#first new dp art in awhile

[leisi-lilacdreams]

Yūgen – Deep Awareness of the Universe....

i like the idea that when things get too much, Danny will go to space to just chill

helps put things into perspective

it's also my favorite "how Danny meets the JL" trope lol

[dlamp-dictator]

Okay, I know it's been awhile since I've been into Arknights, but I gotta' talk about this real quick, because it really does feel like some actual insanity that Lappland has something like this. I know the developers tend to make some weirdly cracked modules, but this is some madness that's almost on par with Eyja having Res-shredding on her first module.

But first, a not-so-quick disclaimer. It's recently come to my attention that Lappland's name is a known slur in some Scandinavian circles, and while I've read a handful of things that imply her name is meant to come from a specific location/region in the Nordic/Scandinavian area I will play things safe and refer to her as Saluzzo from this point on in this little analysis/discussion out of both recognition of the above and to be mindful of others reading this as I believe this is still a hot-button issue in some areas of the fandom. With that said, I'll only be doing this in deeper discussions like this, as... well, frankly, I've neither the time nor energy to police people on the internet and until Hypergryph actively changes the name themselves we'll all be very confused if I suddenly start talking about a character named Saluzzo off-handedly in a random post I make.

With that said, onto the craziness.

So, Saluzzo here's a Lord, a sub-class of a Guard, which specializes in (usually) physical DPS, High HP, and some minor laneholding depending on the archetype. Lords specifically deal physical ranged damage on ground tiles, which tapers off the further away the enemy is. But that's not important. For Saluzzo, the main thing is her talent: Spiritual Destruction, which silences enemy abilities. This disrupts a handful of the more annoying quirks that some enemies have like exploding on death, having some sort of passive shield/resistance barrier, passing through blocking units, stopping those damn Artificers from summoning the artillery shell, so on and so forth. Combine this utility with her already good damage and stats has given Saluzzo a very vital role in almost any new event or chapter. Namely, neutering some of the more... interesting quirks that come into certain chapters and event maps and made her a cornerstone for any new content.

And I feel I should mention that Saluzzo is a game launch unit. She's been here since the start and still has a place in modern Arknights' meta. The only other units I could say are comfortably in this position are Ejyafjalla and Saria, and those are Six-Stars.

Her module, by extension, is just as nutty. Combined with her already good physical damage, she can now deal a minor amount of arts damage with her base attack. This makes her ability to already shred through physically tanky enemies even better. But the true nuttiness is that additional fragile debuff along with her silencing when upgraded, letting enemies take an additional 8% of damage from all sources.

Including true damage.

For six seconds.

In a tower defense game.

Oh, and her Skill 2, her main skill, can attack two enemies at once to inflict the debuff.

Yeah, this chick is insane, both in lore and in game. She's so cracked that the only way to powercreep her was to make an alter of her even nuttier.

But yeah, that's Saluzzo. Looking forward to the coming 5.5 storyline. I don't keep track of Arknights' story nowadays, but I do keep up with the handful of extra chapters that focus on characters I like, and I like Saluzzo and the Siracusa storyline a lot. Here's hoping things keep moving up from here.

Now to finish Chapter 14 this week... and catch up on Wuwa afterwards.

[noir-renard]

This is @i-ges (I made fan art of IYGABAB awhile ago.) using anon cause i-ges is a side blog.

ANYWAY I just now!? found out my fav DP/DC author likes One Piece! How’d you get into it?

OH MY GOSH HI I-GES I LOVE YOUR ART!!!

As for how I got into One Piece, there are 2 answers. The first time I started watching and reading was years ago, right around the time the Thriller Bark Arc was releasing new anime episodes. I watched everything that was out at the time, then got current on the manga (the Marineford Arc still hurts me lmao 🥲). I think I was partway through the Dressrosa Arc in the manga when I decided to stop reading until the Arc was complete so I could read it all at once and then I just...never started reading or watching again 😅. I don't specifically remember how I picked it up that first time, but it had always been on the periphery as something I was vaguely aware of. Most likely I saw some banger fanart and decided I needed to see what the story was about.

The second time I got into One Piece was last fall. I heard about the One Pace project (they take out a lot of the filler aspects of the anime, like the long minutes of panning, flashbacks from scenes of the previous episode, etc). It seemed like a good way to finally catch up in the most time efficient manner. I think it was fanart of Nika Luffy that finally made me go "okay yes let's get back into this" as well as some cool compilations of the animation styles in the Wano Arc and the Egghead Island Arc. I'm a sucker for cool animation, what can I say 😎

I'm still catching up with the anime, but it's so good to see my frieends the Strawhat Pirates again. I missed them 💖

[princessfanonanona]

Fandom ask meme- N, Y, Z

Thank you for sending me these!

