#well. some context. not a lot really

[motherspores]

hwhuh?

[i.d: a screenshot of a death message from the hermitcraft chat. it reads "impulseSV was poked to death by a sweet berry bush while trying to escape impulseSV". /end id]

#hermitcraft 10 #hermitcraft #impulsesv #seen in bdubs latest episode with the trees for context #well. some context. not a lot really #edit: like not even 5 minutes later impulse blows himself up with fireworks #guys who love to die for any reason

[hajihiko]

the sketch turned out pretty so here no context its sap night tonight

#I mean you can makeup the context lol you know what I'm about #Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #an art #Last time I was high I read some RvB fabrics and yknow how your senses get all messy. Well I felt the idea of violence very viscerally #Violence and pain sucks yknow. Being around it a lot must really be upsetting on a psych level #So anyway. Be niceys to one another

[mcrunchybones]

something something photography being the art of memory and recording and basil being the photographer something something the way hes always the witness and never the subject and maybe he doesnt think he deserves to be the subject something something taking a photograph being the act of freezing a moment in time forever and basil (and sunny by extension) never being able to grow up and move on from what they witnessed the day mari died

#idk i have a lot of thoughts abt the choice to have basil be a camera guy as a photographer myself #the fact that he only takes photos of his friends mostly and kinda stumbled upon it as a kid #but also the way it suits him so well as a character both personality wise and narratively #and idk if omocat put that much thought into the choice of making basil a photographer #but some of the photos in the photo album are really artistically used #esp during the part where its revealed what happened the day of maris death #and using the photos as a framing device for the events that took place #and just. how theyll never forget. just like in a photograph #also curious to see what healing would look like under this context #maybe basil starts taking pictures of his plants more #or just the ppl and things he loves and picking up the camera again after a long time #maybe he lets someone else behind the camera and lets himself be the subject of someone elses photo for once #just some thoughts #basil omori #sunny omori #omori #omori spoilers #text post

[valeriannnn]

I know little of the Keepers and their cultural norms, but I suppose it should not come as a surprise that matters of grooming and personal maintenance should carry a more pragmatic connotation for those who live in such isolation - or perhaps our friend is simply strange, regardless of his context. I must admit: it was no small comfort to me, in those frigid days heralding the twilight of the Dragonsong War, to discover that our champion did not share our Sharlayan intuition toward personal space. Our more guarded companions don't always share my gratitude for the attention, but I believe that after our long estrangement, even the coldest of hearts could not fail to be warmed by such a gesture.

Wolcred Week 2024 Day 1: Warmth | Home

ok as mentioned in the tags i didnt have time to render a complete scene for this but i found this old mspaint sketch that demonstrates the Vibe. tyagoa just walked up behind him after cleaning up from their meal

#ffxiv #wolcred #wolcred week #wolcred week 2024 #valerianart #caption is alphinaud journal entry #please imagine everyone is making camp and sitting down i simply did not have time to draw the wider context U_U #to be perfectly transparent i am doing the prompts kind of ass backwards and the degree of effort varies #but come sit with me and imagine #we can hold hands if you want #anyway tyagoa does a lot of Fussing post-vault #at the time it's really the only tell that things are. well. you know how things are. #i think little grieving alphie would soak that up like a sponge but it would come as quite the shock to the other returning scions #shtola probably had to set some polite but firm boundaries #but tyagoa would appreciate that #he likes knowing what his friends like #and vhasoa was frequently touch-averse so he doesnt take it as an insult or anything #anyway i think it's a combo of [gestures to heavensward] and the way that traveling through the wilderness with a small group feels like #well #like home to him #that kind of shortcuts through all the Eorzean Social Customs that he's learned to navigate #i hc his tribe as being very casually tactile with each other #to the extent that something like this doesn't even register as intimacy #not to him anyway LOL

[chirpsythismorning]

The Bizarre Love Triangle playlist is finally here!

