#but some stuff is fun to be accurate about!

[gertritude-art]

it probably helps that i am only 23 and look back upon my teen years with agony!

#to write a cringe teenager you must first be a cringe teenager... #notart #admittedly i dont think my discussion of stuff is that realistic bc i am a sucker for some high school media tropes #but some stuff is fun to be accurate about! #anyway #'how cringe are we talking' the embarrassment is too much. like genuinely embarrassing stuff i cant relive this... #when i was 14 in chemistry class we had to solve a problem together as a class #and i got so annoyed at everyone i literally stood up from my seat and wrote the equation we should use on the board and went 'JUST DO THIS' #and then afterwards the teacher was like 'uh. that is NOT how you do teamwork' and i felt like killing myself instantly #one of many awful memories... 100% arrogant 100% no social skills 100% latent anxiety issues #anyway this is why i'm usually sympathetic to a lot of teenagers. cannot imagine being like that and having social media too

[theswedishpajas]

The man truly can’t take a genuine compliment 🙄

#my art stuff #digital art #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #this is part of a series I like to call “I’m never settling on a singular detailed artstyle” #I have no consistency in drawing realistic people/characters other than my shapy cartoon style #but I truly don’t get enough opportunity to properly shade anything with art in that style-!!! it always looks weird to me-!!!!! #I think some rude lil worm in my brain is wriggling around telling me it’s a futile attempt at still doing realism #cus I’m one of those “gifted” artists that grew up promising his parents he’ll end up among the big names or whatever #constantly training to become better at art but with realism oil paintings as the goal #you know how it is 😔 #I wanna shade my lil funky designs but they never feel good enough to really put energy into or whatever so I compromise with stuff - #- like this where I try to draw characters more accurately while still stylizing them and shading them however I feel like it #which is great and all but I should really learn to give my more relaxed and less perfectionist art a chance #I deserve to enjoy the process and the result without working myself dead #it’s so much easier and rewarding to copy cartoon styles - stylizing realism makes me too anxious of doing it “wrong” #at least cartoon styles give me a goal to reach or a reference to strive towards #man I really should just cut myself some slack altogether #either way - this man is a flustered mess and he’s embarrassed about being called adorable in public or something #being teased in an affectionate way about his sweeter side and stuff #don’t ask why he’s shirtless - anatomy is just a lot more fun for me to draw sometimes #tasteful nudity and all that is extremely gorgeous to me #i need to practice anatomy more cus I just kinda did some shit and went with it this time with a BIT of consideration for muscle structure

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Why has Barnaby made TWO hospital visits in one year??? What was the first one about??? [<-Talking about the Human AU]

no yeah the first one was Howdy's brief stint (a couple hours) for the whole smoke inhilation minor injuries from the fire thing.

the second one was for Wally's festive lil car crash where he comes very close to Fuckign Dying!!! and. well. technically there are many different visits for that one cause he's in the hospital for a hot sec, but yk. technically only two hospital-worthy events

#barnaby: oh man howdy being in the hospital was terrifying! #barnaby: i sure hope i never have to experience anything like this again! #and- whats that? WHY ITS WALLY DARLING WITH A STEEL CHAIR- #its a very distressing event for everyone!!! #a long night of a bunch of colorful Very Stressed friends in a waiting room followed by several weeks of equally stressed visits #its a Bad Accident #like a 'its a borderline miracle that wally survived' accident #the rest of the au is pretty feel-good and the angst is more mild & normal/expected #this is like. just the Big Dramatic Event that fucks everyone up ahaha #i needed to include at least one!!! #its very detailed in my mind... #from the call getting cut off to barnaby sobbing his heart out in the hospital parking garage to etc etc etc #rambles from the bog #wh modern human au #its fun! for me. and anyone who enjoys this flavor of Fictional Drama #ive been going through reddit threads & articles & sites all morning researching medical stuff #as i am wont to do when thinking about characters getting injured <3 #usually its for stuff like stab wounds and disembowelment and hypothermia and lung collapse and- you get the picture #car crashes Surprisingly are rarely in my wheelhouse of angst! for some reason! theyre very juicy! #anyway i like to get everything as accurate as possible in my head #and then take Creative Liberties bc this is fiction #but! they're purposeful (mild) inaccuracies! if im gonna do something wrong im gonna do it Correctly! #do the. do the something wrong correctly. do the wrong thing Right! on purpose! #so that if people go 'well uhm acktually' i can say with my entire chest I Know! I Did This On Purpose! Thank You!

