#this is kind of bland

[adobe-outdesign]

There was a period in Neopets wherein all the faeries were designed to wear bell bottoms for some reason and honestly I kind of feel like getting rid of them was a downgrade

enough dresses, have a faerie show up ready to bless your Neopet and then head out to the disco afterward

#neopets #neotag #outdeisgn posts things #only somewhat of a joke as I do wish at least one kind of faerie was allowed to keep the pants. maybe the earth faeries #otherwise I think the second to last designs for the elementals are the best. the newest ones feel a bit bland #greatest hits

[mugentakeda]

some random atla sketches

#kind of adjusting how i draw suki #i felt like the bust i had on my ref sheet was kinda bland compared to everyone else #so i experimented with her a bit. Maintaining my punk suki agenda #suki #sokka #lu ten #azula #katara #hama #sukka #avatar the last airbender #atla #alicias art

[fluffy-iroha]

Opening with a parallel to 2001: A Space Odyssey is not only very funny for Barbie but also I think it carries the message of how female directors don't receive the same amount respect for their work male directors like Stanley Kubrick get from the offset. Like I can't name a single female director with the same sort of filmbro cult reverence Kubrick has. (Barbie touches on this again with the Godfather joke too). But also making that statement while premiering the same day as Oppenheimer, mainly hyped because of Christopher Nolan, a male director who has a bad track record with female characters and has said cult following really makes it stronger.

#not that stanley kubrick movies are bad but i think he also wasnt the greatest towards his actresses either #and Christopher Nolan movies are not for me. they're all bland and not in a good way plus he kind plagiarized Inception so... #interstellar is good though. mainly the soundtrack. #I can't stop thinking about Barbie #barbie #barbie spoilers #barbie movie #barbie 2023

[amoschaos]

Finally done

#steven universe #steven universe au #fanart #su fanart #yellow diamond #blue diamond #art #steven universe fanart #white diamond #pink diamond #spiderman #spiderverse #spider-gems #bellow diamond #Since they're still kind of gems I like to think Blue being multiple spiders is a deliberate choice #and shes real for that #why be a normal girl when you can be an amorphous horror #im sorry if the designs are bland

[secretariatess]

People say that northern food is bland when in reality, northern food done poorly is bland.

Northern food relies a lot on the flavor of the ingredients instead of spices to get its flavor. Just a hint of seasoning, like salt and pepper. The point of it is to let the ingredients stand out. If it's not cooked to respect the natural flavor, it's going to taste bad.

So no, we don't cover or laden or dishes with spices. It stems from the fact that the north doesn't provide a great environment for spices. But we found how to make our food taste good without it.

Case in point:

I made a clam chowder earlier this year with a recipe that was more orientated for my state. Salt and pepper were the only seasonings- the flavor came from the clam juice and bacon. It was good.

I've made Dublin coddle several times, which is an Irish dish. Salt and pepper are the main seasonings. It gets its flavor from the sausage and bacon, and the vegetables. It makes a delicious gravy to mop up with the right kind of bread.

Northern food isn't bland. It needs to be cooked right.

#I like all kinds of food #So this isn't a dis of southern cuisine #I'm just tired of hearing about how northerners have bland food #Or that we can't handle spice and whatnot #You're right that we're not big on spicy dishes #It's just not a normal part of our cuisine so why WOULD we handle spice like you? #I think our cuisine deserves a little respect #Considering what we had to work with #We've done a fine job actually

[sketchy-tour]

*lines and colors my human puppet sketches as warmup but it wasn't a warmup because I spent all night on it* Anyway! Here! Have a human Dandy and Wally. The sillies. They kiss.

#welcome home #Welcome home arg #welcome home puppet show #wally darling #welcome home wally #human wally darling #welcome home wally darling #welcome home oc #welcome home original character #oc x cannon #wally x oc #Dandy Leon #I worry my human style did NOT do wally justice but I did my damnedest fdjsdkjd #Human wally is...such a pretty man. He's so pretty. I cannot even begin to tell you how pretty I find this man #Dandy lookin bland in comparison /lh #I know most of the human wally stuff has him in red clothes but idk my brain likes his silly blue cardigan a lot #he's so handsome #Dandy looks so extra nerd as a human I can't even kind of explain why they just DO #Without Dandy's green skin it really makes you realize how much dang orange they wear #my art

[digdeepergravedigger09]

So I love Grian's new skin. I don't know why this is making me go nuts.

Image description below the cut.

[Image description]

A full body line drawing of Grian in his DHP uniform, holding a mug and looking bored. Next to the full body image, there are a multitude of little doodles of Grian in several different situations.

