#creative stupidity

[tink27]

Saw a video on tiktok of someone re-binding a copy of the Hobbit and giving it a really beautiful new cover and I could not get the idea of Steve doing that for Eddie out of my head.

He hears Eddie mention in passing that he's always preferred homemade gifts (partly bc of the thought that goes into them but also because people spending money on him makes him uncomfortable) and Steve decides he needs to think of something he can make Eddie.

Steve may not be considered "clever" by the others but I'm convinced that boy is a do-er. When it comes to physical and practical skills, he will just learn and do it. He painstakingly researched and buys leather and special glue for book blinding, and even learns calligraphy so he can write beautifully on the inside cover.

And when he presents it to Eddie, wrapped in stiff expensive wrapping paper, Eddie asks where he got it and Steve says casually

"I made it"

As if he didn't spend months, didn't ruin at least 5 other copies of the Hobbit before he got it right, as if it wasn't so much work and time.

But Eddie gets it anyway, he understands and that's why he immediately bursts into tears.

#steve harrington isnt stupid #that boy is just physical and practical #and more determined than anyone #eddie munson doesnt expect anyone to try thay hard just for him #also growing up poor meant creative or homemade gifts were more common place #steve likes it too bc his parents and realtive would put little thought into gift but just buy him the most expensive thing #like fancy shoes or his car #steddie #stranger things #eddie munson #steve x eddie #gay steve harrington #steddie fics #stranger things s4 #steve harrington #kind of a ficlet

[zoe-oneesama]

You’re not going to win the Passive Aggressive War with Lila, Chloe.

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#with bustier just happy the girls are so creative with their 'compliments' lol #the way she accepted chloe telling rose 'you're not as annoying as usual' was so stupid #scarlet lady #scarlet lady au #scarlet lady comic #bustier #caline bustier #zombizou

[prismaticpichu]

I’m looking at YOU, awesome fandom!

Thx for giving this bullet hole-riddled game so much lore and love <33

#ffvii #crisis core #randomness #look ma! pichu did a meme! #ff7 #sephiroth #angeal hewley #genesis rhapsodos #stupidity #seriously I love this game to death but the more I think about it the more I realize how much I owe it to creative fandom

[goldensunset]

i enjoy this character

#upon this blorbo i bestow my highest honor (stupid drawing) #pokémon #teal mask/indigo disk #the teal mask #the indigo disk #pokemon #kieran #pokemon kieran #rival kieran #trainer kieran #my art #anyway that’s it from me in 2023 #many thoughts no creative energy -> tbh creature

[k-martins]

Just a daydream, but… If the multiverse theory is real, it means that in some universe each of my fanfics is canon. Each of the works I read, each of the fanarts I saved, is canonical. What I mean is that, even that stupid idea you have festering in your head or hidden in drafts, somewhere that story is canonical and loved by everyone. So it's kind of your responsibility to bring her into our universe :) That's a kind of happy thought.

#ao3fic #ao3 fanfic #ao3 #ao3 writer #fanfic #fanfiction #archive of our own #ao3 stuff #ao3feed #A hug to all my versions in the multiverse #who must be making tons of money #with all the stupid ideas I never had the courage to write #creative writing #writers #writers on tumblr #writeblr #writers and poets #writerscommunity #writing

[getvalentined]

Vincent Valentine of the Elite Four from Pokémon Holy/Meteor, releasing never on the N!ntendo Switch.

I put way too much effort into this for a dorky one-off, but here we are! I have a whole backstory for this AU but I will not bore you all with the details.

#vincent valentine #final fantasy VII #FFVII #final fantasy 7 #FF7 #pokemon #pokemon crossover #art tag #pokemon holy/meteor #giving that its own tag in case I ever finish the one with nero #so they can be grouped together #I have the sketch already #but idk man #I'm really down on my art recently #part of it is the plague #the rest is the disheartening state of creative spaces today #it all feels pretty futile lately #but I'm still here #making stupid crossovers #so that's something #I guess #pkmn

[tblsomedoodles]

Some post donnieverse "Dee and Leon finally getting some sleep" shenanigans. b/c you know neither of the two were sleeping well the entire time he was gone.

Suggestion by @bex19974 which was "the twins reuniting for when Donnie verse is over" which i only just realized could be any of the donnies reuniting with their twins lol.

