#truly a skill

[franklespine]

Oh my god the parallels of Sam's Hell trials to Jack's trials to kill God and Amara........ I'm going to end it rn. I always sort of thought this because of the similarities in that:

they're a set of trials which are a great burden to be shouldered by one person for the greater good (very much in a classic hero's journey sort of way).

yet despite this, the reason at the heart of WHY they're doing these trials is because of a belief in their fundamental worthlessness or corruption without completing this grand act for the greater good (Sam and his need to achieve purity from the demon blood, believing the trials are purifying him; Jack, thinking of himself as fundamentally corrupt and having fulfilled the 'monster' status he so desperately wanted to prove that he wasn't, believing that killing God and Amara is the only way he can achieve forgiveness).

But now having watched 15.15 and just finding out that Jack's going to DIE because of this and he's known it from the beginning - RAHHHFJDBFIUHRUI JUST LIKE SAM WANTED TO DIE IN THE END. Another parallel and I don't like it, it's a punch to the gut, a knife to the stomach.

Billie... when I catch you....

#supernatural #spn #jack kline #sam winchester #spn 15x15 #on a side note Cas must be using some angelic powers when driving because I have not seen anyone in a TV series scene look away #from the road for so goddamn long LMAO #wow #truly a skill #but whatever #i will extend my disbelief

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

#legend of zelda #loz #twilight princess #loz tp #i'm still reeling that someone sent me an ask about this one.. that they took the time to find my tumblr and tell me they liked it #it really meant a lot; thank you to anyone that stops to leave comments like that. they make me happy #but yeah! here's the usual symbolism ramble: #i thought it'd be cool to have the 'spirits' flowing one way and the cats walking through them the other way #to kinda show the difference in life inhabiting the village in the past and present #link's face is covered because impaz was just waiting for 'the hero' so his clothes are what matters; not his face #and it (hopefully) gives a surreal and intangible sense to 'the hero' she could only hope would actually show up #you can feel free to interpret the glowy blue sheikah as ghosts or just as memories of the past! i couldn't decide either way #the one on the bottom left is oot impa since she's implied to be the village founder. so i guess she would be a ghost actually? #fan art #my art #project stuff #and ahhh the book-- everyone's stuff is so beautiful!! #especially the writing. some of the fics made me really tear up and some were so fun and clever. i really love them #a lot of them captured the sheer burden of the role of the sheikah; all of the time and grief and doubt #i know i always say this stuff about every project but. the people i get to work with in these are truly so skilled every time

[communist-waffle]

Truly the puppet history season finale we deserve

#i am way too emotionally invested in the lifes of puppets #shane madej is truly a mastermind #and Ryan's acting skills are unparalleled #puppet history season 5 #puppet history spoilers #puppet history #ryan bergara #shane madej #watcher

[unclewaynemunson]

Pt2 to this post

'Is something wrong?' Nancy asks, not long after the two of them have taken their familiar spots on the hood of Steve's car. They're basking in what might be the last warm sunlight of the year, looking out over the quarry, at a safe distance from the edge.

It's become a tradition the two of them share, ever since they reconnected back in March. It calms them both, to just sit here and take in the view, no one around but each other. Nancy is one of the few people Steve can share a comfortable silence with: sometimes they sit here quietly for what feels like hours, side by side, listening to music or to nothing but the birds singing around them. But they also have their best conversations here: it's the place where Nancy entrusted him she wanted to break up with Jonathan; it's the place where they talked about their shared past and decided they would always love each other as friends; it's the place where they finally talked about Barbara in a way they couldn't when they were younger. It's where Nancy talked about the ghosts still haunting her and Steve talked about how lonely he sometimes felt.

Steve huffs. 'How did you guess?'

'When you frown, you always do it with your whole face,' Nancy notes. 'So it's hard to miss, really.'

Steve glances at her side profile. There's a serenity to her features that's still relatively new. It means she's healing, slowly learning how to be happy again. It means she stopped waiting for the end of the world and started believing in a real future again. It makes Steve proud of how far they both have come.

'I had a fight with Eddie,' he confesses. 'And with Dustin, I guess.'

