#completely out of my element here

[sword-fighting-hermit]

[Quest]ing Beast

That time Arthur met The Questing Beast

For @mortiscausa‘s March to Camelot

#march to camelot #arthuriana #arthurian fanart #the questing beast #arthur pendragon #arthurian mythology #artists on tumblr #my art #not pleased with the result #completely out of my element here

[greatalastoraltruist]

Trying to find a good Alastor fic on AO3 be like

ew

no

yikes

mayyyyybeeee

Oh yay a single one shot that's extremely short but at least isn't completely out of character

A lot of y'all really do not understand this character like at all and it shows blatantly

#look he is not having sex live on tv with ANYONE esp not vox #also he is not crawling to lucifer after he got hurt #yall really out here completely misunderstanding core elements of his character and it kills me #i wont ever say any of this to any of those writers tho cause whether or not my opinion ia correct that would just be a bitch move #nah ill keep my tiny bit of bitching to right here where it can't hurt anyones feelings #if anyone reads these tags and knows of a well written fic about Alastor please send me recs #ill happily beta read anything too just pls remember my boi is so ace and way too worried about his rep to go crawling to anyone esp somone #he hates for help #its as out of character as the verbalase video #broadcasting across hell

[pansyfemme]

today’s scraps + updates

#i havent given much info on this project here! #but for my first semester of my sophmore year i have to complete a semsester long project #and im making a paper theatre lol #so once i get all the figures painted and cut out they’ll be inside the theatre lol #theres gonna be other stuff including an audio/writing element that i may or may not upload on here if people are interested but thats not #ready yet lol #no id #jude’s wips

[ccghastly]

Small Pole Cat Appreciation Post

With Guest-Star Max Rockatansky

#that is no joke my absolute favourite little clip in the whole movie #just Max swinging into frame #completely out of his element #'this is definitely not where i am meant to be' #'how did i get here and more importantly how do i stop' #his lost little face #his death grip on the pole #it kills me #love it #mmfr #mad max #mad max fury road #max rockatansky #Pole Cat #Pole Cats #ccghastly

[ebbpettier]

i think part of my reasoning is that "does simon snow get his magic back" doesn't immediately register in my brain as "simon snow's power is restored to him and he can cast spells again like any other magician" in my brain, he still has magic. magic is everywhere. he just can't use magic on a personal level. and as a guy surrounded by videos without closed captions at work i jus

#del/lat #THIS IS JUST A SILLY THOUGHT SORRY FOR BOUNCING OFF YOUR POST MESSOFTHEJESS #I JUST THINK ABOUT IT A LOT #simon when he lost his magic reminds me a lot of me when i first started really feeling the CursesTM #i too completely fucking caved in on myself for a very long time and thought that my life was over #turns out the time will pass anyway #IT WAS SO FRUSTRATING TO READ BUT LIKE. only because i felt called out so hard. like having an infection excised #there are elements that will always suck (i have repeatedly been told i am Stupid as if that's something i can?? do anything about???) #(buddy if i can't understand you then i can't understand you. sorry let me just flip the lever and Regain Essential Brain Function) #it sucks! and it will keep sucking. such is the way of being able to have thoughts and feelings. #but like. the sun still came up. i'm still on the right side of the dirt. if god wants me dead hes gonna have to come down here himself #watch me delete this in an hour cause i'm shy about being vulnerable on the internet #these are really good useful books for me and i felt very seen

[foundfamilyhq]

#los vaqueros #task force 141 #call of duty #call of duty modern warfare #no image submitted #no tags submitted #i am completely out of my element here #but from what google says these are groups of characters? #i decided to go ahead and post them together #since that's how they were submitted

[avernusreject]

Welp I'm sick at the moment so figured it was time to finally do Minthara's romance. It was surprisingly sweet, outside of the whole purge of the Grove. I guess we'll see if I stomach a fully bad playthrough. Also, I've come to the realization its not a BG3 romance until the romance interest hasn't tried to kill Tav at some point