Anyways, this is my promised second speedpaint of january (since i missed december). Speedpaint will be up soon

Edit: Speedpaint up

#tmnt #rottmnt #adopted donnie au #donnieverse #my doodles #rise donnie #rise leo #leos making sure dee doesn't go anywhere #he's got a deathgrip on his hoodie lol #just a quick thing b/c i'm still hitting my head against this stupid creative block #(not an art block b/c i can't fking write either) #this was my friday update #i'll reblog in the morning

[mythosphere]

Contrary to popular belief, I don't need my historical fiction films to be historically accurate all of the time. However, Ridley Scott hitting historians critical of Napoleon with a "how do you know? You weren't there" is CRAZY.

#its giving revisionism #movies should be allowed to be stupid and loud and flashy #but take the L when they're not accurate my guy #“this isnt historically accurate” “yeah i took a lot of creative liberties” #DONE #napoleon #historical fiction #history

[mamawasatesttube]

kon is not really a leader (though he's also not an idiot actually and i will die on this hill) but he's such a good right hand man. very loyal. mom friend. powerhouse. this is Also why timkon are so spirk coded (but this time it's flipped) and in this essay i will

#the thing about kon that everyone gets wrong is that he's not stupid. he's a dumbass but he's not stupid #he doesn't always think things through and he has a chronic habit of always believing the best in people to the point of naivety sometimes #but he's so creative and resourceful. genuinely one of the most fun things in sb94 is how many different ways he turns situations around #wait. post canceled i just thought about the end of knockout arc and im no longer having fun im just SAD #anyway um. coughs. kon and his insane loyalty. always being a pillar of steadfast support to the person he's being insanely loyal to #which is generally tim but has also been cassie in canon #what a guy. mr. right hand man #still sad about knockout arc but im ignoring it now it's fine. #rimi talks #kon #timkon

[sapphorror]

Zim, Dib, Gaz, and Tak are actually all horribly vindictive spiteful people to more or less equal degrees, but the interesting thing is that Zim and Gaz both exact vengeance in very specific, premeditated ways, which are often wildly out of proportion but once they feel like they've evened the score they will pretty much immediately forget about whatever pissed them off in the first place—whereas Dib and Tak are both ostensibly above being ruled by petty grudges, but very obviously boiling over with a constant resentment that sends them pouncing like rabid dogs at even the slightest opportunity or excuse to make the object of their ire suffer (and if they're both working towards their own self-serving end game that just HAPPENS to involve every terrible thing imaginable befalling their enemies, well... that'll just be a happy by-product of their personal success).

I don't I have any point to make here, I just like it when these freaks are all an overwhelming danger to society (and each other)

#invader zim #zim #dib #gaz #tak #meta #my meta #natterings #iz posting #the universe was never supposed to accommodate this many lunatics gathering in one place #let alone coming into direct conflict with each other #anyway i think tak is probably the scariest of the four not just due to her competence #but because she shares dibs deeply insidious insatiable anger AND whatever irken brainworm it is that makes zim so creatively awful #also i made this joke on twitter once already but dib must be so desensitized to the OTT retribution at this point #got it from gaz his whole life and then when zim showed up it NEVER occurs to him #that if he maybe stopped throwing things at zim for no reason then zim might stop wildly overreacting #its just a given to him that sometimes your life gets ruined over stupid bullshit #you cant let that hold you back

[louhilohi]

I'm currently writing a paper on signed communication systems in the South Pacific for one of my Uni classes, and there's this one source that's just hitting me different. It's about a man named Kagobai who was the only deaf person in the islanders' living memory, so in order to communicate he just straight up developed his very own sign language from scratch. His signs were only ever documented once, back in the early 1970's, at which point Kagobai was already in his 60s, so he's likely not around anymore, and his sign language probably died along with him.

And like, I'm so happy that there is any record at all of this wonderful man who invented a whole language out of necessity, but it's so bittersweet that the documentation isn't complete and can no longer be fleshed out. And it just made me think about how many individual sign languages and sign systems have probably existed throughout time and went extinct without anyone ever recording them, so now they're gone forever. And that made me sad.

#just stupid linguist thoughts i guess #it's just been so amazing to research this topic #to see the inventiveness and creativity of people #and I just needed to get this feeling out somehow cause it started gnawing at me #sign language #sign languages #deaf #deafness #pacific #oceania

[sokkas-therapist]

Zukka incorrect quote based on a conversation my friends had in our trig class today

Zuko: I can’t figure out how to make this logarithmic function hit these points on the graph

Sokka: oh…I just made linear lines to hit the points

Zuko: but that’s cheating??

