#life's too short etc

[arianeemorythethird]

underrated aspect of rexwalker that has been filling my brain completely lately: they're clearly prep nerd 4 goth nerd, as per the classic alignment chart. which means that I am completely confident that rex and anakin spent a significant proportion of their canonical time together absolutely geeking out about the most random shit.

meant to be planning to lift a siege in another sector next week -> a couple hours of actual planning -> intense 2am argument over whether general zy woops of the mandalorian empire could have actually beaten general beans in the battle of sarda 2000 years if the mandalorians had access to modern blaster charger tech at the time

literally did not speak to each other for three days afterwards because they're both so salty about modern blaster charger tech and/or general beans

Generations Of Military Historians Are Wrong And It Would Have Been Totally Possible To Lift Exar Kun's Siege of Coruscant With The Resources The Republic Had To Hand. no, listen, general, hear me out!

Generations Of Military Historians Are Wrong, But In A Different Way From What You Suggested Yesterday, Rex. no I'm not just suggesting this to be contrary! you just didn't spend enough time thinking about hyperdrive engines! unlike me, who can and will spend all day thinking about hyperdrive engines.

yes, but you didn't spend ENOUGH time thinking about blaster charger tech, sir. :(

one time anakin accidentally on purpose went three hours out of his way on leave so he could visit the site of the battle of morlan dai

the battle happened 1200 years ago. now it's literally just a field with some crappy concrete buildings at one end. it's a field.

...that was what fives said when rex dragged him out there with them. rex and anakin still almost cried about it.

anyway I think it would be very on brand for anakin to have initially won rex's respect (and romantic interest) by sharing all his jedi access codes so rex could borrow from the military history section of the jedi archives.

the first time rex got access they were on leave for three days and cody legitimately thought he was dead.

#star wars #clone wars #rexwalker #anakin skywalker #rex #i was going to change all my stupid fake star wars names to stupid real star wars names before i posted this #...nah #life's too short etc #my meta

[alatar-and-pallando]

Picking the best watermelon

hey kids, do you want to know the real way to pick the best watermelons? Most of the internet is lying to you -- no, the webbing of scars has nothing to do with it. Here are my tried-and-true techniques, based on a childhood spent growing watermelon (and other giant melons), a lot of hands-on experience choosing good ones, and info I've gleaned from various university extension websites over the years.

Look for the following qualities. Ideally, your melon will tick all these boxes.

"Sugar bumps." Not all varieties of watermelon display this characteristic, but for some, when they're ripe, the skin near the fruit's base will get rough with tiny bumps. If some watermelons on display don't have this and some do, go with one that does. If none do, focus on the other listed characteristics.

A round profile when viewed from one end. If it's more triangular in profile, it probably isn't fully mature.

A prominent field spot. This is the discolored spot on the side that was against the dirt. Depending on the variety of watermelon, it may be light or bright yellow. Regardless, it should be sizeable and well-defined, standing in contrast the rest of the skin. If the borders are poorly defined or the spot's just barely faded, it's probably not ripe.

Feels hefty compared to its size. This one's subjective, but if you have two watermelons of the same dimensions, the heavier one is going to be riper + have a thinner rind.

A resonant sound when thumped. This technique takes a while to dial in, but once you've mastered it, it makes finding good melons so much easier. Hold your melon against your ear and give it a slap or knock. If you feel vibrations propagate throughout the melon and the sound is a nice hollow resonant one, you're in business. If all you hear is a flat slap or thud, the melon's either under- or overripe.

Lastly, this probably goes without saying, make sure to avoid any watermelon with squishy spots (including a stem that "gives" when pressed on) or cracks. Surface scuffs and healed scars are fine.

Let me know how it goes if you take my advice!

