#Ive started from letter A

[fiendishartist2]

my shitty mac sounds like its going to take off

#tma #my art #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #its chugging so hard and i barely have 50 layers ToT i just know shes on her last legs #that thing has been running since 2001 im surprised it still turns on every day at this point #anyways ive been working on this since yesterday so i wanted to finish it while my hands rested from knitting #ik if im too tense while knitting or smth but a few rows in im already feeling it #its fine. im trying to pace myself this time since it doesnt have to be done any time soon #that is to say: i started my tma sweater!!!!!! #the pattern isnt as wide as i thought so ill have to scrap the lettering on the back T_T its disappointing but i think its okay... #i have space to do it on the front i just gotta be careful where i place it lol #its supposed to be tape coming out of his mouth if that wasnt clear lol

[shdwtouch]

While I absolutely agree with the sentiment and think oc positivity is sorely needed, comparing writing canon muses to fast fashion sounds a bit icky to me. I know you don't mean it in a bad way, but it does kinda sound like you're implying that people writing canon characters are putting less love, effort and creativity into their portrayals. Just because there are multiple people writing the same character doesn't cheapen their value, so I'd personally look for some other metaphor.

firstly, just want to say: I have so much anxiety about this message. like I know you're coming from a good place but its confrontation and alarm bells in my head so let me see if I can articulate. ; ; also, I'm posting this from mobile so I apologize for any weird formatting etc owo;

I'm going to stand by my statement (tho I deleted the tags [edit: I did take a screenshot for context sake]) honestly because I definitely was not implying that canon portrayals have less value, in fact I specifically stated that both canon and original characters have value, just like fast fashion and couture have their own values.

let me explain my thought process.

you walk into, say, Walmart and pick up a pair of Levi's. why ? because you've probably worn them before and like them, or heard of them from others and want to try them out. or because you're simply browsing and like the style and color and they're in the right size so why not ? canon muses have that ease of access, whether it be knowing the fandom or simply having a range of content and reviews to go off of as a "consumer".

original characters don't have that luxury; I don't know about other people, but for me sometimes engaging with original characters - and this is coming from someone who writes predominantly fandomless original characters and agonizes over how accessible their lore is - is, well, bottlenecked by my own energy and willingness to engage with the information and content the creator had provided. it's much easier for me, energy wise, to play a video game and then gravitate to muses from it because I'm already familiar with them, so I already have a foot in the door so to speak.

I fucking love reading original lore tho ! I also FUCKING LOVE canon divergence and headcanons ! but it isn't always easy to engage with or incorporate, and I think that's something that impacts a lot of people in how they view ocs compared to canons. original characters just often take more effort to engage with and understand, and that's not a bad thing ! but in a busy life it's understandable that folks want to go to what is comfortable and what they know, so they pick up a pair of Levi's instead of going to get a tailored pair of pants.

next, I should clarify that the characters are clothes, and we, as writers, are the ones who wear those clothes. which is to say, our own personal style and actions play into the overall appearance and feel of our portrayals. two people can take the same shirt and make completely different outfits with it ! maybe one of them decides to crop it, or bleach it, or cut it up and sew it into something new. and all of these things are valid ! and they all have value. you may be wearing the same shirt as someone else, but you still style it the way you want to. you still look different, still unique, still beautiful. there is nothing bad about liking fast fashion or canon characters. fast fashion is convenient, so are canon characters. some canon characters are poorly written and need to be dressed up or fixed to be worn, while others are quality and wonderfully made ! just like clothes ! and honestly, the same applies to original characters too !

the pants I'm wearing right now ? my favorite pair of pants. I've had them for like... four years. and they're still going strong. fast fashion isn't necessarily cheap, just like couture isn't necessarily haute. but again, it's about how you wear it. and everyone in the BG3 rpc wears their clothes, whether they be canon or original, in their own unique, beautiful way ! we all have our own style, and that style provides value to what we're trying to portray. neither canon nor original characters are better than the other, they BOTH have pros and cons. just like fast fashion and couture. they both have value, and their mode or means doesn't detract or add to the value of the final product.

