#tough business

[ahb-writes]

"And I'm not gonna tell you, here, how to live your life. I'm just saying, I guess, that I got very lucky. You know, I'm looking at a strange and unpredictable future in a tough business with rules that I'm not completely familiar with, and when I become familiar with them, I, you know, I don't know whether I like them that much."

(Anthony Bourdain, quoted in Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain)

#anthony bourdain #writing #roadrunner #parts unknown #travel journalism #journalism #how to live your life #comedy and tragedy #humor and depression #same coin #unpredictable future #tough business #rules i dont like

[greykolla-art]

@cirilee made me realise this was essentially their dynamic, and now I’m going insane I love them!😂❤️

This poor old cat getting dragged around Hell by a weird psychopath.👌

#grey art #fan art #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin alastor #hazbin husker #obviously I’m not shipping them tough I love my aroace Alastor #crazy power dynamics are just SO delicious to me #old men in hell being weird #yes I toned town Husker’s design a little #I find him a bit busy visually #but also fuck yeah crazy character designs love it!

[red-rover-au]

Friends, fans, freaks, help me out. Share EVERYTHING about how you think the Battle Nexus and Big Mama’s businesses work

Any headcanons about the structure/technology (like about her door that looks Very Krang-Like and what that might mean), your fanfic or your favorite fanfic that has the nexus as a significant plot point and/or goes into detail about how the place is managed, stuff you picked up from canon that gives hints on how Big Mama operates (like that chest covered in bones that her turtle assistant handed her), literally anything and everything you can think of!

If you know anything about economy that would be super helpful too, you should infodump about that as far as its relevant to Big Mama (pleeease)

#almost everything Big Mama does has the end goal of “THIS WILL BE PERFECT FOR MY BATTLE NEXUS 🕷🕷🕷” #but then there was that episode where Leo says her business is obviously on Tough Times #she even said so herself when she stooped to forcing one of her hotel staff into fighting in the nexus #sidenot: she traffiks ppl right?? like when she straight up kidnapped Lou Jitsu and then the turtles #or is it more likely that they were outliers and she usually blackmails ppl into participating or something?? #anyways yeah how is she in business and how does she keep it running #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #big mama #big mama tmnt #rottmnt big mama #battle nexus #rottmnt battle nexus #rottmnt fandom #rottmnt fanfiction #turtle thoughts

[bruhstation]

(redraw of last year's art!) happy new year 2024, everyone! hopefully things go well this year, too :]

#thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte lady #ttte diesel 10 #ttte thomas #ttte percy #casa tidmouth #senjart #this year has been quite tough! phew #started off the year studying my butt off for entrance exams #ended the year studying my butt off for med school's first semester finals #I'm so busy!!! so many organizations and meetings to attend!!! workloads and labworks too!!!! #ntm I got hit with a wave of mental health stuff so that depleted my motivation too..... #things are kind of tough for me now but hopefully I can get myself back on track #because I have lots of stuff to draw!!! many gazillion ideas!!!! #and I hope YOU too will have a good year!!!!! #also looking at the tags on last year's art and LOL'd.... my years living at the dorms was truly something (negative connotation)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

does he know what a brick is. valid question.

#got too intense there for a sec Quick Post A Silly Scribble #In My Mind it was frank and julie. team effort to teach him new joke material #julie said the first part frank interrupted with the second #scribble salad #this is a bit old and simple but i have Nothing New To Post </3 #ive been in waiting mode!!! its tough to draw in waiting mode!!! #im too nervous! too excited! #ive also been busy worldbuilding personal stuff but thats a side Cause #its mostly the waiting.

[byronvera]

ward is a workplace comedy

#ward web serial #parahumans #tristan vera #rain o'fire frazier #wardblr #my art #ward #don't ask what happened to tristans flashlight #he dropped it bc he was too busy being tough #dialogue is from polarize 10.9 #also they should be wearing their masks but if they do that i cant draw them making silly faces

[beybuniki]

i sketched out some deku & dabi/toya interactions,i think toya is the kind of intimidating older brother who is kinda funny but also youre a bit scared so you don't know if you should laugh or not. deku is def sweating and waiting for shoto to save him from that awkward conversation that deku has to hold with toya while shoto is still in his room SHOTO GET DOWNSTAIRS ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR OOMF IS SWEATINGHIS ASS OFF

#bakugo would try to act more mature but he is so emblematic for what it means to be 16 so #theyre like shoto can we PLEASE hang out with toya and toya wants them to GO #fuyumi would hang out with the boys but they think shes boring <- me and my borther and his friends life is so tough #natsuo is too busy having a girlfriend he cant hang out with the boys #damn no one wants them kind of

[ioniansunsets]

✖ Young Heartsteel Kayn ✖

✖ Word Count: 306 words

✖ Tags: One Sided Pinning, Reader is his roommate, Kayn is in his old band here.

✖ A/N: My hands were shaking and thought it was cute to imagine Kayn's nerves on stage for the first time.

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He doesn't know, he can't really tell. Was his heart racing or is it an earthquake? The shaking was so bad. The way the guitar pick trembles in his hand as he tries to breathe. The rhythmic up and down of his guitar as he does his best to ground himself, fingers gripping ever tighter to the instrument which in turn just makes him shake harder. He can't hear it. The crowd. Their screams. It was nothing when all he can hear is the consistent thumping of blood rushing through his veins. It was because of you. Or maybe it was the tinnitus from being on stage so near the speakers. Thoughts racing, hands shaking and now ears ringing? Things he loved about performing on stage only made more intense by the sight of you watching him.

He can't see it. Honestly. He can't see past you in the crowd. You standing right by the edge of the metal banisters. Your face so blindingly bright that his attention is on you and only you. Was it subconscious? Maybe. A whole hour long set. His first time on a stage...or maybe a platform. His eyes were trained on you and only you. He couldn't fucking look away. He feels it. He can't understand. He can't hear. He can't see. But he can feel it. The way his nerves were lit aflame by your consistent support for him all this time. The way he honestly wasn't scared of performing until he saw you were watching. Why the hell was it any different, maybe he didn't expect to see you actually show up for him. Maybe it was the way you always sat in his room to listen to him practice. Maybe he was lying to himself when he said he doesn't feel a thing for you. Maybe? Maybe...

PART 2

#Shieda Kayn #Heartsteel!Kayn #Kayn x Reader #Heartsteel #Kayn League #Kayn lol #KaynLeague #DRABBLE #ill get back to writing soon i swear OIAHSDOIHASOIDHAOS #i just finished two essays..............two more to go..................... #being a senior in college is tough :) help me :) im so busy :)

[naoiseart]

D’aaaaw! He got a little house in Boom!

He lost the deposit after the fight and had to move back in with Eggman tho =( It’s tough being an independent villainous robot!

#metal sonic #sonic boom #Episode 28 - It wasnt me it was the one armed hedgehog! #why was he chillin in the random house in the middle of the forest tho??? #i honestly cant remember if it was used as someone elses house in another episode or not #if so this must be the only house to rent on the island #poor metal! #renting is tough business #the downside of helping your evil dad mess with the heroes #kinda funny tho #this was a doodle #but I wanted to mess with a pink/yellow pallette #so tada! #my art #naoiseart #sth

[ectoplasmentity]

"The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound, I hunt for you with bloodied feet across the hallowed ground"

My work for this year's TF2 Big Bang! It's an illustration for the fic Werewolves of Teufort by @curreeusly-ominous-elf! :)

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 sniper #tf2 demoman #tf2bigbang2023 #echo draws #I was fighting for my life with this piece w my busy sched and impostor syndrome... #but I'm happy I toughed it out

[scorpionatori]

early series natori is fun cause he really does have good intentions mostly (like there’s undeniably some selfishness and manipulation behind his actions cause that’s what’s been hammered into him) but he’s also so fucking oblivious and inexperienced when it comes to human interaction and has never tried to befriend a single person in his life and he assumes natsume is his mini-me/younger clone who has the exact same desires as him and of course this child will want to be my best friend once he knows We’re The Same and I’m so pretty and charming why wouldn’t some teenager want to be friends with famous actor natori shuuichi [ends up pissing this kid off immensely and pushing all his buttons]

#he’s so… presumptuous? and I enjoy that about him #also like #it’s funny in a sad way that #natori ultimately did just want a friend who could understand him #like. he desperately needed that #and he COULD have approached natsume just as a friend like #‘hey I also see youkai and it was tough for me as a kid you’re not alone want to hang out?’ #but it’s so ingrained in him to approach people like #some transactional business proposal so it ended up being like #‘hey want to be my apprentice I promise it will benefit both of us’ #and just assumed this. 15yo boy would be 100% down to become an exorcist #because who wouldn’t want to be famou actor natori shuuichi’s exorcist apprentice 😍 #natori also has a whole complex since he #went from being universally hated to universally loved #mmm so like I guess he assumes people won’t like him as just a person #but will like his persona he puts on #whereas natsume can’t stand his persona but does genuinely like who he is as a person #natsume yuujinchou #natori shuuichi

