#This was difficult!!!!! i hope it makes sense?????

[ihavealavalamp]

The Screaming Man // 2022

          … The pose of this particular sculpture was decided based on the prompt of impact; I wanted the posture and expression to perhaps startle the viewer, to convey the sense of someone screaming for help and reaching out a hand in desperation. I wanted to make it visceral, for audiences to feel uneasy when they see it and get a rush of emotion that will remain with them even after they walk away.            Ideally, this sculpture would be shown in an area that is wooded, where one may not see it at first. It is that jolt of recognition of the human form that would catch the attention of any accidental audience members, that realization that somebody has been silently screaming for help right in the corner of your eye and you hadn't even noticed. That it could have easily gone unnoticed and unheard, but now your attention is impossible to deny, that it is too late to plead ignorance without remembering what you saw, what cry for help you had no choice but to walk away from.           There is a meaning in that shame. It means something to me, and I know it means something to you as well. Something about guilt and helplessness and learned apathy, but I wish to let audiences decide what specific meaning it has to them. The type of impact is unique on the person, after all - at the end of the day, the screaming man is simply a man made out of sticks. Nothing more, nothing less. Not unless more is given, if one chooses to take the hand reaching out.

[giveemhales]

My Steddie Gifsets: 1/?

10 Things I Hate About You AU

Nancy wants to date Robin. But she knows Robin would feel far too guilty to ever say yes to the girl who broke her best friend’s heart. Unless it was clear Steve had truly moved on. So Nancy enlists the help of her younger brother and his friends, promising to do their homework for a month so they have more time to work on building a campaign if they can get Steve in a relationship. So Mike and Dustin embark on a mission to get Steve a date.

Steve stopped dating after his heart was broken. Everyone knows it, because practically every girl in Hawkins has asked him out, only to be rejected. With the pool now so small, Dustin knows he has to get creative and choose someone who will really be able to grab Steve’s attention. So Eddie- the head of his D&D club and the resident bad boy- seems like the perfect fit. Unfortunately, Dustin also knows that anti-establishment Eddie would never date somebody like Steve- who represents everything he hates- unless there was something in it for him (even if Dustin insists that getting to date Steve should be enough of a prize). So Dustin pools up some money (and his most prized miniature that he knows Eddie has been eyeing), and tells Eddie it’s all his if he can get a date with Steve. He hopes that maybe they can both find happiness together. And things seem to go perfectly. Steve and Eddie fall for each other, Robin and Nancy get together. Love is in the air. But of course, the truth always comes out…

(If anyone feels compelled to use this as a prompt, please send the results my way, I’m obsessed with the idea of this AU)

[jolselin]

nothing funnier than 'isn't it difficult enough to be born poor? and now you're gay?' from jim who is also poor and gay

[femboyclownpierce]

:0 i would love to hear how you write etho!

after making that post and going to bed i've realized that it's so hard for me to describe all the thoughts that go into it so

tl;dr: i have consumed an ungodly amount of ethoslab content to the point that writing him is kind of second nature

you could also probably go thru my archive for etho text posts i've rb'd, cuz those have also influenced me a lot and i'll link a few at the end. i also sincerely recommend watching and rewatching his hc7 because that is like, everything i love about etho in 40-smth episodes.

long and kind of complicated/messy answer under the cut. i tried to go as in-depth as i could w/o being overly rambly

when you think of etho, what do you think of? you probably think "mysterious cryptid redstone guy who is scary." that is the devil talking. he is not mysterious, a cryptid, or scary at all. he is just a guy who's reputation is bigger than him.

here's some (very basic) traits i'd assign to etho before any of those:

humble

reflective*

confident

competitive

friendly

mischievous

avoidant

*reflective in the sense that he mirrors other people's energy.

originally i had a whole rant typed up explaining these personality traits, but i realize you are probably a fellow ethogirl and a lot of these need no explanation. if you want an explanation/to better understand why i chose those personality traits, i am going to once again recommend his hc7, as well as checking out anything he's done with team canada (pick a series and just start watching. if you dont know where to start, one of my beloved mutuals has a neat little guide for ppl new to etho's content that includes some staple team canada content.)