📝 ☎️ 🎨 🛼 🌈⏮️ 🫀 💡

I've been working on this playlist for almost a year now, sharing piece by piece slowly with gifs accompanied by lyrics, which are meant to encapsulate what I think each of these characters were feeling at the time. This playlist goes in order narratively, so if you want the full experience, be sure to click start below to see where it all begins!

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Tracklist

You're the Inspiration

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

This Is the Day

The Great Pretender

You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

Who Can It Be Now?

I Need You

Bizarre Love Triangle

You've Really Got a Hold of Me

I'm Not In Love

Words

Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Dust in the Wind

I've Been Losing You

I Want to Break Free

Enjoy the Silence

Secret

Always on My Mind

The Chain

It's Too Late

How Can I Be Sure?

Alone Again (Naturally)

Alone

Just the Two of Us

The Promise

Never My Love

At Your Best (You Are Love)

Landslide

Wouldn't It Be Nice

The Flame

Is This Love

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) - BONUS TRACK

I Know There's Something Going On

Slippin' Through My Fingers

More Than Words

If I Can't Have You

What You Won't Do for Love

Total Eclipse of the Heart

Time For Me To Fly

I Will Survive

Blue Moon

If You Leave

Somebody to Love

Don't Dream It's Over

#bizarre love triangle playlist #stranger things #happy stranger things day #a present from me to you! #byler #platonic elmike #willel twins #mike wheeler #will byers #el hopper #music #things to know: #-- you have to be familiar with the color theory to understand why I chose: red for el / blue for mike / yellow for will #-- some songs fit perfectly for the moment while others only have like one or two lines that fit so keep this in mind #-- there are a few songs that have titles that match the title/context of the songs that follow them and that was merely a coincidence #-- it would've been cool if el getting track 11 / will getting track 12 was a coincidence but that was entirely intentional <3 #-- will and el both have 13 songs while mike has 17 songs #that's bc this playlist actually started out as a mike playlist with the same title bc bizarre love triangle is just literally his pov #but then i came across songs that fit really well with both will and el's pov and so i switched it to a trilogy of sorts #there also just happen to be a lot more songs that match with mike's pov more than the other two #el's pov is a lot of questioning whether your s/o loves you back and the shift from that to letting go and being happy/moving on #so there's only so many songs that fit into that #will's pov is sort of loving wholeheartedly in the most pure way while also feeling like that person will never return those feelings #there are a lot of love songs from that pov but more often than not they have lyrics that fit more with mike's pov than will's #there's definitely songs on here that fit with both will and mike's pov but it just turned out it fit mike's more in the moment #mike's pov is sort of a mixture of both will and el's where he assumes his love is unrequited / has fears about letting go of what he knows #mike's pov is also not in the forefront in s4 as much as we're used to it being previously so this offers a nice glimpse into his thoughts #-- the bonus track contains the pov of the entire bizarre love triangle and it's epic #-- also keep an eye out for some special features! #Spotify

[xisanamii]

"i want to give my blood and follow in your shadow."

i felt the need to doodle this scene from sannan-san hakumyu because like... it's just so endearing? shion's chizuru really captures the wholehearted dedicated pining she has for him in his route (i mean, you really gotta CHASE this man). honestly she's in top three of my favorite chizurus. and of course, teruma's sannan-san really did grow on me. i was used to mikata's sannan-san (since i'm a hakumyu boomer), but i adore both their portrayals and voices.

haven't drawn hakuouki in a hot minute, but it'll always have a special place in my heart.

#sannan keisuke #yukimura chizuru #hakuouki #hakumyu #sanchi #salmon arts #riri arts #honestly i could draw more from this musical but i chose the scene that isn't in the game but is unique to the performance #it was just... so good #i will say romance wise i felt it more from shion!chizuru than teruma!sannan-san but #it kinda fit the vibes #context so for some reason i've been just decided to keep playing the hakumyus in the background while i draw #i have looped sannan-san's hakumyu arc a billion times at this point #i still really do miss the original hakumyu cast members but the new ones have kinda grown on me #and in any case i have rewatched the older ones a lot too lmao #kazama-hen (first one) and heisuke-hen will always be my favorites #character wise sannan-san is still my bias tho lmao #well you already knew that if you've followed me for a while i'm just rambling for anyone new #anyway that's it i took a break to draw this scene because i felt the URGE #tsukikage no shou localization when?

