#but ended so very on brand

[sigulary]

Remembrance

Time for kagepro fans to rememeber™

[Image Description: A digital illustration of Ayano and Shintaro from Kagerou Project lying down on white chrysantemum flowers. They both look at eachother with tears on their faces. Ayano smiles softly while Shintaro looks almost regretful. The illustration is made using red, blueish white and black. End description]

#kagepro #kagerou project #mekakucity actors #kagerou day #815 #lost time memory #ayano tateyama #shintaro kisaragi #red #tears #crying #red and black #flowers #white flowers #fanart #digital art #star of the show #this is one of those art i was like 'this is so simple and boring' the whole time #but ended so very on brand #flower specialists dont at me for flower symbolism i just like drawing this one a lot

[stil-lindigo]

the candle.

a comic about rediscovering passion and recovering from burnout.

creative notes:

#this comic ended up feeling so much more somber than i think i originally intended #i hope the conclusion at the end comes off more settled and happy than it does reluctant or disappointed #since i do feel that way. happy that is #its a cliche but returning to your inner child #just making stuff that YOU'D like to see more of #it does wonders for making you feel less like being a creator means giving away parts of yourself #im sorry if this is coming off as preachy #obviously you can do what you like #and im not ever gonna be the wisest person in the room #im barely into my 20s #but i spent almost a year torturing myself over what i wanted to be #deciding to just...do what i thought would be cool ended up being the best possible decision #its 10pm #this series makes me really marinate in my own issues #very pretentious but at this point its my brand #comic art #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

(ln8 spoilers) jinshi thinking except for my godly looks i am just average and then his smartass goes and kills around five birds with just one brand. someone whose status is so high that even his name can't be said by anyone except the emperor jinshi branded himself with the crest of the empress vowing loyalty to her assuring her he doesn't wants to take the place of her son. one-upping his "bro" with this who refuses to let him leave the line of succession wouldn't let him become a commoner doesn't wants to let him become a servant to the royal family. only slaves get branded and if this ever got out there will be chaos in the court. gyokuyou tho considers jinshi like a brother and he did swear loyalty to her but if she ever tried to cross his family her clan's brand on his body would be enough to prove her as an adultress which would be bad for her and her clan.

and jinshi did this in front of these two people and maomao so now she is the only one who can see him naked and the emperor cannot order him to marry anyone which was something that was definitely gonna happen had he not done what he did. as a bonus he gets to spend more time with maomao after a long time and he did all this while saying the exact words: empress gyokuyou, your enemy i shall never be in front of maomao reassuring her because she once muttered i don't want to be an enemy to empress gyokuyou and he had heard her but before he could tell her that he had no intention of doing that either he couldn't because of the lishu incident. one of the major reasons maomao hadn't accepted her own feelings for jinshi one of the obstacles he promised to remove for her. even though he doesn't even know that maomao's concerns about her becoming gyokuyou's enemy had to do with his birth secret his true status. that no matter what he is the rightful successor. something jinshi himself isn't even aware of and yet without knowing that he did this to deal with it all in a single way most preferable to him: masochism

#(this is very messily worded but hey this time there's a paragraph break at least) #kusuriya no hitorigoto #the apothecary diaries #light novel #jinshi #no maomao doesn't think that jinshi is stupid or that has no critical thinking skills and like ????? #my guy has self-esteem issues yes but he is smart enough that maomao compares other people with him even lahan #and lahan is actually a genius #i will not stand for jinshi slander especially the one that undermines him #he's done so many smart things but i have been in awe of him for this esp #maybe bc i get him not wanting to be the ruler #not wanting to marry some rando (i think he is demisexual so that's another reason) #this whole plan was just so perfect and 🙇🏽‍♀️ #anyway does anybody else think suiren was absolutely willing to prepare the brand not only because she supports jinshi #but also because she is the biggest jinmao shipper and maybe SHE suggested him to get maomao there #the thought of jinshi marrying anyone other than maomao must have been scary for her #if in the future jinshi does ends up becoming the emperor jinshi and she are going to go crazy over the harem issue #knh text

[canisalbus]

I remember Machete has tiny feet, but exactly what size shoes does he wear?

