#among other things haha

[inkykeiji]

there’s a shouto centric series? :O or there’s going to be one?!? i saw in a previous ask a mention of it, and thinking about your absolutely ethereal writing and shouto? a match made in heaven, if i’m honest.

there is going to be one, eventually, in the very unspecified future!!! <3 can’t give you a timeline, can’t even give you a vague estimate, all i can tell you is that it’s something i’ve been working on sporadically and something i plan to post when it’s done, whenever that ends up being.

please hehehe you’re so lovely!!!!! <333 i really appreciate your kind words <3 thank you for your interest in the series! it’s great to hear (´∀｀)♡ in the meantime, i’ll be writing a shouto prompt for one of my june prompts, so look forward to that!! <3

[sysig]

Can I request a pokemon drawing? Was thinking mewtwo but idk whoever whatever!

Day 11 - Quiet pls

[philosophical]

they diagnosed me with awwtism because I’m such a cutie (can’t make eye contact to save my life)

[lord-squiggletits]

The reason this fandom hates IDW Optimus isn't because he's a cop (plenty of people are fine with Prowl) or because he's a bastard (most characters in IDW are) but because he commits the crime of being an actual person who's messy, flawed, and makes a shitload of high stakes mistakes fitting for the intense situations and pressure he's put under constantly.

But we can't have Optimus actually react to his situations by lashing out or being unpleasant, no, he has to have the personality of a cardboard cutout of G1 whose only defining personality traits are "dad, funny, nice," and if he ever vents negative emotions it can only ever be #relatable depression or him being sad on his own without ever letting it show during the important parts of the story. If Optimus dares do things like be angry or frustrated or bitter it's just a sign that he's a bastard and LITERALLY the worst Optimus ever. If Optimus ever makes mistakes or does wrong things in the heat of anger/frustration/stress it's because he's just an evil bastard with no redeeming traits.

God forbid Optimus go through an unending gauntlet of war, politics, atrocities, near-complete loneliness, and a seemingly endless cycle of violence for his entire life and come out of it kind of bitter, angry, and tired of dealing with people's shit. He's not allowed to be a realistic person, context doesn't matter, sympathy doesnt matter. IDW Optimus doesn't fulfill the fandom's fantasies of Father Figure or Perfect Cultural Icon or Twinky Fucktoy and since that's the only reason most people care about Optimus in general, the fandom collectively trashes on IDW OP.

All because he can't fit into the overly simplified and childlike double standard the fandom has where if any other character is messy and flawed, that's good writing and interesting and compelling, but if OPTIMUS is messy and flawed, he's Literally The Worst and he's an asshole for no other reason than He Sucks, context be damned

[piedpiperart]

Part nine of Ghost hero!

Part eight 

Part Ten

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

u know surprisingly i don't have a very high tolerance for gore/horror i can watch zero horror movies and the scarier something is the less likely i will ever engage w it

[dawnthefluffyduck]

Last drawing of my summer class, we were only given an hour but I think I made good progress (this was a test of sorts)

This will be the last time I'm studying under this professor, so I'd like to share his art page (I think it's neat to see how his approach to art has influenced my own)

[redautism]

neb and i have such different versions of the pilots but this is what happens when they come together

[allbeendonebefore]

me getting ready to speak in front of undergrads for an hour: better wear the necklace i made in elementary school to protect me from being Perceived

[duckiemimi]

heartbreak is when your therapist asks you to come back with homemade food the next session so she can taste your cooking but then discharging you twenty minutes later </3

[kagami--uchiha]

.. I really want to... Dabble more into like..

Letting Kagami's darker side out on the world... ;s

[sysig]

It’s not going away, so get used to it! (Patreon)

[arcxnumvitae]

The eepy calls, but the angst calls louder.

[cervideity]

I love your Four Swords ideas!! You are very creative! I like regular (FS manga) Link in addition to the four separate Links, so I'm glad to see you mention him sometimes!

THANK YOU SO MUCH AWAWA......... that means a lot to me bc i dont feel very creative a lot of the time. genuinely, thank you.

AND YEAH I LIKE LINK A LOT ive planned on drawing a spread of hims for a bit i should get on that. i really hate when hes excluded entirely because ???? hes all of them?? hes Your blorbo (if said blorbo is one of the links)? thats him?? and also hes kinda the crux of the whole characters growth so.

