#When it rains I think of her...

[starssoblue]

“things were so hard with dad in recent years...how did he go from paparapluie to père? i wish i could face him and understand, but while he was still here i didn't dare try to tell him [any of my feelings] and now...it's too late.” * paparapluie is a pun on the words papa and parapluie (umbrella) since the plush is a frog. père is the french word for 'father.'

[shawsimmer]

🏡🫶🏽

[psychomusic]

induced to me by my contemporary art exam AND a rewatch of rebels after years that. got me into sabezra unexpectedly AND i updated krita and there were many new brushes i wanted to try

refs (IF U CAN PLS HELP ME FIND THE ORIGINAL COSPLAYERS i can't find anything EDIT: found them!! they're starwars_irl on insta and @rebelartistwren / lionesscosplay on insta. thank you guys <3) and ✨colored version✨ under the cut

i can't find themmmmm I've been looking for 2 days but all i found were uncredited reposts

anyway they look amazing

i really wanted to try greyscaling but I'm not sure it looks good. idk. + while i was making it i was listening to i love you by fontaines d.c. (GREAT SONG FROM A GREAT UNDERRATED BAND) and. the grey fit into that mood much better

also two versions without the sketch lines. where ezra looks happier even if they're uglier

[vynnyal]

*dumps this directly on your lawn* have this

[cosmoport]

been working out some more solid designs for the siblangs recently ^_^

[raining-its-pouring]

Rainworld fans when they don’t know how to interact with a female character without calling her a mother or a bitch: “yeah moons too boring :/// I like when she’s a bitch! Let her be mean!”

Moon very rarely displays anything beyond (Understandable) bitterness at her situation and some passive aggression. If you want to make aus or explore an alternate canon where she DOES act more “bitchy” go ahead. I support women’s wrongs. But I find it very disheartening that people see Moon’s sheer willpower, that she chooses to be kind again and again and again, as a weakness. As a “wrong” reaction to the situation she was put in.

I’m not gonna deny that some of her politeness is a hold over from etiquette back in the Ancients’ day. But I simply do not think her peace and kindness is wholly a weakness, or something subconscious she is unaware of. (OR uninteresting. In a world that is DESIGNED to make you feel small, a world designed to be unkind, having a character who chooses to be the opposite is SO interesting imo.) And I do not exactly think reading her angry moments as “bitchy” is a normal thing to do with the only prominent female character in the whole game.

[wildstar25]

Honeymoon pt.4 - Yak T'el

"I bet you're itching to investigate that gate by now. We can have a chat with Lamaty'i and Koana about it the moment we get back to Tuliyollal if that's what you want, Shtola. ... Not in any rush? Are you sure? That's great! There's still so much more of Tural I'd love to explore with you~!"

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[binah-beloved]

Sunshower only comes to you in the rain.

perched upon your balcony, hood pulled over her ears. she watches you silently, waiting for the telltale scent of your cooking, because always do you give her something to eat before she departs again. sometimes she says thank you. other times she says not a word. but you can see her gratitude in the flicking of her tail, the twitch of her claws. always giving you one last look as the sky dries up before vanishing again.

in heavy storms, she's been coming inside lately. you simply situate her in front of the heater, gently drying her hair and ears. she tells you it's because inside is warmer, more comfortable. even she doesn't like rain when it weeps and pours. of course, you say. and don't mention how she curls up against you. wraps her tail around your wrist. comes to see you more and more, stays longer, lingers her touches gently. you don't have to, because she knows, even if she won't admit it.

the sun comes out one day, reflecting through the raindrops. she holds her ragged umbrella over you, sitting once again on your railing, and Outis asks you to marry her.

[alaanz]

Kaori seems to have a lot of internalised stuff about what she thinks a relationship should be.

To me she seems like an asexual person who doesn’t know that she’s asexual.

Now this isn’t to say that she gets a get out of jail free card because of this. She is still aware of how she feels and is actively avoiding talking about them to her partner, even when she knows that she’s hurting him. It’s just that I don’t think she knows that how she feels is something she’s allowed to feel.

I think it comes back to that thing of if you don’t adress that there’s a problem, then does the problem actually exist.

And she had what she wanted in their relationship. She got to be with her partner and not have sex. It’s just that she was also ignoring her partners wants and needs and so this ideal relationship that she thought she’d reached was never going to work in the end.

No matter how it looks on the surface, if there’s no communication to hold up your relationship, it’s always going to fall apart eventually.

