#thanks for telling me about it

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Jerry Trainor In Cover Versions (2018)

#requests #cover versions #you are so right he looks so good in this movie #serving looks #jerry trainor #travis #movie #movies #filmedit #filmedits #gif #gifs #gifset #love #he looks so good with short hair and a beard #2018 #also this movie was really good and the cast was good as well #thanks for telling me about it

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[stuckinapril]

friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

#It’s just so different #even though it’s public it still feels secret and safe. i feel comfy sharing a lot more on here than I do in my actual day to day life lol #in my head I’m also just speaking to myself 90% of the time which helps #if a friend off tumblr saw my thoughts I’d feel so weird ab it #esp bc they might get the vagueposting about certain situations and tell mutual friends #no thank u. this is for me. I’m not about to start censoring my thoughts bc someone I know knows my tumblr #u guys literally saw me have LIVE BREAKDOWNS #meanwhile I’ll have the worst fucking day in history and tell no one about it. I’m already cripplingly private but way more so in real life #this is basically a low stress journaling outlet for me. it’s so important for me to maintain the separation #like this is actually my diary & has been so handy for letting out emotions / articulating thoughts / staying on track !! #& I’ve met so many kind people on here who actually get me. which is so hard to find irl bc I’m surrounded by pre-med gunners/overachievers #who are by standard not very good w emotion & can be competitive/judgmental. or at least it’s hard for me to be vulnerable in front of them #and I’m part of that crowd so I reserve my emotions only to a handful of very close friends #it’s nice to hop on here and express negative emotions!! or positive emotions!! just whatever I want and it’s low stress and people get me #I don’t have to worry about judgment or competitiveness etc etc #like everyone on here is so kind & nice & understanding. & just a breath of fresh air from the types I run w. it’s just nice to have this #so idk that’s why I think I’ll always be strict about keeping the worlds separate. it just works #p

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

#legend of zelda #loz #twilight princess #loz tp #i'm still reeling that someone sent me an ask about this one.. that they took the time to find my tumblr and tell me they liked it #it really meant a lot; thank you to anyone that stops to leave comments like that. they make me happy #but yeah! here's the usual symbolism ramble: #i thought it'd be cool to have the 'spirits' flowing one way and the cats walking through them the other way #to kinda show the difference in life inhabiting the village in the past and present #link's face is covered because impaz was just waiting for 'the hero' so his clothes are what matters; not his face #and it (hopefully) gives a surreal and intangible sense to 'the hero' she could only hope would actually show up #you can feel free to interpret the glowy blue sheikah as ghosts or just as memories of the past! i couldn't decide either way #the one on the bottom left is oot impa since she's implied to be the village founder. so i guess she would be a ghost actually? #fan art #my art #project stuff #and ahhh the book-- everyone's stuff is so beautiful!! #especially the writing. some of the fics made me really tear up and some were so fun and clever. i really love them #a lot of them captured the sheer burden of the role of the sheikah; all of the time and grief and doubt #i know i always say this stuff about every project but. the people i get to work with in these are truly so skilled every time

[theminecraftbee]

listen a friend suggested to me. a concept for a fic/au. that i do not know enough about qsmp to create so i am handing it here into the world in case someone DOES know enough and is inspired by this.

anyway so for those who aren't aware, iskall and tubbo have a vhsmp bit where iskall insists that he is tubbo's dad, a thing tubbo originally agreed to in order to get resources, lol. he is also son of captain sparklez by these means, but it's iskall who doesn't let the bit go; basically every interaction they've had on twitter since iskall refers to tubbo as "son", and even sometimes just like, randomly when iskall is otherwise talking about tubbo. it is my favorite silly family dynamic out there, i love it dearly.

the thing my friend suggested was: what if iskall finds out this means he has a granddaughter?

so my qsmp mutuals and followers PLEASE tell me what that would be like, as angsty or as silly as you'd like (i've heard Something is going down with tubbo on qsmp??? i think???), i just think this would be fantastic. i don't even know which egg tubbo has i lost track. or what that egg is like. i just. need this to exist in the world i can learn.

just. picture. iskall, bursting into tears: MUMBO I AM A GRANDFATHER. MUMBO I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO BE A GRANDFATHER. mumbo, a little panicked: i didn't know you were a father-father.

that's all,

#hermitcraft #qsmp #vhsmp #(KIND OF ITS RELEVANT HERE?) #iskall85 #tubbo #please. please i need this to exist. please someone who actually knows things about qsmp tell me whether this is sensible as a thing to exi #please-- #anyway thank you lei. still thinking about this.

