#with a few outliers

[cherryghosted]

ok as i said i will be posting a bunch of stuff from art fight in the coming week, likely in 4-6 parts

other suggestions can go in the replies （╹◡╹）♡

#i definitely have a consistent pallette lol #its mostly pink/purple or purple/blue. or grey/blue #with a few outliers #rj.poll

[delta-hexagon]

spent some time today making a simple timeline of events for my stories! granted thinking in terms of hundreds, thousands, and even billions of years is incredibly difficult, so take the time scale with a grain of salt :’)

#my worldbuilding #everything generally takes place over the span of a couple billion years #with a few outliers #and stories that take place out of time entirely #i know humanity was at war for about half a millenium #so long that both sides forgot what they were fighting for #i love worldbuilding its so FUN #the Mad Sun timeline is very threadbare right now but theres a lot of nonsense there too

[mkaleidescopel]

O_O

#downloaded hinge to talk to women/non men #but chose not to ‘bi erase’ myself and still see men on the app/ let them see me #and I am so unimpressed #with a few outliers #and also I don’t know how to talk to women and have it be flirty or whatever #anyways I don’t know how many more bass pro hats I can take #I fucking hate this place

[ianthe-is-a-bitch-and-i-love-her]

Sapphic vampire fiction mini reviews, ranked from least favorite to most:

House of Hunger: Bland characters, a story that barely scratches the surface of the implications of its premise, and a central relationship with nothing underpinning it make for an aimless story with a climax that hits like a limp noodle. If the dynamic between a vampire and her indentured maid appeals to you, try The Wicked and the Willing instead.

An Education in Malice: For a Carmilla retelling, the titular character really lacks bite. Laura at least has some interesting contradictions in her, and De Lafontaine could be quite compelling if we saw things through her eyes, but the central relationship isn't built on a lot, and Carmilla herself is really disappointingly bland. The prose comes off as overwrought and melodramatic in the first act, and the constant leaning on poetry feels gratuitous, but it picks up steam and becomes appropriately gripping by the one-third mark, and it carries the book enough that I had an enjoyable but rather shallow experience. I struggle to think of a reason to recommend this over In the Roses of Pieria, which plays with similar thematic and aesthetic elements much more adeptly. Also, it's a pet peeve of mine when a story makes a point to establish a specific historical era for its setting but has characters that feel utterly modern.

The Deathless Girls: This book does a much better job with its sense of time and place, and the characters and their motivations are quite strong. I only rate this one low on this list because the main characters don't actually deal with vampirism as a condition until the very end of the book. On its surface, the premise might seem quite similar to A Dowry of Blood, but there's actually very little thematic or narrative overlap.

Ex-Wives of Dracula: An excellent exploration of the queer teenage experience in conservative small town ~2015 USA along with some pretty novel twists on vampire and horror movie tropes. Strong, vibrant characters with a rich, messy, and compelling relationship carry a solid mystery plot and some pretty pointed critiques of its setting, but the actual climax and resolution don't quite hold up to the quality of the rest. Also I simply must warn anyone who didn't grow up in the time and place this book explores about the profound and casual bigotry and nastiness of that setting, which this book replicates to a T.

The Wicked and the Willing: A thrilling and compelling dark romantic drama centered on a British vampire in 1920s Singapore, her newly hired and desperate to escape poverty personal maid, and her majordomo who is struggling to keep her conscience under control after years of aiding and abetting her mistress's dark appetites. Extremely strong character writing pairs with deft exploration of themes of colonialism, entitlement, class divisions, sexism, and the ways in which certain types of status can and cannot afford one leeway to be nonconforming in other ways. Intermixes diagetic and non-diagetic BDSM very organically also, if that's your thing.

In the Roses of Pieria: Rich prose dripping with atmosphere follows an obscure academic as she digs into a series of ancient correspondences and discovers a millenia spanning love story between two vampires. The character writing is solid, if not quite as impressive as some other entries on this list, but the quality of the prose more than elevates it. The text makes elegant and powerful references to Sappho throughout, and the whole experience is heady and compelling in ways that I struggle to describe in greater detail. Funnily enough, the vampires are the least interesting part of the world building. This one has a sequel coming, and I can't wait.

