#wasn't going for a theme or anything

[mikimeiko]

Doctor Who | 60th Anniversary + Christmas Specials (2023), Russel T. Davies

#doctor who #dw #dwedit #i made this gifs right after watching each episode #wasn't going for a theme or anything #but it's there isn't it? #i have such high hopes for the new season #tv shows i watched in 2023 #i made this #i just want a tag for the things i personally put out into the world

[quirkle2]

The tiles are no longer white, and the bathroom looks compressed and scintillated; hotspots of light blare in seething oranges, corners buzz in deep purples, noises manifest in confusing patterns that obscure other patterns. It hurts. The tiles aren’t white anymore. Nothing is quiet. The colors pour in. Shigeo is tired of color.

another scene from rainspeak ! suffered a bit with the colors but i don't ,, Hate this, so up it goes <3

#qkdraws #id in alt #if u tag this as reim*b i'll fucking skin u #i rly enjoyed writing this scene it was rly fun #and hey ! this is the scene i mentioned i wanted to try but wasn't going to cuz i didn't have the skillset yet #uhmm fuck past jay :/ i drew it anyway #i didn't try too hard on the perspective i know it's a bit wonky #but personally i think that adds to the theme <3 #reigen is so funny i Know this is a serious scene n all but .is he even capable of not wearing suits #he's like a kid's cartoon character with his One outfit in all circumstances. like the other characters wear other shit #him tho ? in my head he is Always wearing the suit. i'll break the time space continuum if i put him in anything else #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 mob #mp100 shigeo #shigeo kageyama #mp100 reigen #reigen arataka #eyestrain #cw eyestrain #eyestrain cw

[spookyboris2]

ewwowrs borthday

Just for you anon

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Error by CrayonQueen

#asks #anonymous #utmv #utmv fanart #my art #digital art #utmv au #utmv sans #art #error sans #error!sans #swap sans #swap!sans #wasn't going to draw anything for his borthday but you convinced me #i had no idea how to draw any birthday themed stuff so... #error's hoodie is refrence to one of CrayonQueen's drawings #and swap is here with him to celebrate #happy birthday error #wouldn't have been in the undertale au fanbase without him

[pinkd3mon]

I can respect the hater mentality

#kirby #kots #kirby of the stars #hoshi no kirby #kirby meme #it's honestly hilarious that half the cast of star allies are just people that tried to kill us and most of them aren't even sorry #Taranza at the time was the only redeemed villain in the cast #like yeah magolor went through redemption but we didn't know that he just built a theme park and hoped everything was fine #marx is just not hungry and his text just hints at him still being up to no good #susie is still racist and im not even sure she learn something from her experience #apart from trauma #daroach is here to steal stuff #im still not sure what dark meta knight wanted but nothing good I'm sure #i may be giving Taranza too much credit because he's my favorite he did have ulterior motives #but at most he just wanted to pray for Sectonia's revival he wasn't gonna do anything bad #he is going through stuff of course he's vulnerable to be converted by a cult #he's even like 'probably won't work and it working would honestly be a bad thing but im going to try anyway' #do you think Taranza gets lonely up there #Galacta dying the second we receive the first bit of solid lore about them was straight up evil #and then kumazaki confirmed they killed them because it was funny i was enraged /pos #i know people were tired of Galacta Knight at that point #i mean i wasn't bur i kind of understand why some people may have been #even they were tired they kiled themselves before having to fight us again #do you ever think about how none of the Galacta Knight encounters are canon to the kirby cast but are canon to Galacta #and then their death isn't canon so oops here they come in Kirby clash #retire that is old guy #but actually don't i like them and i want them to appear until they drop dead (again) #the post was meant to be about Galacta never forgiving the ancients but honestly they're probably angry just in general

[smok3inm1rrors]

Your choice of a date is your girlfriend who is fucking your cousin or your childhood best friend who has the romantic capacity of a brick. There's a secret third option of questioning why you can't ever be single, but we all know you'll never choose that one. Happy belated Valentines Day!

#ts4 #the sims 4 #ts4 edit #darrel charm #bianca crumplebottom #morgyn ember #cyrus charm #I wasn't originally going to do anything but got this idea at 11PM last night #This isn't even really a valentines day post lol #it's just darrel slander that's relationship themed

[not-poignant]

hiiii! have you considered releasing tradewinds as a single purchase through a site like gumroad?

