#i lost the theming on that one lol

[satsuha]

naeleen 60min challenge (took ~80min)

#satsuhart #dragalia lost #aeleen #one of my favourite alts i like the design so much.... #nurse themes are just very cute in gen but i love the apron(?) thing (lol see: sei) and i really like her staff too #i quite like her og design too it just looks so impractical LMAO but the feather motif v cute... #love how she actually became endgame meta too . str healer ftw

[rui-drawsbox]

Comm for @ CitrusCynical! Part one bc I'm working on a few more ♪

#talking about work. first i didn't do much outside sending a lineart today bc *turumrumrum* i got a pc! #yayy! clapclapclap! #still gonna use the laptop to draw since the cpu only has one hdmi entrance and i can't connect the tablet #buuuut i have a piNK KEYBOARD. literally my dream come true #i might be able to play genshin again♪ i might be able to download bg3 in my own pc♪ #I'll be able to use a paint textured brush bigger than 100 pixels♪ #he hehehe hehe #the wifi connection sucks tho. we'll have to connect it with a wire i think #downloading steam at turtle pace lol #rui draw smth #art commisions #commission #oc #original character #im so happy i was literally at the edge all day lsndmsmdm #I'll upload a photo in my twt probably. i wanna show off my pink keyboard pink mouse and pink cat-themed mousepad #I'm also! reclaiming to Clipstudio support for my product key bc i bought it in like 2020 and we lost the email with the code #i have a pirated version but it's old. and i also have enough money rn to buy the newest version but my mom tells me to get my own again #ñeñeñe

[crowleys-bentley-and-plants]

The Unforgiven III by Metallica should not hit so hard wtf

#set sail to sea but pulled off course / by the light of golden treasure . ok damn #how can i be lost if ive got nowhere to go? stfu this is not okay #and the forgive me. forgive me not wtf #im not okay #ive already been going crazy about part 1 and 2 but i didnt know there was a part 3 and #jesus christ #also my mind's been trying to link this to good omens because of course and this song just perfectly ties everything together #like the different themes in each one but all about forgiveness #“I forgive you” “dont bother” that's what the songs are about you cannot convince me otherwise #yes im going crazy about metallica and good omens but what else is new #maybe one day ill be able to make a semi coherent analysis of this lol #or not #either way i will one day break down and ramble about this #the question is not if but when #lord help me #anyway #ramble gamble

[cometrose]

zhongli thoughts im bored

i am obsessed with the imagery of him holding a golden fan just below his eyes and gazing over the city

highly proficient in all makeup, cosmetics and accessories, you need to dress up nicely for a fancy occasion he can have you looking like a goddess just give him some time

he sits in the sun a lot, when he had the exuvia he would sit on the tallest mountains and sleep in the sun

Unlike the other archons zhongli is closely attached to the sun, he is like the sun in many ways, he guides people, brightens their lives, plants and life thrive under his care

However the sun is still deadly, those who get too close to him burn up in his presence and those who keep their distance are trapped in the shadow he casts and lose themselves, like the sun in the sky he is meant to shine brightly all by himself

i am obsessed with the imagery of zhongli sitting in a bathtub and all of his draconic features just come out one by one, first his arms turn gold and then come his claws. Next comes the horns on the top of his head as his hair grows longer and longer. Last is the tail which flops over the edge of the tub

He can't sing but he has some talent with instruments, a habit he picked up from being around quizhong, ping and venti for so long, he can work with string instruments best

He will pat your head, he can't help it, if hu tao has her hat off and she makes him smile that hand will be on her head

crazy thought of the liyue gang playing hide and seek, like xiangling, xingqiu, yunjin, xinyan, hutao and chongyun playing this huge game and they run all over the city it becomes a huge affair at one point xiangling is "it" and she can't find anyone but she comes across zhongli sitting in his favorite spot at third round knockout and she's like "sorry to disturb you but have you seen hu tao" and he smiles and is like "well i don't know about the director but i saw a blue haired exorcist up at the terrace he might be around the glaze lilies" and xiangling thanks him and goes to chase chongyun down, zhongli whispers behind him "she's gone" and then 4 of them, xingqiu, yunjin, xinyan and hutao just poke out from behind him (they want to keep hiding behind him but with a smile he shoos them away to play the game properly)

