#used a lot of dots this time

[zarla-s]

I was cleaning up some broken links on my old silly Pokemon fansite, the Neglected Pokemon Lovers Unite (NPLU), and I realized that it has now been open for 25 years. TWENTY. FIVE. YEARS. That is an ASTONISHING amount of time for a site to stay open! Even if the last substantial update was like back in 2009 lol. The world around it has changed so much, but I think it's still valuable as a time capsule of a certain time on the internet. I wrote up a new essay about it on the site and did some general clean-up here and there.

Anyway to that end, since so much of the fic and art there is so old, I decided to compare Radic's oldest form to his newest! Radic was always a human boy but I just couldn't draw humans at the time so I made him a furry lol. Eventually I figured it out.

I also thought it'd be a neat challenge to mimic my own style back when it was really wonky and bad. And it was! It was kind of fun actually. I don't have too many shots of Radic from back then (it was hard to get art on the internet in the late 90's-early 00's), but I do have a few - hugging Kitsune, two old kiribans if you want to compare. I had a lot more old shots of Parasects though to reference unsurprisingly, they were very triangular lol. I think I did a pretty good job of matching what my art used to look like. I had a clear see-through Gameboy back in the day if you can't tell what Radic is holding lol.

("Isn't Radic the faceless avatar of your gamer self as depicted in Handplates-" yes, but Pokemon!Radic is the only one that actually became his own character, all the rest are shells)

If you do go poking around the NPLU, please keep in mind that almost everything there is very old and most of the fic and art is pretty bad (and shockingly violent). Plz do not judge me! My younger self was a cringey weeb but she was trying very hard. :<

[patreon]

#pokemon #z art #radic #callima #parasect #man i haven't drawn a parasect in ages i forgot how fun it is #my crabshroom babies #i always get tempted to just delete all the links to my old art but people always tell me not to #they like seeing it?? which always baffles me but i'm trying to accept that there's something worthwhile about them lol #radic is blind so he's not using the switch he's just holding it #maybe for red? idk #there was this odd stretch where i was using dot eyes #then switched to big anime eyes #then smaller anime eyes #then back to dots again #time is a circle... #i also used to use ^_^ CONSTANTLY #thus the ^_^ by old radic there #i've seen a lot of old web trends get revived but not hit awards/kiribans #for some reason #hit counters sure webring sure affiliates sure awards and adoptables sure #but celebratory things for reaching a hit marker? haven't seen a lot of those lately

[heartorbit]

SPARKLE ON ✨✨✨

#project sekai #pjsk #prsk #emu otori #gif #blinking #proseka #sparkle on! #i was gonna queue this for wednesday but thats so painful for me so happy wonderhoy its wednesday sunday #kirakira dokidoki mochimochi puyopuyo wakuwaku wasshoi #i went through hell and high water and like 8 online free glutterbtext gif generator websites to find the exact font #thank you glittertextonline dot com #ive thought about drawing a lot of jerma bullshit as wxs. plesde be thankful that im focusing on artfight #the nene985 dollhouse is still on my mind. i wanna draw her leaping out of that window really bad #idk what to type here since this is like a week i advance and i wont remember scheduling this in about 20 minutes. ummmm #OHHH I HOPE MY GUITAR IS FIXED BY THE TIME THIS POSTS I FOUND A USED AMP FOR MY BIRTHDAY ^___^ I WANNA PLAY YIPPEEEEE #anyways.... be who you are. shalalalaaaa ^_^

[cobaltfluff]

so i started playing persona 4

where are the QoL features

#persona series #art tag #ACK I FORGOR TO COLOUR THE BITS BEHIND HAIR nvm #i have no idea how to tag this!! #i fear what original p3 might have been like #i feel like a fake gamer man #like how did you guys do that #i feel like i would have given up if it was the first one i played #i am too stupid!! #im glad i have played through 5 and 3re #i am somewhat used to the flow of the game and the ability names #otherwise i would be STRUGGLING for my LIFE i tell you #like to be fair i dont think it's a huge world #BUT LIKE PLEASE IM LOST IN MY OWN HOUSE #also these protags are basically my OCs at this point #i borrow their canon personalities #and reshape them into something i like more hehehehe #edit: im crying im getting lowkey flamed on tweeter dot com #i just meant it as in joker spent a lot of time in tokyo!! one year changes a man!! #I KNOW inaba is small!! but QoL additions are always good!! #i get the appeal!! that you use your brain!! #you spend enough time to know the place!! but it's called QoL features not NECESSARY features!! #im cryin the boys ate just bantering #you can even read it as yu being like LOL you're a city boy now huh?? hahaha #now i really am fighting for my life and mental

