#for myself! for others! for the Source!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

How do you get characterization so PERFECT?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!? HOW PLEASE ITS SO BEAURIFUL MY EYES TURNED TO TEARS PLEASE

i'm not sure if i'd say Perfect but thank you! accurate characterization is very important to me, and one of my favorite things to do is analyze the shit out of characters until i feel like i Know Them

#this is actually why yall havent gotten an actual welcome home fic outta me yet #i feel like i have a better grasp on everyone but mmmmm im missing important pieces to fully Understand yk #ive been fascinated with picking apart characters for years and years #i remember being a freshman in highschool deconstructing bakugo until i was like 'oh ok im the only bitch who gets him. ok' #and i have only ever been proven right and vindicated Since! #but i try i try #if im making something thats actively memey i let myself be a little lax on characterization #but the rest of the time im like This Needs To Be As On Point As I Can Manage #for myself! for others! for the Source! #rambles from the bog #something that helps me stay focused and determined #is asking myself 'how would it feel to have people mischaracterize MY brain guys' #and then my soul shrivels up and i start studying whoever im writing lmao #im always scared that im falling short... i hate writing things that are ooc...

[exoflash]

a concerning amount of witchblr will be like "um actually new years was stolen by europeans from the ancient god scroobus mcdoobus" and then you actually try to research scroobus mcdoobus and it turns out he was invented in the 1940s by a conspiracy theorist who powdered every meal with ketamine and thinks that queer people are reincarnated fish

#brightts ramblings #BEFORE I GET ATTACKED: THIS IS NOT AN ANTI-WITCH OR ANTI-PAGAN POST #im just literally begging witchblr and paganblr(?) to study history from proper sources #so you don't accidentally end up repeating misinfo or even outright bigoted info without realizing #you are not immune to propaganda! #this post is specifically ab new agey stuff like starseeds #but a lot of other stuff fits into this as well ie 'blessed be' #for further context i am not a witch or pagan myself but i DO study the occult/occult history #religion #spirituality #history

[circuscountdowns]

biblically accurate narilamb doodle break

#Working on a heavier comic that’s getting to me…needed to remind myself of the goofy source material… Little guys. #I always wondered why my narinder never actually Felt like narinder to me compared to other artists’ and I think it’s da forehead lol #cotl art

[allmightyscroll-swag]

Panic Attack

(QUICK THING BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE- I added an aftermath to the last comic that is kinda needed to properly understand this one, & just in case some of y'all haven't seen it, just go to "←prev" down below and it should be properly linked up )

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I like to think that, while Leo has seen & helped Donnie through panic attacks before, Donnie has rarely, if ever seen Leo go through a panic attack; hence why he is unsure what would be best to help Leo right now. so he does what he knows how to; relay information and facts. His voice helps ground Leo through it.

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt donnie #scrolls art #rottmnt art #rottmnt leo #rottmnt fanart #rottmnt comic #rottmnt #Kraang!Leo au #IM VERY NERVOUS ABOUT POSTING THIS ONE #I'VE NEVER HAD A PANIC ATTACK MYSELF AND GOOGLE AND OTHER SOURCES CAN ONLY GIVE ME SO MUCH #im very worried that i haven't represented the boy having a panic attack well #panic attack #also being experimental again #i like my colors man #ALSO #Clover if youre reading this i got the “he hasn't been talking” idea from your theory :) #last thing #i wonder how many people pick up on the little details i put in this :)

[hero-in-waiting]

#tv: sga #rodney mckay #stargate atlantis #my gifs #just rodney always being the most brave when it comes to his friends #tho honestly #i think in some ways fandom has ruined me bc theres a lot less coward/weak moments than i was expecting #so i think its one of those moments where i may need to go back to the canon source and remind myself fanon is not always right #i also think its interesting to think about rodney being brave for himself #and brave for others #because hes always a lot more inclined to be yell-y and stuff when hes being brave to save himself #but when hes being brave for his friends? #hes focused #he's intent and hes gonna fucking help them #my brave little toaster i love him so much

[chaoticace2005]

Would like to follow my trend of Alastor-betray the hotel bullshit with this scene recast from MLPFiM:

The main cast -Lucifer: *all in a cage*

Whoever owns Alastor’s soul: You gathered up all of them?