[jichanxo]

kimutaku traceover/colour + ref

#takuya kimura #kimura takuya #kimutaku #jichanart #didn't have my drawing tablet but desperately wanted to draw so. mouse art. not a drop of line sensitivity in this bad boy #<- also the reason i'm being as upfront as possible about tracing because you think i wanted to eyeball that? WITH A MOUSE? #but yeah it was a fun exercise both in the lining and in the colouring since i was forced to use a totally different process #ended up more expressive than like. ref accurate. fun stuff! #anyway i'm hoping to come back to this photo of kimutaku because this process doesn't quite capture some of the details i really like #that's how you know it's a good photo. you wanna ref that shit twice #kimutaku the man that you are...

[icewindandboringhorror]

There's always a slight yearning in the back of my mind wishing I had been born in the right place, time, family situation, income level, etc. to have just lived in one single house for my entire life. Imagine being born in a place that still suits you, even through all of your personal evolutions and etc. The idea of deep familiarity with an area because you've lived and explored it for 40+ years, being encased in a web of memories and connections. Being able to clean out your old childhood bedroom and find personal artifacts, to dig in the yard and remember. I know those lives can still be plenty imperfect, but there's just something so seemingly solid and stable and Grounding about it that I sometimes wish I could have.. (At least from my outside perspective as someone who's moved around a bit geographically and even within the same area, never lives in the same house/ apartment /etc. for more than a few years usually.) Like... having a place that is printed upon, fully your own, rather than chronically a visitor, every thought of a space always tempered with the notion that one day soon you'll have to pack it all up again, etc. There's something peaceful about the permanence.

#I think also because I'm a very nostalgic person - THOUGH not in the way that somep poeple mean when they say nostalgia because I've realiz #ed that to some people apparently it means like.. more of a sad emotional thing? Or when I talk about being nostalgic they say 'me too' and #then describe how they're always depressed dwelling on the past wishing they could revisit it and replaying it and feeling sad and etc. #Whereas for me - it's not in a deep or emotional way at all. It's very detached - kind of like someone who is doing like a scientific #cataloguing of something? I don't feel any remorse or sadness or longing or sitting there sobbing for hours over people/pets I've lost or #etc. It's more like a fun contemplative excercise and extension of self analysis plus just documentation. Like I know your memory fades as #you get older OR even as stuff is actively ongoing humans have terrible recall - even the ones who are less emotional/more focused on #accuracy our minds still twist things or etc. SO I looove to have documentations of everything possible so that in the future I will have #as full and complete of a view of myself as I possibly can. sure the image will undoubtedly be a little distorted but having real evidence #of how something was at a time is very valuable. You look through old messages or letters or something and you always find other alternate #versions of yourself. Not in a worse way like inherently inferior Previous Models Of You who haven't yet been perfected but even just in a #neutral way like 'what they're saying is not a BAd thing but also is not how I would say that today.' etc. ANYWAY I find it really interest #ing to document and remember things and love revisiting the past - not in a sad way - but just like. curiosity. reminiscing and recalling #and filling in gaps. or trying to have the same feeling I felt at a previous time so I can remember what it was. Collecting information for #documentation purposes. Like for example - I would love to go back and tour all of my old childhood houses/apartments. Not to like #sit in the middleof them and cry and go 'ohhh my childhood waughhh' - but literally because I want to take detailed photographs so I #can remeber exatly what they looked like and recreate them in sims or some other digital way. Why? idk. just to gather the information. If #I ever live to like 80 years old and I'm still reflecting on my life curious about the dteails of it. I want to be able to fire up my #ancient windows 10 laptop I've kept all these years and open up the sims 4 and tour my old home with accuracy etc. ?? #Not sure why really. Maybe an extension of how I generally care a lot about having an 'accurate' view of things? Like I would rather be #accurate than be happy. I don't understand 'ignorance is bliss' because I would always rather know. I always always in any situation am mor #focused on 'what is the well researched practical truth' than about 'how does this make me feel' or etc. Truth above ALL else even if it #were to make me miserable. Aka why I'm a 'boring' 'annoying' 'UM actually..' type of killjoy lol because it's very hard for me to understan #that some people can enjoy something or have a good time even not knowing the full facts of a situation or etc. BUT anyway. since that is #some core driver of my personality for whatever reason (just the plague of ennegram type 5 perhaps lol) maybe that also drives me to my #kind of minor obsession with like 'I must have a complete view and calatoguing of my life that is as accurate as possible within the means #i have' . Is it REALLY important for me to know the exact layout of on of my first childhood bedrooms? no. materially it does nothing for m #in life. BUT hey. it would make a great addition to the Accurate Life Story Catalogue lol. ANYWAY.. But I think a lot of wanting to live in #one place forever is not just the ease of documentation. but the sense of having a constant. Much of what i crave most in life is stability #& familiarity &routine bc of how my brain works. And it just would feel so good to be Settled. Never uproot again. One little place FOREVER

