#And I'm at my goddamn limit

[slumbering-shadows]

dear lord please grant me the patience to not call my doctors new nurse a fucking idiot to her face amen

[shithowdy]

realized a drawing i'm doing rn is almost identically posed to one i did 8.5 years ago of a different oc, except the old drawing was instantly tainted by one of the players featured messaging me asking if i could take it down because their abusive, possessive rp partner saw it and got jealous of them "roleplaying behind their back" and i said "nah" and it became a whole Thing that i should have walked away from at that exact moment but didn't and the 6 months that followed contained some of the most truly condensed batshit i have ever witnessed in an rp community already well-known for its batshittery.

... anyway i love my friends. so happy to accidentally redeem the pose.

[ewaudreyhorne]

There’s no Rebecca without Ted. 

[venacoeurva]

I do feel bad for people who really only use Twitter, I used it exclusively for a while when it was still decent-ish pre-elongated crust, and it's been dogshit but it keeps getting worse... but some people

have all their mutuals and friends there

some people can't use other social media they otherwise would due to it being banned where they are (which might include the aforementioned mutuals and friends living there too)

a ton of people have a larger following or reach there than any other sites they use that won't follow them elsewhere and that's their only source of income so they can't just delete and leave

and it's one of the few major social medias left where there's an active and openly allowed nsfw scene.

The fact that the alternatives are smaller sites scattered all over the place that might die in a few years, get worse, stagnate, or just never get much traffic just has me kinda

[phenikas]

Decided to look into how Rhys' textures from BL3 could be improved, starting with the head.

Overall I'd say the model is not bad, you can clearly see they added some key features that really showcase Rhys' age, since he's considerably older in BL3 than in Tales.

But, for reasons forever unknown, whoever made the model, or whoever created the reference sheet, took the liberty to completely change some key features of his face. Most noticeably, his nose is a lot less narrow and more pointy compared to the original model from Tales. His forehead is definitely less prominent, along with his eyebrows being a completely different shape and further apart (I'm assuming this was done to make him more expressive in-game but what the hell, it's not like they didn't use the same 4 idle animations for when he appears as a hologram). His jawline is slightly slacked, but upon further inspection, I'd say this is one of the good additions.

Honestly, the only thing that really bothers me about his face are the nose and the eyebrows (red lines). There's definitely some line art that would need a touch-up, like the worry lines in-between his eyebrows are too thick imo (blue lines). I'm not sure, however, if the nose would be improved were I to follow the line art in his original textures, since it's a different shape. We'll see.

[astramachina]

*holds up a finger* boy do i wish that was me tho ngl

[apocalypticdemon]

hhhhhhhhhh being annoyed with someone and knowing you're in the wrong about it is the fucking worst

[steakout-05]

hello i think schools giving students more work during the holidays and having assessments due during the holidays should either be illegal or at least regulated in some way. like i don't think that's ok. that is the student's downtime to take a break from working. that is THEIR free time to relax that schools are taking up with more and more work to do after the term is finished and done. students are already overworked and burnt out as is, and their weekends are already taken up by either more work, jobs or extracurricular stuff. school can be incredibly strenuous on the workload they churn out when the students are actually going to school. a stack of homework can take hours per night, and simple assignments can take weeks to finish. people can't just keep doing that all the time, they need a stress-free break with no obligations to rest their minds. that is the reason the holidays are there. they're not an excuse for schools to cram in more and more work because "they'll have more time", students need a break otherwise their brains are literally going to stop working properly. let them take time off ffs.

(the same goes for teachers. teachers shouldn't be made to constantly work during the holidays, they deserve a break too. everyone deserves a break.)

[giantkillerjack]

Your stance on the Dunmeshi queerbait stuff is a bit selfish. Wanting this one manga to go exactly the way you want is a dangerous path - the way you phrase it is so entitled, making it clear it's not about consuming media about lesbians, but making one specific work suit exactly what you want. So many yuri mangas are written by sapphic women. It's a shame your stance is how it is.

