#nor yr

[sflow-er]

ˏˋ°*♡➷ get to know me ༊*·˚

I was tagged in this lovely game by @lazybug16 and @bluedalahorse - it was so much fun seeing both your 'moodboards'! 💜

The idea is to pick a favourite movie, character, animal, drink, song, season, book, colour, and hobby and present them as pictures.

I'll put a list/explanation below, but it's going to be long, so let's do the no-pressure tags first: I think most people have been tagged already, but I can't keep up. So I'm just going to tag a few people whose names I don't think I've seen and apologise if you've already been tagged - or even made a post that I've missed!

@scatteredpiecesofme @silvagrey @groenendaelfic @raincitygirl76 @plantbasedfish @palehottubchild and anyone else who'd like to do this!

Movie: I've got a lot of faves in a lot of genres, but The Princess Bride (1987) has been one of my comfort films since childhood. I never could resist a good fairytale! I kind of wanted to use an ensemble poster to fix the severe lack of Inigo Montoya in this Westley/Buttercup one, but I think this fits the moodboard better, both aesthetically and thematically (because there's a lot of romance on this board).

Character: Again, there are lots of options! But I want to pick 1) a woman, and 2) a longtime favourite, so... Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. Either book Lizzie or 1995 BBC Lizzie played by Jennifer Ehle will do. Who doesn't love an intelligent and determined woman who is loyal to her loved ones, speaks her mind, and grows from her mistakes? Oh, and who only warms up to the handsome aristocrat gentleman with a massive estate after he listens to her criticism, makes up for his mistakes, and demonstrates some character growth?

Dolphins: Love them. Happened to see some wild ones in Ireland this summer. Keeping them in captivity for humans' amusement is heinous.

Coffee: The thing about coffee is, if you don't drink it, you often feel like a nuisance when visiting people in my country. Especially older people, who don't necessarily keep tea in the cupboard. So, I learned to drink it in my late teens despite hating it at first, and once my tastebuds had adjusted, I fell in love.

Song: Swing Life Away by Rise Against. A very simple acoustic ballad about love, friendship, and how little you actually need to be happy in life. It's also mine and my spouse's song that was even played at our wedding ceremony (without vocals on guitar, violin, and double bass).

Season: I am very much a four seasons kind of person, but I guess spring might be my favourite.

Book: I've got so many to choose from, but I wanted to pick something queer, so: Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar, Jonas Gardell's trilogy about young love and the AIDS crisis in Sweden. It's absolutely fantastic and absolutely heartbreaking (not a happy read!). It's also been adapted to an excellent three-part TV series that can be found on Youtube with English subs. (Short English trailer, 6-minute Swedish trailer.)

Gardell is also a fitting choice because it was his recommendation on social media that got me to watch Young Royals, and I wouldn't be here on tumblr without YR.

Colour: My favourite colours are red, green, and dark grey. I've been in a green phase lately and it fits this moodboard best.

Hobby: Video games. I've been a PlayStation gamer for well over 20 years. I mainly play adventure and roleplaying games; titles with good storytelling and worldbuilding. Some of my favourites include older Final Fantasy games (up to FFX), the Uncharted series, Life is Strange series, Mass Effect trilogy, The Last of Us Parts I & II, Heavy Rain, Until Dawn, and Telltale's The Walking Dead 'seasons' 1 & 2.

In keeping with the theme, perhaps I should also mention that some of my fave WLW ships are from video games! Ellie/Dina from TLOU: Part 2, Nadine/Chloe from Uncharted: Lost Legacy, and Chloe/Rachel from LiS: Before the Storm (although I do love Max/Chloe in LiS OG too).

Thanks again for the tags, this was fun!

#tag game #nor yr #get to know me #moodboard game #thank you both so much for the tag! #💜💜💜

[she]

Wille asking to be held

1x04 / 2x03 / 2x04

#young royals #youngroyalsedit #dailynetflix #tvedit #dailyflicks #cinematv #yr* #there are more instances in which wille seeks comfort by hugging others but these are the ones he specifically asks for it #there are also parallels to be made of when he tries to give comfort by touch (usually simon) bc thats def the boy's love language bUT #neither here nor there i just wanted to make this #i too want people in my life who will hold me back to wellness #m*

[elanormcinerney]