Hi anon!

So the reason Tradewinds was shelved and not published like 8 years ago, is because I couldn't find an Aboriginal sensitivity reader willing to read m/m with disturbing themes. I had sensitivity readers for the other side of things (like Matan and his heritage), but I kept either not finding anyone, or the one person I found took my $200 USD deposit and vanished and never spoke to me / responded to any of my emails.

As a result, I was uncomfortable distributing it anywhere broadly, even though I was relatively confident the novel isn't offensive, because I just don't know 100%.

I am a lot more confident releasing it via subscription as an exclusive novel, because the people who pay for subscription are often folks who are a) already used to my style of writing and b) generally know what to expect from me, vs. cold audiences who don't. I'm kind of kicking myself that I didn't realise that Tradewinds would make a great exclusive/paywalled release for subscription, because it means it's only ever going to find a very narrow bandwidth of readers.

Basically if I could release it for single purchase - as basically an ebook - I would have released it like 8 years ago, anon. And the reason I have actually released it this specific way is down to the fact that I'm just not really confident offering it for broader distribution.

That might change one day, if I happen to stumble across a sensitivity reader who is okay with my style of writing, who is reputable + has references (i.e. so I know I won't lose a fair chunk of money in the process, because that burned me pretty badly, not gonna lie). But until then, having Tradewinds be limited is the only way I'm comfortable releasing it at all.

Folks are more than welcome to sign up for one month, download the book (and read any other early access they want) and then leave. They can even just put 'I only wanted one thing and now I have it' in the exit survey so I know what they were there for if they want. Then it's still a single purchase (with some early access extras), and they still access the downloadable file. :)

#asks and answers #tradewinds #merchantverse #tradewinds was shelved not because i think it's a bad book #but because i wasn't comfortable going to broad distribution without a very specific kind of sensitivity reader #it was actually meant to be the series i started publishing with #long before perth shifters existed #and then i realised that through writing a highly diverse cast #i might have actually really hurt the future of the series #and had to shelve the whole thing and all the worldbuilding #i really don't regret tradewinds at all #i like the book and i love the characters #but yeah it was complicated #what i thought would be an 'easy' problem to solve was really difficult in part because #'sensitivity readers' is a very USA concept and certainly was back then #and a lot of the folks i enquired with who did offer sensitivity reading on Aboriginal Australian matters #didn't read m/m or didn't want to read anything problematic / with any disturbing themes #which i can understand #but literally reduced my pool to '0 plus that one person who took $200 USD from me at a time when i had to skip medical appts because of it #i'm sure it would be better now #but i'm also happy to offer a novel to folks who sign up to the patreon / ream account #since that is my main and primary income

[pollyna]

2020!Ice back in '86 would tell Mav about the hop, or at least try to make him understand to take caution against jet washes even if it cost him to come back to an empty bed and a life without Maverick in it.

#i know it's a popular theme but it always makes my brain go dvdhdvdhdb ice would do that 100% #and probably hit himself behind his young self head a little and tell him how proud he is of what he accomplished #he would act like a kindness even knowing the risks #even knowing that he could come back to life without maverick in it and without bradley too #it's not about telling his young self about cancer it's just-being sure that the person he cares the most could be really happy #can u imagine living with the unconscious thought of never being enough to make some happy bc you think if that person wasn't dead he- #-wouldn't even be around? like not something ice thinks about or anything just something that sometimes comes up when he's tired drunk and- #-he goes back to an empty home #i read the ff 'bout mav the sky and ice believing not to be enough and i can't stop thinkin' about this #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #icemav #fix it (of sort) #insecutiry #top gun (1986) #top gun: maverick

[lord-squiggletits]

"Rodimus is a better Prime because it didn't hurt for him to bond with the Matrix while for Optimus it did" headcanon/theory my beloathed.