[the--firevenus]

Atla OC mini ramble cuz I miss my gurl! (and I get to draw again YIPPE)

I decide to made Hikaru age being 14 when they finally found out they are an airbender, also in the time of PRE-100 WAR timeline cuz I like the idea she's aang old friend like bumi and kuzon (which I'd ramble that later))

Basically to say her discovery of her own bending is late, playing into the idea of late bloomer bender and since her childhood mainly took place in the fire nation with no connection to the spiritually like the air nomad normally would, she's not connecting to that side of her origin hence its manifest quite late than normal.

I'd imagine the time before the air nomad genocide, things already tense up between all the nations, especially fire nation and the air nomads, (because war propaganda, sozin planning, colonialism etc etc) so it'd be extra difficult for her to even began, yet she still tries anyways.

In my sketch sheet of her, I add that she has a hot temper (like her mother) thus makes her airbending learning even more difficult cuz she's always soo angry and easy to upset that it became uncontrolled at times 😭😭 (like a storm or tornado), playing into idea how the air nomad people always seem so free and happy (due to their upbringings, surrounding and teaching are not up tight) contrast to how Hikaru was brought up back in her homeland, will she grow out and let go of those emotions? Idk

#venus rambling #Most of these ideas was from when iroh teaching the elements to zuko scene #Do and should I read wiki to actually get accurate info?? Yes. But what's the fun of that being 100 accurate?? #Hikaru being aang old friend is an idea I've been brewing for some times!! I want to talk about it soon LOL #Cuz it's not changing Canon.. Just adding some stuff to it you could say I guess #Not self insert ship but self insert friendship is what I want!! #Also with her I can kinda explore the ideas or concepts what happen between roku die and aang born yk?? #Like the propaganda brewing... The tensions of war above everyone heads.. Being a child from mix bender probably also not common then too #So yeah this just for me to ramble about lol #atla oc #atla #air nomads

[ne0nwithazero]

I'm so starving for wholesome Swatchton content 😭😭😭 As much as I enjoy the edgier lore-heavy stuff, I'll see cuter stuff and I'm immediately just 🤲🤲🤲 /pos

I need it too...

