#or completely wasted

[wattemeer]

“But someday you'll find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.”

#my art #haikyuu!! #kagehina #hinata shouyou #kageyama tobio #been a while ;_; #I'm in the process of moving atm #I hope once I've settled in completely and everything is done I will feel more motivated to draw again #I miss drawing #I hate this feeling like I'm wasting so much time that I could use to get better 😞 #anyway 😍 I will not give up

[itsjustevil]

I love how the big bad is one of the most confused people in this whole ordeal is the big bad.

Major villains who have complete control over everything and mastermind literally the whole plot are out, and major villains who are absolutely flabbergasted by the heroes and just out of the depths in how fucked everything is going for them are in.

#to go into a little bit of a tangent #I've always been a little bit miffed when writers take mastermind villains too far #Really takes away the heroes' agency when literally everything they've done in a story #including their victories and triumphs #is all according to the villain's grand master plan #it makes everything that happened to that point feel like a waste of time more than it makes the villain seem intelligent and impressive #so Sissel's little spiraling here is very much to my liking #He's not in complete control and i love that #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon

[eccentricmya]

The Valar's mistake did not lie in seeing a possibility of good in Melkor. Rather, their mistake lay in not seeing the equal possibility of him remaining evil.

#i do not think nienna was completely wrong to argue for a second chance for him #if we reject all possibility of repentance n change then we reject the very idea of life itself #life means growth means growing pains... if one mistake is all it takes to end it then there is no meaning to it at all #in any case while melkor squandered his second chance the idea that feanor n his sons do not even get a second chance to waste is just wron #everybody deserves a second chance. but we also need to mitigate any side effect of such mercy #the valar should have been more proactive in monitoring melkor's rehabilitation #they should've had countermeasures in place in case he was up to no good again #so while nienna did her job right but the rest of the valar should've done theirs too #melkor #morgoth #the valar #nienna #feanor? #silmarillion

[stood-onthecliffside]

PRESENTING YA YA BY BEYONCE

#i wasted my braincells + time into making a medicore edit when i should be studying <3 as usual <3 took months to complete <3 #beyonce edit #act ii cowboy carter #dirty dancing #dirty dancing 1987 #cowboy carter #ya ya beyonce #userreh #tsusermels #tuserhaz #userjake #tsuserbee #userbymine #useraashna #tsuservio #tsuserjen #usercellphonehippie #tsuserclaire #usercruelstyle #tsusermeggie #usersar #userpenny #useredith

[shripscapi]

I’m extremely normal about the fishing game 👍

#dredge #dredge game #my art #some secret lore about me is i’m a fishing minigame enthusiast #I have a complete critterpedia in acnh. complete collection in sdv. and waste most of my time on minecraft fishing #so basically I was the target audience for dredge #i’ll go back to posting my normal stuff but I needed to get the fishies out of my system

[lovegrowsart]

it's pretty wild to me that people don't see that aang running off to save katara in CoD is his luke in empire strikes back moment, where he runs headlong into his want and attachment and he's narratively punished for doing so and not learning his lesson - aang runs after katara despite guru pathik's warning, like luke runs after leia and han from yoda on dagobah despite yoda's warning; similarly, as a result, things go to hell in ba sing se like they do on bespin - aang enters the avatar state before he's ready and gets killed, and ba sing se falls to the fire nation, luke fights vader before he's ready, loses a hand, and symbolically commits suicide after vader tells him he's luke's father.

the difference between their character arcs is that george lucas and co. actually went thru with luke's hero's journey and understood the fundamental difference between attachment and love, whereas I don't think bryke understood this difference and then dropped this from aang's arc pretty much completely and replaced it with aang digging in his heels into his want and attachment and he gets rewarded with energy bending from a lion turtle, the avatar state from a random pointy rock, and his forever girl from the self-indulgent white men that couldn't bring themselves to give their hero a compelling character arc that meant he might not have gotten everything he wanted at the end.

