#and never explain anything

[cranity]

head over heels

#nicholas d. wolfwood #vash the stampede #vashwood #trigun #my art #idk how to explain my trigun feelings other than my fav flavor of it being that wolfwood falls hard for this chaotic blonde first #and they proceed to share intricate rituals throughout their travels but never do anything about it #and then vol 10 happens #:] #anyways im a wolfwood falls in love first believer right here #he would do anything for that man

[ozlices]

theory:

mike & abby's aunt is mrs afton, thus why she looks so similar to vanessa & also would make it so mike is still technically an afton without being william's son in the movie universe

#mine #fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf theory #maybe that's why she's so determined to get abby too. for william #i just think it's odd we have rly NEVER heard anything abt mrs afton except for One cutscene #so this would make sense & explains why she looks so similar to vanessa & not her known relatives #also would be super interesting to see it in future movies. & would make her inclusion here make more sense yk

[front-facing-pokemon]

#cosmog #otherwise known as nebby‚ if you only played the first half of the game #could never tell you why she called it nebby. is it because it looks like a nebula?? did they explain this in-game and i just forgot #i hope not. that? that would be embarrassing #as we all know my memory is flawless and i have never before in my life ever forgotten anything

[crazysnor1ax]

Something that I think is hilarious about Splatoon 2 is that Marie just has the ability to create ink that can reverse the effects of brainwashing and that's just. Never elaborated on. And no one's questioned it. And it's never come up again in the series.

#like idk. this seems like a huge deal and no one ever talks about it including the devs LMAO #maybe it is explained in the artbook but I never saw anything in there about it iirc #speaklax #marie splatoon #callie splatoon #marie cuttlefish #callie cuttlefish #evil callie #splatoon 2 #splatoon #squid sisters

[andhumanslovedstories]

trying to explain my spiritual beliefs like "yes I believe in God, yes I am an atheist, we exist" but if anyone asks a follow up question, I throw chair through a window and jump after it

#yes it's all a lie yes it's all a story yes it's all profoundly true yes it is an explanation we made up yes it something we discovered #yes it is undefinable yes i know what isn't god yes i think the universe is essentially neutral yes it loves us yes it hates us #yes it doesn't care yes i don't believe anything i just typed yes it's so deeply true to me that i can never explain it #no god is not real yes i love him #does that clarify anything

[time-woods]

dumb question but how did you use the lasso tool for that- I’ve been trying to become better friends with it heheh

i have this lasso fill brush my friend sent to me for csp, uuhh i dont know how to really describe it but most of the process is just blocking out the main shapes. but smthing i do is add on details as i go, so its like im doing the coloring and the lineart at the same time !

one tip i recommend is to set anti-aliasing to the highest one so you dont have really pixelated lines

#asks #apologies i never really know how to explain anything . .

[shitpostingkats]

Listen. We can all agree that Simmons with a knife is good. He deserves it.

But think about the rest of the iconic weapons of red team. Shotgun. Bruteshot. Grenades. Rocket launcher. Explosive, short range, big chunky weapons of the “fuck you and everyone around you” variety.

Blue team is the team with knives. And swords. And a sniper rifle that never hits anything and an assault rifle that fires confetti. Blue team is allergic to working guns and would just prefer to either play mind games or stab you in the face. A more familiar, personal, battle.

Meanwhile red team is regarding enemy troops as crunchy speed bumps and addressing rpg rounds with “To whom it may concern”

#in this essay I will explain why carolina is a member of red team- #knife!simmons is important but let us never forget his original weapon: rocket launcher #I just think its funny blue team has the stabby guys and the two guys who don't do anything #red vs blue #rvb #knife!simmons #richard simmons #red team #blue team #dexter grif #sarge rvb #franklin delano donut #leonard church #lavernius tucker #agent washington

[writer-room]

You ever just see people talk about the Percy Jackson books and know somewhere, deep in your heart, that none of these people have understood that this is a series made for middle schoolers. And that fandom will very frequently lie to them like, all the time. No, that character probably isn’t ooc, you’re just thinking of what the fandom turned them into. No, this book isn’t a horrible stain next to the others before it, literally all of them were like this. It’s Percy Jackson. It’s cheesy and occasionally makes a very questionable writing decision.

