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moltengoldveins · 2 months

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ok but I have Thoughts about the way Minecraft usernames translate to actual names, both irl and in fanfic. They’re definitely ‘obsessed with structure and grumpy at inconsistency flavor autism’ thoughts but still. I find it weird how we cut and paste the media we’re given to fit what we view as functional worldbuilding, and how that gets screwy when translating online names.

like, you’re working with several categories here. The person’s actual real name, their irl nickname, their gamer tag, a name possibly contained by or possibly the entirety of that gamer tag, and any extra pieces or symbols in the gamer tag. And you have the weird situation where those categories might not easily translate to a ‘First Name Last Name’ structure. For an example, we’ve got Phil Watson, who’s gamer tag is ‘Ph1LzA,’ and is called Philza Minecraft or Philza. The ‘Minecraft last name’ is a…. Bit? A joke? A reference to a bit of lore? It’s unclear. The ‘Za’ bit was put there for flair and is now an integral part of his name. Sometimes it’s his last name. Sometimes his real last name is chucked in there. the 1 in his actual username is literally never referenced in nicknames or fic it’s like it’s not even there. But that’s a simple one. What about Tubbo_? because we call him Tubbo Underscore. Like. We say the ‘_’ aloud. Why do we do that. What has possessed us to make that decision? What about FitMC? I’ve usually heard it said ‘Fit Emsee.’ Why say that, and not say ‘Minecraft? That’s not even really a last name, it’s just like…. His full first name. Fit is used more like a shortened nickname. BadBoyHalo. Like. ‘Bad boy’ is a slang term, not a name. It would make the most sense to call him Halo, that’s the distinct noun in the name, the term the ‘bad boy’ bit is referring to. Like ‘GoodTimesWithScar’ but noooo. Bad. Halo is usually a last name, if it’s there at all. Skeppy on the other hand is… just his name. No last name ever. Technoblade is also weird. Technoblade is his full name. We call him that. We ALSO call him ‘Techno,’ and use Blade as a last name. We also use Blade as a title. What the heck. GeminiTay. We call her Gem. We use Tay as a last name sometimes. Her name is a Zodiac constellation. Literally nowhere I’m have I seen that affect her naming conventions. IJevin. We just… remove the I. For everything. This wouldn’t bother me except we don’t do it with everyone and I’m starting to get annoyed by the inconsistency. GoodTimesWithScar. Ok. This one also bugs me. Like, most fics call him Scar Goodtimes when they need a name. I’m not gonna dig into it but that’s…. Why? Why that? Grian never gets a last name. Ranboo sometimes gets chopped into Ran and Boo but usually he’s an Underscore or he’s last nameless. Wilbur Soot functions wonderfully (until the get involved shhhh) but it’s too close to his real name it gets very confusing.

anyway, all of this sucks, I hate it all, we’re a terrible fandom /hj

all that nonsense aside, yknow who has a functional Firstname Lastname username? It’s even got a space, and proper capitals: Mumbo Jumbo. That’s who. Look at that. It’s perfect. Everyone should be more like Mumbo Jumbo. Thank you and good night.

Edit: I know about Ranboo Beloved and Grian Dreamslayer and the various other characters whose names I didn’t mention perfectly in this post. This was no piece of journalism, this was an old man shouts at cloud meme personified. I was very overstimulated and this was what happened to catch my autistic ire. I’m not upset, just figured I’d clarify, a lot of people seem distressed at my not mentioning Beloved. Hope y’all are having a lovely day 💜

#molten rambles #mcyt #Dsmp #qsmp #hermitcraft #mumbo jumbolio #Weird rant

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shoomlah · 1 year

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how do you consistently draw the same character without it looking weird or off every different time?? also how do i coordinate faces, i always make the eyes too far apart or too big or too small or make the mouth too close to the nose or chin edge. If you have any advice I'd really appreciate it since it looks like you have your art shit figured out 🙏

Oh man SO so much of it is just practice, and you're not alone! I honestly think everyone struggles with a sort of "generification" of their characters' features the more they draw them, even seasoned professionals. There's a tendency to just sort of average everything out into an unrecognizable mush over time, and it takes a lot of conscious effort to push back against that.

Here are a couple tips and tricks that I've found to be helpful over the years:

Make turnarounds and model sheets. There's a reason animation/game studios do this, and it is because we are all still bad at drawing a consistent face. Despite being gainfully employed. What are we, graphic novelists?? We wish. Anyway it's a great way to familiarize yourself with your character's face from multiple angles, and it gives you a single source of truth to return to anytime you need a refresher:

Gather real-life reference. Anytime I'm designing a character I'm pulling together a ton of reference of actual people who look, to some degree, like the character in my head. It's always a collection of analogues, never just a single person, but it can be a great cheat sheet for understanding how your character might move, emote, etc:

Make a 3D model. I know it seems daunting, but with the advent of programs like Blender and Nomad Sculpt it's becoming remarkably more accessible. Heck, even James Gurney was sculpting maquettes out of clay for Dinotopia back in the day! It doesn't have to be particularly detailed—just a sort of proportionate lump will do—but it's another great way to have dynamic reference that you can rotate and light accordingly:

Practice, practice, practice. Make expression sheets for your character! Either right there on the spot, just start drawin' expressions, or you can slowly collect drawings of your character that you like, as you draw them, and compile them all in one place for your own reference. Need to draw your character's head from a weird angle? Maybe you've already drawn it before and you can copy your own homework! Doesn't count as stealing when the call's coming from inside the house 😎

I'd love to pretend there's a magical point where you can just immediately rotate your character's head in your brain like some sort of photorealistic apple in a twitter meme, but a lot of the time it's reference, hard work, and whole lotta repetition. 😐👍🏼

#ask #noodle-soupz #advice #art advice #tutorial #character design

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odinsblog · 10 months

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One About The Atmosphere: Want to change minds? Stop trying. Change the atmosphere instead.

Donald Trump in 2016 greets a screaming horde of ecstatic white christian nationalists

Minivan was a nice enough guy. He was easygoing; a happy guy with a frequently deployed smile. I don’t recall much anger from him, nor many strongly held opinions. I wouldn’t call him a philosophical type. No deep late night talks with Stove Minivan is my recollection.

This is the sort of dude I’d hang out with at a party, if there were a party we were both at, but not one with whom I’d maintain a relationship if we both graduated and then moved to different places—which I know for a fact, because that’s what happened. We drifted.

So then what happened is twelve years or so later I got on The Facebook, and Stove Minivan was there, too, and before long, we were friends again, he and I, and so were me and my other college friends, and them with him, and … look, you know the drill. It was The Facebook.

Minivan was no longer a pre-med student at a small northern liberal arts college. He was a doctor—a general care practitioner, if memory serves—in a smallish plains state town, very much like many other towns in the great plains or elsewhere in the country, I imagine.

