#is blowing my mind and always will

[lorephobic]

have i talked before about how crazy it drives me that in old bdubs videos he would super abashedly talk about his love for making things pretty? because. it drives me crazy.

at the beginning of mc4 when everyone was clearing out spawn so it was a lifeless flat plot of land to build on and bdubs took it personally and added grass and foliage once everything was built to make the whole landscape more lively and cohesive. and how hed get made fun of for thinking about little shit like that.

also when he got asked what hed be doing if he wasnt doing mc and he mentioned music (i think) and basically was super embarrassed to be like “i know its not very manly, but im super into artsy fartsy stuff”. as if that is a bad thing.

anyway im getting so emo thinking about how in hermitcraft, everyone knows and admires bdubs skill as a builder and its not ever something thats made fun of anymore. thinking about how bdubs never talks down about his own abilities anymore and instead of feeling weird about being a dude whose into artsy fartsy stuff, hes really embraced his career as a creator of beautiful things.

#sorry this post is literally so self indulgent #last rb got to me okay #remembering when i first got into bdubs and id see him in other ppls content and was like ‘oh hes silly haha’ #but i didnt actually start watching him until i saw his hc8 base and thought it was one of the coolest things id ever fucking seen in mc #i started watching his videos and the way he talked about block palettes and gradients #and the way hed try things i’d never think could work really blew me away #and hes always been like this #i remember even in hc4 with his modern house #the way he used snow to create a slope was like. mind blowing to me. #ten years after he first did it LOL #hes taught me so much about minecraft as an art medium its fucking crazy #anyway #its been a while since ive gushed about bdubs this feels really good actually #i love him :( #edit: i wasnt gonna say anything when this was a dumb little personal post but ppl are actually rbing it #so i will correct myself #in my tags when i said hc4 i meant mc4 #lol

[yeommijeong]

Yeom Mi Jeong just gave the perfect answer.

Kim Ji Won as Yeom Mi Jeong Episode 7, My Liberation Notes (2022)

#my liberation notes #edit: my liberation notes #editcheenee #kdramaedit #kdramadaily #kdramagifs #kdramaladies #kdramasource #asiandramasource #syaring #haeyeongs #mijeong my beloved the way your mind works………… #i always say i relate to her but then she says things that just blow my mind #she said that's just fight or flight babes those aren't butterflies or a spark you're just anxiously attached to someone

[allgremlinart]

older Jinora design doodlings that I drew and hated but I'm posting them now anyway because I love you Jinora. I love you Jinora....

#allgremlinart #jinora #jinora tlok #tlok #sometimes I forget she's not a lesbian and it blows my mind. oh well Kai there's always still time for you to transition...

[nekomansir]

Some sunny stuff from yesterday

and bonus mcrobot

#my art #sunnyblr #iasip #its always sunny in philadelphia #macdennis #mac mcdonald #dennis reynolds #charlie kelly #mcrobot #jimmy the robot #mcbc #if anyone calls the last one rpf im blowing you up with my mind powers

[spaceratprodigy]

(palette challenge) PINK LEMONADE OR WATERMELON FOR DELIRIS ⁉️⁉️⁉️

@oldworldwidgets — [ palette prompts ]

WATERMELON LEMONADE DELIRIS 💖💚

#💖💛💚❤ #I am on my hands and knees rn #I had so much fun playing around with the colors and seeing what I could do with them #only the slightest of tweaking to the palette I wasn't vibing with one color so I made it a pale yellow #and then said fuck it and added a darker yellow as well #for you my darling we get the best of BOTH palettes combined 😈💅 #this came out soooo cute and dreamyyyy #ALSO MISS DELILAH IS ALWAYS DROP DEAD GORGEOUS OKAY I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF HER #just gals being pals adoringly staring into each others eyes or whatever #THANK YOU FOR THE PROMPT AUD THIS WAS PERFECT #I'm going to be eating this piece forever I can't stop looking at the girls #they deserve to be happy and the soft expressions are making my heart explode 🥺 #ANYWAY #I am going to be rotating teddy and zinnie in my mind now at high speeds #ily ily ily blowing you so many kisses rn #my art #friend oc #sole survivor #fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #also sobbing over the new snake patch on iris's jacket okay I've been so excited abt that one #it'll stand out more in her regular palette but aaaaa I intend it to be the same color as delilah's eyes :]

