#NAH CAUSE THATS HOW IT BE

[banrionandomhain]

HAHAHAHA OH MY GOD

real event that occured that i cant stop thinking about

[dapper-lil-arts]

Going back to the shining armor just being some guy thing, I love the fact that in a Canterlot Wedding, even Twilight says "how did you get Cadence to marry you???"

God twilight was so right lmao. I was half expecting cadance to say "i lost a bet" WHEEZE like i get that people wanna defend their pairing but the writing with that boy is flimsy at best and it really didn't have to be, we coulda actually been introduced to him and cadance *before* they were married lmao. any sort of relationship building before marriage would be nice, or not even just that, just character introductions could have done wonders

himbo nerd x bad bitch sounds nice but like. cmon man, ya need smth to work with more than the bare minimum

Okay shoutout to how i wrote cadance in my fic "The Return of Midnight Sparkle"

i was working with a blank slate so i decided to paint a masterpiece.

[gh0sdae]

The group chat reacting after someone deleted our entire two-year+ long and very active discord channel of roleplay because she decided spontaneously to soft reboot the story:

[barkovsasha]

i don't go on twt but i just know the toxicity over this is immense, pls ignore everything you read about bad players on there, they wanna act like one bad game means these men should be put out to pasture. like last game SUCKED we all know that, they know that, but it was one game. the o.ilers had three bad games, i think it's fine

[dekupalace]

Tell me about your pokemon OCs please :D?

[took forever to get to this cause I didn't get a notif for it???] I didn't think I'd get this far...

most of the "ocs" are the customizable protags from the newer games BUT...I do have one (1) original with their own little backstory

say hi to auria !! (image made with this picrew)

uh-ohhh arceus fucked up! when sending the legends protag back to hisui, a few others got warped around in time! and auria was no exception!

auria is originally from hisui, but was sent forward in time (a couple years after ethan/lyra would become champion) and now lives in the woods around ecruteak city in johto. she's now found herself with nothing but a book full of pokemon sketches and notes (her pokedex), the clothes on her back, and her first name...

and her team of course!

in order: sage, spark, splash, sprout, sneaks, scout

but who knows how the people of johto would react to seeing such a strange typhlosion...

(more backstory under the cut) [cw for pokemon death and a lil bit of violence]

auria was always very interested in pokemon and loved researching them and studying them before she was ever discovered and brought in by the survey corps (NOT the galaxy team. it's the team rocket equivalent basically). she had run away from home at a very young age in order to join an expedition team cause it was her live-long dream of finding out what these pokemon were all about. at her age, however, pokemon were more feared than anything else, so she was relied on heavily to do most of the research given her bravery around them. she even made pokeballs by herself, though not nearly as stable or useful as they were once she was taught how to make them properly, but it was basically enough to make others trust her to get the job done

auria put ALL of her time and energy into pokemon, up to the point of barely speaking with other humans over the years, only communicating with her team and other wild pokemon. one of the last pokemon she caught for her team was...a shy, terrified teddiursa. auria didn't want to force it to be a part of her team, so she offered it food and let it be afterwards. with this act of kindness, the teddiursa started coming back for more food, and eventually learned to trust auria and stay with her. auria decided to name the little teddiursa "sweetie"

she did everything for her team, though sweetie was basically the runt of the team...it hardly fought due to its fear and anxiety, but that didn't stop auria from loving it as much as the rest of her pokemon. while the others evolved and got stronger...sweetie stayed at a lower level and continued to be small. auria was basically carrying it around like a baby for a majority of their time together, but this wasn't necessarily a bad thing by any means

one day, while auria and her team were sound asleep at their campsite, some researchers from the survey corps had snuck up on them. auria was bonding with these "dangerous beasts" WAY too easily, and it led a lot of the team to not trust her anymore, especially considering her lack of communication once she were given the resources to continue her own catching and research on her own terms. so...they had approached the camp with weapons and some of their own pokemon, and sweetie was the only one awake at the time, and jumped out to protect auria. and in its moment of heroism...it evolved into ursaring, letting out a terrifying roar that scared the researchers and woke up auria, just in time for her to witness her precious sweetie...get killed in front of her very eyes.

