#check the notes for more

[miseria-fortes-viros]

yoooo guys these wings my dad made look INSANE i can’t wait to try them tomorrow

#helenaposting #icarus #icarusposting #guys there is more to this post PLEASE check the notes i cannot handle one more chicken wing comment #<- person who did the chicken wing thing on purpose and now is regretting it

[whetstonefires]

You know what I realize that people underestimate with Pride & Prejudice is the strategic importance of Jane.

Because like, I recently saw Charlotte and Elizabeth contrasted as the former being pragmatic and the latter holding out for a love match, because she's younger and prettier and thinks she can afford it, and that is very much not what's happening.

The Charlotte take is correct, but the Elizabeth is all wrong. Lizzie doesn't insist on a love match. That's serendipitous and rather unexpected. She wants, exactly as Mr. Bennet says, someone she can respect. Contempt won't do. Mr. Bennet puts it in weirdly sexist terms like he's trying to avoid acknowledging what he did to himself by marrying a self-absorbed idiot, but it's still true. That's what Elizabeth is shooting for: a marriage that won't make her unhappy.

She's grown up watching how miserable her parents make one another; she's not willing to sign up for a lifetime of being bitter and lonely in her own home.

I think she is very aware, in refusing Mr. Collins, that it's reasonably unlikely that anyone she actually respects is going to want her, with her few accomplishments and her lack of property. That she is turning down security and the chance keep the house she grew up in, and all she gets in return may be spinsterhood.

But, crucially, she has absolute faith in Jane.

The bit about teaching Jane's daughters to embroider badly? That's a joke, but it's also a serious potential life plan. Jane is the best creature in the world, and a beauty; there's no chance at all she won't get married to someone worthwhile.

(Bingley mucks this up by breaking Jane's heart, but her prospects remain reasonable if their mother would lay off!)

And if Elizabeth can't replicate that feat, then there's also no doubt in her mind that Jane will let her live in her house as a dependent as long as she likes, and never let it be made shameful or awful to be that impoverished spinster aunt. It will be okay never to be married at all, because she has her sister, whom she trusts absolutely to succeed and to protect her.

And if something eventually happens to Jane's family and they can't keep her anymore, she can throw herself upon the mercy of the Gardeners, who have money and like her very much, and are likewise good people. She has a support network--not a perfect or impregnable one, but it exists. It gives her realistic options.

Spinsterhood was a very dangerous choice; there are reasons you would go to considerable lengths not to risk it.

But Elizabeth has Jane, and her pride, and an understanding of what marrying someone who will make you miserable costs.

That's part of the thesis of the book, I would say! Recurring Austen thought. How important it is not to marry someone who will make you, specifically, unhappy.

She would rather be a dependent of people she likes and trusts than of someone she doesn't, even if the latter is formally considered more secure; she would rather live in a happy, reasonable household as an extra than be the mistress of her own home, but that home is full of Mr. Collins and her mother.

This is a calculation she's making consciously! She's not counting on a better marriage coming along. She just feels the most likely bad outcome from refusing Mr. Collins is still much better than the certain outcome of accepting him. Which is being stuck with Mr. Collins forever.

Elizabeth is also being pragmatic. Austen also endorses her choice, for the person she is and the concerns she has. She's just picking different trade-offs than Charlotte.

Elizabeth's flaw is not in her own priorities; she doesn't make a reckless choice and get lucky. But in being unable to accept that Charlotte's are different, and it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Charlotte.

Because realistically, when your marriage is your whole family and career forever, and you only get to pick the ones that offer themselves to you, when you are legally bound to the status of dependent, you're always going to be making some trade-offs.

😂 Even the unrealistically ideal dream scenario of wealthy handsome clever ethical Mr. Darcy still asks you to undergo personal growth, accommodate someone else's communication style, and eat a little crow.

#hoc est meum #pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #charlotte lucas #meta #charlotte is a much less sociable person than lizzie #so avoiding her husband most of the time and not seeking out his company is more viable for her! #she also has more patience for people being wrong #partly i think because she kinds checks out and lets them get on with it which lizzie isn't too great at even with her mother #people have different needs like that's a thing okay #marriage #spinsterhood #pragmatism #like if elizabeth had to listen to collins talk for a few months straight she would be nearly insane with rage #he's not just a low-quality man he's a man designed to be the worst for her specifically #also note that because jane's marriage is elizabeth's fallback plan #darcy screwed her over personally by interfering between her and bingley #she ofc does not bring this up how could she #but it's intensifying the anger during the hunsford rejection i think

[writeouswriter]

Broke: Acknowledging that a character who is an objectively terrible person is also a complex and intentionally well thought out individual with different levels of nuance you can empathize with in some ways while not in others is immediately “woobifying” or “poor little meow meowifying” them.