#the wasted potential of aang's arc gets to me so bad #the narrative and thematic set up is entirely there and they just shove it in the bin lmao #it especially irks as someone raised buddhist and dealing with writers that invoke these themes out of a fascination #with the religion and philosophy but then a complete unwillingess to actually commit to what those themes require of the character arcs #anyway sorry to say it #but zuko's arc does a better job embodying buddhist themes than aang's does in the end #despite all misappropriated aesthetics to the contrary #aang critical #but its really the writing like i LIKE aang i love his potential i hate how self indulgently he's written by the end of the show #atla critical #meta* #holly talks bs #also yes it would've been better narratively for aang katara zuko to the go the way of luke leia han #even if katara couldn't have been revealed as aang's surprise secret twin lmao #the thematic conceit of the triangle is the same in that luke and aang get over their infatuation with the first pretty girl he sees #and becomes the hero he needs to be #meanwhile hanleia and zutara are saving each other and being cool and kissing #anyway

[dostoyevsky-official]

why do you dislike duolingo? (assuming ur hatred isn’t recent, because Duolingo has taken a nosedive after the ai integration)

i didn't know about the ai integration. it was always bad because fill-in-the-blank sentences with zero context are not how anyone seriously learns a language. the only thing duolingo has down correct is that you have to spend some time reviewing, if not learning, every single day. i was able to quickly learn enough A1/A2 italian to get by in two weeks by going through a few grammar and phrase books for introductory students. you need to know the explicit rules, the verb forms, adjective modifications, irregular patterns, you need to see them all on a chart, and then you need to copy those charts by hand. whenever i see anyone brag about their streak, i seriously doubt whether they know much at all of the language they're learning.

the gameified apps for language learning that do work are anki cards, (especially for mandarin), memrise, conjugaison, and quizlet, which were all free when i used them extensively. reverso context is not a game memorization app, but it's phenomenal

#it has not worked for me even as a supplemental tool. it is a complete waste of time. get a bescherelle #i believe quizlet is no longer free #granted basic italian for someone who knows* french is not difficult But i need the specifics quickly - not the apples are green today #* allegedly

[bourbon-moon]

Should I tattoo my legs?

#If I do I’d want to eventually cover them completely #they’re such wide canvases #it seems like a waste not to #me #legs #thighs #hairy #stomach #muscle #thick #mine #latino #gay #lgbtq+ #bear #cub

[larabar]

putting him through it

#messing with expressions again. hes like playdough #not happy with all of these but i wanna do the whole page because you need to see how crowded my sketchbook gets💥 #ive had this one for nearly a year because i draw on both sides of a page which. is not recommended #but i feel like im wasting space if i dont so :/ complete mess it is #anyways i love my highlighters. made for him #sth #doodles

[oshaskell]

Dozing noblewoman and her strange young friend.

#bbc ghosts #sophie bone #bbc ghosts robin #bbc ghosts art #art entry #Robin's hair is so much fun :') #tumblr compressed this to hell and back it seems </3 #making as much art as i can before i go back to work next week. RIP #every other month i get frustrated because I can't line art very well anymore and then remember how much more fun lineless painting is #and roll my eyes at myself for having wasted my own time and by the same time the next month ive completely forgotten #<- cursed by adhd bad memory to repeat the same mistakes #now for blog archival purposes: #green #neutrals

[luuxxart]

so I might have gone a little insane about howl’s moving castle yesterday

[au infographic under the cut!!]

#howl au #shuake #akeshu #persona 5 #persona 4 #howl’s moving castle #goro akechi #akira kurusu #takuto maruki #tohru adachi #naoto shirogane #morgana #nanako dojima #akane hasegawa #IDK WHY I REWATCJED IT YESTERDAY I WAS JUST COMPELLED #and then my brain was like ahahaha what if Akira howl #i really didn’t want to make anyone witch of the wastes but. my brain was like. hey. what if Maruki #and then it spun into a whole thing almost completely divorced from howl’s canon plot #[i should note I didn’t want to make anyone witch of the wastes for a hot minute there bc. she’s supposed to be. leagues older than howl] #[and thats uh. that’s tricky] #you will never escape uncle Adachi au #it is ever present in all my aus #i literallt cannot see one without the other #also no one ever makes the Sophie inserts old. like. why. are u scared of sometin lmao #scared of old man yaoi #???

