#And like. Again. Pretty good overall

[only-lonely-www]

So basically ATLA brain rot has hit me like a truck

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #toph beifong #what happened was I was forced to watch the live action #which is actually pretty good if you get past the first few episodes #and if you don’t have someone in your ear telling you it’s awful the whole time #first episode is definitely the weakest and that’s 50% gran gran’s fault #aang and katara are also pretty flat but whatever #sokka’s good and zuko’s fantastic actually #they did goof on a few things but overall I think it’s a fun time #just don’t expect it to be as good as the cartoon and you’ll be okay #ANYWAY it got me missing toph #so i rewatched the blind bandit episode #and then wound up watching the entirety of books 2 & 3 in a few days #and now I’m brain rotted #which is especially weird considering when I first watched it I was like #yeah that was good! and then never thought about it again #i dunno what changed but i need help it’s taking over my life #wanted to draw Sokka too but he looks hard to draw #and i had enough trouble with these two #maybe someday #sorry for rambling in the tags goodbye

[salty-an-disco]

fuck it, gonna start doing my stp-posting here too (its vibes fit DE, so–)

Did some more scribbles for some vague designs concepts. The ones on the first image came to me very easily, and I just didn’t have much energy to put much thought on their designs, but with Hunted, Paranoid, and Skeptic, I had to really stop and think about what I thought could best pass on their attributes (hence, the notes with some of my thought process lol).

Opportunistic and Smitten just really evade my mind tho; it’s not that I don’t have any idea for how they look like, it’s that I have TOO MANY ideas on what they could look like, and they all conflict with each other ksmddijdjdjf

#these are pretty simple. mostly a few differences on body shape and some clothes/accessories #but I like keeping things simple #focus on overall vibe rather than adding details details and whatnot #Slay the Princess #stp spoilers #the Long Quiet #Voice of the Hunted #Voice of the Skeptic #Voice of the Paranoid #stp voices #not gonna tag them all again #Sal Draws #sketches #doodling silly lil birbs is surprisingly really good for getting out of an art funky #voices design

[howlhawk]

BRAND! NEW! CHARLIE! REF! LET'S GOOOOO

i HATED the old one so much it was literally in two completely different styles both of which were horrendously out of date and missing a bunch of key details and UUUGH. i was so embarrassed to have it up and have people looking at it but this is SO MUCH BETTER. and hopefully it'll stick around for longer :)

#superhero oc #human oc #character design #hero oc #oc reference #reference sheet #ref sheet #original character #stanley does art #charlie grimms #HI I TALK A LOT BELOW THIS SO FEEL FREE TO SKIP IT ALL #tbh when i started working on this i just wanted a quick replacement for his old ref i wasnt expecting to go this far with it #but im glad i did bc again hopefully itll be accurate for longer #the old one had a mix of art from last april and october in it 💀 it was...not good #umm changes from that one to this one...well i transed his gender 👍 #previously i was kinda waffling back n forth on it but like mannn why the hell not. im just gonna commit. gender is stored in the cowboy #updated the colors of his tattoos especially the snakes which used to be a much muddier looking black #this works a lot nicer with his overall color palette i think #earrings are now a pretty much permanent fixture bc ive been a lot more consistent with including them lately #included side views for his hair because everyone gets confused on it (I DONT BLAME THEM it is confusing) #im happy with it! it's a subtle difference that even i struggle w at times but his hair IS meant to be asymmetric #costume design didnt really change except i redid the tooling and noted that it is SUPER optional #i barely draw it if ever and it will never be the same thing twice tbh who give shit #ummm. last and most obvious change Yes He Got Bricked #part of it is subconscious to make him contrast more with alistaire who is a super twink #part of it is he was always meant to be kinda square shaped (evident in original design from 2018) #and part of it is I Learned Anatomy. this last one really did it tbh #but i like it i think he is fun to draw and having a specific body type for him really helps with consistency #also because it's funny that he objectively does not work as hard as he should for the amount of muscle that he has. like deadass #because of power fuckery and shit which i think is endlessly funny

[applecherry108]

God I missed David and Catherine. I missed Russell’s writing. The first special was so fun. 😭😭