I apologize if it seemed I was implying canon writers aren't as valuable as original writers, or somehow cheaper due to volume, in my tags. I definitely see where you are coming from and that's a valid perspective. However, that was not my intention and I hope I've managed to clarify my stance and explain myself a bit better. thank you for your message, I hope you're well ! sending lots of good vibes ♡

also, in case anyone was curious, my pants:

they are incredibly soft and flowy, very nice. I sleep in them and wear them out. I know they're winter themed but I think they're subtle enough to be worn outside the season, plus they have polar bears on them and I love polar bears !

also, if it's of any value, I have written my fair share of canon characters. I wrote extensively for assassins creed and marvel, in fact that's where I got my start in the rpc ! if I had to carry the metaphor, my "fast fashion" would be my (canon divergent) cli.nt bar.ton. I may have gotten him from marvel but I have since sliced him up and incorporated the pieces of my portrayal into my original projects ♡

#《 ° inbox 》 we just got a letter ! i wonder who its from ? #《 ° puffin.exe 》 im a puffin ! i dont do much #° mobile post ! #and now ? now we hide. *scurries away* pls be gentle with me ; A ; i swear i have no bad intentions and never wanted to start discourse #ive just been watching crafting videos and the metaphor jumped out at me idk but yeah i love both oc and canons #i know how much love and effort goes into both writing canon and original characters ♡ they are both valuable #and if you ever feel devalued in the rpc because of what kind of character youre writing im sorry and you deserve better

[mochasucculent]

Yea idk how I haven't shared them here yet but here's some doodles of Tabitha and "Apathy" (she ain't got a name yet), the two protags of my ghost story!

Grieving after the sudden loss of her grandmother, Apathy accidentally becomes bound to the spirit of Tabitha, a young girl who was murdered in the 1870s. Stuck together in unfamiliar circumstances, the two must discover how to send Tabitha on to the afterlife, and if they even can.

UPDATEEEEEEEEE Apathy's name is Naomi :)

#i draw tabitha all cheery usually but she has a very very rough time at the start #very vengeful and confused and inconsolable and angry #as one would be if they were murdered #the first drawing was a couple months ago but the last drawing was from maybe like a year and a half ago? #so they look a lil different #i change their designs slightly every time i draw them lol #but yea i imagine this as an animated series! #its a love letter to the PNW (my home baybey) as well as like. my attempt to utilize the vehicle of horror for character exploration #if u know i love midnight mass and haunting of hill house then the mike flanagan jumps out immediately lmao #tabitha bennett #naomi evans #ghost girl story #i dont have a name for any of my stories either #i thought maybe of calling it 'mortis operandi' #but idk what their usual way of doing things would be to make the modus operandi part of the title make sense lol #also the tagline would be something like 'life after death for those who have lost someone and those who were lost' #so then i thought of calling it something like 'those who were lost' but ghosts are kinda a rarity in this universe so #it feels like that shouldnt be the focus of the title #idk im REALLY bad with titles #i think the character writing for these lil dudes that currently only exists in my brain is some of the best ive done tho #grabs u by the shoulders: talk to me about the irony that tabitha teaches apathy how to feel alive again despite being the one who's dead #my art #ocs

[smokeys-house]

I used duolingo for years and learned a lot very slowly but I think this new app I'm using now is using a different dialect and also they're using words for things that I learned different words for and I'm so confused!!!! 💀

#smokey talks #also it will occasionally just throw in a word ive never seen and ask me questions about it #it also saids people never say the letter C as 'S' unless theyre from the canary islands??? they say everyone says C as 'th' #but every spanish speaker i know irl pronounces it as an s... ive literally never heard it pronounced as a 'th' until now #did i pick the wrong options when i started or #does busuu just not have the same dialect options as duolingo did? #or am i just really that bad at spanish? #edit: an example of the words thing? #they say bocadillo but duolingo always said sándwich #Busuu says ordenador Duo says computador #waaaaaahhhhhhhhh #whining and crying and exploding