zhongli is painfully popular you can take the man out of the archon but you can't take the archon out of the man

zhongli likes to keep the moon by his side specifically the people who are like the moon; guizhong, venti, xiao, azhdaha, rukkha, ganyu the list goes on and on -perhaps they are naturally drawn together its unclear who gravitates to who but even liyue itself is a beautiful moon he can cling to

zhongli can petrify things with his hands, just lightly brushing his fingertips over anything will encase it in stone and with a short breath it will crumble to dust

mr. workaholic the reason why we never see him at work and always on vacation is because he goes crazy and completes all the paperwork and it scares hutao so she kicks him out (but then he spends all his money so he has to come back the cycle never ends)

as a consultant zhongli takes on many jobs if they hire him from wangsheng he’s quite expensive though ganyu tries her best to direct the qixing away from him but some things are unavoidable and they require his assistance

#zhongli #genshin impact #zhongli headcanons #the liyue hide and seek has been in my mind for like two weeks lol #since he was alive at the time i like to believe he knew one of the moon sisters #maybe that is where this moon affection originated! #give me 3 minutes there is too much sun and moon symbology going on listen listen listen why is zhongli the only one associated with the su #why is everyone close to him associated with the moon even liyue is named after the moon listen listen i think its neat i think its great #hes like batman the moons are his robins and he keeps losing them like they just die and shit #we have lost quite a few moons mister zhongli like i'll knock on wood but i have this terrible feeling you will outlive the other moons too #there are so many moon characters just people whose symbols and themes are all connected to the moon #i have seen the theories to some extent but i can't discuss it #i can only be so delusional #sometimes i wonder if im talking to myself #i mean like that’s okay the void can be welcoming i suppose

[sskk-manifesto]

Osamu Dazai and the Depressing Era

#I have so many thoughts through my mind these days I was barely able to focus on the episode. I kept zoning out #I made barely any post #Okay some thoughts. The thing that really hit me since the first time watching b/sd... Is the– #“I don't kill people because I want to write about lives” “I start doing good because my friend asked me to” #Like I get grey morals and everything but also. Sorry for being so simplistic but I think everyone should do good / not kill people– #because killing people is bad lol. No because of other personal reasons #I really *really* feel b/sd ultimately has a very nihilistic approach to life. #And that when Oda said “You won't find a reason to live whether side you're on. Both sides are the same.” it's not Oda-character talking��� #but it's really the author expressing their own worldview through the one character that's the most distinguished #They really think there's no difference between good and bad in their little nihilistic world. #Which is something I personally don't agree with. #“It is a given that everything that is worth wanting will be lost the moment I obtain it” #......... No it's not you just need to go to the shore and listen to the waves crush and the seagulls squeal dude. It's going to be okay. #That's why it's so easy to portray Dazai as perfect and flawless for the author btw. #Because nothing he ever did in the pm was wrong if “good” and “bad” don't mean anything to begin with. #And this is coming from a deeply relativist person. But I believe even grey morals have a limit. #Thus my general disagreement with most b/sd themes #I don't know why I went off this tangent btw I didn't intend to. #I suppose it bears repeating once in a while where I stand compared to the b/sd themes and my personal interpretation of them #(Even though I acknowledge most people don't agree with such interpretation... ) #There were other things regarding the episode I needed to say but I forgot... #One of them was that season 2 Dark Era proves that even amv openings can actually be good if you put enough budget in them #Which makes me even more pissed at the season 3 / season 5 ops #random rambles

[figofswords]

composing music for my zelda dnd campaign like how a normal person does

#song of sages #I’ve already written themes for each of my five PCs #plus the first movement or ‘the lost hero’s theme’ which will be a full length composition following link’s story from start to finish #I’ve got bits of the rest of it but those are top secret for spoiler reasons #movement one is ‘link the legendary hero’ and it’s for piano and flute #the sage songs are all gonna have a second part the players will have to learn later #and I WANT to combine them all into one ensemble composition but idk how I’m gonna do that yet #they’re all in the same key but I made them all very different otherwise so they’d feel distinct #maybe I’ll take motifs from each and put them throughout the ensemble piece? idk #meanwhile have I written my plan for session 0 tomorrow? have I made the Map? no lol

