#learn to live a little

[greensaplinggrace]

"darklina shippers will see alina wanting the darkling dead and treat it as high romance! 😡" lol of course I will? they're a lovers to enemies ship like damn girl learn to have some fun!

#sab #grishaverse #shadow and bone #darklina #the darkling #aleksander morozova #alina starkov #she wants to killll him 💕 #like do people actually take darklina that seriously? #'she wants him dead why are they treating that as romantic! 😡' because its fun and interesting lol #'wanting to kill each other isn't romantic! 😡' #have you ever watched buffy #learn to live a little #damn you're really steamed over nothing #its a joke 😉 #because believe it or not shipping is supposed to fun and fictional and i can say whatever i want #cannibalism is romantic too actually 💕💖💕 #die mad about it #although why you're mad is beyond me #anti darklina bs #its kinda stupid though #like sorry i don't take fictional shipping as seriously as real life #fandomcourse #sab discourse #lol #sab salt

[urheavenlylux]

I’ve been a Wof fan since the tender age of 10. I was also an internet kid, so I’ve been in this fandom a long time. So I’ll say it with my chest, this fandom has killed a lot of the pure wonder and love I once had, and try to still have, for this series.

No one is excited for anything. No one can enjoy anything. There’s no hype. There’s only complaining. Everything is wrong, and bad, and apparently horribly written even though Tui is clearly just having fun with her little dragon books yet y’all expect Cormac McCarthy level writing from her.

This is what some of y’all sound like:

“These characters suck! Those characters suck! Why? Well..because I said so?”

“Dark colored dragons are the villains (even though they are clearly based off of caucasian Nazi’s)?? This must be racist!!!”

“Tui made a (clearly unintentional) mistake when mentioning a character’s age? She’s a p!doph!le!! She groomed me!”

^^^(unfortunately, this is a real claim I’ve seen)

post: This book is horrible, let me tell you why…

Me: *nodding, actually excited to read this critical post, as I agree this particular book in the series is not the best*

Y’all: ACTUALLY, it sucks because it doesn’t affirm my headcannons, and doesn’t focus on the particular niche background characters I wished it focused on! Nye-hehehe!! Tui is the most illiterate writer!!!

Me: good heavens.

#this is a total vent post #learn to like something without coming to hate it #learn to have fun #learn to live a little #learn to not ruin everything you love #with your own unreasonable expectations #learn to take things namely children’s books lightly #I’m just so sick of the needlessly critical bashing #and just to make it clear #I LOVE deep genuine analysis and critique #especially of wof since it’s my fav series of all time #but I rarely ever see genuine critique #all I see is complaining complaining complaining #over and over about stupid things #especially with the guidebook #it’s like you guys can’t stand something just being a fun easy not groundbreaking read #y’all need it to be perfect #but even if it was perfect it still wouldn’t be good enough #not for y’all #wings of fire #wof #dragons #a guide to the dragon world

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

“Ten Feline Hints on How to Live Well” from Feline Philosophy by John Gray (2020)

1 Never try to persuade human beings to be reasonable 

2 It is foolish to complain that you do not have enough time 

3 Do not look for meaning in your suffering 

4 It is better to be indifferent to others than to feel you have to love them 

5 Forget about pursuing happiness, and you may find it 

6 Life is not a story 

7 Do not fear the dark, for much that is precious is found in the night 

8 Sleep for the joy of sleeping 

9 Beware anyone who offers to make you happy 

10 If you can't learn to live a little more like a cat, return without regret to the human world of diversion 

#feline #felines #cats #feline philosophy #philosophy #john gray #the meaning of life #meaning of life #ten hints #hints #how to live well #live well #living well #live like a cat #like a cat #catlike #cat like #learn to live #learn to live a little #live a little #list of ten

[devotedlystrangewizard]

tiktok is fun because youll see takes like "you cant like this character because they committed crimes" and then the character in question murdered maybe like. 3 people at best