some things i apply to my etho that make sense to me that might go overlooked by the casual enjoyer:

he is so incredibly neurodivergent coded. i am not going to make any assumptions on etho's brain structure, i dont think its my place, but seriously. give your etho some silly thing to be super passionate about on the side. make him easily distracted/get off topic easily. make his storage system start out well but quickly descent into chaos as he gets too lazy to use it.

he goes with the flow! this goes along with me describing him as a reflective person. he "yes, and"'s stuff like there's no tomorrow. he takes whatever energy is thrown his way, and he chucks it right back at you. he gets dragged into shenanigans and goes "oh this might as well happen! let's see how far we can take it."

he likes to avoid problems he doesn't see as immediately his own/aren't immediately affecting him. his response to moon big was literally "i'll let the other hermits deal with it. look this low gravity makes not having elytra so much easier! lets go build a bee farm." if it doesn't affect him right this instant, or there's nothing he can do about it, he will worry about it later (and probably forget to worry about it.)

he prioritizes the "fun" factor above all else. if you know what the bamboozler is, you understand this. also, the bee farm i just mentioned. if there is a very efficient/straight-forward way to do something or a very fun way to do something, he will go with the fun way most of the time. if the only option is boring, he'll find a way to make it fun.

his reputation precedes him, but his reputation is a little inaccurate to modern times. someone who doesn't know him very well might think he's menacing or scary, but the reality is that he's just a silly little guy. don't get me wrong, there is a reason he's seen as menacing, and if he wants to be he can be, but most of the time he's just here to chill.

his humor is very roundabout. he tells a very long story to get to the punchline, or he tells something that plays into stereotypes so much it's ridiculous. here are some examples. he is also a professional "your mom" joker, like i literally cannot link enough examples his staple joke is "your mom."

most importantly, i think, is that etho doesn't take himself too seriously. i think a lot about the quote from cleo that goes like, "etho doesnt say he's a grownup, he giggles and runs away." so dont make etho too serious!

HE IS LITERALLY JUST SOME GUY. i cant stress this point enough. he should have "just some guy" energy. tiny voice he's doing the best he can. things happen to him and he is mildly bewildered. something goes wrong and he needs like, one second dedicated to panicking before he does anything about it.

just for bonus content, some of my favorite posts/clips that heavily influence the way i interpret/write etho. he is so ^-^ | he calls food poisoning an adventure | evidence that etho's a former scene kid | obviously your mother never loved you 'cause you're some sorta monster :) | "you jerk" compilation | etho teasing scar in among us

[tomwambsmilk]

Been thinking about succ character "thesis statements" and it occurred to me that "Don't make me choose, Shiv, it's a man's right not to choose" and "I took the wrong drugs in the wrong order and I can't get happy" are in fact intimately connected... You've never been able to choose because that involves making a sacrifice and you're afraid to do that. If you'd just taken one drug it might've made you happy but you couldn't choose so you took all of them and together they made you miserable. You wanted to have a happy loving marriage and you wanted to have a successful and illustrious career, and when it turned out those two things might be at odds with each other instead of making a choice you tried to play both sides. You told your fiance that you "iced out her dad" right before giving him a thumbs up from across the room. You supported the vote of no confidence but not enough to stand up for anyone when it all went wrong. You agreed to deliver your wife's message of dissent to her father but you were so afraid of the fallout that you had to warn him in advance that you didn't mean it. Your wife is making some really good points but also you jive with Delgado. You're going to prison because you love your wife but also because you want to gain brownie points with her dad. Which one is the real motive? Do you even know? Does it matter? Shiv would be a great interim CEO but so would Gerri and Roman, you're not sure you could really pick one. You'll support your wife's bid for CEO behind closed doors but you won't go to bat for her with Logan. You don't want your wife to tell you about the man she slept with but you're upset it took her ten days to tell you. You hedge your bets and make compromises and now your marriage is falling apart and you might be the scapegoat for your company's crimes, but it can't be your fault. You didn't do anything. You didn't make any choices, so why are you suffering consequences?

