#but yeah......i think i just got lucky!

[pokeology]

OOC: how did u start pokeblogging? I'm looking to start my own pokeblog, tips?

//for 900 followers i will tell you my secret: i just kind of did this.

i have had this url for years trying repeatedly to start a professor ask blog, but i was never successful. they all had the same general concept behind them (ex-rocket professor answer question) but i either got bored or they didnt get a good audience

one day i decide to do it again. i set up the url. i make a post. suddenly im actually getting anons. im like ok cool guess i got lucky. i later click on a discord link i assume is for a regular pokemon server.

turns out i had inadvertently set up my blog at the same time as some community that started on twitter moving to tumblr. i had NO idea realpokemon was a thing. i have no clue what rotomblr is still. idk what you guys are doing there. it was just the funniest coincidence ever

now i mod the server realpokemon owns and ive posted on that blog before (remember janiel... that was me. i got to be annoying as hell for a day AND i doxxed rodney)

anyway my actual tip when it comes to AUDIENCE would be to give people something theyd be interested in. i get very very few asks about teak himself even though he has a life and lore outside of this blog- people just dont really care about that though? theyre more into science stuff. i like to talk about biology though so it works out. also interact with people when you start out. there are discord servers out there meant for networking afaik i think those would be a great place to start

HOWEVER: i think you should do whatever you want. stories exist to be told. the presence of audience and followers and all that shouldnt be a requirement. tell your story!!! make your art!!!!! be free!!!!!!!!

teak shinji chair

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Into the pit? More like into the daddy issues

[galaxyspark-6e16]

My Viva gijinka design ✨🌟🌠 isn't she fantamazing!

[towards-toramunda]

So this is what I do when I’m off of work and going insane about Chappell Roan’s VMAs look

Full character sheet below

This was a lazy character sheet don’t be insane at me in the notes

But she’s a level ten paladin of devotion with five levels of bard college of glamour

In my mind she’s a follower of the Moonweaver cause thats gay as hell

I gave her armor of fire resistance cause the performance had lots of fire and I thought it’d be cool

I gave her a holy avenger cause fuck you thats why

I gave her a stone of good luck cause good luck babe

She’s a human but using the new PHB rules cause I liked the new rules for humans and wanted to play around with them

Feats: lucky, sentinel, savage attacker, and magic innate cleric (from the acolyte background)

[galacticlamps]

ok I have A Lot of thoughts about the staircase confession (well really about Edwin's whole character arc, but all roads lead to rome) but for now I just wanna say that, yes, I was bracing myself for something to go terribly wrong when I first watched it, and yes, part of me was initially worried its placement might be an uncharacteristically foolish choice made in the name of Drama or Pacing or Making a Compelling Episode of Television but at the expense of narrative sense--

But I wanna say that having taken all that into account, and watched it play out, and sat with it - and honestly become rather transfixed by it - I really think it's a beautifully crafted moment and truly the only way that arc could've arrived at such a satisfying conclusion.

And if I had to pinpoint why I not only buy it but also have come to really treasure it, I'd have to put it down to the fact that it genuinely is a confession, and nothing else.

That moment is an announcement of what Edwin has come to understand about himself, but because it takes the form of a character admitting romantic feelings for such a close friend, I think it can be very easy, when writing that kind of thing, to imbue it with other elements like a plea or a request or even the start of a new relationship that, intentionally or not, would change the shape of the moment and can quickly overshadow what a huge deal the telling is all on its own. But that's not the case here. Since it is only a confession, unaccompanied by anything else, and since we see afterward how it was enough, evidently, to fix the strangeness that had grown between him & Charles, we're forced to understand that it was never Edwin's feelings that were actually making things difficult for him - it was not being able to tell Charles about them. 'Terrified' as he's been of this, Edwin learns that his feelings don't need to either disappear completely or be totally reciprocated in order for him to be able to return to the peace, stability, and security of the relationship with which he defines his existence - and the scale of that relief a) tells us a hell of a lot about Edwin as a character and b) totally justifies the way his declaration just bursts out of him at what would otherwise be such a poorly chosen moment, in my opinion.

Whether or not they are or ever could be reciprocated, Edwin's feelings are definitively proven not to be the problem here - only his potential choice to bottle it up - his repression - is. And where that repression had once been mainly involuntary, a product of what he'd been through, now that he's got this new awareness of himself, if he still fails to admit what he's found either to himself or to the one person he's so unambiguously close with, then that repression will be by his own choice and actions.

And he won't do that. Among other things, he's coming into this scene having just (unknowingly) absolved the soul of his own school bully and accidental killer by pointing out a fact that is every bit as central to his self-discovery as anything about his sexuality or his attraction to Charles is: the idea that "If you punish yourself, everywhere becomes Hell"

So narratively speaking, of course it makes sense that Edwin literally cannot get out of Hell until he stops punishing himself - and right now, the thing that's torturing him is something he has control over. It's not who he is or what he feels, but what he chooses to do with those feelings that's hurting him, and he's even already made the conscious choice to tell Charles about them, he was just interrupted. But now that they're back together and he's literally in the middle of an attempt to escape Hell, there is absolutely no way he can so much as stop for breath without telling Charles the truth. Even the stopping for breath is so loaded - because they're ghosts, they don't need to breathe, but also they're in Hell, so the one thing they can feel is pain, however nonsensical. And Edwin certainly is in pain. But whether he knows what he's about to do or not when he says he 'just needs a tick,' a breather is absolutely not what's gonna give him enough relief to keep climbing - it's fixing that other hurt, though, that will.