[seagull-scribbles]

Happy Ides of March

#animaniacs #yakko wakko and dot #yakko warner #wakko warner #dot warner #the warner siblings #animaniacs 2020 #ahhhh happy ides of March #I like to think they are on their way to spontaneously attack someone on the lot #most likely dr scratchinsniff #maybe the ceo #affectionately of course #it is in no shape or form because they enjoy causing problems on purpose #used warmer tones then I usually do to try convey the warmth and happiness I feel during this time #only quick and messy #this is in my queue I hope I don’t hate it when it posts but it’s only been a week so probably not #what a joyous occasion if anyway wants to add any headcanons onto this let me know would love to see

[mitchmotch]

day 3 of 30 minute sketch mondays with @revalito! this time with jack zimmermann ^^ (he's 100% looking at bitty)

#jack zimmermann #check please #omgcp #omgcp fanart #sketches #i drew this with a huge migraine so its not as refined as i would have liked it to be but thats ok ! these are sketches for a reason #also i know this is a bit out of nowhere but! i used to draw a lot for check please when i was in high school #so it was fun to revisit ^^ ive been wearing my falcs shirt lately so ive been thinking about them #i think one day id like to redraw my old stuff i did it would be fun i think #even as embarrassing as some of that stuff is now ^^; its still out there somewhere! i posted it all on my oldest tumblr account #anyways. i still hold check please dear to my heart to this day #i found it at a time i needed it the most yknow how it is #its free to read and i highly recommend it if youre interested! #@ checkpleasecomic dot com :) #if u read all of this thank you! i hope u had/have a wonderful day

[velociraptorsaurusrex]

1x02 Tempered Steele // Casablanca (1942) // 1x18 Steele in the News // 2x03 Red Holt Steele // Reborn, Susan Sontag // “Divers,” Divers, Joanna Newsom // 1x17 Steele Among the Living // “Kingfisher,” Have One on Me, Joanna Newsom // 1x11 Steeling the Show // 1x10 Steele Trap // 1x07 Etched in Steele // combined translations of Ovid's Pygmalion // 3x05 Blue Blooded Steele // 1x12 Steele Flying High // 3x01 Steele at It // Pygmalion and Galatea, W.S. Gilbert, Act I, pp15 // “The Creation to the Creator,” Mildred Pluma Foulke // 2x04 Altared Steele // 2x19 Dreams of Steele // Genesis 1:27 // 3x06 Steele Your Heart Away // Genesis 2:23 // 3x21 Steele Trying // Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, pp179 // “To Helen,” Frank Marshall Davis // Herman Melville letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nov. [17?] 1851 // 2x01 Steele Away With Me // “Act,” León Salvatierra, trans. Javier O. Huerta // 4x01 Steele Searching // “Corpse Song,” Margaret Atwood // Job 10:8-9 // The Eye, Vladimir Nabokov, pp?? I only have an ebook // Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, 2.2.46-55 // 4x02 Steele Searching // 4x07 Premium Steele // Dark Passage (1947) // “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman // “Now I Become Myself,” May Sarton // “Sacred Emily,” Gertrude Stein // “Recreation,” Audre Lorde // s1 intro voiceover

#hello remington steele fans on tumblr dot com. i present to you. my thesis statement. #remington steele #laura holt #pierce brosnan #stephanie zimbalist #80s tv #remington steele edit #long post #the citations are in chronological order of use in the piece HOWEVER i did not repeat citations that were already used #for example i quote 1x02 and 4x01-4x02 a lot but I only list them the first time. #if anyone wants more detailed citations please feel free to ask me though... i know my shit.......... #web weaving #quotes #poetry

[callmewishful]

