#I am NOT smooth at all

[anna-hawk]

Imagine meeting Jon Bernthal dressed in casual clothes. He'd greet you, smile at you and listen to you talk. But then he does his usual move with his tongue: sticking it out and to the side, licking his bottom lip that he then bites down on. All while nodding and listening to you. My problem would be that I'd completely lose my track of thought if he did all that. Add him crossing his arms over his chest and laughing softly as he ducks his head and I'm DONE! A puddle of goo at his feet.

#jon bernthal #I can't handle this man #just the fact that he gives you his undivided attention is enough to make me go aaaaaaaaah inside and blab any bs before running to hide #I am NOT smooth at all #I can write #but I can't talk #stef talk

[marypsue]

So if you follow me (and aren't just stopping by because you saw one of my funney viralposts), you probably know that I've been writing a bunch of fanfiction for Stranger Things, which is set in rural Indiana in the early- to mid-eighties. I've been working on an AU where (among other things) Robin, a character confirmed queer in canon, gets integrated into a friend group made up of a number of main characters. And I got a comment that has been following me around in the back of my mind for a while. Amidst fairly usual talk about the show and the AU and what happens next, the commenter asked, apparently in genuine confusion, "why wouldn't Robin just come out to the rest of the group yet? They would be okay with it."

I did kind of assume, for a second or two, that this was a classic case of somebody confusing what the character knows with what the author/audience knows. But the more I think about it, the more I feel like it embodies a real generational shift in thinking that I hadn't even managed to fully comprehend until this comment threw it into sharp perspective.

Because, my knee-jerk reaction was to reply to the comment, "She hasn't come out to these people she's only sort-of known for less than a year because it's rural Indiana. In the nineteen-eighties." and let that speak for itself. Because for me and my peers, that would speak for itself. That would be an easy and obvious leap of logic. Because I grew up in a world where you assumed, until proven otherwise, that the general society and everyone around you was homophobic. That it was unsafe to be known to be queer, and to deliberately out yourself required intention and forethought and courage, because you would get negative reactions and you had to be prepared for the fallout. Not from everybody! There were always exceptions! But they were exceptions. And this wasn't something you consciously decided, it wasn't an individual choice, it wasn't an individual response to trauma, it wasn't individual. It was everybody. It was baked in, and you didn't question it because it was so inherently, demonstrably obvious. It was Just The Way The World Is. Everybody can safely be assumed to be homophobic until proven otherwise.

And what this comment really clarified for me, but I've seen in a million tiny clashing assumptions and disconnects and confusions I've run into with The Kids These Days, is that a lot of them have grown up into a world that is...the opposite. There are a lot of queer kids out there who are assuming, by default, that everybody is not homophobic, until proven otherwise. And by and large, the world is not punishing them harshly for making that assumption, the way it once would have.

The whole entire world I knew changed, somehow, very slowly and then all at once. And yes, it does make me feel like a complete space alien just arrived to Earth some days. But also, it makes me feel very hopeful. This is what we wanted for ourselves when we were young and raw and angrily shoving ourselves in everyone's faces to dare them to prove themselves the exception, and this is what I want for The Kids These Days.

(But also please, please, Kids These Days, do try to remember that it has only been this way since extremely recently, and no it is not crazy or pathetic or irrational or whatever to still want to protect yourself and be choosy about who you share important parts of yourself with.)

#also Kids These Days please if nobody's told you: you can't send cheques through email #and if somebody sends you one through email They Are A Scammer and Yes They Are Scamming You #that's not related I just am constantly tearing my hair out about how many people of ALL AGES don't know that #something something something invoking the fuck word in the hopes it will keep this poast from search #i love how the internet has created Magic Words Of Power #unfortunately most of those words perform the action of 'summon jackass idiots to comment on your post' #i am paraphrasing the comment that was left on my AU fic because I am too lazy to go looking for it right now but #it was very similar to that wording #this is just a thing that has been rattling around in my brain and it was finally smoothed out and polished enough to come out

[zorionbbq]

sujimon, subzero sonata, redraws, etc!