Woke: “This character is a bad person” and “this character is still a person” are two statements that can, should and do coexist and admitting that they exhibit nuance and depth and are more than just their bad actions doesn’t immediately excuse or condone their bad actions or mean that you’re ignoring or trying to soften the canonical version of the character.

Bespoke: That’s the whole point, that’s always been the point, to be made to empathize with horrible people so you can understand that they can be anyone, that bad people can be likeable, can be interesting, can be human, are human, and it’s scary to think about all the ways they’re just like you and all the ways they’re just like everything you hate, forcing the use of critical skills in media analysis, forcing a confrontation of the duality of man.

Whatever Level is Above Bespoke: But sometimes, yeah, sure, maybe they are a poor little meow meow, what are you gonna do, get a lawyer

#oh you would absolutely hate who sparked this post would absolutely hate it #and i am absolutely never going to tag who it is #writing #writeblr #books #media #movies #tv shows #poor little meow meow #media analysis #character analysis #literature #oh my god oh my god i shan't say it but i looked at the urban dictionary for something and oh my god #listen I’m not forgiving them I’m just observing the writers purposefully wrote more to them like they are the worst but hey #lying in wait like a spider to see if anyone tags this as the character that initially sparked this no one has yet #Upon last check 12400 notes someone has mentioned will not say when or who 👍

[ariminiria]

remember to do your part by giving Amazon's Rings of Power show the Morbius treatment

#hey there Blaze victim! check the notes for extra context #tl;dr: egregious disrespect for the source material and -more importantly- workers rights abuses #also theres a chance that we could kill amazon streaming if this flops so #happy morbing! #rings of power #its morbin time #every single 'ooh new first look' fille me with unbridled rage #anti rings of power #lord of the rings #tolkien #lotr #it's morbin time

[owlyhouse]

Owl House - Swap AU [Character concept art]

#owl house #toh fanart #caleb wittebane #evelyn clawthorne #philip wittebane #grimwalker #owl house au #toh au #swap au #lord diedre #morgan #ashlyn #myart #finally FINALLY posting them #diedre (and crew) has existed since *checks notes* #DECEMBER 9TH 2022 WHAT #christ dsfkjgsdhjfsdskj #i will post/say more eventually hdfjksdf

[crunchycrystals]

credit to u/ioncelostashoe on reddit for this comment i need to post it on here to share

(also would explain why they knew it should stop at 5 rounds)

#crunchyposts #im frantically going through the reddit post rn trying to talk to people lol #game changer #game changer spoilers #tell me if the image id is wrong btw im not great at writing descriptions for things #100 #150 #200 #300 #400 #500 #edit if any of yall were curious i checked the comment again a day later and this post has more notes than that has upvotes #so if you feel like it maybe like share your thoughts w them on reddit???? i feel like they might appreciate it but idk do whatever you wan #i dont have an account im a stalker lol

[funeralprocessor]

I really need to socialize with people more. Shame about the horrors though.

#not the horrors that I'm friends with obviously I love y'all #but like every time I manage to have a good time talking to people I inevitably find myself scared of talking more because #well what if I fuck it up *next time*? better to end on a high note #and despite people generally thinking I'm alright and other people straight up saying they also wanna socialize more and make friends #I cant help but feel that I would be overstepping my bounds and acting completely outrè by (checks notes) saying hi #and when people DM *me* I get spooked #this is not ideal lol

[zyanova]

Here is the storyboard for part 3 of the Transformers Earthspark Season 1 finale to "The Touch" by Stan Bush!

The moment I saw this post, I just had to add in the song! (I would have reblogged the original post with the video, but alas, Tumblr.) Credit for this video goes to @oldswifty , I just edited the song in.

BIG EARTHSPARK SPOILERS!!

I cut the first minute or so out since there's no other audio, so be sure to check out the link above for the whole thing! I wasn't sure when the song would end, so I just let it run for the rest of the video.

