#Eras failed but anyway

[flowersforfrancis]

#Hello loves #i’m tired but what’s new #Eras failed but anyway #dark academia #dark romantica #classic academia #academia #chaotic academia #romanticism #books and literature #the secret history #greek mythology #greek aesthetic #history #history aesthetic #statue aesthetic #smoking aesthetic #pretty boys #gender envy

[otrtbs]

hello!! wild thing!!

your girl (me) passed her dissertation this morning and i am now officially an owner of an art history masters degree 🥳🎉

#was i worried i was going to fail my dissertation??? #nothing in my 22 years of living has ever indicated that i would fail it #but i still worried over it DAILY #anyway !!! still in my flop era but now with ANOTHER DEGREE !!!! #slay #SLAYYYYY #nat rambles

[socialbunny]

 Skip has always found a way to work through his problems and turn them around with relative ease, but the sudden death of his wife, Brandi, has brought his mostly carefreeness towards his children  to a stand-still. With two freshly traumatized children and a newborn under his belt, can Skip juggle turning his shitty ass life around for his family, or will he crumble under the weight of his past mistakes?

Darleen hasn’t been the same since her husband, Darren, died, though she’d be quick to argue with you if you said anything of the sort. She’s FINE! She misses her husband, undoubtedly, but she’s not going to let that very, very, very tiny thing wreck her whole life, and she’s not going to let people give her grief about ANYTHING. Sure, she got fired from her job a few months back and hasn’t made any strides to find a new one, and she’s losing touch with her son as she goes and squanders all her responsibilities by partying and drinking on par with younger years, aaaaaaaaaaaaand the almost obsessive idealistic crush she’s developed on her neighbor is clouding the second half of her judgment, but she’s bounced back from worse and knows everything’s going to come up Darleen :) …………. hopefully

#POSTING THIS BC IVE HAD IT DONE FOR 2 MONTHS KINDA? i kept feeling uninspired andiffy abt it tho so it just made me not want to finish it #posting this before i change my mind i hate darleens desc but its the only one im rockin with at the same time #ANYWAYS BASE D ON A SEMI AU IDEA IVE BEEN THINKING OF. WTV. DUSITN AN DIRK WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE TO BE YOUNGER FOR THIS AU TO MAKE SENSE. but #idc it just for funsies #common skip and darleen l's tbh #i support my alcoholic delusional wife in these dire times. #💙 #other names for these pics: #pls dont ask skip and darleen where their children r bc they dont kno #the painful ass crick darleens about tohave in her neck when she wakes up #skip doesnt know how to hold a baby apparently and its not bc there was something wrong with how i rigged him nooooooooo #gordon pls leave ppl alone and get a life #in my maxis dev 04 era the way these pics r so lazy #POTRAYING DARLEEN AS A GIRLFAILURE honestly. love fail darleen i need to do it more and show it more. #thats all if u read these tags i think ur in love with me and we should kiss

[almond-gallery]

wanted to take another crack at modern les amis (plus extras) since it's been a long time since i've done so !!

#les miserables #les mis #les amis de l'abc #enjolras #combeferre #courfeyrac #marius #cosette fauchelevent #eponine thenardier #joly #bossuet #musichetta #bahorel #jehan #feuilly #grantaire #when i drew these out the first time i forgot to include grantaire in either lineup #and they were already sized and balanced on the canvases and everything so i just...separated him #originally i was planning on adding him to the second lineup but Grantaire Quarantine Zone is objectively funnier so i kept it #i'll be real a few of these designs are basically the same as what i did four years ago. but i didn't have any new ideas.... #i'm particularly fond of this jehan though. also pleased with marius #cosette and eponine i just ported from year old sketches from the last time i tried to do these redesigns and failed #because i like them. #anyway! hi <3 hope people like these #crazy what graduating does to a guy. it's like i'm in my unemployment era but actually i still have two jobs #but with just the two jobs...i have time for hobbies again...i can be happy and free...

