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12 favorites of 2023 [& more]
#books#book stack#2023#bone criers moon#the godparent trap#a manual for how to love us#sisters of the snake#the valkyries daughter#warrior of the wild#role playing#none of this is true#the future king#the forest grimm#spin the dawn#vespertine#bookblr#booklr#reading#bookstagram#rainbow#fantasy#ya fantasy
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In case you guys want to know how smart spindle is

Here's him begging to be let outside even though the door is wide open and he's literally outside of his pen
#my poor stupid beast how i love you#bunblr#bunnies of tumblr#spindle#my rabbit everyone#he stared at us helplessly and pitifully until i manually escorted him around the door 💀
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Many things were used to describe the mad hermit of Amaurot: a drunkard, degenerate, cynical, and even monstrous by those who stirred trouble for the newly appointed Azem. But nothing could prepare Emet-Selch for what he would see for himself, when offered a chance to meet the Sun's Shadow.
#ffxiv#ancients#endwalker spoilers#emet selch#lahabrea#azem#azem oc#apollo#dionysus#hemitheos dionysus because I like the thought that anyone with soul sight will look at him#and they get to be jumpscared by what i like to personally imagine as a winged embodiment of void or the abyss#I would say the moon but within the context of FFXIV the moon isnt actually a normal astral body#though like azem/apollo and the role of the sun#I write dionysus to be the astrological moon#a character who represents the subconscious and the self- who often sees and brings out the worst in those around him#how I basically describe as being around him will break you to your barest so you can remake yourself into something better than before#unfortunately for the convocation he is also an antithesis to their ways and their biggest critic- out of love- funnily enough#also dont mind the idea that magic (especially creation magic) is so deeply ingrained that the idea of manual work is surprising to people#dionysus has to constantly use his aether to suppress his power he's either doing things by hand or sleeping#ancient zenos does not get to escape the sleepy curse#weird vintner in the mountains found lounging off in the middle of his vineyard#emet expecting dion to be the problem out of the duo until he realizes that /apollo/ is the overprotective cryptic and chaotic weirdo#with the power to stop an active volcano#and dion is the chill and collected hardworking man who despite everything is more human than most#tbh this was mostly inspired by the scenes with thordan and varis and how they react to WoL and Zenos in those moments#for dion/zenos it is their being while on the flip side for WoL/Azem it is their choices and the expression of such choices
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lays on the ground
#pigeon screens#odette hollows#HAVE YOU SEEN HER AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH#I LOVE HER#i'm on my hands and knees weeping#i love#i love!!!!!#anyway#i finally just caved because i was getting antsy about her makeup mod of all things (':#I had no idea what one I actually used for it because the one I THOUGHT it was was updated and is so different#so I went digging through my old files for stuff and got the png and updated it#and it looks!!!#ok#but maybe i'll bite the bullet and try and grab a commission for a custom makeup#maybe...... see if she can get her dimple added#I know it would be visible *all* the time instead of when she grins a certain way so maybe it would be easier to figure out how to#draw it on manually?#many thoughts to think#many things to rotate#but i am confident in updating olds things now at least#there are some weird spots right under her lower lip (hidden by tea cup) that I'll have to poke at#but!!!
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not gonna say it again!!
a HYPHEN - denotes a link between two words. i am pursued by flesh-starved bears.