You meet this dumb kid and you want to hold power over him because he's technically a Roy and you're sick of feeling small and powerless, but also you want to be his father and you want him to look up to you, but also you want to be his friend and you want him to love you. You want him to love you but you also want him to respect you, so you mock him and yell at him and put him down and then you take him out to dinner and buy him nice expensive things and make him feel important. You make him dependent on you so that he has to stay because you can't let him leave, but also you want him to want to stay and you get upset when the things you do to keep him here make him want to go. You tell him that you'd castrate him and marry him in a heartbeat and then you go and try to have an intimate conversation with your wife. You kiss him on the forehead and then make fun of him at a party. You tell him you'll take care of him and then you try to scapegoat him for your crimes. You could stop lording power over him but then he might not stay, you could stop doing nice things for him but then he might not love you anymore, so you do both and you settle for the unsatisfying mix of love and loathing you get in return, and you get upset when he's happy because you're supposed to be happy. Maybe if you hadn't tried to love him you'd have his respect and that would make you happy. Maybe if you'd let him freely choose you instead of keeping your foot on the back of his neck he would actually love you and then maybe you'd be happy. But now you'll never actually know because you've made him who he is and you've defined this relationship a certain way and it's far too late to go back and change that.

And then one day it all catches up to you and now you have to choose. Your wife and her father are about to go head-to-head and now you absolutely have to pick a side. To do nothing is to pick one side, and to do something is to pick another. And the truth is this is a choice you could have made a long, long time ago, and maybe if you had made that choice a long time ago the cost of the decision would have been a lot cheaper than it is now. Maybe you could have chosen your career and spared yourself the heartbreak of your slowly dying marriage, or maybe you could have chosen your marriage and avoided the soul-crushing agony of your career, but now you've suffered both and only half of it is going to pay off. And because you've waited so long the victory is only half of what it could be; if you choose your wife now she's not likely to forget all the times you chose Logan, and if you choose Logan now you may curry favour but Logan historically has a long memory. Will he really respect you the way he would have if you'd chosen him all along? Will he really trust you?

And if you have to make a choice, then so does Greg - except you can't really let him make the choice. You need him to come with you because you need a consolation prize so you put him down again and remind him of what he owes you, and then when he agrees you consider that to be love. And maybe it is love. It could be love. But can you ever really be sure, when you were trying so hard to not give him the chance to leave? He's not your partner he's your Gregweiler, he's your attack dog, and you're going to have to keep him on a leash and you know by now that a dog can't love you the way that a person can because the dog doesn't have any choice but to love you. Maybe if you'd actually given him that choice way back when you first met he would've chosen you and now you could be happy, but it's too late now and this is what you're going to have to settle for.

And even still. You make the choice but you still need to try and have it all. You throw your wife down the stairs and then you walk down to the bottom of the stairs and try to comfort her. You hope that she didn't see you do what you did because actually, you do still want to have it all. You've made a choice but you don't want to suffer the consequences of that choice. You've spent your entire life making compromises and settling for the lukewarm results of those compromises and maybe you can do it again. You've never really taken a risk because you've always hedged your bets enough to make it work for you, and you'd really prefer not to start now. But it's too late because you made the choice and she knows you made the choice, and the consequences are coming whether you like it or not. Are you ready for them?

[eggmojis]

ccan can can you do white lamb ears & tail like doing whatever just white lamb/sheep whatever ears & tail tyty<3

Thanks for your patience! I hope you like these! I had a lot of fun with the more creative freedom :D

Thanks for your ask!

Silly lamb emoji 1

Neutral lamb

Silly lamb emoji (non lamb version, Lamb version, and grass version)

Little lamb sitting

[laytontheories]

Who are Stachenscarfen and Granny Riddleton?

Granny Riddleton and Stachenscarfen are the most mysterious characters in the entire Layton series.

Despite appearing in every game, we still know nothing about them.

Who are they? What do they want? Where did they come from?

