#very on brand for me tbh

[daeyumi]

au Ganondorf 🪷

ngl i am Very proud of his design

#zelda #zelda au #ganondorf #au ganondorf #legend of zelda #loz au #zelda fanart #daeyumi art #cycle of the stars #cycle of the stars au #i sat on the wip of his ref sheet for 2 & a half months then finished it in 3 days lol #very on brand for me tbh #tho it’s not as bad as me sitting on my only completed drawing of him for a full YEAR before i even started on the ref 🤡 #even tho I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do with his design basically the entire time #anyways i took heavy inspo on this design from my design for the rehydrated ganondorf trend back in 2019 LOL #i won’t show that design here rn tho bc OOF it was rough 😂 #maybe someday i’ll do a comparison tho lol #anyways the last ref sheet i have to finish for rn is zelda’s #then i’ll have all 4 of the main cast #and i’ll feel better about drawing more actual pieces for my au after that

[missejasmine]

Anytime I hear the argument “Aang taught Katara how to be a kid again” or some variation of that, I get so frustrated because... no? He really didn’t lol??

The one instance we’re shown of Aang “teaching” Katara how to act/have fun like a kid is at the very start of the show when he takes her penguin sledding. Katara had fun, that’s great. And then immediately afterwards shit hits the fan and there’s not really any kid-like fun that Aang shows Katara ,and that they both participate in, for the rest of the show other than their dance in the Footloose episode......... in season 3.

That’s not to say that Katara doesn’t have fun for the entirety of atla in-between those 2 instances. But Aang is not the source of those moments of levity for Katara nor is he responsible for it. Instead Aang becomes yet another thing for Katara to be responsible for. Another mouth to feed. Another person to clean up after. Another brother to take care of.

It also, imo, does Katara an extreme disservice by implying that she has no idea how to have fun anymore. You think Katara wouldn’t love to be able to practice her bending everyday without interruption? To have time for herself? To travel and see the world and everything it has to offer?? If it weren’t for the war and taking care of her family after her mother’s death, and her father and the other men left, I have no doubt she’d be doing all of those things. Katara knows how to have fun (even if it’d be a different version of fun than the rest of the gaang’s), she just doesn’t have the time to have it.

What’s more, I don’t think Katara would want to act or be treated like a kid. Even when it comes to having fun. She liked the penguin sledding, but every other time Aang is shown having juvenile fun and taking off to act like the kid he is, Katara is shown to be less than impressed. Because Katara is not a little kid anymore, she’s a teenager, and she can never go back to being a little kid.

Katara didn’t need to be shown how to act like a kid again, nor did she need to be taught how to have fun. She already knew how to do those things, it was the circumstances surrounding her home life that prevented her from enjoying her childhood. What she needed was not to have to take on such heavy responsibilities at such a young age while also having to deal with the trauma of losing her mother and the ever-looming threat of the war.

And what she didn’t need was to become the primary caretaker of a 12-year-old child who would eventually become her husband. 😒

#Katara #eldest daughter syndrome #anti kataang #aang salt #atla meta #my meta #this is my first published meta #and its me complaining about something #very on brand for me tbh #this has probably already been said #but i finally had the motivation to right and post my own feelings #don't get used to this #atla fandom salt #atla discourse

[ct-multifandom]

I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.

It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.

By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.

Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.

#anti intellectualism #media #movies #books #music #critical thinking #my friend who primarily listens to one very popular band once said that people who listen to obscure music are annoying and pretentious #which rubbed me the wrong way because 1 she knows that I listen to obscure music and 2 it’s such a cowardly consumerist take. anyone can #make music and hey a lot of the people who do make GOOD music. and this goes for all *obscure* media #this post was mostly inspired by people talking about Barbie and those anti pick me girls like the pick nobody girls who insist thinking is #for boys and having fun with an empty brain is for girls. Greta gerwig is an artist. I haven’t seen the movie yet but I know it has a deeper #message than haha cute pink! I’ve seen the summaries about the true meaning. the pinkness and popularity doesn’t negate the narritive. #though in the notes I saw a lot of tumblristas comunistas shitting on the film for being one big ad that people *fell for* which tbh is #tbh almost as anti-intellectual. don’t get me wrong they milked this film to sell hella shit but I don’t believe kids who play with dolls #are the target audience as these people claim. Barbie is a culturally iconic symbol almost archetypical of societal expectations for women #you say barbie people think unblinking perfect plastic pink girly. reminds me of the poem The Last Mojave Indian Barbie. yeah yeah you all #hate brands but this one carries undeniable significance and makes for a powerful literary device. it’s been used many times before #sorry for writing a tag essay about a film I haven’t even seen but I’m tired of internet people focusing so much on proving others wrong #that they end up oversimplifying everything just as much as the other person. god I saw people doing this to Nimona saying transphobes were #looking too deep into her character and they’re reactionary clowns for making that jump. like for once the transphobes are right. she is #trans. it’s a queer story. and irl the first people who notice queerness are the bigots who can tell you’re different. sick owns telling #them the story’s not that deep is harmful and it’s like they’re ignoring the real message on purpose. okay enough rambling hehe! thanks #barbie #nimona