A Dowry of Blood: A darkly enchanting epistolary novel that takes the form of letters written by the first of Dracula's wives to him as she attempts to make peace with killing him. She unpicks a delicious and horrifying knot of feeling and history as she revisits their millenia together, recounting and reckoning with the manipulations and abuses that defined the good times and the bad. The characters are evocative and rich, the narrative voice by turns sparse, longing, furious, contemplative, and mournful, and the story simply springs to life. It accomplishes an incredible amount in approximately 200 pages, and I absolutely cannot recommend this one enough.

#the wlw review #im sure there are countless more sapphic vampire stories #but these are the ones ive read #ignoring a few outliers that don't really explore vampirism

[mariocki]

Lalla Ward makes a brief appearance as Lady Augusta, intended bride to an ill-fated aristocrat, in A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Ash Tree (BBC, 1975)

#fave spotting #lalla ward #doctor who #a ghost story for christmas #the ash tree #1975 #romana #romana ii #spoilers for the ash tree ig???? #i mean it's pretty obvious from the outset that Ed Petherbridge's aristo is not in for a good time #i mean he's a Jamesian protagonist for one thing.... #lalla had been acting since the beginning of the decade‚ with a fair number of one off appearances on tv and the odd film to her name #(most notably Hammer's Vampire Circus). she was still a few years off DW and genre immortality at this point #it isn't the most rewarding role; James (who i don't think many would argue that he wasn't a bit of a chauvinist) rarely featured #significant women characters in his work (a large number of them being academical in setting didn't help). actually the ash tree #is something of an outlier in that regard‚ as it does feature a significant female character in Mrs. Mothersole‚ but we can hardly consider #her a positive feminine presence... actually one of Lawrence Gordon Clark's regrets about this particular entry in the Ghost Story for #Christmas canon is the failure of him and writer David Rudkin to make a true villain of Mothersile; Clark felt that their shared sympathies #for the historical victims of witchhunting prevented them from capturing the 'evil' of the character (tho it's debatable how much James #himself intended her to be truly evil; this is just Clark's opinion after all‚ and fwiw i think Rudkin's greater complexity of the #character is more interesting‚ more believable and more appropriate) #i rambled. anyway yes‚ not a meaty role perhaps‚ but Lalla sinks her teeth in all the same and in just a few brief scenes successfully #creates a vivid and fully realised character‚ a charming and flirtatious fiancée with something of a rebellious streak #no ash tree post bc i made one the last time i watched it a couple of years ago

[jennilah]

hey neat 🙂

For Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender, episode 1

#vfx #cg stuff #i havent actually watched the episode yet hjgdfnmfbg i just checked the credits but i do plan on watching #as far as im aware the overall consensus is everyone knows nothing will beat the cartoon but they made a decent effort? #and any extreme negative reactions are the outlier like cmon now. be reasonable #anyway whatevs i still think it was cool to work on for a few months #jennilargh #avatar #a:tla #atla

[twinkalicious]

no cause the fact that richter thought alucard was a myth is absolutely killing me. he grew up hearing stories of his ancestors' heroism, but for some reason a central figure of those stories was merely a legend to him, an immortal fantasy creature who he never got to meet. honestly i'm willing to bet his own mother and grandfather and any other belmonts before them didn't either. they only told the stories of defeating dracula as their parents did before them, thinking them dramatized and never literal. it became a game of telephone, with each person doubting the existence of a friendly dhampir ally more and more because alucard wasn't there to corroborate it. alucard separated himself from the belmonts at some point. he wasn't there to see trevor and sypha's lineage despite the fact that they merged their houses and literally founded a city together. speculating the when and why is going to drive me absolutely insane, you don't understand.

#i like to think he got sick of watching them all grow old and die #like maybe after he watches trevor and sypha's babies and grandbabies die he says ok i cant keep doing this #dozens and dozens of mortals who all have trevors humor and syphas whit and their eyes and their hair and their faces all bleeding together #alucard probably left after the first few generations because he knew he couldnt keep doing it over and over again #he couldnt lose them time and time again #the fact that richter has trevor's face and sypha's eyes is going to be a problem i think #trephacard #i am feeling angst in this chillis tonight they had BETTER EXPLAIN when and why alucard broke away from the belmont/belnades line #castlevania nocturne #AND ANOTHER THING #wonder if alucard will feel any misplaced guilt about not being there to protect the belmont descendants and their loved ones #god i hope im wrong and richter was just the outlier in not meeting the immortal family friend #also known as the belmonts' living family heirloom that i lowkey headcanon him as 😭

[ettelenethelien]

When Finrod is reembodied at the beginning of the War of Wrath he holds the record for "Shortest time spent in Mandos for an Exile" (81 years of time as it passes outside)

He holds it, perhaps, until one Noldorin woman slain in the Last Alliance is reembodied after 70 years. It is much debated whether this counts or not, given that she died after the Doom was lifted.