.

#hard to say #his shoe size might be just one of those things he doesn't particularly like revealing to people #very likely small enough that he has trouble finding anything to wear in most men's sections #I'd like to think that once he can afford it he starts to have some of his shoes custom made #and eventually goes off the deep end and developes a brand loyalty for Louboutins in particular #which isn't great for your finances but let him have his bougie red soled heels if he wants he's worked hard for them #modern au #in canon setting proper standardized shoe sizes don't exist yet so everything is made to measure #answered #chrlxx #those are his hooves

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

i think the most annoying part of dog food discourse is how many people will act as though proplan/hill’s/Royal canin diets aren’t extremely and prohibitively expensive and that THAT is the reason so many people look into healthy alternatives.

People complain about corn being in the first five ingredients on most of those feeds because, regardless of other factors here, that is not an expensive ingredient. But it makes up a large chunk of the dry food. So the dry food should be fairly affordable, right?

Oh… with tax you’re spending about $100 for one 45lb bag of food where the third ingredient is wheat and the fourth and fifth ingredients are corn.

Oh… well! It’s slightly cheaper! But the second ingredient is rice, third is wheat, fourth is corn, and then fifth is poultry byproduct. None of those are very expensive so this just must be the low end cost of dog food unfortunately. The vets recommend it so surely that means prices aren’t inflated, right?

Oh? This one has similar ingredients with the only real difference being no corn? And it’s half the price?? Well surely that’s just a fluke.

Oh. Oh no.

This one even has CORN in it and it’s $20 cheaper?? Wow!

Like listen at some point I don’t care if your dog food has the ichor of the gods in it, I’m not spending $100 every five days if there are cheaper options with just as many “good” ingredients in it. If you think I’m a dog abuser because I can’t afford this overpriced garbage, that’s too bad. I don’t care. My dogs are perfectly healthy with the food I give them. Great weight and great coat. People giving dog food recommendations that aren’t those top three hyper-expensive dog foods aren’t trying to epic own those dastardly vets half the time, but I really don’t blame the ones who do lose trust in vets when the only heartworm protection they recommend lately are expensive triple-action brands like Simparica Trio that costs $120+ as opposed to the other heartworm protections that are only about $40-$60 on average, which is still cheaper even if you add on a $20-$40 flea and tick protection separately, and only recommend dog food that costs $85+ a bag even if your dog doesn’t have specialized dietary needs.

Those top three foods are GREAT at making competent prescription diets, I don’t deny that. I do still have to criticize the pricing of those prescription diets though because I have spoken to DOZENS of people who had to pull their pets off of a prescription diet and struggle to find something comparable because they couldn’t afford the food, and that’s terrible! These are not poor companies! Purina, Royal Canin, and Hill’s can ABSOLUTELY afford to lower their prices to make their food accessible to people who need it for their animals but they don’t. They probably never will. Because at the core they are run by greedy corporations. It doesn’t matter how many good nutritionists are on board if the company is run by people who put profits over customers and make the food impossible for people to afford.

#I keep seeing posts from people on both sides of this #and it is frustrating to see how many vets don’t seem to acknowledge #that a MASSIVE part of the dog food debate has and always will be #the inaccessibility of these three brands #because whether corn is good or bad or neutral for a dog #It’s a cheap ingredient #any meat byproducts are a cheap ingredient #wheat in any form is a cheap ingredient #rice is a cheap ingredient #they aren’t putting Diamond dust and gold flakes in the kibble it’s very accessible and affordable ingredients for the most part #and many comparatively smaller companies use very similar ingredients and make food people can actually afford #So yeah when people look at these factors it does make them distrust vets who will almost exclusively push expensive brands #and that’s where the distrust is coming from #it’s not primarily smug tiktok kids who think they know everything #it’s just people who have less money than you and get treated like they care less for their animals because of it lol #and people who feel scammed because anything veterinary is already expensive to the point not everyone can afford it as regularly as needed #the fact people have to give pets vaccines themselves to make ends meet because most vets charge so much just to walk in the door #is a sign of a larger problem #I criticize people who avoid taking animals with surprise sickness or injuries to the vet #but it’s not exactly hard to see why that isn’t even an option for a lot of people #people can’t even afford surgery on themselves if they’re suddenly injured out of the blue in this country #So I can’t pretend to be shocked they don’t have $10k squirreled away if something unavoidable happens to a pet #no one is entitled to an animal they can’t afford yes yes but a routine vet visit shouldn’t be $600-$1000 per animal sorry #give me a copay or something