After a lot of thinking, I have a few theories about their true identities that seem to make sense.

This will be quite long so please bear with me.

Firstly, let's discuss Granny Riddleton.

Don't be alarmed but she is a robot.

This is pretty much confirmed in her profile at the end of Curious Village.

So Granny Riddleton was definitely created by Bruno. But that's not all. Bruno did not build just one Granny. He built multiple. Potentially hundreds.

This is why she never seems to recognise Layton and Luke and can be found in every place they go.

My theory is that you can tell them apart by the different colour clothes they wear.

So the Granny you meet in St Mystere is different to the Granny on the Molentary Express, who is different to the Granny who adopted Puzzlette as her granddaughter.

As for the Granny in the prequels, we'll get to her later.

So, why would Baron Reinhold get Bruno to make hundreds of identical elderly woman robots?

Granny Riddleton says why herself: Her job is to find all the lost puzzles and store them in her house.

This isn't just because she loves puzzles so much, this is so she can find somebody to solve them.

Augustus Reinhold didn't want Flora to have to wait years for a puzzle solver to discover St Mystere. So he created hundreds of "fairy godmothers" to travel the world. They would find puzzles and challenge people to solve them.

Those who proved themselves would be invited to the village to find the Golden Apple.

At some point a Granny wearing orange heard of Professor Layton.

She followed him from Misthillary, to Monte d'Or to London.

She made sure to keep hidden from him, and was very impressed with his puzzle solving abilities.

Not only did he solve every puzzle she found, he solved her most challenging puzzles with ease. She shared her findings with the others and Layton was given an invitation to St Mystere.

With their mission complete, some Grannies chose to retire. Some chose to start families. And some continued to collect puzzles.

Now Stachenscarfen

He's a little more difficult to identify. It's never stated if he is a robot or human. However, since Granny Riddleton is confirmed to be a robot, I'll bet he is one too. Either that or an omnipotent god who wanders the Earth.

Unlike our dear Granny, there is only one Stachenscarfen. He's one of a kind.

Stachenscarfen is a mystery to everyone, even to the fellow residents of St Mystere. This suggests to me that he is a newer robot. I like to think he appeared the same day Layton did.

Stachenscarfen is really no different to the other villagers at first. He shows up in random places, he offers hints, he gives puzzles, etc.

It's only after Curious Village that things start getting strange.

Stachenscarfen leaves St Mystere, the only robot to do so. No matter where Layton goes, he is always there. Why?

Well, that's his purpose.

To follow Layton?

No.

To follow Flora.

Stachenscarfen was built to keep an eye on Flora, to make sure she is being looked after. He follows Layton to make sure he is doing a good job.

He doesn't want to undermine Layton's role as her guardian, he just looks out for them from afar. Maybe even reporting back to the village.

If Granny Riddleton is the fairy godmother who found Flora a new family, Stachenscarfen is the weird uncle who hides in the tree behind her school.

It's worth noting that, despite doing the same thing as Stachenscarfen, Aldus is not a robot. He follows Layton around because he loves him.

By the time Layton's Mystery Journey arrives, Flora has grown up and no longer needs two cryptic guardians. But that doesn't mean they are retired. There's somebody else they're watching over:

Some extra thoughts:

Stachenscarfen and Granny Riddleton changed their appearance over the years to seem as though they are aging. They don't want too much attention.

Stachenscarfen would have not shut down with the rest of the villagers if Flora took the money. He's special.

Anytime Granny mentions hanging out with "the girls" she's talking about the other versions of herself. And when she goes on vacation, she's actually returning to St Mystere for repairs.

Stachenscarfen's appearance and personality is very similar to the late Baron. Perhaps Bruno designed him as a tribute to his old friend.

TL;DR: Granny Riddleton and Stachenscarfen are two robots built by Bruno with very important jobs. Granny Riddleton travelled the world to find a suitable guardian for Flora and Stachenscarfen watches over her after she left the village with Layton.

[letters-to-lgbt-kids]

TW: surgery complications, medical malpractice (If you have health anxiety or medical trauma, this letter may not be suitable for you as it mentions a rare health emergency)

@libraries-of-books said: "How are you after your surgery?"

