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boiled-bronze · 2 months
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Day 26. On one hand I like how this art month event has pushed me to finalize and share drawings I'm not proud of, and be less harsh on what I deem "good enough" to post. On the other hand, this is a drawing I'm not proud of
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goldensunset · 2 years
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i’m not the first person to say this but the neo kids being like ‘ooh neku’s a legendary player and the savior of shibuya! he’s so kind and brave and inspiring!’ and ‘beat used to be a reaper himself! he’s such a wise and seasoned veteran who knows the game like the back of his hand!’ is SO funny they have no idea what a terrible annoying selfish lazy person neku used to be and they have no idea that beat lasted one week on the job and failed to complete his singular objective in that time and just in general never really cared about carefully following rules as either a player or a reaper. and neither of these truths are ever exposed. both of them go the whole game being hailed as heroes.
therefore. i propose that neku and beat had a secret quiet contract in the background that neither of them would tell the others the truth about each other. vow of mutual silence to protect their reputations. like ‘hey man if you don’t tell them i was actually the most irritating piece of snot ever i won’t tell them you were honestly the world’s worst reaper.’ ‘deal, yo.’
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guidingthulite · 6 months
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"Akiyama, what is this?"
"Why, I might be a beginner, but to say to my face that you can't even tell what I've drawn...!"
"I do know what this is, what I meant to ask is WHY."
"Ena lent me her tablet, so I wanted to make the most of it by drawing something truly great!"
"Why is Tsukasa wearing a dress?"
"I really wanted to draw one, so I asked him if I could draw him in a wedding dress, and he said yes!"
"Naturally, Akito! A star should look good in anything they wear, and this is no exception! I am quite pleased with the result!"
"Of course you'd say that..."
(CHAPTER 6 OF THIS IS LIKE MY SISTER'S SHOUJO MANGAS BUT WORSE OUT NOW! READ HERE!)
a better look at mizuki's drawing under the cut!
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doctorwhoisadhd · 7 days
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hmm thinking about the idea of love songs. i think the idea of what a love song is that we have in our culture is inherently a little bit flawed because we have the idea that any song written about romantic feelings is a love song and im thinking thats not exactly true because there is a difference between "romance" and "love". what i'm saying is not that love is a broader category and applies to things that are not romantic in nature. this is in fact true, but it's not what makes the important distinction here. the true distinction between "romance" and "love" is that romance is a societally defined type of interest in another person, whereas love is, essentially, a promise that you make when you build a relationship.
as such, what i call "love" here might be better defined as "care", as that implies more time and effort, but that's a different suitcase to unpack and largely unimportant to my point here, which is more about the societal conventions of what we call love songs. the point is, relationships can be built with other people, yes, but also animals, places, organizations, ideas, so on and so on, whereas romance requires another person, hence the difference between the ideas of "romance" and "love".
with that in mind, there are two types of songs we in western, english speaking, society call "love songs":
1) songs that are about a person's romantic interest in someone that is either definitively known to be unrequited (existing monogamous relationship, sexuality that doesn't align, etc) or simply not requited (aka romantic interest being unknown); and
2) songs about an existing relationship (keeping in mind my points about relationships not just being with people, but also places, things, etcetera) as is.
(some examples of the latter category: mountaintop by relient k, which defines the relationship in question as non-romantic; or i miss my mum by cavetown, which is - as the title implies - a song about the singer missing their mother.)
now, the thing that makes distinguishing these two difficult is the fact that songs about an existing relationship CAN be about wanting certain aspects of that relationship to change. in these cases, determining that a song is one or the other will hinge either on a) authorial intent or b) whether the song is more about what the singer wants (thereby implying #1) or the lack thereof in that relationship (which would imply #2).
to get back to the subject at hand: the term "love song", as we think of it, is an umbrella term that include both of these two categories, and i think that perhaps it is reductive to do so. with that in mind, i think perhaps it would be more appropriate for "love song" to mean only the latter, whereas the former is a category of its own. WHICH is not to say that the two can't overlap — just that if a song is about a person with whom the singer has no relationship, it cannot be considered a love song due to the fact that it is a song about infatuation, not love.
