#high how are ya

[langernameohnebedeutung]

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

#'all those tiktok girls who only like marvel films and' - why do you always say girls and women? are the guys filling opera halls instead? #'women in their mid 20s who still only read YA novels' okay sure that's an example and relevant discussions can be had #but it reminds me of the mocking tone in which people speak of 'chick-lit' to use women's interest as an indicator of lower value #while in fact women are reading more than men in EVERY single genre of fiction. Women are doing a lot of (often unpaid) labour #supporting libaries supporting theatres supporting cultural events #meanwhile there is a pretty big overlap between toxic masculinity and anti-intellectualism #(especially misogyny and homophobia) #especially when it comes to things like ballet or opera or musical or generally dance #in fact it is often the female investment in specific things that makes them less 'valuable' in general consciousness #for thousands of years the theatre was well-respected and a high form of art - and now it's a 'wife-thing' #the father who will teach his son that theatre and dance are for girls - how is that never an example for anti-intellectualism

[ozymandien]

monk zhu chongba

#my skungly #just a sketch to get used to drawing her face!! it's close to what i envision #BIG BALD HEAD!! #this is the look for the first book btw. hwdtw look pending #i love how often zhu is compared to a cricket or a mantis or a cockroach #in my mind he has wide set eyes like a bug's. and they are unsettling #cheekbones not as high as ouyang's. also rounder nose and thin lips that curl up to one side when he speaks or smiles #anyway #LOVE YA ZHU #INVENTED GENDER FUCKERY #she who became the sun #he who drowned the world #the radiant emperor #myart #fanart #zhu chongba

[spookberry]

and they were teammates

#monster high #turns out i LOVE getting to use my real life experiences as inspiration for stuff #this was so fun to draw #despite the stress picking the color pallet gave me #i loved getting to use my insider knowledge of how teen girls dress for soccer games to make each of them more individual and themselves in #i didnt realize that make me so happy lol #coming up with headcanons about what kind of shinguards frankie probably prefers #or how Clawdeen would absolutely have those fancy personalized cleats that have the compression around the ankle thing #also including a bit of monster high into their uniforms with the lil added pizzazz to their shorts #clawdeen wolf #lagoona blue #frankie stein #fanart #my art #also a lil bit of lagoonaXclawdeen squeezed in there ya see

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

i have learned what shadowpeach is! and i think its hilarious

sun+moon coded, friends-to-enemies-to-?????? duo is so interesting i wanna put them under a microscope

#lmk #lego monkie kid #six eared macaque #monkey king #sun wukong #fanart #shadowpeach #...i may end up drawing more lmk fanart that is mostly this dude #fights between these two could be very funny #cuz they don't *actually* wanna set back their reconciliation so they gotta hold tails after #but if u think u saw that no u didn't mind ya bizznizz #(im ignoring how with a relationship this complicated they could also be Unpleasantly Violent And Emotional) #be very funny if mac's taller but people don't realize cuz wukong's floof goes that high #the fact that macaque is a shady (HOHO :D) antagonist what got sucked into the found family AND a theatre kid has made him one of my faves #is he actually running/participating in local theatre on the side i NEED to know #is it just shadowplays or does he like rent it out to other productions too that he can watch #i wanna see him react to hadestown and/or shakespeares tragedies being the only 1 in the room who doesn't know #like imagine watching romeo+juliet and when it hits the scene where mercutio bites it flabbergasted monkey screeches erupt from the back ro

[sea-buns]

hey to a gorgug liker what do you think about his nightmare section from sophomore year? cause I feel like the horror there is less “ah my grandparents were racist” and more “fuck am I being a stereotype? are the people who hate me right about me?” cause wrt to his having to modulate between barbarian and artificer in fhjy it’s like. idk

oh boy do I have thoughts

Tbh, I had zero recollection of the racism stuff until reading this. It was just SO MINOR. His trial in the forest felt really lackluster to me. I feel like everyone else's really dug into an issue at the core of their character and his felt more like "everyone is getting a trial, what do we do for gorgug?" And idk if that was just a bad delivery/call on Brennan's part or if it could have been helped by Zac engaging more in it but it just. Didn't feel like anything. It was a lot more about the dice than the horror of the claustrophobia and the bugs and you've never fit in anywhere you live to make yourself smaller wherever you go you're just the loser who hits hard. Like yeah I guess there was an overarching theme of Gorgug gaining confidence in himself but it was done very poorly imo.

