#also broken halo

[panrao]

I watched the second season and I must create because my heart hurts... I'm cooking something

[rhapsoddity]

bestie @galaxygermdraws wanted my rendition of Skizz and I did have time soooooo~

[vampryn]

i follow a wax trax group on facebook with a lot of OG industrial fans---one of them posted this, saying that this is how they used to have to watch Nine Inch Nails' Broken music video series before it was unshelved. i love it, it reminds me of a better time on this planet.

[osteochondraldefect]

Disco Elysium inspired portraits of the Hales

[catgirlforeskin]

I adore you parrying weird asks by showing your Halo diorama

Please use this ask as an opportunity to show more progress

Think these’ll be the final pics of it and im gonna take of it, think the next diorama will be the insurrectionists fortifying a base here and gettin attacked by marines maybe?

[doodleodds]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN..... WE GOTTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so SO much to everyone who commissioned (read: enabled) me!!

Now that I've reached my goal of +10ing my boy, and since my time is (unfortunately) still quite limited due to work, I'm going to be closing comms tomorrow! So, if you have an idea and haven't decided if you want to commit or not yet, now's your last chance for the time being! ;) And to all those who have already paid, I know I do still have quite a few to get through- I was a FOOL to think I could just bang these out in 24 hours, lol, but please rest assured they will be coming within the next few days!! I'll get through them slowly but surely. Admittedly I did take a break to draw this guy because I was so pleased to get him, but I'll get right back on the horse tomorrow lol. Thank you so much again everyone!! ^O^

Ferdinand went to a tea party and came back Different

[sbd-laytall]

Warrior Nun | 1.03 | "Ephesians 6:11"

Supernatural | 9.11 | "First Born"

[charulein]

Honestly my main grievance with ffxiv is how the female characters are treated lmao

[lohstandfound]

i have not been able to stop thinking about my richjake angel x demon post and now i cant even figure out my own angel/demon lore

[susie-dreemurr]

Istg we as a fandom need to make up another tag solely for the books bc I’m trying to find deadendia content at deadendia and all I get is dead end paranormal park 😔

[maythray]

god i love getting assignments where i can just draw my ocs... baby we are getting the prophecy 4 in this!!!!

[singinghands]

(( @larrythecentaur ))

"I would kill for you. I would die for you" would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?

[aquilamage]

been rewatching the blg hollow knight series and it's making me feel a lot of things.

1) re-experiencing the story for the first time in a while means the emotions are hitting me hard, and now I'm thinking extra more on all my in my head story stuff. also I wanna replay (slash maybe actually finish this time) myself so bad

2) there's a billion great things about that series and one of them is all the lore reactions. and specifically I can't stop thinking about the way the 250 word lore essay part makes me feel. like the pure excitement and being so into analyzing everything is soo incredible. And it's like. I've been feeling really iffy about my rain world recordings for lots of little things, but revisiting that moment aka my biggest inspiration for wanting to do it in the first place...it helps. potentially doing that same thing for someone else would be such an honor. and even if it does end up just being for future me, it still means a lot to get back to thinking about it in this context

3) also my brain is doing the typical "lets mash together the things you're into" and thinkin about hk characters in rw and vice versa. mostly surface level design thoughts but :3

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[nerdypixel]

Oh I like this style.

📚🪴

[crowcryptid]

Finished reading house of leaves

I think I get it

But I’m also the worst when it comes to putting thoughts into words :p

brief thoughts (under the cut to avoid spoilers)

So what I got is: Self destruction due to, I don’t want to say overconfidence, but the need to do things yourself. Cutting out everyone else. Not knowing when to quit until it’s too late, you’re in too deep and can’t save yourself. Obsession/compulsion/fear ruling every action. Leaving a gaping hole in the lives of the people around you. Tunnel vision to a lethal degree.

(A lesson in not going cave diving/exploring irl tbh)

And of course there was the trauma, abuse, inherited mental illness, etc. for Johnny that ultimately does him in. He couldn’t take care of himself, he couldn’t help his friend. Maybe this is me making an incorrect assumption, but the last thing he writes about the baby is his own death? His mother was the only one who would understand his condition since he inherited it from her. If he didn’t die then I’m not sure what that bit was about. It’s the last thing he wrote. I’m just assuming he’s dead.

Overall.

It felt bleak. Which I’m sure is the point. The ending for the family isn’t a good scenario, but it’s not the worst. Most of them survive, traumatized physically, mentally, but are reunited.

Everyone except Tom died for no good reason. I don’t mean that in a “bad writing” way. I just mean that saving someone is about the best way you could go out.

But how else could it have ended? It’s like it was fate.

A lonely old man would die alone. Happens all the time.

A photographer who has seen the worst the world has had to offer would do anything to document something no one has ever seen before (or something no one has ever lived to/thought to document).

A man with seemingly not much to live for beyond temporary distractions would succumb to his predisposed condition, a downfall only made worse by his destructive coping mechanisms. No family, a rough past, he only lives for the moment. If his one and only friend couldn’t snap him out of it, no one could.

So they both continue on the path. David is rescued. Johnny is not.

What’s the message of this all? Besides “don’t let yourself or someone you know get to that point”, I’m not sure.

All the stuff with the girls and Johnny only confused me. I just chalked it up to chasing temporary fulfillment. Distractions. Until he found something that consumed him entirely.

Marriage stuff confused me as well but I straight up don’t understand 99% of things like that so I won’t dwell on it too much. Karen had her issues, whether it was the mentioned trauma or something else. David has seen the world and documented the hardships of it, not to mention being away for long periods of time. The lack of communication creates resentment and distance. That’s about all I got regarding that.

As I said. Pretty bleak. Depersonalization/derealization is a bitch. I deal with that.

Yeah that’s about all I have to say :p

I haven’t looked anything up regarding it. I probably will eventually but I’ll give it some more time to sit. I kinda had to rush through it since i have to get back to doing classwork. (I was reading during the downtime at work, which is when i usually do my school stuff.)