#here's my OC lore dump in the notes #cleric of Lathander #basically she was raised in a very fridge element of the faith #to the point they believe for Lathander's rebirth the world needs to be completely whipped out to be born a new #basically she's just a cult religious zealot #hence the justification of her choosing all the worse options #oc: dawn #bg3 #minthara

[caimitos]

i already made a tumblr for my art (just as an archive) but i hate the thought of moving here for my art after ~5 years on artph / the local art community on twitter

like i'm not sure how to (re)build an audience on a website that just doesn't have my target audience in it and it makes me want to eat broken glass

#filipinos on tumblr receive my art....pretty differently from filipinos on twitter if that makes sense #on twitter it's mostly chill and normal vs tumblr where like. there's a Vibe. or they straight up say in the tags #like FINALLYYY like despite /living in this country/ they're so unused to seeing filipino culture depicted in art (bc they're on extremely #western social media circles). it's not my fault or their fault it's just Not My Preferred kind of reception to my art yk #it sort of makes me feel like i'm portraying something gimmick-y and slapping ph flags on everything when the art is just. whatever #does this make sense. but anyway twitter is like my house and tumblr is like me going to someone elses american house etc etc #it can get fun here but i am completely out of my element. shrek voice they don't even have kanal humor on here #skl.txt #also all my art there is mostly filipino (fashion) oriented and gets an ok amount of notes except ONE POST #sunrise/sunset art wc is very ambiguously fantasy wtvr looking. it's at 16k notes. which is neat but also a bit discouraging like #man. my target audience Really isn't on this site. yk. but i really really do appreciate it nonetheless i'm just a bit lost at the moment

[redbean-nom]

redesign of the Vespa Kids from book of boba fett

thoughts & closeups under cut

so i tried to keep their general appearances/colors intact while adding some actual personality (because i think the main problem with the original designs is that they feel like extras, not side characters).

Red: Zabrak orphan who grew up on Tatooine. 18 years old, was a member of the local insurgent group around the end of the empire era. Has a combo blaster/interrogation droid arm. Speeder is a repurposed version of Maul's speeder from phantom menace.

Blue: Human raised in the non-Tatooine parts of the Outer Rim. 23 years old, known assassin who worked for Jabba. Uses a scavenged magnaguard-type electrostaff. Has basically a version of the mandalorian helmet visors built into his face. Speeder is an abandoned scout trooper speeder.

Yellow: Tusken orphan from the clans around the podrace area. 19 years old, became a bounty hunter after his tribe (and bantha) were killed by the Pikes to expand spice routes. Has a Vader-style chest panel and rocket feet. Speeder is a custom pod attached to one of Sebulba's engines, with attached rancor teeth and horns from his late bantha.

Green: Human who grew up on Coruscant, but family fled the Empire to Tatooine around A New Hope. 21 years old, originally worked as a local enforcer for various Hutts. Has super battle droid arm & leg attachments. Speeder is stolen from local nikto gang.

original designs for reference:

#star wars #bobf #tbobf #book of boba fett #redbean art #vespa kids #i tried to keep at least one original design element completely intact for each of them #so Red has the same hair and similar vest #Blue has the grey slacks and similar shirt #Yellow changed a bit more because i couldnt find a full reference for yellow or green but he still has the grey jacket with orange shoulder #and Green kept the green ombre hair #the podracer speeder is mostly because i wish they had more salvaged podracer part stuff #like. those things crash a LOT. obviously local people are going to pick up whatever still works #Yellow definitely has the most distinct speeder silhouette #and Greens cybernetics turned out well #the original design for her looked a little too star trekky so i just gave her a flightsuit #but yeah part of the problem is that they originally looked too clean #not just shiny but also no scratches or dents or scorch marks #so for this i was going for something like the esb boba armor #and design wise something like krayts claw but dustier #so funny how pretty much everyone from tatooine tries to leave as soon as possible because its dry and sandy and full of criminals) #but then boba (career criminal who grew up on kamino) goes to tatooine once and is like I LIVE HERE NOW #also they originally didnt really have clear motives? #so for my redesigns Red is kind of ezra-like and sees bobas crime gang as sort of family (the rancor is their dog) #Blue is there because boba (and fennec) are famous and hes hoping to get recognized as an established assassin #Yellow respects boba's tusken family and wants revenge on the pikes #Green is there because she's getting paid

