#on purpose i might add

[betweenblackberrybranches]

Anyways rlgl au Moon is the kind of guy who loves to cook and has an aesthetic blog about foods and recipes. But he really doesnt like eating because then he has to have his chest compartment cleaned and thats never nice.

So Sun and Y/N come running like a couple of pavlovian dogs whenever they hear his phones camera go off.

#fnaf moon #fnaf sun #sundrop #moondrop #dca #daycare attendant #y/n #my art #rlgl au #he is a really good cook #some day sun and y/n gonna gift him a good camera for christmas or something so he can make more professional pics #he loves his blog #he kinda makes the blog seem like he is a middle aged woman though #on purpose i might add #he just feels like people would trust him more on his recipes and there would be no robot hate directed against him #but also he just likes comming up with the weird long tangents from the viewpoint of an older lady that he writes before every recipe #its all just part of the recipe blog shenanigans

[papermint-airplane]

Happy Singles Awareness Day, y'all. 😭😭

#ramblings #not sims related #i'm actually happily single #on purpose i might add #but i saw someone call valentine's day #singles awareness day #somewhere on the internet #and i thought it was so funny #i call it that every year ever since #besides y'all know tomorrow is the REAL holiday #when all the unsold chocolate goes on sale 😈

[verflares]

(click for higher quality!) draconified link concept ive been chipping away at this past week ..... here's my funny little compendium concept for him:

"A heroic spirit has taken the form of this bestial dragon. Unlike it's kin, this creature exhibits an extremely aggressive disposition. It appears highly territorial, and will relentlessly chase down those who disturb its skywide patrols - of which it seems to be endlessly searching for either a long-time vassal or foe. Unfortunately, it seems the spirit within has long since forgotten exactly who it was looking for…"

#now. how on earth do i begin to tag this. um. #link #loz #totk #totk spoilers #light dragon #dragon link #loz au #totk roleswap au #there . i'll add more if they come to me LOL #um i can talk about some of my insps i guess?? might make another post too #so mostly i just dont really like turning him into 'light dragon but male' and giving him slightly darker colours or something like that #this also obviously isnt exactly like the botw dragons either though and its a bit more of a mix of other creature concepts i enjoy #since everyone agrees he'd have a farosh horn i wanted to make him a kirin/unicorn :) which is why his tail looks like that #aside from the obvious eastern dragon insps and what ive picked and chosen from the botw dragons #and obviously this looks a lot like wolf link. thats on purpose #i wanted to give him some fierce deity design refs too but because this is so dark/earthy they didnt look very fitting #but honestly you could do a whole fierce deity dragon design on its own i think #okay lots of tags but IVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FOR A WHILE. okay. let me have this. #my art

[frm9pm]

Doodle exercise

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#Drarry #I wanted to add more but I think that defeats the purpose of the deserted island T_T #writers are so amazing #please god don’t perceive me I might perish #wait I just realized why do I always draw Draco with >:( eyebrows - I gotta change that LOL

[zizzy-rie]

Another AU by @bog-in-a-well /@bogswell-kampilan that has never seen the light of day :D (Bog I have let your lil meow meow loose)

It has elements of the Danny Phantom show. MK is uhhh half dead?? Dead??? So uhm he can turn ghost.

Mihou here is a wukong-obsessed murderous lunatic who wants to eat MK. His backstory is very different from the canon so he has no emotional relations to wukong whatsoever. He is however, obsessed with emotionally torturing and killing the other monkey so there's that.

#If you have questions just ask me so I can relay them to the creator #Also hi bog your lil meow meow is now free #Mac and Wukong here hate each other :> #And wukong's partner is someone else #It's tang #Tang also is a reincarnation from wukong's past #No it is not tripitaka #Tho it might change since bog said he'll change some things #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #monkie kid au #lmk six eared macaque #monkie kid six eared macaque #monkie kid macaque #six eared macaque #liu er mihou #lmk sun wukong #lmk mk #Forgot to add this: the crossed collar is like that on purpose because he's dead in a way

[letswonderspirit]

