#i am both sorry and not

[south-sea]

i don't talk a lot about the whole world-hopping aspect of second chance au because i figure it's one of those details that are a little eyeroll-worthy in that it's just so self-indulgent/out there, but let's do it today anyway

(this one got a bit longer than average so under the cut it goes)

literally one of the first things that happens after metal's repaired is that he's given this ability. his new company is real big on giving people, coming from situations like his, freedom.

the way the ability's normally supposed to work is that early on, it drains a moderate amount of energy and takes a while to "recharge", but is supposed to gradually get easier the more you use it. so for months he just tricks other people with the same ability to take him places instead. sure, he can do it himself, but why expend the effort when there are people offering to hop him themselves? he's not going to say no. just look at him, he's just a little guy, this shouldn't be his responsibility. (let it be said metal can be a manipulative little bastard, but sometimes he doesn't even need to be.) he pretty much only ever uses the ability himself to get home.

his caretaker eventually catches onto this, and later upgrades it to work a bit more like chaos control, so it's less of an energy drain/doesn't have such a significant cooldown period. it's definitely cheating, and is only possible because he's a machine, but both he and his caretaker are not ones to play by the rules and intentionally handicap themselves. if there's a way to make something more efficient, they will do it.

and yet, despite this total and absolute freedom, metal still doesn't really like to go places alone. early on he did, and at one point this led to stripping one world of its copper to bring to another world that buys it at an extremely inflated rate, because someone made the mistake of teaching him about the basic gist of money/capitalism, but not economy. this led to two outcomes: he has more currency than one little robot hedgehog could ever need (and has nothing to use it on), and the realization this is all so pointless.

he might now occasionally take commissions to seek out and gather information on specific worlds for other people, and that's good enough incentive to go somewhere alone, but he doesn't explore just to explore. he'd much rather tag along with someone else.

i think some part of it too is that he just likes having the option available. it's his idea of rapport-building and getting to know someone. you can learn a lot about a person based on what their favorite place is to visit, as far as he's concerned. one of the first things he practically demands of new people who he has even a little appreciation for is "show me to places you like". they'll (usually) take him to a variety of worlds, he adds them to his database, and then just... doesn't really do anything with the worlds after that.

he cannot see the artistic value in things, so "pretty scenery" doesn't mean anything to him. he approaches things in a purely scientific way. really the only thing he does when arriving at a new place is: make a profile for it, record atmospheric data, log other unique aspects of it, link the world to whoever introduced him to it to add to that person's profile too, and then move on.

and then there's shadow.

shadow, who is unable to return to his timeline's earth, all related timelines, and feels like going to a completely unaffiliated-timeline's earth would be wrong, is "limited" to the rest of the multiverse in every other direction. he takes full advantage of it.

during his down-time/between testing, wandering around different worlds and whatnot is definitely his main source of entertainment. when he gets recommendations from others, he explores the places on his own time, and more for the sights/experiences. some part of him is a little guilty/haunted by the fact he's unable to see earth like he's "supposed" to, so in a way, visiting other places is almost like supplementing what he could've/should've/would've been spending his time on if he hadn't kicked the bucket the first time.

very, very early on, before he had gotten his bearings and realized he could lowkey donate himself to science for a cure, he had been introduced to photography. for a while (and still, sometimes), that's what he did. he'd take photos of places and scenery--anything he thought maria would like, and one hobby turned into another.

the thing about shadow is he thinks he doesn't have any hobbies, but the reality is he finds and rotates through them at a fair pace. world-hopping is at the core of it, and fuels all the other ones: exploration, photography/scrapbooking, trying new foods, and generally just experiencing all the new things he possibly can, to name a few.

(on a less serious note, it's also a fun excuse to throw the boys into existing-media worlds just for fun, like shadow ending up in the Sky world and getting himself a cloak or two, or the current season's ultimate gift that's basically a light-dimming projector. so add "collecting various interesting objects" to his hobby list.

you could hand shadow a piece of driftwood and he'd still proudly keep it--display it somewhere in his home, even--because here is a thing that has history. everything is new to him. he wouldn't just see "a piece of wood", he would research it and find out it's something that's been altered by its time in water, and that makes it special.

so shadow's world-hopping hobby is somehow at its core very similar to metal's habit of compiling libraries worth of data on every person he meets or place he visits. they both just want to Learn in their own ways, but while shadow's content to do so on his own, metal would prefer to travel with him/someone else, so it is not central to his own enjoyment. his enjoyment comes from the people he's with, not the places they're in.)