Based on this ask meme.

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice) Oof I guess more original fluff in the teen wolf fandom? also more fluff in the dp fandom sounds like a good idea to me. actually you know what I want? crack in both. actual, rib bruising level of laughter style crack. I wanna see my faves get up into the craziest situations and have hilarity ensue

What are your secondhand fandoms (fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them) Oh there’s so many; The Untamed, Leverage, all of DC, all of Marvel, HTTYD, Sailor Moon, BTS, LotR, AtLA, Star Wars, Star Trek, Supernatural, I could keep going but yeah...I have a very full dash of random things

Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go (prompts optional but encouraged) I guess I’ll ramble on fandom interaction? I’ve been on tumblr for years actual years, I remember those ‘heritage posts’ when they were new, (the breadstick debacle and SuperWhoLock, I was there for the Ball Pit Implosion) and I never understood fandom. I didn’t get it. I mean, logically I understood what the terms meant, (ships, canon, OTP, TTP, meta, etc). I knew the definitions and when to apply what term where and what not to use for other things. But. I didn’t get it. 

I would say my first true fandom interaction was Teen Wolf in college because my dash was filled with TW. I couldn’t find a post for pages that wasn’t TW. There was so much art, and mv’s, and drabbles, gif after gif everywhere. 

So I watched it. And I fell in love with the characters and the world. TW became the first fandom that I got it. This is what fandom is. I inhaled fic after fic. Lurked in the fandom and watched interactions between the Big Names on story ideas and brainstorming. I tried to join the conversations and my voice was lost. I couldn’t write well so my stories were forgotten under wonderful masterpieces. My attempts to engage was buried under notes. So I returned to being a lurker.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not mad or upset about it. I was just a small no name and the Big Names weren’t acting malicious. They had already developed friendships and history with each other and were enjoying themselves. It is not their job to cater to every interaction. I still love their work, one of them is actually a big reason I survived college and It’s the only series I will read again and again.

But it was a moment of learning for me.

I joined other fandoms and I ignored the Big Names and made my own circle. I had fun in my circles. And I made my own art and stories.

And then, life happened, as it does. I stopped writing, I left Tumblr.

I left fandom.

I made new friends and moved on with my life. I would check my tumblr every once in awhile. It was infrequent and for sporadic amounts of time. 

I  joined discord and I found the TW fandom by and large had migrated (I found the link on a fanfic I am mildly obsessed with) so I lurked in the TW server, engaging here and there. I felt (feel still sometimes) small and that's on no one but myself. The server is huge and I struggle with too many voices and too many channels and so many rules I don’t truly understand. The TW fandom are all very nice and welcoming but it didn’t feel like a home I could settle into.

I scrolled into a Danny Phantom post that blew my mind. It was a gif of someone’s art. I am still in aw thinking about it. So I went looking for more. 

And I found stunning art and magnificent stories and lore so deep it felt like it could go on forever.

I didn’t know who was a Big Name or not, and it looked like most of the fandom were on a discord server. So I asked. And I joined a DP server, a small one with some interesting characters. And I was tired of so much personal things and I wanted to feel included somewhere, to feel wanted in a space.

So I engaged, and I listened, and I participated.

And I found that I was, not only welcomed, but my thoughts and opinions mattered. That there were wanted in the conversation.

I kept engaging. I started writing again. Truly writing for the first time in several years. And the phandom loved it. My followers skyrocketed, I received so many comments and add-ons of how much people enjoyed my work.

It absolutely blows my mind. I’m actually happy being in a fandom now. I feel like I found a home, which may not be permanent. I may find a new fandom, I may get busy with life and forget about tumblr and fandoms. But I know I can always return to the place I found and be welcomed home.

[thessalian]

Thess vs MMOs

Over the years, I’ve played a number of MMORPGs. They’ve come. They’ve gone. Mostly they’ve gone. I thought I’d give myself a tiny bit of a retrospective here just to see if I actually miss them.