#i will spend 10 minutes thumping every watermelon at walmart to find a good one #and if none are satisfactory i'm not buying one #life's too short etc #and watermelons are my favorite fruit bar none #watermelon #food #my posts #i should take pics next time i'm at the grocery store so you can see what I'm talkin' about

[theyarebothgunshot]

it’s amazing how often i see people i follow on my non-spn acc shame tamer rps like cockles or something and look down their noses at it when they are also the same people i see shipping those two lead actors from ted lasso on main (this is not me shaming that just btw, it’s me going “what’s all this then” at the cognitive dissonance). also sorry this is random but it’s like !!!!! what !!!!!

lmao honestly people can be very strange sometimes

#but i cant really say anything about it cause i dont follow people who shame cockles shippers god bless #life's too short etc #anonymous

[aroaceleovaldez]

Every description about Nico (especially the canon ones) describing him as “cold” can personally fight me. Nico is jaded, yes, and often closed-off and sometimes stand-offish and defensive but he is not "cold”. He cares SO SO SO MUCH about EVERYONE. He loves and cares with his entire heart constantly and that is a core part of his character. He doesn’t often make public shows of his affection but he takes care to be kind when it matters and doesn’t hide that he does care (usually, the only exception really being him being in the closet, but even then he only hid his crush specifically and not the fact that Percy is important to him). He fine with hugging his friends in front of a crowd and will sit with strangers at a campfire just so they’re not alone. I mean, heck, he’s an extrovert! We know this! He actively seeks out people and gets lonely very quickly and easily! If he can’t talk to living people he will chat with the dead! That’s how much he thrives on being social!

The only time Nico has ever been actively “cold” was the couple of months between TTC and BoTL when he was actively mourning Bianca. Nico is not “cold.” He loves so much and he does show it, just in his own way.

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #analysis #brought to you by: I saw a blurb for TSATS that said something like ''Will melted through Nico's icy heart/cold exterior'' #and it made me want to tear something apart with my teeth because of how Blatantly Incorrect that is #like that is a disservice to both their characters. #a.) Will did not ''fix'' Nico or ''change'' him or anything. He is just a source of joy in Nico's life #TOA even explicitly acknowledges that them dating did not ''fix'' Nico and that Nico is actively getting outside help for his trauma/etc #and b.) Nico is not cold!!! He has never been a cold person!!! there's a reason ''emo'' is short for ''emotional!'' #Nico's character is ENTIRELY DRIVEN BY LOVE AND CARE FOR OTHER PEOPLE #yes he's jaded but he's only jaded in a way of being afraid of letting people into his life because he's afraid to lose them #not that it stops him because it sure does keep happening anyways because SURPRISE. HE LOVES TOO MUCH. #HE LITERALLY CANNOT HELP HIMSELF HE LOVES PEOPLE SO STRONGLY AND SO DEEPLY HE CANNOT STAY JADED ABOUT IT #he just keeps going ''Okay *THIS* time I won't let this person into my life to risk heartbreak- AW FUCK I'VE DONE IT AGAIN'' #SO MUCH of his character is entirely driven by ''I care about people. I dont want them to suffer what i have suffered or suffer at all'' #like really the only times we ever see Nico being actively angry/snappy at people #is like a.) He is either actively being majorly hurt or has just recently been majorly hurt (Bianca's death. Being outed. etc) #b.) Someone is hurting others is going to bring harm to others (Calling out his dad in TLO. Killing Bryce) #or c.) Someone is doubting or calling into question his lived experiences (Basically any scene where people say he's pushing people away) #other than that Nico actually tends to give people way more lenience than necessary. he will put up with a LOT #and he won't even call people out on it or hold a grudge about it (i see you alleged Nico's fatal flaw. you're wrong) #unless it's like. something A Lot Of People Do Often (ex: push him away/exclude him/etc) #at which point he might be like. mildly upset about it but not much more then that. which is just a normal measured response. #anyways Nico's not cold he's just autistic

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

okay I started reading Dungeon Meshi the other day only because I liked those character sheets. it's good and fun so far, I'm on chapter 37 and very invested. I thought it was gonna be just slice of life (because it was for like the first 20 chapters or so), but now there is a plot, and I like it both ways. it has kind of a slow start even for the slice of life stuff: not like it's bad, I was just unsure whether it was going to move past "enjoyable" for the first couple chapters. but then it went from enjoyable to deeply charming and now it's gone to exciting while still pretty darn charming. without knowing the author, I can confidently say she's a giant nerd. this is a work that would be impossible to create unless you were a person who is great at drawing with intense special interests in classic fantasy RPGs and biology/ecology. which sounds very specific but thank goodness because that's what makes it good. it feels like it comes from a place of love.