Anyway, before long I noticed something about Minivan. Even though his feed was full of pictures of him and his lovely family, and he was smiling in them just the same as he always had in college, he was angry.

He was *enraged*

What was he angry about? The Demonrats.

Minivan was absolutely enraged about everything the Demonrats did. He also was out of his mind angry about Killary, and Obummer, the leaders of the Demonrats—or at least they were the front for the real leader of the Demonrats, who even back then I believe was George Soros.

What did the Demonrats do? Oh my heck, what *didn’t* they do? Mostly they hated America and American security and American economic strength, it seems. They engaged in corruption and bowed to foreign powers a lot. They shredded the dignity of the presidency, that’s for sure.

Minivan’s worldview wasn’t particularly coherent, if you want to know the truth.

I couldn’t help to notice that the Demonrats weren’t actually doing many of the things that Minivan thought they were doing.

And I noticed other things.

For example, I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of the policies Minivan supported were directly *causing* the sorts problems that made Minivan so angry.

And I couldn’t help but notice that well-sourced information enraged him more than pretty much anything else.

There was a lot of linking to sites I’d never heard of, like Breitbart and Newsmax, and of course plenty of Fox News. There were a lot of memes. There were a lot of conspiracy theories (a big birther, was Minivan).

Some of his posts contained subtle bigotry. Most of the rest contained not-subtle bigotry. Several of them contained slogans and statements that were, very simply, neo Nazi and white supremacist memes and shibboleths.

There was a lot of commentary accompanying these posts from Minivan, who was saying shocking stuff for a small-town family doctor … the sorts of things that it seemed to me would make people not want to use this person as a doctor, or or sit next to that person on a bus.

I hadn’t heard of Alex Jones, yet, but Minivan sounded a lot like Alex Jones, word for word and beat for beat. He’d even start his posts like a right-wing radio host: Sorry folks, but you can’t even make stuff like this up—ironically, accompanying things that had been made up.

This was all pretty distressing to those of us who had known Minivan back in the day, before he had become so obsessed with Demonrats.

So, a lot of us, myself included, did exactly what The Facebook wants.

We engaged with him.

At the time my belief was, you defeated bad ideas with better ideas, by confronting the bad ideas directly with the better ideas. Debate was for changing minds. You presented your ideas, they presented theirs, you countered, they countered, eventually everybody saw the truth.

But the intention was that I’d change his mind, with facts presented logically, delivered calmly and patiently.

This was my belief.

What happened confounded me, but perhaps you can predict it.

Minivan escalated any correction, however calmly stated or bloodlessly presented, into scorched earth territory. He rejected all proofs by rejecting the source outright as irrevocably tainted by bias, or he’d spiral into non sequitur, spamming our feeds with more misinformation.

He would claim he never said things he had just said, even though the statements were still there for anybody to read, one comment earlier in the thread.

He’d claim that I said things I'd never said, as anyone foolish enough to read through our conversations could discover.

He demonstrated a complete dedication to his ignorance and anger, and a total disinterest in anything like observable truth that contradicted his grievance.

It was confounding and unfamiliar behavior to me, at the time.

At the time.

All of it was larded with grievance, a sense that people like him had never wronged anybody, and everybody else had done nothing but wrong people like him.

The bigotry and authoritarianism grew.

And all the time, on Facebook, he and his family kept smiling their perfect smiles.

I’ll admit that over time my interactions stopped being polite and bloodless, and I’m not particularly sorry for it. I told him some things about himself he seemed not to know, but which I thought really ought to be said.

I have a bit of a penchant for sarcasm, which you may have noticed.

I employed this skill, and you can feel how you want to about sarcasm, but I think it helped convey the correct posture to take toward someone who says the sorts of things Minivan was saying.

The correct posture being "you have proved yourself to be a person who should not be taken seriously, and your positions do not deserve even a modicum of respect."

I found this a more healthy message to convey about Minivan to anybody watching, and I still do.

Eventually he blocked me, and he was out of my life forever. It was the right choice, and I'm very glad he did that.

I’ve pondered the incident since, as it’s become more and more relevant to “the way things are.”

A few things had become clear over time.

Minivan was not somebody whose intentions could be trusted. He was not operating in good faith, and I believe he well knew it, because many of his favorite sources of information have written instruction books on how to engage with people in bad faith.

Minivan was not debating; he was using debate to inject his counterfactual beliefs into the discourse, which were designed to further marginalize already marginalized people while simultaneously cloaking himself in self-exonerating grievance.

More, he was exerting an active effort to not know things that could be easily known, and to demand to be convinced out of deliberate ignorance, not because he was interested in having his ideas challenged, but because he demanded a world in which he got to decide what was real.

Further still: Minivan *learned* from me. The effect of telling him he was using one or another logical fallacy was not to sharpen his reasoning, but to teach him about the existence of logical fallacies, which let him (incorrectly) accuse others of those same logical fallacies.

So Minivan was deploying the language of logic, in ways that betrayed a total lack of understanding about what those fallacies were, granted, but in ways that likely made him seem more knowledgeable and reasonable to a casual or sympathetic observer.

He learned to ape our phrases and arguments, in much the way he’d learned to ape the style of Alex Jones and all the various Breitbart and Newsmax contributors he used to inform himself.

And these days it occurs to me: I hear a lot about "groomers."

We were not changing him by engaging with him thoughtfully.

We certainly weren’t changing him by engaging with him in kind.

Rather: we were making him better at what he was doing, and we were validating his world view—to himself and others—as one that merited engagement.

And week after week on Facebook, Minivan kept smiling and smiling and getting angrier and angrier, at us and Obummer and all the other Demonrats and liberals and every member of every minority group who dared to fail to ceaselessly assure him that he was right about everything.

I don’t miss Minivan's black-hole-sun smile. I think of it as my first hint of MAGA: politically overrepresented, socially coddled people, often living outwardly happy privileged lives, while seething inwardly that other people might be getting anything, anything at all.

Indeed, soon enough, another figure would come on the scene, whose behavior matched that of Minivan almost exactly, a perfect avatar for this spirit of aggrieved bigotry and supremacy that seemed to be moving through my former friend.

And sure enough, as I saw, there were millions and millions of smiling seething people who loved him.

And that guy became president.

Nobody believed he would. And then he did.

Because Stove Minivan, it turns out, wasn’t some weird outlier.

He was part of a growing new normal, a group of people who had been offered a chance to immigrate from observable reality and enter a dark world of constant hostility, misinformation, and self-loving grievance.

It's an invitation they leapt at, to which they cling even now.

It's a constituency immune to proof, angered by equality, cheered by cruelty, who blame others for the foulness of the shallow puddle of reasoning within which they have demand to be seated, even though we can all see them fouling it themselves, every day.

