#not even a vague post this is a non post

[sunbratz]

ppl underestimate my power and thats all im saying

#me typing this barely able to stay awake w 0 energy bc its hot outside #riiiiight #anyway this is a reaction to something i will not be talking about for peace and love on planet earth #but just know LMFAO #not even a vague post this is a non post

[prince-liest]

I just wanna gush bc omg I love the 666 series so much. I think it made me realize I might be... furry-ish? adjacent? I just find it so satisfying how you go into detail about the unique body features of both of them, the way it feels to have deer ears or kiss a TV and just generally how much thought is put into the way their bodies work, and I've realized that my interest in that kind of idea is a pretty good reason to partake in more explicitly furry media lmao. Anyways

I'm also really in love with how you maintain the balance of each of their personality traits. Vox is simultaneously so pathetic and cringefail (also your dialogue for him is perfect, I can hear it crystal clear in my head) but also he has vastly more emotional intelligence than Alastor, no doubt at least in part because he has to deal with Val, and he's able to marginally calm down with his obsession to deal with sticky situations, but even then he still retains his personality and bumbles things sometimes because of the flaws in said personality! It's great. I also really appreciate the balance you've struck with Alastor, I feel like often Alastor is either written to either soften up so immediately that it feels disconnected from his character or is written overly mean and heartless for my liking and the way you've written him is such a delicious balance between softer aspects such as the prey instincts or moments of vulnerability and his untouchable and manipulative self, and also the way this side of him is neither written as wholly a front or wholly his real nature and the complex ways this makes him struggle with his increasing vulnerability. TL;DR arghgr your characterization is so good it makes me go a little feral

Also while I'm here, I'm curious whether you can give an answer to the degree to which Alastor is touch-averse. There's obviously a lot of ways in which he fundamentally dislikes touch but it also seems like there's at least some kinds of touch where he doesn't dislike the touch itself so much as he's afraid of the way it brings about feelings of caring and/or enjoyment being cared for. I'm curious how much, in general, you would say his touch aversion comes from either cause and possibly what kinds of touch do/don't provoke those flavors of aversion

Omg, what a lovely ask to receive. Honestly, everything you said that you enjoy about how I characterize these two is very much what I've been actively gunning for, so it's an absolute delight to see it outlined back to me. Success!!! Thank you so much!

And ahaha - I'm not a furry but I fucking love inhuman characters. Being raised in the pits of Homestuck fantroll RP made me enjoy the whole "they're bug/fish aliens" thing and it definitely rears its head again any time I encounter characters with inhuman qualities. I love writing Vox's TV/computer-ness and Alastor's deer and radio bits, and integrating them into who they now are as people.

As for Alastor's touch-aversion: It's funny that you ask about this, because the next chapter of 666 is going to dive into it a bit. Specifically into the fact that it's not, like, a set of boundaries that is consistently defined, and I write him that way on purpose. The very first time he and Vox sleep together, Alastor bottoms. He becomes significantly less amenable to touch after he goes through an uncomfortable rut cycle that gets sexual. By the time Vox convinces Alastor to fuck him, Alastor would never let Vox do that again and frankly only agrees to topping because Vox gave him an option that didn't involve getting his dick out. Then in the next episode, they're having clothes-off sexual contact. So, what gives?

Things that play into Alastor's willingness to touch and be touched as far as Vox is concerned:

How does he see Vox at that point in time? Disgustingly entitled (ew)? Hilariously beneath him (haha who cares)?

Does he care about what Vox thinks of him? Does Vox touching him draw his attention to positive or negative assumptions he has about Vox's perspective on doing so?

What value has he attached to this particular touch in the power balance of their relationship? Is he humoring Vox? Does he assume Vox thinks he's owed this? Does he perceive it as something Vox is genuinely doing for him?

Has he tried this particular kind of touch before? He's pretty willing to experiment, but that doesn't mean he'll do something twice without a compelling reason if he didn't like it the first time.

Is he getting off on this situation sexually? If so, is it fully willing (read: not a byproduct of uncomfortable hormones) on his part? That only really happens when he's in a submissive role and Vox is hitting a few very specific kinks, a major one of which is basically CNC tilted 30 degrees to the left.

Is he enjoying the touch in platonic ways? How does he feel about that? Is it a vulnerability to want something? Is it feeding his ego to be catered to? Is he worried that what he enjoys platonically is being read into in ways he doesn't like?

Is he fucking drunk? Things that bother you when sober often seem like a non-issue when you're not, both on a physical and emotional level.

How much touching has been happening recently? Has he hit his limit? Did he deliberately put himself into a situation earlier to have his limit be hit and surpassed, and now he's in the aftermath?