And I think his trial in the forest was wrong for putting such an emphasis on his intelligence. I think that would have been much better suited in fy, back when he was still being heavily bullied, but beyond that it felt like a quick and easy thing for them to grab. Yes, he had insecurities about his intelligence with all the complications with Zelda. But, to me, the focus of fhsy was his HEART. It put a spotlight on how his social circle has grown, and his bully is his friend now, and he's not alone anymore. His interactions with Ayda, the friendship book, trying to help Fabian, I believe in you spring break, it's Gorgug keep going. I made a post earlier in the season (including a great addition by another user) that I think articulates that emphasis on his emotional intelligence very well.

Fhjy HOWEVER. I think it's doing everything that sy failed at. It's giving him space to have an inner conflict. It's addressing lots of little issues and conflicts he's had over the campaign and combining them into one coherent piece. Like, guy was in a relationship pretty much all of fy, and then dealt with the fallout in sy, but I don't think we've EVER seen as much quality relationship development with Gorgug as we have in jy. He and Fig spent an entire summer together trapped in a tour bus and no season has indicated that bond and friendship more than this one. He and Riz have found something to bond over, meanwhile in previous seasons there was pretty much zero one-on-one personal interaction between them. Fabian expressed sadness over Gorgug leaving the Owlbears, because it was the only thing they had that was just for them to hang out and be friends.

Just with that, we're already doing leagues more with Gorgug's character than we ever have. And I haven't even STARTED on his barbificier journey, oh dear god lmao.

Gonna preface this bit with a post I made before the season even started. It was about Zac's steady improvement in his performances with every PC, and how I was predicting that it was gonna culminate into a Gorgug that does him the justice he deserves. It was initially supposed to be a criticism, but I got a little lost in the sauce of loving my boy lol. Still very relevant to the topic of this ask!

God, where do I START?? Addressing his relationship with rage? I'll be honest, I didn't think that would ever be used as a character arc. And I'm not even sure why I've felt that way. I just didn't think... I didn't think about how he might've had a dislike for his own rage. Like, the WAY he rages isn't bad by any means, but I don't think it ever crossed my mind how actually harmful his lessons to sing to combat rage were. No, I did not like the way Porter went about teaching him (a bit too unsupportive of his capabilities and reminiscent of shitty teachers for my liking). But his point about EMBRACING anger; that rage is not bad and does not— should not— need to be stifled. THAAAAT. That opened up such an interesting dialogue for Gorgug.

I do appreciate the beginnings of Gorgug's interest in artificing in fhsy. I think the crumbs of it back then did a great job of leading into his larger commitment to multiclassing. And I think what he's been doing with it this season is exactly what was lacking in his section of the nightmare forest. His trial was a puzzle, based entirely on die rolls, where his solution after failing even when he's assisted by the enemy is to essentially give up. I understand that facing their fears was the whole point of the trials, but his section came off as incredibly anticlimactic and unfulfilling. Just the fact that it was a trial based on stat numbers more than the development of the character itself.

Where junior year succeeds in actually showcasing his intelligence and the evolution of the worth he holds in himself is with the hands-on approach it takes. Yes, the academic rolls are still dice and stats, but there's a physical manifestation that wasn't there before. Gorgug is smart when it comes to getting his hands dirty. It is in the practical applications of his skills that his brand of intelligence shines the most.

And while, once again, I did not LIKE Porter's heavy resistance to multiclassing....I have to admit that I don't think Gorgug would have had such a boost in confidence without that struggle. Even if my boy had trouble expressing it to Porter verbally, HE STOOD UP FOR HIMSELF. Instead of simply rolling over and agreeing that he wasn't built for a technical class and it was stupid to try– he was DEFIANT.

The kid who said "I'm a dumbass. Eat me you stupid bug." took on FOUR CLASSES. Three school years worth of artificer simultaneously. AND stayed with the Owlbears. AND went along on party missions to help Kristen's candidacy. AND was always on deck to help the party with the overarching plotline.

AND HE ACED IT!!! THE FIRST BARBIFICER THAT THE AGUEFORT ADVENTURING ACADEMY HAS EVER SEEN!!!!! He is paving the way for every unprecedented multiclass that follows.