Just when you thought I’ve abandoned you, here I am to ruin your dash

#you know Rodrigue is singing ‘dot dot not a lot’ in his head #Matthias doesn’t want to use a glue stick that way #but he gets angry when he uses less glue the first time and has to do it again #so here we are #rodrigue achille fraldarius #lambert egitte blaiddyd #matthias raoul gautier #gilbert pronislav #jeralt eisner

[akechi-if-he-slayed]

liking south park (and having a BLOG or other account for it thereby engaging in fan art and fanfic) and then acting like you’re on a moral high ground for openly proclaiming your hatred of kyman and its shippers is like being in hell and saying well im better than that guy because he did something worse than me to get here!! like. who gives a shit we’re all in the same hellscape can we please play NICE with each other??? good god i know our favs are fourth graders but that doesn’t mean we have to act like literal children too

#like!!! #you’re just lame and sad :( #and lowkey a loser because why do people keep wanting to start kyman discourse on tumblr dot net #like YES it’s an iffy ship for a lot of people NO kyman shippers are not inherently antisemitic or racist?? #get a life pls #kyman discourse is a horse beaten well beyond death can we please just accept it’s not for everyone and stop shaming those who like it #pls #kymans get behind me #kyman #south park #kyman is not my fav ship #u guys know im a style girlie through and through #but i ain’t gonna lie i look at some kyman art and enjoy it from time to time!! #also ive been this lately and it’s been driving me mad: #KYMAN HATERS ARE NOT OPPRESSED #HATING KYMAN IS THE MOST POPULAR OPINION IN THIS FANDOM #IT IS NOT UNPOPULAR #if u hate it so much either only use the following tab or just block kyman. #u are not woke u like South Park. Please remember this.

[nudibutch]

had to quietly square off with two men 4x my size for 20 min at the club last night w my sister and cousin bc they were big mad i was guarding drinks and clocked them as predators immediately and i just really need a femme to hold me right now bc i am so tired after my adrenal response kicked in for what felt like half an hour after and didnt get back home till 1am and got shit sleep

#they came up to us VERY CLOSE and asked what RACE WE WERE? 'because yall look a little different' #[we're part arab] #i was also the ONLY gay person there #it was just wee woo wee woo these guys are looking to roofie or hate crime #one of them was PISSED i was there and clearly sober he kept purposefully looking over his shoulder at me and holding eye contact #and i was like oh god we have to get out of here dot gif #run 'fight or flight dot exe'? #i wish so much in that moment there was a femme there to stand with me to be my secondary diffuser when i wanted to tell them to shove off #and hold me after #my sister was good at diffusing but i was very clearly pissed i did not make it subtle i was squaring off with 2nd guy the whole time #w new TN drag ban bill though i just #it was a lot #the whole thing was a lot #like they could have been anyone #sex traffickers weird creeps undercover cops #i need to get jacked. like if im gonna continue coming down here. i have to get jacked. for my own safety #slug.personal

[w0rmyz]

another one of fish and 9-ball

#fish is my sona/oc #with every passign day they become more oc and less sona LMAO but its okay #i can still use them for silly things #ANYWAY #actual tags now #bomb rush sona #bomb rush cyberfunk oc #bomb rush cyberfunk dot exe #oc x canon #selfship #dot exe brc #brc dot exe #brc 9 ball #brc #brcf #brc oc #if i had a nickel for every time i named my self insert fish and then they devolved into this grey area between oc and sona id have two #which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice #the other one is mahi (my splatoon sona) #their name means fish in farsi so YANNOW it counts

[unhhhhbelievable]

#okay but the brush against the ankle #why does it feel so.. *something* #them being so impressed with how well they match #like they haven't both worn black and white polka dots at the same time #like the boy versions of themselves don't dress the exact same #also Trixie very gently saying THIS COULD BE US BUT YOU PLAY TOO MUCH ended me #i have a lot to say about this iltw #happy halloween ghouls and gays #katya zamolodchikova #trixie mattel #iltw #my gifs

[skeletalheartattack]

"BLJ" actually stands for Biden Long Jump <isnt sure if youre aware of mario 64 speedrunning technique backwards long jump

and if joe biden was put into half life 2 he'd do an "ABH", as in: Accelerated Biden Hop

