#I hope that it's at least readable

[cardinal-crossing]

Why does he have a chain saw? Who let him have this?

Short answer: I did; I gave him the chainsaw. Do I regret it? No.

[thewisestdino]

Leafpool with song 34? (I'm not sure if this is where I ask about the Spotify wrap 😭🙏)

Always an angel, never a god

Always an angel, never a god

I don't know why I am the way I am

[smimon]

silly comic about Mr. Bodyguard's first days at work, inspired by classic Carl Barks story "Trouble Indemnity"

[rev-xce]

i’m gonna keep bothering you with asks abt ur au but u don’t gotta answer if u don’t wanna >:D you mentioned the dose of um. AGGRO-ROT that sig gives to moon…WHATS THAT ALL ABOUT 👀👀👀 damn kidnapping allegations AND giving ya gf evil cancer?? sig is not beating the terrible person allegations…/j

HE IS SO NOT BEATING THOSE ALLEGATIONS!!! I wasn't originally going to do a comic but I figured this would clear up some questions and also give insight to Sig's mindset!

Thank you for waiting and enjoy!!

edit: Just realized there was a mistake on the 3rd panel, its fixed now SJJKHAHJKFFLFD

[johnslittlespoon]

Wrapped Around Your Finger (You Say That I'm A Home Run)

[WC: 3K | Gale Cleven/John Egan, Wound Care, Blow Jobs, Light Dom/Sub, Coming In Pants, Praise Kink, PWP]

“Stay still,” Gale murmurs, gripping his jaw tighter, and a quiet whine climbs up John’s throat, feeling the dabs of the cotton pause for just a moment before Gale continues on.

The bruising ache, the firm hand on his face, the close proximity, Gale’s flat commands– it’s all making his skin itch, heat rising to the surface as his mouth goes a little dry. He instinctively closes his legs around Gale’s sides to stop him from getting close enough when he moves in to observe the deeper split above his brow, and Gale pulls back, levelling him with an irritated stare.

[AO3 LINK]

[fivewholeminutes]

new pinned post yay!

alex, polish, she/her. main acc is @hajstra. i don't talk there much

blocking people who:

put selfies in the band's tag just to have more views (if it's band-related, like cosplay or halloween make-up, it's all fine);

spam the tag wth any unrelated stuff tbh, i'm tired, man;

spoil the band members' identities, obviously (two previous things happen more often, that's why this is on the 3rd place only);

not tag nsfw art properly (please, it's just basic courtesy);

are terfs and other twats. obviously.

not a fan of fanfiction/headcanons about real people (not gonna block blogs for that, only tags. if you have your own lore for characters and not the actual people behind the masks, we're good. most of the time, anyway)

not horny about the band either, but i don't mind y'all being horny. unless someone gets seriously parasocial about it

layout matching with @ancientbygone 😘

i don't have any tagging system, cause i'm a messy and chaotic person and any attempts at changing that went to shit. if you want me to tag something specfic though, please do not hesitate to contact me!

there are, however, two tags that i'm consistent with:

#sleep token't (for posts unrelated to the band; courtesy of @moonchild-in-blue's amazing idea for this tag 💙),

#alex vs the mortifying ordeal of having her art perceived (my art tag, rarely used)

[prince-liest]

You inspired me to write! And I got up to 2k words for the first time ever when it comes to writing for myself... but I'm struggling a bit 😅 Do you have any advice about narrator POV and how you use your verb tenses? It's like I have no idea how you manage to "head-hop" while still being an omniscient narrator so smoothly & effortlessly. And verb tenses. if I write "was" one more time I might pop a gasket lol. any help is appreciated <3 have a good one!

First of all, that's freaking amazing! 2k is a lot, congratulations! That might sound weird coming from me considering how many words I put out, but I 100% remember the struggle of being newer to writing and hitting multiple thousands of words for the first time - I'm so happy for you!

Second of all: I actually write exclusively in third person limited POV, not third person omniscient! Even though I'm writing in third person, the narration is fully from the perspective of the point of view character, which I personally enjoy a lot because it allows for a lot of unreliable narration and also characterization through how their train of thought manifests (choppy, stressed, dreamy, etc). That's why when I'm writing from the point of view of character A, for example, any assumptions about character B's motivations are what character A is thinking, not an omniscient narrator informing you.

That said, you still have to head-hop specifically to write the actual visible actions and dialogue of the second character, and that's actually the most recent thing that I used to struggle with in writing specifically because I got most of my initial writing experience doing roleplay where I was only ever responsible for one character's thoughts and actions at a time.