'What happened?'

He sighs. 'It's complicated.'

'Wanna tell me about it?'

The look in her eyes is kind and inviting. Steve hesitates. He wants to, but he doesn't know if he can. It's a risk. It's scary.

But he can't imagine Nancy Wheeler ever being careless with his secrets. He can't imagine her judging him, can't imagine her being as small-minded as most people in this town.

He was planning on telling her anyway, because things had been going so well with Eddie lately and – no, he shouldn't think about that right now. But maybe it would actually be nice to talk about it with Nancy.

'So, um...' His throat feels tight and his hands are sweaty. 'I recently discovered some things about myself. I-' The words get stuck somewhere on the way to his mouth, and he clears his throat.

Nancy doesn't push, but only gives him an encouraging nod, waiting for him to find his voice again.

'I found out I like boys,' he finally manages to confess. 'And I need you to know that – that that doesn't mean that what I felt for you wasn't real. It was. I loved you, and now I fell in love with a boy. And-'

'Steve.' Nancy's hand suddenly covers his, causing him to finally jerk his head away from the view over the quarry, to focus on her face again instead.

Her eyes are wide, and she squeezes his hand.

'You don't have to explain yourself to me,' she tells him. 'We're good. But thank you for telling me. For trusting me with this.'

Steve heaves out a relieved sigh, and Nancy smiles; it's that genuine kind of smile which reveals all kinds of dimples and soft lines across her face.

'We might be more similar than you thought,' she tells him, a faint blush spreading over her cheeks.

'Really?' Her words make his breath catch in his throat. He squints at her, trying to see her in this new light. 'Are you saying what I think you're saying?'

She shrugs. 'I don't know. I'm not sure yet,' she admits. 'Still figuring things out.'

'Take your time, there's no rush,' he tells her. 'But...' He bumps his shoulder against hers. 'When you're done figuring it out, talk to me, okay?'

She nods. 'Okay.'

For a while, it's quiet between the two of them. Some kind of raptor circles high above them in the sky. They both follow it with their eyes until it disappears among the tree tops west of the quarry.

'Is it Eddie?'

Steve blinks dumbly a couple of times.

'Wha- what?'

'The guy you were talking about. The one you fell in love with. It's Eddie, isn't it?'

'Jesus, Wheeler, what kind of sorceress are you?' Steve exclaims.

Nancy laughs again. 'You're not being as subtle as you think,' she tells him. 'The two of you have been hooking up for a while now, haven't you?'

Steve huffs dramatically. 'This is unfair. You know everything; I can't even tell you my own secrets anymore!'

'So what happened?' Nancy asks. 'You said you had a fight with him?'

'It's fucking stupid,' he sighs. 'Dustin was getting way too excited about the fact that I was gonna be hanging out with you, so I told him I was seeing someone. Next thing I knew, he was telling Eddie all about how I was seeing a girl.' He waves his hands around to make annoyed air quotations. 'I wanted to tell Eddie it was a misunderstanding, but Dustin was there, so I couldn't out us just like that, and he looked so betrayed and heartbroken... He didn't wanna listen to me.'

Steve sighs; he still can't manage to forget that look in Eddie's eyes when Dustin delivered the big news. 'I wish I would've talked about what I felt for him earlier. I should've been honest when I had the chance, y'know. But I was afraid he wouldn't wanna label what we had, that he wouldn't feel the same way – and now we're in this whole mess. God, he must hate me right now, Nance.'

To his surprise, Nancy gives him an unexpected slap against his arm.

'Ouch, what the hell was that for?!'

'What are you even doing here with me, Steve? You should've gone after him, tell him how you feel!'

'I tried, obviously, but he didn't wanna listen to me!'

'So make him listen! You're in love with him, he obviously feels the same way about you, and you let him leave to wallow in a broken heart he doesn't even need to have!' She rolls her eyes and slides off the car, adding something under her breath that sounds suspiciously like an exasperated 'Boys!' before she pulls Steve off the car as well. 'C'mon, time to get your ass over to the trailer park. Right. Now,' she says through gritted teeth. And, well, Steve knows better than to argue with a determined - and truthfully quite terrifying - Nancy Wheeler.