#fanart #like a dragon #yakuza #yakuza spoilers #<- again not really but still #ALSO SPOILERS IN TAGS -> #apparently it's not normal to take 90398401 tries to beat the jima bros but i am simply built different #(goes in almost 20 levels too low with no group heal and refuses to grind until i die one million times) #and now so much plot is occurring AND [REDACTED] APPEARED FOR SOME REASON? HELLO??? I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT YOU!!!!! #ALL THE REMIXES ARE SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD GOODNESS GRACSIOUS #Y7 AND ICHIBAN ARE. EVERYTHING (PLANET EXPLOSION NOISE) #also why is saejima's face the hardest thing to draw ever i can't get it right at all.... doesn't help that everyone got smoothed

[rithmeres]

bait / hook / line / sinker

#the hunger games #finnick odair #thg #the hunger games fanart #this was a very very weird painting for me. #like i have painted decapitated heads and severed arms and shattered ribs and guts falling out and gallons of blood #and not once have i ever looked up from my work and been disgusted or disturbed by what i’ve painted #but the first day i was working on this one i looked at it and just felt so sick i had to get up and take a shower to get away from it #HE WAS 14 WTF WTF WTF WTF #that is a baby. that is a little kid. turned into a killer and paraded around like a novelty and used like a toy. #but on the whole i am very satisfied with this propaganda piece it's just as beautiful and unsettling as i wanted it to be #ugh my mind. nothing in the composition is overt but all the implications are there #not just the capitol's sexualization and brutalization of children but the fetishization of the districts' labor as well #as my good friend and mutual theworldiswhispering said. #'the hard labor you do is not safe from being romanticized by the people who benefit from it at your expense' #and i think about that every day #wherefore art thou #thg reread #why he so smooth.. just like a shark #[katniss voice] mfs took all my body hair cant have shit in the capitol #i just know tumblr's gonna crunch the quality of these images but i worked on a canvas 4 times larger than the usual size #so a lot of the detail gets lost when i post it. oh well. click for quality i guess #his expression changes when you're far away #far away he looks kind of vacant #close up he's smiling. like the photographer wanted a specific cocky emotion from him and it was there #but when you zoom out there's just a thousand yard stare #i did think about turning these into prints or actual posters but um. i don't think i should do that

[unexpectedbrickattack]

Huge Fat Fake Peppi Supremacy

#pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #fake peppino #peppino #arts #mine #i am SO tired but i wanted this sketched out #would not leave me be until i spit him out ! #so i do not have much to say outside of whats already scribbled on the picture itself #i will say #the mention of peppino grooming is bc his face is 'smooth' as well #and while he does not have a Fancy curled moustache like fake peppis #it IS trimmed and clean looking #lots of little similarities :) #ok gn i love u all

[delizbin]

what a difference a night can make…

#jesus it really is all about choices isn’t it #some smooth because god only knows how much haymitch needs it #and me as well to be honest #it’s like… catching fire to mockingjay transition #he aged like 40 years in a few months who can blame him #somebody hugs this man right now for gods sake #i love him so much #haymitch abernathy #effie trinket #the hunger games #thg fanart #hayffie fanart #hayffie #thank you #my illustration #also changed my signature for some reason #new year reasons I guess #watch me go on a spiral I dare you #me and mitch are literally one single being #i am so sorry that book!haymitch had to go through all pf that alone #I am sure he tried to take effie with him that night as well #alas #thank goodness for the movie canon

[mayordoi]

“go on, praise me like a god!”

#mayor doidles #fanart #vocaloid #ghost and pals #pathological facade #kasane teto #digital art #painting #i am so texture-pilled rn all of my past few pieces have been nothing but noise and i wouldn’t have it any other way #anyway this one is sort of rough in terms of rendering #tho being honest the gnarliness of some of the shading did get smudged over by all the textures and filters lmao #i think i wanted to go for something less smooth cuz i like the look [and i want to overcome a habit of overrending] #but some elements like the fuckin glasses glare is kind of nonsense i made up #very much just a polishing of the sketch </3 ah well what can be done #hope you like it regardless! #art #artists on tumblr #illustration #vocal synth

[braisedhoney]

that's one old ghost you have there damien.

you can't see it?

...

guess your word means nothing after all.

(HAPPY (week late) ANNIVERSARY TO WKM! <3<3)

#ney’s art #THIS TOOK ME SO GODDAMN LONG #AND I AM ST I L L A WEEK LATE #serves me right for getting sidetracked by the wilford comic... sigh #darkiplier #darkiplier fanart #who killed markiplier #wkm #who killed markiplier fanart #wkm fanart #can you tell october really slammed my art block into the dirt #bc damn i haven’t painted this much since space came out #markiplier #markiplier fanart #markiplier egos #no idea why this one is all smooth and stuff #my rendering went sideways ig #wow tho could this be any different from the wilford one?

[trensu]

Have an itty bitty tiny piece of stasis in darkness, just so you all have an idea of where the story is going after the godly reveal. and also have proof that i am, in fact, still toiling away at this (as well as hawkins halfway house.)