Final Fantasy XI: This one was my first. At the time, I wanted to try a MMO and had been weighing the relative merits and flaws of this, World of Warcraft and Everquest. In the end, I weighted it on art style and I just really preferred FFXI. That ... in retrospect, was probably a mistake. The levelling ‘system’ was frankly garbage in FFXI, at least in part because there were fairly few quests, even fewer of which you could solo. What it was, right, was ... you went out to a zone pretty far above your level, you put up your LFG flag, and you waited. Or you started a group of your own, whichever. Either way, you ended up in a six-man party, staking out a specific spot on one of the quasi-designated ‘farming’ maps, and you sent out your puller (usually a thief or a beastmaster; someone with range, anyway) to bring monsters to your ‘camp’ for you to gang up on. It was the only way to get a decent amount of XP in one go, particularly given that there were bonuses for chaining mobs. Which in and of itself was a problem when you had overzealous pullers dragging in a new monster before people had finished killing the first one, never giving the casters time to so much as breathe, never mind regen mana. Plus if a zone was overcamped, you ended up fighting over mobs, fighting over campsites, and in general just getting pissed off at other players. Every time a new class got added to the roster, groups ground to a screeching halt for some classes because everyone wanted the new class in their party and that left people still trying to level older classes entirely out in the cold. Endgame content was more or less out unless you had a dedicated guild. Basically, it was meant for the hardcore MMO player. I ... was not the hardcore MMO player. I did manage to level a fair bit in at least one class (White Mage, because healers always prosper, but even they started getting locked out when Scholar became a thing, despite them being neither fish nor fowl until the level 30s or so), but mostly ended up farming low-level stuff for crafting mats until I eventually got bored and stopped paying my damn sub. I don’t miss it. It was pants.

World of Warcraft: It was a good long while before I tried a MMO again, and the next one I went for was WoW, at least in part because I was starting to hear as how you could largely power through it on your own. So I had a good time with that for awhile, and actually started getting invested in at least one of my characters (Blood Elf Paladin who hated undead with the passion of a thousand burning suns because she lost family at the Wrathgate and then had a minor nervous breakdown when forced to serve on the Forsaken Front and basically told the Horde to go fuck itself and, after a brief stint of piracy in Booty Bay, stuck to doing things like repairing Deathwing’s bullshit). Then Mists of Pandaria came out and I just kind of lost interest. I don’t really miss it overmuch. Particularly since it was the first and worst experience of trying a dungeon that I’ve ever had - basically I was unaware when I started playing it that your DPS rating was everything and so I went in as a tank and trying to hold hate when everyone else (including the healer) is spamming damage like it’s going out of style is a nightmare and they eventually booted me out of the party in the middle of fucking Gnomergan because I wasn’t doing enough damage (THAT IS NOT MY JOB, YOU DIPSHITS; I AM HERE TO KEEP YOU FROM TAKING DAMAGE; NOT TO DO MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF IT MYSELF) and let me get eaten by respawns. I swore to myself, never again. ...I lied, by the way. Anyway, I miss it sometimes (well, I miss Missandei the Belf Paladin, really), but not enough to try to throw myself into it again.

Star Wars: The Old Republic: This is where ‘never again’ went wrong, though it took awhile. I had fun in this game for a good long while, actually. Had great fun on my smuggler, and discovered actual roleplaying in a MMO, which led to my trying new things and meeting new friends and generally having a pretty good time. I even started doing group content and dungeons (Ops, really, but hey) ... though I did kind of get locked into healer-mode no matter how much I wanted to DPS every now and then, because I was marginally more good-natured about healing than the other healer-classes in our guild. Then some personal stuff happened and, more to the point, the Zakuul thing started. I disliked being a bit player in my own story, I hated the plot, sticking us with a mechanics-heavy boss fight at the end that we had to solo and which was truly ruinous for some classes was a dick move, and I basically gave up. I don’t miss it. All the parts of it I liked (namely, some of the people I met) are still in my life, and that’s the important thing.

The Secret World: I liked this one, for all I had a year’s break from it because I missed a fairly key benefit to the game - namely being able to skip certain missions. Ironically, I did manage to get that mission completed in the end, but not after I dropped the game for nearly a year because it kept blowing me up (increased movement speed was the key to that fucking mining museum basement, it turns out). But once that was explained to me, I fell comprehensively in love with that fucking game. I ran around in it daily not because I wanted to get my money’s worth out of my subscription (which I didn’t have) but because I was having fun. I loved the story, I loved the setting, I loved not having levels, I loved the ability and skill wheels, I loved customisable builds (and exploited them mercilessly), I loved the dungeons, I loved the cosmetics ... I loved everything about this game. ...Then they turned it into an ARG with reticle targeting that pushed every single migraine button I have and I couldn’t play it anymore. I miss this one. I miss this one so fucking much you have no idea.

