#I am cursed for my hubris and my work is never finished

[red-velvet-0w0]

I MADE AN AURORA WEBCOMIC ANIMATIC!!!

idk its not really my best work but I finished it so its better than 90% of my animatics (dear god i have so many WIP's)

uhhhhh @comicaurora

anyways i need to take a nap!

[dyketennant]

need you all to know that "tumblr user val dyketennant going to another country to watch david tennant media for their ranking" is no longer a funny bit

[silvertiefling]

&&. friendly reminder never to worry about matching my reply speed, adhd brain just go BRRR and makes me respond right away to anything im particularly excited about (so like, everything), like an untrained puppy that doesn't know how to 'stay'.

[starcastic-artificer]

i would love to make more ocs believe me however i unfortunately have only enough room for one guy right now. and he sucks and i can never stop thinking about him ever and i would love to tell you more

[dearqueerheart]

writing a fic, chapter one is already 8 pages long on google docs and i am probably about 2/3 of the way through??? ai yai yai

[rpmemes-galore]

raw lines from a variety of sources ... sentence starters

"Then perish."

"Pick a god and pray."

"Even fate picks its favorites."

"Everything happens so much."

"I pity the fool that lives like you."

"Then become the dirt I walk on."

“Confidence is quiet. You’re not.”

"I am a monument to all your sins."

“You said I killed you. Haunt me, then!”

“Do I look like the kind of man who dies?“

"You cannot kill me in a way that matters."

"If you want me to die you can just say so."

"Violence for violence is the rule of beasts."

"Your secrets are safe with my indifference."

"Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?"

"We might be in the history God abandoned."

"I will face God and walk backwards into hell."

"I can’t go to Hell. I’m all out of vacation days."

"The light inside me is broken, but I still work."

"Don't leave me, dear. Haunt me like a memory."

"I commend my soul to any god that can find it."

“I have been through hell and come out singing.”

"I will die on this hill before I bend on this matter."

"You are strong, child. But I am beyond strength."

"If there can be no victory, then I will fight forever."

"I cannot hold back the tide of your bad decisions."

“What an exhausting thing it is to be called a hero.“

"To become God is the loneliest achievement of all."

"You cannot condemn those who build your throne."

"No cause is lost as long as one fool is left to fight for it."

"You kneel before my throne unaware it was built on lies."

"My ancestors are smiling on me. Can you say the same?"

"If God wanted you to live, he would not have created me."

“Love is like ghosts; Few have seen it, but everybody talks.”

“I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you.”

“I hope you heal from the things no one ever apologized for.“

"If you should ever get to heaven, I’ll be there to make it hell."

"No one will know the violence it took to become this gentle."

"You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain."

"God has cursed me for my hubris and my work is never finished."

"Kill me and live with the memory. Then tell the stars that you’ve won."

"There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act childish at times."

"You could sooner divert a river from its course than deny my nature."

"We both stared into the abyss, but when it looked back… you blinked."

"I will seize destiny by the throat and force it into the shape of my choosing."

"The anger in your heart warms you now, but will leave you cold in your grave."

"I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me."

"If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight just like I always have."

"Do you think God lives in heaven because he, too, fears what he has created?"

"I forgive but I will never, ever forget. Don’t mistake my kindness for gullibility."

“Someday you will have to answer for your actions, and god may not be so merciful.”

"What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"

“You are alone, child. There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people.”

"You took a pure and beautiful thing, and you beat out everything good, to suit your ends."

"We all make mistakes. That’s what happens when you’re brave enough to make decisions."

“I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.“

"I think we deserve a soft epilogue, my love. We are good people and we’ve suffered enough."

“They dropped the world on your shoulders and called you Atlas. How long can you hold the weight?”

"I’ve heard it said that we only gain wisdom through suffering. And tonight I intend to make you very wise."

"Stand in the ashes of a thousand dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer."

"The world should have protected you, but you have been asked to protect it. What an honor. What an injustice."

"Across all worlds, all times, no matter what you do or what you become: You are nothing less than beautiful."

"The bar was so low it was practically an tripping hazard in hell… yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil."

"What can one do in the face of such monumental loss but breathe a weary sigh, for the world is a little quieter now."

"I hear your questions constantly. They come to me in my dreams like a prophet receiving visions from an angry god."

