#easy flowing or something like that

[shakingparadigm]

NOBODY is allowed to be happy and EVERYONE is doomed

#alnst #alien stage #ivantill #mizisua #this is also random but i associate mizisua with water and ivantill with fire. #and ivantill is fire in the way of meteors and the burn of fists against skin #the blazing star of a rebellious boy and the glow that reflects off of mesmerized black eyes #the red pupil within an expanse of black. light brought to a black hole. reverse supernova. something out of nothing #mizisua is water in the way mizi speaks of the ocean. the bubbly quality of her voice #the wide expanse of blue that stretches before them as sua sings and mizi watches from afar #the cold waters that they played in as children #the natural calming and easy flow of currents #the bright sky above them that paints the waters blue and by extension their memories as well #just like the blue stage lights that painted sua before her death #the flowing of tears onto her lifeless body #memories of bright blue stained with red #(i also associate mizi with water and jellyfish in general lol) #sorry that shit was so random

[itspileofgoodthings]

I love the rhyming on ttpd. can only think of two examples currently but I know there’s more.

#the dancing phantoms on the terrace do they get second hand embarrassed #is e v e r y t h I n g #but also I can’t stop thinking about: #you. look. like. taylor swift. in this light—we’re lovin’ it #like just the flow. the cadence. not even just the rhyme but #her ease with language and playfulness with it and all the little pockets and corners of so many songs #even ones you think you don’t like. settle in with time! #like the thing about taylor is that she is VERY much a poet #in that some of her genius/way with words is innate #and the images and stuff she uses the turns of phrase can feel so garish and embarrassing on first listen #they JAR #but honestly I think it’s because she is truly …. new? she is doing something NEW #and the shock and outrage that always goes with new things is always present with a Taylor album #and I think she’s drawing on so much from the past to write but she is so deeply rooted in the present cultural moment #so it’s so easy to dismiss her writing on first glance as like. idk a college girl’s idea of poetry #as being too Stark or Melodramatic. #she loves OBVIOUS imagery and extremely dramatic ones too #but she isn’t actually just throwing stuff at the wall #because pretty much always. it starts to land and soften and settle #and the image she’s chosen has done its job of drawing you into a world #and/or communicating an emotion #and sometimes it’s so upsetting. like. get me out of the bedroom with Matty Healy taylor!!!!!!!!!! but. the art is art-ing! #I guess is what I’m saying. she’s good at this it isn’t just hype #but some of it really is that she’s taking us places we might not want to go or are so quick to pass judgment on #as being unworthy of a song or more importantly a poem. but present art HAS to do that #and does do it!!!!!! idk I am just. musing

[sysig]

Roleswap(?) (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #ZEX #The Captain #As easy as this would be for a Setup - y'know lol - this idea actually came from an angst perspective #I mean - initially it would be fun and fine! ZEX gets his wish of a human! Doesn't have those 20 years of waiting and pining #Building up the idea in his head until he becomes So desperate that anything short of perfection is- Well hmm ♪ #I just keep getting stuck on the idea of that common trope of ''What made you like this?'' :/ #Or worse yet ''Did someone do something to you to make you like this?'' #An older human taking advantage of a brilliant young VUX! Are there no depths to which they won't sink! #Nevermind that no one would listen and he becomes a martyr yet again but this time not the scapegoat #''Oh poor traumatized ZEX he really never was the same after that'' ''It's so unfortunate but you can't blame him too much'' #As if any of them actually knew him at all huah #Until he speaks just a little too loudly about how he Wanted this he Reciprocated and it becomes too much of a nuisance to sympathize #The angst I'm telling you #He's in a very unfair situation no matter what! Either way he's being looked down on #Anything to spin things to be humans' fault! Anything to sweep deviation under the rug! #I wonder if he'd even be able to fight humans if this was the flow of things - would he be emotionally detached enough? #Would he even be allowed to? Worry of instability or defection? Is it worse to be disinvolved in the War with a mind like his? #So many moving pieces that would shake out so differently from just one chance encounter at a different time! #He's so integral to so many things having happened the way they did hehe <3 He's very important! #I also like to imagine that even being younger he'd still err on the eloquent side hehe ♪ VUX upbringing! Fanciful ♫ #His usual speech but just a little more hurried and nervous hehe <3 Complimenting his human's hair ♪