[ct-multifandom]

I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.

It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.

By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.

Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.

#anti intellectualism #media #movies #books #music #critical thinking #my friend who primarily listens to one very popular band once said that people who listen to obscure music are annoying and pretentious #which rubbed me the wrong way because 1 she knows that I listen to obscure music and 2 it’s such a cowardly consumerist take. anyone can #make music and hey a lot of the people who do make GOOD music. and this goes for all *obscure* media #this post was mostly inspired by people talking about Barbie and those anti pick me girls like the pick nobody girls who insist thinking is #for boys and having fun with an empty brain is for girls. Greta gerwig is an artist. I haven’t seen the movie yet but I know it has a deeper #message than haha cute pink! I’ve seen the summaries about the true meaning. the pinkness and popularity doesn’t negate the narritive. #though in the notes I saw a lot of tumblristas comunistas shitting on the film for being one big ad that people *fell for* which tbh is #tbh almost as anti-intellectual. don’t get me wrong they milked this film to sell hella shit but I don’t believe kids who play with dolls #are the target audience as these people claim. Barbie is a culturally iconic symbol almost archetypical of societal expectations for women #you say barbie people think unblinking perfect plastic pink girly. reminds me of the poem The Last Mojave Indian Barbie. yeah yeah you all #hate brands but this one carries undeniable significance and makes for a powerful literary device. it’s been used many times before #sorry for writing a tag essay about a film I haven’t even seen but I’m tired of internet people focusing so much on proving others wrong #that they end up oversimplifying everything just as much as the other person. god I saw people doing this to Nimona saying transphobes were #looking too deep into her character and they’re reactionary clowns for making that jump. like for once the transphobes are right. she is #trans. it’s a queer story. and irl the first people who notice queerness are the bigots who can tell you’re different. sick owns telling #them the story’s not that deep is harmful and it’s like they’re ignoring the real message on purpose. okay enough rambling hehe! thanks #barbie #nimona

[mo-ok]

everyone: let me see what you have Sosuke: a knife! everyone: NO

#changeman #go onger #gingaman #king ohger #dynaman #kakuranger #sentai #see this STARTED as me drawing tied number 1 specialest boy in the world tsurugi change dragon #then i drew sosuke and he was ALSO holding a sword so i thought 'hey why not draw a few lil fellas with swords' #and as i went to draw good old two swords dynared i thought 'dont fucking draw another page of red boys you absolute idiot' #so i gritted my teeth and drew some non-reds with swords to go with my two 'i could draw these characters with my eyes closed' red boys #hayate is here because i wanted some reverse grip representation #rei is here because i couldnt draw dynared and tbh her rose saber is more iconic anyway #rita is here because i've literally only ever drawn gira and tsuruhime is here because what is this a one girl sentai??? #also because i love her #ended up being very much 'team serious business ONLY + sosuke' #hayate and tsuruhime eternally exasperated with sosuke but also very VERY much used to his exact brand of bullshit #designated sosuke wranglers #had a crisis over tsuruhimes eyes but i think red is a good fit for her tbhhh #2024 art tag

[chibishortdeath]

Drawing muscles is so fun :3. I wanna try to make more illustrations like this, but idk sometimes the vibes are just off and he ends up with way less detail than intended lol. But yeah, he’s standin.

