#Sorry for the rambles

[ditzyclown]

Almost forgot to post these too

The second one was an attempt at showing my favorite kind of narinder lol I feel like I failed the beans but tbf I'm relearning how to draw furrys drawing these idiots

I started to ramble a bit about my followers poopsie daisy, anyway click if you wanna hear some of my followers lore)

I also feel like I have more lore for my followers than these two smh, I got a priest disciple bat that gives dad energy that is friend with EVERYONE in the cult (except Aym lmao) and he has a biological daughter and son that were born in the cult, THE DAMN GIRL ASKED ME TO RESCUE HER "sister" FROM DARK WOOD AND LATER THE ADOPTED SISTER WENT "oh save my brother" and just because I'm petty I turned him into those foxes with long ass ears lol (there is also their uncle Wich the bat dad asked me to rescue)

The damn bio son asked me to murder the poor fox JUST after indoctrinating him lmao, bro was salty at not being the younger brother

[noattentionsstuff]

While I think we all agree 15 finding rouge would be great I think we've all missed the opertunity to have 14 be disobayig Donna and finding a strange man being chased by birds to witch he grabs Said

"hey I think I found a missing companion of yours do you wanna come get him"

"what? Ive only got one companion and she's with me"

"oh so is the handsome man currently playing dnd with rose and Donna anouther river situation or-"

"ROUGE!?"

And so 15 just drags ruby over to the nobles house and ends up back with his boyfriend

Also if anyone writes this please share I would love to read it

[groovylittleclown]

Wowie!! Look at that!! Mack made the Elite Trine in Pony Town!!

They have cutiemark things too!! Starscream has a star, Skywarp has a cloud, and Thundercracker has a lightning bolt!!

I also made them little holiday costumes and a second Screamer where he has a crown!

I'm really really proud of them!! I've been hanging out around the gravity falls section as Skywarp because my friends like to go as Bill and Ford!!!

Also the campsite as Starscream when all the bubbles get to be a bit too much.

If you find me, say hi!! I'd love to be friends!!!

[tblsomedoodles]

FInally bringing an exhausted Donnie home

a more finished version of THIS doodle. I've had this sitting in my folder for a while now but i kept finding cooler stuff to post. But though i've been working on a lot of art stuff this week, none of it is close enough to finished to post today.

[catboygretzky]

kevin just......the fact that he pushed so hard to send jean to usc. to a place that is so different from everything he's ever known, to a team who's known for his kindness, to a captain and partner that is the absolute antithesis of his old one.

kevin knows what jean went through (he was *there* for a great deal of it) and he sent jean as far away from that as he possibly could because he understands and cares and it's beautiful to see.

[riptide-if]

Because MC is well known surfer do they have their own fandom ?

yeah! surfing infodump rq to explain

riptide is structured a little diffy for story purposes but surfers have to participate in smaller competitions firsts to rack up points, like local comps. then it typically goes junior tour, (20 and under, MC’s first JT was when they were 9) challenger series, qualifying series, and then championship tour (the one MC’s currently going on at 22!)

n’s CT was when they were 24, a year prior. MC has qualified for the CT in previous years but freddie values their education immensely lol.

but all this to say, yes. they do have a decent online following since they’re very talented but also due to them dating lee. they are like a local celebrity in their town as well lol always being given free stuff especially since most store owners have known MC their whole lives. MC is also seen throughout their life in online surfing videos but hilo only made and managed w/ aria a youtube channel when they were like 14, 15

[letswritestories101]

There is something very devastating to me about writing.

I don’t know, it’s about writing being one oldest form of share thoughts but, at the same time, the most... “limited”.

Music, drawing, animation. These things also take time to be made. It’s all ways of art that requires just as much effort and dedication. But I can’t help but feel that they are easier ways for your art to be shared, objectively speaking.

A painting can be comprehensible due to its aesthetics and style. Just like a song, it sticks in your head, holds your attention. I can tell if the sound is sad or happy or angry.

A book can't do that.

You don’t watch or hear a book. It won’t reach people with its visuals or sounds, things that are so common to humanity as a whole... and that hurts me.

Feeling that the art that I love so much can’t be as universal as I want it to be. A song can reach people who speak different languages, and so can na image. A book will always have a language barrier. If it is not translated, others will not have access.

I cannot rely solely on sound and vision and feelings that go beyond language. Not like a artist or a musician can.

I am a communicator blocked by my own way of communication.

And that hurts.

[sophieswundergarten]

Y'know what I really, really love about it here?

Tumblr is the "Talking About Stuff Site"

By my pure existence, I am stating that I am here to Talk About Stuff That I Like, pretty much incessantly

AND NO ONE CAN GET MAD ABOUT IT

Because if you choose to follow me, you're agreeing to let me talk

Now, you may not have to listen, and you may choose to ignore my posts or unfollow me, but you can't really get mad that I keep Talking About That One Thing (With occasional interruptions by Other Thing) all of the time because, guess what, buddy?

