of 15 #in your free lesson spaces that you got because of reasons #if someone tells me they're a teaching assistant or have “qualifications” in autism and special needs development i immediately distrust #because I have never met a neurotypical person with those qualifications who knows how to treat kids like humans especially autistic kids #funniest part? I was mostly in the special ed department because of my hearing and not totally my undiagnosed autism #and a little because of wonky emotional development from get this...a freaking religious school #like i see adults in the show and i see the headteacher who tried to tell my parents i should forgive the bullies because jesus would #even though the truth is way more nuanced but he just wanted to wash his hands of it #it's funnier than it should be because that teacher would fit right in to this show for that and additional reasons I won't state here #my family were atheists but thought the school would be good #the weird thing is at that time as a little kid I liked the idea of believing in god but nothing that happened proved Him to me #and moral orel hits because it resonates with the fact i genuinely believe religion can do good and it's all about the people #the ones who want to use that faith for good in the world and surviving rough crap and not to do things that would make jesus flip tables #that has stuck with me for over a decade as has the people who felt the show reinforced their christianity #but anyway

[falderaletcetera]

listen. I don't just love father brown because I first saw it while ill with the flu or because it's consistently kind to the outcast in a way that has reviewers calling it Too Woke, obviously a vote in its favour. or because the recurring thief character is very pretty to watch. though those are significant parts of it.

I love it because after eight seasons father brown sits down with the village drunk (a munitions expert in the war, has a soft spot for the parish secretary, name of harold or blind harry) to find out why he gave a murder suspect a false alibi and harry explains to him, calm as you like, that seeing the life leave someone's eyes changes a person, that it's what he reckons brought father brown to his faith, that it's what drove him to drink, and he didn't see that shadow in the guy the police are chasing this time. and father brown, rather than justifying or correcting or dodging or doubting him, says he knows how unjust the situation is. that he got something good out of the horrors of the war. that harry really didn't.

it is not a perfect show and yes I have problems with it but gosh, this is a character who's largely used for comedic beats, albeit kindly, and a scene like this isn't out of place at all but it still takes my breath away. we could've been left with this as subtext, y'know? I hadn't even put together that his alcoholism must have been trauma. but instead harry tells us this directly, tells us it's about guilt, that that's something he shares with father brown, who is competent and so often cheerful and I can't even imagine when he was younger, and it's a moment of such unexpected humanity and respect. and it's such a strange thing to see these characters side by side like that.

the scene ends with father brown calling harry a good man, and harry denying it ("they was only young lads" "so were we, harold. so were we.") and the two them sharing a drink as father brown gets a bit watery-eyed and I'm crying too over my nice cosy 'this is a concerning number of murders for a sleepy english village' show and just. hi. what. ow.

I also haven't recovered from the episode that turned into a heist halfway through but frankly I'm only mentioning that because I don't know how to wrap up a post like this. (it was good though. there were two separate honeypots, three if you count the impromptu replacement, one character terrible at grifting and one unexpectedly great at it, and, somehow, a con within a con. it was really very fun. get a show that can do both, I guess?)

#back on my bullshit (unrepentant) #I was raised so protestant I retain a deep suspicion of priests so this remains very startling to me #something something father brown handshake emoji iroh #love where they are now no clue how they got there but it's always kind of a shock to be reminded there was blood along the way #also like. the kindness. the tea. the fondness for life's small pleasures. #pretending to be harmless and friendly and also BEING harmless and friendly to the core. #this is an association I had not made before so if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go hide my face in a pillow about it #father brown #falderal speaks #love a show that waits until you're comfy and then smacks you with a very human reminder of the horrors of war #love a character with. moral injury. listen shush I'm very predictable I just hadn't put together that it was father frikking brown too #silly little (not little) guy who elbows his way into situations by smiling pleasantly at people and who likes cake and jazz music #it's not like I forget he has depth I just. forget that the story GOES there #and so respectfully. harold who is usually slightly comic relief getting a serious moment that explains a lot and doesn't even feel jarring #I'm stopping here but like. good show‚ show. I did in fact have unexpected emotions about it.

[fantasmagoriam]

Wolstinien Week 2023: Day 5 - Oath 

Even when apart, they’re still tied together

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #wolstinien #wolstinienweek2023 #estinien varlineau #ngl this one's probably my favorite one out of all the drawings I've done for this week #just.... #the ribbon (that is one of nigen's most prized possessions and that she gave a part of to estinien when he was leaving for thavnair after EW #the little hand kiss that kinda becomes his go-to way of showing affection #the look on nigen's face #just... aaaaah #yeah I know I drew this but it's still giving me so many shrimp emotions #x: lovely bitter water #oc: nigen avagnar #Matry's art

[pr3st0]

Here's my Mistoffelees design!!

