#for my friend who isn't on tumblr :)

[strawbebbiesart]

chimckens 🐓🌽

#sasha's art #traditional art #acrylic painting #artists on tumblr #chickens #i had a whole Journey with this one we cried we laughed (cried mostly) #i know this one isn't as good as my other stuff maybe? i don't get to paint a lot and it Shows lmao #HOWEVER #this one was also an Emotional one for me #i wanted to do something about the childhood Adventures i got to have with my maternal grandma #who always felt like we liked her Less than my other grandma cos of all kinds of insecurities she had #mostly related to money and class #but we were children we just loved her #and i regret not knowing this before she died and not letting her know how much she meant to me #anyways #this painting will live at my parents' place cos my dad asked if he can have it #and i am really glad my bf urged me a few years ago to start sharing my art with people again #first with friends then family then online #the encouragement from everyone means so much and i Love that my parents love my art and want to display it and show it to everyone #ough #anyways!! hope you enjoy it! i know i do!!!! even tho it's not Perfect!! #the joy of Creation overpowers the fear of imperfections!!!!!!!!!

[xhanisai]

In an ideal world, a cake shop that only sells niche flavoured cakes would do as well as a cake shop that sells popular flavoured cakes.

But this is not the world we live in unfortunately. So instead of dwelling on the comparison between your niche work and other people's popular work, it is best to try and focus on the love and passion you have for your stuff and the fans you gain overtime who enjoy seeing your creations :)

Don't be shy in constantly sharing your stuff on your platform because there will always be at least one new person who can be potentially interested in what you have to offer.

#Obviously it isn't an easy mindset and it never will be #But creating something and sharing it online regardless of numbers #Is better than not doing it at all #My fanfics and fanart on tumblr has actually been getting lower and lower numbers as the years go by #But because I keep creating I also end up improving and polishing my skills #And going back to my old stuff and seeing the progress I made is very uplifting #And no matter the numbers I will always have good friends who enjoy my work #These good friends I made by sharing my stuff in the first place

[astrxealis]

if i do "?" in text i'm genuinely tilting my head like a dog if i do "!!" my eyes are sparkling and i am figuratively wagging my tail if i am IN ALL CAPS i'm screaming from the top of a mountain with all the power i can with love and the strength of RAGHHH within me

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #sorry guys. i will not shut up. #honestly i really miss it here on tumblr SNIFFS ..... i say this sm tho but damn real/offline life has really been fun <33 #anyway. meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow me #very good day ty to those who greeted me anywhere or even just liked a post as a little hi hbd or just acknowledgement ya know arghhh arghhh #I'M SO TIRED NOW ACTUALLY i'm on 5 battery but watch me keep talking (writing) some more #i'm insane btw i went out w friends earlier this tuesday (love them sm) and then. they pitched in to buy me the origin of species bcs i've #been wanting the book LMFAO AS A BDAY GIFT IDK IT'S SO FUNNY TO ME BUT GENUINELY I'M SO HAPPY (NERD) <333 #and today i've talked a lot again w one best friend and another of my dearest friends and another too and idk fun day fr #okay i shut up now #that's a lie btw who knows when i will shut up #i might shut up now actually actually #actually i like rambling it's so fun teehee #BUT YEAH TY AGAIN ... genuinely makes me so happy i feel so giddy i was scared today would turn out bad and hey it isn't perfect but to me #it kinda is. in its own way. imperfectly perfect ^_^ <3 yeehaw!!

[userlaylivia]

i know I just did a comfort shows poll but I forgot a couple I wanted to add lol this is based on my idea of a comfort show whether it's through love, friendship and family or just gives me comfort in other ways! please don't comment why this or that isn't on here like last poll people commented about the office and I don't like that show aside from jim/pam and I hate modern family aside from andy/haley this is my opinion though!!

#please don't come at me with hate because your favorite isn't here lol #all american #er #friday night lights #dawson's creek #friends #this is us #gilmore girls #parenthood #how i met your mother #degrassi #tumblr poll #polls #I'll probably choose friends again because it is literally my number one favorite sitcom!! #and my number one comfort show it always makes me feel better!! #but all american is a big comfort show too and ER and all of these tbh lol #so it doesn't matter who wins because their all amazing shows!!

[autumnalwalker]

Last Line Tag

Thank you for the tag, @ahordeofwasps.

Passing the (optional) tag to @blind-the-winds, @rickie-the-storyteller, @talesofsorrowandofruin, @emberlyric, @oh-no-another-idea, and the usual open tag to anyone else who wants to participate.