Left top scene: Grian dealing with a customer, looking bored and sliding a sheet of paper towards them. You are the pov of the customer. He is saying the following: "You need form 36F-1, not 36F. You'll have to fill out form 77L to cancel your last request, then fill our the PP-471 again, to request the form to change your permit..."

Right top scene: A doodle of Grian shooting the shit with Coppy the Copy Machine from tumblr of years past. Grian says: "-and then Doc goes on a tangent about Joe's backline!" and Coppy says, "LOL What?"

Middle left scene: Grian looking vacant, eyes unfocused, with a steaming mug that says "I don't care" on it.

Middle center scene: Grian showing off his CASIO watch.

Middle right scene: Grian eating Skizz's lunch. There is a note next to him that says "Grian Do Not Touch" with big letters, with "ISTG -Skizz" written in tiny letters at the bottom.

Bottom left scene: Grian sleeping in his seat behind the plastic glass wall. Above him there's a sign hanging that says "On Break". In the pov of an angry hermit knocking on the plastic glass.

Bottom middle scene: Grian in a framed portrait, holding his mug. It is titled "Annoyance of the Month"

Bottom right scene: An unknown hermit looking around, saying "Hello? I need a new permit!" while Grian hides under the desk pretending he's not there.

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#grian #grian fanart #hermitcraft season 10 #welcome to the DHP we're sometimes here to help #I don't know why I'm going feral on this bland ass design #maybe I just like bland things #also if you think you see some kind of intention behind his full body design #no you don't

[zilabee]

love everyone's theories about what George, Paul or Ringo's films might be like, but we have met men before, yeah? four films about the four beatles is definitely code for a three and a half hour bio-epic about John Lennon's important life, and then some half hearted twenty minute mini features about the other three and how much they loved John

#clear that sam mendes has got the rights to john's life story by promising these four equal films #very likely that the other three films are going to be somewhat delayed in a 'never even started them' kind of way #it's not his fault! #we know more about John! #he's just more important! #he's just more interesting! #he has a tragic backstory that the other beatles don't! #we don't know enough about Ringo to make a film! #we just made a sort of animated octopus short instead #what would you even put in a Paul film?????? #he's too bland for a film! #he isn't emotionally complex in a way we've never really seen explored in cinema! #the beatles #sam mendes #john lennon #paul mccartney

[missgreeneyartz]

I had to tell my two married straight allosexual friends what pegging was which is just one of the many services I provide.

#sex positive ace #I guess? #guess we know what kind of tepid bland tapwater sex they’re having

[jesncin]

I've been getting a lot of kind words on my recent dyslexia/typos comic (thank you by the way!!) but something that seems to be coming up a lot is folks saying "see Clark being nice is interesting! And people say Superman is boring!"" and while I take the compliment that I've written him well, I worry that it's kind of missing the point in a big picture way.

So much of superhero and Superman narrative discussion gets recycled and caught up in petty discourse: "the red underwear is ridiculous" "no one would do something nice for free" "he has it too easy" etc. and you can tell companies are paying attention to that stuff because they're making shallow responses to all of that to the detriment of their stories. I think about how the Disney live action remakes make surface level changes in response to cinema sins style online discourse, or how MAWS as a show predominantly references and claps back at superficial Superman discourse post-snyderverse with no internal consistency or integrity over the themes and issues it touches on.

People eat that up because it's a checklist of things they want to see in media: diversity? Check! Superman smiles more? Check! Red underwear? Check! We're getting lost in all that to the point we're not asking "but what's the story about, though?" I think we need to be careful when media takes characters we've identified with, does the most liberally safe take on online discourse to please most fans, but then take the character in a narratively questionable direction.

Because we might just end up celebrating a Superman who's been re-appropriated to fit the safest, blandest version of kindness while reimagining his backstory from being an allegory for the immigrant experience to a story about a redeemed colonizer savior from planet empire. But he saves a cat from a tree right? Check.

All this to say, I'm still glad people like my comic. It talks about how marginalization isn't always something visibly apparent, how intersectionality between race and disability can cause someone to not reach out for help, how someone like Clark navigates solidarity without overstepping. I get a little disappointed when people look at all that and just see how it matches up to their shallow discourse checklist. Oh, Superman's kindness isn't boring? Check.

#ramblings #jesncin talks maws #idk if this is a hot take just media criticism thoughts I need to expel out of me #as a firm believer that superman's kindness needs to be inherently political i think criticisms about his goodness being bland CAN be based

[sharkylass]

8. Birthday

For those Casey Jr. enjoyers, a bittersweet celebration.

(More versions under cut!)

