#( those kind of vibes )

[rubberduckyrye]

I realized recently that my favorite kinds of videos to watch, like lets plays, are when friends come together and play games together.

Idk, it feels less lonely--and the chaos of friendships playing a game, just like when I was a kid playing games with my friends... it feels like home, you know? It's very comforting like that.

[elvensorceress]

Ooooh for the fic title: Darling I’m Losing My Mind

Interesting! So, I feel like I would want to make this some kind of amnesia or PTSD Eddie (or maybe magic/fantasy things?) where he’s caught between present day where he and Buck are long time married / his days as a soldier in the middle of the war / times he’s almost died / and maybe just after he came home from Afghanistan and Shannon left and he was alone and not doing well. And somehow (depending on if it’s magic or injury or mental trauma) Buck (and Chris and etc) have to help him come back to himself.

Send me a made up fic title and I’ll tell you what I’d write 💕

[bandsanitizer]

im also here with questions now that i'm here anyway so here ya go: 2, 3, and also 7 because i saw your reply and would like to know more about your thoughts, either on that or a different topic xoxo bella part 3

hello hello bella @clumsyclifford !! thank you for the questions!

2. What’s a medium you’ve always wanted to try?

My secret dream career that I’ll never truly pursue because I don’t like the idea of being in the industry or anything is being a lyricist, so I suppose songwriting/music is probably the top medium I would love to try one day. Music has been a pretty important part of my life and the idea of creating it seems beautiful.

But technically I have done music as I’ve been in band, etc., so out of any of the media I have yet to try… Glass. Glass blowing seems so cool to try and I love what you can do with glass! And all the pretty colors?? A dream!

3. Show us one of your favorite pieces by somebody else.

Just one? 🥺 This is a difficult one bc there’s so many to choose from… Gosh… I’ll go with “Repetition” by Phil Kaye. (link is to a youtube video of a performance of the poem) Foremost, I’d say he’s my favorite spoken-word poet / poet in general. His Date & Time book is wonderful and I suppose as someone with a stutter as well, this poem speaks a lot to me in different ways. It’s not the poem that made me fall in love with spoken word but it’s definitely the poem that showed me what spoken word can do that you just can’t get with written poetry.

7. What’s a topic you would like to explore?

Okay okay! So as you saw the reply infidelity is a topic I’d like to explore in writing too. I suppose for me, part of it is wanting to explore how the person who cheated would navigate a new relationship. “You aren’t your worst mistakes” or along those lines is a phrase/mantra/quote that I’d tie to the idea. I’m not a psychology expert or anything, but I’d say there’s a significant set of people who don’t just cheat for the sake of it? Perhaps there’s underlying insecurity or something. Maybe not. Either way, I’ve definitely thought of writing something that takes place later from the event of relationship where infidelity took place, where it’s navigating a new relationship and not repeating mistakes or letting past mistakes prevent change. A lot of layers to it maybe, but partially I’ve overall been interested in the concept of how people cannot change or grow if they are not given the opportunity to. And conversely, the capacity people have for change and growth when given the chance.

Outside of that, I really really really want to write something with an overarching math metaphor. Like the title is some math concept and by the end of it you learn the math concept just barely through whatever the hell goes on in the story. So the topic of math I guess. something super nerdy.

[yudol-skorbi]

and what if i go insane

[cinnamon-flame]

Starting off the new year with I think the most background heavy piece I've ever made! I think Rainwings and Nightwings would celebrate their traditional holidays together after the events of The brightest night. So this drawing is meant to show their cultures kind of blending together during a very joyful time. I remember talking about this concept with someone on tumblr a year ago but when I went back through my posts I couldn't for the life of me find it - so if your reading this, I remember you and this drawing stems from that conversation so thank you!

Close-ups:

[letsmcfreackingloseit]

So yes I have OF COURSE read @naffeclipse new fic Apex Polarity and yes, I AM OBSESSED!

So I decided to make a little comic of how I think their "first encounter" might have looked like from Eclipse's perspective.

