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sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go
#the locked tomb#harrowhark nonagesimus#john gaius#harrow the ninth#this is why I don't buy john as misunderstood and initially well-meaning AT ALL#this is a pattern you see with him again and again and again -- right down to his interpersonal relationships#(and indeed it's in the more grounded interpersonal relationships you can most clearly see him as he is I think#the fantasy death empire of a thousand years doesn't register quite as viscerally because it's like. heightened; not quite real#but the emotional violence and manipulation that surrounds him? oh boy that is EXTREMELY real and scarily well-observed)#there's a premeditation to so much of what he does (contracts with planets that only end 'in the event of the emperor's death' anyone?#yeah john we get it you're hilarious and I wish you weren't)#the greatest trick john ever pulled was making anyone think he's just a lil guy. what does he know he's only god#when you first read the book the complete callousness of the other adults is so horrible that john seems like an oasis of care#(though you start to get this uneasy feeling when that care never seems to translate to like... relief or soothing or resolution)#and it makes it feel almost obscene when you find out what's actually going on#it's the mercy & augustine enabler hour but at least they're completely honest in their cruelty there#while john is -- well he sure is being john huh#this is just me being angry with him btw philosophically I don't think this is how the story will or should end#(with john slam dunked right into hell that is)#it's just... harrow is so vulnerable. and what he does to her is so insidious and fucked up#john is very deeply human. unfortunately the capacity to quite simply suck so much is deeply human too
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A Shakespearean comedy of errors
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#ain't somebody gonna match my freak...#no hate to shippers! i think you can do whatever you want with nick and miles as long as its funny#i do personally enjoy them as ace and not necessarily romantically interested in each other but like. They're freaks about each other 4 sur#i also still haven't started apollo justice so if they're out of character IM SORRYYYYY#i'm the slowest gamer ever#ace attorney#gyakuten saiban#apollo justice#phoenix wright#miles edgeworth#naruhodo ryuichi#mitsurugi reiji#klavier gavin#athena cykes#ema skye#idk are you supposed to use ship names when tagging nonromantic iterations#i guess not#ace attorney comic#ace attorney fanart#the hardest thing about creating fan content before playng the apollo series is I don't know what they call Nick#bc they're adults they COULD call him nick but i'm guessing they don't bc japanese translation and honorifics?#i don't know what klavier calls nick. surely something snarky bc all prosecutors are required to be sassy to him by law#i should just play the game I KNOWWW I KNOW I KNOW#asexual phoenix wright#asexual miles edgeworth#asexual#my art
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Prompt 84
Amity Park absolutely adores her little ghostling, her little Gatekeeper who was of her own ectoplasm, reborn from her own blood in the center of her new heart. She absolutely adores her baby, practically a newborn, being only a year dead!Â
So of course she had to gush and boast about her little phantom to the other city spirits! They all got together to gossip sometimes after all. And both Smallville and Fawcett started to gush about their own little ones back!Â
Gosh they should set up a playdate at some point, her little phantom could use some friends in the mortal realm. Well some more friends, three is obviously not enough. Oh, Gotham and Bludhaven have come over as well! Itâs a playdate then!Â
Now if only each of their worldâs timelines were synced up, but at least everyone is around the same age!Â
#dcxdp#dpxdc#City Children Au#Prompts#Each city is from a different timeline lol#Bruce is an angy 16 year old vigilante and was Not prepared to be the oldest#Dick hasn't told them his birthday#and isn't revealing he's older than this Bruce by a few months#Clark is just happy to make friends and he brought pie! his ma and him made it!#Dick is wheezing at these itty bitty versions of Bruce and Clark- this is great and hilarious and oh god he has to protect them#Billy is chanting to do it whenever someone has a Bad Idea- He's just become the Champion of Magic & the gods encourage it#Danny is delighted to have more friends and he's not the oldest Or the youngest so yay!#they're having fun#lots of fun in all their timelines and in the realms too#if they get in trouble they call their city-parents#âAlfred says I'm a polite young man. He also says that if someone tries to grab me to use my teethâ#âSounds about rightâ âMoodâ âBiting is always goodâ âBut what about diseases??â#âHey Danny you like alien stuff right- do you think you can help me and the others translate this it came from the ship i was onâ#âOmg Billy you should teach us mortal magic and we can teach you are stuffâ#Dick: I don't wanna be the responsible one so I'm going to encourage them all to be Worse :)#At some point the squad is going to end up in some other timeline and confuse the fuck out of the JL lol#dick grayson#danny fenton#billy batson#clark kent#bruce wayne