Read the last part here Taglist: @withacapitalp @ultimatedreamer104 @irregular-child @jcmadgirl @estrellami-1 @myguiltyartpleasure @hallucinatedjosten @jaybren @thew1ldblueyonder @melodymeddler @alycatavatar @zoeweee @lolawonsstuff @fairy-princette @saramelaniemoon @phirex22 @krazyperson @xxsky-shockxx (I only put people on this list who explicitly asked to be tagged. That's really no problem, I love to do that so dw about asking, but I got a lot of relatively vague reactions to the previous post that i'm not gonna dissect and interpret, bc I don't wanna clog anyone's notes unwanted. So just to be clear: i consider it a huge compliment if anyone asks for a tag but please do it clearly if you do!)

#look i can and i will exploit the miscommunication trope until yall are sick and tired of it #bc steddie is actually the perfect couple for keeping that trope believable #they're idiots with terrible communication skills it's canon #they WOULD #“can't you just talk to him?” “wait what i can????” IT'S SO THEM OKAY #nancy is the only sane person here i don't make the rules #don't mind me rambling about stranger things #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #nancy wheeler #platonic stancy #(i love platonic stancy they mean the world to me) #(i truly didn't mean to trick anyone into reading about them this just kinda. happened. idk) #this is making me wanna write more about their friendship actually they deserve their own fic #stranger things #fruity ficlet

[hehearse]

the end <3

part 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - [6]

you can get the full pdf for free or if you feel generous get it for a few coins here ^^

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #yoo joonghyuk #han sooyoung #yoo sangah #lee gilyoung #kim dokja #my art #id in alt #already sweating bullets thinking of a possible sctir comic #truly catering to me myself and i and my lack of writing skills will not stop me

[57sfinest]

this is what harrys brain looks and sounds like at any given moment

#disco elysium #harry du bois #disco elysium skills #kiwipost #truly he is perfect adhd rep #i couldve used other skills but these were funny to me personally #the furies

[kaicko]

🐉2024 is the year of the dragon🐉 you know what that means!!!

#HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE DISASTROUS SNAKE SIBLINGS MANGA STRIP🎊🐍✨🖌️🎉 #'this is truly a snake' 🐍🤨🔎 #Bless your heart ichigo #Renji is the only member of this family with a shred of artistic skills #Those snakes make me cry they're perfect actually #Can you imagine getting a new year's card from the kuchiki clan and it's that fucking snake I'd die #bleach #byakuya kuchiki #rukia kuchiki #ichigo kurosaki #🎉🐍🐉✨Happy new year everyone!!!✨🐉🐍🎊 #Someone please make a montage of those on an actual new year's card I'm begging you

[feverdreamsandlucidnightmares]

Critically important WW discussion

#I love him so so so much but he is just lying horribly all the time and hoping for the best #being pretty doesn’t teach you social skills #murder cults don’t exactly facilitate flirting #he’s doing his best! sometimes it’s awful #he’s my favorite #but he needs to be shaken like a snowglobe #trigun #trigun anime #trigun stampede #tristamp #nicholas d wolfwood #nicholas the punisher #feverdreamsandlucidnightmares #in the same way that I send loml sailor moon and soul eater trigun crossovers he sends me ww youtube videos #truly we are just penguins pebbling to show affection

[demyurgos]

ceramics i made

#ceramics #sculpture #featuring my truly atrocious photography skills with my shitty phone camera and sketchbook bg. #do not talk to me about my living room #estoma

[localicecreambiter]

there's nothing wrong with starting small

woah boy the quality of these are terrible and I really hope they can be read- i'd try and post all the individual panels but I'm not sure if they're going to fit in one post D:

also I apologize for the shadows </3 I could not for the life of me find an angle where they weren't there

enjoy some fluff @sapphicseasapphire (I have videos of close ups if you want me to send them to you :3)

below is all the text from the panels

1. *convinced legend has a death wish*

Ravio: Ok, I'm ready to go home-

Link: You haven't even touched the water yet!

