#* i'm happy i got time to finish this now

[twisting-in-wonderland]

Bye bye Sebek, :]

(he didn’t stand a chance, poor guy :[  )

#twisted wonderland #twst #sebek zigvolt #ace trappola #deuce spade #jack howl #epel felmier #art #ram's art #i am fully aware i am late to actually . noticing the poll- #i wanted to finish this earlier but i was tired :[ #anyways i'm just glad i got this done whilst sebek's birthday is still being celebrated in the game - it's comedic timing #'happy birthday! bye! :]]]]] ' #oh yea i did vote ace btw - the second i made the poll i immediately smashed that button :] #i have a 'bully ace' instinct embedded in my soul what can i say- #also shout out to this being my first time drawing all these characters except for jack- ... which. #now that i think about it i dont think i posted that whole drawing thing.. huh- #welp too late now :']

[yenvengerberg]

there will never be another riverdale. it's the end of an era for twenty episode long seasons of crazy teen drama. never again will a show push the boundaries like this one, from murder mysteries to organ harvesting cults to d&d gargoyle kings to serial killer genes to discovering secret superpowers to stopping a comet from destroying your hometown to polyamory in the 50s. riverdale had it all. it was the height of camp, it was the plotlines no one could ever quite believe, it was the best of tv. rest easy, my queen, you have left a mark on pop culture forever.

#riverdale #on the one hand i'm happy it's finally finished with (aka i got so tired of fandom) #but on the other... it's not the same without it #i devoted so much time and love and care to this show #and even when i stopped watching because it drove me mad #i loved hearing what crazy batshit thing it was up to #like when you're at a family gathering and someone goes 'guess what aunt riverdale's done now?' and you fondly smile and say 'what?' #it won't be the same without that

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #david tennant #catherine tate #beloveds!!!! #i saw the newest dw trailer on tv today!!! #i need the new episodes now!!! #oh and i've gotten back into catching up on my big finish audios #i'm listening to the newest classic doctors new monsters set #it's been very fun #oh also i got a new student today #and his mom was a bit worried about how he'd be on his first day at a new school #but he saw my lanyard during carpet time and was like 'is that raichu?' #and all of my other kids were like 'LOOK AT ALL HER OTHER POKEMON THINGS' and he was very happy #and i was like bro you are going to fit right in #ok i haven't talked in the tags about my day in a long while hahaha #byeee good night tumblr friends!!

[turbo-tsundere]

“Smile like Gonta! Smile like gentleman!”

It’s 23rd of January both where I am, and also in Japan, so here we go, my small and long overdue tribute for my fav character ever! Or in other words, f that post and happy birthday to the King! :D

#gonta gokuhara #gokuhara gonta #danganronpa #v3 #ndrv3 #my art #now I go to sleep - I pushed myself to finish this drawing and I'm legit exhausted #wish I could have more time to do tweaks here and ther but... still I'm happy I managed to do it! #But honestly I’m happy I’ve got to play V3 when I did and legit glad I stumbled upon Gonta #I could write a book about him but then I'm also afraid no matter what I'll say I will never do him justice #he's interesting in nonconventional way and not the type of character I usually end up liking - and tbh that only adds to my appreciation #but then I'm better with drawings than words. so :) #also #pregame Gonta is smiling on the inside he just shy grump don't mind him #(or maybe he's like 'you have ONE second to run' idk) #also also #yes this is a little play on the line Gonta says during Himiko's dojo scene :D

[sky-squido]

i, like every other fic author in existence, love getting comments from people who enjoyed my work. i don't care if your comment is "late" (that's so weird to me like it's literature—do you apologize to homer for being late to reading the odyssey?) or "unintelligible" (late night commenters, english language learners, people who feel like they "just aren't that good with words", believe me, i entirely understand what you mean and appreciate it immensely), or anything else that you feel might make your comment 'not good enough'. i love all of the comments i receive and i am eternally grateful to all of you for your continued support.

and yeah, i've read fics where i felt like adding a comment would be doing the fic a disservice because there was nothing that could be said that wouldn't cheapen or patronize the magnum opus i'd just witnessed. in instances like this, that is exactly what i say in the comment: "there's nothing i can say that doesn't do this work of art a disservice. thank you for writing this."

actually, now that i think about it, there are a bunch of ao3 comments i've gotten that i still haven't replied to because i felt any thanks i could give would be inadequate. i should really get around to replying because i want them to know how spellbound they left me. i love you all, have i ever mentioned that?