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SHAUNA SHIPMAN: AN ORESTEIA
#yes everything is about greek tragedies to me what about it#shauna is literally The Epitome of Tragedy i cannot stress this enough#her whole life is drenched in grief#and shame and loss and guilt#THE DESPAIR#what's that quote by khaled hosseini??#about if you had just opened your mouth and said something at that one pivotal moment your whole life might have turned out different??#but you didn't say something?? you stayed silent instead??#also richard siken's someone has to leave first quote that everyone on this hellsite should know by heart <3#That is the Epitome of Tragedy thank u mr hosseini#thank u mr siken#the inevitability of it all. the inescapability. what if you just -#but you didn't. you didn't and that is why you suffer#anyways i was too lazy to find more quotes so these excerpts are from both anne carson's translation of the oresteia#and robert icke's extraordinary modern-day production of the greek tragedy#shauna shipman#shauna x jackie#yellowjackets#parallels#web weaving
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BSD Official Guidebook Tenkaroku - characters profiles
Profiles from the season 3 guidebook. I heavily relied on automatic translators for this, so if you notice any mistake, please feel free to bring it to my attention. I'll be posting the Japanese original text in reblogs not to make this post too long. Other guidebooks profiles: Shinkaroku; DEAD APPLE; Gongeroku.
Fifteen arc
Osamu Dazai Age: 15 years old Height: 155cm Weight: 51kg Impression when he met Chuuya for the first time: âI'll never feel positively about him againâ Places he would like to visit if he went travelling: Famous suicide (by drowning) spots What are the qualities of a âkingâ?: The ones of people like Mori-san
Chuuya Nakahara Age: 15 years old Height: 150cm Weight: 53kg Impression when he met Dazai for the first time: âThere's trash all aroundâ Places he would like to visit if he went travelling: I want to go to a trip overseas with my friends What are the qualities of a âkingâ?: Being strong
Arthur Rimbaud Age: 27 years old Height: 185cm Weight: 68kg What he believes are his strengths and weaknesses: Strength: having a useful ability / Weaknesses: being sensitive to cold Favourite type: A woman who can warm him up Motto: Always put the mission above everything else Something he wants right now: His lost memories of the past
Canon
Osamu Dazai Something they've been into recently: Showing everyone the footage of Kunikida going insane because of Q's ability Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Since Ranpo-san is here, there can't be a âcan't lose to anyoneâ What they want to overcome: Nothing at all
Atsushi Nakajima Something they've been into recently: Checking the bankbook page with his salary Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: He doesn't have any confidence in himself, so there's no such thing. What they want to overcome: I want to learn to have the common sense of and behave like a member of society.
Kyouka Izumi Something they've been into recently: Research on cooking for Atsushi Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Gratitude towards Atsushi and the Detective Agency What they want to overcome: I want to become less startled by thunders.
Doppo Kunikida Something they've been into recently: Education for the increased number of new employees Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Ability to plan, and passion to carry it out perfectly What they want to overcome: My own imperfections that sometimes prevent me from carrying out my plans
Junichirou Tanizaki Something they've been into recently: Visiting western pastries shops with Naomi Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: I'm embarrassed to say it, but supporting and protecting a certain woman. What they want to overcome: My indecisiveness
Kenji Miyazawa Something they've been into recently: Teaching farming to the members of destroyed gangs Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Love for nature What they want to overcome: I want to be able to use a computer
Ranpo Edogawa Something they've been into recently: Initiating Kyouka to the deliciousness of cheap candies Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: I can't lose to anyone in anything What they want to overcome: I am perfect like I am now
Yukichi Fukuzawa Something they've been into recently: Showing up at a Go club Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Excellence of subordinates What they want to overcome: The mistakes of the assassin from the past