[kentuckycaverats]

rules: pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people

tagged by @fangable

url is too long for that so we're just gonna do "kentucky"

K: Killer Instinct - Bring It On: the Musical

E: Eat Your Young - Hozier

N: New Era (Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon) - Miura Jam

T: The Whole "Being Dead" Thing - Beetlejuice the Musical

U: Unknown / Nth - Hozier

C: Candy Store - Heathers the Musical

K: Kendall Drive - the Polar Boys

Y: Yes, to Err is Human, So Don't Be One - Will Wood

tagging: @blood-bound @crownedinmarigolds @eric-the-bmo @styxnbones @satteredhunter @chiss-ticism @indigobasilisk @lgbtmi @m4rloe5

#what ive learned here today is i dont listen to any songs that start with these letters :) got some oldies here excavated from the archives #hozier + beetlejuice + heathers i do listen to daily but the others nahh

[daydadahlias]

scale of 1-10 how much fun do you have when you send asks to yourself

a lot more fun than this ask

#everyone say thank u crystal for being my ghost writer #no uh i'd say that i have more fun when i make fake ao3 accounts and comment on my own fics #or when i make fake tinder accounts with my many other phones (im a millionaire btw) #and i flirt back and forth with myself #and sometimes i catfish myself that's always crazy #yeah sometimes i send myself love letters in the mail #ive made a clone of myself before just so we could compliment each other back and forth for hours #im really ahead of my time #pigeon #anon #in case anyone has no sense of humor im joking #ive actually never sent myself an ask before. im better known for my very conspicuous anons to other friends. #but now i should start sending asks to myself #i'll sign all my asks 'from jess <3' #it'll just be. jess on jess communication #that'll be fun for blog viewers right?? #is it ?? possible to send urself an ask off anon ?? let me try hold on now im just curious #ive never tried before lmfao

[hecksupremechips]

The best feeling in the world is when there’s a piece of media you know you love and you’ve hyped it up as your favorite thing for so long but you haven’t revisited it in a while so you start to worry if it’s really as good as you make it out to be and so you go back and revisit it and it’s like. Oh this is even better than I remembered this shit rules

#the klock keeps ticking #i always get this feeling when i play 999 but tonight i got it with the letter #cuz ive uh finally decided to bite the bullet and play the evil meanie route where everyone dies 😟 #a route ive put off for so long cuz its just too damn sad to think about akjdksk god it hurts #and ive played like for the most part every route of this game EXCEPT this one but i know the ending is really dark and i need to see it #plus i will at least get my beloved torture scene in so thats nice #i didnt kill off isabella though its a coma route which i hope still allows me to get the ending i want cuz i mean shell still be out of #commission in the final scene so hopefully it works out #but yeah no i started off tonight on the marianne chapter and while i did skip around through it cuz ive played it many times and i just #wanna get to the important stuff already alskj i also just replayed some of the best parts #aka the shit where lorraine appears and the gay shit alksks and god like hnnnghh not only does this chapter still ruin me emotionally #i also just remembered why i love this character so much and remembered just how good the character writing in this game is #and i also played into the rebecca chapter and didnt skip as much cuz i actually am not as familiar with the coma route #cuz it makes me sad and i never revisited it lol and i havent gotten to The Scene that makes me sob yet #its so coming though dont worry but idk i guess its just been cuz ive been thinking about p3 so much lately #and in particular shinji both the death route and coma route but in particular the coma cuz thats what im writing #and damn lol the letter just writes the grief and nuanced relationships and death stuff so much better lol god #like marianne loses her childhood best friend whom she has a gay ass relationship with to suicide and like its just better #she blames herself and still isnt even kinda okay with it after 13 years #like it just fucking ruined her and the only thing keeping her from losing it is her repression and drinking problem and unattached sex #and then with coma route well fucking first off isabellas friends actually like. visit her frequently damn #and they just all have such unique ways of coping like Zach is being optimistic so no one gets too upset #rebecca is sorta in charge of making sure everything goes smoothly she has to contact the family and make big decisions #and shes also just taking the most stress and shes got so many complicated feelings around isabella going on but she genuinely cannot stand #that isabella is hurt shes fucking destroyed she loves isabella and then ashton AAAAA god yeah i also just remembered that hes SUCH a good #character hes like being a genuine asshole right like Rebecca calls to tell him that isabella is comatose now and he literally doesnt let #her say anything he literally says ‘i dont have time for other things rn’ like the wellness of his friend is just ‘other things’ #but you just know thats not it not at all hes burying himself in work to the point of destruction so he can figure out who did this and make #everything okay and he refuses to show even an ounce of vulnerability cuz THE SECOND HE DOES IT ALL COMES OUT AND HE CANT GET OUT OF BED #ANYMORE CUZ HOW IS HE SUPPOSED TO BE OKAY WHEN THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE IS DYING

