#melon rambles

[melonpond]

I was playing around with different colors for the flooring in my minecraft build and I came up with this! It's just endstone bricks, birch planks, stripped birch logs, beehives, ochre froglights and mud bricks!

#melon rambles #mineblr #minecraft build #it does Not fit with the rest of the build that I have #but the build I've been working on has been very difficult to figure out a palette that looks good and has the vibe I want #so I'm probably going to change the rest of it to fit with this part

[watermelon-converse]

It’s like midnight and im delirious i don’t even have my glasses on so im typing this blind, but im thinking about Valentines Day and how if people have someone they’re attracted to, regardless of if it’s romantically or physically or platonically, we should all just be able to walk up to them and say “I’m in love with you” and leave it at that, as a compliment. Cuz the truth is you can fall in love with a person just like you can fall in love with a good book or a tree you’ve known since you were five, or a song or a piece of art. Yes I’m in love with my two year old cousin, yes im in love with my squish, im in love with my siblings, I’m in love with my crush, im in love with comfy new pajamas, im in love with my friends and the sky and the stars and apple juice and grilled cheese, and old people with sincere smiles and the way little kids write letters. I’m in love with the whole goddamn world and maybe I just want to tell people that they are a part of that more often

#ahem #this was in my drafts so here you go #Valentine’s Day #melon rambles #palentines #palentines day #aromantic #I’m not aro but this post is for u guys lol #posts melon is mildly proud of #thoughts to throw the clouds

[b0nkers-papaya]

New Yuusona idea:

A yuu that was an elder back in their world. Like, they were 86 or something and have already gone through their life's course. Maybe they fought in a war, fell in love, had kids, opened a business. Maybe they saved lives, maybe they took them. You get it, this person has been through their life's chess game.

Now, imagine that when they get transported to twst, theyre back at age 16-18? Their bones no longer ache, their vision is anew, and their voice is youthful again.

#melon rambles #twst #twisted wonderland #twst yuu #twst oc

[notsomeloncholy]

I'm in AWE of the way you draw horns & Lekku!!! They look so weighted and realistic and gorgeous!!! Any tips n tricks on how you do it?

Omg hi hello thank you so much!! It's taken some time but I have a pretty okay system down for these funky dudes- (at least, trying to conceptualize how they'd work in reality lol)

Wall of text up ahead :D

Admittedly, it took messing around with some 3d sculpting to really figure it out but I know that's not always the most accessible thing

So this is generally how I go about sketching them! I tend to work with either montrals that are directly connected to the lekku (first two sketches) or montrals and lekku with different roots on the skull (third sketch); based on the work we've seen of baby 'soka, they both just kinda....grow...? From the? Skull/side of the face? So. Up to interpretation from there lmao

For the montrals, I break it down into simpler forms until i'm satisfied w them looking reasonably like expanded cone-ish shapes, however that ends up hahaha and then depending on which shape I chose, whether they go directly into the lekku or not

From there, the lekku I try to think of having the flexibility somewhere between a cat tail and lizard tail; they're probably mostly muscle and fat, so I imagine they're vaguely wiggly and respond to weight similarly to the way thighs squish when they sit on chairs (so where the lekku rest on the shoulders, a lil bit of squishm, not nearly as much but you get me)

Anddd that's really about it! I'll add some wrinkling where I feel skin would naturally bunch, and on older togs more than the usual because skin loses its elasticity. I tend to think of the montral/lekku set as being somewhat distinct from the head, but being solidly rooted still in the spots I showed :>

I hope this makes sense to some degree??? Thank you again for the ask! I don't get to explain my process often HAHA

#melon rambles #melon really fucking rambles gjsnfnsnf #ask #anonymous #star wars #character design #swocs #togruta #tutorial #iSH #i tried!!! LMAO

[the-sleepiest-melon]

Fucked up disability thing #3487

Got called for jury duty. Have to respond in a week otherwise I could be held in cotempt of court. Can't do jury duty cause of disability. Had to submit a form for realease of information from my doctor to get out of jury duty.

That cost 200 dollars. If I didn't pay 200 dollars, I could be held in contempt of court and have charges against me.

Fellas, there is no other way to put it. I was fined for being disabled.