[longagoitwastuesday]

I've also been reading the three musketeers and the thesis chapter had me Cackling. the clowning on learning latin in particular and aramis as a character constantly emphasizing that being part of the higher sought after and hard-to-get-into regiment of the king's musketeers is just kind of a temp job for him is so funny. character of all time. (also bazin wanting aramis to be a abbe so bad is so good)

Disclaimer that I was actually not reading the book, just giving a look and toying with the idea of reading it soon. In fact I was reading something else, but the chapter was so funny I've abandoned it and will probably start The three musketeers instead xD

Yes! Bazin was so funny. While reading him I couldn't help but be reminded of Smee wanting to leave Neverland and done with Hook's obsession for Peter Pan. Aramis dismissing being a musketeer is hilarious, but it becomes particularly funny after reading Cyrano de Bergerac, where Cyrano mentions being a musketeer wistfully a couple of times. While I was reading the play I kept thinking that Cyrano's aspirations were basically to be Aramis haha

The use of Latin each character (the curate, the Jesuit, D'Artagnan and Aramis) does was indeed very funny, as well as insightful. I ended up reading a paper on the command each of the four protagonists has of Latin, and I loved the comparison it established between Athos and Aramis. I don't have an opinion on this formed because I have yet to read the book, which is a good thing (it will hopefully keep me from rambling), but I found what I read super interesting.

The chapter was very funny, and I felt Dumas managed everything very well? I loved the writing itself. Every part of the chapter worked wonderfully as a whole to enhance every aspect, making the funny parts more fun and drawing a more clear lively depiction of the characters.

By that I mean, basically, that even from the initial interaction between D'Artagnan and the hostess in which he asks for Aramis and she goes "the charming hot guy?" we can see Aramis' hypocrisy and unsteadiness by a mile. It's hilarious to read the chapter and see how Aramis ends up contradicting everything he does or says, at times not even that long after saying it xD

Which takes me to the thesis itself. Honestly, I loved the topics. I know they're supposed to sound a bit ridiculous and funny, but I thought Dumas conveyed very well the air of some of those intricate questions of theology that seem trifle but have a lot of implications, and end up being of a very poetic nature (such as the question about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, one of my all time favourite questions). I wasn't very interested on the topic of the hands until the Jesuit commented that sprinklers "simulate an infinite number of blessing fingers"; that's beautiful.

Now, the topic Aramis himself proposes is just gorgeous. The way he defends it with a syllogism is so clever of Dumas considering the link between theology and the development of Logic. Besides that, despite how unorthodox the topic may appear at first, as Aramis himself puts it, there is a lot of truth in what he says about the world being full of temptations and it being very much a sacrifice to leave it, and how there lies the devotional act. I ended up being very intrigued by the potential development of this thesis in a mix of appreciation of the world as God's creature, and thus the leaving of the world as an act of true love for God, of more importance; how instead of an easy surrender, the struggle and doubts are as much reflection of the condition of humanity's frailty as it is a more steady and full surrender to God.

The topic of Aramis' thesis is somewhat paradoxical yet sound, and reflects doubts, as well as an appreciation for the world, aesthetics and beauty; I think it reflects so much of what makes Aramis himself.

And then, again, there's the whole hypocrisy through the entire chapter (which is what makes it for me haha). The way he says he isn't defending a regret at renouncing the world while proposing the thesis, that the mere idea is sacrilegious, how he insists he won't miss it, that friends are but shadows and the world a grave, and still how his resolution wavers almost instantly with his "And yet, while I still hold to the earth, I would have liked to talk with you, about you, about our friends" (and what a tender shaking), only to end up asking D'Artagnan to tell him about the world in the last line? Hilarious. What an hypocrite xD

But how extremely charming and adorable, I must admit! I love how when D'Artagnan tells him "But how are you going to live while you wait for me? No more thesis, no more commentaries on fingers and blessings, eh?", Aramis smiles and replies "I shall compose verses". Truly one of the characters of all time xD

[deadrlngers]

—EIGHT SENTENCE SUNDAY

originally six sentence sunday, then eight sentence monday so i’m giving back the sunday to this game but keeping the eight jkfjk. i was tagged some time ago by @nuclearstorms @girlbosselrond and @devilbrakers thank you all soso much, ily <3

i’m tagging you three again if you want to share anything new and @arklay @swordcoasts @morvaris @liurnia @denerims @faarkas @shadowglens @camelliagwerm @druidgroves @aelyosos and any other of my super talented writer mutuals that i forgot to include bc i’m very forgetful rip

"Glee and grief taste alike with you."

"Flattery won't aid you," flattery? That was certainly...one way to interpret her words "it will not stop my blade from planting itself between your lungs, should the need arise." Violante spoke with that perpetual ice cold scythe she had for tongue – courtesy was a skill, and not one to waste with a petty mercenary that would possibly not live to see the light of another day – but the threat, the annoyance vibrant in her tone, only amused Camylla further and a grin spread over her features.

"I never met an assassin as...fascinating as you." She spoke with derision but her words kept proclaiming plain admiration: to say she was already smitten by the needlessly vicious half-elf was an understatement.

Violante spared her only one haughty look as she sheathed back her dagger. "Simple minds are easy to charm, that or your habitual company is rather dull."