#it's really the whole set. incredible.

[mazeyphaedra]

actual real life footage of the surprised condition

#wait im obsessed with this actually. emily looking to murph to share in her shock and outrage. zac frozen in a self-soothe #siobhan rapt lou confused ally scared murph worried. i just know riz is already calculating how to save the bad kids from her #it's really the whole set. incredible. #sidenote ik this is posed months after the fact but. murph pls? wear your glasses? big barry 6 is gone this isnt you this isnt your heart #fhjy #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high junior year spoilers #d20 #dimension 20 #d20 spoilers #dimension 20 spoilers #emily axford #zac oyama #siobhan thompson #lou wilson #ally beardsley #brian murphy #uh oh!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 7: Time moves sideways

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#poorly drawn mdzs #better drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #Despite a whole ass inspiration board for reference - it turns out drawing and colouring half submerged people is a CHALLENGE. #I am channeling the zoobie bunny and internally screaming “WHY DID YOU THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA”. #What I wanted was a cool transition between present and past! What I got was a very full mouth of my own foot! #That said: there are aspects I really like about this one and I feel like I got most of the way to where I wanted it to be. #Water is hard to draw and I am saying that even after dedicating a full 4 page comic with people in the water. #Forget hands. Water is my new nemesis. #I love how floaty this flashback transition was. The hazy mind wandering as LWJ carries him as a set up to recollection! #Aren't memories an incredible thing? To relive a moment in your mind? To have time repeat again and again? #And yet it is always a little different when we go to recall it once again. We are different people than the person we once were.

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo being put into a situation where there is absolutely no fighting, just verbal manipulation and perception games, would be amazing to witness. We see a lot in the series how good he is at subterfuge and how he uses his perception to manipulate to great effect, so it’d be so cool to really see it put to the test even more.

Manipulation is one of the most effective tactical strategies of all time, so just imagine Leo putting this skillset of his to the full test. Imagine the boys slowly get up to busting bigger and more powerful criminals, including those with networks of crime under their belt, and a simple fight isn’t enough to take them down. For criminals like this, Leo’s skills in subterfuge would be deadly.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt headcanons #me back to talking about Leo’s incredibly high affinity for subterfuge #genuinely think it’s one of if not his best and most honed skill #AND IT’S A VITAL NINJA SKILL #above fighting battle tactics and the like #it’s verbal blindspots #Sun Tzu’s The Art of War literally states that “the greatest victory is won without battle’’ #and idk I think Leo would be so good at this and we see him do it in the show quite a bit but not to the amount I yearn for #but yeah like just think Leo getting sent in and his bros standing guard #of course he wouldn’t be the ONLY one involved but 100% he’d be the main player #man idk I just really really love when their specific skill sets that ARENT the fighting ones are used it’s so interesting to me #like we already know Leo can easily take in a whole room’s worth of people and know exactly how to avoid them all #we know he can manipulate manipulators into his schemes #we know he’s good at improv which is essential to the games of speech high end criminals like to play #it would be SO INTERESTING #OKAY HEAR ME OUT- #he’s asked by Big Mama to join her at a criminal ball of sorts #she needs to regain power and he needs to take down big name criminals #thus a deal #no but really it’s so cool seeing Leo specifically do his best tactics through thinking like his enemy and predicting how they’d act

[agueforts]

just an appreciation post for the set itself. my GOD have they outdone themselves this time

#vip is not super my brand of humor but i was so thrilled when we first saw the set bc it all fits together SO nicely #and this. this tops it by EONS #goddd. so much i could say. where do i even START #the color scheme is so gorgeous. the depth of the green and the accents and the lighting......... #and how all of it is warm-toned in suuuuch a masterful way #all the little items scattered around the set....... #the book bindings and the layout and the furniture design........... #it all creates this really wonderful balence of being busy but not overwhelming #like instead of drawing attention away for themselves #every little piece is precisely chosen to elevate the whole of the composition #it's. incredible. the artistry of it #and the close-ups themselves...... kudos to whoever shot those because my GODDD are they perfect #truly an otherworldly level of cohesive #just. mwah. mwah. sublime #aspen tag #dropout.tv #dropout #dropout tv #smartypants

[andthebeanstalk]

Don't Starve is a great game if you played Stardew Valley and had the thought, "this is fun, but I hate how it relaxes and comforts me!"

