#SO INTO THE VOID IT GOES

[charongess]

She Said No, 2023

[skooturmkdootlur]

Guys you won't believe who I doodled in-between projects

[strawberrus0da]

Silly little undertale au I made when I was like 13-14 where Asriel is born before the war and Asgore and Toriel die protecting him, causing the monsters to immediately surrender and get sent under the mountain

Basically long story short Asriel is crowned king of monsters at the ripe young age of 8 years old because everyone is lost and desperate and also he cannot age because his parents are dead

So basically everything is fine 👍✨

[owlf45]

I finally finished all 900 pages of Dune in its glory, and it’s one of those books that is so easy to put down but so rewarding to finish. It’s a must-read but it’s also a book I’d never recommend.

Reading published works after it, though, is like plunging into an ice bath. As uninspiring as Dune made me feel, it was expertly crafted, and I imagine it's not meant to make your heart race with excitement. It's made to make you think. Not a single sentence felt wasted. The work had antagonists better fleshed out than most main characters of other series. There are plots within plots within plots, secrets within secrets, hidden weapons, reasonings, prophecies, rumors, plans, decades and centuries of political and religious schemes that go so deep, that no visual adaptation could ever truly encapsulate the work that every single character did to try and strongarm the world into their own vision. Every character was deeply intelligent and involved in a world so vast, that it felt like 900 pages was dedicated to a microcosm, rather than its entire universe.

It does not make it an easy read, but it makes everything reading after a difficult read.

Dune didn't ask you to understand everything it said. It simply said, "this is what happened as it would happen, and maybe on the fourth read, you'll get it". It doesn't always guide the reader through its worldbuilding. It simply invites the reader to witness how it would be, in all of its messy glory. Characters don't stop to think or question or ask what, for example, the 'Bene Gesserit' is, they simply know and talk like they know. It's incredibly frustrating. Even with the 80 page index, it's not an easy journey.

But I'm beginning a new trek with Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn— with 650 pages and an immense world of its own, it shouldn't be too hard to dive into it. But it is. Unlike Dune, it feels like a world that is trying to convince itself (and its readers) that it exists. It asks you to compromise on the intelligence and strength of every background character it introduces. It tries to tell you, this is what it is, this is what it looks like, believe it! As a reader, I accept it as part of the worldbuilding. Dune didn't ask you to believe, it told you what the world did and allowed you to take it or leave it. Other books don't even come close to Dune's ability to make you feel like its world is unquestionable.

And that's not necessarily a bad thing— I don't need to be overwhelmed with lore that complicated again. I don't need an 80-page-index and relentless lore. I'm also more emotionally invested into Mistborn than I am into Dune (despite not yet finished with Mistborn), because Mistborn makes you sympathetic to the characters and their relationships. With Dune, the protagonists are quiet in their affections, and there is little sympathy to spare; emotions are tools as seen both by the characters and the narrative. Every single character is a politician.

Though I am not as emotionally invested, Dune is a book that is passively entertaining; not enjoyable, but deeply satisfying. Most of all, it makes me think. It's made me think more than any other book I've read in a long time. It is the ultimate book that celebrates human nature as much as it cautions against it. I'm not a changed person, but I might be a better writer after it, which is always, always exciting.

It'll be another decade before I read anything as intense and long as Dune. But it's a book you can't escape from. It's a book that forces you to admire it; and that power, in itself, is admirable.

[boffeeceans]

Exes to Lovers

[soughtstory]

I have a headcanon that shredder was the type of dad that would say to karai ‘if you had been a son, you would’ve been better’ and pushed karai harder because of it. And she gets a chip on her shoulder because of it.

And then, one day, karai meets her true father with four boys to call his own. And he is ecstatic to see his daughter miwa again.

[cyberpunkboytoy]

DOUBLE translyrics idea, free to a good home

So for the first section of the first chorus:

All I ever yearned to do was dream

Is that enough to label me GUILTY?

"We all know thats he's lying," you sigh

"and secretly conniving." Hey, why?

