#sadness is taking over

[bixels]

Posting a sneak-peak of this now because I'm about to be In The Shit school workload-wise, so this'll take me a while to finish.

Doing some character design exploration/expression sheets for Celestia and Luna. Figuring out Celestia's weird ass anatomy while I'm at it.

#mlp #celestia #fanart #my art #wip #the grand galloping 20s #delete later #look at me fucking smart guy signed up for 4 art classes in one quarter #so now i have 4 concurrent art/film/creative writing projects going on at the same fucking time #taking bets on how fast i burn out #anyways the idea behind the faces is the front face is the surface. it displays whatever emotions celestia intends when she's in control. #the two side faces––sadness and anger––are sides of her she has less control over. i drew all 3 faces active for the exploration #but in reality only 1 is active at a time. the others will either close their eyes or go catatonic like a puppet or doll #the final face on the back of the head is the deep subconscious. every ugly and violent and hateful thought and emotion #that lies buried under the surface. celestia has no control over that side of her. if she ever wakes

[aimseytv]

when ur card declines at therapy so the therapist brings out the comfort song u listened to on repeat when u were mentally at ur lowest

#just take my wallet jack stauber #how to never stop being sad dandelion hands #now i’m sad crywank #i was all over her #sleep thru ur alarms #roslyn by bon iver

[maelgwyn]

I'm suffering, I'm having a great time

#ffxiv #ffxiv memes #I made this #This story just hits you over and over right in the heart huh #There are very few characters I HATE. most of the villains just make me so so sad #And I love that #I want more stories like this #And I am having a good time truly #This game is just really taking me through it goddamn

[botanyshitposts]

ok this sounds insane but in 2018 i went to a few carnivorous plant talks at the botany conference in minnesota. i got caught up in conversation with one of the guys there who was a huge nepenthes guy who told me a story about another collector in the pacific northwest who'd been buying poached plants, like a huge amount, and eventually got staked out by the fish and wildlife service and arrested and had all his plants seized and went to prison for it. idk if i ever talked about this on this blog before-- i know i liveblogged a lot from that conference but cant remember what all i posted-- but ive avoided talking about it since then because i was never able to find like, news articles or anything covering it, but behold.... we now have proof it was real, and im like 80% sure this was this guy he was talking about. the raid happened in 2016 and they'd been staking them out since 2013. he had nearly 400 plants and had been sourcing many of them from poachers in indonesia and borneo.

remember folks: poaching happens with plants too! it's a huge problem not only in carnvirous plants (nepenthes especially, which this piece is dedicated to talking about) but also in native plant populations in the US, including native carnivorous plant populations (north and south carolina's venus fly traps, california's darlingtonia, and sarracenia from the east coast), native orchids (historically one of the most poached categories), desert plants/cacti/succulents, and slow-growing woody ornamentals (cycads, for example). never buy bare-root plants off ebay or facebook! your best bet is local nurseries (which usually purchase farm-raised plants that do well in a wide range of conditions, and as a result have a healthy population in the wild) or specialty greenhouses (more expensive, but at least in the case of carnivorous plants offer young plants bred from established adult plants in-house, raised in captivity).

#super sad piece fellas like this shit guts me i cant even stress it enough #stories about nepenthes poaching hit different #there are hundreds of species #some are really common and widespread all over indonesia/china/japan/oceania #and some are like. super hyperadapted to one specific ridge on one specific mountain #theyre still being recorded and stuff because theyve speciated so much #so youll have a plant that has like. a max of 15 adults in the population at any given time. literally a nightmare scenario #AND theyre diaceous (there are male plants and female plants). doesnt seem like a problem until you think about the population dynamics #there not only has to be two plants but the plants have to be a male and a female #and people living there have reason to take them. like the poacher interviewed in this article does it to supplement his income #from working at a horrifying rubber production ordeal to feed his wife and kids #and he says everyone in his village does the same for the same reasons #nightmare!! nightmare!! nightmare horrible nightmare world!!! horrible fucking nightmare!!!! #nepenethes #carnivorous plants #poaching #conservation

[petscoboba]

*Kris, er, does this sometimes.