Hehe bonus: a little doodle based on a pinup I ran into >:3

#castlevania #castlevania games #akumajou dracula #akumajo dracula #castlevania nes #castlevania chronicles #castlevania artists #Castlevania x68000 #castlevania fanart #art post #my art #Simon Belmont #yeah no April fools post or anything lol #I never really know how to make a clever one tbh I always feel like they just end up annoying #the boop thing is something tho idk what kind of a notification it’d sending people tho #honestly tho like he is so fun to draw #you don’t realize just how big his thighs are until you stare at them for a while XD #he looks like he’d be very good at hugs #I swear the vampire killer changes design every time I draw it #also my sketchbook is so prone to smudging it’s so annoying #I used to get way better quality sketchbooks but I haven’t been able to find that brand anymore anywhere (T_T )

[bumblingbabooshka]

[TUVOKTOBER: Day 13] Do you have slor-tukh-sa money, Elieth?

#grocery shopping with the family <3 #Vulcan telepathy is fun bc you can add a little stir-the-pot comment into a conversation from several aisles away #slor-tukh-sa is a branded sugary fruit cereal I made up. Very popular with children across several federation planets! #As a kid there's nothing you want less than a food that's advertised as being GOOD for you by your parent #also in the end they don't get the sugary cereal but they do all get a coin so they can watch a gum dispenser dispense a single piece of gu #in a flashy and interesting way (they have to beg Tuvok for this as well but he's tired after a long day of saying no #and distracted by the cashier and honestly having them leave him alone for a few minutes while he completes this transaction is worth it) #<- Sek keeps his coin and instead helps his father with the groceries though....show off #[REDACTED] family shenanigans #Tuvok #st voyager #bea art tag #tuvoktober

[narwhalandchill]

i cant believe it took me this long to register how childes backup plan in liyue involving osial honestly got like 3 times more iconic post-fontaine like

all this time he KNEW he woke up the narwhal at 14 from what skirk told him so bro really was looking at his prospects for awakening this local sealed sea monster god like (shrug) "i mean it wouldnt be my first time" 💀💀

#my man went 'eh its worth a shot ive done this before' JWJKDWJKDWJKD #the methods mightve been against his personal preferences but he really said he has a brand to commit to 😭😭 #and tjen he ends up cheating on the narwhal anyway like smh my head thats not very cool #im so tired of the whole oh he didnt want to oh he didnt wanna kill everyone osial discourse. we need to address the real problematics here #dont sink cities w eldritch sea creatures that arent the one you share a metaphysical destined connection with ajax thats so toxic of you #i suppose for liyues sake its good he went about it this way tho i think the narwhal wouldve just eaten the jade chamber as a nice snack #rambles #genshin #childeposting #childe

[thronealigned]

[template]

these are unfinished i'm just posting them to give myself permission to be more obnoxious about my bg3 ocs on main

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #oc: memento #<- not their name. an out-of-universe nickname. i make things very confusing for myself #the scratched out text above 'the dark urge' is robin fairbairn - the name given to them by their foster family #oc: impulse #oc: luc sauveterre #uhhh what are my notes. aberrant mind sorc doesnt exist in-game or as a mod but it's impulse's canon in my heart #i also havent actually played them as that rogue multiclass yet... 2 bonus actions + the awakened buff will be Fucking Busted i think #as for lae'zel being listed as their bestie: she was the first to make it to 100 approval. trying hard to make that make sense #luc is a brand new character i made him like 2 or 3 days ago. he's a painfully earnest wife guy. going for squidlach with him #not picturing but still existing: my evil durge my wyllmancer and my vague laezelmancer #pictured* #is that it. i think thats it. idk if the volume of oc posting will actually increase #i would reblog the tav-as-companion ask meme but theyre all so wrapped up in their respective bits of the main story/romances. i wouldnt be #able to answer most of the questions #it's not like i can reblog shippy ask memes either. mementostarion is on a one-track road to a messy divorce #impulse's relationship is................. #let's leave it at that. luc & karlach are normal and healthy and cute but it does end with one of them a mind flayer so #(impulse also ends up a mind flayer for the record) #siiiighs. just gotta start reblogging things to fill their tags with. and maybe go take a nap

