#I'm rambling haha but yes.
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One last visualization:
None of this is tumblr algorithm, all of this is user interaction!
Your reblogs have an astonishing power! This shows it better than any fandom curated post could have. Almost all of the reblogs come from my own reblog to my post. What it means, is that there's no tags, no algorithm, no search engineāonly the people who reblogged from me, and the people who reblogged from them, and so forth!
I found reblog chains as deep as 40 reblogs deep! The amount of reblogs coming from OP is barely 1% of all the reblogs. (0.8997660608% to be precise, as I am precise). The majority of those reblog chains are 1-2 reblogs from a blog, that lead down the line to really big blogs, also.
P.S. I appreciate the thoughts and input so many of you added and I'm incredibly happy that you guys saw this post as positive and welcoming, as I too absolutely hate guilt trips!
To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:
A post in 2023:
A post in 2014:
A zoom out of the same post:
This is what a community looks like.
See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.
It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.
Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.
If you want more of something, reblog it.
#Yet again I wish to add and sayā you are not expected to reblog things you don't like! This is NOT about making you reblog EVERYTHING.#it's about encouraging you to consider rebloging the things you actually love and wish to see more of!!#and remind you that most of content creators actually really love hearing thoughts and impressions and just simple words of encouragement#another thing that was raised many times is the question of adding content to the body of the post versus tags#it's a matter of tumblr etiquette that used to be rather widely spread and nowadays is a little bit less known#but generally speaking it's much more tumblr-etiquette acceptable to add your opinions and excitement in the tags#meanwhile adding things inside the body of the reblog is usually reserved to additions that compliment the creative flow of the post itself#for instance if someone drew something and someone adds a complimentary art / edit/ fic or someone made a HC & you add a HC that builds ON#If someone made a shit post and you add a complimentary shit posting comment it's incredible also#people seem to be confusing people not wanting cluttered posts (aka a post with 10 'DHBRSTH' comments on- that are hard to reblog)#with people not wanting comments / tags with opinions at all#I know it's something that takes some time to figure but it does come with time#I'm rambling haha but yes.#You know everything in moderation. Most content creators I know ARE really interested in engaging with the fandom.#Respecting one's work is also important though aka don't use someone's post to dis a character or prompt your own stuff#or fully contradict OP (example 'wouldn't it be sweet if A&B cuddled? Reblog with: they don't like cuddling they'll like hiking)#(re: contradicting. when your HC/addition fully contradicts op creative direction-- the right thing to do is to make your own post :D !)#(since 100% there would be people who like your own take also ~! )#this concludes this saga i thinkā for the sharp eyed you'd notice the OCD timing in which I've chosen to record this xD#It felt good seeing people interact and talk and reblog with abandon. I miss this a lot. This sort of community VIBE.#buns.txt#tumblr issues#long post
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"And by god, did he want to feel special."
Ford's corrected plenty of teachers who wrote the question on the board wrong before, but Ford didn't expect the Muse of Knowledge to even be capable of that, much less to catch it...
Okay now let's be real, besides the chess games, I feel like Bill would've, on rare enough occasions to be special, dangle other wins in front of Ford to really make sure that portal gets completed. Only the best carrots on a stick for his hardworking puppet <3 let's make him feel like an equal to a god for fun
And Bill intended for his home dimension's last atom to be just another carrot, but what happened was Ford brought out a side of him without even trying when no one else in a trillion+ years could
Like he definitely looked back at that moment (when he got so comfortable mid-convo that on a whim, he whipped out his past and gave answers less cryptic than usual) and said 'i planned that! I said all those things to make him more attached to me!'
maybe he's right, who knows ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
also don't bother googling those math terms i made them the fuck up
#do i even tag this as billford if it's just straight up canon#like i love that they don't have to be romantic. they're just queer and it's right there in the text#gravity falls#billford#bill cipher#stanford pines#bill being open for the first time in his life ever: haha i'm so good at manipulation! this guy is EATING it up!#yes you are bill. yes you are#my art#my post#ramblings
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#linked universe#linkeduniverse#lu hyrule#(also zelda 1!!! but idk how people would feel about me tagging it since I used Jojo's design?)#(ya'll can always tag my gen loz art as LU (or as any linkverse honestly if it inspires you to think about your favs) and vice versa)#(I want to inspire you to think and create! If you see my gen loz art and want to add that to your headcanons or it changes how you think??#take it! play with it! invite me to play as well haha!)#(not ocs but like- gen stuff??? ye go for it)#mom walked in and looked at the comic I was working on#so I started rambling about my plans with it and what my peers are working on and how cool it all is and how I want to have more of that#and she said āwhat a waste of timeā#so I got loosey goosey with it :\#nice exercise to just draw w/o doing guides or being careful#did this in like under 15 minutes! >:D#but anyways#I haven't slept yet so gn!#.. he's holding stuff in the wrong hands!!!! a#look up ribbonwood / redshanks trees! If Hyrule was a tree- this is it#I imagine zelda 1&2's landscape to be california chaparral!!! I'm really passionate about it!!!!!#check out the california chaparral institute's website -> chaparral -> chaparral types#it's Hyrule's Hyrule!
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You made Killer such a cute little sad boy omg I am screaming. Please hug him or something, or trap him under a content little kitty idk but he needs it.
I love your art, it's so soft, sweet, warm, and cozy. Like marshmallows in warm hot cocoa <3
awe, ur sweet anon, thank u i appreciate this very much <333
belated cuddles from a kibby and his crush!! for the birthday boy! (napping at the coziest corner at ccino's š)
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#mblue art#self insert#killer!sans#(after drinking warm hot cocoa w marshmallows on a slow quiet day? yes!!)#(that's a lovely drink i should make that when i get the opportunity š„° ty again anonnn)#campus au#km#km route#(killer is a poor little meow meow to me so reading that first part made me chuckle haha)#(supposed to b a sketch but brain said screw it and slapped on colors š¤)#thank youuu to you guys for following and enjoying this little college au comic thing with my sona and killer !!#there's more to come with these two sillies but yeah i love my little college au !! w/ different routes !! bc i love more than one skeleton#AND shoutout to my friend for rambling with me and encouraging ideas in my head ily !! yk who u are <3#comics r tough but i'm glad i was able to finish what i planned š„ŗ;; (i'm proud of myself for that actually... ue ueu e...;;)#(big yippee i love u campus au my beloved)
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The desire to draw these two again but without the motivation to make something more than one of these little charts (oops)
Thank you Valc0 for making the sheet!
