#that is a 15 year old right there

[desperatecheesecubes]

Sorry still crying about how baby Kon is at the start of his run

#Roxy leech #Rex leech #Conner kent #Superboy (1994) 4 #mine #that is a 15 year old right there #or… something #idr 14-16 somewhere in that range

[reputayswift]

THE

🗣️🗣️🗣️“AND WE RUN!!!!”

IN I KNOW PLACES!!!

#best song 15 year old me always right #taylor swift #1989 tv #tays takes

[lgbtlunaverse]

So since mxtx has said that in novel canon nie huaisang is eventually going to end up being chief cultivator we can presume the headshaker thing, while based on his existing personality, was in fact an act and he is way more competent at his job than he's let on. And with Jin Guangyao dead and gone he has no reason to put on that act anymore.

Imagine being an Nie cultivator. Your flopppy incompetent sect leader comes home from traumatic events after it turns out his older brother's sworn brother- who's been over to your sect basically every other week for years now- is the one that killed said brother and you're fully prepared for tears and dramatics. And while you definitley don't like lianfang-zun since it just came out he killed your last (way more competent) sect leader he was sorta the one holding the sect together so you're bracing yourself for the worst, and instead he's... stoic? Paperwork is suddenly getting done well and on time without help. He's not wailing during negotiations anymore and you're getting actual good trade deals for the first time in over a decade. He answers questions now? With something other than "I don't know i don't know i really don't know!"

And even if you had none of the revelations wei wuxian had in guanyin temple, slowly the realization creeps up on you that all his earlier embarassing antics that cost your family their comfortable livelihoods and your sect their good name was on purpose. And from there it's not that hard to put two and two together. The rest of the cultivation world assumes the shock of jin guangyao's betrayal has finally forced the headshaker to grow up a little but you have worked side by side with him for a decade, probably even watched him grow up under his brother's rule. You know better.

How do you feel at that point? What can you even do? He's your sect leader. And he's finally doing his job, things are looking up, shouldn't you feel relieved? It' not like his incompetence really caused any deaths among the nie, just wiped out generational wealth and reputation that will take years and years to build back up. Is it really reasonable to only start hating someone for something when they've stopped doing it? Thereby proving that they were capable of stopping all along?

#mdzs #nie huaisang #mdzs meta #sort of? #oh the urge to write a fic from the pov of a nie cultivator oc feeling INCREDIBLY conflicted about nie huaisang #the absolute generational culture shock between the nies that grew up under lao nie and nmj who watched the sect decline in adulthood #the nies that grew up under flop era nhs and have only ever heard of their better days until things start improving again #and the ones that will be growing up under chief cultivator nhs who kind of can't imagine that he was ever THAT bad. #the rumours must be exaggerrated right? #like 13 years postcanon a 15 year old disciple a 27 year old cultivator and a sect elder are all gonna have DRAMATICALLY different opinions

[robotsandramblings]

great news everyone!!! upon my millionth-and-some rewatch, i can confirm that Captain America: The Winter Soldier is still a perfect 10/10 movie, and still the best MCU film. 👑🥇🏆

#i just realize the movie is going to be TEN (10) YEARS OLD THIS APRIL?!?!?!?!!!!!!! #happy tenth anniversary to me and my love for bucky barnes and sebastian stan lol #also arguably the best MCU post credit scene ever (the bucky one obvs) #of course i'm 200% biased lol but honestly it really is on a whole other level #i could still write an essay on that lil 15 second clip #oh and i do admit that Infinity War is right up there as Best MCU film too #bucky barnes #captain america #mcu

[kirby-the-gorb]

(No Obligation Whatsoever but if you *want* to give me a birthday present my kofi is in the pinned post or you could always draw a kirby :> after all I started drawing him every day in the first place just cuz I think low key simple kirby drawings are fun and there should be more of them!)

