#but i am still very pissed about it

[hiemaldesirae]

my favourite characters thus far: the 'villain' (tamlin), the mcs sister, the LIs (dead) sister, and the queen who died like a chapter after her second scene

[umblrspectrum]

so like is it specifically planets the solver craves or can it get by with just eating dirt off the ground

[cerealmonster15]

[vibrating a little too fast] Do You Understand My Vision Yet

[moldy-flowers]

The interesting experience of being pro Sasuke, anti konoha, pro tobirama, anti Naruto ending, pro Sasusaku, anti Itachi, pro Sakura, anti SasuNaru, pro Tobirama×Izuna, anti Madara, pro karin, anti Orochimaru, pro Uchiha and anti Hashirama. And also as much as I hate the guy danzo was kind of hot when he was younger...

[theghostofashton]

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[prince-of-elsinore]

thinking about how sam and dean were made responsible for each other's physical safety and lives in high-risk, high-stakes environments from such a young age from going on hunts together (with John) and even if John mostly tried to keep them and especially Sam out of the worst of it can you imagine knowing your sibling lives or dies on your watch while most kids are worried about who they're taking to prom good god no wonder these boys are not normal about each other

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

i deserve to kill insurance companies actually.

[sage-nebula]

I mean, yeah, maybe if you had been in that elevator you would realize that Miles was a nine-year-old child who was not only present (albeit unconscious for the exact moment) for his father's murder, but in a situation where he feared he caused it, and then was taken in by his father's murderer. Maybe if you'd been there, you would understand what happened and not act like such an ass about it. Maybe, and I'm just spitballing, you could've acted like the big brother Gregory suggested you be to Miles and taken him in yourself.

This is the part where I screamed so loud I woke my dog up and hurt my throat because he was NINE FUCKING YEARS OLD WHEN VON KARMA "SAVED" HIM AFTER THE TRAUMATIC MURDER OF HIS FATHER!! HE STOOD NO CHANCE!! WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU, EDDIE?? WHAT SUPPORT DID YOU TRY TO OFFER HIM??? USELESS ASS!!!

Apologies don't mean jack if you don't acknowledge WHY you were wrong, AND what you're going to do in the future to be better! Tbh, you have been treating Edgeworth better, but you still need to acknowledge that blaming a LITERAL CHILD for believing the words of the adult who raised them — ESPECIALLY the adult who they are put in a position to see as saving them after a deeply traumatic incident — is despicable!!

NO HE DID NOT!!! YOU WERE A LITERAL ACTUAL CHILD!!! A LITERAL ACTUAL TRAUMATIZED CHILD!!! MY THROAT HURTS IRL FROM SCREAMING SOMEONE NEEDS TO CALL YOUR MANS (we're not allowed to say his name here I know the rules) TO TELL YOU THAT THIS WASN'T YOUR FAULT FOR LIKE THE SIX HUNDREDTH TIME!!!! FUCK!!!!!

[jichanxo]

sooooo... *twirls her hair* how many asks should i send until kuwagami art. jk as well. the real question will be: does it happen often that someone else’s art inspires you? in fandom spaces specifically

well you see it’s like a loyalty card program, every 10 asks or so you get a complimentary kuwagami

just kidding you can just breathe in my direction and I’ll be tempted to draw them. kuwagami blast! (you've caught me on a... just okay art day lol)

(people still like kabedons, right?)

anyway for my actual answer: in terms of direct inspiration, it doesn't really happen much? the last two times i did art directly based on someone else's work is probably this one from this fic, and also that time i drew art of someone else's judgment au. oh! and there's that moriohpsycho art based on this comic! (filthyguts' work is so very. hgngngghh. very good.) nothing else really comes to mind, and when i think of the other things i've been into recently there hasn't been as much opportunity for that to happen...

flex and herds = strong fixation but lmao. almost nobody else made stuff about them. nobody is surprised umineko = surprisingly i don't read much umineko fanfiction? and in terms of illustration, i certainly picked up imagery and indirect inspiration but nothing concrete enough for me to give an example... now that i think about it, i did once draw andromalius from redaction/sunny, but that was years ago, and also mostly because i was acquainted with the writer. ...i don't have that artwork on hand right now death note = didn't really get involved with the fandom + i enjoyed my own ideas well enough! ...i can't recall if i drew long-hair-L art before or after seeing other artists do it. and as for everything else the same kind of reasoning applies. didn't really get involved with the fandom or wasn't really compelled to make art in response to stuff i saw, or i just don't remember anymore.

buuuuuuut if we're opening this up to just... pulling ideas from other people? then yeah, all the time, though that kind of goes without saying when you have a creative hobby. ...it's probably going to be hard to come up with examples of this since it's more ambiguous.