#melon rambles #disability #tw ableism #ableism #200 dollars isnt gonna break the bank or anything for me #but what if it would. what if i didnt have that money to spare. thats the reality for far too many disabled folks

[somelondramatic]

TRICK OR TREAT :D

Hello!! Happy halloween 💚

Let's seeeeee I haven't really gotten to talk about this so...some thoughts on Tefir post lekku incident!

-Losing that much of his lekku left him almost entirely deaf on that side, because I like to think the lekku aren't just some decorative vestigial thing, but help sort of...draw sounds to the montrals?

-In that vein, it also threw his balance off and gave him vertigo when he was first recovering (though he largely tried to hide this out of a deep seated fear of being vulnerable (teehee))

-He still gets bouts of vertigo when he's super tired or on rainy days; his crew ofc always makes him sit things out if he needs it and does heavier lifting when it's necessary

-Albara helps him install a hearing aid into his helmet, so he has the option any time to use it and is especially helpful on missions, but he finds he prefers to go without it if he's not in armor (they tried a prosthetic lekku to see if it would aid him under more casual circumstances, but he hated the feeling of it and prefers to just go without)

-Cu and Winter like to give him what Cu termed "baby therapy" on bad vertigo days, where they pick Winter up and hold him against the amputated lekku- little man's purring is like emotionally healing, and the closest Tefir can get to "hearing" on that side without his aid (Cu is happy to step in and also do this ofc, which later ends up making Tefir's Favorite Sleep Position to be nestled against their chest)

WOOPS that got long, thank u for the ask LMAO

#melonography #melon rambles #melons ocs #melon writes #tefir #cucumi #albara #winter #ask meme #solipseismic #BIG MWAH THANK U AGAIN

[melonimili]

more drawings of these two because they make me so emotional :(((

#ace attorney #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #melon's art #melon's art: ace attorney #and now for ramble time... #i am currently in the final chapter of tgaa2!!!! this game was so damn long but OH MY GOD every single hour was worth it #that game is my everything... it is so dear to me and soon i will have to say goodbye to everyone :( #but on the good side. after that i will finally play AA456 and i'm really looking forward to it!!!!!!! #i love this series it makes me so happy

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

*breaks down ur door*

WHICH ONE WOULD U LIKE AND WHAT WOULD YA NAME IT?!

(Don’t mind me, just wanting to know)

ohhhh the black one for sure. i'd name it... Cardigan!

#if you know what the name is a reference to. uh. you get a melon! for free! from Me! #now if yall will excuse me i need to repair my door #rambles from the bog

[yamsgarden]

sooo here it is, here's my dumbass longass meloghia drunk flirty karaoke storyboard dream i made weeks ago now materialized into this babyyy

#my art #my animation #melone #ghiaccio #meloghia #ghialone #can't thank enough my homies for supporting me #and listening to my ramblings about those two idiots #i love you all so much #Youtube

[lavendersartistry]

points aggressively at @onyxonline and their Space Riders AU

YOU STARTED A HYPERFIXATION, THANKS

OK SO-

just to clarify:

THEY ARE THE SAME CHARACTER! THIS IS EVE EWE, ONE OF MY CRITTER OCS-

Ahemn, anyways-

For Space Riders, this would be the AU where Eve has her demonic heritage be more present. So technically for this AU, I see her a bit of like a alien princess?????

blinks in Star Wars reference

But her personality is still the same from what I have: Sweet, kind, bit motherly, serene.

Her pendant (lotus) would actually be a tattoo she would be born with instead of it being a signature piece to her space suit.

ANYWHOOO, TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK, ILL PROBABLY HYPERFIXATE ON THIS FOR A WHILE-

#queen card | tis the chess #melon tea | art #smiling critters #smiling critters au #Space Riders AU - onyxonline au #poppy playtime #not this becoming my next hyperfixation #oynx why/pos #but feel free to ask questions about this #i may ramble too many ideas #im invested

[relaxxattack]

Hi i want to thank you for the QPR vs Moirail venn diagram. Its a rly excellent way of showing the difference. My gripe is about human romance, and how people will either 1- conflate it in a 1:1 ratio with Matesprit, or 2- claim it is “all the quadrants”. I personally feel both are false equivalency, and that the human romance is similar to both pale and red rom* and SO i was wondering if you agreed w that assessment, or if not, if you have the time to explain your thoughts on human traditional romance vs the quadrants (perhaps w another nifty graph)?