Just in comparison to who he was in the previous season, the amount of drive and self-worth he's gained is astounding. In my eyes, it's done more than enough to makeup for the way his development fell flat in sophomore year.

i hope this fulfilled the ask in the way you were hoping! i told you i'd get carried away lmao. writing a bunch about any of zac's characters is always such a joy. gorgug had always been my favorite of the bad kids but i always found myself wishing he went deeper, y'know? and now it's real. my precious anxious boy has been handled so well. and watching zac's growth as a performer has been such a blast.

thanks for the ask! :D

#hope i dont talk in circles too many times #im not even gonna think about how long i spent lol #ya hit a certain point where youre like 'does that feel exactly right?' and then u go fuck it we aint perfect #ive done that a lot with just any writing thing in my life especially in school #but i feel like i followed through a lot better with this than i have with a loooong essay/analysis/post in awhile #so that feels good. certainly helps when its a thing you really love lol #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #fhjy #fantasy high #fh #fantasy high sophomore year #fhsy #gorgug thistlespring #character analysis #asks #anon ask

[lindalofbroome]

modern au doodles because wanted to reiterate biker lindal and then it became a whole thing

#roddaverse modern au #emily rodda #roddaverse #deltora quest #lindal of broome #barda of del #lief of del #jasmine of del #// #truly bold of me to do denim when im sick it's atrocious just imageine its' good #anway needed a cooldwon drawing t orelive the pressure of doing high intesninty work alskdjfh #i dont even know if im sick anymroe #maybe it's njhsut my body bluescreening and force shut down #ya know how it is

[raisinushigher]

i think one of the biggest factors for why the dynamic of tophabe is so addicting at least to me and Maybe other people who enjoy them is the way their motivations and needs as characters fit into eachother so perfectly. and i think the most basic summary of that is topher is very possessive of things and likes to be the one in control of things, and abe, while also wishing to be in a position of responsibility and authority, more often just wants to be accepted at all. any sort of relationship that topher has with anyone - apart from the bleacher creatures - is always doomed from the moment they meet because of how overbearing and entitled he is, however with abe, even after topher crossed him like he does with pretty much everyone at some point, abe holds pretty much no grudge against him because that’s just the type of person he is. abe’s absolute biggest weakness in the entire show apart from his cluelessness and naivety, is how he doesnt stand up for himself. this is probably going to be disproven since they haven’t even had a proper interaction at all since the whole thing so hold pretty much nothing to this, but not once has he said something like wait why am i talking to you?? you blackmailed me!! while talking to topher. abe’s whole thing is he never stops viewing people as his friends even when they mistreat him. once abe sees you as a friend of his there’s almost no turning back. and while im not entirely sure what he thought of topher during the time in season 2 where they appeared to be regularly talking to eachother, that seems to still hold true with them. tldr its the same features that hinder both of them from having truly good relationships and deter other people from them that really make them click as a duo

#this ended up being way more about abe which ya know. i like that. good job me #also sorry but again….. you have no idea how much i despise the grumbles plot #not the blackmailing thing but just the fact that it had to be That topher couldve at least just convinced abe to do it with another studen #or something and i hate hate hate how intertwined it is with these two and how dirty it feels at times because of it #I Hate Tophabe I Wish It Never Happened To Me. stuffs this hastily in my drafts for a slow day #clone high #tophabe #mine

[ladywaterfall]

I, for one, will never forget that time i wrote a mlp g2 fanfic in which moon shadow stole an ancient powerful necklace which granted the wearer the ability to see into the future from queen silver rain because moon was an orphan with no friends except dainty dove, who was a pegasus/earth pony hybrid and couldn't fly even after her moult (in this fanfic pegasi have fluffy wings until age 12, then they grow into their flight feathers), but then the leader of the orphanage twinkle star (who was also a pegasus/flutter pony hybrid) got hired by queen silver rain to murder dove, but dove escaped and is now hiding in the woods near the pegasus kingdom, but moon doesn't know that and is planning her revenge on the monarchy.

meanwhile, sundance hates her responsibilities as the princess of the earth ponies, along with her brother firefly and her sister crystal, who has always been overlooked by her parents sunsparkle and night star (who dies while trying to stop moon shadow from escaping with the necklace), until light heart commits arson in the castle during the midsummer day tryouts for a new jester (her popular sister trixiebelle was chosen instead of her) and she ans sundance escape through a secret passage which sunsparkle ordered secret tale and merry moments to build before they ran away to the lost library in the middle of the rainbow forest.

Afterwards sundance meets sweet berry (who is melanistic and has really strong magic) in a cottage in the woods and together they go back to the castle, assuming light heart was captured. they sneak into the castle and watch crystal deliver a prophecy about incoming doom, then sunsparkle tells sundance that sweet berry killed her sibling ivy with her magic. they look for light heart in the dungeons, but instead find moon shadow, who drugged all the guards and she knocks sundance unconscious right before light heart showed up. turns out she had been in hiding in a nearby town. they run away from the scene of the crime and decide to go to the lost library, but not before scaring all the royal guards with sweet berry's magic.