Alastor, poking Razzle: And his little dragon too.

Razzle: *tries to bite*

Charlie, crying in Vaggie’s arms: Why are you doing this?! I thought we were friends?!

Alastor: Oh we were. But she (?) offered me so much more than just friendship circles. Surely you saw this coming?

Charlie, still crying: I didn’t. I really didn’t. (Buries head into Vaggie)

-After, Alastor’s boss betrays him-

Vaggie: Surely you saw this coming?

Alastor, weak and powerless on the ground: I didn’t. I truly didn’t.

(And yeah, I know Charlie might not trust him to not betray the hotel right away. But if the relationship between everyone in the hotel developed? If she were to kinda forget the reason Alastor is there? Think they’re breaking through to him and he accepts he’s part of the family?)

#did I put some thought into which pony was which for the others? yes yes I did #it’s been too many years but I’m partly back on my mlp bullshit and exposing myself #honestly though mlp fim was an EXPERIENCE #season 3 and 4 finales ended me #hazbin hotel #alastor hazbin hotel #alastor #vaggie hazbin hotel #charlie morningstar #razzle hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel incorrect quotes #source: my little pony #source: mlpfim

[popfizzles]

Animal Crossing Reactions Expression Meme!! (New Horizons Edition)

The original I used to use was made with the New Leaf emotes, and I haven't been able to find one with the NH reactions, so I took it upon myself to make an updated version!

Send an expression and a character and I will draw them doing that reaction! Feel free to reblog as well!!

[original here] by @learntheart

#Animal Crossing #Animal Crossing: New Horizons #ACNH #AC Reactions Expression Meme #fizzles inbox memes #expression meme #ask meme #inbox game #inbox meme #the icons were sourced from nookipedia and then put through waifux2 to enlarge them! #theres a whopping 44 reactions in new horizons #and some are VERY similar to each other but i figured it would be weird to leave some out so. oops FKHGFDKHG #looking at you G5 and G7 #BUT i'll be taking these myself for the time being for animal crossing characters exclusively #but if you reblog feel free to do this with whatever <:) #also im. not quite sure how to image describe an inbox meme so i. did this for the time being?

[megacarapa]

i found this post and had to make it with them immediately

#mine #dr stone #drst #sengen #senku #gen #hyoga #senku is that motherfucker who cant say i love you back. but he finds other ways #i spent too long thinking about who should be the third guy here #i felt like a lot of characters could potentially play that role in certain circumstances but it still didnt really fit them #i made a first draft where the third guy was kohaku bc its super easy to find an angry screencap of her #but then got so offended at myself for making that bc she is NOT like that she loves love #then i thought it would be funny if it was ukyo but its impossible to find an angry pic of him #then i looked back at the original image and saw it was darth vader and was like. #oh yeah no duh i should be using hyoga GSHSBSFNA #anyway if anyone here knows about..... sigh. lego star wars i guess #id love some help to find the source of this bc it would be funny as a video too gdhgfj #anyway i love the 5th panel. how chewbacca is just there

[essektheylyss]

Honestly, it is so funny remembering that Annabeth Chase's literal, stated, canonical fatal flaw is hubris.

Rick Riordan was like, "This clever, neurodivergent preteen girl believes that she is smarter than the gods, and she will get the chance to prove herself right," and he was correct. 😌

#pjo #honestly annabeth best character cuz in the end the gods straight up are like 'you're right. here's your dream come true' #like never once did mr. riordan say 'and she should stop being like that.' #honestly in general mega props to pjo for framing fatal flaws as a source of strength consistently #both percy and annabeth in the end get to be So Valid in their fatal flaws lmao #like it's so funny that in the end percy straight up is like 'I don't know shit but you all need to shut up and listen to annabeth' #and annabeth is like 'I might be an asshole but percy is the best most loyal person I know and we all need to be willing to die for him' #and they both are so correct for it. the NARRATIVE SAYS THEY ARE CORRECT ON BOTH COUNTS. #actually uwu cuz like #thinking about the fact that annabeth takes that dagger to protect percy and it's basically her last major act before the battle is won #and the fact that percy appeals to luke by saying 'annabeth was right listen to her' and that's how he finally wins #literally using each other's fatal flaws to win and live. ANYWAY I MADE MYSELF EMOTIONAL #as you can tell i will be a fucking wreck once the series comes out nobody touch me.