One day I'm literally gonna snap and make a whole post addressing why what's wrong bc I'm tired of the inaccuracy and tired of ppl not understanding the Point TM of IDW and its version of the Matrix/Primacy and even more tired of people putting down Optimus in favor of Rodimus by essentially arguing that being unworthy means you deserve to be punished/put in pain bc you just weren't good enough to hold the Symbol of Ultimate Authority

#it's wrong on so many levels both in terms of lore and as well as like what the general themes of idw1 are #it's just a validation contest using the matrix as some magical symbol to decide who's the most special #which is ironically something that was a plot point in exrid/OP. specifically how stupid of an idea that is ldskjflksd #ppl revealing that they havent read anything besides mtmte/ll as usual #like half the reason ppl think optimus is a bad prime and rodimus is a good prime is literally bc like #optimus was written by an author who was specifically trying to deconstruct him (sometimes to the point of absurdity) #and rodimus was written by an author who takes a more optimistic/idealistic approach. and is also better at writing #but also like am i seriously the only person who thinks that that argument is fucked up????? #like 'OP felt pain which means he's unworthy/not a real prime/not a true leader' #ok so you think that there's a hierarchy of moral goodness in which anyone who falls short of that Moral Ideal should suffer #as a sign of their unworthiness?? like does that not sound dystopian as hell to any of you?? why would you WANT the matrix to work like tha #even if the theory were true (which it isn't) why would you view the matrix as a good authoritative moral judge of character #if its idea of 'moral judgement' is to inflict pain on anyone who's supposedly not truly good/worthy #wasn't the entire point of the ending of LL (including rodimus being a good leader) that everyone is worth it? #like rodimus literally said 'you ARE damn well good enough' or something like that #so what? everyone else in the universe tries their best and that's enough but somehow when OP suffers it's like #a sign that he's not actually a good prime/leader?? we're really going with the punitive perspective purely for One Guy?? #swear to god ppl are projecting their authority issues onto Optimus the way they shit on him for things they would excuse #if any other character did it #Optimus is uniquely deserving of pain/being marked as unworthy bc idk he was a cop once and that offends my delicate sensibilities #what's even funnier is how much harm was inflicted by rodimus as a captain sheerly due to his stupidity or ego but everyone forgives him #i guess bc as long as the matrix likes him that means he's valid no matter what he actually does as a person #WHICH IS SOMETHING IDW ITSELF ARGUED AGAINST BC A LOT OF THE PRIMES THAT WERE CHOSEN BY THE MATRIX #WERE DICKS AND THE FACT THEY COULD WIELD THE MATRIX DIDN'T MAKE THEM GOOD PEOPLE #like oh my god stop using the matrix as an arbiter of moral authority in idw1 it literally goes against the themes of the story #including the themes that are embodied in rodimus himself #idw op love

[lightdancer1]

See the further irony is:

That in using 'Mall Goth Sauron' as the take on Dark Willow over 'misogynist has character randomly killed for LULZ' it also allows for greater accountability on the one hand and for Season 7 to thematically focus on repairing all this damage in the midst of facing an enemy of shadows reliant on lies to further itself. The only way to break the Druj is the absolute Truth in a very Zoroastrian sense. Characters don't get to neatly skip past accountability for their actions, and this would spiral over into further later seasons with the essential reality that in an otherwise lower-level setting this one random girl from California is a Dark Phoenix-tier reality warper and the most powerful person on the planet, or the universe.

And the questions of how that power could and should be employed on the one hand and that Willow is essentially a Doctor Strange type who beats up Gods and Eldritch Abominations for her regular line of work where her counterparts deal with the more 'street level' crises would in turn be the logical conclusion of where the show ends. She doesn't do as much physical fighting for the same reason that Stephen Strange never uses magic to go punch the Hulk in the face, her narrative role is ultimately that of Sorceress Supreme of Earth, with literally nobody in an ancient established war anticipating that this one random ginger from California was and is the new Sorceress Supreme and that if they had had such awareness the realities are that this power would and could have taken worse forms.

Unfortunately for the world, the reality too is that it is a shy computer geek who has a not at all subtle dark side and the usual teenage anxieties and insecurities given the equivalent of being able to reliably actually do things other people might dream of but can never do.

But again as long as Dawn Summers being a good thing is a narrative convention that's established memory magic is a poor choice to show the corrupting effects of reality-warping. It's a case of 'yes as established in canon all of this is true for that one season but then they decided to retcon it, so the fans are not obligated to care about it any more than the canon does about this itself.'