[ef-1]

yeah F1 is cool but imagine a driver gets shunted and he bodily rips off his rear wing (Which fucking says "Race Against CRIME") as he's being swarmed by officials

And he just yeets it at the guy who shunted him

#THANKS FOR TELLING ME ABOUT THIS ANON I LOVE YOU #F1 COULD NEEEVEEERRRRRR4 #like pls tag the drivers who would SIKE THEYRE ALL TOO PUSSY #this is dangerous disclaimer etc etc but im also dry HEAVING #+ also before anyone nascar-splains this to me but there is no bumper equivalent in f1 so i said rear wing

[creacherkeeper]

is this old religion, are we calling it love?

{sweet movie, alisha dietzman / @gaphic / tiktok / @iamalivenow / on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong / @manywinged / these violent delights, micah nemerever / the reader, bernhard schlink (trans. carol brown janeway) / hestitations outside the door, margaret atwood / a self-portrait in letters, anne sexton}

[ID: ten images of text together in a litstack

1: Confession: I will think of you forever

2: a post by gaphic: It’s only tragedy if you convince yourself, for even just a moment, that everything could be ok, despite knowing it won’t be. Tragedy lies in ‘so close, yet so far.’ It’s avoidable because it would only take a tiny alteration to prevent disaster, but human nature is in the way- not maliciously, not knowingly, despite trying so hard.

3: a tiktok comment and answer: Are they lovers? / Worse

4: a post by iamalivenow: gay sex won't fix this. it'll probably make this worse. that being said don't you want to see how much worse it can get?

5: Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.

6: tags from manywinged: #technically they know and understand each other better than anyone else alive #but they communicate that in the most fucked up insane unnecessarily complicated way and think thats normal

7: I don't think you've ever felt anything that didn't hurt you. / We've found each other, out of everyone else in the world. Does that hurt, too?

8: "I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do."

9: Should we go into it together / If I go into it with you I will never come out

10: of course the love is there. / still, / still, / still.

end ID]

#litstack #web weaving #quote compilation #i love giving these vague taglines and then in the tags being like yes this is about blorbo from my games #its Funnee. when they escape containment. 2 me. #lizzie/onion/brandi #lost township #yes this is about the messy dyke girlbestfriend situationship everyone please join hands and pray for them thank you #characters who are either gonna get fixed or get sooooo much worse (or a combo of the two!!) and only time and the dice will tell #faun are you happy now. make me the onion/lizzie playlist.

[static-cat]

this is such a raw line of dialogue you would think it would come from something like Warriors and you would be right because it does

#thank u to my buddy for telling me about this line #i don’t actually know what these cats are supposed to look like #art #drawing #my art #warriors #warriors fanart #cat art #comic #warrior cats

[robindaydream]

A Few Days After A SLARPG fancomic

minor SLARPG spoilers contained within

#SLARPG #Super Lesbian Animal RPG #Melody Amaranth #Allison Goleta #Claire Higsby #Jodie Caldwell #furry #okay there it is finally done #whoops my whole style changed in the last few pages #but it's fine cause they look way better #thank you for enjoying my gay ass comic #if you tell me what you like about it I will love you until the end of time #'but Robin are you also gonna draw Melody's date with Claire?' #listen yes I have ideas and I want to #but not right now #maybe someday but I have other things I wanna work on #art

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Oooh look at the Czech Figure Skating team using Good Omens music for their Ice Dancing! :), Gdansk 2023.

