#in fact there might be more coming

[simandy]

do you guys mind if i go crazy for a moment

#im going to scream ive never made something this pretty #my brain does not acknowledge it #what do you mean >i< made this #yes this will come with that ridiculously long hair in a set #also ive got two more normal-ish lengths for the hair #i need to lay down #the sims 4 #ts4 #sims 4 #wip #cool fact: i own the silver one in real life #uncool fact: the opalite got loose one day and felt and broke down so now it's just the lone moon #i still use it tho #might buy a new one

[comicdez]

very old animation i never quite finished coloring but i very much like and am happy with what was done!

anyways whos hyped for new walten files? :]

#throwin it out in the world before the new walten files comes out and any lore used in this animation ends up getting negated immediately :] #cw flashing #flash warning #twf #twf fanart #the walten files #the walten files fanart #also fun fact tbh this wasnt intended to be colored #i just wanted to do the lineart but then when “eh might as well try to color it to complete it more” #and i only got halfway thru before i got burnt out and left it alone for year fkhskfhklfhsfkh #dezart #animation #artists on tumblr #scocophobia tw #cw eye contact #eye contact cw #tw eye contact

[starflungwaddledee]

Gimme that GOOD shit girlie 💅✨ (Starstruck x Galacta knight)

✧˖°. give up what you love, before it does you in .°˖✧

#my art #🎀💖 #🎀🔍 #cw flashing #cw eyestrain #everybody say thank you elias for having the guts to shoot this sniper shot into my inbox 0.2 seconds after i announced the shipaganza #genuinely shocked that no one else sent this in bc i have been Called Out On This One by many folks so i'm guessing it's no surprise! #ANYWAY...... #e.......enjoy. #despite the fact that this was the first prompt i received it took me a long time to respond to it bc i needed to do it Right #i drafted many ideas and even struck out on several completed comics that i did then decided were Not For Right Now #i feel like i did pretty good in the end? i have the still images as well and i might post those separate later! #thank you to this album for coming to my rescue. perfect lyrics in this track and even more so in another. you can probably guess #will anybody notice if i don't answer the regular question... will anyone notice. can i slide this under the radar? let's find out. #galacta knight #starstruck dee

[rainedroptalks]

What is it with fantasy high and girls dying before their lives ever began. How we can never really know who they are, or who they could’ve been. Brennan Lee Mulligan I will find you

#ramblings #fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy #fantasy high junior year #lucy frostblade #yea yea this is obviously about Lucy. but also.. #um #penelope everpetal #(collective booing from the crowd) #(I am dragged off the stage) #jokes aside tho #they both have that quality of haunting a narrative (Penelope specifically in the seven and Lucy in fhjy) #they’re gone. their stories are over. and yet #they have a hold over the ones they left behind #we will never truly know Lucy past anecdotes and old stories #penelope was an array of false faces and honestly? we’ll never know her either. all we’ve got is that old picture of her and Sam #and obviously Lucy was kinder. she definitely didn’t deserve what happened to her #while you could argue Penelope got what was coming for her #but the fact remains #Lucy Frostblade and Penelope Everpetal we’re both teenage girls who we can only catch glimpses of. forever #in some ways #they’re the same. dead girls who never fully leave. their ghosts still visible in the corner of your eyes #anyway rant over I’m just obsessed with d20 girls and I can draw parallels from anywhere #I might make a more… comprehensive post about this one day who knows

[belovedblabber]

#the ides of march #ides of march #julius caesar #again I want to emphasize that ‘fact’ is in quotes especially when it comes to the ones implying he was a bottom #that was a common form of political slander #so while we can’t discount it entirely it’s also important to keep in mind that implying that about somebody was a common tool of slander #might be true or have truth in it #very very well may not #also the pirate story is so funny but I didn’t have room to elaborate more in the question #he would joke around with them like I’m gonna crucify you but turns it was not kn fact a joke #‘lol I’m gonna crucify you’ #smashcut #ostentatious might be a better word than slutty when it comes to the tunic thing but #slutty is funnier #it involved a loose girdle and long fringe

[snekdood]

notice how when you hear about all these rich white men in high positions of power doing heinous shit, none of them end up being trans men or mascs 🤔 but surely we're just as privileged as any other cis guy right?