#willow rosenberg #tara maclay #dawn summers #you will never convince me as long as Dawn Summers is a plot device that 'memory magic unforgivable' is anything but bad writing #it was the choice used but there are other equally toxic things that could have been done instead #the basic theme of 'very powerful person decides things for another in an abusive fashion' works just as well without it #Tara's growth arc in refusing to tolerate abuse even from the person who brought her out of her shell can stand perfectly fine #it works even better with a budding Sauron than abruptly deciding 'wholesale memory rewrites good retail unforgivable.' #killing Tara off also denies her any sense of closure or ability to get that closure with the person who does this #the entire element here with the way things went down is bad writing from Point A to point Z #and it's also easily forgotten but Tara wasn't in fact intended to be Willow's love interest #she was replacement Willow for sympathy points #her entire arc as such became Willow X Tara but it was a choice from actor chemistry #So in giving Tara a role besides 'Willow's Girlfriend' it arguably does better by her character #tara x willow #btvs #and yes yes the 'scale changes things' argument is true but only to a point #it's really no different to introduce Dawn than what Willow did #if the retail is wrong so is the wholesale and the decisions to make this that point of no return is an avoidable mistake #plus honestly imagine a Season 7 Tara going 'sweetie no' and a Season 7 Willow dealing with those consequences in real time #equally one can have Tara's cold turkey approach stick exactly as it was #and serve as her role in the time bomb because she's a product of an abusive family and not an infallible moral guide #she rightly sees the problem and at least tries to address it when nobody else did #but unfortunately her solution was pouring gasoline on the fire and then vacating the range where the fire would burn #still further between that and Willow being human enough to resent being told to take that pain and do it going it alone #there'd be plenty of reasons for a surviving Tara and Willow to spend season 7 broken up as is #Tara would not at all be wrong to be wary and not want to touch reformed Sauron with a 400 foot pole #Willow equally would resent someone whose bad advice helped create the problem and who evades any recognition thereof #good old fashioned drama with entirely human motives

[narsh-potatoes]

DOES ANYONE ELSE WANT TO BITE OFF HEADS WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#i mean this in the most excited affectionate and loving and tism filled way possible #i have no anger in my heart all i have is the love for 15 billion different characters that im currently thinking about #thinking about the 3 dnd characters i do and will play #thinking about the protomen and RRAAAAA #thinking about one piece cuz it makes me want to lose my mind #there's this one other song from a semi obscure vr game that is the opening/title theme and it makes me insane #it was also made into a fake anime opening for warrior cats if you know you know and if you don't i will gladly link it it's amazing #thinkin about dragonball music #thinking about protoman (singular) (not a band) #thinking about ace attorney and wanting to get back into it #thinking about specifically the great ace attorney and how every character in there makes me want to lose my mind #like i would do anything for them i love every character in there #back to ace attorney why is penix right so ffggfGggrghgrgrrrGRGGRRGRGRGRGRRGHAHAAGAGRRGRAGARG #not in That way in a his character development makes me go physically insane way #you affect so many people around you and you give so so much asking very little in return and then youre a snarky bitch in your head!!!!!!! #love that for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #in dgs when [REDACTED AMBI DONT LOOK] and he's the one who changed and aahksljdfhasdlkjfhasdkfjlhsdafhfFGRGGRGRGRAGAGGGAGAA #PROTOMEN ACT 3 THAT ISN'T HERE YET BUT IM SO EXCITED BECAUSE WE HAVE THE FIGHT AND LIKE???? #yknow at first i wasn't completely keen on the song but it DID grow on me and THE HOPE OF MAN #IS NO MACHINE IT'S WEARING HANDS OF SKIN AND BONE #THE SUN WILL RISE I SWEAR IT #I KNOW THATS HOW THE FIGHT ENDS #THE SUN!!! WILL RISE!!!! I!!! SWEAR!!! IT!!!!! #i have an art piece that just sprung into my mind about that song (again) and i need to draw it cuz RRRAAAGAGAAHAHFDKJGHSKAGFAJDSHGFASDF #i don't just need to listen to this song i need to be IN IT #MAN and im also fucking!!!!!!!!!!!!! working on a little 8page comic for class (assignment is already finished but i wanna finish the 8page #anyways) and THAT is also making me excited #that one drawing i did of roll post that song lives rent free in my mind and i wanted to animate her getting up but i didn't finish that so #whatever!!!!! new piece time

[ozlices]

oh yeah i took a curious peak at the yttd manga like. idk. a week ago. i only read the first couple chapters, but. it's... so different. & somehow MORE GRAPHIC???????? i skimmed to see how they handled mishima & somehow it's more traumatizing than the game. wtf.