[hurtmyfavsthanks]

I mean this in the most respectful way; what the fuck is a whump?

Have you ever played with dolls or action figures as a little kid, or watched kids do so? If you have, you know kids are out here acting out the darkest, most messed up little stories their undercooked brains can think of. Children are facinated with danger, and those dolls have seen some shit because of it.

Imagine that, but you're writing it on Tumblr, and everyone is trying to find new ways to torture the dolls. That's whump.

#i personally loved drowning my Bratz and making the other dolls cry over her body. #im sure that's a totally normal and universal experience and I'm not revealing myself to be a freak #if you wanted a more detailed answer there are tons of sources #but I find the doll comparison the easiest for a basic intro

[lemonlurkrr]

lemon i hope you know (if you didn't already from your notification boom solely from me) that your prev hero au designs did something to me. fundamentally altered my brain somehow. im literally stuffing them in my mouth how did you do that

HHEELLLOOOO THIS WAS A LOVELY NOTIFICATION BOMB TO WAKE UP TO, HOLDING ALL THESE TAGS NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART

as for how (i'm seizing this as an opportunity to share a bunch of process work):

there was a butt load of trial and error

From what I can remember (this all started 3 years ago holy shit,,,) I worked on Kevin's design first. The only 2 ref images I've found are included in the screenshot, but I'm pretty sure I was looking at those in addition to all of the other Impa+Sheik designs from the games, OG Hyrule Warriors concept art for Impa+Sheik, and the Sheikah pages from BOTW's Creating A Champion.

here's Link's stuff and YIPPEE I HAVE HIS REFERENCE IMAGES 🙌🙌

(BIG BIGG shoutout to @/historyofhyrule btw for archiving so much concept art and everything from all of the zelda games. None of this brainrot would've been possible without them.)

butt load of trial and error cont. especially for the colour of his scarf omg (I was looking at some of the hero's garb colour variants from OG Hyrule Warriors, and was conscious of the two other scarf wearing Links in Zelda Not Canon)

I can't find Zelda's inspo/ref images either but I remember referencing Griffith and Casca from Berserk, Kushana from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Ashei from TP, some of the OG Hyrule Warriors concept art for Princess Zelda, and of course some of the other canon Zelda designs (ALttP, TP, HW, OoT, BOTW).

I'd say Kushana was and still is the biggest inspo for Prev!Zelda, even personality wise I find myself looking back to her and how she was in the Nausicaa manga and movie.

final design thoughts: I really REALLY wanted the three of them to look cohesive with each other SO,

I always carried over screenshots of the other members of the trio onto their individual canvases to make sure that any changes I made to one design didn't stand out too much from the others,

I'm also pretty sure I worked on Link and Zelda's design simultaneously, or at least flipped back and forth between them a LOT when doing their armour (I wanted it to be evident that they were produced by the same smiths of the royal family yknowww),

and finally I made sure there were a couple of shared colours between their colour palettes

Thankee Thankee for reading this far and I hope y'all enjoyed my process stuff :))!!!

#lemonreplyrr #lemondoodlrr #RRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH #WOOOOOOOOO #it was actually so much fun looking back through the files and all the layers (i wish past me had named them though oh my god) #no promises atm BUT!!!!! with school finished and the LOZ brainrot slowly trickling back in I hope to make some more #prev hero au #stuff over the summer #i miss drawing these guys #and the design process is so much fun I reeealllyyy want to start designing the other characters I had planned for the AU #designing au stuff is like this insane puzzle where there isn't really? a wrong answer? but I'm cherry picking all of the pieces myself #from canon and outside sources and it's so satisfying when they all come together at the end #anyways #RAAAHHHH BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK

[spitblaze]

very easy for ppl to believe that as a transmasc they arent capable of being transphobic/transmisogynistic. thats just straight up not true. being a transmisogynist isn't just saying 'i hate trans women' as we've seen recently from Shithead Matt.

its perceiving transfems as inherently more intimidating or threatening. its flying off the handle for them at any perceived errors. its insisting they could not possibly have faced transmisogyny at the hands of your community bc you guys are trans and you wouldnt do that. its a lot of things. a lot of individual actions. not just misgendering and rowling-level rhetoric

a transfem talking about the unique kinds of transmisogyny transmascs can level at them is not an attack on the community, nor should it be. that shit hurts REAL HARD when it comes from people who for all intents and purposes should be your ally and understand you. we're not immune to toxic masculinity, we're not immune to misogyny, we're not immune to transmisogyny.

