#My reasons for trying.

[electric-vivid]

"Ever since I was a kid, my dad was always a source of inspiration to me."

"Seeing him fight villains with his powers was so cool... So I trained to be as strong as him then get powers as well."

"..But that fateful, and legendary night..."

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"Isn't RADDER amazing? Look, they're winning!"

"To think they'd be able to beat that villain... They're really powerful!"

I looked at the battlefield in amazement, they were so coordinated...

"You got this dad! You got this!"

(To think I'd have such an amazing father ...!

It's way cooler than the other battles he had— No, this is the best!

Everyone's fired up just by watching my dad and his team!)

(.. This is it..!

This is the type of battle that I wanna do... Saving the world by defeating the most powerful villain...

Im going to do everything to surpass this night...!)

opening ends here cause im not gonna write the whole thing yet //

[humming-fly]

was thinking about that one blind professor post earlier today and how well it applied to the aptly named Team Dark

(really 'Team Dark' just sounds a lot cooler than 'Team Saves-On-Electricity')

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[marciaillust]

almost blown out bsky / twt / ig

[hinamie]

oversaturate

[itsmeglycine]

*sensually smooches and licks a pomegranate like a horny tiktok chef*

(Support me on my Ko-Fi! <3)

[barghest-land]

3 days in the arctic. not much time to draw, but a lot to see 🌠 kola peninsula, august '24

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

[mo-mode]

The Biblically Accurate Trio in TLT

[wasyago]

tango doodles

first you make up a guy and then you struggle to draw him correctly

[trickstersaint]

i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism

(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)

[electric-vivid]

"Oh and- This is one of the pieces I managed to make while i was with my band mates.."

..I loved listening to her,

Her stupid thick yet fluffy blue hair, her shing glasses, her eyes, her voice... It was all i could focus on everytime we talked.

I couldn't get enough of her smile, her laughter, her shyness...

We'd even play games all the time at her dorm.

I knew we were gonna be together forever,

I loved her so much after all.

To think I'd love someone as much as Kohane was so weird to think about-

But...-

!!

"i..ichika..."

I couldn't see anything that time but blood, and her.

Even then, i tried to reach out my hand.

...Does this really have to be my last memory before I passed out?...

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[arttsuka]

People need to stop blaming 'parasocial relationships' when it's revealed to the public that a famous person has done something controversial (or even a crime) and the public is upset. 'I can't believe xxx did that!' doesn't always mean that the person who said it has a parasocial relationship with xxx. Usually it's just our faith in humanity, we want to believe that everyone has some basic human decency (especially someone we might admire) and it's only natural to be disappointed when we learn they're a bad person.

[journey-to-the-attic]

"karasu search how 2 cheer human up"

"karasu search difference between sad human and zoning out human"

"karasu search how long is it safe for humans to zone out for?"

(+ a longer look at each scene:)

[you-know-i-get-itt]

we’ve all talked about how andrew minyard being the goalkeeper is symbolic of his position as the protector of his foxes, but can we also talk about aaron and nicky being backliners whose job is to stop the ball before it can reach the goal at all and therefore protect andrew specifically