Original post, by @oldswifty :

#tf #tfe #transformers #earthspark #tf earthspark #transformers earthspark #maccadam #tf earthspark spoilers #tfe spoilers #transformers earthspark spoilers #earthspark spoilers #this fits so well #I'm so sad it didn't make it in #I've watched this so many times since i posted this and i still get chills #i don't have the energy to tag all the characters I'm sorry #um what happened 👀👀 as of aug 23 this has more notes than the original #last i checked that one had like 150 or something more notes idk i wasn't really paying attention

[grendelsmilf]

i love characters who are ostensibly womanizers but are also flaming homosexuals. it’s the funniest shit in the world to me. i call it. the baoyu paradox

#fruity asf faggots who apparently love nothing more than bedding [checks notes] women.?.?.?!?!.? #o #100 #i need a honglou meng tag #also YES this is about kabru but this is ALSO about rodolphe and henri from a day in the country (watched it yesterday) #also touga technically except i need to kill him with hammers so not really #also michael cassio depending on how u play him. i suppose.. #ALSO. TO BE CLEAR. THIS ISNT the same thing as being bisexual #SOME of these characters are certainly bisexual (baoyu for example) #but some of these characters are straight. some are gay. it’s not simply a matter of ‘bisexuality’ #but alas….. were it that simple…….

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Broken Roofs and Fixed Perspectives

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #xue yang #xiao xingchen #Lots of cut content notes on this one. Lets all have a moment of silence for all the cut A-Qing's in each perspective. #particularly ripped and buff 'Daozhang Defender 'A-Qing (her perspective) #funny but poor layout #XY also had a red arrow pointed at him in his own POV that said 'just troubled' but it made the panel too cluttered. #He does see himself as troubled and uses that to justify his actions #but I also think there is room for him to not really know exactly how to feel about himself in this situation #Yi-city is such a fantastic tragedy for so many reasons and you will bear witness to me rambling about it in the tags as this arc continues #Helping a blind man fix a roof? A manipulative act of building trust or genuine display of wanting to collaberate? #XY and A-qing have experience of the cruelty of the world where as xxc has blind (haha) faith that kindness prevails #These three simultaneous know each other more than the other's think and *yet* completely miss the mark. #the stories they tell in the blizzard (and the reactions they have) so perfectly display who these characters are #Both xxc and xy tell stories about unfair cruelty. To xxc it is others who's suffering is highlighted. XY highlight's his own. #A-qing understands xue yang more that she wants to admit. She predicts the twists in xy's story and empathizes with the hurt and anger #A-qing is also taking advantage of xxc! She is also lying to survive! #Though shes mostly benign in her intentions. She really did vibe check the rank stank on XY's soul on the spot #Alas...no one listens to teen girls....

[brother-emperors]

listen. listen, there's a kind of intimacy in having a dedicated rivalry, okay. who else is going to know you like this!!! also it's funny

Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini

Julius II: The Warrior Pope, Christine Shaw

and on della rovere’s soldier comment:

Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, D.S. Chambers

and finally! regarding the delightful Mess of political-family relationships, including the marriage comment (altho the montefeltro family that giovanni married into did have sforza family ties, since giovanna's mother was battista sforza, but this is about the more immediate alliance based relationship and della rovere's hand in the rejection of a milanese match for his brother. and. this is not even remotely a serious comic, but now I am once again thinking about insular all these families are. the fucking medicis are here too, if you go half a step to the left on della rovere's family tree)

Julius II: The Warrior Pope, Christine Shaw

Giulio II, Il papa del Rinascimento, Giulio Busi (Bianca Maria Visconti is Ascanio's mom. btw)

panel inserts of the cards they're playing with are all from the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck! (I used public domain scans/photos for the comic itself)

ko-fi!⭐ bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app

#weeping. ascanio's dialogue covers up della rovere's sleeve collar. i spent all that time drawing details on it and FOR WHAT #(it was fun) #there was another deleted bit where ascanio has some petty line like 'i bet arguing makes you hard' but then i realized #that's something that lucullus would probably say to crassus and also i need to set that line up for ascanio #we gotta. we gotta character build (lays down face in the ground) we have to provide the character set up for it #it's really more of a line for cesare to drop at some point over how much rodrigo and ascanio argued #shout out to the time rodrigo threatened to throw ascanio into the tiber river or that time ascanio like. decided to physically get into #a fight with juan borgia #and they were still gambling partners after that????? damn okay. sometimes the vice chancellor can be (checks note) im not finishing #that statement #komiks tag #italian renaissance tag #ascanio sforza #giuliano della rovere #i WILL get a relationship dynamic tag for them once i can figure out something punchy and fun. anyway! #ehgh. I NEED. to go to milan. and go thru the archives. let me in. LET ME INNNNNNNNN

[ink-ghoul]

It's my great joy to announce the plans for the Scarland Art Book fan-project! 🌸

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🔥 UPDATE: YOU CAN FIND US NOW ON @scarland-artbook

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What's this about?