[weaselbey]

Beyonce: what she says vs does

Images:

February 7, 2016 Beyonce performing at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show, with backing dancers dressed as Black Panthers.

Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, revolutionary and champion of Palestinian liberation quotes on Palestine.

Social media users commenting on footage from Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé being broadcast in Israel, with cinema goers waving Israeli flags alongside the critized social media silence from Beyonce regarding the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

#this lady is a capitalist FIRST #through and through #she will SELL you liberation #she will SELL you albums with imagery from the Black Panthers and black liberation and BLM #she will SELL you music with the words FEMINIST written in giant letters behind screen #also before anyone starts I am a huge fan #Ive seen her in concert twice #Ive listened to all her albums and loved and supported her for years #this is not coming from a hater but a previous fan

[thekidsarentalright]

truly all the refs to old fob stuff that we've been getting feel so in line w the apparent theme of nostalgia that this new album is gonna have like. even that video today, nostalgic for hella mega. it referencing the bob dylan mv, brings up nostalgia for when it was released/abap era even (when it was supposed to be released. do not open before christmas, nostalgia. new years day being a big day for this album promo, but also nostalgia. the letter referencing nostalgia, it feeling nostalgic, a homeboy's life being at the top like. what im getting at is truly idk if any of that is supposed to be anything more than it is- nostalgic things, references, callbacks. nothing deeper, maybe. if anything, gearing us up for the mood of the album and the feelings it may evoke. feelings if melancholy loss and wanting for the past but knowing you can never go back because it has ended, and maybe even knowing the present is better anyway, and knowing has it really ended because it lives in in your memory? but knowing all of that doesn't make the longing go, does it?

#started waxing a bit too poetic at the end but u get my point #the ending of this kinda came inspired from all the writing we've gotten so far #both on the postcard and in the letter #and somewhat from the video today ive been thinking abt it a lot #you dont necessarily want to go back but you still miss it. miss missing you vibes idk #txt #fob #fob8

[tiredstressedemotionalmess]

save me sci-fi red/blue lesbian couple save me

#this post is simultaneously about red and blue from the killjoys comics #AND red and blue from this is how you lose the time war #just started rereading parts if time war and rereading danger days and i cant stop thinking abt them and oh my god i have got to write #abt red and blue (dd) in the style of time war #just. cannoy stop thinking about them leaving letters for each other back and forth #little notes to help the other get through the long days and longer nights #when red starts breaking down and her batteries start failing more and more she starts spending longer stretches of time 'asleep“ #theres not a lot of overlap in times where her and blue are awake and blue spends so much time working trying to save up enough #to keep red alive #just the idea that theyre unable to see each other face to face as much as theyed like so they pass notes back and forth #idk idk idk its midnight and ive having thoughts and if i werent so exhausted id be writing this rn #save

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

emerging from the pillow fort in the corner of ur room HERE I AMMM!! hi ari how are u ari?? how is uni? i am here with a very VERY important question it's crucial to our friendship - dr. pepper yes or no?