#ok the tiktok im basing this on actually had a character who killed a lot more but hes still tame?? #BUT LIKE?? #THATS THE POINT #THEYRE HOT WHILE COMMITTING CRIMES THEYRE NOT ??? REAL???????? #and then theyre like 'well you wouldnt simpfor them if they were ugly' like okay????? but they are???? #pretty???? #learn to live a little #like yes dont support actual real murderers but in fiction?? who the fuck cares honestly #75% of my faves have committed actual war crimes one of them straightup made someone cause the apocalypse?? #you want all your characters to follow your morals SURE but dont.. force it... on others... #and it doesnt matter whether someone likes these characters bc theyre interesting or hot or both! it doesnt fucking matter theyre not real? #i promise the 19 year old who has spent their entire salary of the past 3 months on genshin impact isnt going to commit mass murder just #because they like dottore

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

im a simple guy! i think about puppy Barnaby. i promptly explode into bloody heart-shaped confetti

#just a little guy learning to be tall... hard work #now if yall will excuse me im gonna shove my head into boiling water #that oughta fix me #pls enjoy the additional scribbles of his Attempts #they were too important in my mind not to include #godddddd i love himmmmmmm just a little guyyyyyy #i gotta puzzle out how to draw ms beagle #ive never drawn a chicken! much less a chicken puppet! #wait no sorry that was a fucking lie #i have drawn like. 2 chickens previously In My Life. i think... i could be wrong! #ive never claimed to have a working or reliable memory <3 #scribble garnish #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #barnaby b beagle #hes just so small and sweet and immmmmm IMMMMMMM #unwell. simply unwell yes yes #there's no saving me! leave me for the vultures! allow me to live up to my url! #puppy barnaby already makes me feel as though my ribcage has been cracked open #might as well let the scavengers have a Taste. im sure im delicious!

[relaxxattack]

tbfh i love when people will headcanon characters as being of their culture and then draw little comics of them participating in traditions that the artist is clearly intimately familiar with. like YESSS share your personal cultural experiences with me through the blorbos!!! i love to see it!!!!!!!

#once saw this comic of rezi eating like... this little doll thing that got hidden in food i think? i think it was a spanish thing maybe? #it was years and years ago so i dont remember but i did think it was cool #and lots of different wedding ones; those are always so cute #or literally just ones of the blorbos speaking other languages #its all so good! please share your beautiful or silly or dumb traditions with me! i love learning how other people live

[vampireposter]

meeting wyll at the grove, as someone who the tieflings trust enough to train their children, says so much about him. it's so sad that he doesn't get explored in acts 2-3 as deeply as the other companions, when his problems are equally intense. the average player probably long rests once before coming across the grove, but even if not, in that time wyll has already proven to the tieflings that they can rely on the Blade of Frontiers.

this is the immediate first thing he chooses to do after being condemned to slow death via ceremorphosis. his priority list in the first conversations with tav is: 1) hunt down a dangerous devil, 2) help zevlor with the goblins, 3) once nothing threatens the tieflings he will gladly search for a tadpole cure. wyll is perpetually his own last priority, and i wonder if it has to do with the lore about souls.

if he believes mind flayers' souls have been destroyed, and fiend warlocks will all have their souls sent to the hells after death, then becoming a mind flayer isn't the worst possible way for him to die. he would never become a mindless monster to save his own soul, but he's not gripped by horror the way that some of the other origin characters are. lae'zel has been made revoltingly impure to her people, astarion is terrified of losing the scrap of bodily autonomy he just regained, gale is guilt-ridden over the orb detonation if he dies, shadowheart has to survive to prove herself to her cult leader, and karlach has also just regained bodily autonomy and is desparate to live.

this is just another quest for the Blade, whose persona guards wyll ravengard against the vice of self-concern when he ought to be concerned for those in need.