#I still need to play the epilogue#and draw things from the epilogue#and anSWER SOME OF THE QUESTIONS IN MY INBOX BAREEE IF YOU'RE READING THIS I'LL GET TO IT I PROMISE#IF YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU ASKED THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES THE LONG ANSWER IS IT'S COMPLICATED haha#& then also make fanart of other tavs I've got a backlog of inspiration but commissions and the elden ring DLC are just RIGHT in front of m#What else can I ramble about in here#The way I had to look up all the stupid woods around Baldur's Gate#once again my paranoia that I'll Get Lore Wrong bc I'm invested but not THAT invested lol#They lived in Baldur's Gate for a few years then moved back out to the Cloak Wood that's my headcanon for that#I think these two also have a lot of common interests but they were all too abstract or wordy to put here#like falling asleep on the balcony#or listening to the sounds of the sea#I saw a lot of other people list Gale as lawful pre-game and I'm.....skeptical haha#ok sorry I'm done have a lovely day!#bg3#baldur's gate 3#bg3 tav#bg3 otp#valc0#bg3 croissant#gale#gale dekarios#breadweave
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hhau mimic arc rambles part III bonus: the eclipse
(~2,8 k words) // other parts & au masterpost here
Every couple of years, thereās a total eclipse in this world. The moon is big, obscuring the sun in a horrible totality, entrapping it for what feels like too long. This is a big event, but not because people are eager to spectate the sky and bask in its weirdness. No, it has much worse connotations.
Because the eclipsed moon affects many of the hybrids. Especially the animal ones.
Hunters look forward to the eclipse because it promises a lot of loud, distressed, instinct-driven hybrids scattering about without many defences. They prepare traps specifically for this occasion and organise big hunting parties, eager for the upcoming bloodbath and bounty.
The eclipse happens mid-winter while Scar and Grian are on the server.
And itās awful.
[cws violence, murder (no known characters), panic, mind-altering states and a loss of self control, haywire instincts, non-consensual manhandling, horrory vibes]
They donāt really know what is happening at first. Hermitcraft is a safe server which has many things coded differently, and because eclipses hurt many hybrids, they never happen there. So Scar and Grian have never experienced anything like this, and the yank it has on Grianās state in particular is startingly sharp and terrifyingly confusing.
Scar himself is alright, becauseāand the two of them donāt know this at the timeāvexes are immune to the eclipse.Ā
Actually, thatās not quite accurate. The eclipse helps heighten their magic.
They thrive.
Grian does anything but thrive.
His instincts go absolutely batshit haywire. He starts getting disoriented and incredibly uneasy, anxiety holding him in a choke hold, and all rationality and caution leave him, replaced by pure fear.Ā
He starts making inadvertent chirping sounds, panicked, and no matter what Scar says or does, Grian canāt seem to stop.
Itās so dark outside. And Grianās chirping isnāt the only one that sounds through the forest.
In a world where they thought avians might be all nearly hunted to extinction, there are now suddenly, in this darkness, piercing faraway chirps. Just as panicked and lost-sounding as Grianās own.
But those are not the only sounds the looming forest has to offer.
Thereās also hollering and cheers. Whistles and barks. Twigs snapping under careless boots. Hunter parties following every single hybrid noise right to its source only to slice it shut. Shrill, chilling screams before some hybrid inevitably plunges into absolute, horrifying silence.
Scarās desperately trying to get Grian to shush. He pleads him to stop, to be quiet. Tries to calm him down.
But itās all futile. Grian has no control over himself. He canāt make it stop; itās a wholly new kind of fear, overpowering and unfamiliar, yanking at his instincts. (It feels, a little bit, like a huge moon crashing down while the ground underneath him shakes and disintegrates.) (It feels like locking eyes with someone and not being sure if heāll ever get to see them again.) (It feels like apocalypse. Like the end.) (His mind screams at him and he canāt help but scream along with it.)
Scar wonders if he should put a hand over Grianās mouth. He doesnāt know what to do, but the hunters are out there, in large numbers, tireless and eager, and Grianās voice is now the beacon luring them over, pinging with their exact location.
Grian is slowly backing away, hunched, feathers puffed. His wings are semi-curled around him, no longer tucked under the cloak, even though theyāre out in the open.Ā
He doesnāt seem like heād do well with being touched.
But Scar needs him to be quiet. For Grianās sake too.
Before Scar can do anything, though, Grianās earwings flit wildly and he whips his head to the side, honing in on some noise.
Itās a distressed chirp, one that sounds closer than any of the other ones.Ā
Itās an avian in distress calling for help.
Grian thought there arenāt any avians but him, and now there is one, still alive, so very close, desperate for aid, andā Grianās mind blanks. Thereās only one single thing to do here. He isnāt thinking. His heart beats wildly in overdrive. His body moves.
Blindly, Grian bolts in the direction of the sound.Ā
And itās up to Scar to scramble and run after him.Ā
Itās more than that. More than just following Grian. Because there is so much at stake, and he needs to stop him and quiet him andā And he might have to exert force, andā
Oh. He is basically hunting Grian down here.
He is the hunter following in the steps of a terrified avian.
And Grian, in his dazed and fragmented perception of the world, feels just like prey. There is so much happening for him right now: itās dark and all he can see is Scarās piercing vex eyes when he glances over his shoulder; heās lost in panicky instincts, trying to reach another avian in distress, hurtling blindly towards potential danger; and he does feel hunted.
