#then back to dots again

[zarla-s]

I was cleaning up some broken links on my old silly Pokemon fansite, the Neglected Pokemon Lovers Unite (NPLU), and I realized that it has now been open for 25 years. TWENTY. FIVE. YEARS. That is an ASTONISHING amount of time for a site to stay open! Even if the last substantial update was like back in 2009 lol. The world around it has changed so much, but I think it's still valuable as a time capsule of a certain time on the internet. I wrote up a new essay about it on the site and did some general clean-up here and there.

Anyway to that end, since so much of the fic and art there is so old, I decided to compare Radic's oldest form to his newest! Radic was always a human boy but I just couldn't draw humans at the time so I made him a furry lol. Eventually I figured it out.

I also thought it'd be a neat challenge to mimic my own style back when it was really wonky and bad. And it was! It was kind of fun actually. I don't have too many shots of Radic from back then (it was hard to get art on the internet in the late 90's-early 00's), but I do have a few - hugging Kitsune, two old kiribans if you want to compare. I had a lot more old shots of Parasects though to reference unsurprisingly, they were very triangular lol. I think I did a pretty good job of matching what my art used to look like. I had a clear see-through Gameboy back in the day if you can't tell what Radic is holding lol.

("Isn't Radic the faceless avatar of your gamer self as depicted in Handplates-" yes, but Pokemon!Radic is the only one that actually became his own character, all the rest are shells)

If you do go poking around the NPLU, please keep in mind that almost everything there is very old and most of the fic and art is pretty bad (and shockingly violent). Plz do not judge me! My younger self was a cringey weeb but she was trying very hard. :<

[patreon]

#pokemon #z art #radic #callima #parasect #man i haven't drawn a parasect in ages i forgot how fun it is #my crabshroom babies #i always get tempted to just delete all the links to my old art but people always tell me not to #they like seeing it?? which always baffles me but i'm trying to accept that there's something worthwhile about them lol #radic is blind so he's not using the switch he's just holding it #maybe for red? idk #there was this odd stretch where i was using dot eyes #then switched to big anime eyes #then smaller anime eyes #then back to dots again #time is a circle... #i also used to use ^_^ CONSTANTLY #thus the ^_^ by old radic there #i've seen a lot of old web trends get revived but not hit awards/kiribans #for some reason #hit counters sure webring sure affiliates sure awards and adoptables sure #but celebratory things for reaching a hit marker? haven't seen a lot of those lately

[odd-critter]

i leave and come back bearing a new interest. Hi

#roblox regretevator #regretevator #regretevator bive #bive #i dot know the tags erm......... #the visions are back i can draw again :-] #YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #sorry #WOO WOOO WOOOOO WOOO

[caramelldansenu]

#art #fanart #drawing #sketch #cult of the lamb #cotl #cotl narinder #cotl shamura #cotl heket #my hand is starting to die out #anyway i totally think shamura is its favorite sibling and it would constantly give them longing looks behind their back #i hc that theres only a 1-3 year difference between heket and narinder so there's constant fighting when they're around each other #i didnt want to add a thousand dots so just imagine she's signing #i actually dont have shamura yet im a bit sad about that #very shoddy sketch i couldnt go over it again cause my hand started killing me midway through #a crown for shamura too because both the death cat and war spider have lost their minds in some form of way 😁👍

[lotus-pear]

i'd like to think chuuya knows bits of french to some extent bc rimbaud would often randomly exclaim smth or mumble to himself in his native tongue and chuuya would overhear and pick up the little phrases and store it in the back of his mind unconsciously bc of his intrinsically observant nature, only for those phrases to resurface again when he's fighting verlaine and verlaine goes "sacre bleu!" or some shit and chuuya's like "Oh. OH. IVE HEARD THAT BEFORE...WASNT THAT WHAT SUB EXEC RANDOU ALWAYS USED TO SAY...." and verlaine completely halts with a nebulous expression on his face before going "who?????"

#yeah maybe i just said this bc i want to hear chuuya speak french. what of it? shut up. #do you think when verlaine approached chuuya as a mailman and told him to get in the car #his undeniable subtle french accent faintly registered in the back of chuuya's mind as the same tone rimbaud would speak in #and when adam yelled “THATS VERLAINE” the dots simultaneously connected as chuuya realized who the driver was #having stormbringer thoughts again... i miss this sad gay european family sm #hope chuuya brings verlaine a baguette back from france since they're in meursault still #maybe he'll move his ass out of the basement then #bsd

[katabay]

ANDREY STAMATIN

Keep a close eye on Peter. You'd become desperate and turn into a villain without him.

I spend a lot of time thinking about daniil and peter, but something just clicked into place for me with andrey. so!