[bored-skid]

Imagine owning a small business in New York and this fucker comes flying through your window

#spider-man #spiderman #marvel #fanart #peter parker #marvel fanart #small businesses in new york in marvel are some tough cookies

[wazzappp]

i LOVE your body horror/biology jaime designs so much. question about how you think khaji's healing factor works - does it have any interesting ways of dealing with head trauma? it's never seemed to be a problem for jaime, but comics tend not to address that getting your head smacked into things is bad even with armor, so idk if you have any thoughts. is khaji doing something fucked up in there or is it just comic logic.

Hello!! Im so glad you're enjoying my art and my ideas <3.

I have a general idea about Jaime's enhanced healing which you might have already seen here, but I don't really have anything specific for head trauma.

The comics don't have much explanation in terms of healing, but there is a bit with prevention of head trauma I guess. In Rebirth (one of the few good things about it) Khaji mutates Jaime's skeleton. Not much more detail is given about it, but my personal head cannon is some kind of carbon fiber coating. Its lightweight, sturdy (5 times stronger than steel!), and isn't toxic inside the body (we already use it to make stuff like hip replacements)!

They would have to work around the release and production of new red blood cells, maybe interweaving with the network of capillaries, but it could work! Carbon fiber is already similar to a woven texture. It shouldn't be too hard to weave in a few blood vessels (<- that sounds. so much more fucked up when I put it down on paper.)

It wouldn't necessarily help with healing but hey, prevention can be better than a cure!

#asks #thanks for the ask!! always glad to hear people like my speculative bio stuff <33 #blue beetle #jaime reyes #khaji da #build that boy sturdy as shit!! #christ his femurs would be strong. the human femur is already like. crazy tough. that plus carbon fiber?? ghadamn. #sorry it took me a little while! this week has been crazy busy and ive been t i r e d #but i got shit to draw this weekend and im getting it done damnit I shall not be stopped

[userdogmeat]

sunt lacrimae rerum

@falloutober - 16

Preston Garvey found refuge in the Sole Survivor's compassion and understanding of human sorrow, offering him and the Minutemen a new chance at life.

Cover of Sunt lacrimae rerum, 1931; dialogue from Fallout 4; Fallout 4 Post-War Sanctuary Hills concept art; "Lacrimae Rerum: building a bridge between literary and monumental commemoration" by Alex Donnelly; "The Battle of Lexington" by William Barnes Wollen; screenshot of Preston Garvey from Fallout 4; "The Aeneid" Book 1, lines 566-568 by Virgil, translated by Stanley Lombardo; "Two Dead" by Käthe Kollwitz

#falloutober #falloutober 2023 #falloutober2023 #preston garvey #webweaving #this prompt had no business being so hard #i dont even know if i did it any justice it was so tough #but anyways your honor i love preston #if anything happens to preston i will kill everybody in this room and then myself #userdogmeat creates

[plumbus-central]

visiting birdworld together this time

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #rick and morty oc #birdperson #art #my art #rick #minnie #bp #comic #i like when i can make them silly :) #the last few like 5 weeks have been Tough #and ive been very busy #but hopefully now that all that's over #ill have more time to myself for drawing and such

[anxiously-sidequesting]

I know we as a fandom all love to shit on Duncan whenever we get the chance (see: me posting Duncan GruncanWuncan) especially since the like, two times we ever see him he's shitting on us for being ourselves then tries to kill us because of his own delusions of grandeur but I thought about it and I was like, "......man that's kinda Sad actually"

BECAUSE seeing this from Duncan's perspective; he's The Best, he always has been the best, but reality constantly shows him that isn't true (Malorn, The Wizard, anyone else)

Like imagine how painful that can be when you think something that you truly deserved and something that you've fought for, maybe for your entire life, is seemingly handed to others who aren't nearly as deserving as you