On top of that, he canāt stop the stream of bird noises. He canāt pull his wings under his cloak either. Heās stumbling and tripping and scaping himself all over, but he feels like he needs to keep running.
He no longer knows if heās even heading the right way. The chirping he was following fell dead silent. His head is just screaming at him. Hot white panic and a cacophony of unstoppable, overpowering instincts.
Scar has to stop him before he gets himself killed.
As awful as it is, Scar doesnāt care about that other potential avian (it could be a trap) nearly as much as he cares about Grian. His priorities here are clear, desperation thick and loud in his lungs, pressing at his ribs. Thereās no time for bargaining or for steeling himself.Ā
He needs to act.
Scar grabs Grian and tackles him to the ground.
Heās pinning him down, sort of straddling him, hands on Grianās mouth, hopelessly trying to muffle the noises. He feels absolutely vile, but he doesnāt know what else to do. His breaths come in little sharp huffs of blue magic, shiny through the darkness as he expels a ton of emotional energy just to keep himself from panicking and crying.
He finds that itās not as easy to hold Grian down when he doesnāt want to be pinned down. But also it is. It is easy, far too easyāharrowingly so. Grianās so light. (It frightens Scar to even touch the thought of how simple this would be for the hunters too.)Ā
Heās terrified of hurting Grian accidentally. Heās very capable of it; Grianās made of brittle hollow bones after all, and Scarās grip is a bit too strong, but he doesnāt have a choice here. Grian wonāt stop thrashing, fighting to be freed. (But Scar knows that letting go would almost surely result in Grianās death.)
And where Grianās attention is kind of selective, not processing things at all, Scarās attention is sharpāsharpened by panicākeenly attuned to their surroundings. He hears all the various noises come and go. Not necessarily chirps; other hybrids, too. Them falling silent. The hunters yelling. And the screams. God. The awful screams.
Theyāre all too far away for now, thankfully, but if Grian wonāt stop, theyāre bound to come this way. After all, if Scar can hear them, surely they can hear Grian tooā?
Scar feels nauseous and horribly helpless. The hunters cheer and laugh as the hybrid noises go dead silent, one by oneā only the hounds left barking and howling in their wake.
Scar knows that, even though itās awful, they canāt help any of those hybrids. But heās going to do everything in his power so that at least the two of them can survive this.
Despite all his (pointless) efforts, the hunters catch up to them anyway.
As they approach, Scar is struggling to quiet Grian down, and Grian isnāt thinking straight enough to properly fight. Itās the worst possible situation.Ā
Thereās no point in quieting Grian down anymore when the hunters are right here though, and so Scar moves on the defensive, ready to give it all to keep Grian alive. The fight is ugly, drenched in frightening desperation; Scar is numb to the pain even when something tears. Grianās chirps get worse. Warmth drips down Scarās face.
But then a different sort of howling breaks through Scarās mounting panic, andā
A group of wild vexes rushes in. Not to save Scar and Grian in particular; itās just a lucky timing.
Because as it turns out, just the way hunters set off to hunt down hybrids during the eclipse, the vexesāwho are more powerful at this time, magic thrumming strongly in their veinsāset off to hunt down the hunters. So nicely accumulated for them. So loud. So easy to find.Ā
The vexes and the humans clash, and in the swell of the chaos, Scar manages to drag Grian away.Ā
He wants to keep going, increase the distance between them and everyone else as much as possible, but all too soon the forest opens up into fields, and no way heās pulling a dazed Grian out there where they canāt hide. So instead he swerves, anchoring them against a rock formationāan array of boulders and a jagged cliff wall.Ā
He presses Grian into a small dent there, covering him with his own body (imprisoning him there, in a way). Hiding Grianās wings, muffling his chirps, whispering frantic things that are meant to be soothing. The sky is still dark, and Grianās still chirping, although itās quieter now; itās clear heās exhausting himself, but heās still making noises. Still unable to stop, despite the terror and the fatigue.
They get found again.
But itās not the human hunters that find them this time. Itās the vex group, sneaking up on them, all their sharp edges drenched in blood, glowing with magic.
Scar turns his back to Grian, still pressing against him, tucking him against the rocks, hiding him as much as possible. Heās ready to lash out. Heās ready to fight with these vexes, even if heās outnumbered. (Heās got no species loyalty here, after all.)Ā
In a curious tone, one of the vexes says: āThat avian is going to get you killed.ā
The words register to Grian through the haze. Heās still absolutely lost amidst this all, barely understanding the world around him, struggling to process anything. But thereās something about the words avian and get you killed, and the thought of Scar, that makes it through the fog.
It only serves to make him more distressed. He breathes in sharp, shallow breaths, and his chirping grows louder again, high pitched. But itās not just the chirps this time. Some of the sounds he makes are choked, merging into something more like himselfāthe sound of helpless sobs.
Scar is shielding Grian with his back, but that means heās turning his back on Grianās cries and all of his misery. He cannot comfort him. He has no words that would make Grian not afraid right now.
The vex suggest leaving Grian orāworseāusing him as a bait.
Scarās staring them down, growling lowly, one eye squinted as blood runs down his face. āHow about you leave.ā
The vex donāt budge. They think theyāre after a good thing here, after all. Surely, Scar also wants these hunters dead?
What theyāre suggesting isnāt to sacrifice Grian as a baitāthey donāt actually want to outright hurt or endanger him, even if it maybe doesnāt translate well through their stance and words. Theyāre not malicious in that way. What theyāre suggesting is simply pragmatic in their minds. (I mean, they wouldnāt grieve if the avian happened to die there, but it wasnāt their goal to let it happen.)Ā
āWeāre hunting the humans,ā they note, as if that shouldāve been enough to sway Scar. āWe could use the avianāā
āNo.ā
One of the vex, white hair braided and smile sharp, peeks past Scar, trying to glimpse the feathers. The violet shade reflected in the glow of their magic tells him everything he needs to know, sating his curiosity, and he whistles, impressed. Amazed that an avian like this has lasted so long.
