#no wonder you're struggling then :)

[sunderberry]

parallels and perpendiculars between the two most important men in angel's life (for better or for worse)

#hazbin hotel #husk #valentino #huskerdust #angelhusk #(implied at least) #if you're wondering why husk is so MINOUCHE here i wanted to emphasise their height difference #husk struggled to read his lines in ep 1 but could spot a guy drugging angel's drink in ep 4 so i think he's farsighted #i think it's very interesting how these two parallel and contrast each other #pretty sure it might even be intentional #sun art

[monsoon-of-art]

#pokerus au #in case you're wondering why I vanished: ive been struggling with feelings that my fanart is dumb and stupid.

[schmweed]

#David Tennant #Alec Hardy #Ellie Miller #Broadchurch #my gifs #Yes they're talking about something extremely serious. #But can you see soft way his eyes tenderly trace her eyes and just rest on her face like it's the best thing he could look at? #He spends so long just looking at her -- and she is so mindful of his comfort level and RARELY looks back when he's looking at her. #If he's looking at her she's always looking ahead or down or away. #Except if she needs to hold his gaze to get a message across. Like go make some tea. Or if they're both worried. #This reminds me -- she is so naturally instinctively understanding of him #We rarely hear her addressing him by name after the rant that falls out of him when he has dinner at her place in S1. #She gets that simply looking at someone while you're talking to them is enough. And you don't need to tack on their name on top of that. #Which astounded me actually! I wondered if Chris Chibnall had spent some time around an autistic person! #Because I feel EXACTLY like Alec does abt names! I hate names. I hate using them. It's so unnecessary. #I'm not as outspoken as him though so I use them when I can't get out of it. But I hate it and I hate ppl using my name. #That scene was ASTOUNDING I'm telling you -- it took my breath away to find my very specific struggle onscreen! #Anyway. Yeah. She doesn't bug him or insist even though to her it's second nature. #I bet you she's very good at coming up with pet names -- another thing my autistic brain shrieks at and sth I suspect Alec finds impossible #Oh Ellie -- beautiful beautiful adorable strong wronged Ellie! #Wronged by everyone except him <3 #Well and a few others -- Mark was kind to her despite his pain. Brian never treated her badly that we know of. #I will always love them for that. #I wish Jack had survived -- I think he would've been kind too. Maybe she would've hidden in his store when it got too much.

[upperranktwo]

☆Upper Rank Three - Akaza☆

Happy Birthday Robin ♡ @reinerist

#knyedit #knysource #anisource #dailyanimatedgifs #dailyanime #kimetsu no yaiba #kny #demon slayer #akaza #sky gifs #happyyy birthday robbiiinnn #as soon as I saw it was your birthday I wanted to make an akaza set for you!!!!! #if only koku was in the anime but I hope akaza is just as good <33333 #I love your gifs so much!!!! and I hope you're having a wonderful day!!!! #I love akaza so muccchhh I hope the colours look okay!! colouring dark scenes is always a struggle but I tried some new stuff #and I think they look good enough!

[sincerely-sofie]

Cave-in: A comic starring Darkrai, Dusknoir, and an unconscious Twig on an expedition gone wrong.

(Note that this takes place after the ending of the fanfic, and people have settled into having Darkrai in their lives... for the most part. Dusknoir still hates his guts and doesn't trust him whatsoever.)

#Look at these two ghosty guys. Finally having a life-changing field trip together. #it's about time that you two stopped being petty and sarcastic to each other all the time #You're both ex-villains who have personally traumatized the rest of the cast and struggle with feelings of inadequacy and guilt. #BOND OVER IT ALREADY. #I apologize for leaving this so messy but if I tried to work any longer in that file Clip Studio Paint was gonna kill me #This comic started with me having the thought of #WAIT. If you were a ghost type... #and someone in your party in a mystery dungeon passed out... #could you just like. Pilot the unconscious body so that the mystery dungeon doesn't boot you out upon your partner(s) fainting? #I know that it's meant to be a bit of story and gameplay segregation in-game #but I always wondered about why mystery dungeons eject you upon your partner fainting in the main game. #I've got an escape orb man #One person could use it #couldn't they?? #My partner can get medical attention at home and I can finish this dungeon! #anyhoo time for normal tags #the present is a gift au #stuff by sofie #pmd2 #pmd #pmd sky #pmd explorers #pmd eos #pokémon mystery dungeon #pmd dusknoir #pmd darkrai #pmd comic #pmd au #pokemon mystery dungeon #the present is a gift AU

