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I've gone fifteen years on this website without absorbing any information about homestuck and I'm not about to start now

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My biggest ick and red flag 😤😤😤

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occasionally I am struck dumb by the sublime beauty of the world in the small moments, you know?

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@importantcatpics

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I do the opposite of gatekeeping, I’m not going to shut up until you like this thing as much as I do

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I am once again frothing at the mouth over the PJO!musical and how, even YEARS later, it still does a much better job of understanding the story, the characters, the themes, and the tone of the Books all while telling the entire story of the first book in under 2hours with so much care and attention to detail than the show or movies ever can!

Until the series gets better and back on the right track, The Lightning Thief musical will still reign supreme as the BEST adaptation of pjo for me

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having adhd and being a creator is like being on a timer. oh sorry you have this art idea? well you have approximately 12 hours to start it and 6 hours to finish the task or else you will lose interest and inevitably move on. oh you have an idea for a one-shot? well you’d better finish it in a day unless you want to banish it to your wips forever. ding dong bitch

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A new mode of production arises out of the newly networked masses.

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My advice to every artist (and honestly, everyone, but it’s especially relevant if you want to make art yourself) is to learn to appreciate everything other people make. Especially things you don’t like! Look at weird, ugly, bad art, with clashing colors and weird proportions and botched perspective and tropey subjects. Look at things made by amateurs an hobbyists and children, with shaky lines and incomprehensible detail. Look at everything you might find cringe or unpleasant - look at furries and gore and fetish porn and all the niche fandom crossovers. Look at art from cultures you don’t know well, look at things made hundreds of years ago, look at paintings from art movements you don’t know or don’t like at the museum. Look at photography and sculptures and fashion shows and murals on buildings and the design of everyday objects like chairs or lampposts or cars. Look at animation and comics and advertising, even the design on your cereal box.

And each time you look, try to find one thing you can appreciate about it. It’s fine if you don’t enjoy the art, but try to find something in it that has value, something you can respect about it, something that moves the world. It can be mastery of a technique, it can be the emotion conveyed, the thought it provoked, it can be color choice, composition, originality, or it can simply be the act of creation itself. Even in art that makes you uncomfortable, art that you find disgusting or bland or vile or ugly or just lame. You need to learn to see it. It’s ALWAYS there. Really look for it. Because you can learn from every single one of these things. Ask yourself why the artist made this, why they made it in this way. Wonder what someone other than you might see that you don’t see, if it has a meaning you just can’t grasp.

You will learn about the value of art, what it means to create, what it means to be human. If you can appreciate those things, it’ll reflect in how you make your own art. Not only will it deepen your relationship to art as a whole, but it’ll allow you to jump past the initial instinct to look away and give you the opportunity to notice techniques and patterns that you maybe wouldn’t have thought to use otherwise! You can learn from the masters, but you can also learn from everyone else. Learn to see the soul in art! I promise it’s worth it.

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Enough about favorite books. What’s a book you read and absolutely hated? The book you’ve got a bone to pick with.

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I was thinking about the malec proposal when I was in the shower today (as one does). The first proposal, I mean, not the 'alec lightwood loved one man so much' one. As much as I admit that the latter changed lives, it's the first proposal that really did it for me.

What I was, in particular, thinking about is how Magnus, while agreeing to marry Alec (in the future), put down his terms and boundaries very, very clearly.

The amount of self-dignity he has is just...It's something else. I love this bit so much because, as much as he loves Alec, he also loves himself. And I know it wasn't an easy road to get there. He respects himself (and his people) so much that he wouldn't settle for anything less.

It's everything to me. It's certainly one of the bits where I think I fell in love with Magnus the most.

Anyway, I just wanted to share this bit. We focus so much on the fact that they're the first (openly) queer couple in the shadow world, that we also forget that they're also a mixed-race couple in the shadow world (nephilim-downworlder). That power imbalance is not something easy to navigate, just as it is not easy to navigate a mixed-race relationship in our own world.

I love that Magnus acknowledged this. Because it's real. Love, no matter how much, isn't going to erase the fact that he's a downworlder dating a shadowhunter.

I feel like a lot of people focus too much on the 'love' malec have for each other, that they forget these other things.

Because there is no love without dignity.