"I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."

"Too many people have opinions on things they know nothing about. And the more ignorant they are, the more opinions they have."

"Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show."

"One day, you will be face to face with whatever saw fit to let you exist in the universe, and you will have to justify the space you’ve filled."

[ejsuperstar]

God has cursed me for my hubris and my work is never finished

I like the dumb idiot i am decided to draw each individual star on Frantic by hand. For SOME reason. Eh. Frantic is babey, they deserve it.

[ghostinthegallery]

Okay I have shared my thoughts on every other necron guy with a name and a model, might as well finish the set.

Iluminor Szeras it is finally your turn!

I was honestly waiting to see if Pariah Nexus added anything new to his character for me to chew on. As I suspected, it added nothing and THANK GOD for that! This guy is pure, uncut, villain. He is not a character, he is a problem and I hate (love) him!

Look, 40k is a grimdark universe. Full of bad things happening to maybe okay people or bad people or a combination and sure a lot of stories and characters grapple with the existential dread of living in a universe where 99% of everything either wants you dead or wants you way worse than dead. That's all compelling.

But you need someone to be the terror, the thing that lurks in the darkness, the monster you never, ever want to run into. For my money, Szeras plays that role better than almost anyone in the setting. His design is the perfect combo of monstrous and intimidating (and he's just one of the best models in the necron range). He tortures every living being he can get his hands on for fun and "science." He can strip your soul away and make it hurt (probably more than necessary). And he's an immortal skeleton spider robot the size of a small tank with needles on command!

Szeras is literally the guy that made biotransference happen. He destroyed his own species! And did he learn anything from this? About hubris or toying with people's lives or thinking through the consequences of his works? Nope! In fact he wants to do it all over again but better this time probably maybe. He just wants to be a god! Is that too much to ask?

Don't get me wrong, he does have a personality. It is just every cliched villain trope imaginable. Arrogant, cruel, abuses his subordinates (pariah nexus did confirm that at least, never say it added nothing). Still brilliant, but he loves to let his evilness get in his own way just a little. Keep things interesting. He has that classic necron He is literally offended that people don't line up for the science torture, because he's just so much better than them. Classic, old school necron nonsense. He's ungodly petty (even though he insists he had moved past all that). Also he really hates Orikan?

(excerpt comes from one of the Psychic Awakening shorts for anyone curious)

And the thing is, this all totally works (for my money at least). Because every time Szeras shows up, the audience immediately tenses. Trust me, I am speaking from experience. You want to freak people out, just toss Szeras in at the end of a chapter or in a trailer or anywhere in close proximity of someone your audience doesn't want vivisected. Instant stakes!

Sometimes that's all a character has to be. A fun threat to throw at a situation to see how it gets worse. He is terrible, I love him, I grin and grimace every time I see him around.

That said, he is THE WORST MODEL I HAVE EVER HAD TO ASSEMBLE AND PAINT and for that I do curse his name forevermore.

[russilton]

The improved V.2 adds a very important second axis to account for important distinctions

Tired: Mark and Kyle insult each others blorbos for self defence

Wired: realising they’re just opposite ends of the same spectrum

(@princemick )

[foundry-fabrications]

Foundry Fabrications Has a New Home!

Hey folks! I am incredibly excited to announce the launch of something I’ve been working on the last couple of weeks: Foundry Fabrications now has a dedicated website!

For a long time, I’ve wanted a place away from Tumblr that I can call my own, where I can make all of my content easily accessible for everyone, and that can grow and change alongside me. A long time ago, I tried something like that, but it didn’t go well for a multitude of reason. Mistakes were made during that transition that I don’t intend to make again.

The new site will now be my main base of operations going forward, but I’m not going to outright abandon Tumblr like I did before, and Patreon isn’t going anywhere either. As some of you maybe saw, I have the new site set up to automatically send new posts here when I post them, so you’ll all still be kept in the loop should you decide to just stay here and not engage with it, which is totally understandable. And I still plan to check in every once in a while and make posts that are relevant to the platform should I need or want to, as well as respond to comments or questions when they happen.

Speaking of being kept in the loop, something the new site allows me to do is newsletters. Anyone who subscribes to it (which is free) will be notified by email when something new goes live. Eventually down the line I’d like to add more too it like TTRPG news or other content I want to shout out, stuff like that.

