#(and imo not that great to listen to...)

[arleniansdoodles]

Alrighty, here's my first bit of fanart for 2024! Asha and Starboy from Disney's Wish - more specifically, Wish's concept art :''') I haven't seen the movie, but I think I can confidently say that I would've been more interested in seeing it if they'd kept the romance/soulmate dynamic from the early concepts.

But anyways, here's my take on Star's design, and also a little cheek kiss for Asha! :D Also, I never made an official "Happy New Year" post, so I just wanted to say thank you all for your support in my art and writing endeavours! I hope this year is a kind one for you, and may all your wishes come true <333

#i drew this while listening to the transformers 2 soundtrack loll #those movies are chaos incarnate but the music is pretty great imo #(referring to the first three movies cuz i never bothered to see the others ^^;;) #art #my art #fantasy #illustration #disney #wish #disney wish #wish 2023 #wish asha #wish star #asha x star #human star #romance #platonic love

[callisteios]

I have a new uquiz for you, go on a pilgrimage with me. discover who you are.

#don't you want to go on a nice medieval pilgrimage? #don't you want to rest a little? answer some questions? learn something about yourself? #this was originally a pentiment medieval quiz and now it's this #it's pretty good imo though. i had a lot of fun researching it #yes there really is a biblio. ill write it up soon but its parts of the pentiment biblio plus some stuff i found myself #really thank you to everyone who made pentiment. you know how sometimes you find a piece of art at exactly the right time? #well i discovered pentiment just as my interests perfectly intersected with it. (those interests being history historiography and grief) #have fun etc. tag your results #that's always great #quiz #uquiz #pentiment #medieval #mine #sorry for being absent for a bit. holidays kind of suck #sorry abbie i couldnt fit the saw bathroom in thisone. i couldn't think of a way to do it naturally #i listened to SAVED! and SINNER GET READY the entire time i was writing this so yeah there's a ref. sue me

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

i know i've posted abt this before also but i did not have screenshots to demonstrate just HOW gently passive aggressive ingo is to volo when they talk. i have no idea if they intended it this way but he sounds so "sadly my strict standard of conduct will not let me tell you to fuck off for asking weirdly personal questions just so you can share your theories but with the subtext toolkit available to me i am VERY much shooing you out of the way so i can get back to what i was actually trying to do."

#the nemesis speaks #pla analysis #idk if it really comes across without the context of volo's whole ramble #but he really did just sort of rock up to you while you were TRYING to get through this quarry #just to be like ''hi ingo. hey tell me about your memory loss. great now listen to what I think about the whole thing'' #though the exchange does also make me feel like they have had prior conversations to this effect #ingo feigns not recognizing him at first but the way he says ''continue to prioritize'' specifically makes me feel like #this is not the first time they've tread this particular ground #volo also greets ingo pretty familiarly at the start of it imo #these tags are getting long but one other thing that sort of strikes me atm and i'm curious to see if it continues #is like. this is the rudest (by his standards) ingo gets with mmmost everyone in pla #-except melli. who he is actually fairly direct with. and melli in turn doesn't rise to it really at all #for a guy who bitches at literally everyone just saying ''well guess we don't always see eye to eye!'' is like. WILDLY notable #and then ingo asks you to say hi to him later #they're friends i think. thanks for ur time

[wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart]

whenever someone reads a prequel or a retelling and complains about knowing how it will end since the beginning I'm like. bro. dude. bitch. however you prefer to be referred to.

✨THATS THE FUCKING POINT✨

It's about the tragedy of reading all the ways the characters are unknowingly building towards the very same fate they are so desperately trying to avoid.

ITS ABOUT THE BITTERSWEET JOY OF KNOWING THEIR STORY IS STILL WORTH TELLING.

REGARDLESS OF HOW IT ENDS.

if your story is only good when reading through it the first time? if the reading experience is spoiled by knowing what happens?? (pun fully intended) it's not that well crafted a story imo.

Sometimes it's not about what is going to happen. Sometimes it's about reinterpreting the characters. Sometimes it's about exploring themes through a story we already know.

Sometimes the storytelling is enhanced by knowing how it is going to end.