Scar lunges at him for getting too close.
He gets laughed at in return. Whatās he gonna do, all alone? Not even channelling his magic to heal his own wound. Itās just funny to them. Cute. āWhatāre you going to do?ā they tease, a bit too cheerily for the situation at hand. It rings threatening. āYouāre outnumbered, pal.ā
Scar doesnāt back down. āIād take at least one of you down with me.ā Itās a big statement. Covering up all of his nauseating fear and unending tension. Because heāll do it. Heāll fight if he has to, and it will be ugly, and he might failāhe might dieābut heāll for sure give it everything he has.
And he can tell thereās camaraderie between this group of vexes. That they donāt really want any of them seriously hurt.Ā
They, as vexes, know the best how dangerous a feral, cornered vex with something to protect can be.
Thereās a sliver of respect this earns Scar, unbeknownst to him. The will to stand up to them even when heās outnumbered like this. To not give in to the pressure and instead fight for his values. For what he cares for.
The white haired vexāseemingly a leader of the group of sortsāreiterates, tone a bit lower, that the avian is going to get Scar killed. That heād be better off without him. (Essentially voicing the deep rooted fear Grian already has.)
He also extends an invitation, almost in the same breath, impressed by Scar standing up to them. But itās only Scar who is invited, and itās blatantāthe condition laid down is drop the avian or letās use him as a bait and hunt together.Ā
With sharp ire and a swell of protectiveness, Scar counters that heād be better off without them, actually.
Thereās a snort and a mocking, āAight, letās see how long you can last.ā
The relief Scar feels when they relent and leave is immense, leaving him weak in his knees.
He thinks theyāre foolish, risking themselves like that. In his mind, theyāre the definition of the violent vex, that dark reputation that seems to now stick to Scar and follow him too by the virtue of being the same kind of hybrid. He doesnāt want anything to do with that.Ā
And of course, heād never leave Grian.
Grian is his last connection to home. He loves him, even if it never feels like itās enough.
Excruciatingly slowly, sun eventually peeks back out. But even then, it takes Grian a very long time to untangle himself from these dazed, nonsensical instincts. Itās such a heavy, sticky veil and heās left disoriented and confused for the longest time. Through his exhaustion, he feels weak and dizzy and out of it.
Scar is also exhausted, but theyāre nowhere near safe yet. Still pressed against the rocks. Every nerve ending is flared up, Scarās senses alert to the point of flinching at the subtlest sound, hypervigilant. But as Grian slumps and quiets down, Scarās firm grip on him follows.Ā
Slowly, so slowly, Scarās hold on Grian becomes comforting instead of restricting and terrifying.
He can tell that it left bruises.
Scar hates everything about it, butā Theyāre alive.
The sun is back, Grian is quiet, and theyāre alive.
But they still need to find safety. And Grianās so frazzled, still processing what even happened. The blurred memories of chirps and howls and screams swirl through his mind. He feels lightheaded, and like his skull is stuffed full, unable to think clearly. He doesnāt quite understand any of it, and his body feels locked in place.Ā
Grian wants to stay sitting here until everything starts making sense, but they donāt have that kind of time. They canāt stay. They need to move. They need to properly hide.Ā
Scar feels awful, but he needs to push through. He needs to force Grian to move.
The snow is splattered with blood. The forest is dead silent, scattered bodies left behind all across it. The area is riddled with traps, some activated and others still hidden, waiting to be triggered.Ā
The sun is shining.
The silence is eerie.
The scent of blood is thick and fresh and nothing feels safe.
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Later, when Grianās more coherent, he says, āThey were right.ā In an incredibly quiet, fragile, unsteady voiceābut laced with determinationāhe tells Scar: āYou shouldāve taken their deal.ā
Scar immediately tries to dismiss it. Preferably to not engage with this conversation at all. āNot interested.ā
Grian registers the shut down of the discussion, but that doesnāt make it any less loud inside of his mind (and heart). He simply goes quiet and withdraws. Lips pursed, lightly frowning, staring somewhere away.
They donāt talk about it again.
Late at night, when Grian canāt sleep because heās too high strung, he thinks of how itād feel like, to be used by those vexes as a bait.
He dreams about it.
He dreams of faraway chirps and laughter and hounds finding him.
He has so many nightmares after this.
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BONUS screenshot for shits n giggles:
#hhau#mimic arc#yeah this was absolutely AWFUL#hope u enjoyed <3#the scattered bodies might get looted later but the scene is dreadful#please imagine that human-vex clash like that fight in LOTR#you know the one#anyway also yes#this is where hhau scar gets his eye scar#this is just the first in a string of harrowing incidents that make grian lose control#weāre awful to him oops#this vex group is from the commune yes#nico mention#he said not nice things#no foreshadowing there at all dw dw#so anyway. this is where and how they met the vexes for the first time#it was far from pretty#mmmhm#the vex's mission wasn't to save hybrids#it was just to kill as many hunters as they can#hey is mimic part III now wrapped up????#nope!!#there's still one ramble left#which is what happened to juni!#does anyone wanna know what happened to juni?#after that disaster of a betrayal haha#we're really just jumping all the way around now between rambles and arcs pff#but i'm so very happy i finally got these eclipse rambles done for u!!!
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I'm still such a beginner at sewing but I just made my first pillowcase (on my grandma's old, almost 60 year old sewing machine!) and I'm so proud of myself!! It looked really nice and then I messed up the buttons, had to cut out the fabric where I had tried to do the buttons and inserted another piece fabric to fill the gaps where the failed buttons were but still!!! I made an actual usable pillowcase!!! leaning against the pillow as i am typing this, 10/10 experience, pillow is fully covered by fabric!!