[solradguy]

I got recruited into helping pass out candy at my dad's tonight but I don't have a costume so I'm just gonna put all my belts and stuff on and go as myself because the last time I did that people thought I put a lot of effort into my costume and I didn't have the heart to tell them that that was just how I dressed normally most of the time lol

#textpost #Don't think I'm gonna bother with the belt pants today though because they're not very warm and it's supposed to get cold #I am torn between my black jacket with the spikes or my red one though #The black one might fit better into like a Lost Boys theme but the red one is extremely extra [positive] #And I don't have my vampire fangs anymore anyway and most kids probably don't know what the Lost Boys even are rofl #But I'd have to change shirts if I wore the red one because I have a Sol shirt on today LOL

[not-souleaterpost]

The suprisingly bad plot of Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

So I played this little fun Jet Set Radio clone (don't worry, it ties into the iceberg, so I wasnt technically procrastinating with video games-)

And the thing that stuck out besides the expected and fun is how the story was bad. In a surprising way - not as "oh I didnt expect it to suck so much!!!" But nah, what I mean is that it failed in a interesting way.

So what do I mean?

Well lets start with the whole setup "Oh yeah, you get your head chopper of and are actually just a random scrap metal robot controling a should-be lifeless body."

This is weird enough, but the fact that there is that much head switching and body stitching is just strange, you wouldnt really expect that from a skating game - hell it makes the casual light-bulb eye-switching from Naruto look tame in comparison.

Still, one could guess that its just a quirky thing (or more disturbingly that some of the developers gets off from it, like not the weirdest thing that exist) - just some funny detail to get attention and stand out.

But not, this thing actually is the crux of the whole "theme" and "charachter arc"

And its weird that this kind of game trys that, like if mario struggled with alcholism as a framing decice for generic platformer #64. Cause why do something that is overly ambitious and will fail?

Like this game sadly failed - the whole search for "roots" just felt kinda unatural and as if the people were living in a different world from you (like ok I get it the society literally is that much weirder, but I mean in a sense of just procecing information and emotions differently than a standard human would)

Just the fact that the charachters feel empty and you dont really connect with them or their relationships makes everything hollow - yet its weird that they tried at all - cause yeah in the end in Jet Set Radio, nobody gives a shit about that stuff, we just wanna ride the line with carefull cartoon charicatures.

Yet still the story decided to introduce plot twist, thematic foils, villians with pseudo-arcs, drama etc.

But somehow it doesnt get how at the same time it just doesnt work on a basic level - like after its revealed that not only that Faux guy killed Felix for a petty reason but also is about to kill all other Graffiti pals, its kinda irellevant that his "big secret" was "Oh your dad kept you out of trouble"

Yet the game plays that up as some final all revealing shocker, and even gives Faux a death mirroring Felix initial fall.

Also the whole arc of Felix is both weird and at the same time something that seems to be trying to say something - from starting as some random smart hair-dryer, to it being revealed that he secretly was a legendary skater with amnesia, and the whole "you are both now"-

I get kinda that they tried to say "look he died partly because of his arrogance and not letting others be close may sparked Faux's psychopathy", but still at the end it just doesnt click, you know what Im saying - the first thing after coming to life with no memory is "Oh I wanna paint the city, yeah why not and find my original head even if its not really mine" and then "Oh I guess I learned the power of friendship, even if we interacted minimally and in the end only the final thematic attack showed the use of bonds"

Like yeah, it showed literally moments how without other people he would be dead but still it was so subdued that its weird to do a whole story like that.

Especially a story as whacky as it - with a evil skater head taking over the police and brainwashing everyone to do his biding while becoming a giant centipede monster.

But the weirdest part is that it even had the whole meta-commentary about how yeah it IS a rip-off and one cant escape that, but like, we are totally something new too guys!

But guess the only really clever writting was the set up of that weirdo with angel wings actually having a absurd but believable reason for overhearing everything lol.