#i'm in a mood where i just want to talk more about the boys' dynamic together #or dumb little things like metal's slightly skewed understanding/usage of money #or shadow's subconscious attachment to metal he doesn't realize he also has to make that fondness Very Mutual #but if i didn't limit this post to Just the world-hopping aspect it would've been huge #no one said anything about not sticking that stuff in a different post though #so much as glance in my general direction with a topic and i'll gladly talk your ear off #i am both sorry and not #it's the autism #and i am in full-swing special interest mode today #sea talks #second chance au

[dailymanners]

Always use "excuse me" if you have to get into someone else's personal space.

Someone at the store is standing in front of the shelf where there's a can you want to grab? Don't just reach into their personal space without warning, say "excuse me" or "pardon my reach" first so that they at least have a warning that someone is about to reach into their personal space, and most importantly, so that they have a chance to move before you get into their space.

Or if someone is standing on a walkway or in a doorway you need to get through, don't just silently shove past them or squeeze past them, say "excuse me" so that they have a warning that a someone is about to squeeze or shove into their personal space, and they have a chance to move out of the way before you do you.

People deserve a fair warning if someone is about to squeeze or shove or reach into their personal space. A lot of people are not okay with having someone, but especially a stranger, randomly shove or squeeze or reach into their personal space without warning. They also deserve a chance to move out of the way first for the sake of their comfort.

Try to avoid just staring at people who are in your way and expecting them to read your mind that you want them to move. Most people cannot, in fact, read minds, so having someone stand in front of them and stare at them often only leads to making them feel uncomfortable and frustrated.

But also more importantly, if you are standing somewhere someone needs to get to, and they say excuse me, you should move aside for them even if just temporarily, so they can avoid the discomfort of having to reach into your personal space or squeeze past you.

If someone is saying "excuse me" it's because they would like you to move because they don't want to have to get into your personal space, whether it's out of respect for you, or just because they themselves are not comfortable getting in your personal space.

All of this goes double for people with trauma and/or people who are neurodivergent. If someone has trauma related to abuse or assault they may find it more upsetting or possibly triggering to suddenly have someone shoving or reaching in their personal space without warning.

Or, many types of neurodivergence can make it especially disturbing and unpleasant to have someone else in your personal space, especially without warning.

You can never be 100% sure who is and isn't traumatized and/or neurodivergent, so always practice respecting other's personal space by giving them a fair warning with "excuse me" or "pardon my reach" before getting in their personal space, and moving aside when you hear those magic words. Or, even if someone isn't traumatized nor neurodivergent, it's still fair to not like someone in your personal space without warning and not being given the opportunity to move first.

#manners #politeness #courtesy #good manners #etiquette #I'm so sorry I really tried to make this one shorter I really did #I trimmed the fat as much as I could but this was as short as I could bring myself to make it #Where I live most people will just shove into your personal space without saying anything #or just stare at you until you get the hint and move #and I hate it so much #Especially because I am both neurodivergent and have PTSD so I really hate people staring at me and/or shoving in my personal space

[eyes-of-nine]

minimum wage coded scrunkly and his very good pupper

#.... I am in denial over vol 7 don't mind me ywy #haven't had the chance to get to vol 8 yet so no spoilers pls not that I'm expecting much :') #anyways yin yu my poor scrunkly I'm sorry that the narration and xie lian keep judging your overworked ass #they're both very fun to draw tho #tgcf #tgcf fanart #mxtx #tian guan ci fu #quan yizhen #yin yu #quanyin #heaven official's blessing #my art

[cozylittleartblog]

i now understand how certain people felt when harpy eda was revealed 😳

prints here

#toh #the owl house #toh fanart #lilith clawthorne #hooty #toh finale #watching and dreaming #captioned #WOW. WOOO OW. GOODNESS. MA'AM. QPR PLEASE??? PLEASE??? WOW #i both literally am her and i want to kiss her. Wow! #she is the ideal woman. her particularly early 20th century fashion sense. she's a big nerd. she appreciates history. she's aroace. she's a #bird lady who can fly. she has curly hair. Oh Jeez It Does Not Get Better Than That #sorry anyway i cant believe i won twice in a row with ladies (queen and lilith) who are specifically tailored to me and no one else /j #digital art #illustration #a small victory against my art block even though this took like 4 or 5 days to chip through. but i did it #there are some parts i feel a little clueless about so #critiques welcome #lilith please pick me up and fly my gay ass off into the sunset please im beg

[nemkero]

rise meets mayhem!