[aphel1on]

not sure how to phrase this but something i have been ruminating on recently is that xue yang is strangely fragile. obviously he is also incredibly resilient. he survived, and continues to survive, impossible things. he has a million barriers between himself and the world, but none of this actually matters when it comes to what he feels. everything is personal to him. everything pierces straight through all that armor and goes right to his battered heart, the heart that no one else believes he has. that even he is not fully cognizant of. the world strikes and strikes and strikes and so he strikes and strikes and strikes back, even (especially) when the wound is something other people would not think worthy of retribution.

xue yang would never realize this- would be outraged at the concept of it- but the way everything, everything is something to rally a defense against is in itself a form of fragility. he does not know how to let go of things, or let them pass him by. passivity is death. so he is ruthlessly cruel and violent. he projects himself as a lunatic untouchable by anything you might possibly do to him, and on some level he even believes this. but in actuality he is one raw emotional wound. he never learned to separate himself from his emotions, much less process them. the volatility is not so much insanity as it is the constant lashing out of an animal in a trap, and the trap is the world, and the trap is himself, and he is never going to get out. and like so much else, this pain is just part of the background radiation of his life. it hardly registers. to be able to register the hurt, you would have to be able to register a time in which you were not hurt.

i feel like it is a fragility that could blossom into such tenderness, given exactly the right set of circumstances. how at the very first touch of softness in his life he fell into a domesticity from which he never recovered. how much was there, still, to be salvaged from the cruelty. on some level i am always thinking about the little apple bunnies. about the meal for daozhang and the straw in a-qing's bed.

it was too little, too late. it shattered like glass when the world intruded back in. but the tenderness was there. no one, least of all xue yang, knows what might have happened had it been unearthed in him any sooner.

#he is easy to hurt. this is a fact. it is also anathema to his own self conception as well as the model of him in anyone elses minds. #xue yang #yi city #mdzs #aphelion.txt #xy #Contact is crisis; every touch is a modified blow #<- xycore anne carson quote. if you even care #meta #i guess? idk #it is always character analysis hour in my head #with a disclaimer that whether or not someone experiences empathy is NOT correlated to their morality #i dont think its necessarily that xy is incapable of empathy it's that any empathy that might exist in him is deeply deeply repressed #bc he views it as a death warrant. he (at every moment in his head and really quite often in reality) is on trial for his life #and it would be suicidal to give a shit about anyone who is not him. #especially since he knows- down to his bones- that no one is ever going to give a shit about him EXCEPT FOR him #the one chance he ever got to escape this cycle of brutality came with an expiration date built in by consequence of his past atrocities #and he only first started to comprehend anything about his own emotions after it was all already irrevocably fucked #in canon he is doomed. in fandom i am always picking him up and putting him somewhere kinder #shakes you by the shoulders do you understand what he does to me. do you. do you #if you tell me im excusing his crimes i will kill you w my lazer beam. #this isnt ABOUT THAT. this is ME BEING UNHINGED ABT HIS PSYCHOLOGY in a moral vaccuum. #i'm not saying 'hes sensitive uwu' but like i kind of am. unfortunately it mostly just motivates him to murder people #OH and when i connect the fragility to the tenderness i dont mean that i believe hes like. secretly soft #i mean that being as he is so deeply impacted by people's slights against him. he is just as deeply impacted by people's kindnesses #and he's not incapable of reciprocating it. he is INCREDIBLY fucking bad at it. but not incapable #ok i have to post this before i feel compelled to ramble any longer in the tags. jesus #got consumed by my a-yang feelings on a sunday morning sorry #not sure why i worded it as 'continues to survive' other than a constant subconscious denial that xue yang is dead

[seyaryminamoto]

Fic-to-Art #38: Ozai carries Azula to the physicians' wing

This has been done for A WHILE now, but I didn't post it because the past days have been chaotic and not just on a personal level. For one thing, I really wasn't eager to drop this when people were losing their shit massively over the liveaction and its recontextualization of Azula and Ozai's dynamics, I didn't look forward to releasing this just to be told that whatever I've done in my story is somehow wrong, sooooooooo... that held me back, for a few days.