[skitskatdacat63]

His bullfighting days aren't over quite yet.

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#GET IT??? HIS *BULL*FIGHTING DAYS....hahah yeahhhh im so clever..... #suddenly had the urge to draw old man version matador nando bcs DC randomly called him a matador during quali #and im like oh my god....dc....youre so right.... #hoping this piece works as some kind of blood sacrifice for his performance in about 7 hrs :) #get it blood sacrifice??? and hes cutting his hand in this piece??? #thats supposed to represent two things. #1. hes doing a blood pact/sacrifice so his performance goes well #2. hes testing the sharpness so he can slay the bull!(and the...horse? 🤭🤭) #had a very interesting convo w Suzuki abt the implications of matador nando #based on a meme i made 😭 abt how our fantasy is that hes gonna be the bullfighter. hes gonna slay the bull #but the reality will be that he looks upon the bull from a distance #hes meant to kill the bull to overcome it. but he just ends up longing to be the bull. he fails.. hahaha get it.... #lmao angst aside i think its kinda funny how i can have this reasoning for the matador au in two eras #thats long the old man has been here. has had two distinct periods of challenging the (red) bull #ANYWAYS!!!! hope ya like!!!!!! i think this is pretty relevant hopefully 🤭🤭 #quite happy w this one even if it was less of an ordeal than most of my drawings #waaaahahhh hes so handsome!!!!! handsomest guy!!!!!!! #lol scheduling this like an hr before the race cause as i said. its an offering. its a sacrifice. i pray to the racing gods #tw blood #<- just a bit 🥰 he was originally just gonna be holding the sword but i realized ouch! sharp!!! #f1 #formula 1 #fernando alonso #catie.art. #fa14 #f1 art #f1 fanart #matador au

[starchaserdreams]

The main villains of the Marauders universe, according to me:

Lord Voldemort

Albus Dumbledore

Peter Pettigrew

Barty Crouch Jr.

Severus Snape

#i almost didnt rank snape #but then i couldn't not #he's below crouch because there's at least an attempt at heroism #it fails but an attempt is worth something #marauders #marauders era #dead gay wizards #albus dumbledore #tom marvolo riddle #lord voldemort #harry potter #barty crouch junior #barty crouch jr #peter pettigrew #im not tagging that last one #but the incel apologists will probably find it anyway #sirius black and remus lupin would never forgive me if i didn't include snapr #so we can't have that

[brittlebutch]

actually it's kind of funny how people will say Alex's fatal flaw is that he 'doesn't ask for help' and that it's his determination to handle things on his own that leads to his deterioration and eventual death when his whole introduction to the present-day timeline was a very literal cry for help that simply went ignored