Yet other things just go nowhere - the sniper kinda disapears from the story, there are obvious times where you are just sent in circles for padding, etc.

And that last thing is kinda what leads me to my attempt to reverse engineer the story -

I would guess they started with the wacky desing of the main guy and someone though "but why do he be having that crazy head thou?"

And from that it sparked the idea, well he lost the head - and that connected with the whole "identity" thing especially when they had to think if they were making something creative or just puppetering the corpse of a dead, head-team less corpse of a faux legendary franchise (I dunno why I said faux, I like JSR, but I had to tie in the names)

The details came later, hence why DJ Cybers Mask is supposedly Felix's, even though it doesnt fit the latter - cause yeah the charachter designs werent made like that originally.

And thats why there is some weird padding and moments - cause of budget reasons some things had to be stretched, or maybe some things had to be used in a way to maximise what one has done and to not throw away some cool concepts, even if they clash.

Also, Im not knocking this associative way of coming up with storys, just speculating if thats how it all came together.

Still, the fact that the story isnt just "Yeah we are rebels and here are police, lets fight!" without any of the before mentioned window dressing is surprising.

And, being non-generic is a positive surprise, no matter the execution - so see, this "essay" wasnt shitting on this game afterall.

(also contrast for a simmilar story that is unsurprisingly bad - Gravity Rush - but I'll save that for another time, man I wish that games creative direction was done by someone else, cause the gameplay itself has moments of being more fun than a lot of things...)

Oh also the proof that this all relates back to the Soul Eater iceberg - see what I found (sadly not first, cause I googled and some redditor noticed 2 months ago, alas if I played this game way back I would have had this eternal glory, not shame😔):

And if you say: That's it? I expected more!:

Yeah...Sorry

#bomb rush cyberfunk #critique #story analysis #meta #surprisingly bad #not in a bad way #spoilers #soul eater iceberg #jet set radio #would tag jsrf but only played a few levels before the emulator lost my save #I suspect maybe the story will make more sense in retrospect of that ones plot like I heard it involves some alien squid being summonened #but the first jsr had the whole yellow rhino demon #so its not the absurdity thats weird more the try to be “emotionally complex” or to have some theme and message #but idk #yeah...sorry #also maybe there is some shit in the post game that makes it be more coherent but I already wasted enough time with videogames lol

[worktheraft]

#2001 a space odyssey #i mean it does have that “snake entered his electronic eden” line #and it does have that recurring enlightenment & fall motif #and it does involve a discussion (although presented somewhat implicitly) concerning the nature of evil and its origin #but im kind of looking for more than that like. not just one specific part if the story or one specific character's arc #but like. the whole thing. an overarching theme that brings the story together. the whole story. is it paradise lost coded. #idk for me it kind of is... #but then again for me everything is paradise lost coded lol #anyway just additionally tagging this as #paradise lost #and #john milton #just in case we get any input from that fandom in addition to the 2001 aso one

[hanzajesthanza]

i think the witcher makes me feel a profound sadness every night because it’s about all the things we love so much, or that we wish we had, but can never get back. the tragedy of the uncontrollable. the pain of loss.

ciri, despite her youth and innocence, loses her home and family and then she even her adoptive parents, and then she even loses her youth and her innocence, and is left with nothing but a grotesque scar symbolizing her trauma that doesn’t fit her childlike face and a hardened, green glare. and a sword, which is only a burden.

her parents, despite their incredible love for her, despite all of their agony and sacrifice to get her back, despite their own loss of their honor, their pride, their blood — they lose her too. they lose a child, the most tragic loss of all.

dandelion loses his best friend, clutching at his memories like the weeds growing by loch eskalott, trying to grasp the last twenty years to write his memoires.

milva hears her father’s words when she shoots, and his wheezing echoes in her mind.

regis lost himself, his entire life, all the people he ever loved and chased away.

cahir, despite his large family that loves him more than imperial orders, can never return to darn dyffrya, feel the sun on his face in vicovaro ever again.

angoulême wonders if her mother would have loved her had she not abandoned her, imagines what her hand patting her head in praise could have felt like.