Then? The AI-Tumblr deal started to be talked about and I may or may not have freaked out about that too. Sooo... this is the first glazed and nightshaded piece of my creation, as consequence. The original, clean and proper version is available in my Patreon. Is this me being a dick to Tumblr-only people? Unfortunately, it very much isn't, I'm not trying to say that if you want the best iterations of my art, you should pay me for it... this is squarely, entirely, at staff/the CEO's feet. Obviously, there's the insecure side of me that goes "what makes you think they'd steal YOUR art when there are so many better artists out there!" but ultimately? AI is about taking everything en masse. It isn't a matter of developing a criteria about who makes the better art... it's just taking EVERYTHING and trying to repurpose it in whatever twisted way it needs to. Therefore? I think my choice is more of a matter of caution than anything else. Once AI bullshit dies out (and I really hope it does), we may just return to the same level of quality across all my accounts. For now, it is what it is.

ANYWAY! Point is this artwork is very much what my Patrons happened to vote for this month, a very shocking scene where Ozai reacted in the least foreseen way to Azula being attacked. Azula's confusion/terror comes from a place of not knowing what to do and being powerless to stop her father even if she doesn't feel comfortable with his help... but for once, Ozai isn't making a dreadful choice that will only devastate his daughter. He's actually worried about her health... and feeling genuine guilt over what landed her in the situation where she was in danger in the first place. Yes. I like me my complex Ozai who finally learned actions have consequences. He bores me to death otherwise :') if anyone STILL doesn't know that this whole situation is Gladiator-specific, then I shall clarify fully: this is artwork based on my fic. It's about a story that has been developing these characters for ALMOST ELEVEN YEARS now. It has nothing to do with whatever's going on in canon or in the liveaction, the scene in question was written almost two years ago and the artwork proposed and voted for several days before the liveaction aired. Ergo: there is no connection between this and that. Nor am I saying through this piece that Ozai is a good father. He is not. He can still be an interesting character to work with on a narrative level anyway :')

Alright. With that out of the way, hope you guys like this piece! The big one I haven't posted is ALSO finished, also glazed and nightshaded, but I think I might just end up posting it on the 26th if I don't have time to do anything big for our eleventh anniversary... yep, I'm so busy I don't even have a huge project in mind this time. Also? I have a lot to write and I'm finally happily writing it, and I would like to continue doing that...

Anyway! If you would like to be part of the creative process behind this piece, as well as see it in its proper, OG, less color-bleeding clunky version? A $1 Patreon pledge gives you the chance to join in suggesting prompts, voting for them and reading Gladiator snippets 6 days before a new chapter is released!

#fic-to-art project #ozai #azula #obviously this was the February piece #and I'm very sorry for the long time it took me to post it but #god I hate it every time there's any “new” thing going on in this franchise #has nothing to do with me and yet it's always a pain because people with the STALEST takes #start to spring out and start trying to police what's going on in the fandom #even people with sense are saying things that blow my mind lately #... so yeah I don't feel entirely safe posting anything to do with my work lately #but hopefully that will change :') #for now enjoy this one

[heywoodvirgin]

Vénus

#vénus with new hair and green / purple shade #Love to make small changes on her and she always blows my mind #how beautiful she is #sigh #also netwatch cyberarms #heart eyes #agh #vénus laroche #corpo v #female v #cyberpunk 2077 #cp77 #virtual photography #gaming #cyberpunk 2077 photomode #my screenshots

[endlesspaint]

I have so many thoughts about Branch right now.

One particular thought of mine is this scenario, where Gray! Branch meets his future self, who is happy and colorful. I keep asking myself, "How will he react?" "What will happen?" and "How can I turn this both sad and funny?" (LMAO)

This is one of my favorite daydreams to imagine because I can't really write it out. I'm not a writer (I suck at expressing myself through words). I might draw a comic. Maybe? Idk. But anyway, I keep thinking about the fact that Branch was clearly born to be in the spotlight. Bro can adapt to new music fast, is great at singing (his voice is literally being compared to an angel), and the fact he's in two bands is just 🤯.

