#which strangely enough

[suashii]

three professors have agreed to write me letters of recommendation yayayay !! giving myself a pay on the back bc go me (˵ •̀ ᴗ •́ ˵ )

#☁︎ manon's mind #next on the applying to grad school process: writing essays #which strangely enough #is less of a task than asking for lors lol #but i actually have to scurry into work now #so that’ll have to be something to do later #anywhoozie ! hope everyone has a great start to their day #or wind down if it’s night heh :3

[front-facing-pokemon]

#yyyYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH #WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I LOVE THIIIIIIIIIIS THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII #IIIIIIIIIIIIIIING #wooloo #MY FUNNY LITTLE FUCKIGN CCREATURE. jSJFLKHALFASJHFSALJ:DAb. #okay hi. this thing was my icon on tumblr for a while after it was revealed before gen 8 came out #pretty much every generation that comes out there's just that One pokémon that makes me go ouoouhruhhghuoHRUOgHOURGHO #and this was that one for swsh. for hisui it was growlithe. and for sv it was fidough #but this thing. oooooooohohohohohoho this thing #i liked this thing through some. strange identity parts of my life where i was still figuring out who i even Was #and it's gonna stick with me because of that #if only it was like. good. to use. in-game. and also. was in sv. i think it was only ever in swsh and never anything else #yeah it was only ever in swsh. which is sad! for me‚ specifically. and the other wooloo fans out there who may or may not exist #but it's fine if you don't because i have enough love for wooloo to go around for all of us

[salthien]

gay bugs! as promised!

touch starved vessel gets to be impatient and politely request affection when they crave it. i don't think quirrel would mind much.

#hollow knight #quirrel #the hollow knight #quirrelhollow #thk #pure vessel #lorne art #i promised gay bugs. hollow's cloak is so much fun to mess with #quirrel tests me because it's so easy to make him look extremely silly and strange. i need more practice #which means More Gay Bugs on the horizon #i also need to Improve. like the other art from a week or so ago there are parts i like and parts i don't. #i should also try to do quicker/less in depth stuff and post more sketches and the like #i just get so concerned over 'oh its not finished enough' meanwhile i go wild over others' sketches so like. #@ me. give yourself some grace.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hng. them <3

bonus!

#SORRY THE QUALITY IS A LITTLE STRANGE! #i took pics of my tablet screen w my phone #since otherwise these would be Fuzzy As Shit and the quality would be Low instead of Strange #i need to draw people more i need to draw people more i need to dra #scribble salad #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #ive been trying out some new tactics - not on the third image #which is why its under the cut #i dislike it but not enough Not to share... #but the top two! im trying things! #anyway i love the idea of human julie wearing Funky Headbands #headband with horns! headband with flowers! cat ears! glow in the dark shapes! who knows! #also i think ive found the groove with how i wanna draw hair.. #or the start of it anyway! #the groove is Shallow but babey im pacing!

[steakout-05]

i love how i'll get fixated on a character and then start saying shit like "awww he's such a lil guy! a lil fella!!" when the "lil guy" in question is a grown 30-40 year old man with visible facial hair and wrinkles and pores

for example: peppino spaghetti

#pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #like. why do i do this. #he is LITERALLY a grown 40 year old italian man and i'm just here like ''aww he's such a cute lil guy'' #he's almost old enough to be my DAD what am i doing #but also he really is just a silly cute little guy sometimes #have you seen the way this man smiles its precious #it's even funnier when you remember peppino looked even OLDER and wrinklier in mcpig's super old drawings of him #like pizza tower peppino is pretty much just a woobified version of his OG form #which was literally just some schlubby wrinkly old italian dude and i love that #i love how weirdly enlarged his other eye is in this image #it looks kinda strange but also that's literally just what peppino looks like

[pepperpixel]

💖STRANGE LOVE!💖

“the lightening’s not frightening when u r w me, oh cuz love is not always what u think it’ll be!”