Final Fantasy XIV: Honestly, the only reason I got into this was because I needed a new MMO after fucking Secret World: Legends broke my heart, and it wasn’t FFXI ... though I could still play a tiny adorable bringer of destruction if I so chose. But of course, by this time, I was so heavily locked into Healbabe Mode that I just pretty much immediately went White Mage (though Astrologian was always my default once I got the class sufficiently levelled). I liked this one okay but the story left me cold a lot of the time. Loved the crafting, loved some of the dungeon challenge ... actively kind of hated the story. Especially that spot between Stormblood and Shadowbringers where I wanted Fabio von ShampooCommercial to just fucking stay dead already. I did not go through the absolute nightmare hell that was the Shinryu fight to have that fuck-knuckle turn back up again. I don’t miss it. Take your bargan basement Sepiroth and go screw, Squeenix.

Guild Wars 2: I’d actually had this for awhile but hadn’t done much with it. It was another Secret World situation - I went in, I got fed up, I got out, I got dragged back in by ... the same friend, actually (looking at you here, @true0neutral), and enjoyed it a lot more. It’s not as good as TSW was. I don’t love it as much. But it’s sufficiently enjoyable for something I’m not paying a sub for, I can get my Zen crafting on perfectly fine, and that’s all I’m really asking of a MMO at this point. I’d miss it if it vanished. That’s enough.

I did kind of poke at Elder Scrolls Online on one of their beta weekends, if memory serves, but that one was a hard nope from me. Wasn’t into it, found the combat clunky.

So that’s me and MMOs. I had one I truly, truly loved and it was taken away from me and now I have my GW2 popcorn while pining for my One True MMO. Woe.

[thexmoose-blog]

5 Minute Crafts To Do When You’re Bored | Easy DIYS

Hey Guys! I have been really excited for this video for a long time. A lot of other youtubers have done this “5 minute craft” video, and I am very excited to share my version with you guys!

These are all easy, quick crafts to do with household items. Hopefully you enjoy watching these DIYS. Let me know if you want to see more! If enough people want it, I will do a part 2!

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MY UPLOAD SCHEDULE:

Every Friday: Alternating drawing videos (create this book & this is not a book) AND craft/DIY videos

AND

Some Mondays: Squishy Updates, mail openings, vlogs, announcements, unboxing videos, show and tell etc.

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[kelseyannelovelady]

This is why you need to research your blood bank before you give blood.

Articles: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ambrosia-young-blood-plasma-jesse-karmazin_us_5c1bbafce4b0407e9078373c

https://www.businessinsider.com/young-blood-transfusions-launching-first-clinic-new-york-2018-9

UPDATE: I filmed this awhile ago and some things have happened with Ambrosia.

Even though the treatment WAS FDA approved according to my research, the FDA are now WARNING people against the procedure because there's no evidence that it works and it's dangerous. As such, the Company have halted treatments. Despite this, the FDA stills warns people to be warry of blood collectors who MIGHT be colleting young blood plasma for companies like ambrosia. Continue to keep your wits about you.

Articles: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/aging/young-blood-company-ambrosia-halts-patient-treatments-after-fda-warning-n973266

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ambrosia-blood-transfusion-aging-20190228-story.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fda-warns-dont-give-these-companies-your-young-blood

Aplastic Anemia and MDS Awareness Week runs from March 1st through the 5th. As someone who was diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia, I feel it's my duty to spread awareness about these rare but serious disorders.

During this entire week, I am running a charity event. Half of all the proceeds I make from my book and art commission sales will be donated to Aplastic Anemia and MDS Research. I'll also be uploading videos during the entire week to inform and educate.

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Josh Radnor & Aya Cash on Their Romantic Comedy Social Animals

From writer/director Theresa Bennett, the romantic dramedy Social Animals is an honest look at how life doesn’t always turn out the way we want, expect, or hope it will. When Zoe (Noël Wells), who’s facing eviction and dealing with a failing business while being resigned to a life of one-night stands, meets Paul (Josh Radnor), who’s in a marriage (with Jane, played by Aya Cash) that lacks any sort of honest communication, together they realize that while their whole world is unraveling, it might actually lead to a new beginning.  

At the film’s Los Angeles press day, Collider got the opportunity to sit down and chat with co-stars Josh Radnor and Aya Cash about why they wanted to play these characters, what makes this romantic comedy different, telling a story without a villain, shooting at a video store, and working with a female director, both on this film and in general. Radnor also talked about his desire to direct again, and Cash talked about having to say goodbye, as she goes into the last season of her FX series You’re the Worst.  

