#this is definitely okay to reblog

[yoo-joonghyuks-big-naturals]

I can be normal about this series (I cannot)

#it has rewired my brain help #orv #this is definitely okay to reblog

[kindledrose]

goofy hermit doodles!! because uhh why not!!

#cubfan135 #zedaph #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #sorry for making zed purple-coded do you still love me /j (it's kind of a magenta. so.) #this was my first time drawing cub (unless you count scraps of doodles from like 2019 that i probably lost a while ago) !! #and as such it was a definite learning process! i could definitely draw him better now i think but this one turned out okay for now #i still feel like i didn't do him justice though.. i'll try again tomorrow #zed on the other hand came out fantastic and then i proceeded to not be able to draw him well ever again (he's from a few days ago) #fun fact i was trying to write a desert duo-centric little story a couple days ago and i randomly put cub in as a placeholder character for #-scar to talk to in a scene and my entire story accidentally became about convex instead. whoopsies #also zed lives in scar's basement. cub does too but he actually pays rent. they don't know about zed so it's funny #scar's house is a theme park. his basement is a hole #it's a whole thing. why am i talking about this? i don't know i'm really tired ok #doodles #reblogs super appreciated as always :D

[selfinserttothestars]

@midnightmah07 I’ve been meaning to draw Jeannie for so long look at this weird cat she found

#the return of Cat-lim #Jeanne my beloved #she definitely took a picture like this and sent it to Jamil like ‘yeah I’m keeping him 🥰’ #cut to him sprinting to Savanaclawjdhsbxhshd #my art #traditional art #sketch #Jeanne 🪝 #kalim al asim #twisted wonderland kalim #twst kalim #twst oc #not my oc #mah 💙🩵 #okay to reblog

[leonardcohenofficial]

if you like my thesis on stories and are interested in wearing it on your body, i made it into a shirt which you can purchase here

#if you do end up buying one PLEASE feel free to send me a photo it will make my year #i'm ordering one myself as we speak lmao #also definitely okay to reblog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[qingxinships]

On rainy days, is your f/o the type to want to stay in? Such a cold, wet day is best inside a warm and safe home. Maybe you two share a blanket by the window, watching as the rain drops down the glass. Even being silly and trying to have a race with the droplets. You two have your own cups of something warm like tea or hot chocolate. Not much needs to be said, you two are just enjoying each other's presence. One slice of time shared between the both of you.

Or maybe they are the type to want to go outside! If the rain isn't gonna stop why not enjoy it! Going out with them, as they hold you close under the umbrella so you don't get too wet (or maybe you are holding the umbrella). Trying to keep you from cars that that hit large puddles. All the while laughing as you jump into smaller puddles together. Your shoes are gonna be soaked by the end but it's worth it as the rain hits the umbrella as you go along your path.

#proship dni ! #aha so yeah it's raining #i just....love the rain #just straight up rain no thunder or lightning just the soft patter #xiao is definitely the type to stay in he doesn't like getting wet lol #work for me cause that means ✨nap time✨ #okay to reblog if you wanna #selfship comfort #selfship imagines #imagine your f/o #f/o imagines #selfshipping writing #selfshipping comfort #selfship #selfshipping #selfshipping community #teddy's writing 🧸

[deadpanwalking]

hello!! do you have any recommendations for books or essays about becoming a better reader of poetry? I love the poems you post and esp love when your tags go into what you got out of it / understood from it, bc it’s always so much more than I was able to interpret on my own. and I want to become a better reader and learn how to really sit with a poem and get into all its layers but idk where to start.

I stand behind the recs in this post, but since you want to focus on poetry and poetics, in addition to William Empson's The Seven Types of Ambiguity and Helen Vendler's Poems, Poets, and Poetry, I'd also recommend Christopher Ricks' The Force of Poetry, I. A. Richards' Practical Criticism, and Jorge Luis Borges' The Craft of Verse. They are all beautifully written, by people whose love of the form transcends academia and becomes, at times, a kind of secular worship. I loved poetry before I fully understood language, back when it was just incomprehensible mouthwords my parents repeated to get me to sleep; I'd have loved poetry even if I never toiled a day in the hermeneutics mines, like my grandmother reciting Eugene Onegin after her dementia cleared everything else from the table—she wasn't sure what it meant, all she knew was that this was the nicest thing she had. Isn't that a kind of faith?

