#we love the desert here

[berrysquared]

just cactus ring things ya know

#desertduo #3rd life smp #tw violence #tw choking #grian #goodtimeswithscar #3rd life #mcyt fanart #berry art #uuuuhhhhhhhh desert am i right? #we love the desert here #good times #mhm #idk what happened here #i got hit with the brainrot #I TOO WANTED TO DRAW THE 3RD LIFE FINALE OK #no one yet commenting on the clipped wings or the flowers behind his ear smh

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[palipunk]

#it is desert Friday we love deserts here #saif talks

[fishbloc]

from this post

#do i main tag this . ok yolo this is tumblr we are all crazy here -> #3rd life smp #3rd life #grian #mumbo jumbo #goodtimeswithscar #acnh #desertduo #烤鱼 #i cant stop laughing at this video MUMBO IS JUST THEREEEE 😭😭😭😭 #anyway shoutout to makkz and j i love you guys 🫶 #desert duo

[tubbytarchia]

I need to know if Scar is the Watchers' favorite and they like to stir up crap with him, or if they're pissed that he defies the order they set by holding something from a previous life game so deep in his memory

Or if they're just pissed at Grian who, to his own dismay, buried himself into someone's memory when he's the only one who's supposed to remember past lives. And if the Watchers are using Scar to purposefully punish and mock the Grian who was only ever meant to watch. Or if it's all Scar, to consciously show that he hasn't forgotten and he knows Grian hasn't either. What if the Watchers (who believe to be manipulating him), like so many others have, see him as an oblivious fool, and what if Scar plays into that notion yet again as one of his greatest strengths

#so many theories to be had so little time. wondering whether traffic Scar does this consciously or not is driving me nuts #we have had so many callbacks to prev life series in random banter of course but when they do THAT to Scar's skin. Oolala #desert duo #scarian #I like the whole Watcher deal but I want to believe Scar is also defying them whether the Watchers realize it or not #too many thoughts and too much angst we love it here

[birdghosting-art]

"Nighttime is paaarty time!"

#fe pandreo #fire emblem engage #fe engage #fe17 #i don't know why the developers looked at their desert and thought yes. italians #anyway here's pandreo with a pandoro cake #he's probably the unit i was most not expecting to fall in love with but here we are #ghostart #fanart #fire emblem #nobody point out how he's missing the black details on the reds

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#hello to anyone who happens to b interested in the saga of my life... also maybe the irl person i gave my url to... hopefully my blog #didnt freak her out too much lol. anyway so its been a busy week? 2 weeks? month? year? life? its been a lot. my parents helped me move #across the country from the desert to somewhere that's beautiful and green. my dad is so jealous of me lol its so so so pretty and theres s #so much to do. will i do any of it? that remains to be seen but im gonna try to be better about that sort of thing. try to get some help #with the thoughts in my head that keep me from doing and enjoying most things. its weird like im decorating my new room which i love. the #location and living situation seem ideal and i really hope i can stay here all 5 years of my program but i was picking a lot of bright #colors and now it feel uncomfortable. like if i wear things that r too bright or my room is too bright without dark contrast it feel weird #like if im wearing it it kinda makes me feel sick. idk what thats abt. anyway. ill try to heal my brain and im just so happy to b out of the #southwest. i was so so so excited when we were leaving thr city and even more so when we left the state. i cant believe im here. in December #it felt like a million years away and i really truely could not fathom how i was gonna survive that long. my thoughts were so distorted. but #i did and here i am. and in like a month i should b starting my phd program and my parents were telling me how excited ppl r for me and #jealous of where im living and im glad. im glad they're excited. i think i am too but its under a layer of: if i get excited it wont happen #im not allowed to b excited or it wont happen. which is irrational but ya kno. anyway so that's yeah. im so happy to have a fresh start and #the town seems super cool. a liberal blip in a sea of... not that so theyre very visibly pride forward haha and i think itll b way easier #for me to get around without driving. and im gonna try to make friends. i need someone to tell me where to get tattoos haha. so yea im happy #but exhausted and i dont wanna go back to work and so so greatful to my parents for being wonderful ppl idk how bc both of them had fucked #up childhoods. like my mum will say the saddest shit and im like bro this is y i don't wanna talk to my grandma fuck her and my dads parents #r so fucked. like my nana is the reason im so fucking control freaked out but i kno i have issues and she has no insight and thinks shes #better than everyone. anyway hopefully i can get back to drawing a posting more now. ive been drawing it its been in a sketch book #like an actual sketch book for sketching big ideas thst r gonna take fucking forever to draw 😭 #so that's all. just uprooted my whole life. thats all. but in a good way :-] #unrelated