I am. currently untangling this thread of thoughts about the stamatin twins and daniil and this kind of. triangle that's happening. a three fold bullet for sure, the kind of recognition-awareness-understanding where three people become one, but to step back from that. when daniil and andrey talk, there's a specific shape of peter that stands in his conversational absence. so: triangle formation. it's opposite-adjacent-complementary to daniil and peter's conversations. it all goes back to that first conversation you have with andrey. it's giving knife. love it!

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

#OBSESSED WITH HIM #like i was Intrigued by him but i think re reading girard made me go OH i understand you now #wild that i never connected dots between daniil 'Defeat Death' dankovsky and andrey 'Sentenced To Death In Four Countries' stamatin #the transgressive aspect to andrey was like. yeah buddy. you and daniil are reflections in that way of course. but now im like. #oh. okay! got it. #andrey was always harder for me to get a grasp on because i work better at analyzing character pairs but you cant do andrey #without some version of peter and that's three people (debatably four). thankfully. AW2 has me thinking thoughts about #characters in stacks of 5. so now i get to think new thoughts about this game #pathologic #andrey stamatin #shdhghgh classic patho dialogue with patho 2 character designs. i will do it again until we get the bachelor's route #ehdhghgh i wanted to talk about girard's triangle that's happening too but it's not quite. right. #because daniil is the mediator but the thing desired is an abstract-literal thing that all three of them are reaching for #but are unable to conceptualize without the other two in place #i'll get back to this thought later. but its like. the twin dialogue of pulling in opposite directions. but now 3 sides of the same coin #coherent recognition is achieved with. daniil. and also transformative violence as a catalyst.

[bleaksqueak]

I've put a decidedly Halloween twist on my desk's right hand side, considering that the stores are putting all their pumpkins out. Bog Witch to Halloween Party City mode: Engage! (The shaky hand is a feature, not a bug.)

#photos #videos #halloween #spooky #autumn aesthetic #autumn vibes #it kinda goes back to being full cottagecore witch mode with the lights on #the purple light is my plants' uv light lol #(I think I always show off the right hand side of my desk. the left hand side is nice but a lot plainer.) #and because it's where I set my drink and snaks #pu pics #witchy vibes #I love my impatiens #we're a little lopsided right now because we got pruned #but I didn't have the heart to prune the stalks that had active flowering buds right now #so when those fall off we're getting trimmed back again #and I got a new little geometric terrarium for my moss #propagating my polka dot plants currently too #and my pepperomia lol #I try to hide the xbox from view but it loves to peep out from behind my monitor #xboxes can be spooky right #they have elden ring and resident evil on them! #(scary sounds)

[sharkdays]

likodot save me... save me likodot

#liko #dot #pokemon horizons #likodot #dotliko #guruminshipping #shark's back on his gay bullshit again guys!!!!! #also hi hello hey its been a minute since i posted art here huh #make no mistake i have ideas swirling around in my head. but life loves to get in the way of me drawing my silly little guys #anyways thats not important. look at them. #my initial thoughts on these two were just 'huh. cute!' #but i've been really endeared to these two as a pair #me absorbing my mutual's brain worms like a sponge resulted in me becoming a likodot enthusiast. #shark's scribbles

[spaciebabie]

"Now I know what you're thinking, 'Matpat why would we possibly need to know the whereabouts of Springtrap's jolly baby maker?' Well let me assure you, this one piece of seemingly irrelevant FNAF trivia may prove to be the catalyst for all the things that happen in the game, and the key to solving the FNAF lore altogether. So strap in friends, because we've got a lot of things we need to cover."

a la tumblr being a bastard and not allowing me ta add audio onta this post (its very funny trust bro go read it)

OH I ALMOST FORGOR @skeletoninthemelonland

#me: im gonna make a joke SO FUNNY and my COOL MUTUAL is gonna see it and perhaps have a chuckle #tumblr: THINK AGAIN FUCKO EATS YOUR FUCKING AUDIO #shitpost #audio #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #im so pissed why #tumblr: u can attach audio ta rbs now! :D #NO THE FUCK U CANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #nsft #THE JOKE COMES BACK 2 LIFE #THE SHITTIEST JOKE IMAGINABLE WHY AM I FIGHTING SO HARD FOR THIS JOKE #IM IN A TOXIC RELATIONSHIP W/THIS JOKE RN #DO YOU KNOW HOW EMBARASSING IT IS TA ATTEMPT TA MAKE A JOKE MULTIPLE TIMES ON TUMBLR DOT COM #THE CLOWNS ARENT EVEN POINTING AND LAUGHING THEY'RE LOOKING AT ME W/DISAPPOINTMENT IN THEIR EYES

[abaroo]

I realised I had to refine Ceroba for my au…

In the cowboy swap au, Ceroba is actually the Sheriff and leader of the Feisty Five. Clover is still the Deputy and goes by “Lucky Star”. He loves hanging around town with his Mama ☺️. I haven’t come up with a cool cowboy name for Ceroba yet, although she probably wouldn’t use one :/