#wyll ravengard #bg3 #writing a wyll pov thing in order to roleplay harder in my durge playthrough & ive become obsessed w him #i love him so much. he doesnt even really get to realize in-game how traumatized he is and in act 3 he has not healed any really #come here wyll we are going to learn about self care. you & durge need to overcome the desire to give up your lives for your fathers ideals #faerun doesnt have LMHCs so wyll gets my durge who currently thinks he is (a miserable failure of) a cleric of ilmater. #this fic is practice for my 'ascended tavastarion struggle to quit being Like That' character study thing wherein i am struggling w dialogu #loving working on both. im in my little dollhouse making my toys try out lines until they fit #vampireposted

[pierog]

tiny comic about eating toast with friends

#i have sooo many more thoughts about this but i couldnt be arsed making a longer comic..a few ppl seemed to relate so i will put it here #comic #art #artists on tumblr #axolotl #studyblr #academia #<-why the fuck not. it's set at uni #furry #mine #personal #i do wish i spent more time on this but i got 80hd #anyway the experience of loved ones + food is so important to me #and those little moments which you don't realise are so special until they're gone #i'm very bad at living in the present.. always have been.. gotta learn to appreciate wot i have #my hall experience was a mixed bag - loads of fun but also problematic as an institution and i dont miss it #im lucky to have heaps of friends who i love :) #but it's my first year as a Real Adult outside of academia and im trying not to be scared of growing up

[bluestation]

i found you in the future

#robin #HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE................. #a TINY bit late but pls forgive me #egghead spoilers #isn't it so romantic that she learned about ohara's survival on the island of the future ............. #one piece #some added commentary: the little white bits can be seen as bubbles of air escaping the books #to symbolize that the lives poured into them continue to breathe on #and also the ashes of ohara thrown into the sea #so the water around robin holds death life knowledge and flowers #(callback in a way to the 'scattered in the sea are the world's grief / the world's secrets' line from my last robi drawinf) #ah and also her tears! which contain those multitudes as well #good things lay in wait 4 ohara : #'-)))

[little-pondhead]

Your Ancient History, Written In Wax

-

Danny knew he should have put better security around the Sarcophagus of Eternal Sleep. It wasn’t even Vlad who opened it this time! The fruitloop was too busy doing his actual mayor duties because for some godforsaken reason, the man got re-elected.

No, it wasn’t Vlad. And it wasn’t Fright Knight, either. Nor the Observants. Who opened the Sarcophagus, then? Danny didn’t have time to find out as Pariah Dark promptly tore open a hole in reality and hunting Danny down.

The battle was longer this time. He didn’t have the Ecto-Skeleton, as that was the first thing Pariah had destroyed. The halfa had grown a lot over the past few years, and learned some new tricks, but apparently sleeping in a magic ghost box meant that Pariah had absorbed a lot of power. The bigger ghost acted like a one-man army!

Amity Park was caught in the middle of the battle, but the residents made sure it went no further than that. Vlad and the Fentons made a barrier around the town to keep the destruction from leaking. Sam, Tucker, and Dani did crowd control while Danny faced the king head-on.

Their battle shook the Zone and pulled them wildly between the mortal plane and the afterlife. Sometimes, residents noticed a blow from Pariah transported them to the age of the dinosaurs, and Phantom’s Wail brought them to an unknown future. Then they were in a desert. Then a blazing forest. Then underwater. It went on like that, but no one dared step foot outside of Amity. They couldn’t risk being left behind.

It took ages to beat him, but eventually, Danny stood above the old ghost king, encasing his symbols of power in ice so they couldn’t be used again. He refused to claim the title for himself. Tired as he was, Danny handed the objects off to Clockwork for safe keeping and started repairing the damage Pariah had done to the town. The tear he’d made was too big to fix, for now, so no one bothered. They just welcomed their new ghostly neighbors with open arms and worked together to restore Amity Park.

