#thats also a fun line of thought

[arundolyn]

idk what really prompted the thought but

modern au

es is an electronic music artist, nobody really knows who she is but her work is REALLY popular

#crow.txt #blazblueposting #not sure where the fuck that came from but its entertaining #people just see this short stern seemingly emotionless shopping for groceries like shes on a mission #not really talking to anyone if she can absolutely help it #little do they know they just walked past The Azure Maiden #one of her songs is even playing in the store #some brief stint into more pop stuff that she doesnt particularly enjoy #so she just kinda ignores it goes through self checkout and minds her business #listen for as put together as es is canonically it would be very cute to see her in like a hoodie or something #you cannot tell me modern au es wouldnt be absolute coze mode all the time #she'd probably mostly be a hermit tbh. she leaves the house once a month to get food and whatever. #nobody can question the number of pudding cups shes buying if she doesnt talk to a cashier! win win. #actually back to the azure maiden tag it woudl be Very funny if she was in the new world at the end of blazblue #like ragna decided god damn you deserve to be normal if i cant be #thats also a fun line of thought #imagine talking to a weird girl in line at liek a coffee shop and finding out that like #shes 100 whatever years old. she saved the world like twice. she just straight up didnt live around people for a long ass time. #what the fuck is this azure shes talking about? #and then she gets a drink with like 10 shots of espresso and leaves without another word #sipping it very casually while its still very hot #no milk or anything but a Lot of sugar for sure

[tianshiisdead]

im happy my post is garnering discussion but honestly i wasnt around for 2018-2021 fandom on tumblr and i was mainly talking about how its kind of silly to get mad at people for portraying colonizer countries as mean, or calling it demonization and stuff. like its okay not to like personally portraying ur fav characters as mean or part of the state, but getting irritated at the fact that it exists or is popular imo kind of misses the fact that this… is the state and nation personification fandom. and its hard to say its not canon when canon did once portray the characters in uniform and at times involved in their state activities… like the early strips discussing western imperialism in china is literally ‘china being bullied by the allies’ ‘france wanting to grope china’ ‘china being treated like a maid’ etc etc like they were very much. the state LOL also china and japan’s canon relationship, as much as I have my issues with it, has an entire thing about china being stabbed by japan… i do feel like hetalia started out as a history nerd’s history exploration that blended humour with ‘what i find cute’ with satire etc etc, which inevitably involves illustrating the personifications as vessels of state and culture, and although the modern strips have deviated quite a bit… well, different people will approach this series for different reasons, right? Whether its serious or comedic content showing the characters as mean or imperialist or unpleasant, it’s not something that deviates too far from canon (if we take all canon eras into consideration) nor is it surprising given how history laden the topic is.

#diary #hetalia #hater tag #also have some issues with some things being called drama… #like i know some of u think of me and some others as drama stirring little devils #honestly i dont enjoy drama that much but ill become upset when i see things that i see as racist or insensitive… #because im of the opinion that this fandom requires extra sensitivity given the subject matter. #let people have fun #but #also be careful yk? i guess for me personally im always trying to be careful #when im out of my depth i try to talk to ppl with better understanding while doing my own research #and if ive written or expressed antyhing bad (which i certainly have even on this blog many times before) #i try to change my stances with new info… and like #this is important to me and its important for me to read ppls thoughts bc. #i know what its like to be treated racistly and dismissed. or to have things and history precious to me twisted #but anyways rambling aside… i guess what i want to say is i understand it seems annoying but #if you post something insensitive… and someone gets upset… then thats just how it is. hetalia is sensitive #again ive definitely posted bad insensitive things. ive been told im acting out of line. #and it sucks. but… sometimes you have to understand ur own irritation doesnt outweigh the hurt #and listen a little #sometimes i like things that i then find are insensitive or cruel. and id rather not engage with it than dismiss peoples hurt… or something #honestly i keep most of my whining private i promise JLKFHDJGLKFH BC FOR THE MOST PART I THINK I CAN TELL THE DIFF BETWEEN #when i have a real issue and when im just nitpicking #so i keep my more petty whining or basic stuff private #but if i see something egregious then i dont want to be quiet #and if a friend of mine (esp if theyre a kid) is upset or hurt by racism I dont want to be quiet