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Anyway society if this stuff was reflected in the game and wasn't entirely relegated to too small text entries.

#the New Tuchanka main mission is such a bore. Feels like they were running out of development time or something #'Look we made this big ass desert map!' great. Great. I love giant desert maps where it takes forever even at top speed to get anywhere #it was so great in Inquisition and it's also great here

[svtskneecaps]

you kids like your duo names so i'm dubbing ramon and dapper the "wrapper duo" i don't take constructive criticism

#qsmp #qsmp dapper #qsmp ramon #wrapper duo: i would sell your soul to satan for a single candy wrapper #i don't do duo names bc it feels like high school biology all over again #so many terms i gotta memorize i gotta make a damn quizlet #who the fuck is insane duo. what's a tnt duo. everyone on this server is insane. is tnt foolish and roier??? #i feel my age so hard seeing duo names everywhere i am so lost #i am begging you spry youngsters tag them in the post so i can at least slueth the answer #or hell i mean just say their names we don't have a character limit here please my loves i am So Lost sometimes #i can't remember this shit. what's a land duo. forever knocked down a desert. baghera lives underground. cucurucho also lives underground??? #help. help. i got a C in bio. don't send me back please i'm begging- #shut up vic #block game brainrot

[dixidin]

The fact that we got the mf who saved Childe when he was in the abyss BEFORE Sandrone...... Sandrone lovers we are not making it outta this one are we?

#I JUST WANNA SEE MY WIFE *falls to my knees with fist up in the air* #HOYOVERSE STOP GATEKEEPING HER!!!!! #IM TIRED OF THIS #Sandrone.... content.. please *I start crawling on the floors with my hands as if I'm dehydrated in the desert* #Its's true tho #not even tumblr content can give me her.... frowny face :((((( #Sandrone lovers. Are you guys even alive? ARE WE ALL OKAY????!?!??! (the answer is no) #Hoyoverse is gate keeping all of the blonde harbingers (La Signora and Sandrone) #On another note. Skrim (I think that's the girls name who saved Childe) literally looks like Bronya #Put their photos together... its the same mf #Back to Sandonre because she's my wife and I love her and I miss her and SANDRONE COME HOME PLEASSSEEE #How tf are we gonna get Capitano and Columbina both in Natlan if Hoyo ain't even gonna give us Arlecchino and Sandrone together??? #We got Childe..... but I hate that bitch #Plus he's always in EVERY FUCKING NATION SINCE LIYUE!!!! #This mf better not be in Natlan and trying to converse with Capitano..... MR PRESIDENT GET DOWN!!!! THE GINGER IS HERE #Hell we got DOTTORE and SCARAMOUCHE WAY BEFORE WE'RE GETTING SANDONE #Praying that she's gonna be in the game by 4.2 and she just wasn't in the trailer.... let me be delulu #Anyways I am not doing good after that 4.2 trailer. Hoyoverse is 100% paying for my therapy #genshin impact #genshin #genshin impact fontaine #genshin impact 4.2 #sandrone genshin impact #sandrone #long list of tags today boys