CROMA!!!! Croma art!!!! Cuz I forever and ever adore these two together….. they’re so good…! 🥺

#soul eater #maka albarn #crona gorgon #crona #croma #doodles #the song is strange love by Karen O #it’s a very good song… I first heard it on this rlly sweet mtmte video on bilibili… #and it gives me rlly sad happy mushy feelings whenever I hear it… it just makes my brain go EVERYWHERE GHG #but I love it!!!! I love that it does that ghgh #and yeah… I thought it was fitting for these 2… #anyway. ​I love crona!!!! and maka!!! and I love them kissing and holding hands and loving and supporting each other!!!! #I will never get enough of that shit!!!! these 2 are living in my brain till I die!!! #o also!!! tried drawing maka without a reference this time! usually I look one up for her #cuz I don’t have her every detail permanently stamped into my retinas like I do w crona ghgh- #but! I felt confident enough to go without a ref this time! which… is why her bangs are a lil screwed up gHG #I forgot exactly how they worked so I kinda just bullshitted them as best as I could. and! I actually think they didn’t turn out bad! #but. they probably would have looked better if I just looked up a reference lol

[sableeira]

always wanted to arrange my artworks in a gradient and since I started drawing again over a year ago, I was finally able to put this together 🫶

#did an edit like that for an old fandom with official manga art and it’s kind of breathtaking that I actually managed to make a rainbow #edit with my own art?!? everything is 2023 art except the fall skk artwork but it matched yellowish green well enough lol #you can tell which kinds of color palettes I prefer but I really want to use more warm color palettes & maybe try more desaturated palettes #some other goals: drawing more women and environment focused artworks #(but who knows how much time I’ll have this year) #bsd #bsd fanart #my art #I did start a few non-bsd related artworks but didn’t have enough patience to finish them #that’s why it’s mainly skk too… the obsession hits different… I have other non-skk pieces I like too but the color palettes were hard to #fit into this edit… #my only non bsd related artworks where some concept pieces for uni #so strange to see the random mix of styles for this past year but also nice to see little consistencies #long post

[b4kuch1n]

hi! birthday. which means it's finally time t

yo what the itch store is fixed up now

damn what? I don't know where this came from. look all the comics I put on g*mr**d a year ago are back here again with all the formatting and typesetting by @fireflysummers as well as the exclusive bonus art wtf who did this. my werewolf comic on here too what the hells!! that one also got re-toned for printing if u want to AND an exclusive cover spread !!! what the fuck!!!!! come see for urself I can't make this shit up

#bakuspecial #comic #itch.io #bakugoods #<- made up a tag for when I sell things that aren't commissions just now #for folks who still remember me talking abt a physical run of these comics: I'm so sorry this year and the last have been brutal #and I live in a well and suffer a curse of international mails never going well. so the logistics became Very complicated #I still think abt it tho! I've prepped up all the assets just bc I thought abt it so much... we picked out a gift print for the orders #And a bonus print for the pack #but I couldn't gather my brain enough to make it happen. yet #it takes a bit of overhead so I gotta build that up. which is. right now talk for after the shit that just happened to me got smoothed out #but I do want it to happen. I've been sitting on this exclusive custom print for like two years now #I really love that drawing its so cute. I still hold that project close to my heart #anyways uhh itch store! happy birthday to me! #last year this time was so rough I didn't even Want to think about my birthday lol #strangely enough with this small little fragmentation grenade we just got I became more motivated to fuck around on my bday lmao #probably out of spite. hammer philosophy #my parents love making a whole thing out of me and the brother's bdays lol so dinner's gonna be something #but for now I can still chill. and prep up stuff. and do my thang #if u look thru the itch store and get something from there thank u so much! I hope the comics treat u well #and now. I make hot drink. have a good day lads! do a little jig for us let's go

[coconut530]