* which is why Rose’s destructive tendencies during sburb & her descent into addiction on the meteor were not addressed by kanaya, who feared palezoning herself like she did with vriska

OH MY GOD! YES!!!! why am i getting such great asks today?!

no, you're EXACTLY right. people are constantly conflating matespritship in those two ways; "all of the quadrants" being especially irritating (since Some humans occasionally argue, Occasionally in a kinky way, and i guess that means that they totally have all of kismesissitude covered?? :/).

matespritship is its very own thing. of the two interpretations above, i feel the idea that it's 1:1 to human romance is the closest to true. i mean, that's what they literally say in the comic, for gog's sake.

humans do not truly incorporate moirallegiance, kismesissitude, or auspisticism into their lives in any meaningful way. while it's possible for humans to sometimes have romances that might seem more like one of those than matespritship, they're considered abnormal or toxic-- and they often ARE, because humans do not have the same sort of biological drives or social understanding of these things that trolls do. humans do not understand the true needs and ramifications, or even the ROMANCE of moirallegiance. humans would be hard pressed to understand a kismesissitude in a 'healthy' way. i don't even need to mention how auspisticism flies over people's heads.

so, yes, humans only have the one quadrant. (and karkat vantas, i am sorry to say, is not going to "human date" anyone as the "solution to his quadrant problems". this would literally be the same as him trying to stick only to matespritship, and we all know exactly how that turned out.)

however! matespritship is not an exact 1:1 on human romance either. the direct quote from the comic is;

"[It's] the closest parallel to the human concept of romance trolls have." [x]

this is not really expanded on much in the text, honestly-- the intricacies of the social and biological traits of matespritship aren't shown enough for us to draw clear distinctions between them and human romance.

however, i think you're right that rose and kanaya are the best example we have of that-- despite them both aiming for matespritship, they have cultural misunderstanding quite often from some of rose's flirting, or even just her needs, crossing wires into a pale threshold that kanaya is weary of.

it's entirely possible that the differences between troll and human "hearts" might have made it difficult for kanaya to really connect with rose's problems and discuss them with her.

which might explain why when things go "better" for them in the retcon, they're portrayed reading a book on troll romance together:

it could be implied here that searching for a more in-depth understanding of quadrants actually helped rose with her ability to connect to kanaya-- and maybe, reading into it a little too hard here, this also could have been an opportunity for kanaya to work through her vriska-based hangups with the pale quadrant. that's entirely speculation on my part, though.

at the end of the day, we don't really KNOW enough about the details of quadrants for me to paint a clear picture of how matespritship differs from human romance. i mean, i could try, but it would certainly be more of a headcanon post than an analysis one!

#madam-melon-meow #homestuck #quadrants #rosemary #thank you so much for the GREAT fucking ask about matespritship ive literally been meaning to talk about it!!! askers reading my mind latel #and thanks double for the chance to ramble about rosemary lol #at this point i'm done apologizing for the quadrant-based autism. y'all are coming to me for it on PURPOSE lol #i am sorry this got so long though 0_0 #long post #hsmeta #op #matespritship

[melonpond]

before getting into it I really thought welcome to night vale was like a super creepy horror podcast, I didn't realize it was basically twilight zone but funnier and with the added bonus of making me feel like a schoolgirl kicking her feet in the air listening to Cecil talk about Carlos

#melon rambles #wtnv #the 'this is a story about you' episode is probably my favorite one so far I don't know what it is about it #but the whole theme about leaving everything behind and consequences #made me feel shrimp emotions #also I don't think I've ever shipped something as hard as I ship cecilos #it genuinely makes me so excited whenever they interact #the grip that this podcast has on me is insane #I went from 'huh odd but sort of interesting' to 'if I don't listen to this every night before I fall asleep then what is even the point' #I'm on episode 27 already

[watermelon-converse]

Sun and moon character dynamics are more than “cute ray of sunshine” and “angsty gay” honestly, and if you think that then you’re severely missing out on all the trope has to offer!! I have opinions on this!!!

