#like i originally planned to do. lmao

[5-pp-man]

lately ive noticed that ive become more... aware? of what mediums work best for certain franchises.

dont get me wrong, for some mangas im def hoping for an adaptation. but i've had some anime adaptations where im like. i should just go read the manga instead.

#usually the anime is question is very lowkey so i get bored by the slow pacing. #or the adaptation is sort of lackluster #tedpost #tedtalks #ok i was being vague but its actually abt 2 specific things. #i remember crying a bunch when i read chry mgc but the anime is not having that affect on me at all. for some reason. #hell im reading more now and its making me tear up again #and ive found myself getting bored w vllns dy ff... its a bit too slow for me at times. i feel like ill enjoy it more if i just read it #like i originally planned to do. lmao #watching mshl after reading it is also weird cause i notice every little thing theyve altered #its really good at times but its also a bit meh at other moments. which is faithful to the manga ig lmao #but yeah. its fun to see it all come to life. but my god the pacing is so weird #its less noticeable in the manga because you control your own reading speed

[lorelxlz]

a possible grian design for a space au :D

#grian #grian fanart #my original plan was to add more eldritchy bits #i still wanna do that so this design is like a maybe #also also i saw like three different space aus on my dash and wanted to make my own lmao #space is so cool but i can not. draw it #so the background is just color vomit with an airbrush #hermitcraft #i also might write something for this #i have a lil draft and a lot of word vomit soo

[raiiny-bay]

my favorite edits - 2023 edition 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9

#ts4 #simblr #once again i don't know how to tag this so... #i'm just gonna use the same tags i used last year ig #2023 was apparently the year of the monster boyz #only 3 of these are not mb posts & i'm ok with that actually #ik i've said it a million times already but #i had soooo much fun doing mb stuff this year! #i'm really excited about all the stuff i have planned for the AU tbh #like. i have a list #i'm hoping................... to get the origin stories done at some point. #probably gonna do some writing here soon ish. #i've gotta make all of the side characters still & finish the character page so idk. i'll figure it out. i have a lot of ideas #i really wanna start sharing more about the story & the boys' actual personalities so that's probably what i'll focus on this next year #edit-wise i mean. like doing lore edits & stuff. idk #making cricket's was really fun so i think i'll like making stuff for everyone else too #i just have to not try to do a whole story bc then i'll lose interest. it'll be like the degenerates all over again lmao #idk why i just hate making story posts #lore posts are fine but story posts? mm no. not for me. idk how but they are different in my brain ok #n e way #i rambled. sorry. bye lol

[meamiiikiii]

i will not elaborate further beyond the original notes i had:

these are the type of thoughts i have while eating breakfast ASDASD

#isat spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat act 6 secret encounter spoilers #isaloop #in my mind this is isaloop even if u cannot see isa he is there metaphorically off screen u see #seperated from prev cuz it did not distinctly fit the sentimental vibes this is infinitely sillier to me ASFASDA #well that and i kept messing with the way i was coloring it lmao #...okay maybe i will elaborate a bit more in tags ASFASFAS #the thought process was to divvy up the most identifiable wearable items from each party member onto siffrin and loop #these items needed to be reasonably removable ofc #they were also not going to be related to their customs (no bonding earrings for example) #the original plan was to give siffrin miras shawl bonnies hat isas belt and odiles glasses #then i was like ehhhh actually idk if the dangling gem bit is like a custom thing or not since it could be??? #so i switched up to odiles coat and miras gloves and rest remained #realized midway thru YOU WOULDNT BE ABLE TO SEE MIRAS GLOVES THAT WELL??? #so i gave siffrin the rope belt from mira instead #as for loop the plan was always to give them miras bow and bonnies bracelet #i revisited just the glasses part for odile briefly then thought a lil more and went #i do not think odile would chuck her glasses #hence the book since i dont think i couldve reasonably removed anything else from her #the pants #the pants. #in terms of identifiability to me the striped pants are fun and striking #hence the immediate next thought in the original notes ASFASDAS #however i do not think isa would just??? chuck his pants like that???? esp in context with the rest of the party????? #but in my minds eye this was a little bit funny so yea ASDASDSA #OKAY. tag talk over it is nap time ASFAS