And bastardizing the term queerbaiting does no good, either. Neither does the japanese manga market. You should research more before making such hurtful posts.

Hope you have a great day anyway.

[Anon is referring to this post, I believe.]

I mean, one of us certainly IS acting very entitled and weird about the media they like, and it ain't me. Like, I think you just have associated this piece of media with your own identity in an unhealthy way that makes you react to criticism of it with intense defensiveness. You don't own Dungeon Meshi. You aren't Marcille. Dungeon Meshi is NOT a yuri manga; it's a beautiful manga with either sapphic queerbait or a woefully underdeveloped queer relationship at its center.

Maybe if you had an argument besides "it does no good" to criticize it, but you don't. So.

Smh, it's a "dangerous path" - I'm screenshotting that bc I know it'll make my wife laugh. Like, friendo, wanting a piece of media to be better isn't dangerous. But calling someone selfish and hurtful for criticizing media while offering no clarifications as to who I've hurt or how (any fellow sapphics bleeding out in here? Or is it just me with my bonkers-heavy period??)... it's overstepping a social boundary in a bizarre way.

Like, I'm sorry that I'm better at media analysis than you (not actually sorry - I am being petty! :D), but I actually have studied queerbaiting!! I am willing to bet I have done more research than you! (Are you from twitter? You have that vibe. - Again, pettiness.)

... and I spend every day with my wife (the best writer I know; I'm so honored to share stories with her), talking of nothing but our shared special interest all day - i.e. media analysis. (I honestly don't know what neurotypical couples talk about lol)

And I've done enough research to know that one of the side effects of queerbaiting is that fans are often in denial about it and then get REAL MAD when someone points it out. I was there for the Sherlock/Supernatural fandom. Shit was crazy. (Not saying Super-who-lock bc my man Russell Davies was like MAKE THOSE BOYS SMOOCH! 😎)

Also like, my apologies to Ryoko Kui - I really do love Dungeon Meshi - but like, I'm just better at writing and illustrating queer rep than she is. I make real gay protagonists who do gay shit and are gay, and I will never queerbait my audience. Womp womp.

Also, honestly, even if I turn out to be wrong about the queerbaiting by the end of the series, this message was still rude and entitled and weird. We have a lot of issues facing our queer community that endanger real people; someone calling a story queerbaiting mistakenly is not one of them.

[bonefall]

Unpopular opinion but I absolutely love Onestar. Like, he’s such a goddamn slightly insecure coward and it’s so fucking interesting. A leader who refuses help out of pride and accidentally orchestrates his own downfall. Earlier I saw a post made by someone (I forgot their user) that said Onestar’s motivation to help the clans and reveal the truth about Darktail should of been portrayed as more of a cowardly last attempt move AND I AGREE.

Following this statement above, do you have any plans for changing Onestar? Like the post I mentioned earlier I think has an absolutely amazing idea. Like changing his motivations for Darktail in the Bonefall Rewrite does fit the theme a lot better than “sudden change of heart”

Uhhh more like "CORRECT" opinion?

I think the post you're thinking of is this one by @cloudblaze who has a very big brain and I respect immensely

Onestar's AMAZING! Absolutely one of my favorite antagonists in the series. I love characters who are wrong in interesting ways and aren't always 'villainous.' I love characters who are the root of their own problems, whose archenemy is themselves.

I want him and Firestar to have a pointless battle-to-the-death pissing contest that Onestar demands, and he loses one of his 9 lives for no good reason. The Erins don't play around with the 9 lives nearly enough! Give me more blustering, useless displays of machismo! I am smashing two littlest petshop figures together.

So, I don't plan to 'change' him very much. Just make some stuff more consistent.

And he also gets featured much more in AVoS because of the POV change.

Bonefall AVoS

Breezepelt is a new major POV of AVoS. This is a WindClan and ShadowClan-centric arc. No shade to Twigbranch and Alderheart, but AVoS was NOT their story to tell.

