#this concept hits really hard

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Thing about just clicking with someone and not having to put in the work is finding not making and those relationships - whatever form they take rarely last or manage to develop past a surface level.

Buck is such an all in or nothing kind of person that has had to fight for pretty much everything (when it comes to relationships of any form) he just cant comprehend that other people experience various levels of friendships or relationships more widely.

We see it in his training of Ravi, it comes out in his father son reltionship with Bobby, it’s part of the underlying reason the lawsuit happened and stems from his childhood abandonment issues. We even saw it in the other sneak peek where he’s with Tommy - he’s trying so so hard to make a friend that he comes across as slightly intense and focused. And while the worthwhile people will stay (the fire fam, his sister, Eddie) those who can’t take that level of focus will pretty quickly drop away, Abby and Ali are prime examples of this and even Taylor to a certain extent - she just didn’t care enough to be bothered by it.

It’s one of the reasons he’s oblivious to the fact his relationship with Eddie is different on multiple levels and it’s part of what makes Buck so interesting and why so many of us think he’s neurodivergent.

#I’m rambling but I really want them to explore this more deeply as part of his arc - which I hope is a bi arc too #I love always said I see so much of myself in buck but this really really hits hard #I’m obessed with Eddie ‘just clicking’ with Tommy and the implications #because Buck and Eddie have had to fight to build what they have and that won’t be superceeded by this surface level easy clicking #buck is just so much an all in or nothing kind of person that he can’t understand the concept of surface level not too deep but fun to hang #out with friendships/ relationships #even when he was fucking his way through the LA population he was all in and wanting more #and I guess he thinks that’s how everybody is about their relationships #911 spoilers #911 abc #Tommy kinard #Eddie Diaz #evan buck buckely

[lollytea]

I was looking at reddit comments about Carol & The End Of the World and I got so frustrated with people completely misinterpretating what the show was about and hating on Carol because they found her unrelatable. Or "her monotone voice is annoying". The show itself wasn't perfect and I was a little unsatisfied with the ending but I loved it so much for the premise and the choice to focus on a character like Carol. It's a really unique angle.

The world will end in six months and everyone on earth has gone carpe diem mode and are living out their wildest dreams. They're partying, they're rioting, they're traveling the world, they're eloping, they're having orgies, they're picking up new daring hobbies, they're doing all these crazy hedonistic things that life has never given them the opportunity to do until now.

And Carol, poor Carol. Carol's parents are worried about her because she has not felt inclined to do anything like that. It's just not how she wants to live. Carol is quiet, she's awkward, she gets overwhelmed at parties. So intense doomsday chaos is not her scene at all. She finds peace in normalcy and routine. Simple things like a boring desk job and grocery shopping and doing laundry and eating at her favourite restaurant are what make Carol happy.

But when society has collapsed, all sense of structure has gone with it. So she has to hunt to find meaning in a way that suits her own personality.

And is she not entitled to finding joy during the end times on her own terms?

Carol has also felt unfulfilled in her life. But not because she's disliked the rigid routine she has built for herself, but because her socially awkward demeanour has prevented her from really connecting with other people. She's lonely. She's 42 years old and she doesn't really have anyone that she feels she can open up to.

The show is about Carol's tiny victories and her own spin on seizing the day on a much smaller scale than the rest of the world. She doesn't need to travel. She doesn't need to find the love of her life. She doesn't need to jump out of a plane. Maybe all she needs in order to feel whole is a few close friends that she can bake banana bread for. All she wants is the calmness of routine and the warmth and reliability of friends. She doesn't want to feel alone anymore. Carol's desires are simple and mundane, and she might be judged for not choosing to live a little louder when the clock is ticking down. But it's what will make her happy. Is that not beautiful? I think it's very beautiful.

#GAH #im not saying anything of value here im just thinking out loud #the concept of this show has stuck with me #i really wanted it to expand more on stuff. but the message itself. the character of Carol. it hits me very hard #she doesnt want much...but once the world ends she'll feel content...GAHH

[canisalbus]

you say machete has to be closeted then why's he always wearing them little heels

Maybe he thinks he's a tiny bit nicer looking in them.

