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“Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.”
-Kneller(Tom Waits)
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#this was the first comic that i made in this style and i think it's still my favorite#comic#comic art#original comic#web comic#webcomic#illustration#illustrated story#relatable#thoughtful#thoughtful comic#thoughtful writing#writing#original story#original poetry#prose poetry#short poem#illustrated prose#original art#illustrative art#storytelling#relatable story#relatable writing#ramblings#random thoughts#comic artist#illustration artist#amateur poet#poetry art#artists of tumblr
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the thought of being replaced is enough to make me almost pass out
#bpd#vent#bpd shit#bpd thoughts#bpd vent#borderline blog#borderline pd#actually bpd#bpd stuff#abandonment#abandoned#abandonment issues#bpd abandonment#bpd love#anger issues bpd#bpd fp#bpd intense#bpd jealousy#bpd rage#bpd split#bpd splitting#bpd things#cluster b#favorite person bpd#borderline problems#living with borderline#borderline personality disorder#actually borderline#long story short i almost fainted just now
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Finally properly figuring out how to draw Geralt 🫶
#shout out to sword of destiny for having my favorite short stories ever#the Witcher#the witcher books#the witcher book fanart#geralt of rivia#the witcher geralt#the witcher dandelion#dandelion#julian alfred pankratz#my art#pokesdoodles
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doodle comic i made just before beating VLR. not to worry, I Know Now :)
#zero escape#zero escape spoilers#virtues last reward#virtues last reward spoilers#virtue’s last reward#virtue’s last reward spoilers#<-I FOUND OUT SOMETHING RLY BAD ABOUT THE TAGS FOR THIS GAME. I GOT SPOILED ON SOME STUFF BC OF THIS…#vlr#vlr spoilers#I could make an obnoxiously long post abt my thoughts but the short version is I liked it better than 999#there were more loose plot threads but the characters and story were more compelling#and it hit some favorite tropes like Robot Psychology and Well Developed Morally Grey Characters#phi here is channeling Me. i was playing with friends so the whole time I was loudly theorizing#some stuff I got some stuff I completely missed and some theories I was p confident in were Completely Wrong lol#but it was a fun time :) sigma and akane i will think about you forever
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y’all . . . . . .
#ʬʬ.sosa speaks.com#why he gotta stare like that 😩#it’s his NOSSSEEEEE#it’s his nose for me#idk i really really like it on his face#it suits him#and so does does the downward slanted eyes#and the way his green eyes pop against his skin and black hair#oh oh oh and his hair !! damn near looks like a mullet i like the short braid in the back#and his design is so COOOOOL so so cool to me#he seems kinda mysterious which i like; i really love when characters have layers#or how they act isn’t what it seems to be like like it’s nkt surface level stuff#not***#his va ate that up too#can you tell i like him 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂#he’s one of those characters that will always be my favorite even if he isn’t relevant to the story anymore#wind breaker#jo togame
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the fact that john and paul potentially fucked to god only knows at paul's insistence is like genuinely and deeply embarrassing of them
#I say embarrassing and what I mean is it makes me want to throw up and cry#this is btw abt johns short story abt paris and fucking to god only knows (pauls favorite song)#mclennon
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sketched out all the human partners!!!
#cassette beasts#kayleigh cassette beasts#eugene cassette beasts#meredith cassette beasts#felix cassette beasts#viola cassette beasts#no b@rkly im sorry i did these all at once and its 4am at the time of writing 😭#i realized ive never rlly drawn these guys before!#ive stared at them intensely while recreating the portrait styles#and ive drawn like. 2 of them from the shoulders up#but like#ive never sat down and tried to learn their designs#long story short i have a silly animatic idea#idk if ill actually do it#but it involves these five#and i didnt wanna throw myself into drawing it without at least kind of having a grasp on drawing these guys#so here they are :DD#anyways im queuing this#bc as i said#it is 4am#and no one's gonna see it#meredith turned out the best i think. her bottom left portrait is probably my favorite out of these drawings#violas top left portrait is a close second#edit: i hit post. whatever
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"icarus imagined himself to be the stick of a candle, the wings to be the wick, and the sun to be the flame. for a small time, the wick would burn. the candle would be alight, shining brilliantly, lighting up the space for as long as the wick could last. until inevitably, the wick reached its end, the candle burning out. until the wick finally died, reaching the stick of the candle and engulfing that, too, in flames."
