#(or i suppose whatever's left)

[burningcheese-merchant]

Worst artist in the BurningCheese community decides to get uppity (again), makes fankid collage/group photo in celebration of us all sharing a brain cell

Left to right:

Leftmost is @stories4eve 's (1)*

Little bro being a nuisance up north is @sunny-sourzii 's (2)

To their right, and to the immediate left of the middle one, is @estarletnova 's (3)

Middle Pepper Jack, aka the best and coolest and most adorable one, is my little guy

Pepper Jack immediately to the right of mine is @ewitsewwie 's (5)

And then next to that, furthest right, is @rawaso 's (6) I'm still extremely sorry for thinking yours looked too similar to mine. What a fucking blunder honestly. I need new glasses

Bonus panel featuring my little guy's sister, titled "I Got Really Tired At The End And Just Wanted To Scribble". There are suddenly six versions of Matar Paneer's brother, at least one of them not even being a boy(?), and she is extremely confused. Either somebody explains to her what's going on or she starts stabbing the other 5 with her katar because she thinks they're evil doppelgangers of some sort

If any of the artists tagged here want the individual doodles of their kiddies just let me know. I made sure to save them all before editing them together. I'll send them to your ask box(es) or something

*I'm sorry to Eve for changing your kid's look. I honestly could not make sense of his appearance no matter how hard I tried. The other ones were difficult enough for me as they were lol. I did this for my own sake. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

[laurmaus]

a tribute to my favorite ship from age 8 to 18 You will never escape me AND A WELCOME BACK TO THEEE LAURANCE ZVAHL!!!!!

[basket-of-radiants]

[batboopp]

thinking how bruce wayne’s mere existence single handedly defied khoa’s “dead is just dead” line of thinking in batman: the knight tbh.

[kokomadada]

Hello! Would you ever be interested in reposting old art from 2019-2021? I remember following you back then (or maybe even a bit earlier than 2019) on other places and would love to see some old pieces again... ;w; it's totally fine if not though of course. But I'm glad to have found your art again after such a long time! You was a big inspo for me years ago

2019.... thats crazy... sorry for taking forever to respond to this gahaha i got busy. unfortunately (or not) i really dont have much of my art from around then - i tend not to save my stuff unless i have to send it in, like a commission or something, but ive also switched a lot of laptops and hard drives since. if youve known me before 2019 even, id have to assume you know me for splatoon... i dont go there anymore and i have, genuinely next to nothing ive done for it, but i drew this for you just now. sorry i couldnt feed you an ample supply of my older stuff! hope im a better artist now than i was back then :"D

[froegs]

Jayce “Facebook-Mom” Talis-Medarda

[dancingindreamlight]

Anyone who says Ukrainian lives don't matter because their leader said they didnt

Anyone who said Ukrainian lives don't matter because others have it worse

Anyone who said Ukrainian lives don't matter because the US government sent them money

SHUT UP.

At a certain point it does no good to compare suffering. What does it do? Besides, their country is under attack and 1/5 of their country is under occupation and the true death toll in the occupied areas isn't known. The US gov pulls back it support because, you know. Russian propaganda is ubiquitous and is constantly devaluing their lives-- and people around the world go along with it!

How can anyone say they have it good when they're bombed almost daily. When their children are kidnapped by the thousands. When people in the occupied territories can't even hang a Ukrainian flag or speak their language without risking the most horrific torture that exists. Don't try to measure or quantify their suffering and don't you dare try to belittle it. If you do you're complicit in russias dehumanizing of them and in their imperial designs to crush them.

[gingermintpepper]

For the longest time, the quintessential song describing Apollo's wrath and consequent murder of Coronis for me was Marah in the Mainsail's 'Your Work isn't Done'.

It's dark. It's seething. Its image of Fate pushing the scorned speaker to complete his foul, terrible work of killing the man who stole his lover away from him is particularly powerful and it's always evoked this gruesomely tragic evolution of a glassy eyed Apollo stumbling through the streets, weak-legged and trembling from the betrayal growning more and more wrathful 'til he can think of no other course than to aim his bow and shoot. The price of betraying his trust is death and Coronis betrayed so much more than just his trust by taking Ischys as her lover.

