#and they deserve some more recognition

[senterya]

Every now and then I rediscover my love for Forging Steel and I go temporarily insane.

The music. The characters. The voice acting!!!! Shoutout to Sonya Leslie, Dave Fennoy and Megan Hollingshead (Vishen, Nicabar and Ranoah respectively) especially for filling the already entertaining dialogue with so much life and character. It's one of the most tedious instances in the game and yet I kept going back to it because listening to these people was so damn entertaining. Top this with Stan LePard's absolute banger of a battle music ("TT6-B Devourer" and "Steel Team Six") that are, to this day, among my favourite tracks in the entire OST of the game and you know you are in for a good time.

I don't know how many people remember Almorra's battle theme at the end of this chapter. I wasn't. The good thing about it is that I got to reexperience it like when I heard it the first time and it's amazing. Brendon Williams understood the assignment.

[laurrelise]

still not done talking about the fact that aidan gallagher got cast to play one of the most plot-important characters in an adult superhero show among a cast of grown, professional actors at the age of 13, fresh off of a nickelodeon children’s show and managed to deliver one of the most layered, memorable performances and become the favorite of most people who watched it

[atlantis-area]

#HappyTAEMINday 6v6 🥳🐥🌱

[nukudraws]

Hi, I present you Bud Illis AND Glenn Poeff fanarts, pretty neat huh

I think Bud and Glenn would have fought side by side quite often and I wanna learn dynamic poses, hope you like it ~⁠ ⁠(⁠°⁠ ⁠~⁠ ⁠°⁠ ⁠~⁠)

The one on the ground is supposed to be a teleportation magic circle and the one in the air shield magic

They just look the same cuz laziness

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Here's some pretty cool reference pictures in case you'll need it (the rest was just kinda freestyled)

I struggled drawing this pose so much and as you can see it's still off but maybe someone succeeds, who knows ٩(ˊvˋ*)و

[esterigermaine]

"A Snapping Sound" still lives rent free in my head.

I'd be rich if I put a quarter in a jar every time something has reminded me of or made me want to reread this masterpiece of a story.

[tepkunset]

I don't care if that upcoming Bob Dylan biopic is the best film ever created I will be SO MAD if they shower it with all the awards that SHOULD HAVE gone to Rocketman (2019) just because Hollywood's favourite little Timmy is staring in it

[lord-squiggletits]

Honestly it annoys me that pride, ambition, and generally having a big ego are always villainous/evil-coded personality traits because personally I think if you genuinely are a prodigy at what you do you are 100% within your rights, perhaps even deserving, of flaunting your skills and being proud of the fact you can do something that only a small fraction of other people can do. Is it even ego at that point if you genuinely are as good at your field/skill as you say you are? Are people not aware that becoming a prodigy at something is something that takes lifelong sacrifice and practice sometimes to the point of giving up on having a normal life, relationships, etc even potentially destroying your own health???? God I fucking hate how pride in your own skills and ambition are so villain coded all the time. As if it's evil to want to be good at something and be recognized for what you rightfully earned

[buttercup-barf]

You ever look at your notes (because you like freling validation), and realise that the cool artist you like is screaming in your tags. You ever. You ever see The Guy That Made The Cool Thing That Has You Rolling Around On The Floor Like A Madman send you an ask, or comment on your post. This is a cry for help. How do I respond.

[parab0mb]

The ":3"er

So I have no idea how to use digital brushes effectively, so I decided to practice and putz around a bit with some acrylic brushes I downloaded a while back and ended up making this! c:

I went with Emilie Crosscode as my muse since I wanted to do fanart of a Crosscode character that isn't Lea for a change and was like, why not kill two birds with one stone? (I might've also been subconsciously influenced by this post).

It's definitely rough and there's some things I botched up and/or was too lazy to add/fix, but given this wasn't intended to be anything great in the first place I think it came out a lot better than I expected, and it was definitely a good learning experience, so I'm happy with it. 😊

P.S. I feel I should mention that I drew her from memory (not sure why I decided to do that maybe I just hate myself idk) so excuse any inaccuracies.