        —  (part 1 & 2/?)

part 3

#rise x mm crossover comic #because i am very normal #/lie #sick of twitter fighting #they can both coexist smh #sorry if this is formatted weird btw #formatted for twitter so #whoopsie #might be an interactive comic for twitter!! #tmnt mutant mayhem #mutant mayhem #mutant mayhem fanart #rottmnt #tmnt mm #rottmnt fanart #rise of the tmnt

[leafsfromthevine]

🩶 ☆ ☄. *. ⋆ ☆ 🩶

#BOTH OF THEM WITH FLOWING HAIR??? #AND THEIR LITTLE SCOWLS #THEY LITERALLY LOOK LIKE BFS WHO ARE FIGHTING #ALSO SOKKA RESTING HIS ELBOW??? ON ZUKOS KNEE??? AM I SEEING THIS RIGHT #zuko is glaring into his soul in the second image #sokka is giving him the silent treatment #too much teenage angst they can't communicate rn #god i stumbled across this during my hunt for zukka crumbs and i can't believe i haven't seen this before like???? #they are literally slaying SO HARD the hair the poses the expressions the vibes #sorry i had so much to say about this #zukka #zuko x sokka #zukka screenshots #atla screenshots

[unsertraumschiff]

spock chart that came to me in a vision

#i am certain some people would disagree with me on classifying leonard as straight and/or bully as gay. #however it is for the joke and the joke ONLY #so feel free to switch them in your head or something. either works they’re both gay spocks #I think some people would also disagree with me calling aos straight. sorry for that. once again a simplification for the bit #not even gonna tag this tbh it’s a bad meme #except for one tag: #bullyparade #for my personal reference

[vamp-bites]

Scott pilgrim takes off screenshot redraws that i forgot to post

#did these over a month ago whoops #i kinda smushed both tristamp and trimax vash into one scott pilgrim shaped guy #meryl and milly im so sorry girls i drew u hastily at 1 am i could draw u way better if i had given myself time #i got too caught up in giving vash a swag outfit that i had no momentum left to snazz up the girls #trigun #trigun fanart #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #vashwood #meryl stryfe #milly thompson #scott pilgrim

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

We could have had it all...

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #oh man....the NieYao dynamic....All these complex emotions and ties to each other and they *aren't* canon? #Sorry fellas but the way you proposed writing your bro a letter of recommendation & agreeing to it was very fruity. #And *then* Lan Xichen shows up. And both JGY and NMJ are head over heels for him and have been for ages apparently. #Its like they found out that LXC had been two timing them this whole time and their response was: “UM. HOT?” #I'm tempted to redraw these three as that one bisexual-core image with Anne Hathaway. You know the one. It fits. #It's strange seeing all of this fondness in retrospect compared to the betrayal you feel in The Untamed after a longer build up. #Initially it felt like 'oops we made him a little too 2 dimensional as a villain - quick make him more sympathetic'. #JGY even had a scene with him kissing babies. As any politician would do to improve their image. #but it does come around to really showing a more authentic JGY and the tension between him and NMJ. #As an angst lover I am personally all for 'what could have been' relationships and they DO have it all.

[critter-covenant]

BOOM frowning critters yuri be upon ye

Catfeine and Dogpressed by @/eggritos!! :D

#The brainrot for these two I have is BAD sorry If I'm a little abnormal about them #They rotate around the forefront of my brain at 400 mph at a 43 degree angle everyday they are so everything to me heart emohjidhfslfj #catfeine and dogpressed created by eggritos! They're here on tumblr and on twitter!(more active on latter) #Not tagging them because I am evil and devious (social anxiety frowns) insert evil laugh heree #catfeine #dogpressed #poppy playtime chapter 3 #smiling critters #poppy playtime #frowning critters au #frowning critters #smiling critters au #Trope where they both accidentally fluster each other all the time without noticing and without even trying #the gay panic is continuous! AND mutual! #they're so silly to me augahuhuahfakjf #cough anyways