#antimasculism #transandrophobia #surely its fair to say we experience the same level of privilege yes? #notice how theres no trans men in positions of power #notice how we're none of the top richest people in the world and its all cis ppl mostly men #notice how we're still more likely to live in poverty than average cis men also #notice how we've never been able to actually exercise this supposed power we have by default of being men #its almost like theres more it to that and its the fact that we're trans which might come as a surprise to some but its kinda a huge #fuckin handicap in life!

[inkskinned]

hey it's nanowrimo. i have tips bc i've done it about 34 times.

Don't edit. Ever. Stop it. If you just decide to start a new project half thru this one with all new characters, no problem. pick up and keep writing as if you'd already written the first half of that.

"but i spelled it wrong" whatever. "but the grammar" whatever. make it exist first. no time for sense. think like you're working on a typewriter. no backspace. only forward go.

Don't re-read further than a paragraph or two backwards. "did i mention the gun before?" listen - it doesn't matter. if you need there to be a gun there, the gun is there. put it back in once you finish the book.

"i forgot the specifics of X thing i already wrote" whatever. change it, make a note/comment to figure it out later, and just write what makes sense for the moment. "no raquel it's legit the characters name and origin" idc that character is now reborn as Claudius from Elsewhere. it's fine.

only you see your mistakes. nobody else knows. one of the ways writing and dance overlap - only you know the choreography. nobody else will know if you miss a step, so just keep dancing and pretend you meant to do it like that.

it's an illusion that you need to write linearly - from point A to point B to point C. Nah; that's just timeline propaganda. I've written a LOT of books out of order and just reordered them once i've finished. if you have a scene you'd LOVE to write but can't get there yet because of plot, just fuckin write the scene. I've always found its easier to establish "point F" "point J" and "Point A" and then wiggle my way between those scenes.

write what you WANT to write. 230 pages of smut? of well-researched discussion on bread? whatever. the point is to strengthen muscles however you can.

if you miss a day, a week, whatever. not the end of the world. we all have dry days. also time is a myth so u can do this challenge whenever u want.

as soon as you try to write for a specific audience, you kill your voice. you are writing for yourself. stop thinking about how people will take ur book. it don't matter. what matter is u, enjoying writing. i luv u.

play to your strengths. i have characters talk so much because i don't know how to write a plot if it kills me but i'm really good at dialogue so.

i love a flight of fancy. write a poem in there. shift tactics and write in code. keep it fun for yourself.

see what happens if you shift something major about ur main characters - gender, wealth, superpowers. or if you change point-of-view. or if you kill everyone in a big explosion. do NOT edit anything before this or after it. often these little weird one-off exercises teach me what interests me about what i'm working on. it is never what i thought. plus it is a fun way to add like 1k words.

stretch.

it's for fun and for practice. stop doing that project if it's giving you anxiety. once my nano was literally 50k words of half-started stories. just things i tried and tried and tried and wasn't able to flesh out. oops. but i am now 50k words of a better writer.

add dragons?

read books/listen to books on tape/etc. people often make the mistake of "buckling down" to just write. you need inspiration. you need to like. fill up on words. you need to remember how it feels to lose yourself in a story.

i don't have the time or space to really talk about this in this post but a lot of creative people turn to drugs/alcohol because it can help you be more creative. this is harmful, and walking a blade that only cuts deep. if you notice you and your loved ones are turning more to substances, please know i love you and i hope you are able to get help soon. i feel like this almost never gets mentioned because it's kind of a hazy underbelly to art. you are always more important than the work.

on that note. drink your fukin. water.

don't talk about a story until you've finished it. once you tell the story, it exists already, and isn't about discovery. i usually have a very canned "haha we'll see" response.

grapes :) tasty snack.

i love you be free.

#edit: the command not to talk about it is from personal experience! #i have heard Otherwise in the tags so i will edit to say: #if you've noticed that you tend to like Talk A Lot about ur piece but never WRITE it - #consider voice-to-text #also #u might be like me and ... need to figure it out on the PAGE and not OUT LOUD #i am often an auditory processor so i wont tell people specifics but i'll be like #huh. so i have a character who is in love .... and they don't know it #and my friend will be like ''oh they should kiss' and meanwhile #somehow #saying it out loud im like #yeah thank u ur right the dress SHOULD be purple that's what the problem has been <3 #idk!!! it's up to you!!! my suggestion is to say LESS until you know for a FACT that saying MORE works better for you #-- always better to slowly unspool in ur exploration of that #than to accidentally talk too much and get Bored Of Project #idk idk idk #i have adhd so every book surprises me bc im like #wait where did any of this even COME FROM #and whatever little gremlin in my brain that writes is like :) #''heyyy girlie.......'' #WHICH IS A LONG WAY TO SAY: #i didn't know about Not Talking About It as an option until i'd ruined a few projects!! #but there are people who need to do the other thing!!! and i love us both!!!! #wow brains are so funny!!!!