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #my wife bought me tasty cake and my partner made me tasty pasta #and they both got me presents too! #I haven't had presents to *unwrap* on my birthday in a long time #(I've still had presents most of the recent years but it's all just like the 'hey buy me this' 'here you go love you' type presents) #(and my wife has been working for the whole day on my birthday the past few years too :c ) #(but today she was done at a reasonable time and got to hang out with me!) #(so was our other partner!) #(it was nice :> ) #(for real tho zero obligation re giving me things for real) #(like money's kinda tight right now but it's not like an emergency or anything) #(mostly thanks to our partner) #(and my wife thinks she'll be employed again by the end of the month) #(so probably any money I get will either be saved for emergencies or spent on replacing 15 year old clothes) #(rather than like groceries or whatever) #(any kirby drawings I get will probably be gathered up on monday or s/t in like a special edition reply roundup) #(anyway I'll stop mumbling now <3 ) #favorites

[blueskittlesart]

Question abt drawing: been trying to attempt learning how to draw forever but I always have trouble getting over the obstacle of having to learn/study things like anatomy and shading, which then causes me to stop drawing and have a harder time picking it back up. I know it's important for improving your art and yourself as an artist but I can't help but see it as tedious and overwhelming, especially the anatomy since it's more on the science side of things and science is not my thing lol. Do you have any advice on how to get over it or work thru it?

i think there's a couple facets to this question. firstly i'd recommend you consider what exactly your end goal is in learning how to draw: do you specifically want to be able to produce anatomically accurate figures and true-to-life shading, or do you just want to be able to make something for fun that looks good to you? one of the most helpful things I ever learned at art school was that accuracy doesn't matter if it looks good. 99% of my art isn't strictly anatomically accurate, and part of that is stylization, but even when i'm doing realistic figure drawings i like to lengthen limbs and exaggerate curves in order to make my drawings look better. So if your only real goal with art is to make something that looks good and enjoy the process, my first piece of advice would be to stop worrying so much about stuff like perfect accuracy! if you use references and keep pushing yourself, the skill and understanding you're looking for will come naturally with time. before I was ever classically trained, I got pretty far just by drawing my favorite characters in different poses and situations over and over again, and that experience laid the groundwork for when classical training did become available to me. Just because you're not necessarily doing serious figure studies doesn't mean you're not getting valuable practice--what it means is that you're having FUN while you're practicing, and having fun with your art is the most important thing!!!

Secondly, you mentioned anatomy being on the science side of things, which suggests to me that you may be looking in the wrong places when trying to do more serious anatomical study. if you look up 'anatomy' or anything similar on a web search engine, you're likely going to get a lot of very complex scientific illustrations. and while those aren't necessarily devoid of artistic value (I took a class all about scientific anatomy for artists last semester and it was GREAT) for a beginner who's just trying to learn how to make a body look like a body, they're not what you're looking for. what is going to be much more helpful for you are sites like line of action or quickposes. these sites are basically repositories of figure drawing images, and you can set them to automatically switch to a new image after a certain interval of time. if you really, desperately want to improve your anatomy specifically, what I recommend is going to one of these sites, setting it to the shortest interval possible, and trying to copy the pose as closely as you can before time is up. this might sound crazy, since the shortest interval is usually somewhere between 30-60 seconds, which obviously isn't enough to get much down. but what this will do is force you to look at how these models' bodies are constructed and translate it onto the page quickly and without overthinking it. be warned, your first maybe hundred of these are going to look like shit. but if you do this enough, you're eventually going to gain an intrinsic sense for 1. how a body works and 2. the easiest way for you personally to construct a body when drawing it. even without knowing the scientific names and anatomical rules, you're going to get a FEEL for how things work, which is much more important and useful to you as a character artist.

Finally, i think the most important thing to remember is that no art is bad art, even if you're not satisfied with the end product. when you're first starting out as an artist, you're going to make things that don't look right and you're going to be frustrated with yourself because of it. i vividly remember crying over a sketchbook at maybe age 11 or 12 because I was so upset i couldn't put exactly what was in my head on the page. Skill comes with time and practice and that is a frustrating fact of life, but no time spent doing something you enjoy and are passionate about is wasted. It might look bad now but you are laying the groundwork for your future success, and someday you're probably going to look back on your past work and say "I can't believe I thought this looked bad back then. for my age and my skill level i was doing AMAZING." And as previously mentioned, it's a lot less discouraging when something looks bad if you had fun making it, so try to have FUN with your art. draw things you enjoy and are passionate about and don't worry if it looks bad. focus on the experience, the skill will come in time. you've got this!!

