#it’s hard to interpret it right

[spaghetticat3899]

It’s always late at night, when everyone’s asleep, and I have myself for company, that I suddenly fall into a self loathing spiral that I can’t get out of, and no one to talk to so I can remove myself from the headspace.

#spaghetti speaks #my friends have their own problems I don’t like bugging them much #i feel like shit #To put it bluntly #vent #I have so much on my mind and keep having whatever existential crisis wants to plague me #the worst part is knowing that the intensity of these feelings are temporary and brought on by the wretched organ #I wish I could artistically depict my feelings because I always think about it but never do #it’s hard to interpret it right #some people use beautiful colors and shapes and I can never seem to do things like that #I’m quite straightforward- cutting to the chase of how I feel without much nuance #It’s like 2 am- you’re supposed to stop believing anything you think of yourself after 9 pm #I think #Unrelated but good god what is with recommended popular tags?? #The first things that popped up was eating disorder shite- like #tumblr what are you doing??? #vent post

[theminecraftbee]

it's fun because the things that appeal to me most about the three canonical evil clones/twins of hermitcraft are similar, but they're all different.

evil x appeals to me because he is very much Just Some Guy, for all that he's an evil force of nature; when he's sympathetic, it's because he's Just Some Guy who's been shackled to the terrible fate of being "evil", but when he's a villain (like in season eight!), the things that make him villainous also aren't the supernatural aesthetics, but the ways he is also the evil of being just some guy. for all the lightning and thunder and echo of xisuma's appearance, he isn't anyone special. (xisuma is.)

helsknight appeals to me for almost the opposite reason: this isn't just some guy, this is you, explicitly, a demon that possessed your clone and possesses all the things that are bad about you, magnified. he's a mirror, inherently, in his very creation. in the stories where he's a threat, he's menacing because he's a mirror of someone we should like; in the stories where he's sympathetic, we must confront how much of ourselves are also mirrors. (what happens if you don't like what you see in those mirrors, anyway?)

empires!false is somewhere in-between; she's not a mirror but she is the result. she's learning something you'd rather have forgotten about your past, and at her most sympathetic, we feel for the way she's been cast aside so false can 'fix her', the things done to her memory. at her least sympathetic, though, she's reflecting these pains onto others; violence begets violence, and even with it missing, the past begets her. there's no looking at empires!false without seeing the echoes of what false did to her. (there's no looking at false without it either.)

............then they also all appeal to me by being ridiculous failguys but like if you want to be DRAMATIC ABOUT IT, the ways they appeal to me are like the above,

#hermitcraft #falsesymmetry #evil xisuma #helsknight #LIKE YOU ALL UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M GETTING AT RIGHT #sorry. trying to write a dumb shitpost made me think too hard about this again. #god i need to write an e!false fic. #also obviously this is all SUPER up for interpretation and other people may disagree with these character interpretations! #this is like. just my vision and all that.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

you cannot tease wei wuxian and hua cheng hunting for funsies and not show that to us??? it has to go one of two ways right? either an absolute visious blood bath where everyone cowers in fear or the equivalent of a teenage girl's slumber party. both??? both.

Hunting each other for sport is the keystone to a fun slumber party

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #tgcf #wei wuxian #hua cheng #I was so happy to get this ask because it have me the perfect segue to show these two being silly together #This comic also kicked my ass while trying to draw it....I have learned a lot while gasping for breath outside of my comfort zone #action scenes are hard....help I don't want to look at this ever again..... #But yes. These two would have a lovely time being *silly* ^_^ together (actually winding up for a sparing match). #Then go right back to being very casual and chill. They have lots in common! #Both of them love to fight and would be thrilled to have a partner for it. Then talk about paint mixtures. #How long LWJ and XL take with their cooking classes is up for interpretation. But these two are frolicking the entire time #Everyone loves being hunted and hunting. That's what tag is all about. This is just tag with swords. #I hope everyone enjoys looking at HC's bare feet. He puts those cold puppies on Xie Lian every night.

[dreagine]

Ourple

#art shtuff #I never know how 2 caption this stuff #but yeah!! this was agony #I think Cross is cool but his outfit is a literal nightmare #not only is there so much #it’s all black and white #they both can be so hard to shade ESPECIALLY with this much right next to each other #wtf Cross #someone needs 2 take him shopping for better clothes #ALSO!!! what do the flowers mean? not a clue!!! #that’s for the viewer to interpret not me… #also don’t know y he’s mad?? #lolz #rambling in the tags #cross sans #xtale #xtale!sans #errmm #underverse

[spillsways]

spillways really is THAT song for me. like the whole “fuck forgiveness let yourself be bitter and you’re allowed to feel that way AND it’s okay to be angry and even though you try to bury that shit deep inside of you and move on IT’S OKAY TO LET IT OUT and be PISSED” vibe of the song hits directly home. that shit really does just resonate so much with my trauma

#at least that’s how i interpret the song for myself #i could be wrong but idk #it hits me right in the mommy and daddy issues #bc i try so hard to be the bigger person even though they’ve hurt me and traumatized me in indescribable ways #and that anger and utter resentment will never leave my soul #but i will never ever forgive them #and i’m okay with that #bc fuck forgiving your abusers to ‘move on’ #i don’t play that game #sometimes you can’t forgive people for the things they’ve done #even your family #bayli rambles #the band ghost #ghost #spillways #papa emeritus iv #copia

[chaikajpeg]

kageyama tobio | haikyuu

reference photo: link to the japanese website

model: Ran Takahashi, photo shot by 矢島康弘 (Yasuhiro Yajima i think)

#my art #kageyama tobio #haikyuu #to continue my thoughts from the previous post #look. i used to ship kagehina HARD. i still find them cute. i still find a lot of other haikyuu ships cute #but when i see people *seriously* saying that “everyone in this anime is incredibly gay” i feel so damn confused #the main reason i love haikyuu is precisely because it doesn't have any ambiguous male-on-male fanservice like “free” cough cough #and i feel uncomfortable when i see a huge amount of people scream GAY at every nice interaction between men #but obviously everyone is free to interpret a work of art the way they want #it'll be a cold day in hell when i tell someone they have no right to interpret a work of art a certain way because it's “unethical” #this was just some food for thought #thanks for coming to my ted talk #traditional illustration #pencil illustration #hq

[kurokmask]

*aqua voice* TERRAHHH

there is no greater pain that being unable to draw ur fav. terra for whatever reason has just been SOOO hard for me to draw. n i finally after over a yr have made something i think i actually like YAY

terra baby i love you so much

#kingdom hearts #terra kh #birth by sleep #kh bbs #kh terra #TEWWA BAYBEEE IM SORRY #its been a tough balance between a lot of things. 1 trying to translate the square enix style into my own. HARD. especially the hair #2 trying to inject my hcs. i like to interpret terra as a bit boxier than in canon but ive been having diffuculty keeping it *terra* #for a long time i think i went too sharp n too masculine trying to emphasize the darker more hostile part of his character #but then it just. didnt look like him. #so i went softer this time more rounded shapes more subtle shading #n i think finally that has worked #and lastly. 3 #i think bc i loved him SO much i overthought it. i wanted every detail to be right instead of focusing on the bigger picture. #so it never looked 'right' to me. i was so concerned in maknig it perfect it actually. SUCKED #anyways ya #hopefully this isnt a fluke n ive finally cracked drawing him. finally #also no pauldron bc i want NOTTTT drawing that #LOL #consider this a companion piece to the aqua one #peep the eyes HEHE

[fiendishartist2]

nexpo. nexpo please.

#I HATE IT I HATE IT AUUGGGHHHHHHH #i was on the edge of my seat i was so excited for his interpretation and the second he said ''care doesnt exist'' ohhhhhh i was cheering #and then he drops ''marvin imagined he had a daughter but he actually had a son :)'' like. cmon man seriously #you put together all of the evidence. you come to the right conclusion. and then you just throw it all out the window #:( #petscop is all about interpretations and its all about making your own conclusion and reasoning #but man do i fucking hate ''paul was forced to live as a girl'' theories soooo much. is it that hard to imagine hes just trans??? #ugh #now idk if i want to watch the rest of the video -_- #petscop

[aithusarosekiller]

Reminder that the last word ever used to describe Regulus in the books was 'brave'

#he was also used as a mascot for an army against Voldemort #which makes it pretty clear how we're supposed to view him #yes I'm still talking about this #it's symbolic and I'm sick of people ignoring it so they can say he had no growth #'defender of the house elves' also doesn't exactly suggest someone who only saw him as property #it's right there guys #not that hard to interpret #regulus black #r.a.b

[starry-heavens]

Possibly unpopular opinion based on a post I've seen on a blog here on tumblr: I really don't think it's that difficult to draw sky characters (spirits, elders, skykids) with their canonical skin color. It's not hard to have a POC oc. Or to color your oc with dark skin. Sure the shading may be a bit tricky to pull off (at least for me it is), but it's not difficult to learn how to do it.

I say all this as a non-POC who has a POC Sky oc.

