#The pacing was everywhere

[bougiebutchbinch]

"I'm not surprised; I'm just disappointed"

- all of us @ the OFMD writers right now

[benevolenterrancy]

~ Extremely Unwilling Magical Protagonists Attempt To Outrun The Plot And Not Fucking Die ~

(@takofukkatsumi this tag is from a while ago but it hasn't left my brain -- L-Space got very weird all of a sudden)

[fumifooms]

My world shattering when I realize that Chilchuck is underweight

Post-canon Chilchuck stops dieting and gains weight real

Edit: I am going to SCREAM

[speakofthedebbie]

nonononono cuz i feel like being a hater rn-

some of yall, lemme rephrase, A LOT OF YALL are adults. you have so. much. better. things you could be doing like: going to school, paying the bills, and cuz some of yall are parents, taking care of your kids. but nooooo, nonono, youre gonna log onto youtube.com, twitter.com, what have you and complain about a crackship. that no one thinks is going to become canon. on the internet

i usually dont like when people try to make us minors seem like little babies who cant think for themselves but lemme say this: if TEENAGERS, MOTHERFUCKING TEENAGERS, can be more mature about FUCKING PIXELS that PEOPLE WHO HAVE MORTGAGES TO PAY, there is a SERIOUS. FUCKING. PROBLEM.

thank you for coming to my ted talk

[fly-sky-high-arts]

I do want to talk about sharing art online from the perspective of a hobby freelancer but before that I'll just toss this tidbit I mentioned on my main

Reblogs are not numbers. Reblogs are meant to share and pass on artwork that someone may like. NO ONE is forced to reblog anything BUT it is a core of engagement in a space like tumblr. Engagement is what brings in interest after all and it's one piece of what makes it important for freelance artists here.

When you look at the numbers and the notes, we need to stop viewing them and comparing them with likes (me included) or total in general. It doesn't help.

Artists do self rebloging to both show or remind folks they've done some work as well as to nudge people to reblog their stuff. Tags are nice and comments in them are a nice way to engage too but passing on the work, especially to help someone to get noticed, is a good way to just work the site as intended.

It will always be about luck because we can't guess who wants to engage with what online. You also can't blame yourselves for this. Don't use the internet mentality of "content" (eugh!) and "flopping" and go about it that way. People find stuff I drew years back and find ways to engage with it now. It's really about luck.

There are things that can help but I'll go about it in another post.

One more thing. Don't be shy about "shilling". Advertise your open commissions, your patreons or ko-fis. I promise it has nothing to do with how big of an artist you are. Remember that you're doing that within your own zone so "bothering" followers is hardly the case, it's your house. Make a tag for it if it helps your mind. I say as someone with social anxiety.

[sallytwo]

... The poem may be an elegy for childhood losses.

(On Dream Song 29, Thomas Travisano)

[valeriianz]

Mr. Gadling's Bodyguard | Dream x Hob | 6k | M

CW: gun violence, blood and injury, humor, action, brief mention of kidnap and torture, flirting, banter, enemies to lovers

for @levionok and their art here inspired by The Hitman's Bodyguard! and of course i wrote that kiss haha. thank you!

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“We’re done. You’re on your own!”

“Good!” Hob wheezes, gripping the railing and peering down, watching Dream all but run down the stairs. “I don’t need you! I’ve always been fine on my own!”

“You won’t last one hour without me!” Dream says loudly, losing all composure, all dignity. “You’ll be dead in a minute!”

“Yeah, yeah. You’re about as useful as a condom in a convent.”

That brings back the memory of early this morning, trapped in a van with a dozen nuns and Hob giddily riling Dream up, clapping and singing along in his ear.

“Eat my ass!” Dream shouts, echoing off the walls, cracked with emotion Dream has never heard his own voice make.

A bark of laughter shoots through the air, making Dream’s skin prickle, followed by a matter-of-factly:

“Don’t threaten me with a good time!”

Dream is so angry he can’t even fathom Hob’s inane response.

“Suck it!” Dream screams as he finally makes it to the bottom floor. He’s never shouted like this before. In and outside of work, he is known for his calm, composure, his poise and self-assuredness. The entire time he’s been with Hob, Dream has become more and more unhinged. His influence worming its way under Dream’s skin, his fortitude. Hob makes him fucking crazy and he… hates him. He hates Hob.

“How can I suck it if I’m busy eating your ass?!” Hob shouts. Dream feels heat explode all the way to his hairline. Suddenly realizing in his single-minded need to distance himself, how Hob’s usual quick, snappy retorts, sound a lot like… flirting.