[marklikely]

and i have zero answers about this but i feel like we as a collective need to figure some stuff out bc we cannot keep having these constant threads about how all lgbt media is sanitized and boring these days in between callout posts for how every new lgbt media that isn't sanitized and boring is irredeemable problematic media you can't blog about

#i dont know what to do about this either so i am offering no suggestions #cause like idk. jsut like with the adventured zone the quest to find unproblematic diverse characters is just giving us boring . #but at the same time i get it like some things are just impossible to get past and that line is different for everyone #idk man! what do you do i dont want people who hit their limit on Problematic elements to just shut up and let others have fun or w/e #but i also think its really not getting us anywhere to be like. every new thing thats coming out has some problematic aspect dont watch it. #and this is the state we're in after years of the like 'critically consuming' discussion so clearly THATS given us zero progress too. #us deciding 'well you can like some problematic things as long as you're aware of it' has like #not improved the conversation at all its just deferred it to like 'well whats too problematic to like critically then' #and thus the cycle continues we're still having the exact same issue as before :/ #avpost #if anything the critical consumption movement has made the problem worse because now #people are just being completely hypocritical and deciding what is or isnt 'too problematic to like critically' comes down to personal tast #taste*. whatever you like is ok to enjoy critically and whatever you dislike is too problematic to enjoy at all. #and the conversation just gets perfectly stuck there cause as it turns out you can like #rationalize and intellectualize just about any opinion even if you only got there using your own emotions #so its very easy to believe you're being objective about it and have solved the issue but really haven't solved anything at all #and let the record show im not immune to anything ive described here ok goodnight. this is just thinking out loud. #feel free to weigh in just please dont treat this as like some coherent mission statement or declaration. #i am litcherally typing as im thinking and not really editing. this is just an open discussion of my unfiltered thoughts lmao #but if you also have thoughts id love to hear it.

[luxraydyne]

wait, dude, wait. aini was supposed to be cosmic horror??

girl, seriously? i dunnooooo i’m not really feeling it fellas

#i'm some i've read some cosmic horror(/weird fic prob more fitting here) in my time and i do not get those vibes from it at aaaaall #i can believe that cosmic horror is what aini *thought* it was doing. but no. #game doesn't commit nearly enough and its so like. self conscious in terms of 'we gotta make this appeal to more people' to commit #and like in this economy it's just not weird enough tbh #simulation theory as plot point in and of itself does not a cosmic horror/weird fiction make. or like. an interesting one #and when the writing ultimately chickens out with the 'but its okay because even if it's a simulation we all matter and should be content' #which it will #i should be feeling existentially uneasy and instead i'm like 'my god i totally know exactly where this is going' #and it's so needless! you have a scifi concept ripe with fic psychological weird horror potential that went untapped! #why let that just shrivel up in the corner cause sim theory's more big brain?? make a different game then! #i simply do not care about the ''frayer'' or whomstever the player avatar is called today. cause the game don't care either lol #its heart somehow aint in it. which is weird considering how much other good shit was tossed in favour of the new Thing #its pure mechanics. which could work if the game goes all in on mechanical narrative. but the mechanics dont even work #it's not even interested in the interesting meaty bit of the concept it's so completely linear it misses its own point entirely #the mechanics arent integrated with the thematics at all its so clunky which is a shame cause clearly a lot of nitpicking went in #from like the dialogue writers #proofing this thing was a nightmare i would imagine #and like. you can't have a pandemic rocket and stormtrooper horde as the climax of your story and expect me to seriously inspect it #as a proper serious work of cosmic horror i'm too busy rolling my eyes and laughing at it #not saying that something can't have both weird horror and comedy elements to it reasonably speaking #but the horror elements aren't beefy and deeply thought out enough nor is the comedy integrated in such a way to hit that sweet spot #uuuugh theres something in here somewhere but not like. as one game. take one or two elements split them off and develop them #like properly. fully with care and gusto and focus on what the writing actually feels. then you could have a couple of good games #and maybe even a decent cosmic horror product #but this Aint It. weird fiction/cosmic horror is more than a base concept or aesthetic flairs you gotta gets the guts underneath #it will not tag this properly but i will make the walls of tag attached #of increasing and therefore increasingly absurd length. for the bit