#no in fact he's just a little ahead of the curve let me try to explain #again I'm not a historian I'm just sharing what I've read I might be misremembering stuff so don't quote me on this #high heels became extremely fashionable in the early 1600's probably just a few decades after Machete's time #and they were originally worn by men #because they were inspired by Persian riding boots #if your shoes had heels you'd have easier time keeping your feet in the stirrups (think of cowboy boots) #Europeans saw them thought they looked snazzy and they became wildly popular in noble circles fairly quickly #for some hundred years or so high heels were the epitome of class wealth power and status and they were essentially genderless #remember that concepts of masculinity and femininity are fluid and change over time #things that were seen as manly a few centuries ago may seem downright effeminate to a modern viewer #it's all matter of perspective neither is objectively more correct than the other #they started to separate into men's heels and women's heels around mid 1700's iirc but the changes weren't massive even then #and only truly went out of vogue when the French Revolution hit in 1789 #and people all across the continent were suddenly put off by everything that reminded them #of the frivolousness and extravagance of royalty and aristicracy #so in his canon timeline I don't think people are looking at him and going “hmmm that's pretty gay” #because heels hadn't become gendered yet #maybe he likes how they accentuate his already tiny paws and make his legs look even longer than they are #he's interested in fashion or at least likes to dress nicely in high quality garments #he tries very hard to look his best despite never really feeling comfortable in his skin #he was a real shrimp as a kid and even though he eventually grew up to be a beanpole he might still find the extra height appealing #no one's going to look down on him ever again #I admit the way I draw them is a lot more modern than the true historical style at the time but not outrageously so #artistic freedom and all that in the end I'm not aiming for 100% accuracy #modern au Machete has no excuses though he's just a little bit fruity #if the guy feels empowered by wearing little clip cloppers let him #answered #anonymous #Machete

[tswwwit]

One of the worst things about making a story is when you're at, say, 80% done, and you know what happens at 90% done, but the stuff in that 10% gap is refusing to come together into something solid.

#writing is hard #this is just me whining #I've been putting a lot of thought into Poltergeist and I KNOW what I need to do but the steps to get there are like #Is this good?? is this right?? How do I really hit this beat that needs beating and make it flow okay #I've got the concept but it's squishing it into shape that's the struggle #Time to smack the ideas around until something clicks into place

[sableeira]

always wanted to arrange my artworks in a gradient and since I started drawing again over a year ago, I was finally able to put this together 🫶

#did an edit like that for an old fandom with official manga art and it’s kind of breathtaking that I actually managed to make a rainbow #edit with my own art?!? everything is 2023 art except the fall skk artwork but it matched yellowish green well enough lol #you can tell which kinds of color palettes I prefer but I really want to use more warm color palettes & maybe try more desaturated palettes #some other goals: drawing more women and environment focused artworks #(but who knows how much time I’ll have this year) #bsd #bsd fanart #my art #I did start a few non-bsd related artworks but didn’t have enough patience to finish them #that’s why it’s mainly skk too… the obsession hits different… I have other non-skk pieces I like too but the color palettes were hard to #fit into this edit… #my only non bsd related artworks where some concept pieces for uni #so strange to see the random mix of styles for this past year but also nice to see little consistencies #long post

[sincerely-sofie]

*gently places angsty Twig comic in your hands*

There comes a point in healing, sometimes, where you must grieve the child you never got to be, and bury her along with the desperate hope of one day somehow becoming her.

It isn’t fair. And it never will be.

But you grieve the child, still.