[novelconcepts]

In watching more interviews with Liv about Van and the escalation of Van's pragmatism to such dark degrees, I find myself genuinely baffled that anyone could ever think Van the bad guy. I mean, I'm perplexed at finding ANY of these girls The Bad Guy. The bad guy is the situation. It's being lost. It's freezing. It's starving. It's being scraped down to the barest bone of being alive. They make choices that might be snippy, or cruel, or hard-headed, sure--Shauna refusing to just hash it out with Jackie; Jackie being too stubborn to come inside; Taissa refusing to discuss her situation plainly; etc--but by the time we reach the end of season 2, it doesn't even matter. Petty bullshit doesn't matter. Jealousy doesn't matter. Those things are still going to be present and complicated, because--for all their choices, for all the distancing they're trying to do--these kids ARE still human beings. But it isn't the point.

The point is survival. Plain, simple, straightforward. Van's pragmatism is survival. It is the difference between living another day with blood on your teeth or dying pretty. It is the difference between fighting forward through the fire and the snow and the hell of it all, and laying down to die. Van knowing, in watching the ritual violence of Shauna beating Lottie nearly the death, that they will be killing and eating one another soon. Van coming up with the cards for the hunt. Van not blinking when the moment comes, Van choosing a weapon that doubles as a tool to bring the body back, Van refusing to apologize for staying alive--it's not evil. It's not Bad Guy behavior. It's purely about survival, because there is nothing else left to her--or to any of them. They can play the pretty little Sweet Angel Girl game and die, or they can get dirty, bloody, horrific and fight. Van chooses the fight. Van chooses to fight for herself, for her lover, for her team, even knowing not everyone is going to make it out...because the alternate path there is that no one makes it out. Van knew the baby wouldn't live. Van knows the rest of them won't, either. Not unless they start making the hard choices.

And, honestly, the fact that Van sees this narrative coming. Comes up with this plan. Brings out the cards. To me, that is the opposite of Bad Behavior. That is as close to justice as anyone can find in the wilderness. If someone else came up with an idea, maybe it would have come down to voting--but that would have had such a human element to it, with bitterness or hostility or whatever ultimately petty shit always comes of humans selecting who to Other. The cards don't leave room for that. It isn't fair, because the situation isn't fair, because Man vs. Nature isn't fair, but it's as close to a just system as they could possibly find. It's the kindest solution to an unwinnable game. Not to bring it back to American Gods again, but all I can think is "it's easy, there's a trick to it: you do it, or you die." Van gave them that.

#yellowjackets #yj meta #van palmer #i simply cannot ever accept people blindly hating ANY of the girls for their actions at the end of S2 #because by that point it's not about personality flaws or errors of judgement or teenage bullshit #it's survival. it's literally do or die. #be mad at the stuff they did the first few weeks out there. THAT was in their control. #but by the end of S2 it's 'do i want to live? cool. then this is the next step. there IS nothing else. we are eating belts.' #every once in a while on instagram or somewhere i see a hot take like 'oh this whole thing is THIS girl's fault' #and it's like no no. no--apart from misty busting the black box--NOTHING these girls do will change the fact of their situation #they might make it worse or make it more palatable but in the end #it's the purity of man vs. nature as a story #and any of them getting darker. more logical. more pragmatic. just means they're putting another day breathing first. #the human element of it comes in with the faith and the ritual and the acceptance of violence--but the violence was coming either way #'this place cannot be argued with. and that is how we survive: by giving into that.' exactly. liv hewson you genius. exactly.