#deltarune #another one of those pieces where I'm not quite at the point where im able to render it in a way im proud of #will just have to keep practicing! #kris dreemurr #utdr #tw self harm #this scene really stood out to me when I first played it #just the framing of the whole thing felt so #i'm not even sure. but i saw the way the narration pointed out “it's making a lot of noise” #and i knew that this scene. this scene was analogous for something. much heavier. #something heavy that only really applies when you hide in bathrooms and carries knives with you and have red stains on your carpet. #despite the fact that taking out your soul doesn't leave a stain. #it just. it does really strike a chord with me how kris' is written as a character #that if they're anything similar to chara's coping mechanisms :( #it's just sad #okay rambling over!

[bottombaron]

just me thinking abt the insidiousness of the Familiar Clinic

a place where every familiar is recommended to be put down

not because of any injury or disease

but because their vampire cared about them enough to take them there in the first place

#what we do in the shadows #wwdits #wwdits spoilers #wwdits s5 #THINK ABOUT IT #ITS NOT ABT THE FAMILIAR #ITS ABT THE VAMPIRE #'oh your familiar has a cold and you went out of your way to bring them here and wait in a waiting room with crappy magazines and sadness?' #'yeah you care too much abt this one. you've grown too attached. you're invested in its well being at the expense of your own comfort' #'the best course of action is to put them down' #have you ever been to urgent care??? its the WORST #have you ever had to take someone there #its somehow wORsErEr #like the Familiar Lore in this ep was wild they really do think so low of familiars bjt also attachment to them is so dangerous?? #just...fucking wild man #im never going to get over this episode

[can-a-tuna-fish]

I have something to say about boyf riends being queer platonic but the world isn’t ready

#michael mell #jeremy heere #he’s not really here but the implication is that the glowing spiky star Michael is holding is him #I had two ideas for the situation here #post-play Michael forgiving Jeremy but still feeling that there’s something intrinsically changed about their relationship #or Halloween Michael trying to reach out to Jeremy and realizing that he isn’t really getting through to him #but you can take it however you want :3 #either way something so warm and sad about reconciling a friendship you thought was over #your honor their relationship is something that reaches beyond platonic or romantic #your honor please understand they can never fully remove themselves from each others lives #irreparably is the word I meant. not intrinsically. #michael bmc #jeremy bmc #be more chill #bmc #bmc musical #undescribed #my art

[taardisblue]

ok so I think I might just be really sad about all the Doctor Moments™️ we’re not going to get with 15? you know, with a new doctor there are all these Things you get: running around in the old outfit, the wooziness of the post-regen period, the first “I am the Doctor”, the first time they see their new tardis…… and here it was all. david tennant? I’m not even going to go back on the 13’s clothes situation bc everything has already been said but 15’s first moments having to do with comforting 14? 15’s first “I am the Doctor” moment being in response to 14’s? showing 14’s reaction to the new tardis instead of 15? idk man. feels bad.

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #dw #dw spoilers #and then if you take the doylist perspective. after a year of Ncuti getting sidelined for DT in promo. #well. it’s not a great look. and it makes me want to chew through a wall (derogatory) #I’m sad and I’m mad about it #and I’m also mad over the whole ‘settling down into normal life will Fix You’ #bc I hate that trope but that’s a whole other ballpark. but man. idk #also Donna’s range of color line? what was. that. why.

[cheatsylu]

Your art is BEAUTIFUL. Big fan of your characterizations and posing. :)

If you need requests—my favorite LU character is Four!

Four!!! He's one of my favourite's too! Also, thank you for your kind words <3

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu four #lu #apologies for this taking a while #my phone got ran over by a dozen trucks #then the power was out for a day cos someones drove into a pole #then i lost a couple hours of progress on majoras mask cos it crashed and i was sad #but i made it out ALIVE!! #I will be drawing him more (in better shading) in the future! #cheatsyy

[skin-slave]

I wanna say something and all I ask is that you read the whole thing before burning me at the stake.

