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inkskinned · 5 months ago

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this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

#warm up #writeblr #actually this is because again i don't go here #i don't read/write fanfic but i have nothing but respect for my troops #but i also have never played minecraft. im sorry. please ask me any question about pokemon tho i love that shit #anyway #out of some banal and thoughtless curiosity i watched the minecraft movie trailer #and again i know nothing about minecraft. i am aware im in an endangered population #but im watching this going: this is so fucking.... BAD #there is NO LOVE in it!#like if someone who has NO history in minecraft watches that and is like - ohhh this is soulless #WHO IS THE AUDIENCE????#ppl who love minecraft are gonna hate it!!!#at some point it's the ''mean girls musical movie'' problem --#some people will always hate the premise of what you're doing and some people will love it #make it for the ppl who love it #and usually that somewhat convinces the haters to like. chill enough to TRY it . bc it IS good #but when you try to make it for the haters..... nobody likes it. it doesn't have passion. energy. footwork #which is a small way of saying a big thing: if you love something. fucking make it and assume someone will love it too.#i love u . be brave . be bold. be in boston and come to my reading #where i wrote a really weird fucked up little book.#love u love u love u etc

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lotus-pear · 22 days ago

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bugs when you lift up a rock

#jumping in between the persona games is such a curse oh my god #i’m playing p4 actively simultaneously watching tumblr user haliai play p3 and in addition hyperfixating over p5 #it’s just reference after reference after reference i can’t catch a break 😭#shoutout to the justice arcana‼️ gotta be one of my favs‼️ go featherman and dead moms am i right?#anyway i want to play p5 again soon for akechi…..missing him very badly i wish p4 had a character like him #“but adachi—!” nuh uh doesn’t count #ANYWAY AUGHHHHHH shuake save me shuake…….actually missing them like a bitch 🙏🏼#everything reminds me of them #if i think abt them for too long i genuinely start to feel sick #persona 5 royal #p5r #persona 5 #p5 #goro akechi #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #shuake #akeshu #lotus draws

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vivitalks · 1 month ago

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best types of brennan NPC

autism haver

stoner

frat bro who has unlearned hypermasculinity so hard that he's gone 100% the opposite direction about it

anticapitalist proletarian

the most insane person you've ever met

#brennan lee mulligan #in order this post is about (1) ayda aguefort (2) max durden (3) ragh barkrock #(4) bud cubby and (5) bill seacaster #guess what SHOW i am WATCHING #dimension 20 #d20 #stuff #blmulligan #dnd #ok wait i wanna think about this for unsleeping city #who are the autism havers in tuc why am i blanking.......#im gonna say esther could be an autism haver. or nod #the johns are obviously the frat bros #seven (s3\/3n?) is the anticapitalist proletarian obviously #maddy is both the anticapitalist and the autism haver as a matter of fact #and her name might be spelled maddie idk #anyway alejandro is the stoner #and wally is absolutely the most insane person youve ever met......him and la gran gata perhaps.......#i just remembered about arthur aguefort the actual most insane person youve ever met #strong case for that #the point is these are always brennan's best NPCs #most sentimental? most touching scenes? usually not. but fucking funniest? almost without fail #fantasy high

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chemicalarospec · 4 months ago

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fob saying "it's been 17 years since we played with My Chemical Romance" is so important cuz idk about the rest of y'all but I got so caught up in the dnp anticipation that I forgot the original reason this day was a big deal was FOB and MCR playing together again!!

#bonus brain damage for OG emos: 17 years is two years younger than I am!#TO BE CLEAR I WAS NOT THERE I WAS WATCHING A LIvESTREAM LOL #i actually originally said that in the post but then was like 'well they weren't the ones livestreaming so that doesn't make sense. they #simply said it.' 💀 but now like five people think i was there lol #i said this #fob #mcr #wwwy #when we were young fest #when we were young 2024 #no but seriously imagine it #october 19th #fall out boy #my chemical romance #dnp #phan

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egophiliac · 5 months ago

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buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #lost in the book with nightmare before christmas #hajimari no halloween #(the origin of halloween huh) (oooh)#why yes i did wake up way too early to watch the stream and will have no memory of drawing this later #anyway THE MAGIC BOOK IS BACK TO EAT US ONCE AGAIN!!!!#this does make things make a lot more sense if it doesn't have to. y'know. actually take place in the established world #like how jack and sally are apparently just gonna be THERE as themselves WHY NOT #i'm certainly not complaining mind you #scully looks like he's gonna be super adorable and i love him already #spooky scary skeleman who just goes :O a lot and is excited for halloween #he seems like he might actually be more of a fusion of jack and sally? or maybe i'm just reading too much into it #still getting jazzy vibes off of him though. is not scully j graves an incredible jazz musician name.#does this open up the possibility that the last time we went into the book there was a sexy anime boy stitch just offscreen the whole time #...maybe some things are best left uncontemplated #god everyone in this event looks fantastic i'm so glad i saved up some keys after all #a little sad that there's no lilia but you know what the fact that a halloweentown malleus exists is still pretty dang good #and sebek's hat is SO tall #the biggest hat for the loudest boy #i hope oogie is here too i need him and jamil to meet #i need jamil to be faced with a guy who's just a bunch of bugs standing on each other's shoulders in a trenchcoat #i am not coherent right now i just needed to get this out before i go pass out again

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coddda · 8 months ago

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I wish we could have met in some other way.