(another interesting wrinkle this provides is the fact that a song might start out in the first category and, as the writer develops a relationship with a person, might move into the second category as they write more.)
#anyway. just some of my thoughts on this as an aromantic songwriter#ari opinion hour#this goes a good deal to reconcile my constant writing of love songs with the fact that none of them are romantic#which im fine with as long as im keeping them to myself but it DOES feel dishonest when i hide that theyre love songs.#however this did also go some way to convince me that maybe care songs is an alternative that i SHOULD use because it is more applicable to#me than the concept of love which MOST people do not have the same perspective on as i do and having different definitions of the same word#is an important barrier to consider in communication#i will admit i do think im clinging to my care songs being love songs due to my relationship with an organization to which love is very#important as i dont want to go back on my promises to that organization as it IS very important to me#anyway. can you tell ive been reading house of leaves by the fact that this appeared fully fledged in my head in fully academic language#but for real like thinking about it now and even my old love songs like most would probably think to see them that they would go in the#first category and they just. DO NOT. at least not the ones that were written after i was like Yeah im aro again#its interesting the ones i wrote in the brief period where i thought i WASNT aro in like mid hs those i WOULD put in the first category#even though like i do NOT think i was right about it being romantic#but the ones after i was like Yea im aro again are like. Thats definitely the latter#part of it is i did find a voice that was like genuinely Mine and wasnt just writing sort of generic love songs#love songs in the typical usage i mean so they were really more infatuation songs#but like i was still with the last person irl who i wrote these about divorced from like... my aroness because of how much i liked him#and i would still put those in the second category#so part of it is awareness as well#so. yeah. its interesting#i probably should just suck it up and start calling them care songs. even if people dont know what i mean to say that
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queerofthedagger · 6 months
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go crack open an ao3 tag of a fandom that aired/got published 10-15 years ago, realise that after sorting by kudos/bookmarks most fics on the front page may be good and solid but not any more or less earth-shatteringly rewiring your brain chemistry as the occasional gem on page 10, 50, 100, 1873, and maybe you'll calm down about popularity dick measuring contests
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bylertruther · 2 years
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mike telling will it's not his fault he doesn't like girls and will destroying castle byers to symbolize the loss of not only childhood innocence and what was but also the loss of his most treasured safe space. mike threw that back in his face—his biggest, most sacred and unspeakable truth; the one that's haunted his entire life and damned him to this—and he specifically ripped their photo down the middle while calling himself stupid and tore everything down because god dammit he WANTED to play dnd with mike forever and never get girlfriends because they were supposed to go crazy TOGETHER and being friends was the best thing they'd EVER done and now castle byers can't be his safe space anymore because it's been tainted. there's too much mike. there's too many reminders of his stupid, stupid dreams. it's no longer a safe harbor—it's just a reminder of his naivety, his childish dream that someone like him could ever get what he wants. and he's clearly still hurt by that because we knew previously that will trusted mike more than any other party member and even his family. he told him first about everything with the upside down and he was there through every part of his possession. will loves mike more than anyone, but after that rain fight he just doesn't trust him with that stuff anymore. "because what if they don't like the truth...?" with that knowing, searching glance. because he WANTS to tell mike. even now, after everything, he still wants to be honest with him. to be himself with him again. he's DYING to and we know that because will doesn't like to lie, least of all to mike, but he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't so he rips the band-aid off and confesses under his own sister's name. an ugly compromise because he can't keep lying and he can't keep listening to mike think so lowly of himself but he can't be honest either. because he doesn't trust that mike will still like him afterward. if mike said that to him before he knew, what would he say after will confirmed it? like. GODDDDD THE ANGST OF IT ALL.....
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raggedyfink · 25 days
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I’m begging the Anton Chigurh girlies to watch Fargo produced by the Coen brothers has a great cast great representation of women poc and just indigenous ppl in general but most of all a lot of the shows hit men are literally fifty shades of Anton Chigurh.