And afterward, a huge number of those shocked by this development decided the proper reaction was to accommodate it, in the name of unity—a belief, it seems, grounded in the idea that what you choose to get along with isn’t as important as getting along no matter what.

I’ll finish with the question that all of Minivan’s former friends would eventually ask, whenever they gathered together long enough for the subject to arise.

"What the hell happened to Minivan?"

Here’s the answer, I think: nothing.

Nothing happened to Minivan. Nothing at all.

He was always that guy, and he always thought the things he thought.

What changed was that he was given a lot of language with which to express those ideas, and access to enough other people who thought that way too, that it created a critical mass of permission.

The permission allowed him to change his attitudes and actions, and created a lot of other people willing to accommodate and normalize his antisocial anti-reality behavior, rather than reject it out of hand.

In college you could be pretty conservative, honestly. It was a pretty conservative place. But you couldn't behave like Minivan later would.

You’d be understood to be a far-right extremist, and people would then treat you like a far-right extremist.

Which is what you'd be.

I think it just wasn't possible for Minivan to be what he later became, because the atmosphere wasn't conducive to the possibility.

But then the atmosphere changed.

If we want to change it back, it's worth thinking about how atmospheres change.

(source)

#politics #republicans #donald trump #overton window #stove minivan #authoritarianism #deplorables #trumpublicans #maga

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whoishotteranimepolls · 2 months

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honestly i really appreciate you doing these polls with senshi even if people find them a little annoying because i have a similar body type and have been growing my hair out so i kind of look like him and seeing people call him hot and seeing him sweeping the polls has made me feel a little better about myself which hasn't really happened before so thank you for running these polls you helped give me some confidence i think i might actually try picking up cooking ive always wanted to try anyway hope you have a good day and thanks again

Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying the polls. I'm aware it annoys some people but it doesn't bother me because I'm enjoying the heck out of Dungeon Meshi. However, I do feel like I created a bit of a monster since it became a meme. Then there were the messages saying my Senshi polls have contributed to the downfall of the British monarchy. I'm confused. Was that a meme? Did I miss something? I think I need someone to explain it to me.

Plus there are plenty more Senshi polls in the queue even after I did that queue clean out day and I will keep making Senshi polls as long as requests keep coming in. My policy has always been. I will make the poll as long as it follows my rules. I don't care who or what the character is. That's why we have had several polls that I would classify as cursed or meme polls. At least the tags have been hilarious on those.

#ask #not a poll #senshi

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yeeunjia · 2 years

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can you do an enha reaction to you wearing someone else's hoodie, please?

▬▬ [𝐄𝐍𝐇𝐘𝐏𝐄𝐍] 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐒/𝐎 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐄𝐋𝐒𝐄'𝐒 𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐄

PAIRING : idol!enha x idol!fem!reader

▬▬ GENRE : fluff // crack !! ▬▬ WARNINGS : none !!

⌗ .. HEESEUNG !!

your group had a collab with enhypen so you all agreed on staying in their dorm for a few days (just to make things a bit easier) !! the ones who are known to love ramyeon the most in both groups are you, your boyfriend, heeseung, and jake. the two were absolutely shameless when they woke you up at midnight just to ask you to cook the ramyeon. but still, you didn't mind it much anyway.

heeseung just couldn't stop staring at you and jake was on his phone, scrolling through tiktok. they'd both laugh a bit whenever they see memes of your group or themselves too. but- jake later noticed that something was off. he stared at you for a while before whispering something to heeseung, "is that your hoodie? i haven't seen it before." your boyfriend literally didn't waste any time dragging you to his room and make you change into one of his hoodies. he wouldn't even bother asking about the owner of the hoodie! you're wearing his hoodie now and that is what's important to him. poor jake would even feel left out as heeseung couldn't help but give you every single ounce of his affection afterwards!

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⌗ .. JAY !!

niki literally begged and asked you to give them company when they wanted to go shopping. the kid looked like he was going to burst into tears if you refused which is why you agreed to come. and guess what? you're now sandwiched between your boyfriend, jay, and niki. the way not many people recognized you all was quite unreal too. you were having fun too... that was until you started shivering from the coldness.

niki was the only one wearing a hoodie so he offers it to you. you felt like you were about to freeze so you immediately accepted it, not minding the expressions on your boyfriend's face. which also becomes a visible frown when niki claimed that wearing a hoodie was probably 'destiny' for you two!! of course niki was only joking around and he enjoyed the way his hyung's mood changed. still, jay didn't like it at all. he excused himself and grabbed your hand. you two were now in a luxury store and jay told you to pick a hoodie! did he care about the prices? heck no. and instead of picking just one, he told you to pick more! "it's more fashionable" he says. @_@

⌗ .. JAKE !!

this cutie had the biggest smile on his face when your managers allowed you to stay with him for a few days. and it wasn't much of a surprise when jake decided to come when your group had to film on weekly idol <'3 your members and staffs are used to him following you around like a puppy anyway, so they didn't mind at all. (even the hosts started teasing you *wink wink*)

jake was a bit upset when he had to go back to the dorms as you still needed to have dinner with your members and even finally meet their parents + siblings! still, what's important to him is that you enjoy <3 he immediately jumps off the couch when you're back. his smile then turns into a pout when he sees you wearing a hoodie that isn't even his nor yours. "you bought a new one?" he questions and you realize how you even forgot to return it. "oh, ____'s brother owns this.. i was a bit cold earlier, i forgot to give it back.." "noona! hyung only wants you to use his hoodies!!" you hear niki scream from the kitchen and you giggle, turning to your boyfriend who still had the cutest pout on his face. "take it off, please? i'll give you mine!!"

⌗ .. SUNGHOON !!

movie nights are always something your group and enhypen look forward to. it's always been a little thing between both groups ever since the members noticed sunghoon's feelings towards you. you're all comfy with each other's presence. maybe a bit too comfy.. especially when jay lent you his hoodie which you honestly really liked. it was soft too. but your boyfriend doesn't like this at all.

"that's jay's hoodie, right? why're you wearing that?" he whispers, leaning closer. "yep! and why not? it's comfy!" hoon had pure disgust on his face when those words came out of your mouth. "mine would be better" "you get annoyed whenever i'd borrow your hoodies, hoon." you spat back. the others were secretly enjoying this too. they couldn't focus on the movie anymore as they were trying not to laugh. "YAH! jay literally decorates his room with smelly clothes! imagine if that hoodie was on top of a wet sock." you decided to ignore this and hoon would stare at you with a frown for the rest of the night before throwing a bunch of his hoodies at you and telling you to wear them

⌗ .. JUNGWON !!

won doesn't admit it but he secretly pays so much attention to you. like- he knows all your favorite hair clips, tops, and knows all the hoodies you have. when he sees you walk in the recording studio with a both familiar and unfamiliar hoodie, he immediately gets curious. it doesn't take too long for it to hit him though, he then knew that it wasn't yours. it was his yeonjun sunbaenim's hoodie...

