#because that's the point

[laspocelliere]

Day Twelve: Quarry

“You know my dear, one day you’re going to get sick of looking at me like that.”

Golden light dappled off of the Warrior’s hair as she turned, not unlike the way it shone on the lush foliage of the Greatwood. Her eyes were dark, and untrusting, and Emet-Selch spread his gloved hands wide, opening himself up as unthreatening to her where he had appeared beneath where she stood. 

“Precisely,” he added, as though she’d answered him with a look alone. “One day, you’re going to learn that I am not your quarry, hero. And you’ll feel so very guilty over how many of those looks you graced me with.”

Turning properly, elegant hands pressed against tree bark for balance, the lauded Warrior of Darkness looked down at the Ascian, balanced on a rocky outcrop where she’d climbed up for a better viewpoint. The look on his face was unreadable, while not lacking any of the underpinning amusement.

“I rather doubt that,” she said quietly, but she didn’t back down. Emet-Selch, for his part, clapped his hands together once, decisively, a delighted smile breaking across his face and rather changing it entirely. If she hadn’t been looking at the precise correct moment, she’d have missed it.

“She speaks! How utterly charming. What pearls of wisdom have you been withholding behind that stare of yours?”

She shot him a look that had felled far lesser men, and it only made him grin wider. “Bravo, hero.” 

With a flourish, he twirled his wrist and extended his hand out towards her. “However, I do believe your overprotective keepers are starting to get nervous with you out here with me.”

The look she gave his extended hand was even colder than the one she’d given to his face, and he smirked. “Don’t worry, hero. If I wanted to hurt you, I would have done so already.”

Light as a butterfly’s wing, her fingertips touched his, just light enough to give the illusion that he was helping her down. “You could try.”

She gave him nothing more than the slender curve of her back as she walked away, but he was laughing to himself anyway. “Now that, my dear, sounds like a delightful challenge.” She was already gone, but his amusement lingered, musing to himself in the shadows of the enormous trees. “One I may be forced to take you up on, one day.”

Beneath his glove, his fingers tingled where she’d touched him.

Good humour melting away almost instantly at the realisation, he put it firmly from his mind. With an irritated snap of his fingers, he was gone.

[bixels]

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

[carsonjonesfiance]

“This thing is legally dubious and therefore technically unenforceable.” Is not a “useless liberal gotcha” it’s how legalism works in this country. Tying up stupidly worded EOs in court is the quickest way to keep them from being implemented. It is the definition of ��doing something.” But it doesn’t usually involve much tweeting so of course a certain type of leftist feels obligated to mock it.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[blaithnne]

Shoutout to Vic Michealis for being the first person to ever score negative points on Game Changer. The only person to truly understand that the game is the players vs Sam and stick to that no matter the cost. The real winner, if you ask me.

[morganbritton132]

No one tells you when you get a Big Serious Job™ how many fucking abbreviations you’ll be forced to learn.

[egophiliac]

missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉

[crookedtines]

I finally took the time to photograph my vintage dip pen nib collection, and I need to share with you all how wonderful and diverse their designs are.

These two are my favorite. Just look at them! One of them is named Gorille and the other Mephisto, but to me they're little pumpkins.

And of course you gotta love the Pinocchio nib. You get to write with the nose of a tiny guy! Just not something you get to do anymore.

[otaku553]

Turning around an idea in my head recently :)

Lost Shepherd (Time Travel) AU

In which Truthless Recluse doesn’t experience rebirth and awakening upon shattering his soul jam, but the explosion of his and Shadow Milk Cookie’s combined power in a twisted space where all time coexists as one sends him back in time to his childhood.

When Pure Vanilla Cookie searches for his lost sheep, he finds a lost shepherd to take home as well.

[aroaceleovaldez]

one of my favorite subtle implications in the series is that it seems the Titan Army was fully banking on Percy being the host of Kronos. Why else would they make their main base a cruise ship if their primary enemy is a son of Poseidon? Named after Andromeda, the wife of Perseus? Why would they work on Oceanus specifically being free so much? Side notably with other children of Poseidon? Why plant Zeus and Hades' items of power on Percy when Luke already had them? Why only Zeus and Hades' items, not Poseidon's? Well because they really need Percy as Kronos' host, that's why. (and Poseidon siding with them because of that would be a bonus as well)

I like to imagine Luke's cabin on the Princess Andromeda is fully decked out with like "WELCOME PERCY" and sea-themed sheets and everything and he hates it so much cause it's a constant reminder he failed and he was Kronos' second choice. Also then he gets his super special pegasus not even exactly stolen by Percy, but the pegasus willingly defects to be Percy's personal steed instead, which must just be insult to injury. Luke has immense one-sided beef with Percy and Percy has no idea.

[valtsv]

anyone who thinks dostoevsky's writing is dry and humourless is missing out on passages like this

[camaelczarka]

Louis dressing Lestat:

Armand dressing Lestat:

Lestat dressing himself:

[max1461]

Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Penelope's final gambit, you will always be famous, no matter the subtext.

[mumblesplash]

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously