#you gotta earn them!

[bluegiragi]

So with wraith for you AU I've seen the spicy bits through your patreon, can they still reproduce and do they grow old/older? I think o remember in your lore that using their powers poisons them.

Yes Simon will grow 'older' but sort of only in cosmetic ways (hair growth, nail growth, that kind of thing). He's sort of frozen in time at the moment of transformation, and will stay that way until he goes supernova one day or is killed (and then he'll disperse in a cloud of smoke). He can also reproduce, but his wraith-iness won't be transferred to a child - it'll kinda just take his human genetic material.

#cant be born a wraith or with wraith powers #you gotta earn them! #through severe emotional and physical trauma #:)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

christ sometimes I just wanna. steal a time machine & go back & sit down next to my 9-year-old self and just like. let them pull out their pokemon card binder & gush about their holographic gyarados or whatever. I'd just smile & ask questions about motherfukcing bulbasaur & tell my kid self that I thought they were a neat person, & someday they'd find other people who thought so too.

like i'm a grown adult who honestly finds most kids stuff boring, but. damn if i could go back & hang out with my baby self & listen to them ramble...just so they knew someone was listening. i would in a heartbeat. thinking about u kid

#wouldn't roll my eyes or check my phone or get bored or nothing #I'd just listen to that little dork & smile & encourage them & let them explain how their favorite gameboy games worked #i was the kind of kid my adult self would find annoying & uninteresting but like #most of the actual adults in my childhood felt that way too. including my dang parents. #and ya know sometimes they showed it. a lot of times without realizing it. and that messes a kid up #if you don't make an effort kids WILL recognize your disinterest and lack of attention. #kids deserve to have caregivers who show interest and engagement #even when it's over stuff that adults find boring. especially then maybe #your kid doesn't have to be fun or interesting or easy or well behaved to deserve positive attention #they deserve positive attention because they are YOUR KID #if love is unconditional then DISPLAYS of LOVE and AFFECTION must also be unconditional #not something that must be earned #telling your kid that you love them is not enough. that is step one out of like a thousand #if you just tell your kid you love them but you don't demonstrate affection and interest and patience and warmth and etcetera #your kid isn't gonna feel loved! I Love You will just become a trite phrase that they regard with mistrust! #bitch you gotta FOLLOW THROUGH

[luck-of-the-drawings]

[<==PREV PAGES] [NEXT PAGE==>(not out yet.wait a year.or maybe more.imagine.]

saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #GONNA START FORMATTING MY COMICS BETTER. W THE PROPER 'PREV' 'NEXT' LINKS #REALLY DIDNT EXPECT TO CONTINUE THIS SERIES BUT AAAUUUHH MY BRRAAAIN MY BRAIN IS SO IDEASSS. I HAVE 3 OTHER PAGES SKETCHED OUT #NO PROMISES ILL FINISH EM ANY TIME SOON OR EVER. MY WHIMS ARE THEIR OWN BEAST AND I ONLY DRAW ON MY WHIMS #THAT BEING SAID IF U COMMISSIONED ME ILL GEEETT TO YOUUU IM SORRYYYY. ART IS AN EMOTIONAL RELEASE FOR ME N BABY I HAVE EMOTIONS. #ESPECIALLY ABOUT GILLION TIDESTRIDER CHAMPION OF THE UNDERSEA HERO OF THE DEEP.for the desc here i put smth that i typed up in the tags of #another thing i made. i gotta make a proper Baby Gillion tag or smth. eventually.. eventually...I LOVE DRAWIN THIS LIL BABY GUY.. #i also LOVE depicting the teachers as just being so fuckin mean. ofc theres variation in that. just like in all things.like the teacher her #idk if itll be mentioned but the octo lady is named Ms Octburn.an octopus pun based off the name of an actual councilor i had #when i was in elementary school i got bullied alot but teachers never did anything. i hated adults and didnt trust them. #but this councilor o mine was so genuinely sweet. i remember spending alot of time w her. she doesnt work there anymore. #but that one school adult that actually earns ur trust and is there for you when they can be.its SO important for a child i think #i hope she knows how much she helped me.youll see in the next page that ms octburn isnt perfect either.but she tries. they all try.somehow. #ALL these comics are gonna be inspired by somesorta experience o mine in the school system. school is so fucked up u ever thing abt that #AND GILLIOOOOONNN IN THE MOST FUCKED UP LITTLE SCHOOL OF ALL. MAINTAINED BY A CULT. CENTERED AROUND HIM. OUR CHOSEN ONE #I IMAGINE ALOT BANKS ON HIS SUCCESS. THIS IS THE WORLD. THE WHOLE WORLD. THE PROPHECY IS GOING TO COME TRUE N UR TELLIN ME #THAT ITS THIS LITTLE IDIOT THATS GONNA BE SAVING US? WHAT IF HE FAILS. IF HE CANT GET THIS RIGHT THEN HE WILL FAIL AND WE WILL DIE #WE NEED TO TRAIN HIM. WE NEED HIM TO LEARN. AND TO SUCCEED. OR ELSE WE'RE DEAD. WE'RE ALL FUCKING DEAD. I IMAGINE THAT MUST BE STRESSFUL #in other news i hope ppl actually giggle when they read these. they ARE intended to be comical. dark humor or whatever. like its also sad #this is intended to be a sad comic series. but a funny one too. does that make sense? god i hope so.saw some1 say they had flashbacks- #-reading this. like YES!! THE INTENDED EFFECT!! YOU GET ME!! i love seeing ppl get upset on this lil baby boys behalf. i LOVE seeing ppl- #-wail n weep n cry in the comments. i LOOOVE seeing ppl RELATE to baby gillion. and i love letting u all know that this wont be a happycomi #gillion gets his happiness arc in the actual show. this series is one of unfortunate events. teehehehe. do u guys remember that show #i keep listening to the lil songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events for inspiration. GOOD STUFF!! #anyway uuhh uhh thats all i got in my brain. for now. feed me ur comments give me ur input i NNEEEEEDD THHEEEMMMM

[lazycranberrydoodles]

mxtxtober day 2: rain

@vampirefaun’s fic Thousand Gold Come-And-Go Stew is the canonical Hua Cheng memory loss extra to me so go read it if you haven’t already! I’ve wanted to make fanart of it for a while, and even did a sketch in August (below the cut) but finally got around to it because of today’s prompt :)

the sketch i made in august ↓. the colors on this were already pretty harmonized so i colormapped them a little bit more to use as a palette for my final drawing.

#i am excited for a translation of the new hua cheng amnesia extra but this fic is excellent!! #to paraphrase the ghost king’s birthday extra: #when it comes to the person you love #you naturally want to give them the best. but you cant help but think that sometimes you’re not good enough #this fic has a similar theme to that extra! ^^ #besides the heartbreak its also hilarious and it earns its E rating spectacularly so i highly recommend it #i really enjoyed drawing them as wet rats 😭 #they are literally and metaphorically sopping wet in this scene #sometimes youve gotta drop your blorbo into the dunk tank #tgcf #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #art #tian guan ci fu #mxtx #my art #hob #heaven official's blessing #fic fanart #comic #mxtxtober #mxtxtober2023

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

ok yeah, I'm willing to put Young Royals up as one of, if not the best teen drama ever written

and not just writing! cinematography, costumes, music, performances! this show truly is a masterpiece

#young royals #Riverdale wishes it had the thematic consistency #this is the show euphoria thinks it is but its actually competently executed #teenagers who get away with nothing every action has a consequence #its about making mistakes and fucking up and forgiveness where its earned and moving on even if you cant forgive #its about love mattering even when it ends nothing is a waste it matters that the love was there even if its not with you forever #its about the first loves of yout life and that those loves wont always be Romantic and theyll be just as if not more important #its about loving yourself enough to push back against the system that is trying to break you because you dont deserve to be treated that way #its ALSO about wild parties and doing shots with your teachers and celebrating when the end comes cause you might as fucking well #its about first loves second chances three cheers for the end of bad things the coming of the future #because some things can and should end and the pain of it will pass and the love you felt wasnt wasted and you can take the good parts with #but that car is leaving down that forest road and you cant stay here you gotta go so who are going with and how loud can you sing with them #look right down the lens smile at the camera baby you might as well #netflix drama #wille x simon #crown prince wilhelm #simon eriksson #sara eriksson #felice ehrencrona #august of årnäs