The site itself right now is nothing fancy, though I put a lot of work into making it as professional and user-friendly as I can. I’ve no experience in web design and a lot of it was existing templates I tweaked to suit my needs, as I do, so whether I accomplished that is up to y’all. The main goal was to make it easy to find a piece of content one might be looking for, or easily browse everything to see what I’ve made thus far, and that was easy do to with automatic categorization and a search function. It’s basic, but it works.

Because God has cursed me for my hubris and my work is never finished, I have a lot of plans for ways to upgrade the site with new features, various integrations, and ways to monetize my work. Gotta keep the lights and pay for the domain and service somehow. Initially, that means ads, but I’ll be looking into ways to remove them for regular supporters and I bet most of you use adblockers anyway, which I totally get, no judgement here.

That’s about all I have to say. I hope you all like the new site and I would love any feedback you have on it. Anyway, stay safe, don’t forget to love each other, and I’ll see you soon.

[scribefindegil]

authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love❤

Yayy! Thanks Mary! <3 After agonizing it for a while, my top 5:

The Real World (Mob Psycho 100, post-Mogami arc) is absolutely my favorite fic I've ever written. It's some of my best prose, I'm really pleased with how concise and focused I was able to keep it despite touching on so many characters, and it let me distill down a lot of my thoughts on the themes of the show and why it's so important to me. And I wrote it during the absolute worst stretch of the curse, painstaking sentence by painstaking sentence over the course of half a year. I am so so so proud of it.

Fisherman's Knot (Gravity Falls, post-canon fic focusing on the Stans, their deeply-entrenched mental health issues, and their eventual recovery. Also there are selkies.) At 104k words, the longest piece of writing I've ever finished. Writing it was a journey; I took a long break but I'm so happy and proud that I managed to come back and finish it and that there were still people who were as excited as I was to get to the end. The response to this fic blew me away; it started out largely as a coping mechanism to deal with my own poorly-treated mental illness and I feel really honored that my writing resonated with so many people dealing with similar things. I grew so much as a writer over the course of it. Both the big moments of catharsis--Stan's glitter and Ford's realization by the harbor--were things that were so powerful and electric in my head that I worried I wouldn't be able to put them down in words that did the feelings justice, but I did!

Bloom (Discworld, a Glorious 25th of May fic set a few years after Night Watch) Everyone who sets out to write a Discworld fic is undertaking an extreme act of hubris, because not only are you trying to emulate a specific writing style, you're trying to write like Terry Pratchett, which as we all know is basically impossible. Still, I think I hit some good resonant Discworldy notes in this little piece and really nailed the Themes I was going for. Periodically the Tumblr post version gets a little burst of notes and it always makes me really happy that people are enjoying it.

First And Final Orders (Mob Psycho 100, Dimple character study) Hi. Have you heard of ring composition? I love ring composition. It is my single favorite literary device (and I love a LOT of literary devices), so I had to include one of my fics that makes heavy use of it. I also love pointing at a piece of media and going "Hey. Hey have you thought about how there's kind of some Discworld themes here? What if we thought about the Discworld themes together?" And ALSO i love DIMPLE!!! I hope this fic helps explain why.

Casualties (Gravity Falls, missing scene from the finale) So the reason this fic makes this list isn't so much its quality (though I do still really like it!) but the fact that it was my first-ever completed fanfiction. I'd idly poked at the idea of writing fic a couple times before but never made much progress. I hadn't actually done any creative writing for years at that point. I came to fandom late due to a combination of being scared of the internet and, when I did check out my real-life friends' fandom blogs, feeling like everything was so focused on shipping that there would be no place for me and the kinds of stories I cared about. Gravity Falls changed that. I'd made friends and felt like part of a community for the first time. I'd read fanfic that I loved and that focused on the sorts of relationships I really cared about. And so finally I decided that even though it still felt really scary, maybe I would try my hand at actually writing and posting a fic of my own.

360,000 words and 54 works later, I still think it was a pretty good idea.