#which is always enhanced even more by a very unreliable (1st person) narrator imo #great example is #rebecca #daphne du maurier #the first thing we learn is that they are recluses. the first thing the reader finds out is *how it is going to end* #and it makes the tension in the end even higher. r they reclused bc they were caught and are fleeing? #did they manage to escape the accusations?? #similar thing with #wuthering heights #sry its just im listening to a booktuber reading #tsoa #madelline miller #and im not even a diehard fan #but they r complaining abt how the book maybe wouldve hit harder if thsy didnt know the original myth #and im like. NO. THE ENTIRE BOOK HITS HARDER IF U KNOW WHATS GONNA HAPPEN SINCE THE BEGINNING ALDKFJSJF #(i know i am getting unreasonably upset abt this btw) #or ppl complaining abt #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #suzanne collins #OF ALL THE REASONS TO CRITICIZE THE BOOK #KNOWING HOW EVERYTHING WILL END BEFORE YOU EVEN BEGIN IS NOT A VALID CRITICISM #WHY DID YOU EVEN PICK IT UP THEN. THAT IS LITERALLY THE WHOLE DEAL OF A *PREQUEL* #and yes there is a difference between retellings like #circe #or all the hundreds of #Shakespeare #retellings like #romeo and juliet #where u dont only know how it is going to end but also all the major plot points that will happen. BUT MY POINT STILL STANDS. #like its fine if its not ur thing. BUT THEN DONT PICK IT UP ONLY TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE LITERAL *PREMISE* OF THE WHOLE THING. OH MY GOD.

[strrwbrrryjam]

i love zuko. he's my favourite character (though the others aren't that far behind - he like. inches ahead of them by a small margin) but i've read too many instances where people bastardize aang, katara and sokka for being "mean" to him - something he so rightly deserves.

i mean from the moment they met zuko had tormented them. stalked them. attacked them. destroyed almost everything in his path just to get to aang. aang, sokka and katara are justified in their "mistreatment" and distrust of zuko.

the only reason we sympathize with him is because we saw him go through that transformation, we saw the reason why he is the way that he is, we saw him confront his father and realize that the war is wrong. the last time they saw zuko, he had a chance to join them, and instead he attacked them, joined his sister (who was also attacking and stalking them) and took over ba sing se.

they have every right to treat him the way that they did in the western air temple (and compared to what zuko did to them, there is no competition.)

#why am i having to write this in 2024. i thought we got better atla fandom. i thought we got better. #listen. favourite characters and favourite ships are great. i have loads. #but when you actively go out of your way to villainize characters who are entirely justified. you've gone too far imo #and are just being stupid. #i mean. you dont even have to like aang katara and sokka (i think you're stupid not to.) but man. i mean come on. #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla zuko #zuko #atla katara #katara #atla sokka #sokka #atla aang #aang #strawberry speaks

[f1-obsessed333]

Okay that Max/GP interview was really good.

They didn’t just ask the “standard” questions and the vibe was so relaxed with cheeky Max out in full force.

-GP thinks of Max as his little brother( someone sedate me)

-They met up on holiday and all I’m saying is where is our holiday selfie???

-Max is competitive even at board games but is always shocked and disappointed of how bad he is at other sports.

-GP is better at paddle is they are playing a short game but Max is better if they do longer ones.

-GP thinks that Max sometimes does get bored when they are comfortably in the lead.

-Hearing about Barcelona 2016 from GP’s pov was really interesting.

-Max also talked a little bit more in depth about doing Le Mans with GP.

-When Nichola mentioned how Max could be a lot to handle at times all I thought about was how GP and Christian has said that Max is one of the easiest people to manage because he’s always honest and means well.

-They mentioned they had some arguments early in their relationship but it’s all good now that they really got to know each other.

-Max was really cheeky and jokey here and I wish more people got to see this side of him more often( as in the casual fans)

10/10 would recommend, pure serotonin to watch and listen to.

#Nicola did such a great job #run don’t walk and listen #it was interesting to see that Max’s reaction when they talked about the arguments as they were getting to know each other #clearly doesn’t like to think about that imo #and also when GP mentioned that Daniel beat him in quali Spain 2016 and Max getting overconfident #same reaction #not as in a hurt ego thing NOT AT ALL #just doesn’t like to think about it for reasons #max verstappen #f1 #gianpiero lambiase

[thatchaotictiefling]

OH WAIT I FORGOT TO POST THIS!

I title this: Smoking is cool and all 7 year olds should try it.

My DND OC Violet (shadow monk/rogue) in a baseball pinup sort of vibe, I'm obsessed with her. Heavily inspired by my time in the TF2 fandom and a certain type of scout art.