#How come whenever my character goes out at night without a torch a sexy shadow lady doesn't immediately slaughter them??? weird. #original #to be clear i actually love both games & also the sequel game Don't Starve Together which is harder but less likely to delete ur save file #fun fact if you want to cheese the game though especially on console is that if you have a touchstone or a meat effigy activated #then you can turn off the game right after you die without saving #and it takes longer to register the death and might not even use either of those resources #but if you don't have a backup the game is unbelievably quick to remember that you died and your save file is now a mere memory #it's probably easier to back up your game on the PC but honestly it's part of the fun #sdv #Stardew #Stardew Valley #don't starve #dst #don't starve together #don't starve shipwrecked #that said I legitimately recommend being careful with your mental health while playing Don't Starve #it's honestly an incredibly gentle horror game but it is still a horror game and I am tense like the whole time I play #unless the settings are super super easy #Don't Starve Together is a little less damaging because of the aforementioned save files but if you're like me #then you have to be careful playing Don't Starve because I have genuinely gotten really upset at losing that game #it's a really time consuming game. as I type this I'm literally icing my hands because I played for too long. I'm using speech to text #I think I've played stardew Valley for like a hundred hours but I've played Don't Starve for like well over 1000 now #I started playing stardew Valley specifically because Don't Starve was legit detrimental to my mental health at the time #it's the Mario to don't starve's Wario. i love it. I started playing Don't Starve Together after that when my wife started playing it #I've been playing Shipwrecked which is a DLC of Don't Starve and I have died so many times but I keep turning the game off in time #so basically I'm unkillable #until I fuck up so badly that I lose like all my extra lives rapidly and in a row. which has happened. the game senses my hubris. #on the upside when you get a game over in the original Don't Starve you unlock new characters. it's very clever that way.

[mattodore]

i’ve been pretty quiet on here and avoiding my activity and dms these last few weeks because october was easily one of the worst months i’ve had in a very long time and i lost my family dog of seventeen years and had a medical scare for not only myself but my cat and just all these things happened at once that felt incredibly hard to bounce back from mentally… but aside from being sick atm things are starting to get better for me and my family so hopefully i can actually start being. normal. again soon 🧎

#river dipping #i don’t think i get personal on here very often just bc. the pd. um #but i figured i should say something bc my avoidant personality disorder is uhhhhhhhh #certainly Avoiding. #i’m so sorry if you’ve messaged me or @ed me or just tried interacting in any way #ik i wrote in my pinned navigation that yea i take breaks and avoid my activity and it’s nothing personal #but i still just wanted to reiterate it #i tend to keep notifications off for tumblr and my activity and everything like i only ever check when i’m mentally prepared for the State #my brain goes into when interacting with people #it’s not that i’m ignoring you!! my brain is just. very bad. #and i have a lot of trouble actually replying #especially in private messages #i’m much more comfortable talking publically which is why discord is so not for me ��� #i really have been pushing myself out of my comfort zone a lot this past year and it’s certainly helped a ton #but still. it’s a disorder i’ve had my whole life so 🤷 it’s still sticking around ykwim #so i’m sorry 😔 but i’m also incredibly thankful toward everyone who’s taken the time to talk to me and interact with me and just thought of #me in general even when i’ve been so isolated recently #ummmm but on the bright side i moved out finally and am at a place that isn’t gonna poison my brain anymore so ‼️ #it took a few horrible days for my pets to get used to the house but things are fine now and i’ve set up my room and am :) doing better #surprisingly my panic disorder has been absent since the move… which is very weird for me #i fr think my previous place might actually have been poisoning me like i’m serious #……..i might delete this post in a bit if i start feeling too crazy abt being vulnerable lmao. um. #but for the people that’re online rn! my beloved friends and lovers yk #there’s my little update

[justalittlebluetiefling]