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

grabbing my brain by the shoulders and shaking it LISTEN TO ME BRAIN look at all the things you have to live for

ceramics from robin!! they are in the mail!! i really want to see them

tshirts! also in the mail! including the one that says 'i do not wish to perish today'!!

i want to reread lockwood and co and write fics about it! there's this one specific au i have in mind

literally nobody could make sense of adira's story if I was unable to keep working on it lol there's just too many notes hidden in my brain and this story's GOOD it has POTENTIAL it just needs a lot of work

same with taira! like i have a reasonably clean draft but it needs editing badly (but i'm waiting until im in a better frame of mind in general bc otherwise i will mess it up with depressed stuff)

i'm halfway through my reread of into the silent planet

i want to see ransom grow up into a full sized cat

i want to work as a fully qualified midwife!

i want to see a nicu!

i want to go back to my previous placement place for my next mid placement bc they were so good last time i loved them sm

i want to regain my friendship with the boy! whether or not that's something that will ultimately work idk but both of us want it it's just awkward rn

amira's world tour this year might include australia i don't know yet and wouldn't it be a shame if i missed seeing her live bc if she comes to anywhere in my country i am gonna do everything i can to get to a concert

the sheet music my friend gave me of the music he wrote for me, i haven't learnt to play that yet!

i have three and a half socks promised to my parents that i haven't knitted yet

i have that fidget to crochet that i bought the pattern for a while back

i want to try crocheting another bracelet in a slightly different style that might work better in terms of sitting on my wrist (the one i have is too loose bc it fits over my hand and then sits weirdly, i want to see if i can improve that)

vaniah's story is so incredibly personal to me i know hopefully without hubris that im the only person who can write that story and it would be a terrible shame if it was uncompleted

all the many many stories i have in my brain that nobody else would understand without context

gonna borrow my brother's graphics tablet! and i have that set of artworks on psalm 23 to finish

and also a bunch of other artworks i haven't finished yet

i haven't watched lockwood and co yet!

nor have i read mistborn!

someday i want to meet up with various online friends

i haven't seen my sister for over three years irl and sometime i want to go to her place of residence overseas so i can see her

gonna go see harry potter and the cursed child sometime next month with two of my brothers

i just really want to go to a concert of some kind maybe later this year or start of next year when the mso has free concerts

i want to learn that whole thing Jesus says in the later parts of john, it has some of my favourite verses in it

i need to finish learning hebrews

i need to read the queen's thief! i have wanted to for ages but i've been tending towards not reading or only comfort reads/rereads lately

i have so many pieces of music to finish writing

i have that double-knitting hat to learn how to knit and then knit

all those cds i have to listen to!

i need to sort through my photographs, a great many i haven't even LOOKED AT yet

i have to pursue diagnosis for adhd! imagine never knowing if i had adhd or not

i want to paint my nails at least once just to see what it's like

[gay-edwardian]

ABBA songs as BDG quotes

Waterloo (Waterloo): “Haha, war.”

Man in the Middle (ABBA): "Look, I know Bowser is a bad dude, but I don't think that Nintendo would actively create a war criminal and then allow him to sit in the backseat of a go-kart with a baby." 

Money, Money, Money (Arrival): “I earn up to 20k a month working from, making my own hours, and being my own boss… and you can too!”

Fernando (Arrival): "And today I'm honoring those who have put their lives on the line for a megalomaniacal turtle."

Eagle (ABBA: The Album): "He can effortlessly turn himself into a fighter jet, something that only the most skilled air force engineers have mastered."

The Name of the Game (ABBA: The Album): "But how many frames does a gamer game in the gameframe mainframe?" 

Move On (ABBA: The Album): And if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go throw myself into the ocean now.”

I Wonder (Departure) (ABBA: The Album): "We are terrified of things we do not yet understand."

Voulez-Vous (Voulez-Vous): "When you walk into an unknown space, I want the first question on your mind to be: Am I safe to smash?"

Angel Eyes (Voulez-Vous): "But there's ambition in those eyes."

Does Your Mother Know (Voulez-Vous): “I don’t want to know what that mouth do.”

If it Wasn’t For the Nights (Voulez-Vous): "God has cursed me for my hubris, and my work is never finished." 

Kisses of Fire (Voulez-Vous): “SURPRISE! I lulled you into a false sense of security.”

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (Voulez-Vous): "I do think we need a sexy skeleton."

Me and I (Super Trouper): "I am my own worst enemy."

Happy New Year (Super Trouper): "Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and all...that jazz."

Lay All Your Love On Me (Super Trouper): “If your name is Duke Mirage, my pants are already off.”

