#//get rkd lol

[regulus-regent]

Vegeta's demeanor shifted abruptly as the droplets of water splashed against his face, prompting a reflexive flinch. His tail twitched in agitation before settling back down, a wry amusement gleaming in his eyes as he dried his face into his arm, casting a playful glare at Goku.

"Then you're more of a fool than I thought" he retorted, his voice laced with mock disdain. With a swift and deliberate movement, Vegeta seized hold of the nearby hand towel and he hurled it directly at Goku's face, aiming for a direct hit.

The snort had Goku grinning wider, able to hear the slight amusement in it from how well he knows the prince. It was a rare treat for Vegeta to actually find humor in the farmer's actions, but it always had him feeling sky-high when it happened. Hearing that playful tone in the response prompted the taller Saiyan to give another small squeeze as his purr grew louder.

Just as he was opening his mouth to respond, he jolted when water was unexpectedly flicked at his face, blinking a few times to process the lighthearted 'attack'.

"Warnin' heard and disregarded." Releasing one arm from the other, Goku reached to get his own fingers wet and returned the sprinkle of water to Vegeta's face.

[you-have-made-a-fatal-error]

How on earth do you identify all the art? What’s your process lol

hA. erm. slowly and also painfully, basically. I don't have an art history background but I loved when artofnancydrew and littlenancydrewthings used to put their art id posts together and wanted to see if I could figure it out myself, so it's just a lot of trial-and-error and a decent amount of patience.

unfortunately most of the in-game images are too small for google’s reverse/search-by-image thing to pick up, boo. so for paintings I generally end up at wikiart because their advanced search tool lets you filter by genre/style/date of creation. they also have a ‘tags’ feature but it isn’t all that robust - most of the artworks are not comprehensively tagged, so i mostly avoid that. honestly, I usually end up searching by by genre (ie ‘landscape’ or ‘portrait’), use the timeline thing to limit the number of results, and then just. scroll through all of what comes back.

I dearly love the RKDimages database (their TAGGING SYSTEM holy mother of dog it’s FUCKING MIRACULOUS). it’s main focus is Netherlandish art, but seriously, give this thing every gold star on the planet, it’s so damned beautiful. all other databases, get on the RKD’s level. holy frick.

other than that? we know HeR used to use the Corel image library but of course i haven’t had any luck actually finding/accessing said image library. that said, I’ve had some luck plugging the term into wikimedia commons, and then there’s this old site which seems to have significant overlap - I’ve found a few difficult-to-place pictures there. once I know the artist who created a painting I’ll look through the rest of their catalogue, see if any of their other pieces were used as well. I keep a spreadsheet of the paintings/artists I’ve found and which game their art was in. like I said at the beginning, it’s just a lot of trial-and-error.

paintings are really the most straightforward things to identify. photographs and tapestries (fucking treasure in the royal tower making me try and id tapestries) are, in my experience, way harder, and basically ruin my life if I spend too much time thinking about them lmao. the photos in last train to blue moon canyon - I’ve used the US Library of Congress’ digital collections, the Getty institute, the Met, a couple other US museum catalogues/databases.. browsing their collections basically. the LOC has a substantive civil war image collection available online, which is cool. but all that said I still came across the Buck Taylor cabinet card via a random link on a site dedicated to old bicycle photography. because fuck me I guess :P and tapestries are hell on earth. because as it turns out, there’s no handy database for tapestry art. at all. RKD has some, Getty has some, but basically I’ve been browsing through museum collections and trying to find decent images that might lead me in the right direction? until i get fed up and lose my cool and need to go do something else for a bit.

[daenerys-targaryen]

i think it's funny how you're more anti sansa stans than anti sansa.

Well, it would be dumb to blame show!sansa for her actions because that’s not her real character that’s just d&d’s dumb twisted version of her. I get annoyed when people blame and hate on show!dany for her actions because that’s not her it’s just d&d writing fanfic, so I have to hold myself to that same standard when it comes to other characters. What bothers me is fans who support the racist, xenophobic, and entitled behavior that she and the overall north showed towards Daenerys, her allies, and armies when they were there sacrificing their own lives to help save them from certain death. And I will call out the hypocrisy and double standards they have against Daenerys (and Arya too), but I’m not anti her character at all. Sure there are some things I don't like but there are things I don’t like about every character, that doesn’t make me an anti LOL. Anyways yeah also most anti danys are somehow Sansa stans (look at the entire blog of /d*rkd*enerys lmao they’re, all are j*nsas) (also one literally wrote a whole book comparing her to trump.... oof-) So yeah, I treasure anyone who likes both characters for who they are and not what the show made them out to be because I would probably actually enjoy Sansas character if it weren’t for the fandom :(