[paigemathews]

There’s always gonna be something about the inevitable tragedy in Chris’s story that gets to me. No matter what happens, there will be a devastating loss that cannot be altered, cannot be changed, cannot be fixed. If he doesn’t remember, it’s the erasure of a fiercely loyal and determined witch who sacrificed more than his life but his very existence to save a world he never saw. If he does remember, he’s of two different worlds that cannot exist together at their core, costing him an entire world of people he can never get back. There is no uncomplicated happily ever after for him and it will always be a bittersweet ending at its happiest. In the end, success encases a profound amount of loss that even magic can’t touch.

#charmed #chris halliwell #abi speaks #i think thats always something i struggle with bc i so badly want him to have an uncomplicated happy ending #bc he deserves one! out of everyone he so deserves one #but by the very nature of his story he isn't allowed to have one #to paraphrase a line from a fic i wrote a couple years ago there's always that thought that he killed the rest of the world himself #bc they existed and they were shaped by the world and those events never happened so they aren't dead but gone like sand in the wind #like how do you DEAL with that #i am once again having chris halliwell feels at 1 am what else is new #i feel like it should be my brand bc my entire personality is chris and bianca stan #it probably helps that it's the posts about them that people interact with the most tbh

[distort-opia]

I know you ship batjokes, but what do you think about jarley?

Well, I can't say I ship it, but I do find it interesting-- much like I find Bruce's other relationships interesting. It'd be tough not to, since in Punchline's own words:

-- Batman (2016) #93

Harley is the person to get closest to Joker emotionally other than Batman. And with the big disclaimer that this is all my personal opinion which I got specifically asked about, I'll put a slightly longer discussion of the subject under the cut.

To be honest, I dislike how Jarley has been reduced solely to the label of "abusive relationship", with Harley's own darker traits being swept under the rug or fully attributed to Joker's influence. Doctor Harleen Quinzell had her own demons and psychopathic tendencies, before ever meeting Joker; and it was a sense of deep loneliness that drove her to him, and which he exploited. At the end of the day, that does seem like what it amounted to, especially in the beginning... Harley feeling horribly alone, and latching onto Joker to fill that void, with Joker manipulating it and taking control. However, Joker would not have been able to take advantage of any kind of attachment if Harleen's own darkness didn't relate to Joker's own somehow.

And well, thing is... Joker, in his own way, cared about Harley. Put bluntly, he wouldn't have bothered to keep her around otherwise. It's a Black Label comic, but my mind always goes to this phrasing when thinking of Jarley:

-- Birds of Prey (2020)

"Crawled in each other's void." And Joker's void was Batman-shaped, just like she says. At this point it's been canonized again and again that Joker is in love with Batman, with Harley herself being the one to confirm it more than once... and it is fascinating how Batjokes and Jarley interact, most tragically when it comes to Harley. Because she was jealous of Batman and the hold he had over Joker's attention. Part of what kept her next to Joker, trying harder and harder to please him (like in Mad Love) was the hope that eventually, she could become as special to him as he was to her. She saw how human Joker could be about Batman, and wanted to nurture and help him turn it into something more, but in the end it probably became the most hurtful thing-- Joker being incapable of caring about anyone else but Batman, no matter how hard she tried or the things she endured.

...Anyway, Anon, to summarize, I do think Jarley is interesting :)) That being said, it's also annoying how it's being used to turn Joker into a one-dimensional cartoonishly evil abuser, ever since Harley's redemption arc began. Better writers could find ways to turn Harley into an anti-hero without bulldozing over previous characterization for her or Joker, but alas.