[jestroer]

I'm not usually a person to post on many serious matters not regarding fandom on here, but as someone who watched a lot of his stuff and posted about him in the past a bunch, I just wanted to say that I'm no longer am going to interacting with any of Wilbur's content and if you support Wilbur Soot then please don't follow my blog because you are not welcome here. All strength and love to Shubble in this ✊

#just felt i should adress this stuff cause its. yeah #its so messed up #his music really helped me through some messed up stuff and even if i wanted to listen to it now i couldn't even enjoy it i don't think #its just. man #i havent been watching much of sbi and their friends since technos passing but like. this still is such a punch for some reason #glad shubble is in a better situation now and that she had the strength to come out with this. this is such a mess #tw abuse #Wilbur soot #im not gonna make more posts about it or rb much stuff if its not support for shubble #cause i try really hard to have my blog be a positive space for myself and for people who enjoy my art and my blog #but like. wilbur is such a godawful person and its like. with dream i just always thought he was annoying asshole #if not an absolutely awful person although you know i don't rule it out #but with Wilbur like. i never thought about him this way and now that i do a lot of stuff feels. well bad #there are a lot of things that seem really bad with this context. #its just. man. what a fucking asshole. don't even have words for this

[quatregats]

This is probably Bush and also Pullings's native dialect (though I have many MANY doubts about what exactly the methodology being used here was)

#they have texts and they have informants and they have the informants read the text but i'm not really sure how that's supposed to work #anyways this is definitely the dialect pullings grew up speaking since afaik he's the son of hampshire farmers #apparently chichester is in area 5 as well so also falls under this categorization #this is very unrigorous research btw. please take everything i am saying with a grain of salt i'm just fiddling around with an old book #i'll look for a good basic primer on history/dialectology of english at the library at some point perhaps #i do not have the historical context/cross-references to verify any of this guy's claims #i just really like dialect and english-language ones are so much fun what with all the crazy vowel combos #and apparently lots of rhoticity??? he's claiming this accent was also rhotic which is a little insane #would love to read a history of rhoticity in english tbh #perce rambles #adventures in historical sociolinguistics #percy yells at cecil scott #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #if you go to the source there's a lot of texts in this section i just picked one

[holocene-sims]

a sneak peek for an upcoming (timeline tbd) update 😊

#holocene.txt #hlcn: story extras #consider this a thanks for the kind words on gratitude day :) #i wanna respond to everyone individually when i have time and also wax poetic about how much every comment means to me #it really does mean a lot #it's been a rough year and a very lonely year like i'm genuinely just so :/ #i lost both of my grandmothers this year very suddenly and the holidays feel empty now and i'm dealing with scary health issues #i finally had a brain mri after waiting for it to get scheduled since JUNE and now i have to wait on results and undergo some other testing #and i'm losing my mind a little because i planned a nice christmas gift for my mom and it feels ruined because the post office lost it #and my dad ruined the whole surprise of it by calling customer support on speaker phone with her in the room...and she ofc heard everything #i just wanted something nice for my mom :( she deserves it and although i have other gifts for her still it's not all what i planned #i don't mean to rant but i just wanted to add context when i say it means a lot that anyone even remotely likes my pixels #i may not know most of you very well *yet* (trying to fix that!!) but it's nice to feel a little support from somewhere :) beyond nice #and sorry for being absent a lot this year but i swear i have so much appreciation for y'all and i love you and your pixels dearly #i always feel bad like maybe it doesn't seem like i care in return bc i'm offline a lot now but i really do!! i care a lot!! love y'all xox

[batsplat]

Sepang 2006: After an exhausting race, Valentino Rossi brings a chair to the podium and sits down. Loris Capirossi joins him to sit on his lap.

