#wanted to post this later but. nah

[wynandcore]

THE GRIDBUGS: Argon’s (self-proclaimed) number one nuisance!

#this is probably the only way I’ll make Tron OCs: make them a part of prequel lore #I like all three of them but I’ve thought the most abt Cad so far #Butch lesbian siren save me #tronblr #tron #tron uprising #art tag #tron: uprising #tron oc #lux #not enough lux fanart in this world she’s actually rlly fun to draw #wanted to post this later but. nah

[knifearo]

daily gentle reminder that the words we use to describe ourselves are labels. they're not immutable states of being, they're not all-encompassing, they're not permanent, they're not universal; labels are just words that we use to indicate something about our experience that we find important enough to communicate to others. if your experience with attraction is significantly different enough from a typical allo experience then aspec labels are there for you to use as long as you want them; and conversely, what aspec labels communicate is just that someone's experience is aligned enough with what we describe as aromanticism/asexuality to warrant telling people about it. you never need a label, you never need to keep a label, you never need to justify a label, and you never need to use a label for anything besides what you want it for. it's not a contract. it's an adjective that you can choose to use or not to use. all it needs to do is be useful for you. 💚🖤

#literally think about label makers. you're not printing out a cute little thing that says 'yarn' to put on your drawer #because that drawer is like. the universe's one true place to store yarn. #nah. that drawer just has yarn in it rn. and it's useful to you/maybe to other people to know that there's yarn in there. #might be something else later. might be more than yarn later. but like. that's not what the label is about. it's just communicating smth. #saw a post once that made a point about labels being like little signposts that you put out and! yeah! #labels are like pride flags or pronoun pins or fuckin. bumper stickers. they're just a way of saying something about yourself. #and you can use them however the fuck you want frankly #talking #aromantic #aromanticism #arospec #aroace #aro positivity #aspec #asexual #ace positivity #asexuality #ace spectrum

[lemalfrog]

some ugly sketches (school is killing me and I don't draw at all)

#don’t even want to tag this post but ok #rgg fanart #like a dragon #masato arakawa #ichiban kasuga #judgment #nah i’m tired ….. #maybe I'll delete this later #actually the last picture is quite old #don’t like how sawashiro is drawn here ! #uuugh ugly cringey post!!! god please gimme some rest

[crowfromfoggyforest]

have some old fanart

#let's see if tumblr wants to see this or nah #my art #hazbin hotel #hazbin art #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin angel dust #first time posting my art on here #i really need to get back to drawing these characters they're so cool #but motivation to draw (esp with adhd) is... you know #sorry for weird photo #drawing #traditional art #might delete later

[no-light-left-on]

thinking still about how the Heart calls the Whalers 'puppets' and the amount of mystery there is around them, when playing as Corvo and perceiving them through the Heart, in comparison to how they are in reality.

we see them talk to each other in a manner any people would. they consider insubordination, they talk badly of Daud behind his back, we have Billie betray him. there are some that are loyal, yes, be it because they believe in Daud or because they see gain in this path, but by no means are they a monolyth.

however, we do hear from the Heart about a 'fog that surrounds them and hides their secrets' and it is even confirmed, by Billie (and also Galia in the books) that leaving Daud made them 'think clearly for the first time in years'

I've seen a couple theories and I do want to dive into each, to an extent.

there's the suggestion of the Heart talking badly of them, calling them mindless drones that only kill out of hatred and hurt. which, valid. the Heart also says certain things about Daud, 'why did you bring me here? do you expect me to forgive him?', so it's not unlikely that their attitude towards human lives and their willingness to kill for Daud is repulsive enough that the Heart does not see past it