You gotta be in this for the long haul or jump ship my guys. Be cringe and free or be gone

#percy jackson #tsats #solangelo book #rick riordan #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #the sun and the star #text post #yall are astounding me in ways i didnt know was possible god bless #also this was mostly written by mark not rick. like yes he signed off on it but still this is mostly mark #but its still Fine??? its fine?????? besties a book abt our favorite gays not being perfect is not the end of the world #did i cringe? hell yes. but was i free? tremendously. and i had a lot of fun i think #'bianca is in elysium but she was reincarnated??' yeah thats odd. anyway that scene was cute wasnt it #'everything is so on the nose' yeah its for middle schoolers and percy jackson isnt known for subtlety. its very rare #'will was ooc' weve literally barely gotten anything on him and no povs until now this IS establishing his character #'the puffs remove nicos whole trauma' no it doesnt. its a fantasy way to sort of explain that nicos trauma is now open instead of repressed #do i wish it wasnt sometimes explained as 'now the trauma is gone'? yes. but i think its moreso meant to be a way of nico dealing with them #he still HAS that trauma fellas. hes still going to be living with it. its just gonna be easier now. thats part of healing besties #also we dont know how these puffs are gonna act in the future so like. hush. shhhhhhhhhh. shut. it was literally never going to be perfect #its pjo. i love this series to death but. its pjo. it is. in fact. sometimes badly written. as it has been many times before in books before #and what else??????? it may not be written the greatest but its MY series that isnt written the greatest square up

[nuclearwastetoday]

i should stop doing this

there will be more... anyway...

#alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #thomas zane #ilmo koskela #koskela brothers #jaakko koskela #mr. scratch #is it Thornton or Milligan? #can't remember... #saga anderson #imagine whole fbc just gifted ahti this hat #or he just appeared in it one day and never explained anything to anyone #shitpost #kinda

[genericpuff]

Omg hiiii, I absolutely love Rekindled! You're so talented, and the story you're making for Persephone is so intriguing! A lot more than whatever trashfire Lore Olympus has become.

That being said, what was the moment you stopped liking LO Persephone? Have you always disliked her, or was it gradual? Or just a specific moment that made you go "yeaaaaah.. she's not it ;-;"

(And bonus question if I can ask, but how do you draw hands?? I hate them with a passion, but unfortunately hands are pretty necessary T^T)

aahhh thank you so much!!!

honestly, I was a pretty big fan of LO up until the trial arc. Like, you've all seen me hate this comic with a fiery passion, but the only reason I'm able to do that is because before I hated this comic, I loooved this comic. I'd literally be counting down the hours until new updates, I loved the art, and I was too smitten by the appeal of the series to notice its writing problems, I just loved the romantic drama and the H x P ship, and yes, I loved Persephone, I loved her design, her personality, and I felt so 'seen' by her struggles, both with her trying to pave a path for herself and the SA plotline. I was even (regrettably) one of those people who would lurk in the antiLO tags and think "wow, these people are dumb, can't they see how brilliantly written this is ?? they're nitpicking!"

But then the trial arc happened which involved writing a plot that didn't put the romance front and center anymore - now that Rachel had to actually write something complex and logic-driven, the blinders started to fall off and I went wait... maybe Rachel doesn't know what she's doing. Persephone choosing her own lawyer? And it's Hades, one of the judges? Why are they suddenly establishing Thanatos as Hades' adoptive son? I'm not a lawyer, but I know that's not how any of this works and it really tipped me off that something was amiss, that Persephone was having all of her solutions conveniently handed to her on a platter and all of the other characters were suddenly being made to look like assholes just to make Hades and Persephone the heroes.

And then... Eris happened.

See, one of the things I loved most in the story was Persephone's character arc concerning the Act of Wrath. I write stories about characters with dark "personas" all of the time. So it was something I had frame of reference for, I really loved the premise of Persephone earning her name through this act of violence and while it was dashed with the opening of S2 revealing it was "all an accident", I was excited to see how the trial arc would bring about new information and confirm who was telling the truth about what "really happened" with the Act of Wrath. If the courtroom drama wasn't gonna be realistic, I could at least hope for some good 'OBJECTION!' reveal that would finally put to rest once and for all what really happened, and maybe Kore would finally embrace this 'dark side' she had.

So for the actual twist to suddenly reveal itself as... 'actually, this one goddess we've never mentioned before blessed you with wrath. why? idk she just did. anyways she's the reason you have wrath and that's what made you commit the act of wrath. problem solved.'

And that was where the twisting of 'faith' happened. When I went through the subconscious realization of , "Oh no, Rachel doesn't know what she's doing and it took me this long to notice. Oh no, maybe those antiLO freaks had a point-"

That said, there was a glimmer of hope in the midseason finale. Persephone was sentenced to remain in the Mortal Realm to carry out her mother's duties and I thought, "great! This will be Persephone's Rocky moment! She'll have to prove herself without the help of Demeter or Hades! This is gonna be awesome!!" During the hiatus, I was VERY excited to see where the story was going, I still had so much hope and I figured the mishandling of the trial arc was just a bump in the road. The series was still good, it was just going through a rough patch, these things happen.