There are other good books about how to read poetry, but these were the ones that initiated me into a conspiracy of words, they taught me to be curious about why I liked a poem, how to take pleasure in its vivisection without worrying I'd kill that faith—like martyrs, good poems never fall apart when you open them up, they yield. If anything, the practice of explication has made me even more of a fanatic. I hope it does the same for you!

If there are poets you already like, I can get more specific about recs—I'm partial to modernist poetry, but that just means I like following breadcrumb trails of allusions to lots of different literary traditions and can tell you where the bodies, hatchets and/or treasures are buried.

#where's that bugs bunny meme that's like lord forgive me but it's time 2 go back to tha old me #but it's me about to reblog tha helen vendler emperor of ice cream explication #literary criticism #i read much of the night and go south in the winter #r-osehips #assbox #okay caveat the vendler and ricks books are definitely out of print but get them used—i promise they pay for themselves #in a hypothetical future where the economy crashes and poetry understanding becomes the most valuable form of currency

[patheticmenscuffle]

Drum rolls, please...

We're happy to reveal the roster for the Pathetic Men Scuffle! Thanks again to everyone who submitted characters, and we hope everyone's looking forward to this as much as we are.

We will begin posting the polls around 10pm GMT (4pm US CST) tomorrow 3/10. Each poll will be open for one week.

With this announcement, we will now be accepting propaganda! Feel free to send some in or tag us in any posts you'd like and we'll share them on here. Propaganda posts will be tagged as #propaganda and each character will also have their own propaganda tag.

Click the Read More below to see all of the contestants and their first matchups in text form as well as where they're from!

Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death) vs Lord Farquaad (Shrek)

Edgar Allan Poe (Bungo Stray Dogs) vs Jack Spicer (Xiaolin Showdown)

Pastor Daniel (Scarlet Hollow) vs Ron Stampler (Dungeons and Daddies)

Earl Harlan (Welcome to Night Vale) vs General Ultimax/General Fuff (Bug Fables)

Hunter Noceda (The Owl House) vs Asgore Dreemur (Deltarune)

Saint (Rain World) vs William Afton/Purple Guy (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Vash the Stampede (Trigun) vs Zote the Mighty (Hollow Knight)

Shin Tsukimi (Your Turn to Die) vs Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

Peter B. Parker (Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)) vs Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)

Anders (Dragon Age) vs Cyrus (Pokemon)

Mikoshiba Mikoto (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun) vs Ron Delite (Ace Attorney)

Inigo (Fire Emblem) vs William Graham (Hannibal)

The Narrator (The Stanley Parable) vs King Dice (Cuphead)

Five Pebbles (Rain World) vs Satan/The Dark Prince (Madou Monogatari/Puyo Puyo Tetris)

Sebastian Debeste (Ace Attorney) vs Johann (The Adventure Zone)

Luigi (Super Mario Brothers) vs Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

Stede Bonnet (Our Flag Means Death) vs Magolor (Kirby)

Dwight Fairfield (Dead By Daylight) vs Wes (Don't Starve) vs Linebeck (The Legend of Zelda)

Plankton (Spongebob) vs Spamton (Deltarune) vs Courage the Cowardly Dog (Courage the Cowardly Dog)

Father Paul (Midnight Mass) vs George Costanza (Seinfeld) vs Loki (Marvel Comics)

Harry du Bois (Disco Elysium) vs Darkrai (PokePark 2 (Pokemon)) vs Vlad Masters/Plasmius (Danny Phantom)

Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100) vs Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How To Train Your Dragon)

Jon Arbuckle (Garfield) vs Wheatley (Portal 2)

Paul Matthews (The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals) vs Jonah Simms (Superstore)

Buggy the Clown (One Piece) vs Abner Krill (Suicide Squad)

Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs Tamaki Amajiki (My Hero Academia)

