never before seen baby baby Duncan video. thinking about how mobile he was when I first brought him home. and also how his tail had to work double time to try to keep him upright
DON'T KILL ME.... I love love love good Connor fics too. I am very self-aware. His story is excellent and, well, he arguably "becomes" human the most. Give me that sweet, sweet fanfic where he tries to have emotions. It's just kind of funny, isn't it?
Alternative version under the cut.
Looking at you, Reed900 enjoyers (including me). Haha
I closed my eyes couple days ago and half-slept under the cloudy weather. It's the first time in years I get brave enough to draw my characters in a scene right after I experience it.. I sleep immediately at night (no complaints, I am indescribably grateful I don't experience insomnia), but I miss the time before I snooze where I dive into my headworld..
I've been doing so many things in-between working split shifts that I've given myself possibly another ibs episode, resulting in taking the day off yesterday.
I felt ok by noon so "I'll draw for 2 hrs" became 7 ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
I'll do my best to take it easy for the next few weeks u u
^^^love how I wrote so and as soon as I recover I want to go back to doing a billion things!!
Since you're here, here's the full page~
It was super fun to draw and I am extremely shy about it but also super proud and I worked hard!!
hm. im not very big on new years resolutions, they're too much pressure. but... perhaps i can handle new years Desires
this year i want to complete a lil comic, fan-based or otherwise. i'd like to also complete some sort of storyboard/animatic thing. i want to develop a coloring style that i can be proud of. i want to get to a point with my dragons where they can have a coherent story & world to live in. i want to think of so many fun, trivial facts about my characters. i want to post more about them. i want to write and post an original thing, be it 1k words or 10k. i want to finish the rough draft of a book i outlined. i want to be kinder to myself. i want to create more gift art for others. i want to put more effort & care & love into my art. i want to force myself into the world and figure out how to live. i want to make an irl friend. try a new craft - scrapbooking, maybe, or making an enamel pin. i want to finish that last commission and make a new sheet for more. i want to be freer with myself. i want to finish at least three fics. i want to go whale watching again. i want to improve my art, especially in the matter of drawing people. i want to bake something tasty and share it with the neighbors. i want to be content with existing. i want to have more good things in life to list on bad days. i want to build a birdhouse.
it does something incomprehensible to my little writer’s soul whenever alex articulates a phenomenon of the writing process i’ve always picked up on and then goes on to describe it in exactly the same way
went looking deep in my drafts for my list of favorite french words to pronounce to see if facétieuse was on there and 1) it wasn't, so i had the pleasure of adding it to the list, and 2) i then read one of the words at random and said, aloud, "oh my god" and had to immediately read the rest of the list out loud. insane mouthfeel. i should memorize the list and say it to myself when i get sad. anyway in case you're curious here's the list which i have sort of sorted into categories but don't think about it too hard because several words fit into multiple categories and also i probably missed some possible subgroupings. happy pronouncing~
words that are fun because of repeated vowels
bonbon, ensemencement, manquement
cocotte
cumulus, pulluler
raplapla
tout fou (two words but one entry in the dictionary)
volcanologie
words that are especially fun for me personally because i can't tell the difference between two vowels
[ɔ̃] and [ɑ̃]: bombance, compensation, consciencieusement, contentement
[ɔ] and [o]: autochtone, octogonaux, rococo, saucissonner
words that are fun because of repeated consonants
sibilants: facétieuse, jaugeage, thésauriseuse
glides and nasals: millionième, napoléonienne
sibilants, glides, and nasal vowels: association, cessation, expiation, fascination, filialisation, glaciation, initiation, prononciation, scintillation, sensation, sentencieusement, vacillation
quelconque
traîtresse
words that are fun because they're the same thing twice with the last vowel changed
clopin-clopant
prêchi-prêcha
words that are fun because i love the symmetry of [eifje]
déifier
dragéifier
gazéifier
words that are fun because i really like combos of [ik] or [ki] with optional friends [l] and/or [t]
antiquité
antithétique
cliquetis
coquelicot
enquiquiner
équilibre
étiqueter
héroïcomique
kif-kif
mastication
pique-nique
quiconque
quiproquo
rhythmique
stoïque
ticket
words that are fun because [j] a syllable or two after [ɲ] fucks severely
champignonnière
désignation
ignominieux
indignation
words that are fun because they're long with a string of alternating vowels and consonants that trips off the tongue
antipathie
authenticité
habitabilité
hétérogénéité
infériorité
parallélépipède
territorialité
tous azimuts
words that start with fun [p] consonant clusters
pneu
psittacidés
psychédélique
psychique
words that just have a certain je ne sais quoi
architecture
au-delà
baby-foot
gentilhommière
houppe
loufoque
luxation
mnémonique
multimédia
préalablement
qualifier
rouflaquettes
saperlipopette
scout
schlinguer
tacheter
thérapeutique
trouillomètre
vrombir
standalone fantasy set in a rural mountain village at the edge of an empire that still holds traditional values, with families of powerful water/ice magic warriors
follows a powerful young heir who begins to question his beliefs about the empire when a new boy comes to his village from the city
and his mother, a housewife who has tried to forget her youth as a warrior and vigilante in the city since she moved back home to a loveless marriage
when there’s a violent attack on their village that they’re unprepared for, everything changes, and she has to embrace her old skills to protect her family and people
i always say i dont want a book to have a screen adaptation out of fear of them doing it dirty and then i think of the most perfect casting ever for the main character and im like FUCK now i wont sleep until i see this happen
What's your opinion on jee in the live action avatar? (And the whole 41st Division change)
anon... not like natla is the worst that could have happened to this franchise. but i really couldn't vibe with the natla...
jee is just... younger jee i guess. and the 41st surviving was like... cheep writing vise? Something to force us getting emotional, which to me personally didn't work?
so.. uh... -srugs- Ehhh
oh captain my captain i didn't know what league of legends game was when i watched arcane. so i thought the plot was alright since i didn't (still don't) know the game lore. if it wasn't basically a prequel story, trying to aim the characters at the way they are in canon, do u think the plot and character arcs would have held up alright? or does that actually make the arcane canon story worse since it wouldn't at least have the existing canon as something it needed to land at eventually as an excuse for any "out of character" decisions? thank u
i wouldnt even call it a prequel story? its like a very elaborate au in a sense, one that feels comfortable changing things to a certain extent- clothes, personality adjustments, motivations, but they still have to hit certain beats. vi has to be an enforcer, jinx has to be a wild card harley quinn type, ekkos time powers ect ect. idk WHAT it is maybe the show needed more time or tighter focus or less characters but i just felt that like, some of the story decisions directly relating to LoL lore werent outright bad but didnt have a lot of time to breathe. the standout example being ekkos time thing, where when i watched that scene i assumed it was both a stylistic representation of a fight and establishing his and jinx's prior relationship (which is kind of too little too late considering they did not fucking speak once as kids pre time skip), and then i had to get a friend to explain to me for SEVERAL MINUTES that he literally died during that fight and it was supposed to be showing his rewind thing. it just wasnt clear at all and his character would not change in the slightest if he didnt have it. but you cant NOT include it so. *
really i have no clue the full extent of the story the writers wanted to tell and how much LoL is binding their hands on story beats. and i REALLY dont want to be inflexible considering i still have a full season coming up that might make me more receptive to certain decisions. but considering how much of the cast i REALLY like just straight up are not in the game, i think they are fully capable of making a solid story completely divorced from league
*someone in the comments told me apparently that Wasnt his time thing and my original read of the scene was correct so im not gonna hold it against the show.