[mo-ok]

everyone: let me see what you have Sosuke: a knife! everyone: NO

#changeman #go onger #gingaman #king ohger #dynaman #kakuranger #sentai #see this STARTED as me drawing tied number 1 specialest boy in the world tsurugi change dragon #then i drew sosuke and he was ALSO holding a sword so i thought 'hey why not draw a few lil fellas with swords' #and as i went to draw good old two swords dynared i thought 'dont fucking draw another page of red boys you absolute idiot' #so i gritted my teeth and drew some non-reds with swords to go with my two 'i could draw these characters with my eyes closed' red boys #hayate is here because i wanted some reverse grip representation #rei is here because i couldnt draw dynared and tbh her rose saber is more iconic anyway #rita is here because i've literally only ever drawn gira and tsuruhime is here because what is this a one girl sentai??? #also because i love her #ended up being very much 'team serious business ONLY + sosuke' #hayate and tsuruhime eternally exasperated with sosuke but also very VERY much used to his exact brand of bullshit #designated sosuke wranglers #had a crisis over tsuruhimes eyes but i think red is a good fit for her tbhhh #2024 art tag

[as-troz]

uhhuh yea totally

#apex legends #overwatch #valorant #lifeline apex legends #revenant apex legends #sage valorant #omen valorant #reaper overwatch #mercy overwatch #revline #mercykill #paraheal #i think #i saw sages and omen ship name on twit #anyway i only came to post this #a very specific brand of rarepair #look at this platonically or romantically idc #somethin bout this brand ........... eats #only bc i read a rlly good mercykill fic #also bc of the new valo cinematic sage can kill me anyday tbh <3

[francy-sketches]

lmao I found a relic of my old joanna design with emo hair (that's how her grandkids got it) but it only exists in cat form

#+ tywin and bby jaime and cersei. idk which is which #very on brand for me #omg she has it on the same side as joffrey that means shes evil. so true #it feels so wrong for her to have golden hair like she's white blonde its canon. to me #i dont think ive ever posted my kitty tywin design. kinda proud of it tbh #thank god i didnt stick with it bc im getting kinda sick of the emo fringes ngl. but i cant give them up its my brand #the way i never even finished the thing i gave them emo hair for. and probably never will #ok actually joffrey is the only one whose emo fringe served a purpouse. i just gave it to tommen and myrcella bc i thot itd be cute if they #matched #what if i did the anime thing where the eyes show thru the hair 😭

[krikidilly]

Dude if the silly ship haters got even a whiff of what was going on in my gourd I think they'd lose their minds anyways im still being haunted by pmd (pokemon) au Sanemi/Tsutako. Incomprehensible and impossible but fills me with delight

#shoutout to Junes pmd au :-] @vinlynce! id tag you but brain is odd tonight n i think id explide.... #anyways my mind operates through a filter of whimsy no one will ever understand #im not really a fan of sanegiyu tbh unless its a Very specific brand but this scratches an itch and i like it sooo much #i cold draw them as humans in modern au oh mgee.. #i cant begin to explain why this pairing makes me so happy it just brings me a joy i cant describe #but yes if you couldnt tell that is sanemi and tsutako but pokemon! sorry #my art #pmd au #uhhh spoilers but ? if you dont know who tsutako is just dont look her up 💗

[antisocialxconstruct]

good news: it is real 👍

bad news..... it is so so small 😂😂

tell me in WHAT universe this is an XXL..... I might still be able to style it somehow but I am a little disappointed it isn't the slouchy sweatshirt I was dreaming of. Trials of online shopping I suppose