A sun character isn’t just peppy and happy all the time, for example. They’re full of all the emotions, just like the moon, but they tend to show it. If the sun is sad, you’ll know, because the sky will cloud over and the light will disappear. If you make them mad, they might shine brighter just to spite you, and burn you, and then laugh at your expense before softening at the end of the day and being so beautiful that you forget they ever hurt you. They’re a showoff; flitting here and there and trying to grab your attention. They want you to see that they’re trying, so hard without fail, that they will be there for you every day, no matter how much you might wonder if the world will go on. Loyal to a fault, they beam at you as if you’re the one shining…and you forget for a moment that you’re only reflecting the light they gave off in the first place.

Moon characters are different. They’re filled with quiet, gentle glowing, just enough to give you initiative to keep trying on your own. They won’t push you; they would rather you came with the courage to continue through the dark yourself. They hold their emotions close, knowing eyes asking you to look a little closer and see, because they’re certainly not going to just tell you how they’re feeling. Shy and yet so stubborn, they hold steadfast and will stand their ground when challenged - their dark side is not one you want to mess with. Unlike the sun, they come and go whenever they please. They know their limits, and they won’t force themself to be there for you when you don’t need them. Make no mistake, however - when you have the moon’s light, you will never be lost. Bathed in gentleness, you will never be blinded, left alone, or burnt - they may be quiet, and they may come and go with the tide, but they will always return.

#tag ur blorbos it’s okay #sun and moon #sun and moon duo #sun and moon lesbians #sun and moon sapphics #why is it always saphhics I swear #writing #melon rambles #words to throw the clouds #cassunzel #wenclair #lumity #that gay couple in Goncharov /j #posts melon is mildly proud of

[b0nkers-papaya]

Idk about yall, but I need more hcs of the twst boys being teenagers.

No, not just the first years. I'm talking about all of them.

For example, I hc that Azul was talking about the lounge with the leech twins in his office and his voice cracked. The conversation ended then and there, the leech twins were instructed to leave, and Azul sat there for a solid 15 minutes in silence.

#melon rambles #twst #twisted wonderland #twst azul #twst headcanons #twst hcs

[notsomeloncholy]

when you get this ask you have to you could perhaps maybe bless us with 5 of ur fav songs (currently or of all time), and then send this ask to 5 of your moots who you think have good taste! 🔥

HMMM i suppose i can be cringe and free here

Faves rn:

Found Me - Men I Trust

Danger - Deathpact

Hurts Me - Tory Lanez

Check the Lock - clipping.

Gilded Lily - Cults

✨️there is no rhyme or reason✨️

#melon rambles #saga-ordsmed #asks #it changes weekly tbh but these rotate often

[the-sleepiest-melon]

The higher you advance your career in an academic field, the less accommodations there are.

Nobody expects disabled people to succeed in academia. Nobody feels the need to accommodate disabilities in higher academia.

I went to a conference this past month, there were 0 options for accommodations. The poster session was cramped (despite having an entire fucking room to spread out???) There was a huge party one night and I could not physically be in the hotel because of the noise. If you were in a wheelchair, good luck even navigating the conference room.

The thing is, asking for disabilities isn't anything new in higher academia. This conference actually did! Well, sort of. It asked for food allergies. That was it.

Why is it a stretch to offer accommodations upon request? Why is it a stretch to ask if people have any other kind of disability besides food allergies?

Anyway, I learned my lesson. I'm not gonna wait. Next conference I go to, I'm volunteering that information. I should never have been kicked out of my hotel room due to sensory issues. I should never have been left to sit alone in the middle of the night in the dark, because even the well-lit patio was too loud. I should never have had a panic attack because the poster session was too crowded and loud, when we had a whole room to spread out in.

Nothing is going to change unless someone starts screaming. I'm pulling out my fucking megaphone. I demand accommodations. I belong here, same as anyone else.

Disabled people don't just belong in academia. We also deserve the right to feel safe and welcome in an academic space.

#melon rambles #disability #academics #college #science #disabilty awareness #also isnt it like a safety issue #that i was alone in the dark at 9 at night because your hotel was too fucking loud #isnt that fucked that my hotel room was no longer a place i could feel comfortable in. isnt that the whole point of a hotel room.