My dear lgbt+ kid,

Thankyou for asking and also a big thankyou to everyone who sent me kind wishes. It may seem like a small gesture but it really made me feel better!

I'm getting better. I'm able to leave my bed again and even though the most mundane activities are still pretty exhausting to do, I am slowly getting back into my everyday routine. Most importantly, I am still alive - it's emotionally difficult to think about the fact that this was not a guarantee but I'm so grateful that I survived. The struggles of recovery are a blessing if I consider the alternative.

While I don't want to share too many details, I want to give a quick recap of what happened: After undergoing surgery, I was in a lot of pain that got rapidly worse, and also had some other extremely distressing symptoms (like partial blindness). I went to the doctor four times and told them that there is something wrong. I was literally in the doctor's office full-on sobbing from the pain and nearly passing out every time I stood up... and they brushed it off. Oh, you underwent surgery a few days ago, that's normal after surgery, you are just very sensitive to pain. On the fourth day, they told me "It's probably Covid and has nothing to do with the surgery at all, please stop coming here" without even testing me for Covid. (I took a test at home and it was negative).

Well, on the fifth day, I woke up and my face was so swollen that I had trouble breathing and could barely see anything. I went to the ER - and found out that fluids had collected in my head. Turns out that the surgeon forget a tool inside of me... which caused a massive infection that was spreading through my body and by now was super close to spreading to my brain. Cue emergency surgeries to 1, remove the tool and 2, drain fluid from my head, plus heavy doses of antibiotics to hopefully prevent a potentially deadly brain infection.

It worked, luckily. The infection went down and didn't spread further. I'm back home now and it looks like I will recover fully, without permanent side effects.

"A doctor forget a tool inside me" sounds like a silly plotline in a sit-com but it was a nightmare in real life. Next to physical recovery, I feel like it will also take me some time to recover from this emotionally. Still trying to wrap my head around everything that happened - but incredibly thankful to the ER doctors who took me seriously and reacted so quickly when they realized the severity of the situation.

With all my love,

Your Tumblr Dad

[ridiasfangirlings]

Reisaru AU perhaps where Fushimi discovers that the way he acts is all just a ruse to keep Munakata close to him. Getting himself into danger, being sulky, overworking himself, having anxiety about feelings, it's just his way of making sure Munakata never leaves him. How do these two come to understand each other or clear the air even if it seems manipulative on Fushimi's part?

I wonder if this is then unintentional on Fushimi's part,which is also why Munakata never became aware of it himself despite being so perceptive – if it's to the point that even Fushimi hasn't figured out the level to which his personality is something of a defense mechanism against losing Munakata then even Munakata might not realize it. Imagine this in particular post-ROK and that's when Fushimi really starts to figure it out himself, like for the most part he's trying to heal and become better but imagine he's still got this tendency to overwork and be sulky in front of Munakata, he's still going out alone a lot and returning to Munakata's office with injuries so that Munakata has to fuss over him. At some point Fushimi can't help but notice that he's gotten better when dealing with Yata and with the alphabet squad and with basically everyone else but Munakata, like the worst parts of him are still so clear when Munakata's there. This initially makes Fushimi question himself, like he's started to think of S4 as the place he belongs and even Munakata being his King, yet he can't seem to move forward with his own emotions and well-being when Munakata's there.

Imagine Munakata notices that Fushimi's seemed off kilter lately and decides to ask him what's wrong directly, Fushimi clicks his tongue and shrugs and says nothing. Now that Fushimi's become aware of his own behavior though Munakata is able to see through it more too, and he notes that clearly there is 'something' rather than 'nothing.' Fushimi mutters that Munakata's being annoying again, starting to fall into old habits, and then he stops and says maybe this is no good after all. Munakata says isn't he the one who always told Fushimi that if something displeases him about the world to change it, Fushimi says what if he isn't capable of change. Munakata considers that and then asks if Fushimi wants to change, and Fushimi says of course – but he pauses, and Munakata sees it. Finally Fushimi sighs and wonders if Munakata would still have use for him, if Fushimi changed into someone else.