There are always horrible things happening. There are always ppl who are suffering and dying. There are always corrupt politicians. There are always human rights violations. There are always tragedies. There is always misinformation and exploitation. War is always looming on the horizon or busting in the back gate. The world is always fucked up.

That fact does not mean that the lives affected matter any less than our own. It does not mean that we don't do what we can to help. It does mean that we cannot afford to put our lives on hold while a horrible thing consumes us.

I'm sure that, if your parent/sibling/partner/best friend had a medical emergency, you would gladly do whatever you needed to do to be there. I'm sure that you would sacrifice sleep, skip meals, call in to work, and be by their side until they were stable. You can afford to do that when those emergencies are infrequent and relatively brief.

You cannot do that with the world's emergencies. They are not infrequent. They are not relatively brief. You have to sleep, eat and shower. You have to pay your bills. You have to survive.

Daily life goes on.

It feels unjust. Of course it does. How can you possibly go about the mundane like nothing's going on? You Don't. You go about the mundane like there are horrible things happening. You make the adjustments you can sustain without sacrificing your well-being. You make drastic changes for as long as you can, when you simply can't take it anymore, and then you step back, take a breath, and go grocery shopping. You have to. If you don't, you won't survive the horrible thing.

No one who is going thru a horrible thing wants you to self-destruct. There's so much good you can do over the course of your life if you maintain that life. Adding your name to the list of casualties will prevent all of that good from happening. You have to survive.

And that includes the things that seem optional, bc those things aren't actually optional at all. You need to laugh. You need to watch movies and love your pets and go for walks. You need food that tastes good and clothes that make you feel confident. You need that show you'll regret not seeing. You need to get takeout and take naps. You need to have the weight lifted frequently, so you can heal the parts of you that get worn.

If you aren't living as well as you can, while making adjustments you can afford to make, you will not survive.

Please survive.

#zesty take #i guess? #idk i just feel so sad #theres so much guilt going around #so much judgement of ppl for continuing to live #the horrible things are constant and overlapping #if we waited until they were over we would starve in every way #survival btw isnt just breathing its living as well as you can #if you only chuck gas in your car when you abdolutely have to and put off the maintenance and cobble it together when it needs a real fix #it may still turn over but it will not be able to function well #pls do not buy into the bullshit that gas is enough and if you do any more youre selfish or evil or whatever #it is not true

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Smell Check [Easy: Failure]

MDZS Disco Elysium AU part 1 (part 2 - part 3)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #disco elysium #MDZS Disco Elysium AU #So sad I didn't manage to get this comic out on the 15th (pd-mdzs's 8 month anniversary and DE's 4th year anniversary) but I'm here *now* #I have a very extensive and detailed MDZS Disco Elysium AU that I am Not Normal About. #I've seen a few other people point out the potential in a crossover (true) but they make the mistake in having it be set in 51! #A true crossover would take place closer to The Antecentennial Revolution! #Disco Elysium did not go that hard on its cool lore for people to only make surface level crossovers!!! #One day I'll write the fic or post my notes. I don't know who would read it but it tickles *my* brain and that's enough. #No spoilers for DE (here or in comments (please)) but please consider....Magpie Wei Wuxian B*) On his way to be an innocent. #I do think there is a good chance a chunk of the MDZS readership would enjoy DE but...it's also not a game I easily recommend #It's more of an experience you have to marinate over. It's dark in ways that are off putting to some people. #It makes you feel like a very bad person all the time. It gets extremely personal if you allow yourself to be honest in your answers #and it's also the game that saved my life. My life was truly forever changed after playing disco elysium. #If I recommend it to people it's a badge of the trust I have in you to appreciate something dear to me B'*) #If you decide to play: PLEASE go in as blind as possible. You will regret spoiling yourself. #edit: this is based on real disco elysium dialogue. HDB has many canon kinks but this is not one of them

[westwing19]

We’ve had Meta Dad, we’ve also had Galacta Dad, now get ready to be bombarded by thoughts of Morpho Dad with Kirby since the puffball is the butterfly’s favourite landing place in game cutscenes 😄.