#i've had this account since i was 15 years old. you can literally go back and see my ass did NOT know what i was doing #but i was having fun and the weird stuff that i was trying that maybe didn't always look right was what laid the groundwork #for my current skills! #i know this advice is basically just 'practice' which is what everyone says but it's important to me that you know #that practice should be FUN too. practice isn't drawing boring shit over and over again before you get to draw the fun stuff #practice is drawing the fun stuff that is maybe a little out of your comfort zone and maybe it looks a little wonky but you did it #and you had fun doing it! and now you'll be a little more prepared to do it again in the future! #asks

[moonfruito]

[untitled - will byers (1989)]

revisiting '86

#couldn't get his face right tbh #idk how to use pastels #i think sometimes about how will is going to look back on his 15 year old self in years to come #and how he's going to remember california and the road trip the further in time he gets from it #stranger things #st #will byers #stranger things will #byler #byler tumblr #will byers fanart #stranger things fanart #st fanart #my art

[unrealisticlea]

I’m calling it now, Buck is gonna come out Alec-Lightwood-style (i.e. kissing his date in front of everyone and their mother)

#this is a reference to The Mortal Instruments Book 3 in the year of our Lord 2024 #when he kisses Magnus right before the battle of Alicante with everyone looking at them and no one’s more shocked than Magnus #a scene that 15 year old me could recite from memory #Idk how he comes out in the tv show I didn’t get that far #Bucktommy #911 abc

[winesharksea]

i think it's important that kit appears to straight up not know how to have a genuine conversation with someone. and a lot of that has to do with how he was raised, isolated with nobody really asking for his input or opinions, but for most of tda even when he's speaking to somebody he's rarely actually sharing his thoughts. and on top of that he's SUCH a people pleasing character, like beyond the initial snark he pretty much goes along with whatever people want or expect from him just for their attention or to make them happy. and on top of THAT, i think that tda is probably his first experience as like... a person among equals? i don't think it really occurs to him that the things he does or doesn't do impact other people because that's never been the case before, and obviously it leads to disaster but like i think he still just does not understand that his decisions affect people because he feels irrelevant and out of place among them. he can't feel accountable for the ways his choices affect other people because he just does not understand that he has the ability to affect people at all.

and like on ty's side i think even before the resurrection attempt he's very given to self blame, like when livvy gets hurt at the shadow market and he immediately blames himself for the injury. he feels an immense amount of responsibility to both livvy and to the rest of his family, and so many of his actions post-tda are rooted in this idea that he needs to do penance for the failed spell. (and here i'm also going to blame magnus a little for being really unnecessarily harsh at the end of tda when from everything preceding kit is literally just fleeing the country out of embarrassment and not really anger.) but he doesn't blame kit for lying to him or randomly dropping a love confession at him at possibly THE most inopportune time, he immediately put that back on himself and blames himself for being the reason kit left. there's also a lot to be said here about processing the world as an autistic person among an insular society of people who don't have the vocabulary or information to help you even when they want and try to, and how that affects the way you see your relationships with other people. ty doesn't blame kit for lying or running away because it does not occur to him that the fault lies with anyone but himself.

(also now i'm going to blame ragnor a LOT because listen if i was a 15 year old and traumatically lost someone i cared about i would probably not be making A+ decisions either but this man is a whole adult and also said not one word to anybody in a position to stop them or at least keep an eye on them)

so like at the end of the day i feel like so much of tda is about characters being so caught up in their own spirals of shame or self-doubt or pain that they don't notice what's happening to the people around them until it's already happened, and that even the people who love you will not always do it perfectly or even well, but as for these two hopefully that's the character growth we'll see in twp- kit now having a baseline of familial love, being an older brother, and finding self-worth to the point where he can hold himself accountable for the things he does and recognize his responsibility to other people, and ty growing in confidence and trusting himself enough to realize he doesn't have to punish himself or shoulder so much blame and that he can acknowledge when other people have not done right by him.

