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#lmfao the straw man fallacy going strong today#to act like people who are not angry at them for stunting are saying 'the closet is inevitable and necessary' is an absurd jump#rather it's a simple respect for a complex situation#a respect for choice#a simple reflection of the fact that how another person handles their closet has quite literally nothing to do with me personally#a reflection that any negative feelings that pop up (if they were to) would be entirely a me problem because of my investment#to act like a closeted person is personally hurting YOU with THEIR closet is wildly selfish#to act like a closeted person should be working on your timeline for when you think they 'should' come out or think their reasons for not#coming out yet are stupid#is quite frankly fucked#twisting your personal upset because you are a fan of a couple into a moral quandary in order to feel good about hating them when they act#outside how you want them to (especially when it comes to something as personal as the closet) is! fucked!#go ahead and hate them if you so desire but don't try to act like someone kissing someone as a part of their closet is the reason#and not your personal desire for them to cater to what you want to see from them in regards to their closet lmfao#*
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You think DBD ghostface would recognize Springtrap
#myart#chloesimagination#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#fnaf movie#springtrap#william afton#scream#scream movie#ghost face#dead by daylight#dbd fanart#DBD#matthew lillard#stu macher#listen as soon as ghistface hears springtraps voice#they’ll not fight him#springtrap literally has the voice of Stu Macher canon#they have no choice but to respect them#they would be friends I promise#I was gonna draw more fnaf x dbd when it was closer to the crossover#but it’s Halloween time so I get a free pass here
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meet downhill longboarder wwx
#tenmastrousers#mdzs#wangxian#im obsessed with watching guys hurtle down a mountain at the speed of death and wwx would do absolutely do this#lwj: i want to respect your choices but i also want to throw your board into the ocean and not tell you about it#mo dao zu shi#mxtx#cnovel#wei wuxian#lan wangji#skateboarding au#modao zushi#gdc#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#danmei#mdzs fanart#fanart#its definitely wen ning who's filming#lwj has been giving him the stink eye about it
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Looking through your Ao3 bookmarks and seeing that little “This has been deleted, sorry!” is like finding a gravestone, but the writing’s too worn down to read what it was standing for anymore.
What were you, Bookmark #336... What stories did you tell? Which words were it that once left a mark on my soul? *touches my laptop screen like it’s text from an ancient ruin*
Cowabummer.
#/wails dramatically#I joke to cope#BUT MAN#I hate when this happens#:c#I respect an author's choice to delete#but it's always a bummer coming across evidence of a deleted fic#and not knowing what it was#I gotta start making use of the notes section on ao3 more#fanfiction#pi says things
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If Aabria has 1 million fans, I am one of them
If Aabria has 1 thousand fans, I am one of them
If Aabria has 1 hundred fans, I am one of them
If Aabria has 1 fan, it is Brennan Lee Mulligan and I have been killed, please avenge me
#dimension 20#aabria iyengar#y’all best not be coming for her about system choice or cinematic descriptions or shit like that#because i will fight you#but also that red headed dollop of sunshine and positivity and union solidarity loves and respects tf out of her#and i respect that#burrow's end#burrow’s end is gonna make me cry so goddamn much i bet
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Someone asked me to expand a little on a topic that was buried down in a big chain of reblogs, so I'm doing that here--it's about the use of the archaic "thee", "thou", "thy", etc. in LOTR and what it tells you about characters’ feelings for one another. (I am NOT an expert on this, so it's just what I've picked up over time!)
Like many (most?) modern English speakers, I grew up thinking of those old forms of 2nd person address as being extra formal. I think that's because my main exposure to them was in the Bible ("thou shall not...") and why wouldn't god, speaking as the ultimate authority, be using the most formal, official voice? But it turns out that for a huge chunk of the history of the English language, "thee," "thou," and "thy" were actually the informal/casual alternatives to the formal "you", “your”, “yours”. Like tú v. usted in Spanish!