I can't help but think about how alien and scary we most look to him (especially if there is a history of fasco hunting polar sirens in the past). With all that gear we look like emotionless beings, just observing and uncaring of this ice world. But then when y/n shows up and probably exudes this joy and wonder for his world + shows respect for the creatures and the environment??? Mmh yeah, I can see Eclipse falling for y/n, especially considering how alone he might be...

So yes, that's what I have for today! If you want to read the fic I'll link it right here. I can't recommend it enough, but as always, read the tags so you know what you're getting into! And lastly I also want to @themeeplord beacuse Eclipse's design is basically their design in my style (god I love their design so much, their character/creature designs are the BEST) so all the credit goes to them! Polar!Y/N is my design thou! ;P

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go read the two latest chapters-

YIPPEE!!!

[shopcat]

i think in the hamster wheel of my mind a big part of where people go wrong with eddie and his shitty garage band as an extension is that they for some bizarre reason think he's gene simmons metal when he's jack black metal. heavy metal. he's tenacious d metal. he's school of rock. he's stoner lord of the rings metal he nearly wore blue jeans and plaid. jack black literally in real life once said eddie was the best character bc he's heavy metal like him. LOOK AT THIS

[ghcstao3]

android ghost who’s just had his coding so beyond messed up that he’s at a point where he completely believes he’s human.

he operates like he is, believes in feelings and a beating heart, and when he gets injured he thinks it’s only normal to patch himself up with metal and grease like he’s bleeding. like he’s actually hurt.

android ghost being put on price’s team once recovered from roba’s clutches, tortured to the extent of believing in nonexistent pain, in reliving nightmares that shouldn’t be so horrifying to a robot as they are to a human. and price, who can’t bring himself to try and tell ghost that he isn’t alive. that he isn’t flesh nor blood.

then soap comes along. he treats ghost like a human, yes—but something about him reminds ghost that he isn’t. that he isn’t a bright speck of life in the universe, not radiant in the way soap is. soap, as kind as he is, ends up reminding ghost who he truly is, what he truly is, and it breaks the android. he shuts down, falls back on old habits he should’ve never broken. old habits and programming that have him following commands to a T, never failing, never faltering. because he isn’t human as much as crossed wires had led him to believe for so long.

yet—it’s also soap who teaches him that it doesn’t matter. it doesn’t matter what ghost might be physically, no. if he thinks he feels, then he does.

if he thinks he’s in love with soap, then he is. no matter how unconventional or unrealistic or—

“you’re still ghost,” soap says to him. “and if ghost happens to be an android, then so be it. every other aspect of you is still human to me, and that’s all i care about.”

so maybe ghost isn’t physically human. but if soap believes him to be in every other way, then it must be true, and ghost hadn’t been wrong in the first place.

[brainrot-jikan]

im not the biggest alhaitham/kaveh shipper (because im a rare pair ho) but it seems to me that in alhaitham/kaveh getting-together fics tend to be... unequal.

the beautiful thing about alhaitham and kaveh is that they're both equally right and equally wrong and equally dicks about it. but the writers for alhaitham/kaveh much more frequently seem to give alhaitham the burden change (the burden of the character flaw) instead of kaveh.

in any good character arc, the main character has a fatal flaw or misconception, and by the end of that arc they have addressed that flaw in some definitive way. scrooge was a scrooge and learned that being that way was detrimental; merlin from finding nemo was overprotective to a fault and had to learn that he couldn't (and shouldn't) control everything and to let go; the wolf from little red riding hood learns that you should stop while you're ahead.

stories centering around romance tend to lean heavily on character arcs, which makes sense. and since romance generally requires two individuals to be vulnerable and open and emotional with each other, it makes double sense that alhaitham/kaveh authors zoom straight into alhaitham's lack of emotional vulnerability.

this bothers me.