all of that being said, i would like to make a public service announcement!

at least under default settings, ao3 authors do get notified every time you edit a comment. i've accidentally hit send too early before, or realized i forgot something i wanted to say, i get it, i really do. i have edited many comments in my day.

but you don't have to do this. really, it's okay. most of the time i honestly can't tell what the difference is. i'm not going to think worse of you for having typos in your comments because i guarantee that there were more in the fic you just read sfkljghsl

also these edits were over the course of twenty full minutes. i got another email while writing this post and had to update the image. please do not spend 20 minutes agonizing over your comment and changing the capitalization and adding a few words. it's okay, i promise. i love your comment, and i'm very very grateful for it, regardless of how "polished" it is. i'm not your english teacher in disguise.

tl;dr, i love you all and i hope you don't feel anxiety or a compulsion towards perfectionism in my ao3 comments section. i won't judge you, i promise <3

#squido's op #squido rambles #i hope i don't sound annoyed because i don't want to sound annoyed #but also that was a lot of emails #if they were different comments that would be sick i love that #but on several occasions i've had edit spam #and i don't really understand the logic behind it #i figured that people just don't know that we get notified every time you edit a comment #so that's all i wanted to say really but i got sidetracked with appreciation because i think someone plugged some of my works somewhere #because i've been seeing a big uptick in comments lately and it's really really sweet #i haven't written for this fandom (or at all really) in a long time now so i'm always really really happy to see my works are still #out there and being read and loved and affecting people. i do still plan to finish hfwkadwm i promise #i guess i have writer's block >:/ never had it quite like this before #BUT I SAID I WAS GONNA FINISH IT AND I AM #MARK MY WORDS I'LL FINISH THIS FIC OR DIE TRYING #eventually

[anewp0tat0]

the majority voted for me to not photoshop and just work on the valentines day art to be posted later in the month. and yea I will do that. but I already started photoshoping regardless. so happy belated birthday Grelle!!

I was originally making William into Sebster, plus Nardo's face shape worked a lot more for William than it did for Sebs, and could I have just imported a whole new face in there? yea, but it would have taken longer, may not have looked great... plus I accepted that in the end, I do afterall headcanon Bassy to be Grelle's side toy while Will is her main. so she would want this.

#fine #but you know what Grelle looks happy and so does Will I can feel it so I'm accepting it #we're all happy? good #happy belated birthday girlie!! my photoshop's still a little rough but I hope I got to capture some of your beauty ;D #in the end it's impossible for this not to look atleast a little weird but try to just enjoy the moment. and don't zoom into the details #pretty pretty please #kuroshitsuji #black butler #kuroshitsuji fanart #fanart #photoshop #digital art #grelle sutcliff #grell sutcliff #william t spears #Im sureee I would have finished this on time but oh nooo minor illness got me😔 this world really do hate my girl. but we're good now #whether we like it or not #oh yea and don't zoom into the manga panel either. not my best reconstruction really but I didn't think it needed too much #hopefully it doesn't distract from the main attraction

[meymeyzart]

Mourning

#Happy 1 year anniversary to Obbligato! #*saying through tears* #anyway so I've got quite a bit to say here.. #tatsumi is holding a white chrysanthemum (and those are the petals you see as well) #kaname's not nearly as pale as himeru meaning himeru is mourning a living person #which is true kaname isn't dead #but himeru is much more sickly here hes more #.blue? #zoom in on him if the quality isn't ruined by tumblr #(especially his hands) #in contrast tatsumi is the warmest here #so full of life #I realise now I should've probably done more with the background... #and one day I'll draw jun in an obbligato fanart #I thought about adding him here but it was too late and I couldn't fit him anywhere #anyway #I think this is the first time I draw these 3 in the same image #oh and sorry for not posting any art for like a month #I have a million wips right now... I'm sure I'll finish one of them eventually!!.... #I feel like there was more I wanted to say about this but I don't remember... If I do I'll say it in a self rb #that's all! #himeru #kazehaya tatsumi #tatsumi kazehaya #tojou kaname #kaname tojou #enstars #fanart #ensemble stars #my art

[posallys]

i've got the strangest feeling (this isn't our first time around)

by @chironshorseass @posallys

Landscapes change and empires crumble, sending their marble and gold and silver into the greedy ocean—and through the millennia this is the game they play: one life, then another, and then another.