the anguish she felt...it sent auria over the edge and she screamed, attacking the researchers with her pokemon. they were begging and attempting to say it was a misunderstanding, or that they were just trying to help save her from the dangers of her team...but she didn't give them a chance. after the survey corps members retreated, auria ran off as well with the rest of her team, leaving herself with only her pokemon for comfort, never to be found by the expedition team again

originally, she had planned on getting revenge. she trained her team until all of them were fully evolved and powerful, she found and caught a very high level garchomp and trained it to attack without mercy...it was going scarily well. but then she suddenly found herself feeling dizzy, light-headed...and she woke up in the middle of some unfamiliar woods. she was not in hisui anymore

now, fearful of the unknown, she survives in the woods with her pokemon, and tries to learn about the modern world without being noticed so she can eventually show herself confidently...or find a way back to hisui so she can finish what she started

whatever comes first...

[hassianlovebot]

i've seen some people talk about einar's romance dialogue and how it feels offputting and rude to him but i'm gonna be honest,,, i never really saw it that way?

like i do agree that the player's dialogue options Suck compared to the other romances. something about it just feels really childish and definitely not as,,, "serious" or even committed as the other romance dialogue options. that being said, it never felt patronizing toward him.

to me, it feels like the player is just. being human. while einar is being galdur. the player doesn't get mad at him for not understanding certain jokes or not showing affection in the same way. and einar doesn't get uncomfortable with the player being human, making human jokes, or showing human affection. they're just Being Human and sharing their humanness with einar. which einar, while not always understanding of it, is completely used to and Does understand and enjoy it later on in the 3-4 levels. not that he didn't enjoy it before, but once you get closer to him, he Does understand more of the jokes and even joins in on certain ones (like the catch one!).

idk man it just always felt like the player and einar are just sharing their perspectives, personalities, and culture with each other. and of course there is the chocolate thing where he says he doesn't need it and the player has to learn what he actually wants from the relationship (ie spending time together). and there are still jokes that he ends up taking seriously, which yknow, that's kind of what i meant when i said the player's options often feel very childish compared to other ones. but it just never came off as patronizing to me, especially since einar repeatedly says that he enjoys spending time with the player and engaging in their "togetherness".

like to me it always felt like he enjoys learning about new things, even if he doesn't want to participate. like at the maji market when he says that while he doesn't understand the hotpot game, watching it fills him with "oneness". he enjoys learning about human and majiri culture and seeing them just be themselves! none of his dialogue implies that he's uncomfortable with the way the player shows affection (there Is something to be said about the dialogue options only ever showing one form of it,,, but tbf they can't put in 50+ options to cover the minutia of human brains lol)

idk i want to be clear im not shitting on anyone else's opinion on this!!! there's room for all perspectives here. i just wanted to share! i've seen SO many people say that romancing einar feels patronizing and like. i've just never seen it that way ! and it always confuses me when i see it akjhgd tbf i think some people are also neurodivergent (same lol) and don't appreciate the dialogue options that einar doesn't understand because in real life it Does feel patronizing when someone does it on purpose even knowing you won't get it. but for me, einar being galdur and not a neurodivergent human/majiri is an important distinction. he shows multiple times that he enjoys learning about human cultures and perspectives, that he enjoys talking to the player even when they don't understand each other, and that he's capable of understanding the player's jokes and sarcasm once explained to him. he Likes that they're different !

einar seems to enjoy the player acting "human" with him because he gets to learn about them! and he wouldn't want them stifle their true personality just to please him! einar is alllll about being true to yourself, your beliefs, your oneness, etc. he wants the player to understand him and his affection, but he also wants to understand the player's personality and affection. he wants them to share each other's "quirks". and don't get me wrong, i do wish there was more we could do to share in his way of affection (especially if his way is our way,,, like i'm Not flirty or jokey like that irl at all and i'd love to have more options where it really is just "hi i enjoy parallel playing with you :)))" lol) and that the dialogue options were less jokey or at least more affectionate/serious but idk,,, i think for me, i've just always seen einar as someone who wants to know and appreciate everything about the player, even the things he doesn't Immediately understand. he wants the player to explain things and share their culture with him SO bad

[littledemo0n]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

And a friendly reminder that its ok to be wrong♡♡ specially when you're still learning about yourself

[macaroonkitti]

Literally so normal about Monkie Kid season 4 episode 7. Btw

[hobe-bryant]

I think it couldd be really funny and cool to do a d&d or other tabletop game where everyone's characters get gender swapped immediately right at the beginning, but I also don't think you could possibly ever do it without getting cooked by your group over it being a fetish thing

[skitskatdacat63]

I'm 99% sure you have look at most painting of Napoleon, so I need to ask you this question.