[dayurno]

riko in kayleigh’s care au yeahh…

riko: KEVIN WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME FREAK LEAVE ME ALONE??? *terrified for his life*

kevin, an autistic 7 year old: i have this rock in my pocket. for you

AND HE DOES............ riko he has this rock in his pocket. for you.

its cute to me it really is i think they're so funny and kevin is seriously so autistic. riko at this point hasn't interacted with any other children his age outside of little league and kevin is not just patently unusual he's also 1) super intense 2) loud 3) excited beyond belief over having someone to play with. SO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW HAPPY HE IS. most children would be happy to get a brother no matter what but this child in specifically has spent a lot of time with nannies or in adult-world events with his mother so of course he's happy to have a friend to accompany him!!! are you crazy!!!!!! the way i see it on riko's first day with the days (heh) kevin teaches him approximately three hundred different games in a span of two hours that riko either brutally rejects for not being exy (which kevin agrees with but also says they have to play other games because not all children know exy) (he's shocked by this too) or just outright doesn't understand because kevin's accent is so thick :)

BUT I THINK despite riko's fragile state and the ghosts that will inevitably follow him well into adulthood, it is a happy childhood.......... it's hard and at points feels hopeless, but when riko grows older he does look back and understands kevin's intentions and maybe even is a little grateful that someone was willing to reach out to his angry terrified traumatized 7 year old self. i think this k & r are not as close as they were in canon for a myriad of reasons, the biggest one being that riko's relationship to kevin and kayleigh is pretty complex because he feels like an outsider, but they're also a lot more well-meaning towards each other. they don't understand the other as well as they'd like to (i'd wager kevin will spend years and years trying to understand riko and failing to) but i do think they get impossibly closer after (sorry) kayleigh dies, which i can imagine happening in their late 30s to mid 40s. they'll always be brothers <3:)

#i love you reverse aftg au i want to write it eventually because i think this k&r are sooooooo fun and interesting and #dare i say. twinyard parallels #also trojan!riko is fucking funny and you will have to pry it from my cold dead hands #he's so pissed off when kevin drops their usc plans to go to fuckass palmetto get chased around by a white man with a knife #but he'll survive it and thats what matters #also i havent given this much thought yet but the timeline of canon still goes pretty similar for everyone else besides kevin and riko #so kevin is still going to go through neil's shitstorm of a freshman year #which riko will find very funny years down the line but horrifying triggering while it goes down #its i think a very physical reminder of what haunts him and will send him to meltdown city every week or so in cali #but things will be okay. you'll see #he'll be terrified of the butcher and of the moriyamas doing anything to kevin and it somehow being his fault #asks #riko #kevin #kevin&riko #reverse riko au

[wall-e-gorl]

let them be COZY

#my art #unprepared casters #on the rocks #off the rails #they! are eating my brain. theyre my latest brain worms. look at them. look at these losers (affectionate). thats not their bed. #i went a little more with lighting than usual. those lines are from the sun hitting mostly closed blinds #it happens on my curtains in my room everyday provided its not cloudy. its been rainy today and yesterday so i miss it #ooook details. atty is wearing one of rians shirts. cause they were in a gown earlier and i doubt they did a pitstop by their apartment #so. sharing clothes #and of course rian and chet made tshirts for their cover bar. why wouldnt they thats the kind of nonsense they would get up to #also: the a is the Symbol. the resistence symbol #i thought thatd be fun and neat and Cool #and they are holding each other soooooo closely. theyre allowed to now <3 #anyways this is a lot of tags #thank you for reading them and also hi dillian