[vvelegrin]

i'm really enjoying pathologic 2, actually. i mean, i didn't think i wouldn't enjoy it as much as i was worried it would just, i don't know, muddy the water. and maybe it will, but i'm not really bothered by that anymore. that said, i do think patho 2 took a fairly unsubtle game and increased its unsubtlety by about tenfold.

well. calling og pathologic 'unsubtle' doesn't feel quite right, but i'm not sure what word would feel right. maybe it's 'distinct in its sensibilities'. I think og patho felt more obtuse, whereas patho 2 is like. here. take it. do you get it. here is the information. do you see the themes. i am announcing them to you in such a way that you know that i am saying something thematic. i'm not far enough into the main story of 2 to be able to say that there's less reading between the lines, but it feels very much so far like there's less reading between the lines. whereas the original had a somewhat different... i don't know, affect? it felt like a hostile workplace where everyone recited shakespeare about even the mundane. in patho 2 nothing feels mundane in the first place, everything feels loaded in a way that og patho was but didn't feel, if that makes sense.

but i think that's okay. at the very least, it feels very much like leaning into the 'theater' aspect of it, which is enjoyable. pathologic 2 feels to me more like... bonus content? not to be Stuck Up For Pathologic HD but i enjoyed the feeling of grinding my face against a cinderblock, having to tease out information and conclusions. it felt like a game that you had to figure out, but you actually weren't really doing any ground-level figuring out of much; you're not a doctor, your character is, so the puzzle of Solving the Plague belongs to The Story, whereas the question of What the FUCK is This Town's Deal is your job. it's a very linear game in most respects, but all three playthroughs come through as a thematic package deal.

i so far get the impression that pathologic 2 can be played on its own and be enjoyed in its own right! however it exists to me as like. director's commentary. i'm really liking the playing with different character relationships and alternate things, the expanding of steppe language and the kin, love my worm guys, but i like it because of how it enriches my eternal mind rotation of og pathologic. sorry guys i played the original pathologic and it broke me and remade me in its image. sorry.

#sorry to be the quintessential 'guy who played pathologic and now doesn't stop thinking about pathologic' #i'm having a lot of fun trying all of the different things in marble nest though #i do worry in general that the inclusion of sprinting and fast travel will really fuck up my flow #the walking feels SO much slower now so while i was content to plod along in the original i feel like there's not a middle ground #so it feels a bit contrary to it all that i'm sprinting everywhere and just chugging bottles of water and calling it good #though at the very least it does seem like it will take some of the weight off of the 'route planning' aspect of the original #which was. honestly a load bearing part of... gestures vaguely #and i understand why people don't like it! i think that's a very reasonable thing to not like #having a game on a time limit that requires you to walk slowly across the map multiple times #i don't know what brainworms it activated in me but i quite enjoy it #on paper i should not like this game but here we are #that's not true. i play a lot of Bad To Play games for the story. #but 'guy who has no sense of time' playing 'time limit: the game' is... well i'm not arguing at the results #so that's my main Thing that i 'dislike' but even that word is too strong #i don't dislike it as much as i am keenly aware that i will have to play the game differently and i Don't Like Change lmao #that said these are preliminary impressions as i'm only about 4-5ish hours into the main game #pathologic