Like everything else in that scene, there's a lot of layers to him promising Charles "You don't have to feel the same way, I just needed you to know" - but I don't think that means it isn't also true on a surface level. It's the act of telling Charles that matters so much more than whatever follows it, and while that might have gone unnoticed if anything else major had happened in the same conversation, now we're forced to acknowledge its staggering and singular importance for what it is. The moment is well-earned and properly built up to, but until we see it happen in all its wonderful simplicity, and we see the aftermath (or lack thereof, even), we couldn't properly anticipate how much of a weight off Edwin's shoulders merely getting to share the truth with Charles was going to be, why he couldn't wait for a better, safer opportunity before giving in to that desire, or how badly he needed to say it and nothing else - and I really, really love the weight that act of just being honest, seen, and known is given in their story/relationship.

[eeveekitti]

day 26: create spears

i don't think that's how that works, enot

[bluespring864]

Andy on being a five time Olympian:

„I’ve been really lucky as well, I think. You know, athletes don’t always acknowledge that side of things but you need a lot of luck to be able to hang around for that long.”

from this Eurosport interview with Laura Robson

[runefactorynonsense]

Melotober - Day 11 - Dream

Chosen Earthmates

[bubblepopsims]

~Bunny Bear Madalyn Marie ft. bunny boop

i couldn't pass up on not putting my bun in these accessories by @1-800-cuupid CC set💘Bunny Bop || VENUS💘

and fits perfectly with my naughty innocent Maddi

[ciderjacks]

my biggest fear is that Jax will do something Really bad (intentionally or unintentionally) to a beloved character bc I will probably end up defending his ass against the entire fandom. My track record with defending horrible fictional people like my life depends on it is NOT good.

[sciderman]

Sometimes i remember a comics moment i randomly came across somewhere, where Sam Wilson mentiones a musical and Steve Rodgers says he doesn't like musicals, to whitch Sam goes "Guess that means you really are straight" and even tho i don't care about Cap America or the Avengers, the moment stuck in me for that quote by Sam. And like....Sci, any ideas if straight men actually don't like musicals or is that bullshit?

actually i think i know more gay men who hate musicals than i know straight men who hate musicals. i've had a drag queen stop me point blank when i was about to sing a barbra streisand song, and i know so many gays who pointedly hate abba. so based on my experience i think the inverse is true. most of the straight men i know are kind of impartial about musicals, but gay men? hate.

my theory is that a lot of gay men don't want to fall into stereotypes, maybe. but thaaaaat's just a theory! a gay theory.

[sobredunia]

Thank you, infinite squirrel glitch

[prettybbychim]

there are some things i just. casually accept about characters without delving further into it

so there’s that thing about sunday’s wings right that he has a second pair on his back, about mid to lower back. i just went oh really? that’s Neat, i wonder if he binds them? so that they’re tucked against his spine

but no

after a series of events today that i will not bother getting into bc it’s not all that important i have discovered the Truth

what i had perceived to be his vest…

those are his goddamn wings

(obligatory stolen from google)

i see discussion about it sometimes. like someone is telling someone else about his second set of wings but they always say yeah they’re on his back and leave it at that, they never mention that you can fUCKING SEE THEM

i’m curious how they’ll be utilized in his new design? i don’t believe i can see them in the drip marketing image. and there’s also the thing about at least one of them being clipped, which im not sure i can see that in the images im looking at or maybe i just don’t know what i should be looking for (highly likely)

[tearfest]

sorry to log on n rant but i need to rant

[moonfromearth]

Aria Mason for @bloomingkyras' Gem's for Gemma BC!!

I am so excited for this challenge I love that the winner gets a hand made engagement ring that's so adorable!! 🤩

Anyway, on to the information about Aria:

Age: YA Pronouns: She/Her Sexuality: Pansexual Career: Freelance Digital Artist Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire Traits: Socially Awkward, Creative, Geek Info: Aria is a digital artist with a passion for drawing and is still in all of her childhood fandoms. Socially awkward and shy, Aria hasn't ever been "good at dating." So, when the opportunity came to sign up for a bachelorette challenge, she thought that that could be the solution to her dating troubles! In her free time she enjoys playing video games, and creating original characters.

Some More Facts About Aria:

She likes comfortable/cozy clothing.

She loves styling her hair. It's very calming for her.

Her favorite series/franchise is Voidcritters.

She loves singing along to her favorite TV Show Openings, but only when she's alone/around someone she trusts.

Download [Google Drive]

[blujayonthewing]

I've thought a lot about the several thousand year old gnome druid we met who was just bitter and jaded and had spent most of those millennia sitting in one place not doing anything in particular except mourning her tiefling wife who'd died millennia ago, and how disgusted and infuriated with her melliwyk is, personally but also as a gnome herself-- and I'm thinking about it again like. honestly I think it goes beyond general cultural values; that level of willful ongoing stagnation and joyless nihilism is probably completely seriously a gnomish sin