From the upcoming Chapter 23 of Empty Names:

Ashan nods.  “Very well then.  It would be untruthful of me to deny a certain eagerness in the face of otherwise waiting one more day.  Let us begin.”

Lacuna’s face suddenly flushes from aspects not thought through and she averts her eyes.

“Right… About that… You’re gonna need to, well, take off your robe again.”

“That makes sense.”

“And this time I’ll… need to…” Lacuna trails off into a mumble.

“Come again?”

“I’ll need to be making skin contact for the duration of the ritual.”

“Ah.” Ashan swallows.  “I see.”

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #my writing #writing tag games #tag game #last line tag #empty names #Time to put two people who are uncomfortable with physical touch (except with a couple specific trusted friends) in an awkward situation #To be clear this isn't a contrived setup for a romance thing. Ashan's aroace and Lacuna's got too much else on her mind. #Just two people uncomfortable with the same thing for slightly different reasons having to go through it together.

[guardian-instincts-bad]

okay none of this is new information but as usual i am thinking about gorrik and arenanet just. really never considered the timeline of his life and the implications of that at all, huh

like, okay, for eod you needed him to have a relationship to ankka and you needed ankka to have connections to the aetherblades, so you threw them both in thaumanova, fine

except. thaumanova. which blew up in 1324.

and no, we don't have a canon age for gorrik. but we know taimi's age, that she was friends with blish, and that blish is older than gorrik

now. taimi didn't know that the brothers had joined the inquest. which means either they'd kept it a secret from her, or more likely, it happened after they lost touch

taimi was born in 1313, meaning that the absolute oldest she could have been when she last saw them, is ten

now sure, taimi skipped a couple years, she's a prodigy even among asura - but age really matters when you're in single digits. for blish to be a friend, rather than a mentor, he can't be much older than maybe four years above her? i'd put that as the reasonable upper limit, they could be closer

(i'd also honestly guess that gorrik is a bit younger than taimi, given a) how much he looks up to blish, and b) that taimi prior to s4 only thought of him as blish's weird little brother, they weren't friends. and again, at that young, age matters - if you're 7, your friend is 10, and his little brother is 8 or 9, your first connection to him is probably not "oh, the little brother", because he's not little to you)

but assuming im wrong on all of that, just going back to our facts, that puts gorrik at the most about 2-3 years older than taimi

which means that the age we're looking at, for joining the inquest, thaumanova, all the stuff with ankka... he was somewhere between 9 and 13. could be even younger but im giving him the benefit of the doubt

gorrik says he never thought about ankka romantically and i believe him, but if there was ever anything there from her side, it was definitely a kiddie's first crush kinda thing, like oh we are a boy and a girl who are best friends clearly this is what romance means

because both of them were so fucking young

god knows spending her teenage years in the aetherblades was not great for ankka's everything, and by the time we find gorrik and blish in bug in the system, they've been working for the inquest for at least 8 years

that's almost half his life, at that point. working for an organisation that the thaumanova fractal and rata primus make incredibly clear does not value the lives of its workers in any way at all - they'll feed you to their latest experiment just for standing there, and gorrik wasn't just keeping his head down and going along with it, gorrik was actively sabotaging their research when he morally disagreed with it

(and this isn't even getting into why they joined the inquest in the first place, which i will bet anything i own on being because of blish's illness and needing the technology to save him)

and to their credit, i do think this comes across in bug in the system! because if you go back to early gorrik, first half of s4, having played through the rest of the story? the difference is shocking, like he is so distrusting and snide and defensive as hell of his brother, he talks like he expects you to attack him or blish at any moment

but then they never do anything with that ever again, and like, i love all the new gorrik content, genuinely i do, but arenanet there are layers to this character that you have entirely forgotten about, and god i wish we had a story that actually explored that

#my friends have heard me give this rant so many times already but tumblr hasn't! #so i need to post it bc it is driving me insane again #asura trio forever in my heart #also i've joked a lot about how funny it is that rama is literally the only npc in the gyala story who's not an engineer #rama also the only person in this mine (bar the commander) who isn't jade brotherhood former jade brotherhood or former inquest #even funnier when my commander is a former aetherblade #like hi rama sorry you are the only person here who can take the moral high ground ever #this is the demon mine of We've All Done Some Shit Okay Get Over It XD #gw2 #gorrik #ankka #taimi #blish

[bagel-boy-sama]

Astarion Baldurs Gate 3 Isn't A TumblrSexyMan™, He's Just A SexyMan™

I've seen a large number of people, most of whom are in the Astarion Disliker/"I don't get it" camp most who are not on this particular hell site, cite Astarion as Tumblr's latest sexyman. Today, I will be explaining why I do not believe that to be the case. That instead, as the title states, he's just a sexyman.