Sokka: no it isn’t

Zuko: it literally is- the point of the assignment is to create logarithmic functions, you can’t just use linear lines.

Sokka: well if I hit you over the head with a pan-

Zuko: WHAT?? why are you hitting me in the head, I thought you loved me???

Sokka, continuing as if Zuko hadn’t interrupted him: -and you pass out, then it wouldn’t matter what type of pan it was, would it? You would still be unconscious.

Zuko: what the fuck is wrong with you

Sokka: a graph is a graph.

Sokka: …

Sokka: also I do love you

#Sokka would 100% find creative ways to get around stupid and difficult assignments #and Zuko does not understand his boyfriend’s analogies but he’s trying <3 #zukka #sokka #Zuko #sokka x Zuko #my post #zukka headcanons

[prismaticpichu]

Angeal’s most elaborate prank: Switching the salt and pepper shakers before setting the table. Also knock-knock jokes.

Sephiroth’s most elaborate prank: Putting out a wet floor sign on a dry hallway and gaslighting people into thinking it’s slippery

Genesis’s most elaborate prank: Changing Sephiroth’s ringtone while he’s the bathroom to I Wanna Dance With Somebody, setting his volume to max, and calling him 35 minutes later while he’s in a meeting.

Zack’s most elaborate prank: Notoriously dubbed “The Day Everyone in ShinRa Was Convinced That Genesis Was a Mermaid.”

#ffvii #crisis core #ff7 #sephiroth #zack fair #genesis rhapsodos #angeal hewley #randomness #stupidity #final fantasy vii #I feel like angeal doesn’t give a poo about pranks #sephiroth takes great pleasure in messing with people but isn’t creative enough #Genesis just likes screwing with sephiroth anyway #Zack causes chaos on the daily

[3dth1ng]

Hello KinitoPET community

reaction images for you

OG images under the cut

#wowza creativity #kinitopet #kinito pet #kinito the axolotl #kinitopet fanart #kinito fanart #im a kinito kinnie i need to have some of these #so i made some #but then i thought “hey why not share” #so i shared these stupid things #enjoy LMAOOO

[chamerionwrites]

See I honestly do find the prequels-era Jedi an interesting (and at times painfully recognizable) portrait of institutional violence in that...they aren't cackling villains. They're mostly sympathetic well-intentioned individuals who via a combo of traditionalist inertia, ideological blinders, proximity to power, a dash of plain old arrogance and a liberal seasoning of end-justifies-the-means compromise end up being at best indifferent to and at worst deeply complicit in some pretty heinous injustice. I don't even think this is a completely against-the-grain reading on my part. At the end of the day it's a pretty mild critique, but it's hard to argue that the PT is entirely uncritical of the Jedi imo.

Unfortunately the narrative is never interested in really sinking its teeth into that. And even more unfortunately, a chunk of the fandom will clutch its pearls in horrified outrage if anybody else is interested in sinking their teeth into that

#i recognize that isn't lucas' reading but (1) the author is dead (2) his is not the sole creative vision at work in those films #and (3) george ''i'm a methodist buddhist benevolent dictatorship is the best form of govt ewoks are my vietnam metaphor'' lucas #says some brain-breakingly stupid shit and i'm under no obligation to accept his takes as gospel #anyway. i don't think you have to hate or lack sympathy for the characters to think that as presented in the pt #the jedi order is sort of a fucked up institution within (and doing the bidding of and dedicated to perpetuating) a deeply fucked up system #fundamentally it's a story about structural failure!!! #the good intentions are what make that failure tragic #star wars #aggressive negotiations #my posts

[starfables]

opens the door to my limo, drops this on the red carpet, and immediently speeds away.

#things have been kinda dogwater lately but now that im on spring break and a lot less sad hopefully i'll get back in the habit of posting #art more often :)) #outer wilds #unfortunelty my tumblr website is being stupid so I've been banished to the app for now.... I hate u phone keyboard #outer wilds fanart #outer wilds echoes of the eye #i could not come up with a more creative top text bottom text for this. sorry gang u can all go home #echoes of the eye #echoes of the eye spoilers #fanart #meme #outer wilds meme #outer wilds owlk #starfables art