#gloved hand really does it

[stuckinapril]

A big part of turning 21 and going through that whole thing really was realizing that the idealistic friendship dynamics I’ve always daydreamed over in my head don’t exist & that in reality most friendships you’ll cultivate in your life will be a series of compromises. And maybe like 1 to 3 ride or die friends at BEST that shit is so rare and it gets rarer the older I am

#And I’ve always been a friendship girl like I’m a hopeless romantic but I’m just as much if not more of a hopeless platonic #I’ve really had to temper my expectations lately and honestly I’ve also been sequestering myself more as a result of it #Idk if I’m adjusting to this revelation well tbh I feel like I’m disillusioned w most of my friends lately #And it causes me to burn out and be a shitty friend to them in turn too #It’s just a never ending cycle of me not admitting to myself that maybe that glove doesn’t fit #And I’m quite literally forcing it onto my hand and it’s cutting off my circulation #But I’m too sentimental of my glove to just stop wearing it . Idk if this makes any sense but it does in my head

[meidui]

"he loved her to the point of invention" but it's tony building steve his first pair of gloves with electromagnetic panels on them so his shield comes back to him more easily

#tony in his workshop spending time making something for steve and calling him down to measure his hands and try out the gloves.. #he really does adore steve to bits and pieces #stony #stevetony #* #st♡ny #text

[zkyeline]

Extremely close up stuff

#i think this is enough to warrant a #suggestive #tag. but not the mature label #idk shoot me a message if it does #just really proud of these hands rn <3 #disco elysium #harrykim #kim’s gloves #horrific necktie #my favorite characters #again I need to draw something other than them on my free time but im so tired rn #art #fan art

[mustangs-flames]

I'm sorry but the image of Alt!Cesar absolutely eating shit while trying to rollerblade with Evelin is hilarious lol

He definitely fell flat on his face at least twice lmao

#hail true body au #mustang answers! #htb alt!cesar #htb evelin #she had to hold his hands to help him keep his balance #which is a big thing for alt!cesar - letting someone new touch his hands regardless of him wearing gloves over the scars #but he trusts evelin #he really does

[manasurge]

Tis' the season where I mentally and physically suffer. Complaining below (feel free to ignore, I'm just venting. I usually do this every year to get most of it out of my system lol):

mmm the fall/winter SAD is indeed in full swing. No warmth + no sun = a bad bad time. I always get so annoyed when ppl assume that I love winter bc I'm a "winter baby", as if that has any sort of divine intervention on instantaneously adapting you to perfectly fit the climate you were born in. NOPE. Silly human superstition. I start to freeze once it hits below 20C. I wish I lived in a warmer climate o|-< The depresso is probably going to make me very whiny and moody until next spring, so an early forewarning bc I'm EXTREMELY annoying about it this time of year bc it's the only way I know how to deal with it. But moreso in addition to the physical stuff is how badly it messes with my mind, making me so depressed to the point of just... sitting in non-moving silence where I become stiff as a board (very painful btw) and I isolate, making the bad depresso brain time even worse where I overthink everything bc of the silence and isolation. It's also always the time of year where everyone goes quiet too, which is understandable, but also makes things 10x worse (I am very alone in my life and where I am, and kind of rely on online friends bc they're all I have. I don't even have a pet. I'm literally just, loner mode. I don't really have much family to speak of, and only one family member I do speak to. I have little to no connections at all. But regardless, this is still the best living situation I've been in my whole life, so that's saying something).