No real knowledge of the hell site is required, I'll explain things for the new people.

Setting The Definitions

First, definitions because this is now Intro to Writing and Rhetoric. A sexyman would be anyone, usually masc or a man, who is concidered sexy by a wide range of people. Fascinating.

A Tumblr Sexyman, on the other hand, is a thing - usually fictional entity - that is incredibly popular on Tumblr.com to the degree it escapes it's fandom sometimes, in the most extreme of cases, becoming far more popular than it's original fandom. It is characterized by a few major characteristics. Ranging from Twinkism* (be it the character or fan interpretation), generally unconventionally/perceived to be unconventionally attractive in a non physical sense (character traits that wouldn't otherwise be desirable, like absurd behavior or generally evilness), to impeccable drip (either in the original media/design, or done by fans in fanart).

*note: Twinkism (which I did just throw in on the spot this is entirely bullshit for my own amusement) is the phenomenon of skinny, young looking, pretty/feminine white boys who are within media. This is different from twinks, who are understood to be young and skinny - being pretty, popular, or white is not connected. All those who participate in Twinkism are Twinks, but not all Twinks participate in Twinkism.

Does Astarion Baldurs Gate 3 Fit The Definition?

First rule: must be at least a twink. Is he?

No. Yes. Kinda. In a way. Many people would describe Astarion as someone who's gone through "Twink Death". No this is not because he's literally undead. Twink Death, in it's simplest form, is when a twink no longer looks young and/or feminine. Astarion has aged. His crows feet and laugh lines, while beautiful, do not make him look 18. For some this would disqualify him from being a Twink. So perhaps he has failed at the first step.

I, however, am not satisfied with that. Moving on, is Astarion - or would Astarion - actually be considered conventionally unattractive in any way that is disconnected from his appearance? I argue no. Vampires are considered very well, normal to lust after. They're right below succubus on the "This isn't considered weird to find attractive" scale. You aren't romancing The Emperor here. Outside of that he's well groomed, shown to be muscular in game (headcanon does often disagree and while I wish it was true we are working with facts for this specific discussion), and an elf. In personality, while not for everyone, he's the pretty standard fruity sarcastic gay who's a bit selfish. We all know a fruity sarcastic gay who's a bit selfish, and they get laid. So it can't be considered that bad. Probably.

I feel important to note here that I am aroace and have no idea what I'm talking about right now. This is an educated guess.

Astarion has lost now, two for two. He's barely a twink, even going off of his model he's more a twunk. He definitely doesn't fit the Twinkism phenomenon. He's not weird to find attractive, I assume, so what else is there? His drip? I'm sorry, but his base outfit is a bit well Goofy to say the least. Much fanart leaves him in this outfit or a simpler version because drawing ruffles is enough to make anyone want to willingly jump headfirst into the underdark, so he fails the drip test as well.

His final hurtle: is his popularity Tumblr™. In this context Tumblr™ is different from Tumblr. Tumblr™ is the fandom side, where a sexyman would flourish and find their own fandom. Importantly, this fandom needs to be very insular to the site. It's a *Tumblr* sexyman after all. So that begs the question, is Astarion highly liked by mostly or purely Tumblr people/those who have the vibes of a Tumblr user? No.

Astarion is well loved by many people of various vibes. He has affected (previously) straight men on Reddit. Few can escape him and his 10 charisma.

Conclusion

Astarion is just a sexyman. He's just a fictional character that many think is neat and attractive for a variety of reasons. He's the Ryan Reynolds of crpgs. He's some dude, who's generally considered attractive by a lot of people who you both would and wouldn't expect to find him attractive.

#This only matters because when he's inevitably included in a Tumblr sexyman thing that's probably not even on here I'll know that I spent #30 minutes writing a weird essay thing about why he isn't really a Tumblr sexyman #look forward to receiving this link poor souls who decided to be my friend. ive converted all of you to Astarion fans so actually youll like #it probably. im such a good influence #astarion #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 spoilers #purely because i mentioned the emperor #astarion ancunin #baldurs gate posting #im so sorry to anyone who actually read this genuinely why. if this gets more than 2 notes im going to be homicidal #also F for my followers who dont care about bg3 sorry besties.

[stary-night]

Making Challah gothic:

The dough is done and set to rise. You do a small task for an hour. The dough still isn't risen. Did you add enough yeast? Did you mix the wrong amount of salt? What went wrong? Another hour passes. The dough is halfway risen.

Finally it's time to braid it. Which way did the strands go? You follow the instructions. You look back - there is no braid. There has never been a braid. You look up a tutorial with colorful strands for children. The same thing happens. You put the tutorial on 0.25 speed. The calm tutorial music becomes distorted and echoes through your apartment as you cry.