- @softgirlgonehaywire

MICKEYYYY HI HELLO i am sliding a bag of chips under ur pillow fort <333 playing lofi music so u can sleep <3333

IM DOING GOOD ive been rlly rlly busy and tired BUT i just finished my first course so now i have a bit of free time until the next one starts hehe. im so relieved bc i havent been able to write or read OR plan my movie night but now i finally can!! :3 HOW ABT U MICKEY how is work??? its only a couple weeks left now right?? how r u feeling? have things been going well? <333

but okok. abt ur question. i am shaking n shivering in fear but i cant lie to u .

….. im kind of addicted to dr pepper </3 as a kid my siblings would always go for the classic coke or pepsi and i wanted to be the quirky alien child so i went w pepper but now its like . my comfort drink PHSKDHD ….. i just . i like the name and taste ok … it tastes like laundry detergent and cherries and i think its good …… 👉👈

HOPEFULLY U R ALSO A DR PEPPER ENJOYER or else im expecting an instant block bUT i trust our brain connection yknow …. u love dr pepper soooo bad……. im manifesting it

UR SO SWEET FOR CHECKING IN MICKEY <333 i have a question for u too actually!! what r ur go-to movie snacks… sodas……… etc…. 🧐🧐 what do u recommend for the overall experience i am looking to learn

#i feel like an alien learning abt human civilisation through cinema LMAOOOO #I NEED UR ADVICE THOUGH </3 im just gonna stock up on all ur fave snacks and get my lil notepad ready and sit there n watch the movies #U HAVE NO IDEA HOW EXCITED I AM i know ive said that BUT I RLLY AM….. its gonna be my ultimate selfcare day <333 #gonna start w the nice guys and then work my way through the list hehe #ILY MICKEY <333 also looking VERY intently at that vamp au rb …. this is gonna be our longest thread yet bc i have Thoughts #centuries from now tumblrinas will read our letters and think Wow these two were deranged #ask tag ✩ #mickey !! ✩

[c3egames]

Im begging all yuri lovers to hop in

Letters from a rainy day - Ocean and Lace

PLEASE

The story is sweet with tones of angst

THEN THE VOICE ACTORS BRING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL

I am in awe, I bought this on a slight whim seeing how one of the mcs is voiced by my favourite seiyuu, but I am in shock how invested I got into it.

This is a kinetic visual novel, meaning it is simply, a story, you do not act.

Its all on youtube as well, a good 8 hours of reading or even faster if you read fast.

After reading I feel like this is a pretty under the rader yuri vn, and if there are anymore, I would like to try more

$16, but there’s a free demo if you want to experience it nice and fresh, then decide if you want to keep going

#how do you spread a good 8 hours visual novel of two fumbling lesbians that started out on the wrong foot on the wrong shoe #LETTERS FROM A RAINY DAY #I CANT BIGOKAS DICKOLAS TRHIS #BUT I NEED TO SPREAD THIS #yuri #sapphic #lesbian #I think this is a wonderful novel #and if others could give thoughts I would be eternally grateful #I think ive fallen in love again

[borrelia]

growling and barking abt fleet's low self image vs ebony and pyjamas dragging him into a better life against his objections.

#fleetway sonic #ebony trusts him before she even knows his name but pyjamas comes to trust him as soon as he demonstrates he chooses to be good #and both of them from those starting points are like Well You're Stuck With Us Now #Well Now We Care You <3 #bark bark bark bark #and like pyjamas is always conscious of fleets powers and cautious of them #but will be there to support and protect him when he's goodboy #also i want u to kno that stc did publish multiple letters between each of his appearances #from fans that were like 'can we PLEASE get more super sonic hes my favorite!!' #and 'normally i dont write in but ive been waiting to see more super sonic and i havent seen any other letters about it! please!!!' #fleet meta: beloved by all #myaa

[kimmkitsuragi]

"if i finish this i will watch a horror movie" thing kinda backfired it's 9pm lmao

