#low-stakes

[edhelwen1]

I am so excited to finally be able to share this cover with you!!

Crushing It is a queer YA cosy romance with low stakes.

Do you like music, STEM, and queer YA romance? This book has a competitive edge. Pre-order is available now!

Physical Canadian: https://49thshelf.com/Books/C/Crushing-It3

Ebook coming soon

Cover art by the incomparable @pinkpiggy93

#Crushing It #original #pinkpiggy93 #flowerraven93 #artist #book #YA #2SLGBTQ+ #low-stakes #queer #romance #STEM #music #Jen Desmarais #author #Presses Renaissance Press #Canadian #cover reveal

[intermundia]

in retrospect i'm enjoying imagining the brainstorming meeting where they were like "our userbase is full of introverted, nervous, and annoying people doing parallel play, they all love bothering each other, but they also don't want to be overly familiar with strangers, let alone the people they've been hanging out with for literal years, how do we add enrichment to that antisocial social enclosure" and the correct answer was to let us socialize like a feral cat colony and nonverbally and impersonally yet lovingly smack each other lol

#boop #it was a good time #low stakes low threshold interaction

[t00thpasteface]

star trek text posts IV: the one with the anons

#it's not shitposting if you can write it off as low-stakes bg practice #art #star trek #comic #star trek tos #james t kirk #nyota uhura #spock #text post meme

[stuckinapril]

I love Tumblr because nothing matters here truly. There are no influencers. Having followers doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a site where people post their sporadic thoughts and rb pretty pictures. Anyone who thinks any of this matters is woefully missing the point

#I joined tumblr for the aesthetics and now I’m here bc it’s the most low pressure social media to be on #Instagram is ppl’s highlight reel but Tumblr is where u see their pure thoughts unobstructed and I adore that #It’s very nice to have people to relate to and is def the main appeal to me but I don’t think there’s much more to it than that genuinely #Monetization on tumblr isn’t a thing and probably won’t be so it feels stupid to put more stake than necessary in it. Like you’re in the #Trenches over tumblr of all things. Embarrassing #I know chronically online people exist bc I have seen them in my or somebody else’s inbox but imagine waking up at 70 one day and the #Realization hitting u like a freight time that u wasted all ur time thinking tumblr. TUMBLR. This dying website. Has enough weight for u to #be sending anon hate or reviewing ppl’s blogs like they’re some kind of product. Brother this is licherally tumblr #I choose to laugh at this behavior than take it seriously bc absolutely no one is driving me crazy on my OWN blog. On tumblr dot com. #I refuse #I will do whatever I want forever etc

[twinstxrs]

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

#fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fig faeth #ruben hopclap #lucy frostblade #the rat grinders #adaine abernant #kipperlilly copperkettle #watching fig terrorize him like girl!!! we don’t even know if he’s guilty!!!! #this might just be for me but i do not think 5 teenagers willingly brutally killed their friend idk #like there just has to be some other element to it and i am very scared to find out what that was #what if they were put in a position where they felt there was/there was no other choice… like oh my god #my comedy brain is having fun but my ‘this is a teenager’ brain is in such deep distress all the time this season #the rat grinders i trust brennan to not make u cartoonishly evil so i am holding u as gently as i can in my confused shaky hands #also with the devil’s nectar i’ve been wondering why they all seem so well-adjusted & now i’m curious if they’ve been intentionally- #changing their memories in a way so that either the trauma is lesser or they think they aren’t guilty. idk #but it seems like from how gertie was talking she was making it more recently so the well adjustedness from early jy doesn’t quite add up #they could have another source maybe??? idk i’m just low stakes 4 a.m. spitballing here #there’s also the strong possibility that they’re aware of what happened but they weren’t the ones who killed lucy. idk who knows #the way you could probably devil’s nectar yourself into believing it wasn’t your fault someone died… CRAZY IMPLICATIONS!!! CRAZY IDEA!!! #anyways the bad kids & the rat grinders don’t ever have to like each other but i do wonder if at least some of those kids deserve a chance

[itseghost]

i almost want to do an expression sheet for him so i force myself to expand past his rbf. but its so easy and fun to draw him with one