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#personal shit below the tags #just venting about getting dragged into high school drama as an adult #which is my fault because i help coach a high school dance team #long story short my best friend is moving out of the state and won't be coaching next year #and is trying to set it up so i take over as head coach #but she was talking to two of the kids about it today to give them a preliminary heads up and #they straight up said that if the current assistant coach gets the job #none of the team will be going back #but that if i get the job everyone will come back #this grown ass woman has thought i've been trying to take her assistant coach job all year #when i have been perfectly happy as a volunteer #and this whole thing was extremely validating and such a bummer all at once because like #i just won't engage with the drama she's been trying to bring and it bums me out that the kids have noticed it #i've been trying really hard to stay professional in front of them and thought i was doing a good job #i HAVE been doing a good job #but the captain knows what i'm like as a coach because i was her head coach her freshman year and so she's noticed the difference in me #so yeah incredibly validating because every time i've been down this year about this #i've been like 'they know which of us is here for THEM and not the STATUS' #and it turns out i was correct this whole time #they DO know and they have been feeling it which is the last thing i wanted for them #so yeah validating and a bummer all at once #we'll find out within the next couple weeks if i will still be coaching next year #every time i vent about this i feel like i'm trying to sound like i have the moral high ground #it gives me the ick about myself

[newfeeling77]

i get so frustrated with ppl who wont just fucking help themselvessss. obviously theres a spectrum of pain and subsequent ability when it comes to mental illness but ive known so many people specifically gay people who let themselves live in squalor all while going to therapy taking medication and claiming to take care of themselves. thats the thing self care is NOT doing nothing, self care is actually doing the dishes sorry. its taking the trash out. calling the doctor and making an appointment. being an ADULT. i live with two people in their mid to late 20s who only do a chore once every few weeks and if i ever deign to bring it up i get either aggressive or apologetic responses about depression and struggle. as if im not constantly struggling. i force myself to do things bc they make me feel better… me and you are not all that different. ignoring your human life maintenance or outsourcing it to other ppl is the biggest form of self harm thats become normalized in certain communities

#btw if i go to your house n its a fucking mess it’s disrespectful sorry. to me #like again it’s so normalized in gay spaces from my experience. like oh don’t worry abt cleaning the bathroom its just friends from the bar #coming over. #like um no im sorry im not a fucking animallllll #sorry im angry abt chores today n that post set me off. #if everyone in my house did their fair share itd be incredible #its mostly my sister’s boyfriend but atp i cant tell if theyre really struggling or just stupid. its been 3 years living w them. #he straight up just throws his fast food trash on the floor all around him in his office doesnt give a fuck #i cant ask him to do anythinggggg he treats it like a personal attack #like if youre actually this incapable of taking care of yourself you need to go to the psych ward . #its the constant weed smoking like theres not one second of the day they arent high #and they dont shower enough either whole house stinks sometimes. id kill myself but good for them i guess

[peachcitt]

it’s about to be june everybody :)

#ladrien #ladrienjune #ladrien june #wip wednesday #well. here we are again. i think im going to let the plot of this one be a surprise simply because i have no idea how to describe it #and i haven’t even thought of a title yet. june is (technically - it’s one in the morning here) TOMORROW😭😭😭 #ive only prewritten two chapters and i have a vague outline of an incredibly complex plot. a typical peachcitt ladrien june ig #anyway. get ready for the vibe of a lifetime #been really into the idea of just writing a fuck all whatever vibe for fun lately. just really being confusing with it #and i think this fic will be a hard launch into my new era of self indulgence #also so far both prewritten chapters are around 1000 words which. #maybe they partly needed to be because of how i need to do setting building as fuck while also sticking with the prompts #but i think a big thing is i cannot physically shut the fuck up and i am worried about how that bodes for the rest of the month #but it’s been a couple years of this. the only way to survive a ladrien june is c’est la vie it the whole time and then it’s fine #im gonna post a bigger sneak peek to my kofi tomorrow (may 31) so keep an eye out if interested!! #okay anyway that’s enough rambling. goodnight everybody happy ladrien june eve eve

[helpmyinterestsareverywhere]

HEY everybody,,,

It's my birthday!!! :D - what a fun month April is <3

#my birthday - dragons rising (WHICH WAS INCREDIBLE BTW) - autism awareness month - episode 8 of Andromeda Six dropping (tomorrow!!) #- I came across a new Visual Novel thats set to release its extended demo soon-ish! (spring/summer time) #who knew that april would be so special <33 #anyway a happy april 13th to anyone else who also have a special day today for any reason #and also just happy april as a whole because im a big fan of this month <33 #(bias? what bias don't know what you're talking about April is just a really cool month) #hmiae rambles #hmiae personal

[theskyexists]

read spear by nicola griffith

it is incredible

#it is basically me #HA #and it made me realise - the protagonist need not be an underdog as long as she is kind and very very powerful #man....if id read this as a child....maybe i wouldnt have followed actually...as a teen then #my stuff #personal #guess i should review #and buy the hardcover #amazing retelling arthur's court - the setting - bite down and its so satisfying #what skill what incredible skill #the start of a book is always the most difficult and the middle #the end doesnt really matter #except i like to see it done right #this one was right also -but....hm... it never mattered to me so much - the end. the end is the end. #but. this one was right BUT. disappointing #still. but there's rarely an end that is as pure and good as the whole #ends hurt - so you either have to make it not an end - or make it an end like cutting right through the bone

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy very belated birthday.. I hope you had much time celebrating by digging for tubers : )

I'M DIGGING FOR TUBERS! AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME!