another option is that the mindless puppets is more of a metaphor and is meant to talk about how the Whalers are, in a sense, a cult. which would be incredibly interesting to explore if we had more information on how the Whalers function. now I do want to point out that by cult I do not mean it in a Secluded Religious Organization but as a sociological thing. a literal cult if you will, with a leader that charms their followers, the seclusion and all the unhealthy attitudes of losing oneself to the group. and, that does check out - the loss of individuality, they are as one, following someone's orders without hesitation, someone they would die for. there are a lot of unsavory implications here (if you know how cults work, you probably had some cross your mind already), but arguably Daud is not charming enough to be a proper cult leader. the appeal is the magic, and his excellent skills as an assassin and a leader. maybe it's because of the time we see the Whalers at, right before a collapse, but Daud is regularly doubted and we see a lot of insubordination. the Whalers are not necessarily loyal to him because of who he is as a person. they want the power, they want the influence, maybe the protection, and the things keeping them from disobeying are fear, rather than loyalty.

the third thought or theory is, then, that many of these symptoms can be explained by the influence of the Void. we know the Void affects people, both physically as we see with Delilah's Witches or the Eyeless, as it influences them mentally, if the high numbers of people going mad because of their worship are something to go by. if, then, the Whalers are bound to the Void through Daud, it only makes sense that they would be influenced by this link to something that messes with people's brains. Galia saying she feels better after her Arcane Bond faded could easily mean that the influence the Void had on her has faded, and the creeping madness of it has subsided significantly.

all of these most likely come into play. one of the Heart's lines in dh2, if we point at a Witch, is reciting some of the recipes the Witches chant before quickly apologising. we do learn significantly more about them than we do about the Whalers, of course, possibly because Jessamine has more ill will towards the Whalers than to the Witches. still we see the Void affect the Heart. there is also a notion that the Witches are 'not quite human' due to their Arcane bond.

there's no real conclusion. it's just interesting

#li.txt #dh #dishonored #dishonored whalers #I cant stop thinking about this #and since Ive been pointed to 'whalers as a proper cult' Ive been thinking about it #I have a soft spot for cults as a phenomenon i think its very interesting how they function and the things that drive them to function #its really hard to explainwhat i mean without going into proper details on this #and like i dont think theres enough info about how the whalers functioned during their golden days? #to be truly able to tell how things were? #like if it was just a regular organization or if it was Proper Cult with all the unsavory practices that keep people in there #definitely against the 'mindless puppets' bs theyre still v much people #but i wonder like. how much did the arcane bond affect them #we know that it makes them arrogant #and they were already not too kind people before joining daud #i mean who would join the most famous assassin in dunwall without being into murder? #(i think this characterization suffers also because tehres just way less lines about characters in dh than in dh2) #anyways daud is not charismatic enough to be a proper cult leader and in this essay I will--- #i did in fact not write about it at all lol but if people have questions I want to answer them #i really want to talk about the whalers actually #ngl should just sleep on this and post it later but nah yolo

[dr2-hell]

im so obsessed with the ultimate talent development plan komahina moment where those two idiots were like "ah if you can leave me anytime you want" followed by "if you have a problem with me then YOU LEAVE ME!!!"

what if they both exploded. what if/aff

#i want to squish and stretch them like they were slime to a point that they are one #id throw them at the wall later then #they deserve it #gabi speaks #this is something id post on twitter but twitter is SO hostile for no reason im like... nah

[sbd-laytall]

#okay so I'm only on season 3 of Smallville but I got spoiled about Chloliver so I kind of had to make this #I just think it's funny how everyone knows that Oliver's primary love interest is Dinah and both shows decided 'nah we'll do what we want' #like it's so funny #and the fact that they're both hackers/smart girls/quirky blondes #like Arrow clearly took inspiration from Smallville that's all I'm gonna say #anyway I'm going to keep an open mind about Chloe and Oliver when I get to the later seasons #and I would just like to maintain that while I have issues with Olicity in the later seasons #I think that Olicity in the first couple seasons are cute as heck #choliver #olicity #oliver queen #green arrow #chloe sullivan #smallville #felicity smoak #arrow #arrowverse #meme #my post