#essek thelyss #the mighty nein #critical role #critical role fanart #mighty nein #m9 #cr fanart #i like the setup of these low stakes sketches same as the fearne one lol #i just get to do a chill sketch adn then color + blend mode until im bored yippie!! #gave him a lot of layers on his outfit bc of one of my favorite shadowgast fics i read recently that will affect how i draw essek forever #in the closet of our discretion by firefright on ao3 #REALLY cool worldbuilding through kryn fashion customs #im really excited to draw him in more outfits :] #itseart

[eriochromatic]

guess what show I binge watched last weekend and now am unhealthily obsessed with

#succession #tomgreg #kendall roy #logan roy #roman roy #shiv roy #erio stuff #uhhhh im back bc idk whats going on w/ twt #i just want somewhere to post low stakes unserious art ty #i have old art i havent posted but honestly idk if i'll ever post them #i guess my tumblr is just gonna b my trash pile from now on haha #erio art

[bixels]

Why the hell, shit, you damned bastard son of a bitch

#personal #delete later #before you ask “why're you posting on reddit bix of course you're gonna get comments like this” #it's cuz it's really low stakes and easy to just throw your art on subs for visibility #and i legitimately love getting batshit insane comments like this because they always read like a copypasta #this isn't hatemail to me this is a reason to live laugh love #like we ALL know independent_lime4943 is misogynistic and racist we don't need to discuss it we can just laugh at him #thank you independent_lime4943 your comments were immediately deleted by moderators but i was lucky enough to #catch them as an email notification. damned bastard son of a bitch

[jujoobedoodling]

oh shit what's this

#bg3 #shadowheart #lae'zel #shadowzel #mine #low stakes sketching and doing stuff i don't normally do #even though i do have a fondness for these idiots

[spiralling-spires]

The tma fandom seems to have unlocked our psychic capabilities. Let me explain.

If you’re on the tma tag, or just have a lot of tma art on your dash, you see art of characters you have only heard the voices of. And you go “Oh, that’s Jon!” “Oh, that’s Melanie!” “Oh, that’s Tim!” And only a handful of these characters have distinctly described traits (like Gerry’s eye tattoos), and fewer still have recurring appearances, or that we hear the voices of. And yet we all agree, roughly, on what they look like. Even if someone has a different design, instead of going “who the hell is that”, you go “well, that’s not what I think Georgie looks like, but I know it’s Georgie without having to check the tags”.

This gets even more interesting when you look at Sasha. Because she gets *replaced*. And so many drawings of not!Sasha label her as Sasha for the bit/for spookiness, but we all somehow *know* when we’re looking at not!Sasha, even when the drawing has no other spookiness.

Ive seen this extend too far sometimes, with a lot of Malevolent art being inadvertently assigned to tma characters, but rarely have I looked at a piece of tma art and gone “who the hell is that??”

Some of this comes down to a collective agreement on designs that happened before I got to the fandom - by the time I got here, pretty much everyone’s designs were largely nailed down. Even so, art where the designs deviate from The Socially Agreed Design are still readily recognizable as the characters. I’m getting to see this with Alice, too - I can look at almost any Alice drawing and go “yep, that’s Alice” and she’s only existed in our collective consciousness for like three months and her design isn’t solidified yet.

#the magnus archives #tma #the magnus protocol #tmagp #isnt socially agreed upon stuff cool #this is like social norms but low stakes and fun #should i tag the characters here #yeah sure why not #jon sims #melanie king #tim stoker #sasha james #not!sasha #alice dyer

[95-6qrsk2rx9uq42069nnnnnjthewolf]

i think tim is high maintenance the way a boarder collie or austrialian shepherd is. like you have to make sure they're not only given space to expend energy but you have to specifically let them get the herding instinct out and challenge them intellectually or they start destroying ur home

#tim drake #red robin #jaytim #i think cohabitating would require resigning yourself to your gear going missing for 2-5 business days before returning slightly improved #or coming back to the microwave disassembled across the couch #this happens and jason is like ok im gonna pop over to the gcpd and grab u a cold case do Not touch my stand mixer #but also have to stop him from reaching critical levels of boredom that results in poking the league with a stick #because then gotham is being overrun by ninja 2 months from now #this is harder for jason to curb because an incensed ra's is so goddamn funny to the both of them #dcu #i know tim hating the ceo job is easy whump but consider he needs minimum 5 plates spinning at all times to keep the Thoughts at bay #and WE probably is such low stakes for manipulation tactics its stress relief at this point

[edhelwen1]

If you liked any of these, you should probably pre-order Crushing It.