an ENDASH – denotes a range of something. there are 4–5 bears who have not eaten for 1–2 weeks
an EMDASH — indicates a break in thought. it's really that—FUCK THE BEARS ARE HERE
say it louder for the bears in the back!!! 👏👏👏👏
#love to use them in smileys#:-) :–) :—)#this is how i'm coping with manually rewriting sample resumes at my job as a fucking designer. i went to art school#ignore me
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btw i’ll try to get some sv2 covers done as soon as i can when it releases but i am . slow. LOL. we have like 9 covers done to show still that are either ready or almost ready b4 we start fully switching 2 sv2 ^_^
#or well#if sv2 has issues with our english covers i may just still end up using sv1#I’m still gonna tune on sv1 most likely bc. no manual tuninh on sv 2#i should just be able to import the file from sv1 to sv2 anyway and the tuning should carry over#i hope at least?#i’m really looking forward to it#but i’m a bit scared of how the cross language feature will sound if i’m honest#i love accents but i just hope it doesn’t heavily effect the voice that drastically#bc if it does i will have to still render cross language covers on sv1 which i’d prefer not to do bc! i like the quality of sv2!#some choices are a bit lost on me with sv2 but i’m hoping itll get polished sooner than later bdhjs#i love using yuma english and yi xi english especially so like.. itll just suck. if cross doesn’t work that well on sv2#ahhhh i’m REALLY excited for UNI and miki tho omg#i already have ideas planned 4 em#let’s hope my computer has no problems running sv2! ;-;’#it should run better right..?#i can only hope i guess!!!
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my entire twitter feed is full of people discovering piglet's big game for the first time bc of how creepy the music and some of the levels are. meanwhile im here like. that was one of my core childhood games i played the fuck out of that when i was younger
#nobody gives a shit erin#finding out that the silent hill 2 remake uses a track from piglet's big game knocked me tf out#i almost bursted into tears on the japanese subway#also love how on ebay people are snatching up the cheap ps2/gamecube copies after the meme blew up#meanwhile i still own my childhood copy and i bought a nearly mint manual for it last year :)
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Hey, you're being lied to about what fitness constitutes. If you can't work in an hour-long crossfit slog, but you can work in a five-minute walk, then that is still fitness. If you can't use your legs but you can do arm circles every now and again, that is still fitness. If you're moving around at work, that's still fitness. It can be intentional or incidental, but here's the best part: your body doesn't care if you're dedicating specific work-out times. It doesn't care if the "only" fitness it gets is your nine to five on your feet. It doesn't care, fitness is fitness is fitness. Some of us do it differently, but the end result is more or less similar.
If you can do any type of fitness safely, your body isn't going to care if you're doing it like an Olympic athlete or if you're just a casual.
#fitness#gentle reminders#i hate hate hate the idea that fitness must be done Intentionally and in a Hegemonic Way#like... fitness is whatever you make of it and whatever you do#your body isn't going to be like 'well you walked for fove minutes but you didn't do shoulder presses at the gym so it doesn't count 😊'#if you want more specific forms of fitness then SURE you might want to do more specific exercises and activities#but if your goal is overall movement for however much if your body then... you don't Need to be THAT specific#and your goals may be specific for only parts of your body and that's GREAT!#a wheelchair user may for example do more arm exercises so they can use a manual chair for instance...#...and to many people i've noticed they don't think it 'counts' because the chair user isn't using 'all' of their body...#...but it's like... using your arms in non-powered chairs can be really important so like. it's still fitness.#you don't actually have to equally focus on everything if you don't want to or can't#all this to say that fitness is Not hegemonic and you don't need to feel shame about what you do or don't do#even a tiny tiny TINY amount is significant and matters <3#this is definitely something i've gotten more passionate about since becoming a ~gym bro~#because you see just how different people are and what they want out of fitness#and it's taught me a lot more about my own disabilities and how i work with (and even against) them to find balance#this is what i love about those fitness video games too! because they're often made to be engaging and fun!#i LOVED just dance as a kid and that was fitness merging with video games (and i loved video games (still do!))#and i HIGHLY recommend people get video games like just dance or that one nintendo ring game because of these elements!#it combines the comfort of home with movement with engaging music/story/video game elements#and things like that make me believe in peace and love and care on planet earth <<3