Image via Vertical Entertainment

Collider:  I have never watched a movie where I’ve hoped a couple broke up, as much as I hoped these two would break up, which was a little emotionally weird. It just felt like that’s what was best for these two. 

AYA CASH:  You can be good people who are bad together. That’s all right.  

JOSH RADNOR:  Good people, bad together. 

CASH:  Yeah, that’s the tagline! 

How long ago did you guys read this and how much did it change, from when you read it to when you actually shot it? 

CASH:  I read it two years before we shot, so I don’t remember how it changed. I thought it just went into the black hole of meetings that happen, when you’re an actor, which is that you go in to meetings and you think you have a great first date, and then you see the movie that you didn’t get. So, I was like, “Wow, she’s so great! We got along. I liked the script,. But I guess she felt differently or hired someone better. But two years later, I got a call and they were like, “Do you want to be in Austin in two weeks?” So, I didn’t see how it changed. I just got to come at it anew. And then on set, the script was pretty set, with a little bit of improv, mainly by Fortune [Feimster], who is a creative comic genius. We stuck fairly close to script, with a little bit of improv. 

RADNOR:  I read the script and just tore through it. I really liked the character and I felt like I had some intuitive sense of how to play him, and I had a great meeting with (writer/director) Teresa [Bennett]. I had never been to Austin, and I loved her taste in music. The whole thing just aligned. I can’t remember how far in advance I got the offer and met her, but it wasn’t like we showed up on set and there was a wildly different script. She wasn’t very precious about it, but we stuck to the script, by and large. If something wasn’t working or we wanted to re-phrase something, she was so open to that. She kept her cool, in the best kind of way, as a first-time director. 

CASH:  She also took seven years to write it, so it changed a lot in those seven years. 

RADNOR:  We didn’t get all the old drafts. We just got the latest draft, which was the shooting draft. 

What was it that you were excited about, with getting the play these characters? Were there things that you felt that you hadn’t gotten to do? 

CASH:  For me, that’s definitely true. I don’t normally play mothers who are responsible business people, so I was excited to do that. Obviously, she is going through something and there’s much more under the surface. Normally, I get cast in the Zoe role, so it was really fun to play the Jane role. When I first met on it, they said, “Think about both characters,” and I said, “I think Jane is more interesting to me right now, just because I’ve been doing the other for awhile.” That was really exciting. We all have different sides to ourselves, and there’s a part of Jane that rings very true to me. It’s not necessarily my best side, but it’s a side, and it’s fun to express that and explore that through a character. 

Image via Vertical Entertainment

RADNOR:  Yeah, I liked this notion of polarity and opposites. I got to be in a romantic comedy, where you’re falling for a woman, and it’s this great romance, but then there’s also this crumbling marriage that’s at the heart of it, that’s kicking him into the arms of this other woman. All romantic comedies are essentially about what’s keeping them apart, and what’s keeping him from just jumping into this thing with Zoe with both feet is that he’s married with children, and he actually loves his kids and his wife. He’s got a moral compass, which I think is a fun internal conflict to play. His heart is drawing him one way, but his sense of basic decency and his marital vows are keeping him in this other place. When you’re an actor and you’re considering roles and seeing how juicy they are, you’re looking for that stuff that’s roiling underneath, and that keeps it from being basic and easy to crack. All of that internal combustion is good fuel, and it’s fun to play. 

I enjoyed how this is really just a simple story about these people who are trying, but it’s just not necessarily working. We’re so used to big, flashy movies nowadays that it’s really nice to see an intimate story where people are trying to work things out.  

CASH:  Yeah. It’s so easy to have a villain or to have someone to blame, so that then you can be like, “Great, I know who to root for.” You’re kicked around in this movie, a little bit, as far as who you’re rooting for and what you’re rooting for, which is interesting to me. 

RADNOR:  A lot of movies sort people into types and say, but anyone who is even half awake in life knows that life is more complicated than that. 

Josh, I loved the fact that your character owns a video store because I have all of these nostalgic memories of being in a video store when I was a kid. It was just was so sad that there was no one in his video store.  

  RADNOR:  I know. That video store was amazing. They actually had both of my movies (Liberal Arts and Happythankyoumoreplease), which I was thrilled about. And in terms of the production design, wherever you pointed the camera, it was so rich with color. 

Aya, you’ve said that you were looking for more female directors to work with, which is something you got from doing this project.  

