#can it tac

[calligraphic-tac]

Uuuuuuuuugh.

Feeling creative but unsure how to channel the energy. Here's a list of hobbies I enjoy, want to start playing around with, already practice to some degree, or have more or less dropped for some reason. Ask me questions!

Writing

Drawing

Crochet

Embroidery

Whittling

Guitar

Gardening

Cooking

Jogging

[keferon]

The tac net crash chapter is one of my favorites so far~

Ah and. Guess what. I just discovered that including this post, I made 50 pieces of fanart for Mistakes on mistakes until.. I’m so sane and normal about this story can you tell👍

[fischlich]

this took. way longer than it shouldve anyways i was tired of not knowing how much leg to draw each unit with in relation to each other so i made this. i eyeballed heights and took a couple liberties with the designs but its fine

also eule elster and ara are in low pixel hell bc i just scaled them up from a previous drawing and did not want to reline them LMAO i made this as a ref largely for myself anyways

[caycanteven]

I made the sweet Tourette's bois for @didderd, cause I love them so much (an aboslute simp for Tou and Tac tbh.)

These were just some night doodles that went a little too long LMFAO. Anyway imma go take a nap, teehee.

Tourette's Sanses belong to didderd (thank you for letting me draw them! <3)

[amityillustration]

I think Neil would look so cute in Animal Crossing c:

[s0rinsleeps]

Trans Vi in tac gear?

THANK YU FOR UR SUGGESTION

[jgvfhl]

Anyway, I think I'm hilarious. @cod-dump @totally-not-fandom @midnight193 This is based off of an incorrect quote I submitted to cod-dump, and the visual just wouldn't leave my mind until I drew it. Alt text has an image ID.

[didderd]

hehehe. y'all spoiling him. :3

[tac-bat]

"Mayday, mayday Can you hear me now? 'Cause I'm counting down And baby we can't stick around There's no more time for you and I This is goodbye" - Sohodolls, "Mayday"

[utilitycaster]

I think it's gotten better as of late but I must admit. unbelievably validating to, after months of being like "I feel so much discussion of TTRPGs and actual play rests on the idea of novelty rather than skillful execution and I disagree" to turn on the Sam Reich episode of Adventuring Academy and for Sam and Brennan to say "I would watch any well-executed premise the creators were passionate about, no matter how many times I've seen the same concept."

[calligraphic-tac]

Like many of us, I've spent a lot of my life not really knowing what I want to be when I grow up. At 33 years old, there are parts of me that still don't know.

I've never been particularly interested in making a living off of my hobbies. I love to write, and I've been working to re-learn how to draw, but I don't see myself making those things my job. I do want to get published, as a personal goal, just because. But I don't see my hobbies ever being my sole source of income. Any earnings I get from being a published author (if any) would just be bonus savings.

Same with drawing, or crochet, or guitar, or whittling, or any of the other things I want to do for fun. When I get to a point where I'm satisfied with my skill level in those hobbies, I might sell individual creations on Etsy (because I certainly won't want them cluttering my living space), but I don't think I'll ever do those things with the express purpose of earning an income from them.

A byproduct of this mentality is that I heavily compartmentalize a lot of things in my life. Work and play must be separate. "Real" work and hobbies must not intermingle. As such, I always thought of my hobbies and my career as completely different things.

I realize that skills may cross between those two categories. Writing skills can translate to work, and prioritizing work tasks helps me manage creative endeavors. But by and large, I always defaulted to this idea that I have to live by this switch that I flip on and off each day. Work or play. I am engaged with only one of those at a time.

The issue with this is that, while I have a pretty good idea of the hobbies that make me happy, I still have absolutely no idea what I want to do professionally.

I was a linguist for the USAF for several years; this included me working at No Such Agency. (I won't go into detail here.) I have an Associate's in Network Administration & Security. My Associate's got me into a job that ended up being an inventory/shipping/receiving position with an IT company (which I liked). I've worked dispatch for the same IT company (which their project manager taught me). I also "managed" some very simple projects for that IT company under the tutelage of their existing PM. The same IT company also did data destruction; I got really good at wiping hard drives, shredding them, recycling the e-waste, and filling out the associated paperwork. (I was meticulous with this, because our clients' data security was important to me; I suppose my intel background contributed to that, also.)

My point is: I have a lot of useful skills, but I haven't cultivated a singular career with a particular specialization. When it comes to a job, I'm not sure what I want to do. I had a manager once ask me, "Will this job make you happy?" My response is that my happiness at work has almost nothing to do with my happiness at home. I can be happy at a job, but due to the way I compartmentalize, that doesn't mean my job is something that I'll go home and do as a hobby.

I guess what I'm getting at is this: I know what I want for myself personally and creatively. But I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

[stxrry-dxys]

i’ve seen a few people complain that annabeth hearing luke’s betrayal doesn’t make sense for her upcoming characterization of believing he’s not truly lost but doesn’t this??? make more sense than in the books??

in the books percy says luke poisoned him and she just believes him no hesitation because luke has “been bitter towards the gods for a long time” but luke is her family, and as much as she cares about percy, she just met him. having her hear luke’s admission, and his desperation to recruit percy makes her recognizing him as the traitor (which is something she does do in the books even if she tries to hope for better) much more believable.

and her still trying to hope that her brother, her friend, her family is still in there still makes sense. she heard his reasoning, she saw his face when she knocked his sword away. she knows the 14 year old boy she first met is still in there. but now i’m not expected to believe that she just accepts him being the traitor with nothing more than a pair of shoes and a scorpion sting.

i feel this just works better for that part of the plotline, because in the books she still knows he’s bad and that he’s working for kronos, but that doesn’t negate the five years she spent with him before all of that. and that’s going to be true in the show too.

[sleep-nurse]

they're coming at You

[kaiserouo]

How many nerfs do they have to get after the skill level thingy came out. They already took away the -5s tac upgrade and they now wanna screw with their ult?

If i can't see through smoke then why the actual hell do i ult. Now gold sight and anything that can highlight enemies are basically nonexistent it's the age of 100% bangalore pick rate

Their ult is basically octane tac but less speed now.

[jgvfhl]

Soap, please stop strangling the prisoner.

This is such a silly comic, but the premise was too funny to pass up drawing it. It's from this incorrect quote by @cod-dump (and me lol) so uhhhhh hope y'all enjoy. @darth-void @mysticalgalaxysalad

[sans-guy]

Could I give Tac a bouquet made of mustard bottles? If…if he wants, mby some chocolate too..

( tac actually belongs to @didderd who said i could draw a thingie for this ask nyehehe. )