#but this time I'm more prepared

[popcornkwantum]

:D I love Nicky so much

I'll be making these into (handmade) stickers and will be giving them out for FREE at both the upcoming Elfia event and at Heroes Dutch Comic Con (summer edition)

I actually don't think anyone from the Netherlands follows me on here but uuuhh if you do plan on going to one/both events, keep an eye out for someone in a badly made Taylor cosplay and you will be granted with one of these bad bois >:)

#the last (and first time) I did this it took me like 3 HOURS to make only 30 ish stickers lol #and it was at like 1 am at the night before the event #but this time I'm more prepared #and I just tested out a new way to make them which is SO MUCH MORE EFFICIENT #and IT. WORKS. TOO. #I'll also be remaking a few from last year #also; yes I did look into just ordering them online but I'm not going to spend 100+ euros on stickers that I'm going to give away for free #and investing into a printer and sticker paper and laminate stuff is a bit too expensive right now as well #so I'd rather make these by hand with all my blood sweat and tears and spend that money on the artist alley instead :D #dndads #here we go with all versions of spelling Nicky's name again #dndads nicky #nicky close #nicky foster #nicholas close #nicholas foster #nicky close foster #nick #trans nicky #trans #my favorite trans guy #dungeons and daddies #my art #elfia #HDCC #teen nicky #demon nicky #so mannyy tagss

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Get Souped!

#poorly drawn mdzs #better drawn mdzs #mdzs #jiang yanli #I'm back! #She would never say 'get souped idiot' but I like to imagine JC and WWX would say it to each other if the other got sick and needed soup #JYL would never throw soup without knowing full well you would be able to catch it #She would rather fall face first than drop a bowl of soup after tripping. #She’s been hard at work preparing this soup! And all of you get to have some B*) Thanks for all the support while I was on break! #‘was your break relaxing op?’ unfortunately it was like being kicked down several flights of stairs. Didn't draw much sadly #Though I did end up writing a little mdzs fic! I haven’t written anything in a long while but it was fun. Maybe I'll post it....maybe... #regardless of all this rambling; thank you for all the kind messages. ill try and reply soon! #i have a few more fun doodles before I'm ready to crack into season 2! #Enjoy the soup in the mean time! #(PS: I know that's not the right hand shape for the meme redraw but augh...the OG hand angle was...way too hard to draw). #edit: retagged as better drawn mdzs. I put a lot into this one

[demigods-posts]

I've seen a lot of discourse about Virginia Kull's portrayal of Sally Jackson in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series, and I'd like to say that I loved her. Don't get me wrong. I love Sally from the original book series, and I, too, would fight the God of War on her behalf. But something that I enjoyed about Virginia's portrayal of Sally that we don't get in the books is the character depth. We don't hear much of Sally's backstory in the TV series, apart from a couple of flashbacks with younger Percy and that scene with Poseidon (Toby Stephens). However, those scenes do an excellent job of showing us that alongside being Percy's mother, Sally is also a young woman who fell in love with a man she could not be with and is enduring the natural consequences of having Percy. She struggles to communicate with him when she's frustrated, gets teary-eyed when she lies to him to prolong the inevitable, and actively sacrifices her happiness to ensure his safety. Virginia Kull's portrayal of Sally Jackson reinforces the character's humanity, imperfections, and determination, and it's everything to me.

#i once saw someone say they disliked the portrayl of sally jackson because she raised her voice at percy and I'm just #*sighs* #sally is essentially a single mom who is constantly being plagued with the notion that her son may not live to see sixteen #she has to prepare him for a life that she knows is going to break him like a bone #except she has to keep some secrets from him to ensure his safety for the time being #all the while #she is plauged with guilt knowing she and poseidon contributed to placing this burden upon him #and it is even more apparent when percy voices his disappointment in her behavior as a mother #and all she wants to do is be there with him every step of the way #but knows that she can't #and you're mad because she raised her voice at him???? #parents do that (and i wish they didn't) but they do #sally is not perfect in any way and i love her for it #give her some grace #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo text post #pjo #pjo tv adaptation #pjo tv show #pjo tv concept #pjo tv series #pjo tv spoilers #sally jackson #sally jackson appreciation #sally jackson appreciation post #sally jackson is amazing #they could never make me hate you #also virignia kull is an amazing actress and i don't know if it was clear that i love her but i love her in case it wasn't clear

[doodlesaresketcheswithnoodles]

couple of sketches of my version of what a young adult Omega might look like ✨

#star wars #the bad batch #Omega #tbb #i want to draw adult Omega and adult Gungi as a team #but I'm currently back to having a job and no time! #before I started this job I actually prepared four more full Star Wars illustrations this time focused on the clones during the war #considered posting the sketches but idk- they're coloured and everything #there might be less interest to see them all polished if I post the sketches.. #idk when i'll have time to work on them tho #sketchndoodles