"so you suddenly ended up wearing yeonjun sunbaenim's hoodie?" he crosses his arms and the other members' attention were now on you. "....yeah?" you reply, not getting the hint. wonie forces a laugh and sighs, "ahaha yeah- okay- that's...amazing!" oh god. his poor hyungs almost choked on their drink. won's leader mood would just be activated and he stomps away!! he tried to find the words he wanted to tell you but still wouldn't be able to do so. he forced himself not to pay attention to your clothing afterwards. it worked and he didn't mind it much anymore. that was until the behind the scenes for the recording was uploaded and fans started talking about your yeonjun's hoodie..

⌗ .. SUNOO !!

this boy had been wanting to go on a date with you so so much. obviously, due to so many preparations for both group's albums you two weren't really able to even think of plans. you two were allowed to spend a day with each other and sunoo didn't waste any time. he was rushing you so you just took the hoodie you saw on the sofa. you've seen sunoo wear it so you thought that it was his. well, it was actually heeseung's..

your boyfriend started screaming internally when he sees your outfit. and... then he frowns when he noticed the hoodie. "that's heeseung hyungs hoodie!!! you need to change!" you huff, "i'm too lazy, sunoo. let's just go!!" he started stomping and whining like a child but you were used to this side of him so you didn't mind. and that made him even upset. you were setting up your camera to take pictures with sunoo and he suddenly suggests a 'game' <'3 "OKAY! FIRST ONE TO CHANGE THEIR HOODIE WINS 1 2 3 GO!" you pout at him, "cmon sunoo! it's not a big deal!" he sighs in defeat. this boy took that personally though, even started mumbling "tAkE tHE HoOdIe oFf!" in his sleep-

⌗ .. NIKI !!

your group just came back from your first world tour. you didn't expect to meet other idols but you were even able to befriend some! one of them was skz's seungmin. niki was really excited to meet you again! you agreed on filming a dance jam so the deal was to meet in the dance studio. when you gave niki a hug, he immediately noticed that something was different. your scent. there you realized that you probably grabbed seungmin's hoodie instead of yours when you got off the plane.

after you told him about the hoodie, he plops down on the floor (literally) !! "can't you just take it off?" he pouts and one of your members reply, "unnie is still wearing her stage outfit, she can't" you nod in agreement. you expected him to get sulky, and he did. what you didn't expect is that your leg would end up dragging him around.. "Y/NIEEE PLEASE TAKE IT OFF!!" you'd just whine and refuse. even your manager couldn't believe this so he just decided to contact skz's manager just because of a hoodie! looks at you like '◕‿◕' while you '(≖︿≖✿)' when you and seungmin were finally able to switch hoodies!!

ENHYPEN MASTERLIST // REQUESTS & MESSAGES ʚ♡ɞ

#enhypen #enhypen reactions #enhypen scenarios #enhypen imagines #enhypen fluff #enhypen fanfiction #enha imagines #enha reactions #enha scenarios #enha x reader #enhypen x reader #enhypen x idol reader #enha heeseung #enha jay #enha jake #enha sunghoon #enha jungwon #enha sunoo #enha niki

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gunmetal-ring · 1 year

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anon again. i'm sorry that i keep coming to you with this depressing messages but you seem like one of the few sane ppl in this fandom and i appreciate your honesty.

truth is im feeling really disillusioned with hellcheer lately. we don't have a lot of "canon" content so after a while, it gets tiring going thru the same 2 scenes over and over again (especially when one of them involves chrissy's death). ive been relying on fandom but it seems like it's slowed down. fics arent updated as frequently, not a lot of new artwork.

heck, even joe and grace have moved on. joe's career is taking off. grace is leaving acting. it just feels like everything that happened last summer has come to an end :(

Aw anon thats okay. Ty for thinking of my feelings though 💓 (and also im flattered that you think im sane lmao)

Unfortunately its the way things go, especially with small ships, especially especially in a fandom as hostile as this one is. People come together and build community and share their love for characters and then g(r)o(w) their separate ways again.

But not everybody does! You and me, for example. And ive got plenty of hellcheer mutuals that seem perfectly content to draw, write, and rb their little hearts out.

I for one am absolutely astounded that theres even a fandom for hellcheer, let alone one with such talent and breadth and depth of love! Our characters had 2 scenes. Our girl was killed just as it all began. Our boy died with her name on his lips. In all likelihood we will never see them together on our screens again.

But somehow. Those ~10 minutes managed to foster an entire community of people and keep us engaged and in love w the characters for almost a year at this point! With no dangling promises or false hope or anything! Like we all know the score and we still go hard for hellcheer. Incredible.

Idk maybe it's just bc ive only had brainworms like this for 2 other ships and 1 of them is even smaller and the other one is a clusterfuck of unimaginable proportions, so im a little biased in terms of community/fandom, but im just like... idk. I think its really incredible thats all. And a testament to the very real power and truth of hellcheer 🥰

All i can say anon is that the best way to keep a fandom/ship going is engagement. Likes on tumblr and kudos on ao3 are great. But whats even better and more motivating (and i say this as a fic writer/meme shitposter so im speaking the total truth lol) is reblogs and comments. Tell people how much you love their work and how much it means to you, it goes a very long way. And on the flip side of that - stay out of the infighting. All it does is sap your mental energy and the fandom infighting bullshit is a major contributor to why people leave. The negativity and bitterness warp your perspective and make it really hard to remember what we're here for - it's not anti-st*ddie or anti-qu*nn stans or anti-anti-hellcheer or what the fuck ever. We're here for hellcheer!

Sorry my $0.02 is now $2.00 bc i ramble lol its a fatal flaw of mine. Anyway im sorry if this is annoyingly positive or dismissive but im in a strangely upbeat mood rn so there you have it

#im not getting into the whole joe/grace career stuff bc ive talked abt it a million times and i dont want to invite more bad faith anons #op #hellcheer #ask #anon

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oekaki-chan · 1 year

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hey c! can i ask how do we get over the feeling of embarassment when drawing self-indulgent shippy fanart? i've seen most of your amazing art and i've noticed that you don't seem to hold back when drawing fanarts, it's really beautiful with the way you portray characters' intimate relationships.. be it thru manga, illustrations, sketches. I have quite a lot of ideas on my mind that I want to draw similar to what you've drawn in terms of shipping characters, but I can't help but feel embarassed most of the time when I attempt to draw, thinking that it's "cringe" or I should draw something else with more deeper meaning into it, not just shippy stuff.. so I get very hesitant posting said art online or even starting the sketch (i haven't drawn 95% of my written ideas for nearly a year ;_; pain lol) since a few of my friends might see and question it lmao but deep down i really want to draw them ofc! i'm just very scared with what others think, but I do want to show myself more through my art and what I really like to draw.. Have you had a similar feeling of embarassment too c? I'm sorry if this got too long, I don't rly have any artist friends to talk to this about :')) I'm just so amazed at how you're able to fight the fear and just draw what you want in the end ^-^ I hope I can be like that too with myself and art, there are rare times where I just say f*ck it and post it anyway but 99% of the time is just me overthinking on whether it's cringe or not but I want to be cringe so bad so I can just be free and draw whatever the heck I want! ahh so many conflicting feelings ;_; i hope you get what I mean, thank you again for responding to my previous asks with the colors and numerous questions! I'm sorry for being so curious lol i just want to draw my favorite characters to kiss and cuddle so bad but im too scared to even draw them so intimately like that so i dont even draw majority of my ideas for fear of being judged :'D :') :(( hope u had a nice day c!

