#yeah i am dedicated

[scribbling-dragon]

missing ranchers forever and ever and ever (a redraw of THIS from a year ago)

[click for better quality! + closeups under the cut]

#i haaaate drawing shirts. i hate them i hate their stupid sleeves #and their stupid collars. it doesnt make sense and its stupid and difficult #its why i never give tango any. i cant do it more than once #anyway. RANCHERS! in honour of the wip currently sat at 10k that made me sad abt double life again (it's fluff. why am i sad) #juno.art #double life smp #dlsmp #jimmy solidarity #tango tek #tango tek fanart #jimmy solidarity fanart #double life fanart #life series #trafficblr #traffic series #solidaritygaming #solidarity gaming #tangotek #life series fanart #also yeah i kept tango's colours the same as his secret life ones. he just looks really nice with the pinks etc #(dedicating this to my mother too. who looked and went “aw what a lovely bf and gf” #and then stared at me awkwardly when i said neither of them were the gf. she did like the drawing tho

[argent-sz]

Rusty hunting, so i booted up the first quest i saw uncompleted.

I'm actually the best player btw.

#the damny #monhun #monster hunter #yeah im using both tags. thats how dedicated i am 😊

[cryptidfuckery]

I don't want to become a tree.

I have a fascination with death. Not how it happens, not what happens after. I have a fascination with how death is handled by the ones left living.

I talked at length about it in the Egyptian gallery with you, surrounded by bodies misplaced. "Most of history we learn through the way we treat our dead." Which is true, I think, for the most part.

We have written and oral history. We have the skeletons of buildings and cultures left behind for us to interpret. But before that, before the corpses of civilizations we're still able to uncover, we have our own.

The oldest body ever found is argued to be 230,000 years old. Hundreds of millennia, a culture so lost to time and decay we can't hope to uncover significant artifacts.

Our bodies become the artifact. The way we were buried, where, with what, with who. Was there care put into our final resting spot? Was there effort put into the ends of our lives?

Most often, there was. Our bodies tell our descendants our status. Our injuries. Our community. Our loves.

Perhaps they'll debate. Perhaps they'll misinterpret. But millennia later, your body might tell someone how we lived. How we loved. What we cared about at our core. What we thought would help us after death. What we thought we'd want to continue our comfort. What the living needed to let us pass on from their lives.

You tell me you still think about what I said.

Many people talk about becoming a tree when they pass. It is a beautiful notion, one I've considered. A natural, living reminder of a life lived. A place for their loved ones to share a connection with. In a way, the continuation of a life; albeit in a different form.

But I don't want to become a tree. I'd rather become a forest.

Maybe it's a notion toward the state of our world. The lack of top soil is one of the prevalent factors of our declining environment. The way we've stripped it of the nutrients of decay.

There are ways to decompose naturally. In the ground with nothing but a natural shroud is the oldest and easiest way. A new, human composting method has been created for an urban option when the easiest is unavailable. An alternative to cremating. One that can give back to the earth.

My body might not be one that tells the story of my time alive on this planet. My body might tell a joke, or rest peacefully, or ideally decay away. My DNA will dissolve into nitrogen and an assortment of other elements. I will become no different or better than the dirt that lies around me. What was me will become something else entirely.

I'd rather become the top soil. I'd rather become the forest.

#fucking. blame raq for this #got me thinking about it again #perhaps..... a matching piece of writing to their poem??? #idk if i'd call this a poem but. i am not the expert on this #anyway dedicated to @inkskinned because yeah. they're part of this #@inkskinned #anyway!!!! feel free to ignore i just had to get it out of me

[tomboxed]

hannibal crossing is very real to me

many thanks to my will graham :33 @bainesy141

#me when i mash two interests together at the same time #Hell Yeah #i am so fucking proud of that office my god #every single room plays classical music btw i was dedicated on getting this canonical #nbc hannibal #hannibal #hannibal lecter #will graham #hannigram #animal crossing #animal crosing new horizons #acnh #game screenshots #acnh screenshots #i did happen to recreate a certain few scenes in these screenies btw :33 #cough cough hint hint

[mcl38]

girl!drivers part six: 81

(series)

#oscar piastri #f1 #formula 1 #formula one #f1 art #u guys.... i struggled so much w this one #her hair gave me nightmares i had to give her a sinead o connor and work from there #i did what any girlie would do w a bad hair day - gave her a braid lmao #currently oscar and lando the only braid girlies #but yeah smths deffo fucked in terms of face proportions bc i had issues w both the hair and the shoulders but it looks fine to me so 🤷🏻‍♀️ #i finished & am posting this on a moving train. dont tell me im not dedicated #oscar #girl drivers tag #mine #100