[clown-owo]

Guardian of the Eastern Gate and the One Entrusted with a Flaming Sword by God: Principality Aziraphale

#good omens spoilers #gos2spoilers #good omens season 2 #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #goodomensedit #gifs #og post #i can't stop thinking about aziraphale so confident and badass saying “i'm prepared to take defensive measures” #and then just. being so useless #my guy says that and then 10 seconds later is like. well that won't hold forever. whats my plan? that was it. #it didn't even last you thirty goddamned seconds aziraphale??? #what were the candles for? nothing. to look threatening i guess #shout out to nina for being like. hey. what the fuck man #but still having the kindness to go. well obviously we won't throw fiction #king couldn't hold off more than 10 lowest level demons on his own without committing a war crime #needed humans to come up with plans for him #anyway. this is my first time making a gifset #sorry if it sucks. i don't know what the standards are for gifsets. i followed a tutorial #and reused the same color adjustments for every gif <- lazy

[penroseparticle]

Nothing annoys me more lately than "Going to the gym isn't a personality" like yes??? it is???

People talk about the things they care about, that they spend time on, that they put effort into. That includes their bodies?

I work with a lot of athletes. Like more than your typical amount. And they will happily debate protein powders, tell you they're doing a new training regimen, talk about Lat Pulls like having opinions on them is something obviously I have as well. Going to the gym is exciting for them- they tell me they hit a new personal best bench press, or are trying to hit a specific weight class, or are working on knee strength after their surgery. They compare times they threw up or got too dizzy.

The same way when I talk to MTG players they tell me about their new EDH deck, or talk about that one wombo combo they pulled in Draft, or this asshole at FNM. It's all just nuts and bolts for a thing they care about. I don't know much of anything about Knitting but a lot of my friends do, and I would NEVER tell them that "Knitting isn't a personality" just because I personally find it boring or whatever. Because I would be an asshole.

Going to the gym is a ~personality~, it's just not one you want to talk about. You don't care about machine vs. free weights. You don't want to know how long they spent working out this morning. Frankly, you want them to do the work at the gym and not give you a peek behind the curtain. You want people to look good, look fit, look how you want to, but not talk about how much work and effort it takes to do so. Working out to you is a chore, and an unpleasant one at that, so you'd rather they not remind you of it.

But exercising your body shouldn't be a chore, it should be something you enjoy- your favorite rock climbing place, the dance class you and your friends take, etc. These people LIKE going to the gym. They would gladly tell you about it. And if for some reason you are talking to someone who works out religiously but hates every second of it- first of all, yikes, buddy you don't have to live that way- but second of all, that person will not talk to you about the gym. They will talk to you about what they are actually passionate about.

You don't have to enjoy their hobby! You can think the gym is boring, or exercise isn't interesting. But like. say that. The gym can be a personality. Anything can be a personality.

#9 times out of ten when someone says Oh I workout when you ask what they do for fun #they are prepared for you to not want to talk about it #but if you give like. a couple followup questions to them to show you really mean it #boy oh boy I hope you're ready to hear about the draconian gym policy against stringers and whey vs. pea protein #people are much more interesting than we give them credit for #anyways I almost made a dating profile again and got mad and made this post instead after snooping around #I'm yelling at an imaginary person here for the record #or rather a real person but not a person I actually want to confront

[tricoufamily]

ygyth has its own tag now <333 i'm updating my compilation though i wanna see em all put together again look at them LOOK AT THEMMMMM they're multiplying!!!!

#my favorite one gets to be all on its own those are the rules #oz's accidentally mismatched suit on the third to last has always made me insane but it's ok i'm going to write it in 😇 #it was intentional 😇 he /is/ very distraught in that scene see he accidentally wore his suit mismatched. i meant to do that #prepare to hear a lot more about ygyth. SO MUCH MORE!!! #try to cut off my head two more grow back sorry #this court jester is having a the time of my life writing what i love thanks! 😘

[rat-prophetess]

Pathologic 2 + the onion headlines, part 2 (part 1) (patho classic version)

#мор. утопия #pathologic #pathologic 2 #aspity #lara ravel #peter stamatin #daniil dankovsky #anna angel #katerina saburova #петр стаматин #даниил данковский #катерина сабурова #too lazy to add more tags #yes i am avoiding doing important things #bc i'm moving soon and starting school again and v stressed #i could be preparing for school #or looking for things for my apartment #or cleaning #or even writing the fanfic i meant to write as a quick one-shot warmup #that is now several thousand words #but no #i'm making memes again #so it goes #i am often seized by the fatal american need to have a pretty good time

[cinematicnomad]

THE TERROR ▸ 1.08 terror camp clear

#theterroredit #jamesfitzjamesedit #silnaedit #the terror #james fitzjames #silna #francis crozier #lady silence #cnomadedits #dailytvfilmgifs #tvedit #filmtv #userbbelcher #cinematv #dailyshowbiz #this is actually the last pre-made gifset i have prepared #for the first time in like a year #i was planning on making more gifsets when i got home from jakarta but i'm so fucking tired i haven't gotten around to it #we'll see what happens tomorrow!! #will i post a new gifset?? who knows!