CASH:  Yeah. 

Was there a specific point where you noticed that you weren’t working with many female directors? 

CASH:  The moment you notice it the most is sex scenes. Doing sex scenes with male directors is a whole different feeling. 

RADNOR:  You should be clear that you mean sex scenes with male directors directing the sex scenes. 

CASH:  Yeah, not in the #MeToo way. It’s just a totally different vibe. And also, the language between men and women around the sex stuff, even if you’re being careful, adds another layer. When you can be franker about what’s going on, and what you’re feeling about a sex scene, about showing your body or not showing your body, and about the reasons why we’re showing sex, a frank conversation can happen when you’re working with women. It’s so interesting, doing a sex scene surrounded by a female crew. Even if there’s a female director, it’s mostly men on the crew. We had a female DP, and all the heads of department were women, so there were a lot more women on set than I’m used to. You don’t notice, until you get the opposite and you’re like, “Oh wait, it can be like this!” That’s not to say that there aren’t great men in this industry. It’s not to say that there isn’t a place for both. It’s not like it’s been so traumatic to work for men. But you don’t even notice that there’s this other option, and there needs to be more of that other option. I’m working on developing a movie, and there is a scene in the shower, where I would be in the shower, and it’s the first time that I’ve considered doing nudity. It’s my own shower scene, and I’m not sure that it’s necessary, but it’s the first time I was really like, “It might be important here, and here’s why . . .” 

Josh, have you noticed whether you were or weren’t working with many female directors, yourself? 

RADNOR:  I’ve actually probably worked with more female directors than male directors. A lot of my feature work has been with women, Pam Fryman directed 200 of the 208 episodes of How I Met Your Mother. I worked with a great director, named Kimberly Senior, on Broadway, in a play called Disgraced. I’ve worked with Jill Soloway (on Afternoon Delight). I’ve worked with a lot of female directors and not had a bad experience. A set is a very delicate ecosystem and, as a director, I always want to create a space that the actors just feel really comfortable and really safe in, so that they can be dangerous in their work. You want them to feel that you see them, and that you’re going to pick their best takes and you’re not out to humiliate them. I think women are particularly good at creating that fertile environment, where great, risky work can happen. 

Are you hoping to direct again soon, yourself? 

RADNOR:  Oh, yeah.  

CASH:  This is where he’s gonna announce his next movie, starring me. I did a reading of his, a long time ago, and he didn’t cast me, and he’s regretted it ever since. He was like, “Don’t worry, I will write you a movie.” Right? 

RADNOR:  Am I supposed to just sign on off this? 

CASH:  No, I’m just putting it in print. I’ll shame you into a job. 

RADNOR:  So now, if I cast you in my next film, people are gonna be like, “Oh, it’s because she shamed him in that interview for Collider. That’s why he did it.”  

CASH:  I don’t care! A job’s a job, baby! 

RADNOR:  You’re such a working actor dame. You’re like the Elaine Stritch of the indie film world. 

CASH:  Just bring it on! 

RADNOR:  Yeah, so, I have a script ready to go that I was gonna do, but other things got in the way. I’m looking to do something ASAP, so the answer is yes. 

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[warlordess]

Pokeshipping Week 2017 : day one : “fishing”

So this was one of the themes I was more eh about originally because I couldn’t think of anything new for such a topic. That being said, I ended up deciding to draw a piece of art based on one of my old fics, “Tactless”, which was about Ash taking advice from friends in order to woo Misty once he realizes somewhere around DP/Sinnoh that he’s liked her for awhile. All of the advice he’s offered fails spectacularly, of course, and he ends up having a long talk with his mom about what’s important, what Misty needs to hear.

I also wanted to include a couple of excerpts from the final two scenes, which I thought would help sell the pic I drew.

"Ash, do you know what every girl in love with a boy wants?" His mother's somber tone caught his attention and he slowly glanced up at her. The sun, setting now on the horizon, flickered over the treetops in the distance, glimmering brilliantly off of his mom's skin. He stared at her profile and realized, yes, his mom had probably been in love once, was probably in love still with his dad.

"A new mallet?" he deadpanned anyway. The one hand was brushing against a particular something he'd found in his pocket. Huh. . . that was strange.

"A what?" She turned to ask him curiously, effectively ruining the moment.

"Nothing." He was still distracted by that thing he'd found. He hadn't even known he'd been carrying it around with him. He had nearly forgotten about it after so long.

