#more criteria and all that

[rottmnt-residuum]

Would Splinter be able to get the bill to apply to him since he actually was a human and probably has paperwork somewhere?

nope!

#residual asks #im sure he does have his paperwork #being an immigrant and all. idk if he was granted citizenship or something but like #...america sucks for a lot of reasons #(being in the battle nexus for ten years does not seem conductive to keeping track of your papers though) #if he does have his documents the bill still wouldn't apply #more criteria and all that #residuum wb

[beescake]

Sorry for the spam (^o^;) I just really like your blog

no need to apologize ayy!

in this corner we welcome all forms of enjoyment, regardless of whether you're a

happy to have yall here w me,

headin into homestuck 2024 :^)

#was debating if sollux truly was lurker type but then i rmbr'd him quietly reading all of karkat's memos for a good laugh HAHAHAHAAH #ask #aleemie #homestuck #karkat vantas #sollux captor #solkat #2024 #vioart #but o. regarding the etiquette learned frm other socmed #spamming here is safe+good! it does not harm the op by shadowbanning like instagram #and its not 💀 like twitter where ur likes/following are permanently set to public #ur tumblr experience is within ur control it can be as free/empty/curated as u want!! #((tho ofc i do encourage rbing for ppl who've been hoping to start that habit!! #s'cool to slowly work ur way up from the extra special posts that hv lingered longest in ur heart and quietly build ur cache trove :-) #for example back when i was struggling to rt on a new twt acc i just started setting nonsense criteria for myself LOL #like “breaking this void is scary holy fuck ok i shall start by rting posts w brownish/reddish clrs bcs its inspo vibes for my art” #and gradually after a while of deliberate sharing i gained more confidence to share a larger variety of posts that make me feel things!!!! #no more training wheels i may be scared but i love loving more!!!! #same goes for engaging w fics too it takes energy to think of how to comment and thats ok‚ do ur best to explore what works for u!!!! #take screenshots of ur fave paragraphs & start annotating in gallery/notes app if that helps!!!! #also tumblr's customizable queue means u can stack posts and bolt hgehehe. my preferred form of existing on the net))

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

it's less us adopting you and more like a-yuan where you ran up to us in a busy marketplace (tumblr tags/dashboard) and latched onto our legs with vengeance and adopted us into your chaos (but like in a good way)

Mutually Assured Adoption. We will take to the town and cause havoc

#ask #non mdzs #In my defense I *did* tag my posts with 'poorly-drawn-mdzs' specifically so ppl could filter it out of the main tag #It's like I'm a cool rat in the market that started doing a little dance for cheese crumbs #and then everyone started calling over their friends to watch The Cool Rat dance for cheese #Now I got all this cheese and I want to share it! I don't know what cheese is in this analogy #anyways. Thank you all for letting me scamper around your dashboards. #I'm very very picky about who i follow (my criteria is mysterious to even me) so i have very few mutuals #but tbh If I recognize your name in my notifs....you're a friend to me B'*) and there are so many of you! #I am finally free to start drawing more so I hope to give back a little doodle to all the kind messages ppl have been sending these last.. #2.5 months......aurgh

[lightningidle]

Fig's line "I don't think I'm an artist, I think I'm just a good friend" has not left my head at all. Just...

You're Fig Faeth and your horns came in over the summer and you pick up the bard class as a form of adolescent rock 'n' roll rebellion, and it works! It's exactly the outlet you need! You give a guy you just met drumsticks and you start a band and it's good enough that within a year and a half you're touring. You are, in every sense, good at being a bard.

And then, finally, your junior year, you start to take it seriously. Your art goes from an outlet and a form of rebellion to a practice. A discipline. (Can rebellion exist within a discipline?) Your classmates know what they want to do with their work. They all have a thesis statement. And yeah, there's cohesion in the music you make, but you've never had to think about why you make it. You've never sat down and dissected what it is about bass that speaks to you. You've never poured over your lyrics to pick at any deeper meaning. Why should you? You don't play music for a grand design, you do it to... huh, why do you do it?

(Your art is the one form of self-expression that feels as safe as Disguise Self does, because even if you're pouring your heart onto the page and then screaming it in front of thousands of people, it's not like you're really making yourself known. You can sing I'm lonely, I'm scared, I'm furious, and your fans will sing it right back, and there will still be the distance between performer and audience to keep your heart safe.)

Now you're being asked to look inward to explain the artistic choices you're making, and you can't help but recoil at that, because you'd rather do anything than look inward. Meanwhile, your classmates have no problem with it, so you start to wonder if you're a real artist at all. Can your art be authentic if it only exists to bolster a thesis statement? Has your art been unauthentic this whole time because you've never really thought about a thesis statement before? Is that what makes it art, and not just the next track on somebody's teen angst playlist?