[atlasascending]

I’m thinking about Callowmoore and about how I feel like one obstacle to them being together is how much Ashton cares about what everyone thinks of them

Hear me out!! We know Ashton is our punk rock, but literally everything they do is about going in opposition to people to be continually seen and respected as rebellious, and I think that DEFINITELY includes his relationship with Fearne

We’ve already seen it with the comment of ‘I’ve always wanted a sister’ amongst other little gestures, and I think that is entirely down to Imogen and Laudna being so not-subtle about their shipping

So yeah, now I’m imagining Fearne coming to terms with her feelings and wanting to pursue them, and Ashton honestly kind of fucking her around a little bit because they’re so self conscious, and Fearne eventually saying something like ‘stop caring about what other people think of you and just do what you want to do, I’m done until you decide what the fuck that is’

#this is definitely fuelled a little bit by the Incident of the most recent episodes #I do want ash to get over this constant going against the grain #when that’s not even what they WANT #it’s screwed them over before with FCG thinking they don’t care about anybody #hey guess what #the most punk rock thing you can do is love with reckless abandon #the sooner Ashton realises this the better!!! #to be clear this is coming from a place of love for these characters #this show #and the cast #I want that CONFLICT BABYYYYY #let Ashley flex those acting muscles some more #she’s been KILLING IT #callowmoore #critical role #also: in my heart I’m still FearneChet #but if there’s gonna be callowmoore it’s gotta be earned

[black-and-yellow]

Wake up it's time for Hotel Dusk posting.

#hotel dusk room 215 #last window the secret of cape west #kyle hyde #louis denonno #LWDE (last window Denonno edition) #i've been thinking of the mental Last Window AU a lot. #I think either Dunning finally decides to fix up the hotel so it has to close for a while #or Louie just leaves of his own volition. or gets fired. whichever #either way he's gotta be out of there #obviously he knows where Kyle lives cause he has the guest logs #he turns up at his door like 'yo hyde guess who' and Kyle is like 'great' but lets him stay anyway because #why wouldn't you. it's louie #he crashes on the couch but he's pretty content there. #lends a hand at Lucky's Cafe mixing drinks. earns his keep #when he first arrives Tony asks him for money which starts them off on a bad foot #when Marie's ring goes missing and Tony gets blamed he's like 'no way. it's that shady guy who's staying with Hyde' #obviously Kyle is torn because he knows Louie has a history and Tony's not exactly honest #but he wants to believe he's innocent #drama !! #so yeah that's what I've been thinking about #guess who's listening to Romeo by Basement Jaxx again

[faithfromanewperspective]

concert tickets are not an investment. hate how everything in this economy we’re like ‘ooh what if I buy it cheap then hike the price up and resell’ and it’s perfectly normal—it’s not. it’s not okay. what’s happening is you’re taking advantage of someone who’s really desperate to see this artist when if they wanna spend that money on the artist, the money should go to the artist themselves. who probably don’t change as much as they could because they’ve set a price that is financially sustainable for themselves and accessible to most who want to go not just the wealthy or those who don’t spend money on any other artists. and I’m not talking about if you can’t go to your concert and resell your ticket closer to it for like 25% more to get a bit back for all the time you spent waiting in queue for a concert you don’t even get to go to. the reason concert tickets are so hard to get is because there are people competing to buy them who are just gonna resell them for absurd amounts of money and honestly? as concertgoers and fans of artists we deserve better. our artists deserve better. they didn’t put a middleman in there. we don’t need it.

#I met someone who spent $1000 on a resold obstructed view eras ticket same as what I bought for $80 #that’s just unethical to earn that much from a ticket. honestly I’d say even 50% more or close to double is okay if you were gonna go #but the fact that people are already doing this for the PRESALE tickets for luke just has me like. okay maybe you changed your mind on tier #and maybe I gotta assume the best. but I can’t help but think how many people on these resale sites are just trying to get a bit of money #and they’re making money off someone else’s art. there’s nothing else to say. the artist should get a cut of your profits #bc for taylor or someone they have enough money. but with the music industry as it is there are so many who easily could not #or who have to overwork themselves touring back to back just to get financial security #and hopefully this doesn’t happen for most of them bc ticket scalpers tend to go for the big names #but then it just means if you’re poor you can only see the niche artists and you get left out of connecting over mainstream artists #which is another form of classist segregation this perpetrates

[clonerightsagenda]

Bujold: In a few generations there will be an entire planet full of telepathic men who hate women religiously.

