#clearing out some drafts and thoughts

[windser]

thinking about shikamaru calling you his sunshine. the first thing that leaves his lips at the start of the morning. an ease of words so intricately woven into your into your lifestyle.

the way it breathes against the shell of your ear in greeting right before you feel the weight of him filling the space behind you.

how it sounds when he's exasperated when your energy levels are higher than his, a near constant theme, but nevertheless, it always causes a little pinch to his furrowed brows while he watches your body burn it out in whatever form you choose

that exhausted little sunshine that slips past his lips in a lisp as he sags against the porch after a long day. it's like a soft call, accompanied by curling fingers that intertwine with yours when you get close enough to draw you into his lap to watch the remainder of the day go by.

that thunderous heady sunshine that rumbles past his lips when youre taking him soo good. its just a hint lounder than the smack of your lips and hips messily coming together.

because you just are his little sunshine, who makes him happy at all times of the day.

[zukkaoru]

the thing about fem!dazai is that she would not look like that. she would wear the same exact outfits she wears in canon. she would not wear makeup. she would grow out her hair only because she's too lazy to cut it, and she would rarely actually brush it. (the messy look is part of my charm ;)) her nails would be bitten and picked at, and if she ever were to wear nail polish, it would have been forced on her by either chuuya or yosano. she wouldn't wear heels because she doesn't like pain. she wouldn't even have her ears pierced because she doesn't like pain. chuuya tried to convince her when they were teenagers and she kept coming up with increasingly absurd excuses for why she couldn't get her ears pierced. she wears socks with flats because it's more comfortable even though chuuya ridicules her endlessly because "don't you know how horrendous that looks". (why are you looking at my feet? dazai retorts is it because you can't see any higher than that?) the only times she's ever dressed up were for undercover missions in the port mafia, and she griped about being uncomfortable in her clothes and shoes and makeup the entire time. she doesn't even look at her reflection, so why would she spend hours curating the perfect look? she just throws one of her three outfits on and goes

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

A lot of those "what do you mean it's a painting?" viral posts are just because we're all so accustomed to looking at art and photos as these little 2 inch by 3 inch (5 cm by 7.5 cm) squares on our phones. You can't appreciate good brush work like that.

Even just expanding it within the phone window usually makes it clear that it's a painting or pixel art (I love pixel art!). That's not a dunk on the artists. The purpose of painting isn't to fool you into believing it's a photograph. The art with those comments on them that go wide have loads of other merits or we wouldn't have bothered to stop and take a second look in the first place.

But digital culture means we consume so much art on our phones and that's not how it was meant to be perceived. Even most digital art isn't best served by a phone screen, let alone tumblr's low res dashboard.

We lose so much sense of detail and scale and texture this way.

For example, I reblog a lot of 18th century romanticist Hubert Robert. Top 5 favorite painters. But I didn't fall in love with him because of how his paintings look on the screen. I fell in love because when you walk into a room at the Art Institute Chicago, there's one on each wall and they're approximately 8 feet by 7 feet (250cm by 220cm) . They're so big you get lost in them! They're like portals to another world.

And digitalized paintings aren't even objective recreations, look at how different the colors are on these two scans. You can do this by searching virtually any older painting on tumblr or Google.

So yeah, try to admire some art in real life, too, even if it's just on the wall of a coffee shop.

[messenger-of-stupidity]

Sunshine is a better person than I am.

Brachium essentially said he would rip Blake apart if he harmed Sunshine.

Blake said that Close-knit doesn't care about Sunshine.

All it would have taken was one word from Sunshine to have the man that dismantled their life gone from the picture, and if Close-knit doesn't care what happened to them, then they could just leave. Blake was the only thing forcing them to stay put.

But no. This sweet, pure little ball just says "nope" to Brachium's question. So they're either better person than me, or not very bright. Which would be ironic considering their pet name.

[velvetjune]

Spoilers for Alan Wake/Control games and DLCs: one of the things I really like in Alan Wake 2 is the confirmation that, no, Alan can’t create something out of nothing. There were implications in-story that supported that, but it was good to have that be a big part in the sequel. The AWE control dlc easily made it seem like Alan himself had a role in the events of the game and the formation of the FBC, and, personally, seeing it through that lens cheapened a lot of the game and Jesse’s story. Instead, having his writing influence the Hiss and try to manipulate (even out of desperation) Jesse/the FBC to end Hartman and get help, fit right into plot and conflicts of Alan Wake 2, with Alan being sympathetic, but also an asshole for trying to change and control people’s lives in his writing.