[miharuhebinata]

nuggeto

+ original sprite for comparison

#wondering how &/or why i made this? well because i needed to keep myself awake today and also wanted to practice using the sketchbook app on #my phone. as for how: i actually traced the original sprite #then colored in the hair by hand. in the middle of that though the quality suddenly got annihilated and i hadn't saved in a while #so i just decided screw it. i finished the pink highlights by hand then used the color picker/paint bucket tools to fill in the rest of the #coloring (which i was originally planning to do also by hand). then i opened a new sketch & drew the symbol on his shirt and layered that #on top (idk why but i thought that would be easier than trying to trace it and i...think i was right? either way i like how it turned out!) #then i just cleaned it up a bit- retraced some of the lines and such. and *then* right before i went to finally post it i realized i forgot #the red squares on the right side of his jacket. so i just spent the last hour or so adding those #i was also gonna add a bit of shading too but i'm fucking burnt out at this point so screw that lmao #honestly it doesn't really matter i'm very VERY happy with how this turned out :) #nagito komaeda #danganronpa #sdr2 #🖌 tag #🍄 tag #send tweet

[bctoastyyy]

kinda redrew (?) a thing. boy those movie feels still. oouyygh boy

#its kinda less of a redraw of that graffiti one and more like what i had been originally planning #i guess? #either way its a different vibe but i dunno i still like both #this one more tho? i dunno again lmao im so #eugh i dunno how to do things fhdkfn #eyestrain #kinda? bright colors at least #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt movie #rise turtles #rise kraang

[mermaidsirennikita]

One reason why I think Mila Finelli's mafia books do work for me better than most other (Italian--I did really love Kresley's series) mafia romance novels I've read is that the characters do feel DISTINCT and so do the relationship dynamics.

In a lot of these somewhat darker, more erotic reads, you do get the sense that any of the characters could be switched out for one another. The heroes are always the same types of alphas, the heroines are always the same types of a) virgins or b) defiant rebels who may also still be virgins, and what really sets the books apart are a few bananas scenes here and there, and some distinct sex scenes.

And while I definitely think there are distinct sexual dynamics and kinks at play with each couple (Fausto/Frankie are obviously daddy kink-central, Enzo and Gia are.... generalized freaks with some heavier BDSM by way of CNC vibes, Giulio and Alessio also have some D/s vibes but with a more competitive edge and are very into each other's violence, and Giacomo/Emma are obviously a breeding kink/softer touch vibe) they're also just super different people.

I guess the closest couples would be Fausto and Frankie and Enzo and Gia, but even then... Fausto is a dick, but he's more rational, more doting (see: daddy), and though Frankie is absolutely defiant and strong, I actually think that though she and Fausto have more of a traditional partnership in terms of gender than Enzo and Gia (which also could be because Frankie wants a billion kids and yes she has her MBA but she's very much a wife and mom first, whereas Gia is more about her career, which keeps them from being too similar). Enzo and Gia are more into the defined D/s shit sexually, but you get the sense that she has more control in the relationship and that, at the end of the day, he is very much... her bitch. Enzo and Gia have a very similar age gap to Fausto and Frankie, but Fausto and Frankie have more of a care-focused DD/lg relationship, whereas Enzo and Gia thrive on the friction of her giving as good as she gets.

And Alessio and Giulio, aside from the obvious of being the only queer relationship in the series, are very much coded as D/s as well... But not as inflexibly as the previous two couples. Aside from them switching it up in the bedroom a little, there's also a lot of space for Alessio to take care of Giulio. Like, Giulio kinda doesn't know shit about what he's doing lol, whereas Alessio is hypercompetent (which also makes sense, as Fausto for sure spoiled Giulio and Alessio has been in essentially a different class his entire life). So while Giulio is more sexually dominant, Alessio is really the stronger, steadier, and more threatening partner otherwise. And again, they both really get off on watching each other do what they do best, which is: crime.