Honestly, the main thing I can say is that it gets much, much easier with practice. When you start out, it will genuinely just take you longer to switch from the mindset of one character to another! I used to take character notes to put together little snapshot profiles of character headspaces to re-orient myself between the characters I was writing when I felt like I was getting lost. They included things like a few traits to keep in mind, behavior mindset, and snippets of dialogue that I thought were very representative. I don't use these anymore, but I do still do things like rewatch episodes or reread portions of books when I'm learning new characters to orient myself to their personality. It's like code-switching to me nowadays.

As for verb tense: I was a consummate Homestuck, so I started out writing in second person present tense, hahaha, and while I've adopted the third person POV (and believe me, this took adjusting), I've kept writing in present tense as a personal preference. I like it because it makes things feel more in-the-moment as they're happening, because there's less grammatical fuckery involved when describing the past vs the present, and just because I'm used to it. That said, past tense is more common and stands out less to people, and I think that you are finding all of your "was"s a lot more noticable than a reader would! People generally don't really notice the tense of what they're reading once they get into the flow of it.

[thedailyvio]

Day 253

[oncillaphoenix]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Verbena | Anthea, Dark Trinity | Shadow Triad, N | Natural Harmonia Gropius, Helena | Concordia Additional Tags: the dog does not die btw the dog is fine, actually none of the humans listed in the tags die either, it's more of a 'haunting the narrative' situation Summary:

Fifteen years after the first time Team Plasma disbanded, Anthea Harmonia runs into someone she never thought she would see again.

[ivyithink]

downsides to discussing the conditions of the treaty while taking a walk outside

this is once again a piece for cringetober 2023 (some info about it under the cut on this post!)

this prompt: day 9 — crossover ship/rarepair!

I’m not particularly into crossover ships, but i do have more than a dozen rarepairs, at least, and I obviously wanted to draw them all, BUT… this mental image compelled me… as with most of my tlk pieces at this point, they are michela’s (@kingslionheart) fault in some way, shape or form. your one tag is to be blamed for this, i hope you are happy about giving me even more brainworms about tlk…

[automatonknight]

HAI.. i am wondering, how do you go about drawing arms for mech characters? i have an oc i've been trying to figure out an arm design for MONTHS now, trying to think about it in a way that makes it looks like the joints could work, so i'm wondering if you have any tips? if not, that's completely ok!! anyway hope u dont mind but heres some images of her because i love her and wanna show them around like she's my kid

HELLO!! ^__^ well! my usual kind of go-to design is this one

^pretty heavily based on just how a human arm functions, more or less.

orrr i would go with this?^ to get into like. the technicalities (and don't take me as an authority or anything) i'd say the only like. kinda important thing? to remember when you design a robot arm with a larger variety of movement is to include a ball joint where it connects to the shoulder. you can also go with noodle arms ^__^ i honestly don't have that much to say about joints since i usually just. make something up that looks kinda like it would work and run with it. BUT i would advise looking at types of hinges, human skeletons to see how it all connects and since you'd have a good understanding of how you can move certain parts of your body aaaand some robots! maybe those industrial arms that build cars in this case? i think like they could serve as inspiration for something more complicated with more joints or a mix of different types of joints. like a rubber spring for example (which i think could work about as well as a ball joint). speaking of rubber joints and something unconventional!

^here you can see the lower arm is pretty much static (except for the wrist) (speaking of the wirst i'd say slap a ball joint in there as well), while the upper arm is responsible for all the movement. in the second sketch i just kind of wanted to visualize what i meant by "rubber spring", but the rest applies. i'd say think about how the other mobile parts on her look and then decide what kind of movement do you want her to have! good luck and she looks really fun and pretty! love her visor!! :3

[adogisadogis3dog]

Hi ^______^ got any soapshipping hcs?

If I asked u this already u can ignore this 🧍

thanks for asking!!! i actually have a few :] -i think that when they first started living together they were very oblivious about eachother's feelings. narrator was actually questioning his sexuality, but tyler was straight up in denial, i also like to think they had internalized homophobia but they worked it out and are happy now -narrator's main love language is acts of service, so whenever he could he helped tyler out with whatever. he didn't like project mayhem because he started feeling irrelevant and abandoned, like he didn't matter to tyler and that he basically excluded him and didn't need him anymore -narrator gets jealous very easily, so he didn't like it when someone that's not him got tyler's full attention. that's why he didn't like having marla around and another reason he was against project mayhem, tyler simply didn't have time for him -on a brighter note- narrator secretly misses his blankets and pillows, that's why he likes sleeping with tyler, he also sleeps better when they're cuddled up -as for tyler i think he's very cuddly. idk why, he just seems like he would -tyler absolutely loves cheap instant food, unlike narrator who will try his best to make a healthy meal from whatever they have in the kitchen (it's never anything fancy, but turns out edible and somewhat healthy). neither of them are good cooks -narrator has an active library card that he never uses, so tyler uses it to lend poem and/ or philosophy books -both tyler and narrator know how to play acoustic guitars and they often play songs together (yes that is based on that one video of pitt and norton covering "venus" by frankie avalon!!!) -they also probably go to free punk/ metal shows cuz it reminds tyler of his teenage years, also tyler likes rock/ metal, so whenever narrator stumbles upon cds of bands tyler likes he buys them :] tyler used to steal cds, but he stopped after he made up his whole "things u own end up owning u" mindset -to buy even less clothes than he already does, tyler learned to sew and he definitely owned a pair of patch pants at some point, he also fixes up narrator's clothes whenever they get worn down or rip