[supjello]

just experienced the druids turning against the tieflings for the first time and am feeling Some Sort of Way about the sibs fighting back to back, dammon calming everyone down, and rolan coming in ridiculously clutch during the fight

#bg3 #dammon and rolan being the very first tieflings to rush over and prepare to face kagha... even before zevlor got there... #rolan casting thunderwave as his first spell... genuinely saving our asses as he bought me more time to situate my party better... #idk if this is worth putting in the tags but i hadn't seen some of this dialogue before so #dammon #rolan #forgive the graphics i'm away from my usual setup and am holding my poor macbook at gunpoint trying to play #also if you're going 'hmm why does the back of your bard's head look exactly like dammon's—' listen. listen...

[nichiperi]

happy birthday to meeee~ ヘ⁠(⁠￣⁠ω⁠￣⁠ヘ⁠)

#i have a lot of schmoopy feelings about this year #it started off as one the worst times of my life #but then somehow it morphed into the absolute best #i have a lot of appreciation and joy that i feel for a lot of people now that i feel like i can't adequately express #but i guess the point is i'm actually excited for the future for the first time in years #and i feel like i wouldn't have stumbled down this path if it hadn't been for the encouragement i got from people when i really needed it #i've been really inspired to work at improving my art and to be more open about it #i tried a lot of new things #not just artistically but in general #i'm happy i'm here! and i intend to keep being here and to keep making things that bring me joy. #weird weird things. i intend to get weirder and weirder hehehe. hope y'all are prepared! >:D #so to anyone who said anything nice about my art and writing since i've been here #i know it sounds schmaltzy but the stuff you said meant more than you know. thank you for letting me know you saw me.

[traumainpyjamas]

JENO \\ NCT DREAM 엔시티 드림 'Smoothie' MV

#nct dream #smoothie mv #jeno #i apologise for the person i'm about to become #excuse me nct dream WHAT?? Is this what we are now? argh #loved the artistic vibes of the MV #AND THE SONG! i'm obsessed #the whole album is so good! #i have zero regrets of ordering it. now i just hope it arrives....tried a new store...i live in suspense #prepare for more gifs and more breakdowns.....if i have the time...real life has been bothering me #I just had to start with mr. problemo here #lee jeno #he is a problem #i'm weak for jeno #nct dream smoothie #nct jeno #nct #gifs

[labetalol]

this scene in s1e3 when the team realizes dale is the most babygirl in the entire county

#cannot tell me they all aren't a little in love with coop. wym i'm projecting #anyway <3 yes i'm insane. i really genuineyl thought peaks'd be more popular on tumblr. where is my unhinged fanart and insanity #wuntrum doing the lords work <- love their peaks art #ok. tag time #dale cooper #<-implied #lucy moran #harry truman #andy brennan #deputy hawk #WHAT IS HISFULL NAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #twin peaks #my art #how soon is too soon for re-watching the show. i did this instead of preparing for my osce 2mo yayyyyyyyy #i do love that scene. the way everyone leans in in their chair swuinting eyes like what the hell is he gonna do... #how he maintains such an air of professionalism despite literally talking about dream worlds + throwing bottles as a means to #determine who is guilty. bonking andy on the head... oh andy the bestie andy andy andy #i miss them... dream blunt rotation tbh . idk obviously fuck cops etc. but they are just some guys... #like small town cops idk. fwwm's sheriff & deputies sucked MAJORLY so like. we know it's literally just trumans dept like just them #they are the only good cops ever... sigh. girl help i'm getting emotionally attached to a tv show that aired before i was born

[calliopechild]

#i am very much in the first camp #a lot of my recipes are from my mom and as such sized to feed a family of four #which is ideal bc if i like a recipe enough to spend the time making it wtf wouldn't i like it enough to eat it more than once? #as with any tumblr poll yes i am prepared to get ratioed if/when it turns out the rest of you are heathens #'boy that third option is throwing a lot of shade' you're right #i'm biased (and jealous of people w/ that kind of executive functioning) and i can admit it

[okkennymay]

Commission for @waezi2

[Points finger gun] You're all gonna get attached to these characters like I did whether you like it or not, the world and characters of Royal Punch are just the best~ o((>ω< ))o

#commission #waezi2 #okkennymay #Royal Punch #other peoples's oc's #Royal Punch Dimi #Royal Punch Ivan #Royal Punch Astidas #Royal Punch Connie #[crawls back online to post one more thing then perishes] #I've almost finally gotten through my list of commssions I got months ago #god I hope yah'll are prepared for a whole lotta Masters Academy soon because that patient saint has been waiting this whole time #looking at you Marcus i'm so sorry it's been so long #[sinks back into the abyss]