#fanart #PIO!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This is truly so so so delightful to look at. #The roundness...the delightful way you have drawn the ears and boots... #I would commit wildlife conservation crimes and pick this beast up in the wild. Consequences be damned that thing can dig for tubers. #(I have not made a tag for posts with my cowboy cat but I think I need to change that). #Now that I'm reading this whole post again I realize how much of it really sets the tone for my blog. #Does the art look funny? Yes. But I still show up to do it! #I can digging for tubers (make art and enjoy it) #Some people might be here enjoying my process ironically but I have to take myself seriously...much to think about. #I can also go admire my real tubers and give them words of affirmation while they hibernate. #Thank you for also giving me a moment to pause and reflect Pio. An incredible doubled pronged gift <3

[rationalisms]

been thinking a lot about this specific phenomenon that's hard to put into words (so bear with me) where the technological limitations of the medium at the time a work of art was created are sometimes exactly the thing that helps lend it the atmosphere that makes it so compelling. and how sometimes superior technology is, despite the progress that's been made in so many ways, entirely unable to capture that same atmosphere for a multitude of reasons.

like, there's that brian eno quote ("whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature") that gets at some of what i mean, but not all of it.

i'm thinking about video games in particular, the way the forward march of technology does open new avenues but at the same time it inherently disappears older technologies and their aesthetics in the process, which is so tragic to me. and of course there's always nostalgia-driven attempts to recreate them, but those recreations inherently can't ever be entirely faithful to the specific charm of those older technologies and their drawbacks. (pixel art is a good example because sure, there's pixel art games being made now, but on modern LCDs they just won't ever look the same as they did on fuzzy CRTs; the fuzziness of the image made the pixel art come alive in a way modern TVs just can't.)

and this is extra amplified if games are set in a specific real world period or trying to emulate a specific real world aesthetic. because there's a little golden window of time where a game's technical limitations and the resulting art direction, and the period of time the game is meant to be set in, can perfectly compliment each other, like some sort of time prism. and any games made after that point can still do a good job at capturing the aesthetic of the era, but they won't ever be able to harness the inherent authenticity and atmosphere that e.g. noughties games and their 5 polygons can lend to a game set in the noughties.

there's no real solution to this and i'm obviously not advocating that we should be stopping any and all technological progress in favour of preserving certain aesthetics in amber, but it's still really melancholy that this is all so transitory. but i guess on the other hand we do get to enjoy those moments when technology and art/narrative can converge in the exact way they need to.

anyway, this was all just a really longwinded way to say that persona 4 is actually the best video game of all time. sorry if you thought this was about literally anything else

#genuinely have SO many thoughts abt the art direction in p4 #the specific flavour of rural late 90s early noughties bleakness it manages to capture SO faithfully #these towns that seem to be perpetually stuck backward in time even if the rest of the world moves on around them #the immense amounts of detail and thought that clearly went into every single part of the environmental design #from the little details on every single set and backdrop to the specific textures they ysed #the contrast between the two incredibly different styles of retro that the game goes for between inaba and the tv world #where inaba is a very earnest straightforward portrayal and the tv world is an exaggerated one #like e.g. the tv world tvs being 'typical' 60s tvs bc that's what most ppl think of when u say retro #whereas you have the clunky 90s CRT version in the protagonist's room in the real world #and how all of this detail and care and forethought just oh so perfectly collides with the ps2 graphics #could write a whole dissertation on this alone fr #and that's just the art style!!!! that's not even getting into the deliberateness and interconnectedness of the writing!!!!! #anyway. don't play p4 it's really bad sorry. like yea its the best video game of all time i did say that it's just also rly rly bad #txt

[stuckwith-harry]