[animalinvestigator]

dark spore kids

#my art #noriko kawada #ken ichijouji #punimon #Im not gonna tag the other dark spore kids and their digimon because the seocnd one isj ust goofy. #ive had these sitting around for a while. i haev more other digimon 02 drawings ill post later i didnt want to put them in the same one with #this becuase the poses came out really similar without me thinkingabout it LOL. #ive just bee ndrawing a bunch of shit like this trying to get through a rough couple weeks. hopefully i can draw more soon!! #a little embarrassing to have only digimon art to show for myself right now but im having fun and making the things i want to see and i gues #thats whats important to me so. o7. bear with me until my heart eventually settles into a calm about it and i can draw other things again #i may have talked about it before but the dark spore really is a very compelling story element to me. so naturally i really wished that the #kids who got it implanted got to be characters more than they did. one of my favorite lines in the entire show come sfrom noriko . soim very #sad that theres not much art of her. thats why i drew her #i also just thought the idea of ken running a dbt skills group therapy session was really funny. hes canonically a psych student as of #02 the beginning im told. tough crowd to be testing your knowledge on.... #anyway enjoy!! im outta here until i draw something else i guess

[realjem]

Went back and finally started working on the delilah painting I started almost a full fuckin year ago let's go baybee

#the main thing that got me was that i got super eugghh cause i thought the hand was backwards or the wrong hand or whatever #which would cause me to have to go back and resketch and recolor a whole arm and hand with the worst brushes for that #(pencil sketch lining and gouache paint brushes on procreate) #anywho. i checked it again and its literally not even that bad. like the fingers are Weird but also that is a thing i did. on purpose. #so im basically just working on shading (rendering? i think thats more the term i should use for it lol) and its going super fun again yaaay #i think i'll reblog this with some wips or smth tho teehee #jem.txt

[doublekanble]

Hi. Read your fic WHAT THE FUC- (/POS ITS SO GOOD??) BRUH I WENT INTO IT BEING LIKE "oh I'm just curious as to what this'll be, I'm sure it's just like some short self indulgent thing" THEN GOT STABBED LIKE TWELVE TIMES OVER. INSTANT FOLLOW. OH MY GOD.

its actually IS self indulgent! just in the opposite direction! i want him to kiss me so badly but i also want him to hate me until its all he knows its a bit of trouble really

#im going with this not because i want to. but because i want to survive even if its horrible- #but i will also be complaining the whole way through. #alastor did one wrong thing that he thought would've been ok but turns out that of all thing is the- #invisible line he could never cross so oops he's hated forever and ever now nothing to do about that #/kbtalk #TYSM WAHHH WORDS LIKE THIS ARE THE REASON I WRITE SO MUCH #MEANS THE WORLD TO ME!!!! TY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 #and since whenever someone send me an ask like this i just start diving into my thoughts on al and shit- #i have great trouble processing my own worth and the fact other people think of me still makes me go ?? #also a general sense of #like very obviously morally corrupt protag but not to the point of murder on their own accord #my favorite thing ever is also #thats why al never get his happy ending fully its always him biting #im very firm on my take of al already its just dif flavor of him #if i want to kiss him i wouldve just kiss him but what about the fun part where he agonized over the idea of loving something so much- #he can die for it but also refusing to lay his ego down for it #to love is to be vulnerable and frail and weak and to accept the unknowing. alastor hates all of the above. in this essay i will-

[vote2]

Holy shit

#new eo3 trailer ohh man. leucistic animals and also cocoa marajada confirmed. so are rhe past legendaries returninh #like cocoa was labeled as rare so thats diff than the metioned 'mystic' animals. but what category are the ancient ones in. #many thoughts many thoughts.... #anyways looks so fun mwah i hope 'single player story line' that was confirmed is more than just the research missions #i hope it functions like eo1 where you do x amount x hours then the main story begins to happen #whatever sooop excited ilyyyy #ohh and coins were confirmed. i think salvage was wrt the rating abt alcohol being wine cases #but idk if that was just abt set dressing like w the shipwrecks or actual salvage #i like eo1 w them being random eo2 is so grindy for money #but yayyy

[im-still-a-robot]

Finally updated my laptop profile photo. Also love the somewhat historically inaccurate victorian style coats.