And yeah WE know that Duncan has neither worked (very hard, at least) for his perceived greatness NOR does he truly """deserve""" it (Duncan has been shown to be shirking his duties off to us and possibly others for his own gain), but DUNCAN doesn't know this. Like in his mind he truly, honestly, genuinely believes with his whole fragile heart that he is just above everyone else and puts more effort in trying to convince others of that rather than literally just trying to work towards that himself

And then there's the extra added insult that even in his own class he's pretty mediocre. Duncan INSISTS that he was Malistaire's best student and that he praised Duncan maybe once and that all other Death students only wish they could be like him, but... Malorn. And I bet deep down Duncan KNOWS that in fact Malorn was Malistaire's best and most talented. And Duncan can't even really twist that in his mind because it was made solid when Malorn took over Malistaire's duties instead of him. It was proven as a hard fact that Malorn was more suited to the job than Duncan was and is widely recognized as being The Best Death student (if the YW isn't a Necromancer)

Okay so fine. Whatever it's just Death right? At least Duncan can be the best at ANYTHING ELSE, maybe he's not the most talented Necromancer but there's 6 more types of magic to excel in!!!

But then another person ruins that. The Young Wizard poofs in from another world and suddenly, Duncan is overshadowed once more because a literal child prodigy and Local Hero arrives and literally saves their world and then, the universe. Multiple times in fact

Like bro I can imagine that could be at least a little bit painful for anyone, but imagine with Duncan's already low self-esteem and his fragile, large ego, he literally and genuinely took that personally and a hit to your pride is devastating for anyone, no matter who you are. That was like, Strike Three for Duncan and it was so very personal and important to him that it left him in a deep and vulnerable state

But I think the absolute saddest part of Duncan's downfall is that near the end, he was ultimately manipulated by an adult. A grown ass adult noticed and acknowledged his insecurities and purposely struck where it hurts the most, in his weakest state. Duncan already wasn't thinking clearly from the start but when everything went to shit for him and he was clinging, Gretta DarkKettle approached him and completely broke him down to make him into something else entirely for the Schism's benefit.

Of course Duncan was a piece of shit from the start but he truly didn't have any malicious intentions until Gretta messed with his mind. Like, he went from a pretty much harmless bully to an actual criminal of the state and a threat to the literal universe. Duncan was CORRUPTED and all of his worst fears and delusions were solidified the moment Gretta """validated""" those feelings Duncan had.

Is Duncan completely blameless? Fuck no he did some fucked up shit actually and I'm glad he was held accountable for it by the narrative and the fandom!!! But I think it's something to be said that at the end of the day, Duncan was still a child that was suffering from many type of issues before being recruited and manipulated by a powerful literal cult. Wizard101 does have a theme of malicious intending and less than responsible adults using children to get what they want (Malistaire, Morganthe's brother, GF Spider, GM Raven, coughcoughAmbrose) but unlike the Young Wizard who successfully stays true to themselves despite that, Duncan had a more Morganthe-like route and ultimately succumbed to it. Of course their situations are a lot different since the YW wasn't brought in by a cult, but you can't help but feel bad for someone so young being preyed on by older people who are supposed to look out for them and protect them from something just LIKE that.

I will always shit on Duncan because it's funny and hold him accountable for his actions because he should, but I also feel bad for him and I hope he had a better ending after he was defeated

#this isnt like a callout post btw LMAO everyone is free to feel how they feel #this isnt me like shitting on the fandom or anything pls dont feel that way #i just think duncans situation is really interesting and kinda important to look at beneath all the memes and stuff #duncan is a loser in my heart but he's a victim in my soul. poor kid #also think about the fact that he STILL wasnt strong enough even after all that. we still defeated him #he spent most of his young life having all that resentment and anger and hatred in his heart- #-and thought it would all finally be worth it once we were dead but that also fell apart #my fave types of villains are the ones who trult believe they were right/were wronged by the world #duncan literally had delusions of granduer. thats super tough to get over #the feelings and belief of self can be so so important to someone #what you truly believe about YOURSELF is like the core. it can even be more important that religion/family/etc. for some people #it personally makes sense to me that duncan would feel so broken after having that 'taken' away from him #because if you dont have yourself to count on then who???? what else is there #also sad because literally the wizard did nothing to him. we were just minding our own business but duncan still took it personally #it didnt have to be that way at ALL and i hope he gets some therapy and gretta gets locked up forever #anyway. im normal #wizard101 #w101 #wiz101 #duncan grimwater #long post #text post