#but the tired it haunts me

[careforsomeart]

It's done in the sense that I ran out of ideas on what to draw.

Maybe someday I'll come back to it and do more of the song.

#i wanna do more #but the tired it haunts me #art #drawing #oc #original character #my art #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd oc #my oc #oc mios #video #animatic #Youtube

[robinsnest2111]

mama needs a break 😔

#metalocalypse #army of the doomstar #pickles the drummer #toki wartooth #robin's art adventures #based on one of my early childhood photos #was overwhelmed in public. crawled into my mother's lap #and she had the most haunted tired far-away look on her face. totally disengaged from the situation #ANYWAY enough about me. the dethklok hates church clip is making the gears in my head TURN!!!!!!!!!!!

[pinkcadavart]

I'm still learning the characters rn so this might not be accurate but please tell me its at least funny

#i saw that post that was like 'if you were my husband I'd poison your coffee' and 'if you were my wife id drink it' and got inspired #vil schoenheit #rook hunt #twisted wonderland #twst #rookvil #vilrook #idk what is more common a ship name for them and this isn't technically ship art but......... still #no one ask me to draw vil again I did not do him justice at all ghhhh #u can tell im tired and just needed to get this idea out as soon as physically possible before it haunted me lol #I FIXED the height difference bc I was embarrassed #i really thought Rook was taller until 2 seconds after posting and im ashamed #fanart

[mmmairon]

Why not enjoy the view together?

#manspreading diluc haunts my dreams he’s just so large and beefy thanks for indulging with me #life is still really busy and i’m always tired so sorry for not being on here much #i mean to get to my asks soon i’m very dogshit at this if you haven’t noticed #someone very kind gave me a generous tip on kofi to finish the sketch to this painting so how could i now #not* #diluc #my art #genshin impact #genshin #diluc ragnvindr #diluc fanart

[blatantlyhidden]

tavastia gig you will always be famous

#i know tavastia was weeks ago but this piece kept haunting me #it's finally done now i am tired #käärijä #bojan cvjetićanin #fanart #jere pöyhönen #kaarija #artists on tumblr #esc #my art #art

[spoopup]

UM. heres this. my hand hurts

#tgaa 2 spoilers #tgaa spoilers #tgaa #the great ace attorney #asoryuu #kazuma asogi #ryunosuke naruhodo #ive been working on this all day i could not do anything wlse until i finished this. Help me #i think u can tell i was getting tired near the end i had a vision makimg this i hope. i at least got it through Smiles #lalala they haunt my mind! #i first thought of this while looking for paint for my walls and was listening to skyfall and was like. holy balls #<- and ive been thinking of it since i got a rush of motivation to do it today. I needed to share this #i love rambling in tags sorry LOLL #my art #(i need to get some app for making animatics etc because i keep using procreate with 37483 layers for the frames im worried its gonna explod #e)

[fatsmyname]

frank iero twink death

#my art #doodles #mcr #Frank iero #the ass tattoos haunt me #did this during my zoom class today… am so sleepy and tired I needed this

[haunted-xander]

I'd still like you around, for some reason

#the make me so insane #i think hajime would have very conflicting feelings on regards to nagito #but at the end of the day he still wants to understand him #i could probably make an essay on these two but im tired #nagito komaeda #hajime hinata #komahina #hinakoma #danganronpa #super danganronpa 2 #sdr2 #art #my art #xanders art #xanders haunting art #digital art #fan art

[shorthaltsjester]

i do not want to dig a hole but i am too much of a laura bailey pc enjoyer to not make this post so:

selfishness ≠ a lack of kindness 

selfishness is a theme that has come up with all of laura's main campaign pcs. that doesn't mean that her characters are always making selfish choices or that they don't care about the rest of the people they're with or that they're not good. it's just that, for the most part, the first thing they're thinking of when they take action or make choices is themselves. 

in jester and vex both it is more typical and obvious selfishness. vex's developed because she needed it to keep herself and vax alive and as safe as possible and it grew into a behaviour that she had to actively work to avoid. it's evident in her greed, her theft of the broom, her reaction to her own death which relied heavily on i'm okay/i survived to which keyleth reminded her that she wasn't the only one who had to witness and reckon with her death. in jester's case, she grew up in an environment that literally trained her to make every decision based on two things - her mother's opinion and her own. so, when she's out in the world without marion for the first time, her choices are those that will benefit her and her actions are those that consider her own thoughts and not really many others' (aside from the traveler's). 