The song itself captures that sensation of building wrath so well too. From the lonely guitar and vocals at the beginning which evoke this lonely, stripped back but distant grief to the way the singer is practically screaming his refrain of "Your work here isn't done" by the end, accompanied by the full blasting of instruments and an omnious chorus at his side, everything about this song is centered around building stakes, building realisations, building tensions and it creates this feeling of the speaker growing closer and closer with each new verse and chorus that adds to his anger.

There's also the absolute treasure trove of lyrics that work so well for specifically this tale. A brief overview of some of my favourites include;

- There's a crow overhead singing "Oh, Death is my friend."

- And though you think your time has come, the wheels of Fate have spun. Death has declared your work here isn't done.

- There's a girl on my heart safe ashore in her lover's arms

There's just such a vivid image to be drawn here - of Apollo's emotions being swallowed by his rage, of his resolve to end everything the more he bears witness to Coronis' brazen affair. There's even a strong female voice in the first two verses which seem to egg the speaker on in his spiral - a perfect opening to include Artemis who wishes for her brother to hunt that which brought him such pain alongside her. An Artemis who reinforces just what Coronis has done, an Artemis who does not want her brother to repress his anger after such grave an insult just because love was once there.

To me, it was perfect. Apollo's killing of Coronis was a crime of passion, an execution he sometimes cannot even bring himself to commit according to who is telling the tale. It's a wretched situation, harrowing, suffocating and cruel but if not by Apollo's hands, Coronis would simply die by another's. She cannot live after what she has done. The gods simply would not allow it.

AND THEN MY BIAS WAS COMPLETELY WRECKED BY LORD HURON.

Now, let it be known, I am a huge Lord Huron fan. Strange Trails is perhaps the most Apollo-coded album I've ever heard and songs like Yawning Grave and The Balancer's Eye capture such a visceral, gorgeous portrait of cosmic grief and anger that they haven't really left my brain since I first listened to them. Still, 'Setting Sun' from their Lonesome Dream album completely flew under my radar. Maybe it's because the commercial version is so much snappier than the Alive from Whispering Pines recording, maybe it's because I just hadn't listened to Lord Huron's discography in a while but my god. My god.

This song has it all; a quiet menace in its music, a strong male singer who sounds only barely restrained, an absolute HOST of lyrics that are so wonderfully perfect for the scenario -- after getting over how wonderful the song itself is, I immediately dethroned Your Work isn't Done because ultimately, 'Setting Sun' has something in abundance that 'Your Work isn't Done' minimised in order to focus on the wrath driving the song forward.

And that's love.

Setting Sun is so powerful because it's not just a revenge ballad - it's a dirge, a breakup song, a lament, a regret manifesto. So many times during the song, the speaker wonders when his lover stopped loving him. He recounts intimate moments and wonders if his lover was thinking of the other man when she was enjoying herself, wonders if anything she'd said was even real. And I love that so, so much.

Ultimately, Apollo adored Coronis. As inevitable as her death was, he regretted every second of it. No matter how angry, no matter how betrayed, no matter how intensely he was shamed, he still loved her. He weeps for her when she dies, he screams and grieves and cries when he's faced with her corpse. In some tales, no matter the cocktail of emotion driving him, he simply cannot bring himself to kill her. He'd rather cry in Artemis' arms and take his anger out on his own servant than hurt her. His own father has to dispatch Ischys since Apollo can't even bring himself to hurt that which Coronis once loved. Of course, in this case, Apollo's going to kill someone but the point is, it's not a decision of pure anger so much as its this complicated, horrible mix of resolve and lost love.

And my god does Setting Sun capture this conflict, passion, grief and love so well. UGH, I'm vibrating just thinking about it -- there are so many points where I hear its lyrics and can vividly picture Apollo, jaw clenched looking Coronis in her eyes and quietly confronting her.

Coronis, returning home at twilight after spending the day with Ischys to Apollo stringing his bow, "Oh? Is he ready to die for you baby? No, but you know I would."

Coronis lying to him about who she's spent her time with and Apollo's soft, near pained, "Does it hurt when you lie to me? If you asked, I would set you free."

I even really love the image of a Coronis who runs away from Apollo upon realising what will soon happen, not to escape his arrows but to warn Ischys who does not know what will happen. Of Apollo getting into his stance, taking aim at them and gathering his strength as the final refrains rings out "I know I'll never reclaim your love and that's as hard as it gets, so I'll be taking a life when the sun sets."