[the-nysh]

Jokes aside, absolute kudos to ONE for being one of a few authors - worldwide - who pretty much consistently bull rushes into themes of estrangement in young men, yet makes it clear that in the end, the only way those feelings can be overcome is by focusing on yourself instead of whatever external evil you decide is to blame for your misery - and of course, realising that accomplishing your goals wont necessarily lead to boundless joy and existential satisfaction.

This is another lost ask from 2020, which may have been relevant to discuss with full integrity back then, but now the game is completely changed when ONE flips that consistency to insert a meddling hostile monster GOD as that very tangible, external True Evil cosmic disaster to blame for everyone’s current undeserved suffering and misery beyond their control. Of course, now our fine young men will be forced to deal with the fallout of estrangement in the most severe ways - when otherwise the support and connections from loved ones would have been a grounding solace to their humanity or source of inner strength. And of course they’ll unfairly blame themselves in further isolated spiraling rumination for even those factors permanently unfixable beyond their control, and for the cruelty of god’s monkey’s paw forces at work for twisting their goals around into their biggest disappointing ‘punishments’ of loss...or directly made into pawns according to His will instead of their own.

Like, focusing inward to address your own mistakes/flaws/weaknesses/failures/misunderstandings to grow into a wiser, better person is one thing, but the grimdark severity of the added cosmic consequences beyond anyone’s control have become almost too far removed to be humanly relatable. Unless of course the point is to highlight the strength of human endurance, persistence, and resistance - to survive despite getting repeatedly crushed and broken underfoot by the world’s unfairness - and find some path or will to live anyway, when the ‘laws’ of life unexpectedly throw shit your way. It’s become no longer just a personal introspective or existential problem, but a battle and struggle against the very rules and cruel game enforced by ‘god.’

The story to fight against, overthrow, and break those oppressive laws of the universe with the humble power of human Will brings at least one inspiring level of catharsis. But it’s a different story altogether if everyone is just to passively ‘accept’ the way things are, powerless to change anything like rats on a sinking ship, without daring to stand up or notice/confront the actual bigger problem that needs fixing. Auugh, the insertion of a fictional hostile ‘god’ as that explainable/blamable factor certainly confuddles things, but if our characters are truly strong, then at least their stories to survive against all impossible fateful odds anyway are not without hope. 

#opm #ONE pls #manga spoilers #anonymous #replies #another lost ask i found cleaning out my inbox #which COMPLETELY changes context now #(me lowkey throwing shade at the 'god' element) #also i'm speaking for more than one character's consequences here

[quokkafoxtrot]

All I’m saying is that if you’re making a game very similar to Dead Space you have to be better than Dead Space.

Or at the very least equal to.

#quokka plays #cp spoilers #tag rant incoming #there’s a whole heap of things that were in Dead Space and that Dead Space 2 improved upon that are just completely absent here #I just bought an explosive bullet upgrade for my gun and it wasn’t until the tutorial that I found out it takes 6 bullets per explosive shot #I’ve been one shot by enemies that didn’t make a sound until there was nowhere for me to hide #(giant fkn clanking robot that only clanked when it started shooting) #a checkpoint before a long shimmy section that lead to a trial and error instant death puzzle #there’s just a lot of really obnoxious gameplay elements that were phased out after they proved to be shit in the 90s and 00s #I’m playing on easy because I get frustrated having to redo things and I’m having to redo so many things even tho my mistakes are #‘looked in a direction at a wrong time’ #so far it’s super linear with one ‘you can explore here’ side section in every area #no puzzles even though I have a grav glove #maybe it gets better but I’ve got 48% of the trophies just by playing the game #also: I CANT KICK THE LIMBS AROUND

[causticsunshine]

.