Aw yes more love for the pink puffball ✨

The morphodad thoughts ended up getting kinda sad so here's some silly stuff I made to make up for it. I hc Morpho to be the best at parenting, so I imagine they'd disapprove of some of the shenanigans Kirby gets dragged into lol.

#ask #kirby #morpho knight #meta knight #using metadad as an example but all the other characters would get Kirby into just as much trouble #my usual hc is that morpho is taking care of void as a part of its duties or whatever #so that sorta turned into morpho having taken care of kirby in the past and continuing to watch over him now #which made me kinda sad :') #meart

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

I’ve been highly confused as to why Michael “deeply openly thirsting on Twitter about David Tennant for half a decade” Sheen is half-in half-out the closet but apparently Wales is absurdly homophobic lmao what the fuck how is a country the size of New Jersey that much of a hater bruh we out number the shit out of you

#i thought googling ‘how to say gay’ in welsh would be funny but it just made me sad #i knew the uk in general had a problem with trans people but WOW it’s fucked up in wales like. there are 8 of you what are you doing #i feel bad now lmao #wales #my weird welsh hyperfixation has taken me places let me tell you #cymru #homophobia #gay #lgbt #lgbtqia #good omens #bbc staged #michael sheen #i thought he was just ‘oh i’m quiet about my personal life’ but that’s not even true like my man’s probably actually scared #what a fuckass country lmao awesome #uk politics #united kingdom #david tennant #what is it with this tiny ass island taking over the world and being shitty lmao and this is coming from an american #bisexual #<- bisexual gang gang feel bad you fuckin haters lol #yes the whole world is homophobic i know etc but it’s like outrageously bad out there apparently #stay mad that i think nationalism is dumb ‘how dare you ever have an opinion you american’ #you’re white you are not going to like where the power + privilege argument inevitably goes

[noe-clara69]

If tsc has made me realize anything, it is that we need to portray Neil way more feral and cutthroat in fan media

#aftg #all for the game #nora sakavic #the sunshine court #aftg thoughts #neil josten #like this man knows practically nothing ab Grayson just that he’s similar to drake and that’s enough for my man to put a price on his #fucking head #like let’s be so real #also #don’t think I glanced over Jean so rudely throwing away Andrew’s hidden candy bars #we got a little bit of the fixes post cannon and I will take all I can get #I didn’t think I could like Jean more but tsc proved me wrong #this man is so sassy and sad #it’s like Andrew and Neil’s personalities mixed together #Andrew is still my number one don’t get me wrong #but Jean is def my number two

[aashiyancha]

Frozen heart frozen mind

#fionna and cake #simon petrikov #adventure time #aashi doodles #sad man occupying my mind way more than i thought he would #ice king #i just keep thinking abt winter king taking a stab at his emotional sanity and the crown taking over his mind as a whole

[ribbonbonny]

You gotta wonder if Mr Grizz discussed anything at all w the other two fuzzy mammals left alive right

#yes this is a shoutout to lil judd taking over grizzco potentially lmao #that cat saw grizz die and immediately stole his corporation from out under him. he was plotting #mr grizz #splatoon 3 #splatoon 3 spoilers #splatoon3 spoilers #splat 3 spoilers #splatoon spoilers #i did my best to tag all spoiler tags here </3 let it b enough #anyways ive seen ppl complain mr Grizz is actually a bear . what is wrong w ppl #this is literally best case scenario for real #when i saw him i was just screaming to my friend KJHDFKS bears in MY splatoon universe?? holy shit #INCREDIBLY SAD HES PRESUMABLY BLOWN UP ?? GET HIM BACK HERE. NOW #this isnt going on art blog for obvious reasons this is just a shitpost