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ive been watching a LOT of mlp recently (talked abt it a lot on my alt), a lot of its world building flew past my head because i was just too young to bother understanding the intricacies of this cute series but wow looking at it now, it makes me want to make a pony oc 🥹 no yume attempt, i just wanna make a cute pony 🥹
#me and my sister talked about what kind of pony we'd like to be. we both thought unicorns were the nicest option because magic is useful#but eventually i ended up changing my mind and thinking maybe pegasus is a good choice. simply because -#of how cloudsdale looked like. first of all its the place where they make WEATHER. its so creative and cute#secondly the infrastructure is just CLOUDS its so charming!!!!!#and the whole stuff pegasi do to go about their daily life just seems so much more fascinating to me#and flying is cool. if you ask me :))#pegasi can sleep on A CLOUD IF THEY WANTED TOOO#aside from pegasus talk - I didn't know ponyville was dominantly earth ponies#its a small detail i never noticed. rarity and twilight were the only common unicorns there 🥹🥹#pegasi and earth ponies seemed common there#i think canterlot is where the unicorns typically thrive in? because i remember spike saying “[use magic] like in canterlot”..?#but yeah!!!#and the whole winter wrap up episode is dedicated to cleaning up winter without the use of magic as tradition to respect earth pony culture#because they do everything by manual work. i love that so much#tldr the worldbuilding of mlp is much more intricate than i thought and it makes me want to try making a pony oc someday~#i used to draw the equestria girls a LOT.#~ rambling
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This thing that I spent much too long on
#art#drawing#digital art#digital arwork#illustration#dsaf#dayshift at freddy's#peter dsaf#dsaf peter#this was for a group chat icon. i suffered immensely for it. and it's not even in use lmfao#anyways please enjoy! i did this bullshit manually in clip studio paint because I'm stupid <3#one day i will do my whole rambling talk about how much i love Peter's character but i don't think the tags of a shitpost is the best place#anyways. thought since my other post was Swarmed i might as well keep posting the fuckton of art ive done for this game over the last month#though i can only post those expressions i drew of jack when i manage to finish the ones for dave. it's the law. i can't separate them. so.#coming soon to a tumblr near you: me procrastinating :/
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I CANT USE CSS ON ARTFIGHT...............
#I WAS REALLY HOPING TO FIX THE FUCKING. PARAGRAPH WIDTH. SIGH#idk why but it stretches across the ENTIRE page like. it takes up the full width of the browser and it BOTHERS ME. ON ALL THE PAGES#i could try manually putting shift breaks but im worried it might not look so good on mobile. ugghh... auyggghhh.....#im already learning CSS and API so i thought i could put it to good use but. AUGH#this whole time ive had to go into the inspect panel myself and change the padding so i dont have to read the length of the screen#like a fucking typewriter... i would have also loved to use custom fonts and animations......#i did find a guide for BBCode which the site uses on default and it covers basic styling but its not the same. sniffle#you CAN unlock CSS if you donate $25 to the page which seems fair. and if i could do it i would but. i do not have any way of#sending or receiving money online </3 i really need to figure out how to do that so i can set up comms like i said i would last summer#but it intimidates me.... and im already kept on a short leash when it comes to that so it feels like a lot of things could go wrong#i think toyhouse allows CSS or some sort of code...?? i remember seeing some oc pages with custom layouts#if thats the case i'll try fiddling with it but im not very familiar with using toyhouse so thatll take a while#(thanks again for the code sal ^_^ ill put it on my pin once its ready but im trying to learn my way around the site heh ;;)#at least i can use my pixel dividers.. ive been digging around for pixels to use and found some really cute ones#yapping
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"why are you so worried abt random accidents, stuff like that rarely ever happens" well you see I'm too disabled to ever evacuate a situation on my own, so I'd rather be a safety advocate now than become a statistic later