#resting bitch face representation #someone told him to “be more expressive” once and that's why his eyeshadow is so damn dramatic #he's a blank faced “never shows emotions” kind of autistic person #that face is just him 99% of the time #the 1% is the small chance you catch him smile (mainly when he's performing magic) #I'm a sucker for creatures that are almost perfectly symmetrical and then there's just one little thing that makes it not fully #for misto here #that one thing is his eyes #and he hates them #I allowed him to be a bit more spiky #well #as much as i could #with my style #cats the musical #cats musical #cats #cats fan on main #mister mistoffelees #mr mistoffelees #jellicle cats #art #mistoffelees

[neutral-emerald]

hi guys i still remember the swap au exists. heroes comic isn’t going anywhere but take a look at amy. also an idea for iblis the light, and also, a bit of sonic.

#my art #amy rose #sonic the hedgehog #iblis the light #swap au #sonamy #every time i redo amy's design she gets a little more naked #i think i'm finally satisfied with this one tho #also sonic 06 is a Whole mess which i don't really want to fully untangle for this au #but i really like the ideas i have around amy in silver's role #she's like some sort of an oracle in the future. which is clouded over with eternal darkness bc mephiles #she's got clairvoyance/mild foresight which helps her survive. even when it's too dark to see she can still 'see' #maybe she's some kind of beacon of hope for other survivors or maybe she's a loner. haven't decided #either way she's just about the only one keeping mephiles slightly in check #and it Sure Is Stressful #then this glowy fuck Iblis shows up and tells her she can fix all of this for the low low price of killing this one dude #turns out foresight is an excellent counter to shadow's teleportation bc she can just attack where he's Going to be #also some real confusing emotions when she develops a crush on the guy whose face iblis stole

[mycarhasasecret]

You ever read a fanfic that stays in your head for years and you can never find it again?

#I want to know if it was as good as I remember #I think I was about 12 when I read it so < 8 years old #Okay let me describe it a little bit so that you can understand exactly WHY I need to find this and verify that my standards sucked #it was on Quotiv #big red flag right there #but i remember it being so well written and engaging! #and it was a TFP soundwave x OC #or reader maybe #but pretty sure OC #and the MC had alexandria's genesis #and her and soundwave both bonded over having purple eyes #there was like a whole scene in a cave or something and it was a really tender moment of him removing the visor and showing his face #at one point he asks her parents for permission to court their daughter #it was the first time I'd heard the word in that context #and i assumed it was a transformers thing #needless to say i was baffled when the parents immediately knew what the word meant without an explanation #this fic as well as one called Purple Heart and another called Its The Great Pumpkin Sam Witwiki shaped me as a person #I need a TFA fic and a g1 fic to blow me away so that I can add some variation to my list of fics that have put me on my ass with emotions

[dylanconrique]

tim faking a back injury while play wrestling with lucy all so he can pop up and pin her back down to the ground and tickle her senseless, can you please imagine how cute that would be????

#*and this is icarly! #the rookie #tim bradford #lucy chen #chenford #otp: you know me so well #like... #imagine them laughing and squealing climbing rolling and hitting each other in a fit of giggles on the floor like toddlers #until tim decides to use his emergency spinal surgery to his advantage #to suddenly ✌️ pull a muscle in his back ✌️ #groaning in agony again about how much it hurts #sending lucy into panic mode as she sits up and frantically scans the living room for her phone to call for help #and then while her guard is down... BAM!!! tim the sneaky lil bastard turns the tables on her and pins her down #she doesn't take him seriously about it at first but he puts on a real good show of being hurt and is like 'no i'm serious lucy' #and her face falls instantly like 'o-okay... hold on babe i'm gonna call for help' 🥺🥺 #it's honestly just a one time thing he tries though since he felt super guilty about lucy's emotional reaction #and the fact that he made her tear up and cry a little bit with this silly little stunt #GODDDDD I AM SO IN MY FEELS FOR THEM TODAY I MISS THEM SO MUCH

[itsjustdotsandcrosses]

Archmage Vishalny, Arcane Diplomat and Master of Enchantment (DND NPC)

#5, Vampire and blood/gore stimboard

Themes of blood on the hands, gore/hearts, corsets and spooky fashion, spraying calligraphy, fangs (smiling). A vampire stim board, touching the feelings of satisfaction of blood finally being presented. Expressive conflicting emotions, dark and spooky fashion.

