#outsider is just out of frame

[broken-grace112]

Working on a drawing meme and was struggling to draw Daud so out of frustration I did the only sensible thing and I made him into a balloon People who draw Daud so beautifully, how do you do it? ;0;

#dishonored #dishonored: death of the outsider #billie lurk #daud #dishonored 2 #it's the “what do you have” “a knife!” meme btw #outsider is just out of frame #I gave him a knife to make his balloon life a little more violent just as he would have liked #shall push through the daud struggle >:O the meme shall be made! #dh #dishonored doto #ngl contemplated making daud a ghost XD that feels rude though - balloon however open territory #art #artists on tumblr

[communistkenobi]

The deeply moralist tone that a lot of discussions about media representation take on here are primarily neoliberal before they are anything else. Like the shouting matches people get into about “purity culture” “pro/anti” etc nonsense (even if I think it’s true that some people have a deeply christian worldview about what art ought to say and represent about the world) are downstream of the basic neoliberal assumption that we can and must educate the public by being consumers in a market. “Bad representation” is often framed as a writer’s/developer’s/director’s/etc’s failure to properly educate their audience, or to educate them the wrong way with bad information about the world (which will compel their audience to act, behave, internalise or otherwise believe these bad representations about some social issue). Likewise, to “consume” or give money to a piece of media with Bad Representation is to legitimate and make stronger these bad representations in the world, an act which will cause more people to believe or internalise bad things about themselves or other people. And at the heart of both of those claims is, again, the assumption that mass public education should be undertaken by artists in a private market, who are responsible for creating moral fables and political allegories that they will instil in their audiences by selling it to them. These conversations often become pure nonsense if you don’t accept that the moral and political education of the world should be directed by like, studio executives or tv actors or authors on twitter. There is no horizon of possibility being imagined beyond purchasing, as an individual consumer in a market, your way into good beliefs about the world, instilled in you by Media Product 

#just saw a very stupid post. but I will endure #these discussions also remind me of anti-vaxxer discourse #which in North America for Covid is framed as simply wanting to make the best informed choice as a consumer in a market* #ideas about public goods or civic responsibility towards others are incompatible with this consumer-citizen view of the world #like legitimately the idea of the consumer as the base civic unit of north american society is catastrophic for public health #and produces these interminable discourses about ‘media consumption’ #which itself is a neoliberal framing! I think ‘media’ as a catchall term is neoliberal because it links all art with the commonality of #being a good sold in a market #*outside of outright fascist anti-vax beliefs I should say. Although from my research so far these things seem to overlap heavily lol #which is not surprising but the distinction is worth teasing out #.txt

[theblacktiecacti]

FROMTHE TOP ROPE MY PRINCE

#audios you can hear without the audio #i just got procreate dreams and i wanted to test it out real quick #perfect scene to do that with #jrwi the suckening #art by me #jrwi grefgor #shilo bathroy #arthur bennett #deacon keller #overall rating of dreams is eH. it crashed a fair amount and i miss the lasso tool so bad. but i liked being able to draw outside the frame

[ladamedusoif]

Permission to be a nerdy expert and deeply thirsty for two minutes.

I am begging - begging - fashion writers et al to realise that “Victorian” is a specific time period and place, not an entire century. And if you must insist on the Darcy comparison (about which more anon), then recognise that Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, aka the Georgian/Regency period. (Victoria wouldn’t become queen for almost two decades.)

And that being said: I stand by my read of the whole look being far more 1830s European Romantic.

Now that I’ve got my nerdy twitching out of the way: I would like to hear more about the whole “making a shirt that’s nicely oversized and designed to be opened like that” design process please and thank you. 😘

#let me nerd out on this please #Victorian doesn’t mean 19th century and shouldn’t be used to refer to anything outside Britain #just say no to everything being framed in the Anglosphere #other references exist beyond pride and prejudice and the regency and I’m begging people to realise that #thank you for coming to my ted talk #pedro pascal #it’s fashion baby

[bedlamsbard]

bad sign about CCverse Steve that I, a known Steve girl, have literally no thoughts on him as a character. like...none.