You've made it this far. The bread is in the oven. You wait 30 minutes. The outside is cooked. The inside is still a little raw. You wait 5 minutes. The inside is still undercooked. You wait 5 minutes. The inside is undercooked. You wait 5 minutes. The inside is still undercooked and the outside is now burnt. Somewhere in your soul you feel a Yiddish grandmother shake her head in shame.

#jumblr #jewish Tumblr #challah #it actually didn't burn this time but oh my g-d 😭 me and my one friend who isn't even jewish who I've convinced to do this twice somehow

[myrkar]

What survived is not kind

#dnd #digital art #artists on tumblr #My art #Poor gal is my one not a complete monster #Empathetic character #She's in for such a ride #Striga #Love playing characters who are unaware of the Tropes #Also oil brush procreate is apparently my one true love #My bestest of friends #Every time I think “why isn't it working” #The answer is I'm not drawing with oil brush and a lot of red #Red #Girls like “idk maybe I need to get a medical checkup” #Meanwhile I'm here on the side howling DARK URGE LET'S FUCKING GO #But ft crystal stabbed in the heart #Instead of daddy issues

[hajimedics]

I feel like wanting to show off my ocs and my original stories someday. however the thing that makes me hesitate is that there is a chance people will yell at me in my inbox and think I'm a freak when I reveal how genuinely deplorable and fucked up they are

#friends who follow verityatdawn may know this one. lol #I DONT EVEN KNOW IF I **WANNA** POST THEM HERE #well whatever . besides ocposting isn't my top priority on tumblr #there's like an apocalypse and unethical human experimentation and murder and blood and probing human brains and whatever #but it's 90% comedy. like everything's messed up but it's all funny and silly to them. an average tuesday

[juriyuna]

We know the Bat didn't witch out, but she's not among the ghosts of Futatsugi's dead magical girls in juriyuna's event, either. She doesn't even get a passing mention. The implication that she survived getting mauled by her former underlings in CR... much to think about........

#we find out that the helpful (read: trying her best) ghost guide was juri's friend from her mss who she accidentally killed #and yuna notes that her senpai is absent #she isn't sure if that's because senpai turned into a witch (it's unclear if witches leave ghosts behind) #or if senpai was staying hidden on purpose #(it sorta felt implied to me that senpai was watching from afar to see how much yuna has grown as a leader) #the bat is at least as influential as both of those NPCs but she never gets brought up #perhaps... my headcanon that she survived is real after all...... #ranka scraped her off the floor of the arcade after that fight in CR and kept her #magia record #bat of monzenbashi #tbh i think the bat would've actively tried to make ao worse after the ryou incident #since she did enjoy fucking with ao's head in CR #but maybe she had to keep that reined in because if ao got rapidly worse everyone would know who was responsible #and there's no way she'd be able to take juri AND yuna AND hikaru all at once #(in a fight. to be clear.) #these tags are getting away from me. goodnight tumblr

[koifsssh]

i rewatched my favorite version of sweeny todd, because tiktok has been bombarding me with the revival of it! oh boy. now i can’t stop imagining... rainy as... sweeney todd... so i offer a messy sketch!

OHHH if you have the time, i highly recommend listening/watching sweeney todd, very good! you can watch act 1 & act 2 here! oh... i love mrs. lovett...

i wish i had more words to offer, but i feel as if i will just start rambling about topics that are simply unrelated...

#rainy dewdrop #welcome home oc #I AM SO SORRY FOR THOSE WHO FOLLOW ME FOR MY WALLY ART... I APOLOGIZE FOR THE OC CRAZE LATELY... BAH!!! #YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I LOVE MUSICALS IM SO... #this isn't an au... or i dont think it is... rainy fits in a weird way #probably because of the emotionally reserved part and usually just showing one consistently... #myart #ahhh the music... #it's a little amusing how i had started using tumblr to merely throw my thoughts out somewhere... #now i have an audience! how odd! #at least my thoughts are entertaining? not sure how to quite take it! #bahhh! im starting to ramble... #OH MY FRIEND TOLD ME TO WATCH PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE... I MUST GO!

