#Personal blabbering

[mirei-nari]

I would have much rathered be home than at this family party. But then my family would start to ask questions and I'd rather just not that either. I've come to realize that I'm starting that being around a lot of people causes me to shut down. Lmao it never use to be this bad. I'm just getting worse and worse. Lmao

[wardingshout]

apple season

[paranormeow7]

tired of nonbinary people being pressured to be thin hairless elf like pretty and always depicted as white afab skinny kids with blue hair, of course only using they/them. give me nonbinary people who are heavily fem/masc aligned!! give me nonbinary people who use neopronouns and xenogenders!! give me fat nonbinary people!! hairy nonbinary people!! nonbinary POC!! amab nonbinary people!! disabled nonbinary people!! nonbinary people who wear crazy clothes, or nonbinary people who don’t stand out and don’t feel the need to!! nonbinary people with names like Moss or Socks, or nonbinary people with “regular” names like Susan or James or something!! Give me every flavor of nonbinary people, and stop trying to make it into yet ANOTHER gender binary!! Nonbinary can be anything, not just a third gender to adhere to!!

[tubbytarchia]

Please keep drawing traffic/hermit hybrids inaccurately because who cares, they look cool

I say this as an animal nerd, I love to implement biologically/anatomically accurate elements into hybrid designs where applicable, but Im not gonna ususally choose to do that over whatever I think looks visually appealing. I have my gripes and peeves with some popular hybrid design headcanons, but ultimately, please keep drawing them however you want to, because you can (and to piss haters off further, for fun)

Don't care if you headcanon Pearl as transfem, draw her with male moth antennae anyway. Don't care if avian Grian logically needs a second set of pectoral muscles, just slap those wings on there wherever you want. Gem's own skin featured antlers and female deer don't even grow them, aside from reindeers, which I'm willing to wager was not what Gem was thinking or cared about. Keep drawing her with huge antlers

I don't know who needs this reminder but these are fantasy hybrids. Our inspirations in drawing them are based in reality but no fucking avian or hooved or dog people exist. A person with huge moth wings isn't realistic to begin with so who cares if you give her some antennae too. If you do you need to get a hobby

[chirpsythismorning]

Bringing this back bc I think we as a society moved on too fast

[narcpocalypse]

TBH the best way to flesh out a character (which works for me) is to put them in two interview settings. One where they have to tell the truth no matter what and one where they can say whatever they're comfortable with. One will show their depth and the other will show how they want to be perceived

EDIT: OMG YALL TY FOR BLOWING THIS UP???? Here's a template for this idea with 3 interview settings!

[cyanorhis]

In terms of “canon-compliant” zutara, I think often about how Zuko’s development is both his redemption and his doom.

Because how come the obsessive go-getter of the show does not fight harder against fate (bryke’s annoying ass) to save his beloved from putting herself into a rewardless martyr-like situation in the form of a marriage that serves as repopulation program? (Which I always thought was ridiculous).

He learns bit by bit to acknowledge and make up for his mistakes. He respects Katara above all else. He fights fair. He does not guilt-trip her nor treat her like a reward. He loves her. He gave his life for her. He would not have survived had she not been the exceptional person she is. He supports her decisions no matter what. He listens to her.

So when she tells him about her ridiculously good and selfish intentions of pandering (once again) to a non-celibate Monk who wishes to have her mother his children for the sake of airbending and his supposed affection that was born out of the self-insert of narrators who give way too much importance to childhood crushes for one’s babysitter, he might argue but he can’t help but love her and respect her decision, both horrified by the cruelty of fate (aka bryke) and filled with admiration for the person she has always been.

If Orpheus loved Eurydice too much not to turn back when she tripped behind him, then Zuko loved Katara way too much not to validate and support her terribly selfless decisions. Because how dare him be selfish and want her for himself. And how dare him tell her what to do after years of war.

It is terribly tragic because on the other side, a part of her wishes he had fought harder.

A “villain” turned “hero” sometimes can mean the upholding of ideals made by two men who enjoy shaming young girls for their choice of love interest. Sometimes, the lack of a “villain” to whisk away the princess from the “hero’s” hands means said princess will remain unacknowledged and forgotten in a narrative that turns it into something of her own volition, a narrative that ignores everything a beloved female character represented for the people she was made to represent (by their own words, must I say). It leaves the realm of picking the love interest (which honestly could simply not ever happened in any form and would still be better than this) and enters the realm of once again giving a poor treatment to a female main character who quite literally Drives the story from its beginning.

And just like Orpheus and Eurydice are doomed by fate, Katara and Zuko are doomed by Bryke. And surprisingly, Katara gets the worse of it.

[moralesmilesanhour]

Random ass thought about characterization - you know how like...the popular idea is that Miles is like this extremely shy boy who's super awkward? I'm not saying that that's outright wrong...but when I think about most of his interactions in Spiderverse he doesn't seem all that afraid of social interaction. He's not shy (word to itzy), he's just bad at it.

Like he takes what his uncle tells him to do VERY literally and has no qualms about just going up to Gwen and doing The Shoulder Touch. Even when a character shows clear and obvious disdain towards him or is otherwise unapproachable he's still gonna be like "hiiii :3" and introduce himself if it means he can accomplish whatever the objective is at the moment.

Extroverted and autisti– I mean...extroverted and awkward is a combination you don't see often but I think it'd be fun to write Miles that way 😭 no rizz just constant yapping as the kids like to say

[jhonskii]

drawing another self-indulgent ship art again

havent even completed the sketch yet and im already kicking my feet JKLBVJKED

[akirathedramaqueen]

You know what I love about this show so much?

The kindness. The understanding. The redemption.