it isn't a criticism of either vex or jester to say that they are characters who act selfishly. in fact, i'd argue that to claim otherwise does a great disservice to exactly how immense both of their character arcs are. because the nuance of both jester and vex is that they are selfish, and they also hold extreme room for self-sacrifice and empathy. vex is much more brash than jester is, and jester is much more trusting than vex, but both of them are characters who begin with selfish impulses who grow with them. neither ever truly shed those impulses, but they use them in new ways, typically transforming them into impulses towards things that are in the best interest of the party. 

you may have noticed the lack of imogen in this post about laura bailey pcs and that's because of two reasons. one, we are an unknown amount of time into her story, i can't analyse her development the same way i can vex and jester's. two, imogen's selfishness isn't the blatant quasi-self-aware selfishness that we see in things like jester complaining about her lack of money to caleb or vex stealing a broom. instead, imogen's is very internal, like a lot of laura's character work with imogen. it is a bit similar to jester’s in the sense that it comes from a lack of awareness moreso than vex’s practiced behaviour, but imogen’s is a lot more tied to inherent beliefs she has about the world and the people in it.

as a consequence of her powers, imogen sees people's thoughts as their entirety, she holds it above their actions to be the truth of who they are - to act against what they think or to say something that doesn’t cohere with what they’ve thought is akin to lying, so for her to act empathetically is to act in tandem with what someone else’s thoughts are, not how they act, which is typically not all that wanted. the same as vex’s greed and jester’s naivety, this is a trait that makes narrative sense and it’s one i find quite compelling, especially when read in the vein of someone struggling through trauma that has made them assume that the world is against them. imogen’s cynicism is coherent cynicism, i can’t say that in a similar situation i wouldn’t have the same predisposition towards the world.

the part that is particularly self-interested comes in if you look at how imogen has actually been treated in the campaign (quite well) in comparison to the cynicism that she’s developed from her past (something that speaks to a world out to get her). certainly, a bunch of shitty things have happened to imogen in the time we’ve known her, but the same can be said for everyone in bell’s hells and pretty much everyone in exandria at this point in time. but, in a fight to save the aforementioned world, imogen’s focus was getting her mother back on her side. which, while very consistent with her character and a choice that i enjoy, is a very selfish one. the fun thing (to me, obviously) about imogen is that she has, more than most, an insight into the opinions of others and she also tends to seek others’ opinions out and genuinely engages with them and supports their choices. but she still very much acts towards what she thinks is best. it’s one reason i enjoy looking at the dynamic between her and orym as one between foils, as orym tends to be stalwart in his beliefs and doesn’t care too much for other’s opinions if he’s already sure of his own, but his actions tend to favour collaboration and protecting others.

as i mentioned earlier, imogen is a harder case to look at because she is still in the process of her story. however, the circlet is clearly influencing how she interacts with the world and in the wake of the solstice, the hostile reaction towards ruidusborn people has started to become more and more apparent and i’m interested to see what route that ends up leading imogen down and how it will influence her relationship with the rest of bell’s hells. (for better, i think, based on recent conversations, but if it's for worse i will be just as seated and excited).

all of this is just to say, please stop assuming that claiming a character has a trait you think is a bad one is criticism or a hate post. in light of the fact that i know that people who don’t believe this will continue to not believe this, i’ll encourage anyone confused about the ability of a character to be good and kind and selfish all at once to look to what the text itself says, specifically scanlan’s words to pelor when asked what vex means to him:

“Her name is Vex, and she is greedy and mean sometimes, and she can steal a lot. She’s a little bit not the greatest person, but her flaws highlight everything that is right about her, which is she does all these things to protect her friends and her family. She would give her life for any of us and for anyone who was truly in need. And she’s not perfect but she’s the most perfect of all of us.”

would you look at that... an ability to be a multitude of things, some in conflict with one another. i know that's hard for fandoms to believe, especially about female characters with agency, but i promise its true!