Carmen Maria Machado, On Writing and the Business of Writing

#rent free babes! #would recommend reading the whole thing it's a free substack (for now) #carmen maria machado #sharing this because this was an INCREDIBLE reassuring read for me and my little poetry collection that i've been tinkering with on and off #for like four years now. #i keep setting myself arbitrary deadlines and you know what? fuck that! i want to spend YEARS more writing without worrying about publishin #g. both the poetry collection but also everything else #fuck arbitrary deadlines fuck glorifying having something published by the time you're 25 fuck that fuck it WHO GIVES A SHIT #also i forgot who said it but once i heard a writer ask 'would you rather publish a book really young that's good FOR YOUR AGE or publish a #book that's actually just. good.' n like. yeah!! #fuck it i'll keep tinkering with the poetry collection for the rest of the decade i won't put it out till i'm 30 who CARES. who gives. a sh

[voidcoretxt]

okay wah oh i remembered the Outfit Interest. man i need to find more fashion youtubers that dont suck

#i found a girlie posting these incredible shorts talking about like. shopping for quality vs aesthetics #she covered brands that are considered more high end but still affordable-ish in canada and the us #and fuck she Knew what she was talking about i was so obsessed. i actually learned a lot from her !!! #one thing i remember rn is like. her advice for buying sequin dresses and tops and stuff #and how you gotta like. look at the edges and the seams to make sure the sequins arent gonna drive u insane in like 2 hours max #anyway yeah she was smart. when i checked the rest of her videos she was obsessing over skincare and retinol and botox. ugh #my favourite fashion youtuber started doing vlog content after she graduated from uni and now im FUCKED... #theres this one ange girlie and god her fashion advice is so good but i . really disagree w some of her beliefs wow #her winter fashion video was good. OH ALSO i liked what she said about slavic women in her winter bimbo guide (that title tho... ugh) #ahhh idk what am i talking about. tiktok of a woman in fashion uni styling her set of armour for a whole week save meee... #voidcore.txt

[transbee]

having did and being online in any capacity is so fucking exhausting because you literally can't go anywhere without seeing the most heinous takes about your existence or validity it's like. can we be normal. can we please be normal and Chill for like two seconds.

#HEADS UP: this accidentally turned into a huge rant/vent feel free to get the hell out el oh el #i try reallly hard not to talk about it too much here because you can. offhandedly mention the mere concept of did or osdd or any #dissociative disorder and its like. people will not shut up about how its not real or how its people being delusional or kids being cringe #like. can we go. two seconds without treating people with mental disorders like a spectacle. please. you dont have to have a ''take'' on it #idk and i also avoid online did communities bc theyre the most exhausting spaces you can ever be in and theres constant fighting about #literally anything and everything. like. maybe i would like to find a space to meet other people with similar experiences to my own. #and we dont get that!! we literally cannot get that. and this goes for a lot of mental health related stuff but like my god #and im very lucky to have other people i know in real life who also have did so i can in some amount have that support system (hah.) #but it is EXHAUSTINGG that people cannot go literally a day without saying something stupid about systems #or i can be following someone for years and unprompted they will saysomething heinous thing about did and hide it behind something like #get a load of how weird and cringey kids are getting online these days. #and CHRISTT thats a whole OTHER issue i REALLY dont wanna talk about because it has its own whole set of nuances but like jeeeesus #is it really so hard for people to grasp that brains when exposed to traumas at a young age will be affected by it in weird ways. #idk man ive been seeing a lot of offhanded disregard for systems recently and it's so normalized and it's starting to get to me i guess #i wish people could just go well this is something i dont understand and dont need to have an opinion on and move on with their lives. #what the hell ever this is all to say having did has impacted my life in a lot of complicated and intricate and hard to explain ways and it #sometimes painful and awful but other times is an incredible experience and ALSO. most IMPORTANTLY ! #i should be able to make jokes about BEING FRIENDS with SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG!! in REAL LIFE!!! #and not have to deal with SUICIDE BAIT IN MY INBOXX BECAUSE OF IT!!! #WHATEVERRR !!! RANT OVARRR I HAVE NOODLES TO MAKE AND EAT #.... WITH my friend SHADOW!!! #.txt #and btw this isnt about anyone ik here so dont worry im not upset with any mutuals etc etc and all that. #in fact i love getting the chance to chat about it n it can be fun to teach stuff to people who know how to like...be normal about it LOL #<3