So whenever I imagine my daydream, I always have this specific dialogue in mind that just makes me go feral.

"How can you be so happy?! After everything we've been through! How can you smile and laugh like we aren't the reason why grandma isn't here?"

"Because grandma would want us to be happy. Grandma would want us to move on and forgive ourselves!.....I never realized that until someone showed me that I can be happy, I just needed help finding it."

#I need past meets future fics #or future goes back in the past fics #These are my favorite tropes like ever so whenever I find fics like these I go feral #I also had this other imagination that involves Kismet (shocking I know) #where basically during the kismet performance at Vacay Island a wormhole appeared and suck the whole band (so just kismet and Branch) #they got transported back in time during the 1st movie. so during the musical introduction where Poppy finished her history lesson #imagine the shock they'll feel when they saw future Branch all dressed up and is obviously happy #(also him being in a band if probably mind-blowing LMAO) #“WAIT-- YOU'RE IN A BAND?!” “YOU CAN SING?!” “I always thought you had a terrible singing voice” #LMAOO #trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls band together #trolls 3 #endlessrambles #branch trolls #trolls branch

[serethereal]

discovering someone’s writing (think ao3 or fanfiction) and it scratches an itch in ur brain gets you thinking “how do they come up w these sentences?” and then finding their socials after and realizing oh. this is just how this person speaks. fascinating

#has happened to me exactly three times. it’s always mind blowing theyre so gifted. even when they’re joking or shit posting it’s just a work #of art. sentences i couldn’t string together w a gun to my head and a thesaurus on my lap

[ringtoned]

i gotta say and like with full offense to rr + HOO defenders as well That percabeth post TLO felt really different to me than in the original series. And in a way that.... I wouldn't say ruined it for me but made it impossible to ever engage with in the same way. I felt like it warped the characters not just within riordanverse canon and fanon but also retroactively made my original interpretation of them and PJO much harder to reach, and they occupied this place in my mind where i still loved them a lot but wasn't really interested in thinking about them anymore.... But seeing them on my screen, seeing walker and leah bring them to life, i feel like im 12 again. I feel like im 12 again

#the casting will never fail to blow my mind #ive never seen anything like it before i kind of just thought adaptations were doomed to always lose a little bit in translation #pjo #percabeth #percy jackson #pjo adap #percy jackson disney+ #pjo tv #pjo series #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson adap #percy jackson adaptation #annabeth chase #percy x annabeth #hoo #hoo crit #rr crit #walker scobell #leah sava jeffries #pjo disney+ #heroes of olympus #percy series #percy and annabeth

[silver-horse]

I read some of the reviews for Dragon Age Absolution on IMDB and it’s so funny that people seriously give reviews which just say “everyone is gay 2/10.”

Dude, what did you even expect? This is Dragon Age, there are always gay characters, it’s one of the gayest series you can find.

Look at this review, hilarious:

Clearly written by someone who knows nothing about the series. They incorrectly refer to the characters with D&D class descriptions and they call the qunari mage “some kind of giant goat lady”. LOL It’s actually quite funny to read, but... if someone starts watching a tv show that is part of a larger series and then they get angry because it depicts the usual themes and topics of that series, well they have only themselves to blame. Hate gay characters? Maybe be aware if a 13 year old series has gay storylines and don’t act like the most recent entry has an “agenda”. Ridiculous. Homophobes always assume there is an “agenda” so they don’t even bother to check whether or not gay characters are actually new to the series they are watching.

#Dragon Age #absolution #dragon age absolution #it's always mind blowing to listen to or read the words of these homophobes #they always think there is some sort of agenda whooooo!! be scared of the agenda #and here is a situation where anyone who is familiar with the series would know how stupid this reviewer sounds #and yet people will still upvote this review and agree with it #and they reaffirm each other in their ignorance because they don't talk to a single person who has played the games #my post #my posts #my thoughts #da mine #Miriam #Hira #Sapphira #Qwydion #Roland #Lacklon #imdb #text post #textposts

[maxsix]

#jungkook #jeon jungkook #bts #bts jungkook #i forgot i made this #i just liked this part of the video #having known him right from the start #it always blows my mind that he finished that sleeve #and got all those piercings #i love them #but i still remember us both being lil babies with No Body Mods at all #does it ever drive you crazy just how fast the night changes #alexa play one direction

[misc-obeyme]

Heyyy look at this stuff. Isn’t it gorgeous?