#i hate the cold; I hate ice; cold air hurts my skin and burns my lungs #i hate snow (I'm sorry I just don't think it's pretty. It's gross; erases all colour/everything; blinding; kills everything; claustrophobic #I hate long nights; i hate all the darkness #I take Vitamin D drops every day during winter and they don't really help #I also use those special lights meant to help during the long darkness for the same reason; and they also do not help #nothing works!!!!!! eating and drinking hot things doesn't help me stay warm bc heat dissipates away quickly and doesn't help my extremitie #the cold makes me SO dry and dehydrated; makes my bones hurt; makes outside DANGEROUS AF. ICE IS BAD. BE CAREFUL. #I can't retain heat; my hypothyroidism makes me colder by default and I just don't metabolize good/fast enough to keep myself warm #(my body temp is lower than average; fun fact! same with my blood pressure! both of them are very low) #I think my average from all the times I've had it scanned during covid was 32-36C. No idea how that works; I just remember checking it a lo #my fingers and hands are going to freeze; making it harder to draw/type/etc. #I'm not going to wear gloves inside my home bc that's dumb and they don't help anyways. It will just screw up my ability to use my hands #I get to be in pain for months with increased potential of being sick :/ #also I HATE bundling/layering myself with clothing or blankets; it's suffocating; restricting; sensory hell for me; sweaters are uncomfy :( #also whenever I try to do that all it does is insulate the cold for me; keeping me colder for even longer!!!!! it's so unfair!!!! #I've worn out 2 space heaters already and they don't work properly anymore (I used them both so much I wore out my preferred settings lol) #sobs; i'm a sad plant lizard

[thislittlekumquat]

Some day I'm going to write like a masterlist type post titled "so you want to write a character who is a librarian" or some such. And somewhere on that list is going to be "Their thumb cuticles will be fucked. Hard as a rock. -1/10"

#this is 60 percent a joke idk if all librarians deal with this #but as someone who handles 50-100 books a day on average #something about grasping so many books repetitively really does a number to very particular parts of your hands #it's essentially as unavoidable to me as a pen callus is on my finger knuckle #i should probably start wearing gloves 😫😫 #sorry im posting so much im sleepy and full of words with nowhere to put them

[feline-evil]

Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease i'm so tired of this experience happening to me

#jay talkin #GRAAAAAAAGH MENS CLOTHES SO ANNOYING WHY DONT YOU FIT RIGHT #anyway got mad that my leather gloves i've owned for ages dont fit cuz i have v small hands and mens sizes dont fit me #very annoying source of dysphoria is trying to fit my body into mens clothes that just do not come on sizes #that will fit on me. ITS DEEPLY ANNOYING its also hard 2 find mens rings in my size which is annoying me too #i'm gay and engaged let me have my big masculine ring PLEASE #anyway yeah need 2 MAKE my body fit sometime soon. pump t into my viens till i become a man who DOES fit #or at the least alleviate the dysphoria thats making me insecure about my smallness lol #i really wish there were more very masculine options for people who are slight built #i am tired of buying womens or kids options i wanna fit in mens clothes better PLEASE

[silverselfshippingchaos]

it's literally them

#ignore my five minute scribbles but. it is very much the key wives #ash rambles 💚 #also I forgot ash's armor but shhh. her design is pretty cool (if i do say so herself) #the main attraction is her long red coat! her and her best friend (eventually wife) are the red/blue couple #she really loves her coat! it was a gift from her adoptive dad! e.raqus! #in her first appearance she only wears one glove on her right hand #but she gets some very nasty burns on her hands while trying to save her best friend #(she fails. it really fucks her up. losing her bffs and her dad for a decade. shes all alone.) #so she has black bandages on her hands in all her appearances after b.irth b.y s.leep #it's not that the wounds havent healed—it's that she doesnt want to be reminded of how weak she is. how much of a failure she is #just a pathetic little girl who didnt deserve her title of Master anymore. she's very sad for that decade. it's bad. #eventually when she does reunite with her best friend shes scared to take the bandages off. a.qua shouldnt have to see that side of her... #a.qua tells her that theyve been best friends since they were kids. theres nothing to hide. #it's not until a.qua sees those hand scars that they begin to date. theyre childhood sweethearts! theyre very cute together!!! so gay!! #i love her sooo much! theyve got a lot of baggage with a.qua being trapped in the Realm of Darkness for a decade and Ash being all alone and #struggling with a horrible case of survivor's guilt but. they make it work. they always have ever since they were little kids. #i really like my k.h s/i!!! hope you like her too hehe! also her k.eyblade is green and red and silver and named Starfire #but yeah. red/blue couples for the win! especially when theyre a.qua/ash- #a.qua gets down on one knee a couple yrs after k.h3 and they get married a wee bit after that #their kiddo is super cool too! name is violet (she/they) and they're the coolest key kid on the block hehe! #anyways yeah. good morning-