You can't think about yourself— acknowledging your own existence makes you want to puke. So if your music is an extension of yourself, (and it is, even if it's just because the spotlight reveals only what you want it to,) you can't think about your music. You can't. You have to. Your grade depends on it.

You're Fig Faeth, and you keep multiclassing because you'd rather be a good friend than a great artist. If introspection is what great art demands, then fuck it. You must not be a bard at all.

#Dimension 20 #fig faeth #fhjy #Idle Chatter #my last two years of college were when I started to get more and more nauseous about my own art #because I wasn't being taught how to make the art I wanted to make #the whole curriculum's focus was on gallery art #which infuriated me! I wanted to make art that didn't have to involve twelve layers of meaning and metaphor to be considered good!! #so I drove myself into the ground time and again trying to make (miserable) work that I thought would fit the criteria of a Real Artist #anyway it's been 4 years and I'm just now picking at why I don't enjoy creating anymore so Fig's whole arc has hit home in a major way #ALSO. AAAAALSO. THE ADHD STRUGGLE WE SEE WITH BOTH FIG AND KRISTEN. LOVING SOMETHING BUT STILL STRUGGLING WITH FOLLOW THROUGH #BEING TOLD YOU'RE NOT DOING ENOUGH WHEN IT'S SO FUCKING HARD JUST TO GET WHERE EVERYONE ELSE IS AND NOT UNDERSTANDING WHY IT'S HARD FOR YOU #it was easy and now that the rubber's hit the road it's hard for you but not for others so it must be YOU that's the problem #you must be lazy or stupid or just not suited to this after all even though it's part of a pattern that has been happening all your life #if you were good enough or cared enough then surely the discipline would come easily to you! the way it comes easily to all your classmates #SCREAMS I gotta stop before I write a second essay in the tags. I'm so normal you can trust me to be normal about D&D characters

[unpretty]

8% choleric might actually be accurate due to lurker vs poster personality types. For example melacholic/phlegmatic people might not post a lot due to anxiety vs contentment with status quo/not wanting to stand out etc so these might have higher than expected numbers in the poll.

#original #there's also the fact that the question was deliberately vague #people are choosing based on different criteria #are you self-describing? picking the 'winning' team? choosing aspirationally? imagining having to be on a team with those people? #all this and more is valid because i was vague on purpose for reasons of fun and whimsy

[sp1resong]

yknow what. re: this ol' post--

#hollow knight #poll #spire rambles #ofc it's not 1:1 with either--mine is more aligned with 'rabies' but yknow. not really on account of . magic shit #(if anything it's better summarized as 'mag32 - hive'!) #ig the best way to define this would be like . #rabies: the mind is destroyed; not pushed aside. the will is twisted; not overtaken. #the infected are not still coherently conscious--they are not being puppeted; they do not have a will separate to the infection's #cordyceps: more classic possession. they're still In There they're just not in control #if that all makes sense . #edit: more criteria points for either: #cordyceps: still more classic possession. radiance is actively dragging them around #rabies: just. sickness. they're delirious #they're not being actively controlled by radi's higher will--more of a hands-off type thing #buuut i would say the first summary is vaguely more Deciding for the sake of this poll i just wanted to drop that as relevant as well

[crimeronan]

when i was in elementary school in the early aughts the boys in my class decided that they had to protect themselves against the girls so they made a "boys' team" and a "girls' team" and the girls' team was all the girls with names like kaylee and cassie who loved lip gloss and sparkly nail polish and playing house. however i was friends with these boys and so i got to be on the boys' team and wrassle with them at recess and go to sleepovers with them where we'd all sleep in big cuddle puddles and also practice kissing bc as the only girl i was the only one they were allowed to practice kissing with (it being the early aughts and us going to conservative christian school). in fifth grade all of a sudden things changed and the boys i'd been best friends with since age six turned weird and mean and hostile and i nearly got actually for real expelled from christian private school because i tackled and beat the absolute fucking piss out of one of them because he kept pinching/hurting me when i told him to stop and the teachers thought it was cute. until i was trying my hardest to bash his teeth in. then it was no longer cute or fun for them. then my friends in middle school were a group of weird outcast girls who are all now either she/they dykes or tradwives with no inbetween. unsure how to conclude this post except to say that probably all of this is unsurprising if you've followed me for a bit AND that if a kid is constantly trying to beat the absolute fucking piss out of their friends then it's PROBABLY BECAUSE THE ADULTS DIDN'T INTERVENE IN AN OBVIOUSLY BAD SITUATION BEFORE THAT POINT.