I do think Giacomo and Emma have the softest relationship in the series--but it's not so much because she's this kind of babe in the woods virgin (and I will say, I did love that Frankie and Gia were NOT lol) but because Giacomo is just a much more tender guy. Like, yes, Fausto and Enzo both also had loved ones, but I think that because they'd both been running their shit longer than Giacomo had before he met Emma, they had these very set roles. Fausto and Enzo come off as more brutal, and honestly more crazy (like, Enzo is THE CRAZIEST for sure, but Fausto is a fucking nutball). Giacomo seems like a dude who's good at killing people and doing mafia stuff, but it's really like? His day job. It's not his life and it doesn't feel like his culture, even, which makes sense because he was on the fringes of the types of levels Fausto and Enzo have always been in, because his father and brother kept him separate from it. Even Giulio is more connected to that space than Giacomo, because he was groomed to take over for years.

I think it would be very easy to rely on these great sex scenes and wacky plots she writes, but the thing that does make it clear that Mila has the chops (.... and it also makes it clear that she's very experienced, lol, and someone who has had to write series with very individualized characters for professional editors in the past........) is that the characters are very DIFFERENT. Like, Frankie and Gia may both have their partners' balls in their pockets, but you see Frankie do a wheedling kind of little girl pouting thing to get her way with Fausto because she knows he looooves it, whereas Gia is like LISTEN UP ASSHOLE with Enzo (and it makes the relationship the best because nobody else can do that with him, Enzo and Gia are the greatest, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk). Giacomo is willing to let Emma go in a way that Fausto, Enzo, and honestly I would say Giulio too after working out some things, really aren't okay with. He's probably the best guy out of the series, on a moral level, while also being a scary murder man.

(Except for maybe Alessio? Because Alessio is also a scary murder man, but he literally just does it for the cash or to protect Giulio. It's PURE BUSINESS.)

I find the distinctiveness of the characters really cool, especially when I reread the books, and that is probably why I've had a hard time finding a series that really clicks for me in the same way within the sort of Italian mafia genre.

(That, and: so much of the other books center on Italian-American mafia stuff and that shit DOES NOT HAVE THE SAUCE the way Mila's Italy-set books do. Like, be real here, the Italian-American mafia has not been raking in this kind of cash for DECADES.)

#romance novel blogging #anyway my musings on the mafia fuckbooks continue #i really do need to read annika martin's books #bc she's another author i have been pleased by with other books #and similarly to mila did a hard left into mafia novels #but yes #i do think that giacomo being sort of fringe-level with the mobster CEO shenanigans did deprive us of some of the funniest shit in the book #which would be like #enzo and fausto sending each other severed heads and getting on the phone like #'is that-' 'the severed head of your employee? yeah. :)' #or giulio bopping over to be like 'LISTEN UP THE ONLY COKE DEALER IN SPAIN IS ME NOW!!!!' #like i do remember her saying she hadn't originally been planning to write a book for emma #which seemed wild to me at the time #but you can tell this story was conceived of separately from the others #bc there's a pretty clear pipeline from fausto and frankie -> the villain enzo getting a book w gia -> #tying up the arc with fausto's son falling for the guy enzo paid to kill fausto lmao #(the comedy of this series will never top enzo fully forgetting he put a hit on giulio bc of all the bomb sex he was having on his yacht) #anyway that doesn't make mafia virgin a lesser book in any way it just reads as the most oN ITS OWN

[yuurionviktor]

I hope people follow me not for the art I post but for the anecdotes I put in the tags

#there are several artists I follow that draw stuff that I’m not particularly interested in #like fandoms I’m not in or characters/pairings that I don’t feel anything towards #literally none of our interests overlap #but they’re SO FUNNY about it #I’m okay getting jjk news just from their jokes #this is who I aspire to be #tho for that I do need to do more shitpost art #well not do but post #bc my secret is is that I have like 5 finished works just lying unposted at any moment #probably more? not all of them tlt but SOME #the last art that I posted that people got very respectful about? I finished it two weeks ago and wasn’t originally planning #on ever posting it lmao

[asteraegis]

haha was in a... silly kind of mood. howlen in warriors orochi naotora li's deity outfit, hien ass up, and uh *reading smudged handwriting* oh zenos torture porn whoops.

thanks howlen for censoring. two versions of the zenos thing in case you understandably are a normal person and dont want your baby girl beat up. alt text available, may be helpful to read before enhancing on the last image.