[tekatonic]

Someone order old art ? I made these in May 2022 to include in my SWA zine application but never actually posted them. ( that is to say i tried, panicked and then deleted it... )

If anyone wants to give this a more detailed ID than what I put in the alt text, absolutely knock yourself out !

#sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #thought i'd post this since i posted my zine pieces #better very late than never right ? #i remember struggling a long time with the colors on sonic's outfit #but overall i feel it turned out pretty good ! #a lot of the colors are picked from a Sonic Jam illustration #the linework was made on paper btw is you're wondering why it's so crisp #i used to do this a lot but then i got fed up with printer-scanners #i hate printers #teka art #teka backlog

[mod2amaryllis]

maaaaaan! Sarge died :(( he was fine this morning, then just now went down and he was gone... parameters are ok so idk, it could've been classic random betta death. (i do have a weird theory after looking at his body but it's so hard to know...)

I'm just so sad...i made him his beautiful 10g and he never ever got to live in it. swim in peace little dude i wish I'd known you longer :'(

#ok weird theory is yucky so don't read if you're squeamish #his tank has a ton of string algae. i found his body tangled up in it #like he'd died at the surface and floated down into a mess of algae #his fins were slightly eaten by snails but body completely intact. nothing weird on body. #the weirdness... was his eye 😬 #one eye was pulled out of his head and wrapped in algae almost like a lasso #i wonder if he somehow..??? caught his eye in some algae and died struggling to get out??? #I've never in my life heard of a fish getting hurt by algae so maybe not but it was the only thing i found on him out of the ordinary #i always check my dead fish. for the bettas i don't do a full necropsy for parasites since they live alone but i do look them over #maaan..... #once again the intended occupant for the last tank on the betta rack dies 😞 starting to feel haunted #m2a #fish tag

[lesbianlotties]

10 CHARACTERS/10 FANDOMS/10 TAGS

tagged by @natscatorrcio thank you sm <3

oh i'm so going to cheat and add more than one per fandom

yellowjackets: laura lee + lottie

stranger things: robin

the haunting of bly manor: dani

warrior nun: camila + ava (+ beatrice)

the old guard: quynh

the wilds: shelby + leah

the locked tomb: harrow + ianthe

fear street: sam

the haunting of hill house: theo

a league of their own: esti

god that was difficult. i'll be ranting about it in the tags. anyway

tagging: @dufrau @hellmo @reesesfastbreak @femmeetart @yee-hawlw @lilolilyr @annieofhearts @lottieurl @sapphicscience (if u want/haven't been tagged!)

#in case you're wondering yes i still get scared tagging mutuals <3 #BTW!! esti comes included with lupe and jess i don't make the rules they just do #HOW'S THIS SO DIFFICULT #somehow i even struggled to pick 10 fandoms hgsjdfhjgf #harrow is my favorite ever but somehow the answer was ianthe so there you go. both #choosing quynh feels like cheating but i swear i mean it hsgjdfhgjf #choosing theo over nell and olivia while actively rewatching the show right now is TOUGH #i'm confident about only 3 of these answers guess which ones hgjsdhfgjhf #okay i'll shut up now!! #thanks for tagging me!!

[sleepgarden]

I'm closing my shop on November 27th and will re-open in the new year. Until then you can have 15% off of your entire order (prints, patches, and there's one tapestry choker left~) enter "15" as your discount code during checkout ♡ here's a link to my shop

Thank you so much for your support. I could never imagine my work reaching so many people let alone so many of you wanting my art in your home. It means the absolute world to me. I've had a rough year, I'm going to do my best to resume personal illustrations in 2024 !!