Akiko Yosano Something they've been into recently: Collecting photos of dissected patients' internal organs Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Human body dismemberment skills What they want to overcome: If possible, I want to save patients who have no choice but to die.
Chuuya Nakahara Something they've been into recently: Enriching his wine cellar assortment at home Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Hatred towards Dazai What they want to overcome: When buying a big motorcycle, I want to stop checking whether my feet can touch the ground
Ryuunosuke Akutagawa Something they've been into recently: Searching for Dazai's house Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: I would rather have something that no one can beat. What they want to overcome: My nemesis, the man-tiger.
Ougai Mori Something they've been into recently: Coming up with new strategies to recruit Dazai Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Organization management techniques that request rationality and logic What they want to overcome: Buying too many clothes for Elise
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Age: Unknown Height: Unknown Weight: Unknown What he believes are his strengths and weaknesses: Strength: wishing for world happiness / Weakness: low blood pressure Favourite type: He loves all human beings equally Motto: Happiness in this world Something he wants right now: Someone to talk with who has the same brain as him
Katai Tayama Age: 23 years old Height: 175cm Weight: 53kg What he believes are his strengths and weaknesses: Strength: his life is not expensive (no expenses for transportation and socialization) / Weakness: if left to himself, he won't change his clothes Favourite type: A refined, dignified and gentle woman Motto: There are many dangers outside the house Something he wants right now: Faster communication networks
#bsd ada#bsd pm#Maybe will tag all the characters later idk for now I don't want to spam the tags#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bsd dazai chĹŤya age fifteen#bsd s3#bsd translation#mine#I'm struggling the most with Akutagawa's second answerâ he's too philosophical đ¤Śđ¤Ś#The original would be ă誰ăŤăč˛ ăăŞăă¨ćăŁăŚăăăă¨: ăăă誰ăŤăč˛ ăăŹăăŽă揲ăăă .#He's repeating the ă誰ăŤăč˛ ăă of the questionâ but wouldn't that be:#âWhat's something you can't lose to anyone: I'd prefer having something that doesn't make me lose to anyoneâ#which doesn't make much sense??#Another I struggled with is ăăăăăŽă´ăă¨ä¸çˇă#With this one it's... Actually I just don't get it. That one may be completely wrong#The rest should be fine (hopefully)
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thinking about Susato and Barok parallels.............
#younger siblings to older brothers who turned out to have lied to them and who (almost) became murderes. older brothers fueled by rage andâ#âhate and what they considered justice. younger sibling is fighting to protect the justice system's justice even though it doesn't treatâ#âthem well. younger siblings putting themselves behind their older brothers. accepting and embracing their status as a 'tool'. turningâ#âtheir grief into their mission. betrayed by others close to them (yujin and gregson and stronghart)#aside from all that sad stuff they feel like the same genre of weird girl. i think they should become friends post-canon and after susatoâ#âhas kicked his ass at least once#there is a great fic out there (I think it's called Lost in Translation) which has Susato and Barok interact and it's amazing#i thought up a fic idea about them yesterday. maybe I'll follow up on it someday#i might have talked about this before. i don't know. time is a blur#dgs#barok van zieks#susato mikotoba#tgaa spoilers#spoilers
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it kinda just clicked for me that archdragons have their name name and then the title they receive(?) as an archdragon, ie "anak araw" -> "sol regem", which is really cool but like *shakes by the shoulders* WHERE ARE ZUBEIA AND AVIZANDUM'S!!! WHERE ARE THEY!!!!!!
#i don't have a defense for this one tdp what the hell dude#well at least now we can come up with our own#actually hold up let me open google translate#ok this is harder than i thought#especially with how many latin sky words are already associated with spells#regina tonat?#i can't use regina i just can't i'm sorry#âmother of lightningâ would be so cool but MATER FULGUR??? ik it's not pronounced the same but tow mater ahh#i can vibe with âmatrona procellasâ but matron doesn't do her justice#âimperatrix procellasâ might just be a lil TOO much#anyway i'm moving on#ok avizandum there are more options here but it's almost harder#potestas caelorum. robore tonitrui. tempestas magna. idfk#THEY ALREADY TOOK ALL THE GOOD ONES OK#anyway zym should be fun#âprincepsâ should definitely be a part of it bc it means ruler but also. prince. dragon prince. yk#and also something rainbow-y bc that's his special lil thing#princeps irides?#OH âARCUSâ CAN MEAN RAINBOW??? SAY LESS#princeps arcus or smth#ok they all sound dumb when i write them#sigh#tdp#the dragon prince#continuethesaga#giveusthesaga
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Ride 790: Drop of water