#‘OH MY GOD I DID IT AGAIN’ both peak Catherine Tate energy and Russel t Davies writing 😂😂 #Yasmin Finney was also delightful and I love the twist the story used but it’s also very much #‘he a little confused but he’s got the spirit’ writing bc is she nb? bc it felt like they established her pretty solidly as trans fem #both not that she couldn’t also be nb but also not every trans person is nonbinary #‘he a little confused’ 🫲 #🫱’but he got the spirit’ #(the he is Russel T Davies) #also oof that line ‘a male presenting time lord’ like…bruh what. what are yall talking about. what do you mean?? 😂😂 #I know I haven’t watched anything since mid way thru 11 but what? #that was the only line that felt like pandering it was weird. #and definitely just to excuse plot device tbh #still good overall tho. I’m so excited for more Doctor Donna 🥺🥺 #apple talks #to the tune of spam

[late-night-vocaloid]

mascotless vocals lose something on an individual level but I think with a bunch of new mascots releasing soon(?) we'll be getting something back we were desperately missing when the majority of new vocals had no designs

#I was so focused on the reception of individual vocals that I wasn't even thinking about how having so many of them be designless #impacted the community and the scale of how people interact with the characters #no character puts a damper on hype for a vocal but it also changes community hype overall #maghni ai Feels like old vocaloid #disclaimer idk if it was actually the majority but it feels that way right. at least half? with all the dt and v6 vocals #in recent times eclipsed sounds was the best (new) thing to happen to vocal synth imo. and obviously like. rikka and co. + maki + anri/jun #that's pretty close to it though (for new characters (except maki)) #maghni ai bringing ten from various parties (2/2/3/3) to the table feels really good when non-dt/yamaha companies #very much seem to be focusing on one at a time while dt pumps them out and yamaha came out announcing 16(?) #idk how fast they'll be done or the rate they'll come out at or anything but just knowing we'll have at least ten it nice #also I hope the test vocals have cute little designs too (I think they will). I never wanna see another non-teaser silhouette again lol /j #thoughts

[itsthegirlinthebowtie]

yeah so I’m not really sure what to say about this episode. I think I went into shock. there was so much I can’t even process a lot of it. I mean…I fucking love anakin and ahsoka in live action. I love going to the battle of teth in live action and the battle of mandalore!!!! with the shadow collective mandalorians!!!!! MY BOY REX showing up in the flashback 😭😭 the way i cheered!!!! Anakin in the Jedi general outfit holy shit. Anakin saying “yeah no kidding” when ahsoka said “these are the clone wars”. everything about that goddamn flashback killed me. the way he transformed into vader at that one point…I mean bitch….it kinda pained me not to see ashley eckstein as young ahsoka like it took me a bit to get past that but I thought ariana greenblatt did a good job overall. I loved everything with the purgill. mentioning kanan!!!! thank god!!! carson stalling the republic fleet was so cute. the sound of lightsabers crashing on the waves and jacen hearing it. senator leia organa stalling the senate for hera my fucking queen!! that’s my namesake!! (im not really named after her but sometimes i pretend). I can’t get over any of the flashback scenes or scenes with anakin and ahsoka. I wish a little that we had gotten more of a conversation about her guilt about leaving the order and leaving him/went more in depth with their conversations but overall I was screaming the whole time

#I like could barely even form this post cause there’s just so much going on in my head but I wanted to get down some thoughts #since i’ve been trying to live blog some thoughts every week #overall I was REALLY happy with how the anakin and ahsoka scenes worked out and I love the flashbacks #I just think it was hard for me not to see ashley eckstein as young ahsoka like it won’t ever be the same for me #I can get past it with rosario dawson because she is grown up so it’s different #but to try and recreate ashley eckstein’s teenage ahsoka with someone else it’s gonna be pretty impossible #but that said if they were going to try I thought ariana greenblatt did a really good job #I really liked the use of the world between worlds #and I just…seeing anakin again…murder me honestly #star wars #leah rants #leah watches ahsoka #ahsoka #ahsoka show #ahsoka spoilers #star wars spoilers

[fluentisonus]

napoleon movie was not good tbh

#script was not good didn't make a good use of history & didn't really justify being 2hr40min long imo #it had some nice cinematography in parts but. #idk maybe I'm just being mean but even as a long historical movie enjoyer i wasn't a fan #thoughts #i felt like sometimes also it was trying to do that sort of modern humor slant to history thing which Can work (eg the favourite) but didn' #also it was weird abt the french revolution in a way I didn't rlly enjoy but I'd have to chew that one over before making any serious crit #& my knowledge of napoleon is v patchy so I can't really say anything there except it didn't really feel like it developed him much at all #which. idk how. it feels like it should have done #overall an extremely meh altho sometimes pretty film tbh. idk #<- i did smile seeing the rain at waterloo though thank you victor hugo she is like a celebrity to me #sorry adding more as I wait for the bus but. how do cut the entire peninsular war & invasion of italy etc etc & still have it drag #also again i felt like the dialogue was quite bad but maybe I'm being too mean #esp bc the other people in the theater did seem to enjoy it ajskdjkgky. so who knows #wait i Will say that I did quite like the mysuc though. that was good. #*music #also we got a ship interior w middies at the end #the french revolution bit really did leave a bad taste in my mouth though