He does have a certain fundamental purely physical dislike of touch, but it's something that is really affected by how he perceives each individual situation as well as his relationship with Vox at that time, and his previous experiences!

#ask #personal #Anonymous #t #hazbin hotel #my writing #666 live on air #I'm not a furry but the perils of being agender aromantic and asexual #aka the full complement of “none of the above” box checks LOL #means that a lot of the time I feel vaguely detached from the ways people tend to even subconsciously define humanity #I think that's where a lot of my appreciation for inhuman traits in very human characters comes from #(also my favorite SFF genre is “non-human entity struggles with very human emotions” as well a la murderbot and imperial radsch) #(ANYWAY. tangent.) #long post

[tricoufamily]

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#villareal SWEEEEEEEEEEEEP #it's boring when there's cc i wish you could exclude tags so i could see only non cc posts #but this is the fall poster and first post in the top 10 good this is how it should be 🧘‍♂️ #the first post is my favorite post of the year and among my favorites ever <3 maybe my second favorite #i can't share my favorite favorite from my old blog bc it'd be spoilers but i'm so reposting it the second i can #and i kinda think even vaguely describing it would be spoilers bc it may have already been referenced in the story. in a way #why did you all like those paranormal investigators so much though #if i had known i would have used srwe on the full body shots they're so low quality it drives me crazy tbh lmao

[meadowlarkx]

people online who are themselves fans creatively adapting and innovating with their source material are getting so comfortable making posts like "fandom generally is sooo crazy when they make their blorbos kiss" "fanon is shitty (and whatever i hate counts as it)" and i'm getting 🛌🛌🛌 about it. what fandom. who in it. which fanons? i like meta discussions about the text/characterization/etc, but what's the point of looking down your nose at fans and fandom generally? i saw you at the devil's sacrament!

#you guys mean your fandom or a specific subset of it.... #also like #we are all here to engage with canon one way or another #but in my particular corner right now insisting on canon #is also the MO of all the racists insisting we can't imagine characters as non-white etc etc #and so on and so on #also this is not a vague at any of my beloved mutuals etc it's more frustrations bubbling up from twitter and from the very casual way #these attitudes appear at the beginning or end of perfectly good posts i agree with #i don't want to sound limiting to the like 'fans always do x :/' genre of critique but i think it could stand to be more specific #and use some i statements maybe. i often see this in my corner. i wish i saw more interest in x it's frustrating. #my posts #*i do hope ppl know it wasn't even a silm-specific post that made me want to make this one. just general attitudes of casual condescension

[xiewho]

hi guys please send me art reqs so i have something to draw while im in the car for a few millennia

#preferably the bad kids but ill draw whatevr #make it extremely specific. make it horribly vague. either is perfectly fine #huh what else am i into other than d20 #vocaloid orv hi3 omori .. i can do hermitcraft even tho ive not really caught up aha #i dont know a bunch of them eitehr im sawry. or i know them but ive never drawn thm before #have i told you guys about that one time i had extreme desertduo brainrot for a month straight. crazy times yeah #OHH VALORANT i forgot i was into val #some anime if i know it #if u give me a non-d20 character ive drawn before ill post old artwork to go along with it <3 #my art reqs have been open this entire time actually #like ive never announced it or anything but yk. its there !

[databent]

why the fuck is it that some people cant seem to acknowledge that people can just... be disabled. not through any fault of their own, not because something "happened" to them, just because, you know, sometimes people have disabilities. like, come on

#.pdf #rd #kd #just a warning these tags are long. like. really incredibly long. i had thoughts. #sorry for the vague ass post i'm just upset about some stupid shit my dad said yesterday. #namely: outright telling me that he doesn't believe i have non-24 (circadian rhythm disorder). #and that even if i do he doesn't believe it's possible for it to actually be a lifelong and disabling condition. #*also: this post isn't meant to imply that disabilities that did have some inciting incident are more accepted or anything. #it's just that i'm frustrated with the “you're disabled? why? what happened?” sentiment a lot of people seem to have. #nothing happened to cause my disability. i'm just like this. no i can't change it. what the fuck do you want me to tell you? #i'd guess it probably has to do with society's focus on work and productivity and career-mindedness above all else. #and when someone comes along that doesn't fit in with the way things are structured it just doesn't compute. #because the idea of people who can't dedicate their entire lives to working is so fundamentally contradictory to their view of... i don't- #-know. meaning in life? fulfillment? that they feel a need to reject the possibility altogether. #this is mainly when dealing with invisible disabilities from what i've seen. because i think there's a tendency to view visibly disabled- #-people as belonging to a different category altogether. which of course is its own issue but i'm not visibly disabled so i don't feel- #-like it's necessarily my place to speak on that. #anyway. i just want my struggles to be acknowledged as real. because they are. and i need people to understand that I Have A Disability. #albeit one many people don't even believe could be real because there's a sort of belief that circadian rhythms are purely a product of- #-external forces like sunlight so “you can't possibly have yours be different and have you tried just going outside more?” sigh. #sorry i also just remembered my dad telling me he doesn't believe i can have something so rare because the chances of having it are too low. #which is some ridiculous logic to me. rare doesn't mean it's impossible. some amount of people have to wind up with it regardless. #i just lucked out i guess. #n24 tag