#because he doesn't have an identity outside peggy in this 'verse! #what a disservice to both characters #and honestly framing cc's whole arc about romance is pretty fucked up #just a complete disinterest in engaging with anything interesting that might actually come out of the AU #*or* anything interesting that they could carry over from canon to the AU #or even the very interesting structural differences between the two #bedlam watches the mcu #bedlam watches marvel's what if #(apparently I had a tag for that) #mcu critical #this is a captain carter hateblog

[b4kuch1n]

weather's turnin' cold

transcript

#pokemon #swsh #champion leon #assisant sonia #gym leader raihan #three parts of a whole idiot #hi hello! hi. wow I have NO energy recently #got sick 1.5 times. made two cakes of various levels of deflated. walked a lot. slept SO much #and the weather is indeed cooling here! in fact a storm is hitting central vietnam right now #and I uh. I dont think its gonna affect the north a lot. but thats a good thing. I do not envy the folks down there at all... #gonna keep an ear on the ground for them. hope it's all gonna turn out rather uneventful #meanwhile. I draw little comic #this is how I (chronically tropical person) feel whenever I see snow and bare skin in the same frame #it's honestly a bit funny to me always that postwick is southmost and wyndon is like. the center of the north #forest imps leon and sonia vs city slicker raihan. and now temperate beautiful weather children leon and sonia vs #hail/snow/windstorm/humidity rotate raihan #raihan's childhood dream of seeing torrential rain outside and saying 'hm no. I think not' and weather manip hammerlocke into dryness #these are not textual impressions I do not fucking remember how the weather is in in-game hammerlocke. I just think itd be funny #also my brain was doing donuts around like. leon being exasperated at raihan's bare legs every winter #until he went on T and by age 16 he's like oh. oh I get it #(that doesnt last long he's still a frostbait southerner. u see the leggings. u know how it is) #okay. I'll doodle some stuff and transcribe this tomorrow. now I sleep #have a good night lads! bundle up

[bookshelf-in-progress]

There's always a danger of caring too much about a story, and then getting paralyzed by the need to do it justice, so it never gets written.

I've solved this problem in the past by writing stories so fast that I don't have time to get too invested, or writing stories that I'm not that attached to.

But maybe the trick is to love the story so much that I want to share it any way I can, even if it's imperfect. To feel that any version of this story is better than the story never getting written at all. To get out of my own way and stop worrying about what other people will think of my writing, or even what I think of my writing, and love the story for its own sake, love the readers enough to want to have the joy of sharing the story with them.

Maybe it'll work. Maybe it won't. But so far it feels like a much better approach.

#adventures in writing #i think inklings has finally born fruit for me #other years i've stayed far away from beloved story concepts #for just this reason #and then i mentally shelved most of those story concepts #recognizing i'd likely never write them in a way that lives up to my imagination #and that probably gave me the distance i needed to pick some of them up again #for one thing the short time frame of inklings forces me to get down to the heart of the concept to fit it into a short story #and the long development time means i've had time to figure out what the core of the concept *is* #what keeps this story lingering in my imagination; which means i know what the good parts are #and then the deadline also forces me to try to write it fast and short #because if i don't write it for inklings i likely never will #and that's a tragedy i want to avoid #having such a clear concept of the story's core #means i can put up with ugly haphazard drafts #because i know what the overall story feels like; i've had years to develop it #so instead of a bad draft proving a story's not worth writing #i *know* that the story's worth writing because it's stuck with me this long #so the ugly drafts are just the building blocks necessary to create the final product #of course the danger is that i'll put out a story and it won't be as cool outside my head #and people will hate this piece of my soul i've poured out to them #but if i love it enough maybe it'll reach that special status #where it means so much to me personally that the wider audience reaction doesn't matter #but before i worry about this i gotta write a draft first