#rom speaks #as far as i can ascertain the label is 'universe funnel' but if you search that..... there's nothing. it doesn't exist #i tried to buy this exact sweatshirt from a site that turned out to be a drop shipper years back #i ordered it with a pair of shoes. shoes arrived and i still have them. They’re great #sweatshirt just never even shipped and they had no good explanation for me. #when i tried to scrounge it up again from some other vendor it kept getting associated to a brand called club giv #but everything i could find emphatically implied club giv was a scam and they just take your money and send you nothing #found it listed on one other very sketchy site where the images were poorly edited with slightly different text #genuinely if i didn’t have this one sitting on my bed right now i wouldn't be convinced this sweatshirt ever existed anywhere in the world #so..... i just have to live with it being LITTLE #tbh i think the real solution here is i have to make one myself with the fit i want. I'm not in love with how the text is distributed either

[petiolata]

Decided I'll just block people I see tag their art with "not ship art" "don't tag as ship" and the like.

It's not that I care whether it's ship art, or whether the artist intends it platonically or romantically.

It's that it shows a deep, fundamental misunderstanding of how art works. Art is not meant to be interpreted to the exact dictation of the artist. Art is meant to evoke thoughts and feelings *beyond* what the artist intends.

The audience, viewing, completes the experience by supplying interpretations based on their own unique experiences.

If someone doesn't get that, then they're too mentally shallow for me to waste time on their art. Why would I? There's nothing for me in it--I'm not permitted to have my own thoughts or feelings about the art after all.

Viewing art as complete, immutable product that the audience exists only to "consume" without thinking is the mentality that enables the hideous conversion of "artist" to "content creator".

Besides, the artist has admitted they can't clearly communicate ideas or scenes, since they feel the need to clarify something that should be obvious 99.9% of the time.

#fandom #artist problems #fandom discourse #discourse #death of the author #reader-response theory #op #personal #it always surprises me how ignorant many creatives are about their own supposedly beloved method of creation #“I love to make art! now I'm going to learn absolutely nothing about it 😃” #“I'm never going to bother thinking about the audience's role or art's purpose and what it gives humanity! 😃” #it's just a very complacent and shallow attitude #altho tbh it's a common failing generally. so many ppl never bother to think critically or analytically or have any curiosity about anythin #i know i probably shouldn't bother voicing these opinions but pseudo-intellectual rants are just part of my content-creator “brand” baby #along with my struggles with various household objects #if you can't be a little insane and pretentious on your own tumblog then where can you? #btw the art that prompted this wasn't even about a “problematic” ship which is what made seeing it so bizarre and jarring? like it wasn't #even an attempt at advertising the artists' values #just “You [the audience] are clearly all idiots so let me clarify this scene for you and spell everything out” #but even aside from that particular piece I've seen plenty of posts with similar tags. stop treating your audience like they're dipshits #also trying to forcibly control how your audience interprets your work is control freak BS

[venomgaia]

what's good about a pilot falcon?

HI! The Pilot Falcon (older generations were sold in the US as the Namiki Falcon for whatever reason) is a japanese fountain pen manufactured by Pilot!

it's often referred to as the best modern flex pen, or the best gold nib for a beginner! Tldr for people who aren't pen nerds, a flex pen is a pen that...well, flexes! Most pens have some sort of "flex" to them that results in some sort of line variation, but flex pens can handle a relatively higher amount of pressure. Think like a G nib used in a lot of manga. Old pens were the MASTERS at this, and a good bit of that is due to the nibs being made of gold, which naturally has a "bounce" to it that modern steel nibs have a really hard time living up to. Most people wax poetic about Waterman or other vintages like that because of it. Even modern gold nibs can't really keep up with the gold nibs of yore, but the Falcon is considered to be one that can. I do think legally it's considered a "soft" nib, meaning it's not truly a flex pen but has a lot of flex qualities to it, but some terms that get used are used interchangably so. idk. True flex nibs aren't really a thing in fountain pens these days outside of Noodler's Ahab and Konrad (which are their own nightmare and a half tbh).

The Falcon prized amongst artists for it's very fine nib, which Japanese pen manufacturers like Pilot and Platinum are known for. A Japanese Fine is comparable to a Western (Kaweco, Lamy) Extra fine, and a lot of these pens come in an EF, F, and M. It gets alot of nice line variation despite being so small, and is really an all-around great pen, if legend is to be believed :] An alternative to buying the Pilot Falcon would be getting the Pilot 912 FA, which has something called the "Falcon Nib," not to be confused with the actual pen. They actually look pretty different. The FA nib (right) has these weird cuts on their side that help with flexing and allow it to mimic a full-flex nib, but again. According to legend, modern pens don't flex like vintage pens do, but it IS pretty close.

(sources mentioned in alt text)

I've never used either myself, but I'm pretty picky about my pens and so I don't know if I'd ever pay upwards of $200 unless I got familiar with the nib first tbh....The falcon's nib isn't offputting to me like many feel about it, but I'm particular about aesthetics and the feedback on paper and I can't tell if I like them just from looks alone lol. Right now, I don't have much experience with pilot nibs, but if i were to get a pilot pen, tbh I'm looking at the Pilot Elite/e95s in a fine or medium, or a vintage platinum pocket pen.

Anyways that's that and this is also that. *twirls so elegantly and then collapses onto the ground in slapstick fashion*

#im a dweeb #im picky enough about pens that if the nib isnt particularly pleasing (good examples are Visconti Pelikan or Parker nibs) #or particularly unique (examples are Regalia Crossflex and Trilogy or most Music Nibs) #im not particularly drawn to them. superficial and so on #I really like inlaid/inset nibs like the Platinum Carbon or old Pilot desk pens. or the aforementioned Pilot Elite #The Shaeffer Quasi-imperial is PARTICULARLY sexy in design with the diamond inlay tbh #a good flexy or at least bouncy pen can be EF or F for me (sometimes F is actually too large like with the Platinum Preppy) #i tend to benefit from thin nibs anyways (and gold but bouncy steel is good too) because the inks i use are wet #so im not always picky about nib size. but i AM also rlly picky about pen body shapes and a lot do NOT speak to me #I like desk pens bc of the tapered tail but they really aren't suited for travel. but i dont care much for the classic cigar shape of pens #i like how twsbi pens are shaped. i strongly dislike lamy's shape these days. flat top and torpedo pens are better imo #Benu makes both beautiful and gaudy pens and the dream would be a regalia crossflex in either a benu or something truly atrocious #like a custom fountain pen themed after my lonesome cowboy by takashi murakami. no i wont elaborate no dont look that up #alas fountain pens are an expensive hobby and ppl can be a bit dickish about 'lower quality' pens so its not very newbie friendly #esp on reddit. some ppl are so obnoxious tbh. i like the tumblr fp fans way better theyre a lot more helpful and not married to brands #OK THATS ENOUGH SORRY YOU GOT THE RAMBLINDS OF A LUNATIC ITS MIDNIGHT GOOD NIGHT ANON #not art

[some-greatreward]

So when I was in high school, I listened to The Libertines briefly (I only have their first album). Your posting made me revisit them today. I forgot how much I like their self titled!! I have to listen to more of their stuff now :D

OH MY GOD THE PROPAGANDA IS WORKING

seriously though ilysm alyssa you’re the BEST. i’m always so worried whenever i get into something new that i’m spamming my moots and ppl who followed me for [other thing] - do NOT enable me i’m gonna get even more annoying :p

i hope you have so much fun listening!! They’ve only done one more album (anthems for doomed youth) since the first 2, but it’s been one hell of a journey to get there and it’s a damn miracle it was made at all. People will tell you it’s not up to standard, but I’ve a real soft spot for it - I feel like thematically it really does reflect the tumultuous journey the band has been on, both the pain and the disillusionment but also the hope and the love that perseveres!! they’ve been through a LOT since the early 2000s.

and also we’re waiting for a new album coming out next March which is VERY exciting, so if you see any new libs songs around feel free to check them out!!

#aaaaaa tysm for the msg it really means so much when a friend checks out/revisits something i love #tbh ​it’s a bit strange to be a brand new libs fan when a lot of people have had a long history with them #but the fandom has been SOOO kind and welcoming it’s made me very happy

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

i was so absorbed in writing my fic that i just tried to take a sip of tea from my candle instead of my mug and nearly set my own hair alight ffs

#the pain medication i’m on also may have been a factor #but sadly i suspect it can’t take all the blame #nearly setting my hair alight in the pursuit of fanfic is very on brand for me tbh #lulu posts

[bass-alien]

I also bought a coffin shaped crossbody bag to go with my outfit next weekend

#very on brand for me tbh lmao