With that in mind, Tolkien was very intentional about when he peppered in a "thee" or a "thou" in his dialogue. It only happens a handful of times. Most of those are when a jerk is trying to make clear that someone else is beneath them by treating them informally. Denethor "thou"s Gandalf when he’s pissed at him. The Witch King calls Éowyn "thee" to cut her down verbally before he cuts her down physically. And the Mouth of Sauron calls Aragorn and Gandalf "thou" as a way to show them that he has the upper hand. (Big oops by all 3 of these guys!)
The other times are the opposite--it's when someone starts to use the informal/casual form as a way to show their feeling of affection for someone else. Galadriel goes with the formal "you" all through the company's days in Lórien, but by the time they leave she has really taken them to heart. So when she sends them a message via Gandalf early in the Two Towers, she uses "thee" and "thou" in her words to Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli because now they're valued friends and allies. And--this is the big one, folks, that was already alluded to in my previous post--Éowyn starts aggressively "thou"ing Aragorn when she is begging him to take her along as he prepares to ride out of Dunharrow. She is very intentionally trying to communicate her feelings to him in her choice of pronoun--an "I wouldn't be calling you "thee" if I didn't love you" kind of thing. And he is just as intentionally using "you" in every single one of his responses in order to gently establish a boundary with her without having to state outright that he doesn't reciprocate her feelings. It's not until much later when her engagement to Faramir is announced that Aragorn finally busts out "I have wished thee joy ever since I first saw thee". Because now it is safe to acknowledge a relationship of closeness and familiarity with her without the risk that it will be misinterpreted. He absolutely wants to have that close, familiar relationship, but he saved it for when he knew she could accept it on his terms without getting hurt.
So, you know, like all things language-based...Tolkien made very purposeful decisions in his word choices down to a bonkers level of detail. I didn’t know about this pronoun thing until I was a whole ass adult, but that’s the joy of dealing with Tolkien. I still discover new things like this almost every time I re-read.
#lord of the rings#lotr#tolkien#aragorn#éowyn#word nerd#respect and disrespect by choice of pronoun#thee and thou vs you#aragorn found the absolute most passive way to say ‘not interested’#meta
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Watching this man and his misfortunes like a sporting event.
plus a closer look at these cause i legit pulled an eye muscle drawing them...
#kamen rider#kamen rider gavv#karakida hanto#fan art#soji shioya#journalist dad's here cause i love him unconditionally lmao#yeeesss!!! you go little revenge quest guy with two friends and a sad mentor related backstory!!!#made for me lol#he fights like captain kirk and i love to see it lol#like many reiwa riders he doesn't have a bike so his opening move of choice seems to be HURLING HIS ENTIRE BODY AT A BADGUY#major respect for that. street rules lmao#anyway i cheer every time he gets his ass kicked lmao do your best karakida i'm cheering for you#amazing job Mr Yusuke Hino with those faces btw#ps i also made fun of his drawing don't feel bad lmao lets get him
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The magnus archives when everything’s the same but the action happens 10 years into the future (starts 2026) and the institute is under scrutiny because some gossip magazines accused them of having misogynistic management because the Head of the Institute was always a man so Jonah Magnus originally born in the 1700s decides to deal with that by his next body being a woman so now he has to deal with periods and gender dysphoria
#what am I even writing at this point#this is just words#the magnus archives#tma podcast#tma#jonah magnus#elias bouchard#he regrets his choices pretty quickly but can’t#the institute starts paying for their workers gender reassignment surgery#jonah gains a new respect for trans people#tutorial on how to make a Gregorian era man more progressive: make him trans for a decade#my tma aus
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I make and use excel spreadsheets for my TTRPG character sheets, for the most part. I like the freedom it gives me to design the sheet the way I want and have plenty of space for notes. Plus you can plug in all the formulas to make it do the math for you, and the act of putting those formulas in yourself (as opposed to using some ready made tool instead) is a good way to learn more about the mechanics.
