#which surprised me

[some-internet-stranger]

Revalink key chainnnn

The concept for this Keychain was the headcanon that Revali taught Link how to shoot mid Air.

So we have one side, where he's teaching him at the Flight range pre calamity

And the Other Side, where Link uses the bow of light to finish ganon, Post calamity

(using revali's gale for the Last Shot is the ONLY REAL WAY of finishing botw in my opinion)

If I opened an online Store would you Guys be interested? I gotta know

#i went to my first artist alley a few weeks ago!! #this was actually my best selling keychain #which surprised me #just a little #revalink #my art #yeh #mh mh mh #zelda #tloz #botw

[athena-xox]

Okay here me out on this one - I haven’t had time to check if this is even plausible but what if Apple was cursed?

Like it’s often pointed out how Apples character development was totally lost in dragon games, but what if that wasn’t true?

Like we know Jackie and Northwind got the mirror shards that cursed the snow king and queen from EQ’s mirror.

And like Apple was right there. I feel like she easily could have gotten glass in her eyes.

And I mean I don’t think saying that it twisted what everyone was saying but maybe it twisted her perception of what everyone was saying.

Like if they said she looked nice it would sound sarcastic etc. so if she felt everyone was being rude to her, it’s entirely plausible she would fall back on her own opinions of destiny.

Like it’s highly likely that she could have thought ‘since I changed, and everyone else changed life has been worse’ so she would want to make everything go back to the way it was before

And then yk the way that the snow king didn’t see Jackie’s words as twisted, maybe it was the same for EQ.

Or maybe everyone’s intentions are changed when your cursed by the glass. Like ppl who mean we’ll sound rude and people with bad intentions sound good.

Or maybe it was just a coincidence that Jackie and Northwind’s words didn’t get twisted and the reason why it worked out in EQ’s favour is bc it was her mirror.

I haven’t read the og snow queen in a hot minute (the translated version) so idk if this would work or not, but I’m pretty sure after raven runs away Apple starts crying. And maybe that’s when the mirror shard came out

Or when darling awoke her, that cured all curses placed upon her

Idk lmao

#am i crazy? #I feel like I haven’t heard anyone say this yet #which surprised me #and makes me think I’m wrong #idk lol #ever after high #eah #apple white #dragon games #epic winter #kindness blindness

[feelingtheaster99]

We all KNEW it was some Gilear shit

#maybe it’s easier to tell when you’re not in the moment playing #but everyone else seemed surprised by riz saying that #which surprised me #it seemed so clear by the gurgle and the stains on her shirt #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy ep 5 #fhjy spoilers #fhjy speculation #man Brennan can build a STORY huh #I low key did get excited alongside Brennan as he got excited by the characters figureinf it out #I can’t wait to catch up and see how the players solve other mysteries #and also like figure out what the fig is technically actually going on with fig #she needs to reexchange that lucky like in the Lindsey Lohan and Chris Pine movie Just My Luck #mall madness spoilers #mall madness #gilear faeth #fig faeth #figeroth faeth

[amarithecat]

For my Art Direction I class, we were tasked with choosing an artist and either redesigning a preexisting album of theirs or creating a new one entirely. I present to you, Hawaii: Part I.

#tally hall #hawaii part ii #hawaii part 2 #miracle musical #ミラクルミュージカル #album cover #album design #my design #classwork #schoolwork #my professor ended up really liking this #which surprised me #because it looks and was pretty lazy tbh #adobe #adobe illustrator #adobe photoshop

[debbiechanclub]

My husband and I were driving cross-country to South Dakota this time last year and I wish we were doing it again.