"Crushing It" is a queer YA cosy romance with low stakes.

Do you like music, STEM, and queer YA romance? This book has a competitive edge. Pre-order now!

YouTube: https://youtu.be/6meOWdt9Mi4

Physical: https://49thshelf.com/Books/C/Crushing-It3

Ebook: coming soon

Cover art by @pinkpiggy93

#Crushing It #original #pinkpiggy93 #flowerraven93 #artist #book #YA #2SLGBTQ+ #low-stakes #queer #romance #STEM #music #Jen Desmarais #author #Presses Renaissance Press #Canadian

[fairycosmos]

idk i feel like women who don't conform to a conventionally feminine gender role or appearance get a lot of shit in their day to day lives and ignoring that is overlooking a huge facet of misogyny

#LIKE ..... #for an off the cuff very specifc and relatively low stakes example #could the female equivalent of jack black have a career in Hollywood. and btw jack black is HOT this isnt ab that #im just saying. hairy. overweight. confident. little to no makeup. as a woman? #??? and this is just hollywood. when i think of what women universally put up with.....nah. can't even #entertain it bc it goes so far beyond

[fizzytoo]

#ts4 #ts4 globetrotter #globetrotter challenge #sim: starling #it was very important for starling to make the distinction of chicken eggs since his best friend is a duck #it’s nice to play something new in ts4 #all my attention goes to plc. this is fun too #very low energy #unlike my zombie save where it’s a story. and plc where there’s so much commitment to those sims (and their story) #this is very low stakes for me

[silvermoon424]

I used to hang out on the Serebii forums as a preteen/young teen, back in the days when Pokemon games were released in Japan months earlier instead of the simultaneous international releases we have now (we're so spoiled).

Anyway, as a result a lot of hardcore fans would get attached to the Japanese versions of Pokemon names before the English versions would be revealed. And when the English names would be revealed, a lot of them would throw a fit. idk why but I have such fond memories of chronically online Pokemon fans being like "NOOOOO!!!! THEY CHANGED THE JAPANESE PUNS TO ENGLISH PUNS!!!"

#like seriously all Pokemon names are basically just puns #and these people would be so upset that the puns were translated to be more universally understandable (since English is super popular) #instead of being something only Japanese speakers could get #it's such low-stakes drama I loved it #pokemon

[nellasbookplanet]

I'm incredibly soft about the fact that the people Caleb shares a sending stone with aren’t the mighty nein members who live furthest away, but the ones who live the closest. That, when also taking into account the easy invitation to dinner and request for a spare bedroom (and the mention that Caleb has the worst timing when calling, implying he calls often) makes so much known about their domestic lives. How often does Yasha make a quick call to invite Caleb for dinner to try some new (barely edible) dish? How often do Caleb and Beau stay up late doing research, with him staying the night in the guest room? How often does Caleb call in the middle of the night with a question?

The nein getting together for adventuring is fun, but man, I'd absolutely sit down for a few hours of them just being domestic and settled like this.

#i'd love something like the more laidback vox machina episodes #like when they all get back together after the time skip for a beach vacation #or the little bits and bobs like pike dealing with her family or them trying to hire someone for the bakery #low stakes plots like that #give me more post canon oneshots i crave them please #critical role #caleb widogast #someone (i think it was marisha?) said during the wrap up that a rumblecusp oneshot would be fun #and yasha and beau both gushed during the reunion about wanting to return to rumblecusp at some point #so it might not be fully wishful thinking? #fingers crossed for future oneshots/miniarcs: rumblecusp and molaesmyr #nella talks cr