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #viera #ffxiv hien #ffxiv zenos #wtf color #the alt text has some meming in it but is better to read before enhancing the last image. #'do you ship zenos and hien' i. not originally. i keep drawing it tho. #that zenos thing was Not what i planned to draw i was gonna draw almet and howlen cuddling #shit happens at 1am #oc;howlen eye #as always just ask for uncensored versions #my fc says twitter would want me burned at the stake. what like tumblr doesnt lmao #zenos is fine dont try to call me messed up in the head his kink is getting beat up #he just prefers being able to monologue and fight back when he is #the real reason hes crying is he wants to monologue so bad #idk if the alt text is working ive never done it before. i cant see it on mobile unless i edit the post

[essektheylyss]

I am writing a thousand words of this wip a day and ONLY a thousand words of this wip a day, dammit. This year I will enforce some goddamn moderation if it kills me (and frankly, it might).

#love I say this as if I am enforcing moderation in any other aspect of my life or even with writing otherwise. #I also need to go read fifty pages before bed so I can keep chipping away at my absurd book goal #I am a VERY REASONABLE PERSON WITH ATTAINABLE GOALS (lie) #but anyway uwu I'm making this work and also doing insane things while I'm at it #gotta finish this book gotta write another book gotta write some short stories gotta write a novella #WANNA WRITE SOME FIC ALSO BUT WITH WHAT TIME #I will actually feel a lot better once I have more of a backlog of original stuff built up again. #like I have a SHIT TON but it's all mostly shit? like it's old lmao #and a lot of it I am not interested in anymore for genre reasons (namely I am just not really planning to go back to writing YA) #like unless it was for something commissioned. that's a different subject. #I can WRITE that but that's not really what I'm working on anymore. #ANYWAY toddling off to go do some reading about the deep sea. cool cool cool cool

[bambiraptorx]

Okay that was great but the only thing I can think is "You really hit him with the dad beam, didn't you?"

-🔮🕸

There's just something so funny to me about hitting Draxum with the dad beam. These are his creations, made for war and violence and slaughter, and he was attached from the very start. Baron "I'm not a dad" Draxum mentally adopted these kids within a few days of making them, and it took him four years to figure that out.

Would he be a good parent? Debatable. He never intended to end up with kids, and keeping then essentially isolated from society until he officially got the adoption certificates was... certainly a choice. (He did it out of concern, of course, but the concern about them being taken from him overwhelmed the concern about how isolation might impact their development.) There's also the matter that I tend to write him with a degree of internalized ableism about his neurodivergence, and when your children are all neurodivergent that causes issues.

Also, putting four war machines into a regular school setting and expecting them to just be able to act like normal kids, especially when they don't even have a context for how normal kids act, is gonna create problems. Just because he thinks his kids are brilliant doesn't mean they don't get noisy and disruptive in a class setting or that they can sit still for more than five minutes at a time. I think he would hold them to pretty high standards for their educations, but they were made for war, not academic success. I think he would end up training them how to fight just to give them something demanding and high energy to do.

Not to mention that there is the slight issue that his kids actually believe that they were adopted since he never told them the truth about creating them (and it made sense to him at the time, they would have been too young to understand at first, and then later when they had to interact with people but hadn't learned to filter their words it would have raised too many questions).

So long story short, there's several fun points of conflict with this au that I would explore if I do more with it. And hey, I've already written a 2k fic about it so I might do more.

#asks #bambi's rambling #ableism mention #rottmnt baron draxum #rottmnt fanfiction #mcmt au #draxum raises the turtles au #and then there's all the factors about how different the turtles would be if actually raised with exposure to other people #which is what i was originally planning to write about lol #it boils down to them all masking more heavily and struggling to form/maintain relationships outside of the family though #also so many academic violations because the stuff these kids do when they're bored is off the wall bonkers #draxum knows their principal much better than he would like to lmao

[disdaidal]

Sometimes I really kind of envy you native English speakers who make writing and posting fics seem so fucking easy. With near perfect grammar and hardly any typos. Or those of you who are capable of writing & updating your fics whenever the muse hits you just right... and not like, once in six months. Actually, try two years lol.