in society, individuals are expected to experience and present emotions in a specific way. if someone dies, you cry. if someone smiles at you, you smile back. if you're at a party, you're supposed to be having fun. if you don't do these things, you're seen as impolite at best and a inhuman freak at worst. when these behaviors are frequent it's often viewed as emotional immaturity, or a lack of ability to feel at all. the inability or lack of willingness to conform to societies emotional expectations of you is seen as a flaw and a reason for exclusion.

alhaitham is canonically disliked and avoided for being the way he is. he prefers it this way, but that doesn't mean the people perpetuating this avoidance are in the right. they are the societal pressure to conform that alhaitham blows off. alhaitham could be the way he is for a lot of reasons: avoidant attachment style, trauma, following someone else's example (eg. his grandmother), or just his base personality. it doesn't MATTER. he is the way he is. kaveh having to accept that should be part of the story.

putting the burden of the fatal flaw on alhaitham, making the way alhaitham treats kaveh and the people around him the problem, feels invalidating. it implies heavily that alhaitham's way of interfacing with the world, alhaitham's very SELF, is incorrect. my suggestion is to flip a larger portion of that burden onto kaveh. kaveh 👏 character 👏 arcs 👏

some examples/recommendations:

- make kaveh project his insecurities onto other people but especially onto alhaitham; he's overly reliant on other people for his own self worth, and he perceives alhaitham's lack of positive feedback as a direct reflection of how alhaitham feels about him. but learns along the way that alhaitham doesn't hate him, kaveh's actual struggle is with hating himself and being unable to his own self as worthy of love. maybe throw in how you are responsible for your own recovery, other people can help but you can't rely on them to carry you through self actualization.

- or, kaveh tries to make alhaitham behave more like a "normal" person, to be more pleasant and emotive and forthcoming, and then realizes he's in the wrong for trying to make alhaitham into something he's not, possibly for all the wrong reasons (not because he likes alhaitham better like that, but bc society says that's healthier and a better/more conforming way to be)

- or you could go ahead make alhaitham's issues the main problem but they're too complicated to overcome in a short period of time, so kaveh has to accept alhaitham is doing his best in his own way and not push for unrealistic and unhealthy changes. he could alter his own behavior to give alhaitham space and time and a safe place to land.

that got sappy so it's past time for me to dip out. go forth and ship things; but maybe consider letting alhaitham be a rude stone-faced bastard if he wants to be.

[thereseuwu]

Unfinished Apollon Offering :^(

I wasn't really proud of how this art was going so I gave up! But I'll still show it to you though :^)))

I don't know why I didn't like it. It's probably because of the hair? How I did at the face? Idk, I'll do better next time.

Here's the full picture by the way!!!

[worstloki]

thoughts 💭

[rfsmith]

You know, design wise, I think when Branch becomes King he’ll have to wear a crown everyday similar to Poppy’s. It’ll be more minimal and nature based to fit his vibe and personality, plus to not show up Poppy’s crown since she’s blood royalty and he’s marriage royalty.

I think he’ll try to get away with not wearing a crown in the early days of their marriage, but the whole village FREAKS OUT, thinking their new king is not pleased with him or that Branch thinks he’s too good for a crown. In other words, they’re not happy with him until he puts on the crown which Poppy tries to explain but Branch is all “you’re exaggerating, it’s MEEEE everyone in the village knows how much I hate things sometimes.”

Then the whole village is flipping tables and burning shit because Branch won’t put on some crown.

[sunforgrace]

sorry about the blood in your mouth

I wish it was mine

“Little Beast” by Richard Siken, Crush | “Despair” Supernatural, Season 15 Episode 18

[uncanny-tranny]

You know, I feel like other trans people might get this, but it's honestly kind of refreshing when a cis person has, like, undeniable tboy/tgirl/whatever swag. It's like when you come across somebody who speaks the same language as you and you only find out when they start speaking it, too.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Turtles and Tribulations

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[augusts-sketchbook]

just a cute tipsy gale in fun lighting ..felt robbed of not being able to dance with him in game, so I guess I'll just draw it myself 😤