#this is part of why Joker War is very interesting to me too #Tynion so clearly had Batman Punchline and Harley at the forefront of the story #as three main relationships Joker has. each of them at different stages of having wanted something from him #Punchline in the beginning. Bruce in the middle. Harley at the end #and Harley being the one to try and talk Punchline and Bruce into leaving BECAUSE she's the one having had enough #...but it's wild how through the sheer nature of comics. Batman is essentially INCAPABLE of leaving Joker behind #DC will only stop telling their story when it stops selling and God knows when that'll happen #so Harley tells Bruce 'this story needs an ending' #and Bruce tries to walk away from Joker #but in the very next issue Bruce says 'Joker was right' and implements the lessons Joker tried to teach him #how's that an ending? it isn't and it can't be #aaaanyway. me and my brand of overthinking as usual #asks #batman #joker #jarley #batjokes #my meta

[copaganda-clobberfest]

White Fang propaganda. how come all the bad faunus have different skin tones handle trauma in less comfortable ways fight harder against their oppressive system and in turn are more oppressed by the system. meanwhile 80-90% of the good ones are virtually all white with a handful of exceptions and also never. do. anything. about their peoples oppression. BUT THATS OK THOUGH the humans aren’t that bad they’re just scared of the black people. I mean they’re scared of the the Faunus they’re scared of……. the oppressors are scared of the minorities surely both sides are equally bad :)

Shoot me. It’d hurt less

#rwby #copaganda clobberfest #propaganda #the white fang #not a poll #ok I’m gonna ramble because twf is easily one of the topics on this tourny that enrages me to no end. #firstly I’m half native. the way the show handled ilia’s character in particular #an orphaned INDIGENOUS CODED girl who by the end of her arc needs to be “TAMED” by her much more privelged friend #so she. protests the right way. the Native American girl was not protesting correctly guys TEXAN MADE SHOW BTW #NATIVE PEOPLE ARE CALLED TERRORISTS TO THIS DAY BECAUSE OF HOW OUR PEOPLE ARE TREATED. #AND IT MAKES ME WANT TO BASH MY HEAD INTO A WALL THAT THIS WAS HOW THEY TREAED HER #don’t even get me started on adam. ohhhh boy. #all I’ll say: very uncomfortable they quite literally put a slave brand of the *German* named company’s initials on the eye #of a character with a *Jewish* name. take that what you will. I’ll go hurl in a bucket. #racism tw

[kasumikoujou]

everyday i see tieria love and any other innovade hate from the same person, my hate for tieria grows stronger and my love for all other innovades goes off the charts btw

#the sumi rambles #i need to draw them all again!!!!!! not tieria #edit this happens way too often also 😭😭😭😭 this is very personal but i feel like its much easier to like some other innovades- #-compared to tieria so i honestly dont really get it. nena has a fanbase so where's hilings. why doesnt anew have more fans #did revive being the longest lived bar ribbons in s2 mean nothing to you. did ribbons besides as oh hes a good villain mean nothing to you #did bring and divines sympathy for their species and each other (tieria lacking both up until literally s2 end) mean nothing to you #and this is even only regarding the anime. laetitias meant to be the brand new meister and i see people drawing graham in his meister- #-position but not laetitia 😭 i only ever see ppl draw him if other 0988s are there too #while i get it its nice to draw them all together #i dont even think i saw anyone draw laetitia not with another 0988 except for my own drawings and.one (2) more people 😭 #edit edit i cant type in last tag i meant two (2) im stupid and i woke up not long agp its 8am 🙏🙏🙏

[divinekangaroo]

Found this gem and now reading this (Yes Minister written as the minister’s journal): https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/uzimmerm/docs/Yes%20Minister.pdf

#No one wants to see the Tommy Churchill and Mosley fics this is so close to inspiring lollll a brand of humiliation better than sex #Churchill fully cognisant of and in control of the Civil service #versus Mosley and Tommy both coming at the concept of ‘government’ from the absolute wrong (if opposite) ends #Tommy learns: pick one issue within the paradigm and stick to it (social housing act) #Mosley’s narcissism cannot condone applying Tommy’s methods for becoming effective though #Adam (Tommy’s S6 aide) might need a bigger part #also the snide and very gay aide Quentin that I invented in melting point