Neither of the parties concerned will comment on the matter.

#now to be precise: 80 years is quick enough even not for a Noldo #these things take time usually #there *were* a few Vanyarin soldiers who got clean deaths in battle during the war of wrath and returned after some 10 years #but those were very much outliers #my post #Tolkien #Silmarillion #silmarillion headcanon #finrod #halls of mandos #silm #silm hc

[iamyourdensityy]

one of my favorite things about the good omens fandom is that I don't have to filter for aziraphale/crowley on ao3

#good omens #part of being in the fandom is shipping ineffable husbands like there is no other way #there are a few outliers of course but from what ive seen its like #1 in 25 fics #and usually its just to spice things up like its not the author pushing an agenda lmao #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #what other fandom can say the same #superior fandom fr #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #anthony j crowley #ao3 #crowley good omens #aziraphale good omens #of course you have gabriel x beelzebub #but ineffable husbands is still there lmao #fic #fanfic #fanfiction #ok ill stop with the tags

[animalcrossingshowdown]

I think I've come to the realization that almost all the KK songs are good enough that if you pair them with almost any other KK song someone will say something like "this shouldn't be a round 1 match up" SO all the more reason to do double elimination for them. genuinely I have no idea which song is gonna get worst song because very few have gotten any negative comments worse than "this song is overrated" or "I don't like this song but I get why it's popular"

so yeah if your favourite songs are losing and you didn't see me say this already, they need to lose twice to get eliminated

#the villagers were very obviously on a bell curve with most of them being decently cute. a normal acceptable level of cute #with a few dozen outliers on either end #whereas the bell curve for KK songs seems to lean very heavily towards the good side with only a few okay and bad songs #even the ones that are sweeping a lot of the comments are people struggling to choose #like for those it often seems like most people like both but most just barely all prefer the same one

[kraviolis]

you can tell when a show is really fucking good and satisfying when there isnt an insane amount of AUs and most fan content is just expanding or elaborating on or celebrating the canon

#(shows with dozens of AUs that surround a single character DO NOT count towards this. they are outliers.) #krav talks #steven universe ALMOST had this but then they shortened the show and forced it to end in a really unsatisfying way #so then BAM so many AUs right at the tail end #gravity falls has barely any big AUs but the ones that are the most popular were made during it's airing #but once it ended 80% of the fan content is just expanding/elaborating on canon #the owl house has a few AUs but nothing like. super big and popular #its mostly just wittebro fans playing with their crumbs/barbies & people who enjoy exploring character dynamics in different settings #(its me. im describing me.)

[hkpika07]

What starters do you think Henry, Gordon and Edward would have? (Or well, partner pokemon if not a starter.)

OH YAY MORE POKEMON TEAM QUESTIONS!! The railway trio don't have starters but they do have partner pokemon. I will go into detail why because I'm autistic. Long explanations under the cut.

Gordon’s partner pokemon is a shiny bisharp. (With the ability defiant). I will die on this hill.

It's described in several pokedex entries that they fashion themselves as leaders and hate to lose. That they'll do anything to win.

Their expression does not change much. Does "when he smiles his whole face changes" ring a bell?

And if they lose they'll be driven from their group and exiled. And if its blade is ever chipped it will retire from its position as leader. Fear of losing and be abandoned because of it?? And basing self worth on ability to perform??

Wow sounds a lot ike a certain big blue engine I know.

Edward's partner pokemon is a stoutland!

Stoutland are described as being very wise, kind and valiant pokemon.

They also warm up to people incredibly quickly. And Edward warms up to new engines on the island quickly as well. Often times helping train them. (Example being thomas.)

Stoutland also are described at great at rescuing people! And what do we see Edward do in the background of many many episodes? Bring the breakdown the train and help bring/rescue others to the steamworks.