[designernishiki]

it’s kinda funny to me how that dumb scene in kiwami 1 of majima getting shot and left for dead in the harbor was basically just added as a half-assed way to explain majima not being around for a bit of the plot, but they accidentally(?) just made it seem like start of a chain reaction where majima ended up feeling slighted and heartbroken after being abandoned like that and then lashed out about it via smashing a big truck into the building kiryu was in. and yeah that isn’t inherently a romantic thing as-is but then they go and add the part where majima grabs a hostess and performatively hits on her as in-kiryu’s-face as possible, she says she’s already in love with someone, and majima lets her go immediately, no questions asked, making a big fucking point of it just to say see THAT kiryu? I appreciate when people are HONEST about their FEELINGS. people who won’t just BACKSTAB someone who CARES about them to save themselves. is that so crazy kiryu?? huh??? anyway make it up to me get down here and fight me right fucking now

#I think on another level he was sorta saying like ‘hey kiryu. you’re making it extremely clear that you don’t trust me and my intentions #and I’ve been trying to show you- over and over again- that I’d do just about anything for you and your safety #but I can’t just let my mask fall off in front of everyone- I need to keep up the unpredictable morally grey wildcard act for both my sake #AND yours. because disguising my helping you as crazy random violent outbursts and weird stalker behavior #is the only way I CAN help you. do you think it would go over well with shimano or literally anyone else if I was outright helping you out #of the kindness of my heart and fondness for you? stop being so fucking dense and look past the crazy wacky nonsense for a second and #maybe you’ll realize that all I do at the end of the day- really- is help you and put my own life and reputation on the line for you. #I am an honest guy when it comes to my real values and when I told you I wouldn’t let anyone kill you unelss it was myself- I meant it. #I’ve taken a knife and a bullet for you now. can you REALLY not see through the act yet? am I REALLY that unpredictable when you think about #it?’ #that was a longer explanation than i intended but. it was difficult to put into words #I basically feel like it could be read as him implying kiryu shouldn’t backstab the people who put themselves on the line to help him #and/or pointing out that he’s never actually done kiryu dirty and has stuck to his word protecting him in the ways he can #trying to say yeah all this is a crazy act and all but when it comes down to it you Can trust me #it really makes sense when you think about it that he’d have to help kiryu/show affection towards kiryu in unpredictable convoluted ways #at that point in time because. I mean. there’s a reason he was the only person who showed up to welcome kiryu when he got out of prison #and that’s because A) he sticks to his word and his loyalty to people he cares about and B) no one else had the balls or the batshit insane #mask to wear to ward off anyone asking real questions like majima did. because ANYONE associating themselves with the supposed #patriarch-killer was a HUGE NO-NO at the time. someone important showing up for kiryu and welcoming him back outright could’ve caused #all-out warfare probably. except majima. because majima was dedicated and smart enough to use his widely-feared wildcard persona #(that everyone tended to view as incapable of having any Real agenda to worry about) to his And kiryu’s advantage #does that make sense??? I feel like it makes a lot of sense if you get it to click in your head #kazumaji #majima #kiryu #yakuza #kiwami 1 #yk1 #rambling

[mossghosst]

we need to stop characterizing misako as a terrible mom and instead hate dr julien for deadbeat and leaving echo in that damn lighthouse

#this is /hj cause i mean echo was written #after he was gone from the narrative so like. not his fault later seasons would make him look bad in retrospect #but also that’s interesting for angst purposes #ALSO I AM MISAKOS BIGGEST DEFENDER. #yeah abandoning lloyd was shitty but she CANONICALLY deeply regrets it and #was just trying to prevent lloyd from hating his dad and having to fight him #and then she dedicated her entire life after that to trying to save him from fighting him #OVERALL her story is SO MUCH more interesting when you consider how tragic it is #also ppl act like she and llpyd hate eachother for some reason which makes no fucking sense #canonically she and llpyd have a good relationship (a better one than post oni trilogy lloyd and garmadon…) #anyway. i love misako she would’ve loved never love an anchor by the crane wives #ok rant over thanks for coming to my ted talk #anyways #ninjago #lego ninjago #dr julien #misako #echo zane

[blended-ice]

little nibble 🤺🤺🤺🩸

(obligatory vampire au)