Like we have:
Fruitloop Anton
Native Anton
And Non-binary Anton who has the most precious most wholesome ending with the pro tags of season 5 like fuck what the fuck
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curseofpower · 8 months
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There has never been a doubt in my mind that OoT Ganondorf cared about his people. Yes I've seen the arguments for otherwise, but I've also been able to deduce solid reasons against those arguments without issue. So. I'm pretty sure at this point it's not something I will ever have a change of heart over.
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blizzardfluffykpop · 1 year
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How I think XH Wrap Presents 💖
[This is a bonus for Prompt 6: Wrapping presents together]
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Gunil: Very meticulous-- is making sure each present he wraps is wrapped perfectly and signed before moving on to the next [True Neutral].
Jungsu: Absolutely makes the prettiest bows on top of each present he wraps, which makes him finish last in the present wrapping race (dubbed by nugget time) [Neutral Good].
Gaon: Wraps super fast! Wraps all the gifts he has bought in less than an hour-- no matter the amount [½ of Chaos duo].
O.de: Absolutely calm, each present getting at max three pieces of sticky tape before pushing them into their individual piles [Chaotic Neutral]. (Finishes second in the race).
Jun Han: Makes sure that each person gets their own unique wrapping paper and that each present is wrapped nicely (w/ or w/o a bow) before moving on to the next [Lawful Good].
Jooyeon: Is wrapping as fast as Gaon but somehow has managed to wrap himself up while everyone wasn’t looking [Other ½ of Chaos duo].
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softshuji · 5 months
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y'know it's a night when hal sits and eats cereal in the dark room at 1.30am.
#i was thinking abt it earlier#but i've been crying so much lately like so much. almost every second day if not every day and i dont know why#actually i do kinda know why.#i think im hitting my limit with a lot of things and one of them is my parent dumping their problems on me#earlier today my mom told me again abt the whole debacle with my dad cheating on her multiple times and everyone knows i find this subject#too much for me i dont tlike to think about it or anything and im so tired of hearing it and especially when i lived through it trust me i#was literally there the whole cheating subject is very raw to me for many reasons and im just tired of being the emotional dump so often#especially because she always comes to me for everything all the time and im so sos tire d#everyone always tells me i should consider my own needs as a person and its okay to have them and yk in theory i agree with this but i just#cant. i grew up not having any needs met so how can i let myself have them now it makes me feel absolutely awful with myself to even#consider having to ask for something off someone and yet i know how wrong this is iknow needa and desires and wants are natural#but mine have always been on the back burner for everyone else. so its' no surprise ive let myself think im something to be used for other#peoples sake. whether that be physically or emotionally and especially the latter. because thats how i see myself someitmes. something#something to make people feel betetr about themselves that has no use outside of how i make them feel - just something to use until they#move onto the next best thing. something more entertaining and better value whatever that might mean something with less feelings less#sensitive. it feels like sometimes thats what i am. the indestructible never breaking hal that somehow has a solution to everything and can#always be there to fix every issue and is there to make people feel better but needs nothing in response#and god it really does feel like my problems dont mean anything to anyone#it does feel like no one thinks theyre worth anything#not worth listening to not worth thr same attention etcetc and yknow what i hate hate hate asking for attention and yet i get upset when i#feel like im not actually being heard or listened to#and i find it happens so often. sometimes i wanna hear it just once for once i wanna hear 'hey its okay to be upset i wish i could hug you'#or something like that god i dont want to be strong and nursing my wounds in private anymore#god i want a hug so bad and someone to just let me cry on them just once i want to be held and told someones got me instead of me doing it#for everyone else all the time#is thisselfish? it feels selfish to say#this is why it affects me so deeply whenever anyone does validate me or tells me its ok to want things or that im loved or anything nice#god i cant handle niceness at all it feels like it knocks me so bad it takes me ages to recover#and yet somehow all i can tell myself is that theyre only saying nice things because theyre being obligated to and not becayuse they feel#like they actually like me
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tathrin · 10 months
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📽 action!: rank all six of the films (or three if you're a hater)
Answers for this LotR ask-game.