#crazy coconuts #sona #hehe #actually I put a bit more thought into the lines of this than I normally do #the button up is 'missing' its buttons bc usually theyre either white or clear to hide them #you can't see the sleeves under the coat because it was something a few of the photos I was looking at had and i thought it was fun #the coat itself was originally green. but i do love pushing all the colors of a piece red #its slightly easier to tell with the gradient background #also there's two bg variations of this that I decided looked bad and redid #although the discord got one lol #oh and #tw eye contact #tw scopophobia #i love eyes in art but I know some dont and thats chill #alright im done. #you're receiving this on friday but i did it saturday night. and scheduled it yesterday lol

[theamazingannie]

I’m a sucker for musical parallels and referencing an old song in a new song but I feel like this TTPD lead up is not just a “this is how I used to feel and now I’m using those themes to show how I feel now” and more of a “those feelings were never real and actually those love songs that were so beautiful before are actually about a bad relationship and full of red flags” cuz it’s honestly ruining my feelings on those old songs. Like Taylor’s whole thing is letting us interrupt the songs and apply them to our own lives and now it’s like even she is encouraging us to only see them through the lens of her most recent breakup and it really sucks tbh

#like when it was just fans being swifties I could ignore it and keep believing they were good love songs #but now that those Apple Music playlists came out and these songs are being sorted through different lenses #it feels like she wants us to look at those beautiful love songs differently and I hate it #taylor swift #ttpd #like I’d make jokes and talk about her personal life #and look at her songs and be like hmmm maybe that’s what she meant by this #but mostly her songs were always separate from her real life relationships #(otherwise I wouldn’t be able to love the speak now era love songs lmao) #I apply her songs to my characters #sweet nothing was the perfect song for one of my ocs who got famous and felt like he couldn’t be himself anymore #expect when he was with his bf who didn’t see him that way #and now I listen to it and I hear all those tweets saying ‘omg he didn’t love her and didn’t care about her and THATS what she was saying’ #and having lover being one of the top wedding songs of the 2020s #and the ‘at every table I’ll save you a seat’ now going from ‘I want you by my side always’ #to ‘I have to save it but you don’t show up cuz you’re never there for me’ #and lavender haze going from ‘we don’t need to be married to be in love and I just want to be with you #and I wish people would stay out of my private life’ #now being ‘I actually did want to get married and this was me just being in denial’ #it SUCKS #things were much easier when I was just playing my thoughts here rather than following fan pages on Twitter #I’ve met a lot of great people and learned some fun stuff but this is exhausting #I just want to listen to my favorite artist without analyzing every line to figure out if she really meant it like that #I love her for her ability to tel stories I can relate my characters to #that’s all I really want to do with her songs #makes me want to leave the fandom and just listen alone #but also doing that before made me miss album announcements and vault puzzles and other news #idk I’ll probably stay but it just really sours the whole experience for me #and I wish it didn’t

[lokh]

rogue of time would also be an interesting typing.....

#i think its actually the one i originally thought of but i fear it might be more speculative of his character #vs smth that seems pretty in line with canon characterisation like knight #becos of the whole mortality thing understand. and also the fire association with time #tho its possible that thats just a dave thing cos idr aradia having a fire association #tho aries IS a fire sign.... #i also almost made him a page just because of the idea of missed potential and him getting struck down too early #also thinking about tanjiros aspect and . rn im also thinking hope but that means they double up (heir of hope?) #if kyo is a time player then thats no longer an issue #and it also is fun because they can both be associated with flames but in slightly different way #just like with sun vs flame breathing... #between the two i would think kyo the time player tbh #but them having the same aspect is nice too #on the slayer side i think by necessity theres going to be double ups #well wait. same on the demon side #blood is also an interesting one for tanjiro. i considered it for kyo too tbh #im just thinking that. kyo seems grounded in a way that hs canon hope players. dont #but theres still that aspect of whimsy.....