A week and a half later, Steve entered a town he’d never seen before. He wore simple traveling clothes and carried no weapons aside from a couple of carefully hidden knives. He’d left his armor and shield behind. His satchel held only the essentials one needed for travel and a single stone as large as his fist. The stone was wrapped in layers of cloth to keep it safe during the journey. 

I need you to find someone. 

He felt very bare but he hadn’t been given much of a choice. Speed was of the essence for his quest, and little no-name towns tended to be wary of strangers in plain clothes, even more so around strangers decked out for battle. Steve wasn’t sure this place could be called a town. It was so small it hadn’t been on any official map. It didn’t even have an inn. Hopefully, Steve wouldn’t be needing an inn once he found who he was looking for.

He’s too far from me to reach.

He asked around, laying on the charm generously. He explained he had been a friend of a friend and had been trusted to deliver something. Eventually, he was told where to go. The house he found far beyond the village’s boundary was small. It looked like it had once been well cared for but it was old and had fallen to disrepair. Steve took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

A sallow old man opened the door. He was bald but had some scruff on his face still. His shoulders, stooped from age, trembled. His eyes were bloodshot. He looked so tired.

He’s my very last worshiper in all the world.

“Wayne Munson?” Steve asked.

“Who wants to know?” The man’s voice was phlegmy and rough. He coughed into the crook of his elbow almost before he could finish speaking. 

“I’m Steve. Ser Steve Harrington, pledged to the Lord of Night.”

Wayne’s eyes widened. His grip on the open door weakened and slipped. Steve caught the door before it could hit Wayne.

“He sent me to you,” Steve explained. “May I come in?”

yep, that's it for now. i told you it was small. i'm not even gonna bother with a read-more here.

#trensu tells stories #stasis in darkness #i technically have another 4.5k words written already #but it is very much still a rough draft #it's all clunky chunks of stone with all that i want to happen but has not been carved and smoothed out properly yet #also i have decided to include at least a couple of prayers #because i hate myself apparently and want to make myself suffer #a poet i am not #and i haven't stepped in a church or said prayers in literal decades #well #that's a lie #i did attend ONE mass in that time only because my mom asked me so she wouldn't have to go alone #the priest went off on the queers during his sermon and my mom never asked me to go with her again lol #so i remember none of the prayers #and even if i did #i learned all my prayers in spanish #i have no idea how they go in english #ughhhhhh why do i do these things to myself

[aibyoutachi]

its still freaking pocky day here

#my art #this weird little wawa angry + lip pouty expression on yo/suke is very cute to me #so i drew it twice haha #any excuse to draw sou/yo kissy #anyways i was gonna draw a comic which is what the first thing is taken from #then i thought “oh man a comic is too much” #but then i had a bad day so i drew the second thing anyways instead of doing my work #but the comic had like #chi/e and yuki/ko there too #so this is a lot easier to draw for me #because it's just sou/yo being all yaoi #also i want to stop clogging up the tags so i'm gonna start censoring myself lol #5*0*u*y*0 #man i love my OTP #it's wild to think i have a legit OTP now #i never had one before... sou/yo is an anomaly #a spike in the smooth line of my zero contribution to any fandom ive ever been in HAHA #also whenever i draw them being all lovey dovey i am in my mind imagining them in like. college or something #(disregard the fact that he's in his school uniform there) #okay im done writing an essay #whoever read this far i love you i love you i give u a kiss i hope ur having a good day

[rowanoftheunknown]

“I hope I’ll find all the pieces of my mind that fell out of my head over all those years, and that I’ll be able to put myself together again. I hope the echoes of pain will fade, and memories of sorrow will die, and that you’ll visit me here some day…”

“And I hope you have a happy ending of your own.”

#NICHE BALDURS GATE CHARACTER FANS COME GET YALL JUICE #I may be the only one getting juice but hey. yknow #obligatory if hope has one fan it is me if hope has no fans it means I am dead etc etc #hope bg3 #house of hope #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #I love her sm you don’t understand #she’s so silly (clinically insane) and she’s brave and beautiful and UGH. hope. my beloved. #hope my fucking beloved #anyways this took fucking forever #I’m not super happy with it but i AM done with it. so. yeah #I was gonna do a bg and stuff but like. I’m sleepy #so you just get the window #also I feel like the light coming through looks a bit shit but again. it’s done for now. #I’ve never tried to draw stained glass and when I tell you it was not fucking easy lol #oh it’s just like drawing regularly but with LESS DETAIL I thought like a smooth brained foool #INCORRECT #there was maths involved #anyyyyywho. all for now. enjoy. please enjoy. if this gets no notes I may cry. a little.