"Oh, well. . ." She cleared her throat and tried again. "All any girl in love wants is to know that she's important. If she loves a boy, she wants to know that that boy wants and needs her. She only wants to help him achieve his greatest dreams, no matter what it takes. Even if she can't always be around, all she wants is to stay – to stay. . ."

". . . Connected?" he finished for her, finally pulling that thing from his pocket and holding it up for her to see.

---

"Hey, did you need a. . ." But one look at her best friend showed him removing something from his pocket, a very familiar fishing lure, and slowly looping the line through it. Well, even though her face couldn't possibly get any redder, at least she had an answer to her nearly unasked question.

Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately), fishing was known as a silent sport. If they talked, it had to be in hushed tones and Misty knew she wasn't very good at using such a thing so she kept silent. And, whether he was as embarrassed as her or still trying to find the proper thing to say and the proper way to say it, Ash followed suit and didn't dare open his mouth. Not yet anyway. He seemed rather focused on judging her reaction to his latest tactic.

Misty, for her part, felt something akin to indigestion bubbling upwards from her stomach. Or maybe those were her feelings, the ones she'd put safely away until Ash would maybe have realized that she'd liked him as more than a best friend for a long time now. Her fingers grew agitated just holding onto the pole and waiting for that rather rare bite. Her nerves were on edge, wondering if either one of them would gain the courage to finally say something and stubborn enough to know that it shouldn't be her.

Ash was still in the Growlithe house with her, that was for sure.

But he had tried hard, hadn't he? And she knew that holding back now would only turn him off further. She should offer him the chance to try again by meeting him halfway, right?

Finally, she knew what she could say.

". . . I was sure you would have forgotten about that thing by now, or lost it, or something."

Red stained her cheeks in a rather pretty fashion, despite her embarrassment. Her line of vision seemed to only include the rock she was sitting on at the time, but she preferred it, unsure if she'd be able to appreciate Ash's return confession.

"Yeah, I may be just as shocked as you are," he laughed a little bit, and she would have flinched at the thought that he was so irresponsible, but he continued before she had that chance. "In fact, for a long time after I first got it, it just sat in my bag 'cause I didn't know what else to do with it."

"Ash, it's a fishing lure. What do you think you're supposed to do with it?"

"Yeah but it was hard to come by a lake where we could all sit down and fish for the afternoon. And whenever we did I was too worried to take it out. I kept remembering the note that came attached to it. I thought you'd beat me up if I let anything happen to it so I just refused to give myself the chance."

Misty couldn't help but laugh. Ash thought she'd beat him up? Sure, she was a little violent, but only because of her strong sense of justice. If she did do something to him, it would have been because he'd deserved it, she knew. And the note, the note, she'd forgotten about that one herself. It was only a few sentences long, just her way of stressing how important the thing was, how much effort she'd put into making it, how she'd made it just for him.

She definitely hadn't thought he would care about all of that.

"I was only kidding back then. I just didn't want you to go do something stupid with it. I didn't think you'd just shove it in your bag and never let it see the light of day. I made it so that you could use it to make your team stronger while you were in Sinnoh. It was supposed to be useful, Ash. As long as you don't use it to play catch with Pikachu or throw it at Team Rocket as some sort of sorry excuse for a weapon, then it's fine. It's not as important as helping you become a Pokemon Master," she shrugged as though cementing the fact that she couldn't really care less about what else he happened to do to her special lure but Ash wasn't having any of that.

"I know, you just wanted to help me. You always wanted to help me, didn't you? You just had a funny way of showing it sometimes. Maybe that's why I. . ."

He faltered and turned back to face the water, his hands clenching the fishing pole tightly again. Nope, still nothing biting. Misty had a feeling she knew what was coming, but she couldn't help but wonder why Ash was holding back. He'd told her more than once in the past twenty-four hours how much he liked her. She couldn't understand what was holding his tongue now.

"Besides, you don't have to lie about it. You always loved your lures. They're unique, right? One of a kind? That's why you shape them all like yourself. I haven't forgotten, although it's still kind of funny," he attempted to laugh but she gave him a short glare to keep him from mocking her. Instead he continued speaking, "Well, anyway, it was obviously important to you. Even only as a means of helping me, it was definitely important to you, wasn't it? So why shouldn't it have been important to me?"

He eased up on his pole and slowly reversed the line back towards the base until the famous Misty lure was hanging before them. They both stared at it for a second before Ash cleared his throat and continued speaking.