[theminecraftbee]

-slamming bolt upright in a cold sweat- what do you mean verbal contracts cleo. what do you MEAN verbal contracts cleo. artists if you're doing commercial work you're A) charging much higher rates and B) making them SIGN A CONTRACT, right? right? you understand why that's VITAL, right? why having a written contract is VITAL for commercial work? you understand? you make them sign a written contract? please if you go looking in proper artist/graphic design circles i'm sure you can find a basic form that's legal in your locality and doesn't require you talk to a lawyer but if you're doing commercial work you're MAKING THEM SIGN A CONTRACT RIGHT--

#stream liveblogging #sorry someone in a chat in my discord mentioned cleo said they were using verbal contracts and my raised-by-lawyers self sat bolt upright #artists: you can get away with just an email chain with a noncommercial commission #but if you're doing someone's branding/merch/commercial work #you've both GOTTA charge WAAAAY more #and you've GOTTA have a contract #and you've GOTTA check out the rights stuff (hint: you aren't giving them perpetual rights to the design unless you're charging out the ass #i'm not an artist or a lawyer so i don't know the exact details of how this should go down but #ohhhhhhh my god. #anyway this isn't supposed to be discourse i am certain basically every youtuber does this. unfortunately. #and i don't BLAME the ones who have because they just probably hadn't realized/assumed the people they were commissioning would know #but i'm just losing my marbles for a moment don't mind me. #oh my god. #ANYWAY BACK TO MY NORMAL SCHEDULED POSTS--.

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I’m sorry but I can’t stop laughing at the way Dazai’s manner of speech abruptly changes from his usual fairly polite and in control to just cursing.

Dazai: “yes I am so calm and haha oh man this is the worst how am I ever going to get out of this one??? anyways, hi Chuuya-“

Chuuya: *straight up shoots him in the shoulder*

Dazai: “YO WTF???”

#bsd #bsd spoilers #bsd chapter 109 #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #soukoku #skk #sorry I am both on the edge of my seat but I also find this chapter hilarious #storyrambles

[mysteryposter]

what if they were girlfriends

here's the whole sketch page, i sure do love clutter. and lesbians and also robots

#idrk my rationale behind this one it was the voices mostly #v2 and the mindflayers have some of my fav designs in the game and they both got that girl boss energy so they should kiss #and also this fandom needs some more yuri sorry #also the only ship art ive been drawing lately is mlm BOOOOORING #(<- joke) #v2flayer #<- i think i am the only person ever to draw them together LMFAO #my hcs are v2 is she/it genderless and mindflayer is she/they transfem ok thumbs up! #nayarts #ultrakill #ultrakill v2 #ultrakill mindflayer

[kursed-curtain]

the bride and the ugly ass groom

#- i am ESPECIALLY proud of this since this is the first time ive ever drawn BOTH ford n lucrecia #- not an accurate height I just wanted the comedy of the original meme #- i put a lot of effort into Luci and then there's. im so sorry ford #Psychonauts #Psychonauts 2 #psychonauts 2 spoilers #- i think #lucrecia mux #ford cruller #digital art #fanart #character design

[idliketobeatree]

#exposing myself here #do i mean writing or reading? #both. #btw i am in no way discrediting actual therapy if you can afford it i am begging you to go #i'm currently waiting for the state-paid one and in the meantime we cope #also sorry for the shit quality i did this on my phone and didn't expect more than 10 notes tbh i should've known better #good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #staged #david tennant #michael sheen #good omens fanfic #good omens fandom #good omens fanfiction #good omens memes #good omens shitpost #ineffable fandom

[introspectivememories]

#fucking idiots the both of them #lewis you lost nico 'britney' rosberg???? #and nico you lost lewis hamilton???? #you stupid fucking idiots #me whacking them with a roller up newspaper: IT'S. BEEN. A. DECADE. TALK. TO. EACH. OTHER #i mean like at this point it has to be a psychological experiment #how much psychic damage can our fans take before they snap? #why am i sobbing over two forty year olds on the bus? #anthony hamilton and keke rosberg please hold an intervention for your children #im sorry but if i fumbled britney and lewis you would've had to sedate me #like straitjacket and psych ward and everything #lewis hamilton #nico rosberg #f1 #brocedes