#will i still do it. yes. probably. #it would probably be more fun in the night too so yeah #but god fucking damn it can i please just finish this thing #i cant even be properly mad at myself because ive been Actually Working in these last days lol #at last!!! #it feels like i can actually finish the whole thing next week :') #i started this at the beginning of September goddddddddd 😭😭 #if i took it more seriously from the start it would've been done by now lol #but i guess at least im making progress #i am kinda getting nervous thinking abt deadlines and actually applying even tho i still have like a month for one school #and 2+ months for others lol #there's one in italy that's earlier than that but not sure if i wanna go for that one tbh so........ idk #but since it's wayy cheaper and i dont have many cheap options and i fear the same thing (aka not being able to go bc #of money) will happen again this year lol #so yeah just. not sure in general. #if i think too much about any of this i start to question everything anyway lmao so i shouldnt <3 #i gotta visit my old uni to talk abt some letters too which i Know for a fact they would write #but it's so nerve wracking to think about butttt i gotta do it this week/early next week so..... #(this week means actually the next week in this case i guess lmao since it's friday rn) #bc they said 2 weeks notice sooooo im guessing that would be okay but u knowwwwwww ugh #okay. my goal is to just do this thing today #then finish the whole project tomorrow #then do the other readjustments for the other projects in a few days hopefully #then go to school #yeah. doable. perfectly doable #i gotta arrange the (redacted) and (redacted) meetings too lol buttttt yeah #🗒 #wow i didnt intend to write this much tbh anyway

[boys-and-such]

sometimes i mayhaps would like a boyfriend

#so here is my life rn im going to explain using letters representing people instead of their names bc there are two people w the same name #a and b are dating and c and d are dating then band d cheat on their respective partners w each other and a and c want to date and they #find out abt the cheating so they all start dating - b c and d are in a play that i am in along with e and f #e and f are also dating - f is one of the only other trans people in the cast so we talked a lot and he said he thought he only liked girls #and was thinking about breaking up with e because he is also a trans guy #one day we were going home from rehearsal and f left then e and i were watching b c and d say bye to each other all loveydovey #and e said he wanted that and i said yeah me too and he mumbled something i couldn't hear and i was like 'yeah' bc i couldn't tell and he #said 'join me!' and held out his hand and i took it and boom we were holding hands (his skin was very soft in case you're wondering) and we #shared phone numbers and said that's like how he started dating f and i was like oh interesting and we left and i realised he was asking me #to date him and i was like okay free bf! two free bf! then he texted me and said f didn't want me in their relationship and oh. no free bfs #and then flash forward i was in the friend group with a b c and d and i made friends with a super controlling guy who didn't want me to be #friends w the friend group and only him and was all 'if you're friends w them that means you don't like me' and we were friends w benefits #so i ditched that friend group for him and he was mean to them and wanted me to be like that too so i was kinda rude to them #flash forward again i finally left the toxic guy wow i have no friends now i was in 1st yr high school but e was in last year middle school #i didnt talk to him much bc i was focused on school stuff and now this year e is in first year of hs and im in the second year and he's #hanging out w the old friend group and I noticed him even before i knew who he was and i was like oh that person seems really cool hm #wonder who he is hes friends with old friend group how interesting OH that is e he looks different but he looks cute and now i kinda want #to text him bc he's in one of my lunches and he was in student council on friday and we looked at each other and i waved hi but he didn't #wave back and now im worried hes heard that im mean bc the old friend group but i still like him bc we were really good friends but also #ive been thinking about what might have happened if we did start dating and i really want to text him but i only have him on snapchat bc id #what happened to his phone number but i don't have it anymore #i really want to talk to him but snapchat gives me anxiety and idk what he thinks of me now #but i really want to talk to him!!!!! #help #what #should #i #do #does looking at him count as flirting #zen is gay :]

[macbcth]

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#not to be dramatic on main but college is driving me up the wall #they wont accept my health insurance #also they didnt renew my accommodations so now ive to get a verification letter from a provider again #also one of my teachers expects us to handwrite notes - notes that she’ll COLLECT as if we’re fucking thirteen #also my girlfriend is being so clingy and emotionally suffocating that i literally wanna break up with her #oh also #my pmdd is acting up just as the semester is starting #it truly is a confluence of the worst events #aisha.txt #college tag