and then geralt loses them. all of them, one by one.

and nimue, reading about it all, can never meet the figures of the legend she has obsessed over for years and years… she has her part to play in it, she can know their voices from dialogues and know their faces from etchings, but will never be able to tell them she loves them, tell them how much they mean to her.

even when they find what they’re searching for, even when they find what they’ve desired so — it’s only for a bittersweet moment. they shortly lose it again. everyone in this series is so intertwined together and caught in the same snare of destiny, and at the very same time so very alone and abandoned

#additional edit: this textpost brought to you by carolina in my mind #edit: and no one’s loss is the exact same! even though there are parallels — everyone suffers differently. #i used to feel guilty describing my experience as ‘loss’ because it wasn’t pertaining to death and that’s typically what loss insinuates #but you can lose so many things outside of death. and inside of death i don’t rule that out — but for me at least #the witcher books made me realize there are soooo sooo many ways to suffer and girl i’m not special lol #like all the protagonists experience this horrid sadness and tragedy and they KEEP LIVING and then they SUFFER EVEN MORE and then they DIE #and its like omg thats horrifying but like that didnt make the read any less enjoyable. in fact it made it more so #if they just were happy all the time there would be no story #so it made me realize that even if you are suffering or even if you have lost. life is still worth living #and also that rage and ‘bad’ emotions and selfishness and all these evil things that rise up from within a person are in fact natural #the creation of children of contempt seems almost unavoidable in the world we live in #but the point is that you cant stay a child of contempt. you have to humble yourself or someone else (BONHART) will humble you #dont hurt others or leo bonhart will snatch that beret with the rooster feather right off your ashen-blonde head #the witcher books #txt #analysis #kind of? analysis: a big theme in this is loss. lol kind of obvious not really groundbreaking you’ll have to forgive me #f: a hansa's a hansa #f: i want to see the sky #damn who would think a war saga would be a tragedy smh #obv /s #personal

[i-raised-you-danker-than-this]

i found this deer at goodwill and thought of my mom

#my mom has launched full force into the kitchsy farmhouse decor theme (since like 2018 but she’s lost to the sauce now fr) #i felt like i was lowkey ruining it and i wasted hella money on getting a wood stain for the plaque #just to end up not using all of the fake flowers i bought let alone the real ones #and covered up majority of the plaque with my final design lol #AND i frogot 🐸 to put a hook on the back to hang it #also the one random piece of moss covering the hole in the bottom I KNOW ITS BAD #i’m gonna fix it im just done for today

[aslightaddity]

I love how my quinceañera (it’s not one of those big ones, technically it just barely qualifies as a party but like shhhh-) was full on Batman themed. Like yes it’s one of the most important birthdays of my youth and like a rite of passage for many Afab Latinx people and I even have my nice dress and

And it’s Batman themed

Idk I love this but it’s so funny to me!! Also it was really funny to my tías XD

#also my dog ate half a pizza…. and lost a tooth in the span of one day #but yeah it was Batman themed and I loved it! #posting this on my birthday but the party was test #yesterday #Batman #party #quinceañera #Batman quince #lol I’m a nerd #Latina #dominicana #:) <3 #me posting

[abitchwontshutup]

#me #my face #selfie #the cats will not take selfies so like. sammie is the one sniffing me and also the one i fell to attempt a selfie with #literally the one where my face is cut off and theres a space next to me? she was there until she realised what i was doing #lost heaps of my makeup too and the new version of my favourite eyeshadow fades faster too im crying #more eyeshadow. should be yellow. honey or sunshine themed doesnt matter but i have pale yellow AND gold glittery stuff on lol #wanna find an outfit that goes with the choker though lol but clothes cost so much too? #im too cute to be asked to pay for things i think

[welcometogrouchland]

Good evening girl I am thinking about how the owl house lured me in with fun, surface level elements and aesthetics before ambushing me with themes grief and familial conflict that make me want to cry so hard I throw up. Why did they do that