#quote by me#the short story i wrote retelling the myth#i love icarus#my favorite greek myth#that middle painting is my phone wallpaper#there's so much analysis and like meaning#and so many interpretations#and just AUFDHGS#anyway i might make moodboards more this is fun#divider by steddiecameraroll-graphics#greek mythology#ancient greece#greek myth#greek myth aesthetic#the fall of icarus#lament for icarus#icarus#moodboard
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my halloween costumes from the last four years 🤭
#🦌#my person suit#I have something planned I just need to thrift for it#if you remember the oldest one you’re a real og#I still blush thinking about the fact that kacey shared my abigail hobbs halloween costume to her story + commented#the one with the wording#long story short im gods favorite
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Everything I learn about Rose Wilder Lane makes me more and more aware that she was a hilariously outrageous person who needs a movie made about her immediately.
After leaving Missouri, she moves to California and marries a real-estate guy who once tried to get her to help him con the railroad.
She gets hired at a San Francisco newspaper known for its yellow journalism, where she does things like writing a series of columns featuring the "real-life stories of a police detective" who, in real life, was a high-end jewel thief.
Her first book is a first-person "autobiography" of Charlie Chaplin that she (after a few interviews with Chaplin) completely made up, and that Charlie Chaplin immediately threatened to sue her publisher for.
Her second book is a biography of Jack London, which his wife only reluctantly allowed her to write because Rose presented herself as "someone who had never written for the newspapers before and needs a chance to break into the magazines." This book was also almost entirely fictional, and her publisher also almost got sued over it.
Third biography is the first-ever biography of Herbert Hoover, also a heavily-fictionalized account. (Doesn't seem to have been sued for this one. Steps in the right direction!)
Traveled as a reporter through Europe (to places like Albania and Poland) post-WWI. (If we want to talk about legal things that she did).
Wrote a book based on Laura's late-childhood pioneer experiences while Laura was writing the early books of the Little House series, and did not tell Laura about it. (Laura was ticked off).
Kept trying to insert a story into Laura's memoirs (and Little House on the Prairie) casting Pa as a member of a posse that hunted down the infamous (and never-caught) serial-killing Bender family (despite the fact that this was historically impossible). (It got to the point that Laura herself told this story to the public as an example of "a true story I couldn't out in my children's book." Despite the fact, I say again, that this was historically impossible).
During WWII, endured a minor incident (it involved one cop coming to her house) where the FBI investigated her as a potential communist based on a postcard she sent that was critical of the government. Turned this into a short story that presented herself as the righteously-outraged American citizen fighting against an oppressive government, and used this to whip up a nationwide media campaign against J. Edgar Hoover for spying on American citizens.
Flew to Vietnam as a war reporter when she was in her seventies.
#history is awesome#rose wilder lane#little house#i finally finished pioneer girl perspectives#to think i didn't even want to read the essay about the bender family#i skipped over it and left it til last#cuz i thought it would just rehash the fact vs fiction stuff i've seen covered elsewhere#turns out it was about the history of yellow journalism and provided most of the facts i've listed#(i was today years old when i learned that 'yellow journalism' was short for 'yellow kid journalism')#(and it came from a popular 'yellow kid' cartoon character that hearst and pulitzer both fought over to get into their papers)#also it turns out the bender family was a popular yellow journalism topic (because they'd never been found so people could make stuff up)#usually the stories centered around posses that found and killed them#but my favorite is the story that they made a hot air balloon from a natural gas deposit in a swamp in kansas#and escaped over the gulf of mexico#until their balloon popped and they landed on a passing ship where one of them could make a deathbed confession#history is awesome but the history of fake history is its own special kind of awesome
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okay so i was thinking of a joke earlier about how in DPDC Amity Park's slogan "a great place to live" is not only city propaganda but also the city lording it over the rest of America for being normal. But then I remembered that, despite how many DCU Cities with heroes in it there are, the amount of cities in America without heroes still far outnumber the amount of cities in America WITH heroes.