And then it came back and it all went downhill from there. There was a 10 year time skip with very little insight as to what happened. Minthe and Daphne were just suddenly back to normal. They were referencing some food shortage or terrible event that happened during Persephone's reign that they never explained in explicit detail. And now, all of a sudden, Persephone was just returning to the Underworld, where Kronos had suddenly taken over. I had cautious optimism but throughout it, I was really seeing the cracks that were already forming opening wide. A lot of what I had to say wasn't positive anymore, I literally couldn't understand what the reasoning was behind these writing decisions and I couldn't find myself rooting for Persephone anymore, everything just seemed to convenient and easy for her to make her seem like the "strong and confident" character the comic claimed her to be.

The S2 finale was my breaking point and I think it was for a lot of other people too. That was pretty much where my 'transformation' from passionate stan to passionate critic happened, and it happened alongside the creation of the UnpopularLoreOlympus subreddit which would become my new 'home' within the community. After seeing how much the story had gone downhill, it made me realize in hindsight just how awful and one-note Persephone is, how she really never cared about anyone but herself and Hades, how her mother did, actually, have a point about her being practically groomed into a relationship with a billionaire slave driver, how she was very intentionally drawn to look like a child in ways I couldn't believe I had never noticed before, the list of "awakenings" goes on. And it sucked! It sucked to have that realization that the thing I loved wasn't just imperfect, but incredibly problematic in its writing and art choices. And just like when I loved the comic, I couldn't just let go of it, I had to understand to some degree why this happened.

It happened because Persephone was always being written as a one-note, easy to project onto self-insert character. A Wattpad protagonist. Not an actual representation of the Goddess of Spring, but a blank slate for the creator and the fans to imagine themselves as purely for the power fantasy of hooking up with a rich and abusive guy.

That was when I made my first piece of LO art intended to be an 'edit' - a redraw of Persephone's rebirth as the Dread Queen from the S2 finale, an ode to the Persephone I was hoping to see but never got. The rest from there is history.

I know I'm being SUPER dramatic about it but this was literally how it felt to go through the realization that this comic - and its characters - wasn't as good as I thought it was, and I think that's a sentiment that's shared by a lot of the 'haters' in this community. LO was a big part of my life and even some of my friendships with people, so when it went downhill, it felt like such a hit to the gut. It's still a big part of my life, albeit in the opposite direction, but I still wonder sometimes over the "what ifs", what if the series hadn't turned out this way? What if I had never realized its flaws? Rekindled is basically a love letter to those what ifs, satisfying the feelings I never got to keep with LO, and giving me a reason to count down the hours on Saturday nights again. I'm glad it's made that same impact for others, too <3

#lmao this turned into some really deep catharsis post #i never explained how to draw hands #i'll make a post about that in a bit lmaooo #this is what happens when i'm given free reign in my blog posts #i go off way too much JFDKASLFJDKSLA #but it's a story i like to tell because it reminds me why i do all this to begin with #lore olympus critical #lo critical #anti lore olympus #ama #anon ama #anon ask me anything #ask me anything

[tinybro]

jasico server was chatting about the cupid scene and jason getting nico's memories blasted straight into his brain and how jason being shot with one of cupid's arrows while with nico and this was just never brought up in canon again and now i'm thinking like...what if that's just how cupid's arrows work? not by magically manifesting love for someone out of nothing, but by giving someone the perspective that'd make them fall in love naturally? jason gets a front row seat to nico's memories and instantly understands him intimately and can trust him completely without any doubt or suspicion

so what if jason, after slowly realizing he's totally in love with nico, just thought back to the arrow incident and it made him second-guess everything? because maybe he's only feeling this way because cupid hit him with an arrow with only nico was around and it's no different than any other god messing with his love life

#i live for anything that drags out the pining/pre-relationship period as long as possible okay #give me the drama of jason frustrated about constantly being manipulated by gods #in love with nico but convinced it's just cupid fucking with him and not wanting nico to get dragged into it #maybe telling nico eventually because he's having trouble hiding his feelings and he doesn't wanna hurt nico by confusing him #which is of course an emotional rollercoaster for nico #hearing jason say he's in love with him only to then immediately hear that it's just godly fuckery #nico agreeing to help jason find cupid to get it reversed because he knows how much it sucks having feelings for someone unwillingly #and he doesn't want jason stuck mooning over someone like him just because he was unkucky enough to be with nico for the cupid incident #whole quest in which nico develops feelings in return and angsts because he's sure jason only feels that way because of the arrow #maybe a slip-up in the middle somewhere with nico accidentally revealing he likes jason back before backpedaling wildly #so now jason has hope despite himself because he'd never really thought it was possible anyway given nico's feelings for percy #and he doesn't like being manipulated by gods but he doesn't mind the idea of being in love with nico #and what if he just gave up on the hunt for cupid entirely and let it happen #while nico feels guilty since clearly it's just cupid arrow magic fucking with jason and he's enabling it #and then of course when they finally find cupid he explains how his arrows work and that he can't just FORCE someone to be in love #no more than hera could with jason and piper by fucking with their memories to push them together #cupid's methods are just way more effective #my tag babble ended up longer than the actual post oh my god #pjo #jasico #my dumb headcanons