#mine #is there like. a good site to actually catch up & keep up w it btw cause our usual manga site is behind #yttd #yttd manga #yttd spoilers #i am. VERY curious which route it will go on but it's gonna be a long ass while before it gets to that point #but. like. since it is somewhat different storywise i assume it's an au??? or just not canon???? #idk i dont rly know anything i just knew it existed & i took a curious gander & was traumatized. #& i did it in call w friends & they were like 'hm. maybe. u should not be reading that rn' & i was like. '. u right.' #I DIDNT EXPECT IT TO FUCK W ME THAT MUCH BC I PLAYED THE GAME & IT WAS OBVIOUSLY /A LOT/ #BUT I WAS FINE FOR THE MOST PART CONSIDERING THE THEMES & CONTENT BUT MAN #they rly said 'no no. no how the games did it w the graphic description wasn't enough. they gotta SEE him melt here'. #NO WE DIDNT NEED TO SEE THAT ACTUALLY THE DESCRIPTION LEFT ENOUGH TO THE MENTALLY ILL IMAGINATION TY

[britneyshakespeare]

throughout the series of drake and josh it pretty consistently implies that josh nichols is a christian (josh peck is jewish) and in the finale of the series helen (played by yvette nicole brown, not jewish[?]) is portrayed as a practicing jew

#i dont have a problem w either of those things necessarily i just find it interesting #if i had to guess. drake and josh was a mainstream that didnt wanna touch on religion generally #but josh was kind of a dork and usually when josh's religious beliefs are implied it is in dorkish ways #such as praying and thanking the lord after he has his first kiss. #but since dan schneider is jewish perhaps he wanted to make helen have a jewish wedding in the finale? #not that there needs to be a reason. but u do notice occasional jewish-related jokes in d&j but none of them are what you could call #offensive. in good faith that is. 'eric is a pacifist' 'i thought he was jewish?' like come on #text post #i have been rewatching drake and josh recently and i have had so many thoughts #im almost done. i just have left that stupid dance episode that they premiered last for the stupid reason #of a special dance-themed premiere night in fall 2007. they premiered the third episode of icarly and a new zoey 101 on the same night #which i think is so stupid. they should've aired really big shrimp last. it messed w my understanding of the series at the time lol #i remember not really knowing that the show was ENDING. like i knew icarly was starting & miranda was doing that #i thought really big shrimp was like just another special like go hollywood. #and then like two days later they premiered the helicopter episode for some reason #and i was like why is drake not famous in this. he just had a number 1 song in a superbowl commercial #and then a month later the dance one. which. if anything is satisfying about that as a final episode it's just that #that unnamed girl from the blues brothers episode who is obsessed w drake shows up again and congratulates them #and the very final line of the series is 'who is she?' because. because really who IS she? #that's a funny enough throwback to wrap things up with i suppose #drake and josh wasn't a highly serialized show so i can see how they could air those after the intended finale and act like it didn't matte #but i have to tell you it did fuck with my brain a bit at the time. lol. i still think of those episodes as having 'happened' after #and on paramount plus those episodes are still placed after really big shrimp. the injustice #but thats kinda messy. what a weird way to end such an influential and popular sitcom #season 4 had a few lowpoints while still also having some VERY solid episodes. #idk. ill have to continue my series review another time im getting way too longwinded here #helen dubois is jewish

[ink-asunder]