#deeply unfair of laura to make three characters with some type of people skills and morality shaped by their loneliness #and what. i’m just supposed act like i’m normal about that? #this is me blog and i have slightly more time than usual to write nothing essays about fictional characters that haunt me #but dear god . lookin at cr characters and denying their flaws is like looking at a house and only seeing it’s doors . #if ppl demand perfection of fictional characters im genuinely curious in what media they’ve ever found that . #a single imogen post of mine broke containment and it skyrocketed my annoying phil student levels so. alas #but . if you agree that imogen had an incredibly isolating life . i will emphasize that isolation causes traits and behaviours #that aren’t just Quirky or fun or hot anger or whatever #imogen contains so much i love her so much i am bursting at the seams about it #but for some ppl. she is ur ‘girlfailure’ until someone suggests a way she might be girl failing by being selfinterested #what is the truth. do u want her to be an actual girlfailure it do u just want her to suit a . frankly tired. trope about lesbians #anyway . both text and tag rant over . goodnight #cr meta #imogen temult #vex’ahlia #vex’ahlia de rolo #jester lavorre #critical role #my posts

[dawnsedits]

The Fishermen will never allow you to speak to Orm! He killed their king.

I wasn't exactly gonna ask for permission.

#dcmultiverse #dcugifs #dcfilmblr #heroesdaily #dcedit #dceuedit #aquamanedit #atlannaedit #arthurcurryedit #atlanna #arthur curry #nereus #aquaman #dceu #dc #my gifs. #the way arthur's voice breaks when he says 'i'm tired of nothing ever getting done!' haunts me daily

[scorchedcandy]

How many times have you seen almost the face of someone you loved most

and deemed it worthy only of destruction for the crime of being almost

#oc: tanon darmos #nobody’s looking at that damn Heart #reminds me of the ayem haunted piece i did where almost is all she can bear to look at #via her ordinators #I love devotion that corrupts #and the came back wrong trope #vibes of #DU: one day my devotion will be rewarded and all this will have been worth it #vs #TD: I have only ever been punished for the devotion of others and for what #as well as #TD: I am not the Nerevar you lost and I don’t think anyone else will ever come back as him #against #DU: no one has ever come back as the one I lost ☝️ YET #how many have come before and how many will come after #but he will never be satisfied #two very desperate and tired people #my art #tes #digital art #morrowind #my ocs #dagoth ur #nerevarine

[needle-noggins]

I love to talk about how Strong and Resilient Meryl is just like everyone else in our little Meryl fan club but also. I want her to be allowed to break down and not patch herself back up for Vash’s sake. I want her to be messier. She’s already 3-dimensional. I want to add a 4th dimension. Healing isn’t linear and she should be allowed to have her ugly feelings get mixed up and messy and get in the way of her relationship with Vash more. Let her be angry. Let her be cruel just because she’s still hurt. She is stronger than a million Millions Knives but does she always have to be? Can a girl not be messy long after the trauma? Does she have to be consistently Good and Loving while she heals? Isn’t she tired? Can a girl go apeshit?

#idk I’m just like. I LOVE how strong she is but it feels like bad to have her become strong after dragons nest and then that’s it. #girl has 6 intense ptsd episodes in two volumes and then disappears until she’s like yeah I’m tired and haunted but like. I’m fine now. #like. vash can’t trigger me anymore! :) #girl. is that. what #idk. maybe I’m wrong #this is why I’m struggling with Bluebells #trimax #meryl stryfe #bluebellposting

[actual-changeling]

Joel cannot remember when it started, not that it is all that important, really, but after only a few weeks the hair tie on his right wrist has become just as much of a constant as the watch on his left. It is not always the same one, he is so attuned to it for some reason he picks up on the slightest variations in pressure and color, and on the rare occasion that he ends up taking it off, he easily finds a new one somewhere around the house. They're everywhere, on the coffee table and the kitchen counter, between the couch cushions, and in his jacket pockets, and he is acutely aware that the growing number of hair ties is his own fault.

Ellie had made a few comments here and there over breakfast or during movie nights that she never has one when she especially needs it. The complaint had buried through his skull and into his brain, taking root until he had made it his most important mission to solve what was a minor annoyance for her at best but oddly important to him.

The first time he had presented one to her, it had taken her several seconds of heavy blinking to fully process what he was offering her, palm outstretched and hovering between them. Once she had, the expression blooming on her face had looked so similar to Sarah's on Christmas mornings all air had left his body.

"What's that for?"