#I won't lament. But girls this year has been a struggle.... #Thank you for all of your kind words. I see all of the tags ♡ you're all too wonderful and I feel really lucky #To have all of you ;^; ♡

[mysterypigeon]

yeah i haven't finished the assignment. sorry. no, i know. the crane wives told me time wasn't running out. yeah. they said there was still time and it wasn't too late. okay. well dr. doll i am one deep breath away from a breakdown

#guess who missed a seminar today #i was sobbing in the bathroom and thinking of a joke about Know How actually made me feel okay #if you're wondering how much tcw do for me #the crane wives #struggled to keep myself from adding a clunky More Time reference #dr doll. dr doll can i have More Time #tag twaddle #my posts

[zaphiyy207]

"Cookies Ready! Anyone want some?"

Heya, a quick sketch because I haven't drawn anything at all today. I truly miss baking due to busy schedule so here's Theia baking chocolate chip cookies!! They're all irregular shaped because she had some helping hands from the waddle dees.

And every once in a while, the three would go out picnic. (Pretend there's more than a bowl of cookies). It's a time where they're not tied up by work and able to just relax for a bit. Kirby loved being sandwiched between the two because he'll get a lot of head pats and scratches from Theia. Meta Knight often received head pats and scratches from Theia (he loves it, even though he looked like he despised it) simply because she can't even stay still and often loved showing others she cared for them (via head pats and etc etc)

And not only them, the others would join them too and sometimes food fight ensued but only once.

#kirby #meta knight #theia #kirby oc #if you're wondering why I'm still up at 2:47am it's because i have assignment #this is just a stress relief #you'll be seeing a lot of stress relief post #kirby of the stars #hoshi no kaabii #hoshi no kirby #im going to take a nap before getting back up to calculate #sometimes i want to punch autocad so bad #the struggle here is not the assignment itself but the PROGRAM KEPT MESSING WITH ME #ah Theia here is like an eldest sister to the two #she's basically the first Astral to be in Popstar so she knows a lot and experience a lot #they both respect her lots and fight for her without any second though but also would fight her for small inconvenience #like any sibling would once in a while (a disagreement and bantering) #edit: i can tell I was fighting sleep from the many mistakes and also blaming the lag on my phone fr

[pointyfruit]

Just imagined a complex animated short about Bloodmoon huntin for ye good ol blood except it was in the perspective of one of the children that get hunted.

I almost made myself cry.

#Like it was a huge punch in the gut #the silly don't feel so silly no morein this context #dca fandom #bloodmoon twins #you just want your mom to be happy again and what happened #sams bloodmoon #sun and moon show bloodmoon #fnaf bloodmoon #like you hear on bbc news that this Infamous red monster has killed 100s of families in poverty and everyone's panicking and trying to #evacuate the city but yall neck deep in poverty so on top of struggling to get food on your plate every night you also gotta somehow find #the money to move and everyone is trying and trying and working themselves until their exausted and stressed and sick and mom is struggling #and sad and dad is struggling and sad while rich people ride their private jets into the sunset and everyone's sad and depressed and crying #because no one deems your lives important because you're poor and you just wondering why mom keeps crying and dad have time to play anymore #and you are just barely grasping any of this you're like 8 and after all that hard work of 80° days and sleepless nights it's to late and #everyone is getting killed except for you because you're small and weaseled your way out of it but not for long because here it comes and #you're run as fast as your little weak legs can go with your heart pound out your chest and you're crying and screaming and your voice is #cracking from screaming but no one hears you or is too scared to save you and just like your parents you lose hope and strength too and you #cant run anymore and you fall to the ground and cry (the ugly cry) and the silly has come to harvest ye good ol blood and you're dead and-

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 711: A new bike!!

Pag 1

5: Retired from the first years' race:

Rokudai Renta

Pag 3

1: Alright, okay

This is good

4: Watching the first years' race on Minegayama was exciting as always

“Will they be okay riding a a bike like that?”, I think stuff like that

5: Two years ago it was Onoda with his city bike..... and this year it was Rokudai especially

Since his was a cross-bike “remodeled as a road bike”

6: Here

Pag 5

1: A week after the first years' race. Early morning

Sohoku high school's bicycle racing team morning practice

2: Waaaaa

Pag 6

1: Re.... real road bikes are so amazing, teh....!!