[gammija]

i love s4, and im enjoying listening to it with the magaday, but i forgot it would also lead to the worst thing: seeing people interpret media differently than me on the internet OTL

#NOT a big deal #but as an enjoyer of nuance and complicated characters and the tragedy of people doing their best and still failing #I can't help but want to constantly correct posts saying 'Georgie said she prefered Jon dead!' (she didn't #; Jon accused her of that and Basira asked her to leave before they could talk it out) #and 'everyone is blaming Jon for Tim and Daisy's deaths' -> only Melanie is‚ as far as we've heard; #not that everyone is being nice or fair to jon; not at all #but this framing of the situation as jon on one side and everyone else on the other is just so much more boring #than the web of relationships and mistakes and misplaced blame that is implied #and the former is how you get analyses that are objectively wrong like 'no one let Jon speak in 199!!' -> literally by word count and #time spend speaking he talks the most out of anyone in the discussion #but it's not 50/50 jon/others because every character in tma is the protagonist of their own story #like of course it wouldve been nicer if georgie had immediately protested that she didn't want jon to die #but playing that out in my mind; it feels like exactly the kind of argument that jons ex specifically would be tired of having #even if the context is different now #and to me the way it's possible to construct these unspoken reasons and stories for the side characters is the coolest shit #and that's lost if Georgie just said 'I hoped you died Jon‚' because... ? because it's s4 so everyone is just mean to Jon? #even though she's the one visiting him in hospital in the first place? #joos yaps #delete later #nah she's just a mean girl. mean women bullying jon all season #nothing more to it than that

[basslinegrave]

going to the sam and max subreddit these days

#i wanted to post my cosplay there on friday but was like hm. maybe later #but now. hell nah

[dandyshucks-moving]

woah rare other system part sighting lmao, here's a Guz drawn by not-Juno

#I was working with the base they laid out so I had to fudge some shit because they'd laid out the neck and shoulder weirdly RIP #like the head is too far over to the right lmao but I didn't feel like erasing a bunch of it to fix that #the hand behind the wrestling box corner thing is also goofed lmao #turning rbs off but Juno (Dandy is vaguely a cross-system name so it feels weird calling them that) might post the art later better #I don't know how they edit their photos but I think I maybe got close lol #this guys fun to draw tbh love a rough n tumble boy lol he's got the same body type as one of my OCs except Stasis is mostly a robot LMAO #dandyshucks #dandy doodlebugs #<- I'll add these just in case ig ?? idk Juno do what u want with this even if it means deleting it lol hope this is fine for me to post #ALSO THIS WONT BE A REGULAR OCCURRENCE LMAO I was just super bored tonight and happened to switch in during Juno drawing this guy #probably won't ever happen again lol #our drawing styles arent super different I think but also this is using a base they laid out so I would've done it differently lmao #maybe it is different though - apparently I'm not a good judge of shit like this bc they say I write and play accordion differently somehow #but I thought I was doing a pretty good job the other day of doing it like they do lmaooo but nah they said it was all noticeably different #I'm chatty tonight sorry lol been a hot minute since I've had any time in front but I'll scoot off now #💜so good at being in trouble

[nebulouscoffee]

Thinking about Her... (my Dax fic I haven't updated since last July which I really need to bring back from the war)

#I have about 30k more words written!! but later last year I just came down with a terminal case of The Shies that never really went away #another thing is part of me only wants to post ch3 after I'm completely finished with ch5 (the ending) #but also I low key think I've written myself into a metaphysical corner lmao it's ezri's zhian'tara and JADZIA IS HOSTING JADZIA AND #WHATEVER I WRITE ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO DO THAT JUSTICE IT'S TOO PSYCHOLOGICALLY COMPLEX FOR MY DUMB ASS TO RECKON WITH!! #(<- that's the excuse I keep telling myself but really it's just The Shies lol) #honestly it's really funny I'll be like ''well the central questions are 'what exactly constitutes a soul' and 'who are we when we #cannot be the sum of our memories' and 'are two people who share the same memories as distinct as any two people or nah' #and I just feel like I haven't come up with satisfying enough answers by the end yknow!'' *bonks myself on the head* #GIRL WHAT??? philosophers have been asking these questions since the dawn of time and still haven't arrived at satisfying answers; how or #when or WHY exactly do you hope to do so in your star trek fanfiction??? lmao?? #my fics

