#Sorry for the ramble! I’m just happy

[xylo-art]

I can’t think of a funny caption for this . Sorry not sorry . Yoga

[crystallizsch]

AGH happy (definitely-not-late) bday to mr jamil viper 💖🐍 and thank u harveston jamil for coming home as well as two of his bday cards 💖💥

[i-may-be-an-emu]

hehehe

[peregrine5]

The Lady (plus HK he’s there too) from chapter 34 of RnS bc she’s very very cool and Silverskye’s descriptions make me want to draw :]

[sunshinechay]

So I finally caught up on My Stand In after being 3 episodes behind due to irl reasons.

The last three episodes have been a lot and while I’m sad to have missed the weekly discussions, I’m also kind of glad I watched all three at once because it gave me the opportunity to get to watch Ming’s progress rapidly rather than waiting (which my ADHD brain is very happy about) and the one thing really stuck with me through all three episodes.

Of the three who knows Joe is Joe, Ming is the only one to figure it out completely on his own. He doesn’t overhear anything, he isn’t told by anyone. Even the priest (is that what he is? Citation needed) won’t give Ming the straight answer he seeks. Joe is neither dead nor alive but a secret third thing, his soul has transmigrated to another body entirely.

Before, when he didn’t know, we got the small kernels of change. Ming is much more straight forward than he used to be. While he was never one to mince words, he is more truthful and up front, even with Joe 2.0. He is honest with him from the start about exactly what he wants. He doesn’t tell Joe the real reason why he wants it, but that’s understandable given that no one else is willing to believe Ming when he says Joe is still alive. So why tell this new stand in why you want him to be so.

Then he figures it out. He puts together the context clues and believes the impossible because he’s the only one who never gave up hope that Joe would come home, would come back to him. Joe does come back to him and Ming immediately sets out to ensure that Joe exactly where he stands in terms of how Ming feels about him. Ming needs Joe to understand exactly what he wants. Ming is probably always going to be the type of person who will use underhanded tactics in certain situations, but it’s completely understandable why he uses the contract to keep Joe with him.

Ming offers up explanations where Joe didn’t ask for them, because he knows that Joe deserves them, whether or not he asks for them. He wants Joe to understand that he regrets a lot of his past actions, including what he did for Tong at the end. Ming had all but admitted that if he could go back and change it, he would.

Ming is willing to confront so many issues head on. He is learning to deal with his emotions in a way that is more productive for them all. He has started to feel more of his emotions out loud in a way he didn’t before. He promised himself he would change if Joe ever came back and so far he has kept his promise. He will better himself and he will grow. He will no longer be stagnant.

He is even willing to tell his father that he is dating Joe. The mere mention of it clearly terrifies him more than he has the words to express, something that Joe picks up on right away and tries to protect both of them from. Preemptively breaking up with Ming to try and save them both a worst heartbreak than simply breaking up.

Tong had spent so much of the show attempting to prove again and again that Ming is under his thumb. He knew that Ming was in love with him in the past and still believes he is now, but he is wrong. Ming will no longer allow himself to be manipulated by Tong and by extension his mother. So he will shoot their ace out of the sky by doing the one thing that terrifies him the most. He will tell his father that he is gay. That he is gay and dating a man. A man named Joe.

He will accept what comes next because the only other options is to lose Joe and Ming absolutely will not do that for a second time. He is willing to lose everything, as long as it means he doesn’t lose Joe.

[myokk]

As someone who is constantly in awe of you, whether it’s art or writing, how do you stay motivated? 😭💙💖 such talent shouldn’t be legal!