It's an artist collaboration, to create a compilation of illustrations, concept designs, sketches, and thought processes that mockup the development of theme park design.

This project will be centered around showcasing Scarland's architecture, landscapes, and experiences along with the designs of its products, costumes, advertisement, rides and everything else that is so carefully crafted for a park.

Who's organizing?

Yours truly @ink-ghoul, along with @berrysquared, @septictech, @cocoabats, @kazehita, and @peanutbutter255 with support from Elle, Reshie, Blods, Void and Myra.

How can I join the project?

The process will be the same as a fan-zine, we will open application forms in the near future! keep an eye on that!

🔽 We would love to hear your opinion on this idea, please let us know by answering this form (closes on July 9)

More news coming soon, reblogs appreciated!

#hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #scarland artbook #interest check #few notes: #this will be a digital release (unless we discuss plans for physical prints which is a whole more things to plan) #FOR FREE #THIS IS A LOVE LETTER #my art

[unpretty]

there's something humbling about getting pulled into a webtoon to the point that i think, "damn, i really wanna know what happens next, i'm gonna find a translation of the webnovel this was adapted from and read ahead". but then i find it and it's like. 80% breasted-boobily tier shit. like i'm trying to be forgiving but poor translation cannot account for how bad it is. and that's when i realize that the comic was good because it replaced everything but the dialogue with sparkly watercolor shoujo art. the instant the dialogue isn't coming out of the sparkliest bitch i've ever seen it's not great either. i got bamboozled by sparkles. i'm no better than a magpie.

#original #listen it's only happened *checks notes* three times #it might have happened more often if so many fan translations weren't dire to the point of unreadability #running it through google translate like 'this seems fine' and i'm squinting at it trying to figure out why there's liver in his pocket

[dragonpropaganda]

you should talk about your thoughts on rw fanon (looking with huge eyes)

Oh god, there's a lot of major misconceptions have concreted into fanon, mostly around ancient society and ascension.

First things first! Ascension is not death! They are entirely separate things treated entirely separately by the text of the game. I can see where the interpretation is coming from, but it doesn't really align with how the text treats either subject. Five Pebbles may want to remove the self destruction taboo, but from his reaction to the rot it's clear that he doesn't want to die. Conflation of ascension and death only comes up as an offhand possibility that pebbs makes on iterator 4chan, when he's going into the possibilities of scenarios that even the other sliverists are doubtful of! (let me make clear that I am not a sliverist by any means)

Ascension is more of talked about as a form of transcendence, yeah? A Bell, Eighteen Amber Beads talks about their sitution as being "To have grasped at the boundless infinites of the cosmic void…", not as them seeking an end to life.

The beta dialogue goes into more detail, mentioning the "infinities of time and space" and the "boundless fractal planes of spirit and reality...", though this dialogue was cut and it's hard to tell how much it reflects the concept as in the released game.

As for the cultural misconceptions... there's A Lot to talk about, but the first that comes to mind is the common conflation of the five natural urges and the christian concept of sin.

It is true that the negation of urges is mentioned by moon as an alternative method of ascension, but much of what we know about the culture of the people who the fandom calls the ancients (which makes discussion of the depths a mess but that's something for another post entirely) points towards the urges not being seen as shameful.

Even the first urge does not seem to be particularly scorned! Being a warrior is presented as a cause for bragging in the Shaded Citadel pearl, being comparable with being an artist and a fashion legend. The second urge, also does not seem to be suppressed. Multiple sources attribute some level of honour to parenthood! The aforementioned pearl also mentions Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel as being a "Mother, Father and Spouse" without any hint of shamefulness. Nineteen Spades, Endless Reflections expresses pride about having progeny, mentioning it alongside their owned land and esteem among their peers.

After some peer review, an esteemed friend has told me to add a section on purposed organisms as well! This is not so much my area, so I might be a bit off on some things.

As moon says, the majority of purposed organisms were tubes in boxes, and that the primal fauna of the world are almost entirely extinct. A lot of the fandom seems to ignore the first part, and i can't say I blame them, but the evolution of the creatures is so much weirder than people think.

Concept art for the creatures has this interesting quality to it, where the organic parts of the creatures have an almost... melty quality to them.

In the concept art, the flesh appears as if it's almost defying the machinery to form an animal shape. It's as if it's conquering its own artificiality the way the foliage grows over the (stone, brick and concrete, not mostly metal as some think!) ruins.

Of course, it's hard to really tell how much of this reflects the finalised concept, most of the integration is much smoother in the game, in line with a seamless kind of biomechanical design. There was always an intention of biomechanical strangeness, as shown in this screenshot of the devlog before the term "slugcat" even existed!