#anyway maybe unpopular opinion but i'm actually glad they're apart right now because i think they needed it #in my opinion if i'm assigning blame to this situation about 90% of it goes to ragnor #for enabling this and hoping that the traumatized 15 year olds decide to make wise choices by themselves #but also i hope kit is realizing he isnt 'nothing' and that his choices affect other people #and that ty is realizing that he doesnt have to atone for like just wanting his sister back and kit's decisions #the wicked powers #twp #kit herondale #ty blackthorn

[whump-on-a-string]

Based on that Ask about if it's Parish who usually patches up my blorbos. The answer is Yes.

Parish has been dealing with Dallan's tendency to run into unfortunate shenanigans for the past 10 or so years. Dallan would probably have died a long time ago if he weren't pals with/working for a very good elven doctor. Poor dude's got Chronic Whumpee Disease.

ANYWAYS. What really started it was a dinner party Dr. Parish and a half-elf friend attended at Mr. Richard's greathouse. Dallan was just the lil resident servant boy cinnamon roll who took their coats & stuff. The head maid wasn't a fan of how the half-elf friend was critiquing her methods of keeping her staff busy so she tried to play a bit of a prank on him by messing with his food that backfired horrendously and nearly killed Wolf (and littol babby Dallan by proxy because Wolf was sharing his snacks because look at him. He was just so smol and helpful and looked like he needed a lil treat 🥺)

Doctor Parish was furious.

#whump #whump art #Dallan #Parish #Alice #My Art #OC #Original #Lore #littol babby Dallan when he was like 12-15 years old. Just a poor little guy. :( #A family can be a 100+ yr old elf doctor with his adopted human son that works for his rich human friend he used to treat the wife of right #the nuclear family doesnt exist anyways #maybe the real treasure was the family-like friends you made along the way that help you through your traumatic events huh Dallan? #poison #poisoning

[goodoldfashionednerd]

Elias Mannix is such a tragic character, when you think about it. He was doomed from the start. Either he accepts to go with the time loop and

a) has a shitty childhood (shitty to the point of not thinking anyone ever loved him and to the point of accepting to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to feel that love he was promised)

b) has to go through with the killing of hundreds of thousands of people! And I know future!Elias doesn't really show any remorse about it, but it has to fuck up a person. Especially when his decision was made pretty spontaneously in the moment, without really thinking about the consequences (I personally think that he wouldn't have done it if he had taken the time to breath, calm down and think about it). And especially knowing most of these people didn't just die at the time of the explosion, but had to suffer a slow and painful death, that Elias probably heard about/saw pictures of on TV. We don't see him as a young adult, but those years must have been tough.

c) has to make sure his childhood is shitty so that he can keep existing, and become his own abuser!!

His only other option is to not do any of that, choose to not make the bomb explode, to do the right thing, and what does he get for that? Nothing! He stops existing!! And it's not just as if he dies, he will never have existed, no one will know he ever existed, no one will remember him! Can you imagine that??

His own life is dependant on a cycle of abuse and death he created himself and it's SO. SAD.

#i've seen a lot of posts pointing out how awful and how much of a hypocrite he is #and those posts are right #but i think people mostly think of adult!elias when they talk about him #and i just can't get the 15 year old who didn't ask for any of this out of my head #his life is so fucking sad #bodies #bodies 2023 #bodies netflix #bodies meta #? i guess? #please watch this show it's SO GOOD

[idolomantises]

Anyways speaking of being gay apparently teenagers on tiktok are mad at me because they found out I’m a lesbian who uses he/they pronouns