#violence ig #then in high school i was ALSO knock-down teeth-out brawling with people over gay stuff which #was a sight to see because i was a 5'2 stick-thin goth with waist-length pink hair #the urge to solve all my problems with violence has never gone away. ive just gotten better at suppressing it #and using other healthier and/or more effective means to get what i want. #does it count as meeting the aspd criteria if i was always entirely justified in trying to kill (/hyperbole) my classmates. #I WAS SO JUSTIFIED. #long post ig

[h0rsegirlpercy]

Oooh what if I posted songs and then had u guys vote on how insane 12 year old me was for putting them on her pjo playlist

#think that could be fun #p much stopped adding to it when I was like 15 the oldest #so all the songs on it are Very Dated #i still listen to it to just bc the songs now all remind me of pjo at this point #but if I used the same criteria I use now for making fandom playlists more than half of them wouldn’t have been added in the first place #percy jackson #heroes of olympus #hoo #pjato #pjo #rick riordan #rrverse #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians

[musubiki]

i need to draw more......mochi pining for oblivious lime........

#need to think more about that time period where shes so in love with him and hes (shes just a friend) #(a cute friend but still just a friend) #i think the reason lime eventually likes her is because she hides that she loves him so well #so hard to get lime to like someone #hes the type where if you show interest right off the bat he gets irked #because he knows (or thinks) you only like him for his handsome face #to get lime to like you you have to 1) spend a LOT of time getting to know him as a friend. like years #2) he has to want to / like being friends with you enough to hang out that long #3) he has to actually be attracted to you #so fucking hard to meet the criteria #hard enough to meet the first two and then the 3rd one is just up to chance honestly #anyway. for a while hes in straight denial that mochi is anything more than a friend #even to get him to admit shes cute is like pulling teeth #imagine being mochi....so close yet so far #just loving him quietly #all you can be is supportive #afraid to show even a little bit of affection because you dont want him to get freaked out or uncomfortable #i think she knows hes like that too so she works extra hard to hide it #pattern observation + hes ranted to her about it once before

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

i think to me yaz&14 is like,,,ce monde où tu n'existes pas/heavy in your arms

#not that one is the one song and the other is the other #more like #the tension of these two songs next to each other #is the tension in every scene with them i think #tbh heavy in your arms does a lot of that on its own already florence and the machine is a good soundtrack for this fic #but it's not All. i think this french song is a good complement #also wondering at what point you have to tag it as / instead of & #like what are the criteria for that #sex? romance? what is romance #what does history mean #if THIS isnt romantic but every single scene here is a direct result of the romance? #the romance that wasnt there! #the romance defined by its own absence! #i'll probably keep it & but like. questions #been a while since i wasnt sure how to tag but actually now that i think abt it every new ship i write i start out not knowing how to tag #not that i have a lot of them

[fallenfawnn]

..

#saw a psychiatrist for the very first time earlier this week #it was like.. fine? idk.. is just weird #i feel like i can never say what i want to say how i want to say it and i feel like i forget so much and get so fawn-response at the doctor #idkkkk #he told me i have BPD which like okay i mean no surprise to me i have known i for the criteria for 10 years now lol #but for some reason that being the first thing he landed on annoyed me lol #especially after he told me i don’t meet criteria for PTSD which fine i guess.. it’s wayy more CPTSD which isn’t a diagnosis here sooooo #anyways anyways #i hope in the future maybe i have the courage to bring up autism but like.. eh. #in this first appt he already seemed confused by why i was struggling so much to take care of myself but can maintain #my high-demand technical ‘smart person’ job #to which i said that is the *only* thing i can maintain at the detriment to everything else in my life #anywaysssss #i just cant tell if i were to bring up autism if he would be the type to “’i have a masters degree and maintain a job and AFAB so no’ #‘it’s just the BPD’ #as if bpd and complex trauma and autism don’t all intensely overlap and hold hands lol #ANYWAYS #first ate i guess is at least i have a psychiatrist now #and m proud of myself for that and for going

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#im still procrastinating so bear with me #ive just been thinking abt something. like the idea of a support system #bc as a 1st year grad student ppl around me r like: it must be hard being away from ur support system or ive left my support system when i #moved halfway across the country. and like i dont really feel that way bc idk the idea of a support system is sorta odd to me #like for me i guess it would just b my parents who i kno love me but im just so weirdly asocial that i never really talk to them #like i hardly ever text them. we talk maybe every couple months. so like i guess i theoretically have support but its a bit abstract #and like i have friends i guess but again im a bit weird and dont really feel connected to ppl so i dont feel that close to anyone #surface level friendships i guess. i dunno. i just feel weird not not having a support system but also having it b hollow #i guess i cant feel it more now. like i feel like getting diagnosed as bip0lar made my problems seem more realized to my parents #like i dunno i just assumed they knew i was doing awful most of the time but maybe that wasn't the case #its such a weird thing to b diagnosed with. like the conotations feel a lot heavier and i feel like im not supposed to talk abt it to ppl #bc theyll think im unreliable or something. like it wouldnt b that big a deal if i was just depressed but the sometimes buring out of my #skin makes me somehow scarier. and i still feel conflicted bc i do have a bip0lar mood profile but i have very very high impulse control #and even when im going high my mind is still super rational about it. which seems weird bc low impulse control is common with #the diagnosis. its also y i dont fit an 4dhd profile. not that it really matters. i fit the criteria enough to be on the bip0lar spectrum #its not like someone's gonna come yell at me for not being bip0lar enough. i just feel odd about it is all #still feels fake i guess. hard to imagine feeling any different to how i feel now. which is weirdly stable. so i guess the meds r working #sigh... ok enough i need to go to sleep at 7pm so i can get up at like 2 to finish reading a paper. for some reason my god forsaken brain #works better in the early morning rip #unrelated

[front-facing-pokemon]

#cascoon #it's like silcoon‚ but purple and pointy! desperately trying to remember how this one comes about. i'm gonna seem like a fake pokémon fan #i know silcoon and cascoon are both evolutions of wurmple. but i don't remember what the criteria are. is it a gender thing? hold on google #oh. it's just. some hidden personality value. so it's effectively random #y'know what. i think that's better than it being a gender thing. shoutout. but it could be considerably more interesting #maybe i'm just conditioned by the hitmonline to think that every evolution criteria has to be stupid and obscure and insane #or finizen At All #or all the stupid-ass trade evos. do not like trade evos. i do Not like trade evos! i have said this before but i will keep saying it #i just realized i called cascoon purple and pointy as though silcoon was not pointy. i'm not with it at all this morning #i just woke up‚ y'all. can you tell. can you tell i'm not sentient yet. i have to go to work in like an hour and a half and i am Not ready #anyway. i'm gonna get this guy up in the queue and dustox and then take my meds. see you guys in the dustox post #this must look so weird to y'all. since dustox is gonna be either multiple hours or a whole Day after cascoon #but i queue up two to three pokémon at once every morning to keep a good backlog in the queue in case one morning i miss it #which has happened before. it's saved my ass before. and i'm gonna need to use it at the beginning of july #sneak peek for you guys. i'll be heading out of town on june 30th to go to the other side of the country for work. so i won't be around #any posts you see from june 30th to july 4th are gonna be like super duper queued in advance. and i probably won't be able to answer asks #or anything like that. i dunno if i'll do a formal announcement bc no one will even notice but for you dear reader #who read this deep into my mile-long cascoon tags. you now know that i will be out of town from june 30th to july 4th #use this power wisely….

[primatechnosynthpop]

Tagged by @anotherevencoolerdad and tagging: @mushroomjar @mouth-dreaming @flamebearrel @flowersbyphone

[ID: Three versions of a 4x4 grid asking "What music do you have in common with" followed by a blank space for the person doing the meme to put their name, and instructions underneath to leave a blank. The first is Jeff's selection of artists with the ones I listen to circled; the second is mine; and the last is a blank. Full transciption under cut:

Jeff's selection: Flight of the Conchords; Dorian Electra; Hozier; Miley Cyrus; Regina Spektor; Doja Cat; Taylor Swift; Lorde; Fleetwood Mac; Dolly Parton; Beyonce; Talking Heads; RuPaul; Billy Joel; Ethel Cain; Kim Petras.

Of these, I've cirlced FotC, Hozier, Regina Spektor, Fleetwood Mac, Dolly Parton, Beyonce, Talking Heads, and Billy Joel.

My selection: Lemon Demon; PinocchioP; Mothy; Jonathan Coulton; Fleet Foxes; The Scary Jokes; The Megas; Mitski; DECO*27; The Kinks; ELO; They Might Be Giants; Yes; Simon and Garfunkel; Neil Diamond; The Beach Boys. End ID]

#my music taste is such a mix of classic oldies and then like. whatever the fuck #for filling out jeff's i used looser criteria than they did themself #so i don't necessarily listen to all the artists i circled actively or regularly #it was more a matter of whether i particularly appreciate when a song of theirs comes on #tag game

[jamoncitofail]

Rivals to lovers < Rivals to lovers AND rivals

#*cough* bakutodo *cough* #I was trying to think of more pairings that fit this criteria #but I’m part of a total amount of 3 fandoms #so bktd was all I could think of