#peas n guac #man I just drew this in one sitting while listening to step on me (the cardigans) on repeat #something just came over me idk #listen #sometimes #I just gotta draw the boys covered in blood #sorry you had to find out this way #it’s not very much blood #only a lil itty bit u know #yeah #‘but blended’ you say #‘isn’t it lowkey cringefail of you to be posting vampire au’s?’ #and I say NO #I say cringe is DEAD babygirl (gender neutral) #cringe died when I decided to dedicate an entire blog to drawing 2016 anime blorbo fanart #I’m talking to myself too much rn I need to calm down #I am so!!! Tired!! I should be in bed!!! #yuri on ice #yoi #viktor nikiforov #katsuki yuuri #viktuuri #fanart #id in alt text

[hashileio]

i am cringe but i am free

#hashiart #undertale #undertale au #horrortale #horrortale sans #ht sans #horror sans #sans #au sans #sans au #kabedon #yeah we're going back in time for this..... to the lawless land... #anyways i should be sleeping for work but i am just...thinking...about him....... #dedicated to the one person who was on at the most random time of the day JUST in time to answer my call to the void #u know who u are #here is a big boy for u i appreciate u

[mysicklove]

whoever thought that “reverse style” classrooms are a good idea in a college environment deserve to be in jail

#🔪 - mello talks too much #ur telling me #that i have to watch a 45 minute lecture BEFORE my 1 and half dedicated lecture time??? #like that is unreasonable as hell i have shit to do!!! #we are all stem majors none of us have time #AND attendance is required in lecture #where we have silly questions and just basically do nothing for an hour and a half #yeah like #i #sorry guys im back to ranting to u bc i am done complaining to ex boy pet

[derpinette]

one way for a music performer to earn my full respect is if they carry out acts of self mutilation on stage

#that is how you know they are ♯Real about it truly dedicated to their craft & passionate #none of that gay spitting or whatever. start cutting yourself up BOY. or rather #as long as you do the latter the former you can do too without it being just Whatever #this is obviously specific to shock making-mamma-maaaaddd genres of bands/artists in general that i am into #not expecting like IDK france gall to start smashing things on her head to make it bleed. RIP miss gall i really love her music #my all time favorite female artists ( one eastern one western ) are known to just act as ragdolls & Bleeding on stage #& i think that is very based & adds to the experience/atmosphere of everyone involved there #this is sadistic of me ♯SORRY like obviously no one should kill themselves but... >_> ... #i just cannot help but think of the ones not doing it as posing Arse cowards SORRY about it #that one image of the stick figure shoving a gorey image to its stick figure friends Yeah that would be me. #when will i grow out of being an edgelord Probably Never

[cherry-pop-soda]

okay but does anyone listen to bronski beat and does anyone GET IT. they released an album, completely unashamedly gay, in the 80s, during the AIDS crisis, during a time of insanely rampant homophobia and over the top conservatism. they released an album with the age of consent for homosexual activity in every european country listed on the sleeve and the phone number for a legal advice hotline for queer people etched into the grooves of the vinyl. they released an album with the opening track dedicated to a hate crime victim, featuring vocals from an openly gay choir. they released an album with songs about homophobic violence, the dangers of following the bible too closely, about leaving behind everything you know and starting over, about homophobic family and homophobic bullying. they wrote about being gay and being proud of it and knowing that there is nothing wrong with who you are. in the face of all the hatred going on in the 80s they released an album that was in-your-face gay and fuck-you queer, and i love them for it.

(see original tags for a lot more commentary)

#bronski beat #for reference : the album is The Age Of Consent #the man the opening track “Why ?” was dedicated to was Drew Griffiths (who according to wikipedia was a #playwright who was victim to a homophobic murder in 1984) #and the choir was The Pink Singers (an openly gay men’s choir in London) #and like yeah. i know this very much centers gay men HOWEVER . considering everything like the time period and #how songs that would’ve been lesbian (see: Voices Carry by Til Tuesday) being basically straight-washed. and also how rampant homophobia wa #(so getting anything even a little gay released was hard bc it was likely to get smashed down by record stores and companies and #radio stations and music reviewers. and us ones particularly ) #in this case i don’t care whatsoever and besides they did something absolutely monumental for the whole community if you ask me #as a lesbian i am literally so grateful that this exists and i wasn’t even alive at the time. even now it makes me feel seen. #i cant even imagine what it would’ve been like for a queer kid in the 80s to hear that and maybe know they weren’t alone #so in conclusion: bronski beat i love you forever and jimmy somerville i love you forever

[marshmallsy]

batman unburied poison ivy is literally such a megababe like yes queen, go off and commit ecoterrorism atrocities

#batman unburied #poison ivy #was i EXPECTING an entire episode dedicated to her? no #am i ECSTATIC over it? HELL yeah im obsessed w/ any storyline where she isnt just some seductive plant lady #loooove me some intelligent and scheming poison ivy with a disturbing lack of empathy for human beings 💖💖💖 #marshmallsydraws

[orowyrm]

it’s been a long time since i’ve drawn any of the dnd party so i’m trying to rectify that… starting with KENDEL!!! he is @wolfoflua’s special boy but he is all of our very dear friend :’) go dryad boy go!!!!