#I'M NOT DONE YET #I WAS JUST BUSY THE PAST COUPLE DAYS #And I kind of lost motivation on this piece #don't mind the cake I didn't want it to be bland but I had no idea what to do- #rottmntober #rottmnt #rottmnttober #rottmnt casey jr #casey jr #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt leo #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt raph #tmnt #tmnttober #tmntober

[elvhendis]

Me: Wyll is starting to grow on me he's so precious and kind to everyone

Wyll 2 seconds later:

Sgdjfkw WYLL

OUTTA POCKET

#i love this actually #i will admit I thought him kind of bland at first #turns out he's secretely a little shit #we stan #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #wyll ravengard

[actiniumwrites]

rant about nilou because i’m sick of people hating on her character:

nilou is not a bland character and i hate the way people constantly make her out to be one. the argument that she has no personality just because she’s kind and happy is so stupid to me.

she cares a lot about dance, she cares so much for the people around her, and she’s willing to fight for what she wants. some people say she did nothing in the archon quest. um, did we play the same quest? the arts were heavily looked down upon in sumeru and were on the verge of being banned in their entirety by the sages so academics could be the sole focus. the others could’ve never completed their mission had she not gone and danced in a public space (while it was banned) effectively drawing all the attention on her so she could help save not only the arts, but all of sumeru. she didn’t even hesitate to accept alhaitham’s plan if it meant she could save what she cares about, nor did she care about the possibility of getting arrested. not to mention, she literally got her vision because of how dedicated she was to her craft.

some people even have the audacity to say that kaveh would’ve done more than her. let’s be real here, i love that man, but he could not have done anything as significant as nilou. there’s a reason he only showed up at the very end.

just because she doesn’t have a super dark and angsty past like every other fucking character in this game, just because she isn’t hardcore or a badass like some of the other women characters like dehya, yelan, or beidou, and just because she’s a pure and happy soul does not make her bland or personality-less at all.

#—actinium speaks! #i know she’s just a fictional character but the hate she gets is incomparable to every other character in genshin #i know damn well she wouldn’t be hated if she was a male character #begging for people stop viewing angsty dark and badass characters as the only characters with personality #kindness does not make you bland.

[m1ckeyb3rry]

guys i’m sorry but i’m like contractually obligated to make fun of nanami you all gas him up way too much 😔 he needs to be bullied a bit to stay appealing

#m’s thoughts #fanon nanami is so bland to me #i respect the people who enjoy that kind of thing however i could never read/write it myself #also this might be crazy but i thought he looked a little silly when he was super buff #except in the fight against dagon it was ok then #otherwise s1 nanami >>>

[wesavegotham]

Some people are getting really weird if someone doesn't love the way Williamson writes Damian.

#Sorry but it's not exactly news that compared to other writers Williamson is kind of bland #That doesn't mean he's bad but I don't think I will ever count something he wrote among my favourites

[catoscloves]

enemies to lovers isn't "he's generally an unpleasant person to be around, he constantly puts other people down and disrespects/condescends/ostracizes them, he's cruel and a bully... but his one redeeming quality is that he looks attractive" like. bestie that's not a redemption arc!! or a redeeming quality!!! a person can and should control their behaviors, but how they look literally has no bearing on their worth as a person!

like... this trope is about an initial misunderstanding and miscommunication that leads to mild conflict and resentment of each other,but eventually they move past this rocky start by revealing to each other their humanity and good qualities, and communicating what happened the first time they met so that they can clear up that situation, and slowly becoming good friends who enjoy spending time with each other and eventually become really close, and the realization that one accidental mishap/slip in behavior/aashole mistake isn't what defines a person and sometimes your first interpretation of them is sometimes wrong!! an entire opinion of someone should be formed based on their behaviors, values, actions, and morals, and quality time spent with this person, not because they have nice cheekbones.

#and i can speak to this from experience #because i didn't outright hate this guy we just had very contradicting personalities and were polar opposites which is why we didn't #get along well when we first met #but then i realized how charming and sweet and kind and intelligent he was and i liked him so much for the same things #that I initially found as off putting and negative traits at first #and he had a similar experience with me and we found that our opposing personalities complemented each other #and THEN i noticed that he was literally so fine and had an amazing back and really nice eyes and a charming smile and good hair #he became one of my best friends first and the person i wanted to spend time with the most LONG BEFORE i ever found him physically appealin #or attractive at all #also this post is calling out middle school me because i read tlc and i wanted iko to have a love interest #and it was very heteronormative at the time too #and then the author literally didn't develop her or her love interest character AT ALL and designed them so poorly #and i didn't realize that this wasn't the correct way to do enemies to lovers #or that iko stood on her own as a character and kinney was completely unnecessary and so boring and bland aldjfkfkf #wait i might have to tag this #anti kiko #anti iko x kinney #the way I haven't thought about this book series in years akdjfkdmdl #enemies to lovers #tropes #anna speaks