[salty-dracon]

trying to figure out what kind of thingbender iso is by reading his abilities

#valorant #i have NO idea #prismatic? molecular? flow state? interdimensional??? who IS this guy??? #jett and phoenix? easy. wind and fire. fade? fear. sage? uhhhhhh a special kind of crystal radianite. #astra? space. time. something way above our heads #dude i have no idea with iso. like this is some marvel quantum realm shit #listen the wiki says he's a radiant! and i have no way of knowing if the wiki is wrong! #valorant lore is like mcu lore but there are no comics that you can reference for the overall plotlines. it's just confusion

[raininyourblackeyes]

Okay but it would be cool if that war Fukuchi received warning about actually happened. Like he received a warning and was scheming this whole mess of a situation to stop it but what if that exact plan of his is precisely what leads to the conflict? What if the warning was sent as a desperate hope that something would change, that he'd make a better plan... but no. It was always going to happen. There was no escape. Ever.

#like something is obviously about to go very wrong for the agency in that two hour time skip #i personally think that fukuchi underestimated fyodor who will fuck them up even before he returns jesus style #or maybe he did die a stupid way BUT sigma has to live knowing everything he knew so sigma gets corrupted and tortured by fyodor #i'd personally enjoy it so much if he wakes up from his little nap but isn't all i've got to warn the agency! vibe #but is absolutely terrified and maybe even hallucinating fyodor and he fucks up #i would have also personally enjoyed it more if chuuya was actually a vampire and dazai had been winging the entire plan going with the flow #but i rarely get what i want so... i think my plans for a doomed narrative are also just wishful thinking i doubt asagiri would pull it off #but there is still time for fukuzawa to die!! #honestly the stakes this entire arc were enourmous that literally everyone surviving feels like just bad writing #and fukuzawa's death would fit amazing in its conclusion but i also do like this whole tortured by fukuchi's wish thing #anyways there have been too many plot holes in that episode that it can't possibly be the actual end of the arc it was too easy #anyways teruko is the biggest star of the episode. #bsd

[vashti-lives]

After vague blogging about fanfic and YA I will say that the issue of media for teens mixing poorly with all ages and adult media is not a problem exclusive to fanfic writers. 90% of the conflict in the star wars fandom stems from the fact that star wars’ YA and children’s media is to some degree canonically and philosophically incompatible with the mainline movies. In the movies the Jedi are unequivocally the heroes and we’re supposed to respect them even as they get backed into a terrible corner. They’re wise heroes doing their best.

In the media made for kids by necessity the adults of the Jedi order have to make absolutely wild and absurd decisions in order for the kid protagonists to get chances to do heroic stuff actual kids would find fun and exciting. This naturally puts their behavior at odds with the goals of the movies.

Add in that the movies don’t hold up to close reads because they’re intended to be fun summer blockbusters, and the fact that the Jedi are based on a fairly shallow understanding of a non-western collectivist lifestyle without nuclear families which is extremely foreign to western audiences and what do you get? Decades worth of discourse over whether the Jedi are actually good guys which can never be resolved because they're based on completely different ways of analyzing media. Worse, nobody can agree on what parts of star wars should be counted in the first place so even if you're analyzing things in the same style you might still be doomed.

#i go through phases where i'm kind of obsessed with star wars meta and discourse #so many people coming from pretty incompatible places all convinced that they're correct #and so mad at people on the other side #it's like a train wreck #on the one hand between the media aimed at kids #and the fact that george frequently chooses flow over characterization #(see: the movies do not hold up to a close read) #it's uh EXTREMELY EASY to make the argument that the jedi kind of suck if you're reading things from a watsonian perspective #and at a certain point even if you know that there are doyalist reasons for why some things are the way they are #there's so much that would have to be hand waved that you can't just use the doyalist excuse for everything #if you're trying to write fanfic #ON THE OTHER HAND #it's extremely obvious that some people are very uncomfortable #with the lack of nuclear families in the jedi order #and prefer other cultures *cough*mandalorians*cough* exclusively because they have something closer to a western family system #but the most fascinating are people who are extremely pro jedi #but like #also pull a shit ton of stuff out of the jedi apprentice books #for example #like... if you're considering those books canon in your fic then the jedi order is almost unsalvagable in a non YA context

[kinaesthetiqueer]

fascinating! nora and jaune both have six chapters, ren has seven. however, i know there's at least a couple of his that are pretty short. the real test would be to check the word counts which, unless i can do word count by heading, i am not doing.