#pickle pontificates #dungeon meshi #ok enough for now. I'm trying to avoid spoilers #also. people love assigning autism to characters with varying levels of adherence to canon #which is fine and good and all #be free live your life etc. #but if laios (one of the mcs) isn't the most heavily autistic coded guy I've ever seen in fiction I'll eat my hat. i don't say this lightly #his sister probably too but there's less of her so far #and i feel so bad for chilchuck because the running gag is people treating him like a kid cause he's short #but he like. very clearly has the soul and mind of a cynical 29-year-old man. which is hilarious #okay now I'm really done for now adios bye bye

[starwarjotta]

there’s a special place in hell for people who take the time and go through the effort of leaving negative comments on fanfics, like-- what is wrong with you, what is LEGITIMATELY wrong with you? I’m so angry and so devastated on behalf of everyone who has been harrassed like this and who is going through something like this right now. There’s no excuse for shitty behavior - if you intentionally leave a hurtful comment on something someone created and put out there for other people’s enjoyement, for free, after spending probably HOURS if not WEEKS or MONTHS or longer on it, you’re an incredibly shitty, disgusting, miserable waste of space of a person be better

#this is just unbelievable behavior #I cannot imagine what kind of a person uses their time and energy to spread negativity when they could be doing something good instead #like why I seriously don't get it #it is so horrible and so heartbreaking and makes me so so damn angry that people are bullied like this to the point that they stop doing #what they clearly have enjoyed doing until this point #it's so wrong and people who cause this - you are the worst kind of person #but be better is also aimed at myself because I've slacked on spreading the love myself by commenting on the fics I love #like pretty much every single codywan piece Glimmer ever wrote #I always tell myself “I'll do it later when I'm not busy with schoolwork etc” but later might be months later or it might be too late #so I'll do better myself and I'll start commenting more even if it's just a short quick note its better than not gettin around to it at all #because fanfic authors deserve all the love in the world #fanfics have made my life infinitely better and the authors need to know how much they've affected my life #and how much their fics mean to me #so I'll do better as well #text post #star wars #codywan #YES I'll tag those because it is relevant

[the-ghost-king]

actually no we don't talk about nico who likes pirates enough. we don't talk enough about how he probably has a favorite pirate. we don't talk enough about how he probably has a favorite ship. we don't talk enough about how he probably has a favorite shipwreck too. we don't talk enough about how he probably spent all day on the canals with the gondole, asking the gondoliers all sorts of questions about their boats until his mother had to pull him away. how many hours did he spend on the port of venice just watching the boats come in and leave? just.... how far does the love of pirates go? is it a love of boats too? like we know he loves (I refuse to believe it's past tense) pirates, but we don't even know if he knows how to swim, or if he likes being on cruises, or at the beach or what. it's sad.

#i don't know how evident if is but the past few days I've been thinking about nico growing up in venice and not having to leave #and just getting to spend his life there and I think he would love living by all the tourists #like I do know most venetians hate it and he would understand too and agree #but he would just be so chatty and probably speak like 30+ languages he picked up from tourists and just #all the boats for him to enjoy!!! #plus venice's cemetery is really fucking cool he would love that #i can imagine him spending all day at the markets as well and just ugh my heart #he drew the short stick he got the bad end of the deal etc #pjo #nico di angelo

[sameensass]

cannibalism as a form of intimacy cannibalism as a form of grief love being all devouring loving so much that the only way you can express it is by consuming each other to the point you dont know how to even exist without the other consuming each other through life and after death cannibalism as a way to immortalize another within you

#life is too short and love is too long etc etc #im having thoughts and feelings and emotions #yellowjackets spoilers #yellowjackets #tlt #this is abt gideon and harrow and shauna and jackie in terms of being literal #but also abt paul :( #mp

[fidgetspringer]

- Marten & Nohren -

#digital art #illustration #art #cowboys #original characters #my art #thought I might as well slap some colour on this now since i'll be away this week #i've got so many ideas floating around my head for story stuff I want to draw for these two #i've been writing them for almost a year now and i have a bunch of different AUs i'm excited to make designs for #the outlaws AU is one of my favourites though #excited to see how their designs change as i get more confident with drawing people #i'm not gonna info dump about them too much i think. I'll probably just let the story unfold trough the illustrations etc #cause idk if anyone's interested in the story stuff. i'm happy to answer if anyone asks stuff though #but the short version is that they grew up in the same town but didn't really get to know each other until later #Marten has a bad accident that leaves him bedridden for over a year while his father hides his condition out of shame #so Nohren takes a job as a hand at their ranch and figures out which room they're keeping Marten locked in #they become good friends and Nohren visits him in secret for almost two years while helping Marten regain some mobility #they take up the outlaw life after Nohren is seen with another man in town and decides he's better off getting out of dodge #Marten is torn about leaving the ranch behind but he comes along eventually #that's the very basic gist of it #they good kiddos #Marten #Nohren #Outlaws AU