[goldensunset]

nah actually i’m not joking. some of y’all heard ‘the destiny trio isn’t the way it used to be; things have changed since they were younger’ and went ‘this is referring to them not caring about kairi anymore hee hee.’ like man,, you can absolutely hold the opinion that in kh3 there appears to have been a breakdown in communication between kairi and sora (and riku) due to a lack of time spent with them lately. i personally would agree. but i think the point of all the affection displayed in kh3 regardless of this is that their long-lasting love for each other is still there. they will never stop holding these loving feelings for each other because they have a shared past together that they won’t forget. maybe it’s a little awkward and strange these days because of how different everything has been, but dangit they’re trying man! they want to try! that ‘want’ in itself is love! they don’t know each other as well as they used to. but it’s not the end of the world. it just means there’s some work to be done in their relationship, and we’ve still got a future ahead of us in this franchise. so…keep your heads up

#this is re: my last post so. read that pls #you can just say kh3 had you seeing red it’s fine #it’s fine it’s fine it’s fine if you don’t ship it but. stop trying to downplay the way they care about each other #and like. just consider that maybeeee the way it was could’ve been intentional? #sure i still think kh3 had some writing issues but like not all of it is like that? it’s actually pretty good overall?? #i sure hope it all plays off in the future (esp with the uh. new writers lol) #kingdom hearts #mine: kh #aaaaand post #man imagine if I constantly hate posted about riku or acted like he was anything less than sora’s dearly beloved best friend #who is very very very very essential to this story #i don’t need to turn off my eyes ears and brain to have an opinion #sorry i’m being salty again fdjdndbjx

[fakeoutbf]

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#my grandma fell and broke her hip in october last year #and basically the end of 2023 was a whirlwind of really negative emotions all around for her and me and my whole family #of course there were good moments in between but overall it hit us all pretty hard #i got to her house just now and she walked all the way from the office to the kitchen to get the door for me and i saw her walk all the way #back with minimal difficulty and also going kinda fast with her new walker #and i’m in tears writing this bc we didn’t know if she was gonna walk again #she was depressed her stomach was a mess and she barely ate and other conditions worsened and made it that much harder for her to get better #now she’s finally starting to look and be like the woman i know she is and it makes me feel so relieved #i never doubted that she could get better but god it feels so good to see her be better

[dragonjadearts]

As someone who posts art for various different fandoms, it's always fascinating to me to see what the trends are with how fandoms interact with art on this site.

#my flight rising pieces almost always have an incredibly even like to reblog ratio #they also tend to tag their reblogs #and are generally more likely to leave comments on the work or in the tags (very appreciated I ADORE reading them #stars wars fandom nearly RELIGIOUSLY tags their reblogs #definitely more than other fandoms #subnautica is pretty good about reblogs but overall not as even as flight rising #but they are even more likely to leave comments in the tags #especially long winded ones (which again. i love love LOVE to read) #hazbin hotel is fucking AWFUL with reblogging #like cosmically bad #i have a piece of art that's at 29 reblogs to 123 LIKES #what the FUCK is that ratio??? #sanders sides is... not good about reblogs honestly #that art tends to get a lot of notes anyway for some reason but the ratio is still pretty ass #not as bad as hazbin mind you but not as good as some others #it usually ends up averaging to 3/4 likes and 1/4 reblogs in the notes #and of course original art and original character fuckin never gets notes of any kind lol

[piplupod]

epic win at old lady group today: the group leader was struggling with a tangled up loose skein of yarn, so i scampered over to the other end of the table where was sitting and offered to untangle it and wind it into a centre-pull yarn bal for her since I remembered how to do it from just the other day fjdkdl and she was very confused why i would WANT to do that but she let me :3

so i got to untangle yarn AND wind a yarn ball AND help someone i appreciate, three things i love doing - YIPPEE !!!