[outlivealie]

There are many lines and moments in The Wicked Years that live rent-free in my mind.

One such scene being Rain's reunion with Glinda at the end of Out of Oz, and there's the last thing* Glinda says to Rain:

“Oh, Rain,” said Glinda, when the girl was almost out the door. “One more thing. About Tip. You may think that a story should have a happy ending—” (p. 544).

Rain interrupts before she can finish what she is saying, not wishing to discuss it, and stating aloud that she isn't looking for happiness or an ending.

Now with Maguire's writing holding a tendency towards multiple interpretations, or purposefully left vague enough to leave it up to the reader (as his almost constant refusal to clarify attests to), I don’t feel too bad in viewing this with a Gelphie tilt. Though considering that Glinda’s dialogue and thoughts almost always turn towards her, I don’t think that is too unrealistic of me.

So, what was the rest going to be?

All things considered, and with her previously trying to console Liir - while mentioning doing the same for Elphaba - it stands to reason it would have been her trying to do so again (despite being well aware none of them will accept it). Perhaps to say that not all stories have a happy ending, even if you think they should. Considering she is led to say this in regards to Rain and Tip, it is not a stretch to assume that she may be thinking of herself and Elphaba and what she may have once envisioned for the future.

Naturally, the lines directly before this one are Glinda bringing up the possibility of Elphaba coming back – which is by now a common rumour/belief amongst people:

“... Maybe Elphaba will come back one day, or maybe she won’t, but in the meantime I have known you. That will see me through, I do believe.” Elphaba is not coming back, thought Rain, but she couldn’t bring herself to say it. Not to an old fool like Glinda.

A part of Glinda still hoping, perhaps, for that happy ending in whatever shape it may be. Even with all the decades that have passed since Elphaba's death, and even more since their original parting and the end of whatever they did have. One could even say that she is still... holding out...

Then Elphaba does come back. Maybe. In death or a dying hallucination or something altogether quite impossible.

And, considering what follows: now I haven’t read the Another Day trilogy (yet), but have it on good authority that the ambiguous endings for two couples are now happy endings. At least for one, the end for the other now a hopeful one. So maybe, just maybe, something apparently impossible did happen - which is another discussion entirely.

*I know some people believe it is Rain releasing Glinda from her cell at the end, and I won't dismiss other people's theories, but that is not one I believe.

[stormyrainyday]

apologies this is far from a coherent shower thought but i think it's time we like. decided to detach our identity a bit from the things we do. it's fine to just read. you don't have to be a reader. it's fine to just game. you don't have to be a gamer. you can be those things but i feel like in a quest to find ourselves and open our hearts, especially to others online (because i know, the first thing we do when on a new platform is say hi im [name] i like these things we should talk, i know, i do, my pinned post is literally that), i feel like we forget that we are more than the things we do and even the things we love. we, to borrow words from slay the princess, contain it in our multitudes.

it's a sentiment i've felt for a long time as someone who has been on the internet and in fandom spaces for a good decade now, and like. i find when we hold these things so close that they become us, we become too defensive over them. how many minor fandom disagreements spiral into threats, name calling, doxxing even? i find, especially younger users in fan spaces, tend to take even small differences of opinion and take them personally. saw someone blow up and call people awful names over believing only one person could top in a genshin ship. another left a server i was in because they disliked a popular character, and other (respectfully), decided to share why they did like her. i get that things like rejection sensitivity are a thing, but i think this failure to recognize the self as an entity apart from the things you do and the thoughts you have definitely contribute to this. phenomenon i suppose.

it's genuinely slay the princess that has given me the vocabulary to express and understand this thing i was already thinking. i think, though we are not gods, it's important to understand that we are not things so easily defined. we consist of our thoughts, our actions, our perceptions, our beliefs, and more. even the outside world's perception of us reflects some part of our nature. but not all of it. it's impossible to define oneself in one, two, three words or even an essay.

because like we don't exist in a vacuum. part of our existence is defined in our interactions with others. but not all. never all. there is no one who can truly know you, and we cannot truly know ourselves. our principles bend to the whims of circumstance no matter what we tell ourselves otherwise, so we can't decide what we are or what we would be in a situation for sure, ever. and that's not a bad thing, but if we can't ever truly know ourselves, then how can we assign such great importance to something as superficial as the things we enjoy sometimes?

we are both a constant and the capacity to change. and to take just a handful of things and call it your identity, even subconsciously, is a disservice to the self. in an effort to be seen we break ourselves down into easy (i hate to say it but) marketable pieces.

take being a reader for example. it has always felt like vague slang for booksmart, thoughtful, likely quiet and introverted as well, just as much as it means "i like to read books". theres an aesthetic to it involved, and a whole subculture. do you write in your books? do you keep them museum-fresh quality? do you read smut or classics or high fantasy or satire and what does it say about you? if you say audiobooks aren't real literature, are you signalling to others about quality and sophistication, or are you a pretentious asshole, and ableist to boot? these connotations assigned to such an otherwise benign thing about someone are i think are reflective of the construct of identity and perception. i could go on about it in a way that's more coherent but i, a student, have other things to do right now.