#good omens #music #ice skating #ice dancing #czech #thank you i-only-ever-asked-questions for telling me about it! :) #Youtube #andrea psurna #jachym novak

[the-meme-monarch]

hlvr based things :]

#i have not been able to watch bbvrai yet !! even then idk if i will i am severely disinterested in brba #i WILL watch bbvrai and have fun about it though don’t get it twisted #<- EDIT 2: i meant to say im not sure i’ll Draw anything for it. said smth completely contradictory and then said ‘don’t get it twisted’ #hlvrai #hlage #<- im fairly certain that’s the gnome run tag but what does the e stand for. half life alyx gnome E-something #hl2vrai #the art gallery #EDIT: IT’S GNOME EDITION i genuinely couldn’t figure it out ANDNSJJS thank you for telling me !

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A collection of Poorly Drawn Cats

(Part 2)

#poorly drawn cats #I had a very fun time drawing these! I love how cats contort into strange shapes! #Backstory to this was me asking people to show me their cat. All of them were amazing photos. #Cat photos always have a very good energy and I really needed it! #Thank you to everyone who took the time to show me and tell me about their cat. #You too can tell me about your cat. I may (MAY. NO GUARENTEE) do another round in the future. #Know that it has a 100% guarantee of making me very happy B*) #...Drawing these made me miss the MDZS warrior cats AU. I still have a lot more to draw.

[vcrnons]

WE ARE LIKE FLOWERS THAT BLOOM IN MAY. RAINDROP ON ME, ON ME.

#seventeen #svt #ot13 #*mine #tw flashing #svtgifs #svtsource #heymax #maddieblr #userhev #usermery #jennalook #userbexrex #userfairy #raplineuser #heyteo #userzaynab #eoieopda archive #if u happened to notice the jeonghan clip not being from april shower thats because the camera did not fix on him at all #for the whole fucking song on d2! #i rewatched it like 6 times just to make sure and NOTHING! #(if i'm wrong and there was a clip kindly dont tell me ill deactivate. thanks<3) #some of these do not look as good as the others and to that i say: cameraman is a hoonsol anti . #but i have been making these for two mf days and i'm TIRED so please just. don't talk about it ;-; #ok bye love u <3 boop

[lyril]

awesome, so instead of a reprint like he was considering, joe murray's decided to just release his book as a free pdf/ebook!

i had a lot of trouble getting my hands on a copy (and i got extremely lucky to only pay $80 instead of the $200-$300 it usually goes for!) so this is awesome ❤

#talk #cartoons #greatest hits #rocko's modern life #camp lazlo #let's go luna #i put this in my queue earlier today but THANK YOU STILL TO ANON TELLING ME ABOUT IT AS WELL #eliza showed us since she actually uses twittter *smiles*

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

snf sob... his favorite regular... wailing in the club rn

#ive never drawn a sheet before. much less a sheet covered caterpillar! it shows! #MANNNN THESE TWO AUGH #thank you halloween record for the crumbs. im sated <3 #the fact that he Barged past sally gave me the image of him lightly tackling barnaby #bro had to pick up some Speed his legs were Goin #at some point i may clean up the og base sketch and make a non-halloween-costume version #because! your honor! i love them! #scribble garnish #laughingstock #barnaby x howdy #howdy x barnaby #welcome home #i was gonna try to make it more ~ambiguous~ and non shippy and then my hand slipped and they're both blushing now oops #i tell myself 'be normal about them' and i Fail Miserably

[imjustapoorwayfaringgeek]

au where everything went good and lya and cat are hanging out with their kids

im not completely satisfied with this drawing but i still like it enough

#fan art #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf fanart #asoiaf art #lyanna stark #catelyn stark #catelyn tully #jon snow #but in this case not a snow nor named jon #sansa stark #arya stark #winterfell #a sunny day at winterfell #jon yields #i love cat's hair #both ned and cat are tall but arya is really small and is said to look like lyanna so i assume lyanna is also kinda small? #jon's wearing targ colors yes thank you #tell me what they're talking about #jon is 9 #sansa is 6 #arya is 4 #or something like that #my art.