[honeysuckle-venom]

I really, really, really liked the health coach (we decided since she's a nurse practitioner and not actually a nutritionist we'd call it health coaching). She was so so so nice and understood my background completely. She knew all about the anti-diet and fat acceptance movements and believes in them, while understanding that I'm in a tough position because of my tumors. I really feel like I can work with her to try to do this as healthily as possible. I'm so relieved.

#text post #my post #maybe i can even eat some 'unhealthy' things in moderation #maybe i won't die if i eat some non-whole wheat sourdough or white rice sometimes #maybe i can find more forms of movement that don't make me miserable #maybe. just maybe. i might be able to learn to trust my body a little bit. idk but maybe #these things seem vaguely almost possible in a way they did not 12 hours ago #weight loss cw

[winged-mammal]

I’d heard that all three endings made it clear that aloy was in fact a gay disaster over seyka regardless of your choice, but I hadn’t seen them yet. so naturally when I finished burning shores on ultra hard tonight (go me!), I recorded all three of them.

“I’m not ready for this” (brain) starts at 1:55, “this is too much for me” (fist) starts at 4:12, and “yes, I do” (heart) starts at 6:15

my gay thoughts:

I was not prepared for the “I’m not ready for this” option to be even gayer than the heart/kiss option, but she managed it!!! even the “this is too much for me” scene was, in fact, very gay. I was Not misled.

very juicy character stuff too

not gay but: “for two years my life has been...” ty aloy for clarifying the timeline for me

just prior to the hug in the "I’m not ready for this” scene, when seyka says “I’ll miss you, aloy,” they’re standing pretty close and seyka seems to be thinking about getting that bittersweet smooch anyway:

but after the “I’ll miss you, aloy” prior to the hug in the “this is too much for me” scene, they’re further apart and seyka is *not* contemplating going for it:

but the hug itself is the same in both of those scenes:

and of course the hug at the end of the heart option is much closer (and not seen from aloy’s side)

in conclusion, I have feelings

#god I wish there were another word for the fist option alkdsjflakjsdf #anyway the non-kissy options have some good juicy character stuff #and also I'm sure I'm not breaking any new ground here #but like I said I hadn't seen these collected anywhere #and even if they were #they probably wouldn't conform to my non-negotiable aloy armor requirements #namely that she's covering her VITAL ORGANS #(but also doesn't have a visible headpiece because I always toggle helmet visibility off in every game ever) #(yes that's vaguely hypocritical no I don't care) #hopefully yt's content monitor thing doesn't nuke this #idk how that works #it's fair gay use!! #horizon forbidden west #burning shores #burning shores spoilers #hfw burning shores spoilers #horizon forbidden west spoilers #hmm the list nests in the editor but not in the drafts #what will happen when I hit post? no one knows!!

[plushiehamuko]

it is kinda annoying to me that yall will call every fictional girl ever a lesbian just to justify that she'd NEVER date a man even if her love for a man is a fundamental part of her extremely good character arc

#squishy talks too much #squishy plays p3p #this post is about chidori yoshino. btw #SHE LOVES JUNPEI THIS IS A NON-NEGLIGIBLE FACT ABOUT HER #and like. i am the first girlie to hop on and say that not every love is romantic #but like. cmon. the context in p3 was not vague and i think junpei mentions proposing to her in one of the spinoffs. so let's be fr #you do not even have to ship jundori but it just feels weird to me how some of yall are so allergic to any woman being bisexual #- sincerely a lesbian

[annihilatius]

I honestly believe a lot of the pro-Palestine people on the left would be neo-Nazis if they were right wing because the amount of antisemitic propaganda you lot just eat up without an ounce of critical thought because it has the tag "Palestine" on it is genuinely horrifying.

