#one more for my own amusement

[reineydraws]

this ask got me thinking about the body swap au again lol here's a wip for what is eventually going to become a sketch dump post for the au aha. whenever i finish that.

#mishanks body swap au #mishanks #akataka #dracule mihawk #shanks #akagami no shanks #red haired shanks #one piece #one piece fanart #op fanart #it is SO weird to draw mihawk's face with a smile that big #and his eyebrows that earnestly happy lol. i know there's a canon panel/chapter cover of him laughing pretty big #but even in that one his eyebrows have a sort of > slant to them yknow? like. not mean but like. assured? #that is not an eyebrow shape mihawk makes often is what im sayin #benn when mihawk-as-shanks walks out of the captains quarters: woah where did u find shanks's boots? #also i didnt know shanks owned shirts like that? #(that shirt is a black blouse lol) #and mihawk is like 'actually this is one of my own shirts that i forgot here after one of my... sleepovers.' (he's started to blush.) #benn's grin is wide and VERY teasing. 'oh?' he asks in a question that lilts up with amusement. #mihawk finds it more grating than if benn just straight up made fun of him lol.

[rockethorse]

So far, Calcinidae Bay has:

A public primary & secondary school

A sports field

One public library

A spa

A cinema

One hotel/restaurant (somewhat fancy)

A city hall

A water park

A mall (supermarket, tech store, chain restaurant, chain cafe, jewellery, newsagency, clothing)

A train station

A small organic store/cafe

A pawn shop with an apartment upstairs

One apartment lot with 4 individual flats

10~ residential lots

The Kitstop (important)

What do you think I should prioritise next? 🤔 I'd love to build a park/playground but I really want those to fit into the surrounding lots & suburbs, so I can't really build them until I've built said lots, LOL.

What would YOU build next?

#I wanna do an apartment building but that's really just for my own amusement #I'm trying to identify what this town actually NEEDS and feelin kinda stumped #I guess my heart says it should probably be a clinic/pharmacy but I'm wondering what else #Calcinidae Bay #no idea is too silly or too mundane I wanna hear what you would do in my position #when I get to this stage in BaCCs I also get kinda lost on where to go next lol #actually it really needs a more generic cafe bc the ones we have are kinda niche #and a restaurant #looking at this is so funny. like mayor! mayor! our citizens are dying and we don't have any sort of medical centre! #i hear you. build a water park

[gramophoneturtle]

"You Must Become Bunny Buddies."

Or Face True Exorcism. A Totally Serious Task. Or something. I don't know (inspiration).

Anyways, this is where Minamimoto's Birthday picture came from. Now here's the rest of the...original idea. And doodles. There is no explanation, only silliness.

#twewy #twewy spoilers #ntwewy #ntwewy spoilers #neo the world ends with you spoilers #sho minamimoto #yoshiya joshua kiryu #joshua kiryu #ahdoc twewy au #sorta? not really? but i'll stick it under there #i had fun making joshua's...half? of the border #it probably ended up too detailed but ah well #full-er? idea: if there's angel trials i'm sure one will give somethinf and not required like opt wall reapers #and while they may have said become bunny buds they meant more of dress as matching bunnies. or something. or their amusement #let me have my goofy angels like the goofy wall reapers but with their own flavor #...i guess if you look at what my ocs father and mother are like then i guess i'm on that track already #you know what. sure. this was Father's idea and Joshua is playing along I suppose #my twewy series art #my art

[essektheylyss]

It is wild to me how many people are like, "hahaha op's speech did nothing," as if I am running and participating in these polls to get validation for my blorbo. If I just wanted to be content with my blorbo, I would absolutely not be tossing him up on a platform to be heckled for a week straight. I would be retreating to some echo chamber Discord server to experience the emotional equivalent of everyone gathering around and petting a puppy.