#thinking about finishing my 1d fics again and while with one super old wip i figured out how to write it sans heavy ot5 friendship dynamic #the two sequel fics for ‘swear i’ve known you since forever’ in ATSCO series…. oooh i fear i am Fucked #it’s not that i have beef with ot5 fic really it just feels weird for me personally to be writing it so #heavy handedly this many years on? and controversial take mayhaps but there are still plenty super involved ot5 fans out there putting out #mmm weird vibes? delusional even? not all of them ofc #but enough that i’ve seen especially on twitter and iii don’t want the association just bc i kept the dynamic in a fic i wrote lmao #(also i have some thoughts and opinions on things and people i did not have in the past too so! that doesn’t help) #i think for ATSCO i’m just gonna have to commit because i am Not rethinking a whole new plot for that series 4 years down the line #especially after i rewrote the whole plot like 5 times as well as the first fic in the series several more times as well….. #i’m not doing it again!! i’m not!! so if i DO finish either one of these fics specifically. please know if ot5 element stays in #moreso in ATSCO than the other one which has remained a secret 4 years on #know what i stand for and who i am… i know this matters to few but me but i’m putting it out there nonetheless #it’s still gonna be a hot minute before any fics get finished bc where my interests are rn and my focusing on art but! i stand by my word #and my fics are still intended to be completed! #(also sidenote i am. no longer replying to any update inquiries on here or ao3! i’ve already said why in the past that they #stress me out rather than encourage me so i’m gonna leave it at that! i honestly might even start to delete them from my inbox / comments #just because they get to me that bad like i literally avoid ao3 because of it so. yeah! pls don’t send me update inquiries <3) #alex talks

[u3pxx]

my comic for @aabadendingzine which is out for free over here.

extra stuff/commentary under the cut | like what i do? support me on ko-fi 💙

helloooo how's it going? i really hope you enjoyed the comic <3 it's rare for me to draw such wholesome things, i know [bats eyelashes]

DFGHDJKF ok i know, it's evil, the entire zine is evil you should go read it!!!!!!! but also, i remember coming up with this prompt and the image of mikeko trying to wake a dead apollo up evoked such a visceral reaction in me that i audibly went "NOOOOOO" when i thought it up LOL

the fourth page is the first page i ever thumbnailed bc i knew EXACTLY how i wanted this thing to end!

i think my favorite page of this comic is the 2nd page (the 4th page being my second favorite bc what can i say, i'm evil wheezes) i just really enjoyed drawing the montage of apollo going about his life and kristoph just. being there. always watching him.

i keep thinking about how spark brushel mentioned feeling like he was being watched those past 7 years. i imagined apollo would get a taste of that once he starts trying to find out the truth behind what happened in his first case.

and as for my favorite panel, I REALLY LIKE THIS ONE!! it's just fun shoving every important element alluding to the case 7 years ago to the moment when zak died!

and it's not very obvious but an element i really like about this one is zak still on the chair he died on. it's just his torso visible and i would've loved to make it more obvious that he's there but oh well.

i can't think of anything else to add about drawing this so i'll end it by saying: PLEASE GO READ THE ZINE, IT'S SO SOS SOSOSOS FULL OF LOVE FOR HURT AND TRAGEDY AND THE WAY MY FELLOW ZINEMATES EXPLORED THAT IS SUCH!!! GOOD AND HEARTWRENCHING STUFF!!!!!!!!!

i had to take a break from reading the zine when i went out to finish it bc my chest started to physically hurt bc ohhhhh lordy, it just hurt. it just hurt a lot! (please do read the trigger warnings before reading the thing bc this zine deals with a lot of heavy stuff!)

i like to joke about how i'm evil and enjoy evil things such as angst no comfort which. well, it's kind of true LMAO so i'm thrilled that i was able to be a part of this zine and cook up something completely terrible <3

here's the link for it again, go read it!