[rainbowcrowley]

for the ask game!! ☀️🌟 <3

thanks leanne! 🧡🧡

☀️ go to song when you’re feeling on top of the world?

🌟 what is something you’ve been proud of recently?

handwritten asks!

[miscelliteeous]

I made a Carrd!

It's a more organized listing of my fictional others.

[arcorin]

@love-has-a-way-ofgrowingbackward i ended up making a post because i felt like i wrote way too much and it would be unreadable in dm 😅 (this is @lucian-evander btw )

Ok that's the moment i realise i haven't noted anything and so aren't 100% sure about the timeline 😅

So i had my first injection of 0,4 ml of androtardyl (250mg/ 1ml ) february 6th and stayed on that dosage every 4 weeks until half may, my doctor made me do a whole check up beforehand like my blood levels and hormones levels to check there weren't any contraindications.

The things that changed : First thing that happened is bottom growth in the first few days like right the day after my first injection, it was not uncomfortable just something i was aware of specially the few first days i think it stopped growing like maybe two weeks after ? It was something i was scared of because like i've read about the uncomfort and wasn't really something i wanted in the first place but i was actually ok with it when it happened and idk if it makes sense but it felt natural (i kinda thought the concept was weird before tbh). I didn't really feel anything else until the first month (which made me paranoid af about if my injection happened btw like a part of me was surprised i didn't feel the t running in my veins i guess 😂🤦🏻‍♂️ ) and then got like 4/5 days of hot flashes during the nights which were incredibly annoying ngl but then it passed (kinda like people going through menopause) . Also gained some belly weight at this point which surprised me because weight redistribution isn't supposed to happen that fast and my chest got more saggy, got used to it now but i kinda freaked out by how fast it changed . Oh also my skin was super dry at this point that was not the best part . At one month the acne went back i had a lot of it during the first puberty and kinda expected it, just the first time my skin was super oily and this time it's super dry but kinda grainy and testosterone is supposed to do the contrary ? At this point my hairline started changing but like not the front recessing i saw everyone talking about but hair growing on the back sides ? Which is something i did not expect at all. Hair also was growing on the tights and knees (the rest of my legs were already hairy af so it didn't make much difference) which was something that took place in the 2/3 months on t too . Some fuzz on the face too starting by the sideburns and the chin (it's stills not much even now ) the mustache kinda darkened i think . 2/3 months on t i noticed i was less physically tired than before and working out was easier oh also my veins became more visible . My voice dropped (a little ) then too, i hear the difference more when i sing than when i talk tbh i think it's because i didn't really changed the way i talk and usually talks more with a head voice but now i can go way more in the low tones if i want to . Oh also at 3 months my adam apple was noticeable which is something i didn't know i would be so happy about (not me totally playing with it h24 ) , btw my neck is larger now i think same as my shoulders (my binders became too small and I didn't think of that 😭) and my face is more angular? That's something that happened very slowly . I changed my dosage to 0,3 every two weeks in may (no important reasons for the time change it was just so i could sync my injections with a friend , i learned to do them myself at this point and kinda proud of it, oh btw it hurts less than doing blood tests like it varies from one shoot to another but i didn't even feel the first one by example ) . After 3 months i didn't really feel big changes as much , arm muscles kept growing , acne is still there, some more hair is slowly growing on my shoulders, chest and arms , i guess my voice is still dropping a little and facial hair is slowing growing too i mean it's supposed to take time anyway so i'm ok with that (i also stopped looking for changes everyday in the mirror like i did the first months 😂) . I did a blood test every 3 months to check my level of red blood cells and other blood checks and they were good so i think i'll high up my dosage to 0,4 every two weeks .