Sketches and non-sketches are coming your way

#danny phantom #my art #sidney poindexter #maddie fenton #I tried redrawing this one title card line for line #but I gave up half way on the words #calligraphy vexes me so #so ya it’s a high definition title card #if anyone wants to re-add the words on there #pls do!! #I might get around to it but it’ll be awhile #a little bit of my oc’s sprinkled in the sketch dump for tax purposes #oc’s

[youssefguedira]

luca marinelli character FIGHT: FINALE

thank you all for coming along on this ride with me i've been having a great time.

in first place, our winner is (entirely unsurprisingly):

nicolò di genova! by a not insignificant margin (view the polls here and here)

and of course, in second place:

primo nizzuto! he almost made it.

tied for third are martin eden and fabio cannizzaro!

thank you all for playing this game with me! but it's not over yet: starting tomorrow we'll begin with the Bonus Rounds, i.e. matchups suggested to me by You, or ones i thought would be funny. not all suggestions made it to keep from dragging this tournament out forever. there WILL be another post with some extra statistics from this tournament tomorrow, but that concludes this Luca Marinelli Character FIGHT, and i'll see you all in the bonus rounds

#luca marinelli character FIGHT #this post largely exists so i could photoshop a burger king crown onto primo. it was funny to me #worth the time i spent removing the background. slightly cropped because the image is awkward but who cares. enjoy #really am glad you all decided to take this and run with it. it's achieved its primary purpose (giving Me something to do) but i am glad it #semi-took off. have had a great time reading everyone's tags abt it #id add the winners of the audience award for funniest tags to this post but everyone wins that one i can't choose. might compile some of my #favourites tho. anyway thank you all for coming this has been the conclusion of this silly little death match #luca marinelli #the old guard #nicolò di genova #primo nizzuto #trust fx #i was gonna use the same image of nicky that i used for the tournament but i already had this one saved in my powerpoint of images for this #anyway. so i figured this was funnier

[mzminola]

I don't understand why people say "Go read about Helena instead of Jason!" I really don't. If I'm in the mood for stories of a Gotham vigilante with resurrection themes and issues with Bruce as a failed parental figure I'm going to read about Jason and Cass.

Jason & Helena are…two Gotham vigilantes who are willing to kill. That’s uh…that’s about it. Helena gives us more mafia focused stories, and has not been dead for realsies or dealt with as much magical bullshit as these two.

Now, you know who Helena does parallel? Bruce motherfucking Wayne.

Came from wealthy Gotham families? Yep. At age eight, witnessed their parents’ murder? Specifically with guns? Yep. Voluntarily pursued martial arts training in their youths, outside Gotham, and then stepped up to be independent vigilantes as adults once they came home, financing it with their inherited wealth? Yep.

Have been members of the fucking Justice League? Yep. May take orders from team leaders (and be cranky about it) but have never actually been anyone’s sidekick? Yep.

Helena has more in common with Bruce than she does with Dick, let alone Jason. 

“Why focus on Jason when you could focus on Helena?” That’s like asking why I’m focusing on Jason instead of Bruce. "Willing to kill" and "refuses to kill (when in right mind)" are important traits to the characters personally, but they are not the be all end all of these characters, their stories, and themes.

#comics meta #I enjoy all of these characters and I do not intend this to critique anyone else's tastes #I just am fucking baffled by the reductiveness to one trait #misc parallels #DC #Batfam #might add more tags for archival purposes later #I have not read every comic ever so like #any of these four characters could have some other parallels I'm missing! #but they have not been brought up in the posts and comments that prompted this

[nympippi]

Next up is Finn Blake, our resident final boy, baseball player and resident necromancer!!

I was really worried I made Finn look too old for his age as a 13 to 14 year old, but I decided to just go with it because I already headcannon Finn as really tall so if he looks older I’m really sorry,

But anyway, in this au Finn is a necromancer (and later I’ll have to outline the rules and logics behind this) but after his kidnapping and him killing the Grabber he gained a lot of confidence and self worth.

I headcannon that before the reason why Finn never really stood up for himself was because he was scared and that he felt it was just better to take it than create more trouble as he has seen what standing up to an abuser does (I.e. the scene with Gwen and her dad.) he felt it just wasn’t worth it to get hurt more for being defiant.