When All Is Said And Done (The Visitors): “Folks, it’s been a year since I started this great journey, but I’m happy to say, it’s done.”

One of Us (The Visitors): "Sorry Rain, not all of us can go into Ikea and ask for the Espevär, some of us gotta settle for the Hasvåg."

Bumblebee (Voyage): “We’ve done some shit to bees, y’all”

Ode to Freedom (Voyage): "I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things to mean something."

[greenlikethesea]

ooooh shamelessly stealing from and answer to @ashipwreckcoast : top 5 poem lines?

god has cursed me for my hubris and my work is never finished! i think i'll do my top five lately, since my favorite lines are legion and we don't have time for all that (did you know i have a master's degree in poetry, a real thing you're allowed to have). i'm cheating with a few of these but i don't want to divorce some of these lines from their context:

"not everything is sisyphean. no one ever wants to imagine themselves as the boulder."

- from it is once again the summer of my discontent & this is how we do it, by hanif abdurraqib.

"there’s a gamut of galactic feelings             felt on this planet—trillions                         & trilling, while i especially love that wild species of weepy: half sob, half snort, half snotbubbly gigglysads. i am partial to sad,                                     bad math"

-from weep ode #99, by chen chen

"Death is the only cultural truth, because there are fake marriages every day, and even the rappers and their beef is cooked up in an office, in somebody’s pink cheeks. I know it’s just a movie, but I’m still afraid of what I see when I fall asleep."

-from a brief history of the present, by morgan parker

"that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips."

-from here, by grace paley

"the sour smell of SSRIs acrid alignment, a bucolic balance for a city kid’s crutch"

-from untitled, by h.j.d.

[magilv]

hey dont cry alim as out of context bdg quotes ok??

& it’s not because i’m a prude; who doesn’t love a little erotic lizard fiction??

i’m choosing to think of that as something like nuclear fission as opposed to choosing to think of it as dumb.

they are valid. & they’re wrong.

humans are traash.

[looking like he hasn’t slept in a week] let’s start with books.

hi, i’m alim surana, safety fan & bureaucratic wunderkind; please address me as such.

why am i the only scholar in time break studies??

all warfare is based on deception. if your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him. steal their hats.

the maker has cursed me for my hubris & my work is never finished.

once you got that boy under your possession, time to get real into unethical science!!

so i reached out to some scientists. ...& then none of them got back to me.

[whenever any of his friends ask anything of him] you sweet summer child, you babe swaddled in the cashmere blanket of ignorance, you ask too little of me!!

how can i be more dangerous?? what is danger??

it may seem challenging, but science shouldn’t be easy, it should be correct.

[elecman108]

Some folks thought that the original Fazbear guys had to have been possessed by spirits given how lifelike they were. When they were left in that back room for a while, it became apparent just how robotic they were given their condition had deteriorated.

--

God has cursed me for my hubris and my work is never done. Am I drawing the Fazbear characters who are canonically dead/destroyed in my AU? Maybe. Does that mean I added at least 9 more to my list? Yeah. Did I already have another 7-ish I originally forgot about also on my list? Perhaps.

Original Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie! Also Withered versions of all three plus Foxy and Goldie. Springtrap and Spring Bonnie are also here with Cupcake too! I decided to make the original Bonnie a magician so that all the Fazbear Originals have unique jobs - Chica is the main server, Freddy is the boss, Goldie is the chef, Foxy is the storyteller, Springtrap is the Security Guard, and Bonnie is the magician!

Also...

Rachel and Doug's Restaraunt and Candy Cat's Burgers and Fries crews are complete! No part of this is new. I just think they look cool together.

The "Harvest Festival" and "Mediocre Melodies" groups are complete as well! Again, nothing new year, but I've decided that Plushtrap, Xor, Carnie, and Glitch all go with the Halloween Team plus Nightmare and Nightmare Cupcake (Princess). El Chip and Mystic Hippo both match with the Mediocre Melodies crew to even them out.

And the Security Breach Crew! The Chica, Bonnie, and Freddy in this set replace the original trio in the Fazbear family. Also fun fact! Rachel and Jack-O-Bonnie (Jackal) are the only rabbits in the crew with short hair.

When I get more sets finished (and the Withered group coloured) I'll add a reply to this post with more of the full sets.