#i evened out the amount of flashbacks at least but initially #jaune and nora has 3 each and ren had 4 #gotta admit the ren&pyrrha dynamic is gnawing my brain (affectionate) so that flowed easy #i have a lot of thoughts this morning #kina rambles #poa! jnpr #to clarify i ADDED a memory for both jaune and nora #which brings me to 28k and counting bc one is still under construction #ren and jaune have some short chapters too of courstheblasy three chapters cover three very separate arcs of the narrative #each narrated by one of them #there's something about the themes there #something like heart head and soul #i can't put my finger on it yet #nora's the heart jaune's the mind ren's the soul #idk idk the themes come together all on their own and as i beta and adjust i can see some threads #of course then. what is/was pyrrha?

[wlw-cryptid]

what does stimming mean

the word itself is a riff on "stimulation" and the action of stimming is an autism/adhd thing mostly? I believe it's usually like a(n often unorthodox) natural expression/reaction to whatever situation you're in. repetitive body movements me personally. i wiggle in my seat when im really happy or flustered or something because i just dont know how else to let all that out and its gotta go Somewhere

like. sometimes you feel an emotion so much that the reaction bubbles up and overflows into a physical energy, with a common example being flapping hands when youre happy, or clenching your fists really hard when youre overwhelmed by your environment. stims can be bigger things too, like rocking, bouncing, or spinning around.

BUT i think it can also be a stimulation seeking thing too? like being Understimulated so you start scratching at your skin, rubbing a certain kind of fabric, or tapping on a surface. like i said, a common stimming example is rocking. like in your seat, on your feet, or maybe in bed. its Soothing. stimming can give your brain a Sensation it was desperately looking for like that n a person often feels calmer because of it. but i might just be conflating this side of things with something that is more accurately put under a different name.

#one way or another im fairly sure stimming generally comes in the form of an expression or like a self-soothing action. #repetitive and physical things that come as naturally as laughing. your brains way of sorting through big piles of emotion stuff #some of these might be really obvious but i think a lot of stimmy behaviors are more subtle things that people just DO and its not that big #of a deal. you feel me #its just. its not something you Choose to do necessarily. maybe you can channel that energy into a different stim but the river is going to #flow one way or another #she speaks #anon #asks #i get shy about my happy wiggles. especially when im being flirted with and i just. i cant help it. i know it looks silly but its like #impossible to Not to. it would be extremely difficult to try and suppress it and react more normally #if im being honest? i dont think ive really stimmed during sex before. i get overwhelmed during sex really easy and me and brain havent #settled on a way to sort through all those emotions and sensations. i feel like usually a stim Would go there but right now. nothin

[chimeragirlpleopods]

i feel the want and need to study how shrubbery and foliage is drawn but im not sure off the top of my head who handles best foliage depending on level of detail, and its not something i'd intriniscally learn by drawing foliage photos

although, i guess it can be, depending on the technique and the sort of "simplification" applied. but it also cannot because dense forest pictures are rich in texture but are hard to start with without over greebling it. i feel ideally its something that looks both organic, but without simplicity, akin woodcuts, something like that id like to learn to keep as consistent

#anybody can draw a bush but there's a certain way hedges and patches are that is eqaully easy on the eyes #stylistic yet complex. that takes some panache i think. kind of like how a birch forest is simple but there is a way in layering #that truly sells this illusion of depth #but where #where could i start a proper absorption of what i desire in a way that it doesnt overcomplicate and ruin the flow #hrmmh #any kind of shrubbery and drawing of plants rocks but theres something specific i covet

[sonic-adventure-3]

fuck it. bird with wings. i don’t wanna give him straight up bird wings though. i wanna fit in with status quo of birds with arms and no bird wings. so i am going to make a bird with insect wings or maybe bat wings. now the question is do i go the 1-in-a-million hybrid route or science experiment route?