Violet hits things with a stick until they die too, so it kinda fits lmao. I may do more inspired by other TF2 classes? We will see.

ID in alt text

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #ocs #tf2 #illustration #feel free to reblog :) #listen. we dont need to talk about how i never considered baseball sexy poses until i indulged in scout art. #i am a product of my hyperfixations there is no denying that #also you can tell by how i draw Violet that i am an ass man. its hard to have your art tell you that #VERY proud of how the smoke came out; ive never rendered smoke before but it look great IMO #also if it wasn't extremely clear; the phalic imagery was very intentional. she got that metaphorical big dick #i think this is the first time ive drawn her in 'modern' clothes. very funny #ALSO i tried a new trick to make the color more harmonious and i like it. everything is tinged a little blue and it makes everything meld #also; what is she sitting on? fuck you; a nondescript cube #one last thing: ive given up posting to my old art blog; im just gonna post stuff hefe since i draw so infrequently #and reblog to my OC blog when applicable #kay bye like and reblog pls *kisses*

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Liar’s Knot & Labyrinth’s Heart

books 2&3 in a fantasy trilogy set in a Venetian inspired city full of political intrigue

follows a young woman who conned her way into a noble family, a masked vigilante, and a crime boss, who eventually become allies while juggling multiple identities

and trying to save their people and city by joining a secret society to find origins of a corrupting curse, to eventually destroy the powerful magical objects at the heart of it

tarot magic & sigil/geometry magic, dreamworlds, sentient magical disguises

#the liar's knot #labyrinth's heart #rook and rose #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #the summaries at the start are helpful. bc I forgot what happened in book one lol #I enjoyed these better - I think listening to the audiobooks helped with that a lot. They’re quite long books! #the accents in the audiobooks also enhance it a lot #I def enjoyed the series overall & listening to a whole book in a day or 2 (rather than dragging out if i did text format) is better #the overall plot and magic stuff. im not gonna lie and say i understood it all LMAO but I thought it was pretty good & def some great char #don’t super care about romance. like I don’t dislike it - & much prefer the slow burn to instalove that's everywhere - but also eh whateve #also not to be like miraculous ladybug but high fantasy. but #yeah of course the aromantic crime boss w a telepathically linked spider hosting the ghost of a dead guy as his closest companion is my fav #yeah i cried. im tearing up thinking about it now. they’re so good #his little spider gloves for his spider feet? #there's a good amount of queer characters scattered around #(vargo's aromanticism is hinted a few times; and it's pretty clear imo if you're looking; but not explicit) #i see there’s tons of people shipping him/disappointed it wasn’t polyam...I wish it was clearer bc of that. but otherwise it was fine #like. solidly developed in depth character is just as/more important to me overall #but also why'd [redacted] have to leave....nooo :( #also spider on the cover!!! i only noticed that at the end of that book sjdghsf #queer books #aromantic books #bisexual books

[thekidsare-not-alright]

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#i know it's a joke but diminishing all of pete's lyrics to sex is fucked up imo. #especially implying gay sex only like sorry but you sound like petekeys and. I don't trust them #pete is such a complex person with a range of equally complex feelings shown in songs and like #idk it just bothers me #like oh hahaha but like. haven't we had this conversation before #like how can you listen to smfs and water it down to sex. #idk maybe I'm taking it too seriously which is why this is just the tags of some post but hrhghhhhhhhhh #it's one thing to say fob songs are for the gays etc it's different to say that's what pete's thinking about and that's it. #I also think it's less than great to just ignore his attraction to women but that's a different thing #I'm not looking for an argument but curious if anyone else feels egh about this

[alisterix]

Now my question is. Does Cacophonix's reputation as the ultimate gaylord precede him. Does anyone outside of the village know him as Mr. Gay. Is he like Lil Nas X where gays all around the. Area. Look up to him as the gay icon that he is.

Thank you kindly, I LOVE getting asks from you cause they are a perfect excuse for me to draw Cacofonix, and if there's one thing in this fandom I love drawing as much as Gaylois, it's Cacofonix. Here's a little comic inspired by your question since I can't help myself:

I can easily imagine Cacofonix on a big trip, having fun and indulging all of the opportunities and glamour of city life, making friends (lovers? possibly? 😳) easily, courtesy of his charismatic and pleasant demeanor (at least as long as he doesn't try to sing). People obviously aren't fans of his musical talent, or rather a lack thereof, but whenever a stranger happens to recognize him and call him by name he tends to immediately jump to that conclusion and brag about it to his fellow village folks, who clearly aren't buying it, lmao. Admittedly, at the end of the day, being appreciated and recognized for being entertaining, pretty and gay rather than for your art is not the worst position to be in, so he does take it for what it is, though not without a healthy dose of fussing about constantly, no matter where he goes, being "strangely surrounded by people who don't seem to understand art".