#fun fact you can drive from Virginia to Chicago in less than half a day #which surprised me #also #we listened to k-pop from the time we entered Ohio all the way to South Dakota #at which point we switched to country #obviously #that was such a fun trip

[scobbe]

Thanks to Kate Bush I discovered tonight I have a Singing Voice but it kind of terrifies me

#I can sing along to Running Up that Hill #which surprised me #because I have always sung with my brother (comfortably tenor) #but once the organist told me I would be surprised by how high my actual singing voice would be #she sings soprano and when I first heard it I was startled #because her speaking voice is that of a 15 year old boy #and our priest’s speaking voice is low and round but she is a beautiful clear alto #and now I’m like… #could I really sing?? #could they *teach me*?? #at least to chant??? #kind of terrifying #thanks Kate Bush #I guess

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

#Also I'm saying this as someone who actually watched quite a few of Somerton's videos #And noticed those patterns and stopped watching bc I recognised them from here #and had already learned to unlearn them after being so exposed to them here #And tbh I think anyone who hasn't had the luck or made the conscious choice to seek out ppl who pushed against those narratives #Would absolutely have fallen for this man's bullshit. Like let's not kid ourselves we see takes like this every day on this hellsite #2014 me would have. For sure. #This is next to the plagiarism issue which as Harris points out is an Internet wide issue and this includes tumblr #James Somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #This brought to you by a conversation with my wife yesterday #So many ppl on here don't deserve to meme or be this self absolvingly critical of this man #The call is coming from inside the house #The man has a tumblr it would legit not surprise me if some of the things he supposedly made up himself he did actually get from somewhere #And that somewhere was a tumblr post

[inlovewithacheerleader]

and in the year of our lord 2024 I discover that gerard was featured in a song for final fantasy (don’t ask me which one, just, 2010). and he gets WET

#he also had sunglasses on for the first part of the video #which surprised me #because they weren’t soccer mom sunglasses but cool guy sunglasses #i didn’t know he owned anything like that #gerard way #bandom #there are too many screenshots that could be used as blog headers. i have 8 blogs but it’s not enough #final fantasy

[nordicbananas]

journaling has been going pretty well so far :)

#it's nice to get my thoughts on paper #im not doing it daily #im just writing about whatever im feeling when I need to #I've found myself wishing for more room on each page #which surprised me #I've found myself more comfortable writing in there than in my notes app #I do not know why #however #I am okay with it #I was finally able to finish my “I want”s #i was finally able to find what I wanted. im very happy about that #I don't reread the entries #not yet #I've only had it for a few days #but yeah #that's how shroom is doing lol #:) #I love you all!!! #ultimate mutuals rn are oli meli and kazu frfr #meli has been liking a lot of my posts recently #oli is always being silly and I really appreciate that in my dash and inbox #and me and kazu have been talking more recently and it's been so much fun :) #and she got to meet twiggles!! yippee!!

[waitingforminjae]

had a ridiculous very on brand conversation with my mom abt devil judge bc she's watching it and i was like yeah it's terrible bc it hates women 😔 and she was like i don't think it hates women it just [rambles on abt all the ways the show didn't give a fuck abt it's female characters, without seeming to put it together that all of that was BECAUSE IT DIDN'T CARE ABT IT'S WOMEN] like even my conservative ass dad picked up on it:

#mom shit #she felt like it didn't think it's world building all the way thru and that's why it fell apart #but i think she's just too conservative to get it 😭 but she did say that it did remind her of america and our problems lately w the ussc #which surprised me #🤷

[confesswithkisses]

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#so the guy i fucked in march and didnt hear back from again #popped up on a dating app #and i thought it would be funny to match with him and get rejected lol #well he actually did match me with me again #which surprised me #so i guess he still likes me lmfao #spoke to him a tini bit #he said he wanted to fuck me in the woods last time #i want that promise xD

[spacelazarwolf]

called it.