[blaacknoir]

Things you should know when visiting my blog:

I firmly believe that fiction is not reality

I have opinions

I am very tired

I absolutely do not want to be called enby

Villains are generally more interesting and well written than heroes

I am nearly physically incapable of writing a character off as evil or irredeemable

#about me #do I want to pin this instead of my 'black noir's big naturals' post? #hmmmm nah not right now #but just so i can find it later.... #pinned post

[devilsbiggestmistakeblr]

Alexmis and other interesting ideas.

The amount of time it took me to put two and two together and realise that we were shipping Alex and like ARTEMIS FOWL was honestly embarrassing. Like this is Tumblr, I should have known this is what I was getting.

#not me thinking artemis is like a show-only character and therefore will pop up later #nah seriously I was like I don't remember any Artemis's in the books #damn honestly #tumblr #shipping on tumblr #alexmis #artemis fowl #alex rider #not saying it's a bad thing #but like you know you wouldn't find this on any other hellsite #reason no. 1 Tumblr isn't for normal people #like you genuinely require like a pre-conditioning package if you want to join Tumblr #my pre-conditioning package was the amount of time I spent searching up Tumblr posts on Pinterest

[cutielatias]

#traditional art #my art #Idk if i put it the things tag...nah better not #I like this page💟 is one of my favorites from my 2021 sketchbook(yeah all this images are from 2021) #Just wanted to post something that could cheer me up a little bit since i kinda unmotivated to post something this days #(Tudo culpa desse caraí de twitter que não carrega minhas fotos😡💢... quero dizer nada😆💦não é nada não) #But i need to overcome this feeling #Maybe I can edit later to make the images look better but~ i kinda like the way that it is(it looks good to me)

[nickywhoisi]

Why do people stay longer in my head than they do in my whole life?

Internet photo quote

#it's their right to smoke wherever they want as long as #it's not inside #I wanted to reblog the actual post but...there was a smoker in it #This later became a trigger for me because of...all the people living in the same building as me and ALWAYS choose to be around my door to #cause their massive stink #I feel like I'm the only one reacting to it properly #these dingbats are literally making the air burn and IT HURTS #and it seriously is too much aggravation! to know that not even options cares enough to do anything about it! #only one other person I know from it does care but I always get the excuse that WELL YOU APPARENTLY FORGOT THAT IT'S MY RIGHT TO BREATHE #I WANT TO FUCKING BREATHE WITHOUT DYING #FUCK #why am I even in this fucking unresolved arguement #I have WAYYYYY too many aggrivants (right grammar or nah?) in my life lately #can anyone help me I mean REALLY HELP ME CUT LOOSE? #would appreciate some tips #I would be ready this time for replies exclusively about blowing off steam or just getting rid of smokers #what's the one thing that really deters them? #READY TO BE APPROACHED BUT MY LIMIT IS THREE DAYS AFTER THAT...NO #from oct 18 to 20

[minamotosousuke]

X

#in my favorite fanfic for anything ever #whose ship dynamic is remarkably similar to kou and mitsuba actually.. #ugh okay the big line that made me clutch my pearls as a 14 year old and still has my throat a decade later now is #the kou character (who wanted to save everybody and for the sake of this post let’s say make them happy) #grabbing the mitsuba characters hand #and saying that he’s come to realize that he doesn’t want to be everybody’s hero anymore and that he only wants to be Mitsuba’s #then the part where Mitsuba’s basically like ‘if only I can be yours’ and he’s like ‘you always have been’ but nah that first part that #GROWTHHHHH #time to go listen to the lightning strike