Pag 1
1: The lead is here!!
2: It's Higo's climber, third year of the local Kumadai!! Fujiwara Masayuki!!
Kumadai is in the lead!!
Higo... mokkosu!!
3: I'm running solo at the top of the brilliant mountain stage of the Inter High's first day!!
Go, Kumadai!!
Mokkosu!!
4: Not bad!! This is the best condition!!

Pag 2
1: I can see the red bib of the mountain prize!!
I'll take it!! For sure!!
2: Taura-san!! Ise-san!!
4: Manami and Mountain King went ahead and now are passing the climbers one by one!!
Ugh!! Wa!!

Pag 3
1: They keep moving up!!
Ah!? Huh!?
Amazing, their speed is on another level!!
Incredible they can run at such a speed even on a climb!!

Pag 4
1: What's that acceleration!!
Woah, it's Mountain King and Manami!!
They're so fast!
2: Dammit!! I heard that those two are good friends
The two of them are climbing together in âcooperationâ!!
4: Aaaaaaaaaa

Pag 5
2: Are you kidding me, you're accelerating on this slope!? You passed me
Ahh, as expected
4: It's such a close range!!
5: That's not it... those two aren't âcooperatingâ....

Pag 6
1: They're competing while climbing!!

Pag 7
1: It's hard, Manami-kun
For me too
2: My chest and legs hurt
Mine too
3: But I can't stop!!
For real!!

Pag 8
1: Let's go, until we reach the gate on the summit ahead of us!!
2: Beyond our limits!!

Pag 9
4: Amazing... what even are those two
Somehow it feels like their level is different from the other cyclists....
5: Do they both want the mountain prize and are fighting for it?
6: Or is it âsomething elseâ?


Pag 11
3: Is it a good idea, Midosuji-kun? We entered the mountain and Moutain King.... Onoda and Manami moved
Is it a good that we didn't send anyone?
4: For the mountain stage of the first day I'd say that everyone has a chance to take the red bib so why don't we let Kiriya... go
I mean...
Water
5: Yes

Pag 12
3: This guy.... Komari... to take the water bottles he has in the back of his jersey.... he put his hand inside from the...

Pag 13
1: back of his neck!!
2: Here
Yeah
4: He poured so much on his head!!

Pag 14
1: The mountain prize is a useless decoration, so why would I want it?
Funatsu-kuun
2: Well
But Sohoku and Hakogaku!! And their main forces stepped out.... Manami and Onoda, right?
4: And?
Well... uhm... we have rules and they have theirs, I guess... yeah!!
5: We just have to watch the movements of Sohoku and Hakogaku's main forces?
While closely observing their movements and strategies

Pag 15
1: 'Cause the finish line is still ahead!!
Ye- yeah
2: Manami and Sakamichi moved
5: For the first day's mountain
Puku, no way
Do you have water for me too?
Don't ignore me...!!

Pag 16
1: To take a useless mountain prize!?
2: Those two want a decoration like that?
4: There's no strategic reason
5: The four-eyes unlike the others.... and the guy who's not a small fry and I can't look down on...
Their reason to fight
6: That's

Pag 17
1: A âsupreme scrapingâ!!
5: The drops of water together
7: The âInter Highâ
8: is a place that hits the enhanced body and mind
Here, what those two have always wanted

Pag 18
1: is to ârunâ!!
2: The mountain line is just an indicator for that!!
Perhaps they wouldn't even feel anything if someone else took it!!
3: The best condition for both of them
4: A one-off chance
5: They'll keep scraping and scraping, using all of their strength and giving their all on this big stage
Just to compete!!

Pag 19
1: Puku!! Useless, useless, that's...
Huh? What? What!?
What it means âfriendsâ!? That!?
2: Ridiculous!? A waste, puku!! Puku puku
F-friends!? Is this another question!?
3: Nothing special....
4: But
5: The only thing I can say
6: Their battle that's unfolding now