#N posts stuff #like even if you think alex was lying throughout the entirety of season 2 and he was waiting from the Moment jay showed up #JUST to kill him (Which again i don't think makes much sense when he could have killed Tim & Jay immediately instead of #breaking Tim's leg. anyway) EVEN IF alex spent that whole time lying it doesn't actually change the fact that he would have at least #been Pretending to Ask For Help and if he wasn't lying then he was Literally Asking For Help and it doesn't Actually matter #what intention Alex had because the text is Ambiguous about Alex's honesty during season two; what isn't ambiguous is the way #other characters (specifically Jay) respond to him; like yeah - S2 Brian/Tim were never in one million years going to help Alex with shit #so sort of any argument that brings up Tim as someone who asks for/offers help is borderline meaningless in this era of the series #Jay had the 'opportunity' to help Alex (and i'll get back to that in a sec) but DIDN'T - Jay wasn't Interested in actually offering Alex #'help' bc Jay is ultimately curious about Answers and 'Offering Help' and 'Getting Answers' are two Wildly conflicting goals #Jay thinks Alex has answers and when Alex doesn't Offer these 'Answers' to Jay on a silver platter Jay gets pissed off and paranoid #and starts Stalking Alex bc he thinks it's 'Suspicious' that Alex won't give him the Answers (that Alex probably doesn't Actually have) #ANYWAY. ultimately this post is about how it's absurd when people argue #that individual character choices could have made a difference in the way this series played out - specifically wrt Alex #because EVERYONE in this WHOLE series are being affected by influences outside of their control ; including Brian Tim and Jay #so it's silly when people are like 'if ALEX had just made a different choice For Himself this could have all been avoided' WRONG. #bc Ultimately there's not really a way to 'help' someone else out of this situation - Tim tried and failed Repeatedly #the comics proved he even failed with Jessica - like MH isn't a horror situation where you can kill the big bad #'getting help' is a meaningless argument - what would successfully helping or getting help even look like? anyway. #the sub argument of this post is that Alex's biggest 'sin' is that he doesn't perform emotions the way other people want him to #like Alex is a character with a kind of flat affect - instead of LOOKING scared or grieved he LOOKS bored or angry #and everyone judges him based on that - so Alex is 'Suspicious' he's 'Lying' he's 'Guilty' but all of these deductions are predicated #on the belief that Alex isn't reacting to his circumstances the way a 'Normal' person would - so it MUST all be an act and so he's guilty #so everyone treats him like he's guilty until the end of season two when he's like 'Fuck it FINE i'll be guilty then' and so it goes #not a self-fulfilled prophecy but being Cornered Into a prophecy and then Blamed for it - SAD. anyway

[mostlymaudlin]

was starting to hijack in the tags of that post i just reblogged but ohhhhh it is so juicy to me that the end of TKM is just part of the rising action of andrew's character arcs. and yet the way the novel leaves off, you can have so much hope in the ways its going to continue -- especially because neil proves to us on the last page that he's going to fight like hell to hold onto him whatever comes next.

it's just !!!! all andrew's deals are done. neil's big happy moment of relationship security comes from the fact that andrew didn't deny its existence lol. BUT neils correct to be happy about this, because he knows andrew is a black & white thinker, and he's entering unchartered territory! all his lil lies he uses to duct tape his sanity together are coming apart, and that break is going to be FASCINATING. i doubt it'll be explosive or anything -- andrew's more the "quietly self-destruct climax" type than the "defeat the mafia thru the power of sports climax" type -- but it'll sure be something interesting. and then once it all breaks, we know he'll have neil and kevin and his family and the foxes to help him heal -- and he'll have to believe it when they show they care about him, because he literally doesn't owe anyone anything

#i think thats why all my aus put andrew in his Self Destruct Era #because im just so positive that he well on his way to that at the end of tkm #actually im amending the tags a bit bc i think what i sometimes end up doing w him in aus is a product of the fact that my stories rarely #have extreme external plot elements #like andrew never thinks neil DIES lol #baltimore is so fucking integral to andrews development #he did not have time to do the full self destruct 'oh no can i live without him' era because #he literally got tested on that and he FAILED HAHAHA #so he def knows that he needs neil #the crux of the conflict still is -- can he accept this without hating himself? #because if THATS not addressed then eventually his logic is going to warp #and hes going to do stupid shit #and yeah :) i love when he does stupid shit and then ppl are like #NOPE. unfortuantely you have fucked up severely #and in order to get back what you cant live without #you must board the Self Love Express !!!! #its a journey lil man!!!!! #youre gonna hate it!!!!!!!! youre gonna go on it anyway!!!! #SCRMEEEEAMMMM i love andrew minyard

[torgawl]

if wriothesley doesn't appear in any quest once we get to remuria, what even is the point?

the parallels between wrio and king remus are crystal clear. remus who descended upon meropis (a name very familiar to anyone who knows of the fortress of meropide) in his golden fortuna, the legendary ship of remus that is also called the bringer of civilization and glory (wrio who built a ship to deal with the misfortune upon fontaine) is an example of it.