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thinking of percy jackson who is a natural leader even though he doesn't want to be which makes him an even better leader who commands the skies and brings down storms that blot out the sun and make the ground tremble with it's force being mistaken for a son of Zeus

thinking of percy jackson whose fatal flaw is loyalty who is completely and utterly devoted to his wife annabeth and who protects his family above all other's, honoring Hera almost like a devotee

thinking of percy jackson who commands the seas and shakes the earth, who wrestles sea monsters and helps mermaids with their hangnails, freeing sea creatures from pollution before dragging it from the depths like the son of Poseidon that he is

thinking of percy jackson who recognizes cabin 4 as his cousins where everyone else underestimates them as gardeners but percy sees kronos and rhea's daughter, a powerful ancient goddess’s children who command the earth itself, training with them and watching them grow the plants of the earth and subconsciously mimicking the motions of their hands and accidentally latching onto the water in the plants and making them move like a son of Demeter

thinking of percy jackson who spars with clarisse as one of the only other campers who can keep up with him in a one v one, fighting ruthlessly with constant simmering rage under his skin like a son of Ares

thinking of percy jackson spending years at annabeth's side and being one of the only people who can keep up with her and catch onto her plans and understand her mind inside and out, percy making his own plans, his battle iq severely overlooked until the war itself comes to his door and he has to voice his plans to his comrades and his mind shines like a son of Athena

thinking of percy jackson who dreams of the past, present, and future, who has feelings and premonitions and is more in tune with fate and prophecies like a son of Apollo

thinking of percy jackson who never goes easy on an opponent because they're a woman, percy jackson who respects the hunters and is never condescending to them, percy jackson who achieves the approval of not just artemis herself but also zoë nightshade, a hurt girl who held a grudge for millennia, one of the only boys to earn the approval and respect of Artemis

thinking of percy jackson who worked in the forges with beckendorf then down in the forges with tyson and his other cyclops brothers, percy who blows up mt st helens and impresses the god himself despite the destruction of his forge, his own (limited) immunity to fire like a son of Hephaestus

thinking of percy jackson who doesn't buy into the idea of cabin 10 being full of shallow kids of a vapid love goddess, but instead sees children of one of the oldest gods born of the sea and ouranos, the sky itself, one of the only gods percy genuinely fears. percy spending time with cabin 10 almost as if they're his own siblings, all descendants of the sea, being taught by drew how to use his looks to his advantage even if he can't recognize his own beauty, using the tactics in california to charm free food from restaurant workers or to distract cashiers as he steals from the store, being so heartachingly beautiful that he's mistaken as a son of Aphrodite

thinking of percy jackson who spent a few weeks as an unclaimed kid, training with a demigod he looked up to, luke, son of hermes, knowing how to run and steal and gamble and how to use his words to get in and out of trouble, cunning and mischievous like a son of Hermes

thinking of percy jackson who knows madness intimately, who toed the line of falling too far as he choked and poisoned a goddess and reveled in it, who can control the vines of grapes, whose blood is too watery to get properly drunk (even if he never drinks) seeming like a more wild and chaotic son of Dionysus

thinking of percy jackson who commands the rivers of the underworld, rivers that aren't even water, but that he controls as if they are, percy who has swam in three of them but never succumbs to death while in them, always reaching the other shore. percy who takes death seriously and tries not to kill enemy demigods even in the midst of war when it slows him down, but he refuses. percy who was a commander in war time and time again and knows the weight of death intimately and treats it with the respect it deserves, handing the dagger to luke because he knows that sometimes you can't avoid it, you have to just let go. percy who welcomes death time and time again and doesn't fear it, almost longs for it as release. percy who commands the earth, shaking and splitting it as son of the earthshaker being mistaken for a son of Hades

thinking of percy jackson who values his family above all others, who opens the hearth to welcome all, not just children of the twelve olympians but even the children of the minor gods, treating them as family rather than lesser. percy who plays the sacrificial lamb time and time again to protect his loved ones, percy jackson who seems like a follower and devotee of Hestia

thinking of percy jackson, son of the sea, whose nature is water - adaptable and easy to change, water as the basis of life and encompasses all things from animals to humans to plants, percy who values all not on some system of glory and kleos and power, but off of one's own character, their own choices not their parents. percy jackson who is a son of poseidon but who is a child of olympus, a child of all, a hero who all the young demigods can look up to because they can all see themselves in him on some level, percy who learns from all and finds strength in each demigod and their domain that he protects and wields as his own

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Buddie from 911 (4x14)

By @evanzbuck here

extremely good trope: injured character sees their own blood on someone else who's otherwise unscathed and gives a concerned "are you hurt?" double points if they're so injured they're barely lucid