Funny that you mention Lil Nas X cause I just made a playlist with my favourite bardcore covers in honor of Cacofonix the Ultimate Gaylord™ and Montero is the first song on it.

#asterix #cacofonix #cacophonix #assurancetourix #my art #the sweet homosexual tension of a man piercing your ears in exchange for a date #listen... this is a sfw blog so we won't be discussing Cacofonix's jolly good big city gay time in great detail #it does make me admittedly uncomfortable to think adult stuff about a childhood nostalgia comic... BUT #if I had to choose one character who fucks it would be Cacofonix #I could probably make up a whole story about Cacofonix and his mysterious Lutetian admirer but I have a Gaylois wedding to attend to #and by that I mean I'm gonna make Gaylois wedding fanart in response to an ask I got #lmfao the way Asterix gives him a rude awakening and Cacofonix throws shade at him in return is sending me #what does he know about charm??? I dunno man maybe ask Obelix since he's clearly happily married #they are both such gay disasters #they give me strong gay besties/mlm solidarity vibes #but also it's a great ship imo #I'm all ride or die for Gaylois but if you see my art of Asterix and Cacofonix as shippy I won't stop you #I will encourage you even #it's my second favourite Asterix ship and I'm planning to draw some cute stuff with them every now and then #I wonder if they have a ship name #asterfonix? #I like that #anyway Cacofonix with piercings am I right 😳😳😳

[trashgoblincreature]

playing splat2 online for the first time since it came out. slowly beginning to realize why people have so many problems with splat3 maps

#splatoon #splatoon 2 #splatoon 3 #listen. splat3 is better in a lot of ways imo. salmon run is a lil more interesting. hero mode is more fun #i even have a locker to decorate. its great #but god splat2 maps are so much more fun to play #i never realized how much i missed walleye warehouse til today tbh

[blowflyfag]

#everyone should fucking listen to this song #i think its great #its a really good song imo #eris cd #its like. so simple but so good #Spotify

[jewishcissiekj]

I'm gonna be honest I love Dooku: Jedi Lost with my entire heart but I understand dropping it if you read it in the script format because that may be how I talk to myself in my head but if I had not listened to the audio drama it would also fucking mess with my mind

#imo the audio drama is part of what makes it so good #but if you don't have access to it/don't like that format i get it #in other news i really do need to listen to it again #great stuff #sw #star wars #star wars books #dooku jedi lost #dooku

[strrwbrrryjam]

for all my grievances with tangled the series, one thing i cannot criticize them for is their songs, i mean, sure, not all of them make sense in context (let me make you proud comes to mind), the songs are spectacular, from the vocals to the instrumental, all of them are a joy to listen to, whether they are just incredibly goofy, like the buddy song, to heartbreaking, like waiting in the wings, whether its a solo, a duet or a group, they are wonderful to listen to

#i like the show. dont get me wrong. #though i cant deny there are a lot of flaws to the series n character n story decisions that dont make sense n infuriate me #and i will say imo season 1 is where its at its best. although yes flaws are present they dont. idk. ruin the season for me #but i cant say the same for the later two seasons. i mean. i had fun with s2 n liked the new characters but. a lot of it again imo is fille #but s3 is the worst imo cause the stakes are so high but they spend like 2-4 episodes actually on the main plot #n the rest is just. pointless filler. i mean. did we really need to learn more about fucking nigel of all characters #n i will say i am not a fan of cass' arch at all. i liked her in the first season n most of the second season but s3 just. ruins her for me #i also dont like how they treated euguene most of the time. he deserved to be treated better. he was the other main character in the movie #he deserved to be treated better not put in the back so as not to outshine cass n rapunzel's relationship #cassunzel this it not a critique of you. i liked the ship in the beginning to n i love the poly of cass rapunzel n euguene #n you can ship them to your hearts content. im just annoyed at the disrespect of euguene lol #can you tell that im passionate about the show. i mean. the potential was there but. they didn't do nothing with it. #im upset it couldnt be better lol #anyway what was i talking about #right the songs. the songs are spectacular (despite almost all of them not making sense in the context of the shows) #n are a joy to listen to. i love them all so much that i dont think there's any i dislike really. the songs are so so good #n are really fun to listen to. its one of the things that i can never fault the show for. they're wonderful n everyone should listen to the #even if you havent watched the show lol they're great #tangled the series #tts #strawberry speaks

