#FUCKIN LOVE THEM

[a-very-zilly-gooze]

men’s jeans are so fuckin comfy i’ve been wearing these bad boys for 12 hours and i’m about to wear them onto my 12 hour flight. i love them sm. you will need to peel them off my dead corpse. i love—

[nonuggetshere]

OUGH the desire to draw Hollow but absolutely no ideas or motivation

[achillessleepy]

'Watch your mouth.'

'Its okay Hotch'

[online-stalker]

The outsiders!!

Guys wait why are these pictures so cute for no reason

[oncillabrigade]

Finally read Robins!

I have a lot of thoughts, but I just want to say this panel is the funniest thing I've ever seen:

[ohwormwood]

dumb shit that me and @smokin-salmon thought of while on call

[vamp-kiss]

what if i write a makoann fic

ann milipili canon

[bastetsbard]

We serve both can and homemade… but homemade is actually uncooked cranberry relish. Throw a pound of cranberries with a WHOLE navel orange and a cup of sugar in a food processor until finely chopped, like fruit confetti. Ideally made at least a day ahead and ideally 3 days ahead so the flavors develop and it gets gloriously juicy.

Both are treasures of Americana… the relish is straight out of an old Joy of Cooking.

And they look out so hard for the well being of the spiders AND the dolphins

[triona-tribblescore]

I just wanna draw them being all soft n stuff okay? :'( <333

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[artist-rat]

my main party and durge reveal <3<3 i call them the shenanigang

[raikkxz]

THEMMMMM.

Happy Webbonso Wednesday to all who celebrate!

[moraent-keys]

Yeah so… I’ve officially gone off the deep end

[blossoms-phan]

are we going to talk about them saying that dan just wore the phiwi around all day yesterday and said he’s just bringing the whimsy everywhere like why is this making me want to cry 😭😭 (x, x)

[pinacoladamatata]

blink and you'll miss it moments around skyhold....

[improvinghorde]

Hey i got a few [10+] tzimiscies. fuckin Love them. My Main ones are Cathal, Katar, Horatio, Gol, and Äkä/The Entangled! Theyre all related besides Äkä who has her own childe Vetr. Please ask me about my tzims im so normal about this clan.

Cathal is whom im playing atm, theyre a bodymoder by trade and Warden by social role. basically a sheriff but More Containment focused rather hitman focused lol

Katar tries to make Cathal's unlife a living hell as their older sabbat sibling and thinks killing mages is easy and funny to do.

Horatio is in the hyperfuture where the vampires [sabbat] won and are kicking it scifi roman style. Xeyre a General by force and Would Very Much Like To Stop Being Important (but cant because everyone else vying for the role is Dumb As Shit)

Gol, or The Collection of Gol is a Vodzht that has gained enough sentience to become a Vampire and is very curious on what that means. Course made from the Legion of men- it inherited next to nothing besides their collective curiosity and bloodlust (is a Childe of Cathal in the hyperfuture game with Horatio)

Äkä "The Entangled" was a conjoined twin with her brother Ragnvaldr and is an oldworld elder that moved to america to help rise tiamat in the new world. Course tiamat didnt like that very much and made Äkä realize that Ragnvaldr wasnt her brother- but her Beast that dominated most of her unlife. With that realization she was able to take full advantage of the koldunic sorcery she was entitled to. [course i dont have much art of her alone bc that was like Part OF The End lol]

Vetr is a former revenant szhlachta that The Entangled curated over the centuries. Also is an Abomination? [garou and a vampire] He was fused together with his brothers to make him more resilient for the days of endless sun. Next game is gonna focus in on That Whole Deal a la Terrible Twos

attention vtm community I require your cool tzimisces. please show me them please please please pl