Rincewind the Wizard (Discworld) vs Rouxls Kaard (Deltarune)

Giovanni Potage (Epithet Erased) vs Clippy (Microsoft Office XP Advertisement (Microsoft))

Bruno Madrigal (Encanto) vs Kaname Date (AI: The Somnium Files)

The Devil (Cuphead) vs The Ice King (Adventure Time)

Alcryst (Fire Emblem) vs Starscream (Transformers)

Miles O'Brien (Star Trek) vs Spirit Albarn (Soul Eater)

Jonathan Harker (Dracula) vs Ethan Winters (Resident Evil)

Tsukasa Tenma (Project Sekai/Colorful Stage) vs Kendall Roy (Succession)

Mike Wheeler (Stranger Things) vs Dr. Eggman (Sonic)

Larry Needlemeyer (The Amazing World of Gumball) vs Saul Goodman (Better Call Saul)

Alador Blight (The Owl House) vs Andy Bernard (The Office (US))

Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives) vs The Cabbage Seller (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Jedidiah A. A. Martin (Camp Here and There) vs David Ward (I Am In Eskew) vs Randy V. Jade (Dial Town)

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs Gilear Faeth (Fantasy High (Dimension 20)) vs Filbo Fiddlepie (Bugsnax)

Dick Gumshoe (Ace Attorney) vs Zenkichi Hasegawa (Persona 5) vs Eeyore (Winnie the Pooh)

Larry (Pokemon) vs Steven Universe (Steven Universe) vs Fujimoto (Ponyo)

#announcements #yeehaw #mod knight collected the images while mod dragon set up the layout #we wound up with a bit of an odd number of characters but we've made it work #you DEFINITELY have to open it in a new tab to see though #it's a bit late for both mods so we'll also reblog this in the morning #update: okay I (dragon) have transcribed all of them into text form in the read more #tumblr polls #polls #tumblr bracket #bracket

[books-and-dragons]

interesting to me that when ao3 goes down it's always 'number one trending topic', 'thousands of people talking about missing reading fics', and all sorts of other fanfic withdrawal symptoms, generally just feeling, and being impacted by, the Absence of Fanfic

but it's never 'leaves a comment on fanfic', 'gives kudos and recommends to friends', 'follows author/interacts with them in any way shape or form and otherwise lets them know how much you value their writing and fanfiction in general'

#books talks #okay to reblog #every time ao3 goes down it's this again #and look i too always have big fanfic withdrawal that isn't the issue! #over the years fanfic definitely gets less appreciation and thanks than it used to #which can in turn affect author productivity and want for engaging in fandom #fanfic and fanart are both ways for fans to reach out to other fans for connection #so connect! #i think this phenomenon of 'wanting fan content but not engaging with fic/art/etc' is part of a bigger issue of consumerism in fandoms #specifically this being on the rise #but those are bigger conversations #and as fascinating as this topic is i am rambling #ANYHOW #once ao3 is back online go leave a comment on the fic you were just reading! or the one you'd been about to read! #make a fic rec list for your followers to check out once the archive is back online #go check out and reblog some fanart in the meantime! #ao3

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

I'm just rambling here, (idk where else to rant abt this XD) but what is even considered popular on Tumblr? I use Twitter so much that I have no idea what makes you an instantly recognisable account on Tumblr,,,, like I'd consider your account popular because it's like Oh yeah!!! That's wheredidalltheusersgo! He has banger takes! But.. Like,,, is 200 notes average every post considered popular? Is 900? What is Tumblr!? I'm scared and lost on this app

Honestly, I just roll with it and don't really think about my follower count or the amount of notes I have

All I care about is if my mutuals like my stuff, which they do

I'm just busy taking over certain character tags (don) and making wild rarepairs

However, my biggest achievement is appearing on the list of top blogs in the Geoff tag!