if someone is saying transmascs dont face meaningfully unique oppression or any at all just dont listen to them. they're full of it. if someone is saying that they have faced hate and hardships and the hands of other transmascs, that is not an attack on you. nobody worth listening to is saying we are all transmisogynists. we just need to be aware we're capable of perpetuating it and examine our actions and biases. thats it. thats all

#spitblaze says things #i made it into its own post :thumbsup: #im not immune either so if im being a shithead just tell me point blank. im not good at taking hints #trans #transgender #transmasc #transfem #anyway this isnt a heavily researched sources cited post its just. #me saying things. a lot to others. a little to myself #if anyone has something to add then go for it

[bsptourist]

gm_melonade (a.k.a. Melonade - Rift in Memories)

created by ShadyMilk

#garry's mod #gmod #source engine #half life 2 #other #hearted #requested #impossible to pick and choose screenshots for a lot of these liminal exploration maps #very good map that i have been putting off because when i played this by myself a year ago i got got by a scare and it pissed me off lmao

[confusedsiewmai]

Sometimes, I don't like looking at Frieren fandom things is because it feels so alienating as an aroace person sometimes.

I relate to Frieren in a lot of ways. The way she goes through life at her own speed, the way she has a certain way of doing things that is hard to change, the way she struggles to fully understand others but is still compassionate and tries, and last but not least, the way she doesn't feel romantic or sexual attraction the way most people do.

So when a fan posts something about how elves like Frieren don't really feel romantic or sexual attraction and it's wonderful that Himmel's unrequited love with her is still portrayed as something beautiful, healthy and valued, but the comments section is just filled with people being like: No!!!! That's not true!!! Frieren loves Himmel even though she doesn't realise it!!!!

Or even the more "generous" ones are like: No!!! She is just falling in love with him years later!!! The whole story is about how she regrets not pursuing it until it was too late!!!!

And like, every person has their own interpretation and ships. But it really is a bit saddening as an aroace person that sees Frieren also as an aroace who probably would never feel as much romantic love for Himmel EVER. People have almost this... need to correct people that Frieren loves Himmel romantically.

#sousou no frieren #frieren at the funeral #talking to myself #aromantic #aroace #asexual #of course. i have only watched the anime. but the source material itself has said that elves are not in touch with their romantic feelings #i think that is VERY aroace #and should therefore make frieren's feelings up for interpretation #and less of smth ppl rush to correct. like its AWFUL that frieren doesnt return himmel's feelings #and it hurts me a bit... because i see so much of myself in frieren #why r ppl ok with her living her life at mostly her own pace and struggling to understand ppl #but not so much with her aroace-ness.... u know? #and if anyone is interested abt my interpretation of frieren's feelings #frieren sees himmel as a pillar and closest friend. her entire journey is her grief over losing such an important person in her life #the only other person like that for her was flamme. and she managed to spend time with her till her death #but she miscalculated this one and ended up only staying with him for ten years #((another reason why i really connect with frieren is definitely her grief and regrets))

[anonymous-dentist]

qCellbit is peak ace rep imo, an asexual’s favorite joke is always “Oh, me and him? We’re having sex.”

Is he interested in having it? Not really. But he will joke about it because sex is actually hilarious when you really think about it

#source: myself and every other acespec bastard on the planet

[clairenatural]

"jk rowling is a billionaire she won't notice me buying/not buying her video game" but your trans friends will

#jk has explicitly stated that in her view everyone who supports her content also supports her violet campaign against trans people #why would you want to align yourself with that for a video game based in tropes that are frankly done better elsewhere #listen i LOVED hp as a kid my 11th birthday was a whole sorting hat year 1 theme. but the whole thing is tainted #id rather turn to other magic wizard stories than align myself with that #''ill just pirate it'' ok but the game is antisemitic and the source material is filled with racist tropes? why is that fun #idk. terf anons will be blocked and not posted s #o don't even try it #(also collective action does work + the boycotting of the game has made a noticeable impact so actually she will notice you not buying it)