I feel *so strongly* about Suzume and it's not even for ME what the Fuck

#yeah i get the overarching theme of survival and mundane lives being precious applies more or less to everyone #but i IMMEDIATELY recognized that the movie was about natural disasters in japan and the population's collective trauma about it #the earthquake warnings throughout the film. and the scene after the first door where it showed people talking about the damages it caused #even how the worm/the Gates/the keystones as a way to abstract and mythologize natural disasters that were out of their control #it was so personal and intentionally designed. #throughout the film i kept thinking 'i wonder what the reception to this film in Japan was.' #meaning i wonder if it meant anything to anybody in japan or if it was just A Movie that no one cared about #i read a couple interviews and Shinkai stated in one that he was afraid of going to the area that was most affected by the 2011 quake #and some survivors in the area WERE offended that anyone would make a fantasy movie about it. #but an overwhelming number of people who considered themselves victims of the tsunami encouraged shinkai and said #that the movie told them things they needed to hear #idk creative work about trauma is SO IMPORTANT TO ME. even if it wasn't for me in any way it's so precious #suzume no tojimari #suzume spoilers

[ravenxbones]

🎃 PUMPKINHEART WISHES YOU A HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2023! 🎃

plain version under the cut!

#warrior cats #warriors #warriors oc #oc tag #hallowclan #pumpkinheart #i thought i wouldn't be getting anything out for halloween this year tbh like i didn't have any writing done #and the drawing i was TRYING to do made me so frustrated and was turning out so bad that i new i wasn't going to have time to finish it #like i would have had to either put in SO much work to fix it or completely start over. either way i didn't have time #soooooo i changed what i was going to do to something simpler. and its still thematic because pumpkinheart and her whole clan are already #halloween themed :) yay #anyways. hope you guys still like it #even though its not the halloween killjoys drawing i HAD been planning. boo #also hi. i'm queuing this at 3 am #and i am terrified. of mcr doing something. if i seem calm rn it is because now at 3 am nothing has happened yet. #so if something HAS happened when you see this know that i am not doing well. thanks

[allegorism]

every single pmmm enjoyer that i've ever met has been insufferable. the inferiority complex they feel w media like utena or sailor moon is just laughable.

#this is not about current mutuals btw #this is about *gestures* the fandom #actually wait just remembered #an exmutual once saw a pmmm vs rgu poll that i reblogged and they (pmmm enjoyer from age 12 or something) got SO upset over rgu winning #(the poll wasn't even closed yet but pmmm Was losing by a big margin) #that they then reblogged the poll from me saying OH OFC RGU IS WINNING. OFC. SHITTY WEBSITE #and then blacklisted rgu adding a post like 'actually i think rgu is MID it was BABYS FIRST YURI WITH THEMES it wasnt even THAT good' #and the next days they were still so upset that they reblogged some unrelated poll posts going #'i hate poll posts how can i stop seeing them' under the tags of said unrelated polls #i have to laugh because to go joker mode over a pmmm vs rgu yuri poll is. wow. #not going to name drop them bc i don't want drama but it Is a current mutual in law #like i think most of the mutuals follow them. i mean i did until i blocked them #(not over anything serious btw it was just not the energy i wanted to see) #this had been sitting on my drafts for so long. time to release it into the wild #mona.txt

[waitineedaname]

ritsu has the flavor of nd where he went undiagnosed for years bc his sibling's autism was much more obvious to people so he slipped through the cracks

#source: me #my sibling's sensory issues were much more obvious than any of my stuff #so she got diagnosed with sensory processing disorder #but bc I wasn't as obvious with my symptoms I never got diagnosed with anything #and didn't realize I might have something going on until high school lol #and I think the same goes for ritsu #bc mob's autism is much more visible #and ritsu's like ''well I don't have the same things going on as my brother so I guess I must be neurotypical'' #<- clueless. dumbass doesn't realize autism is a spectrum #it doesn't even occur to him that he might be nd until he's dealing with a sensory overload #and shou is like ''dude have you ever talked to anyone about your sensory issues?'' ''my what?'' ''oh my god.'' #personally i think ritsu is in the weird gray zone between autism and ocd #I'm totally not projecting at all haha what are you talking about <3 #also I think him masking a lot fits into the theme with him having to fit into roles other people assigned to him and hiding his true self #part of him learning to be more honest about himself involves him not masking as much. peace and love #anyway welcome to sol's Ritsu Thoughts Hour #time to go back to getting ready to post a fic where I put him through hell👍