YOU SIGNED UP FOR IT

And there's something really freeing to remind myself of that. I'm not annoying anyone; I'm not in anyone's way; no one is being forced to listen or pretend to be polite while they secretly hate my guts because I won't stop talking.

It's just me. Talking. And sometimes people choose to stop in and listen

[turtletaubwrites]

I've noticed something about myself since writing fics and interacting with y'all

I swear a lot 😅

I've had to add it to the list of warnings I put in every single fic I write. I've caught myself cussing in comments to express how much I fucking love their writing and art, but I've had to remind myself that not everyone is comfortable with it.

I don't swear an excessive amount compared to many of my friends and family, but "fuck" is my favorite word. It can be used in so many wonderful ways! Emphasis, anger, joy, silliness, sexy times, etc, and it just feels natural to me. I feel a bit stifled when I can't toss it in a sentence to express my insane admiration for others.

Everyone I've ever been close to has been someone who swears, and my brain seems to have decided that "if you can't say 'fuck' around each other, then you're not close friends." I realize that's silly, and that many people don't like or want to cuss for a variety of reasons.

If I swear in your comments, know that it is out of true love and respect, but please tell me to stop if you don't like it on your posts.

I will never stop saying "fuck" over here though 😅😅

(although if you're offended by that word, then I'd be surprised that you're enjoying my filthy fucking smut, lol)

How do y'all feel about my favorite word?

[poisonedfate]

Merlin's love language is acts of service, and for some reason, that includes risking his life for Arthur every week even when he doesn't need to

it’s like you’re in my head or something, i was literally just rereading one of my little ficlets, thinking about their little three way dynamic of merlin, arthur and death after todays rewatch.

merlin’s a menace all the time and that only naturally includes his love language, but, really, i think my favourite part is how much arthur doesn’t get it. yeah, sure, he knows acts of service, but who in their right mind could get the twisty way merlin’s going about it. my guy could divert an arrow heading straight for arthur with one swift flash of gold and still try and jump in front of it afterwards. i mean, good for him, that’s dedication, but, god, does he need a break. get that oxygen flowing, set things back to normal (well, as much as that can be done). bless his sweet, sweet, slightly concerning soul.

[tblsomedoodles]

Sooo in FW Jennika looks up turtles facts after finding out the turtles are her brothers. What cool turtle facts actually apply to the boys like....

Can donnie breath underwater like nonmutant spiny softshells? Or is it something else that can be applied? How do their spider and turtle traits clash? (How stressed is poor leo when it cones to their medical notes becayse they are a. Hodge pog of human pider yokai and turtle and that has to have conflicing health things)

Ok, before I answer your questions proper, i'm going to explain a bit about the boys weird genetics, and why they're not as weird as they could be lol.

Basically, summed up to, they just don't have a lot of spider genetics compared to the human and turtle they got. And here's why!

Yokais, for my things at least, are mostly very old or descendants of Mutants from when the Krang came to earth originally.

Big Mama, specifically, comes from several generations of human-spider mutants. So! When Mama has kids with a plain old human, they end up with kids that are about 75% human, and 25% spider (assuming that mama's human-to-spider ratio was 50/50 for simplisity's sake.)

so then these little 75/25 hybrids get mutated, turtle taking over half of what is already there. This doesn't exactly leave a lot of Spider genetics, and what they do have, get suppressed (until being around Mama for that time mystically unsuppressed it that is.)

(not to mention, i imagine the mutagen has a stabalizing affect on the genetics to insure they aren't a medical wreck from two genetics being smashed together)

ANYWAYS! That being said!

(Sorry for answering these backwards but here we are lol)

Yeah, Leo and Donnie both were pretty stressed when putting together everyone's medical files. Like there is no information about what is normal for them so they kinda just have to guess, and both of them hate that. (Donnie help b/c research is fun and Leo wouldn't actually keep the files neat and readable if he didn't lol.)

Because of the whole 'stabilizing' thing and how little spider dna they have left, their turtle and spider genetics don't clash as much as one would think. I think the biggest change (other than the obvious ones) are that their diets shift a bit. Mikey has to eat more protein than he was b/c of the webs. Leo and Donnie have to eat more in general b/c of the massive 4 arms growth spurt they're in the process of. Raph needs to eat more too, but only when he's been in human form a lot. being in human form takes extra energy and thus needs more food to fuel it.

As for cool Turtle facts Jenny found, hell yeah one of them is that Donnie can breath underwater. And he definitely can. He doesn't particularly care to b/c switching back and forth ends with a lot of choking on water/air during said shift, but it's still a thing he can do.

She also found out that tomatoes are toxic to turtles, which kind of causes her to panic the first time she sees them eat a pizza lol. (her brothers didn't inherit that particular trait lol. though they are allergic to Avocados/avocado pits as a result of the mutation.)

That's all i can think of right now.

Thank you!

[cognitive-behavioural-torture]

It’s sad how I will never amount to anything. I love so many things, it’s sometimes just too much. I want to be exceptional, I want to be unique. But how could I ever stand out when I am just another product of a cookie cutter regimen. I am just a copy and paste of you.

my writing, my art, my theatre, my sports, myself? It is leaving me empty. I just want to be exceptional- but it’s selfish to think this way because so does everyone else.

You want to be seen, to be cherished, don’t you?

sometimes I can’t help but wonder if I am actually alive. I’ll just graduate to become another intern-contractor-paperwork nobody. The only thing I am truly good at is being average. But that doesn’t count for much, does it?

I used to have motivation, aspirations, but it’s all shrivelling away. I’m alone.

I know I’m alone, or at least I’m lonely.

nihilistic, but isn’t it true that commonfolk stories are erased by time? Isn’t it true that someday I will be forgotten?

I am scared of death, terrified even- but I cannot seem to get rid of this heavy blanket. It will forever weigh me down. I am the definition of inadequacy, and I can’t seem to look past it.

this is no suicide note. This is me, grovelling for connection. I am pleading with you to tell me you’re alone too.

I am scared of mediocrity, but oh so hippocritical, when I am the monster I truly fear.

[disastrouscanasta]

11, 12 and 27 for the writers ask game

11.  Books and/or authors who influenced you the most

The book series Horrible Histories was my life for years. I read them back to back, working through my “blood curdling box-set” until I just started rereading them over and over. In retrospect, Terry Deary’s sort of sarcastic, referential style definitely bled into some of my work, especially my original stuff. I just feel like he has a lot of character and voice in his writing and I always loved that.

12.  Describe your perfect writing space

I run warm, so I prefer a cool writing space. I write with music and/or white noise, typically. Though I can write pretty much anywhere, anytime, so my ideal place would just be sitting comfortably, I think.

27.  Favourite line/scene

Favourite from my work? Idk. Here’s one I contemplated for too long, from the film industry au, of course :3

George reached a hand up and fisted it in Joe’s shirt. It was one of his nicer ones, collared. Joe had ironed it before they left his apartment, and there George was, creasing the damn thing as he pulled Joe down on top of him.

YOU WERE THE ONE WHO POINTED OUT THAT GEORGE WAS THE ONE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE LITTLE THINGS JOE DID LIKE IRONING HIS NICE SHIRT, WHICH MADE ME REALISE THAT JOE WAS ALSO ACTIVELY PUTTING IN THE EFFORT TO DRESS UP FOR THEIR LITTLE DINNER DATE. IT’S THE MUTUAL AFFECTION. this was all completely intentional and I absolutely did not only think of these implications after writing this (lies I had no clue whatsoever. I was just talking about Joe’s shirt)

honestly I really enjoy that whole scene/segment of the fic, t’was fun to write

thanks for the ask :3

[rainyraisin]

Rai help do you know the persona lore can you tell me help

OMG OMG OMG OMG ARE YOU THINKING OF GETTING INTO PERSONA OR DID YOU JUST GET INTO IT???

Either way you have caught me at the right time because my long running Persona hyperfixation is in full swing babyyyyy

The Persona games are pretty disconnected other than a few elements here and there so I can tell you a bit of general persona lore but you’d have to specify a specific game if you wanted more info!!! (That would also be pretty general though to avoid spoilers!)

1. Persona games tend to follow the Fools Journey of the major tarot arcana with the protagonist always being the Fool! This is utilised differently throughout each of the games. One of the main aspects of the Fool is that they have limitless potential, which leads to one of the other main things shared between all persona protags: the Wild Card! The Wild Card leads you to be able to take on multiple different personas when usually a person can only have one. The protagonist grows and changes a lot as a person throughout the story, shown partially through systems like social stats but through other means as well, and both the personas they undertake through regular gameplay and also story related reasons reflect this!

2. The Velvet Room is a place between time and space ran by a man called Igor and usually at least one Velvet assistant (Persona 5 has two whilst the Q spin-off games have all the Velvet assistants from 3 and 4 or 3-5 depending on if you’re playing Q or Q2). It’s a place only accessible to those who hold the Wild Card within them and its form changes to reflect their heart and the challenges they’re facing. Persona 3’s is an elevator, Persona 4’s is a limo, and Persona 5’s is a prison! (I’m unsure what Persona 1 and 2’s look like as I haven’t played those two yet, apologies!). It doesn’t really have much lore beyond that as far as I know? But it is one of the only things shared across all the games.