[quillyfied]

I am happy to report that ERGONOMIC CROCHET HOOKS MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE ACTUALLY

#quillhooks #next step: figure out how to hold my tension without losing use of my off hand #need the smoother slide of yarn over skin to keep tension easier #need compression gloves so my hands and wrists don’t just snap off and yarn does not glide over them #but anyway OMG YEAH THE GOOD CLOVER HOOKS ARE REALLY GOOD ACTUALLY

[autumnalfallingleaves]

What are your head cannons for the Plantars? Also, what are some of your critiques about s3?

Polly is a polyglot (lol) and knows 12 languages by the time she's fifteen. Her first language is English (or whatever it's called on Amphibia), her second is Thai (which she writes her most secret mechanical projects in because she knows she's the only one on Amphibia who can read it), and she's actually pretty fluent in Ancient Newtopian.

If the worlds aren't separated, she elects to go to school on Earth and eventually gets into MIT. Her family is incredibly proud of her :)

She can skateboard.

If it's the canon 'verse, someone eventually realizes that Polly actually has the same hair shape as Anne and tells her. It makes her pretty emotional because she really misses her big sister but knowing she somehow retained a bit of her? Makes her feel a bit better.

She starts wearing a bit more green as she gets older. I like to think that Sprig and Polly are a more healthy version of Strength and Wit for Anne? I'd say Sprig's pretty emotionally strong and Polly's fucking smart. Also, Sprig's green and pink. Polly wears more green as a symbol that she's associated with being really fucking smart.

She also stole one of Anne's sweaters from out of her bag right before she had to leave forever to have as a reminder. It's Polly's favorite item of hers and she wears it whenever she needs that comfort.

She doesn't stop trying to make a new portal so they can get back to Earth. An idea I have is that Sprig saved the leaves Anne's first body dissolved into, and they're absolutely saturated in Calamity Energy, enough so that Polly's able to use them to power a new portal. She also cannibalizes several frogbots for the Calamity Energy they've got in them.

Polly turns the old tunnels under the house into her workshop, with the central area being the New Wartwood town square after the townspeople move back out of it. It's already there and set up, so she takes advantage of it. Plus, she can raid her ancestors' old stuff for weapons and tech and stuff.

Sprig's not a genius like Polly, but he's pretty damn smart himself. I mean, he's ten in the majority of the series and he's quite smart for a ten-year-old.

He gets quite adept at reading people and can really tell when not to trust someone, or when someone is trustworthy, or when someone is hiding something. Combined with Anne's charisma and ability to charm most people, they're a deadly duo.

It's canon, but he's a really good artist (look at the doodles he has in the basement during the Amphibia timeskip in The Hardest Thing! I bet he drew those and they're so good!) and he illustrates the book he writes about all the adventures he had with Anne. He's eventually convinced to get it published, and it becomes a bestseller in Amphibia.

If he could still go to Earth, Marcy would ask him to do a guest comic for her webcomic. Her fans love it :D

Related: he'd totally make a Tumblr for himself. Yes, people know he's a frog. (An ask: wait are you really a talking frog / Sprig: yeah?? why would I lie about that)

He takes over the farm after Hop Pop retires. The avocados make it so they don't have to worry about money anymore, and Sprig's learned a lot since trying to take over the farm in s1. Polly handles the technical side of things, and Sprig does the business side of it. He stops doing as much adventuring because of this, but he doesn't really mind.

The bandana he wears in the timeskip is one he stole from Anne.