[badassindistress]

Time for some ribbon organisation this evening ✨

#the rest of my ribbons are on my pretty ribbon rack but these don't fit #too short too broad etc #very satisfying #to have them rolled and rainbowed #a talia original #excerpts from my life #ribbons!

[liesmyth]

but what's the cunty thing you were going to say

NOT TODAY SATAN. I've touched grass, I remembered there's a big wonderful world outside. I'm over it.

#I will say. life's too short to keep grudges with people in your phone #it all passes through me like neutrins. tears in the rain. etc #BUT. if someone a bitch to one of my friends then my grudge is eternal and unending and I'm going to remember your name forever #PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH #ask #anonymous

[bigbrain]

Day 6: sans

The bone-afide tumblr sexyman supreme. Anyway this took way too long lmao, but it turned out pretty good in the end I think! :D I was working on this while the whole sexyman thing went down, so take this as my contribution to sanssweep too

I'm so far behind on undertale september now. Worth it :P

#undertale september #undertaleseptember #undertale #sans #sans undertale #sanssweep #sansweep #do you write that with two or one s? #I had to redraw my first few frames too cuz my sans style changed while working on it #initially I wanted to have the fortnite default music playing but turns out the animation is too short for that hah #improvise adapt overcome #also while looking at some reference pictures I realised sans doesnt wear pink slippers #judging by his overworld sprite they're white #my life is a lie; my trust is in shambles etc. #brain (f)art #godamnit nearly forgot my art tag again

[astriiformes]

Question of the night goes to my friend who saw me sewing skeleton hands onto my Palamedes tunic with no context and asked "So is that a Halloween thing, or is it for science outreach?"

#live your life such that you get asked these things etc etc #do you think the sixth house has any necrocomm people #like i know this is more of a 'backstab people for knowledge' kind of setting #but also i know what nerds are like and for every extremely proprietary academic there's also one who cannot shut up #pal cosplay tag #f: life is too short and love is too long

[oceandiagonale]

I know I've said a million times before but I absolutely love your artstyle. I've never been the biggest dan of my own art cuz it's always been way too complicated and really difficult to just doodle characters and stuff-- but yours is always so consistent in comparison (not that I'm saying I'm bad at art I just struggle to draw using the same techniques I used to)

I wondered if you had any anatomy tips for characters? Like do you break down characters into shapes to get their proportions vaguely correct while sketching? If you do I very much want to know what shapes you use because I've not been able to draw a single full body character in quite a while cuz I can't get their proportions the way I want 😅

OH god good question also THANKS JSDFHD 😭😭😭

uhhhh I guess I do the general blocky thing that most people do?

(like I'd emphasize the vague in "vaguely correct" here because every other day I stumble on a new amazing art tutorial on how to simplify all 900 back muscles into a perfect shape and it's like oh wow I have Not been doing that and I probably still won't remember now)

BUT for me it's all about the Vibes

so when I'm really trying it usually either ends up being an amalgam of some tips that I try to remember + the shapes I've seen the most in tutorials since the early internet KFJHSDJKF

but like a lot of the time I just do something super simple and then I have to figure it out later on a second sketch layer so it's all kind of a mess BUT that's the general shapes at least!!

#oceandi answers #novanexusart #long post #that is a little bit funny though because more often than not I look at your art and I'm like 'wow he has anatomy down so well' #'I should do some more practice so I can do backs/arms/etc. correctly at different angles too' #meanwhile I use a circle as a placeholder for my heads which means they can vary in size over time #I do try to be consistent but I run purely on vibes and some art tips so Results May Vary 😳 #I should be sleeping or working on the kamado scenes 🙄🙄🙄 but I'm productively procrastinating by answering this instead 😳 #also sometimes I will Know a tip in my head and then when I draw it I have actually ignored it like the thigh length thing??? #I Know it but man some days I think life's too short to resize a leg and that's Good Enough and move on

[xhanisai]

what is it with these weird americans claiming that racism is no longer a thing just because where they live is somewhat regulated or whatever and all that bullshit????