#just do your thing and you’ll be okay #you'll find support from people who enjoy your content #even if there aren't many of them #silly reblogs and replies on my posts give me life though #!!! #also tumblr is just a thing #but it's cozy and comfy #and I definitely won't leave

[yoo-joonghyuks-big-naturals]

Sexuality: when characters do a deranged laugh

#it is. so hot to me #night speaks/a voice from the shadows #this is definitely okay to reblog

[lauraisakilljoy]

I know most of the käärijä-related things I’ve posted/reblogged are literally memes but on a serious note all those posts about our silly little finnish man make me so happy. for years I've been struggling with body dysmorphia and disordered eating (especially around this time of year) and it's fucking terrible but everyone hyping up käärijä and his normal-looking body is just so nice to see. he's really out there saying everyone should just wear whatever they want no matter their body type + his fans love him exactly the way he looks and are being so body positive. hugging all of you rn

#käärijä #jere pöyhönen #eating disorder tw #very personal but okay to reblog if you feel the same way! #<3 #longer (and possibly triggering) rant incoming: #I've always hated my stomach and thighs #and I have to deal with comments like ‘you would look so good if you actually made an effort to have a flat stomach and toned legs’ #especially from my mom and grandma #but all the love for käärijä is definitely one of the things that motivates me to be nicer to myself more often

[fredgar]

redraw of an older fredgar piece 😊

#my art #fredgar #edgar valden #freddy riley #idv #you all WILL love this. OKAY? PROMISE. NOW. #i mmight turn on reblogs for this one because i like it a little bit #but thats only if someone wants to rb it #OH i can respond to REPLIES with THIS BLOG now too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #so exciting #it took me ~5-6hrs to make? #so thats pretty awesome i think im getting Faster #i really need to work on my actual things now though #decided to make the sketch runaway and record keeper again because i realized the poses between them were similar #and i wanted to see if i improved (kind of? i definitely shade more complicated but comparing this to my other pieces its not as much impro #ement as id like) #anyways i hope you guys like it #hopefully i can get back into drawing again soon #this is the first fanart piece ive made all of 2024 #:( #wanted to make one earlier but im just. ugh

[atombonniebaby]

Okay, but apparently, yesterday marked my 2yr autism diagnosis anniversary!

Needless to say...

I have embraced the fuck out of it!

Tumblr lets me share my favoritest little guy with other humans! I love you all!

There is a reason I like to take screenshots. (Note the mug warmer for all that coffee/tea I used to let go cold.)

All my Oversized 🙌🏻 COMFY🙌🏻 Tees ❤️

I'm also hanging with the cat (literally...I'm in a hammock chair!) - her name is Mia as she is a dick. (in an adoring way)

(Oh and it'll be 3yrs in October for the ADHD diagnosis...but I'll probably forget about that...so have an 'I didn't know I was ADHD' memory)

As you were...

#I'm more of an indoor cat than cat than an outdoor cat these days 🤣 people frown if you hiss at them tho... #I haven't been this obsessed with a character since high school...it's good to be back #0002a8a7 is engrained into my brain now (if you know you know) #likes brain stuffs as much as fallout stuffs #not to mention writing and drawing again!... #Used to play on the swings a lot as a kid...it was sensory seeking guys...now I have a hammock swing... #the ADHD meds are pretty great too...not gonna lie...definitely helps me focus on my hobbies...oh yeah and makes me function... 😅 #okay to reblog #fallout 4 #fallout maccready #fo4 #fallout #maccready #fo4 maccready #robert joseph maccready #fallout companions #rj maccready #robert maccready #autism #adhd

[daughter-of-sapph0]

the sun is a painter. every morning, it casts the world in warm yellow haze. for the rest of the day, it stares at its creation, slowly viewing it at different angles. until at night it covers the world in a soft red glow, before going to sleep and doing the whole the over again tomorrow.

#dostxt #okay so I had this in my notes app dated June 8 2022 #and I can't remember if I wrote it myself or I copied it from somewhere #and like I'm 99% sure I didn't copy because I likely would have reblogged it or at least written the name of the poet and title #and I have a lot of other poetry I wrote in my notes app #and exactly zero copied things because I deleted pretty much everything that I didn't type #(apart from hard to type emoticons) #back in 2021 #so I'm pretty sure this is mine #but I can't remember for absolutely 100% definitively for sure #so uh... if it's not then please let me know and I'll delete it

[creatively-cosmic]

Lost trainers.