#Jay Talks #feelings on it all have been complicated #it's still a fixation so I get a bit moody about people having certain Hot Takes on it #and when it's all I ever find in the tags everywhere no wonder I get desperate for content 😭 #i just want to go in the tags and not run into constant shipping rivalry drama #i am a big lore enjoyer but at some point I got so paranoid over enjoying the more wholesome side of the ship #and that people wouldn't take me seriously unless I was a big lore historian about it all #don't get me wrong #the swatchton lore implications still make me insane #but maybe I just want to enjoy drawing simpler cuter stuff without being paranoid that it's considered Inferior #or some form of mischaracterization as if exploring how these characters would be in certain contexts isn't the fun part of it #i don't have the most biblically accurate takes I know #i just miss when I could enjoy it more instead of being paranoid all the time...

[journey-to-the-attic]

Sorry if this in an insensitive question, but I'm curious is Astaroth completely unable to walk, or is he wheelchair-bound for pain reasons?

the first one! his legs just don't work because of something going kinda funky when he was born (i.e. the dark matter in the nursery layer didn't quite get the memo while he was forming - this is referred to as a 'matter hiccup')

they're not completely paralyzed - so he can, like, wiggle his toes, or angle his legs differently, but if he wanted to cross them he'd have to use his hands to position them properly. the movement of his tail is also a little restricted, though not to the extent that his legs are

he does have leg braces that are enchanted to, in theory, help him walk - there's a range of this sort of magical mobility device available in the devildom, since matter hiccups are actually relatively common! but astaroth's in particular is on the extreme end

the way they function isn't super intuitive, and they rely on the user at least having walked before - similar to ik with her prosthetic hand, you just have to use them as if you're just walking normally, but since astaroth's never been able to do so, he can't accurately conjure that mental instruction - so he lurches a lot, and is liable to lose balance

he does occasionally use the leg braces, but only when absolutely necessary, and he has to use a cane alongside them to stay on his feet. sticking to his chair's usually just more convenient (and comfortable) for him!

#answering asks #anon asks #astaroth does have some feeling in his legs but you'd have to poke him pretty hard for it to register #(and he doesn't like contact much so you probably shouldn't do that) #it's easier for him to move his legs lying/sitting down - so he can like turn over and reposition in bed and stuff #as long as it doesn't require lifting his leg - he just sorta drags them into place #also i do feel the need to clarify that i'm not a wheelchair user #(i did have to use one the time i kind of shattered my leg but that was a good while ago) #i have room to work with since there's fun ways to use magic to make things more convenient #but i'm absolutely not a good source for accurate real-world info about this stuff lol

[steakout-05]

he is not amused.....

#barry steakfries #jetpack joyride #sketch #barry after you call him barreth for the 50th time and he's past the point of embarrassment and is now just grumpy about it #i'm in love with the fact his name's comically long and ridiculous #fuckin barreth mcsteakington friesenhausen. #one of the characters in AOZ has a ridiculous name as well (miss rubenstein sexypants) so i'm happy they kept that going in the vlog #i feel like he dreads going to family gatherings specifically because of that name because it's embarrassing #and he just has to put up with it for a night and a half #also i like to think craig would lightly tease him about it if he found out what his whole name is #he'd think it's actually kind of a cute name but also make fun of barry for it because it's funny seeing him get embarrassed #also speaking of that episode of the vlog: as an queenslander barry's mum is incredibly accurate to how quite a few people here are like #like her story about her friend getting hit by a bus after using the internet feels like something i'd hear a weird aunt or neighbour say #i think most of halfbrick's fans aren't australian so i find it really funny when people call barry british or get confused at certain term #and i have seen some people call barry british before and i feel this mixture of amusement and confusion about it #because 1. that's just really funny that people tend to immediately assume that pronouncing stuff like tomato as “tomahhto” = british #but also 2. have you even heard a british person. i assure you they often don't sound like us australians #especially with the many different variations in their accents depending on what area they come from #anyway.... barry grumpy :3 #i like how i always end up going on long tangents in the tags about random loosely related shit #it's the autism brain going off

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

It's dead af at work. We got through our four reservations and have had no walk ins, and my manager won't cut me because he hates doing my job (and we're friends and he knows I need the money) and tbh I don't want to be cut (can't really afford to be) but I'm actually going insane from sitting on my stool, going through Tumblr, Insta, Kindle, then standing up and going through those apps again, then sitting down and going through those apps again, etc. it's nice to get paid to do nothing, because tbh if I was cut then I'd just be doing this but in my bed, but I'm getting so fucking restless.