The wonder in her voice had tasted like hot chocolate and cinnamon, his heart filling with a familiar warmth, and he would be damned if he did not do everything he could to give her the childhood Christmases she should have had - hell, the entire childhood she deserves but never got to experience. Joel had heard the smile lacing his words, and Ellie's had grown in turn, her nose scrunching and eyes twinkling.

"Just because."

Ellie had thrown him glances heavy with an innocent curiosity all evening, prompting Joel to hold her even closer than usual when she eventually fell asleep half draped over his lap. Such a tiny, almost casual offering, and for a reason he still cannot quite grasp, it means more to her than he could have ever imagined, so he keeps doing it. Whenever Joel sees one, he trades for it with whatever he has on hand, although most people are happy to give them up without anything in return or a loose promise to come by if there's work for him, and he gives it to Ellie as soon as he is through the door; by now, it has become an expectation rather than an unexpected gift.

Sure, maybe it is less about Ellie's non-existent hair tie draught and more about the beaming smile she still gives him every single time, eyes so bright he has gotten lost in the joy on her face on numerous occasions. Ellie notices whenever it happens, eyes swimming with fond exasperation, and if it bothers her that he hugs her extra tightly afterward, the bubbling mix of love and satisfaction demanding to express themselves physically, if not verbally, she never complains.

Joel brings home another hair tie today, a black one already on his wrist, and he is barely through the door when Ellie practically launches herself into his arms, face buried in his chest as his arms come up to wrap around her, shifting her just the slightest bit to the right to keep them both from toppling to the ground.

"What's that for?"

Keeping the fondness out of his voice is impossible, and he has given up on trying to do so. Ellie doesn't pull back like she usually does, and his breaths come easier despite the fact that her crushing hug constricts his lungs, and Joel gently rests his cheek on top of her head with a love-struck expression he knows deep-down mirrors hers, fingers carding through her hair.

"Just because," she mumbles, and the smile she wears all evening follows him for days, the stitches she uses to put his heart back together looking suspiciously like hair ties.

#alex writes tlou #the last of us #tlou #joel and ellie #ellie williams #joel miller #fanfic #fucking hair ties man #my brain obsesses over the most random shit #but this is important now and i am tired and its 1 am so if theres errors thats why lol #but yes hair tries are haunting me they moved in right next to tommy #who still lives fucking rent free in my head

[scattered-winter]

there's something sooooooo heartbreaking about quests as a narrative piece. you set out on this journey to rescue someone or defeat a great evil and along the way you face hardship and horror and you grieve and fight and love and lose and then when it's all over you come home. everything is the same as when you left, but you're so irrevocably different that you no longer fit in the one place you used to be truly at peace. you're tired from your journey but you find no rest or recovery, only ghosts. and you almost wish for another quest, another dangerous mission, because at least then you know your purpose.

#hi sorry i just rewatched the lord of the rings trilogy and im in A State #its just. the concept of leaving your home with your 3 friends to go on a quest for something you don't understand. #you're all plucky and full of life and hope. #and then you're beaten down and nearly killed and you don't know if anyone's still alive or if you're the last of your friends left. #and you suffer. oh do you suffer. #and when the battle's over and it's time to come home you don't recognize the person you were when you left. #you're too traumatized and haunted by everything you've seen; everything you've suffered; everything you've done to survive #and you're a ghost in your own home because nobody from your hometown can understand. #and it's so painful and you're so so tired that when you have a chance to move on to leave your friends behind #for the sake of getting some goddamn peace ... #well what else can you do but take it? #im just oughoughoughoughough #this applies to both frodo and bilbo i think #the dichotomy of the scene where bilbo is Leaving the shire (running and shouting for joy because he's going on an ADVENTURE!) #and when he returns (beaten down and grieving and lost. a stranger in his own home.) #literally makes me gnawwww #im feeling some kinda WAY #winter speaks #tropes #on knights #<- rich inner world

[queenofbaws]

hey, so, with people starting to talk about until dawn again, i think i'm gonna do something i swore many many years ago that i wouldn't do. i'm gonna ask the hard questions, the tough questions, the questions that will likely get me blocked, muted, and blacklisted seven ways from sunday. these are questions i've asked before, questions that bothered people, questions that made people look inside themselves for answers, questions that, dare i say, had people rioting in the streets, but you know what? someone's gotta tackle these issues. it might as well be me.

perhaps some of you already know where i'm going with this. perhaps some of you don't. either way...

why the fuck did the washingtons put so many goddamn couches in that lodge?!