Hi😭🥹�� I don’t know what I did to deserve such high praise😭😭🥹🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂💓💓💓💓

I only started writing in January & these fanarts I started in April so maybe I’m not the best to answer but I’ll try!!🫶🫶🫶

Short answer: I’m motivated by brainrot & the characters that move into my brain and demand to be drawn/written😭

Longer answer: I’ve always loved and been obsessed with stories & even before I learned fanfic was a thing last year (I live under a rock), I was always creating these crazy stories in my brain. I used to play the sims a lot for example…I would literally delete every premade family & make my own super complex relationships/generational drama and just watch the chaos play out and I always had so much fun coming up with different storylines and thinking about their personalities and how they would probably interact with each other.

I also read like CRAZY !!! 😳 I am a book devourer & am especially drawn to very long books that have beautiful writing and amazing characterizations:

Lonesome Dove (my favorite book of all time with my favorite character of all time, Gus🥺)

The Brothers Karamazov

Anna Karenina

Ulysses

100 Years of Solitude (100 años de soledad)

Rayuela (Hopscotch) & basically every Cortázar short story

Ok basically every Latin American novel/short story from the 20th century let’s be honest😆

The Mists of Avalon

Jane Austen

Donna Tartt

Etc etc etc I JUST LOVE READING !!!!

And so, even though I don’t consider myself a very good writer, and I would never even hope to become as good as the authors I read, I think it’s fun to try and capture some feelings and emotions of what it’s like to be human💓 I always try to write the characters with love and care and maybe it’s my obsession to make them almost three-dimensional that keeps my brain rot strong😆 I might not achieve it but I’m having a lot of fun trying…

As for creating so consistently, the writing part isn’t so hard bc once I get an idea in my mind I just want to write it! I don’t get oneshot ideas often but when I do I’m like😳✍️✍️✍️✍️ until it’s over😆 I think coming up with plot/ideas/characterizations takes me a lot longer than actually writing - I barely edit what I post because what I write down is already pretty polished.

For my art, I just love the human body/anatomy/angles etc and I have a lot of fun trying to make the drawings have a lot of movement and that’s kind of what motivates me. Art is also my job & so I’m just used to doing it all the time & these fanarts are a fun way to cool down after I do my “normal” art. The more I draw the more ideas I get, and I like to draw scenes from either my fanfic, or scenes that I think are cute but will probably never happen. But THEN sometimes the “extra” drawings inspire things, like my latest oneshot🫶

If you’re reading this and you’re a writer or artist too & look at it differently I would LOVE to hear what you think!!! Since I’m just starting out with all of this maybe there are better methods😆🫶 for me it’s just a love for stories and wanting to create all the time!!!

[lunarasphodel]

A little redraw of one of my favorite scenes in this game ✨ (screenshot under cut!)

I just. Love this image so so much. Look at them!!

[mint-termsandconditions]

Rope MF is one of the best Kirby OCs I’ve seen in a while. I love how he simultaneously is silly but also not a joke.

I can’t tell if you actually mean it or if it’s a joke that’s flying over my head, but thank you!!!

Focusing on the topic:

He is no joke, my guy swings on rope 24 hours a few days a week. Like I said in my previous post, probably have a crazy sleeper build.

Like if Bandana Waddle Dee was able to crack the planet at the beginning of his career, just imagine what Rope MF could do

Going into Rope MF origins when being created:

It’s funny you say that their not a joke because originally that what they were!

Rope MF was a joke character in a game concept I had where Kirby, King Dedede, and Meta Knight were all captured and Bandana Dee had to save the day.

It would’ve been a turned-based rpg where you had different waddle dees to join your party and Rope MF was one of them. Because while I was looking at the different types of waddle dees I just found it funny that swinging waddle dee was a type of waddle dee. Rope MF would’ve been one of the weakest member of your party because all he had was a rope, and you can’t do much with that. But then I grew fond of the idea of if you had him in your party the whole time, and if you complete his side quests he’d be one of your most powerful asset (imagine Terry from Lisa the Painful).