For the things i have no idea if they changed or not : the mental part (i was really scared of that ) well i can't really tell you because i'm not someone very emotionally stable in the first place and these last months have been absolutely crazy for reasons unrelated to hormones so i really have no idea what's related to it or not since i can't really know how it would have been if i wasn't on t you know ? i just can say it's been a month i've been back to exactly in the same place emotionally as i was like last October so i don't think hrt plays much of a role in that . Also totally unrelated but sweat is supposed to change of smell but since i started to shower three more times than before due to uuuh being touch starved and trying to boil myself i'm actually less smelly than before so idk if it changed

Now for the stuff that didn't change (and i expected it that way) : i know people said it changed their capacity to cry it didn't change anything for me but like i already cried like maybe once a year so yeah . I didn't change my diet i just was more hungry the 2/3 first months then it went back to normal . No increased sweating but then again i already sweated a lot before . No libido increase same reason than the last one

For the weird stuff that was supposed to be the contrary : so before i used to feel constantly too hot and my body was always boiling like it could be 2° outside and i would be in t-shirt complaining about how it was too hot and my trans friends used to tease me about how when i'll be on t i'll just combust because it's supposed to make you even less sensitive to the cold (in the contrary of the oestrogens) but like now for the first time in my life i actually feel normally the weather ? Like i'm cold when it's cold ? And my body temperature became moderated ? Very wtf

Anyway now i'm 6 months on t and i don't regret it and i got used to the changes i didn't like at first and the most annoying part like hot flashes and too dry skin are over so that's good . I was scared of changes in themselves even the ones i wanted before starting it before well i struggle with changes in general but most of them happened gradually enough (btw if you want to slow down changes you can just low dose and increase it very slowly kinda like it would do in a cis puberty )

I probably forgot some stuff so if you have specific questions please ask, i'm ok with answering to pretty much anything .

[i-drink-pilk]

I was scrolling through twitter when I went to check what was trending and saw this

(Translation in alt text, I hope)

I decided to click on it, because i was intrigued, and it was all links to YouTube videos with the same lady on the thumbnail

I went on to the profile (all the posts were of the some account)

And then I saw the post numbers. Wow!

It was at this point I decide to google her name.

https://www.flashback.org/t2043973 (Link to a Swedish forum thread discussing her)

Apparently she's been here for a while (at least 2012). Clicking on the link to the website takes you to a website filled with her YouTube videos (the channel of which she hasn't uploaded to in 7 years). The videos all start with her saying "Hej! Goda nyheter!" (Hey! Good news!) in a thick accent (presumably polish). The comments to the videos are all in polish as well. The website has a lot of "pages" (or whatever) that all have text about the ego's energy and construction.

Clicking on them and looking at the website link "reveals" what they are for. From left to right, first is the home page. It has a warning about how the owner of the website hasn't logged in for 6 months, and a contact form. The right side of the page has text saying "Välkommen" (welcome) "Barbara Santana #END" and links to her Facebook and twitter. It also has a box to write in your email in, with a clickable box saying subscribe on it (Newsletter). This stays on every page.

The next page, "fotogalleri" (photo gallery) includes an image (below.) and text reading "EARTH EGOT´S PROGRAM WITH HUMAN ROBOTS CEASES TO EXIST #END". Under are 6 YouTube videos and another box to subscribe and a form to contact her. On the top of the page is text reading (translated) "ENERGY PERFECT DISSOLVES EARTHS PROGRAMS"

The next page, "processen" (the process) has top text reading (translated again) "EXISTENCE IN THE EGO'S ENERGY PROGRAM". Text under it reads (T (for translated. I'm using it it's not part of the text)) "WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU UNDER THE PROCESS" with the same message about earths ego as seen in the photo gallery. It has one video and a rectangle with black outlines.

The next page, "egot" (the ego) has top text reading (T) "ENERGY PERFECT DISSOLVES THE EGOS CONSTRUCTION" and the same earth ego text as seen before. it has three videos.

The next page, "kontakt" (contact) has the earth ego text (again) and a contact form.

The next page, now outside of the grey bar the others were contained in, is "hur uppl��ses egostrukturen" (how is the ego structure dissolved) has top text reading (T) "ENERGY PERFECT DISSOLVES THE EGOS PROGRAM". It has three videos, between the first and the second the earth ego message is present. At the bottom is another contact form, with text on top reading (T) "You can contact me through the form below (online)."

The last page, "vad som händer med dig" (what happens to you) has top text reading (T) "ENERGY PERFECT DISSOLVES THE EGO'S EXISTENCE". Under it it says "#THEEND". There are 5 videos and the earth ego message is after the first. At the bottom is a contact form and three symbols, "h3>".

That is everything on the website, besides watching the videos, which I'm not doing. End of post.