[its-tea-time-darling]

nothing good is about to go down here babes...

part 2/? of babyboy's descent into madness (1, 3)

#tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #2nd one right after bc i've got no self restraint when it comes to strategical posting (how would that even work??? lmaoo i genuinely dk) #i might also be a tad obsessed with the colors in this one #remind me to post a before and after editing comparison of gifs at some point btw #bc i remember before i made gifs myself i had no concept of the fact that it wasnt just taking screencaps and So Much More Work lmfao #tbosasedit #coriolanus snow #thgedit #the hunger games #the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the ballad of songbirds & snakes #also #just to be clear #the descent into madness started long before this scene lmaoo xlkjaldfjlkdsjf #my gifs #tom blyth #babyboy's descent into madness

[thanotaphobia]

emizel tucker and shilo bathroy are sosoososos perfect in my mind. not like, morally, yknow, but they are two perfect characters to compliment each other.

emizel's a kid raised on the streets of LA by his gang brothers and he forced his way up the ranks by being brutal and unforgiving and not showing weakness. he's powerful because he refuses to doubt his own capabilities, and pushes himself past what he should be capable of, because he's cocksure and drowning in hubris. and then he gets turned into a vampire and all of the sudden he's in the middle of a brand new society and it runs on violence. and emizel knows violence! he's good at violence! literally this is all he's ever known!!! he's got this, he thinks he understands how to climb the ranks but in reality, he doesn't get it. at all. vampire society is this strange mix of posh old money and a violent underbelly and to really survive in it you have to manage both ends, but emizel only knows the violent underbelly.

and then shilo. shilo, who only knows the opposite: the grand old money, the power, the manipulation. and he's okay it at- he's better at it than he thinks he is, and he's way out of his depth when it comes to vampire LA. he grew up sheltered from the violence of vampirism- sure, death isn't unfamiliar to him but the really gritty stuff, the blood, even the point of not being able to feed without it being served to him has been withheld. but he knows, theoretically, how vampires are supposed to work. he's not at all confident in himself which is such a detriment because he is a manipulative little shit at his core, and if he wasn't so overwhelmed all the time he'd be pretty good at the politics thing. he's smart! he's personable! the reason he fails in LA like he does is the fact he doesn't understand the violence-

which is where emizel comes in.

they are literally perfect for each other. twin brothers, two equal sides of this fucked up vampire world, and if they worked together (and with arthur, i think arthur is key here for them not losing their humanity, y'know) i 100% believe they could take over the fucking world.

#jrwi #jrwi the suckening #jrwi emizel #jrwi shilo #emizel tucker #shilo bathroy #like.............. they're two sides of the same coin #it's beautiful #i'm really hoping afte rthe end of episode 7 that this is the direction their characters are going #the fact shilo Politicked with edward twilight and then he and emizel now have this common goal #of getting rid of him #i think like. with this goal and them both coming into their own a little more #i think they might fall exactly into this dynamic #and it's going to be glorious

[salemontrial]

Why the FUCK didn't Sasha apologize to Quinni.

#no im so pissed about that. #dude you don't give an autistic person a meltdown that big over something that hurtful #and just #walk away scot free #last time someone gave me a meltdown that hardcore I cut them off for a month. #that might just be the bpd tho #but still #quinni doesn't seem like the type to just. be chill without an apology and hearing sasha explain herself #and then she makes her her vice?????????? #she already acknowledged sasha is only in it for the power trip #sasha didn't even do anything in the investigation she just followed quinni around #which as she should #but she hasn't made up for how she treated quinni AT ALL #in fact she's just gotten MORE of a performative activist #like why the fuck was she such a bitch to missy abt spider #i get it yea. ur friends sometimes have dogshit taste in men but you don't need to make them feel like trash abt it #and the way she was like 'he fetishizes u for being black omg its probably asian girls next omg i dont feel safe' #THIS ISNT ABOUT YOU????????. #also she 100% jumpstarted quinnis identity crisis #with how she was constantly switching between infantilizing her and undermining her autonomy over her own decisions #and treating doing things quinni wanted to do and the specific way she needed to do them as a chore #and then victimizing herself!!!!!!! #like from experience that relationship dynamic IS abusive to autistic people it just is #idk if nt people get it but it's really fucking awful to come from your partner #anyway. until sasha apologizes to both quinni and missy this will continue to be a sasha hate page. #heartbreak high #heartbreak high season 2 #quinni gallagher jones #sasha so #missy beckett

[fortunatelyenchantingtaco]

I might just be insane but with Geto what’s always made me feel weird is that, in practice, he could be stronger than Gojo. Curses becoming stronger with Gojo’s birth is effectively benefitting Geto cause then the curses he can use are stronger. He doesn’t have any restrictions for his technique aside from the horrible taste. He can send curses off with a command with unlimited distance between them, he can use an unlimited amount, if the curse is strong enough he can just use its abilities. Like the world is your oyster quite literally my man idk what your problem is (its a joke i know his issue is depression, im just saying if i had the option to eat and then use a hyperspecific creature i would not refuse)