2: Waaaaa

3: This is amazing, Kinaka-kun!!

It moves forward and forward amazingly!!

4: Shut up! You're saying “waaaa” and “aaaaah” too much

Aaaaaah, I'm sorry, teh!

Ah, I said it again, the

5: Well

It's a new bike.... and a “road” bike, I know the feeling of riding a new one for the first time!!

Pag 7

2: Good grief, Rokudai

You're so lame, until when are you going to wear your middle school jersey

Ah- Kinaka-kun

You have time today after school?

3: Let's go to a bicycles shop

Uh-

5: Waaa!

This one?

And this one is nice too, right?

What do you think, Kinaka-kun!!

6: Ahh... maybe the right one is better

Surprisingly, he has good taste....

7: Ahh.... after

8: then

Pag 8

1: That time..... at the beginning..... when I made fun of you for being a manager and all that

For that

2: I'm sorry

3: I mean-that's... I thought you might still be worrying about that 

Well... that and, you, too

4: During the first years' race a week ago, I saw firsthand your riding, and on the summit's finish line

5: I lost

7: I acknowledge it!! That's!! You're amazing!!

Pag 9

1: Saying always “that's” and “that” when speaking is bland, teh

Whaaaa!? You!! I'm apologizing honestly!!

2: I was joking, teh, I was joking, teh

Sorry

3: Thank you, teh

4: I don't get praised much, so.... I felt awkward.... teh

6: If Kinaka-kun hadn't been there, I wouldn't have worked that hard, teh

7: Ah ah ah, is that so? Really?

Yeah!!

Pag 10

1: That color suits you!!

He's in a good mood now

2: Take the socks of the same color, that'd be cool

Eh, really!!

3: Let's keep going, how much money do you have!?

I have plenty, teh!! 200 yen!!

He can only buy the socks....

4: More importantly, Rokudai. You-

I'll bring him there again

5: You'll stay in the bicycle club, right?

Huh!? Yeah, that's right

That's!! And you're aiming for the top, right!?

Uhm... ah... of co....

6: Then that bike of yours won't do

Pag 11

1: Huh

2: Bicycles races are for a specific type of bikes

And that's road-bikes

3: Your bike was originally a cross-bike for city riding, “remodeled as a road bike”

I don't hate that kind of things, but

The transmission forcibly attached to the handles installed in the dowel hole for the basket

4: A heavy frame that prioritize robustness, and a thin clank

5: Like that, in time of need, you can't fight!!

6: That's... uhm

Next time, I want to race you without any machine handicap!!

7: Race….. !?

8: Against..... me...?

Yeah

Pag 12

1: This time, I'll win officially!!

Pag 13

1: What's up with them.... those two

Are so fast!!

They passed us!!

2: Let's pass them, Rokudai!!

Today's practice is to catch up with Kaburagi-san and the other second years who are ahead of us!!

Pag 14

1: Which one of us will catch up first!!

It's a race!!

2: Yeah!! Teh!!

Pag 15

2: With my skills and stamina, I can't catch up

I can only cling to him with everything I have, teh

As expected....

3: As expected, Kinaka-kun is strong, teh

This year's first years' race.....

Pag 16

1: He's not the “winner” of the first years' race for nothing, teh!!

The first years are getting closer

They're coming, Issa, seriously

Pag 17

3: First years' race results:

First place: Kinaka Tsugunao

4: And also, Kinaka-kun

Pag 18

1: Kinaka-kun is kind

2: He came to talk to me after the first years' race

3: He became kinder to me in class, too

You forgot your eraser!? Here, I'll lend you mine!! Good grief

Ahh.... than you, teh

6: He started to worry about me

7: Maybe

He could feel that I was getting restless

Ah

Pag 19

4: The day after the first years' race

5: Officially

7: ….. are you sure?