Pag 20
1: Its purity... is extremely high!?
Extremely!!
2: To the point that no one can even touch it!!
3: 3km left until the mountain line!!
#yowamushi pedal#yowapeda#yowamushi pedal translations#yowapeda manga#yowamushi pedal manga#yowamushi pedal spoilers#ride 790#big fan of that guy who's so shocked that onoda and manami are competing. while climbing. on the mountain.#during the mountain stage. at the inter high.#like wow yeah thats obviously so shocking#they should have been holding hands instead of racing yeah we all know that#no but srsly what did he expect! you're in a race! of course theyre racing!! asdhsjdfgsdjf#anyway#why is komari like that#like#why.
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Seven Crimes and Punishments
Happy 10th anniversary to the album and story!
#evillious chronicles#me when scap me when scap story#me when allen runs around going insane#me when amostia first appearance#me when i make a fuckass post about what colors irregular in scap should be cause he's not adam and he's not allen he's something He Sure I#me when another jester has gaslit me into thinking lemy's hat is split-colored#anyway i noticed a detail i missed in the other website posts so i fixed it specifically for tumblr~#anyway i have a key memory of reading the translation as it was coming out back in high school sitting in the classroom#having just finished it all and having the hollowest feeling#shoutout to this thrown away story that made me feel things for the first time in a while#aight anyway#allen avadonia#hansel salmhofer#amostia#irregular#mind you that's not adam don't you dare tag him that#i Will bite#digital#shabart
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LOST: Season One
#lost#abc lost#lost one cap per ep#this was a project i was gonna do anyways but the timing worked out that i could post the first one on the 20th anniversary!#this is one cap per ep every season. from left to right. and this is important: its not a cap that sums up each ep#its a cap that REPRESENTS each ep. the way i choose them varies every episode#sometimes its an utterly iconic moment. sometimes it reps the theme of the ep. or it hits with a theme of the character themselves#sometimes the cap i use won't even involve the character whose centric episode it is. trust me. this makes sense#anyways i'll give a good example: for outlaws i was so tempted to use a shot of the judgemental soulful gaze of the boar#or perhaps sawyer in the rain after he shot that man#but! i used that shot of sawyer's dads legs as sawyer is hiding under the bed. i feel it worthy because this moment. this scene#is literally a core part of sawyer. it's a defining moment of his backstory. of his character. so yeah. makes sense yeah?#anyways some eps had Too Much going on (lord i could make one of these for exodus part 1 alone) and some not enough#or well they DID but like lacked in caps that Hit in the way im thinking. thank heavens charlie shot ethan cuz i was worried about that ep#i was like ''aw shit what am i gonna use'' and then an iconic lost moment happened kjhfdsjkhfd#anyways. there are 25 eps in season one. so im really glad that the last ep contains one of the moment iconic visuals/moments in all of los#oh i should add that these caps are unedited. i did not fuck with the colours or saturation in any way#i found 'em and i pieced them together. this is harder than it sounds. i browsed through all the screencaps of every ep of season one#and i will do so the remaining five seasons#some of these were super easy like i knew what cap i'd be using before i even started (eg. do no harm. the moth. in translation)#but some took some real Thinking. and some eps even had several caps that would have worked. this has all been quite interesting#also yeah. y'all already know damn well what cap i'm using for the very last episode
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anyone interested in talking about the iconic 2000's middle-grade-bordering-on-ya book series gallagher girls??
#okay incoming rant about this series#i read the first book when i was 10 or 11 and i was absolutely obssessed with it. i read it so many times i had the entire story memorized#the issue was that i could not find the rest of the series anywhere. it was either sold out or out of stock#and then i found out that only the first 3 books had been translated into my first language so at that point i kinda gave up on them#anyway#flashforward to a couple of weeks ago#i was re organizing my bookshelf and on the back i found LYKY (is this how y'all are abreviating it??)#and remembred how much i loved it#and since i'm now fluent in english and was stuck at home recovering from a surgery i decided to download the entire series and read it#to find out what the fuck happened afterwards#long story short i read all six books in 4 or 5 days#and i haven't stopped thinking about them since#it's actually so funny how little information we have in the first book#i went all of these years thinking it was mostly a silly series about a boarding school for spies when actually SO MUCH happens afterwards#i can't believe i went all of these years unaware of zach goode's existence#truly character of all time#but also i can't stop thinking about how interesting it would have been if zach had come to hate the circle and his mom during the series#rather than before#make it a true enemies to lovers#and have us witness that portion of his character developement in real time instead of being told about it#like him slowly realizing through cammie and his time at gallagher that maybe what they were doing is wrong#i think it would have been very interesting to read#although let's be real it took me until halfway through book four to trust him and he was fully one of the good guys so..