#hey so do you think the PMD universe has a concept of PTSD or #I gotta admit I’m not so sure about posting this one either ;w; #i like. never make my angstier works public. so this is very new to me #man this AU really is just Twig Going Throught It huh #I promise it gets better #there’s a happy ending pending #Twig just has to get to a point where she can’t keep pushing things aside #she’s got to hit rock bottom so hard it knocks enough sense into her to ask for help #also when Young Twig appears beside Adult Twig she’s not literally there! #not sure if that was clear #Twig talking about how she feels messed up just reminded Grovyle of something she said while a human #it was a lil flashback on his end #*slips tumblr a $20 bill* please let this be less blurry than the last comic #stuff by sofie #the present is a gift AU #pmd2 #pmd eos #pmd explorers #pmd sky #pmd #pmd au #pmd comic #pmd grovyle

[gorgynei]

more of what i've always been

#i dont know. i tried to draw how werewolf as gender makes me feel but didnt really capture it. i have such a hard time getting #werewolf stuff in pieces the way i like. every once in a while i hit it out of the park and the rest are just. hmmrmrrr #its about like transitional gender its about how the act of shedding my cis-ness is actually a significant part of my gender. kind of #they need to invent a way to plug your brain into the computer and have it transfer concepts directly into other people's minds #aceart #werewolf #werewolfisms

[merakiui]

after writing angst for azul, i feel much more confident to write angst pieces for jade and floyd. >:D

the idea for floyd is that he was your closest and only friend in childhood, but you disappeared one day and so he spends the entirety of his life searching for you because the two of you had such a special, unbreakable bond. floyd is determined to find you and he ignores all of the doubtful people who tell him you're long gone. but it's been years since his childhood and he's well into adulthood now. still, he refuses to give up (even though there are days where he really contemplates whether you're still out there). floyd just wants to bring his shrimpy home. :( where did his shrimpy go?

for jade, it's a story in which a rain god (jade) washes up on the shore and realizes he's lost the ability to cry. this is bad news for villagers because without jade's tears/sadness rain cannot fall and thus a horrible drought plagues your little seaside village, rendering the land dry and cracked and producing very scant harvests. you find jade and decide to nurse him back to health while also attempting to get the rain god to finally cry. only, jade doesn't know what makes him sad anymore... but he learns a lot about what it means to be human when he spends so much time with you. there's always been something strangely sad about humans, but jade doesn't mingle with them and so he's never known just what this something is. but he learns. he learns, even if he doesn't want to, about what makes a human life beautifully tragic.

#meraki mumbles #i like the idea of reader trying so hard to make jade cry #but he's so unserious T_T #and so for the majority of the fic it's lighthearted antics until the angst really hits and then you're crying alongside jade :) #aaaaa i never know if the angst i write is sad enough ;;;; but i hope the concepts above sound like interesting angst fics :D #i hope to write it one day!!!!! #especially the jade one. i need him to cry OCEANS <3

[askfallenroyalty]

omfg chara is the funniest mother fucker in the whole room. i never realized just how badly i need chara and asriel on good terms content where they just joke around. like, oh my god, they're besties!

like we do get snippits of it in the comic but the plot is always barreling down at full speed so we just don't have time for them to be silly. happy to say the redraw absolutely fixes this.

#really really wanna show off their friendship and love past just play fighting and and heartfelt conversations #let them be goof balls! not everything has to be plot focused! #and i do think having frisk chara and toriel seprated from asgore and asriel makes the most sense #the story serves to break down the AU concept and the “happy ever” notion that western media loves #like it wouldn't be simple and being alive is SO messy esp when trauma hits you as hard as they have had it #so breaking the two up esp over a “fight” sets up the larger plot line but the two can get over it and its fine. totally fine #until christmas when chara realizes they never apologiezed and its left a giant stain on their relationship and asriel feels its too late #to mend it. because they feel isolated and othered by their family and their secrets #AUGH WRITING AM I RIGHT AUGHGHG

[madeleinelovescolours]

#I really like the small child and big monster duo #big daddy and little sister or Elizabeth and songbird #it hits so hard #it hits every time #art #concept art #oc character #character art #character design #snow white #snow white and rose red #bear character

[1eos]

sorry to be snooping on your blog but your post about lesbianism talks excluding blackness is so real... i'm brown and whenever i see posts about how much someone loves masc lesbians and they usually say stuff that are so common in woc like big bodies + being hairy like. i'm not trying to be masculine and the fact is some white bitch on here would call me butch or masc just for existing 😭 it's so crazy how white lgbt spaces are on here.