Pag 20

1: Thank you for your help

Kai-chan and Kyou-chan quit the bicycles club

#yowamushi pedal #yowapeda #yowamushi pedal manga #yowapeda manga #yowamushi pedal spoilers #yowamushi pedal translations #ride 711 #!!!!!!!!!!! Why is Watanabe so good!!!!! making me care about a character in literally just a few pages!!!!! #Kinaka!!!! I'm sorry i ever said something bad about you!! You are kinda lame but you're also a good boy!! #it's so nice the way he acts with roku-chan????? like i was expecting him to keep being rude to him and then slowly become friends #but instead he's just nice?? in a tsundere way sure but still #and i love the implication that he started taking care of him a little bc roku-chan was struggling #after kei and kyou left the team #its????? such a simple relationship but watanabe has so much talent in writing beautifully even the simplest things #really just one chapter and i already can see all the potential these two have #i mean ofc roku chan by himself but now also kinaka and both of them as a team #i like the friendly rivalry they have now!! #and now i'm wondering if perhaps kinaka will be on the team after all???? #like ok one of the two spots if rokudai's for sure #but the other one??? until last chapter i was pretty sure it was danchiku #but tbh you never know it might end up being kinaka after all #and theres always sugimoto mhhhh #i think danchiku is still the most probable but now i have my eyes on kinaka too #as i said- watanabe is a literl genius in writing and i am all here for him #its not easy to keep a sport manga exciting and interesting for more than 700 chapter but he sure can!!!

[corvusasteris]

character profiles

intro post

Jasper

While in the imperial capital of Melera, you counted him among your closest companions. He is the child of merchants from Thalasseon, the empire to the south, however he has spent most of his life in the Illyosian Empire. For as long as you've known him, he's been obsessed with discovering more about the spirit realm, frequently neglecting work and/or personal relationships while on the trail of some obscure myth.

He's quietly sarcastic and a persistent over-thinker, but fiercely loyal to those he counts among his friends. Your relationship is somewhat complicated by the fact that he believes you to be dead following the incident that prompted your escape from the capital, and vice versa.

appearance - beige skin, shoulder length wavy medium brown hair often tied back from his face, hazel-brown eyes. tall.

notes - his background (either as a spy or scholar) is set depending on whether the MC is a spy or a scholar. precise circumstances around the swift exit from the capital are in the prologue. demiromantic & bi. transmasc.

Leonora

Your first introduction to her was her saving you from certain death at the hands of the Illyosian Empire. She helps you to reconstruct your life in Kemorlen, setting up an alchemists shop next-door as you became the resident mage. You know surprisingly little about her past, besides the fact she was once a mercenary, as evidenced by her skill with a sword.

She's blunt, impulsive and always on the move, creating potions, warding from spirits or starting a fight somewhere, and lives by the policy of acting first and apologising later.

appearance - golden-brown skin, straight black hair often plaited or in a low bun, light brown eyes. tall.

notes - precise circumstances of meeting set by the prologue. bisexual. cis woman.

Augustine

They arrived in town one night, shortly after you did, reportedly from the north east of the empire. Good humoured and quiet, you still can't shake the feeling that they're hiding something. Their skill as a healer is unrivalled, and they quickly become a key part of the team dealing with all the magical oddities of Kemorlen, alongside you and Leonora.

They have a tendency to freeze in a crisis and are slightly squeamish, with a dry sense of humour. They don't trust easily, always seem to be looking over their shoulder, and they don't seem to sleep a great deal.

appearance - light brown skin, dark brown neck-length loosely curly hair, dark brown eyes and freckles. short.

notes - bisexual. non-binary.

Mira

She wanders into town one day, lyre in hand, and entrances the townsfolk with melodic tales of heroes, gods and strange creatures. She has been wandering the roads of Aiolos as a bard after being exiled from her home kingdom of Luria, gathering stories (and gold) from wherever she goes. She also seems to collect small animals, including a tiny mouse she imaginatively calls mouse.