Me: Elaborate on that

Bujold: No

#kat reads the vorkosigan saga #Ethan closing the book out with malpractice on a planetary scale #yeah let's give everyone on the planet experimental telepathy for kicks! #though I suppose if they're not overdosing on that one chemical it doesn't matter #life on Athos is portrayed very chill and nice as long as you do not let any of these people interact with women ever #and YET I struggle to believe that a religious separatist group founded in misogyny and obsession with sin #does not have other fucked up elements #beyond the whole having to earn social credits to get kids thing but beta colony also does that so it's not unique to them #like. we can assume what kinds of people the founding fathers were. that's gotta leave a societal mark

[solradguy]

If I don't lose motivation for it, there's going to come a point in Interlude where Frederick, who has since been nicknamed Badguy by like the US government or whatever for blowing up Gear research facilities, introduces himself as just "Badguy" to someone, somewhere, and I'm going to have to contend with the fact that he very probably said it with a straight face and full, unblinking, eye contact.

It's so silly. He's got to know that's a silly name to go by. "Yeah I'm a bounty hunter and I blow shit up because I'm a real Bad Dude™️." Come on... But also... Sol does have a really dorky sense of humor so... Maybe that's the joke. He knows it's goofy and he's forcing everyone else to use it but then he used it for too long and the goofy factor has long worn off except now he's stuck with it

#textpost #NGL THAT'S HOW IT WENT DOWN WITH MY SOLRADGUY HANDLE LOL #'Ha ha silly shitpost OH no one had this url already..??? HMM.... Ok I'll use it for a little bit' #*several big translation projects and gaming news articles later* #'Well. Guess I can't change it now' #It's so funny I think I've laughed literally every single time I had to introduce myself/my scanlations as Sol Radguy when it was over voic #The only thing I don't like about this handle is that I think handles that kinda brag about the person using them aren't great #Like handles with king/queen or '[x name] Is Awesome/cool/great/etc' or whatever you know? #You gotta earn a name like that. It's like you can't demand respect you gotta work up towards it #Sol Radguy was just an intended temporary joke that I ended up becoming hahah #I don't necessarily think I'm rad except maybe in a like 1980s retrowave aesthetic way perhaps #So I hope people don't look at it and think that I'm trying to say I'm hot shit or something

[kaynkali]

the most annoying part of "ITS ALL SCRIPTED SHES GONNA GET THE BELT AND HER TITLE BACK ANYWAYS" is that it ignores the real work the titleholders put in. wwe is scripted and for show but... like. you still gotta fight for your spot in the storylines. you still gotta be GOOD and you still gotta give wwe smth. they dont just choose willy nilly.

rhea has skill and talent and its still so fucking sad this happened bc at the end of the day, its a real injury that she has. this is a real sort of stepping away from being a major role in wwe until she recovers. she still earned that spot that she had to step away from

#txt #some wwe fans are insane to me. they dont just choose random wrestlers to put in her role #you can tell shes good at what she does. between strength and skill and CHARISMA she earned that role #im sure theres been manufactured 'underdog to champ' storylines but you still gotta #like you still gotta AT LEAST be charismatic #idk i feel like ppl are so jaded abt rhea being rly popular or smth bc i never have seen this shit abt the men #even as a kid. i had super wwe parents and family and all pf them liked different wrestlers #and still never discredited anyone else bc theres still a LOT of work that goes into it even if the fights are fake

[llycaons]

not that book wx will ever surpass a wx who had a lantern scene....the fact that they vowed to do good together at age 15 and then all the shit happened means so much to me like I love the koi tower declaration and the scene where wwx takes care of lwj after he gets drunk and the little quests together and their soulful staring and the sense that they're mutually in love but can't say anything because of the situation but the core of the cql relationship to me is that scene where wwx vows to live with justice and lwj sees him and finds himself aligned w him and never forgets that promise and then it all comes back around in the end w the reveal that lwj has that same dream and they're united in their ideals and despite the fact that they failed in many ways w lwj still told wwx that he upheld the innocent idealistic dream of his youth and it wasn't all in vain ough I'm getting choked up