#also one of the ladies had never seen the way i do it before and she was so fascinated and impressed fjdkdl #every couple mins she'd be like ''wow! would ya look that!'' SBDJDKL it was so fun #also i finished as much of the hat i could work on while i was there a bit early #so i pulled out my sketchbook for the last half hour and doodled a little #and the remaining women all wanted to see fhfkdl so i got to show them a page of my art #and they were so impressed HDJFDKL #its so strange sharing my art w ppl bc like... i pretty much never do it irl #so im always like super nervous and unsure and ppl pretty much always go ''WOW !! you're an artist!!!'' #and then i get MORE nervous and unsure bc idk how to react to compliments other than saying thank you gjfkdl #and its just a very silly mess of a time LOL #ANYWAYS !! good time there today as always fjfkl i almost had a panic attack at the grocery store after but i survived #idk why that happens sometimes fjdkdl my brain just decides its time to freak out #and i have to be like hey man. we're almost done here and then we'll be home soon. and we can have a breakdown once we get home okay? #and my brain kicks a rock and mutters a pouty ''okay'' and i push through the rest of the time fnfmdjdkl #anyhowdy that was A Lot and im very tired but it was good overall and I've got food again so HURRAY !! #and also i have a drawing im excited abt working on >:3 #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

[raiiny-bay]

my favorite posts of the year :-)

links to full posts below the cut:

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12

#ts4 #simblr #idk how to tag this so i'm just?? tagging???? something? #i was going to comment about how much red there is here but then i realized. kel. hair. red. lmao #story posts were excluded but just know kel/ick getting knocked tf out is absolutely one of my favorite things i've ever made #the top 3 are in order #the rest are just kinda randomly thrown around #surely no one is surprised by number 1 #it is in fact my phone's home screen #a good bit of these are actually from the first half of the year which is surprising to me #usually i stop liking/being impressed by my own edits after like. a week lol #no. 6 i think is the oldest on the list. it's from january & i still rlly like it #it's one of the rare ones that turned out exactly how i wanted it to #honestly i would have added my most recent mb edit to the list BUT #it's still pretty fresh so it might just be newness bias that is making me like it so i'm leaving it off #overall tho i feel like it was a really good year edit-wise. my skills definitely improved a lot so that's neat #i think for next year i might like to try photo sets again or like... more nicely edited story posts #assuming i.......... actually work on some story posts lmao

[adore-gregor]

soooo

#guys i'm dating someone again 🤭 #and i rly hope it works out better this time 🥺 #i already think i'm starting to fall for him adgjk #we had a 2nd date this week and it was good #i just feel comfortable around this guy honestly more than with the last one #it's also happening slower like no kiss on the first date lol altough it was good then i'm not mad about it #it makes me feel less pressured #the first date we went on a little walk (actually up a pretty steep hill in the city xd but with a lovely view) and then coffee #2nd date we went for breakfast and i'll probably see him again next week 🥰 #and yeah this he's just so sweet and genuine i love that 🥺 i don't feel judged by him and it all feels more effortless #(with the other guy honestly i did at times feel intimidated about how he had his life together and that he'd judge me for mine lol) #also he's much more my type looks wise what i typically like he has such a cute smile and warm eyes 🥰 and also he's reaaaally tall haha #he's over 2m tall to be exact 😆 but not in an intimidating way and i'm also quite tall so i like this fact 🙈 #but one thing which was so cute is when we met how his face lit up omg 🥺 and like how he looked at me 🥰 #(the other guy was mostly hot in the very athletic fit body way with this one i find him attractive overall and also kind of cute) #and yeah i keep thinking about him and if i should text him but i never really know what to text 😂 i'm the worst texter #at times i don't even text my best friend like it's never personal i'm just better to meet in person hahah #and i'm just much happier these days thinking about him dgjkll 🤭🤭

[shekeepsmeworms]

Had some wine feeling good made a really shitty bowl in ceramics class this morning that I’m really worried has a bunch of air holes in it and had a really crappy therapy session where I didn’t talk too much but was honest about some other stuff which is good overall I guess but now I’m doing drunk crochet and watching the Duggar family documentary and probably going to stop watching soon once they start talking about the awful stuff but yeah day in the life of a woman doing her best I guess