[petrichoriess]

thanks sm for the tag @nototherwisespecified ^_^

Shuffle your ‘On Repeat’/Favorites playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people

1 dedicated to the one i love - the mamas & the papas

2 re:member - ólafur arnolds

3 the vampyre of time and memory - queens of the stone age

4 say you don't mind - colin blunstone

5 animation - dead poet society

6 villian i am none - arms against

7 portrait gallery - luke howard

8 highschool lover - air

9 empire now - hozier

10 as much as possible - bing & ruth

tagging uhhhhh @whitenikes @acheronist @mr-iskender @saliest and @svechkin <3

#tagged #i came across no6 like 9mo ago on spotify. it was released in 2013 and had 600 plays and is now up to like 3000. #i can only assume a load of those 2400 are me lol. idk it's a great tune imo #anyway this is largely influenced by me listening to chill piano music in work in the am when it's just me in the office #then louder rocky stuff when people come in and i need to block the noise out/need the energy mid-afternoon . to be honest

[scribbling-dragon]

Juno. please do write the essay about howl and majorwood. please

yes. yes! i can do this :D for anyone that doesn't know, i've been using lyrics from "Howl" by Florence + The Machine for several of my mer scott fics, because the song is just so majorwood-coded. to me

so, what i can gather from the song is that it is very much about love, and two people being in love. but it comes across much more as an almost obsession that they have with each other (like not being able to rest until they're with each other etc.) and i feel like that's a lot of the ships that come out of the life series! because the life series itself is a short thing, it doesn't last long, and these relationships explored in fandom are normally very quick for people to get into- so this was the first point i made in my brain. because with the life series, all of the duos/ships/couples- whatever you want to call them, are very intensely reliant on the other most of the time, like, they are in a death game and they have a handful of allies that they are trusting to defend them etc. and allies that they would also defend.

but! that is not the only thing that i associated with it, the biggest association is the use of language that's here: it's all rather violent. the lovers (in the song) are described as hunters. over and over again, a thing that we actually SEE a lot of the time in the life series- every time that the server becomes predominantly red, there is a hunt for the remaining yellows (and we got more than one of these hunts this time!). and it happens pretty much every time! and it's great, i love it, love watching it. because it's like a pack of wolves and they go hunting.

but there is several other instances of violent language being used to describe the love between the two lovers in the song- and this violence lends itself rather well to a feeling of desperation (something that is reflected in the sound of the song itself, actually, which i like). which! that's, again, the whole life series pretty much: desperation! desperation to win, to protect your allies, to not die first- it happens in every single one! it's a common theme, something overarching with the series.

but juno? i hear you ask, how does this relate to majorwood? why choose them and not some other ship? well i am so glad you asked!

scott is fiercely loyal to every single one of his allies- if he chooses you as his closest ally (jimmy in 3l, pearl and cleo in ll, cleo in dl, martyn in this series) he be loyal to you! that's his whole thing (well, not really, but you get what i mean) the guy is loyal! and he's good at that.

and martyn! his whole thing is being selfish, at the end (as we see rather nicely in the finale, but he's also done it in previous series as well. this isn't a new thing for him) but he also cares about his allies. he cares about them a LOT. in all of his series he cares about his allies- that love, that isn't quite loyalty, is the major reason i associate this song with them. because the song is about young love, and i am no way near an expert on love hdsjhdsj (<- aroace) but a lot of the time young love is portrayed as something rather intense and almost obsessive, something that florence leans into with this song 100%

i. am not sure if that makes sense of if it's just the ramblings of a person that has thought about this for far far too long- but yeah! listen to howl :] it's a great song

#not quite an essay. but here it is! #i hope this makes at least a little bit of sense #and convinces someone to listen to the song! because it's a great song! fantastic!! #(the best part imo is the last segment. because it feels like it portrays the desperation the best? if that makes sense?) #asks #anon #trafficshipping #<- just in case #majorwood