It begins like this: 

Rain pouring from the sky, pelting anything it can reach. He lets it hit him, reveling in the sting. Clouds cover the sun, turning everything around him a dark, eerie grey. There’s wind, too, kicking up any dry sand that may remain, and blowing branches off trees in the distance. 

The waves are rough and choppy, violently crashing against the shore. The tide is far too high, the crests far too tall, threatening the town that sits just beyond the sand. The ground trembles beneath him, only serving to make the waves more brutal. 

Thunder crashes from atop a mountain in the distance, a flash of lightning following in quick procession. A warning, perhaps, though not one he intends to heed. 

continue on ao3

#IT'S HERE BABES #(aka the fic mari and i have been talking about for a year) #except we never actually finished so we're giving what we have to you now <3 #i'm in love with this fic leave comments and make mari and i happy #fic: i've got the strangest feeling (this isn't our first time around) #this is our love letter to posally #happy holidays!! #posally #poseidon #sally jackson #pjo fic #mari tag #bozo 🤡 #posally fic #the posally fic to end all posally fics fr #taylor tries to write

[rose-ramblings]

you'll never guess what I've been playing lately

#goldic's drawings #vegito #dragon ball dokkan battle #good news everyone! I found a shading brush that I'm happy with! #i'll finish that other thing I keep mentioning eventually I swear I've only got 3 characters left to do on it #but uhhhhh y e a h I've been playing Dokkan for like a week and a half now (blame the content creators for making it look really fun) #I understand absolutely nothing other than 'it's a big number go brr type of game' #but it also gets me to use some strategy in my team building and fighting which I am very much enjoying so far #i didn't get Mr. Yosha himself or melty Zamasu (much to my personal sadness) but I did get a copy of Power-Awakening Piccolo #and enough of that PHY Zamasu with the tea set to rainbow him (and waaaay too many of a certain SR SSJ Goku that can awaken into SSG) #and a copy of that new Mai I guess (I'm not entirely sure how to use her properly in battle yet but I'll figure it out) #I've been calling that PHY Zamasu I mentioned 'Tea Time Zamasu' btw (mostly cuz of the tea set in his art) #oh yeah speaking of Tea Time Zamasu that man's been carrying my team in terms of eating hits like a champ so #definitely gonna be using him a lot; especially since *gestures to blog theme* he's one of my favorite villains in dragon ball #I haven't Dokkan Awakened the Piccolo at all yet (he's just a max level UR rn) but he's been pretty damn useful in taking hits himself #first unit I made an LR (besides the free one) was a Zamasu that turned into an LR Goku Black (F2P STR I think; he's my support unit rn) #I've also already collected all of Bardock's F2P crew and mostly maxed them out because I'm totally normal about it hehe #bardock's crew best crew I don't make the rules #goldic rambles #this is transparent because I couldn't figure out a decent background to give it

[salsflore]

i think i posted abt this before but anyways i found this old "progress update!" drawing of mine on a discord server i use for saving stuff.. so i was like let me redraw it in 2023, a whole 3-4 yrs later

#pen & tablet drawing are like 1-2 weeks apart but whatever anyways i havent finished a sketch w/ my tablet since i got it #happy i didn’t just give up and erase the entire thing like i usually do. it makes me oddly happy #i’m still incredibly far from where i want to be‚ clearly‚ but i think 11 yr old me would freak the FUCK out if she saw me now #i don’t save my old drawings (except this i guess) so i don’t see the progress and i felt like i was just stuck at the same level lol #so i'm happy to see i've improved a bit over time :) #💭 #edit: take a shot everytime i said the word happy

[just-slightly-chayotic]

hate to admit the fact that ingredients made me cry, but i'm blaming everything on jeff so it's fine. if he cries i cry. that's just how the laws of physics work (or whatever. i'm a humanities major. don't ask me sciency stuff)

#also you lot were right and the ending is actually fairly happy?? #i was expecting it to be more bittersweet still #baz and i got distracted halfway with looking at jeff pictures but sfjdbdhdk we finished it #it was good! #only because jeff is in it though #otherwise i wouldn't have cared one bit i'm not gonna lie #ingredients the series #i'm only tagging it for spoiler reasons just in case #tea's ramblings #EVERY TIME I TYPE 'TEA'S' NOW THE FIRST THINK THAT SHOWS UP IS #love on saturn tea's brain #EVERY DAY I AM CONFRONTED WITH MY OWN TYPOS #THING* GODDAMNIT TYPOS AGAIN #i give up #this is my official 'i have finally watched ingredients' update for tumblr btw

[whysamwhy123]

Illness be damned, I finished this next OrangeHook fic, holla! Thank God this one's nowhere near as long as the first. It definitely got away from me though, didn't end up being about what I intended it to be about. But I don't think it's terrible? At least, not offensively so? I don't know. I'll see how I feel about it after I'm done editing. Maybe then I'll think about posting it sometime later this week?

#What is wrong with you Sam you should not be allowed to write #Honestly I'm just happy that I was still able to write something at all #I ain't doing well right now but at least finishing this thing is a small W #Writing OrangeHook is a lot of fun turns out #Now I'm wondering what I should write next #I do have another little OrangeHook idea #But at the same time...I've got that trashy Ricky/Christian idea that no one asked for but it's still giving me brainrot... #And there's still that DG Dead Dove fic I started months ago that I would very much like to finish at some point #Hmmmmm... #Hey if you're a madman who actually reads all my excessive long tags - let me know what you think I oughta write next! #And also thanks for being here I appreciate y'all even though I subject you to my madness on a regular basis

[peridots-pixiwolf]

hey guess who is actually and without exaggeration crying over ultrakill

#peridots-nonsense #ultrakill #ok so. i'm emotional right now. this has been stated. what also has been stated is the fact that this is my 2nd playthrough on a new device #first time i finished it was in november and while altars of apostasy does make me pretty sad that's about the limit to ultkill emotions. #it's really funny actually because i was so excited for heresy. i took longer to beat act 2 than i did the first time around cause i wanted #to improve on the levels (p-ranks and challenges and secrets. y'know. still haven't done 5-S yet though). so i had more time to anticipate #specifically. Gabe's rematch. i was THRILLED!!! i don't even know why!!!!! but i never stopped smiling the whole time i was fighting him!!! #it got so bad the first time i got to his second phase that i had to actually pause for the better part of a minute from stimming so hard!! #grinning like an idiot for five minutes straight!!! no fight or game has EVER made me feel that way before. #the hk collector is a fun fight for sure and i sometimes get happy going up against characters i like from any games. however #it fades as i get into the fight. it's never been nearly that grand. i was singing a lot too but sleeping family made it more of a whisper #i ended up spending 24 minutes on it with 58 restarts. and yet i was ECSTATIC the whole time. i can see what it felt like to him now lol #so. instantly on the verge of tears when i beat him. and when i got past the ending cutscene i broke. i love this game so so much... #idk. sure this could've been a text to my friends or something but i do not care you all will hear of this #cause this is the best thing ever actually. brb going to go tear up again though

[yo9urt]

i am the god of gaming

#mine #some of you may remember a previous post i made where i said i accidentally locked myself out of ast4ri0n romance #well. yesterday i figured out what exactly i did wrong/what i missed #and i had the insane luck to have ONE SINGULAR AUTOSAVE LEFT #that was old enough to get me back to the point in the story i needed to be at #so i went back to that autosave and did what needed to be done #AND IM ROMANCING HIM NOW AUAW7FAIF8UJFKF #EMD!!!!HEU8RJKFE9SSO!!!)!0494 #im literally so happy #and i got two really good screenshots of the confession scene but i cant even look at them because i get too excited #i was able to re-finish up act 2 yesterday and rn the party is just chilling at the gate leading to act 3 #i'm gonna have to replay a fair amount of stuff but yesterday's replaying went well #i think it should be a little faster the 2nd time around and MUCH more enjoyable now that i have what i wanted #SO HAPPY!! #this game is aweosme

[crescentfool]

"completed" side order (got the credits roll and currently have four developer logs), some thoughts about the gameplay + lore under the cut 👍

i really enjoyed playing side order! i felt that a lot of my experiences in salmon run carried over with having to assess situations and maneuver around large mobs of enemy. so it's not much of a surprise to me that the gameplay structure really scratches an itch in my brain...!

i've played side order for around 10 hours so far (5 hour sessions each)... it wasn't intentional, but i really felt that each run taught me something about the chips/specials and i couldn't help but want to give another try again... (and i do appreciate that the game does allow for breaks between runs, even if i didn't utilize it this time around!)

the only thing i didn't like gameplay-wise (so far) was the weighted rates for certain chips depending on palette, i didn't particularly enjoy my run with charger (even though it's my favorite weapon class), but it could've just been bad rng giving me chips that weren't that fun/interesting...? there's some modifications that i want to explore, but it can be hard to do that with the weighted rates.