[brodudepants]

Someone was just driving down the hwy I live near blasting flyleaf?!? I didn't think people still listened to them!

[ladymdc]

I hate complaining or feeling like I’m fishing for sympathy or whatever— but it’s been nice seeing fic authors push back some against everything. Between the entitlement, “content creator” mindset, fandom hostility, & AI nonsense, I’ve been feeling really discouraged & it makes me feel less alone in it. I love writing, but it’s getting to the point I don’t love sharing it & for me, that’s part of it all :/

[sevarix-blogs]

do my music posts only get like 3 notes? yes

will i continue to make them regardless? hell yeah

[yewphoric]

IM POSTING ART TOMORROW !!!!

nerevoryn fans, get ready [innocent smile]

[sucksinlosers]

I wasn't even going to watch JJK after the whole Gojo thing in the manga, and now Nanami?

I am... physically unwell. Like, actually, legitimately sad. Fuck.

[cassettemoon]

Preserved in an instant

Alt under the cut

More green

[phonification]

ive been thinking about taco and balloon forming a little alliance post s1/ pre s2 where they'd (begrudgingly) work together planning on how to break into hotel OJ to steal stuff to take back to their makeshift camp like food, blankets, pillows, etc,,, anything that could be useful to them

[veearrifarrariboom]

Neon Void chapter 22 spoilers.

Aaa

AaaaAAAAA Filled another page :D um as for the chapter here’s how I feel about it:

AUIPRJJVHSIAKAJAHGHCJKLOOONVAUAIJCNBANDKNZOHHOJHHEEUEUEUODNGIDWOEEDJQBYCIFOMGRIVVJJEISKVHSHSCAACAAOHTHISBOYCRAXYCRAZYYYUQIQKAJAJAJFBEHCODLKSNXN BAJA BLAST MENTION RED MYSTIC WARRIOR MENTION OHAOJFISKQJHAJCN 💥💥💥💥 I need a new sketchbook drew too much neon void. AAAA THIS IS WHAT WEVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR BRO IT HAPPNED. BUT WHAT THE FART HAPPENS AT THE THANKSGIVING PARADE!????

Shakes you blows you up with my mind @sugarpasteltmnt

Also some doodles from before this mind boggling chapter came out

[kacievvbbbb]

Look Mihawk’s eyes definitely glow in the dark and this fact definitely threw Shanks of the first time he learned it which coincidently was during their *coughs* first time. But it’s kind of hot and he’s grown used to it now……mostly.

Because you know Mihawk is definetly the type of dude to never turn on a light ever and with his propensity for staring unblinkingly and his half hazard middle of the night sleeping habits. It’s a bit of a bit of a problem .

the years Shanks has lost of his life waking up to a floating pair of shimmering golden and ringed eyes staring at him in complete darkness he will never gain back and are best not talked out.

Also imagine if Mihawk is prone to midnight snacking (making up for all the food he doesn’t eat during the day to maintain his vampiric reputation) so many a red haired pirate have woken the ship with Shrieks having stumbled into the very dark kitchen to see a pair of otherworldly eyes completely demolishing a plate of leftovers or an entire charcuterie board staring right into their soul.

Ben and Yasopp have almost shot him multiple times(with only one of those times being on purpose) Many a crew member has solicited Shanks to get his boyfriend exorcised and the ship cleansed. In 2 years the closest Zoro ever came to cutting Mihawk was while blindly flailing his swords around in the dark trying to fend of the kitchen demon that besieged him during his midnight beer run. This will happen every night, they never talk about it. Zoro never figures out it’s Mihawk and is pretty sure the Kitchen is haunted. Won’t keep him from his midnight protein shake (he is no longer allowed beer)

Perona is the only person who is even slightly normal about this (she lived on thriller bark floating pair of eyes in the dark is child’s play) she just switches on the very bright white kitchen lights, effectively blinding Mihawk and leaving his terrible posture and he use of his precious kogatana to eat meatballs exposed to the light. She gets a cup of water turns off the light and leaves. The next day Mihawk buys her a new dress they never speak of this again.