3. The central themes of each game tend to be about accepting yourself and growing as a person (aka strengthening your heart, therefore strengthening your persona). I haven’t completed Persona 3 yet so I can’t exactly say how that’s utilised in that game just yet but in Persona 4 and 5 accepting the bad parts of yourself and going against others in order to follow your heart are one of the main parts and themes of the game.

4. Persona lore follows the Jungian psychology and takes it incredibly literally. Jungian psychology describes a persona as: “a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and on the other to conceal the true nature of the individual." This is taken most literally in Persona 5 as they have to rip off the mask imposed upon them by society in order to access their true nature, aka their Persona, but it’s also somewhat similar in the previous two mainline games as well.

There’s certainly more to it than that but that’s what I can think of off the top of my head!!! If you wanna know more about the lore of a specific Persona Game just ask! Although I don’t know much about 3 at the moment as I’m only halfway through July in Reload- if you ever wanna talk about Persona just ask hehe I’d love to talk about it!!! Especially Persona 5, if you haven’t played the series yet and you’re trying to decide which one to start with is definetly recommend 5, specifically Royal but the original version is good too, Royal just has way more content and is better overall HDKSVXKSHXJ- it’s the one I started off with personally and I think it’s definitely the best intro to the series if you’re attempting to get into it. With the release of Reload, P3 is also a good way to get into the series and if you want a darker story that’s definitely the way to go but both are amazing options! Persona 5’s story is by no means worse than Persona 3’s though, I absolutely adore that game’s story and themes (there’s a reason I’ve played it 6 times HCKSGDKWBCKH-). If you want I can tell you more about both! The only game I wouldn’t recommend starting with is Persona 4, it’s not bad by any means but honestly if I wasn’t already hooked on Persona by the time I played it I probably would’ve dropped it, the dungeon crawling and battle systems of the older versions of 3 and both versions of 4 have uh… a few issues bcksgcksbckhs

[kaimukiwahine]

Since I finished the HLVRAI Witch’s House video, just wanted to share a few stuffs.

In all honesty, this was just something to do while waiting for the next part and I didn’t want to spoil Benrey’s Room outright. 

Originally going in, all i had in mind was doing the eyes crying. But I couldn’t think of what else to do, I nearly scrapped the whole thing before picking it back up after ten minutes of sulking. hence my file names haha

The hand was deliberate calling back to Pistachi0′s original comic, particularly a panel from this spread. And of course Josh’s photo and Gordon’s passport was recreated to the best of my ability (just without the dark overlay used in the final). 

If I still have time and maybe get some insider info (wink wink jk), would love to try doing this again for the future floors or scenarios if allowed to

[daywalkers-fic]

09. the cowboy code

"What follows is a reminder of some “cowboy codes,” that were very popular in the late 1940s and ’50s. These creeds and rules are from some of America’s favorite silver screen cowboy heroes, and they seem surprisingly timely."

Bill Reynolds, Cowboy Codes from Western Heroes (2017)

I was researching general slang and colloquial terms and came across Legends of America's webpage for something called "The Code of the West". I know that pirates lived by an unofficial-official code of conduct/creed that helped bring some ordinance at sea (i.e. general principles that were recognized and used during that time period). The idea of the pirate code existing in the past, and used, makes more sense to me than the idea that a "cowboy way of life" was a thing that was used in the past, and still is today.

Now, the American "cowboy" is an identity and idea that has existed from the 1800s, until now. With every year, decade, century that has passed, the "cowboy" is reinvented and takes on a new kind of form that is new and specific to their time, yet still recognizable. The previous forms being lost to fiction or distant memory.

The idea of a Code of the West (as I had guessed) formulated in the 1900s. By then, an extensive, diverse, and turbulent history of the American frontier had been lived — a history that was available for folks to write, re-write, and romanticize about.

I am not suggesting that these "codes" written in the 1900s are incorrect, inaccurate, or insufficient (that 1800s "cowboys" were the "real" ones, the "ogs"). Rather, I am rambling here to muse aloud about the existence of such a "code" at all. The fact that there are so many damn variations just shows that there is a way to neatly define an (American) "cowboy". Should note that the 20th century also saw the rise of the "cowboy" as a character type and static ideal. These codes had and have purpose, whether to help draft an American her, idealize the past, or inspire folks today to pursue an “honourable” way of life and philosophy.

Anyways, super interesting find, fun to learn more about today. My goal is to really stay true to research and development, and in my experience, an important part of this process is to watch out for overarching ideas and generalizations. Again, not that they are "incorrect" but that they must be contextualized, especially when it is from the perspective of the present to the past.

The Code of the West / Zane Grey (1934)

Gene Autry's Cowboy Code of Honor / Gene Autry (1944)

Cowboy Values: Recapturing What America Once Stood For / James P Owen (2008)

The Lone Ranger’s Creed / (1933)

Roy Rogers Riders Club Rules / Roy Rogers (1955)