And sadly only after his kidnapping, realized that he can’t do that anymore because being complacent in one’s abuse isn’t worth it, that it’s better to be loud and defiant then to just keep taking the punches.

However no matter how confident Finn is now he still has trauma, he never lets any of the ghost boys leave anywhere alone and neither does he, he always manages to keep a baseball bat on his person, and lastly the night terrors.

Finn has nightmares of those dying, he dreams he never left that basement, that Griffin and Robin and all the boys were still dead, he dreams of the Grabber somehow learning about Gwen and killing her. It scared him, it leaves him rushing into one of his siblings rooms to check on them.

And Finn is also the resident shoulder to lean on, he gave the boys life again and saw them at their literal lowest and saw their traumas laid out, the boys trust him a lot. For some it’s easier to come to him but for others it’s harder and Finn knows this because somehow he can always tell.

Overall Finn is a clever, sweet, confident young kid who tries to help the people he cares about.

#pippi art #the black phone fandom #the black phone #the black phone fanart #necromancer finney au #finney blake #tbp finney #finney blake fanart #also Finn getting a letterman was for cool purposes #he also has a spade patch on his right shoulder for Vance to match. Because Finn sewed the patch on Vance’s own jacket! #Finn also got Bruce a letterman as a gift! #I’m gonna add more patches to represent the boys #like maybe a plant one for Griff. and a green baseball for Bruce #A Red Robin for Robin. and a hand-made newspaper patch for P.B. #and an eyeball or tarot cards for Gwen #if you can’t tell Finn is my favorite along with Griffin #also Finn might just be a pitcher but he’s still got a damn good arm that can pack a punch/ swing #Finn’s eyes glow in the dark just a little btw. like idk why I chose yellow but lol #he’s my special boy and I love him #also!!! Blake sibling friendship bracelet!! #like this kid only had one real friend and he gave him the motivation to kill a man you really think he wouldn’t give his entire self for #the rest of the boys. #paperboys next btw! #I’m planning on showcasing how the boys all bond with Finn and how well they mesh together…almost like fate! #also yes I know Finn was scared of Vance but I bet my bottom dollar if Finn didn’t know Robin he’d be scared of him too #I have a lot of thoughts about Vance. Finn. and Robin #Finn is the therapist friend that desperately needs therapy but also refuses to go to therapy because he thinks his experience #‘wasn’t that bad’ like no bby…

[astarlightmonbebe]

episode 5 has left me considering the different - and similar - ways taeyoung and kwonsook think about themselves, and how they respond to pain/violence.

kwonsook calls herself a monster, someone who goes crazy in the boxing ring. that monster, she says, was created by her father, and her father used abuse, violence, and emotional manipulation to create that monster. he didn’t treat her like human, so it’s no surprise that the way she talks about herself when she boxes is as if she’s discussing an animal: she gets cornered, gets scared for her life, and lashes out to kill. she calls herself a monster with resignation; it’s not what she wanted to be, but she knows it’s what she was. she ran away to escape that monstrosity, to live as a human, doing good things, but that part of her never really died.

taeyoung, too, calls himself a monster. he’s a SOB, he does thing no one with an ounce of humanity would do. he seemingly has no qualms about what he does, perhaps because he can always justify it to himself, always has an exit prepared for when things really get bad (until, i’m sure, he doesn’t). like kwonsook, taeyoung accepts the label of monster, accepts his own inhumanity, even if they are inhuman in very different ways. whereas kwonsook wants to break away from that monstrous part of her - she’s only returned so she can free herself from that part of herself permanently (and if she finds a way to box without a monster, then...) - taeyoung embraces it. it’s through being a monster that he’s found success, how he secures futures for his athletes, and how he’s able to ‘solve’ their (and his) issues. monstrosity was not imposed on taeyoung, but (due to what we know so far) is something he chose for himself (although the factors surrounding this part of his past are decidedly murky).