Some derps for the past three Malevolent episodes ~ 🕷️👩🏻🎄

#Malevolent #Malevolent Podcast #Sorry the first two are like sosososo late I just like… forgot to make them #But those episodes were like sososososo much so can’t blame me #But today was BENEVOLENT DAY #WHICH WAS THE MAIN ATTRACTION #GOD ALL OF IT WAS SO SO SO SO SO FUNNY #THE SITCOM AESTHETIC THE APRON THE MAILMAN THE TELEGRAM ALL HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND THE SAD TRUMPETS #AND THEN THEM TRYING TO GET THEIR SPIRITS UP AND PLAYING BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE #“IF WE HOLD HANDS THE FANS WOULD DIE” IS JUST HILARIOUS I TELL YOU #BC WE WOULD #AAAAANYWAY AND THE -ARTHUR’S FAMOUS IDEAS!!!1!!1!1- that go horribly sometimes but uhhhhhhLET’S NOT MENTION THAT #😂 OSCAR BLESS UR HEART AND AT LEAST YOU HAVE AN ARM IN THIS EP #EDDIE HI I BARELY REMEMBER YOU BUT HI #KRISTIAN NOEL PEDERSON HELLO SIR I LOVED YOUR MUSIC AND IT’S SO WEIRD TO SEE SOMEONE ELSE IN MALEVOLENT BUT YEAHHHHHHHHH #AND KAYNE! BEING MISCHIEVOUS AND STRANGE AGAIN! THREE HOURS IS NOT ENOUGH SIR JSYK #THEM AFTER LIKE ACTUALLY READING THEIR LINES THE DELIVERY I CAN’T— #AND DINNER! I KINDA WISH LIKE LARSON OR BUTCHER SHOWED UP BUT OH WELL VERY GOOD HOLIDAY SPECIAL MADE ME LAUGH A LOT YAYYYY MERRY CRIMES

[aroacesigma]

so many bsd characters seem to have a lot of their characterisation and experiences centering around their ability, but sigma seems mostly apathetic to his own ability - he doesnt list it as his strength in that one character profile that came out recently , he just says hes a hard worker and mostly useless at everything else . and hes always describing himself as pretty ordinary. which really is the exact opposite of how pretty much everyone else sees him as just the thing that comes along with his ability

#ramblings #thoughts #its just strange yknow ? #even characters who dont particularly centre around their ability #like nikolai seems pretty proud of his and has fun using it #there are a billion essays about dazai and his ability #chuuya is . obvious if youve read storm bringer #etc etc etc #but sigma just barely seems to care even tho everyone around him constantly reinforces #that thats all hes really good for #i hope its like a conscious decision for him . to view himself as more than just that #hes a hard worker . he likes cookies . he wants a nice home with a nice garden #it seems very much like he doesnt like being defined by his ability which is fair enough honestly #sigma bsd

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

oh yeah i hate this btw. lmao:

#so she didnt know phoenix had a daughter but she knew kristoph well enough to imitate his voice and parallel his sprites? #cool cool cool aha *explodes* #ema skye #kristoph gavin #ace attorney apollo justice #it's the. implications of it. the idea that phoenix wasnt talking to her and she got assigned to the prosecutor who took him down #and then she has to work with /another/ gavin but this one is. nice. strange maybe but nice. #and the only other person around who seems to fully be on phoenix's side. his one real ally aside from her and one he actually talks to. #her relationship with apollo shows that she's willing to cooperate with DAs so long as they're connected to phoenix and kristoph was #so she probably had no qualms helping him. i wonder how much info about him he got from her and how much he used her #all while exchanging them for little hints about how phoenix was doing and what he was doing and if he was all right #i wonder if she passed the pin phoenix wears in his beanie through kristoph. just to remind him she was still there if he ever needed her #aa4 explain ANYTHING about kristoph challenge (impossible) #im pretty sure she got it from him too? no one else around her really crosses their arms like that. #phoenix doesnt klavier doesnt lana definitely doesnt... mayyyyybe edgeworth? but he tends to tuck his left hand under which is opposite #and the way she folds her arms in the investigation games is different. there she DOES tuck her left hand out of sight like edgeworth #so it's like she did imitate him a little at one point and kristoph somehow overwrote that. like he overwrites miles's place in nick's life #ahaaaa anyway im so normal about them