Like crude, disturbing coquetry.

Of all the fucking ways to react to getting punched in the face—

Dream does not have the time or patience to think too hard about that.

“Fuck you!” Dream shouts, his voice pitched and his eyes prickling despite the ridiculousness of Hob’s back-talk. He finally pushes the double doors open into the very busy square.

[Ao3!]

[bubblegum-blackwood]

No but I actually hate so much that Xander called off the wedding because it’s the cruellest perpetuation of fear and a big middle finger to the hope that things can get better. Think - Anya’s spent years seeing nothing but the worst side of love, then Xander comes along to make her believe in its goodness again, only for him to break her heart on her literal wedding day. Cementing the idea for her that love is always doomed to end in heartbreak. And he’s too scared of ending up like his parents that he won’t let himself try to commit. He lets his own trauma get in the way of letting himself have a happy, fulfilling romantic life, and in doing so breaks the heart of the girl who just finally learned to believe in love again after hundreds of years. I’m so angry that they went that route with it, I kind of expected the wedding to get called off somehow but I was so rooting for them. Anya grew on me so much and I was excited to see her happy with Xander. And the writers had to ruin it. Thematically, it just sucks.

[ladythatsmyskull]

Daphne vs The Klan by Richard Pace

[multicolour-ink]

To whoever worked on Mario & Luigi Brothership:

PLEASE don't have so many handholdy tutorials!!! 😭🙏

[st4rstudent]

I have gone insane

Here’s some thinking outside the box Macthinker.

QUICK! [hits them with a beam

[sleepy-edits]

[wurmwizzard]

fellas.....I .....I...didn't know you could run in disco elysium.... i'm on day 4

AND I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD USE TAB TO HIGHLIGHT INTERACTABLE THINGS.....WHO LEFT ALL OF THIS MONEY EVERYWHERE

[sangcreole]

damn. this is genuinely the only space on the internet where I feel completely at peace.

[cathymee]

maybe it's to maintain a sense of tension & turmoil that would eventually reach an explosive peak, a sense of tug-of-war, a back-and-forth to hammer home the ideals they want to deliver and for the viewers to chew on, but although these arguments regarding hiroshi & his stance as a man torn between his loyalty for his country & the loyalty for his Filipino friends and lover is of course important, how they write these scenes & the points they present from this week alone is getting too repetitive...? literally the argument scenes from last night & tonight between adelina & hiroshi is basically the same; the ideas were the same, the dynamics were the same: the aggressive, radical adelina, bristling rage and fear over the injustices she's seen thus far, and the cautious, inspiriting hiroshi, all hopefulness and reassurance one moment as a lover, defensiveness and sternness as a japanese soldier in another. this debate will be ever-present ofc, it is one of the series' biggest conflicts, but it is unfortunately so easy to tell when it is a.) being pulled up as a main topic to move the plot along / be a necessary conflict for character development/introspection / be the conflict to deliver the morals & messages the writers want to send to their viewers, or b.) when it is being pulled up only for the drama and filler to pass the time. like watching the characters sit down to argue for 10 minutes, do other things for the plot for 2 minutes, then sit down again to argue for the next 20 minutes. lol.

[aq2003]

my verdict on the day of the doctor novelization is that the plot is still so stupid to me but at least i can live my life knowing moffat can write ten marginally correctly but he only keeps it in a novelization where nobody is going to see it. (my personal highlights under the cut)

him. aroace

this is a really good take on the ten and river dynamic, they're acquaintances and ten purposefully keeps it that way. the "time can be rewritten maybe her horrible death that happened in front of me can be prevented if i stay away from her" really goes well with how he's left after the events of journey's end

"he had to stop thinking before it tore him apart!" is THE most ten narration i've seen in my life. i need to eat rocks

this part just makes me really really sad. the dissociation between the tone and what's actually happening (him getting tortured. for months). how he's so clearly not acknowledging what's happening to him (he won't describe the screaming as his own). how he latches onto the only other presence there and focuses on charming her and making her laugh??? this also makes the hinting at a romance between ten and elizabeth that moffat does, extremely fucking upsetting because you can see how ten is just so fucking lonely and on instinct attaching himself to anyone who has any amount of regular presence to him. even if. well. you know. the torture.

like this. see. i need to be shot

you will hear from my lawyers steven.

[coughs up blood]

the "over and over". i need to be put in a blender

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH