#6 days of surprises

[anominous-user]

ELYSIA: There are so many herrschers here who are like me... I succeeded, didn't I?

#honkai impact #kiana kaslana #bronya zaychik #raiden mei #elysia #flashing #yk this is the first time ive drawn the trio properly like ever #wanted to do a thing cuz i saw this hoyolab creator rally and i thought it would be a good time to do smth like this #a-u art dump #i expected this to take almost a full week (6 days) but i finished it in half that time which is surprising

[moghedien]

Spy x Family is like “what if an entire series was one big miscommunication plot line but instead of adding unneeded drama and making the characters act annoying, it just made every situation 1000x funnier than it should be”

#it’s like ‘miscommunication but we’re gonna take it to the most ridiculous extremes’ #Loid tries to sneak off to do spy shit all day by telling them he’s gotta go shit real bad then disappears for a whole day? #now Yor thinks she poisoned him with her cooking because she made breakfast that morning and so now she’s wants to take cooking classes #so she doesn’t make Loid spend 24 hours on the toilet again #but she wants it to be a surprise so she’s coming home late and tired and with cuts all over her hands and now Loid thinks she’s mad at him #and the child is reading all of their minds and knowing everything but is also 6 and doesn’t actually understand any of it #spy x family

[rotisseries]

it never fails to surprise me when i get my period. like. oh. we're still doing that? i kinda thought you would've quit by now

#meanwhile I've had 6 counts of attempted murder in the past 4 days like wowwww what a surprise #in my defense. she's incredibly irregular

[transmechanicus]

That prev post reminded me how much it weirds me tf out when someone only interacts with specific subsets of a minority group and learns their associated niche behavior patterns, and then tries to apply those patterns to every member of that minority that they meet afterwards only to be shocked when it doesn’t work.

#my stuff #i went to a queer group a while ago to make friends and the only two other transfems were both way more shy and feminine and reclusive than #and these two had been attending for a while so they were everybody else’s baseline for transfems #this is not the other transfems fault to be clear they’re just giving #*VIBING #and then i show up looking like i spilled out of a metal concert and slapped on the she/her sticker it got me some looks #like ohhhh you think all trans girls grow their hair out and wear pink and play 1 billion hour final fantasy i see how it is #ohhhh you have preconceived notions of what trans womanhood looks like #surprise i wear band shirts and a leather jacket 6/7 days a week i cuss and take up space and have mostly guy friends #and that doesn’t make me any less of a woman

[lionfission]

Printmaking misadventures part 2. Getting this one to line up consistently has been... an ordeal. Doesn't help that it's on 12x18" unmounted linoleum 😭

Original + process pics under the cut!

#the owl house #toh #toh titan #toh fanart #the boiling isles #my art #while looking for refs I was kinda surprised to see fewer maps of the boiling isles than I was expecting #had to do a lot of guesswork based on screencaps + backgrounds + concept art I could find #lots of little details got lost but as a first attempt on lino I'm happy with how it turned out!! #took about 3ish days to design on procreate and 6 more to carve and print... which is honestly crazy fast for my slow ass lol

[evilkitten3]

yesterday's dracula daily had an editor's note that, for reasons unknown even to i, inspired quite possibly the most unholy image i've ever wasted half an hour in preview to make

stoker coming out of his coffin to shame matt from dracula daily

#the longer you look at it the worse it gets #if you zoom in you can see exactly where i committed crimes against digital artistry #graphic design is not my passion #also after making this i looked it up and discovered three important things #first that bram stoker does not in fact HAVE a coffin as he was cremated #second that he died of syphilis #(probably) #and third that his death was overshadowed bc five days before he ''locomotor ataxia 6 months'''d himself into the grave the titanic sunk #and a surprise fourth thing that he died on april twentieth a day that a little under 100 years after his death became known as weed day #what a fucking legend #the litter box #shitpost #dracula daily #bram stoker #truth coming out of her well to shame mankind #jean léon gérôme #i hope this is half as painful to look at as it was to create

[krysissy]

THE ACTUAL FUCK?? 46?? Y'ALL WE ROSE UP TWENTY THREE SPOTS FROM LAST YEAR WHAT THE ACTUAL SHIT.

BE FREAKING PROUD BC WE BEAT LIKE SO MANY OTHER MORE POPULAR SHIPS HOLY FUCK YOU HAVE NO IDEA.

Go check it out yourself:

https://www.tumblr.com/fandom/735515991901192192/ships-unexpected-connections-happen-in-two-places

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic #shadow #sonadow #fandom #what a way to celebrate a month more till sonic prime season 3 #day 1: finding out somadow beat drarry klance sasunaru in tumblr's top 100 ships of rhe year #what the hell #im so proud of ourselves #good day to be a sonadow fan #and bowluigi being 6 was surprisingly not surprising

[pileofsith]

I was expecting my family to come home right about now, so when I heard the doorbell ringing repeatedly, I opened it while making cutesy cheery talk for my toddler like awww lookit the bell going ring-ring, who could it possibly be...

It was a door-to-door postcard salesman.

#walrus this and fairy that #I was not only surprised I was mortified #and I would have bought anything he had on offer but to be fair I did really like the postcards #a sudden offer of postcards for cheap is like a tailor-made google-is-spying-on-you offer to me personally #so anyway I have 6 new postcards for my little collection and enough embarassment to last me the day #random rambling

[rexscanonwife]

I had a really stupid thought while I was in the shower about the initial 'episode' my s/i is introduced in where the girls are trying to warn Utonium about his new lady friend 😂 ofc my s/i's human form would look like me and that means being visibly nonwhite/Latina and I thought of them exclaiming that she's an alien...and Utonium responding with something like "Girls! I'm surprised at you, everyone has a right to live in this country no matter where they come from." 😂😂😂

#jane journals #self insert talk #💟 space girl 💟 #im not adding all those tags im lazy rn ajfkf #but LISTEN...IT WAS THE LATE 90S THEY WOULD MAKE A JOKE LIKE THAT #you'd be surprised #and ofc its a 'dont judge a book by its cover' lesson #or maybe a 'dont assume the worst in someone' type dealie #they actually DO have a similar episode in season 6 when the girls get a substitute teacher who looks like a badass demon guy #his design actually genuinely fucks but hes just chillin!! hes just a good lad #my s/i would get along with him ajfjgg #but yeah!! just a silly thought i had #my partner suggested that maybe they were previously watching some kind of alien invasion movie #like independence day or smth 😂 and THATS why they were especially on edge cause theyve done that in a similar ep too

[purpleneutrino]

autistic burnout really got me this time

#purpleneutrino #honestly surprised it didn’t happen sooner tbh #been doing nothing but writing and drawing intensely every day for 6 weeks straight with no break #it was a hell of a hyperfocus period #so i guess it’s stuck in bed with migraines and extreme fatigue time for me yay :))))) #hopefully back on my feet soon just need a proper rest for a day or two

[smute]

i built a projector stand today out of some wood scraps and an old ikea shoe rack and honestly im shocked by my own skill kfkfkgkf

#its not as wonky as it looks in the photo #but it is a little wonky lmao #not my fault though #the wood pieces i used weren't straight #BUT #BUT BUT #THE SURFACE IS PERFECTLY LEVEL #and its insanely sturdy for what it is #and most importantly it doesnt wobble #thats why im surprised #i was expecting to spend like 4-6 business days sanding down the legs to get them level #or even or whag. ever #but naur #im just that good #i didnt make it nice though #like there are screws poking out and the wood has weird stamps and marks #maybe ill paint it idk #anyway #woodworking tag #<- lmaooooo #&

[welcometogrouchland]

they shouldn't let me stay up past midnight bc then I start identifying every single problem I've ever had. No solutions found. Net zero personal progress and 0.5 hours of sleep are achieved

#ramblings of a lunatic #ignore me I'm having a moment #actually wait that's one of the problems we (the brain council) identified. is my need to not have problems where ppl can see #oh very problematic of my brain. not a fan #look i just got out on christmas break for college the term is catching up to me #i didn't make any real friends and it's not that I'm surprised..but yeah I'm surprised. i forgot about My Whole Deal somehow #like girl do the math. 7 yrs to make A FRIEND. SINGULAR. came pre packaged w/ 2 friends but took you 4 more years to make another one- #-independtly. straight up did not understand friendship and human relationships until you were at least 16 #did we honestly think we were gonna knock it out of the park in terms of socialising this first term???? did we???? #wishful thinking ig #oughh. college...bad. or not bad but. strange. and lonely. and yeah kinda bad #existentially horrifying in ways i didn't even realise were possible. i get why so many tma fans were college students/grads now #college just irl cosmic horror #anyway. i think i should try and sleep now lest the brain demons get the better of me #but also I've gotten like. 4 hours of sleep total over the last 6 days- not for lack of trying mind you #so like. I'm anticipating a struggle.

[emblazons]

BYLER WEEK 2022: Day 4: Song Lyrics

I was the best man in a size too small. You were my best friend, going at it all.

"Size Too Small," by Sufjan Stevens

#byler #will byers #mike wheeler #bylerweek2022 #I KNOW ITS WILL ANGST. IM SORRY OKAY #this song works as S4 Will's internal monologue song to me #the way he knows + loves + remembers Mike #and is sad the love isn't quite right in spite of how close they are #sweet and heartbreaking and soft in all the right ways #but the song still has hope for a surprise--which we all do too #also: this took so much learning on my part gif-wise #when I got that text to do what I wanted I almost yelled #its exciting when you figure things out! #especially since I've been making gifs for what...6 days? lmao #anyway. i hope you like it #and do listen to the song if you haven't before. i love it #stranger things #the me tag #my gifs

[justalittlebluetiefling]

This might just be me and I think you all know I’m a Shadowgast shipper so I’m not worried about saying this, but it is actually the most comedy that Caleb does not know Sending and I hope he never learns it.

#critical role #the mighty nein #the mighty nein reunited #cr spoilers #like i genuinely hope he doesn't #because it is so fucking funny #i'm sure he will #it's unrealistic to think he won't learn sending one day #but i also like knowing that they're still feeling out a relationship with each other right now #it's only been 6 months i am not surprised that they don't have regular weekend visits on the books

[nucifraga]

Been doing some research for a mini, mike-themed, conspiracy-esque board, and I've come across some interesting things:

Firstly, a 1981 article on the effects of being struck by lightning.

It's... very, very interesting how many ways a lightning strike can mess up your body. Human beings are very fragile things indeed. Notably, though, the results were that 'no continuing problems [were] observed' in the victim, which checks out. ["The doctors told me there would be no long-term damage from my accident."]

This 2008 article has a few things of relevance; namely that lightning strike victims:

Bear lichtenberg figures as a result of damage to the capillaries which usually go away in 24 hrs, but may be associated with 'deep pigmentation'. But I don't think this is the case with Mike, as I believe his scars are pale/almost-white. ["his face got so pale his branching scar seemed almost to vanish"]

May experience keraunoparalysis; the temporary paralysis of of the limbs, as result of the lightning's electricity taking the path of least resistance (i.e. through the nerves) and playing havoc with the nervous system and subsequently, both motor ability & sensation. ["you’re trapped in a statue of yourself"]

May experience retrograde amnesia; the inability to remember past events/experiences. ["The part that always bothered me was how I didn’t remember it. Not really."]

He was almost certainly hit dead-on/directly by lightning.

There's a few types of lightning strikes from what I can tell; direct, side flash (indirect), ground current & upward-streamers. The fact that Dominic Swain was unharmed (and within hearing distance of Mike, right before the flash) suggests that it wasn't a side-flash or ground current. You need a tall object for an upward streamer, but they were "playing in a field" so it's unlikely to have been that. That leaves only a direct strike. Direct strikes are less likely to have living victims, but this is TMA. And Mike survived. Mostly.

#surprise its another mike crew post #been binging malevolent but it all comes back to mike crew at the end of the day #lmao look at me talking about mike in present tense as if he's not 6 ft under #he's alive in my mind i swear #living rent free in my head #mike crew #mikecrew #michael crew #tma #the magnus archives #tma research #hyperfixation #tma theory #im going to be honest the only reason i typed this up was because i'd already pinned half of it up on my board with red string

[campbyler]

PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU WHAT TIME IS CHAPTER FOUR COMING OUT BECAUSE CRUEL SUMMER HAS BEEN STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR A WEEK AND I NEEEEEED IT

hi there! we’ve gotten a lot of asks like this in anticipation of Chapter Four Day and we love the enthusiasm and are flattered you guys are so excited !! <3 unfortunately it’s hard for us to give an exact time for chapter drops — more than like. maybe a couple hours in advance? — including ch4 :/ all three of us are super super busy during the day so we can’t often promise a time and be able to stick to it (chapters 2 and 3 were posted Literally the second andi and i could step away from work on a break) but rest assured thea is hard at work on finishing up and making sure it’s good to go! i would MAYBE expect it sometime around late evening-ish EST but don’t hold me to that bc we take editing and fine tuning very seriously 🤸we will let you know before it happens though so you can be on the lookout 🫡 for anyone who might miss it tonight because of time differences or the woes of being Sleepy, just know you’ll wake up to a brand new shiny chapter of acswy tomorrow morning 💞💞 we think you guys are going to enjoy this one :)

#weekdays are chaotic for all of us especially fridays lol #we were lucky enough to find time to upload 2/3 early in the day but i would not be surprised if in the future chapters were posted after #5 or 6 pm in our respective time zones (pst/cst/est) #just to keep expectations realistic! we would hate to say one time and keep pushing it back #anyways glad you guys are excited! hehehehe #asks #ch04