2. R: Touch it? What do you take me for? I'm a merchant of high standard! Not just any water will-

3. *patented pout* *wind picks up*

R: D-Don't give me that look!

4. *deflate*

L: Then get in already!

5-8. *slump*

L: Come on.

9-11. L: If you don't like the ocean-

R: I don't appreciate when you throw me in the moat.

L: Well, now that you mention it...

R: Don't!

12. R: Where are we even going?

L: You'll see.

13. R in the background: Link. So help me- eugh- gimme a sec

14. L: We're here

18. L:Hey... Ravio..

19. L: Hey. You're crying.

20-23. R: Oh. Oh I'M- I'M the one crying.

Weird... Usually this is the other way around.

I think I just missed this.

Missed Link.

24. *Pluck*

L: Hey!

25-26. *toss*

L: Don't even think about apologizing.

You don't like the ocean? Thats fine. We'll start small. Sound good?

27. R: Yeah.

and now some panel close ups of my favorites

sorry for such a long post </3

#my art #loz #legend of zelda #ravio #the legend of zelda #albw ravio #cryptid legend #albw #chain as cryptids au #truly a test of my skills #cannot stick with an art style for the life of me #i like this one though its cute #tldr legend and ravio hike up into a hidden cove to go swimming

[averlym]

fairest of the fair

#hi! im alive and back and etc. #six the musical #six the musical fanart #katherine howard #thinking of that post going 'i think eventually you become the person you needed most' and like maybe that's the thing with my art #this started out as a redraw and <improvement meme> i think i've finally reached the stage where i'm making the things that my younger self #aspired to create. like i can do this now! i've reached That level of technical skill! tiny me would be so proud. it's very gratifying #redraw from august this year actually. i've made a surprising amount of improvement HAHA maybe it was the adamandi stuff getting me #back into digital rendering. i think that obsession has quietly slipped away but yknow. one never truly leaves a fandom. just less intensit #also speaking of old fandoms! we're back with the six stuff haha. as of writing i'm in the midst of blog revamp- figuring out how to chill #multifandom status doesn't mean ditch all the old stuff ! but i do feel much freer and less stressed. i think hiatus has been good for me #notes on this piece particularly: redraw about cutting hair and thinking of the lyric above. also lowkey &j ref + pinterest poem excerpts #of female suffering. and maybe a dash of amanda heng let's walk inspo. this work is really just full of contradictions.. #1. the mirror and cutting hair as an act of self liberation 2. the & is part of the lyric but also a nod to &j (in another iteration it was #pink but the white looked better) and like. &j is really all !!! girl power!!! etc. and i was like hmmmm. also matching pink shiny aes #3. the frame as a cage; the mirror as a self reflection idea (ie. saville's propped insp) but also as a sign of vanity. 4. sparkly costume #and pretty pose- read one too many poems about women feeling like they have to be pretty even in their suffering. something i wanted to #explore. and also in 5. the show itself... all you wanna do is. despite all the dancing and pink and sparkly the content of the song is #darker. and even though it's a story of her suffering it's still presented as a shiny fun pop song and ajshdhfhfh ok... 6. the lyrics fall #outside the frame. sort of a caught inbetween. sort of a trapped in the narrative and yet #within the frame it's all. vaguely handwavy breaking free vibes. like i said contradictions? #7. cutting off the long ponytail vs the pull my hair lyric at the end. yeah #8. the blocked off & looks a bit like scissors. positioned to cut right at the neck #anyways yeah irl remains hectic! but if i get around to more doodles they'll appear here :)

[vanyafresita]

cant believe that feliciano is single-handedly getting me out of an art block

#hetalia #aph italy #feliciano vargas #something about him smoking is very sexy to me STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT #his tattoo reads collige virgo rosas btw #my 14 year old self would be so proud to know that im better at drawing now and im using my skills to draw hetalia #this is for you dumb bitch u will never forget hetalia turns out ur obsessions at 14 yo truly change ur brain chemistry for life #anyways its 1am i have to get up early tomrrw lmfao #aph #my art

[canisalbus]

would u say there's anything abt vasco's upbringing that made him kind and goodnatured? especially as a noble being around other nobles with strict parents