#but yeah i have a lot more to say but these tags are long enough#gallagher girls#okay i just want to add another funny anecdote about my experience with this series#my copy of LYKY has an age warning in the back recomending that readers should be above 13 yo to read it#and i distinctly remember finishing it and thinking the warning was kind of dumb bcs besides a few mentions of death and other heavier topi#nothing really happened#and now i realize it was a warning for the rest of the series not just the first book because jesus fucking chirst everything after
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Hey! First of all, I love what you do! It's really beautiful, I just wanted to ask you what software you use to make your illustrations? And what software for pixel art? Thanks in advance for your answers. Keep up what you're doing, it's really too beautiful! <3
Heya, thank you so much for the kind words! Fairly simple answer here, I use the same software for both- I work in Clip Studio Paint. I DO have asesprite and I really want to learn how to use it, mainly for patterning/tiling in pixelart. But currently all I use is CSP. It's served me well!
Pixel art can be done in basically any program that has a pixel brush luckily. But ye this is my usual setup! The one upside of working in CSP is that I can do my regular non pixel art concept sketches right there on the other side of the canvas in cases where i feel i need to haha
#i actually dont do detailed sketches like that trevenant often at all. i just did that one cus it was a bigger one at an extreme angle#also to xplore the colors i wanetd a bit#my usual sketches r closer to the ninetales! n that ws a pretty 1 to 1 recreation of the sketch which is rare i usually#change the pose and design when trnaslating to pixel art.#but yeah VERY loose sketches. mainly so i dont get too hung up on 'this has to look like x' cus it might not be able to translate to pixels#well enough. what i can make look good in pixels takes priority over the og sketch haha (also i dont usualy bother to pose the sketches lol#the tree as u can see had no sketch since ykno. just a tree!#i do all my pixel work generally in one#maybe two layers. a second layer usualluy only for bigger elements i want to be able to remove#in this case the second layer i have for the pixels is the white outline around the tree! for the lum/cress i posted it was the light#rings behind it. also i dont think i ever posted that tree here. sad. it was a nice tree.#maybe i should sometime. i was proud of it#not art#ribbon answers#i also need to finisht hat DAMN TREVENANT its just the bg i gotta polish
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Excuse the little yap, teehee.
Close call having to explain Joker Out to my father after he remarked on how cool my laptop keys were (they glow) and then saw my screen background: a homemade Souvenir Pop themed layout. Bless this man; he couldn't read the font I used and did not inquire any further besides, "Is that a band?"
I know a lot of people here are so invested and obsessed with their interests that they HAVE to talk about them with everyone they're close with, but is there anyone who is absolutely mortified to talk to people about things they're obsessed with?
Like, I wouldn't be able to explain Joker Out well enough to him to understand why I felt the need to put this "band" as my background, ya know? And I can't even use the excuse, "Oh, I just like their tunes" because he'd look them up and wonder how on earth I found them because, genuinely, the likelihood of me ever finding them is one in a million. He'd look up their eurovision performance and have to watch Bojan lick the camera, and I'd just have to accept that. That is what stopped me from getting into them for five months after finding them. What if he got it twisted and thought I liked that?! Mortified.
I will never forgive Bojan for this. If my father ever recalls this conversation, I'm gonna need financial compensation.
#joker out#personal#lowkey my dad is a bit of a music snob too#not a snob in the sense that he only enjoys the most masterfully created songs by the most obscure artists#(this man sings the gummybear song from 2007 more often than someone in the year of our lord 2025 should sing it)#but he is not afraid to judge music HARSHLY#he forced my younger sister to give him a list of her fave songs and she likes some unlikely stuff too#and WITHOUT her permission#he took that list and listened to her songs and then said TO ME: âshe likes some very strange and... interesting stuff.â#I'll be honest...I'm afraid what he'd say to me#worried my love for them will be reduced to âso you like them because they're attractive? you can't even understand what they're saying!â#that is all part of the fun!! having to go the extra mile to find translations and cross compare them all to see context similarities is FUN