#like. part of the reason i avoid large crowded events at all costs unless they are outdoors#is because i know for a fact i would more likely be a victim of crowd crush than any disaster like a fire#i am slow. i am very fragile. i have extremely poor balance#even if i could walk on that particular day (which is becoming less and less likely by the month)#i would be knocked over almost immediately by a light shove and be trampled#as well as like. my diminishing ability to make it UP stairs in the event of a fire in my apartment#because i live in a basement apartment and there is no elevator or alternative way upstairs in this building#if i were on an upper floor i would bear the injuries and just throw myself down the stairs if it were that severe of an emergency#i know far too well how to protect myself from a hard fall and would likely be able to avoid too severe an injury there#but if i had to crawl up the stairs i don't know if i could make it#these things are also why i fear car accidents so much#i physically cannot use an airbag without it breaking my collarbone; my height and general brittleness guarantee that#so it's just not. active. on my side of the car. like it was manually disabled#and I'm already so severely disabled i just. i can't emotionally handle something else. on top of everything#i have a do not resuscitate order in place bc of that. so if my heart stops for any reason they shouldn't try to restart it#that's a recent choice bc like. i can already barely handle the emotional toll of my current disabilities getting worse#i would not be able to handle something new unless it were like. a more severe form of one i already handle well like. losing my legs#i miss running but it wasn't as hard to give up as; say; losing use of my hands- they're the only way i can do ANYTHING nowadays#the few times my joint pain got bad enough that i fully lost use of my hands for a few days were absolute torment#and I'm far far too scared of my voice being recorded to use anything with speech to text like. it's a BAD paranoia i can't shake it#so i would just kind of. be locked out from most tech. and THAT is currently the only way it's possible for me to be social#so i would actually just fully lose my mind like it's already fragile enough i would break i would just break#i love large transport vehicles but i struggle to trust the safety of most other than trains because those tend to be. fairly safe#I've watched enough train disaster videos to know how robust the rules and regulations of modern trains are#(all regulations are written in blood!)#i trust cars very little though and since buses run on the same streets i worry. a Lot#not that there's any buses that run near my apartment the closest bus stop is three blocks away and it only comes twice a day#and it only runs to the college and nowhere else so there's. very little point to me using it#and very few ways for me to even access it in my current physical state#it's very much not an accessible bus stop the sidewalks are diagonal in most places and my right wheel is malfunctioning now bc of it
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i just. hit s+ rank in splatoon and i never honestly thought this would happen?? am i cool now.. do i get to be a part of the s4? do i get to be watered down to my running joke all the time?
#the last part is a joke but i do not see a whole lot of recognition of the s4 being. the s4#like yeah they were cool formidable foes in the s1 era and skull even beat goggles despite his plot armor#but now theyre just#there??#dont get me wrong i love their existence but#it feels like theyve been watered down at least a bit#skull is always just getting lost and army is almost always either the manual guy or the curry guy#thats. thats it thats their bits#skull also has the sweets thing#rider is sometimes a considerable foe too but at the same time the s4 doesnt usually consist of him so im not sure how much to count him#that being said it is a kids manga so i dont really expect it to lean too far into the formidable foes thing#even the xblood werent that scary in the long run and ended up goofy despite being who they were#i also get it in terms of fandom#i understand the appeal of something like aloha being cutesy dumb pink guy (who maaaaaaybe commited some crimes and it shows)#i also definitely understand the appeal of army having a thing for curry as well as the manuals#the manuals can be an endearing thing to write about trust me#but i also wouldnt mind seeing more things that center around the likes of the s4 and the xblood and even the best8 being the absolute best#of the best during their prime#reminder that s+ was the highest rank around when the s4 were introduced. same with the xblood#they were the strongest players and id like to see things that center around that#id like to imagine that moving on to the square and splatsville that the s4 would have had a chance to move uo and get into xbattles#i think of all of them skull and army would have the highest chances of actually making it to xrank and being successful#but honestly if mask and aloha could probably make it pretty well too if they got off their asses#and i think rider would excel as well being rider#he has his own kind of near plot armour i think#so do most of the big teams in my opinion#theyre the sort of doomed by the plot that forces them to battle goggles at some point lmao#maybe i could use this in a fic or au one day#maybe someone already has...#(please send to me if you know of any creators who have played around with these vague ideas of strength i wanna see em)