Lawlight Week Day 2: Soulmates

If you saw me repost and re-edit this several times uh No you didn't </3

Still frames/Individual gifs:

If you know what every frame is from you get a free cookie. by the way

#death note #dn #light yagami #l lawliet #lawlight #oh god here we go #death note jdrama #death note 2015 #death note 2006 #death note musical #lctw #l change the world #dntm #lawlightweek2024 #my art #collapses i am NEVER putting this much effort in one piece ever again /hj this was the Only one i had mostly prepared in advance #ironically the most painstaking part about making this entire thing was converting the images into an animated file #that wasn't either horrifically compressed or just. wouldn't loop. why do gifs have to look so BAD it's so inconvenient #and THEN i realized I had to forcibly Stitch the two animations together so they would actually be synced and it wouldn't look dumb #and the end result is STILL so compressed. because Tumblr. uhhh just don't click on it it'll look so scuffed LOL. anyways #this is what i get for watching Every Adaptation of Death Note. i am a death note multiverse truther #usually i'd have something clever to say in the tags but. this drained the life out of me just uh.#yeah. they're doomed in every universe. this is the only way they could've met. they are doomed by their own natures and the #circumstances that surround them. there is no universe where light tries to prevent L's death. and even in the cases where L Doesn't die #there is no universe where L can save light. there is no universe where he can truly “catch” Kira and make him see where he went wrong #(<- if you read LCTW you know. :) )#in every universe and adaptation L will call Light his first friend. in some universes they'll take that notion more seriously than others #no matter what one of them will die due to the other. its the only constant. it's the only way it can ever be. they are the others downfall

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courfee · 7 months ago

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17 December 1975 / 15 May 1976

#hp #marauders #sirius black #regulus black #black brothers #sirius black fanart #regulus black fanart #marauders fanart #the black brothers #marauders era #my art #black borthers angst #mine #sirius and regulus #jsyk what you see there in the background actually is the sky you would see on the above dates from islington #i specifically chose the dates cause sirius wouldnt be visible anymore at that point #and he could have totally run away already by that point being 16 and all #also because i am such a nerd who has to get things correctly that is actually more or less the view you would have from claremont square #grimmauld place #took me for fucking ever to find some good references above the roofs and i still had to improvise a lot #originally i had an inbetween slide with regulus watching james and sirius walking together having fun in the great hall #but i didnt do more than just a very rough sketch of that it somehow didnt fit sorry #(also i am still not 100% happy with especially the first one but ive tried so long to fix it i eventually had to give up...)

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hellspawnmotel · 3 months ago

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gravity falls x the night of the hunter (1955)

#the latest in my series of crossovers between nerd shit and oldass movies!#gravity falls #bill cipher #dipper pines #mabel pines #stanford pines #stanley pines #billford #the night of the hunter #crossover #art tag #i am sorry about classic skinny blond humanbill. but it is how i think he would look in this setting #i dont think he would have one designated human form it would depend on where he was and what he was doing #oh also i actually started doing these in like. may. and then i got distracted #and finally finished them just now lol #OH ALSO gfalls fandom watch this movie please its sooooo good #and i hope im not misremembering but im p sure it was the inspiration for bipper's design

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mishaesque · 7 months ago

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my issue is that just rewatching Supernatural isn’t enough. It takes too long. I want it all at once. I need a room covered in 327 monitors that feed me every single episode at the same time. I need the DVDs melted down and put into an IV drip. I want every single minute of the show tattooed on the inside of my eyelids. I need to live inside its flesh.

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 month ago

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Be wary not of the beast, but the hand that tamed it.

(Read more dog training tips over at Tiger Tiger)

#tiger tiger #rakkatak ann #remy bonnaire #jamis arlesi #Shout out to sabertoothwalrus for compiling all the Jamis Dog comparisons. For references. Of course.#Jamis *is* Remy's loyal hound and we all know it! Everyone knows it! Except apparently Remy!#The court scene made me (and many others) start barking and snarling. But no one holds a candle to Remy Bonnaire.#Something about how both Remy and Jamis have parallel scenes where they defend the honour of someone they love.#Something about how we're primed to expect it to be Jamis who displays the most open outrage - but no!#Rat man better watch it. This time it was mostly barking but next time there will be biting involved.#And dear god. The look of pure thrill and adoration in Jamis's eyes when Remy pulls out his sword.#Bark bark woof woof that man would follow him to the ends of the earth and back and just be happy to be there.#The yearning and sheer force of affection these two have for each other is so well done.#Please. If you actually haven't read Tigers yet...I am no longer asking. I'm on the floor weeping about it.