[dawningfairytale]

"kitty's feelings for yuri came out of nowhere" it was set up better in the show than when i realised i had crushes on girls in real life

#like buddy it was leading to that #xo kitty #tumblr y'all are great. ofc minho x kitty shippers included bc you can ship a bi girl with a boy and not be biphobic #this is about the youtube and instagram people who are so disappointed kitty was revealed to be not straight #like. one time i felt attraction to my friend in sport and went 'guess this makes me bisexual. FUCK.' #did i do anything abuout this no #and i can't remember if this was before or after my sapphic dreams (same year tho) #but the point stands. you. just. feel attracted to a girl. and you repress and that doesn't work and you go cool guess i swing both ways #and that happens #this was well set up. there are probably problematic aspects but this was a bisexual experience. it was foreshadowed before the dream #also i really like it bc it relates to my experiences!! #not- not all of it. #but realising you might be a little bi when you dream about kissing another girl. sudden realisation you're queer. #writing off dreams bc 'they're just dreams' and talking about them in a vague way even to your queer friends #trying to repress it but realising that isn't working #going 'this is not the way straight people feel for people of the same gender' #bi panic. #kitty bi panics so much in this show (the throuple scene) AND WE DESERVE MORE OF IT #the internal confusion and expecting no one to accept this epiphany about yourself (and biphobia!! you hate to see it) #uh yeah anyway #i know this show is far from flawless but i really like it #also goes to show that white people *can* in fact sympathise with characters of colour and not every show needs to be white #(looking at you instagram commenter who was made that shows have gay and black people no i'm not kidding) #social media is a hate crime. here is just torture.

[hella1975]

i have such a reputation that four separate people incorporated pringles into my birthday gifts. be that girl

#to the point my one mate today (the one i almost ditched in that seminar LMAO) ((WAIT I NEED TO TELL YOUSE ABOUT HIM)) #anyway! he was like 'oh i actually got you something!' which given our dynamic despite RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AHEM #is so unusual like he was NOT required to get me a gift. but then i immediately was like 'it's pringles isn't it' #and he was just like 'sigh. yeah' LMFAOOOOO #and you know what? chuffed to utter bits. ive already eaten half of them in 24 hours. scranning even more as i type this #anyway back to that guy. so you know i sometimes mention my flatmate from first year who also happens to be on my course #so off the bat we've got a weird friendship bc he's not just a coursemate bc i also lived with him #but also first year halls were assigned not chosen so it's not like we were actually FRIENDS #especially bc my flat did NOTTT get on lmfao so me and him were mainly just. acquaintances who lived and studied together? #very strange foundation to have with someone. but we went all of second year barely staying in contact #and then this year we live in the same area and for the LIFE of me i cant remember how we got back in contact #but all of a sudden we were messaging every day and meeting up before lectures and sitting together in them and stuyding together etc #and we get on REALLY well like he has my exact sense of humour i know ive posted about him several times #over the past three years being like 'me and this guy are the funniest people i know' 'he would do bits on tumblr' etc #AND THE OTHER WEEK HE ADMITTED THAT HE LIKES ME AND WE WENT ON A DATE #AND IT WENT REALLY WELL BUT I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIGURE OUT HOW I FEEL ABOUT HIM #SO IM TRYING NOT TO PUT PRESSURE ON ANYTHING and i was super clear w him also that im not actively searching for anything #so if smthn happens organically then it happens but if not it's my final year and that will always take priority and he was super chill #so i dont feel like i HAVE to make a decision just yet but we're going out again tomorrow #and it's like. even if it doesnt become smthn romantic i just really click with him?? like we get on so well??? IT'S SO FUN #AND THAT'S WHAT MATTERS! WOOHOO! pringles post derailed by a MAN. awful #hella goes to uni

[qvincvnx]

just had to unfollow someone for implying that spock is not "really" jewish

#what in the entire fuck are you doing or thinking about media representation if spock isn't really jewish. ok i have to do my yiddish #heymarbet i am blocking tumblr again. but spock is my friend and also the nice old man who makes sure there's lox at the shul bagel brunch #and dont you forget it!!!

[iwasbored777]

Seeing those who stopped being friends with me now continuing to subtly trash me on their accounts and making others hate me, makes me wonder if there is any normal fandom or are everyone just insane. Jokes on you I'm not watching this disappointing show ever again. Continue wasting time on it and hating on me I got better stuff to do. If they're gonna be obsessed with me let em.

#he was my best friend and when i needed him he took her side and now they're both trashing me cuz they got nothing better to do #all those anons praising him in his asks he ain't worth it #you're praising him cuz he's the worst friend I ever had who constantly made me feel worse not better every time i needed him #as if my life isn't bad enough but I don't complain about it all the time on Tumblr i survive #and you are over there trashing Chloé stans aka people you think are Chloé stans aka me on your profile #you and the chick who got mad cuz i said I'm tired of double standards in this God awful show #and now you two think you're so cool for doing this to me #you're hating on a bully while being bullies yourself #personal post