#creative integrity

[amethystamaris]

Anticipating Amethyst Amaris' REM: A Celestial Journey of Music, Magic, and Milestones

Album Release on July 20th, 2024 Amethyst Amaris is set to release her highly anticipated album, REM, on July 20th, 2024, under her record label, Fifth House of Creativity Inc. This release date is chosen with profound astrological significance, marking the culmination of a journey that began during her first Saturn return. The album cover, featuring a powerful sigil for protection, symbolizes a…

[saturnvs]

under the starry skies, where eagles have flown

[oooocleo]

hear me out… I know this is a bit insane but it’s also……Fun…… a little bit of romanticism in my fae research 🤷

[killherfreakout]

I wanna be impossible.

Samia Bovine Excision — dir. Sarah Ritter

[hancockinstitute]

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it’s going to come back to you.

–Herb Alpert, Musician and Co-Founder of A&M Records

[tartquez]

AU where acclaimed creative director, Valentino, on the verge of being ousted from [insert storied Italian couture house… maybe Valentino because it would make me giggle] takes a hail mary trip to the Spanish countryside to sequester himself away in a beautiful summery guesthouse to find inspiration for his next collection and save his career.

Enter the son of his generous hosts, Marc.

Summer romance shenanigans ensue… turning old tablecloths into sundresses… flirty sunset horse rides… sketching each other by the river… Marc standing on a little wooden stool to act as Vale’s fit model… Vale teaching Marc how to cut a dress on the bias… Marc showing Vale how he used to hand embroider his and Alex’s clothes when they were little so they could tell them apart… Vale brushing a fingertip across the raised surface of a tiny lovingly embroidered ant on a faded red sock and a little puppy on another tiny pair of socks…

[spicyraeman]

taash just said something so cringe i legitimately had to alt tab and take a minute holy fuck

[shorthaltsjester]

“it’s their show” and “it’s an adaptation” don’t both get to be used to defend tlovm’s weaker choices btw. either it’s just their show (that the cast has explicitly said one of their favourite parts of tlovm is doing it for the fans and seeing reactions — notably different than the campaigns which are For Them) or it’s a story they are trying to tell in a different medium while maintaining the things that made it poignant and significant to an audience in the first place. and, uh, i think the problems i see in tlovm is literally that the show seems to be trying to thread the needle of both of these and it’s failing. truly. i need you to choose one and commit to it. make it just your show and write the version of the story you most want to see or start making more compelling and consistent writing choices. one. i might suggest in a show committed to 7 main characters, is giving all of them depth, given that every person i’ve spoken to who hasn’t seen the campaign and watched the show has told me how they think the characters aren’t always strongly written and the pace is weird and that there are many things that get touched on with characters and their arcs that are interesting but do not have enough depth. i think tlovm has great entertainment value. i think it’s depth as a cohesive story about a party of adventures turned found family is a bit more questionable (which is unfortunate given its title). i don’t need the campaign in animated form, but if interviews are going to consistently reference wanting to appeal to og fans while bringing in new ones, paying attention to what actually kept people watching 4 hours of occasionally meandering plots and long dnd initiatives every week might be a better guiding point than the shock and surprise they have frequently cited in interviews. and obviously that varies from person to person, but one of the most significant strengths of a table of actors playing dnd was, surprise surprise, the characters and their interactions.

[ashleyfableblack]

"art is not about capturing PERFECTION it is about capturing HONESTY OF A MOMENT. because perfection does not exist but raw honesty and connection to this ever passing timeline does. we are here grabbing life out of the stream and holding it in our hands to cry out I WAS HERE." -Chuck Tingle

[trashratsaws]

Learn how to sew right now no I'm not kidding. Sewing is such an essential life skill to have ESPECIALLY if you have a desire to achieve a more sustainable personal lifestyle. Want to escape the whims of capitalism, fast fashion, and the unethical consumption of garments therein? Learn how to sew. Have a unique body type such that you can never seem to find clothes that both fit and flatter you? Learn how to sew. Want the clothes you already have to last a long time even if you grow out of them or they start unraveling? Want to make use of every article of clothing in your closet until it is literally dust? LEARN HOW TO SEW. I am sure we know this but fast fashion is one of the most disastrously harmful industries on the environment and there is simply no way to purchase a well-made, durable garment that will last a long time for the low price of a shein top with free next day shipping or whatever the fuck. It is simply not possible. Taking control on the most fundamental level of the clothes that you put on your back every single day is perhaps the single most powerful thing you can do as an individual in a post-capitalist hellscape that insists that cheap clothes come at the price of slave labor. Shop second hand. Alter your clothes. Make garments from scratch and delight in the feeling you get when someone asks you where you got your pants. Learn how to sew.

[thekimspoblog]

Is the video game really subverting its genre? Are you sure it's not just doing clever things within its genre, because otherwise the game would be boring and unchallenging and say nothing interesting? I'm just saying, it's cool and all that the internet allows horror game fandoms to overflow into eachother, but not EVERY 2 hour video essay needs to be spent breathlessly sucking off the devs. Sometimes a game is just REGULAR difficult and REGULAR high-quality.