[front-facing-pokemon]

#absol #they look happier than umbreon which is strange to me. umbreon being all sad and angry while absol #known widely as The Edgy pokémon‚ is like. smiling a little bit. they're vibing they're totally fine #they're glad they got to be in rescue team #you go girl. go off‚ absol. even in rescue team they didn't feel like they had a Super cohesive tie to the story besides Being There and #helping and whatever but maybe that's just rescue team being my least favorite pmd game. but maybe that's part of *why* #if i'm right. i might not be right. maybe i just didn't pay enough fuckin attention in rescue team. there's *two of them*. someone out there #must like them enough for there to be a remake. and i know the general pmd community considers rescue team better than the 3ds games bc they #'re all nostalgia-driven like all pokémon fans and think that the older games are OBVIOUSly better even though the 3ds titles are #total masterpieces just like the rest of pmd. i'm not gonna complain abt this here bc i think the general pmd fanbase on tumblr are like #generally pretty nice and appreciate the 3ds games. y'all are nice here. elsewhere it gets scary. luckily everywhere else is crashing and #burning before our eyes. score. although apparently tumblr is also trying to given the whole “collapse reblogs” thing they're doing?? #big yikes. hope that doesn't happen. anyway

[saintshigaraki]

crazy that yan werewolf toji is still on the mind

#just thinking about…waking up in a cabin you don’t recognize….with an injured leg…after you went out hiking the day before #with a very foggy memory of how you got said leg injury and no way of getting back without help #and the man who found you whose cabin you’re currently in seems nice enough #just. gruff. but he doesn’t own a car which is extremely strange considering he’s in such an isolated cabin #and of course there’s no cell connection. so it seems you’ll just have to stay with him #until he decides you’re healed enough to make the journey back to civilization #that day will never come btw #vicspeaks #yandere tw

[lemonhemlock]

not to be a hater on main but i just stumbled on a tik tok claiming that tsh both takes itself too seriously and could use more absurd comedy and it nearly made me punch a wall

#my quest to find agreeable creators on booktok and booktube leaves me v frustrated sometimes #!!! i accept no criticism of this book #but even without stan goggles on how can say with your entire chest that tsh takes itself too seriously #when it literally makes fun of 'dark academia' types TO YOUR FACE #which is ironic for the book that spawned the entire genre #it's a comedy of manners at the very least #'this book that contains copious amounts of absurdly comedic situations and makes fun of pretentious twits obsessed with aesthetics #could use more absurd comedy and is not satirical enough' #recognising those basic building blocks of the text does NOT even mean to have to like it?? #i hate to be bringing the Reading Comprehension debate again but good lord. and this person claims to have a phd in literature too 🤦‍♀️ #i am so over this pretense at criticism that basically boils down to 'i didn't like this thing so i can't be seen to admit it executes #anything well. so instead i'm going to pretend basic obvious techniques in the text don't exist and peddle it as groundbreaking critique' #stuff like recognising basic genre. what happened to that. #i don't like The Hangover either but it would be very strange to call it anything other than a comedy #the secret history #donna tartt #again you don't even have to like the book!!! #I'M SORRY BUT IT MADE ME WANT TO RANT SO BAD #livresque #booktok and booktube are satan's garden

[loudfederationscreeching]

going to be so totally honest, im willing to sit through ANY amount of spock straightness love triangle subplots as long as SNW keeps up the 'giving compelling characterization to female characters' energy because holy shit how incredible has this season been so far? uhura, la'an, number one, chapel, and ortegas have all had iconic spotlight arcs where they just Do Shit, who even cares about spock at this point (and im saying this as someone who chronically and autistically Cares About Spock)