"It's because of this thing that I realized how important you are to me. Because I didn't show it to anyone until that day and I wouldn't let anyone else get a close enough look at it. I was a little embarrassed but. . . really, more than that, I was really possessive of it. Dawn wanted to see it, wanted to use it, but I wouldn't ever let her. It was a gift from you to me and I wouldn't let anyone else fish with it. And then Buizel showed up," at this he paused and gave Misty a moment to check her mental record of water-type Pokemon, searching the name until she'd found the picture to go along with it, "and he stole all of our fishing rods. The lure too."

"Ash, c'mon, you're saying that the very first day you pulled my special lure out to use it, you let it get stolen?" The slightest glimmer of faith in him that had been returned upon his latest attempt to win her over began to fade out again.

"Well I didn't let it get stolen. I didn't have a chance to stop it from happening. But I didn't let Buizel get away with it either. Nobody could understand why I was so angry. They were just fishing rods, right? Even if Buizel happened to get away with them, we could just get to the next town and buy some more. They're pretty cheap. . . but the rods weren't what I was after. I had to get your lure back, my lure back. Like I said, it was special to me too. And when Dawn mentioned how determined I seemed to be and Brock asked me why I didn't just give up, I realized right away that it was about you. I didn't want to let you down.

"My mom was telling me last night that, when a girl is in love with a boy, she only wants to help him achieve his greatest dreams. For a long time now, my biggest dream has obviously been to become the greatest Pokemon Master. I'll keep fighting for it too. . . but it'll be more worth it if you're there to help me like always, cheering me on in the best way you know how.

"So what I mean. . . or rather, where I'm going with this. . ."

It was here that he faltered, the worry and embarrassment that he should have felt from the get-go suddenly catching up to him and crashing into him all at once. How he'd managed to say it the first time, he didn't know but he had a feeling that it would be hard to get it out again. Misty stared blankly at him, before a faint laugh gathered in her throat. He was always so slow to catch on, wasn't he? But that was fine. . .

"Alright, alright, I get it. I accept your confession, Ash." And as a way to commemorate the moment, she leaned in and kissed him softly on the cheek.

And that’s it! I’ll be back tomorrow with my jealousy-related art that I drew, which I think is a lot of fun to look at! Unfortunately, I’ve only accomplished three themes so far this year but I’m going to try and throw something together for the other ones, or at least the last one that I have great personal attachment to.

I hope this was okay. I tried to scan it officially but of course my printer thingie is on the fritz so I had to use the app on my phone, which is a little faulty.

[vennavibes]

insight please

I have been drawing digitally for well over, I wanna say 6 years now. I have always used Wacom Art Tablets. My first Tablet was about 99$ Canadian and it served me well over the years.

For the last two or three years, I have been using hand-me-down tablets that my Fiance Azlinne has been kindly letting me use. She had a really old on that was kind of shit that I used for a bit, and she has a Intuos Pro small that I’ve been using for awhile now.

The pro is uncapable of hoilding a charge, we have a wireless adapter for it that’s the only reason we can use it, but it doesn’t last for long stints of art and that’s irritating. We literally have to charge it in another tablet that I have that doesn’t have a pen, because the house ate the pen.

I am pretty sure the house has now eaten the pen for the pro too.

So while looking for the pro pen I have HEAVILY considered buying a new pen for the tablets. But to buy a new pro pen is almost 100$ Canadia, and to buy a new pen for the other one is closer to almost 40$ WHICH IS INSANE

I’m tired of charging a tablet through another tablet and I hate that a PEN is literally so expensive!!! So while browsing through Amazon I though about just buying a new tablet. That can range from 100$-400$ Which again is too expensive, I don’t draw for a living I can’t afford that. 

So I decided I’d take a look at Tablet alternatives.

https://www.amazon.ca/Huion-Graphics-Drawing-Digital-Anti-fouling/dp/B01DZ9942W/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

^This right here is a 40$ tablet, that comes with a case, a pen, a glove and a cleaning kit. The Pen need a battery but still that’s a nice deal.

https://www.amazon.ca/Huion-H610-Pro-Graphics-Express-keys/dp/B01HRRFEO0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1492384638&sr=8-3&keywords=art%2Btablet&th=1

^This is 80$ and comes with a rechargeable pen, a glove, and a bag for cleaning and storage (don’t ask me how that works...)

I’m not sure about what I should do, they both sound more appealing than buying a new pen or buying a new wacom tablet. Plus they have pretty good reviews. I’d love some help with the subject because I will eventually need a new tablet anyway, because I don’t have faith the pro will hold for much longer.... But any advice?