(Also not pictured here but Edward also has a houndoom on his team he got back when he was young and a little shit)

And Henry has a leavanny!

First off it's a grass type. And also leavanny are incredibly kind and gentle pokemon. They're caretakers and they weave clothes from leaves and silk.

Henry to me is very kind and gentle and is the heart of the steam team

But like leavanny, don't cross him or else you may be getting more than a stern lecture

No mercy.

#ttte #ttte gordon #ttte edward #ttte henry #ttte pokemon au #i have a pokemon au now i guess. #i should make their full teams #gordon is/has a bisharp i dont make the rules #also discussing with umi edward mainly has a team of dogs with maybe like 1-2 outliers #and Henry would mainly be grass and bug. maybe a few water ghost and poison thrown in there for good measure

[emberglowfox]

finally started muting the like twenty posts i’ve had blow up this year LOL

#i’ve liked reading tags and stuff on them they’re funny but it’s gotten to the point where it’s a little disheartening to log on my art acc #and see like. a few hundred notifs. and then like three of them are on my art #like i don’t do it for the notes obv i’m an oc artist. but like. it’s a little mini let down everytime shrugs #sparks speaks #(MOST of my popular posts get funny tags. That One Fucking Post is an outlier and got muted long ago)

[startistdoodles]

hey, i kinda just saw your kirby oc's, how do you have ideas for creating them? and where do so many oc's based on meta knight come from? Sorry if I'm bothering you, I'm new to the Kirby community, so I don't know a lot about the franchise, let alone the community. your oc's are very beautiful(and fluffy!) i'm just curious on how you think to make them.

Not a bother at all, I’m glad you like them! They’re pretty much all a result of me worldbuilding and needing characters to fill certain roles to help make the world feel more alive.

For example, Prisma grew up in the Galaxy Soldier Army, right? So she must have had a teacher. That’s where Sidia Knight comes in.

What happens when Prisma has to face her insecurities as a knight and raise a baby star warrior? Boom, Mochi.

There were 4 heroes that once stopped Void Termina…if Galacta Knight is one, then what happened to the other 3? That’s where the idea for Lumia comes in.

As for Knight designs in particular, I mostly just like to experiment by taking a concept or a copy ability and applying it to a knight. They’re just a lot of fun to make xD Kinda hard to explain, but my knights can basically be boiled down to a concept + knight aesthetic. Prisma is an Ice Knight, Sidia is a Viking Knight and Lumia is an Alien Knight. I just like to play around with different themed knights and see where it takes me :)

#laranomyprisma #ask #not art #ferris is an outlier #he is just a silly guy i made bc i wanted a silly guy #he isnt super interwoven into the plot hes just prismas friend :> #but yeah. i think of new knight concepts on the daily #i have a few more i want to make but nowhere to put them #if yall would be interested in me making knight adopts in the future lmk #cause i may just end up making some for fun but have no place to put em and wanna give them a home

[amygdalae]

Tagged by @wizardonline , 4 albums that've been in my rotation lately ^u^ Lycia in particular I've been playing a few of their albums on repeat like a lot

Lycia - The Burning Circle And Then Dust / London After Midnight - Selected Scenes From the End of the World / Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim / Green Lung - Woodland Rites

Uuuuuh I tag @toweroftheeye @denyjesuschrist @charlottan @catcryptid @darksouls2yuri @yourownbestfriend @valdotjpg @evilscientist3 @oblongfruitsnack and any mutual reading this who would like to share please feel free to say I tagged u ^u^. (Of course no pressure to participate tho)

#ive kinda been rotating a few things the last month or 2 cuz im a song repeater in my bones. i see a song i eat it #green lung is a bit of an outlier here but my friend introduced me to em and theyre fun #I like London aftee midnight and fields of the nephilim for blasting when im home alone and wanna dance #i particularly like having lycia playing while reading/drawing/showering/getting high #heehoo

[doyouknowthisdragartist]

when someone submits an artist without giving me a picture they'd like me to use for their promo I spend a while trawling through their instagram (if they have one) to find a picture that both looks good and is representative of their drag overall

#do you know this drag artist #I am COMMITTED to my work #this isn't a complaint btw I'm in it for the love of the game #that being said I have had to reject quite a few great looks bc they were outliers for the artist