#its good stuff

[dumbbullet]

if you are a creator of any kind I would highly encourage picking up "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by Rick Rubin the next time you see it in a bookstore

I haven't been able to read a book in YEARS and this thing has me annotating like some sort of book pervert

#dumb babbles #book rec #Idkbif its just that I've been more active in smaller creative circles lately but this is HITTING time and time again #ESPECIALLY if you're a younger artist #I feel like I'm gonna end up using this like some sort of artist Bible to whip out knowledge whenever someone is ragging on their own art #Its good stuff

[july-19th-club]

booth's saving grace as the kind of guy that he is, is that he's extremely good with babies and fucking loves them. like if you put a baby in his hands he is comfortable, nay, elated, to be in that position, and you need never worry about the baby's safety, health, or cleanliness because he is well-versed in childcare, thinks crying kids are a blessing to be cherished, has years of experience, and is also a stickler about diaper protocol

#the 'doesn't flip his shit over crying kids' thing is only so important because EVERYTHING irritates this man #if you so much as sneeze he makes a sarcastic comment about your allergies #so he comes off exactly like the kind of guy who would be a bitch about a baby being upset in his earshot . but he's not #he's the dude making faces at the fussing baby in the line ahead of him at the crowded grocery store #distracting it so the parent has time to check out and gootchy-gooing until that kid is his best friend #its good stuff #bones #q

[kakashdeeznuts]

Crazy to me that despite all the filler in the one piece anime that Toei almost never animates the cover stories. Like??? That's free canon material to adapt RIGHT there! But like other than the misadventures of little Buggy they just never do. It's such a strange choice to me

#one piece #op #most anime only fans dont even know about eneru going to the moon or Lola finding love and reuniting with her family #its good stuff

[majimassqueaktoy]

Hmm... I love him and his wazzup ass haircut

#jess plays judgement #baby kaito is great fun #and mikio is cool. shes aggro. shes sexy. #its good stuff

[twstwonderlandstuff]

because of my last ask, i am a firm believer that yuu tops.

👏SO TRUE👏

yuu decimates the diasomnia fam like its nothing

this is even funnier IF your imagined yuu is shorter than any of them like GET THEM

#i am a firm FIRM believer that yuu tops #that prefect top tag on pixiv is my saviour #its good stuff #etc. #anyway occasionally i dream of pegging silver / sebek #but is it ognna happen? #in my head yeah #also dracussy fic is out ^^

[found--family]

the main theme in Gotham Knights seems to be parents and children so it would make sense (imo) if Harvey was at least one of the young characters father. maybe there will be a Darth Vader moment at some point "Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.." "He told me enough. He told me YOU killed him!" "No, Luke, I AM YOUR FATHER." "Nooooo!" lol (imo, Duela could be Harvey's daughter, but Turner could be Harvey's son too. twinsies, separated at birth! there are a lot of missing pieces)

While it's within the realm of possibility that Turner could be Harvey's son (you never know: maybe he was adopted, or maybe Fugue!Harvey had an affair with his mom) I like that they're cementing them as a nephew/uncle dynamic. Harvey strikes me as someone who's never wanted kids (especially considering his own upbringing and ongoing personal issues) but his caring nature is brought out in trying to help Turner and we see this parental role he's taking on, albeit at a distance. That setup means it will hurt Turner considerably when Harvey turns into Twoface - losing a third father (figure), poor kid. 

But if Duela turns out to be the (unplanned?) kid of Fugue!Harvey then we could see Twoface in a twisted mentor role for Duela. Maybe Twoface is unaware he's her father at first and she keeps it a secret because she wants to learn from him? Or maybe he knows but she doesn't at first and he wants to mentor her before revealing the truth? Or maybe they both know and both want to work together, or Duela is pissed about it but Twoface recruits her, or Duela wants to get to know him but Twoface (or Harvey, when he resurfaces?) pushes her away.. 

..the more I think about the potential for Duela Dent the more I fall in love with the idea!! 

That Star Wars moment would definitely suit Turner finding out that Twoface is his father - or that Fugue!Harvey was involved in the death of his parents?! But it would likely be a season 2 event since Harvey's attack is probably one of the last things that happens this season so there might not be time for another angsty reveal. 

Another thing that might not happen until season 2, if they do go the Duela Dent route, is flashbacks of Fugue!Harvey talking with her mom in prison or before prison, which would be interesting. I'm curious to know just how often and how long Fugue!Harvey has been in control for in the past - before the incident that sparks Twoface - and what exactly triggers him to take over (the music seems to be an external trigger but what about internal ones?). 

I've gone off-topic. I love Harvey. 

But yes. We're seeing lots of different parent-children dynamics in the show. Will we see Cullen and Harper's mom or abusive dad? Will we see flashbacks of young Turner with his parents, possibly when they were killed? Will we meet Duela's mom? I like that the show is exploring these different parental dynamics. It adds layers, as the old saying goes.

#gotham knights #q and a #thoughts #harvey dent #duela dent #the parental stuff intrigues me and i love that we're seeing various dynamics from all the batbrats' parents #and now i'm realising parental stuff is one of the many themes i enjoyed of spn actually: john and mary for the boys #and dean for sam and chuck for everyone and cas and lucifer and the boys for jack and then claire and the wayward sisters #its good stuff

[morelsupports]

i looove when male characters have typically female narratives!!