#yes i'm aware that's literally one of the easiest things to sew bc it's just straight lines but still#i had such a shitty therapy session today and still feel really shit even tho it's hours later but all i did since therapy was make this#so i need to celebrate it as a win haha#anywayss#sewing#ramblings
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"For particularly important things, it's always more reassuring to write them down like this." - Zhang Beihai
[ID in alt text]
#my art#three body problem#3 body problem#zhang beihai#äøä½#ē« åęµ·#i've been meaning to draw three body problem characters and actually post them on my blog for quite some time!#so if anybody wants me to draw any specific character from the series feel free to reply here or send an ask as a request!#beihai is my top favorite and he resonated with me more than i expected! i rather liked bits of consequentialist philosophical ideas in him#anyways incoming ramble/infodump in the tags about various subjects pertaining to him#all you need to know about me is that i often lurk in chinese language fandom spaces and you might see commonalities in designs#if you see fanartists draw him with the broken eyebrow and mole then that's due to the ęēäøä½ (my three-body) donghua adaptation!#admittedly i was introduced to the series through that adaptation years ago because it seemed rather absurd (minecraft haha) but oddly good#at least check out the third season (haven't seen the fourth one yet but that's ongoing actually) or listen to å¤čŖę (night voyager)#i'm rather curious how fanartists on tumblr might tackle character designs since i mostly see the two live action adaptations here#i want to diverge my designs from any particular adaptation but my beihai design takes a lot from ęēäøä½!#now about beihai- i really enjoyed his characterization and i'd like to bring up a maybe unintentional parallel and foil with the eto#hopefully that's something new to add to the discussion about zhang beihai and here's what adaptations don't get about mike evans#in the book he's a character you mostly only hear about from others and he's known to be a private person#he conceals a lot of his thoughts from even people like ye wenjie + he taught the trisolarans about deceit#then his strategy to kill luo ji was to keep it low and make it seem like an accident which those obfuscations of thought parallels beihai#then evans says: ābutā¦ it's obvious now that everywhere is the sameā which is similar to beihai's āit doesn't matter. it's all the sameā#the contexts differ but i think they're good foils about human nature ābeing the sameā with evans's quote being about futility#then beihai's was about how regardless of if he survived or not- someone else would be able to carry on with his work#i have many other thoughts about beihai like how chu yan's (captain of blue space) group approach with the voting contrasts beihai#while beihai tried to bear the weight of attacking the other ships in solitude- chu yan made vengeance against trisolaris a group effort#(which that action goes against how the swordholder was a solitary role instead of a group one which is neat to me!)#i'd discuss more but i think that's enough to show that i really love zhang beihai (feel free to discuss the books with me though)
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Do you have any thea stilton ocs yourself? tell us abt them!
Uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *awkwardly stares at my little OC closet*
Okay so two things about me: 1. I am not typically an OC maker, and 2. I thrive better on bouncing ideas off of other things instead of trying to create characters from scratch. Both of these mean that I don't make OCs particularly often, and the ones I do make mostly end up being antagonists or villains (as I find it easier to make a foil to a protagonist than a protagonist that everything will be bouncing off of). Soooooooo with that preface, allow me to show you my tiny, tiny, tiny collection of TS OCs ^^
The first one is a guy who was made for a concept where the girls go to China for a student exchange and have to deal with China's.... cutthroat education system, to say the least. This character was cooked up by me and my friend @starlight-4eva, and the name he's most known by is "Yi", or "one" in Mandarin. (He does have a proper Chinese name, that being WĆ”ng WÄilĆ³ng (ēä¼é¾))
Now, Yi is essentially a product of the aspect of the Chinese education system where everyone is publicly ranked so there is a motive to excel (but also to be super-toxic to those in lower ranks). He is extremely cocky, arrogant, and unfortunately very intelligent. He was in the same school as Violet in China, and he competed extremely fiercely with her for the position of top-ranked student in their class (if this sounds like two kids fighting over a video game leaderboard yeah it is, just imagine it in a school setting and the score is their grades). The rivalry is very one-sided but also not really kinda, since Yi is actively trying to mess with her in their competing, while Violet is mostly just trying to survive in school (and by that I mean bringing her A-game to everything). No cheating in exams though-- Yi is way too good for that! Besides, why cheat when you have psychological warfare?
For the longest time, Violet dominated her class's leaderboard with Yi hot on her heels, but the entire time, Yi wasn't bitter. Named "Er" at the time, he knew that all it took for him to take the top spot was a single screw-up. A single mistake. A single millisecond where Violet let her guard down. And it happened.
Violet fell from first rank to second, and he, now taking the rank "Yi", was ruthless in letting her know all about it, giving her the name "Er", which in Chinese means "two", but also has connotations of inadequacy, worthlessness, and lack of intelligence. He never failed to gloat about it, and as a rattled Violet attempted to regain her top rank, Yi was more than happy to watch "Er" struggle and fail, all while holding an iron grip over his new title.
Violet was able to recover from her fall, but she was never able to regain her top rank. Even in her gaokao, the infamous college eligibility exam, she missed the chance to overtake Yi by 0.1% in score. 0.1% too short.
Mouseford was a good place to heal and open herself up to new people with different ideologies, but in this student exchange, some old wounds burst back open as she finds to her horror that she is not only having the exchange in the same school Yi is studying in for university, not only is she in the exact same class as Yi, but Yi is just as arrogant and smug as ever. He is a walking, talking red flag (a male green tea bitch, if you will), and he does everything he does to make Violet as uncomfortable as possible (down to mild sexual harassment. Nothing too crazy, just him being an unfortunately smartass delinquent who constantly says he and Vi are "tied together by Yue Lao's Red Thread of Fate and flirts with her, knowing full well how uncomfortable Violet is with it. Hey, anything to throw her off her game even by just 0.05% of her 100%. A small number like that is enormous in an exam that's worth 33% of their entire grade in a single subject, right?).
(Here's some old doodles I did of him and Violet in 2021, something something I headcanon that Violet is Year of the Steel Dragon while Yi is Year of the Steel Serpent, something something Chinese dragons are unable to fly when injured on the crest of their head according to some site I don't remember rn, something something allegory to how Chinese communities is basically like playing socially political 3D chess constantly)
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The second one is a bit weird, but you're gonna have to hear me out on this one. If you've seen him in my Artfight, then yes, he technically originated from a Thea Sisters fic concept.