You expect her to move on quickly, but she stays for reasons she doesn't disclose. She's pessimistic and absent-minded, always getting half-way through composing songs before forgetting about them and starting a new one.

appearance - deep brown skin, long curly dark brown hair, dark brown eyes. medium height.

notes - bi and asexual. cis woman.

Theo

They are a spirit that technically speaking you are responsible for bringing back from the underworld. Their memories are faded and patchy from being dead, but a sense that they have been wronged remains, as does a deep-rooted want for revenge. They tell you that they were a ruler, once, of a northern kingdom that they can't recall the name of.

They're awkward, contemplative and restless, unsure of who or what they are in a world that thinks them to be dead, and desperately wanting closure on their old life.

appearance - fair skin, messy short light brown slightly reddish hair, grey eyes. short.

notes - gender selectable either cis male or nb. bisexual.

#interactive fiction #you will not believe the struggles I had with these images #if you have any questions feel free to put them in the askbox #characters: ros #I almost spilled coffee on my friends copy of the odyssey while writing this if you're wondering how my day is going

[novelconcepts]

i don't make resolutions, but if i did

it would be to finish this fic

(and to be kind to myself for however long it takes to actually do so)

#i'm finishing it if it kills me #i know i've been writing this makeout scene for 3 weeks but baby that can't last forever #if we want to get deep and dark and serious for a second i do think a lot of my struggles to write lately have to do with engagement #and how incredibly low engagement has been on the last few things i've written #which like. is what it is. i'm not entitled to anybody's time or comments or kudos. #but when you write stuff you're proud of and it feels like it's barely getting read it's hard to keep momentum. #this isn't intended as a woe is me or whatever it's just kind of like. there. hovering. #happens enough times you start to wonder if it's you. am i just writing for the wrong fandom/ship? #(too bad if so. they're in my bones i'm writing for them and no one can stop me.) #but yeah. if you ever wonder if authors do care or notice about hits. comments. kudos. buddy i am here to tell you #not only do we care and FLOURISH we also notice when those things drop off and readers vanish #and it is a giant bummer. and sometimes makes us wildly paranoid about why that might have happened. #so if you liked a fic today--not even one of mine. just. anybody's. share it. comment on it. #kudos at the VERY least (cuz frankly kudos is there to be an 'i got to the end and this was nice' feature. #so when you get 500 hits and only like 30 kudos? it feels like 470 of those people hated your work) #anyway. that got out of hand. lil' too raw lil' too honest. happens when you let yourself ramble at 11:30 instead of sleeping #to sum: let your local fic writer know if they've made you happy #and as we go into 2024 i am swearing to myself that this fic (and probably several others) are getting finished #come hell. high water. or dishearteningly low engagement numbers. #(and then maybe we...actually work on something original. cuz why not. new year same old me but i'll do my best.)

[freakwiththeknifecollection]

The stigma around taking medication is weird as a person who takes medications cause you'll have someone who knows you take meds tell you why they don't want to take any and it's deeply rooted in ableism and also makes you wonder... do they think these things about me because I take medication?

It's just like when someone explains to you, a glasses wearer, why they don't want to wear glasses. It's always offensive and comes from their self-pride and vanity issues

#it's the whole prideful attitude of ''well /I/ don't need medication'' with the subtext that you're worse than they are #''I don't want glasses cause they'll make me look ugly'' has been said to me a lifelong glasses wearer too many times #followed by ''I don't think YOU'RE ugly with glasses though'' with the implication that they're better looking than you because #they couldn't POSSIBLY afford to sacrifice their looks by having glasses #oh and let's not forget the ''why don't you wear contacts?'' question which again. implies you look uglier with glasses #em rambles #ableism #and we wonder why we as a society have imposter syndrome when we actually do get diagnosed or develop conditions because #you only NEED medication/glasses/mobility aids/stim toys/etc. when you reach a certain unidentifiable degree of the condition #when in reality it's as simple as: would this tool make my life easier? #and if the answer is yes than you should take advantage of it. why is grinning and bearing every fucking thing you struggle with the #socially acceptable thing to do #why are we EXPECTED to suffer and seen as weaker if we make our lives easier #*then