#ask #catboygirljoker #oh of coarse i know the mario speedrun tech #i was doing that shit when i was like 6 #i cant remember how we learned it but id have to imagine either before or after learning about gamewinners dot com #we used that site for like. everything. especially when we were trying to find blue coins in mario sunshine #speaking of mario. im reminded recently of something didyouknowgaming brought up in a mario 64 video #specifically that the 1-up hidden in whomps fortress's tower behind the breakable wall #and they were like ''oh this was found recently'' (as of the posting of that video) but me and my family knew about it when i was a kid #i couldnt tell you how we knew but. i remember breaking open the wall as a kid through my foggy memory #also as for hl2. recently been doing another run on my new computer. #specifically another gravity gun only run. this time on hard mode just to make sure its possible for me to humanly do #which. i got past the part i thought wouldve been an insane roadblock for me to get past #i have a lot of fun doing the challenge. this is like my 3rd or 4th time doing it. #granted the first few times i did it. it was more me trying to figure out the least ammount of weapons to finish the game. #which my goals with the first few times was like... me just playing through relatively normally without too much speedrun tech #which mainly avoided doing prop jumping. only because i thought it wouldve been much harder than it truely is. #i am a little sad that if i do happen to stream my go-through of the run that it may not be as magical to watch with me knowing what to do #i dont know if id feel confident in streaming at any point in the future. im hugely self conscious #but anyway thank you for your biden tech!!! :)

[yerifes]

a very happy birthday to my favorite manga of all time

bonus silly confetti gif:

#silver diamond #manga #sugiura shiho #hello remaining silver diamond fans on tumblr dot com #ive returned #i didnt have a lot of time to make this stuff #its the busiest time of the year at my job and im working overtime this week #but its ok #i like that the edit looks like the ones i used to make in high school #my edit

[unhonestlymirror]

Many of you, guys, perceive Lithuania the same way English colonizers perceived Indian women in sari. Shall I tell you this story?

#it's not like I mind ships or national clothes but i wish there were more different perspectives on actual history and actual culture #for example people who draw India or Kazakhstan #every time it's just their national clothes. which is okay but #i wish they drew India as a YT mathematician because yk #Indians are veeeery famous for explaining difficult problems easily #India is not their folk clothes only and perceiving it as such is no different from imperialistic thinking #same with Qazaqstan. you guys know they don't dress like that on daily basis right? #you guys know they're the richest Asian country right? #I've never seen people drawing e.g. Lithuania just interacting with any other country except the popular ships #where are my jokes about India being a second great grandparent to Lithuania??? #Lithuanian language is considered to be the closest to Sanskrit. also Lithuania loves Krishnaits #come on man use your imagination and ability to read news and connect the dots it's not that hard and it's not forbidden #where is Lithuania interacting with England?? they have lots of business together. #where is Lithuania listening to USA complaining about UK?? it's such a wide space for jokes and funny jokes #which i don't draw because i have studies #where is Lithuania interacting with Italy? google Bona Sforza #you guys perceive Lithuania like some kind of isolated colony. and you do the same shit with Ukraine and Belarus and Latvia and-

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

analyzing hermes, emet-selch, the ancients and ascians, how they're written, and the fandom's reaction to them be like hm. emet-selch's role in this fuckery is compounded by the fact that his backstory as a genocide survivor is incongruous with his ruling a huge genocidal colonialist world power in the present da [ANTISEMITISM BLAST]