#rambles #oc posting #something no one tells you about design is that a crucial step is to think about it really really hard #there’s three paths to character design in my experience: #1. you draw something off the cuff and somehow it’s really interesting so you base their personality around it #2. you have a solid idea of some aspect of them like personality or body language or a certain design element so the rest comes easy #3. you think really really hard about it and your first sketches suck so the character’s design has to be thought about so fucking much #all three require further refinements of course #1 and 2 are fun flow states. 3 is so hard #anyway i have 1 of my trio fully designed! i have another i’m still roughing out. and this one i’m still just thinking about #i’ve got names for the other two but i’ve got no ideas for this guy #designing is fun thinking about them is fun sonic ocs are so fun they can just be anything

[unsettlingcreature]

Slowly reconfiguring my altar space but I'm gently adding Halloween decorations as September passes and October approaches, I'm personally obsessed with the little ghost lights. Anyway I don't have a dedicated sideblog for this stuff anymore so I'm just slapping it on main :)

#witchblr #taking a break was so good for me because now im getting back into the flow of it? im realising how my beliefs and shit have shifted #still going to gently worm my back into witchcraft like. im not gonna do any blots or anything for a good while #and figure out ONCE MORE what actually works with my practice #like do i WANT divination to be part of my craft? or do i just feel like i have to #like when was the last time i touched my tarot or my runes or my oracle deck or my pendulum? even before my break? #and when it comes to deitywork. is that something i can commit to? has my time with Loki come to a close? lots of questions to ask. #and also do i really want to keep a grimoire/bos? because im too much of a perfectionist for it #and the stuff i do regularly are in my head. if I'm doing something different then I'm going to use other books as research points #idk theres a lot to think about. maybe I'll just ponder the wizard and stop sweating the details lmao #you'd think i had this shit figured out after over a decade but fuckin nooooppppeeeee #anyway witchcraft is always a journey and there's always more to learn and experience #its easy to say that shit but harder to accept it #ALSO LOKI LIVES IN MY BEDROOM I AINT EVER GONNA HIDE HIM AWAY #i cherish all the time spent with a deity and appreciate them for being there during that part of my life #just like with hecate before its ok if my time with loki is over. it is what it is. its not sad its something to look fondly on

[wonderlilane]

girl makeup routines are absolutely insane. are you guys really doing this shit

#im googling ''basic makeup'' stuff rn and without fail every response is like #''oh yeah my basic routine is so easy tbh! takes 5 min. anyway youll want sunscreen/concealer/foundation then mascara + eyeliner and #blush/bronzer oh and dont forget to apply powder and two different lip balms :) pretty simple and easy honestly'' #i feel like im looking in on some alien planet im not even joking. like wearing makeup must transport you to a place where time flows slower #THAT BEING SAID if any of my followers have any tips for literal Bare Basic makeup.... im talking 1-2 products At Most.... pls help me 🥺 #ill draw u something in exchange. + ill love u

[sysig]

Oh getting very close now, villainy feels right around the corner (Patreon)