[icewindandboringhorror]

a boye whom'st loves to attack paper balls

[theotherrichardpapen]

sydney theatre company - strange case of dr. jekyll & mr. hyde (start here - caitlyn siehl // herakles - euripides // orestes - euripides // a place where someone loves you - neil hilborn)

[999-roses]

I think it's nice, sure, that people who aren't Chinese are interested in a Chinese classic...

BUT it's really fucking off-putting that a non-chinese westerner who has only casual knowledge on the literature or its contexts and next to no knowledge about wider Chinese culture is running the discussion & making commentary on it. answering questions confidently... sometimes incorrectly.

i think i'd have less issues with it if it was like clearly funny (yknow the type of humor on this web site where "people can just say anything") but no they're entirely straight serious about it.

also placing social context & commenting on it in terms of modern-day standards ,... and not like literally what other coeval societies (contemporaries like romans or w/e) were doing. great we have more racist 'look what these backwards people were doing. their social practices were so uniquely barbaric' good job stop reading this novel from my culture. :) now.

to be fair sometimes they do say 'hey i dont know this. does any chinese person know & want to share'. well, maybe just my personal opinion but looking at the lack of responses... maybe you've already lost their attention... anyway they don't always ask for help. there's been plenty of times where they answer confidently and they're just WRONG.

[hua-fei-hua]

when i was in my second year of high school i sat next to this guy in history whom i didn’t rlly get along w/until i saw him writing love letters to his girlfriend and offered to fold them into hearts for him. i wonder what he’s up to.

[pup-pee]

the moment dicks parents died, was the exact moment dick was expected 2 grow up

[rebelcliche-archive2]

hi! why, no, i didn’t just sleep nearly 12hrs bc of work and insomnia killing me the last few days!

anyway, i’m here! did anyone miss me?

[dutybcrne]

Love the fact that Diluc and Kaeya were described to be “like twins” bc I get thinkings of them eerily having like. Smth of twin esp, and it just confusing the HECK outta Crepus endlessly bc only ONE of his boys is his biological son, and yet without a doubt, they were just so attuned to each other, that no matter where they happened to be, o matter how much older they got, they’d IMMEDIATELY beeline for each other if there ever was a shift in mood

[eldritchships]

Can I talk about Gravesly can I PLEASE talk about Gravesly

[jollyreginaldrancher]

Pretty bold of them to call this show the bold and the beautiful when they've been consistently casting soft sevens for years now

[gl1tched-g0th]

idk abt u guys but I get like physically nauseous when I miss someone whose no longer in my life. Like I have a Visceral reaction to thinking about them where I double over on the ground while shaking and gripping my chest

[icewindandboringhorror]

Well! I started remodeling the house sooo long ago (original post of it back in 2018), then got distracted and forgot it in the closet for a long time, ignored it on and off, etc... Then, finally finished the house in 2022. THEN, I forgot about the pictures I took of it in 2022, and am now posting them in 2024.. A good example of how the timeline of my side craft projects usually go lol

But, at least I do have the photos now, so... finally sharing them ! 

I just used a blue sheet as a 'sky' and a green sweater with some fake flowers on it to try to look like it was on grass lol...

(more images under the readmore)

The bedroom-

The library/potion room -

The living room area-

Then the little kitchen

The pictures are not very good, but these are the best I could find? I filmed a video of me working on the whole thing (who knows when that will be out..if it took me TWO years just to post the photos lol), so I think while I was taking the pictures, I was thinking “eh, they don’t have to be great, since I’ll show it in more detail in the video :3″, but now I kind of regret not having more actual detail shots or anything.

(sidenote: I'm pretty sure I've posted better pictures of some of the individual rooms before though too? sometime before I had added the finishing touches but when they were basically done and looked almost the same as these. so maybe it's okay that these are kind of bad lol)

I think progress on it also stalled a bit due to the pandemic starting, since like 90% of the stuff in here is random things I found at the bins (giant goodwill donation center where you dig through tubs of various items all thrown together), so once I couldn’t go out to the bins anymore, I lost my method of hunting for new items, and just had to work with whatever scraps I already had or could make myself with very few materials/tools.  The bins is a really large and always crowded place, so it's still not safe for me to go with current community transmission levels lol... who knows when I shall be able to use it to get dirt cheap crafting supplies ever again.. T o T

ANYWAY! It was a fun little project, even though of course it's a little rough around the edges and not exactly as I'd envisioned lol. As usual, I always enjoy the MAKING of things the most, yet then have no idea what to do with the finished project, since the process is what's enjoyable to me.

I think I'm going to take all the glued down furniture out of it and then repaint it, then maybe donate the base house back to the same thrift store I found it at. Like completing some sort of crafting circle of life or something lol

slowly making some progress on the doll house I’m trying to remodel!