they meet merry moments and secret tale at the lost library, who casually tell light heart that she is a hybrid and that trixiebelle is not her real sister. sundance captures moon shadow and makes her give up the necklace that she took from crystal, and she joins their friend group. merry moments suggests that they should go to the flutter kingdom, because she doesn't recognise the necklace and the flutter kingdom is the most mysterious of all the kingdoms. moon shadow leaves to contact her ex girlfriend dainty dove.

sundance, light heart and sweet berry go to the flutter kingdom, where they meet an exiled border guard named morning glory. she says that the flutter kingdom is an opressive dystopia ever since the old rulers mysteriously disappeared and were replaced by the new queen. morning glory disguses light heart and sweet berry as sundance's government officials and they visit the palace while sweet berry has an existencial crisis about killing ivy by accident five years ago. morning glory breaks into the royal library and finds out that she is actually the lost princess of the flutter ponies, but she rejects this responsibility in favour of escaping with light heart to the unicorn kingdom.

light heart meets her sister dainty dove, moon shadow, crystal (who ran away after sunsparkle tried to use her prophecy powers to declare war on the other kingdoms, and copper glow, who is an outcast from society due to not having magic. together they spy on queen silver swirl, and discover that she is stealing the unicorns' magic in order to conquer the world (why is every ruler in this fanfic trying to conquer the world smh) and that crystal is secretly half unicorn, and that the necklace was worthless all along. all the kingdoms go over and have an epic fight, which the main characters stop of course. crystal also turns her mom into a ghost because yes.

i spent half an hour typing this out.

DROP THE LINK-

but fr there's SO MUCH going on here. I love that you did that.

The corruption of ponies in power. arson. mysterious conspiracies. lost princesses. accidental murder?? turning your mom into a ghost. TRULY iconic. absolutely love it.

#also g2 representation! #truly the first time I have seen night star in anything #the high stakes and drama wow #this reads like the plot of a YA novel OR how we actually played with our toys in childhood #my little pony #my little pony g2 #my little pony fic #g2 mlp

[daxeek]

i cant get dunmesh World of Warcraft AU out of my head

#dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #its so funny to me how perfectly all of their designs could be translated into WoW designs... #Marcille is the only other one that would even need to be changed bc she'd be a high elf so give her glowy eyes and there ya go... #daxart

[canisonicscrewyou]

“Oh yeah sure you can crash on our couch!! Matt Smith just has to keep you company.”

“What”

“Oh you know.”

“I mean- uh- I guess that’s okay… But can you turn the lampshade around?”

“Oh yeah sure! :) Are you ready for bed?”

“Can- can you turn it… Again….?”

“?? Haha yeah okay :3”

“I… Uh.. Y-Yeah that’s fine I guess…”

“Okay awesome!! If you need anything else let me know!! The light does have to stay on though!! Goodnight!!! <33”

#yes my brother got me the 2014 Eleventh Doctor Sonic Screwdriver Lamp for Christmas #yes the shade itself has become kind of a meme in my apartment #I had this same one in high school but alas it got lost to Needing To Move Out Of Hoarding House ASAP #originally my plan was to get or make some kind of dr who esque lampshade bc I just like the screwdriver base a lot(it makes noises) #but. I kind of like how intimidating it is sometimes. staring ya down. #believe me when I say I’m only just realizing how very Dr Who Centric that ENTIRE area of my living room is #not pictured is the Dalek hanging from the ductwork #also almondmilk cameos #this is dumb. but. #dr who #doctor who #eleventh doctor #matt smith

[shibs-is-tired]

trying to yassify my style

#draculaura #g3 draculaura #monster high draculaura #monster high #monster high generation 3 #Monster high g3 #draculaura fanart #fanart #art #my art #artwork #drawing #crazy to me how this drawing and my last dracu drawing are only 5 days apart #what pinterest tutorials do to ya

[tamblerdraws]

Hey, don’t worry. Tiny Ariana Griande, ok?

yeah I think I have art block maybe

(Also I don’t remember who but someone drew Ariana Griande with lil chicken socks and I cannot get that out of my brain, I know it was from the cool cats server during a game of gartic phone but I don’t remember who did it awa)

#ariana griande #grian #hermitcraft season 6 #also I do not know how to draw high heels (or feet-) #and I know the little things in the hair on the skin are probably bows but I made them flowers bc ya :D

[hanzajesthanza]

the scene i find most relatable in all of the witcher saga is ciri in the korath desert, and idk what that says about me, but… probably nothing good 😅🙃