I literally do not think Essek is going to win this poll! I do not think he is going to win the tournament! I seeded Laerryn number one for a reason! For a number of factors I think it would be very difficult for anyone to beat her! I literally put him and Laerryn on the same side of the bracket so that they would not end up in the final, because I did not think it was going to be an interesting fight! We as a fandom beat "Laerryn could smash any wizard in Exandria without contest" into the ground weeks ago! I considered writing a stump speech just for kicks for every semifinalist, because I like to argue things and I love playing up a ridiculous and meaningless kayfabe!

But like, Laerryn has swept many polls, and it's deeply boring to me if she wins in a landslide. I am a polling nerd, and I can confirm that no one watches landslide races. They are not interesting. And this is fully just for the fun of it, so I am gonna make it interesting.

If there's no challenge, no consideration of how the other side might win, then what the fuck is the point of running a tournament?

In conclusion:

#this is incidentally also why I am campaigning on behalf of veth's big naturals. #it's also why I pushed for oremid hass to take ludinus out in the first round! #I am here for my own amusement and no other reason #like tbh too much opinion in fandom these days that everything is about 'winning' #your ship becoming canon ahead of all the other ships. your fave coming out on top. NO. #fandom is about having fun and making up fictional shit with no stakes for your own amusement. #like this has happened in other places where people get SO vicious when something turns out other than someone was lobbying for #in this weird schadenfreude kind of way #and it's like...... this says more about how seriously those people are taking it than anything else lol #also it's a weird comment to make anyway cuz essek has gained 3 or 4 percent since I posted that lmfao #which was genuinely more than I expected lol #anyway wild anyone thinks I'd be pressed about writing one speech when I write so much goddamn fic regardless of whether people read it #(people often do! which is great and lovely! but there are plenty of things that no one read lol and I still love them) #cannot stress enough that I am HERE FOR FUN.

[serpentjoe96]

I’m just saying, there’s two kinds of creators.

(Don’t have a source for the VivziePop one but here’s the video)

#not criticizing either one #honestly I’m probably more like Jhonen and would HATE if my characters were being interpreted wrong #Jhonen isn’t talking about Ships in the video but I couldn’t find a specific illustration that fit better than that screenshot. #jhonen vasquez #vivziepop #helluva boss #hazbin hotel #invader Zim #invader Zim creator #invaderzim #invader zim #iz #i still think Jhonen is an asshole though… #a very clever and talented asshole but I am always getting the vibe that he creates his art for his own amusement and money #he knows he’s brilliant and he’s an arrogant prick

[theotherrichardpapen]

Reading List 2023-2024 📚

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Song or Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Myth of the Wrong Body - Miquel Missé

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Remainder - Tom McCarthy

If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Bones and All - Camille DeAngelis

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

Diaries - Franz Kafka

Frankenstein - Mary Shelly

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales - H. P. Lovecraft

The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

1984 - George Orwell

The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer

Unnatural Causes - Dr Richard Shepherd

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes - Eric LaRocca

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Trial of the Templars - Malcolm Barber

Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

Demian - Hermann Hesse

Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

The Atlas Six - Olivie Blake

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reids

Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo

Vita Nostra - Maryna & Serhiy Dyachenko

Pageboy: A Memoir - Elliot Page

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodr Dostoevsky

(updated: 03/01/24)

#doing this for my own amusement more so than anything else #just thought it'd be fun to put it all down somewhere and periodically cross off whenever i finish another one #i want to see how far i get before the year is over #although going back to studies fall time is putting a serious hamper on things because now #time is spent reading cases or watching lectures or doing assessments instead... #technically the secret history was started last year but if i remember correctly i finished it this year #so thought I'd put it there for the sake of it #some of these are rereads too like gatsby or dorian gray #i'm debating whether or not to add 120 Days of Sodom by Maquis de Sade on here ... #a coworker suggested it to me but with the forewarning it's probably the most messed up piece of literature I'll ever come across #watch this list probably have more books added to it #no particular order to this list just the way books are stacked on the shelf so expect the currently reading to not go numerically #literature #reading #tbr list

[joycrispy]

1000 Year Old Vampire update:

Tristram's grandmother sold him to One Direction.