Besides RPGs made over a decade ago, what is the thing supposedly subverting? Clearly not other contemporary indie horror games, because there is clearly a convergent ethos forming of cosmic horror and beginners' traps; that's just what the genre looks like nowadays.

[i-merani]

I don't listen to Drake or Kendrick but im soo invested in their beef now im listening to deep dives and all lol

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

just unfollowed an artist on bsky for a shit ass take and like yeh it's kinda petty but i'm in a bad fucking mood & seeing artists do the whole 'look at me being holier than thou not selling prints of my fanart because i Value The Creators' makes me so pissed off like shut the fuck up lol fanartists making literally pennies from selling their stuff online or at cons or whatever doesn't take shit away from the original creators get the fuck over yourself jfc

[katyspersonal]

hhgghgg Thank you, I guess? XDDD It is just funny how most people believe red and fire fits me just as much if not more than blue and water! Crow, one more Genesis joke and I'll sue the spiked boots off you!!!

In a way, I feel like it is not a very good change, though, even if temporary 🤔 I am more aligned with blue, water, darkness, arcane and misery, it is just... more natural, I guess. The last time I approached a different 'energy' it instead had a form of yellow light and sun, and I was scared of feeling stronger passion for life. And having dreams about sea drying, and burying (as in, funeral) symbols of the sea like shells in the earth. I am scared that if I lose my misery, I'll also lose my insanity. The way I described it to my friends, "If I start burning for anything (as in desiring anything at all: money, love, acceptance by the society, health, power... justice...), my god will stop talking to me" Fuckin BB-tier stuff to say *million skull emojis*

No joking though, this is a very brief hunch of why I only feel understood by these games. xD This is all just to say I have a long history of placing strong meaning in colors, elements of nature and alike, and internet appearance stuff reflects it!

[dissociativecollective]

Split apart. Fragmented. Dissociated. My entire life, I’ve never known who I truly am.

Until now.

Integrated, I finally know myself in the entirety of my being and existence. Whole. In tact.

Painful, but worth it. I am me. One being.

A beginning.

[becauseplot]

thinking about archivists again. below the cut: obscene amounts of brainrot in the form of a long-winded relationship study and oddly specific references to canon that may or may not be accurate

im trying to come up with some sort of au for them (writer's block and creative burnout is a BITCH it's okay though we stay silly) and there's just something about how qphil and qcellbit don't (or didn't) really wind up in each other's circles often. sure they were friendly with each other in passing, and they definitely had some nice little interactions earlier on: cellbit briefly interviewing phil on one of his first days on the island over a cup of coffee and solidifying phil's view of cellbit as the Dedicated Investigator; phil asking cellbit to babysit chayanne and tallulah while he's away on a trip and cellbit being more than happy to; phil briefly checking in with cellbit --- who was in the process of tumbling into his regret arc, cutting off ties with loved ones and making himself a martyr --- and asking if he was okay when phil spotted him hanging alone in the back of the group; chatting about the upcoming wedding and phil advising cellbit that he and roier should probably introduce some sort of dress code (lmao); cellbit watching phil and missa meet up for the first time in months on the way to the federation's people-freezers and all of the pieces rapidly falling into place (the name of phil's waystone, phil's skull backpack, phil's elusive "husband," ohhhhhhh...). they've always been in each other's peripheral, but never directly involved in each other's personal lives.

until the happy pills.

see the thing about archivists is that they're not drawn together by a pre-existing friendship; they're more friendly acquaintances at this point, perhaps almost-friends, though they're certainly not close. but then forever's life is under threat, and god, they both love forever immensely. with direct help from bad and indirect help from others (qpac you LEGEND), they're eventually able to formulate a plan that successfully drag forever out from under the haze of drugs, pull him to the surface. they sit next to each other as they sit at the bedside of their mutual friend, watch him breathing, and try to breathe themselves.

and from that moment on it's solidified: they know they can depend on each other, when shit hits the fan. they have their respective strengths, and they balance out each other nicely. i wish i had gotten more of a chance to watch their dynamic during purgatory 1 (unfortunately i have a life sadge) but from what i saw, they turned out to be some pretty good co-leaders, and an interesting dynamic at that: phil acting more as a support role (moral support, resource support, combat support, ALL the support) and stepping up into a leader-like role when needed, but ultimately letting cellbit take the helm a lot of the time since he's a strategist with more practice managing large groups of people (i wont get into it here, and i want to watch more vods so i can more properly analyze them but HOUGHH i have THOUGHTS!! SO MANY!!!)

what im trying to get at is that they were initially in the peripheral in each others lives but were eventually drawn together out of necessity, due to circumstances. the mutual respect followed, which was then followed by trust, and then collaboration, and then friendship. i've also made this post talking about their dynamic, how they both understand each other's need to focus on the here and now and understand that they don't need to know every little thing about each other to still trust each other. and this is so integral to their relationship. it's what makes archivists archivists.

so now all that's left for me to do is try to come up with some sort of au i can chuck them in, incorporating this idea of "friendship of necessity" as a core feature of the plot. i have scattered ideas but none are particularly appealing or solid enough. i will try though!! if u have any suggestions/thoughts/ideas feel free to leave a comment or say in tags (pspsppsps come brainrot with meeee)