#i am emotionally connected to these events and her characterization during this chapter in ways i can’t even understand #this chapter is also probably singlehandedly why i think the witcher makes a brilliant YA series even if it’s not originally marketed as YA #ch 6 toc is excruciating but it is so cathartic and relieving to read :’( #because every young person has felt betrayed abandoned powerless and lost #ciri’s entire feeling beginning here which she recounts in ttos ch 1 to vysogota #that she felt so betrayed by the morals and goodness which geralt instilled in her because it was useless and did not save her #the whole series is about: if goodness does not save then what is the point of being good #and then when she goes insane from fire magic and shouts she’s going to make cabbages grow in the desert #this entire chapter is just what teenhood-young adulthood is like lmao #oscillating rapidly between ‘i am going to die here i am utterly powerless’ and ‘I CAN DO ANYTHING’ #and her revenge fantasy exploding into killing everyone she loves because paranoia says they will also one day betray her #idk what else to say. really hit the nail on the head with ciri’s character. i understand now how she is the evil and geralt is the good #the elbow high diaries

[mokeonn]

One of my favorite things about being in my early 20s is that I'm starting to understand that I can use things not for their intended purpose. When you're growing up, you get told what an object is and what its intended purpose is, and as a kid/teen, I just accepted all of it at face value. As a young adult it's finally clicking that I can simply do things a different way if it makes me happier. Sure, I was taught that you stand to take a shower, but there's nothing stopping me from just sitting if I don't feel like it, ya know? I might have always had my medication in the kitchen, but if I'm no longer remembering to take it, I can just move it somewhere where I can remember. You don't have to specifically store all food in the kitchen, you can have a little snack cart or snack station in another room.

The downside to finding out the various ways you can use objects is that you develop habits that would probably go on an r/relationships post where everyone says you're a little freak.

#simon says #i just developed a new habit (it's too tmi to put here) and I just know that it's some weird shit #it works and it makes me feel better so I'm gonna keep doing it #but it's some shit that would end up viral where everyone would go 'yo op you should break up with them thats weird' 😔 #i was just thinking about this though because every week or so I learn that I can just do what I want #because there's no fucking object use police I can do what I want #i HIGHLY suggest getting into this habit. if you find something annoying or frustrating you can just do it differently #'I hate washing the dishes because my legs hurt from standing for so long' you can bring a chair and sit or you can break it up into chunks #like on the one hand I'm learning this because I have autism and a plethora of other mental disorders #and it's FINALLY clicking that I can self accommodate whenever and however I so please #I'm just sorta learning that if doing something makes me feel better/happy/gets the job done to do that thing #even if it requires using an object in an odd way #hell there's even some little things I've been playing with #for example: my whole life we sorta just lifted blinds only about halfway up #just sorta how we did it ya know #well recently I decided I wanted more natural light in the sunroom/my office so I wouldn't have to turn on the lamp #and I lifted the blinds all the way up to the very top #and honestly?? it fucking rules. the room looks nicer; i get natural light; i can see the forest out back and it's quite calming and nice #like for ages I just never thought about doing that because it just never occurred to me that I could #i just always put blinds about halfway up because that's about how high blinds do in my household #another little one I learned is that I can just... wash my hair #sometimes when I get too depressed or if my body doesn't need a shower but my hair is greasy #I just shove my head under the bathtub facet and wash my hair #it's just a small thing but for years if my hair needed to be washed I would just take a full shower #now I just fix my greasy hair. bc greasy hair is a huge ick for me but sometimes my body is still clean or im too tired to fully shower #like there's nothing stopping me from doing that and it doesn't hurt anyone. it's just a way of bathing that I wasn't taught #but yeah those are some recent examples of me learning I can just... do stuff differently #the free will is kicking in babes and it has decided I love finding ways to use things differently #it's why im doing a bg3 run where I just press loot all no matter what and use whatever I can in odd ways #anyways I might delete this later might not who knows

[chubbie-bunnie-96]

Not gonna lie, these are my absolute favorite selfies that I got today 😅

Ugh I can't get over how perfect my wings were 😭 I'll never get them that on point again 🤣🤣

#selfie dump #hot alt girl #alternative #winged eyeliner #makeup of the day #face #stoner chick #mine #big tiddy goth gf #it me #me #chubbie bunnie 96 #selfie #makeup #edit #my edit #420 friendly #stoner babe #high how are ya?

[saltandskeletrons]

I fully understand that “too much green to feel blue” is about having enough money to distract your self from your personal issues/ unpleasant feelings. However to me it’s about being to envious to acknowledge where you are sad. Hope this helps

#fob #fame < infamy #fall out boy #infinity on high #like the first time I heard it I was like oh yo tahts about letting hatred and envy consume you to the point of bobsled reflection #then I though about how eye and I are in very different tax brackets #but ya incredible song #ok I usually don’t read my tags after typing them #but I meant #to say #letting envy and hatred consume you to the point of no self reflection