Introduction by Emily Wilson | Homer | The Iliad

#all yr bodies alive and defunct #the worst party in the world #always touching moving dancing climbing or riding horses #feel my hand feel my you might as well say hand #it is the gelatin of your own eyeball #if someone calls you across a hundred ghostly bodies it is because you are ever detectable #the secrets of the heart are visible #ive got bloody hair so you can love me #bodies lie in the bright grass and some are murdered and some are picnicking #hippolytus bloodied the countryside #men who do not know how to throw their cloak over their shoulder nor how to put words together in proper harmony for praising gods #you're going to spend your life fighting your life #the mass carnage that finds its domestic epitome #human forms are puny #homer #emily wilson

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

#metalocalypse #jay talkin #I'm sorry they wrote that awful gross little man far too likeable and relatable to on a trans level #for me not to hoot and holler and cheer for the trans pickles agenda #changes nothing about his character arc or any of the show anyone is capable of being the kind of person he is #don't make the mistake of thinking thats exclusive to cis men #his transness wouldnt change that #only adds on an extra layer to him that i think works fantastically. #Listen that dude was rejected by his family driven to drink and drugs young to escape that ran away to be in a band #is called fucking Pickles of all things and refuses to tell anyone his real last name; #over the span of four seasons and two movies he slowly starts to learn to be for others what he never had #he becomes more caring more supportive #it's not a stretch to say he undoes some of the toxic masculinity he's been keeping himself shielded behind #and learns how to be a kinder man. #all of which have no contradictions with him being trans! #In fact it doesn't take much extra thought to find ways a lot of this can line up with some trans masculine experiences #i mean. Did no one else have a younger phase where they swung as far as they could into crass rude and uncaring ways #to try and assert their masculinity only to grow and realise that you can be a man and be more caring. #Did no one else have father issues. 1 800 come on now i know those are both shared experiences a lot of us have had LOL. #at the end of the day this show aired nearly 20 years ago and is finished. we're not getting more of it #so nothing is altered nor changed if pickles is canonically trans or not ok. its fine #i mean hell i dont even need canon confirmation hes trans to me and thats all i care abt #but i think if yr getting suuuuuper weird abt needing him not to be canonically trans you have some issues #and bio essentialist ideals of gender if you think only a cis man can act like he does #again. anyone can be like that. its not exclusive. him being trans would not change him in any way shape or form lol #AND ALSO GODDDUUUGH for once i love getting to see a guy pushing 50 whos depicted as trans #do you have any idea how dire and barren it is out here. we never get to see a trans guy older than 30 and whos not a pristine model #I WANT MORE OLD SHLUBBY SHITHEAD TRANS GUYS IN MEDIA

[kringelorde]

rewatched the retsu for it (I haven't seen it since keeping up when it dropped) and man. do I think harvester is a good game? never ask me that again. but does it elicit a certain fondness from me? yeah <3

we need more bugfuck insane shitty 90s fmv style point n click schlock and it has to be absolutely tasteless low brow garbage

#spext #I don't think it's high art by any means and its message is trite and eye-roll inducing 30 yrs down the line #nor is it remotely sensitive nor does it 'deal well' with anything #but it's so comically weird and grotesque and over the top I can't help but be charmed by it

[xhanisai]

I do kind of feel a bit spoilt with how the fandom pre-pandemic would share my work easily (fics getting hundreds and even thousands of notes on tumblr and on AO3 immediately and arts getting thousands of notes too). Back then, my work was so eUGH compared to the work I create now which is so much more polished and well thought out.

And now? It’s such a struggle for my art to reach even a hundred notes on this app alone and my fics take a long time to accumulate some attention on ao3. At first I thought it was because my creations have gotten WORSE lol but then I realised it’s been happening to all my friends too online.

Kinda sad tbh.

#delete later #i know that X amount of likes or notes on work doesn't necessarily mean that it's great quality #but i like seeing and knowing that people out there on the internet are enjoying what i put out #and i want more people to see what i can do if that makes sense? #my mentality is a little fucked right now because in the past i created mainly for me and i enjoyed what i did to an extent #but now i'm at that stupid stage where i hate everything i draw and get bored of my own writing and i don't like that #so validation online sort of helps with that mentality to go away #i can't keep up with internet art trends to get the attention on my work that i want that is not a realistic and healthy way of life #and i refuse to touch any salt or negativity in the ml fandom just to get the hivemind to find my work #my most popular work on ao3 is only popular because of lila karma and that makes me so mad because i write 100000x better than that LMAO #but people just wanna see a 14 yr old italian nightmare girl get expelled from school over and over again and i'm just tired af of it #as for art with twitter it's a bit of a russian roulette #you don't know what will be a banger and what won't unless you pay special attention or have a decent following or are always grinding #i don't think my art is for tumblr #i do appreciate the few people who always love and reblog it but i've always known from the start that my art isn't what would be popular #on this hellsite #oh well it is what it is #also don't worry i'm never gonna stop drawing nor am i ever gonna stop writing those two are literally my only outlets of my life #and the only way i can get emotions and feelings out of my body without exploding #and i am still madly in love with ML and will always be obsessed with it #i just miss how the prepandemic fandom would interact with my work and let me know what they thought and all the asks they sent about the #aus i created #it was a good period on this hellsite for me

