#be only yourself dude

[bigbuffmancutepinkdress]

⚗️🤖B.O.Y.D (be only yourself, dude!)🤖⚗️

a totally real stimboard for a totally real boy!!

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#boyd #boyd ducktales #be only yourself dude #2-bo #beaks optimistic youth droid #ducktales 2017 #ducktales #stimboard #stim #stims #visual stim #stimboards #stimming #blue #parrot stim #science stim #mechanical stim #b.o.y.d.

[drdemonprince]

people who are obsessed with passing are gonna be the death of our community i swear

#i understand how and why so many succumb to that temptation and of course i get it ive been there but its POISON #listening to a podcast where a trans guy says getting maamed on the phone bc hes nice means he “failed” #is soooo .... ugh #my dude that happens to so many cis gay men are you kidding me #are you really about to study how to be mean on the phone rather than just correct somebody #or just like not define your existence by fleeting interactions w strangers #if you define yourself only by passing at all times youre gonna turn into a sad hudsons guide esque husk of yourself #fuck passing 2024 i am so over it #it truly is a never ending chase for cis validation and its bad for us!!!!!

[transmascutena]

the fact that he spends all his time grooming kids into believing they're mature enough to consent and then turns around to condescend to them about how young and stupid they are and how they actually don't understand anything makes my fucking blood boil. i need to kill him

#“i'm so much smarter than everyone else 😏” yeah dude maybe because you only surround yourself with literal children #of course he's also just wrong. he's not smarter than them. and the tower is not the highest point in the world. #and his “ideals” and “values” are not any more real than utena's. #he just doesn't have perspective enough to see that #he thinks that he knows some inherent truth about the world. that it is cruel and therefore he must be too. #and that because utena believes in something better it must mean she just doesn't understand anything at all #and yeah she doesn't understand everything. but neither does he #and at least she's self aware enough to know that she still has things to learn #revolutionary girl utena #parallels #akio #utena #m

[sherbetlemonss]

Silly n cute lil video ^^

Singles ->

#ducktales #ducktales 2017 #dt17 #ducktales art #ducktales fanart #Disney #gyro gearloose #ducktales gyro #b.o.y.d. #ducktales boyd #be. only. yourself. dude. #boyd gearloose #art #my art #silly billy awards #had these idea for a while #happy to finally illustrate it!!!

[nostalgia-tblr]

I feel like anyone who's about to embark on attempting to type out a character's accent phoentically (at least as well as one can with English) should probably stop for a moment before they get going and ask themselves, "How would I, myself, feel about a fic where the one character who sounds like me had their speech written out like this and every other character just got their dialogue left in standard spelling?" I feel like a lot of people would tone it down a bit, at least, if they'd done that thought experiment first.

(Anyone who answered "but I don't have an accent!" isn't allowed to write out anyone else's accent, ever. This rule may seem harsh but you need it. Really, you do. Because you've never had anyone treat your accent as abnormal or comical or wrong, so you really don't know what you're inflicting on others here.)

#writing stuff #have you read that fic where the socially prestige accent is the one being carefully typed out “like it sounds”? no? neither have i :( #the obvious note-for-Americans on typing out UK accents is that most of them carry some connotation of class and/or 'education' #within the uk: ask yourself why a Geordie gets typed out but not some dude from the Home Counties #typing out an accent is - usually - a roundabout way of saying “this person talks WRONG! they're not NORMAL!” #you may also find 'Scottish Twitter' informative for the distinction between in-group and out-group 'transcriptions' of accent/dialect #(i use that example only cos I'm Scottish btw) #(oh yes EVERYONE thinks I have an accent! and many of them attempt to replicate it badly in text!) #fun story: one time i had to learn the [IPA] for a linguistics class and the examples were 'standard' English pronunciations #and I went in the next day BAFFLED by why the book insisted that 'boot' and 'foot' don't contain the same vowel sound #(cos they fuckin do don't they?!) #the tutor explained and was v interested in the fact that to me they're the same. i was then asked to demonstrate again for the class. #but i - alas - was not offered repeated examples of however the fuck people say boot and foot in RP :( #(this was IN SCOTLAND btw) #anyway mibbe jist dinnae dae it? mibbe? #and if you do you have use the actual IPA. there now i've made it more trouble than it's worth for most people.

[intotheelliwoods]

Gonna ask this to a few people that inspire me, but how do you take inspiration from things without feeling like whatever you make is just bad in comparison? Or like a downgraded version of the thing(s) that inspired you?