The resident text over the doodles on the second page:

silvers only pkmn is a feraligator whose health is failing. he released and gave his others away in his grief and regret.

followed by (gold) unown

visible eyebags. struggles to sleep and cant rest well when he does because of nightmares (prophetic visions :x)

carries my (golds) backpack

generally a recluse. bro cannot make friends

#body horror #mouth horror #lost silver #We played through Re: Lost Silver last night. This is our take on the uh. Big three in the game. #We're still puzzling through in our mind what our version of the story is like. I do consider Re to be something of a definitive version. #So it's based in that. We're just still... Figuring it out. #I'm not really interested in tagging this properly. Still okay to reblog if you want of course. #I know uh. Silver maybe... Doesn't seem much like. Himself. It's something about learning to care and love #Then losing your one real friend just like that. It... Changes you. Hurts. Especially when you don't know what happened. #So I guess that's the main thing. Is what became of Silver after Golds death. #The first one also has a quick Tarnished Gold Silver design. that's unrelated though.

[samtrapani]

i’ve talked about how mob movies/the mafia trilogy in general treats women, but i was thinking about it and like. wives and mothers are the most fridged people in the trilogy. like, okay, let’s take a look at some of the mothers, right? and it’s like.

in MDE sarah’s mother is dead, and painted as a villain in sarah’s eyes (we’ll come back to her later). sarah herself, once she marries tommy, eventually loses everything when tommy flips, and has to live the rest of her life under an assumed identity and then without tommy after vito and joe roll up. 

in M2, maria scaletta has a deadbeat drunk for a husband, and eventually dies of illness and a broken heart, while vito is in prison. 

in M3, there’s sarah burke (danny and nicki’s mother), perla robinson, virginia marcano (giorgi’s mother). all of them, dead of some ‘illness’, most likely, since the only way to shove women aside is to have them die of ‘illness’, whatever the hell that entails.

(and these are just mothers, yk. like. let’s not go into the wives. betty. frank’s wife, serafina. lauretta, who is the only wife alive, and we never see her once. wives consigned to the dossiers, which might as well make them non-existent.) 

circling back to sarah’s mother, who is unnamed, and we’re only ever given her initials. right, so sarah tells tommy that her mother was “an ugly, jealous drunk”, and like she’d throw shit at luigi and all that, but honestly like sometimes i wonder if it was just a frustrated woman stuck in a life that didn’t suit her. that she wanted to part in, and couldn’t voice her frustrations out to. 

like. cmon. luigi was the most feared hitman in lost heaven, and if he was running with the mob from his youth, he would’ve been with peppone first, then salieri. and then he gets married, to this woman who probably doesn’t even have the first clue to what he does--- until she finds out.  

what do you do when someone you love is a killer and a criminal and has enough blood on his hands to paint the walls of your house red? pair that up with running a household, trying to take care of a young, impressionable daughter, a daughter who takes after her father so fiercely that there’s nothing you can do but sit back and watch? 

like. we’ve all seen the letter in the prison. mrs marino asking for luigi to give up gunning people down, give up his supposed affairs, and all that mob-life stuff. like... i don’t know. sarah probably only thinks of her mother badly because of how much she loves her father, and how much this life, this thing of theirs, had its grip on her. the mob was all she knew. and i’m sure her mother tried to sway her from it, tried to get her to live a simple, quiet life, but god, sarah couldn’t just leave her father. 

“a ugly, jealous drunk”, but when you realize exactly what position mrs marino was in... a killer for a husband, a daughter so deep in the mob clutches. she must’ve turned to drink, started to lash out at luigi in resentment for hiding who he was, for the company he kept, for all the secrets their marriage was built on. 

these games have no sympathies for women who can see through the lies of men, the mafia, and the world they live in. none at all. 

#mafia definitive edition #mafia 2 #mafia 3 #sarah marino #maria scaletta #betty canavosio #the thing with sarah's mother has always rubbed me the wrong way #six talk #okay to reblog btw