#tom wambsgans as princess diana comes to mind #or jake english as a Strong Female Heroine #its good stuff

[divorcetual]

I am actually so serious I think it really messes with a childs creativity and joy to tell them to never make a mary sue OC. Like that unbridaled form of joy where you make a self insert OC who super cool and everyone loves them and they have every superpower in the world SHOULD be something a kid makes, it nourishes their ability to create things for fun and not be stifled by "oh but what if my character is too overpowered and cringey...". whatever

#^ 10 y/o me was obsessed w/ art YTers who would always talk about good and bad art and mary sues and stuff #I think kids should be encouraged to make bad art and stupud OCs as much as possible abd im so serious about that. i think its actually #amazing for their development as both as person and artist

[chronically-caffeinated]

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#its the middle of the day and the weathers nice #and I've just been like thinking about how im like still alive and shit #its good stuff #ive made really damn good friends who like have a lot of respect for me #im like living and acting with a lot more purpose #still fucking around a lot cuz what else are you supposed to do #but i feel good #been feeling good #life's good

[ink-the-artist]

Video game I saw in a dream. It was in this low poly style like an older video game. You play as this character I think was meant to be a lamb, or maybe a weird mix of a lamb a mouse and a rabbit, (while not really looking like any of those things) and you’re running away from a wolf. Your objective is to last as long as possible before the wolf catches and eats you.

The house you’re running in is endless and bizarrely put together like most building interiors in dreams are (like the infinite toilet dream dimension on Reddit lol) the layout of the house is pretty detailed, you can stop and hide in places like closets or bins while the wolf looks for you, you can go up and down stairs and into rooms etc.

You never actually know where the wolf is or how close it is to you until it appears in your line of sight, it makes no noise and the game gives you no way of knowing where it is, and it’s pretty unpredictable it doesnt move at a consistent pace. When the wolf catches you there’s an animation showing it eating your character

#the actual animation of the wolf eating your character wasnt scary he kind of just cartoonishly swallows the character whole lol #the scary part is being pursued by him and never knowing how close he is #i remember being surprised when i first saw the game bc it was presented to me as #a fun addictive sort of game kinda like a mobile app game #and then i see it and its a horror game and the creators are just completely oblivious to it lmao #dream art #<- thats my tag for all my dream-inspired art #art #gif #photomanipulation #digital art #liminal #weirdcore #used a mix of ai photos and regular photos for this one #the ai stuff is sooooo good for recreating what a dream looks and feels like #but i didnt use it too much bc i wasnt able to get the specific photos i wanted :/ #hmmmm this is vore isn’t it

[macaroni-rascal]

"Do no harm, but take no shit" is what Shakespeare meant when he said brevity is the soul of whit. I love it thank you for sharing

Ha! I always loved that quote, especially because it's said by Polonius as he's going a long ass bombastic spiel about how Hamlet is a few screws short of a tool box. Gotta love the irony.

#its good stuff

[abysswatchers420]

i cant remember if i ever shared my fallout 4 rewrite:

i played as dr clara sutton, neighbor to the sole survivor family and was frozen in that vault. no children, shaun aint MY fuckin baby but sure ill go look i guess. 'tf else've i got going on?'

i cemented that in my mind and forgot completely whatever the actual plot was. dr sutton's wasteland adventures

#THIS ties into my psyker fallout oc Lillian who gets into drama w the institute #its good stuff

[goosetooths]

what living on earth does to a mf

(i just think that being friends with two queer women and one genderfluid demon would have some influences on muriel and they'd REALLY take to individuality after a lifetime of solitude in heaven. also i love them.)

#good omens #gomens #good omens 2 #digital art #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #ik its not them but itll get eyes on my stuff im so sorry #illustration #muriel #muriel good omens

[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

#undertale #alphys #true lab #this inspired by a mutual's alphys posting #and a discord convo i had a couple weeks back about ut's stance on ''punishing'' the player vs the monsters for their actions #and thoughts i've had generally post a certain fangame with a color in its name about just how well ut is structured as a narrative #everyone rightfully praises toby fox's character writing but stuff like this i think flies under the radar a bit by comparison #and it deserves to be appreciated #there's obvious Lore reasons why the true lab is only visited in a pacifist run (what's revealed about chara and flowey) #but this is the other half of it: the message of alphys's story hits hardest on a paci route post neutral runs #toby fox is a good writer more often than not

[aconitemare]

Didn't get the job I wanted

#crying now #its good stuff #does it even matter how hard i try #im never what theyre looking for #messages for the void

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

#replace this with any other type of significant relationship too #also! this book actually rules btw i really recommend it #i didnt read it when it first cane out bc i was like. well i am already pretty familiar with asexuality and not rly interested in 101 stuff #but it turns out it doesnt feel 101-y at all its a super awesome piece of queer theory and also chen has Good opinions #and not weird watered down ones that i am sometimes wary of in aspec communities (frankly especially ace ones) #i think maybe if more people approached asexuality the way chen does (including and maybe even especially ace people) #i would be more inclined to still ID as ace #but anyways! #aro #aromantic #<- tag selections that reflect how i personally engage with this quote #also #described in alt text #also also #j tag #:/ #aro media