[moonwoodhollow]

meet-cute with the local vampire police officer at the harbor diner

#ts3 #the sims 3 #brideport #sim: Stina #sims 3 screenshots #I had sims 3 installed on my computer for a few months now #but I was always too lazy to download all the fixes/mods/and so on to get it running smoothly #but it runs smooth like butter now (even with reshade) #I am still in the process of downloading cc (bc I can't use my old cc as that was most sims3packs & apparently packages are the way to go) #Bridgeport was one of my favourite worlds back when I played in 2009-ish #I got inspired by all the people on my dash playing ts3 so here I am in my ts3 era / I still have ts4 btw #*mine

[itsbrucey]

Alright gayboy. You ready for the championship?

#if another. very similar post to this appears on my dash. ignore it. Brucey is having difficulties tonight #anyway the rough color made him slay. im quite happy with this #sorry that thisnis the only fuckinf wip im posting IT ALL. I HAVE. #You followed me. you read the sign. Brucey posts random bullshit over and over. #its 3 am so anything goes im a free man #working on his thighs and i dont want yall to see my shameful anatomy. im drawing FEET and im bad at FEET #might give him socks. to hide my shame. #mayhaps ill add fishnets. lets see whats sexier #also i made this 300 dpi in the unlikely scenario i make this a print you can buy but idk. watch out #fun fact. he doesn't have ears!! if i made him bald his head would be capital S Smooth. no point bc his hair covered them.

[squeakadeeks]

moodboard for this past week ❤️

#they should invent a grad school thats not fucking insane #i'm hanging in there but im the most unwell i've been in AWhile #this week was just horrible #there was already the freezer food incident but it also started off with a very severe pain episode thats putting me in constant woe #even mundane motion has been agonizing which is McAwesome bc we had a lab inspection which involved moving hundreds of pounds of equipment #during which we found a blackwidow and rats which we had to deal with and was a whole thing psychologically on top of the physical toll #the new class fiasco is still popping off and i had to respond to at this point over 400 emails in the fleeting moments outside of lab #AND A STUDENT TRIED TO FINANCIALLY BRIBE THEIR WAY INTO THE CLASS ? ?? ?? ????? #then the instructor wanted to use me as a guinea pig and i had to test new circuit boards but I wasnt given any time to do so properly #i had to test them plus get them operational and deal with my incoming students all in a frantic 10 minute window #im in charge of running our meetings too but the instructor was interrupting and having side conversations that made it really hard- #to train the other people on the new equipment in a smooth manner #which meant that a bunch of people had to keep me after to ask questions which made me late for my drs appointment #where i found out i cant get the new covid vaccine bc my heart and blood levels arnt stable enough #and joanns lost an expensive+critical fabric order of mine+i had to give a big presentation this week on my research that was stressful #and my inbox is still blowing up from being needed all over the place between teaching lab and classes and yall i am. so so tired. #im in so much pain and so stressed out #debating the ethics of turning into a pile of lint to escape my responsibilities and mortal frame

[aeons-domain]

Jotaro and Kakyoin rolling the sleeves of their gakuran/jacket up as a result exposing their forearms because they had to do something without getting their sleeves wet 🩷🩷💕💗💗💕💓🩷💕💕💗🩷🩷💓🩷

Then when those forearms flex?!@?!?@?! wHEN THOSE FOREARMS FLEX?!?!?!?@?!?!?

#jjba self ship #jojo self ship #jotaro x reader #kakyoin x reader #yearning hours #a heart that yearns #tumblr besties....have I already made this post here before KDMSMDMS #twitter besties.....do not look this is the same thing I just said on there HAHAAHDKAKD #wow me thinking about a person's body part and going crazy wow do u see how deprived i am 😃👍👍 #insult me over it all you want my brain is too smooth to comprehend anything besides me going awooga over Joot and Kak showing skin

[strawbebbiesart]

a master study 🎨🖌 of Franz Xaver Winterhalter's Study of a Girl in Profile (1862)

#sasha's art #digital art #my personal favourites #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #master study #haven't done a master study in /years/ so i decided to do one digitally this time!! the first digital one in fact!! #it was a very fun process and i got to learn a lot as usual #it also made me feel like a little smooth art baby because. obviously my skills could never match up to a great art master but hey!! #art is all about doing it trying it out having fun with it!! #and going back to basics is always good #anyways art posts two days in a row Who Am I!? #i have one more for tomorrow btw!! i've recently gotten to do a lot of art stuff my soul is Full