I think it's mostly an inborn personality trait, further cultivated by environment that rewarded good manners, gallantry and coming across as a respectable pillar of society. He just has that natural knack for socialization, empathy and reading people. He's a charismatic person and he knows it, and is aware that being friendly and personable works well in his favor. In fact, if he wasn't earnestly goodnatured and used his wiles for selfish and nefarious purposes instead, he'd be dangerously good at manipulating others and getting them to do what he wants. Luckily he has sturdy morals and knightly personality and genuinely likes people (unless given an explicit reason not to) and wants to make sure his presence is a positive force in their lives.

His father was strict and commanding and over time Vasco started to get along with him less and less. But he's always had a good relationship with his mother, as the youngest child he was the apple of her eye and arguably a little bit of a mama's boy. His mom was a warm and lenient person (albeit sort of fussy, overprotective and often a little too docile for her own good) so I think he takes after her. Most people in his life treated him well, adoringly even, and it's much easier to be kind to others when your own self-esteem is in healthy standing. He didn't encounter visible injustice very often as a child but he developed low tolerance for unfairness at young age, and his mom would usually praise and reward him whenever she found out his son had demonstrated initiative and strength of character by standing up for the underdog. Problems would start to arise when it was his own father abusing his power and authority.

And I don't know, maybe it's a bit tacky and idealistic to say, but he's always liked animals and took interest in horses and falconry early on, and working with them might've also taught him patience, gentleness, respect, responsibility and wordless communication? You can certainly manhandle a difficult horse into submission and I imagine many people at the time did, but he strongly believes he gets better results by cultivating trust, security and compassion. He ends up applying many of the same techniques on his relationships whether he realizes it or not.

#answered #anonymous #Vasco #Vaschete lore #I'm aware I make him sound like the greatest guy on earth and he certainly is a truly good person #and anyone would be lucky to have him in their life #but he's not perfect #getting along with people and being easy to like is just his main skill he was born with high charisma stats and only got better from there #this boy has mirror neurons in abundance #he's very dog coded he loves people in a very doglike way

[voidartisan]

Just thinking about Omega whistling like Hunter and the way she tells Crosshair to stow it when he makes a sarcastic comment and how she reins in his more aggressive plan in favor of a less violent but ultimately more complicated one and how she makes sure they get disguises and insists on going back for Batcher and I have to wonder if Crosshair is watching her like “oh no now there’s TWO of them”

#she’s picked things up from the whole squad and has her own set of skills but she was truly thinking and talking like a mini-Hunter #meanwhile crosshair is in the background ready to tear his hair out over this #star wars #sw #the bad batch #tbb #the bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers #crosshair #omega #hunter

[runningfromevil-mp3]

One of my favourite parts of Slay the Princess is hearing Voice of the Paranoid in the save menu. I don't usually notice if music is playing in pause menus, I'm sure it probably is playing on the menu in this game too, but it just stuck with me and I had to sit there for a few minutes just... thinking about it. The fact that Voice of the Paranoid is keeping you alive in the menu. That you're still there. You've not escaped. That his actions to keep you grounded and calm are just part of the environment... I can't word it well enough but it just stuck with me. There was something so uniquely personal in that moment for me.

#This isn't even talking about how The Hero and The Paranoid have to quite literally swap roles to talk to you specifically. #There's a reason Voice of The Paranoid is high up on the list of favourite characters. #It truly was my 'oh. fuck' moment of the game. Not to mention The Nightmare's own repetition when sharing what is behind her mask. #Also when The Paranoid starts repeating himself even faster. I know the voice actor has skill but... fuck man. It got my feelings. #slay the princess #solitaire.exe #Also hello. I'm posting this so I have something to think about because I'm nervous right now.

[rubra-wav]

Vox sketch dump

Cw: Ones suggestive

Below cut for the sus one

#the unfortunate circumstances of my birth have left me deeply unable to write cohesively (i am about to start my period) #truly a skill issue i know #ive been drawing vox terribly to pass the time until my braincells decide to start working again #vox #vox x reader #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #shit quality art