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the text originally read "EGADS! DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME?"
#i got tired of looking at rendering so i just said fuck it and decided to upload the lines and flats#i love when these two are depicted a bit more skeleton-y#sans looks a little fucked LMAO#wizard-laundry art#undertale#sans#papyrus#art is still incredibly hard for me rn thank you all for your patience#i've been drawing but nothing worth sharing mainly exercises#been trying to find a copy of High-focus Drawing: A Revolutionary Approach to Drawing the Figure by James McMullan#i read the first couple of chapters on the internet archive and i definite want the physical book
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so i wrote a book that comes out soon and having that be real feels like falling down stairs because i wanted this since i was 7 years old so now what do i want after it.
so tell me why today all i care about is the word trundle, that the word trundle exists. of course i have things to do and emails to send and a world of suffering to protect but today my brain won't let me look away from the sheer linguistic improbability of trundle.
i saw a truck doing it. i imagine animals did it first. or people maybe. to trundle comes direct from old english. cows do it on occasion, but more often sheep (in my experience). someone had to name lope and someone had to name slog. the verbs to run and to leap make sense; they are singular and important distinguishers.
but we can bask rather than relax. we can scuttle rather than crawl. sometimes when i move in dance class it is to undulate rather than roll. someone had to name things like sonder and whimsy. of course we had words for tangible things like tree and grass and root. i love those words, i'm eating them.
i don't know the word for this thing. where it's real-now. sometimes i feel it when i am dating someone i actually like-and-love and i realize that is real, i am dating them and it's real that i like-and-love them. sometimes i have this feeling when i have been planning a vacation or an event for weeks-and-months and it finally happens - the feeling this is happening, it's happening right now.
it happens randomly sometimes too. i will be at the carnival or at an ice cream stand or with the last light of summer in my hair and i will feel it again, that sense - i have waited my whole life for this, and im finally experiencing it, and i need to pay attention to it.
but it's real! how amazing! how horribly tragic! it's real. it exists. the moment is here.
i have no idea what to do with it.
#link to book is first line#writeblr#i lost my car my phone my job my laptop#all in the span of 9 months#so no otherwise stuff isn't going well lol#luck seems to work like that for me#.... i have BIG luck.#i don't get to decide which side of luck i fall on#i am either STUPIDLY lucky. i mean should-have-died#or i am STUPIDLY unlucky. i mean. my phone saw the ocean jumped out of girlpockets . and took a dive#PS updated the link idk why it didn't work sorry!!
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FUCK DO YOU MEAN HE'S DEAD ISN'T THAT THE MAIN GUY
#WHY IS THIS THE FIRST LINE IN THE BOOK#kk's thoughts: mdzs edition#mo dao zu shi#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#mdzs#the untamed#wei wuxian#wwx
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Star map inspired by Ahsoka’s ending credits
#you all have no idea how much I love those Star Wars maps#the circles planets lines designs catch my eyes so easily#I have one pattern tattooed on my arm inspired by Jedi Fallen Order art book cover#so when I first saw Ahsoka’s ending I was over the moon#and with that music??? God I’m totally sold#my art#ahsoka#star wars#purrgil#loth wolf#star map
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“If you want a new direction for your life,” she said, “then for heaven’s sake, just pick something out and do it. The world is your oyster, Colin. You’re young, wealthy, and you’re a man.” Penelope’s voice turned bitter, resentful. “You can do anything you want.”
— Chapter 6, ROMANCING MISTER BRIDGERTON
#bridgertonedit#tvedit#perioddramaedit#polinedit#bridgertonblr#dailybridgerton#dailypolin#userseeleybooth#mikesmom#userteresa#useramelias#tusereste#tusergabriela#bridgerton#polin#colin bridgerton#penelope featherington#colin x penelope#penelope x colin#mine#her lines in the 3rd gif immediately reminded me of this quote from the book when i watched it for the first time#but for the life of me i couldn't remember what scene it was part of or where it was in the book#finally found it though!#romancing mister bridgerton
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"but this was the first time I'd been in a mind that was COLLAPSING like a NEUTRON STAR"
#gravity falls#fiddleford mcgucket#fiddleford hadron mcgucket#the book of bill#corvid art#this line hasnt left my mind since i first read it#its just so heartbreaking
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September 3rd and 6th, 2024 | Rereading The Lord of the Rings (6/?)
I'm halfway through the Two Towers already, and I must say the pacing is a bit different now that the Fellowship has split. I was also quite surprised by how short the battle of Helm's Deep is, since it's such a culminating moment in the second film. Rereading the books is giving me a renewed appreciation for the films, both in their respect towards Tolkien's work and for the new elements they brought to the story, and I'm loving it!