(does being a student make me intelligent? does it impress you to know i study medicine? what if i told you i average Cs in my classes? what if i told you i dislike patient care? what if i told you i'm not here for the money OR to make the world a better place, and that i'm here purely to serve my curiosities about the way the body functions and to absolve my obsessive need to understand just what are we? does this change what you think of me? does it matter? what if you knew the guilt i felt for seeing so much suffering, but still hating patient care enough to worry endlessly about being stuck in it as a career? am i better for it? but i have not acted on this guilt. it is a mere feeling that only i know. knew. is it different now that i've confessed it? does it matter? does any of it change who i am, fundamentally? or am i a thing detached from it all? or. as i like to believe. is it both? your shifting perceptions of me and the way i change shape and form (so much like our beloved princess in slay the princess) in your eyes, they make up me just as much as the soul or the self or whatever other philosophical name you assign to it. at the end of the day, isn't the most important thing that i am just me? both devoid of and constituted of the sum of my parts? what is found in the spaces between my cells? impulses and chemicals. is that me? is it all me? can i ever really know it? and why, why, why define it at all?)

[s4ndg3m]

sluggy movement :3c i have a lot of fun running and jumping and swimming around in rw

[sphnyspinspin]

Meet Tremor! Ever since I started getting into the lore of @dimorphodon-x ‘s Oardivia, I wanted to make an OC.

- She turns into a giant, more Cyber-esque jackhammer but I was too lazy to draw it

- I’m not sure if she’d be able to talk or not in the OG lore of Oardivia’s universe; but if she could talk I’ve voice claimed her as Chilli from Bluey

- I toootally didn’t just copy-paste my redesign of Servo and use that as her base, and may or may not have had the idea to make them siblings separated at birth—what’re you talking about phbttt

- Also no, Tremor is not from Oardivia—her backstory is much more depressing.

Tremor was actually assigned to a cargo ship that was making its way across the galaxy. Until one day the ship she was on was caught in a space storm, that made their ship derail and crash on an unfamiliar planet.

It turns out Tremor was the only survivor thanks to an Oardivian Meteorologist named Buoy, who was monitoring the recent storm. Tremor was then taken in by Buoy who she loved dearly and was by their side for a very long time. But, it wasn’t until Buoy was out on another research venture with Tremor that they died while surveying a hurricane.

And one would think after losing her closest companion during a large storm, she would have been showing some signs of astraphobia. Instead, Tremor gets suddenly excited when it rains or thunderstorms in Oardivia.

Tremor can be seen splashing in puddles, running around, and jumping all about even in the heaviest of rainfall. Nothing can get her to get out of there, not even the loudest crackle of lightning can scare her off.

It might be strange to say… but it’s as if she’s dancing with an invisible force that only visits her when the skies are anything but clear.

[bean-spring]

Mel haters are so funny to me because they quite literally have nothing to say against her besides "nooo she used Jayce for hextech!!" well, it's what happens when that's your fucking job

[asaka-lucy-dr-rc]

ゲーム本編では見れないけどデジタルアートブックに載ってるレインコート無しのハララの衣装が好き。

Although we can't see it in the game, I like Halara's outfit without the raincoat. (You can see it in the digital art book.)

おまけ/BONUS

Lines: Yakou: Hey, Halara... I know I said you could use it, but don't you think it's about time to give back the seat to your chief?

Halara: I don't think so.

Yakou: Ah... I see...

[localceilingdevil]

ancients!!!! chasm and fronds :] been really enjoying thinking about ancient lore recently!!!

this is chasm. he's addicted to mushrooms and karma flowers and was the first ancient to get contacted by the Voidworm. kickstarted the whole void revolution [artfight]

and this is fronds! she was approached by the other ancients who wanted to build an iterator capable of mass-producing masks. she was entrusted with hope's construction as she is a monk and takes her religion very seriously :p [artfight]