I might never show it but actually I relate to you so hard, it's not once or twice that I keep overthinking if my art is too self-indulgent and cringe, everytime I'm about to post my art I'm one click away to post it but I always have this nagging worry of people judging my art (even tho there's nothing wrong with it, for god's sake!!!) so I just spend another 30 minutes worrying about it until I close my eyes, flick my finger quickly, and close the tab.

And oh god in heaven put a curse on meme culture for this because there was this one instance when someone made a corny meme out of my art (that's not even a funny drawing) and dared to send it to me, I know it's only one person but it's enough to crush my confidence in drawing and posting shippy/emotional art.

Whenever I draw my favorite characters looking all seductive and cool I always worry people would think it's cringe, whenever I draw characters kissing I always worry people would think I'm weird, but then I remember about the other artists I like who post (their own) self-indulgent stuff and they make me joyous, I want people to feel the same way about my art when I post my own self-indulgent art too, so I guess that's what keeps me doing what I do today 😂

My 2023 resolution is just to stop giving a single damn about what people think of my art, if they think it's cringe then so be it, I can't control the mind of people, at least the cringe art gives me the happy brain chemicals and that's what truly matters 😊

#ask

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pumpkinstrawbrew · 7 months

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𝕐𝕠𝕦'𝕝𝕝 𝕓𝕖 𝕒 𝕗𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕜

𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕀'𝕝𝕝 𝕜𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕟𝕪… ⋭

…

(so, where to begin? i guess from the simple fact, that i wanted to do smth fun with this clean-cut parallel. at first, i wanted to make some quick edits, but then, i decided what the heck. i might just re-draw it! *or sort of re-draw it anyways*

the shippy stuff is shippy, but really it was hard not to be all like *insert dicaprio pointing meme* when i was reading the venom comic, and flash just pulled a batman on me. beat jack up, n’ then instead of killing him, like he wanted to, he spared him. took him in his arms all gently-like n’ carried his sorry ass into the dawn. like man, it just hit the cords within me! i was all like oohhh, it's like in one of my most fav scarecrow issues! i wasn't expecting this from the comic, even less so from flash, who always had a bit of bipolar resolute, when it came to jack. 'he wanna kill him, he wanna kill him not'. that sort of thing. yet, this moment kind of shown, that he prob will always find a reason to talk himself out of putting him down.

that's aside, another part of why i love those stories, is that both issues felt personal. both, jon n’ jack had personal grudges, both batman and flash were struggling with personal darkness within them. both overcame it, n' literally had to beat up their personal walking-talking nightmare *flash even refers to jack as that later on*. like, it was pretty great, honestly. all that emotional baggage, uncanny kinships with their own twisted mirror, which resulted in them actually feeling sympathy for scarecrow n' jack. giving them a small speech, that they couldn’t hear *bc unconscious*, sort of implying that maybe ‘they’re not beyond help’. it's almost bitter-sweet. even if most people would argue, that both jon n’ jack are way-way too far gone at that point. even if 'solution' sounds too unrealistic to be true. still, if someone like batman believes in you, then maybe, just maybe there is a chance. n’ if someone like flash spares your life, even though, he’s nothing like bruce *he actually killed people before*, then perhaps, there is smth beyond projection, which made him do it.

all 4 characters are very different, n’ thb the context in everyone’s motivations n’ struggles are very different too, but i love how bruce n’ flash came to the same conclusion. took the same route with their respective twinky ghoul. showing mercy is noble, n’ it’s pretty sweet tbh. one of my fav tropes in fiction is when the hero/protagonist shows kindness/empathy toward their villain *who in most cases doesn’t ‘deserve it*. that whole cop out thing about 'evil should be punished by death' in fiction really takes away the romantism n' bendiness of fiction as whole tbh. esp with heroes. they supposed to be able to do 'impossible', including 'forgive the unforgiving'. this is why i prob will always advocate for the ‘no kill’ rule for super-heroes. i mean, it makes you have moments like those. smth that is actually emotional n’ also shows the cracks in heroes themselves, bc usually they can only truly relate to their rogues, someone who is usually designed to be a warped up reflection of hero’s own weaknesses, struggles or traumas. n’ while i always see jack o’lantern as spiderman’s villain *he’s one of oldies, a classic villain after all*, i suppose, that this version of jack was tailored for flash’s venom specifically, n’ i *unexpectedly* i loved it. daddy's issues run deep in this one for both of them. meanwhile, bruce be out there lecturing jon's school bullies, after he nearly killed them. what a man lol.

now, the comic panels themselves. just for better visualisation.

i didn’t include the first bit in my lil art thingy above, but i love how not only the venom mirrors batman in actions, but also how they’re even facing opposite sides, playing around with nearly opposite color pallets in each fight too. caters to the mood, but also it just looks nice side by side tbh. the blue/black/grey for batman, and orange/dark brown/yellow for venom. a dark knight / soldier n' maskless halloween villain. this prob the only point, where they connect narratively n' thematically, but it's a major one.

anyho', i didn't had a hardcore goal to re-draw those scenes to a t, just make it recognizable for the most part. but it was fun! also gave me an execuse to stare at those comic panels some more.

as for the song, it popped out inside my head kinda randomly. but it fits them, i think. even the tune itself adds to it. somewhat sad n’ slow. but the meaning of it, not fully hopeless. at least, they will always have someone there for them. after all, guys like jon n’ jack will always come back, seeking ‘their hero’, hungry for punishment or other things. n’ for someone as crippled as bruce or flash, it might not be the worst thing, really. usually, the hero is stuck in the same miserable 'unchanging', unwinnable situation as their villains are. be it outside forces, fate or sickness, that keeps them bond. it's still better to try and make the best of it, right?)