#strange new worlds #snw #my posts #to be clear anybody complaining about the way they wrote the human!spock episode is fine this isnt about that #this is specifically about the number of posts ive seen complaining about the straightness (which i GET i do i love the gay spock reading) #but like i have not seen an equal number of posts getting super fucking excited about the cool shit the women are getting up to #maybe im not going in the tags enough. maybe i should just do the posting i want to see in the world #and not just queue stuff into my month long queue #talk tag #it just honestly reminds me a lot of the way dsc s2 fandom immediately pivoted to spock and pike lolol #for the record i didnt list t'pring there because she hasnt really gotten to do cool shit yet this season but i hold out hope #think im gonna work on homework then draft some posts idrk

[ctl-yuejie]

ramblings on Li Ming (and Heart) and homosexuality

moonlight chicken has so many things to offer in terms of technical beauty and interesting themes but what i cannot stop thinking about is the different ways they approach homosexuality in the story.

we have Wen who has a rainbow flag on his desk and pictures of him and Alan on the wall. Wen, who openly flirts with Jim and has no qualms talking openly about his one night stand. Wen, whose step father knows about his sexuality and is close enough with him to discuss his love life.

Kaipa we don’t know too much about. But his mom knows and is supportive and some of the vendors and the chicken family seem to know. But if anyone was questioning in what reality this show is set with all the class discussion and corona featuring, his part of the story shows that homophobia exists and he is worried about how he fits in with his own family, the expectations of his mother and possible the awareness that he makes the family he has “different”.

Jim is arguably even more visibly gay than Wen in terms of what we see throughout the show. He opened the shop with his ex, they prayed at the temple together and even though he objected due to proprities sake eventually they loudly declared their love to each other and the whole neighbourhood knows. Wen somehow feels like he is living in the remnants of a bubble: his circle of friends seems very queer, his closest friend and the whole gym seem to be all part of that as well. This only might change now with him questioning his work and breaking up with Alan: some gatherings he won’t attend anymore apparently.

And finally, we have Li Ming. At school he doesn’t seem to open up to his classmates on most things and additionally is in the closet. While there wasn’t anything alluding to homophobic rethoric being spread at school we can see how the heteronormativity gets to him and feel that there must be good reason as to why no one knows. And it could just be how Li Ming is judging the situation based on vibes, we don’t know. His mother is or at least was homophobic but at the same time he is raised by his gay uncle who is surrounded by other gay people. And I love how it feels like this might have given him enough security to be comfortable with his own sexuality but how it also isn’t enough to shield him from the world at large.

With so many great shows coming out of Thailand and most of them getting more and more political it just feels so real and 2023 to me that Li Ming is part of a generation that knows who they are but still have to battle with the shadow that homophobia has cast way before they were born.

#moonlight chicken #i had this in my draft for a week now thinking if i'd get the time i could put this more leloquently but that was a lie as it turns out #might edit some stuff later #but for now i just have to write about how fantastic this show is for giving these varied realities of queer life #which are all influenced by their environment but also in the way the characters connect across generations #we don't know if him had a gay mentor who could've guided him #whereas li ming technically has him and his neighbourhood friends to reference #but li ming - understandibly so - seems more closeted than anyone else (minus Heart possigly) #in middle school everyone around me proclaimed how supportive they were of lgbt+ rights #but as soon as one guy came out he become the TALK of the school for weeks #he got reduced to his sexuality #and when he dated a girls some months after he got called attention seeking for coming out as gay before #and most people thought they were doing an open-minded thing #and despite knowing that i know that i am not the only queer kid who decided to not come out lest we'd become that talk of the whole school #and our dating lives scrutinized #even though all of us were super comfortable with who we are #and for me that was mostly the case because i had adult lesbian role models close to my family #so i knew i was good and that nothing strange was going on #but still - this othering made the school environment hostile enough to keep me in the closet #so yes - i am extremely delighted with how they depict this dynamic with li ming