[squeakadeeks]

moodboard for this past week ❤️

#they should invent a grad school thats not fucking insane #i'm hanging in there but im the most unwell i've been in AWhile #this week was just horrible #there was already the freezer food incident but it also started off with a very severe pain episode thats putting me in constant woe #even mundane motion has been agonizing which is McAwesome bc we had a lab inspection which involved moving hundreds of pounds of equipment #during which we found a blackwidow and rats which we had to deal with and was a whole thing psychologically on top of the physical toll #the new class fiasco is still popping off and i had to respond to at this point over 400 emails in the fleeting moments outside of lab #AND A STUDENT TRIED TO FINANCIALLY BRIBE THEIR WAY INTO THE CLASS ? ?? ?? ????? #then the instructor wanted to use me as a guinea pig and i had to test new circuit boards but I wasnt given any time to do so properly #i had to test them plus get them operational and deal with my incoming students all in a frantic 10 minute window #im in charge of running our meetings too but the instructor was interrupting and having side conversations that made it really hard- #to train the other people on the new equipment in a smooth manner #which meant that a bunch of people had to keep me after to ask questions which made me late for my drs appointment #where i found out i cant get the new covid vaccine bc my heart and blood levels arnt stable enough #and joanns lost an expensive+critical fabric order of mine+i had to give a big presentation this week on my research that was stressful #and my inbox is still blowing up from being needed all over the place between teaching lab and classes and yall i am. so so tired. #im in so much pain and so stressed out #debating the ethics of turning into a pile of lint to escape my responsibilities and mortal frame

[lesbiradshaw]

theo and liam always getting paired together in 6b during episodes where all of the other storylines focus on couples going through stuff together is so funny because when you look at it, the only episode where they really get split up is genotype, which is one of the rare episodes where scott ISN’T paired with malia (because he’s with liam) and mason isn’t with corey (because he’s with theo) aka the canon love interests. like these episodes were cutting from shit like scalia almost dying together to thiam having intimate conversations about how liam processes emotions and morey saying i love you to thiam swearing that neither of them are dying for each other 😭 just very amusing to me. theo raeken: the accidental love interest.

#like 😭 #6b eps post theo getting kidnapped go pressure test -> triggers -> werewolves of london -> genotype -> 6.19 which i barely remember -> #then wolves of war aka the finale #pressure test: mason & corey are at deatons. theo shows up at the police station w everyone & shoves liam in the bathroom to berate him for #not being worried ab his own safety enough ??? 😭 & hes pretty much attached to liams hip in the group shots #also while theo & scott are outside doing their lil body bag trick malia and liam are pressed right against the window watching both of them #& during triggers we dont see corey but mason leaves theo & liam alone . & its a major bonding ep for them…. #while scalia are also having their major bonding moment when they both almost Die #then during werewolves of london theo just shows up at the school and they end up calling scalia for help 😭 #and again genotype breaks all the couples off from each other so its mason n theo / scott n liam / malia with her dad #and during wolves of war i literally laughed out loud because it bounces around from jethan to morey to thiam all having heart to hearts #not saying it was intentional but it was very funny framing TO ME #that ao3 tag thats like ‘they are dating in secret but only one is aware’ LIEKDJENEBR #they basically made theo liam’s love interest on accident just bcuz everyone else was already paired off w someone 😭 #thiam #saw someone the other day say they just dont get how people Came Up with thiam and its like #ok if you dont ship it whatever but if you say you cant see why youre just lying 😭 look at the material

[nonuggetshere]

PK: "...Kid..."

PV: "What? I'm just pointing out the obvious."

PK: "You're being a little shit is what you are."

WL: "Well, they're not wrong–"

PK: "Don't enable this."