That said, the melty nature of the concept art shows a level of wild change inherent the biomechanical nature of the creatures, as if they truly are the result of these "tubes in boxes" almost revolting against their own boxes.

and considering centipedes... some tubes may not have had boxes in the first place!

#rain world #rain world lore #rainworld #rw spoilers #please note! my role in downpour development does not make me an authority on what is canon or not! #my domain is entirely within challenge mode and arena which aren't canon anyway #my lore analysis is just lore analysis with no looks behind the scenes of anything vanilla #downpour was made as a fan expansion and the rewrites were just done directly by james #we didn't get any disambiguation on the lore (and thank fuck for that honestly. analysis is the best part) #though the hills ARE made of bricks #this is canon not because i say so but because it is visibly true in some areas of the game. part of the text and thus canon. weep. #i could go into more detail on most of this! purposed organisms aren't my area of expertise tho so i might be a bit shaky on some of that #anyway if anyone has any fact checking to do. please do so #media analysis is a dialogue!

[wisecrackingeric-2]

You know you wanna vote for him. You wanna vote for him sooooo badly. That man is on twitter and twitch BEGGING to win. You wouldn’t let Joe Hills down, would you?

Also my partner described him as “looking like what an awesome guitar riff sounds like” if that’s not convincing enough idk what is

#ericsart #mcytblr sexyman #mcyt tumblr sexyman #joe hills #joehills fanart #mcytblr #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #hermitcraft s9 #hermitcraft season 9 #vote Joe hills or I will CRY #NO FUCKING WAY THIS POST HAS GOTTEN MORE NOTES IN A FEW HOURS THAN MY PIECE THAT TOOK ME 30+ HOURS HAS IN A WEEK #GUYS PLEASE CHECK OUT MU OTHER WORK THIS THING TOOK ME LIKE A SIMGLE HPUR MY OTHER STUFF HAS TAKEN MONTHS BOOST THAT INSTEAD TF #also consider: Joe WANTS to win. he’s CAMPAIGNING FOR HIMSELF. Quackity on the other hand doesn’t even KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING #if Joe wins he will be GRATEFUL for it so obviously he should win /lh /j (this is all lighthearted and fun guys please don’t take it #seriously and please please please don’t attack me it’s all a joke ok)

[csphire]

Tiefling kids' horn headcannons

(Blame Dammon for this rare moment of baby fever and this comic.)

Horns don't emerge and break through the skin fully until around age two. The whole process is similar to teething, and it makes the little ones just as fussy and irritable.

A signal when it's about to start is the child starts to nussle and rub their forhead on anything and everything while grunting.

Do they cry in discomfort over this? Sometimes, yes, but most parents do all they can to soothe them. They use anything from numbing oils to cool compreses.

Some might start head butting things, mostly playfully too. This sometimes worrisome behavior usually goes away by age three once the irritated skin about their horns heals up and calms down.

If their horns are sharply pointed, and there is a high concern of potential injury to themselves, and/or more likely others, parent(s) may opt to file them to be a touch duller. Or if they can afford it, safety cap them. The caps can be made with a variety of materials, usually hollowed carved wood or bone, and wrapped with the utmost care to maintain their structural integrity and allow continued healthy horn growth.

These horn caps are often kept as mementos like humans will sometimes keep their child's first pair of shoes.

Their little horns need nearly daily care compared to adults and are more prone to infections about the base of them.

They also need to be taught to leave their horns alone or wash their hands first as it's dirty hands, which lead to these infections. If they can't behave themselves, parents may need to cap or wrap them until their child learns better self-control.

Sometimes, a child will chip a tip of one of their horns at some point. There is no large cause for alarm unless there is a crack that looks to be running down the base. The horns are carefully filled to match one another again. The chipped horn is wrapped and/or splinted sometimes for a week or so. This is usually in an overabundance of caution to give any cracks time to fully mend.

Any filling down is usually similar to the feel of filing down one's nails. It should not hurt but there can be a sensation of catching the quick if a horn is filled down too much. Larger chips may need more time to correct any imbalance because of this.

Sometimes, one horn can grow a little faster than the other. Although common, this can cause some anxiety in some parents. It can usually be easily corrected, with careful filling of the horn that's growing quicker.

Feel free to reblog and add some of your own ideas. Add some of them to your fics if you want too! <3

#tieflings #tiefling kids #horn care #horn growth #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #headcannons #headcannon #I might add more later to this #check out the notes for more addons to these lil headcannons