"it's, like, a ski resort, isn't it? people gotta sit." THE LAST TIME I PLAYED THE HIT 2015 PLAYSTATION EXCLUSIVE UNTIL DAWN I THINK I COUNTED 31 COUCHES BEFORE I GAVE UP. I DON'T CARE HOW MANY VISITORS YOU'RE EXPECTING, AT A CERTAIN POINT YOU GET BANNED FROM FURNITURE WHOLESALERS FOR THAT KIND OF DEVIL-MAY-CARE PURCHASING ATTITUDE!!!!!!!!

DO THEY NEED A DIFFERENT COUCH FOR EVERY DAY?! IS THAT WHAT IT IS?! oh, this is my monday couch! i couldn't possibly sit on it today, what with it being wednesday and all! WAS THERE A DEAL GOING ON?! WHEN THEY WERE FURNISHING THE LODGE WAS SOMEONE DOING A BUY 1 GET 5 FREE DEAL?! DID NOT PURCHASING THE COUCHES MAKE LESS SENSE THAN OVERINDULGING IN THEM?! I ASK YOU!

but that's not even the worst

no, no it's not even close

the sheer number of couches is irresponsible, yes. baffling, even. but i could overlook it. y'know? i could. i'm a chronically fatigued little so-and-so, and i appreciate a couch when i see one, okay? i see a couch, i feel safe, i get that. fine. sure. give the people what they want - seating. plentiful and varied seating. whatever.

no, my problem comes from one fucking couch in particular. one. horrible. terrible. inscrutable couch. i speak, of course, of thE BATHROOM COUCH

WHY IS IT IN THE BATHROOM?! THE ROOM SPECIFICALLY FOR THE BATH?! WHY IS IT DIRECTLY BESIDE THE FUCKING BATHTUB OF ALL PLACES?! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YOU KNOW THAT THING'S JUST FULL OF MOLD!!!!!! ITS FIBERS ARE RUINED. ITS UPHOLSTERY IS RANCID WITH MILDEW

"oh but queenie, it's just a little stand you can put your clothes on and stuff!" NO, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT - I'M TALKING ABOUT THIS SPORE-MAGNET RIGHT HERE!!!!

THAT'S THE BITCH! THE FULL SIZE FUCKIN COUCH RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE KING SIZE BATHTUB. WHY DO WE NEED THIS?! WHY ARE WE WATCHING PEOPLE BATHE? ARE WE LOUNGING ON IT WHILE WE WAIT FOR THE TUB TO FILL?! WHY IS THERE A BLANKET OVER PART OF IT?! WHAT IS THE PURPOSE?! WHY DO WE HAVE THIS?!DID AN INTERIOR DESIGNER GREENLIGHT THIS DECISION?!

AND WHY IS NO ONE ELSE TALKING ABOUT IT?!?!?!??!?!?!

#queenie rambles about supermassive #im just gonna keep askin the tough questions over here #fr tho when i was writing t(a) i literally started a playthru to count because i thought it would be funny #it quickly became not funny #the washington family made a lot of questionable decisions throughout the game but this one is...this one haunts me #i'm too old and tired for character discourse but this???? THIS??????????? supermassive EXPLAIN

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Whooooo could have predicted this?

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#Poorly drawn MDZS #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #fairy #I love that they go up a mountain to check out fake ghost rumours. It's everything I want out of a date (Nature hike & something haunted) #I just know these two are big hike fans (wwx prob 'gets tired' and 'needs to be carried' at the end) #(he doesn't need it he just wants to be held) #Its not super apparent but wwx is using 'gonna be haunted in there' as an excuse to not encounter the dog #thats on me for rushing this one though #the end result makes lwj look like one of those dad's that's like 'come on kids lets go check out these dark caves! Nothing creepy here!' #Which is a vibe he deserves to have. Maybe with a more blunt tone. #I don't know who would be a worse chaperone tbh. I think together they would be good but separate? Chaos. #Speaking of chaperoning...Jin Lin sure did wander off. Wonder where he went? #JC needs to invest in a stronger child leash 'cause his nephew keeps chewing through it and running off