[viiridiangreen]

[amidnightqueery]

I don't hate my job or anything, but man, being a float educator is so fucking thankless

[myriam-draws]

came back to let everyone know i’m obsessed with halle bailey’s ariel okay thank you

[astralleywright]

It is so fun watching Orym awkwardly go through the song and dance of formal military presentation - the speeches in front of cheering crowds, the rewarding of titles and honors far too overwrought for the bloody work they represent (Orym could kill someone in half the time it would take him to say, I am Orym, Savior Blade of the Tempest) - because it's possible there's nothing this guy gives less of a shit about than his own accolades or legacy. Orym just wants to be good, even as he becomes less and less certain what that means, even as he thinks that it would be so much easier to give up on that. He wants to feel like he's done something right, for maybe the first time since Will and Derrig died.

And so he fumbles through the rituals, and holds up his shield for the people of Zephrah to bear witness to, and extracts what really matters from Keyleth (who understands the frivolity of this all better than anybody) referring to him as a Savior Blade of the Tempest; not a fancy name for people to call him, but affirmation that he can save people, someone, anyone, at least this time. At least with the Hells at his side.

[beanghostprincess]

Spoilers Op. 1107

(Having an Usopp stan moment, I apologize)

I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I'VE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER LOOK AT HIM I AM VISIBLY SHAKING OH LORD FUCKING FINALLY

I am losing it here you guys

Elbaf mention Elbaf mention I can't wait for Egghead to finish I want Elbaf right the fuck now Oda give it to me I am slowly going insane

[sherylhooper]

I had an epiphany last night and, listen...

The reason is why I love Nie Huaisang the most and why he is my absulute favorite is because he is an Endmond Dantes of MDZS.

He had his Count of Monte-Christosque revenge and I love him for that, my mastermind genius.

[viillette]

it's so crazy how few historical fiction novels are like sharon kay penman's. the way that they're built out of the skeleton of the historical record seems so obvious, but there's so few people who are actually willing to commit to it in the way that she did. it seems like so often that's just a starting point which gets reformed to fit a coherent narrative, but she makes no real attempt to do that. there's themes and foils and patterns, but first and foremost it is a reconstruction. you can't really know what someone who lived that long ago was like, only what they did, and you can feel how she takes these isolated, dramatic events and builds a whole life around them. the books are nothing more than an answer to the question 'what might someone have been like, what could the history between these people have been, to possibly explain something like this?' the ability to string together a handful of facts and events from medieval chronicles to create people that feel so real, and psychology and relationships that develop so naturally that these distant, seemingly impenetrable choices suddenly feel so immediate and clear is just beyond belief. you know this probably wasn't actually how things happened, but it doesn't matter because it was something like this. the particulars are less important the crushing awareness that at one point all of this made sense. there was a time when all of this was right now. the world is unrecognizable and exactly the same. that's something which sounds very simple but is incredibly difficult to accomplish.

you come to know these people so well, their loves and hatreds and ambitions and failures, and those things are rarely resolved in the end. you know them from the time that they're children, you watch each one of them die, and none of it means anything in particular except that they were a human being. things which seem like they must be building to some tragic fallout end in anticlimax. things which seem utterly inconsequential in the moment manifest again decades later in cataclysmic disaster. and then you see it all play out again from the beginning with their children, and their children's children. all these uncanny echoes, this endlessly unfolding palimpsest of lives, each laid over the triumphs and mistakes of those who came before. i've never read anything so epic with so much mastery over the micro and macro levels of history. it's the minute, seemingly inconsequential everyday details, which build into a lifetime, which builds into generation of lives, which builds into the rise and fall of kingdoms and empires. it's the merciless endlessly turning wheel of fortune that replays the same songs in different keys again and again for all time. a person is both an individual with free will, and the prisoner of their blood and circumstances. somehow everything has infinite weight, is tied to everything that has come before and will come after, is the culmination of someone's entire existence—their pains and joys and fears and hopes—and yet is simultaneously completely meaningless, just one more victim of fate in an endless procession of lives and choices. the whole impotent tragedy of humanity is laid out in front of you and it's so repulsive and beautiful. it's deep love and unfathomable, senseless horror briefly and miraculously reverberating in a vacuum, an absurd aberration fading into silence.

if it's not obvious these books have made me cry like 10 different times