#valentino rossi #// #vr46 #lc65 #going through my notes for that vale race rec post and I was gonna include some of these screenshots #but actually there's screenshots I want to include from parc fermé too because I think they're cute so. this gets its separate post #if you're wondering how that rec list is going btw I've currently got over eighty races listed I don't want to talk about it #this race deserves a lot more love tbh. one of the 2006 races nobody would ever shut up about if he'd won the title #but they don't suddenly stop being good races just because they ended up being in vain!! he was amazing to watch in 2006 #two bits of context that really make this: #1) vale/loris were engaged in battle the whole race and vale overtook on the final lap before engaging in some?? uh. robust defence #which I feel like at least a few riders would at the very least have been mildly miffed at but!! not capirossi not with valentino #2) dani had like?? a deep cut in his knee and it was surprising he'd been able to ride let alone get a podium #you'll note he's the only guy standing while these two are doing their thing. another big win for empathy #one commentator is saying literally right after they stand up again that dani had gained the respect of his fellow riders that day #and you kind of feel like if they took his suffering THAT seriously they maybe wouldn't do all that but well!! anyway

[potatobugz]

TIRED OF HOLDING MYSELF BACK. I think I'm gonna draw them more creature like

#homestuck #hs #sollux captor #eridan ampora #karkat vantas #(side note) as much as i really wanna draw the trolls w tails i really like the headcanon of. only limebloods having tails. and since #karkat is technically a mutant limeblood well. you see. hehehe #context for this revelation: was feeling sad abt my art not looking how i wanted it to #then i realized that im better at drawing characters shaped in the way i want them 2 be when theyre animal-ish #and then i was like. ohoho boy #partially inspired by this artist on yt that made a sleepwalk amv w some of the jadebloods from hive swap #they drew a few of the characters sorta dragon like and i loved it a lot i thought they looked very cool #anyways. WE STAY WINNING #potatart

[averlym]

whshdfhfjf.,,,

#close up!! because i firstly Did Not render them with such insanity in order for tumblr's lack of general resolution to make it blur #look at all the lines!!! teehee i still really really like this style of digital painting it's super super fun to do!!! and also secondly #because i went back and added a tag ramble and as i seem to often be doing??? lately?? reached the 30 tag limit and went 'hm ok how else..' #anyway the tag essay on that one is now up and talks about the artwork generally and miscellaneous thoughts!! that said. i need a space to #ramble about beatrix at Length because look you don't draw and paint etc a character for like ten hours without having a lot of thoughts #anyways ! i digress terrifically. tag rambles are more like trains of thoughts masquerading as subways and you get on and it's unfortunately #a rollercoaster track. but this is My Blog and i can do Whatever I Want as long as i don't hurt anyone <- affirmations!! also Harm Principle #lately it's been like *kicks up feet* *opens tumblr tags* *treats it as own personal journal* and tbh Good for me!! anyways back to beatrix #fun fact ! the thing that pushed me over the edge to go watch the musical after looking through the tumblr tag was a very specific poll. #and the fact that the winning option was blue hair and pronouns made me double over laughing so hard i had to go see the source material #mm i feel like lately the academic Context has been tossing me essentially into a blender HAHA ;-; so everyone in adamandi is to some extent #a Mood. but bea-specific (haha be specific)(sorry!)(wow this is the same reaction mechanism of my friend who points out innuendos)(...) #i think it's the wanting to prove herself. like from the whole abuela etc thing there's proof here she's got a Stable Support System of sort #and instead what beatrix continues to do is push themselves. 'i guess u could say i'm married to my work? god that's depressing' // no one #here to enforce that // abuela tells me to rest says i'm constantly stressed and i'll just get depressed like before but i still have to try #like. that shred of desperation that pushes you to the brink to neglect yourself (well i guess physically but also your morals..) and like!! #the whole 'lose half your soul thing' proves she's self aware!! like they know what they're doing is super dubious yknow! but they're still #they're still doing it even if it goes into conflict with their morality system in a way and then they justify it to themselves (see pt 1 #of ghostwriter) and the whole wanting to achieve at all costs Despite the self awareness. (i think? this aspect also applied to quincy. but #thoughts on him will come later). more beatrix specific also is the fact that they genuinely adore their work.. 'i just love it here where #you know they'll be printing forever and you are just part of it' because that does kind of resonate with me. also the being behind in the #competition is real!!! i'm maybe talking about Art as a subject because that same drive for it exists on my good days i think. even #even when nothing seems to be going right and you've ended up at the back the intent passion inherent in what you do is still there!!! #the genuine. care she has for reporting. is so !!!!! to me... other beatrix thoughts include 'why reveal yourself at the end' aka vincent's #'u should have stayed silent u had a smart plan' like rip to them but i would not // it feels with bea's complex character i can't imagine h #her Not doing that. like the guilt is real i guess. and i am running out of tags but! smth also about her fervent hope or smth that she'll #eventually get to where she wants. and the resilient determination.. 'i won't let their deaths be pointless there's more good i'm gonna do' #they're so so real for that. i'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing; seeing myself reflected in aspects of characters like this.. but it's #it's there regardless. smth smth just make your peace with the person you are ig!! tldr beatrix campbell my beloved. hehe #adamandi