#batman comic #venom comics #bruce wayne #jonathan crane #flash thompson #jack o' lantern #dc & marvel #scarebat #flashjack #brew draws

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rainofthetwilight · 6 months

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LEVI

How would Jenna or Ethan react if they met Manager Asshole Jay?

HELLO HELLO! NOW THAT IS ONE HELL OF A QUESTION!!

I present to you, a meme to sum it up:

I actually wrote a little something for this, but have a small explanation before you read! (that would probably go "*poof* I don't exist" when s2 comes out)

usually, when a new intern is assigned to the reassignment department, jay ordered his little underlings to give them pins that somewhat matched his (he has his lighting pin on his suit) so he wouldn't have to check tons of paperwork just to make sure theyre actually assigned there. so here, nya went to the administration with JJ, and she had gotten lost, she got dragged by a few agents to the realm reassignment dp because of her pin, and boom, here comes jay :))

now, here's the small drabble:

Where the fuck was she?

Okay, JJ, you don't know where your mother is because you just got lost in this random cubicle place, and you don't even know where you're going.

Of course.

Just because of those random agent people that had suddenly attempted to attack them.

And for what? Boring paperwork?

Who needs a random permission paper thing just to walk around this place?

Even with how enormous it was, she swore it felt more cramped than the monastery, and it gave her a sinking feeling in her stomach.

So many halls, so many walls.

And everything is so tall.

And she swore those agents felt more robotic than Zane ever was.

She hated it.

She tried to hide the fact she was scared, but her slight shaking had given it away.

Hugging herself, the eleven-year-old walked nervously by the many cubicles, the constant tapping against keyboards and the pens being scribbled on paper being louder than ever.

She felt some of the agent's eyes on her. Probably because of her gi, but she swore it was more at her pin somehow.

Well she was a strange kid that had suddenly appeared, of course she'd be stared at.

But what's with the whispering?

She was suprised how no agent had attacked her again, and was just left to wander along these halls until she found Nya. She didn't even have the energy to call out for her, and it would've been a bad idea anyway.

Well if this day could get any worse.

As she continued to walk, she jumped at a sudden small machine that rapidly emerged from the roof appearing infront of her. It looked like a scanner, and it darted to her pin, the blue scan scanning over it in a quick motion and then it disappeared. Her wide eyes followed the emerging machine. She stood, speechless, and blinked twice at the sudden confusion.

What was that? Why the hell was it scanning her?

And it wasn't even her, it was her pin.

Jenna facepalmed, groaning as she got even more confused. She walked away with slight hesitance, mumbling questions to herself with every step she took.

Now she really wanted to find her mother.

Or atleast get out of here.

Just walk, walk, walk.

Focus until you find anything that could help. Which is something she doubted, because Nya was the only 'anything' that could help around here.

And she didn't know where the heck she was.

This sucked.

Huffing, she crossed her arms, purposely covering her pin a little because it seemed to be a somewhat target to these people. She continued to walk with heavier steps, not even knowing where she was-

"There, there's that new kid."

What?

"Remember that weird yellow kid? His outfit looks similar to hers."

"Yes, but you know it's probably what some outsiders wear. We don't want to waste the manager's time again, so we need to double check if she has a pin."

Oh no.

She saw how two weird agents walked up to her, a man and a woman. The woman with that black curls grabbed her arm, making Jenna yelp in response. She lifted her arm up, revealing her lightning pin.

What the fuck did they want with her?

"Yes, you're right. We need to take her to the reassignment department immediately, I'm sure boss wouldn't mind with the interruption."

What boss? What the hell was she talking about? What is this reassigment thing? What is going on?

"I mean, It's a new intern. Even Sharon wouldn't be annoyed, and she's the bitchiest there is." The man had spoke, ending with a slight chuckle. Jenna shuddered, it was not the first time she had almost gotten taken away and she did not want to repeat it again. The woman still had a grip on her arm as they walked to what she assumed was the direction of the 'assignment' department. She made a frightened sound, making the two agents snap their attention at her.

"Hey, it's okay kid, it's not like we bite or anything." The curly blonde haired man assured her, which didn't even seem assuring to her at all. "Say, what's you're name?"

Why would you wanna know, weird man?

"..Jenna." She muttered, refusing to look up at the two agents.

The woman hummed, then was the one to speak up. "What brought you here, Jenna? You're pretty young compared to our other teenage agents." She asked her. Jenna knew she couldn't tell her the actual reason why she was here, and she has to come up with a quick lie.

Think, think, think you idiot.

"Uhh- My- my p-parents wanted me to come here. A-and some agents gave me this pin, but I didn't know what it meant."

Okay, that's a good one.

She just hoped it was believeable.

"Ah, so that's why you were wandering around." The man nodded, "The pin means you were assigned to the Realm Reassignment department. Usually you would've been given forms instead, but our manager doesn't bother with checking and had told agents to give interns pins to make it easier. Specifically, ones that matched his."

"And your pin is eerily similar to his." The woman continued, "It's almost the same."

Almost the same? Did that guy have a lightning pin too?

Even weirder than she thought.

Whoever he was, she just hoped he was nice. The three stayed silent for the rest of the walk, passing by other agents at work. She didn't even know if she'd stay in cover for long, since the pin was pretty much the only thing keeping the suspicion down. The nervousness plagued her, and she just hoped that her mother would find her at some point.

At last, they arrived to this weird green door. The woman let go of her arm and opened it, leading to a dark room with a large, blue, glowing portal with a long ramp infront of it. On the left, there were metal steps that lead up to computers, some yellow rails on the sides. The man had waved to an agent that was standing at the portal, who she assumed was guarding it. They led her to a a dark door, standing infront of it.

So this was the reassignment department?

It's..gloomier than she thought.

"Manager! We have a new intern!" The man yelled, earning no response. The sounds of videogames and shouts were heard from inside the room, making both agents sigh and shake their heads.

"Manager!" He yelled again, the groan from the room signaling how he had finally heard him. Jenna tensed, her breathing fast. She was going to meet the damned manager of this place.

She was sure her cover was quickly going to break, soon enough.

She tapped her foot in both anticipation and nervousness, instinctively grabbing the woman's arm, who didn't seem to mind at all. Something she'd always do when she's afraid. Hearing the footsteps coming closer and closee to the door, she huffed.

And the door finally opened.

Revealing a ginger in a black suit and a blue tie, the lightning pin funnily contrasting with the dark themes of his suit.

"This is the third time today, Prentis. What is it?"

Jenna gasped, her eyes widening.

What. The. Hell.

Is that..who she thought she was? Was that her own father?!

"Dad?!" She exclaimed in complete shock, letting go of the woman's arm. She saw how the manag- No, her father's eyebrow raise, looking at her like he didn't even know her.

Her father that was missing for five years.

Ended up here. As a damn manager.

"Dad?" He questioned, "Kid, I'm not your dad."