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hinamie · 5 months ago

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"I'll show you every day that choosing to live was worth it"

some of my favourite scenes from @hijinks-n-lowjinks' fic things i would miss from the other side . this fic tore my heart out fr but like in a good way and i wanted to pay it homage the only way i know how <3

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #itafushi #fushiita #yuji itadori #fushiguro megumi #megumi fushiguro #jjk spoilers #jjk manga spoilers #I LOVE PLOTTING AND ALSO SCHEMING #listen i have a lot of feelings and i needed 2 process them and i do that by making art 2 target my mutuals directly #read my about it's there it's in the fineprint if we talk You Are Not Safe smile #i just . BITING BITING BITING this fic #the domesticity the grief the casual yet unfathomably deep soulmatism.......im ruined i tell u Ruined #so naturally i dropped everything #remember how i said lefts/rights r my enemy my beloathed my nemesis. MIRRORS MADE IT SO MUCH WORSE FHGDSAJFGJS I WANTED DEATH #i was like this is incorrect. no this is correct. flips them around in my head. no im wrong again actually #purgatory tbh but we got there (watch me be wrong again tho if i am wrong again i think i will Cry)#anyway!!! i don't have much else to say except pls read the fic and show jinx some love they 1000% deserve it this fic 1000% deserves it #i could only draw so many scenes but i would draw all of it if i could #fr i ws so paranoid abt accuracy lmao cut 2 footage of me looking up rice cooker models and wtf the colour 'carnelian' was #i hope i got everything right i hope i did it justice :'>#also if any1 mentions how megumi's arm in 3 is at an awkward angle. look me in the eye and tell me youve comfortably cuddled with someone #i will call u a liar

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prlssprfctn · 4 days ago

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Continuing my agenda about Bruce and Jason becoming the most annoying and dramatic people after fixing their relationship, and making others roll their eyes, because, come on, we all need that. And because Bruce is as dramatic as others; he kinda technically was inspired by Zorro when becoming Batman, alright? That tells a lot.

Anyway, no thoughts, just Bruce and Jason annoying everyone with being the most melodramatic duo ever.

Jason, appearing in the Batcave out of the sudden, swaying a little: Hey Dick, worried: Hey. Are you okay? You rarely drop by like this... Jason, stopping by Bruce's armchair, dramatically slumping over: I... I came here today, because I lost my last battle... Bruce, who senses his bullshit, but plays along: Oh no, champ, what's wrong? Dick, activating mother-hen: SHOULD WE CALL ALFRED? ARE YOU- Jason, sniffling: Battle... Battle with... Loneliness. Bruce, with a short smile on his face: (theatrically puts Britney's Baby One More Time exactly on "My loneliness is killing me" line) Dick, groaning: YOU BOTH-

Jason, spawning in the middle of the day in WE, behind Bruce's back: Old man, protocol 222. Asap. You have five minutes. Bruce, standing up abruptly: Oh, okay. Bruce, with his stern father voice on: Jason, you are disowned. Jason: Fuck you!!! Tim, who was sitting in the same cabinet, watching as Jason storms off: Excuse me? Bruce: He is either watching some movie or reads a book about daddy issues, so he needs to get into a mood. Please, continue your analysis. Tim: ...What the fuck.

Duke: I was always a little curious... What was your father like? No pressure, you don't need to answer if you don't want to. Jason: Well- Bruce, popping out of nowhere: How come you don't know what kind of father I am? Duke: Oh, no, I meant Jason's biological fa- Bruce, frowning: I am his biological father. Jason, because he is no less shit: Yeah, damn, didn't want to tell others, especially to Damian, since he will freak out... But apparently Bruce had a one-night stand thing with my bio mama. It is kinda a secret. Bruce, very pleased: Yeah. It is a secret... but you can probably say that, considering how alike we look. Jason: (nods) Duke, absolutely believing this shit, because had you seen this fucking family: Oh. Ok. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. Jason, beaming: Thanks, dude. That's why you are my favourite.

#this came to me in my sleep-deprived delirium btw #I am very fixated on some post saying Wtf was Bruce actually jealous of Willis and that's why he kept truth about his death from Jason #like idk the thought of Bruce having a deadass beef with Willis who is DEAD is funny #random fact but telltale Batman actually made it canon that Bruce watched that stupid movie thousand times (his autistic special interest)#and I live for this fact.#jason todd #red hood #dcu comics #dc universe #dcu #batman #bruce wayne #batfamily #batfam #dick grayson #duke thomas #tim drake

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bananonbinary · 1 year ago

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jfc i just saw a "morally grey girlboss" poll and mabel pines was one of the contenders. she's not morally grey she's not a girlboss she's 12 and never makes a single moral decision that's worse than "you have stuff going on but i'm focused on my own problems" what are you fucking talking about

#fan wank /#she's up against characters who have done actual murders #and she's getting a nontrivial amount of votes!!!#yall have brainrot i am sorry #i saw the poll because she was up against one of the MECHANISMS #you know. the band of immortal space pirates that think killing is fun?#i understand that more people watch gf but HOW WAS SHE GETTING ANY VOTES #honestly if i saw her matched against someone i didnt know i'd vote for the person i didnt know. she simply does not meet the requirements

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palarien · 10 months ago

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