[ei-mugi]

my main hurdle with my dcaf fic is my depression but my 2nd task-related hurdle is not knowing what eichi should be doing at my ambiguous and butchered chosen place in time--- nvm see the notes

#i already fucked up the start of checkmate but its fine the details dont have to be perfect #its so early on i can write a way around that. who cares #whats important is that it stays like thematically coherent. and characterisation needs to be consistent #but also liiike. whats----------- oh. #okay. i just thought of a solution to my problem #thats really easy why didnt i think of this months ago #ok im gonna write that down somewhere for after i finish my BB fic #and then several yaers down the line once i have a nicely wrapped and finished dcaf i can rewrite the whole thing to make it #accurate-er to the canon timeline of events. making a timeline just isnt fun to me sorry #the goal with dcaf wasnt to make it perfect it was to make it done yknow #i wanted to prove to myself i could write a longfic (or medfic at least) & that i could have a bare minimum satisfying narrative #so staying entirely true to canon isnt high on my priority list #learn how to make the thing THEN learn how to make it well u get me #i love roleplay but ive never done a whole lot of individual writing lol #i still need to reread those reminiscence events though... sigh... and ideally fluff out with some other stories too #i gotta manage my expectations on what i know im able to get done tho. sad but true #thank god i actually wrote notes when i was reading rocket start #i started writing notes when i started obbligato too tho im not far into that yet ive got other stuff to do #im totally distracted ok wrapping post up now

[transgaysex]

okay i couldnt stop thinking abt Milk bc id genuinely forgotten abt her .

i super dont remember what her outfit looked like so i made up a new one for her and also its 4 am and i drew this in the past hour with my finger and my phone (no way in hell im getting up to use my computer rn. im comfy) but i do remember her hairbands were hot pink/red depending on what markers i had on me at the time . i was 9 when i created her.

#wind howls #myart #this came out surprisingly well considering i havent drawn sonic stuff in ages. #i guess that serves as reminder that i was a sonic artist first. and everything else second lol #i ususally hate drawing shoes but i genuinely think i had the most fun drawing some whatever boots for her wtf #those were so fun just lines here and there and suddenly i had boots i was happy with. wtf !!! that was so fun #i think ? her outfit was like a t shirt with pants. like elephant foot pants iirc #dont remember At All what the colors were. there was some red somewhere but idr where #anyway sorry im not makimg this rebloggable im so shy but also strangely happy its like discovering something i thought was lost #she used to be sonics little sister but i think. shes grown now bc i guess thats just how i drew her ? #if i can grow up from being 9 so can she. godspeed miss girl #anyway. i just missed 420 so im devastated so im gonna sleep goodnight

[marklikely]

and i have zero answers about this but i feel like we as a collective need to figure some stuff out bc we cannot keep having these constant threads about how all lgbt media is sanitized and boring these days in between callout posts for how every new lgbt media that isn't sanitized and boring is irredeemable problematic media you can't blog about

#i dont know what to do about this either so i am offering no suggestions #cause like idk. jsut like with the adventured zone the quest to find unproblematic diverse characters is just giving us boring . #but at the same time i get it like some things are just impossible to get past and that line is different for everyone #idk man! what do you do i dont want people who hit their limit on Problematic elements to just shut up and let others have fun or w/e #but i also think its really not getting us anywhere to be like. every new thing thats coming out has some problematic aspect dont watch it. #and this is the state we're in after years of the like 'critically consuming' discussion so clearly THATS given us zero progress too. #us deciding 'well you can like some problematic things as long as you're aware of it' has like #not improved the conversation at all its just deferred it to like 'well whats too problematic to like critically then' #and thus the cycle continues we're still having the exact same issue as before :/ #avpost #if anything the critical consumption movement has made the problem worse because now #people are just being completely hypocritical and deciding what is or isnt 'too problematic to like critically' comes down to personal tast #taste*. whatever you like is ok to enjoy critically and whatever you dislike is too problematic to enjoy at all. #and the conversation just gets perfectly stuck there cause as it turns out you can like #rationalize and intellectualize just about any opinion even if you only got there using your own emotions #so its very easy to believe you're being objective about it and have solved the issue but really haven't solved anything at all #and let the record show im not immune to anything ive described here ok goodnight. this is just thinking out loud. #feel free to weigh in just please dont treat this as like some coherent mission statement or declaration. #i am litcherally typing as im thinking and not really editing. this is just an open discussion of my unfiltered thoughts lmao #but if you also have thoughts id love to hear it.