[levinbolts]

do u think they know i would die for them

#ts4 #ts4 cas #oc: yoni #me vs letting my ocs run amok in my head and never actually explaining anything about them and what they do ever #u get one (1) piece of yoni lore: they banged kree exactly 1 time and then they both decided to never do it again (they're incompatible)

[dramadred]

“i will let a thousand innocent people die if there’s even a chance he will live.”

yep. that’s my moiraine “nothing and no one can be more important than that” damodred

#wot on prime #the wheel of time #moiraine damodred #wheel of time #wot show #wot #wot book spoilers #wot show spoilers #wot s2 spoilers #rand al'thor #moiraine sedai #i love that they really hammered in that point that she will do anything for the dragon reborn. #ik i’m still mourning over the last episode but that quote explains why she left. #because she has devoted her life to the dragon. #and no one better question it. miss girl has ruined her life for him and will sacrifice her life for him #she is mama bear through and through #a single (?) mom who works two jobs who loves her kid(s) and never stops.

[slingbats]

bloody mess

#blood #gotham #oswald cobblepot #curryart #this is a little........................... mm? #i don't actually know how to paint blood i've never actually done it before #it was difficult to make it transparent with his skintone #that's what I felt like anyway. it was hard to find references that explained why light works the way it does w/ an example of it On Skin #i found one that explained it in a way that was useful but... the original resource has long since been deleted #all that's left of it is the preview #anyway this isn't based on anything specific I just wanted him to bite someone #to be honest I've been looking at this for so long I can't tell if it's odd looking because... #I did something wrong or because he has odd features? maybe hsi eyes are too big i don't know #maybe they're too close together? maybe he's cross-eyed? #i think it will simply have to be finished and i can live with that

[iguessitsjustme]

It’s about how Cha Yeowoon represented everything everything everything that Tae Myungha hated about himself and he fell in love anyway. He fell in love with the broken sad boy who just needed someone there.

It’s about how Myungha took care of everyone else but neglected himself. He neglected the sad boy who just needed someone there.

What Myungha needed was nothing more than himself.

It’s about how Yeowoon fell in love with Myunga and in doing so learned to love himself enough to advocate when he was unhappy and he’s needs weren’t being met.

It’s about how Yeowoon learned to give people he hated a chance because he gave Myungha a chance and he learned people are wonderful actually.

What Yeowoon needed was to give himself a chance.

And now they have each other and they’re both happy. But more importantly, they are choosing each other and choosing happiness. They no longer need each other to be happy but they get the choice and they choose each other.

#love for love's sake #feeling completely normal about this show #how am i supposed to watch anything else tonight #cause this show did something to me and i cant even explain what #the storytelling is just on a completely different level #this show makes me want to sing and laugh and never take a single moment for granted #but it also makes me want to cry and let myself feel what i need to feel #that ending really took its audience by the hand and led us into a warm embrace #it walked us right into the safest hug #and i am absolutely and completely fine #and for once i mean it

[fearofgodandtolkien]

SDV HEADCANON

There's a dialogue that happens where Rasmodius says he's keeping an eye out for an apprentice.

It's this one if you were wondering. My headcanon is that in the future, Jas will become the Wizard's apprentice and eventually the new wizard of the valley, as opposed to Abigail. She's quiet and studious and is wary of many things, but also adventurous in her own way. These are all great traits for a wizard. Besides, she lives maybe a ten minute walk away from Rasmodius' home, and I can guarantee she's snuck up there and checked the place out at least once.

Also, imagine how adorable that story would be!! This little girl meets a strange man and eventually endears herself to him through her curiosity and unexpected wisdom, he begins teaching her about his craft, she becomes a wizard! Jas and Rasmodius would be the best little sunshine girl and grumpy uncle pairing ever. And then he might start connecting with the rest of the townsfolk because Jas keeps spotting him at events and dragging him out to see things and under the circumstances he can't really avoid meeting people.

#besides imagine how shane would react to his daughter coming home and being like #“Daddy I met the coolest man today! He has a purple beard and he took me to talk to fairies!! Look!” *pulls a junimo out of her pocket* #shane “never seen anything that couldn't be explained by science” meets literal wizard #jas is just happy that her two favorite grumpy uncles have met #sdv #stardew valley #stardew valley headcanons #sdv headcanons #shane stardew valley #shane sdv #wizard stardew #sdv rasmodius #jas sdv