#(correction he is not a dryad but he is. made of. dead dryad parts #yeah he isn’t happy about that either. sorry buddy) #myart #others ocs #kendel #feywilds folly #<- i am starting a dedicated tag for our campaign GOD FUCKING DAMN IT #dnd #warforged

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

[cws: psychiatric abuse, torture, homophobia, ableism, sanism, racism, pictures of taxidermy. boy this show is a lot sometimes lmfao]

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so something @thecottageinthedark noticed recently that i'm still fucked up about is that pericles' cage in the asylum isn't actually a bird cage.

it's a bell jar.

for those who don't know what a bell jar is, it's a type of taxidermy display for preserving delicate specimens, most often birds. it's easy for their feathers to get dusty or disintegrate over time if they're left out in the open; a bell jar not only keeps off dirt and keeps people from touching them, but it's made to create a vacuum inside to keep everything where it is.

another layer to this reference is that the book The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, is a retelling of her own experiences with mental illness and the attempts made to treat it at the time. notably, one of the major themes of the book is psychiatric abuse.

pericles is also not only a gay man forcefully committed to an asylum in what is most likely intended to be the 70s, but a very obvious and already horribly handled fantasy metaphor for both physically disabled people and POC. (in particular the talking animals' role in the worldbuilding heavily mirrors Black americans irl, which holy shit there is so much to unpack there all by itself. there is So Much)

(fun little bonus on the side: he's kept in a cell with extremely bright blue/white light 24/7, at an angle where it'd be even more difficult to block it out than if it were overhead. this would make it impossible to get any decent fucking sleep, which is widely recognized as one of the worst forms of torture to exist. they did this to him for 20 years straight.)

so, to recap: gay man and analogue for disabled people/POC, who is also portrayed as an ~evil crazy malicious psychopath,~ is kept in not only a display case for scientific specimens, but one specifically made--in-universe and out--to recreate something that is done to his demographic as a metaphorical disabled person/POC.

and not only that, and not only do people talk about him--in front of him, like he's not even there--as a specimen while gawking at him in this position, but he is being displayed like the stuffed and mounted corpse of a disabled person/POC.

he is said to belong on that display for 'the rest of his miserable [disabled/POC] life.' no one disagrees with this. he's painted as smugly bullying the violent abusive guard. in general he's portrayed as Scary and Evil Now for having been in this situation. and when he escapes, it kicks off what end up being the most heavy-duty problems for the protagonists, which result in the Bad Ending for the nibiru timeline; if he had stayed there, continued to be objectified and tortured with homophobic/racist/ableist violence for the rest of his life, the timeline almost certainly wouldn't have been doomed.

and they used a real person's autobiography about their experiences with psychiatric abuse for this. and to position them in the role of someone it should have not only happened to, but been even more horrifically dehumanizing and cruel.

yeah. i..... yeah.

the creators of this show are genuinely really good at putting together layered references like this, some more obscure than others, which are rewarding to discover and add depth when you do, and it is a crying fucking shame that they like to use it for shit like this. god damn lmao

#sdmi #scooby doo: mystery incorporated #professor pericles #cws in post #SDMItag #this is also why i very firmly believe that Other Parrot Behaviors of his were completely intentional #and i will be linking back to this post in future as evidence for that lmfao #anyway yeah jesus fucking christ i am defensive of pericles for A Few Reasons if You Can't Tell #do nooootttt get me started on the racism #uppity runaway slave who objects to being considered subordinate; inferior; an animal; and someone else's property #will get violent revenge on his oppressors the moment he embraces that objection and escapes imprisonment #and is only unhappy with being property because he's been driven crazy with Doesn't Want to Be Owned by Other People Syndrome #in the Good Timeline he does not have this syndrome; and he actively embraces exactly the degrading dehumanizing role he hated #and refused to accept and dedicated his life to breaking out of in the Bad Timeline where he's evil and crazy #this is used by other people to publicly humiliate him for profit; which he's Totally Not Humiliated by He's Happy Like This You Guys #sure cool great why not #love it #SDMIcrit tag #the crit files #thecottageinthedark