(If this is too negative feel free to delete/ignore, I'm sorry)

Oh gosh this is such an interesting question since, I dont think I really have feelings of thinking my version is bad? Or that I am just a copy?

I am honestly just grateful my work became as popular as it is in the first place haha- low expectations going in to begin with. That and, I am very aware my art style isnt as defined and polished as other peoples styles, but I have come to terms with this! And hey the improvement in my own artwork over the past year is a massive trip if you go back through some of my older stuff- I am improving, slowly.

I mean, 2AL started by complete accident, and was "inspired" from me wishing the Leos from OMO or MNMC would hug it out already- but if you were to compare 2AL to one of those, they are very different. Hell even comparing OMO and MNMC, same starting point, but still very different.

I think my only advice to other people trying to make an AU is to try and find some core theme/idea and work around that, rather than gather a bunch of little things from other sources you like into a big pile. Find some key message to start up a base with.

#asks #no seriously 2al was by COMPLETE accident #and then it exploded so I kept it going #oh well #also like!!!! #seriously #the people you are probably comparing yourself too #chances are just have wayyy more experience and practice than you #like!!!! dude sometimes it hits me how many of my friends and other “big blogs” are either #1. professional artists who do this shit for a living anyways #or 2. have been drawing digitally for way way longer than me #digital art is still new territory for me so I am giving myself some slack here #that and I have no interest in art for a career #this is just my side hobby! #yknow!!!! #for FUN!!!!!!!!!!!! #and wheres the fun in going #“damn this person who has years more experience than me and draws for a living is... somehow better at drawing than me this is so unfair” #answer: theres no fun in that #but also fr- #I have only been doing digital art consistently (in this style specifically) for. #a year- #deadass. #I have not done much art before all this outside notebook paper doodles #and the occasional once every month or two painting #all this is so new to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #im learning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #I deserve to give myself so so much slack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #I have also improved so much in the past year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #oops tag ramble

[maegalkarven]

"Durge came back different", "Durge didn't really come back", "the person who Durge originally was is dead" are all good takes, but what if.

If Durge came back exactly as they were? The brain damage, additional trauma and memory loss are the big altering factors, but underneath that it's still them.

They didn't change drastically, their former self is not dead.

How about one single fragile mortal soul still keeping a hold on itself, how about Durge who was never allowed anything for themselves still retaining them.

How about Durge who has lost everything: power, memories, purpose, sense of self, still being themselves, despite it all.

How about not even Orin's daggers, tadpole and Bhaal combined being able to rob them of their core? How about all of that just revealed who Durge has always been underneath all those expectations Father dearest put on them?

How about: "After all this time, it's still you."

#the dark urge #durge #dark urge #listen all these dead past selfs and loose of identity is fine and all #but i personally can't stand it because give me “me” back #give me who I am #i don't want redemption fuck your clean slate #give me the only thing I could ever dare claim as my own. return myself to me #@withers maybe SOME losers would lose their mind seeing the attocities Durge has commited. Levi is better tho. give him all of his memories #and give them NOW #levi is not a different person #not even june is a different person #it's still them how they have always been at their core #it's not regression it's not stagnation it's growing and changing #but staying yourself #levi SO recovers all of his memories #fuck what some old dude with bad hiring skills says his memories aren't lost. nothing ever truly is #june accidentially gets curses with having his memories back #maybe don't piss off powerful entities bby #levi be like: i respect all loss of identity. but I PERSONALLY hate to lose. give me myself back

[thefirstknife]

Getting real sick of a certain subset of Destiny players complaining that it’s a baby game and crying to Bungie to nerf exotics and abilities when their ENTIRE POINT IS TO BE STRONG in specific ways as if they are being locked into using them.

IF YOU WANT AN EXTRA CHALLENGE STOP BEING SUCH A DPS GOBLIN AND JUST EQUIP SOMETHING THATS NOT TOP TIER META AND STOP COMPLAINING JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

MOOD. Go off.

It's incredibly annoying to me. They always use the argument of "the game should FORCE me to do things, I should not SELF-IMPOSE challenges." And like. ? I'm sorry but what? It's a video game for a big audience, it's here to be playable and accessible to the widest possible playerbase. There are plenty of ways to make the game difficult for yourself, so knock yourself out if that's your thing, but don't force others into it.