#delete later #long story short i came across this youtube video that was recommended to me #it was a black queer man and I thought he was going to just discuss about the rise of rampant hate against white people in america #and i was like okay let's watch this cos I too believe no one should face any discrimination for who and what they are and that education o #the past is very good #but then he would go on about statistics in America and say that the black community themselves are getting into these unfortunate situatio #s #and the world is much better now compared to decades ago and that they should be lucky at the way we live now because it isn't like back th #n #but im like #sure these dumbass tiktokkers say stupid shit #BUT #even now in the uk almost every POC including myself have experienced discrimination and racism #including black people #and ive seen horrible things said and done to black people and others in America online through videos and etc #like wtf man are YOU BLIND #the world we live in right now is doing the bare minimum and we all should aspire for a better world!!! #insulting all white people in your life isn't the way to the top I know that and that's completely understandable it's hella childish and n #sty #i dunno man this video really pissed me off and I didn't finish it #one of the example videos he also showed was a black man expressing his feelings on what he thinks about non black people using the N word #even in a song #i personally believe no one should use the word at all #but the youtuber was brushing off his feelings and saying it's just a word in a song and I was just #done with it #he was clearly pandering to the people who always scream about how they hate woke culture #so why was i surprised #anyways rant over

[bellshazes]

thinking a lot about the moral of the life series, in a things they carried kind of way. (The moral of the story is that there is no moral. Fuck off - a paraphrase.) meaning is what is produced when you set one thing next to another and draw connections. people who win defy the rules, Scott has two in a row where his promise-keeping preserves him, etc. but the patterns always contradict.

but at the end of a season the ghosts cry out for blood. pearl and Scott share lives but impulse says, "there can only be one!" did he know that going in? I can't really imagine it, that the group agreed beforehand that even among the final two someone had to kill their soulmate and themself. certainly not impulse who is the prototypical soulmate, unshakably dedicated because as he points out when bdubs asks if impulse would betray him, he has no choice. my lives are your lives. but he says the same, inverted, to scott: betray your soulmate, you have no choice.

I love a more traditional UHC, but those are different because there's never a question of how long they'll last. You might team up or be assigned a team but no one ever doubts that it will be over, probably the same day you started. the tragedy of third life's optimistic start is they briefly all hoped and earnestly believed peace might last a long time before the killing started. it didn't, and the next season they ensured someone would die every week, either by murder or by punishment. the no red fraternization enforcement was perhaps too much, and for take 3 you are guaranteed someone on your side, in the same color as you til you're both gone.

for me, the life series is compelling because the central question no one living there will ask is how long can this last? but they answer in different ways: devotion, or betrayal; answering revenge, or by con and threat of force; looking sideways at the rules they know will doom them eventually because they have to keep clinging to something that keeps them alive, be it a promise (because I killed you ill stay with you, he loves me!, I'll go after pearl but I won't go after scott) or a principle (take the boogeyman penalty and go red that way rather than die killing my friends, it's me and my dogs) or plain old fear (big b killing cleo, scar's contracts, so many other things). you have to keep living to win, and to win you need allies, and so you find love or its absence that fuels you as the optimistic answer of "forever!" fades to "a little longer" on yellow and "not long at all, not long, not much longer" on red.

The lonely never live long unless they find something to cling to, and even then success is never guanteed. often, the answer is love, requited or misplaced; oftener, temporary convenience. everyone living knows nothing lasts forever, so take what you can get for as long as you can keep it. But ghosts know what the living don't: the end was always already there.

#life is too short and art is long etc. #but i mean it in a crazy david diamond way. #double life #peter posts #i need a meta tag or something jesus christ. im percolating #this coincidentally is why ethubs is my full obsession. guys who do not care that by the games intent it could never work #and who defied everything to draw out the question of how long can it last... #from the pretending to be boogey at each other to devotion just short of giving anything up for the other #until bdubs finally realized his time was too short and for the first time rushed to a kill #and permanently died for it.