[dumbkiwi]

4 am means it's time to clog up your dash with personal posts anyways looking at ppls embroidery and my own realizing both how far ive come and how much more i can still learn/do is very cool. no i dont want to write an email in japanese.

#sel speaks #i started in december of 2019!! which is very funny and conveniently RIGHT BEFORE THE PANDEMIC #which is like. when eveyrone got into it except i got a month of extra practice lol #and to be fair i did my first real piece once i got home #but i found those photos #and like!!! i did get better!!! my stitches are cleaner now! i have a better handle on how to make things look consistent! #and i have made so many mistakes that i didnt realize were mistakes #that made everything warped etc #but ive actually gotten better and thats like. tangible!!!! #at the same time there are so many cool styles that i have yet to try #and i have so much room to grow technically and like from a basic art perspective #(obvs from the art perspective like i'll probably never be able to do like Original Needlepainting which im fine with lol) #anyways this was prompted by me seeing a hoop with some of the cleanest split stitches ever #like at first glance i thought it was machine #but you can see the texture and it's GORGEOUS #and i always thought the fun of filling stitches like that was that it idnt matter what you did #but like. if you plan it out (maybe have direction lines? practice at having more even stitching? invest in a stand?) #it can look SO PRETTY. the design was also like not super flashy it was just so well made #and that's just like. a really good example of an extremely basic thing #like im trying something similar out with my satin stitch ofmd hoop #to copy the style of the landscape artists i see #and i think im doing okay at it? #but doing dense filling like that is definitely more my vibe #might try it out when i do more chainsaw man #although those are all gonna be black and red so it'll probably be hard to see for the all black stuff

[lamentfulwarbler]

Was meant to be writing and ended up doing a sketch thing for my au,,

For those who can’t read the text, it reads ‘Canonverse Chuuya’, and ‘Backstory Swap au Dazai’

Edit: attempted to space them out better bc tumblr killed the quality 💀

#uhhhh. do i maintag this? #y’know what. sure #bsd #bsd au #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai #if Chuuya’s arm looks weird. uh #no it doesn’t. it defo did not take me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to make that arm look. somewhat natural #idk. ask me abt my au if you want. i’ll answer any questions i can #dunno if i’ll ever make a fic of it. maybe one day lol #i actually really like how swap Dazai’s side came out #i know it might look a little cluttered but i promise that’s intentional #lamentfulwarbler’s soukoku backstory swap au #<- just in case i ever make any more posts about the au #purposefully specific so that there’s less chance of accidentally cramping someone elses tag 🙏 #(swap dazai’s ability is called the setting sun btw) #(i promise his background is orange for a reason and not just me forgetting the red blue dynamic skk have-) #actually if we’re talking swap au ability names i might as well give chuuya’s as well #(if you couldn’t tell from the earlier tag. only skk are swapped) #swap chuuya’s ability is called Self-Portrait on a Cold Night #but hes not featured here. just thought that was a fun little fact #also. just in case it wasn’t obvious. Swap Dazai is in his version of Corruption. his whole schtick is different to canon Chuuya’s though- #-bc I didn’t want them to be /too/ similar #theres no fun in a swap au thats just canon but the designs and names are swapped #at least not for me- #i even tried to keep their canon personalities but with different reasonings and stuff! #i think its fun to see how different characters. different personalities. would react to similar situations #oh yeah. just in case it wasn’t clear. the lines are meant to be shadows #(like swapzai’s face is clouded in shadows. reason linked to his ability wink wink nudge nudge) #ok wait this is a lot of tags i’m gonna. uh. post now