#you could argue lwj isnt in a position to approve of wwx considering HE fucked up so bad #but wwx trusting lwjs judgement and esteeming his character is extremely important to the cql dynamic #so it feels like support and affirmation rather than him overstepping his bounds #esp since it was in response to wwx praising him. he was like NO YOU #I read so much fic thats nice but doesnt rly reach the core of why im so obsessed w them #its not just the hurt comfort or whatnot its the powerful vision they both had for the people they wanted to be #and the tragedy of how that didnt pan out the way they wanted but they changed and grew and didn't give up on it or each other #simply put. I mean lwj had to change more and earn wwx teist backim getting so emotional i gotta go to bed #trust* back. like they didnt have the exact same arcs but they were complementary #but its bedtime!!! #cql txp

[futureghost97]

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#I really am just out here getting my feelings hurt by teenagers huh #today is the day I will lay my head on my desk and cry #I have already begun :) #this job is making me want to not come back from my medical leave fr I am so so so close to just throwing in the towel and saying fuck you #8 more days 8 more days 8 more days #and 2 of them are shortened by 1.5 hours #just gotta keep hanging in to earn my health insurance and keep things going according to plan #but god I just hate it here #I would say I have never felt worse about myself but that is a lie! ♥️ #my stuff

[dennisboobs]

ohyea actually the dennis and dee dynamic is SO fun to write i love them dearly

#all this time i couldve been writing about them instead of the goofyass macden fic i was agonizing over #why struggle to mend a dynamic that has slowly begun to piss you off as the seasons progress when you can just #write dumbass sibling dynamics instead #charden is good because it allows dennis to be more genuine than he gets to be with anyone else but #with dennis and dee there are layers of. cautious protective measures #if either open up too much they know that it'll come back to bite them in the ass #so drawing out the truth is like pulling teeth. they can't just talk openly about some shit that's bothering them #ada speaks #no free leverage for you its gotta be EARNED you gotta read between the lines bitch #luckily they Get each other in that sibling way so inference works

[magioffire]

people sending me anon hate not realizing im just going to hex them by reversing their evil eye upon them

#good luck bitch you just earned yourself 15 years of bad luck because you had to send anon hate to a stranger on the internet #ooc. #tbd. #blocking and deleting anon hate isnt enough. i gotta hex them. #'you deserve nothing but bad things to happen to you' oh shit....dont talk to yourself like that man....words got power....:) #list of: worst possible things you could possibly say to a witch

[syn0vial]

the whole “treat others how you want to be treated” line sounds so easy, but i am finding things immensely complicated by the fact that, in truth, there are many people who do NOT want to be treated the way i want to be treated and will take offense if i try

#personal post #i do not like to have my routines disrupted. so i try to impose on my hosts as little as possible during their day-to-day lives. #i feel uncomfortable when strangers are emotional in my presence. so i stay in my room when i’m upset. #i wouldn’t like to feel obligated to entertain a guest 24/7. #so i try to entertain myself when my host hasn’t made it clear that they have the time. #all these things i do bc they strike me as polite and considerate #but i’m pretty sure all it’s done is earn me a reputation as a cold distant bitch to all my brother’s friends #(or at least his gf and her mom who actually complained about me to him) #(or rather his gf’s mom complained to his gf who complained to him) #i think part of the problem is that my brother and his friends are all highly extroverted and i am highly. not. #so i’m trying to give them space and privacy like i would an introvert friend but they see this as me acting ‘too good for them’ or smthg #it just exhausts me tho bc apparently his gf told him that she doesn’t want her family ‘getting hurt by what they don’t understand’ #and it’s like geez am i really so alien to y’all that you can’t even understand me? #and am i really so incomprehensible as to be threatening? #never heard that from any of my other friends though like attracts like i suppose #when left to my own devices i’m more likely to befriend people who think and feel the way i do #whereas now i’m obligated to befriend my brother’s friends. who likely think and feel differently than i do. #funny thing is: i thought we all got along great until my brother told me otherwise! #but eh. guess i gotta practice imposing more and springing more surprise social situations on unsuspecting hosts. #some people are into that i hear