xxx.xxx.xxx

#the blood is finaly on the hands; faces are finally shown now with the fangs out; here all is revealed #first off; the beating heart gif is so cool; v fun to watch. i wanted something closer to real violence that was clearly not actually real #the middle row is more spooky fashion. a tightening of a corset (important (secret)); and a more spooky goth gold look. very vamp #i am SO happy with the calligraphy gifs in the top right and bottom left. #the pair of them showing intense contradictory emotions; the same art of writing from earlier now messy and mote violent from the spray #the top and bottom middle are fang based. let me tell you it was so fucking hard to find fang gifs that was not a white person. i found 1. #i love the top gif though; the big smile and flashing of fangs; friendly yet a little too happy for the implications of what happens next #the bottom gif is so fucking visceral oml. the blood flowing out of the lip like that is so fucking sexy.so it stays despite the paleness #the top left and bottom right are really visceral and lovely. like i can imagine the texture of the blood on these hands and its v cool #also; now the blood can finaly touch the hands; mote intimate; more true. more danming. #i love this board. really fucking good #ok gonna tag now #vishalny #stimboard #stim #original #original post #blood #gore #eye contact #fangs #red #black #gif

[laststandx3]

*sobbing* daryl dixon is so bad. it feels like it was written by coping every other zombie story but without a drop of creativity. is so boring, so predictable, the characters are so boring. ep 1 dixon arrivies at the nun place, doesn't want to take the *mysteriously special* kid with him. why will he change his mind? but sure the nuns get all killed by a sort of militia that decided the nuns were responsible for the murder of one guy. of course it's the nuns! ep 2 the group has dinner with some kids. there's the most predictable oxigen tanks drop and explosion and then they keep on walking. there was a woman that hid a 7 months pregnancy to her sister, even tho they lived together, and you can't hide a 7th month belly. magical kid has the same origin story as the kid from the last of us. identical + the nuns. who are the people i would trust the most in case of a medical emergency. i mean we all know how nuns these days study anatomy and medicine.

now poor adnag that so far has been given the blandest generic douche boyfriend character!! he was really there trying to pull a face cupping that would make a marine sergeant blush and betray his country, all the while saying 'lets leave your sister on the road while we run'. what person in the world can think this line can work. lets abandon your pregnant sister on the road during a zombie apocalypse. this is just stupid. who would agree? who wrote this line and thought it was a plausible conversation? they just needed to make this scene believable, like pregnant sister is starting to have contractions in the car and then he panics and wants to leave her behind and non-preg sister leaves him. and it makes more human sense like uugh. who can ask a person to leave their sibling during the apocalypse? but this is the level of character depth we have in this show. this is the level of writing we have to witness.

and why everyone has to speak english even when they're between them? even when dixon isn't around. if you don't want them to speak french then don't set the story in france. if you want them to speak english all the time then never make them speak french from the begin and we can just pretend they're speaking the language of the audience. let them speak french!

#ad nag #adam nagaitis #not taggin this with dar*l di*on bc i don't comment for the walk*ng dead fandom i'm here for the adnags people #but also this is so annoying to watch #adnag is there using all his micro-expressions to convey emotions the script doesn't even know are there #the face cupping. the foreheads touching. those little smile lines around his eyes #he's putting out all his nagussy for a script that was made with chat gpt #i'm dying here dixon's actor doesn't give a shit! he's got one expression #co-lead as a few expressions but doesn't seem really convinced she's to show them for real so for the most part she looks unfazed #did i mention the worst part? she called the new born kid of 7 months (who won't need medical attention at all. being born 2 months before #due time will have zero repercussions on him) she called him laurent bc she saw a statue of saint laurent? #she didn't even thought about it. first name encountered: yeah that's it. no need to choose a significant name for my dead sister's son #they don't even talk about what st laurent ever did #zero meaningful writing here

[lunaetis]

[ i'll make a proper hc post about this later when my brain works with me but i really like seeing how much more expressive eden is in the aetherium war event compares to the first time she was awakened. you could see that during the first few story chapters, eden was more stoic, quiet, less responsive. her expression rarely changes. sure, she was a menace from the get-go, but it's so nice to see how she's much more expressive now in the newest event. you get options to shape her personality, ranging from polite & respectful, to cautious, to confident and cocky ( mine is always a mix of them. eden is mostly humble & polite but with a touch of menacing answers here & there. she gets more confident as time goes but never cocky. ) and i love seeing that for her ? i love how the game lets her personality surface with her expressions and she's much more expressive with her facial expression & demeanor now. she smiles more often, speaks her mind, is still fearless but with a touch of humility, and i love that for her. ]

#.headcanon: eden | trailblazer #[ when i was playing through the event i was so so happy to see the variety in dialogue options #and how her in-game model is more lively & expressive emotion / expression-wise #her bright smile / her shy grin / her competitiveness / her smugness #being shown in-game during the event makes me SO SO HAPPY #MY GIRL IS DEVELOPING & BECOMING A PERSON MORE & MORE !! #bc i remember when i went thru so many playthrough videos with little expression variations for my icons #aetherium war really showed so many faces of her & i'm here sobbing into my paws ]