After Anne left for good, Sprig spent the majority of the time down in her old basement room as a way to feel close to her. He eventually makes it his new room because he just feels more comfortable down there. It's not lost on him that it's the room he was in when his parents were killed, but it's now just... Anne's room, and that brings him comfort.

Edited to add: my headcanon is that Sprig is transmasc and biromantic asexual, and Polly is agender aroace and usually goes by she/her pronouns but doesn’t really care. She honestly doesn’t give a fuck about gender.

The Plantars are a lot more respected after the events of the series. Not only are they Anne's family, they're just genuinely good people and Wartwood starts to recognize that. It also comes out that the first Plantar was a close friend of the king's back a thousand years ago, so that's also something.

Those avocados are insanely popular.

A bit sadder: after Anne leaves, Hop Pop keeps accidentally making food for four, instead of three. He's just so used to Anne being there that he'll make more food than is needed for the three of them, but it gets packaged up as leftovers once he realizes. It's still sad, though. He misses his eldest grandchild something fierce.

He starts writing plays, and they're really good! They actually draw in wide acclaim, and even get put on in Newtopia.

And I think that's it for now!

(See this previous ask for the second part of this ask)

#these fucking frogs!! I love them!!! #frogs of 'amphibia' my beloved!! #no but polly's hair really does look like anne's #also. she's wearing one glove on her left hand. anne has one shoe on her left foot. I think shes unconsciously emulating her sister. #beans answers

[wtf-amiru]

I reshot The Smooch ™️from the kiss meme bc i made the mistake of setting it as one of my desktop backgrounds and a lot of things irked me about it having to look at it all the time, including the fact that I never actually closed it. Also just spent a lot of time noodling around in gshade bc I had the time. A'miru's gear made some of this hard bc the gloam tabard is just really bulky around the hips and ass, and it's got that weird moon shaped thing on one side...anyway, behold, The Smooch ™️

#ffxiv #a'miru #g'raha tia #catpix #catch rammbroes outside just #fucking finally maybe we can get shit done around here now #spoilers they did not #really wish i would've taken those giant bracers off him first but oh well #they're in there #they're so huge what even #still struggling the most with getting the camera where i want it #mostly bc if the camera isn't square with the axis you're moving it on it fucking TURNS #and boy oh does that heck me up #so everything's kinda just off center this time #i actually had a lot of fun wiggling her hands in under that thing around his neck tbh #wish i woulda just taken both their gloves off bc playdoh hands

[ripplefields]

OH MAN

Scc e au my beloved!!

I was rewatching wall-e and got to the end part— with the crushing bit. I gotta ask if that’s part of the plot/story 👀

I am eating this au up, thank you for creating it!!

short answer: YEA IT IS AND I TOTALLY PLAN ON DRAWING IT AS WELL :D I LIKE HURT/COMFORT/MORE HURT/MORE COMFORT

long answer which probably includes spoilers for both the movie and the au:

so i think i slightly established this in the most recent post but the plant = the empty disc

queen wants it back as she believes if she gets the disc back, she can bring cyber city (and ONLY the city, still leaving the outskirts to rot) salvation. spamton, on the other hand, secretly wants the disc to gain control of the neo body, and to gain control in general. cap'n is sent to many parts of the outskirts to search for it, inevitability he meets k_k, he finds the disc in their bag, shuts down, and inevitably returns to the city with the disc (and k_k who unknowingly tagged along for the ride back up)

a ton more stuff i'll get into later they meet sweet sweet joins the crew rogue robot rebellion helps some addisons snap out of their business trance and see the city for what it is ("i didn't know we had a roller coaster!") they gain a following ok now the END .

different from the movie tho, spamton actually DOES get the disc and takes the neo body . so now the triple r's plan isn't 'get the disc to queen' it's 'get spamton out of the disc and THEN get it to queen' cap'ns the only one with a firearm so he takes care of the strings pretty easily, but once the body is out of commission, as a last point of actiom before dying, spamton picks up k_k and crushes them .