#ace attorney #apollo justice #kristoph gavin #trucy wright #phoenix wright #beanix #mikeko #klavier gavin #zak gramarye #magnifi gramarye #shadi smith #aa4 #aa4 apoilers #cw death #tw death #cw implied poisoning #tw implied poisoning #ace attorney zine #sunnysidedraws #described #id in alt text #sunnysideattorney #sunnysidezines

[chillyfeetsteak]

I first became fascinated with it a few years ago when I noticed it out an airplane window on a flight from Texas to Southern California. In an expanse of endless desert, suddenly, a vast body of water. When I got home, I immediately looked it up on a map. The Salton Sea.

It’s the largest landlocked body of water in California. It sits right on top of the San Andreas Fault at over 200 feet below sea level. It is more than twice as salty as the Pacific Ocean. It is completely toxic. And I had never heard of it before then.

(photo essay under the cut)

In the early 1900s the Colorado River was diverted through a series of irrigation canals in order to provide water for the farmlands of Imperial Valley. One of the head-gates broke during a flood, and the desert basin filled with water for 2 years before it was fixed. The unexpected lake soon became a popular vacation destination; it was stocked with fish, and resorts and hotels popped up along its shores. It became known as a great place for sport fishing, waterskiing, and yacht parties. Big name celebrities visited. At one point, it had more annual visitors than Yosemite.

Salton Sea has no outlet, and is only filled via agricultural runoff. As the water evaporated in the hot desert sun, the lake became more and more saline. Chemicals began to build up from the run off causing toxic algae blooms, and mass die-offs of fish and birds started in the 80s. By the 90s, the beaches were littered with fish gills and bird bones and the resorts were abandoned. The lake began to dry up as irrigation run-off was diverted away. The exposed lake bed is also toxic, and the high desert winds kick up the dust, making the air poisonous. 

Despite the unpleasant odor, the noxious air and the summer temperatures regularly reaching 120°, a renaissance of sorts began in the early 2010s. Artist and nomad colonies began to spring up around Salton Sea. Bombay Beach, once a popular resort destination, is now mostly a ghost town, but the folks who remain have turned the ruins on the shores into an outdoor art installation gallery where the found-art sculptures are cyclically destroyed by the elements and then replaced with new ones. Many of the houses and RVs in town are themselves art pieces.

In nearby Slab City, a settlement of off-the-grid lifestylers, you can find even more folk art. Salvation Mountain is a manmade hill painted with bright colors and bible verses and maintained by a community of volunteers. East Jesus is a sculpture garden and art installation. 

This past weekend my partner and I finally made the pilgrimage to the Sea. California has the benefit of being home to a huge array of biomes. In just a couple of hours you can travel from snowy mountain peaks to lush oases to endless sand dunes. Driving the hour or so south from Palm Springs towards Salton Sea is like driving towards the end of the world.

Bombay Beach especially enamored me. The beach is crusted with salt and millions of tiny shells and bones. It smells awful, like sewage and chemicals and low-tide and rotting fish. You drive out onto the beach and park anywhere amongst the sculptures and deteriorating resort ruins. The art feels raw in a way I haven’t experienced before. It reminds me of seeing paleolithic cave art. Humans made this, with no motivation other than to create something intriguing or beautiful or sad. Not much can live out here, but what you find fills me with a great adoration for humanity. Despite the asphyxiation of the natural world, the human spirit persists.

#im sure most people know about this place but i didnt so!! #i hated writing essays in school but now in my 30s i do it for fun apparently #photos are all mine except the first one #salton sea #bombay beach #slab city #salvation mountain