Anyway, I recently made a sheet for 5E characters since my friend is running Curse of Strahd in that system. We leveled up the other night, and with the use of my new sheet it literally took me 3 seconds to level my character. XD
#see this is why it's not my preferred system#it takes me like 30 minutes to level up a Pathfinder character and I LIKE it that way#give me those interesting choices#but the system is the DM's choice and I respect it
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Every year Akio Ohtori loans his sister out to a bunch of teenagers, grooms said teenagers, makes all of them fight each other several times, does irreparable emotional damage, hopefully THOROUGHLY cleans the inside of his car because Christ alive.
And all of this, all these surreal, intricate rituals, are so he can lose a sword fight with a door.
This has happened multiple times. He doesn't even seem particularly upset about failing. Every year Akio Ohtori loses a sword fight with a door and somehow does not feel like an absolute clown. Could NOT be me, I would never try again. I would lie awake at night every night after the first attempt agonizing about how stupid I must have looked and how my sister absolutely would have laughed at me if all the organs she needed to do so weren't getting shish-kebabed six ways to Sunday.
#revolutionary girl utena#akio ohtori#shoujo kakumei utena#ohtori akio#rgu#sku#i might begrudgingly respect his total lack of shame#if i thought it came from solid self-esteem and not from intentionally isolating himself for years#surrounded by people who have no choice but to assume he's cool because they have no frame of reference for what a cool adult looks like#also i knowwww I'm taking this too literally okay it's fun to take Utena literally for the lulz sometimes
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Next part of the silly thing
#yes there are mistakes#english is not my first language#also#yes this is supposed to be a choice game but i wasn’t sure of how to translate it to tumblr#this was originally a story on instagram#it was way more fun#sorry to disappoint#you would be surprised#of how many people chose to kiss him#respect boundaries#wth#anyways#yeah sans wants you#and he is an asshole mb#also i imagine him like a computer guy idk why
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btw, for my writers out there that hate google but still rely on google docs- try CryptPad.fr
online doc editor, access your files from any device that can open a web browser
does spreadsheets and rich text (and more)
you can share view/edit links so your friends can read your wips, beta readers can proofread, do collabs with ur buddies, whatever
you can upload files and use it just like you would google drive with up to 1GB of storage completely free (which is more than enough for most people's purposes imo, but if you need more the upgrades are pretty reasonably priced)
AND it's encrypted and open-source (always a welcomed bonus)
it also plays nice with dark mode browser extensions (a life saver for me) unlike google docs.
also shout out to LibreOffice for being basically microsoft office but free and open source
god i love free programs
#talking#tips#i guess? idk what else to sort it under lmao#writing#also yes it is a choice to capitalize CryptPad and LibreOffice but not microsoft or google. it's about respect
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by the way they were hunting gay men for pleasure and sport in paris and san francisco👆this also fits in very neatly into how they collaborate and tolerate one another’s feeding practices in dubai (damek, malik). their negotiations when it comes to feeding practices forms a very important thread in the show - it goes hand-in-hand with the negotiations pertaining to their relationship and how they’re consequently able to make their marriage last; their collaboration with respect to their feeding also makes sense because drinking blood is a very sensual act for vampires - so they’re also helping each other find pleasure in that sense even when they’re not sharing blood between themselves. there’s a reason most of louis’s victims in nola, paris, sf & dubai are usually men.
#and this is why I earnestly believe that armand had a hand in selecting damek and louis had a hand in selecting malik :)#their marriage WORKED in some ways because they were both willing to make compromises and respect each other’s choices.#text#loumand#interview with the vampire
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I absolutely love your art and how detailed it is! If you don't mind me asking, how do you draw/break down faces? Your style is like exactly what I'm hoping to get close to when I draw them
OKAY so huge disclaimer. im self taught and i dont know what im doing most of the time! frankly i have a long way to go with shape language and character design so i will always suggest people to go to actual professionals and masters LMAO.
i am NOT qualified whatsoever, but, i tried to breakdown my thought process in how i currently draw things!!! for my mcyt designs, obviously i take huge inspirations from the actual ccs.
tango has similar hairlines and beard patterns to cc!tango. joel's hairstyle is very much inspired from his younger hairstyles, and pearl has a similarly long oval headshape from cc!pearl.
all of which are completely personal preference. some people take shape inspiration from personalities, voices, or whatever prophetic visions they have in their heads!
this would be the case for my cleo and etho designs. Cleo to me has a sharper voice & personality so i tried to incorporate that into what id think their face would be! etho is kind of . wet cat, but his voice for some reason gives me... round?? shapes?? so he has floppy hair and rounder eyes and ears in my design.