Is it just me is does it seem like a third of all painting of Napolean have one of his hands in his waist coat? I swear there is so many pictures with that pose that I can't stop noticing it. I can't think of a reason why that would be other than artist avoiding drawing hands.

Helloooo! Very interesting question! To quote wikipedia:

The hand-in-waistcoat (also referred to as hand-inside-vest, hand-in-jacket, hand-held-in, or hidden hand) is a gesture commonly found in portraiture during the 18th and 19th centuries. The pose appeared by the 1750s to indicate leadership in a calm and firm manner. The pose is most often associated with Napoleon Bonaparte due to its use in several portraits made by his artist, Jacques-Louis David, amongst them the 1812 painting Napoleon in His Study.

I think Napoleon paintings are very funny bcs he really hated sitting for portraits, so a lot, if not basically most, of his portraits are kinda just the artist's best possible representation. And particularly paintings like "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" is more of like the ideal/image of Napoleon, rather than being super accurate. And I think this hand in the waistcoat pose just became an easy way to characterize him in paintings, if that makes sense? Like of course other historical figures have done that same pose, but when you see it, doesn't it evoke Napoleon in your head?

But I definitely agree with you on the "avoiding drawing hands" part 😭 I actually kinda like drawing hands but 1. They're difficult to draw correctly, and 2. They're difficult to pose. I struggle irl on where to put my hands if I'm standing still, so think about that in the context of painting. It's very hard to avoid it feeling stiff or awkward, right? So oftentimes it's nice to put one of the hands in the pocket and the other resting or pointing or something, otherwise it's very difficult, at least imo.

I talked about it at some point, but I was kinda confused at why so many paintings of Philip V have him pointing, either in the distance or upwards. And sure, you can try to interpret some deeper meaning. But I think a lot of it comes down to "ah man, idk what to do with his hand, I guess I'll make him point."

Tl;dr: Half of it is to symbolically represent his calm yet firm sense of leadership as well as to easily characterize him, so as soon as you see that pose it immediately evokes "Napoleon Bonaparte." The other half is that it's an easy solution to both not having to draw another hand but also avoid the pose looking stiff :D

I like it a lot bcs as I said, it's a really easy way to instantly signify that you're referencing Napoleon, examples in my art:

[samgelina-jolie]

just told roommate to stop "joking" that i should date him by texting him 'hey lets cut this out matey' and followed it up with a funny tiktok cause i worried it was too mean 😭😭

[milo-is-rambling]

Now why the hell do I have such intensely realistic dreams I had to wake up and stare at the ceiling for like ten minutes to make sure I was alive.

[void-star]

At this point, I'm never surprised when online leftists or online morality police types like antis or terfs end up recognizing they have some thoughts or patterns in common with moral ocd or scrupulosity, if they don't outright just have moral ocd or scrupulosity ocd.

[playingonedchess]

very easy to see how the word mates came to exist, it proves im obviously not the only guy who finds the word friends too soppy and awkward that its embarrassibg to even think

[vivalasthedas]

Don't nods latest fanfic looks like something I'll pirate and be glad I didn't pay for... again.

[gibbearish]

inside you are two wolves. one is deeply paranoid about accidentally getting parasocial at people and also about trusting any internet personality anyways because so many of them turn out to be shitbags. the other is deeply paranoid about supressing its interests when it don't need to because it might have ocd and can't tell if its behavior is actually parasocial and it's just noticing it now or if this is just normal looking-up-to-someone-who-inspires-you behavior and it's just obsessing the compulsings, and furthermore thinks that with every shitbag it can think of, there's always been a trail of signs leading up to the breaking point that either got ignored or justified or forgotten, and it has yet to see a single sign or red flag despite being on high alert for them the whole time its been watching. you are a mentally ill hbomberguy fan.