#truly im unneeded rn #my other manager gave me the option to be cut before my shift even started but again. I'm broke af #so i came in. and im getting paid $15 an hour to scroll through all of my apps #and im trying to be mildly productive #trying to do some resding because i didnt resd as much as i wanted this month #to make up for it i finished three books in the last two days and im going for a fourth #one of them i had already started. one was pretty short. and one was so good that i tore through it fast #this is a more difficult story. about a school shooting. not super fun but a good story nonetheless #you ever read a book and then want to forget it so you can read it for the first time again? #i just read jumper by Melanie Crowder and it was so good. although apparently the diabetes information isnt accurate #but the story was very very good and kept me interested the whole way #the problem with this school shooting story is that its good. it draws my attention. but its understandably very hard to read #fourteen ish minutes until my paycheck goes through and then i find out if i can pay rent this month #that's part of why im restless too. nervous about paying rent. my job hours are unpredictable and so are the paychecks #i think ill be okay but as always im terrified that it wont #anyway im in a bit of a reading rut. if you hsve any book recs (not a big fan of fantasy. generally like realistic fiction. ya. lgbt) #that type of stuff. like jumper. the Miseducation of Cameron Post. message not found. stuff like that #open to recommendations #love yall. i hope you all have more thsn enough money to pay rent

[forcedhesitation]

playing normal difficulty is so much more fun. I am glad I did explorer my first time, because I needed to learn! but it's nice to be able to mess around with the classes now that I understand the game mechanics better.

#bg3 spoilers #thoughts about media #I made karlach into a paladin and she destroys everything. i'm going to multiclass her into fighter to give her action surge too >:) #warlock/bard or warlock/paladin for wyll maybe? #bard would be cute because he likes dancing but paladin makes sense for how princely he is.... #the headband of warped intellect is astarion's little princess tiara so I could multiclass him into wizard. #it would be lore accurate to corydalis' campaign anyways. corydalis could help him learn magic better. #wizard has some JUICY unique features too. #as much as I appreciate gale I never take him with me because corydalis is a sorcerer. and sorcerers outclass wizards in every way. #like corydalis is the only one I plan to Not multiclass at all. #because you fucking Do Not Have To as a sorcerer. you're already the best class in the game. #but if I multiclassed astarion into wizard I could enjoy some of the fun stuff wizards get. arcane ward on astarion could be very useful. #I could always multiclass him into bard too though. can't go wrong with a bard!

[stripesysheaven]

.

#dont want to make an actual post about this but im annoyed by something #fics that involve finch like. some portray his injuries are way more accurate but some are super super inaccurate #like its obvious the most pain the writer ever had was a lil back pain #as someone who has a similar injury as finch does (ironically happened years after i watched the show. its so weird to watch now) #like. its not like a twinge in your back situation #even on a good day if i do the wrong thing it feels like my bones are going to come out of my skin #the feeling of something being Deeply Wrong #the entire reason i workout so much is so i can gain mobility back #if i stop working out the pain gets so bad i can barely walk #at least i dont walk with a limp anymore what the fuck #its just. some fics really dont get it jxbzbxhxhhx #like i get you want to have fun in the fic and not be limited by stuff like that #but some things they write are literally impossible #in the one i read finch helped someone off the ground #yeah that’s impossible im sorry hzhzjxhxj h #the amount of hip you need to do something like that #you just can’t #someone mentioned in the tags of a gifset of finch picking up the baby in a scene of the actual show #that he never would have been able to do that. and honestly yeah they’re right. even if he could he would have struggled way more #just. yeah. yeah Jhxhxhxhxhhxhxjuxhxjxh #i’ll still continue that fic as soon as ao3 is secure again but yeah hxhhxhxhxh #my posts #tags