wrio also has connections to hades with the cerberus motif as guardian of the underworld. it's curious that the tower in remuria is described not only as not built to receive heavenly oracles, serving as a guide to ships traveling between islands, but also as a border of reality and dreams. if this is not necessarily literal but a metaphor or allegory, it could fit very well with the idea of a portal between domains or realms, like life and death.

wriothesley also parallels another character in the genshin universe and that person is arlecchino. they were brought up as orphans, taken in by an institution with corrupted leaders, which they reformed and achieved a leading position of. and funnily enough, she has ties to purgatory (a place for punishment, much like the fortress). as i have said in another post, purgatory has been described by dante as a tower leading to heaven. but we also know that celestia in the genshin world is associated with the demon realm - archons being named after ars goetia, an anonymous grimoire on demonology. although the concepts aren't the same in theory, is it impossible that the game has used elements of both? wriothesley and arlecchino's themes are similar enough to overlap. even though i don't expect wriothesley to be lore revelant anymore, i do think his ties to remuria and his role as someone who punishes others for their sins, much like arlecchino, is very much purposeful.

#another random post because i read the history of the decline and fall of remuria and i keep reaching the same conclusions sghdfasgd #i don't know what to make of it but i feel like i'm so much on the right track for arle's lore but i am probably still missing something #important ahah probably related to the narzissenkreuz ordo and khaenri'ah (and consequently the #hilicurl curse) since arle probably has ties to that era as well. she was probably done experiments on much like caterpillar but i have no #idea my first instinct tells me she's not from khaenri'ah but who knows i'll love to find out #anyway this was a post about wrio but again arlecchino has taken over my mind so it is what it is #i forgot to include in the post but fortuna is not only the goddess of fortune and luck but also the god of fate. wrio who built the boat i #hopes to challenge the fate of fontaine vs pierro saying fate grants favors to no one and implying arlecchino has been able to challenge it #like. lore is so fun!!!!!! i see little dots connecting things but i'm like a 3 year old trying to connect them and failing miserably lol #wriothesley #arlecchino #genshin impact #genshin thoughts

[ask-zerotrio]

Clavell and cyrano angstttttt. My mind has conjured some messy idea of Clavell's complicated personal relations with everyone. From unresolved pining/mourning/anger for the profs, to broken friendships with Cyrano.

#director clavell #zerotrioshipping #director cyrano #Haha the drama in that happens in my mind's eye is too complex for Pokemon #//ooc #i just think it's fun to make the compassionate old man face troubles #how much regret do you think clavell holds for the two profs #things like “i loved you and I failed you” #but also “Turo and Sada how could you do all this???????? why didn't you ask for my help” etc. #basically i love that clavell and arven have a lot of commonality re the profs #but since clavell knew them for work and such it's a lot of room to explore haha #and then in comes cyrano who left it all behind him #i doubt he's a villain #if nothing else maybe opportunistic businessman with different stances about education to clavell #anyway all this boils down to area zero research era lore being so intriguing and how using clavell's life to explore it is so much fun #anyway wow my essay in tags #i care them a lot #need to adopt them all as ocs

[michi-chelle-draws]

ace solo sesh whennn 😩

(full censored versions & a bonus under the cut 💦)

#ace anderson #jock studio #fanart #sorry idk if i’m allowed to show peen on here #any suggestions on places i could show off these off uncensored? that’s not twitter ‘cause i’m not about that toxicity lmaooo #fun fact this is the first time i’ve drawn a dick so it was an interesting experience….my search history for references is real spicy now #anyway sorry i’m still in my bl visual novel era #from time to time i think about jock studio and i’m like ughhh i need more content so i’m making it my damn self 😤 #i miss ace my pathetic cringe fail loser boi #also why do i like the 10-minute sketch i quickly colored on my phone more than the whole illustration that took me like 3 days to finish #i guess stuff comes out better when i’m not thinking or trying too hard #something to ponder

[seokwoosmole]

Pro tip for any fantasy still recovering from the reality of this whole sf8 situation: what you DONT want to do is turn on YouTube at 4am and watch their entire Kpop Nation Warsaw performance, followed up by the music show performances of the songs they sang, and finish up by watching the video where they get their first win.