(another disclaimer: looks does not equate to personality, but like. its a lil easier 2 draw. and theyre shorthands and associations)
^ cleo has a higher eyebrow arch, sharp inner eye corner. etho has ears that stick out, uneven haircut, and his roots are darker :D
so its basically 2 big steps! Picking the face shape and then picking out details that would be unique to that character. to make characters different, i try to always pick something different between each person. so more contrast!!!
pearl and gem are easy since theyre opposites visually -- oval vs square, sharp vs round. for skizz and tango, i draw their eyes very similarly. but i decided my skizz would have a longer face and rounder cheeks, whereas tango has a bushier mustache and flatter face.
i am personally very fond of super stylized artstyles,,, i think cartoony / stylized artstyles take a lot of skill and a lot of character design thought into creating unique silhouettes that are still very recognizable! (for instance, huge fan of @/wasyago and @/alienssstufff)
unfortunately my artstyle isnt geared towards that lol, and alot of my face shapes tend to be very similar. so instead, i try to change up eye shapes (very common method of separating characters) and hairstyles! i have a long long way to go and i have a lot of bad habits lol but i hope this shows a little bit on how each of my characters are detailed differently.
#also i mentioned stylized artstyles#but shoutout to heavier on the realism which requires alot of skillsets that i do not have myself. massive respect to u guys#this also definitely wont help anyone.#so i turned it into a post where i can blab about my miniscule design notes for some of the hermits LMAOOO#alot of my design choices are based on pure vibes. so i picked out some more concrete examples here of deliberate design choices#hermitcraft#my art#eydireqs#hc#misc#mcyt#genuinely i could go on and on about my thoughts behind each of them. especially tango heheeee#i wish i could exaggerate features more#but ill get there one day!!!
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I’d like to be clear to new followers that I’m not vegan? My fish cruelty post has moved into vegetarian/vegan circles and I’m getting a bunch of new followers so I don’t want someone getting pissed later because I post about what I eat.
I grew up on a farm, I believe that humans are interconnected in the food chain with other plants and animals. I believe we have a duty to reduce any undue suffering and allow any animal in our care to thrive, but I also believe that to eat an animal you raised with care is part of the food chain and eating it without waste is respect.
These are my beliefs and choices and I’m not knocking anyone else’s, but I’d like for it not to become a hot button later.
#ramblies#I also think if a flock of chickens is treated well it’s so disrespectful to waste eggs they lay#the chicken will lay regardless of a rooster being present and tossing the egg is so wasteful in my eyes#I had a vegan in my nutrition class insist that it was cruel to eat eggs for that reason#and I’m fully against factory farms but I get eggs from backyard chickens who never get fertilized#so it’s a very odd sticking point to me but I respect that it’s a choice people make
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#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#valyrianscrolls#i feel like i see people bring up this line all tje time to criticize theon and call him awful but its like.#the most blatant obvious line where he looks in the camera and says Haha My Dad Would Beat Me and Call Me Names. Fathers Do That!#and its like. oh my fucking god i knowww . I KNOW people think hes annoying or a piece of shit and he is atrocious dont get me wrong but#hes literally the most blatant metaphor of how abuse can affect a person into who they are#like no shit sherlock he desperately wants the starks to accept him. his actual dad would fucking beat him and he got taken outta that home#and placed in a new one where like one guy liked him as a friend but everyone else was kinda cold#<- WOAH! a metaphor about the foster care system and the way it affects a person.#like fucking obviously he bends over backward to try to get the approval of his peers or have fatherly approval#What else did you expect. Why do you think he makes all those choices ramsay suggests to him about trying to#get the respect of all of his men. he doesnt want to lose the respect. like.#Okay. Done now thank you#grace post
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