[fish-bowl-2]

All the Eds have issues in their home lives, but there is something about Edd’s family situation that I just find endlessly fascinating. Just really delving into the complicated baggage surrounding it, and how uniquely fucked up it is.

The fact that there is so much distance and lack of communication between Edd and his parents really brings up a lot of questions about WHAT their actual interactions are even like. I mean, while they are largely absent (even for a show whose whole premise does not include parents being visible), it is implied that they, or at least one of them comes home. Do they even talk to their son when they are there?

I think the thing that really gets me is that, while yes they do supply for their son’s physical needs: a comfortable home, food, etc. the emotional needs are completely neglected. Which speaks to a super specific, entitled suburban kind of disinterest that I find uniquely cruel.

#there are lots of different interpretations of edd's parents but in the context of the show this is kind of how I see them #like I don't personally see it as a form of regret or punishment #but I do think of edd's parents as being image focused I don't think they really wanted a kid at all #but didn't want the negative perception of not upholding a traditional familial structure #if we want to use fancy terms for this #and it is super clear that edd suffers because of this I mean him being a neurotic mess kind of speaks for itself #rather than acting out bad behavior for attention he tries to find ways to get their attention by impressing them #especially since they are implied to have high standards #I don't think they are much good at all with kids like they probably set strict rules #the kind of parents to not let their kid talk unless spoken to #I could see them attempt to have some kind of connection with dee when he is an adult which obviously does not go over well for him #like um you missed out on that opportunity years ago #ANYWAY that was long wow #guess which character is my favorite challenge #typical 2am shenanigans ig idk any excuse to talk about this kid's fucked up home life #eene #analysis #squack

[glitched-out-mess]

i watched the new hazbin episode 2 leaked and this is the only good screenshot from it everything else can leave

#for some context of my personal experience with hazbin #watched the pilot when it came out when i was… 14? 15? i think #thought it looked cool! went into the fandom for a bit #left after a while #didn’t like helluva boss and didn’t watch it #now everyone seems to hate it #huh i wonder why? i look into it #vizviepop being a bad writer who appropriates voodoo and underpays her employees?? oh noooo! #god well i’m still morbidly curious on episode two #aha i found it leaked on twitter!!! #it focuses a lot on vox and barely any on the hotel #honestly i’m ok with that i really like vox as a character #after a bit realize oh god this show Sucks #bad writing bad designs bad effects weird voice acting REALLY odd decisions #but hey alastor slays in this single screenshot so yknow #oh and im 100000% gonna redraw vox and turn him into an oc he has so much potential #+ i love TV heads anyway so

[mantisgodsart]

(via @cordycepsbian)

We can answer this actually we love talking about Cool Art Stuff.