oh u better speak on it. mainstream lesbianism is literally only white girls and east asians but u MUST be skinny and you cannot be dark skinned. and what kills me is that they'll make 'positivity posts' for ugly or masc or just not femme in general lesbians and literally just a list of features associated w woc.....................................................................................................like cmon now. they don't even try to hide that when they see any lady or they darker than a beige paint strip from home depot they just see beastly masc man 🧍🏾‍♀️ like we're not ALL masc. whiteness unfortunately defines popular ideas as to what it means to be lgbt across the board but w lesbianism its like a double hit bc we can't even separate being a woman or being feminine from white supremacist values so its like........where the fuck do lesbians of color even BEGIN to unraveling all that?

#i definitely don't know!!!!!!!!! #the concept of being gnc got hit hard too cuz its like...the ideal genders are really rooted in whiteness #its just a lot lol

[bitegore]

On my knees begging the writers around me to weird their shit before they write something boring

#red rambles #my ideas are also really bland but i weird them. i put them with other ideas that have next to nothing to do with them and rub the flavors #off as hard as i can to make sure there's a weird to it. i greeble my shit. i layer the baseline bland concept three feet deep in nonsense #it keeps it interesting it keeps you looking for where it is #weird your shit please please please please please please please please #i mean also my ideas generally aren't [i'm not going to complain about any specific thing here] done to death already so that helps #also yeah yeah two cakes but if they're identical cheesecakes i'm not that interested in cheesecake so i only want the one bite you know? #hit me with chili chocolate and ill eat as many as you set before me. but like. if you're doing vanilla or something... Put something on it

[sammydem0n64]

Got a little too whimsical in the gc talking about that fuckass baby (the fankid) I’m not gonna let it go

#you see I actually love designing fankids and stuff it’s just that #a lot of the ocs I focus are gijinkas and it is REALLY damn hard to make fankids for food gijinkas #when you have rules of ‘no repeats’. Sigh #Kraige one day I’m gonna hit you up with the fankid concepts I have cooked I just need to not be busy with school

[obstinaterixatrix]

speaking of complaining, this one’s more petty bc it’s just one person doing a webcomic on their own so I think I’m being unfair but I’m gonna let myself be unfair. there’s a webcomic I follow that looks really polished but it’s been pretty clear that the artist has a lot more… marketing brain than writing brain and doesn’t know what they’re doing with the story, which is a bit of a frustrating contrast with how the art looks. like dude, you can take your time with this, I know you’re excited about your story and characters but I think you’ve completely skipped over substance and are only solid on the style. cmon can we have a conversation about 1) story arcs 2) character arcs 3) overarching themes that will be present throughout the whole story 4) what the ending’s supposed to look like. yeah writing’s hard and sometimes it takes a while to nail a story but you’ve had to hit the reset button several times in front of all of us, I think you gotta attend to the writing side of things. or let it look worse. like let it be a full first draft.

#my ramblings #it’s like in the balance of artist/audience consideration #it’s almost exhausting to see someone go through and toss out REALLY POLISHED wips #and it’s hard to be invested when it’s like. ok I like the concept and the theoretical characters #but are you going to hit the reset button again in front of all of us #I kinda wanna look away and give you time to figure it out

[thepaledivinebear]

Eastward…. Fuck dude idk how long this game is but I don’t think I’m that far in…. Fuck

#memory is a bery important concept to me #stories where it’s messed with hit me really fucking hard I’ve found #if I get memory problems probably go ahead and find a nice bog to lie down in ig #eastward #eastward spoilers

[straydogged]

... OH.

#🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 #I like to avoid thinking about my mom and how she showed her love and how that connects to what my role in our relationship was #but sometimes I can't help it #just got the lighting bolt shock of “oh god that was genuinely textbook parentification” #which is one of those concepts I always push away wrt the enmeshment stuff because I wasn't physically parentified #but I sure fucking was emotionally apparently! which isn't really new news but it hit me really hard just now