(ID start: A picture of The Pale King, The White Lady and the Pure Vessel from Hollow Knight as humans. They're all wearing matching golden roses, a pin for Pure Vessel, a hair clip for the Pale King and a corsage for the White Lady. The Pure Vessel has their hand at the head height of their father, laughing about his height with their mother, much to the displeasure of the king. End ID.)

They're making fun of the monochronic manlet

#hollow knight #pure vessel #the hollow knight #the pale king #the white lady #spooky arts #wayward royals au #It's cool to finally see them all together in one pic but yoy have no idea how hard it was to fit this little asshole in the frame #with the two of them. WL is STILL too short. But I didn't want to cut off her branches which I spent some time on #PV should be reaching just below her shoulders normally #Family pictures are a nightmare with these three #Anyways PK had to have his hair cut bc he got seriously sick and had a very high fever. Hollow and WL cut their hair to make him feel #better. They're growing it out together. Also they all have golden roses :] #PK and WL bought them the golden rose trinket as an apology gift and later on PV picked out the rose clip and corsage so they can match #If you're new here or are seeing this in the tags and you're confused why PV is acting like a Normal Human here. This AU is basically what #if they got lost outside of Hallownest and PV is found out and they basically bond slash have family therapy on the move during the 1+ yr #it takes them to return. Don't ask why it took so long ok the wastelands are massive and they got turned around (plot convenience ) #The Hallownest is a hot mess when they return #Probably should have put this explanation at the front huh. Oh well #Sorry about that

[goosemagician]

Local girl realizes she has PTSD, more at 8

Time refers to himself as a doctor in the comic (hahahah time heals all wounds hahaha) so I thought it would be fitting that Hero visit him when she starts realizing that frequent panic attacks (I.e. getting swarmed by Fears and Griefs every time she steps outside) aren’t exactly convenient

Audio is from "Steven Universe: Future"

#tpoh #the property of hate #tpoh au #Anti-Hero AU #tpoh hero #tpoh time #ehhh RGB’s there too kinda #therapy didn’t work out too well for him so I just know he’d be happy to know that his kid is getting some actual HELP #btw he totally went with her and is waiting outside the key frame for her #dude panic attacks would be terrifying in this world with actual monsters that manifest with the emotions?? that can KILL YOU?? #no wonder she’s traumatized good heavens

[stellorc]

nosy scout

tfw you're about to flirt with a sith officer chilling at the local cantina.

I've had this silly concept in mind for far too long and always failed to complete it. Must be a curse or something bc I swear i never had so many crisis in one single piece in a while. It's just a stupid portrait with no complicated elements and it dragged my ass to the ground. Truly a humbling experience. Anyway, now I want to replay kotor and let my beloved Jesra destroy a couple of lives as a treat.

also have a process gif and behold the mess that was this piece. (flash warning? I'm not sure)

i had no idea what I was doing and I'm probably in the middle of a style crisis so send me prayers pls

#yes that's the smuggler jacket but after analyzing the evidence I decided to ignore it. #the scout outfit is ugly and jesra likes red #carth is just outside of frame sighing and contemplating his life choices #gosh i miss kotor so much i need to play it more #though i always lose my shit whenever malak appears #it's too early and i'll not elaborate #I'm not sure if I love or absolutely hate thus piece #Heh time will tell I suppose #I finished this yesterday but had to wait and see if it was Worthy enough to share #shout out to my lovely goblins at our art discord who helped me not completely give up again #kotor #revan #also me posting Three finished pieces in a month???? #I feel unhinged #my art yall

[todayisafridaynight]

brother was talking to me about how if you almost die from an extreme-temperature-related incident then your body is just forever fucked towards that temperature and that's why i think kiryu and saejima are weak to ice. i dont know why aoki isn't like that too but ignore that statistic everything else tracks.

