#don't mind me i'm in pain

[keisuk]

tomorrow

silverchair @ the odeon, cleveland (1999)

[tero-ga]

FINALLY MORE METAPHOR FANART AGH

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[birbleafs]

My garbage Kavetham brain is still consumed thinking about that five seconds where Alhaitham’s composure actually slipped, almost almost imperceptibly so, when he heard mentions about Kaveh’s ordeal in the desert; that he was even compelled to give Kaveh a quick glance over for injuries out of concern.... Also, the fact that they later had that offscreen heated argument about this very thing once they were home, which then got Alhaitham upset? vexed?? enough to storm off and leave the house…. says a lot. Without actually saying it. Lol. I have feels :__)

[tokutaiseichan]

you guys ever think about how, at the beginning, we were shown MC being sad and brokenhearted over her favorite band disbanding一so much that she wished she never met them in the first place.

i wonder if she will have a similar stance regarding the ghouls?

or this time... will she finally be able to say, "Despite everything, I'm glad I met them"?

[phantom-fleetways]

Thinking about that time Tails turned off Kitsunami's pack and Kit fainted on the spot about it.

Like... What was all of that about Starline??? Why did you hook up the pack to his spine like that. It would have to be connected to the spine if turning it off caused him to just straight up faint. (Although it's not hard to believe this alone thanks to Imposter Syndrome and how it's gotta be connected to his nervous system if he controls the hydro-coils with his mind like he clearly does.)

Starline... Why did you hook him up like this?!

No wonder that electroshock with his spurr in IS hurt him!

Yeah I bet that hurt Kit. That was a direct line of pure electricity straight through all of his nerves! Honestly just makes the scene when they take down metal and work together in it, all the more sweet??

SHE CARES ABOUT DRIPPY ENOUGH TO CHECK ON HIM AFTER ELECTROCUTING HIM.

Honestly... I think the pack being wired into Kit is just proof enough that the two Deepily impressive while also being very broken in every possible way. Like... Starline didn't account for Surge's electricity powers because of their healing factor when wiring that pack straight into his spine!! Who doesn't think about these things??? No wonder Kit passes out when it gets turned off! I don't think it's even supposed to be turned off and Starline never thought through the possibility of it being turned off! (Which begs the question... Why is there an off button??????)

[vaguely-concerned]

walking through lucanis' mind prison. the tam lin of it all

[cornertheculprit]

also genuinely why the fuck did apollo take his bandages off in turnabout for tomorrow. he got hit by a bomb. i understand losing the eyepatch but THE BOMB INJURIES.........

[sergle]

I think my favorite thing about doing ginger red hair instead of cherry red hair is: lying to people about it

[c3nobit3s]

When he brushes your hair before bed and then beats you with the same brush afterwards 🥺

[astradyke]

every day i mourn that flares by huphilpuffs is unfinished because not only is it such an incredibly written fic but it genuinely is up there on fics that changed my life -- i should really make a post with all of them! i might do that in a second -- and i'm thinking about it. again it IS unfinished (also there's almost no explicit content i know it's rated explicit but it's basically one chapter with a pre-warning as an fyi) but i really really recommend it especially if you want to learn more about fibromalaygia :')

[not-poignant]

If someone stopped reading your story, not because of anything wrong you've done, would you be interested to know why? Or would that just be unpleasant?

That would just be unpleasant, anon.

The reality is a lot of people just stop reading for a lot of reasons, and hearing someone's negative feedback isn't really that useful, because I'm writing the story for the people who really love it, and not for the people who got bored or stopped liking the themes etc. And then of course there are folks who just stop because life intervenes, which is normal.

Generally speaking there's a saying which is: If you wouldn't ask that person for personal advice, why are you listening to their criticism. And I tend to apply that pretty aggressively to strangers on the internet tbh!

Part of it is that I take negative critiques very personally, and can spend a really long time feeling like I should change an entire story for one person who's already stopped reading, or like I should be trying to fight to keep that one person's interest instead of like...focusing on all the readers who are actually just enjoying the writing as it is. And changing my writing for the people who aren't finding it interesting enough to keep reading (and/or who don't have time and/or who find it too upsetting etc.) is not going to help anyone!

So yeah, generally speaking telling a person why you've stopped reading a story is like...not really a thing to do (and that's true for most authors).

About the only time I don't mind it is when someone starts reading again after a period of absence where they've been stressed and I get a comment like 'Ah I haven't been around due to life/stress/illness but I'm so happy to be back and reading' lol, which I don't think is what you're referring to!