This was the first ever drawing of them:

This was the second drawing when Bandana Dee completes his arc of not being ashamed of being a waddle dee. He then goes on an entire rant about how each Waddle Dee was special, and I included Rope MF because I thought it was funny:

I lowkey became attached to Rope MF and decided to make them their own character backstory and all, but they’re mainly here to explain their love of ropes

Here’s a little bonus comic of the aftermath of the Megaton Punch:

Rope MF never changes and I love him for it

[laeana]

The fic is getting written about celebrations but I’m still thinking a lot about what we witnessed.

Two boys who were so close during their year in moto3, sleeping in the same bed, but distance got in the way, to the point one of them would say “there’s no relationship between them”, meeting to fight for the championship twice.

And during that, they don’t hate each other, they compliment each other, they talk a lot with each other, they seek each other’s contact and touches, and there’s this spark of what once was, but they never hang out together unnecessarily, when they don’t have an excuse for it, they don’t reach out, as if they were convinced that it was somehow all said and done while they were still left aching.

And somehow in the midst of that one of them win the championship, when the other did the year before, and they keep insisting that it changes nothing to them, that they’re glad that it’s the other and not someone else, and after that one of them even post a message thanking the other for the year, swallowing his own bitterness because it’s him.

And after all of this, there’s the partying, the clubs, and although one of them has no obligation to come, he still shows up, just the way he has been invited to do it, he reaches out in a way that’s not a race or a podium, and the gap between them mend a little,

and yeah, I think it’s a lot and it’s beautiful.

[attemptinghaikyuu]

He messes up.

When Sakusa tells Komori those sharp words he’s heard so many times before, directed at him-

Well he doesn’t think much of it. He doesn’t usually care too much when people tell him he’s weird. He has Komori to tell them they’re wrong or he ignores them when he’s alone.

Once he sees the heartbreak on his cousins face however, his insides freeze. Telling Komori those words regarding another failed romantic endeavor was the wrong thing. “Shit,” is what he thinks at his current situation.

He goes and tries to fix his mistake once he’s collected his thoughts.

He tells his cousin he’s sorry.

——

Komori won’t want to acknowledge it or him. He’s avoiding his cousin as well as he can. Komori isn’t one to ignore people, he likes to talk things through. But this wound is too fresh and is making him want solitude.

At least for a couple hours, he can’t stand his cousins face. He walks away and only says “not right now.” Saying Sakusa with a tiredness he can’t hide.

When he gives in and turns to face his relentless, determined cousin he only talks to him on the condition it’s not about what started his silence.

He can’t stand ignoring his family for more then those two or three hours. It’s too heavy a burden turning away from someone he knows he loves without any invisible wall stopping him. The only thing about Sakusa’s blip that won’t be fixed is Komori’s absolute refusal to discuss how he can’t seem to stop turning people down- whether he was the one to initiate or not.

It’s less about Sakusa saying he was weird and more about how he’s steadily found he thought that quietly. Hearing it aloud, after all those times of him almost thinking it .

He doesn’t understand himself. So how can he explain it to his cousin?

He wants romance. Yet he hates romantic gestures that dig down too far.

It takes long, liquid moments to understand. He’s after something unattainable. A relationship where he’s with someone who cares about him and keeps him company but doesn’t do any of the things that immediately put him off. He starts to wonder how he can simultaneously loathe and crave a deep loving commitment with someone.

Komori doesn’t let anyone know he’s feeling so bitter and misshaped on the days where he’s surrounded by people who give him blushing looks. He lives with these jagged pieces he doesn’t even understand and works hard on telling himself it’s okay.

Looking in the mirror and being okay that there’s not someone beside him. It’s probably the hardest thing he’s ever going to do, and he does it over and over.

He won’t feel like this forever… they’re the most important words he utters.

And he doesn’t. Giving up on the thought of a romantic relationship, on sex, and the intimacy he doesn’t really want is a rock he drops into the ocean one day. It just happens.

It sinks deep and far and he finds it’s a relief to see it go.

Komori will never stop craving people. His friends and family are there though. Regardless of there mistakes when talking about love and sex, he’s glad they are his people.