What?

Did he really not know her?

lets just say, jenna did not take it well, and had quickly ran away after :") she didn't like his 'new' personality at all

ethan, having little memory of him, straight up called him 'ugly' and 'mean man' lmao

I plan to do more stuff with this idea later on, but here's what I have for now!

#ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago spoilers #dragons rising spoilers #ninjago jay #ninjago oc #early family au #oc: jenna walker #levi's writing #levi's asks #ty for the ask!#taddy tag #levi's beloved mutual(s) <3

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zuffer-weird-girl · 1 year

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Is it possible for you to do Kai and Dabi thoughts on a reader that is so heavily stereotypically French that it is scary? Like you can sense they are French from a mile away 😭😰😧😧😰😰

People usually single me out for it an I just- ack 😡

I'm sorry if I got your ask wrong honey because I really didn't understand so much of it, pls let me know if I messed it up.

Sorry to break it to ya but this ass will pretty much tease the heck out of you.

You know that recent meme of the woman speaking croissant and there is someone there saying ti again in a total mocking accent? Yeah... you got it. That's him.

Sometimes might even ask out of his bratjness if you até any snails before he kisses you.

Again. He is an ass.

But only he could do that.

Because if he ever catches someone making fun of your accent, appearance or wtv the fuck is stereotype he is gonna burn/kill/ beat the person up.

Seriously, he almost incinerated Twice and Spinner for mimicking a French accent to greet you after a mission.

Touya might tease you a lot but in the end he is a suckered for French type of movies so he takes pride on you.

And no. He doesn't like the romance ones. Just to clarify he still watches it though

Not lying, his attraction for you came from these.

He doesn't know but something about your character is just... elegant to him.

He doesn't ever speaks about that though. He only let slip once or twice but is definitely not evident.

Ever the tsundere like type that I write

Even though he doesn't tease you like Dabi does, he does the same thing when it comes to people putting french stereotypes in your way.

A new subordinates did the heavy mistake of doing that stupid croissant thing when you guys arrived from a date once and Chrono had to clean the walls and the floor due to the blood.

Chrono being the Cinderella of the hassaikai once again

Anyway

Kai takes your pride very seriously and he knows how some people of Japan are a bit of... xenophobic. Heck, there are problem with people who have no quirks what else can you let him expect?

So yeah, even much of a dirty glance or snicker throw your way is enough for this dude to takes his gloves off to put the germs at bay.

Kinda aggressive much but hey we love him

#dabi x reader #touya todoroki x reader #chisaki kai x reader #overhaul x reader #bnha villains x reader #overhaul #chisaki kai #dabi #touya todoroki #bnha hcs overhaul #bnha hcs dabi #zuffer writings

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riftdancing · 3 months

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T h a n k y o u ! !

My queue right now is astronomically high compared to what it has been since my return to this community. It is full of reblogs in which I have left my love and adoration for all the beautiful work this community creates and I want to start making it a habit again.

It is my personal belief that reblogs are how this community thrives. Its how people get introduced to one another and how your work finds new people and I want to be one of those blogs out there who are constantly reblogging to uplift my fellow creators again. I want to break the habit of silently reblogging and start forging bonds with people again. I want to get to know you guys and interact more (send more asks and tag in more memes) and this is my first foot forward in doing just that!!

@shroudkeeper and @airis-ray both tagged me in this post and I just wanted to extend the most heart warming thank you to you both. Seeing people recommend my work gives me the biggest confidence boost in a community where my past has left me sorely lacking confidence. You both have inspired this trend for me and it just goes to show how far a little kindness can go.

I also want to give the biggest shout out in the world to @thefreelanceangel who is literally a huge part of why I'm still here and why I returned at all. All of your reblogs, heart warming tags, and encouragement is initially what drew me back in to writing and creating here instead of continuing to privately with write and interact with @gatheredfates and other friends. You make my skills as a writer and screenshot photographer feel incredibly valued and you inspire me to keep on creating. Thank you so much for that, because I honestly believe that without you (and Sea) I would not be present here.

And last, but certainly not least, the loudest shout out to my hype lady and the platonic love of my life, @gatheredfates who literally keeps me and my creativity going every day. Listen, her tags might be a little unhinged, but no one encourages me like she does. Her Ask/Question drive (you should check it out) is also hella inspiring and I love how much you do for this community both publicly and behind the scenes. This woman is an absolute angel and probably the best person I know. I love you dearly! Did I mention she is an INCREDIBLE writer and she comes up with some of the most creative and in depth characters? I adore reading her work and if you're reading this, you should definitely go read it.

In the end though, thank you for the little energy boost. I'm gonna keep on keeping on, but then I'm gonna keep on even harder by trying to engage more with you folks! Aw heck, now you're stuck with me. >:)

PS: Feel free to recommend more blogs!! The post I mentioned before introduced to me to so many new blogs and I have followed so many new people recently where as I have struggled to find others on my own in the past. Its been really refreshing! ♥

Anyway...

#peptalks w/ pepper

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chasani · 1 year

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Hey *throws this at you*

I’ve decided I want to try to make an animated series!

Now I’ve never gone through with something like this before (whether it be fully or never even starting to begin with) but it never hurts to try

Plus, if I don’t go through with it, on the bright side think of all the cool new clown OCs the world will get to see

Anyway! It’s simple:

- You make a clown OC

- I include that OC in my series!

What’s the series about? Like a slice of life, a slice of life if you and all of your family were clowns that constantly get into mischief and trouble. Are they all actually related? No. But they consider each other family, and that’s pretty darn close!

I’ll give full credit to your character, you’re basically helping with character design, and that character is completely yours! Only difference is I’ll be animating them

But in terms of the character, it’s up to you! You can pick a gender, pronouns, heck, you could make two that are long lost twins that don’t even know they’re related, it’s up to you! They can be silly, smart, a bookworm, a little depressed, whatever you want. It’s your character!

Oh, and if there’s any mischievous activities you’d rather your OC not acting in, just tell me. I don’t bite, I don’t judge.

But I really want this to work out, I’d love an animated series

Especially about clowns

I’ll make constant updates about things I’m working on, etc. If you want to make an OC simply post it and tag me or DM me through tumblr. Just know I will use the OC for the series, possibly short little memes or animations, I might use it in promotion drawings for the series, but not under any circumstances will I claim your OC as my own. Credit will always be given somewhere, whether it’s tagged you in a tumblr post or putting credit (name and link) in a YouTube description/pinned comment. As well as putting credit in the intro I may or may not make. If you have any questions feel free to DM me on tumblr.