And that's in the setting of fucking Hell. The irony.

The characters are deeply flawed. They make a lot of mistakes. They fuck up even trying to fix things.

But they are trying. They have a lot of virtues, too, even though they don't see them themselves. They slowly but surely process their problems. They work around their trauma and the conditions they were raised in, deeply affected by it, hurting but still powering through, learning, and developing.

Although we are far from the end of these characters' journey, the SpindleHorse team does an amazing job of making these characters sympathetic, believable, and real. They give you the information and the opportunity to understand how complicated things are, how both sides of the conflict can be understood and blamed at the same time.

And the main thing? The forgiveness and redemption. You want these characters to do better, to be better, of course. But you also want them to be loved, despite the fact that what they did was obviously wrong.

You, as the viewer, already forgive them, and you just want them to forgive themselves. To allow themselves to be loved.

When I watched the show and saw them making the same mistakes I did, some horrible things I wouldn’t forgive myself for and struggled with for years, I suddenly understood the struggle. I empathized with them. I wanted to give them a hug. I wanted to comfort them and promise that things would get better and encourage them to give it one more try, one more talk. I wanted to scold them for self-loathing because I know all too well the kinds of dark places it can lead you to sometimes.

And then the thought comes to mind, "Can I afford a bit of this empathy for myself too? Just allow myself to live with the fuckup and allow myself to be human?"

It didn't fix me. But it eased my turmoil and taught me to understand it better. It taught me some empathy, too, and I thought I was the one with the emotional ingelligence of a nightstand. Well, I still kinda am, but at least I learned to listen to people sometimes.

I just want to thank the whole team who worked on Helluva Boss for all the self-reflections I experienced with their creation.

Thank you.

[bennysblabbering]

Not so friendly reminder that if you're going to use she/her pronouns or refer to the reader as a girl in any way SPECIFY THAT AT THE BEGINNING. Regardless if it's a fic, smau, headcanon, whatever. LET PEOPLE KNOW so non-women readers don't have to get whiplash from sudden dysphoria.

NOT ALL READERS ARE FEM.

Also afab and fem are not the same! Afab just means the reader has female anatomy, not that they are feminine. Please don't say "afab/fem" as if they have the same meaning.

I'm begging other writers to be considerate of trans and non-binary readers.

[mirei-nari]

Just when I think I'm not learning or retaining anything bc I end up gettingg frustrated at the current problem I'm suppose to solve, my brain suddenly kicks in and says "Bitch you didn't give me time to power up. We are old. You know you gotta let me absorb information completely before we apply it" when I work on the same problem the next day.

I really just need to take a step back and keep reminding myself that Rome wasn't built in a day and that I need to slow down sometimes. But it just feels like I'm on a time crunch bc I'm unemployed, to get these certifications that probably won't help much short term in finding a job. Like I know for sure fact that it will help me LONG term, but all my life I've always told myself that I wasn't going to live to a certain age so what's the point in doing anything, but now I'm here past that age. Past multiple ages that I thoughts it would be the end.

Is this what healing is like? Probably not necessarily the healing I need, but I'm slowly working through my problems and I'm seeing progress. I think. At least it seems like I'm progressing. Because for the past 2 years, every single day I wake up, in order to get myself to do things, I've said to myself "you either do THIS or you kill yourself." And I just couldn't go on living like that bc up until I quit my job, I was getting closer and closer to killing myself. I worked as a small family owned restaurant so I shouldn't have been as stressed out as I was, but I just couldn't take it anymore. This year was worse that precovid in terms of work load. And I get it. It's hard times right now, but every single fucking shift, unless I had another old timer her worked there, I was doing 3-4 different jobs while also doing my own fucking job plus babysitting all the high-school kids we had and I couldn't take it.

But since I've left there, I haven't had to tell myself "do this or die" and honestly I've been happier than ever. There's also a constant nagging in the back of my head saying I shouldn't be happy bc the money I had saved up is gonna be gone within a few months bc of bills and I refuse to go back into a food industry job again even though when I was younger, that was my dream lmao. I know everyone learns things on their own time, but there's this fucking near nonexistent time crunch. And like the tech industry is notoriously hard to get into especially if you don't have connections. Web design? I love it. I love learning how to build these silly little pages, but is it really going to get me anywhere?

These are the fucking thoughts I have and like its hard bc I KNOW my family doesn't understand why I would quit a job when I had absolutely nothing lined up. At all. And I'm scared to even leave my room to make myself food bc I do not want to be interrogated by people who refuse to even try to understand that I WANTED to die so bad that I needed to leave that place whether I had a backup plan or not.

So here I am. Jobless. In today's crumbling economy. In my family's eyes, just sitting in my room all day doing nothing but playing games. Which is funny bc I don't even have the energy to play games sometimes. I'm in here learning a tech skill that I don't even know will be applicable bc I have NO connections in the industry. But I mean people have all started somewhere, right?

My brain is just a real hot mess but at least it's not hell anymore.

[fleetn-crab85]

If I had a nickel...

For every time I watched a TV show where one character is canonically dead with no rizz, had so much internalized homophobia it hurts, an ego the size of a planet, slightly outdated ways of insulting people, and spent quality time in a personal hell of theirs...

AND they fell for a character from the late 1980s who didn't have a great childhood but has an awesome jacket, anger issues, is prone to swearing, and trying to get with another character (a woman) he has no possible chance of ever getting with...

AND they have a catboy bothering them...

I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice right?

[yellowflowrs]

how i look trying to pspspspspsp stray cats

[tubbytarchia]

I swear to god 99% of people watching WL forgot who won SL. Put some respect on his name

[cyjhhyj]

WHY IS JAKE SO FVCKING HOT?!?!?