So I did a little digging so the joke would still land. Something most heroes have in common is that they operate in major cities. What makes a major city? I found that the general consensus is that the population is roughly over or around a million. THEN I looked up the populations of cities in the DCU that I thought of off the top of my head. So Gotham, Metropolis, Starling City, Central City, Jump City. All of them ranked up to millions in population (most of them were in the tens of millions).
Amity Park's wikipedia describes it as being similar to specifically Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco.
Philadelphia's Population: 1.576 million as of 2021 Chicago's Population: 2.697 million as of 2021 San Francisco: 815,201 as of 2021
Whiiich means that Amity Park if we take that from canon, is probably a major city. There are approximately 19,000 cities in America with probably less than a hundred that are major cities. Adding the DCU major cities wouldn't skew the data too much.
Which MEANS that I can make the joke that Amity Park's "great place to live" is not only just typical city propaganda, but also its Amity Park lording it over the other major cities for being one of the only major cities that doesn't have problems bad enough to warrant a superhero or a vigilante. Cue stage left the Fentons and Phantom :)
Amity Parkers were probably SO proud that they didn't need a superhero. They didn't have to worry about things like 'world ending threats' and 'super-powered individuals' and 'staggering property damage'. And then enter Fentons.
It also could be used as an excuse for why nobody took notice to Amity Park getting ghosts if folks like me aren't huge fans of the notion of a media blackout via Tucker, Technus, or the US Government. Or if you want to keep Amity Park as its urban city self. Amity Park's news on ghosts gets drowned out in a week because there's news on more popular, well-known cities going on every other day. The shit going on in Amity Park is every other major city's regular Tuesday and it gets filtered as such.
#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc#dpdc#plus amity suddenly going 'we have ghosts' could be seen as a case of city-wide FOMO finally hitting so nobody believes them#and thats if the belief of ghosts not being real is as strong as it is in dp canon#the media blackout could also be /city-induced/ too#where amity parkers are so proud of being 'normal' and 'not having superheros' that many of them try and deny the existence of Phantom#and the mayor and news sources themselves just. stubbornly refuse to let news of ghosts get out to the other cities#do you know how much shit they'll get?? they'll be a laughingstock!#gothamites would never leave them alone. neither would central city or the metropolitans or starling city or--#the other big cities will make fun of them :(#my new favorite hc that stemmed from this is that every major city in the dcu is rivaling with each other#there's a lot you can experiment with this idea imo lmao#this whole post sums up my writing and thinking process pr well tbh#this stemmed because im making a childhood friends au short story doc and wanted to avoid the typical tropes about how AP went undetected#from the rest of the US. bc. im not a fan of the media blackout idea via tucker/technus/gov and i wanted to keep AP an urban city#so i had to come up with something else#hence me looking into DCU cities and how many there are and realizing that there is a decent amount of other cities other than the main#popular ones and being DELIGHTED because then i could use that as an excuse for why amity went overlooked. bc there are many cities with#heroes in it. so its not surprising if another city gets a hero TOO. plus the news also focusing on more popular heroes and cities so again#the news of amity getting a hero gets drowned out by whatever new thing the JL or someone from the JL did that week
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Yep. Same for me Joey.
#that's probably my favorite short story#and i cried too#a little sacrifice#auto translate from polish#joey batey#old stuff
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Diabolik Lovers Dark Fate Vol. 3 Chapter of the Last Quarter — Short Story Translation
A short, sweet, and comedic tale about the Mukami brothers being supportive siblings… and nearly committing accidental fratricide in the process. Meanwhile, Yui watches with increasing concern as the disaster unfolds.
Please refrain from using or reposting the translation anywhere without my permission.
[Note: The story is written in Yui's POV.]
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"Uh...something's wrong..."
Kou-kun groaned as he stared down at the pot.
"Should I help after all?"
"Eve, you mustn't get involved...okay? Just quietly watch over us."
Even though he said that, an increasingly terrible smell was spreading throughout the kitchen. Despite being told not to interfere, I was starting to get a bit worried.
"Maybe it needs some sugar-chan!?"
"Ah!!"
Before I could stop him, Yuma-kun dumped several sugar cubes into the pot, filling the room with a foul stench. I felt a sense of despair.
The whole mess had started when Ruki-kun injured his hand.
"Ruki-kun always cooks for us, so let's all pitch in today!"