#ramblings of a lunatic #dana terrace saying that the theme of grief will continue in the next episodes of season 3 both excites and terrifies me #cause there are SO many characters who's grief parallels each other- namely the nocedas and wittebanes #belos lost a brother. luz lost a father. camilla and evelyn lost a husband and had to take care of a child in the midst of it. #hunter just lost his best friend. darius lost his mentor. #when i tell you all of these characters actions (minus hunter but rtbs) are driven by the grief they carry with them #like #AND I'M JUST SUPPOSED TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THAT?????????? #stories that deal with grief always manage to worm their way into my heart and/or brain for a long time #it's just. it's such a personal topic i think? grief has some generally agreed upon truths- that's how we identify it #but it happens to everyone in different ways under different circumstances and it makes everyone act differently #it effects their lives differently #so when a story goes out of it's way to portray the different ways characters grieve it just. mm. hits different #and i namedropped familial conflict as well but my feelings on that can be summarized by that one pos #that points out how when you take into account the family tree Caleb left behind and the found families built over the show #belos has essentially been terrorizing his family for 400 years in various different ways #lol #also the parents in this show. camilla specifically. i am a camilla stan first human being second #SHE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT IN ORDER TO BE KIND TO HER DAUGHTER SHE HAD TO FIRST BE KIND TO HERSELF #AND EMBRACE THE THINGS SHE'S ASHAMED OF. GOD!!!!!! FUCK OFF!!!!?????? #this show. this show makes me want to eat glass #anyway no one talk to me I'm in my feels about the show for children

[astranauticus]

the funny thing about drawing robits at least for me is after i got the hang of it (pain in the ass) it actually becomes more fun than drawing regular humanoid anatomy because the geometry of it is just so much more… regular and intuitive like no Weird Muscle Curvature here! just orbs and cylinders

(anyway i recently remembered that theres a guy at my school who runs a printing station where you can print (among other stuff) stickers if you provide a design so guess whats my next wip)

#asto speaks #rwd #ive drawn so much rwd robits in the past few weeks its actually influenced my own oc design #like im no mech engineer (lol) and my original stuff is mostly fantasy but god i LOVE playing with inhuman characters #im one of those people where the way i avoid burnout is i just keep like 3 separate projects ongoing at any given time #so every time im sick of one i move on to another #also like re: the printer guy #im gonna need to check with him if this is like a shirt printing situation where the colour complexity increases the price but i doubt it #ive got a rough design sketched out and its a. starship b. a lot angstier than i initially envisioned while bored at work #as is my wont apparently for some reason #also probably because of my previous drawing i now just permanently associate ad astra per aspera with starship now #i would imagine the old CotPA wouldve probably used it as kinda their slogan #at least to some extent. i mean they named their ship after it #but moreso its just the. despite everything you still have to keep going but also ill be here watching over you of it all #see this is why i cant stop thinking sbout them. why are we here if not for the brainrot #fun fact my high school astronomy club is holding an event/reunion and the theme is ad astra. fuckin lost my mind when i found out

[cerealmonster15]

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twst stardew au tag -> twst farming sim au, bc we respect harvest moon in this house

ft protag caycay adventures + chenya jumpscares in the mines

also some stuff i found in discord w/my friend as i was comin up with hypothetical ~cutscenes and mechanics~ lol

#twisted wonderland #twst farming sim au #cater diamond #uhhh ill just tag him since hes in like all of these lol #cereal tries to draw #my blog theme is still cursed if ur on desktop plz click for the full pic if ur on my blog #i need 2 change it so bad #anyway ya i forgot i had all those ones from discord kjflsj #i have given farming sim aus Lots of Thought #i forgot just how much had #you can see those discord messages are from JANUARY lol #uhhh if u cant read the discord handwritten parts they say #jade: oh hello~ i was just admiring your collection <3 #POV: this dude bangs on ur door @ 6am to give u a slice of cake [[trey: i made extra...] #cater: i bring u egg! | trey: wow! #deuce: i think you'll like this one! | cater: she looks kinda like you lol... #<- the implication being the chicken looks lost and confused. like juice. lol #anyway i literally always have twst on the brain and i love farming sims/farming sim aus #idk if people are into this kind of thing but I AM and it's MY BLOG so HERES MORE