Du Yaoguai/DYG is a snake demon (Chinese demon, not Western), and while his Artfight profile says all, I do have to give a little bit of extra context.
He was supposed to be an antagonist in a fic scenario where the girls, in a Seven Roses Unit thing, crash-land into a fantasy world based on mythical China, and because it's not supposed to be kid-friendly and because the Heavenly Court put a "VIP pass, no VIP no entry" sign in front of the world's barrier, outsiders are to either be killed or kicked out as soon as possible, whichever happens first. DYG, being a human-eating snake demon monster, has his eyes on the girls and would like to have them for dinner, and he's willing to use every trick in the book to get them to fall into his trap. Mansplain, manipulate, manwhore, if you simp I'm not stopping you, but my Artfight rules do apply to him even outside of Artfight
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And finally (for now), this is Olovo.
"But E, I can't make heads or tails of this crappy concept sketch!" Oh, I know.
You'll get to know him eventually :]
Anyway that's it byeeee--
#geronimo stilton#thea stilton#thea sisters#questions with e#my yi ramble wound up being super-long but eeehhhh he is a lot as a character /aff /derogatory#he is very much tied to the culture he was raised in which y'know needed a bit of explaining#shoutout to @starlight_4eva for making him with me she was the one who helped me flesh out his character the most#come to think of it he's basically karma akabane if karma put all his eggs into being a smart sonuvabitch instead of half-half#(the other half being being a sadistic delinquent lmao)#maybe i'll redraw the thing with him and vi at some point#maybe when i'm feeling masochistic and decide i wanna re-explore the wonderful (nightmare) world of chinese dragon snouts#i drew him with the intent of him looking like every delinquent ever especially with the slicked-up hair#but i am asian so i'm curious to know if ya'll non-asians see that style as attractive#fr every single delinquent in my old school had their hair slicked up with totally-not-hairgel#it's to the point where the hairstyle isn't attractive to me haha#i see it and i immediately go āah yes. a punkass bitchā#anyway it's 1am i should go o<-<
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I'm kinda feeling a little eh about the whumptober prompts tbh. Maybe it's because I'm tired lol
#idk#I wasn't immediately like OH YES CAN'T WAIT TO DO THAT ONE with any of them this year#but again: tired#plus sick/allergies#so that could be it#or the slumpy mood I've just been in lately haha#I'm also still debating if I want to do half of them lu and half just... random AUs and stuff#but I'm not sure#idkkkkk#rambles from the floor
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I'm just figuring out how important music is in my life! This is coming from a long while trying to cut down on my music use, mostly because I was listening to it so much that it felt more like I couldn't do anything without popping in some earbuds, and partially because of other personal reasons. Some of my routines changed, forcing me to not listen to music while doing certain things, and it ended up becoming that besides working on homework or drawing, I didn't listen to music at all. But I've given myself a break today since I have nothing to do and since, for reasons, I'm feeling just a lil crappy todayāand boy, I'm starting to realize again just why I love music!!
I love the diverse music taste I've developed over the years! My family is not only big about music but big about listening to it loud, so the majority of my music taste for most of my life has just been Christian hiphop (Lecrae, KB, Andy Mineo, Trip Lee, and ironically Tonex, whose album where he was struggling hard with his gayness has been my favorite concert movie since I was 5) and gospel music (Kirk Franklin, Tye Tribbett, etc.). And music was one of the few connections between me and my race (I grew up feeling pretty estranged from my blackness as a kid, but the popular songs they played at the YMCA in the 2010s were some of the few things I could use to feel more connected) and between me and my classmates/friends at the Y (I still have fond memories of playing FNAF songs in mat forts and reciting lyrics at pool parties). But I got tired of knowing I could never bond with anyone besides family friends music taste-wise when I was in high school, and so I started listening to secular music on my own time. And that's how I first found Ghost and Pals, a vocaloid artist and one of the first secular music folks I listened to as a kid (can you smell the religious trauma yet? Lol), and that's how I bonded with one of my best friends in early college (ironically, also my first time being publically queer). Now I listen to Kpop, anime songs, songs from warriors MAPs, songs from musicals (Hamilton and In the Heights <3), latin songs, metal songs, and even some secular songs young me would've been too scared to listen to.
And music has always been one of my biggest sources of stimming! I can't dance to save my life, but music will sure get me to flick my fingers and hit my fist against my shoulder furiously. Music was one of the first clues that I like stimming with vibration too (since I love laying against the car door and turning up the music loud enough to feel the world shake around me). And music was one of the first things that made me look into ADHD or autism (specifically, listening to Ghost and Pals songs for a month straight and getting my friend at early college [who also has ADHD] to start looking at me funny when I was discovered doing chores and listening to one of three songs for the fifth time). Music is so cool it'll get me to wax poetically. It was one of the things that kept me together during my roughest times and soothed me during my best. I listen to it while I write, while I cry, while I hang out with my friends and family and while I chill by myself. It's how I relax after a long day, and it's how I feel safe. I feel kinda emotional finally having music hit that spot in me without feeling like I need it to do stuff.