Whereas me, a non-native speaker, who occasionally struggles even with basic English grammar:

I'm fine. Totally.

#personal #okay so i've been writing this one piece of fiction for a while now #actually two but i've seemed to put the other one on hold for a while at least #(i may have mentioned this already like five times during the past two weeks but my point is i'm still working on it) #many thanks to @ihni who recently gave me some words of encouragement <3 and ofc @catzy88 who gave me even more insp *saatananauru* #and i'm actually really kind of enjoying it because there's no pressure to write it and post it #i write it in small sections. whenever i feel like it. giving myself enough time to plan it and think about it. even getting new ideas #and for once i'm trying not to keep editing and fixing it as i go. i just write whatever crap comes to my mind and just let it flow #i try not to think about how many mistakes and typos i make because that way i'm never gonna get it finished #but at the same time... when it's finally time to go through it #fix typos. missing words. possibly poor grammar. i know i'm just gonna hate it so fucking much lmao #but i'm really trying my best here okay. and i'm trying not to rush it. for once #because i used to write like this as a teenager. when there was nowhere really to post your original stories (thank god for that) #so i did it in my notebooks. and i quite enjoyed it doing that way #and i'm not sure why i'm even rambling this because most of you are never gonna read it anyway lol. so who gives right #but it matters to me and i'm feeling good about writing again so here i am rambling about it. no matter if you care not. so cheers mateys <

[taffingspy]

Az caring so much is precisely why I'm suffering through a 53 page webcomic

#Spy's talky things #I have no doubt that the original plan for nabor's death was yucky from a mental health stand point #What with azzanadra's memory #But the devs seem to have been mindful of that and at least tried to improve their stance over the years #But that left them in a pickle because. Az is just too caring to do smth like that (esp Mahjarrat. Esp Mahjarrat loyal to the empire) #So here I am trying to fill that gap lMao #The funny thing is I can just say my stance and call it a day #And I have. Many times. I've once been called stupid because of it #So when ur in that position you just gotta make the presentation flashy

[fitzrove]

Man I love POTO a lot !!!!

#😭😭😭😭 #i have such brainrot about the opera house setting. ever since 2012 #i've planned 2 previous longfics with that as a setting (for diff fandoms) and now i want to do a reworked one for todolf #the problem is i am NOT convinced the amount of effort needed would be proportionate to how many ppl will read it #but maybe i have to do that anyway... also my lesbian rudolf x stephanie fic which will be read by even less ppl 😂 #and its always like. with aus like this they might as well be original fiction. except my ideas for Theme make it imperative that it's crown #prince rudolf fanfiction... because the point of the au is to comment on how it would work if [habsburg empire replaced by ballet company] #or [rudolf secretly a lesbian] 😭🤣 that latter is also self indulgent #i mean both are in different ways lmao #but um yeah

[roamingswtor]

Been working on a ref/outfit sheet for my twi'lek smuggler, Reena! Finished the nude and Zakuulan dress versions. Now to work on her actual in-game outfit

#censored for female presenting nipnops #the dress is based on the celeb dress in cyberpunk 2077! #swtor #anyway i wanted to draw her in a cute dress first before doing her boring game accurate outfit lmao #also i hate trying to render gold i did not think it would be so difficult but it was #i do plan on c-wording an artist to draw her in the dress with arcann :3c #(not that c-word. the other one.) #my art #sw reema roamer #sw reena roamer #her name changed cuz when i originally made her in like 2015 i didnt use the name reema and now i do! #i only just decided to just change the m to a n when i remade the character to romance arcann. the og one romanced theron lol #OKAY IM DONE TAGTALKING