Despite what one may assume, sharp edges in watercolor is actually quite easy! Come, sit, allow us to share our secrets. It's like 50% "materials" and 50% "we spent a long-ass time figuring out how to do sharp edges in watercolor and now we're really good at figuring out the exact combos of consistency and brush stroke required to make those really hard edges"

The first trick is, of course, to not try and do it at the beginning of the painting. When you're just starting to block shapes in to your watercolor, pursuing sharp edges is a fool's ordeal, and you can only really get those sharp edges in as finishing touches near the end of the work.

The second trick is to work wet-on-dry - this limits the spread of the watercolor and allows you to prevent bleeding, but you have to make sure your painting is COMPLETELY dry before painting, or you'll risk having some ill-defined lines and bleeding.

The third trick is to work with... cake watercolors? There's a tern for it, we just can't remember it - dry pan watercolors, where you have to wet the paint to "activate" it, offer you a LOT more control over the consistency of your paint, and using a relatively thick paint will allow you some REALLY sharp lines! Fair warning, your mileage may vary based on the specific paints you use just because pigment is Expensive and cheaper brands of watercolor will almost definitely be, like, cutting out as much pigment as they can manage in order to cut corners, and the sharp edges will be less obvious the more transparent they are.

As a general rule of thumb when you pay for Fancy watercolor you're paying for the insane amount of pigment that they put in their Fancy Stuff and that lends itself a lot more to Sharp Lines (plus one thing of it will last Fucking Forever). The black we use Specifically is an Artisanal Fancy Brand that we don't remember the name of and we've been using the same ~$10 thing for more than a year without even using up half of it, but honestly the actual paints you use are the Least important part of doing watercolor, you can do like the exact same thing with dollar store paints it'll just be a bit less pigmented.

The fourth trick is to just, like, practice a TON. You WILL have to spend time getting it right. It will take a Long-Ass Time. You will have So Much Trouble. Unfortunately this step cannot be avoided but we can still warn you that you'll be trying to make really sharp lines for like an hour and it still won't quite work.

The last trick is to uhh

#we speak #not art #unfortunately the people saying to invest in Good Materials are sometimes correct and good brushes are like #the number one reason that we can manage the sort of really sharp edges that we can without muddling #for context this is a fancy-ass semi-stiff lining brush that we've found allows for VERY sharp edges #it's VERY nice and it holds its shape INCREDIBLY well allowing for some very nicely defined edges without stray brush strands #however it's also like fifteen bucks for one brush so you kinda have to like. Decide If It's Worth It #we got like two brushes from the same brand from a watercolor technique workshop for free and we shelled out bc the other brushes were like #Really Good #total cost of this is like uhhh fucking twenty bucks. if you have that to spare we 100% recommend it #but if you dont then you can obtain it illegally from your local art store if youre fast enough #for legal reasons that advice is a joke tho. stealing from local businesses is bad. go after a bigger store instead. #like 60% of watercolors is having Good Technique but the really defined edges that we pull here are like purely possible bc of Good Brush #and Good Brush really makes a fucking difference tho we'll still bring in our older dollar store brushes for shit like texture #beyond that its just ignoring common wisdom for watercolor tho we do A LOT of drybrushing bc we like the texture #we like deliberately fucking up our washes to make the background look more interesting we think its Cool #every watercolor person who speaks of a flat wash being the very basis of All Of Watercolor wishes to kill us personally

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

when your group's most regular dude is leorio, I regret to inform you. that there is something deeply wrong with your group

#not sorry for hxh posting expect more from me over the next little bit. #it's been just long enough since i last read/watched that stuff feels fresh and i don't remember everything super well so it's fun hehe #my interests are as intense and rapidly changing as water being shaken in a sealed vessel. then microwaved. #hxh #storyrambles #anyways i love the main four. #adorable little blood knight 12 year old; his sweet and feral ex-assassin bestie; spiraling down a dark path of revenge dude; #and just some guy who wants to have money to go to school (relatable). #except then you have to catch yourself because he is only regular in the context of his three insane buddies. #and then you have to wonder at what point you have acclimated to leorio's particular brand of wtf dude that he comes off in any way #like just some guy #though. he really does have just some guy energy. that's why i like him a lot i think