[sosadraws]

Your typical horse girl movie, but it's an imperial civilian and a heavily wounded SAPR (that gets confused as a MNHR for most of the story)

[seyaryminamoto]

Fic-to-Art #38: Ozai carries Azula to the physicians' wing

This has been done for A WHILE now, but I didn't post it because the past days have been chaotic and not just on a personal level. For one thing, I really wasn't eager to drop this when people were losing their shit massively over the liveaction and its recontextualization of Azula and Ozai's dynamics, I didn't look forward to releasing this just to be told that whatever I've done in my story is somehow wrong, sooooooooo... that held me back, for a few days.

Then? The AI-Tumblr deal started to be talked about and I may or may not have freaked out about that too. Sooo... this is the first glazed and nightshaded piece of my creation, as consequence. The original, clean and proper version is available in my Patreon. Is this me being a dick to Tumblr-only people? Unfortunately, it very much isn't, I'm not trying to say that if you want the best iterations of my art, you should pay me for it... this is squarely, entirely, at staff/the CEO's feet. Obviously, there's the insecure side of me that goes "what makes you think they'd steal YOUR art when there are so many better artists out there!" but ultimately? AI is about taking everything en masse. It isn't a matter of developing a criteria about who makes the better art... it's just taking EVERYTHING and trying to repurpose it in whatever twisted way it needs to. Therefore? I think my choice is more of a matter of caution than anything else. Once AI bullshit dies out (and I really hope it does), we may just return to the same level of quality across all my accounts. For now, it is what it is.

ANYWAY! Point is this artwork is very much what my Patrons happened to vote for this month, a very shocking scene where Ozai reacted in the least foreseen way to Azula being attacked. Azula's confusion/terror comes from a place of not knowing what to do and being powerless to stop her father even if she doesn't feel comfortable with his help... but for once, Ozai isn't making a dreadful choice that will only devastate his daughter. He's actually worried about her health... and feeling genuine guilt over what landed her in the situation where she was in danger in the first place. Yes. I like me my complex Ozai who finally learned actions have consequences. He bores me to death otherwise :') if anyone STILL doesn't know that this whole situation is Gladiator-specific, then I shall clarify fully: this is artwork based on my fic. It's about a story that has been developing these characters for ALMOST ELEVEN YEARS now. It has nothing to do with whatever's going on in canon or in the liveaction, the scene in question was written almost two years ago and the artwork proposed and voted for several days before the liveaction aired. Ergo: there is no connection between this and that. Nor am I saying through this piece that Ozai is a good father. He is not. He can still be an interesting character to work with on a narrative level anyway :')

Alright. With that out of the way, hope you guys like this piece! The big one I haven't posted is ALSO finished, also glazed and nightshaded, but I think I might just end up posting it on the 26th if I don't have time to do anything big for our eleventh anniversary... yep, I'm so busy I don't even have a huge project in mind this time. Also? I have a lot to write and I'm finally happily writing it, and I would like to continue doing that...

Anyway! If you would like to be part of the creative process behind this piece, as well as see it in its proper, OG, less color-bleeding clunky version? A $1 Patreon pledge gives you the chance to join in suggesting prompts, voting for them and reading Gladiator snippets 6 days before a new chapter is released!

[zenmai--jikake--no--komoriuta]

✨️ officially childfree forevermore baybeeeeeee ✨️

I'm staying in recovery overnight but the surgery went really well! the nurses were really lovely thank god (incredibly funny saying that as well because this was at a Catholic institution of all places lmaooo, the surgeon put it down as "a medical need for reducing risk of cancer"-- but really it was because I've genuinely never wanted kids and in this kinda political climate, even down here in Aus, prooobably better to do something about that while I still can!)

the actual reason I was having surgery was a laparoscopy to check for endometriosis, which I apparently did have in the end (though I haven't gotten a proper report of the extent of it yet, probably coming tomorrow at discharge), so that's been excised and hopefully it will turn out to have been the cause of my chronic hip pain after all! we'll just have to see over the next few months whether it helps or not.......... and if not then we're well and truly stumped! pleeeease be the cause, I'm so fucking sick of having constant medical problems with no clear cause and cure lol :'x

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they look so good with their traumatic moments😍🥰

[deoidesign]

I’m a trans man that recently got diagnosed with hyper mobile eds, so now seeing Steve makes me extra happy, because cool disabled ftm rep. Thanks for making the radical dude bro, he’s funky.

same disability (waving hand emoji)

Always extremely fulfilling to know my work makes people happy in some small way, it means a lot. Thank you for sharing with me