[crescentfool]

i've been doing a bunch of tartarus runs in reload lately, and it got me thinking about how i miss certain ways FES's clunky gameplay can characterize minato… (ramble about the great clock mechanic + leveling up party members in reload vs fes under the cut)

when i got to yabbashah block in tartarus (block 3), i remember commending the developers for adding the great clock mechanic. it's a much more convenient way to keep party members at the protagonist's level- so when you think about p3 from the perspective of trying to make it easier for people to play, the mechanic succeeds in this respect.

but now that i'm in adamah block, and that i've done lots of my once-a-month tartarus runs… i think that i got a little too dependent on it, and the way that i played through reload feels like a vastly different experience from how i played FES.

in reload, my party's levels are very lopsided. minato, yukari, akihiko, mitsuru, and fuuka are all level 90+, meanwhile junpei and aigis are at level 79, and then… poor ken and koromaru are at 71 and 64 respectively. (i never got to have a great clock for them…)

meanwhile, in FES, my party's levels were much more evenly distributed and were at least level 90. i did all of this manually for every monthly tartarus run because i enjoyed having options available for the taratarus guardians and monthly operations.

with how i perceive minato, i feel that the way i played FES feels more in-line with his character than me dawdling around waiting for the great clocks in reload.

FES's gameplay loop left me with the very strong impression that minato has to work twice as hard as everyone else in SEES does. it makes sense because, yeah, he's the leader, but something about having minato run through tartarus multiple times with different groups of people just to make sure that they are adequately prepared speaks volumes about his character, to me.

and while the tired mechanic is present in reload to some degree, most notably with allowing you to freely raise your courage stat when you visit edogawa after school… the tiredness system doesn't hit the same way that FES does, i think.

the way your party members in FES will call it quits when they return to the entrance floor at tartarus when they're tired, versus minato, in spite of all his tiredness and sickness, still pushes through tartarus because it's his responsibility…. idk!!! i miss that! i feel like this really hammers home the difference between minato and the rest of SEES, how minato doesn't really see himself as a human with needs worth respecting as long as he's useful to someone.

i don't think that tartarus being tedious (in FES especially) is not what most people would describe as fun, and i can respect people thinking it's a slog. but, regardless of how it feels to play, it doesn't change that FES's gameplay loop is a fundamental building block in how i perceive minato…

of course, i do recognize that you can just opt to NOT use the great clock in reload (and it's great when players are offered the choice to not partake in mechanics)! i definitely think that if someone really wanted to, they could manually level up party members, but i do feel that kind of playstyle isn't necessarily "incentivized" to the type of people who are into playing games for Having a Good Time. it's kind of like… "why would you do that when there's a much more convenient option available to you."

in any case! despite my woes, i do want to emphasize that i'm glad that reload has a much more smoother gameplay loop than the original P3 did, because it does make the game more accessible to people. having played both FES and reload, it feels very strongly apparent to me how the core gameplay formula of persona has really been refined in the past 18 years (to think og p3 was 2006 and reload is 2024.. time flies!). and reload has made revisiting a story that i love so dearly much, much easier because the gameplay just bops!

at the same time, due to my "i miss characterization informed by weird and dated FES gameplay quirks" woes, i still think that playing FES is worthwhile. (really, i feel this way about all iterations of p3! i think it's worthwhile to see what each version and side media has to say even if it doesn't Land™ for you.) but i also understand why people wouldn't want to play it, so i will keep writing posts about things i liked from FES's gameplay because i'm still very fond of FES (especially in respects to minato. these mechanics are so telling about him!!!) 💪

#lizzy speaks #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #<- specifically mentions of mechanics. no added story content just tartarus talk #minato arisato #today on lizz life: lizz wakes up THINKING about minato for the NTH time and is compelled to write a tumblr post about it #tartarus in reload is excellent looking and fun but i keep thinking about what i liked about how FES characterizes minato so #here i am... LOL... with my 790 or so word ramble... im so normal about the blue boy #i needed to get my feelings out there somewhere i just could not stop thinking about HIM HE IS IN MY BRAIN 24/7 #me playing reload last night like 'minato would not fucking wait for a great clock to make sure that SEES is adequately prepared.' #and yet my sloth brain awaits the great clock... LOL gameplay convenience is not lost on me #i'm stuck in tartarus rn im grinding rubies and stuff trying to get equipment so i can throw hands with elizabeth its going to be fun #im still not done with this game i continue to be haunted by tartarus i fucking love that tower unironically #uh usually id ramble more in tags but. go read my post!! because i like analyzing FES gameplay mechanics!! i am full of passion and love!