[andorerso]

stumbling across this song just as I'm obsessing over my zombie au really is fate because man... it's the perfect theme song for it

#'here we stand worlds apart hearts broken in two' #'promises we made were in vain' #'if you must go i wish you luck' #'how we touched and went our separate ways' #'true love won't desert you' #'you know i still love you' #shut up im going insaneeeeeeee #divorced zombie au #shut up sissi

[quietwingsinthesky]

but like speaking seriously. i genuinely, truly wish this was still the age of terrible shovelware games and not. whatever the fuck is happening now between the mobile gaming market, microtransactions, and. the everything of it. it’s not that shovelware is good, it’s that it’s interesting! it’s not any less corporate in its goals, but it’s less… evil? you know? you pay for shovelware game, you still get a game, as terrible as it might be. it won’t have ads in it, it won’t ask you to pay more money once you’ve bought it, it’ll just be almost innocently terrible on its disc in its entirety, entertaining to shit on with friends and an enigma as to what went into its creation. i have a genuine little place in my heart for awful tie-in games, especially when you can tell that for however bad they are, there was one person on that team that you can tell gave a shit. (and sometimes there wasn’t. but that’s still fun. the game still had to be made, someone still had to make choices about it’s creation, and those choices can be fascinating!)

#idk man sometimes i just sit and think about that guardians of gahoole video game #because like i said. its a tie-in. objectively shovelware. but its also like. weirdly detailed??? #its made to tie-in with the movie released around the same time. it mirrors the plot of the movie. #actually it fleshes out that plot and makes it even better in conjuction but thats besides the point #the point is that that game? has so many references not to the movie. but to the BOOK SERIES!!!! #you get an eagle as a follower in that game!!! an eagle!!! they dont even show up in the movie and yet you end up in the desert of kuneer #and an eagle joins your party! #the ga’hoole tree is rendered so lovingly and you can fly around and explore it. and so is the forest of tyto and kuneer! places that only #show up for a bit in the movie! #THE BEAKS!!! THE BEAKS ARE IN THE GAME!!! THE BEAKS ARE NEVER EVEN MENTIONED IN THE MOVIE AND YET!!! #HAGSFIENDS ARE IN THE GAME AND THOSE ARE BOOK ONLY TOO!!!! #SOMEONE HERE CARED!!!!! someone here cared. and they will never know that i love them for that. they will never know how much they made my #time playing that game even better because i knew all those details from the books and i appreciated every one. #and its like. thats it you know? thats the point. someone made this. in the end someone made this and whether they loved making it or hated #it. they still made a piece of art that we can dissect and understand and enjoy. #and you just. thats all gone with shit like mobile games and microtransactions and endless horse armor level dlcs and. you get it. #in my eyes. even ninja gingerbreadman 2 has more artistic social and philosophical value. than a thousand hours in that new shit diablo game

[angst-and-fajitas]

Got this super cool shot at a rest stop of the dust storm rising to meet the storm cell we were trying to outrun.

Just before, while driving through it, it was raining and hailing so hard that everyone had to pull over because you could no longer see the markings on the road within five feet of you, much less the cars around you. The winds were so strong that they rocked the car, and a constant strobe of lightning was going on at all sides.

#we don't get tornadoes or hurricanes around here but storms in the desert can be INTENSE #i just loved the clever humor of the roadsigns #photography #storm photography #nature photopragpy

[psilactis]

I just watched the first Furiosa trailer and.... I didn't like it

#I'm so upset #I love mad max so much #It was my favorite movie for so long #Why is this happening... #Why does it have a specific date #Why are Anya Taylor joy and Chris Hemsworth the leading actors #Nothing against them they're both very good but. In this? Idk #I hope it's good I really hope it is #But just the fact it has a date is fucking me up. #The most fun thing about the Mad Max movies was the whimsy of it. When is this happening? Who is Max. How did the world come to this? #All questions that don't matter #But now we have a DATE #And suddenly these questions begin to MATTER #Now we have to wonder is max over sixty years old? He was around before the collapse so what up #What's the actual time line here? #Were there multiple Max's #Also it might have only been the trailer but I didn't particularly like the copy-paste of scenes from fury road #Like... My memory might be funky but I feel like a bunch of the action scenes were very similar. Not only in like #The cars and weapons being used but the framing and the actual action taking place #The very shot of Furiosa walking by herself in the desert at night !!! #Why :((((( #Please please please be just in the trailers. Don't let the whole movie be like this