#v.txt #antisemitism #im not saying you have to pick a side you should care about palestinians AND the innocent israelis being caught in crossfire #you can't say all palestinians shouldn't be to blame for hamas's actions (which they shouldn't if that wasn't clear) #and then say it doesn't matter if innocent israelis and israelian children are murdered because their government is bad #i know i said i don't like posting stuff like this but the 'propaganda' superbowl ad people are vagueing about #was a 'stop jewish hate' ad. it was not funded by israel. it was a non-profit organization with no proof it was made by zionists #and seeing people say 'there was something mentioning 'antisemitism' without any context behind it' makes me want to fucking puke. #antisemitism has skyrocketed exponentially since oct 7 with innocent jewish people being blamed for the actions of israel #and after the superbowl ad the entire internet has taken it as an invitation to publically broadcast how much they hate jewish people #you lot would rather literally spread blood libel rhoretic than just LISTEN to jewish people for once and it's so infuriatingly sad to see #all that im asking is just stop staying in your echo chamber that constantly spreads antisemitic conspiracy theories #and learn how antisemitic rhetoric actually spreads from jewish people talking about it instead of ignoring it like it doesn't exist #if you refuse to do that because you think not being antisemitic is contradictory to supporting palestine #then don't even bother saying your blog is safe for jewish people. it never will be until you stop reblogging from neo-nazis

[kjzx]

An important thing to remember as an artist that started out drawing characters crudely and then started learning the fundamentals, at first your art will not look nice.

At first, drawing faces and bodies in different positions will make your characters look weird, then poor perspective will make your characters look weird, and finally when all the kinda things I mentioned above will be dealt with, just the hype of finally knowing how to draw anatomy will bite you in the ass because you can do all these things, you can draw them correctly or close to that, but whether that's figure drawing knowledge gaps, or awkwards poses/composition, or just not a very harmonious combination of realism and stylization in facial features or in general, but your before and after pictures might get this look of "clear objective technical improvement but many would consider it a downgrade"

That's a very common thing. I used to be in this before/after art community, and it was so toxic it was a meme within the community that no matter how much you've improved there will be people that will say that the before is better. There's a seed of truth to these words though, what they fundamentally get wrong is this implication that you "ruined your art"

That's a big example of why you shouldn't listen to non-art people for art advice. Keep going. You're closer to your art dreams than you ever were, you just need to look into all these things like the remaining knowledge gaps or personality to your art you might've lost as you were on your anatomy grind.

Keep creating, keep looking at art that inspires you and try to think of how to make yourself like your art better. Don't get stuck on it, if it begins being unfun, please do take a breather. Also, none of that is objective, people will still prefer things different to what you find beautiful. It's alright, create what you like, that's what this post is about. If you don't wanna, don't focus on aesthetics, just the process of creating art is fun and will eventually get you in the right place, that's what I do, I just occasionally throw in things I like and sometimes they work. Take care.

These are my current thoughts on the topic. I wouldn't take them too close to heart, this is just a blogging site and I'm blogin 👍

#Art #Art tips #Art community #Art advice #Technicality wise I have a very very long way to go #But as someone who finally started seeing and incorporating what I genuinely Like in my art it's a bit like opening my art #folder or sketchbook and kind of getting a feeling like I'm on a page of an artist I like and would actually follow #(Not bc of how I currently handle posting my art and how I choose pieces to post but I'm talking about my art archives so regardless) #An insane feeling #Also!!!!! #I chose not to include it in the post because it stood out against the main point of the post #but what the so-called Tumblr art style is all about is kind of related to this #Most of the people you'll see if you google Tumblr artstyle would have 'passable' or even 'decent' art #if they sticked to drawing thin anime girls with Eurocentric features #Current art idea floating around or almost like an unspoken rule: #If you wanna draw fat people/non Eurocentric features/disabilities or any minorities you gotta be a level above the people drawing today's #conventional beauty standards to be considered an equal to them among *gestures vaguely* #I hate that but that's something you have to keep in mind as you deal with art criticism #And as opposed to that #By harmonious in this post I mean very vague ideas and the many many ways you can stylize a real person #These are two ideas you can't detach from each other entirely but I do believe that we can discuss them separately #Just because a good drawing of an ethnic minority is going to be judged harsher than an opposite of that doesn't make it the worse drawing #Again that's why you gotta dismiss opinions of people who don't draw well and by that I'm obv talking artists better than me #Just getting that out of the way #//rambles #My thoughts on this whole topic inspired by this tweet that called the Tumblr art style too ambitious for the artists' skills and that #if anything that's something that should be praised in people #I thought that's a very interesting topic in a wider sense #I strayed away from it but as you might've noticed I wrote a post on the topic in the tags anyways #Sigh

[spaceofentropy]

That feeling when you see a good piece of fanart but have to tie your own hands behind your back to stop yourself from commenting "if [character] swung that weapon that way, they would do no damage at all!"