in this episode, taeyoung and kwonsook also demonstrate similar responses to violence and (emotional) pain. when taeyoung upsets kwonsook by working with her father behind her back, he offers her an outlet for her anger by punching him. later on, after ahreum has already slapped kwonsook, instead of lashing out, kwonsook offers to let ahreum hit her again if it will make her feel better. in parallel responses, both ahreum and kwonsook debate taking that opportunity to hurt, but decide not to (kwonsook because she’s taking a chance on taeyoung, or moreso giving him another one, and ahreum because she decides that she doesn’t owe kwonsook that, that kwonsook is beneath her in terms of boxing, no longer on her level). 

kwonsook learned to respond to pain at a young age. in boxing, you can’t flinch from the hit - you have to learn how to take the pain, absorb it, and get back up to hit again. outside of the rink, kwonsook absorbs the pain, but she doesn’t hit again. she’s experienced firsthand what her hits can do to people, and that terrified her. after all, she only boxed so that she could protect her mother. so when confronted with violence and pain, she takes the hit, because pain is what she knows and understands. it’s the emotions behind it that are hard for her. pain is easy for kwonsook, because she’s used to living through it, surviving it; beneath it, she’s always empty. she’s never really cared about boxing; it was what she had to do. the lee kwonsook that was a boxing genius was a monster she ran from, after all. but in order to break away from that monster, she has to come to understand the emotional investment of her fellow female boxers. before, they were just her opponents, never her friends, but now she has to face their own feelings about the sport, the passion they have for boxing that she never felt. like ara said, she didn’t feel happiness about winning, and kwonsook has never lost, so she’s never had to live with that humiliation, either. how her feelings will change in relation to boxing will likely be a reckoning for her.

taeyoung, on the other hand, is confronting his fair share of non-boxing sanctioned boxing. even though kwonsook is the boxer, it’s taeyoung who’s been touched by ‘true’ violence in this present timeline. his life is quite literally on the line, which has been shown again and again. he’s been ambushed by her father, threatened, blackmailed, and beaten up by chairman nam’s guys. he lives on the edge, anxious at every shadow, which is chewing him alive. to him, kwonsook’s anger is much easier to deal with. he knows she might hurt him, but his potential to hurt her is so much more (and if he does, in that case he’d find her anger justified, and probably let her beat him to death or something if what we’ve seen of his feelings for her is an indication of anything), and she might hurt him, but she’d never hurt him as much as other people in his life at the moment would (i.e. by killing him, or hurting the people he cares about). taeyoung is used to weathering the storm of other people’s dislike; he’s the scumbag, and he does bad things, deserves other people’s anger when it’s directed at him. 

both taeyoung and kwonsook want to resolve things through violence. i think it’s telling that despite being two emotionally aware people, they both consider other people’s feelings to be so easily taken care of. they want the quick, instant pain, and then they want to get it over with. because the violence is what they’re used to, and to a degree it’s what they both think they deserve. however, what lies beneath that, what doesn’t go away with a single hit, is much harder for them to confront and understand. 

#star stumbles #my lovely boxer #kdrama #my thoughts #in boxing you get hit and you hit someone else and whoever is still standing wins #and it's basically that way in the whole world of (physical) sports #and it's going to be so so good when they both end up embroiled in the very emotional situation that they both want to avoid at all costs #ie their feelings for each other / betrayal / broken trust / fear #i think i ended this poorly i kind of got distracted and honestly...honestly i don't KNOW what their response to violence really says #or how it's going to be played with throughout the drama #this text is the bare bones of what i can understand through what i've seen #and oh yes even though i know some people might argue that they're not emotionally aware i think they are... #both very emotionally mature. despite their actions they both know what's up in their hearts #and they're very adept at reading one another (or at least taeyoung is towards kwonsook i think she's getting there but she's also trying to #distance herself from him so. i do think she's ignoring some of what she'll probably reinterpret later on #nobody made taeyoung a monster he chose that path vs kwonsook left the path as soon as she was able to #and her getting punished for his bad deeds...even though at the end she admits they're both scumbags for going through with this deal #because she's understood that she'll hurt boxing whether good things come out of it or not #because she'll be disrespecting ahreum and everyone else by rigging the match and losing on purpose #which will probably add to her conflict later on #and taeyoung simultaneously struggles with not wanting to string her along vs stringing her along #because he's been upfront with her about how he's a bad person and she sees it too but ALSO #he can't bring himself to tell her some of the worst things because he wants her to see him differently #like he wants to act like a good person for her but also knows he needs her #honestly their relationship dynamic reminds me so much of my liberation notes #it's the ahjussi / disenchanted two people approaching each other and something ending up growing there where they thought nothing would #again