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HELLO i did not expect the minecraft cross stitch post to do as well thank u very much for ur support😭 here are some sample pages from the work in progress zine. it needs some adjustments absolutely, like the symbols need some fixings but i am very excited to work on this project and to share it :)
#it is going to be a free zine booklet btw and i am the only person working on it idk how long itll take to complete but i am cross#stitching these patterns as i go in a genuine love for the medium and this does not have to be cross stitch like if u want to use these for#whatever then please absolutely do it is not married to cross stitch u can do anything u want in ur lifetime#also i will absolutely include instruction on how to make these bc they are rly very easy and fun to make i encourage ppl to make their own#and experiment w ideas :) ok bye im just rambling bye ily#u have to crop a photo into a 1:1 perfect square and then put it into [most] pixel art programs as a 32x32 resolution and then manually#paint over it to refine it and that is how u make them#in brief#OK BYE😭 <3#DANG IT also to make the symbol patterns i opened an excel sheet g00gle sheets and i made all the columns/rows to be like square sized and#and then i filled it in w symbols for each color these were all manually put into place bc i could not find a ‘cross stitch pattern#generator’ that was decent it was all nonsense but that is how i made the charts if u would like to also make them#just get some symbols and copy/paste them into the squares#WILL ELABORATE on it more in the zine but in case any1 wants to make their own that is how i did it#OK BYE NOW FOR REAL
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yeah this is exactly the difference between the three crews. Alternate Crew is depressed and bargaining with Inkling to let them go back to the Octopod safely, Beta Crew out here living their best lives before they inevitably implode, and Player Crew can’t go 5 minutes without the Cha Cha Slide
#misery x cpr x reese's puffs#i might make a full vid about this concept but for now�� alas#giggles as i tag the available characters#octonauts#captain barnacles#shellington octonauts#professor inkling#hershel’s octonauts au#……..#deltarune k k#yeah. yeah that funky fellar is here#other ocs#three generations of octonauts and they just get wackier than the last#i love how the first gen is pretty normal (beta) then the second is knowing the ropes (alternate)#second gen does go downhill quite a few times but they’re holding up#third gen is a MESS and i mean that in a loving way (player)#also Cha Cha Slide here usually refers to a event in which manual control goes haywire and throws everyone around#here i’m using it as a broader term for Chaos which happens. every hosting now :) i love it here
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bedtime story time!! [opens up local driver's manual]
#just me hi#plleagse#i got through the first chapter and then got hit by a wave of such powerful (but irrelevant) sleepiness i didn't even start ch.2 Lmao#even though it's like 3 pages. yeaaa#not kidding though i would do that kinda stuff when i was like <12. i still love reading car manuals abt airbags i do not know why gvdhfj#airbag section i love youuuu - people who remove their car manuals. why :(#it's like a magazine to me. but much better#it Is the same information over and over again but i Like that information. don't know how else to explain it jfbdjfks#the only thing is that if you're in an unfamiliar car you can't just go looking through their glove compartment for stuff that's weird#you could ask but that's real odd/funny request so hbfhs#i want to know at what point in the manual they thought it'd be a good time to mention that they can kill you so bad#like is it in the 6th part or the 3rd i must know#/anyway. what was i talkin about#OH yea driver’s manual#i wanna get my license this year that's my big big goal hfjsv#'there should be bigger ones though right' nope i want to be mobile and untrackable Lmfvshfbdh#i'm willin to give up untrackable i know how it is. i'd love mobile-at-will though i can't wait :33#//also just thought it's neat that my talk tag is like an opening greeting every time hfbsh#hi!! time for my Werds/Thouhts and Nothing Else jfhdj#//mhm i gotta get back to the manual though :/#i need a learner's permit but my parents think they can just avoid 90% of gov proceedings lmaoo#i mean. they Can. but look at where that's gotten us hjfvsh [camera pans to an empty white room with hovering text#saying Place Elements Here] oops#/YEAH though. locking in. aaauggggghhhhhughvahguhgahfhusgsgshagdhfyu [crawls out of the room]#toodles hfvshfj 💥
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