Finally, the day came to bring down the barrier. People were gathered around the giant device the Fentons had built to sustain it. Danny had brought Clockwork to Amity, to double check that they had returned to the right time and dimension.

Clockwork assured everyone that they were in the right spot, and only a small amount of time had passed, so the Fentons gave the signal to drop the shield.

Very quickly did they discover that something was wrong. The air smelled different. The noise of the nearby city, Elmerton, was louder and more chaotic. Something was there that wasn’t before, and it put everyone on edge.

Clockwork smiled, made a remark about the town fitting in better than before, and disappearing before Danny could catch him.

Frantic, Danny had a few of his ghost buds stay behind to protect the town while he investigated.

He flew far and wide, steadily growing horrified at the changes the world had undergone. Heroes, villains, rampant crime and alien invasions. The Earth was unrecognizable. There were people moving around the stars like it was second nature and others raising dead gods like the apocalypse was coming. Magic and ectoplasm was everywhere, rather than following the ley lines like they were supposed to.

Danny returned to Amity.

The fight with Pariah had taken them through space and time. Somewhere along the way, they had changed the course of history so badly that this now felt like an alien world.

How was he supposed to fix this?

-

In the Watchtower, The Flash was wrapping up monitor duty while Impulse buzzed around him, a little more jittery than usual. The boy was talking a mile a minute, when alarms started blaring an alarming green. Flash had never seen this alarm before, and its crackling whine was grating on his ears.

Flash returned to the monitor, frantically clicking around to find the issue, but nothing was popping up. No major disasters, no invasions, no declarations of war. Nothing! What was causing the alarm?

Impulse swore and zipped to a window, pressing his face against it and staring down at Earth. “Fuck! It’s today isn’t it? I forgot!”

“What’s today?” Flash asked. He shot off a text to Batman, asking if it was an error. The big Bat said it wasn’t, and that he would be there soon.

“The arrival of Amity Park. I learned about this in school; the alarm always gives me headaches.”

Flash turned to his grandson, getting his attention. “Bart,” he stressed. “What are you talking about?”

Impulse barely glanced over his shoulder. Now that Flash was facing him, he could see a strong glow coming from Earth. “The first villain, first anti-villain, and the first hero,” he said anxiously. “They all protect the town of the original metas. They’re all here.”

“Here? Now??”

“Yeah? They weren’t before, but they are now. The first hero said there was time stuff involved, which was what inspired me to start practicing time travel in the first place.”

“I’m not following.”

“It’s okay. We should probably go welcome them before they tear apart Illinois, though. The history I remember says that some of them freaked and destroyed a chunk of the Midwest during a fight with each other.”

“WHAT?”

#dpxdc #pondhead blurbs #liminal amity park #I’ve seen stuff like this in the mhaxdp fandom and I eat it up every time #basically the fight with Pariah caused the town to jump through time a little #and while they THOUGHT they were keeping everything in #shit leaked out and tainted those points in time #so technically #historically and genetically speaking #Amity Park is the origin point for the meta gene and Danny made history as the first hero #because Clockwork is a little shit #everyone embodies a basic ability and it has grown from there #the flash family are direct descendants of Dani (speed force Dani for the win) #Dash is the reason super strength exists #so on and so forth #go buck wild #bart learned about it briefly in history class in the 30th century #practically hero worships them #booster gold knows about them too but in contrast to Bart’s excitement #booster is fucking terrified because there was a period where Amity Park rebelled against the US government #and he’s from that specific time #he learned to fear phantom because he lived during that part while Bart is from farther in the future when those issues got resolved #guess who’s chosen to welcome the town? >:) #if you’re wondering what happened to the GIW #they turned into the branch Amanda Waller runs #Danny is the first hero #Vlad the first villain #and Dani the first anti hero #there’s an arc where Danny is trying to fix things but clockwork won’t let him into the timestream and all the heroes are horrified #because yeah Danny is the OG but if he goes back in time to fix his ‘mistake’ what will happen to them?