#1000 year old vampire #okay not really #she sold him to a different more powerful immortal being #who needed a Renfield; so to speak #but maybe I'll name said immortal after one of the 1D members. For my own amusement. #eta: Niall the Nephilim is a very serious addition to the Lore. #wip: the road to awe

[faeymouse]

Finally finishing up “State of Mind” after starting and stopping it over multiple days, and the one benefit of doing that is going “Wait a second, isn’t that the car that Able crashed in the episode where he meets Tron for a date in gridbug country?” 

I guess they found it? Fixed it up only for it to get totaled again lmao

#tron uprising #faey watches #do not quote me on this i don't think its the exact same one #but the inside of the truck is very familiar after how long i spent laughing at that screengrab bowie made of Able driving it with his head #sorry neck at a 90 degree angle #it's a garage they definitely have more then one #but for my own amusement i want it to be the same one. let it be the cabbage guy cart of tron uprising plz

[princekirijo]

Writing Shadow Ops lore is pretty fun actually

#by which i mean lore i just made up lmao #i have been reading the wiki + watching arena cutscenes to try get as much lore as i can #but there's only so much out there u know #plus its fun to imagine how the organization has evolved since arena #obvs this is for captain so the organization is at least 20+ years old? #but yeah. #i won't lie its pretty damn basic because im kinda just messing around at the moment #but still pretty fun #its also for a post captain story that kinda uhm popped into my head recently #set a few years after captain #tbh i dont know if i'll ever like talk about it because it is so self indulgent and its one of those it started as a joke but now its not #and so obvs inspired by a series that i am kinda fixated on atm that im a litte embarrassed 💀 #but eh its all for my own amusement anyway so live laugh love besties am i right #<- im sorry i am unironically obsessed with saying live laugh love its just so funny to me #anyways i do wish we got more on the shadow ops in game and like what kinda things they do but ig ill just run with what i have

[hanjoj]

Karkat offers you his hand, will you take it?

#a background??? in my post?? it's more likely than you think #i'm rly just making up scenarios for my own amusment #ugh take me on adventures you stupid alien #karkat vantas #I love karkat so fucking much #hot karkat summer #homestuck #karkat #one day i'm gonna finish a fic i swear to god #it's gonna be a blatant self insert #hanjojs fanart

[yardsards]

local man forced to think about their father: one dead, countless injured.

#eliot posts #i just got a gift in the mail from him #he almost always gave us gifts on valentines day #it's like. he was sweet sometimes yknow? #but he's also the same man who shoved me against a wall and threatened to stab me in a fit of drunken rage that one time #he used to put me on his shoulders to pick fruit from the tall branches to bake pies with #he also used to mock me til i was near tears for his own amusement #he'd stay in my bed with me when i was little and gave myself nightmares from watching too many of those cryptid documentaries #but also he stunk of booze and once was so drunk he pissed himself in my bed and i had to scrub myself off before going to kindergarten #it's. easier to deal with my feelings about my mother in some ways #she was just. pretty consistently awful. #sometimes the *ways* in which she was awful varied (i think she's who i inherited the bipolar from) #like would it be violent controlling manic or distant avoidant depressed? it was a surprise #but i could kinda count on the fact that like yeah whatever she sees me as a burden no matter what. whatever. #but with my dad... oof. much more complicated. #abuse mention

[danthropologie]

2023 f1 voice challenge // tagged by @yesloulou

1. what do you go by? 2. where are you from? 3. who is your favorite driver? 4. sell us on your favorite driver: why do you love him? why should we? 5. what race are you most looking forward to? 6. what race would you take off the calendar completely? 7. what is your hottest f1 take? 8. what is your most generic f1 take? 9. tell us a story. any story at all 10. and finally, tag five mutuals to do their own version of the voice challenge

i don't know who has and hasn't done it or who has or hasn't been tagged, but i'm tagging @firemanseb, @its-always-silly-season, @whewchilly, @shuntedmate, @sea-shelly if you want! no pressure, as per usual obviously!

#the way this showcases more than anything that anytime i speak i'm speaking to an audience of one PURELY for my own amusement #tag game #mine

[neonicclover]

Hello people who may be interested. I made a blog where I will now but my thought ramblings. It's essentially a really weird diary but ppl can just look at it. Which I guess is what blogging is, really.