#scheduling this for a random date so it can be an even vaguer vague post #non voglio essere una pigna in culo #io ci provo davvero

[greenerteacups]

Hey GT why are you reblogging Krumione gifsets huh why is that??? GT?

I HAD A POINT TO MAKE!!!!!

#i couldnt SAY THIS on the post bc i didnt want to rub my little dramione hands all over someone's kh post #but my POINT was something something like hermione has a taste for stern surly types who are good at things #canonically both men she dates are good-hearted dudes who can kind of be assholes #actually krum isn't an asshole. he's just extremely frowny and taciturn #anyway hermione likes an edge!!! shes a teenage girl she sees a hot dude from the Vaguely Evil School #and she's like ah great. she doesn't even care about quidditch she's just here for the dude #sidebar i saw someone in the comments worrying that lionheart would have a 'dating other people arc' #and to that i can only say god bless you take me for someone so much more patient than i am #i cannot write chemistry for non-endgame couples to save my life i cannae do it #in particular i do not see viktor and hermione dating long-term. i don't think it would work for a number of reasons #especially in the context of my fic

[sbc-moved]

This is literally me rn 🗣️

#I’m vague posting but like. I’m allowed #like actually. don’t you guys have anything better to do than worry about my LITERALLY NON EXISTENT PROBLEM #A PROBLEM WHICH I DO NOT EVEN HAVE #you’re all just as bad as everyone else. you really fucking are #whatever #♡.bullet proof heart

[vocesincaput]

OPEN STARTER: Genevieve Hawkins

Genevieve had come to both love and hate whenever Edmund would hold any kind of gathering or party or ball or anything at their house. She would be excited to get to mingle with people, to be anywhere but upstairs and out of the way.

And she hated the fact that the gatherings were the only time she was allowed to mingle with anyone besides Edmund himself or the servants of the household. That she would be forced to put on a smile and only be allowed to say what her husband approved for her to say. Only be allowed to speak with who she was allowed to speak and would never be allowed to leave his side.

This was one of the nights where her husband was a foul mood but putting on a false smile. His men had lost a battle earlier that day due to some false intel he had received and the whole household had been on edge ever since. Edmund hadn't let go of her for the whole evening so far and Genevieve was struggling to keep the fake smile upon her lips. Even with how practiced she had become with it over the previous 5 years.

What she wouldn't give to be free from him. To be free from the prison she had been in since her father had married her off for his own gain.

Genevieve was stood dutifully at Edmund's side, smile close to faltering as she pretended to listen. Eyes slowly wandering around the room until they met those of someone on the opposite side of the room.

#ic #muse: genevieve hawkins #open starter #open starter: genevieve hawkins #starter: genevieve hawkins #open to mutuals #non rp blogs do not interact #non rp blogs dni #non rp blogs will be blocked #non mutuals do not interact #//please continue in a new post #//as it helps me keep track of things easier #//i tried to keep timing vague #//as i am still only 4 eps into turn when im writing it #//if anything is incorrect or doesnt work #//let me know and i can edit/change #//ive never specified where they live either #//so the party/gathering can be anywhere #//the other muse could be anyone who may find themselves at the gathering #//even someone from the opposing side of the war...

[khaotunq]

can I sue you for emotional damage for all the beautiful and gorgeous and just soulwrecking GIFs you dropped into your friends ask box? yes? thank you.

non, i'm gonna level with u. right now i would let you do literally anything you want to me.

that was not meant to sound as dirty as it does reading it back but. I guess.

ok so listen i'm fighting back tears on public transport because I so rarely get asks/anons and i have had an unbelievably bad day today so gimme a sec here

what I mean to say is yes.

(hey google how can I turn litigation into an elaborate and also maybe borderline aggressive marriage proposal)

#so it is decreed #ask post #anonymous #for rainy days #because i want to come back and cry about this for years to come #it's all very a lot #i'm so [gestures vaguely] about this ask #thank u non #i wish for u to have the most perfect and fulfilling existence #tbh for someone who doesnt fuck w the idea of marriage in any regard i sure do threaten it a lot #its no less sincere tho #if anything i think it goes to my credit #i dont want to be married i dont particularly even wish to cohabitate #so me offering to marry people is sort of me being like i would do it #i would do it for u #jesus christ jay go get ready to leave and stop adding tags to an already posted thing #i just worry that i didnt express my sudden and violent desire to protect this non for the rest of my life