#sky children of the light #that sky game #skyblr #unpopular opinion #opinions #this is directed at people who are whining about how having a poc oc while they themselves are not a poc is 'hard' #and while i do believe everyone has the right to draw their own skykid to their interpretation....at least draw the spirits & elders as poc #its always bothered me seeing light skinned fanart of sky characters tbh

[coquelicoq]

gurathin, thiago, indah...starting to get the sense that if murderbot didn't have any specific person playing the role of "someone i deep down respect who i'm convinced hates me" at any given time, presaux would have to assign someone, for enrichment purposes

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #mb needs an anti-support human. like instead of a service dog it has a human that frowns at it sometimes #and it interprets these frowns as 'oh i guess this human just HATES ME. i guess we're ENEMIES. but WHATEVER I'M FINE WITH IT' #even though that's just what this human's face does when they're thinking really hard or something #like i'm rereading network effect and every time mb is cranky about thiago not liking it i'm like. babe you are reading way into it #he's skeptical. you love skepticism! he does not hate you he's just being cautious #in some ways quite similar to you really #'thiago doesn't trust me. how DARE HE' babe we have been here before #that's exactly what you said about gurathin! #i mean is he an asshole? yes. but so are you and so is your best mutual administrative assistant. you love assholery #i just think it's funny that 1) mb trusts no one until it knows them really well and 2) mb is SO OFFENDED when people who don't know it #super well don't trust it fully and implicitly right off the bat #my posts #f #well it's christmas and i don't have anywhere to be today because my family stuff is on monday this year. so i am very bored #you know what that means. deep dive into the drafts #also probably trying to find an ask meme to reblog #this draft is from july i think

[lilyginnyblackv2]

🙄🙄🙄

I’m not going to watch this video, because it will probably get my blood pressure rising. Could this title just be clickbait or ragebait? Possibly, but based on the comments I saw, probably not.

I bet it is filled with:

1. An inaccurate definition of what queerbait actually is.

2. A lack of understanding of past anime that have queerbaited (Getbackers, Saiyuki, Princess Princess, etc.) and a lack of anime that have existed in more nuanced and subtle queer spaces (Nabari no Ou - written by an actual x-gender, asexual mangaka, Tiger & Bunny, Samurai Flamenco (from my understanding), and possibly the anime series called Pet (I only watched like the first 3 episodes or so of this one). 

3. A straight or gay reading without a single glance at more nuanced queer interpretation of the pair (aka an aspec or queerplatonic reading).

Based on the comments (and the tagged sections of the video), it seems that there was a mention of how the female characters were treated in the series, but I wonder if there was any analysis on how which female characters were treated in what ways, how those female characters engaged within Japanese society, and what messages the series might be saying about Japanese society as a whole, and about the world of men (the hitman business Rei and Kazuki were apart of) vs. the world of women (the childcare business Rei and Kazuki enter into). 

Working three jobs now, I don’t have the time or energy to watch this video right now, but if anyone else does, please let me know if this is an accurate interpretation or not. I’ll update the post if need be. 

But, this is such a stale and broken take on the series and it saddens me that basically one of the only videos I’ve seen on this series, going actually in-depth on it, from someone with a decently sized platform is going with such a bland and honestly straight up wrong take (the series isn’t queerbait, since it was never ever promoted or advertised in a way to make you ship Kazuki and Rei). A show having queer subtext or a queer reading to it =/= queerbait, which is a specific marketing based term.

I feel like an interpretation like this one is missing out on the whole point of the series, as well as on various other messages and themes it is trying to tell. And if this is just a ragebait or clickbait style title, then that’s frustrating too, because it instantly turns me off from actually watching this video and what it might have to say and tell about Buddy Daddies as a series.

#Buddy Daddies #BD #KazuRei #UGH #ffs #I KNEW the stupid queerbait allegations would follow this series for forever #even though an amazing queer and aspec interpretation of the series is just sitting #right there #but so many people in fandom have a hard time with #those kinds of #interpretations #long post #rant #fandom wank #sorry

[neige-leblanche]

also y'all

does anybody have the original japanese of this line from book 5 ch 27???

bc rereading it i was like. O_O. is he. not talking about vil.

i was thinking like "the first read through you're definitely meant to think so, and vil did absolutely change rook's life, but with context from both book 6 and his halloween vignette, what he's describing here leans more towards the latter" which is like. masterful gaybait i can't even be mad. it's like that post saying "some gaybaiting is like a box propped up with a stick and a block of cheese underneath" except this has all the intricacy of a steampunk clock.

but my VERY shoddy japanese skills r telling me the line translates more to "beauty in your eyes and the darkness, lighting up your entire life for you—in a time in your existence when you'll be able to have [such an experience] (expanding on the prev line where he says they'll be able to understand his ideology in the future)"

^ and i probably mangled this so bad but the main point is i didn't hear him refer to a "someone" like he does in the english tl & i'm wondering if i missed it or if it was in fact added!!!