[wistfulwatcher]

Leverage Redemption | 2.01 "The Debutante Job"

#leverage redemption #leverageredemptionedit #sophie devereaux #leverageverse #mine #edit #* #scene* #ok i did one whole set off my to do list i didn't completely waste today 😂

[shopwitchvamp]

The Three Fates

#aka: what it's like to be on twitter right now #shitpost #twitter #twitter screenshot #everyday i think to myself why am i even bothering to post on twitter #it's a ghost town filled with pussy in bio bots #when i look at posts from last year and see how much they got shared vs anything i post this year i really have to stop and wonder if #it is a complete waste of time and i should just abandon my twitter #anyways #at least i can make a dumb post out of this

[aurosoulart]

hey. artists who make process videos but want to expend the least amount of effort possible:

fake that shit. finish your piece and then make your lineart white and color it back in. mask your color layers and then un-mask them with brushstrokes. choose something eye catching to copypaste and do that a couple times. add bits of glow/sparkle/foliage/freckles/whatever else is relevant

if you get like three shots like this and then have the rest be video of your finished work no one will know. no one will CARE I promise. do not give your soul to the Microcontent Wheel it is Not worth it

#auropost #signed: someone who used to get stuck trying to record aesthetic footage #and then had to edit large amounts of video #for the sake of getting ~*authentic*~ shots of me actually working #it’s a waste of time!!!! completely!!!! #if social media is gonna force me into bullshit content formats i’m gonna cut so many goddamn corners #anyways i do this constantly and am much better off for it

[dontflirt]

THE BOYZ — [PHANTASY] Pt.3 Love Letter #Memory

#the boyz #ot11 #myedits #blood tw #tbzinc #kpopccc #malegroupsnet #rosieblr #higabi #usersemily #melontrack #eritual #useroro #userfairy #awekslook #userlovevivi #I stand by deleting my first post #but gabi said they were pretty 🥺 #so I whittled them down for the effort to not completely go to waste #still eh about them but I feel less sh!tty now #I fixed a few a bit more and got here #double cob bc obviously

[uncanny-tranny]

Your life isn't a to-do list. You're allowed to exist, to take life as slow as you'd like. The dreams you have won't suddenly disappear. It's okay to stop and smell the roses, or to engage with "childish" things, or to recover, or do what you need to.

#positivity #encouraging words #life doesn't need to be a speedrun or a 100% run #sometimes it feels like i'm wasting my life but... who gets to tell me what is wasteful? i'm surviving out here and that's okay #and it's okay if you're also somebody who people think is 'wasting your life' #that's such a meaningless and frankly a very cruel thing to say to a person #because you'll see people call somebody's life wasteful because they're simply coping with disability/mental illness/grief/ect #it's a meaningless saying to tell somebody how YOU think they're wasting life. your life isn't a waste point-blank #we ought to be kinder to ourselves for choosing what we want/need out of our lives rather than placating to what is imposed on us... #...or the expectations we impose on ourselves #be kinder to yourself whenever you can. it's hard as hell but please choose kindness toward yourself #just something i thought about and felt like it was impirtant to me #i couldn't complete high school 'on time' because of covid and because i was in crisis. i felt so much shame about that. i felt stupid... #...i felt unworthy. but who decided that i am those things? the crisis i was in could have killed me. i couldn't deal with school then... #...it humbled me because i had to learn that i am not immune to needing to be kind to myself. i am human - i'm not a mindless drone... #...you aren't a mindless drone either. you are an individual. you deserve to feel safe. you deserve understanding and compassion... #...but not ONLY from others. you deserve it from yourself as well