Like, I enjoy hard content, I regularly at least attempt day 1 raids, I do master raids, GMs, solo and solo flawless content and all that. But only when I want to. Sometimes I don't and I don't want to suffer in a patrol zone or struggle in a seasonal activity I'm doing for the story. The majority of the players don't want that. Designing games for the professional gamers only has NEVER been a good idea and never will be. Fifty streamers can't sustain a video game. It needs casual players who will want to come back to the game instead of feeling defeated.

One of the reasons I really enjoy helping others is because I know that casual players tend to struggle in stuff that's basic activity for me. I've seen people unable to get through a strike. I've sat for 10 minutes rezing someone who couldn't do the jump in a seasonal activity. I want those people to be able to play basic content without feeling frustrated and I want them to know that there are people out there who will help them out.

And this doesn't apply just to basic content, although it should start with that. I think all dungeons and raids and everything should be things that all players can complete. Fine, doing a master raid with all challenges should be tough, but it should be achievable with time and practice, not impossible. What a lot of these "pros" want is just completely divorced from reality.

It takes days and days of practice every time a new master raid is out for me and my team (all with thousands of hours of playtime) to get comfortable to finally finish it. We're far from casual players and it still takes a lot of time to be able to finish hard content. Making it even harder is insane to me. Like, if something is so hard that my team full of people, each with 5000+ hours of playtime and a coordinated team that's been raiding together for years now can't finish it, that means it's absolutely impossible for probably 90% of the playerbase. That's wild to me. Raids and GMs should have more people playing them. If master raids are too easy for you, Mr. I-Play-Destiny-For-A-Living, that's on you buddy. Unequip the super god tier god roll meta guns and loadouts or play something else.

And ofc, another excuse they make is "if I don't use meta, I am not going to win a raid race!" Then don't. Idk. Let me play you the tiniest violin. This affects literally nobody except a grand total of 50 people. Run your meta in day 1, and play with random shit otherwise. Play raids with all white weapons. Play without mods. Play without a HUD. Do things solo only. I don't know, make up a way to spice things up for yourself. I'm not interested in that and neither are 99% of the players out there. The game is genuinely hard enough for the majority of the players. On top of that, I am here to feel like a powerful space fantasy superhero. I am NOT here to die to dregs in patrol zones. If there's ONE thing that I know for a fact that put people off from Lightfall (as in this year of Destiny), it's the difficulty changes. They're annoying, frustrating and for some a barrier to entry more than anything else.

#destiny 2 #gameplay #ask #long post #i really do love helping but i can't not feel bad because once the people i helped are out of my fireteam... #...there's no telling what other experiences they'll have #there's so many speedrunners and people who don't care and people who just aren't helping and are instead mocking others #you can only do so much for a few people you see in activities #this season's activities are super tough. every time so far I've played everyone in the team was struggling #i'm gonna have to start going into altars of summoning with my full support build warlock just to sit in there and help people #istg the 'pros' have to get their loadouts restricted. go play with non-god tier armour sets and guns #equip the same loadout that some casual player has available and let me see you then #this idea that everyone has minmaxed best equipment available at all times is bizarre. please get your head out of your ass #'i have perfectly rolled all artifice armour with perfect stat exotics for every loadout because i have infinite time to grind' okay dude #most of us aren't being paid to play destiny. lmao #'the game used to be hard' no. you got better. you mastered it #why is this so difficult to understand. everything is hard when you first start. 5000 hours later it no longer is #the game is fine. the 'health of the game' is fine. you mastered it and outgrew it #either impose challenges on yourself or find something else #like. when i first started GMs they were almost impossible for me #now i play them for fun. they're still challenging but they're not the same level of hard and I'm fine with that #i enjoy them as content and they're still entertaining #and when a new GM comes out it's a new challenge to master so it'll be hard at the start #as everything ever in the world #if that's no longer enough for you then you just outgrew the game and should probably move on #the only reason why some things used to be hard was poor quality of life that got improved over time #not being able to mantle in d1 is not difficulty. it's just not good design. it was fixed and improved #the bitching about light 3.0 as well. man. just don't use the 'OP' fragments. it's so easy to unequip them #i personally love the variety and all the options i have now as opposed to before #okay tag essay done. fhkajhakfhksjf

[spooky-something]

These playlists are gonna make me cry, I can't, they're so bad...