that said, i personally think the developers did an excellent job of blending together splatoon's mechanics/objectives with the rougelike style of games! i definitely want to play more sometime, there's still a lot of lore, chips, and palettes i've yet to see. i think it's a breath of fresh air from the other singleplayer parts, but i also recognize that it might not be for everyone (the structure of side order inherently requires a lot of patience and endurance).

as for the story and lore bits, i really liked the framework of the memverse! i do think that some of my affection for it stems from the fact that it has some parallels to persona games (i legit messaged a friend saying "omg it's like apathy syndrome but for splatoon"). but i think side order's a pretty fun follow up to octo expansion, i like that there's potential closure for sanitized octolings and whatever happens to the deepsea metro afterwards. i think it's a pretty cool basis for ocs which is nice!

the bits of character interaction were nice too, pearl and marina are endearing and lovely as always (they are so in love)! deep cut reporting on the side order things before/after the campaign was really funny too, i really liked it (especially after watching the nintendo live 2024 concert).

i think i found the story more satisfying than rotm- the stakes made... more sense to me, but also the setup was just, really interesting to me (persona fan moment). i'll need to check more of the dev logs when i unlock them and reread some things, but, overall, really enjoyable!

anyway, the short of it: side order was fun for me because the gameplay scratches the grinding itch in my brain (salmon run player moment), and also i just like the premise of the memverse because i'm a persona fan and it reminds me of that. LOL.

#lizzy speaks #not tagging this with things because i don't want to be perceived by a wider amount of people outside of my followers lol #i had a pretty positive impression of side order though ^^ and wanted to document my thoughts somewhere #now that i got side order credits roll. time to go back to playing reload... im in september about to fight arcana hermit #it makes me happy to enjoy the games i play. side order was a worthwhile purchase for me!!! #i wonder if anyone would get into splatoon through side order specifically in the same way that OE brought in a lot of people #i'm not sure how new people would adjust to side order's gameplay tbh some of the floors felt difficult for me- #even though i play the game a lot. but i think there's plenty of features/mechanics to help make future runs easier #and rougelike as a genre really emphasizes the importance of patience and learning new patterns and assessing what situations you can handl #i hope everyone has been enjoying their february :) this month has been awesome to me #i wonder when the persona nuis are going to ship out... i need ryoj in my home NOW!!! ok bye. enjoy weekend everyone! #EDIT: changed complete to be in quotations bc im aware im technically not finished with it LOL #thank you anon for bringing that to my attention i forgot to specify haha. much appreciated!

[nexus-nebulae]

the aftermath of having 2 terabytes of storage

#i have never had a computer this nice lmao #i'm constantly so used to automatically assuming i Can't Do Most Things bc most of the time i'm barred from Everything #either by physical skill or money or age or location #so when i got a Nice Computer my brain was like STUFF I CAN DO?????????? STUFF I CAN DO!!!!!!!!!!!! #and just. downloaded all the games i haven't been able to play bc my laptop sucks ass #the dopamine rush. lmao #i can actually play skyrim again for the first time since i was 17 😭 #genuinely getting this computer has given me the exact same feeling as finally getting my wheelchair #just the fucking sheer joy of *oh my fucking god i have freedom now. i can actually DO STUFF* #seriously being able to use the wheelchair has made me so fucking happy i don't feel awful when going to the store i can actually THINK #bc i dont have brain fog from having to focus all of my energy on staying upright #and the computer is giving me the same feeling of freedom like. i can actually DO STUFF with my computer and not worry about it crashing #i can record video now!!!! I COULD START STREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i can actually learn to code because the coding programs will run!!!!!! i can start making datapacks!!!!!!!!!!!!! #can PLAY THE GAMES I'VE BOUGHT OVER THE YEARS FINALLY #FUCKING THANK YOU STEAM FOR LETTING ME KEEP THESE GAMES UNTIL I CAN ACTUALLY PLAY THEM #INSTEAD OF BEING A SHITASS STREAMING SERVICE THAT TAKES AWAY YOUR PRODUCT *AND* MONEY WHENEVER THEY FEEL LIKE IT #like i bought assassins creed odyssey the year it came out and i've never even been able to OPEN it on any of my old computers #i bought Jusant recently because it looks very pretty but the game wouldn't let me download it on my laptop bc the graphics card was shit #i have a bunch of games that I've just hoarded on my steam account for years and now i can finally play them #i can get back to subnautica too!!!! and finally finish out we happy few!!! #anyway im gonna go continue to be insane about this machine i love computers theyre so fun