[cwilbah]

sorry for being autistic on main about genealogy

#unfortunately its My Thing so u will forever hear about it #i love genealogy and i wish i could get ppl into it but it can be Seriously Boring if u dont like research #or care about accuracy (cough the entire internet cough) #<- geni and geneanet piss me off!!!!!! #like ancestry trees and accepting tree hints with no thought is not genealogy ur being a fucking idiot #like i know a lot of people wouldnt enjoy combing thru censuses and searching 10 different last names to try and find a family #and theres a bazillion websites to put ur tree on #so u can get spread out very quickly #and . gestures back to the accuracy . and not rely on sources. or use shitty sources #like people just put whatever they want on the internet and for some reason 95% of people take it as fact #no a tree on familysearch does not mean its ACCURATE that means u have to VERIFY it and its source #sources* #and decide if u trust it #tobias talks #sorry. #also i forgot this image was on my computer #i love it #personally im into genealogy cuz its fun and satisfying #i enjoy researching stuff and its exciting to build a family with sources and eventually branch off into their spouses' families and build #THEIR families #and then it goes on and on #and basically i think its nice to create a tree that someone might connect to and not have to do as much work #whats the word im looking for. its not legacy but its like that word #its fun :) #and i like being able to go thru my tree and see the ppl im descended from #and where they were from #sorry lol

[lee-rambles-about-rwby]

You know, last weekend I posted that mini cover of The Edge and was fully like “This is just to get it out of my system. I doubt I’ll do a full version though. I don’t even know how I’d begin to tackle the big ending section tbh”

Anyway:

#full instrumental done babyyyy #now to just figure out how/where to record the vocals.... #wish me luck! #I think I have all the chords/harmonies mostly accurate but tbh I'm not sure #the more stuff that's going on the harder it gets to pick out what the notes are like on the guitar part and stuff #so the whole bridge of the song is me being like That sounds right I think??? #It's close enough tbh so that's all I care about #had some sneaky time signature changes here and there as well which was fun #just like a single measure in a different meter then back to 4/4 #lee speaks

[bestdressedchuuya]

So I kinda went sicko mode with the translating today and now chapter 60 is done! I'll start typesetting tomorrow and it should be uploaded next weekend (hopefully sooner, but we'll see)

#translation updates #I did say that I tend to get through exciting chapters a lot quicker! #and there's 2 reasons for that #1. chapters with action in it tend to have a lot less dialogue and a lot more fighty sound effects which obviously goes a lot faster #2. I have a lot more motivation when I'm actually invested in what's happening #rather than a bunch of people in suits talking in a meeting for a whole chapter #stuff like this is way more fun to translate #ALSO speaking of sound effects... #I'm gonna be honest‚ some of the sound effects have no direct translations so I just be making shit up #''yeah I'll translate that スッ sound effect to 'swsh'‚ why not?'' #it probably ain't that accurate but hey‚ who looks at all that stuff anyway amirite? #(cut to the people who really care about accurate sound effects currently cursing my name)

[ottoline-otter]

i think if they were going to make a modernised "relatable" adaptation of a jane austen novel like they did with the netflix adaptation of persuasion, they should have gone the extra mile and just made a spinoff about a minor character. like one of the other sisters from pride and prejudice maybe - it would at least have been interesting, and i feel like that style would have worked out so much better for a character like lydia or kitty

#i'm just imagining a sequel about lydia trying to get out of the situation she's in as she finally grows up and matures a bit #maybe the modern language could be used JUST for her narration. to show what's going on in her head and the chaotic way she thinks #while all the actual dialogue is more historically accurate #i don't know! i just feel like there's a lot more interesting stuff that could have been done than just a bad adaptation of a novel and #character that doesn't fit it at all. pride and prejudice is more well known anyway and with the sisters we'd KNOW it was meant to be a bit #more shallow. so it would actually make sense and it could be fun while giving them some character development at the end!