#songs listened to while writing this post:#Tell Your Girlfriend by Lay Bankz#Get Up (Live) by Tye Tribbett#the Oshi no Ko OP song for season 1 (by Yoasobi) - which I ironically found before getting into Oshi no Ko#Waterfalls Coming Out Your Mouth by Glass Animals#Como Fue by 116#Creator (a Minecraft song I picked up from my college friend J)#The Ultimate Soldier (Evangelion)#Reckless Battery Burns by Ghost and Pals#Uncanny x Deathbody remix by Ghost and Pals#Watch Me Work (Trolls 3)#Mount Rageous (Trolls 3)#Better Place (Trolls 3)#Hayloft 2 by Mother Mother#Hayloft 2 Smashup by Mother Mother#Don't You Worry About a Thing (the Sing movie)#Mama by My Chemical Romance (found through a warriors MAP [yes the one you're thinking of])#Gossip by MĆ„neskin#Looking at my playlists getting more and more secular songs feels like healing#but I also love that I can still listen to gospel hiphop or gospel music without feeling ashamed or (completely) embarrassed#(except for Bizzle but that was always more of my dad's music taste anyway)#also yes I have tinnitus how could you guess? Haha but for real it feels like an okay sacrifice to me (more like a battle wound for loving#music so much - but everyone else please use ear protection if you can! Tinnitus doesn't bother me too much but it could you!)#fenn rambles#gonna use this tag for my favorite rants and rambles that I'm most proud of hehe#(also this is an excuse to not leave some non-alterhuman-themed or non-neopronouns-themed stuff untagged >:3)#music#(also I went to a KB concert recently and it was HYPE)#(and I went to Winter Jam in Mobile and it was legitimately one of the best concert experiences in my life - Lecrae >>>>#love his new album hehehe)
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And I told you one day you will see, that I'll be back I guarantee And that hell's coming, hell's coming Hell, hell's coming with me
- Poor Man's Poison
Egeriaaaaaaaa... I have so many thoughts about u that are probably going to be super wrong, but for the moment I can live in my Delusions of u being a morally... bankrupt questionable queen (also all my Furina headcanons).
though that new egeria lore via fontaine wings does mention her committing sins so I heeeeyyyyyy
#fic stuff#my art#avem rambling#genshin impact#furina#egeria#genshin impact egeria#fun fact egeria's pose is inspired by the lady justice pose#except normally its the scales that are raised high#and the sword is lowered (or occasionally at the same height)#egeria raises the sword to the heavens#and yes I'm using those lyrics that song is such a bop#and those specific lyrics live rent free in my brain at all times#I've normally associated them with the harbs#but I went omg its perfect for these 2 haha#so i drew this at super speed lol#dedil stuff
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Good morning gamers!! Hope you're all doing well! As for me, I'm thinking about this bastard again-
#pan rambles#He looks good-I MEAN HAHA DID Y'ALL HEAR SOMETHING?#Jokes aside though. Knowing what a fashion disaster S.anji can be... I'm pleasantly surprised his egghead arc outfit isn't awful#I was fully prepared to have some awful color combo but it's actually nice#Blue and Yellow... That's also my s/is color scheme ahem-#talking about anythind related to the end of Wano or anything past that makes me šš A bit#Bc Panchi/S.anji officially start dating at the end of Wano#āPanchi did it really take over 1000 chapters?-ā YES IT DID#They're both stubborn idiots who struggle to put their emotions into words! especially feelings of affection!#They'd sooner take a deadly hit for the other than admit they like each other! and the fact the two are so stubborn doesn't help#They're both incredibly flawed but they both grow to the point where my s/i can finally confess-#Ahem that was long ny apologies!#Ask me about S.anji/Panchi and you'll get a whole essay and sometimes even some of my writing-#I'm so normal about these two (Lying)
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General Valentina Headcannons (Saw X)
Currently planning the "Valentina lives and becomes an apprentice" AU I've been wanting to write so consider this a precursor to that! (I wasn't kidding when I said I had many headcannons about her so enjoy the ramblings of a mad man <3)
Her full name is Valentina Rosa HernƔndez
She was 32 years old during the events of Saw X.
This makes her younger than Cecilia & Mateo and older than Diego and Gabriella
Valentinaās birthday is on the 27th of July (thus making her star sign Leo)
Letās those close to her call her Val for short.
Is still trying to put an exact label on her sexuality but knows for a fact she isnāt straight
Valentina struggles to fully trust and open up to people as sheās been hurt by many throughout her life; she often uses her feisty, sarcastic personality as a shield. Though if you manage to break through this prickly facade, you will find a loyal woman with a lot of love to give.
Valentina loves doing her makeup and is quite the talented makeup artist. It was almost like her pre-work relaxation ritual for the night, doing her makeup while blasting some of her favourite music.
Loves heavy metal and rock music! It was quite rare but when she was able to go to concerts, sheād be in the mosh pit.
As well as having her ears pierced, sheās also got her belly button pierced.
Has a younger half-sister named Carmen who is five years younger than her. Val loves her above all else and is fiercely protective of. Aside from this has no relationship with any of her immediate family.
Growing up it was just Valentina and her father; her mother wasnāt really in the picture. She was really close with her father. However, he passed away when she was 12.
She was then sent to live with her mother, step father and Carmen. Her mother and step-father were cold and neglectful towards her, it was always clear that they didnāt want her there.
Ā As a result of this she grew into a trouble making teenager.
At first, she was distant from her little sister, envious of the love her mother and step father seemed to give her. However, as the pair grew older Valentina came to realise that the amount of pressure they put on her, even from a young age, was harmful within itself. They didnāt love her, they loved the idea of her and as soon as Carmen strayed from what they wanted she was punished. From that moment onwards Valentina vowed to love and protect her sister.
In fact, she started trying to change her trouble making ways so she could be a better older sister.
Valentina left home the age of 20 after a huge argument with her mother and step-father. The only person she stayed in contact with was Carmen (and she had to fight to stay in contact with her, their mother tried to prevent it but was unsuccessful).
Had little to her name when she left home and ended up couch surfing at friendās places for a while.
Eventually saves up enough to rent a little place of her own, it was small and little bit rundown but it was hers. Carmen ended up moving in with Valentina after also having a falling out with their parents. Times could be tough but they were happy to have each other.
Valentina always wanted to provide a better life for her sister than what she was able to and this is why Cecilia was able to convince her to join the scam. She promised Valentina a life changing sum of money in exchange for pretending to be a nurse for a couple of days. Valentina had her doubts but at the end of the day, such a large sum of money to pretend to be a nurse for a short period of time??? Sheād be a fool not too, after all this was for her sister. And sheād do anything for her sister.