#like both sides of my family are either Irish catholic. converted assimilation catholic. or part Jewish but raised catholic. #but my mom read the Boston glob report so I wasn’t baptized or anything and despite her born again phase I’ve never really been religious #so the thought of growing up in that environment is like I can’t imagine the pressure oh my god #like I’ve had Mormon friends and have some friends who were raised homeschool Christian married young and all and like #i don’t know it’s just wild how different our lives are like I’ve got a problems and def inherited the guilt complex thing for sure but like #I also never got told to submit to anyone or that god was watching #or to be modest or any of the purity stuff beyond normal patriarchy stuff #like I’m not saying my life is better but I didn’t do church after age 5 and only go to funeral masses so I like the comfort of like #doing sign of cross and saying Hail Mary and all bc it provides structure for grief but beyond that I can’t imagine living with all of that #these are very long tags with no real point beyond wow. that’s literally bananas to me. but did I mention I’m a little drunk #and even then my family isn’t like hardcore catholic. my grandma and her siblings skipped church to get donuts bc no farm work on Sunday #and my dad grew up like doing fasted mass and everything but heard the 2000s Harvey milk speech and realized gay ppl are okay #and then rest of extended dads side is like catholic but vote blue and think human rights are good and all #my mom has a student who’s like very traditional catholic like she was trying to teach him math and whatever #and the live coverage of waiting for pope confirmation was on tv the whole time #and he fights with her about evolution and learning about the existence of other religions and everything #so I guess even in my own family like. everyone’s down with basic science and civil liberties which is even weirder for me I guess #like not even among fundamentalists like just regular Catholics I’ve had a pretty liberal upbringing re faith. it’s just wild to me #to see the differences of worldview #and even non religion stuff was pretty liberal overall despite living in pretty red area. idk it’s just wild how different life can be

[getreadytosmash]

Sometimes there's just lids on things u don't wanna open

#the queen of smash (mun) #idk its dumb and stupid but ever since i've been playing more visual dating sims #i just get these days where i feel like....nothing???? #like. not a girl just a body this compile of personhood #and like idk maybe its cause visual sims lets you have so much cleaner interaction with selfhood and gender #compared to irl where i live in a country where HRT is smth thats difficult to comeby so overall ALL of it feels messy #demigirl works out fine enough for me but idk i just. somedays i feel LESS like a girl and more. nothing #i dont fully like it because it just feels like im faking it?? jumping on a bandwagon??? #almost half of the friends i've made or have on tumblr pretty much went down a pipeline of afab to they/them to he/him or he/they #with more masc learning and terms #and idk if i'd go THAT far??? I don't mind being called he/him but it's not my full go to i don't think??? #but idk it feels. selfish. like im pretending. idk if i like the idea of being they/them ALL the time i like she/her enough #im just. (huffsssss) my parents have always been open that they expected me to become a dyke lesbian or trans because i was a big tomboy #so maybe a part of me feels like i'm playing into these expectations and i feel so sick at the idea. even tho ANYthing of my pronouns. #would stay online #idk idk i guess after being always she/her i'm...vaguely curious to see how i feel with they/them but again. pretender stuff. #maybe i don't feel it properly like everyone else does #im just this sack of flesh filled with nothing good but what others have #i don't FEEL enby enough to be one #but idk if demigirl fully suits me AS much now #oughhhhhhhhhhhhh

[yardsards]

i mentioned willow park being under-appreciated to my friend and he was like "i need to start a blog in which i post a shitty doodle of willow like, pumping iron or something every 5 minutes" and ik he was joking but Please i need this

#eliot posts #toh #i was thinking of making him watch more toh with me (i think we got like half through s1 a while ago?) #but i was seized by the uncontrollable urge to make him watch s1 and s2 of infinity train with me #so that's what we watched instead #i actually only assumed we'd make it through s1 but he wanted to watch more so we watched s2 as well #which is good cuz it's my fav :D #we watched 1 or 2 eps of s4 #depending on what he wants i guess we'll either watch more toh or watch seasons 4 and 3 of infinity train next time we hang out #he's the type of friend where our hangouts are more chill watch a movie/tv together and play video games type things #and i make some pretty good popcorn. and have a comfy bedroom to watch tv in. #alas he lives an hour away and cannot drive so it has to be An All Day Thing when we hang out to make it worth it #anyway iirc when we did watch toh willow was his favourite #which is very good taste. willow is perfect and Babey. daughter girl. i want to protect her even tho she could easily kick my ass #sometimes he asks for art requests. i should make him draw willow. or one of our infinity train blorbos. #(jesse is his fav humanoid character so far which is again good taste gang (atticus is his overall fav because Dog. he cried at s1e8)) #(also he IMMEDIATELY started headcanoning jesse as as a trans guy and i love how much of the fandom shares that hc) #(on top of the even more popular nb lake headcanon. he said it was weird to see them referred to w she/her after seeing them on my blog) #normally when he asks for art requests i always jokingly request jeb bush to torment him. i forget where that joke started