#ffxiv #ffxiv hermes #emet-selch #i have Posts in Me to write up about the subject but like you can maybe immediately start connecting some dots here lmao #hermes and the ancients lie at the intersection of A Lot of Shit That is Very Important to Me #the vast majority of it having to do with gaslighting in various different forms #one of those posts is going into how his story reminds me eerily of what Questioning Things in an abusive evangelical environment is like #and how the fandom instantly jumping straight to OH SO YOU THINK THE ANCIENTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN GENOCIDED IS THAT IT #YOU THINK THEY SHOULD BE INFANTILIZED AND CIVILIZED BY THE SUPERIOR MORALS OF YOUR OWN CULTURE IS THAT IT #and start throwing around words like 'sympathizer'; if you say 'hermes was right about some shit actually' #'what we see of the ancients' society is full of inexcusably horrific shit which does not get a pass for ~different values~' #smacks strongly to me of evangelical crybullying in the name of Cultural Sensitivity #and how people use 'well it's not my business what other cultures think is right or wrong' as an excuse to throw up their hands and #disengage from actually learning about or supporting the people in those cultures who know and are working within it to fight bigotry #amazingly enough 'racism and misogyny and queerphobia are bad' is not an idea exclusive to western cultures lmfao #your job if you engage is to seek out those people--across the spectrum of opinions and relationships to their culture's issues! #they're not a monolith!--and spread that information; and listen to what they ask of you when they tell you what kind of help they need #but that's complicated; and takes time and care and thought and effort and connecting to marginalized people #talking over activists and victims of the societal issues they live with; and telling them they're the same as colonizers; is easy-peasy #like i cannot stress enough here that hermes Is an Ancient. He Lives Here. He Knows His Society and Thinks About It a Lot #He Wants to Salvage It and is Specifically Fucked Up About Feeling Like He Can't Trust People Around Him for Input #WoL doesn't barge in and start telling the ancients what's what; they find the person who Cares and back him up that he's not crazy or alon #anyway there's a lot here but it is uh. a Lot. the ways in which the game blends up christianity and judaism here. #including the fact that between the two; the default cultural values and dynamics align more with christian associations of Conformity #(the game is by japanese creators and i feel like that's A Factor too; but there are Eerily Accurate evangelical things going on here) #and people cape for the ones who are Most Evangelical about it + the one whose Compelling Aspects are all antisemitic as fuck tropes #whereas the brown guy who grapples with his faith and worldview; who questions and challenges and argues with others in his ethnoreligion #and tries to look for perspective and deeper meaning + Improve Society Somewhat; gets torn apart in the worst faith possible by the fandom #ffxivtag #warning: worm grass

[acetechne]

gearing up to start drawing again and i’ve been reflecting on why i draw and why it frustrates me when people say they cant draw or could never draw or whatever and, okay, yes i have spent years doing this for reasons which would involve a whole nother post than what i’m actually thinking about at the moment but i digress

i think people get self conscious of their art because they think if they don’t want to put the time in or get to a certain level that art isn’t worth pursuing at all and today i am breaking down your door and i am sitting down on the floor with you and i am telling you listen: the reason to do art is not to post it and it isn’t to be good at it and it isn’t to draw every leaf on every tree. the reason to do art is because you are a magician and you are putting a little guy there that wasn’t there before. and then later you can open your book of little guys and be like :)

“oh but I couldn’t” shh! SHUT! i am TELLING you RIGHT NOW that if you draw the worst little guy possible and you look at that little guy and you laugh and smile, then that literal 60 seconds it took you to draw that is more worth all of the years that i spent learning to draw because i desperately wanted people to notice and appreciate and be friends with me in school (and yes, occasionally it does happen but mostly in my experience that motivation backfires because half the people just want shit for free but wouldn’t give you the time of day and half the people are too intimidated to even talk to you). maybe it’s because i’m old now but who cares about that shit, you draw because it’s good to create something and look at it and smile because it’s yours and it belongs to you and you did that.

#if you go draw a little guy right now i will put a gold star on your forehead #i dont even need to see it #do you like sparkle? draw sparkle. #thinking about this because out of all the art i do on a daily basis that one of my most beloved drawings is literally like #a pierogi with dot eyes and stick legs that i drew in 30 seconds #people want that guy everywhere and when they see it they think it's so charming #and i used to be like why does no one look at the pieces i spend 4 hours on #and now i think of it as like wait a second i have an amazing superpower to draw really fast and make people smile lots #it took a long time to see past my own insecurities but man #i am telling you it doesn't start for you until you just content yourself with the fact that you like to draw your little guy #and im using guy in the most gender neutral possible way #that can be your blorbo that can be your pet that can be your creepy lamb with hands like my sister drew once #anyway i'm done im gonna go draw those little guys you sent me now #hapo text #sorry i cant draw i just realized i didnt actually eat today brb