Cowboy Swap Masterpost

#wait what’s with the random dot in the middle #whatever I’m too tired to go back and edit it #mildly infuriating when #I had a lot of fun with this design though #I don’t have a signature weapon for her yet #but her lasso handle looks like the bell on the end of her staff during pacifist and genocide route #love her but she’s so hard to write! #kinda going for a ‘fake friendly turns into real friendly which makes betrayal all the worse’ #wait that’s just liar revealed trope #eh I’m working on it #this is too many tags #again I’m tired #I’m going to bed #cowboy swap au #ceroba #ceroba undertale yellow #ceroba uty #undertale yellow fanart #uty fanart #undertale yellow #uty #artists on tumblr #fanart #video games

[kingtheghast]

All of the ire I've swallowed All of the coals that still sit in my gut I am always burning up

Piece for @cherrifire 's dtiys, because I couldn't resist-

#cherri dtiys tcw #3rd life smp #inthelittlewood #itlw #itlwart #this was so fun to draw ty Cherri for the opportunity to just lose my mind #i wanted to do your other dtiys but back then i was dying over college so i was def doing this newer one #also sorry im gonna ping you again on twitter dot com- #last piece of the year we love to see it #gold foil effect my absolute beloved i had missed you #ghast.art

[honeydots]

ahhh i almost gave up on this but im glad i didnt

#xanlow #fe laslow #fe xander #fe14 #fe fates #pose was referenced from a thornton utz painting! #when i say almost gave up i mean that i got really annoyed while i was first sketching it and decided to drop it #and ALMOST deleted it also #but i was doing a little wip-posting game on twt and i came across the sketch again and i was like. actually this isnt so bad #and i think it turned out nice :) #i was trying to hold back posting this until later cause i KNOW i just posted art like THREE DAYS ago #but.... i finished.... and i wanna share.................................. #so here we are #dots draws

[rawliverandgoronspice]

tbh, and that's just my two cents, I think that when we leave our little corner of ganonfans and try to bring out concerns to the larger Outside World trying to convince other people, it's a little more useful at large to center criticisms of Zelda and its narrative outside of what canon states (so in "doylist terms", tho I don't really like that separation but it might be easier to understand), because most of the content that criticizes Hyrule within the games is subtextual and neutered at best (not something meant to be picked up by their core audience of "children who do not come from an oppressed background"), and also because it would be soooo super easy for Nintendo to say "no we never meant any of that in any way :>", which would effectively slam the conversation shut for many people who were skeptical to begin with.

While it's extremely easy to say "no of course Nintendo would never want their good guys to come from a genocidal nation, so they obviously don't", which sounds like a coherent argument, it becomes wayyy harder to brush off the whole "Nintendo chose to repeatedly uphold the exceptional perfection of a white nation whose ruling class comes from a divine birthline while demonizing the only evil men from the explicitely arab-inspired culture, leaving the rest of their women to grovel in eternal apologies and convert to the dominant religion in order to prove the depth of their remorse" without starting to spew out bullshit arguments that fall apart at the first brush of scrutiny or reveal their own racism in the process.

I'm not saying there *aren't* hyrulean genocidal strikes within the canon itself, because there obviously are, but I'd say that to even begin to be willing to see them, you need first to admit the entire Zelda narrative has concerning priorities when it comes to the framing of the events taking place in its lore, or the need to even touch such topics to begin with, that it has concerning echoes to real life history, and so there is a genuine need to challenge that framing at all.

#thoughts #zelda critical #zelda fandom critical #imperialism #gerudos #ganondorf #I think people who have not done the first step back to take it all in will look at “hyrule is genocidal” and go #“this is game theory bullshit level of edgy darkness for teenagers” #and then never think about it again #I'm not saying the other method will necessarily yield a lot more results #but everybody I ever convinced were convinced by the framing argument *first* #and then connected the dots by themselves generally #again just my two cents vOv #I mean there will always be people going UGH SO YOU'RE JUST A GANONDORF APOLOGIST #which.... yeah there's nothing to be done about that unfortunately vOv

[spacedustmantis]

thinking yet again about pretzel as a stand in for edyn (edyn as gillion's only real support system, at least for a long time, pretzel as quite literally a service animal), pretzel originally being a gift from edyn to gillion when she stopped being able to visit as often and finn had just left the undersea "because [he] seemed so lonely", thinking about pretzel being taken from gillion and him having the most painful emotional response we'd ever seen from him at the time, thinking about how edyn promised she was safe but then gillion found out she's working with the navy and he has no way of reaching her, thinking about parallels and themes and i am not liking the conclusions i'm coming to

#i've had this in my brain for a long time #got reminded of it again bc raz' post is making the rounds again #this was what inspired me to send that ask #also charlie and grizzly bring back my girl!!! #pretzel or edyn #i'll take either #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #edyn tidestrider #pretzel jrwi #buggy thoughts #connecting the dots #silver screen #jrwi spoilers #riptide spoilers

[rnmyn]

Two Bunnies

Started this back in Sept when I saw the cute bunny themed collab here!