#saw#saw x#saw x valentina#sawposting#saw franchise#saw movies#headcannons#I am so normal about her /j#It's funny that this originally started because I wanted to headcannon a full name and age for her#And then it just spiraled from there lmao#And yes her last name is the same as her actress's pls excuse my lack of creativity there LMAO (I overthink names far too much)#Also something that's silly is I gotta lowkey hype myself up to post any writing I do 'cause I'm worried I'll somehow get it all wrong loll#Which is RIDICULOUS I know haha#But I gotta show my girl the love she deserves#cause I am forever cursed to care about characters who have little to no cannon info about them#also not to be rambling in the tags but y'all can pry sapphic Valentina from my cold dead hands <3
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there is an affect to the way you talk in tags that is incredibly charming and endearing. i feel like i would love to sit and listen to you talk about literally whatever for hours?
this is. one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. thank you! i make an effort to talk in a very specific way. i like to think i've curated the way i speak very well over the course of my life to represent a version of me that i want to be. it came with the territory of making an effort to be nicer after having been mean for so long
#not pkmn#by all means. i love talking. i talk quite a lot. and i do like rambling about literally whatever for hours#i think i said something in one of the tags once about like haha i could do a _stream_ of thisā¦ lolā¦ hahaā¦ and like NO ONE said anything#about it and it became the most shameful tags i've ever written. if you offer to stream and no one wants you to#brother you might as well just die. <- that's how i felt#but yes i love talking. i'm also a voice actress so that helps. <- do you see what i'm doing. i'm talking. anyway. you're on anon so i can'#do much more than offer but i do like talking <- obviously
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i'm going through all of the shows and so far my favorites are G1 and ES but I'm on prime right now.
I like G1 because these girlypops are craay and I am HERE for it. Star scream is my favorite <3 he's my little pookie bear.
I like ES because the story is just so???? like??? there is sooo much room for shipping and fanfiction with this show. Megop? like an episode away from being canon guys. I'm manifesting. Breakbee?? cute. i love it. sad sometimes. the art is also really nice. sure it's kinda crappy sometimes but like - I love it??? Nightshade is so cutie patootie I just want to stare at them for 5 hours without blinking. their alt mode??!?!? fanfrickingtasting. Twitch and Thrash??? their own little plots??? I'm in love. Robby and Mo??? so adorable I fear for their lives. DOROTHY?!?!? She's amazing. I want her to adopt me. her husband??? who is all of us??? I love Alex too, he's such a good dad and I understand the Bee fanatics. also Bumblebee in this show is amazing. Also I like optimus because he's got that **himboness** to him that he always needs to have. ALSO ALSO ALSO!!!!!!! MEGS?!??!? HIS VOICE ACTOR BEING SCOTTISH WAS THE BEST idEA EVER. I swoon every time he speaks. I love the story, I love the terrans, I love that it's pretty obvious that Dot doesn't really like optimus and I understand it. if I was meggy poo bear's bestie he'd probably give me all the dirt on op. to me she's like the best friend who disapproves of your boyfriend. Breakdown and bee should kiss. ALSO STARSCREAM <333 they made him FINNNEEE in this. holllyy molllyyy. I could go on for HOURSS talking about this show. like seriously, "deception prime? I'm impressed~" "I thought I was your friend" brother they know what they're doing. this whole show is propaganda to catch the gay little transformer fans like FLYS. and I'm HERE FOR IT.
I'm watching Prime rn and uh i almost had to stop watching because !!! SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST EPISODE !!! Cliffjumper dies and he's my favorite little angry short king who apperentally was played by D"TR"J?!?! Like yess please š but then they made him a zombie so I was sad. but also??? ratchet??? GILF. Optimus??? snatched. they made everyone hot in this. also Miko? i love her, I want to be her best friend. I'm on like episode like 4 ish I think. Megatron? a bit crazy but we love a baddie. Star scream?? I'm unsure about my queen in this one. I love how twinky and gay he is but like - I'm not really loving the design?? Optimus drank all the thot juice in this show and left no crumbs for my malefail girlhusband. he did give arcee a sip but she was allergic so she's blue. also I've heard of this knock out before but he hasn't been in it yet. you guys better not be lying to me - I wanna see a gayass.
I also watched TF1 which was what got me into the fandom?? I was like, oh wow now I need to watch the rest of this stuff and I looked it up because my brothers watched the bayverse movies but I didn't because I didn't like live action movies when I was younger and I wanted to make sure I was watching the stuff in order and you guys told me to NEVER EVER EVER watch the bayverse shit so I'm not gonna š. but then I watched g1 and fell in love with all these characters so now I'm invested. Then i was like ok im gonna go in order and watch all the stuff the way Primus intended but then i was like "Nah" and watched all of earthspark and then now prime's my victim. I may be super confused but man oh man are these robots hot and dramatic. it's like a reality tv show but with freaky robots and i would die for any of them. I was gonna say something like "but not for this guy!" but honestly i like all the characters. maybe not mandroid? i'm not vibing with the racism at the moment. now i know you're gonna say like maybe not tf1 sentineL??? brother i'd let him be racist all he wants if he'd give me a smooch. pretty privilage hard at work o7.
After i finish prime i'll watch something else, if you've got suggestions i'll take em. i'm bored and i'm homeschooled so i've got all the time on my hands.
sorry for the long post i'm bored and in between classes!! Have a nice day! :)))
next post might be breakbee fic recs i read a lot yesterday and the day before. there was like 30. my computer almost crashed 5 times but it's goated so it held on.
Byee <33
#super long post#just me yapping#transformers#transformers earthspark#transformers g1#optimus x megatron#bumblebee transformers#transformers megatron#transformers one#spoilers#lonnng post#starscream#shout out to star scream#sentinel can be racist all he wants if he gives me a smooch#i'm a bit stranged#i'm a bit obsessed#i like transformers a little bit if you can tell#autistic rambling#me being silly#tw for cursing i guess#i cuss#in a silly way#guys i swear i said those slurs in a haha funny way#these robots are hot#is this just a diary entry? yes
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