#snap chats #i already made this post highkey but im making it again cause i didnt know this was an actual real thing ☠️ #my brother learned this when he started to work for target. because apparently that's a thing they tell you frame one #'snap how did this topic even come up' i am LITERALLY so glad you asked :) the cold has almost claimed me twice #am i exaggerating Maybe but its my fucked up body temperature now listen #when i was younger i got locked out of my house for like. three hours since i was a latchkey kid #and my dad wasn't supposed to come home with my siblings (from their after school events) for Three Hours #and it had snowed outside and Was Cold Yeah and i couldn't get in cause i forgot my key like a weiner #and yeah. was really cold :) my dad was real cross with me when he found me shivering in the shed LOL #he made me hot cocoa tho so its ok. second incident's just funny No I Talk About It Evvery Other Week #and im p sure i talked bout the first incident too but yeah that time after the con when i was at my sister's #like i cannot stress how cold it was because It Was Late November and the cold still existed #and my sister's heater just. Didnt Work but yeah. i wont go into detail cause i share this story every five seconds #POINT IS i've always had a hard time with the cold- like i'm cold nearly all the time even if the room is 90 degrees #i wont be COLD cold but i'll be colder than i like #anyways can't believe i'm weak to ice this is so sad. i love winter.. #aoki isn't weak to ice cause uhhhh /aoki/ didnt almost die in the cold 🥴 masato did 🥴 #imagine changing your identity so well that you just remove your past elemental weakness. fucked up. #alright bye

[girlscience]

good GOD this trip. I have loved the scenery and the hikes we have been on, but my family is about to drive me bonkers.

#literally none of them are capable of making a single fucking decision without debating it for hours #and none of them communicate clearly so there is an insane amount of confusion #and we have done next to nothing because they cannot do anything in a reasonable time frame #like we were supposed to leave at 8:30 this morning and we didn't leave until 9:15 #and then we got to the hike spot and my mom lost her glasses and instead of checking under her fucking seat #we had to spend a good half hour looking for them... guess where they were #and then we spent 10 minutes debating if we were going to do the hike we had already Fucking PICKED #and then my mom passed out halfway through the hike which is not her fault and I'm not upset about at all #but we decided to not do the rest of the hike and instead go to the town and look at the artist shops #which was totally good with me except we got there and they all decided they didn't want to look at the shops!!!!!!!!! #yes they were mostly galleries of art we can't afford but they were cool to look at #but nope. spent idk an hour wandering around OUTSIDE THE STORES #we did get the best chai I've ever had tho at a little shop there DELICIOUS #and then they were like beginning the dinner debate and I decided I was fucking done #so I just picked a place and said we are eating here and called and made a reservation and told them to get in the fucking car #like I Get It. it can be hard to pick things but at some point SOMEONE has to make a choice #we can't stand around going 'idk whatever you want' 'i'm okay with anything' 'what did you say?' 'did we decide?' ALL THE TIME #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[poltergeist-coffee]

i know its wayyy too far in the future because they already missed it this year but id love to see how they'd celebrate Lunar New Year on the qsmp

#its because im chinese #i want to see my culture and i know there aren't any Chinese speakers on the qsmp but like... let me be silly for a second #i dont know how theyd do it but i just think !!! it could be cute!!! #imagine they get special hats for the eggs and they try to lion dance #all the eggs get gifts/'money' from the parents like red envelopes #the quests could be like clean out your backpacks/house!! grow an orange tree/put an orange in an item frame in your house!!! #make a lanturn with the baby and hang it up outside!! idk !!!! i am just!!!!! thinknig!!!! #💬 one new message #qsmp #<- main tagging in case anyone else wants to think with me

[alarming-prism]

21 candles on 1 donut is still not enough to make 1 ring of fire

#personal shenanigans #have been doing this since 17 #and at this rate it might take until i'm 30 to get that full ring of fire 😭 #out of frame are my roommate and her friend standing out of the car singing happy birthday #bc we bought the donut and candles from a grocery store #but it was too windy to light the candles outside #so i just sat in the car tipsy with my donut on fire #great birthday tbh