To reach this point of strenght Gojo had to train since birth and also die

Instead of learning Reverse Cursed Technique you can just consume a curse that can heal. Just saying dude your progression is objectively easier to achieve. Gojo out there has to bend physics and write equations while you can just go eat some curses I—

#jjk #gojo satoru #jujutsu kaisen #geto suguru #dont come at me im just jealous okay #im sure yall know who i relate to in dungeon meshi #listen #I KNOW that geto hated curses and everything im not dumb #i just think its ironic that he has a much more linear progression towards power #but makes a point that he’s weaker than gojo #which he might have been at that point but dude #in the end it all comes down to the fact that he needed a reason to do all that #curses dont taste so bad when you have a goal #he just has shit taste in goals

[mixelation]

re: the hbomberguy plagiarism video again. i keep seeing people being like "this is a reminder to always check your sources" and it leaves me wondering. does anyone on this website even understand what that means

#i haven't watched the video or the toddintheshadows videos yet so this 'reminder' might make more sense in context #but the thing about plagiarism is that 'checking your sources' won't necessarily work #if you get lucky you might find the original thing that the plagiarist is stealing from #if you're not lucky you'll just find the sources the original used and it'll seem like it checks out #and THAT'S why plagiarism is so insidious #and 'checking' gets a lot more complex once you're looking into theory over pure facts #or. like. the general vibes of a fandom #anyway an important aspect of evaluating a source is to ask who the information is coming from #and you should basically never blindly trust some rando online with no relevant credentials #not even me. not even mr. hbomberguy

[saturnniidae]

'To Catch a Changeling' was the first episode where Jim actually kills someone (not counting goblins), and I've always wished there had been some kind of focus on the moral ramifications he experienced because of that.

Because there's no way he just went from being unable to kill a gnome, a creature considered a common pest, to killing a person with no afterthoughts other than: "oh man! I killed our only evidence of changelings in arcadia!"

Though I guess he could've just been doing a shit ton of compartmentalizing as well as justifying it to himself with the fact she was going to kill both him and Toby. But still, there's no way he didn't feel at least somewhat guilty.

#despite the fact he quickly learns to see trolls as people rather than 'creatures' #i feel like theres definitely a mental dissonance when it comes to killing them #because it's opponents that either explode into dust or turn to stone and crumble upon death #conpared to human deaths which are much messier #and much more traumatizing to a child than #again #opponents that literally turn into statues and crumble #but still I'm having a hard time believing he just killed that changeling lady and immediately moved on #without any kind of lingering guilt #tales of arcadia #wish we got to see the mental toll being trollhunter had on jim more in general #there is no way this kid isn't severely traumatized #but thats what fanfictions for ig #trollhunters #jim lake jr #also this is going off memory so i might be wrong abt her being his first kill #Moth.txt

[tunaf1sk]

A fast little doodle of Blyndeffswap!Lorelai and Molly looking uncharacteristically happy - because this AU has been around for a year now! Thank you so much to everyone who’s been interested, all your nice comments and questions have always brought a smile to my face :D

#my doodles #epithet erased #lorelai blyndeff #Molly Blyndeff #blyndeffswap au #I really wanted to do something a bit more involved for today but this was all I had the energy to draw... #I feel kinda bad that it's been a whole year and I still don't have anything more substantial to show for this AU than character designs #But I just haven't had the time or energy to work on it due to a lot of different life factors #couple that with the fact that there's like 30 other things I also want to work on and it definitely ended up on the back burner #I might pick up the pace more once PoP comes out but we'll see!

[mafuteru]

i think i will get executed for this as i should but i kind of do hate art.. the modern.. academic.. high.. art scene i mean

#the type of art you see at most galleries (or what ive seen) #and the type of art that students of highly praised art schools dish out #is boring to me. it doesnt make me feel much of anything #at the end of the day a simple sketch by avogado6 will make me feel 10 times more emotion #this resentment towards that kind of art world might come from the fact that i was trampled by it #so do take my words with a grain of salt. sorry for not being a true art enjoyer and artist #two shion posts in a day. it is a rare sight #love to complain! #shion.txt