#the rendition of the fight and death of Boromir for instance that we don't see first hand in the books and is among my fave scenes from mov#or the iconic what about second breakfast line#my posts#studyblr#litblr#gradblr#phdblr#bookblr#books#LOTR#Tolkien#LoTR reread#annotating
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tomarry hot take: I actually don’t think Harry would even come close to defeating Tom in a duel
I think he COULD come close, with extreme levels of training and practice, but that classic “step into DADA and whoop Tom’s ass” scene? guys…I have something to confess.
Tom’s a fucking nerd.
he’s studied and practiced dark magic for years. he’s canonically regarded by DUMBLEDORE as the most brilliant student to ever walk through Hogwarts. Tom would DESTROY him.
imho the real fun of tomarry comes from the subsequent arc of Harry training to defeat him, and then actually coming close, and THEN Tom starts to become intrigued bc who the fuck is this semi-competent little shit?? and why is he now thinking about him all the time??
#tom marvolo riddle#tom riddle#harry potter#tomarry#ao3#cinus isn’t talking about tompercy? blasphemy!#we’re all entitled to do what we want though#ashamed to admit that I still eat that duel scene up every time#but yknow#let’s be fr#harry is surprisingly competent when he’s interested in the subject#desperately cites the Patronus charm#and like three lines in the first books
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#the hunger games#thg#suzanne collins#katniss everdeen#peeta mellark#everlark#peeta x katniss#the hunger games reread#SOMEONE SEDATE ME#screaming crying throwing up#this line gutted me the first time I read the books#and it continues to gut me every time I reread them#THEM THEM THEM THEM THEM THEM THEM THE-#my post
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feeling emotional
about this
#and you're telling me that katniss just somehow ended up with him at the end of mockingjay because suzanne is a bad writer#and didn't know what she was doing?#katniss and peeta were by design#they were endgame right from the beginning of the first book and it's so clear when you read the books back#so many parallels#so many mirrored moments#a well thought out line of plot that is so specifically and perfectly executed across 3 books#this makes me so soft#everlark#peeta x katniss#katniss x peeta#katniss everdeen#katniss and peeta#peeta mellark#the hunger games#mockingjay
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Did peepaw come home?!
HE DID! :D! luckily it only took me three ten-pulls; I think my past experience of being so thoroughly denied a Fairy Gala Ortho made me more worried than I should have been. may the gacha blessings pay forward to everyone else! (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
so far this is hands-down the funniest Lilia card, because he'll say something all edgy and badass in that deeper ~General Vanrouge~ tone and then follow it up immediately with one of the non-card-specific cutesy Lilia lines, and it gets me every time
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#i rolled for him before doing the story and when i set him on my home screen#the VERY FIRST line he said was the one where he's like 'the promise i made to revaan...my friend who is no longer here...' and i was like#excusez moi#(i'm going with revaan for now because i have no idea what it's meant to be and when in doubt go literal)#(honestly same with baul. baul feels right but who am i to say)#(i feel pretty confident about henrik but i am prepared to be wildly wrong about everything as per usual :')#anyway now the question is: do i try for the white rabbit cards or save up for whoever the next episode 7 ssr is#on the one hand i have been living for the episode 7 content#on the other hand the white rabbit event looks SO cute#truly this is the most difficult dilemma of our times
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The Final Color Code
Okay here is the final color code. I will be honest I didn't solve it all but here is what it says
TWO DIMENSIONS TO AND FRO / YOU ALWAYS NO WHICH WAY TO GO / IF YOURE LOST DONT BE AFRAID IN EUCLYDIA / YOUVE GOT IT MADE / RUN TOO FAR RIGHT OF FRAME YOULL APPEAR ON LEFT AGAIN / JUMP TOO HIGH DONT CRY OR FRET / YOULL POP UP FROM THE GROUND I BET / IN THIS PLACE THERE IS NO FEAR LOVED ONES WILL NEVER NEAR / ROLES AND RULES ALWAYS CLEAR / EUCLYDIA WE HOLD YOU DEAR
#gravity falls#bill cipher#the book of bill#book of bill#okay I'm gonna be honest I got the first two lines and saw someone else got it and I was like welp that's it for me 😅#I really don't know what to think about this#bill's world just seemed like a little strict and probably looked down on any weirdness#and probably ostracized bill for his mutation#and considering they loved roles and rules i assume bill didn't have any and probably thought#his role or purpose was showing everyone the third dimension and get his people to loosen up but...#he killed everyone instead#i wonder how fast it happened#god damn i can't believe i'm feeling bad for a floating triangle
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just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!