I may or may not make a discord server for this <- is definitely going to make a discord server

(I’m still thinking of a name for the series, if you have any ideas please share! As of right now I’m thinking- “A Slice of Clown Life” but it just doesn’t roll off the tongue)

#chasani #arting with sani #sani rambles #sani doodles #my art #digital art #my digital art #art #uhhhh what else can I tag #uh oh oops 🤷#please reblog it’s the only way people ever see my posts #edit: I got a name for it now!! tagging it #Clowns Don’t Bite

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arabellameyer · 4 months

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AN INTRODUCTION TO ME

Hello everyone! How are you? I'm Arabella, and I love to worldbuild, learn about nature, draw, and a bunch of other stuff. If you have any questions about my worlduilding, let me know! Please keep conversations appropriate (no sexting or asking extremely personal questions). Here there will be reblogs of/art of some stuff you might find disturbing (body horror/gore), but I will label it as such (gore, blood, tw, nsfw, etc). It's part of my worldbuilding as you'll see here over time. But it isn't the only part of my worldbuilding, so don't worry about missing out on much. I do not tolerate any porn so none will be here. I've heard too many stories of people dealing with porn addictions and how debilitating it is, so I'm not even going to chance looking at it, lead alone reblogging it.

Filing system down below v

When I reblog stuff, I'll put it in a file system that is similar to my pinterest pinning system (same titles and such). Here's how it'll go...

(btw if any of these tags are of no interest to you, then feel free to block them)

Art:

Animal reference

Animal pose

Animal behavior

Art reference

Human pose

Guide or Art Guide

Landscape

Procreate

Ibispaint

Aesthetic/pattern:

It just looks pretty - I like it because it looks nice :)

Storytelling or Cinematic - the way it sends a message is interesting, and I'd like to use it as inspiration

Worldbuilding:

(BTW level 1 animals are animals found irl)

Level 2 - Like irl animals that have one little thing changed about them, like their color or number of eyes.

Level 3 - Mix of 2 or more animals that is hard to distinguish what the original animal is (like a cat/snake mix, was it originally a cat or originally a snake).

Level 4 - A change in the original species causes a majority of people to fear it, like deep fear it. Creepy

Level 5 - Like levels 2-4, but with a horror aspect to it (like snakes that look like intestines).

I've made guides for my leveling system and I'll post them soon, so don't worry if you're confused ;)

Dragons

Elementals

Hybrid

Characters:

Scene idea - idea for a plot point or fun story in my world

Characters - catch-all

Johann the discoverer

Damien

Mama nova

Void deer

Memes:

(I'll add more as time goes on)

Memes - general tag

Remember - has some relevance to it, whether or not it's a meme (just sorta a catch-all for anything that I want to remember. You'll see what I mean if you search through there.)

Scenario - meme that describes a scene, and I don't know where else to put it

Food for the funnies - this is where I put the stuff I actually laugh at. Not just a breath out of my nose, but a true laugh.

Derpy - •u•

Fever dream - lol those memes that make no sense or come out of left field

And that's how babies are made - I'm not even going to explain this one lol

Stay flexy - exercise ideas

Cute:

Cute - catch-all for anything adorable :3

Cute animal - specifically cute animals

Cute plant - specifically cute plants

Misc:

Recommend or Recommendation - smth I should check out (to buy or look @ again)

Pins or Enamel pins - enamel pins I like the look of.

Watch later - if I like the look of it but don't have the mental energy to completely peruse it, then I'll put it here.

Ok so that is my filing system lol. I know it's pretty long but I plan on using the references and stuff I find here.

I know I said this before, but I love talking (raging extrovert), so if you wanna chat or dump a writing idea or creature idea on me, then go for it! Heck, my commissions are also open (not getting them done immediately, tho) if you're interested (no guarantee on the quality. Just know I am still learning the fundamentals of art). Anyways, if you're reading this far, then you're one of the real ones (also, what's your favorite color? Mine is blue, but I like them all tbh) 💪. Thanks so much for reading this. I'll have a side blog here shortly where I'll post only my art so that you don't have to go through all my reblogs, lol. Anyways, thanks so much, and have a blessed day <3

P.S. this is my art-only side blog. Here, have a mouse 🫴🐁

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ethaneldritch · 3 months

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I don't know how to write Kain.

(rant incoming, you have been warned)

Granted, I don't think I'm doing a very good job of writing Raziel either, but I've been talking with some LoK buddies, and there's a ton of nuances in Kain's characterization that I straight-up missed. I don't want to stray too far from canon, but it's really difficult to push his arc in the direction I want without breaking established precedents.

So like, an example:

Kain has been tainted with corruption since birth. He quite literally knows nothing but violence and sociopathy as ways to respond to situations. How do you even begin to remedy something like that, now that he's "healed"? What has changed? Is he just magically a nice person now? Heck no, that'd be completely unrealistic. But where do you draw the line between force of habit and "holy cow what have i done"?

According to my one friend (who's writing angst), there is no line. The crux of the problem is that he doesn't know how to respond in any other way but violence. He's desperate to remain in control, the only thing that's changed is he feels guilty about it now.

So, again: Where do you even begin "fixing" something like that?

Limbo Shepherds started out as primarily healing/fluff nonsense, and I had a vague plot for it to follow. But now that I actually have other eyes on my work, I can see the holes starting to show through and have no idea how to patch them.

I'm trying to balance my own wants for an imaginary sequel with stuff that would make sense canonically, but I'm now realizing just how difficult that is to pull off. My default perspective toward grimdark things is to inject levity, but it's tricky doing that here while still maintaining plausibility.

I'm finding LoK really hard to write for because there's so many little nuances you have to keep track of. Drop the wrong one, and the whole thing falls apart.

I think that's partially why I fixate on the lieutenants so much. There's just enough characterization to play off of without risking a "wrong" presentation. It's much easier to draw, say, Dumah in goofy socks than Kain. Because Kain just...wouldn't do something like that. And it'd be weird if he did. On the flip side, we don't have much info about how Dumah might feel toward goofy socks, so I feel much freer to mess with my interpretation of that.

I'm sure this is a thing in many fandoms (cue "he would not freaking say that!!" meme), but I think it's far more prevalent in LoK because everybody knows the source material like the back of their hand.

With larger fandoms, there seems to be a natural dilution of characterization simply because there's so many different perspectives going around. It's much harder to avoid an "uncanny" depiction of, say, Bort from HnK than Xiao from Genshin Impact, because any specificities of the latter are typically worn away as people play with interpretations.

I hope that makes sense...

Anyway, point being: I don't want to say I'm afraid of "messing up", because there's technically nothing to mess up in the first place. It's just fanfiction. I can literally do whatever I want.

But there does feel like there's this invisible pressure to get Kain's character "right", and I just can't seem to shake myself out of it.

#Monty musings #pretty sure this is just textbook Imposter Syndrome at work but I'm gonna make a confusing and lengthy rant about it anyway #enjoy #writing thoughts by yours truly

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