there's uhhhhhh... kuwana listens to nickelback which was a @/four-white-trees invention, wasn't it? (EDIT: and @/overdevelopedglasses!) (not tagging in this post so he doesn't feel obligated to read my big ass ask responses 💀) as of writing this, it's not posted but i did end up making kuwagami art based on a nickelback song so. yknow. there's that LMAO

for sawashiro and arakawa, i do sometimes go reference @/todayisafridaynight 's art to help me with my own. ("how did he draw this part of the suit? oh, like that huh? hmm" <- this kind of thing)

and um. i'm not trying to pander to you (at least not this time), but genuinely it's one of the few examples that come to mind at this moment. but when i was writing my first kuwagami fic, i could feel the influence of the ever-changing on my brain... was turning over some of your ideas there...

you remember this? (you even pointed it out in your comment on my fic, and i should've said something then, but whatever i'm saying it now)

that was absolutely because of this

(obligatory poke at anybody else reading this post that you can read passthroughtime's fic here.)

so, um. yeah. not really sure what else to add to that. pretty self evident i think. (i'm always talking about the ever-changing but i don't think i can overstate the impression it left on me at the time)

anyhow there aren't really any other examples off the top of my head! these are all recent examples so they're not so difficult to recall, but there are probably others i've forgotten...

[serenabenson]

also, something to note. that interview does not just very clearly state the strategy in s26 we are seeing play out now, but also the course-correction for olivia after audiences apparently reacted so poorly to her being portrayed as a complex and contradictory human being (bolding mine):

Capt. Olivia Benson will leave her demons behind her — at least for a little while... Martin explains the reasoning behind Benson’s decision [to give away the necklace]: ���In our minds, the necklace... helped her reset herself and find her way and brought her to a place she was able to pass it along to someone who needed it more than she did.” In doing so, Martin says Benson “refound her center,” which she explains as Benson’s own healed trauma coming through to help others “heal their trauma.” This “pay-it-forward-attitude” for Benson will “carry through Season 26”

given the way martin does all but say "olivia's normal now!!!!! she's fixed!!!! we promise!!!!!!!" again and again, it seems that the general audience at large does not actually like olivia as olivia, only olivia as a thin projection of some kind of ideal middle-aged womanhood, constrained completely by our need for her to be maternal, likable, and pleasant, a model survivor, if not the ur-survivor-- perfect, uncomplicated, healed and healthy, palatable. which like. we been knew. water is wet. just hate to see them capitulating to it in this way after two seasons of huge, huge progress.

[lemonofthevalley]

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[magentagalaxies]

one of the absolute funniest moments on scott's tour that i wasn't able to capture on camera (for obvious reasons) was at the meet and greet after the nashville show these two older gay guys mentioned they were reading scott's wikipedia page before the show to find out more to chat about at the meet and greet and like. idk if this is just because i am very familiar with scott's wikipedia page but you could tell that was the extent of their scott knowledge (which is valid not everyone is researching a documentary on the guy)

but then they asked about the poster for the lowest show, which they'd never heard of before their wikipedia reading, specifically this quote:

"The posters—featuring Thompson lying supine on the ground with a big wad of semen dripping down the side of his face—went up around the city on September 10, 2001"

and they were like "wow we'd love to see those posters hahaha" and i immediately jump in like "oh i have that photo on my phone give me like 2 seconds"

to be clear: these guys had not interacted with me or acknowledged my existence the entire conversation. they had their backs to me when they were talking to scott, i did not introduce myself as directing the documentary since i wasn't filming and they didn't ask who i am, etc. but my brain was like "oh someone wants to learn more about scott? my time to shine, let me pull up that folder in my camera roll". even scott was like jfc here they go again.

anyway i barely had to scroll back in my doc research folder so i immediately held out my phone to the guys and showed them this

it's a photo taken days after 9/11 of scott in front of the posters for his show which was supposed to open the following week

so i hold out my phone and explain this thinking like hey i'm being so helpful these guys wanted to see this aspect of scott lore and i gave it to them!! meanwhile these two old guys are like i can't even focus on the poster anymore i am standing next to scott thompson and also WHO THE FUCK IS THIS CHILD AND WHY DID THEY JUST HAVE THIS ON THEIR PHONE?

another one of the funniest tour moments was after meeting up with some gay guys in their 70s who were friends-of-a-friend-of-scott and immediately befriending both of them we were about to leave and i asked for their phone number and scott just rolled his eyes and was like i'll give you his phone number in the car as though he was saying "jfc jessamine this is ridiculous even for you". he never ended up giving me the old guy's number

[unhonestlymirror]

A bit strange feeling of living in Lithuania while looking like... Lithuania

[stonerzelda]

one minor pain in my life was never ever finding the actual perfume bottle that this magazine ad for The Borgias had a scent strip for back in the day. I carried this ripped out piece in my dearest possessions for a longgg time and yet. Alas

[funeralcity]

man fuck my stupid baka life