#and not to say Ricks work is perfect. ill be the firat to tell you his mistakes. his aspec rep is shit. his minorities rep has problems#he has general time line problems. im not says hes perfect but he tried from a good place#jkr named a character ChoChang. her Scottish character blow stuff up and tried to make alcohol. named a black character Shackelbolt#like damn get over yourself.#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson and the olympians#percy series#pjo series#pjo#pjo tv show#pjo tv series#pjo tv adaptation#if you wanna say shit about Rick ok. but be correct about it#how is he just as bad as jkr for not using the book he made in the early 2000s an exact script for the TV show being released in 2024?#and they yall had the audacity to be pissed when he didn't put a song about sex thats literally says `fuck her face° in the background of#LITERAL 12 YEAR OLDS in a place with memory altering properties..... thats whats you wanted. children getting high to a song about sex.#°oH bUt iN tHe mOvIe tHaT i WaTcHeD wHeN i waS tWeLvE' where the actors where like what 18? and weren't 12? that one? 🙄#some of you are getting on my nerves. yes the show's pacing is eh really thats a reason to curisfy Rick Riordan? thats what you're deciding#this is the line? a tv show thats on its first season and is more accurate then the movies that came out?#good to know
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unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality
au belongs to @pluck-heartstrings !! if u havent read or caught up u totally should <3 (sorry for the tag)
#pluck my heartstrings#dca fandom#fnaf daycare attendant#fnaf security breach au#fnaf au#fnaf daycare au#fnaf dca#something something fairytale princess#the 2nd pic is the gradient map under that i think looks cool#kind of like out of a story book yk??#anyways im gonna go eat cereal#the first thing i did was wake up and finish this lmao#heavily referenced “sleeping beauty” by louis sussman hell-born !!#the sculpture is gorgeous and the latest pmh chapter still has me in shambles#i am not ready for any of the endings good or bad fuck#i had intentions to clean this up and line it once the “warm up” got this far but i did NAWT have enough energy for that#pingdoobles#ALSO THANK YOU FOR 500 FOLLLWS IN 3 MONTHS?? MIND BOGGLING RN
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Interview with the Vampire Manga Adaptation (Yoake no Vampire) by Udoh Shinohara + DL Link
DL LINK HERE
Happy new episode of IWTV AMC day! Today though, I want to share something I've teased earlier on my blog, which is the Japanese manga adaptation of the Interview with the Vampire gothic horror novel. See under the cut for more details!
It came out in 1994, a bit after the movie, but it only referenced the book itself. It consisted of a single volume made up of three chapters, so events are condensed and abridged, and it skips Part II in Eastern Europe. The first two chapters were scanlated into English by a group named Trine and distributed on the aarinfantasy forums in 2007, but the third chapter was kind of lost to time, especially after all the links to the raw Japanese scans went down years ago. However, I discovered that a now defunct Portuguese scanlation group did the whole thing (individual credits included in the .zip), and I was able to recover chapter three, use heavily cross-checked and edited MTL (PT-ENG), and deliver the final product to you all. See more notes about this process or where to read the PT version in the readme file included in the .zip! It's not 100% perfect and I would not call it true 'scanlation' obviously, so if anyone can do a better job I welcome them to! I hope more visibility on this manga makes the raws become available again so a true JPN-ENG translation can be done on the last chapter!
This manga obviously has major IWTV book spoilers, but it does NOT include anything from later books in the series and is honestly quite faithful overall. It even includes Lestat's father. I might actually call it slightly gayer than the book, since Louis and Armand become more obviously in love. I would recommend it to anyone who's watching the series and hasn't read the book yet, as well as to anyone who enjoys the books alone! The art style is very 90s, but it has some really beautiful visuals sometimes, especially with Claudia. I hope everyone enjoys reading it!
#interview with the vampire#iwtv#iwtv amc#interview with the vampire amc#the vampire chronicles#tvc#loumand#loustat#louis de pointe du lac#tvc madeleine#tvc louis de pointe du lac#lestat de lioncourt#tvc claudia#claudia de lioncourt#armand#tvc armand#daniel molloy#yaoi#manga#vampires#anne rice#gay vampires#lgbt#joseiposting#okay i think that's enough tags...i only included example pages from ch3 since thats the only chapter i did work on myself#but its an adaptation of the entire book. besides part II#like i said; it doesnt include anything post iwtv; so lestat is portrayed pretty much 1-to-1 to that book#so it's time to read between the lines again loustaters#warning for show fans: this is plantation + slave owner louis. its not a huge focus in this version but the manga does depict#violence against enslaved people in the first chapter
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#captain swan#cs gifs#ouat#ouat s4#I call this set: there's no such thing as too many selective color layers#I am OBSESSED with this kiss honestly and had to gif it#like this is what I think of whenever I'm reading a book/fic now and see the phrase:#“he captured her lips in a kiss”#or “he claimed her lips as his own”#or anything along those lines because LOOK at him#just take her upper lip like#finally#and I might have slowed down that first gif just a TOUCH too much but I really wanted to see it okay#I really wanted to study this kiss under a jar in gif form#I am nothing if not a Captain Swan kiss scientist you guys#I'm certified in everything#(certifiably crazy is more like it!)#I'm so normal about them#can you tell I'm rewatching this show lololol#my gifs
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