[numberposting]

why is minecraft 30 bux. thats NUTS!!!!!!! the price we pay for sillie blocks.... :(

#shoutout to IMPULSE PURCHASES #ive been playing a version of mc that i......acquired recently BUT i couldnt figure out how to use sillie mods w/ it #AND i couldnt play online nor was it the most recent version v_v #but w/e. time for being 12 yrs old again

[dandyshucks]

even online i cannot escape middle-aged adults trying to tell me their life story and hit on me,,,,,,,,, help,,,,,

#why was a 52 yr old texan trying to hit on me on THIS BLOG OF ALL PLACES....... BRO.......... #and telling me about his divorce and everything 😭😭 #also im sorry USamericans but uhm. some of yall are a little funny sometimes with the way you live in such a vacuum fdsjkl #(it is not ur fault and i understand that and i do not blame u for it. nor am i saying you are stupid or anything like that fdjkl) #(but also why tf do u not put your country in ur address for shipping.... literally every other country in the world does that JFDSJKL) #but anyways he asked me where i live and i said turtle island bc thats a safe vague answer and he... assumed it was michigan?? #for some reason ???? #but what could i expect from a 52 yr old texan trying to ... hit on a 22 year old. on tumblr. goddamn. sobbing on the ground. #WHY DO I ATTRACT THESE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE I GOOOO #i've heard so many woes and life stories of middle-aged adults and been hit on so many times and im so tired 😭😭😭 #sometimes its interesting to hear about ppls lives but not when im like. busy with shit. like at school or at my workplace or on my blog😭 #WHY WAS HE MESSAGING ME ON /THIS/ BLOG OF ALL PLACES. BRO. FJDSFJKL #this is my blog where i get silly over FICTIONAL CHARACTERS HDSGJKL CMONNNN MAN #vent // #ask to tag #dandy.cmd

[soppymilkgin]

gin-san is so motherly i want to draw la pieta art of him like he's mary of nazareth for shounen jump

#disclaimer im not and have never been christian nor have i ever been influenced by it significantly #i'm bastardizing the bible for my gintama brainrot but i have no clue what im talking about #tama gets holy imagery (confessional arc) and he personally raises shouyou (guy who rises from the dead) #also funny haha make the virgin mary a scummy 27 yr old man moment #words

[turbidapoplexy]

your dni rickroll got me really good (-brostriderdickrider)

You have no idea how entertained I am every time someone tells me this. Thank u <33

#.txt #Ask #It's kept its place on my blog for literally yrs I can't remove it at this point #Nor am I at all inclined to do so #Brostriderdickrider

[billfarrah]

Now that I’ve had time to fully digest the drop and all the opinions I’ve read today, I want to try to put some things into perspective.

Not everyone is going to love season 2. It’s inevitable. We’ve all been here for a year, some of us since the very beginning, talking about the show every day, talking about our favourite scenes as nauseum, some of us reading and writing fan fictions and speculating over what’s to come, and all that is great and a lot of fun, but I think like most things, it can be too much of a good thing. We become too invested to the point where we all have our own wants and desires of how we want the story to go and most of the time, that’s not going to align with what the writers have planned, because this isn’t our story. It’s there’s.

I totally get it it some people aren’t in love with the footage we got or where the story is going. That’s totally valid. Like I said, we’ve all been so invested and have our own thoughts on where we’d like the story to go. I have my own trepidations, and I’ll even share them: I worry that the show might end up spending too much time with the revenge plot and not on the other aspects of the show that made us fall in love with it in the first place (the themes of love and friendship above all odds in the face of adversity). I worry it might become a little melodramatic and perhaps too ambitious for its own good - it’s only 6 episodes and there are so many threads left from s1 that need to be expanded on, on top of a new character and new storylines. I worry they might have gone too far.

Having these worries is normal and I don’t think the alternative is any more helpful - the alternative being blind faith in the writers and assuming they will make all the right decisions (ie. “Lisa would never do that”, “trust Lisa she knows what she’s doing). However, I do think there is a line between blind trust and faith and having no trust and leaning into negativity.