He’s glad he has such loving, committed relationships to so many people who care about him.

He’s glad he loves himself too.

He’s sad it took him so long to realize and he’s ecstatic when the day comes he can tell his cousin how he feels without it breaking his heart to admit it. That he’s aroace and that it’s okay to be that.

[mad-c1oud]

was trying to figure out why my fic a letter to your old address was getting hella kudos out of nowhere and well uh

I see

[whereismyhat5678]

I don’t know how to describe it but I have this feeling, and I want to express that feeling..

I have this specific color palette that I just wanted to use, the colors are filled with really pretty oranges… I think it’s beautiful, and it wouldn’t leave my head so I had to draw something for it. It’s simple (the background took me a a bit to get-) but I think it looks nice.

I don’t know how to describe HOW I feel, but how I feel is this. You can interpret anything, and I think I’ll agree that I feel that way.

I didn’t have a bad day or anything, I just feel strange. I see orange- like a comforting orange.

[secretmellowblog]

I’ve read Les Mis a couple times now and I’m always blown away by just how kind Valjean is. Like every time I reread it I’m a little more impressed by the fact that he manages to be a good caring dude even while carrying around his metric ass-ton of troubles.

Yeah, it’s so good! And so complicated too? Idk the more I reread Les Mis, the more I enjoy the way it dives into “the politics of politeness,” the difference between being kind and being polite…and the way people like Jean Valjean are violently forced to behave in excessively ‘polite’ meek conciliatory ways in order to escape abuse.

And again, that’s something that really strikes me about Valjean’s story, and his complicated brand of kindness, in particular?

He’s genuinely a kind compassionate person; but, because of his status as a convict, he’s also forced to be excessively conciliatory to people like police officers who have authority over him, out of fear of punishment and torture. Especially before he earned his money, he had a social obligation to cringe and fawn before authority figures, to prevent them from hurting him. He’s gentle to people out of genuine love and sympathy, but he’s also often forced to be polite out of fear. And while he is a genuinely a sweet gentle compassionate person, you’re often forced to wonder: would Valjean behave with such excessive meekness if he wasn’t living in a state of paranoia and terror where a single ‘wrong move’ could make him suspicious, and lead to his imprisonment, torture, and death?

The lines between Valjean’s genuine kindness and the forced mask of politeness that’s been violently imposed on him can get really blurred.

And it’s telling that some of Valjean’s actually kindest moments are the times when he risks arrest and has himself branded a criminal, in order to save people- the moments where he sacrifices the approval of ‘polite society’ to do something genuinely compassionate.

[fiyrball6063]

Trying to learn gg combos having never played a fighting game before is so funny this is rlly a second language

[meep-meep-richie]

I’m just hoping people won’t ruin Buddie for me by slapping on BuckTommy. Cause we still have so many great Buddie moments besides other beautiful storylines. Yes i’m a buddie shipper and a great fan of BuckTommy and i’m just enjoying both. The Buddie and the BuckTommy moments, but making all the BuckTommy moments be about Buddie is starting to annoy me.

[toddlrboy]

˙𖦹 Forever boy : small in a big world.

tw : vent post.

“ \ ☁️ . `

Feeling so small, but unable to.

( not supposed to. Alone. Feeling disgusted. Feeling unwanted. Feeling isolated. Am just a lost boy here, with nowhere to go. Am just a kid, but shouldn’t be. Am just a child, stuck in a mind I cannot cope. Turning my back. )

not small enough. Not like them..

( not afraid. Having things to soothe. Things to hold and touch and play. Having nice sheets and fun toys. Having cute pacifiers and patterned sippy cups. Having things. Dressing up in onesies and cute toddler clothes. Having diaps and baby plates. Maybe they have a carer to love them, maybe their sibby, maybe their friends they share their tiny time to/with. Maybe they are all better than I ever could hope to be. Maybe they deserve more than I. )