Munakata says that regardless of how Fushimi changes Munakata's feelings for him are a thing that will never change and Fushimi presses him on that, bitterly, like what if I've been putting up a front all this time, what if I've been doing things to make sure you never leave – it's the same as Yata all over again, in a different way, and he's finally noticed it. Munakata asks if this front was deliberate, or malicious, and Fushimi asks if it matters. Munakata says of course it does – even if such a thing was manipulation, it was a manipulation Fushimi himself wasn't even aware of, and in that sense doesn't that turn things around to making them true. And now that Fushimi has become aware perhaps together they can change things, to create a new understanding. Fushimi grumbles that Munakata is still thinking too highly of him, like this would be easier if you would just get angry, and Munakata chuckles as he says he's afraid that isn't in his nature, Fushimi is too important a person for him to get angry at such a small thing that they have already begun to solve.

[johnaeryns]

[zombiestarillustration]

Origin/Future

ID in alt

[senseiwu]

It's too soon... it hasn't been nine months yet...

[kyutiemin]

christmas on and on!

[seyaryminamoto]

Azula Week 2022 - Day One: Burn

And here's my first out of two entries for @azulaweek this year. Unfortunately, too much going on lately has seen to it that I won't be able to participate every day in this event... but I did finish the pieces I wanted to create for both the first and the last days!

So... yep. This isn't anywhere close to uplifting, but I promise the final artwork I've prepared is much more cheerful than this one!

[gethoce]

I hate that we have the same ArthurDad head-canon but I can't talk to you about it because it's... considerably less wholesome, to put it lightly.

Oh, I'd love to hear it though! It's always a pleasure to read what you write. ~

My version of ArthurDad may have ended up being largely on the wholesome side of things, but I'm in no way opposed to a darker version. I tend to write darker stories as well, but end up toning it down in the end worried it may be causing too much of a stir here.

[wolvesbaned]

I am so fascinated with your vampire werewolf hybrids post and I've been wondering a few things about them.

1. Can vampwolves, furred vampires and werepires produce offspring?

2. Can werevamps produce offspring with other werevamps? And what would they be like?

3. What kind of diet would a werepire have?

hello! I'm glad you find them fascinating! It's been a while since I've visited the idea :')

Some basic mythic canon: lycanthropy is a generational, genetically-entwined curse. It's non-reversible if you're born with it. Vampirism cannot be inherited, but passed on through infection, whether by bite during pregnancy or on the uh. rare occasion that a very freshly-turned vamp with a dick has one final human nut lol. sorry. vampires with wombs can't have kids bc the womb can't carry a baby to term

I would say no, since the vampire curse renders you undead and hence unable to reproduce--unless in the extremely rare circumstance that a vampwolf bites either a furred vampire/werepire during pregnancy. Then that furred vampire/werepire's child would be another vampwolf. But that's not really reproduction, that's infection. A werewolf bitten by a vampire becomes undead, and so they can only pass on lycanthropy and vampirism by classic infection. Hope that makes sense!

Werevamps are just the general term for any werewolf/vampire hybrid so it depends! Furred vampires and werepires aren't undead so they could have kids, and the side effects/cravings of vampirism don't continue past the dhampyr ("half-vampire") generation. Having a grandfather/mother who was in any way vampiric probably just means you have anemia and a preference for nocturnal living lol. However, batwolves are not undead. They are both dhampyrs and werewolves. If they were to have offspring, they would just be slightly more werewolf-like batwolves. However I don't think there are a lot of them, so it would be difficult to find someone who's a multi-generational batwolf-only descendant.

Werepires are rid of the vampire curse and only retain physical attributes of their werebat descendants. Their diet would be lots of fresh meat in werepire form, and normal human food. Except, of course, chocolate, grapes, garlic, etc. They're allergic :( However, unrelated, I like to think that they have colorsight from the heightened senses of their vampire relatives or trace DNA. Most werewolves are colorblind in any form.