#I can talk about that somewhere else

[anarchotolkienist]

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The Gaelic folk-rock band Rùn-rìg's amazing version of a Mhic Iain 'ic Sheumais, a ballad that goes back to the 16th century and a battle in South Uist between Clan Donald and Clan MacLean - the foster-mother of the clan Donald chief sang it on the boat going out to his wounded bed when she was told by her men that her foster-son lay wounded, describing her emotional devastation. It also includes one of the rare mentions in modern Scottish Gaelic (as the habit had already largely disappeared at this time) of ritualised blood-drinking by women, which was a medieval habit during the Caoineadh, the keening of fallen male relations in battle - 'Latha blàr na fèithe/Bha do lèine ballach/Bha fuil do chuim chùbhraidh/A' drùdhadh tron anart/Bha mi fhèin ga sùghadh/Gus na thùch air m' anail - with some evidence for it in earlier sources and contemporary ones in Ireland, but this is to my knowledge the last mention of it in a keening in Scotland. A very interesting song.

I really like Rùn-rìg's early material, especially the ones in Gaelic - listening to it is as though you're listening to an alternate universe where rock was based on Gaelic traditional music, rather than southern American folk music (especially Black southern American folk).

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: dismemberment / ]

I think a lot about how Leo’s rescue could have easily ended in him losing a leg as the portal snaps shut on the Krang still clutching the limb, or, alternatively, only having Leo’s right arm make it out, still held dearly in his brother’s hand as the rest of Leo is left behind. (The latter hits even harder, as it directly parallels his future self in the worst of ways.)

I think a lot about how so many things could have gone wrong during the course of the movie with even a little bit of a change, but it really is harrowing how much of a coin-flip the entirety of the Prison Dimension rescue was.

[volatilemask]

i love your v1mdk stuff so much i think it’s so cute but i cannot stop myself from thinking of owl just third wheeling constantly lol

technically i just avoid this by not drawing owl whenever i doodle them being very gay but. even when all 3 hang out i think 70% of the time is taken up by mdk and owl chatting with eachother so it balances out naturally. probably

[slutdge]

I get where you are coming from on some level but sexualizing your tattoo artist is REALLY weird. They were just doing their job, don't be fucking weird about it

I wasn't weird about it, I barely spoke 2 words to him while he tattooed me cause im pretty shy in settings like that, I paid him, I left, then I made a one sentence silly tumblr post saying "yeah I thought the dude that tattooed me today was kinda hot" when i got home, i was never sexualizing or demeaning towards him in any way. ive also thought construction workers are hot while walking past construction sites. i thought my senior year english teacher was hot. i think the singer for my favorite band is hot. are yall not attracted to real people or is it only cartoon characters? the call is coming from inside the house, yall are the fucking weird ones lmao what even is this ask. why is every dweeb on tumblr so adverse to being attracted to real life people. just delete your account and become a catholic monk at this point.

[angy-grrr]

daily reminder: Ochako had to make herself physically see the damage the villains and war created in order to forget the uneasy feeling she got when Himiko smiled sadly (+ all the things she thought when she saw her). She cant forget what she has done (because she doesnt like the destruction), but that doesnt mean she cant forgive her or that made her feel distance from her.

Izuku can't forgive what Shigaraki has done, and as far as we know, he doesn't need to remind himself of the pain; his empathy doesn't make him feel weird about reaching out to a villain, at least on its own.

Its not a copy paste of the same battle or story.

Himiko and Izuku make Ochako wonder about the concept of heroism and saving, the roles heroes and villains have, and they also have an impact on her behavior, ideals, and feelings for them and herself. Shigaraki's fate and the world around Izuku seems to make him wonder about his role as a savior, because he doesnt feel like he fulfilled it really, when it ended up with someone else dying. He finds in Ochako someone who would agree on ideals about saving others, and thats great on its own.

[cent-scratchnsniff]

here together

[fjordline]

What are you even supposed to do after you finish reading something that cannot be beat. I felt like that after finishing Golden Kamuy, but now I'm really fucking feeling it after just finishing Usogui. That was the most insane incredible experience I've ever had reading a manga. I kneel.

[emissary-of-the-moon]

I have a midwestern country Twilight agenda to push so heres my list of things Twi does/experienced from a certified midwesterner

- goes and stands on the deck as soon as there's talk of severe weather rolling in

- "ya know it wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the wind chill (winter) / humidity (summer)"

- very large bonfires (like we're talkin doesn't fully go out for days)

- long ass goodbyes (bonus points if it ends with Twi slapping his knee and say "welp 'spose i better get going")

- "ope", "don't cha know", "smells like rain" (not for the wolf reasons)

- any variation of talking about the weather

- way too many miscellaneous story about the hometown (like "oh those trees are in front of the school cause some kids died")

- complaining about the cities™ (bonus points if one city is the 'cake-eater' city)

- complaining about construction season

- complaining about people not knowing how to drive "we get snow every year how do you forget how to drive in it"

- bring your tractor to school day

- everything is a 20-30 minute drive away

- "jeet" (did ya eat), "jever" (did ya ever)

- nosy as hell

- really fast walker

-calls mosquitoes 'skeeters'

[oortcloudstrife]

is this anything?

[darknessandasong]

funny how Yeah i yearn every day for physical affection. No i wont touch anyone what the fuck

[thebirdandhersong]

I think the problem. the problem is that I have always been afraid of not being invited into the inner circle. and am always wanting to be part of the inner circle. inner circle being the circle of love and companionship and communion. of course being a TCK and a bit of a sheltered homeschooled oddball child has nudged this further along over the years. but I didn't realise how STRONG that desire still burned. to actually be wanted.

[puppyeared]

who up seeing their disorder in a fictional character but feel like its not their place to put a name on it

[barksbog]

How do you get the fabric printed so beautifully? :O is it outsourced or is it something that can be done on a home printer? Or maybe you paint it by hand?!!?!

i do it myself at home!

it´s a bit more complicated than doing it with a regular printer but it´s doable. you basically need to fill a printer with a special ink and print it on special transfer paper. than put that paper into a heat press with the fabric so the pigment gets vaporized and pushed into the fibres!

makeshiftwings has a great tutorial about it on their website

[bacchuschucklefuck]

Hello hello! Have been following you for a while and LOVE your art style so so much, got into your art through the fantasy high series and just can’t get over how cool and unique your style is! Saw a recent ask in the response to which you mentioned your commissions and I was wondering, is that something that’s on the table? I might be missing something very obvious sjsksjsk but just love your stuff so much I’d hate myself for not asking!!

dw you didn't miss anything obvious! I don't take commissions through this blog. pretty specifically because it's my side blog for art that's got nothing to do with business. but also 1/we don't bring up my main blog here anyway and 2/even on my main blog I'm still currently not taking commissions so uhhhh the answer tldr is "it's complicated" leaning into "no". I think. sorta

[aeolianblues]

do people like. Not realise that it is possible to be critical of two things at once or

[loveletterworm]

An addendum to my post about how I think it is unlikely deltarune will actively require replaying large portions of the game which I just thought about (I'm making it separately because the post was already long) is that I brought up how in Undertale going from a pacifist neutral ending to the true pacifist ending doesn't actually require replaying the entire game and going back to do the true pacifist requirements will only set you back just before the final boss, I just realized that in both chapters thus far Deltarune ALSO is made with this sort of logic, you can only access the secret bosses once you reach the final area of each chapter, which I have no metadiegeticwhatever thing to point out here, this is just a Actually Considerate Game Design Decision, so that people who missed the secret boss but kept a save before the chapter boss will easily be able to go back and do those without having to replay an extremely large portion of the game. The only way you'd be locked out of the secret boss for a chapter to the point where you'd have to start over to fight it is if you overwrote your save in the castle town at the end of chapter 2.

Again there's not really anything to point out here if you don't care about humane game design. I just found it a little bit interesting to see that it was consistent between both chapters and to some extent Undertale (Undertale has the difference of you DO get locked out of true pacifist if you killed anything at any point, so it is more likely to make you start over, but honestly starting Undertale over is just an intended part of the gameplay experience that its designed around more than I'd say Deltarune currently is)

I also saw someone in the comments of the video that made the minor observation that I had that weirdly longwinded reaction to (I don't think this was in the video itself but maybe I forgot, there was some speculation about hypothetical save-slot-based puzzles in the video at least) say something like "What if there's a trick where you'll be locked out of or otherwise unable to complete the chapter 3 secret boss until you complete the chapter 4 secret boss and go back to get the chapter 4 items", and I feel with what I described previously in mind we can all be reasonably confident that this is Not The Sort Of Thing The Game Will Do In The Future, not only because it would probably be really unclear and difficult to signpost that you're supposed to do that, but because this would mean that the player's progress would effectively have to be set back TWO ENTIRE CHAPTERS (2 chapters which we currently know to be cumulatively longer than the 2 chapters preceding them put together!) and again, sure that could be a cool meta trick, but this game has to be played by human beings who will have spent real money on it, and again if they feel like their time was unduly wasted they might leave a bad review on steam. What the hell was that entire last paragraph just one long sentence. I have got to figure out how to break these up more