The fact of the matter is, we probably won’t love every element of season 2. It’s not going to be everything all the fans want it to be, nor should it be. If the show was exactly like all of our favourite fanfics or theories, it wouldn’t be the vision of the writers anymore; it would belong purely to the fans, and that’s not how filmmaking works. Think about all the movies and shows that get blasted for indulging too much in fan service.

The stakes are so much higher now that we’ve been invested for so long. The best thing we can do is give deference to the writers and give them the opportunity to tell the story they want to tell, and when we’ve finally seen it in it’s entirety, then we can decide whether we liked it or not, and everyone is entitled to have their own opinions, praises and criticisms.

At this point, we have a mere 4 minutes of footage and essentially a skeleton of the plot with very, very little actual details. Let’s not ruin it for ourselves before we even see it. I have my concerns but ultimately I just wanna be excited to see what these creative people have come up with.

Will I love it? I don’t know, but I don’t want to go into it assuming either way.

#young royals #yr season 2 spoilers #for the record I totally understand peoples trepidations #this isn’t meant to be patronizing nor is it directed at anyone specifically #i just want us all to have a good time

[ajaxbread]

Haley, courtesy of the non-weirdest ad I’ve gotten on tumblr

The ad in question:

#art #stardew valley #sdv #haley stardew valley #haley sdv #this is closer to the haley in my head #i didn’t realize my pen would bleed for some reason so oops plus i used the wrong marker for the skin at first so it looks a lil odd #i aint even a woman nor do i wear dresses but its still one of the best ads ive seen #the others I usually see are the pika guy backpains/aches or recently eczema for some reason #guess thats what happens when a website doesn’t listen or record the things u do #im such a sucker for outfit designs like that #long flowy dress with galaxy/star patterns and or dark blue/sky themes YUM #this reminds me of when i was in hs i think maybe 16 17 yrs old and school just ended #and there was this girl in a long red flowy dress it was probably some kind of event that day #and like an awkward cant-talk-to-girls teen boy way i ran up to her said she looked pretty and ran away #im not even straight ! #oh also the necklace shes wearing #(haley from the image)* #i hc that it was her grandmothers who she was super close with but when she passed she kept the necklace #and the center opens up with a lil picture of her grandmother holding her as a baby #the picture could also be of the grandparents married not too sure on that uet #both sound sweet #and its def in a sepia filter(dusty brown tones basically) #and and if u dont like the lil belly on haley u can suck it up and leave #i hate seeing when ppl are drawn ultra anime thin bc thats not healthy plus the uterus makes the stomach come out a little so its totally- #-natural #for some cases in having no uterus or other yeah that makes more sense but anytime i see like anime i cant help but think everyones a robot #also yeah on a related note i do see that i put some trans colours on her not my personal hc but im fine with it #i can see her more as either cis/intersex and the term i forgot where smn identifies with femininity but never masculinity or however it go #i also dont think shed carw abt labels ‘am i cis? no im haley’

[snallavanta]

it is so exhausting talking to wilhelm when everything that’s in his head is me me me omfg you may be the future king of sweden but not everything is about you!!!!!

#yr s3 spoilers #like my guy. your boyfriend is trying to TALK to you. it is not a personal attack. nor was it even an attack AT ALL

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

got through the racism week of my class. that was so fucking bad lol

#i skipped reading through that shit and just went through the class study guide #had to correct these 18 yr olds on how and when the BLM movement started. it did not fucking start when trump became president #nor was it a response to that. i witnessed that shit at age 14-15

[inkwell-and-dagger]

a much younger foster!!!!! probably 18-23 years old here :3

this was probably during their fighting ring prime, although they weren't doing well mentally or physically. either way look at them. so edible.

also! original pose (I CANNOT SPELL) credit to @/mellon-soup on pinterest n stuffs :D

note I forgot: as a little treat, they hated their heterochromia back then. extremely self-conscious of it, hence the hairstyle choice

#also did try shading properly here!!!! im quite proud of it #anyhow they probably weren't doing much to take care of themselves here #compared to what they look like now (at 26-27 yrs old) they definitely were much more like. scruffy (?) n shit #they still had the middle part they have now but as you can obviously see their hair is longer and most likely not very well maintained #meanwhile now they do care a LOT about their appearance #since they're extremely resentful of their scars and try and make up for them existing by looking as good as possible #perhaps in the hopes to divert one's attention from the scars to somewhere else #or just to make them feel better #anyhow they care a lot about their appearance now but back then they really didn't #they didn't have as many scars then and they didn't have most of their ear piercings #nor their nose or eyebrow piercing #but eh #anyway #foster canavan #whumper #oc artwork #whump art #whump oc #oc whump