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i wanted to put these four together chatting, cooking, dancing, and trust
#witch hat tag#orufrey#sorry for repost of 3 of these images the 4th is new.#based on kitchen chapter 10 and all the emotions that a COOKING SPINOFF gives me. it looks uh. weird. to me. now#but i understand what i mean. always. i like that art can be a way of capturing that for you (and writing)#secrets and food and the one dance we've danced our whole lives and The mountain apple - your heart - the trust i have for you#âIf you're the one saying it then it must be trueâ no offence but yet again official translation chose something paltry compared to that#What if i would die first before i would poison you but what if your trust in me is killing us#What if you're the one who should be trusted wholeheartedly yet still I'm the one who holds back? Who does not take the apple?#What if this is SO evocative of yet so different to the cantarella scene in utena and cai loses their marbles for real this time#drawing wine drops from the apples makes it look like the snow white apple. i cant take it#a week (or 4 days) of randomly trying to be more intuitive with composition or..idk. this weird sloopy brush is good for that. Sloopy i say
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I just realized something kinda annoying about engstars, they let Ra*bits call Nazuna "Ni-chan", but Eichi is referred to as "Brother Eichi" :/ I wish they'd just stick with one rather than make it confusing (especially for people that only have/use the official translation)
Brother eichi sounds like they're in a monastery i'll never get over that. I hear gongs in my head every time i read it. Im sorry to anyone that only uses the official translation though:( for many reasons i wont get into cuz i think i'll sound annoying if i do. Anyway. Rinne and Niki calling Anzu sister is funny tho, i'll give eng that, it adds a vague 2010s american gay layer to their characters that was definitely not intentional but it's there now
#ask#anon#every time someone casually asks 'should i download enstars' i have to bite my tongue because well if u wanna get into enstars dont download#the english app#no no. first of all it misses half a decade's worth of stories secondly the translations suck#what youre gonna do is hunt down blogs and use the wayback machine and- wait where are you going...#you wouldnt want to be a casual would you (theres nothing wrong with that considering it's easier to join an actual church than get into#enstars)#(it's just a game but also no it isnt. wait come back yeah you can download the app... well no i wouldnt recommend getting into it like that#)#these tags are a mess
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The last song that was written, the last lyrics that were written was (for) the song âHooked.â It starts off with the line, âIâve got the fear / Iâve got the human fear.â And I realize that so many of the songs had an underlying theme of fear to them. But not necessarily succumbing to fear, but more like overcoming fear. âThe Doctorâ is about the fear of leaving an institution, and âBar Lonelyâ is the fear of leaving a relationship. âNight or Dayâ is the fear of committing to a relationship. But fear is fascinating because fear is universal. We all experience fear. We all experience the same fears. But how we respond to it is individual. And thatâs how we find who we are, our personalities. And overcoming fear feels good. Thatâs why we watch horror films or ride rollercoasters â because you overcome fear and then feel very alive for having done so.
â Alex Kapranos on the story behind Franz Ferdinand's latest album The Human Fear for AP
#the human fear#franz ferdinand#probably not bye#éłćĽ˝#new music#gif#my gifs#i'm having the time of my LIFE with this album#in the past 4 days alone i've listened to it so many times that i swear it's already imprinted in my dna#it's sosososooooo good !!! such a fun compact album !!!#in typical franz fashion almost every song goes in a direction you wouldn't expect#it's like a perfect mix of old & new!#the synthesizer & certain guitar riffs - even the way alex sings - recall some of their earliest songs into always ascending & beyond#like when i first heard cats ! ohhhhh#classic ff but it also reminded me of los bitchos !#yet something about it feels distinctly new too (a small touch of country perhaps?)#i adore everydaydreamer & the little ooohs#'don't put a good dream down' đ#and if we're talking about lyrics then hellooo the birds !#ending an album all about fear with 'thank you for accepting me despite what i have done?? and the man that i've become???'#alex kapranos. your mind.#can't quite explain it but that song has SUCH a paul mccartney feel to it that i wholeheartedly endorse & love#also so excited by the rebetiko in black eyelashes! singing in greek!!!#one of the fan groups was kind enough to translate & share the phonetic pronunciation in english & spanish so we can sing along :')#which i will be doing this spring when they tour!!!#i can't wait to finally scream along to the doctor !#to experience tell me i should stay live ! (the buildup in that song is incredible & may very well be my favorite)#and to dance !!!!!!!!!#thank you ff what a way to start the year đ
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