[raiswanson]

NaNo post?? Anyone want a NaNo post?

*slinks into view* Okay so you guys know how I came in here a little while back with Wooded One? Forget all about that for now we have a new contender that appeared to me in a dream and hijacked my brain and decided it wanted to be my NaNo project (hilarious given I haven’t officially done NaNo since the site change)

so uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yea say hi to The Goddess’s Eye!

Someone was calling me. The air was alive with it, trembling with the ghost of words. Pulling me across the sand, guiding me over endless dunes and past vast, towering plateaus. Pulling and pulling and calling. It sang to me, an insistent tug that compelled me to move, to follow. It sounded so kind, so imploring.

I knew the voice, even before I could hear it. Recognized it on a deep inner level I didn’t understand but inherently resonated with. It was familiar. I knew the source, even though I couldn’t place it. And it knew me. It needed me.

“...child...my child...come...”

I jerked awake and nearly fell out of my perch, scrambling to right myself before I went crashing down to the jagged rocks below the tiny platform.

I’d fallen asleep in the middle of my watch. Careless.

Blinking and disoriented, I rubbed my eyes and peered around, dismayed to see it was already dark. I knew right away I’d managed to sleep through the first hour of night—the safest hour—and to top it off I’d lost sight of my quarry.

Grumbling, I peeked out from under my sun cover and switched to night vision. That was precious time lost, time I’d now need to spend finding and getting to my target before other animals arrived. I wasn’t looking forward to wrestling a night boar—again—for chunks of cacti.

So yeah this is what I’ll be (hopefully) working on next month! If we get anywhere good I’ll share a few juicy bits here~ Until then wish me luck (this project is approx....3 weeks old hAHA) and also good luck to all of your writing efforts!!

#writing #nanowrimo #rai writes #The Goddess's Eye #who's down for a weird pseudo-scifi desert WIP????? #apparently I am!! it's taken me hostage in my own writing docs #going for a kinda cheese 90s-ish action movie vibe here a la Fifth Element and Resident Evil and Aeon Flux and Mad Max XD #maybe a sprinkling of Waterworld #all those good apocalypse films ground up and pressed into whatever Rara has going on #lets see what we end up with #im sorry Wooded One I love you but you are FIGHTING me babe #rara showed up and gave me like 12k in a week and a half and thats almost more than you've given me in A YEAR #you wanna get written you need to play fair and show up to writing sessions lol

[pestopastaenjoyer]

anytime someone brings up taichi and yamato’s sun/moon-day/night duality in fics or fanart or an analyzation post I want to scream cry and possibly even throw up I am so normal abt them

#LIKE TF??? IT JUST MAKES ME FEEL SOME TYPE OF WAY #I HAVE A SOFT SPOT FOR SOLAR AND LUNAR DUOS #they r the blueprint #the way it’s so in your face but also not….like #the stars on Taichi’s jersey. the crest of courage. some of his biggest eps taking place in the desert…. #and then Yama in the op. WEREgarurumon. the moon. a lot of Yama’s big eps taking place at night #LOOKING AT THE MOON….. #AND A LOT OF HIS BIG EPS TAKING PLACE NEXT TO LARGE BODIES OF WATER.. #(yes I know gabu can start fires but that is neither here nor there also gabumon is THE digimon that doesn’t make any sense) #(we love him regardless) #digimon adventure #taichi yagami #yamato ishida