Ahh okay so at this point I have to confess something terrible: I still have not seen the third Hobbit movie. I'm sorry! I just couldn't do it. The fuckery of it all, especially in the second movie with Mirkwood and Thranduil and Legolas ("a lowly Silvan elf" what the FUCK what the fuck PJ WHAT THE FUCK), was just too much for me. Character-assassination is one thing, and I thought after Denethor I knew what I was going to be getting with Thranduil but NOPE! It was literal world building assassination and I just CANNOT.
Don't get me wrong, Lee Pace did an amazing job and actually seeing Mirkwood was amazing and it was genuinely delightful to see Orlando put those ears on again; but the OuTrAgE that filled my heart at the yeet-ing of what minimal canon we even have for the Mirkwood elves was just intolerable, and while I did mean to go see it, really I did, I just...couldn't actually get the motivation to go before it was out of theatres. I've heard the EE are better (less studio fuckery) so I'll watch them someday! Honest! I just...haven't. yet.
And as to the Lord of the Rings trilogy...man, I don't even know how to do this. In terms of which is the best film, or in terms of which one I enjoy watching most, or in terms of which on hits me in the heart hardest or...? I don't know if I can objectively rank my feelings about these movies even in my own brain because RotK ends with Into the West and I have FeelingsTM about the Undying Lands and Sea Longing okay. So the last scene of RotK at the Grey Havens is a fucking spear through the heart every time and I can't even describe the knot of feelings it engenders, and I think overall TTT may be my favorite but also it has Plot Issues that piss me off even more than the Plot Issues in RotK I think,...yeah, we're going to do this in terms of Film Crafting rather than personal favorites because I'm having too many feelings lmao. So! In order of most-well-done-movie to least:
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return Of The King
The Desolation of Smaug
An Unexpected Journey
#look there are some REALLY LOVELY MOMENTS in the hobbit movies#(all three of them; i've seen enough stuff floating around the internet to know that even about the one i haven't actually seen lmao)#but the ratio of beautiful moments to what-the-fuckery is just so skewed to the latter#and the cartoonish unreality of most of the effects do NOT help#it's like somebody watched the mumakil bit from rotk and went ''more of that but dial it up to eleventy-one!'' and i just...#do y'all know how FUCKING EXCITED i was to see the White Council???#to see GALADRIEL?#to see sauron thrown out of dol guldur? TO SEE THE WHITE COUNCIL!???#because as soon as i heard ''three movies'' i knew I KNEW (i hoped) that they had to be adding that it#because how the fuck else were they going to pad-out that tiny little book into three whole movies? OBVIOUSLY with the white council!!!#and then...we got a chase scene in the mines that made the podracing look like it deserved an oscar#and the most cringe-inducingly-artificial cgi armies at war that i think i've ever seen even IN video games#it was like watching galactic battlegrounds middle-earth edition wtf#did y'all literally just make one elf and one dwarf and copy-past them a million times into the scene wtffffff#but i still need to make it clear that i DO love the good bits that's what makes the bad parts hurt so much!#like: does the fact that the elves coming to helm's deep make no sense and also VANISH from the plot as soon as it's over irritate me? YES!#but the battle itself is filmed with so much HEART that i don't care I DON'T CARE#i still cheer at ''no orc horn'' i still weep at haldir's death (GODS that MUSIC!) i still watch the whole thing RAPT and ENTHRALLED#but 80% of the hobbit's actions scenes don't DO anything they're just empty pixels with less purpose than the droid factory on geonosis#and there should be SO MUCH HEART because that's WHAT TOLKIEN IS auuuughhhhhh#and the fact that they missed the entire fucking EVERYTHING about MIRKWOOD of all fucking places...! UGH#DO YOU KNOW HOW AMAZING THESE ACTORS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THESE ROLES IF THEY'D ACTUALLY BEEN FILMING THIS STORY??? PJ WHY!#lotr movies#hobbit movies#middle earth asks
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joyridingmp3 · 2 months
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2020 is to 2024 as 2014 was to 2018... ever think about that?