[lokh]

also apparently i have an illness called 'i cant throw a bowling ball straight'

#what people keep Telling me is that at the end of the swing ill turn my hand #so that its palm down.. and it fucks up my trajectory every time #and what i keep Saying is that it LITERALLY FEELS LIKE IM THROWING IT STRAIGHT ‼️ #the problem might be that im letting go too late so to compensate for the weight #my hand automatically turns..... #also im not used to throwing underarm for. anything #theres a lot of other problems with my form but at least i can tell by myself #this one is like. i promise u im not doing this on purpose #now i Will say. sometimes the natural spin this adds to the ball saves my life #whenever theres that one pin left in the corner... a lot of the time ill get lucky and what looks like a gutterball #will hit it...

[thefirstknife]

Spoiler question but do you think you know who from this week's quest will become a you know what?

Will Amanda become a Guardian, I assume!

I don't think so. I don't think it would serve any purpose. Her story came to an end; we learned all we needed to learn about her and she went out the way she lived and for what she believed in. There's also nothing really pointing to her being that relevant to bring back. Like, purely from a technical standpoint; they removed her as a vendor and gave her a send-off, complete with her entire backstory. Making her a Guardian would just be making a new character with her model, but new. I can't see them doing that.

One thing that I also feel like people are forgetting, somehow, is that if she becomes a Guardian, she will not be Amanda. Like, that will be a new character. Nothing she's done before will matter. Crow and Savathun were exceptions central to the story to go forward so they had exceptional stories where they got their memories back. Amanda simply is not. She died and even if she becomes a Guardian, there's no more Amanda. It would be a blank slate. No matter what, all of her conflicts and relationships are over.

I just don't think we need a blank slate New Light Guardian right now or that Bungie would keep her in the game like this currently. I think this season was centered on wrapping up stuff about her, giving her a full scope of the backstory and basically letting us say goodbye. It does not read like a setup for a new Guardian.

Obviously, Bungie could have something extraordinary planned out that we can't possibly guess and that would make Amanda returning as a Guardian really compelling. Who knows! Maybe this is something that will happen down the line. As in, after this saga ends and some new story in the setting begins!

But right now? Until the saga ends? I just do not think Amanda as a Guardian is a storyline that needs to be told while we're scrambling to wrap up loose ends before The Final Shape. She was a human face to the war and a victim of it, something to remind us about our mortality and the fact that we're not invincible. Despite Guardians and all our powers, we are fighting for people who are mortal and fragile and those people also have the right to defend their home. Amanda took that very seriously and helped a lot of people, but ultimately at the cost of her own life.

Bringing her back could offer some potential stories, absolutely, depending on how you want to take things in the future. But overall, I just think it's not likely for her to be planned to return as a Guardian, at least not within the scope of the current story. Of course we can't really know what's in store, but from what we do know (lore-wise and meta-wise), the likelihood of this happening is very low.

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 spoilers #season of defiance #season of defiance spoilers #amanda #ask #mostly it's like. they were able to write out a character and focus on the remaining stories. by bringing amanda as a guardian back... #they would just have to ADD a completely new character. which defeats the purpose of writing her out #I highly doubt they're looking to write a new light that will have to be included in the current plots #if anything. she might be rezed on the side and be a random guardian nobody knows about #i just don't think amanda was important enough to get that focus on her that rivals characters like crow and savathun #i've seen people saying that we can just give her the memories back and like. hello? that is incredibly cruel #guardian amanda would be a new person. forcing her to be what she was before is explicitly stated to be bad by the narrative #after crow's struggling and savathun's mistakes and clinging to what she was before which led her to her death... yeah. #'just give her the memories back!' you are the baddies #and without memories she's not amanda so idk what would be the point of a new light character with her model (but reworked)

[dkettchen]

My most male trait is the "ye I can do that" attitude abt stuff I have no means of actually knowing whether I can do