And so, Kou-kun's plan of making dinner ended up as disastrously as I had feared.
"...This is...?"
"Well... It's supposed to be curry..."
Kou-kun glanced at me as if pleading for help. When I looked at Yuma-kun and Azusa-kun, they averted their eyes. In short, something horrible had been created. Its color was... to put it nicely, pitch black. After tasting it, Yuma-kun commented nonsensically that it was "bittersweetsalty". Dubbed "Mukami Brothers' Style Curry" it had transformed into a mysterious substance resembling anything but curry. Just by looking at it, anyone would instantly recognize it as inedible.
Yet, Ruki-kun was peering at the plates lined up on the table with a happy look on his face.
"Maybe it's better if we don't eat this..."
In spite of Kou-kun's uneasiness, Ruki-kun scooped up the substance with a spoon and brought it to his mouth.
". . ."
"It's disgusting."
We all shared the same fear. That even though he's immortal, Ruki-kun might die from this.
Despite his words, Ruki-kun's expression suddenly relaxed. We stared at him in amazement.
"R-Ruki-kun...!!"
"Ruki..."
"Ruki...! Damn it! Yer such a...!"
The three brothers, seemingly drained, collapsed to their knees on the spot. Ruki-kun simply watched them in silence as he continued to eat.
And then, afterwards—Ruki-kun was bedridden for three days and nights. Even though Vampires aren't supposed to get sick...
Seeing this, his brothers made a firm vow to themselves. They would never try to cook again.
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#my poor boy#they could probably weaponize that thing tho#shit must be powerful af to cause that kind of result#diabolik lovers#short story#dark fate#my translation#yui komori#ruki mukami#kou mukami#yuma mukami#azusa mukami#dialovers#diahell#mukami supremacy#no but really they be out there trying to win best brother award#probably lost tho because if the whole “accidental poisoning” deal but hey it's the thought and intent that counts!#anyway i hope you enjoyed this story ^_^#i randomly remembered that i had it lying around and figured i'd swallow my fears and give translation a go ahahaha#personally i like the story a lot#it reminds me of when ruki voluntarily ate up the burnt omurice that yui had tried to make for him#(though thankfully that didn't result in the poor man being laid up for days lmao)#that scenario is one of my all time favorites because the gesture is just so damn romantic and sweet that it makes my maiden heart flutter#i don't know if i'll make more translations (anxiety and shite confidence gets in the way of much of what i do i'm afraid) BUT#i'll for sure post the scans of any other short stories i buy#i already have a ruki one ordered but it'll unfortunately take a while before i can get my greedy hands on it
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How many asks do you have rn and on average? You seem to get a lot and i have a few questions but if you have a ton of asks i don’t want to send a bunch and make it worse lol
You can always send me asks! Getting asks is extremely rewarding and I feel lucky to be surrounded by such chatty and interactive people. You have no idea how much the feedback I receive inspires me.
I read them all and try to answer as many as I can, but unfortunately it's not feasible for me to respond to every one, I'm just one person with limited time and energy. If they're particularly motivating and make me want to draw something, it may take a while for me to get around to it. I regularly dig through my inbox to find old asks that I missed, so if you sent me a long and thoughtful message at some point and I never posted it, I'm very likely still thinking about it and might get back to it eventually.
#lore guestions are interesting but I usually have to think about them for 64 years before I manage to put my thoughts together sorry#sometimes people send me art prompts headcanons and little short stories and those are my favorite#health boosted instantly#but they too tend to languish in my inbox for ages because I love responding to them with art#and even simple sketches can take time to finish#answered#anonymous
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Read Hirayasumi.
#hirayasumi#hirayasumi fanart#Hiroto ikuta#Natsumi Kobayashi#manga recommendation#slice of life#sketchbook#manga#fanart#Keigo Shinzo#artists on tumblr#art#my art#sketch#Y'all have no idea how much I love this manga actually#Like I don't want to be unreasonable but it's about to replace Wha in my top 3#I love it so so much the easiest 10/10 I ever gave the comfort manga ever❗❗❗ I need everyone to read Hirayasumi#Other works from Keigo Shinzo as well!! Tokyo alien bros or Summer of lava were excellent he's lowkey my favorite author rn#if anyone knows where I can read some of his short stories or other series pls tell me......
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