#txt #there’s something funny about telling a nb lesbian that their identity is ‘terminally online’ while regurgitating talking points #from 2015 transmed tumblr #like first it’s Pearl clutching over masculine women and feminine men and now it’s non-binary lesbians making people go berserk #honestly I wish I could find this funny (I mean in concept it is) but it’s irritating how tiktok incited so much online harassment and #bullying by just making shit up about queer identities and terminology to a point where we’re just back to acting like we have to fit into #our stereotypes. but only the accepted ones because god forbid your lesbian character is masculine lol #I remember a bunch of 15 year olds on twitter blew up at me because I pointed out that dyke is not a term exclusive to black lesbians #because guess where they got that insane ass assumption that ignores decades of lesbian history and queer activism #that’s right! another random ass teenager on tiktok with no sourcing #just gatekeeping a slur meant for all lesbians #I feel like if a tiktoker interacted with a real butch lesbian they’d explode and die

[shitpostingkats]

That fact that Playmaker when Kolter met him looked so much angrier, implying that the stoicism is in fact a mellowed out version that has only come about since he has had a friend to work alongside, that when it was just him against the world Yusaku was ferocious and bitter and WHAT IF I EXPLODED INTO A MILLION LITTLE PIECES

#I continue to adore Yusaku's expressions #'you think this character looks constantly angry?' *shows you flashback where Yusaku 24/7 looked like he was ready to Kill* #the face of a guy who is constantly trying to explode the entire world including himself with his mind #I wasn't sure how long ago this happened but look at this face that guy is definitely 15 #that's the anger of a 15 year old right there #spk watches vrains #yugioh #yugioh vrains #vrains #ygo vrains #yusaku fujiki

[clingyduoapologist]

AC1 haters are so funny because they’re always like “it’s so poorly designed! Why is it so repetitive!!” Like huh I wonder if the ruthless structured efficiency with which we’re expected to carry out our assassinations has anything to do with any Lessons Altair learns over the course of the game 🤔🤔🤔

#also the game Is 15 fucking years old and a trailblazer for 3D open worlds like #of course it’s gonna be a little rough around the edges??? #also sure the investigations may be repetitive but like #they’re still fun #like hoesntly i find most people who hate ac1 just don’t want to engage with any of the ideas it’s going for #which is fine you can have your own tastes #but shaming the game for not being for you is so petty #maybe I’m petty too ig but it’s my blog so I’m right ❤️ #anyways Altair would solo your fave!!! #assassin’s creed #ac1 #asscreed

[firstroseofspring]

b’elanna vs her mother at similar ages, plus some sketches!

#my art #star trek voyager #my very first deanna…. my original obsession. if i ever read as much about betazoids as i do klingons we’re all in grave danger #also wrt the first image b'elanna is. 12 years old and as such is about to go emo mode but not quite yet. the girly girl thing is a front #sometime in winter she'll chop her hair off without permission #what do we think? human girl look to fit into the image her father has while he's still around or after to try and get him back? #miral is also a little bookish like b'elanna but on different subjects.... likes to keep to herself naturally but is also loudmouthed and #got told she shared her opinion too often a lot in university. didn't stop her though she speaks up when she thinks (knows) she's right #what did she study? don't ask me my answer changes with the weather #botany....linguistics.....military strategy.....chemistry....... uhmmmm religious studies. or even better the klingon system doesn't have #starfleet equivalents and she spent ages 15-22 doing apprenticeships for a certain (or multiple) disciplines #anyway. #kessik 2352 b'elanna has trouble sitting still for photos until she gets a little older so all the pics from before 7 are of her father #physically holding her so that she won't wander OR off guard shots or super blurry. theres more videos of that time than anything

[alphacrone]

my villain origin story is that my tenth grade english teacher misunderstood the ending of 1984 and argued with me over it in front of the entire class and would not even consider that i was right (i was)

#winston doesn’t die physically he dies mentally the bullet in his brain is a metaphor!!!!!! #she was like idk why they didn’t kill him at the end of the movie adaptation and i was like???? #bc they didn’t have to???? that’s the point????? #the govt doesn’t have to kill you physically to stop you #they kill your mind and spirit #this was right around the time of the obama-mccain election too so we were at the end of #eight years of dubya and cheney so i was i suppose an annoying radicalized 15 year old #but still like idk how you can read an obvious metaphor and take it so literally #it’s almost a throwaway line #she was still one of my favorite teachers but i never forgave her for this #i suppose no teacher wants an insufferable know it all to call them out in front of everyone #but she was making herself look bad first