It's an arc about mistakes, making up for them, and the concept of redemption.

It's also one of the hardest arcs I have to rewrite and I'm trying to thread a needle about The Kin, because I feel that as they were in-canon, they tell a pro-xenophobic story. It's very, very important to me that I fix that, while still allowing The Kin to be a malicious group. Read about it over here and I also tag it with #Bonefall AVoS if you'd like to see the ideas actively developing over conversations

So... anyway, that big bullet aside,

Onestar and Breezepelt are very important characters. There is a parallel between Onestar and Darktail, and Crowfeather and Breezepelt. By the end of this arc, Onestar comes to have a REAL reckoning with how he has a LOT of blame for this situation, Breezepelt feels like he's in such a deep pit of sin he'll never crawl out, and the younger generation is still paying for the mistakes of their forebears.

Drowning Darktail in the lake was originally Breezepelt's idea. I have some notes for the scene here, and I'm quite proud of the idea honestly, but CW for suicidal intent. It's the turning point where Onestar decides he can't let someone else pay for what he's done.

[the-acid-pear]

Fucking peepaw Crown but shaking my head the whole time so people know I don't agree with the United States of America presidency and the influence of it on the rest of the globe

[jen-with-a-pen]

I stg my work trips, especially the big ones now, have become so fucking chaotic and unlucky I'm thinking maybe I'm not cut out for travel 💀

My last two big ones were:

- literal fucking bedbugs

- getting my period (but like... the cyst bursting edition)

- altitude sickness

- airplane mode for 16 hours

and, ya know, I got through that shit. I was able to pull through and muster to courage to do it.

But now I think the lord is REALLY fucking testing me now 💀

In the span of NOT EVEN FOURTY EIGHT HOURS I HAVE:

- lost my fucking debit card (OUT OF STATE)

- gotten my period (as expected she's a cunt)

- AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST: I've begun to get sick with the same symptoms my lovely (derogatory) boyfriend had before I left (he developed an upper respiratory infection and fever 🫶🫶)

[nemofil]

this victory was clawed by the skin of my teeth

[sanstropfremir]

AYE! You liked pop? pop! by csr? I recently found the song and omg it's so catchy and reminds me of the innocent cute concept I think? Do you have any thoughts on the group's concept? I find it cute that all the girls are the same age like actual high school class! I realized that's not too common in kpop or at least I can't think of any groups that everyone is the same age off the top of my head

yea i did! however i know truly fuck all about the group, so i don't even know what their concept is. i think that's kind of fun as an idea? they're doing age appropriate stuff too so that's good i suppose. to be honest i am not really interested in following them actively bc i only really liked pop pop and not anything else from their eps, and i don't really find them interesting to watch. also i'm too old for a high school concept lol

[stellamancer]

granblue fantasy is so beginner unfriendly that i can see why past me just could not get into it.

[thewrongexecution]

I have beaten the endgame of FFXIV.

I may have mentioned it on here once or twice or never? communication is not my strongest suit- but I play The (Second) Final Fantasy That's An MMO. And I have, mere moments ago, finished* an incredibly long-term project: every** character job has its own themed outfit.

Thats right baby it is Fashion Time!!! Or will be very soon. I still gotta take pics. Still! I'm proud of my accomplishments, and wanted to crow a bit (heh). Please look forward to it, if you wanna.

*There's like, three pieces I don't have and still want but one's a major hassle to get and the other two are dyeable variants of gear I don't actually plan to recolor. I'll get 'em eventually, but it's non-critical.

** Every combat class, anyway. I've got one generic crafter outfit and one generic gatherer outfit, and while I'm happy with 'em, there's always room for improvement.***

*** There is, currently, literally, no room for improvement. The combat classes took all my outfit slots. I can still get the gear, of course, but putting it on every time would be more work than it's worth right now. Go figure.