#the overconfident megalomania is very hench ya know #my ''''male'''' gender ID is defined like 90% through the attitude and 10% through the physically male-aligned dysphoria #trans #nonbinary #transmasc #'ye I can make a fully functionning custom vtuber in like a month sometime *to learn unreal* (me who barely knows how to navigate #3D software and hasn't rendered or 3D animated anything in years let alone rigged anything ever). #if doig and india can make a custom vtuber set-up in a games engine why shouldn't I be able to do it? I too am a trained 2D animator! #(they've only been working on theirs for god knows how long and there's two of them)' #LOOK I know enough games & 3D ppl to ask any questions I might have #I *have* doigswift's content as a reference re vtube specific workflows that might be useful that I can look up #I know it's possible to do #I know it's learnable skills #I learnt blender in 2 weeks for my so-far-limited purposes a few years ago #it'd be a limited amount of modelling and rigging to do which will be a great project to learn that stuff through #and making it a vtuber that can be run through unreal will work great to add to my virtual production & mocap training #and I'll get a cute vtuber out of it #I THINK IT'S DOABLE #oh oh! also I've learnt C++ before which unreal runs on and I am learning more coding as we speak anyway so that might come in handy too!

[whatimdoing-here]

How are you?

A question I never know how to truly answer anymore.

I am... Sad that I feel heavy.

Heavy because of commitments and things I must be even if I want to be those things for those people.

Uncomfortable yet comfortable in my body and brain.

How do I feel. Overwhelmed. At the enormity of it all. The expanse of opposites. The glory in beauty.

Yearning for selfish things and things that can never be. Hunger for dreams that help and haunt. Want.

Worried that I will demolish this life I have. That is comfortable. Comfort that chokes and calms.

Why are there so many aspects to comfort. So many levels and nooks, notches that fit and yet don't. What should or shouldn't be.

Joy in the small moments. Failure in the minute seconds. Beauty in the inbetween.

Tired.

Fine.

#my drafts are a fucking mess of rambling #i add to it often but rarely go through it #its all the same shit that's always in my brain but written down like it might help me #but this one stuck out to me today #so unlike that one time I'm publishing this one on purpose #I'm sorry I'm a lot. I'm posting this at a low traffic part of the day so people miss it #won't scroll back this far at the end of the day #mine

[teotoffee]

(spoilers for the ultrakill violence update under the cut)

Similarities between 7-4 and a certain other video game machine:

Similarities between the Earthmover and an Iterator:

(images from their respective games' wikis)

Massive structures made of both organic and inorganic material (the purposed organisms of the Iterators; the Hell flesh-like material inside the Earthmover)

The "pinnacle" of their creators' inventions, made as a solution to a problem (the Ancients' "Great Problem"; the climax of the Final War's arms race)

Dependant on a liquid (for the Iterator, water; for the Earthmover, blood)

Ravaged the surface ecosystem (the Iterator's exhausts caused deadly torrents and floods; the Final War the Earthmovers were created for "cleansed the world with fire")

Creators forced to live upon its backs due to environmental destruction (Ancient cities on the tops of Iterators; abandoned streets on the back of the Earthmover)

Creators now extinct

#ultrakill #ultrakill spoilers #rain world #me doing anything: how can i relate this to rain world #anyway machines built for a single purpose only to be abandoned by their creators my beloved #might have missed some stuff feel free to add

[valmillion]

source 2 may be a huge upgrade from source 1 but i don't think graphical fidelity is what makes source 1 look "liminal" (that's just nostalgia talking) - you can achieve that same sense of unease if you know even basic level design. lighting is such a crucial part of level design and i hope this is a good example of how lighting can create an atmosphere - i don't even have textures picked out for this map yet but I can still feel that sense of dread i was aiming for in this section from how this directional light makes this doorway look. if anything, source 2's great bounce lighting with raytracing makes it look even creepier (and stops this room from being totally pitch black)

#btw - since this is a counterstrike map that lighted up doorway serves a purpose #it improves visibility of people coming out of this hallway #i might add a window or something to this bit though. it might be too dark to be fair in a balance sense #i think im gonna start tagging these game dev related posts #gamedev thoughts