It'll likely be abt all kinds of stuff. From things I'm watching. My cat. Lots of psychological ramblings; analyzing myself, observations of society, frequent social media users, taking the time to break down someone's absurd reaction or conclusion about something- not in defense, but to give a clearer picture on what... may be going on in their head. Might post some theories on the human mind as well.

I'll probably reblog this from time to time for anyone who doesn't know about it and is interested, or just wants to know it exists for when I elaborate on a specific topic. Like maybe a character or media you like.

#in other words I'll almost definitely still ramble in the tags on posts #but it'll be shorter more often and I'll have a cut off point where anything further is put on this new blog #this is also a nice ref for myself in case I want to share that I've talked about something in detail before #as a sort of memory place for my self. etc #NeoCells #it added too much to the post itself but if you are curious the title there is an inside joke I have with my younger brother #It's in the tune of the B-A-R-B-I-E barbie girl jingle. but it's the website version... but I can't seem to find it. same melody though #we put as much unnecessary filler into it as possible and would speed run those words to (badly) to fit the short melody #not sure why ''melon'' but it may have been because melon on it's own is a really short website name. until all the extra words were added #it was VERY funny at the time and now it's just regular funny but still amusing and fun to do #2STS #(that's my sibling tag but I don't feel like making a new tag for this like one thing jsdfjs)

[gildedmuse]

Em: Oh, hey, you do those Tumblr thing, right?

Me: I have a free Tumblr account which I post on, yes.

Em: Shut up, I mean those - where they, wait Henry's sister was talking about them. You know! You ask someone for advice about dating someone but they're all fictional.

Me: *Where is this coming from?* Yeah, I think I know what you're talking about. Why? What's up?

Em: His little sister mentioned liking them and a lot of them are gender fluid friendly. She's into some of the same animes so I told her to look you up.

Me: ...

Me: ...

Me: That's cool she mentioned that. Also, that's not at all my tumblr's vibe.

Em: You mentioned people asking stuff mostly about-

Me: People send me asks like, "Hey wouldn't Zoro and Law be hot as cops?" And I say, "Yes, also about 500 other things, let me name them all." Which is kind of the opposite.

Me: I would be one the last people on Tumblr you'd send that ask.

Me: Okay your prompt is "Law, just realizing he has a kink for high heels"

Me: "He mentioned wanting to try this new bistro and you decide to dress up, make a date of it, and you're sitting there enjoying the breeze on the patio and suddenly a green haired boy with a tight little ass walks by, a pair of glittery green stilettos casually tossed over his shoulder, and from the state of his stocking-"

Me: Why are you crying? You didn't like it?

Em: ...Okay, I get your point.

#i think they were more afraid I would keep going #they were only a little high #me: how high were you when you sent this child towards my non-child friendly side of the internet! #one piece as a family activity! #it hurts me so much that I have three siblings who are a bit geeky in their own greats ways #and not a single one of them has that much interest in fandom #as the oldest and the one who they tur to in their moment of asking for good book or netflix suggestion it hurts my soul #one piece #roronoa zoro #trafalgar d. water law #trafalgar law #zolaw #not the vibe on this particular blog #It's not that I dislike them #I don't think most send those asks hoping the reply 'Oh but do you know who SO would so want to be with' #amusing musings #in fairness Law would SO be into high heels right then #you'd suddenly learn an alarming of suspiciously opinions he has on high heels #Also it was 4 am for me and 1 am for them so....

[randomthunk]

Needed to shake off the dust, so I tinkered around a bit with some ghosts for Barnaby. I do think about that fox spirit that was hitting on him from time to time.

#oxventure #oxventure in the dark #barnaby fortescue iii #fanart #kat arts #ox fanart #outside of my own Ghostly Japes fun if Barnaby has like a fox youkai hanging around him #I for one will be amused #damn I just need more Ox in the Dark I am eager for it to return #yeah I was getting married and then went on my honeymoon so that takes a lot of time |D