they get the disc emptied after spamton is defeated, but addisons bring it to her for them, they're too busy rushing k_k back to the outskirts to repair what they can of them (i am also keeping the memory loss section in . read the short answer :] ) queen sees the state of the outskirts and decides she should pitch in on making the outskirts a better place, seeing as it's been rotting and dying for as long as she can remember

#i really need to also explain the roles of each character n stuff #basically every addison is too wrapped up in business to see the city around them #n k_ks the one who helps them see it #i don't know what relationship i want queen and sweet to have ? #do i go the deltarune route of 'they're friends but also sweet is constantly cast aside and it makes them upset' #or the walle route of 'sweet is just doing their job and can't see the world past that' #also thinking abt the trash dump scene where mo and walle actually meet #sweet sitting next to a beaten up k_k #they extend their hand for k_k to shake it #k_k does and quietly mutters out their name n sweet responds with theirs #stares at their dirtied hands from k_ks handshake but for once doesnt clean their glove just makes sure k_ks comfortable #can u tell i'm starting to love this au #now imagine spamton saying 'give me the disc queen' in the auto voice #insanely funny #ok i'll stop dumping in tags IM GLAD YOU LIKE THE AU! #i plan on doing a ton of stuff with it in the future #scc e au #also this is probably rly messy i promise i'll make a proper timeline soon

[crimsongrimoire]

nah I'm still thinking about the inherent homoeroticism of them + gloves in two distinctly different aspects

#crow.txt #not writing #ideas™️ #to follow at least #but like!!!! fucking GOD! i have so many thoughts about this always #diluc wearing gloves basically since he started knight training in part to hide nicks and the occasional little burn on his hand #kaeya being the only one to see his hands beneath them really. he didnt even have gloves when they were younger iirc? #and then to further that thought same thing now but diluc has way more scars now maybe kaeya does too #diluc thinks nothing in particular of them. theyre judt sorta There. he covers them only out of habit #because he knows other people find them unsightly/unsettling/whatever and doesnt want to deal with any of those weird conversations #but UGH. just. the intimacy. of them not having gloves on in private. something something feeling no need to hide anything yeah sure #but also the not wanting a barrier between them that they otherwise both have between themselves and the rest of the world most of the time #and of course the actual skin to skin contact that comes with it and probably makes them both insane #even innocuously cause theyre touch starved as hell #and then also there is just something so gay about removing someone elses gloves always #like with teeth or the sticking fingers in the band that makes me go APESHIT. any of it all of it always forever amen #take this as penance for not posting anything in a while or a Real Fic in almost a fucking year 😭

[imperatrix-et-peccatrix]

Do any of my followers/mutuals know about traditional portrait posing (specifically body language & hands) and maybe want to reblog this with a Beginner's 101, perchance with some examples?

#aside from the obvious symbols like books swords dogs #i want to say there were Silent Rules about the meaning conveyed with gloves or being seated instead of standing #obviously it would be slightly different in Elizabethan England than in Renaisaance Italy but just a basic rundown would help #i really really hope SOMEBODY wants to go OFF about different portrait references because I absolutely do NOT know #what is up with the HANDS. folded. tucked away in a shirt or behind the back. writing with a quill. pinky up. on the arm of a spouse. #jack skellington voice: WHAT DOES IT MEAN What does it MEAN #classical art #neoclassical #romantic art #baroque painting #classical painting #art history #portraiture #art restoration

[soy-sauce-and-mothra]

Hey! Are there blacksmiths in your story? I'm a hobbyist blacksmith and I'm here to help!

Blacksmithing is one of those things that a lot of people get wrong because they don't realize it stuck around past the advent of the assembly line. Here's a list of some common misconceptions I see and what to do instead!

Not all blacksmiths are gigantic terrifying muscly guys with beards and deep voices. I am 5'8, skinny as a twig, have the muscle mass of wet bread, and exist on Tumblr. Anybody who is strong enough to pick up a hammer and understands fire safety can be a blacksmith.