#Doodles #Villainsona #Just Desserts #So you can see - the TVAU floodgates lol #Upon realizing how fun and easy Charm is to draw in the WOY style I was like ''So designing outfits then'' #It's like an inbuilt base maker! This style is perfect for just getting a scribble down and then extrapolating from there! #Surely we've all seen the phenomenon of starting with something simple and expanding and building once the base is established #Like kid drawings being redrawn by professionals :D Or pixel art into fully rendered or Minecraft skins open to interpretation #The urge to Artistic Liberty lol - I just managed to find a style that I can do both in >:3c Create the initial and build from there! Yay!! #Love having that as an option ♪ And like I said she's criminally fun to draw like this lol she's just a cute rectangle #Plus - and this is really the big plus lol - since WOY is so silhouette-based it's a great style to test outfits on #The biggest problem for designing her TVAU outfit for me has been how readable it is with and without the wings #Classic Charm is perfect and that's reflected in her design as well ♪ TVAU is in the image of another hm hm hm #<Already a tag lol - but she is! Classic Charm has the perfect amounts of breaks and rests and interest and design flow I just hhh <3 <3 #And also true for the TVAU! Charm is under pretty direct influence by that point and I want that to be very reflected in her outfit! #I had a bunch of themes I wanted to explore like two months ago but kept coming up empty :P But now that I've had a chanced to simmer :3c #The biggest elements I'm happiest with are her belly showing in the first one - one of the themes was ''forced vulnerability'' so #I'm not sure what to do with the hem of her pants tho I very intentionally didn't design where her shirt and pants meet in Classic lol #The second design is probably my favourite overall :D And not Just because she turned out so cute in the WOY style haha #I mean she also turned out very cute in the JD style hehe - but I kinda forgot that Kaiein started as a dragon! #Turning her spiderweb theme into dragon scales is so just- how did I not think of that before gods what a brilliant idea lol #And I can keep scalloping! Scallops forever dragon scales spider webs sugar candy sweets ♪ My favourite :D #I like that it keeps the shawl as well while still having very uncovered shoulders - feels villainy and still reflective of her design :D #The last one is more building off the previous two - chest window for the vulnerability theme - dragon scale ''train'' like the first's #I think it's decent but it was honestly more for the dark striped leggings since the middle had them light like her Classic design #One of the other themes I was going for was ''coloured over/blotted out'' and having it be ''her'' design while literally coloured out #I think there's something to that :3c #Also *toots own horn* I did a fantastic job reconstructing her leg in that last one >:3c #I bet you'd never know the the entire bottom half of her left leg had to be digitally added after the fact! I even did that with my trackpad #Hehehe ♪♫ Quite pleased :3c

[another-corpo-rat]

staring aggressively hard at the blank document, trying to will the words into existence

#i stg the moment i step away #or when im actively doing something else #the words just flow so easy #then i try to put them down and its like catching smoke in a fucking net

[raveartts]

*person posts art in an art focused channel on an art focused server*

me: oh fuck you how dare you post your art here, are you trying to show me up (I haven't posted anything in the last 3 years) how about you stop showing off you're just posting here for attention I literally hate you for this, if you have nice art you should just keep it to yourself instead of making everyone else feel bad why don't you just die and let someone else (me) have the spotlight. I'm killing and biting you right now how dare you

#YouTube is really out here recommending a video to me that was like #'oh if you're struggling with your art just go with the flow feel free to make something bad *drawing something gorgeous and perfect*' #like shut up do you WANT me to be in a bad mood #fuck you how about I just draw NOTHING and QUIT FOREVER IF I CAN'T DRAW PERFECTLY #if I can't do something perfectly than what's the goddamn point in doing it #I'm not crappy enough to be pitied for it #and I'm not good enough to be adored #damn I really thought 'oh I have free time today I could draw something since I've been too busy to lately' #but I guess those plans are going out the fucking window #... and just a moment ago #I remembered that it's supposedly very very easy to get attention on TikTok with little effort #and (horrifyingly) I spent a good few minutes hovering over the download button. prepared to start my TikTok art career #but I'd probably quit in a fit of rage when I don't know how to play to the algorithm and nobody cares about my stupid cutthroat fanart #......... #wow is it apparently very easy for me to just spiral the second someone doesn't love me correctly #like the Parents Didn't Fully Approve Of Something I Liked #to I Should Just Quit Drawing Forever Because Nobody Could Ever Love Me Without Pretending #is a very weird pipeline and I have no idea how these things correlate but somehow they do #.. I should go do something else before I get too deep into this #rave ramblees #vent

[splattershotpro]

hhhh Id love to make a piano cover (at least in part) of a splatoon song but ;-; that I means Id have to sit around and listen to the song over and over lol but i'd finally get to doing music again....

#splatoon #splatbands #something like ebb & flow would be cool and decently easy #except those parts when marina/pearl are more talk-singing would be weird to try to turn into singular notes #but whatever