DUDE.

Making me crazy with those Barbs... look at him being all pretty.

I also really like the color scheme of the Satan one!

And also WOW to the Belphie & Beel falling one!!

You're right, they're all gorgeous!

#artists always out here blowing my mind #obey me #anxious-chick #cc mutuals #misc answers

[thegraininessofitall]

“Eve works for the council, Sergeant. Quite the lady in the know.”

“Oh, I am not.”

“Nonsense. I’m sure if we bashed your head in, all sorts of secrets would come tumbling out.”

Timothy Dalton as Simon Skinner

in Hot Fuzz (2007), dir. Edgar Wright

#timothy dalton #hot fuzz #early 2000s #moviegifs #filmedit #filmgifs #now that's one sleazy man! #there really is something so fascinating to me about characters who are so transparent in their general demeanor #but who speak in riddles or feign ignorance #because they feel so obviously like not good people #but it's just the vibe and not necessarily what they say #they don't reveal anything about themselves that could be used against them #and they're aware of that #so they're just going around messing with people's heads #it's glorious i love it #also him being 60 in this film will always blow my mind #i thought he was 40-something. early 50s max. #anyway #the life drawing class never fails to crack me up

[choices-and-voices]

Okay, but like. The symbolism of Nick being the one who gives shelter to Kieran & MC. The man whom Eisa loved in secret but was too frightened to love in the public, now giving refuge to the child whom Eisa only bore by leaving him & the mortal whom that child openly adores. The fact that Nick has somehow stepped up for both of Eisa’s children, even when they’re fighting each other. The fact that Eisa leaving Nick is both what allowed Kieran to have MC & what orchestrated the current threat between them, and throughout it all Nick has stood steadfast, not on the side of the mortals, or the side of the Fae, but on the side of love. And the fact that he doesn’t even know he is doing it. The fact that Nick looks at Kieran and sees Eisa metaphorically, and he doesn’t even know that he is also seeing her literally. The fact that Kieran is there in Nick’s tavern and they represent everything that Nick fought for long ago, threatened by the person that Nick has been fighting for ever since. The fact that the last of Kieran’s bloodline is trying to kill everything they love, but also the last of Nick’s bloodline is trying to kill everything he could have loved, once, and Nick has stood in the way of that without even knowing what’s going on. The fact that Nick seems almost fated to be a guardian in this story. The fact that Eisa gave him an amulet to keep him alive to protect Jack, and she didn’t even realise she was also keeping him alive to protect Kieran. The fact that Nick has lived the kind of lifespan that Jack & MC both dream of, but Nick has lived it through losing his love, and MC wants it in order to remain with their love, and Jack wants it in order to fight for people like Nick without knowing that Eisa is the reason he’s lived so long in the first place. And the fact that Nick was never meant to live so long, his mind is falling apart, he is fated to protect these people but that also means that he is fated to his doom, and the fact that I don’t know what that means for MC and Jack and Kieran and I just. I just. I just.

I just have feels okay.

#seriously – this book is increasingly blowing my mind #it’s always been good but these past few weeks have been astronomical #i have this really strong feeling (/hope) now that Nick is going to play some kind of role in Jack easing up on Kieran and MC #and i also kind of feel as if Nick is going to die during the book #it just feels like the natural outcome of the book’s messaging about immortality and also a good parallel for Kieran losing Sir Montgomery #but when we consider what the implications of that are for *MC’s* dream to live a lifetime with Kieran??? #i’m just as excited & just as scared to find out as anybody else 😳 #playchoices #choices: stories you play #the cursed heart #tch book 2 #nick tch #jack tch #prince kieran #kieran x mc #fandom essay #original post