You can make more than just swords with blacksmithing. Though swords are undeniably practical, they're not the only things that can be made. I've made candle holders, wall hooks, kebab skewers, fire pokers, and more. Look up things other people have made, it's really amazing what can be done.

"Red-hot" is actually not that hot by blacksmith terms. when heated up, the metal goes from black, to red, to orange, to yellow, to white. (for temperature reference, I got a second degree burn from picking up a piece of metal on black heat) The ideal color to work with the metal is yellow. White is not ideal at all, because the metal starts sparking and gets all weird and lumpy when it cools. (At no point in this process does the metal get even close to melting. It gets soft enough to work with, but I have never once seen metal become a liquid.)

Blacksmithing takes fucking forever. Not even taking into account starting the forge, selecting and preparing metal, etc. etc. it takes me around an hour to make one (1) fancy skewer. The metals blacksmiths work with heat up and cool down incredibly fast. When the forge is going good, it only takes like 20 seconds to get your metal hot enough to work with, but it takes about the same time for it to cool down, sometimes even less.

As long as you are careful, it is actually stupidly easy to not get hurt while blacksmithing. When I picked up this hobby I was like "okay, cool! I'm gonna make stuff, and I'm gonna end up in the hospital at some point!" Thus far, the latter has yet to occur. I've been doing this for nearly a year. I have earned myself a new scar from the aforementioned second degree burn, and one singe mark on my jeans. I don't even wear gloves half the time. Literally just eye protection, common sense, and fast reflexes and you'll probably be fine. (Accidents still happen of course, but I have found adequate safety weirdly easy to achieve with this hobby)

A forge is not a fire. The forge is the thing blacksmiths put their metal in to heat it up. It starts as a small fire, usually with newspaper or something else that's relatively small and burns easily, which we then put in the forge itself, which is sort of a fireplace-esque thing (there's a lot of different types of forge, look into it and try to figure out what sort of forge would make the most sense for the context you're writing about) and we cover it with coal, which then catches fire and heats up. The forge gets really hot, and sometimes really bright. Sometimes when I stare at the forge for too long it's like staring into the sun. The forge is also not a waterfall of lava, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Welding and blacksmithing are not the same thing. They often go hand-in-hand, but you cannot connected two pieces of metal with traditional blacksmithing alone. There is something called forge welding, where you heat your metal, sprinkle borax (or the in-universe equivalent) on it to prevent the metal from oxidizing/being non-weldable, and hammer the pieces together very quickly. Forge welding also sends sparks flying everywhere, and if you're working in a small space with other blacksmiths, you usually want to announce that you're welding before you do, so that everyone in a five-foot radius can get out of that five-foot radius. You also cannot just stuck some random pebbles into the forge and get a decent piece of metal that you can actually make something with, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Anvils are really fucking heavy. Nothing else to add here.

Making jewelry is not a blacksmithing thing unless you want jewelry made of steel. And it will be very ugly if you try. Blacksmithing wasn't invented to make small things.

If there's anything here I didn't mention, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.

#yes some of this was directed at steven universe #the only thing su got right was bismuth crying when her anvil broke #cus those things are goddamn expensive and hard to transport #blacksmith #blacksmithing #writing #writing prompts #writing advice #writeblr #writer #writer problems #writerblr #writerscommunity #writers on tumblr #writers and poets #writers

[lunarflare64]

Love buying the smallest compression size and having to modify it to be even smaller

#we arent good at sewing but we do have the materials to do it and we can pull it off and get the intended goal #it wont be pretty but it will work #we only really have to do this with compression for our arms tho #wrists especially #it can be difficult because its not like we're a small person we wouldnt fit into a childs size or anything #but if we cut off our hands we would be able to fit pringles cans over the stumps with plenty of wiggle room #our hands are huge we need large to extra large glove sizes but that size does not last past the wrist #cursed to never have properly fitting gloves