Consequence: Bawling your eyes out over a bowl of Count Chocula

No, I don't speak from experience. Absolutely not...Just giving sound advice.

#imma be honest #watching/listening to scream was so easy #but any other song #OOF #Without fail every single time I was like #oh that's Rowoon's part :( #and this isn't a knock to the other members at all #taeyang & dawon covered most of his parts and they did it so well!! #sf9 is one of the few groups where each member is so special & talented & integral to the group #yet if members are missing the other members have no issue filling in the gap #like they make u FORGET there is a gap like if I've never heard of sf9 & saw them perform I wouldn't think they were incomplete at all #like idk why it makes me so emotional cuz I went thru scream era fine & saw the delight tour and was SO FINE #like during that concert was I thinking boo hoo this would be so much better with rowoon here? NO! #I SAW THE 6 MEMBERS IN FRONT OF ME & IT WAS THE MOST PERFECT EXPERIENCE & I HAD NO ONE ELSE IN MY MIND #but in the back of my head I was like NEXT TIME they'll be complete...but ig now I don't have that to cling to #was it a bad idea to put myself thru that? probably #but I WILL be streaming their fancon & binseong will be back & idc that they won't see me #but I will not be a sobbing mess crying over a member who's not there anymore when 2 members who've been gone for so long just came back #that sounds harsh but its the truth so I needed to warm up #anyway buy ur tickets to fandora!! #sf9 #youngbin #inseong #jaeyoon #dawon #rowoon #zuho #taeyang #hwiyoung #chani

[ash-soka]

so bottoms finally released in australia 💛🧡

#weirdest thing happened. i was sitting in the cinema looking So cute and not a single lesbian approached me 😭 #cinema was actually like #dead #but anyway this movie reminded me that i'm alone #re-entering my fail girl era

[cursed-clock-shop]

Henry put a small couch he found on the curb into the back room. He used this to crash on after he stayed up late working on a clock and didn't want to walk up their death trap stairs in the middle of the night. Marietta told him to stop, but he convinced her to let him keep it so toddler Gerty could take naps in the same room they were working in.

#idk i just want nice things for them #but i must acknowledge that they're poor so they get road couch i guess #anyways they still have this couch and john n lets the animals sleep on it after he's done working on them #it's also where Mortimer slept in his depression era before they moved him to Nelly's old room #failure: a love story #failure a love story #henry fail #marietta fail #gerty fail #autism #adhd #others don't get tagged because they're not in the main post

[professionalfixator]

i said i was going to be normal about this season but last night i dreamt that I was building IKEA furniture with hunter so i guess i'm not

#grace be normal about new era survivor challenge FAILED #i love that man tho #like- he makes me blush #he's on screen and i'm just like 🙈 #AND I DONT EVEN LIKE BLONDES #anyway #survivor 46 #hunter mcknight

[risingsunresistance]

i sat down with a bowl of soup and i haven't even touched it bc i've just been staring at that picture of him and trying to wrap my head around the fact that we have a new techno video jkfhdsjk

#BEARD HE HAS A BREAD #does ANYONE remember when we were all trying to ''prove'' he had a beard #based on a few texts he had sent in discord and a handful of ppl who played in vcs with him #or am i insane here #it was covid era. he was asked about the hypixel box and said he didnt wanna record bc he looked like a caveman lol #anyways THEY WERE RIGHT also the art community won so much just now jfhdg #i WOULD draw him with a beard. but i tried and failed a lot so i gave up a while ago </3 #congrats to the bravest of us (the ones who actually stepped up and learned how to draw facial hair) you all won today #chat