#though i haven’t seen the tumblr bullshit yet just the twitter bullshit #it’s like 2% white supremacists and 98% left leaning antisemites #which unfortunately does not surprise me

[inspisart]

dick took the news that a strange thirteen year old broke into his apartment while he was away at the circus pretty well, I gotta say

#this is not how the interaction played out in the issue btw lol I'm just having a bit of fun #tim drake #dick grayson #batfam #dc #the new titans issue 65 #inspi art #I remember being baffled when i read ALPOD and tim broke into dick’s apartment like it was nothing to find out where he’d gone #like where did he learn that? reddit? #I chalked it up to comicbook goofiness and wolfman stretching suspension of disbelief a little to keep the plot moving #which is why it surprised me when they acknowledged it again #and by doing so cemented tim knowing how to pick locks and being used to breaking into apartments as a canon fact(TM) #and so hence forth he would continued to be a little contradictory weirdo who’s both normal and incredibly not normal at the same time

[stil-lindigo]

reverb in an empty hall.

prints (all proceeds go towards aid for Gaza)

#the plan for this comic has been lying in my notes app for months now #i felt compelled to make it now #my mental health has really been in the pits lately which means ive been playing disco elysium a lot again #the bleak reality of the game and the beauty that persists in it despite *everything* in it comforts me #i love you disco elysium #i love you kim kitsuragi #i love you harry #take what you will from this comic but for me at least its about saving as many people as you can on your way out #i hope that's properly conveyed <3 #disco elysium #harry dubois #kim kitsuragi #whirling in rags #stillindigo art #it may surprise some of u to know this but before the Palestinian genocide began I was predominantly just an art blog #I haven’t posted new art in 4 months

[inkskinned]

i keep thinking about hobbies and how i often spill over myself to pick up new ones. i have adhd, i end up trying something for like a month and then just getting far enough in it that i move on, satisfied.

and that should be fine; but it's never fine.

i am a pretty decent artist; but i can't just make art for my dnd campaign, i should be selling dnd maps and character designs and scene setting pieces. i can't just make my friends matching earrings, i need to get an etsy and ship them internationally and take bulk orders. i make pretty good props and decorations and use them to throw my friends parties - but i should be running a party planning business and start taking paying clients and networking and putting my skills to actual use.

for some reason, i never figured out the specifics of pottery. it was a fun class and i enjoyed myself - and still, i'm embarrassed, years later, that i put in all that useless effort. everything i make has to be stunning. stellar. i should have applied myself more. maybe i'm too lazy. maybe i'm broken and selfish and needy. actually creative people would have kept going; they would be bettering themselves at every possible opportunity.

we find ourselves in this trap, even accidentally: we need to commodify our time, because it is a commodity. if we spend our efforts and our time not earning, isn't that the same thing as burning free money? and god forbid you ever take up a hobby that ends up being more expensive than you thought. you sit in your car and you look at the receipt and in your head you hear a conversation that isn't even happening - your mom or your friend or your partner all saying oh great. not this shit again. it's always something with you, and it never actually means anything.

i have realized this horrible thing, recently - i'll get excited to start a project, pick up a new hobby. and then i just... stop myself. i start thinking about the amount of time it will take, and how it'll look in my monthly budget. what if i can't even produce a good enough final product. sure, it's exciting to think about how i could make my friend her own custom dice. but i'm just polluting the earth if i don't get it right. better not bother. better not try.

restless, i get caught in the negative space. the feeling that oh god, i want to create. and that horrible sense - yeah, but i don't have the time to just put to waste.

#hobbies #writeblr #what stage of weirdness to write about hobbies on my hobby writing blog #although i know OBJECTIVELY i am a creative person #i often forget to label myself that bc i don't feel im an ARTISTIC person bc i don't do anything like that professionally #writing doesn't even feel like a hobby i think that surprises nobody for me to be like #it would be easier for me to stop . like. breathing. #which feels cheesy and trite but listen im running late for a meeting and all i really want to say is like #i couldn't even consider writing my hobby bc it makes my skin crawl bc it makes it sound like it's not important to me #bc we really devalue hobbies. like entirely. #it HAS to be a job. it must #also idk if this is clear but i personally get stuck in this space where i CANT create bc i am putting so much pressure on myself #to make it RIGHT #and im like ... idk i only have an hour #so probably shouldnt get involved in this thing

[jacuzziwaters]

I spent the day taking a bath while drinking a bottle of sparkling rose and wondering how old I would need to be to get a hysterectomy.

#did a 30 minute wash and go too #which surprised me #didn't think it'd turn out well #but it did #i need to eat #jay's attempts at communicating