#txt #how should i tag this to potentially reach ppl who know the answer #twisted wonderland #rook hunt #i was gonna say the sunbeam simile does lean the other way too but iirc he does describe vil as radiant in an earlier scene so that's moot #anyway even if my translation is right you can interpret it as either of the ways i was talking about but it is/would be much more openended #much more cryptic and rookish hahahahaha #japanese is so hard dawg i only had to look up one of the words in this line to understand p much all of them but i still struggled so hard #figuring out what the words meant together😭💔 #& inb4 i'm having monolingual struggles i speak mandarin chinese as a second language which Also uses topic-comment structure #i do have way less experience w japanese though & one sentence of modern japanese can feel like a paragraph of mencius to me. #modern mandarin does not do 5d chess with language quite so much

[bright-and-burning]

can’t sleep bc i accidentally started a discussion w The Contrarian in the group chat that started w her saying romantic relationships feel contrived to her bc you have to actively seek them out (to which i was like. what life are you living where romance is the only thing you have to actively seek out) and now has me trying to carefully explain how i think of romantic relationships bc she said she sees them as “super deep existential woah” and i was like yeah no that’s not how i see them. and she was like well how DO you see them? which is a wildly (and shockingly) vulnerable thing to try to explain in a group chat of college friends (including an ex and at least one person you Almost dated 😭). stuck between “if it isn’t fun what’s the point?” and “uhhh. domestic not existential?” which means sleep is not coming until i figure out how to put this into words. rip to morning eve who has WORK

#by domestic i mean like. #i don’t think of romance as serving some higher grander purpose #do you make me laugh. and if things are serious: will you make me laugh at the dinner table for the ~18k meals we’ll share over our lives #or whatever that number is #it’s abt coziness. abt laughing over dinner so hard u cry. abt warmth!!!! #idk i asked her to define existential and she just turned around and asked me to define it like girl. you used the word first #if i’m interpreting it right like. yeah i don’t want some kind of existential woah thing

[luxrayz64]

I think sonic has to be aro like come on. COME ON. sonic never sticks around in one place. not even for tails, and tails is his little brother. his pride and joy. and he still runs off to explore the world. sonic is the wind. he's freedom incarnate. the wind blows past everyone the same, and stops for no one. no one will ever be more important to sonic than freedom and adventure. and no one will want to live that kind of life with him. even if they did, he'd rather take his own path! his path is for him to carve. to go where he pleases without having to stop and ask.

and this doesn't mean that he doesn't care about his friends. of course he does. he'll always come back, always be there when he's needed. his compassion is free to give to everyone who needs it. but he's adrift in the wind, always on the run. always more to see more to explore wherever the wind takes him.

this hedgehog is so fucking aromantic it genuinely genuinely blows my mind that people can see him as anything but. I do not understand it. I cannot understand it. he's aro.

#I typed this up for the first aro swag poll and let it sit in my drafts im so right abt this #aro sonic is sooooo important to me. hes my special little guy. it's not exactly canon but it's not-not canon either #all in the subtext. the coding. hard to say if it's intentional or just marketing. but it's there #espeon cries #sighs. people r entitled to their own interpretations ig. but that doesn't stop them from being wrong #analysis

[mongeese]

It's so hard being obsessed with Riz and Fabian's platonic relationship bc no one understands them like I do. They're boy best friends they're foils they're equal and opposite. The thought of kissing each other makes them both want to vomit. It isn't a qpr but they are still soulmates. They're a little obsessed with each other. They make each other better. When they're together it inevitably becomes teen boy chaos. And it's so categorically not romantic I cannot stress enough how non-romantic it is. It's the best thing ever and it's tragically misunderstood

#listen. my view on their friendship is likely somewhat skewed bc i project the relationship i have with my best friend onto them #but im right in saying that it isnt at all romantic and that its incredibly profound #like. riz desperately wants fabian to think hes cool in freshman and sophomore year #when riz goes missing fabian bites glass and crashes a ship into a building. he catches him in a sheet and swaddles him #theyre teen boy best friends and theyre soulmates and kissing would be gross!! its not hard to get!! #and yet ppl insist on it being romantic. smh thats like the most boring interpretation of it #fantasy high #dim20