BTW, recently changed my username to rnmyn (prev. rinamyeon) ^^

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#mdzsnet #mxtxnet #dailyuntamed #mdzs #the untamed #mdzs fanart #wangxian fanart #wangxian #wei wuxian #lan wangji #fanart #rnmyn.art #none of my blog links are broken btw!! they've always been tagged as rnmyn dot something here #it's also been a while since i opened my blog hi to the new blog's i've seen <3 #i haven't been working on any promptlist except wwx bday but #ive been doing personal art studies since october started to improve on art stuff since i've felt artblocked so if im MIA again that's why #also like im on here less until i find an extension to revert back to the old dashboard bc i hate it here rn

[fatuismooches]

ahaha back with another fragile reader brain rot :))

this one’s a lot more fluffy than last time so some way, somehow, fragile reader has been cured of their illness

but yk, I don’t have the brain power or rot to explain how so we’re gonna talk about what they do after being cured

let’s say that after the celebration of being cured has died down a bit, they decide to see what kind of work their partner does and what better way to do so, then to become their secretary!

woohoo! secretary x boss trope - very original ik /j

but now we venture to Dottore territory because he and reader already have such a close bond so it’ll be so confusing to onlookers for his subordinate - though unbeknownst to them: lover - to give him sass

“And the body?”

“No body no crime. Nothing was found. Just like your social skills.”

(insert petrified recruits here)

It would also be confusing to fellow harbingers as well; who in teyvat is this secretary? where did they come from? why is dottore just letting this slide?

“so, dottore. care to explain your choice of… secretary?”

“No.”

dropped by from: 🧸 anon

UGH YES... Reader getting back to their rightful place at Dottore's side as they should 🤭 They would be so elated to finally truly redeem their role of assistant once again! The only thing is that you don't have a complete grasp on what he does nowadays since you were so preoccupied with your illness... (Don't worry, he has a lot of paperwork for you to do, his #1 secretary... you get your own desk at least [you definitely have photos of him on your desk and he scoffs every time but is secretly happy] 😅)

Ahh i do love to imagine everyone's reaction to your unfiltered and not scared of the consequences at all comments... as soon as you say something the agents instantly freeze and prepare themselves to haul out another dead body but nope. Dottore doesn't even look phased or affected. Just another regular day for the two of you. You know as soon as the two of you are gone the gossip is going DOWN.

Pantalone would be so up in his business like he wants to know all the details 😭 Bro will not get discouraged even though Dottore is giving him the driest answers known to man 💀 (You will probably end up cornered by him eventually as he sits you down for tea and thoroughly tries to interrogate you)

#smooches talks #🧸 anon #fragile reader <3 #dottore love notes <3 #also: dot and his clones teaching u how to fight again #u know ur strength could never match his ever again but u just wanna protect him like back in the akademiya ;(

[hallowclave]

What a whimsical looking young man I wonder if he has received any job offers recently

Original photo

#my art #project sekai #rui kamishiro #if u saw this get posted before: no u didn’t #forgot to schedule the post for the morning incident 60 dead 600 injured. #i feel obligated 2 say I actually post abt pjsk on my main (apotelesmaa) frequently (I have brain worms) #& I only post on this blog once in a blue moon and it’s usually not serious art atp #so do not expect anything. #curtain call. what an event. love rui he’s such a good character. I hope he explodes. #he is so full of love and so bad at recognizing his emotions and problems. #‘I don’t have any emotional hang ups about anything’ says the guy who has so many emotional hang ups #rationalizing pulling back as safety measures instead of fearing abandonment/concern of hurting tsukasa (or others) again -> #rationalizing accepting asahi’s job offer because it’s the best for his future even if it’s not the best for himself #also tbh I think to some degree u could argue accepting the job offer was his way of getting ahead of being abandoned #not that it would happen and not that he’d recognize that to begin with #negative self awareness king! he is not processing his emotions at all! #would love for him to mention the job offer in a future event. even just offhandedly. shaking him by the shoulders. talk to ur friends moron #me when I’m in a not recognizing what I’m feeling and how it effects me competition and my opponent is rui kamishiro from hit game pjsk #etc etc. anyways. #once again falling into the ‘sure whatever this can go on the art blog’ category #in that I used simultaneously too much effort and very little in creating it #once again: [hope you’re hungry. for NOTHING] dot jpeg. as is typical here at hallowclave dot tumblr dot com.