[spacedlexi]

started a dnd campaign with some friends!! playing a silly little druid wood elf that seeks guidance from the stars because she’ll live longer than anything else

#she just turned lvl 2 :) baby #learning thats druids get slowed aging after i already committed to my wood elf...oopsie shes gonna outlive so much #doing the math and realizing she'll have the ability to live to 7500 years old unless god (dm) takes her out first #i made another backup character but that one needs dm approval before i think about sharing her... #original character #oc: vydallia greenstem #dnd #doodles #also ive learned making dnd characters is very fun #if not a little addicting #i wish i would draw ocs more often i just like designing them and walking away

[sketching-shark]

So I know we all love ol’lobo here for being a terrifyingly cheerful version of the Grim Reaper, but a blink-and-you-miss-it detail I really like about him is that he seems to be genuinely sad when telling Puss In Boots that no one’s ever been able to escape his reach. It’s like on one hand he’s the immortal and invincible literal embodiment of the big inevitability, but on the other hand he’s a sentient entity that, as his wolf form could suggest, is a very social creature. And knowing that there’s not even a chance he’ll ever be able to form a pack, a family, with anyone must be a very lonely thing indeed.

#puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots wolf #puss in boots lobo #honestly that little detail could make him an even more interesting antagonist to puss in boots #whose whole deal is about learning to accept his mortality & creating a life worth living through making a family #aaaaa

[raintides]

your blood like wine

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #i learned how to play i want to live on the guitar and i am terrible at it but it brings me great joy #i wish i had a classical guitar bc nylon strings sound so beautiful but i wanted to play rock so all i have is an electric #my life's purpose... drawing meowmeows dipped in a little blood

[purblzart]

For @jonsimsandcats I love them and idk how to draw cats <3333333!!!!!

#jonsimsandcats2023 #tma #I love theeeem!!! #little meow little meowmeow #I think if I didn’t draw something for this even I would have combusted #this isn’t what I wanted exactly but I do like it it’s not perfect but alas live and learn babeyyyyyyyyy #the magnus archives #jon sims #jonathan sims #jarchivist #magpod #magpod fanart #magnus archives #jon sims fanart #tma fanart #ppumpkin art

[abelle25125]

Part 2 to this post of my understanding of one piece characters from OPLA, 70-ish episodes of the anime and cultral osmosis - this time with a slightly better understanding of how to use ms paint

again, please not spoilers im only on episode 96

#i wrote all of this and then watched 20ish more episodes so i know a little bit more than what the notes suggest but i didnt want to edit it #one piece #OP #OPLA #one piece live action #one piece spoilers #dracule mihawk #buggy the clown #red haired shanks #sir crocodile #don flamenco #what a wild way to learn i got his name wrong #oh well #not going to tag the others since i dont really know their full names and im not getting spoiled looking for them again #guys why did none of you tell me how fun ms paint was

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

second batch of outfit requests!

pattern collage / showfit / clownfit for @koifsssh & candy cardigan Eddie for @jazzzzzzhands <3

#thank you for the Looks! <3 #this little Exercise is pushing me out of my comfort zone with poses tbh #in a really good way!! #im learning stuff! im improving day-to-day in little ways #its the small victories i think. good stuff. #scribble garnish #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #figuring out dynamic positions and how to balance weight #also its good clothes practice #historically i have very rarely drawn clothes since yk. im dragon-based #but im slooooowwwwwly getting the hang of folds and creases and the mechanics of different kinds of fabric #that candy cardigan was a Challenge tho my fucking god #it was fun! but difficult. #im fairly satisfied with the result #also sorry eddie's bg is very simple compared to the other ones #they were drawn After i watched spiderverse #& promptly decided to live my art life by the rule: #RANDOM BULLSHIT GO!!!!! #its working for me so far. im getting a lil funky w it. emphasis on Little