Don't you dare try to gaslight me, Victor would NOT listen to Will Wood, leave him out out this...

Like, for actual characterization, this one had it, a lot of these songs are actually on our own Frankenstein playlist...

Heavy on HAD...

#Spotify playlists are SO SO BAD #god awful #dude if we're gonna drag will wood into fucking gothic/classic literature it's only acceptable with Jekyll and Hyde #Only time I'll let it slide besides maybe two or three of his songs that actually work with Frankenstein (Main Character and Memento Mori) #They had MSI on one of the playlists too #so bad... #Also #Tbh Necromancin' Dancin' isn't really Frankenstein either unless we're thinking of just beginning Victor #and even then making evil and the message of the song seems a bit different from Victor #more movie Victor core #The Imagine Dragons took me out though #next you're gonna tell me Weezer is on there /hj #if you want anything done right do it yourself #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #gothic lit #classic literature #gothic literature #classic lit #mary shelley #the modern prometheus #I have a deep hatred against these playlists because they're so inaccurate #please dude if you're gonna do a playlist and insist your headcanons at least make sure they make SOME SENSE #I can't #the autism is gonna win today #Can you tell I'm very passionate about this because Frankenstein is my Spin??? /hj

[hylianane]

I know the dudebros who pitched the theory of Zoro scarring (possibly removing) his very own eye in order to draw out his Observation Haki did so because they thought it was cool and badass. But personally. I’d be fucking devastated man. Thinking of the context and specially considering Zoro’s mental state in Kuraigana Island after being left in pieces by Kuma and discovering he’d failed to be there for Luffy at Marineford- listen. He’s always been portrayed as having very self-punishing tendencies since at least Alabasta, so if this was truly what happened, I don’t think it’d be portrayed as an empowering moment of manliness at all. I certainly wouldn’t want it to be.

#do you understand what I’m getting at like hurting yourself so permanently at a vague attempt to become powerful just a little bit faster is #NOT GOOD. like listen to the hypothetical theyre posing about why Zoro would do that to himself #Its far more akin to Sanji allowing himself to be beaten almost to death by a woman due to his principles (frowned upon by the narrative) #Than Zoro allowing himself to be struck down by Mihawk in order to fall honorably (praised by the narrative!) #(because one is a meaningless sacrifice for arbitrary reasons and the other is a sacrifice meant to honor a dream and an oponent) #Since we know that eyeball removal isnt the only way to get observation haki then the gesture would be meaningless #just the result of a warped mentality regarding his own strength and role as a crewmate #if Oda wanted to take Zoro’s story down that path at any point in the story (not entirely unlikely?) #I doubt it would play out the way some of these dudes on twitter and reddit theorize. The tone they use when discussing this eye theory- #-just seems out of place to me. #roronoa zoro #one piece #my post

[sskk-manifesto]

I don't know if I like. missed anything important but I don't really get how Fukuchi's condition of not sacrificing more than 500 lives conciles with launching missiles on 30 million cities

#I... Dislike how the framed it as “but he's good at heart‚ he was going to kill only 500 people 🥺🥺🥺” #Like. That's 500 people dude. Are you even listening to yourself. #It doesn't matter if you're killing one or ten or one thousand people #you're killing /people/. It's not something where numbers really make the difference. you're killing human beings with lives. #Of course I don't care- it's fictional‚ and I like Fukuchi (and I like Aktgw who's probably killed as much if not more) #It's just to me it didn't really work narrative wise? #Fukuchi is the fallen hero in the way he's trying to do good (and he IS trying to do good) by the worst means possible. #Lowering the means gravity at this point doesn't really make much sense to me narrative wise and is just downright despicable ethics wise #ōchi fukuchi #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd s5 #bsd season 5

[rasticore]

Why are you fully rendering fanart for something you hate so much why are you fully "redesigning" the entire cast of something you loathe why waste your time if you truly despise it and everyone and thing involved

#hazbin hotel is tge only thing ive seen this happen in #half the “redesigns” also reek of not even opening a wiki page #like thats just a whole ass different dude #cimpletely devoid of intentional design choices made to link them to the setting #just make an oc and dont weirdly try and ride a popular thing you dont like #vivziepop lives rent free in your head #like dont tag it with the same shit fans tag actual things with thats just bad tagging etiquette #its just annoying trying to find good fanart and stumbling upon the most Annoying People #like “IM so much BETTER AT DESIGN” ignoring basic things like #style difference changes made for animation and basic cohesive schemes so everyone fits #just because you dont like the style doesnt mean its inherantly bad #idk im annoyed #if you dont like something thats cool #dont be a bitch about it and shove yourself into fan spaces to loudly complain and declare yourself arbiter of quality #hazbin hotel