Other favourite lines of mine include;

- Oh, is he ready to die for you baby, now that the deed is done?

- Tell me when did I lose your love? Was it him you were thinking of?

- And I could never betray your love, you had me heart and soul. You might never have known it girl, but I was all yours.

And ultimately, I just like this conflicted portrait of premeditated murder much more than the crime of passion 'Your Work isn't Done' paints. Crimes of passion - especially when Apollo is concerned - are tragic in their own right, but in Coronis' case, I think I prefer it so much more when there's no way for Apollo's action to be misconstrued for anything other than what it is, especially since he goes on to cut Asclepius from his mother's corpse then carry on with building her funeral pyre. I think there's something so much more impacting about Apollo being unable to hide away from Coronis' blood on his hands and him having to raise Asclepius with those selfsame hands.

Love of the mortal does not supercede the responsibility of the divine. If Coronis' sentence no matter what is death, who better to lead her gently to the knife than he who still loves her?

[i-think-2-loud]

figure skater! jeremy and hockey player! jean

hp jean watching jeremy’s spins and jumps and realizing skating can be peaceful. realizing there’s enough beauty in it if you stop and look. realizing not everything has to be about the violence of the sport and that it’s alright to stop and admire the allure of it for a moment. it’s alright to see it as an art. it’s alright to crave the freedom of figure skating over the pressure of hockey sometimes.

fs jeremy watching jean play and realizing that not every move he makes on the ice has to be perfect. it’s alright to stop and have some fun with it on occasion. it’s alright to skate like you have something to win and not just put on a show for an audience. it’s alright to crave the energy and liveliness of hockey over the strict standards of figure skating sometimes.

[sleepyminty]

So the new ordeal call 2 leak and uh

Oh no

Ooh noooooo

OOOOOHHH NOOOOO

[anticidic]

I get so ill thinking about how Chuuya even ended up as a lab experiment as a kid, like what went wrong there. Abandonment is a persistent theme in Chuuya's backstory and it's always just been one bad thing after another. His dad was ex-military and an ex-doctor, and particularly described as not being a man to take lightly, so he potentially could've had high security clearance about the research being conducted at Research Facility A or had ties to the scientists involved in experimenting with abilities.

Mori was an ex-military doctor and we got a glimpse at how Yosano was treated as a kid and used for her ability, and it was obviously Nothing Good. I can't get out of my head that it can't be a coincidence Mori was an ex-military doctor and that he likely could've known about/been involved in Project Arahabaki. Mori's always conveniently come across extremely powerful ability users while they're kids — Yosano, Chuuya, Dazai, Q

Then the fact Teruko was drafted in the military as a kid for her ability too. I'M SENSING A PATTERN AND I DON'T LIKE IT

I am lying awake staring at the ceiling about this.

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

How do you go about finding/reading fics?

Personally, when I get into something, I'll go through a list of fanfic sites and read all the summaries and pick what sounds interesting, then every few weeks I observed the tag again if I'm still interested. Sometimes I stumble upon them on tumblr, iirc thats how I found yours. Art -> Fic.

Now, while I haven't finished the new Mond murder quest, lack of voices and the weird ost for the trial put me off a tad, I don't have a decent idea of Dahlia but still shouldn't really be all that surprised at the Dahlia/Venti but there are so many in so little time, god speed.

it depends on my investment in the ship. when i first start i just go to the ao3 ship tag and scroll down in order of most recent. if the chronological order is too slow to get new interesting fics for my rate of reading, then i sort by bookmarks in a separate tab and go down the list, checking back in on the chronological order every once in a while

i don't touch any other sites nowadays unless i'm really desperate. i just know that if i go to wattpad i'm gonna end up both frustrated and just reading can't eat love again for the like. nth time.

[snakes-on-skates]

is this anything

(clarification for the "freedom" thing: they arent helping free others out of the goodness of their hearts, either doing so by proxy when completing their goal or using them to help complete said goal. they are still going about it in a selfish way and i dont mean to imply they actually care about the people and/or creatures being freed.)

[swoo0zy]

u guys think wander got him those headphones

[outlying-hyppocrate]

and with that, the duolingo finnish course is completed.

[grabby-smitten]