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sysig · 11 months
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Got ‘im (Patreon)
#Doodles#SCII#Captain Sterling#KUP#I guess lol#He's new! Though I have been tossing around the idea of co-opting the nameless design I made years ago and retroactively making him KUP lol#I thought of this Very Funny joke on the way home and was so excited to implement it and use VUK ZIX - which is not mine btw lol#I'm not entirely sure how to credit it? AFAIK they're not here on tumblr but I'm not sure? Big big credit to eco_mono on LJ!#It's a very cool alphabet! :D There are still some parts I don't understand - like R being a vowel but O being a consonant?#Would that make ''TRO'' an acceptable name by VUX standards? :0 I do like the idea of it being a kind of push-sound I think it's neat :)#But as you can intuit by my not actually spelling his name with a C - there wasn't a C listed in the alphabet and my silly joke crumbled :'D#But when has that stopped me! I can figure it's because C is kind of phonetically extraneous with both S and K as consonants so use K!#Sterling would probably intentionally soften the ''K'' sound so it implies a ''C'' and KUP gets so mad about it lol ♪ ''I can hear that!''#Something something harshness of tone/strength of breath while speaking - subtleties of spoken language since they're so visually different#It's fun to think about ♪#There's also something funny to the difference of ''>o<'' to a human and ''>O<'' to a VUX lol ♪#And then more thoughts about phoneticisms and translation - specifically thinking about VIJ writing the Captain's name for him#I'm still going back and forth on whether Sterling's name would be translated as two or three syllables in VUK ZIX - I kinda like both tbh#Either ''SER LIN'' or ''SET TER LIN'' - the latter with emphasis on the middle syllable and a drop-off on the first#Which would take priority? Matching syllables or the consonant T break? Maybe both for different contexts??#As well as the fact that -ing sounds wouldn't really have precedent being a vowel at the beginning followed by two consonants#So the rounded G sound at the end of his name would be completely skipped over - would they even have a soft palette to constrict??#Ahh <3 It's really fun to think about!! ♫#Anyway he goes back to explain later and KUP smacks him lol#''Do not make a crass joke at the expense of my name >O('' lol
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tedhugheshater · 3 months
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not pro kink not anti kink but a secret third thing
Real.
Nah, in all seriousness though, I'll explain what I mean very briefly: I do not believe all kinks are inherently abusive - the thing is, WHICH kink are we talking about?
I don't think it is abusive to enjoy, say, massaging or fucking someone's feet, which is a fetish for lots of people. The same goes for light (!) pet play, though, again, only light, none of the face masks or cages, which are way too dehumanizing for my liking.
As you can see, my approach is more critical, or skeptical, rather than completely "anti". There are even some kinks I personally enjoy, such as leather - definitely no one saw that one coming!!!
Also, I have weird feelings about kink in homosexual relationships, given there is not a culturally inherent power dynamic in them, unlike with heterosexual ones. But my thoughts about that are quite complicated, at best, and problematic, at worst.
Even so, I do not support "CNC" nor race play or age play in any type of relationship, gay or straight. Aaand, I think strangulating someone is abusive, as well as Shibari. And I hope women who call their jakeys "daddy" find a better life...
By the way, as you might've guessed, my URL is a reference to Venus in Furs. Not the book, though, but the Hugh Dancy play (which is 100 times much hotter, in my humble horny opinion). This brings me to highlight my, again, complicated, relationship with dominatrixes... Another day's explanation.
P.S.: I must clarify that, of all the kinks I listed as abusive, my negative feelings go all towards the "doms" in said contexts, a.k.a. the ones doing the action (pretending to rape, for example), whereas the "subs" (pretending to be raped, for example) have my whole sympathy and my best wishes for it to get better, and for them to realize they deserve better, and leave their "doms" behind <3.
Feel free to peacefully discuss this with me anytime; it's honestly a topic I find interesting.
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notanotherinfjblog · 1 year
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INFP: I have to take the plane home this weekend instead of the train. It's so annoying.
ESFP: And you're at it again. Always so grumpy.
INFP: I'm not grumpy, I'm just saying it how it is.
ESFP: You're saying it how you see it and you only see what you want to see. I, for one, have chosen to only focus on the positive side of things, so that's all I'm seeing.
INFP: But you're getting annoyed by seeing me not being positive.
ESFP: Don't drag me down with you.
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dirt-str1der · 1 year
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Love getting asked my opinion on minedai , like what can i say other than what the two of them had was painfully real
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