[a-salty-alto]

Somerton doesn't need any more attention but for everyone's sake, including his, I really do hope he stops making videos and gets out of the public eye

#sorry my dude it's just like if this has been as bad for your mental health as it seems #then like. don't open yourself to more of it? #because it's only gonna get worse #james somerton

[lordzuuko]

My perfect guard skills activates so hard when I'm living on a prayer 🤣

#lies of p #my gameplay #my video #we really need a boss replay mode so bad #please neowiz and round8 studio i beg of you T_T #it's actually so sad because i didn't wanna kill murphy yet cause this save slot was specifically for me to try different weapons on him #then i got so caught up in the moment i did the fatal blow which tbf i didn't think would kill him but it did anyway T_T #i just love this boss so much i had a lot of fun trying out different combos only to still believe police baton is god tier XD #my brother was so confused why i'm doing this loool #bro: why do you keep letting yourself get killed at the last second when the boss is almost dead?? you could just kill him?? #me: because if i kill him i cannot replay??? #bro: dude #me: shut up leave me alone XD

[hobisexually]

I have so many problems with karamo but the s8 finale… he sees an asian woman who has severe trauma surrounding her father due to (some) asian culture(s) not allowing people to properly talk to their parents about their emotions or issues with them because that could be seen as disrespectful, oui? so she hasn’t spoken to him after her mother died and that is hard, yes?

and this man chooses to surprise her in the car (after making her cry) with an unannounced FaceTime call with said father, which forces her to immediately talk about why she’s upset with him after three years of not speaking??????? without being prepared, without knowing what to say to a stubborn elderly asian man who never learned to deal with his emotions and fucked up because of it? REALLY?

the LEAST he could have done was tell her in advance so she could write it down for herself and so she could be prepared

sure they talked. sure they made a start. but at what cost. what violence did this wreak on her for no reason. jesus CHRIST THIS MAN ANGERS ME SO MUCH

#queer eye #spoilers #I guess #there’s maybe (1) season in all 8 where I wasn’t pissed at Karamo’s ‘therapy’ #this man is the LAST on this entire list I would want to talk to I would just throw everything on Tan while we shop ngl #I love this show DONT get me wrong but SOOOOOOO many times karamo has the right idea but the complete wrong execution #also what the FUCK was that whole thing in dentons episode? #he tells you the school for the deaf is at risk of closing down due to funding #aka big societal capitalistic issue that speaks volumes about what’s wrong with our society #and karamo decides to hit him with ? you’re scared to fail? You’re too hard on yourself #NO SHIT HES SCARES TO FAIL THERES CLOSE TO NONE SPORT EDUCATION SCHOOLS FOR THE HARD OF HEARING #AND HES TRYING TO SAVE THE ONLY ONE STANDING IN THE AREA NO SHIT HES SCARED #HELLO????????? #Don’t even get me started on that episode where he suddenly pulled in the guy who put the hero in a wheel chair by shooting him #without announcement #(I forgot their names it’s been a while apologies) #like sorry #my dude you can’t do this that’s insanely #triggering #??!?!??????!??!? #anyways. whew. #I bawled my eyes out at the season finale like it ticked all the boxes just now but fucking karamo #I swear to god. #be better try harder maybe ask an actual therapist #fuck me dude #it’s for the best I was never selected for this show because oh my god he triggers my fight instinct #would make for good tv though I guess

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

"Villain arc!!" and the character in question is just trying to protect himself and create himself a home

#This is about Nine (sonic prime) #But a friend has informed me this is also about Albedo (Ben 10) also #sonic prime #nine sonic prime #Like my boy isn't out here trying to be evil *or* fuck things up #He's literally just trying to be alone and make himself a home #''Villain arc'' Dude isn't even using the paradox prism to cause chaos in the shatterverse #''Villain arc'' the only reason he's gonna be the antagonist is because Nine (and Shadow think that the shatterverse sticking around + Nine #having his home and bringing green hill back and 'fixing everything' are exactly opposed ideas. #''Villain arc'' I wouldn't say protecting yourself and the site of your home is villain behavior but go off ig #i just be ramblin