#i am literally astonished

[stingrayextraordinaire]

I don’t think there is any art in the world quite as astonishing as Kinuko Craft’s illustrations for Patricia McKillip’s novels

[jash-updates]

Most normal energy drink consumer

[breezere]

Sooo...looking through you account and I was wondering....

More Venom-Kokichi please? 🥹

THE BOYS R BACK!!!! ......but somethings Different

[stinkiesdraws]

[justajsworkshop]

holy shit. just saw christ and yogananda during meditation—i was on the cusp of consciousness, about to fall asleep—and they said “you already know how to do this,” referring to the void state. and i had this sudden clarity to just resist nothing—nothing i feel, nothing i experience, no judgments on what i think i “should” be doing—resist none of it, and to simply allow the experience to take me.

i didn’t enter, but i did feel this astounding clarity and conviction that this is who i am and that i have been victorious, with a resounding feeling of “i did it”. what an amazing experience. i feel so clear now. set the intention, then resist nothing.

[itspileofgoodthings]

I JUST LISTENED TO HITS DIFFERENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WHILE—-

[skollwolf]

When "he would not fucking say that" escalates to "did we even read the same book?????"

[follyshroom]

i just finished chapter five of forward2000 wtF HAPPENDD

[bookinit02]

i am going to write dialogue like the bear writes dialogue or i am going to DIE TRYING

[margridarnauds]

How to write a funding request that is like "Look, for the sake of my work, I can't be on campus but I can't be at my normal non campus accommodations either. Please pay for me to be as far away from both as possible. Preferably about 3000 miles away, in fact. I will accept goat herding on the Aran Islands as an alternative."

[honimello]

oh i’ve about had it lol

VENT TW

i posted my fourth chapter of in the midnight hour on ao3 (5th chapter on ao3) and the first comment i get is just… so disheartening. it wasn’t necessarily mean but it wasn’t very constructive either, it was just sort of rude. obviously i fixed what they were upset about (i forgot to mention the readers pronouns in the summary) but i really don’t understand why they had to say it the way they did.

i can really understand what it’s like to read something that you really like and then be pulled out of it with wrong pronouns or a description of the reader, but you have no right to tell someone they’re wrong or bad or gross or evil for writing it. all you have to do is either ask politely for them to specify in the description/summary, or don’t say anything at all and just click off the post. you do not have to read something that you don’t like or makes you feel bad. (and the readers pronouns were being used right from the beginning of the story and the summary so i don’t know why it was a surprise for them)

the readers pronouns are mentioned within the summary itself, but since i had afab as a descriptor for the reader this person decided that i was co opting trans language. i am not cis. i have been using afab and amab as descriptors for readers for a very long time, as well as trying to specify pronouns as well. they told me to use fem reader instead or cis fem reader but that’s not always the case! what if i want a reader who uses she/her, is afab, but isn’t cis? like i don’t understand why that’s a wrong label in this context?

am i in the wrong here? like can someone actually tell me if i’m the asshole right now because i feel so bewildered

this just makes me feel so horrible. first thing i’ve written in over a month and i can’t even fucking do that right it seems. i’m so just horribly sad right now.

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

we truly are at the stage of moving where we are throwing money at problems

[louistardust]

there are people at barricade tonight that get to touch tanktop louis and none of them are me

[waywardsalt]

okokokok so on the topic of botw/totk link having little to no emotion in cutscenes. ive said it in other posts but in botw it honestly makes sense given his present scenario and you are given a pretty good reason for it in the past. he's under a lot of pressure and he's just trying to do his job. in totk it does not work because he should have new memories now and he has memories with these new sages and with zelda and yet he's all but stonefaced with this people. there are some micro expressions and that's fine. but to me the problem with his lack of emoting in cut scenes is that it makes him very devoid of personality. he doesn't talk, so you're going to get the most of his personality from the way he moves and emotes, but in the cutscenes he just comes off as... dutiful stoic knight. with no meaningful feelings towards these people supporting him.

i'm not asking for him to be animated with all of these flourishes to give him some bombastic personality, but i just want to see him... react to stuff. see him express some extra emotion asides from determination.

people argue against botw/totk link having no expression by pointing out that he DOES emote quite a bit in gameplay and pointing that that there! there's his personality! and yes! i see it! and that kind of makes his lack of emotion in cutscenes worse! he can be and has been animated with personality and preferences and reactions and for some reason none of it is in the story important cutscenes! normally it's the other way around!

this isn't even fully about him having minimal expressions: i get it when people say it's maybe an autism thing, and that makes sense! i personally don't do a whole lot of expression when i'm under pressure, so i get it! that makes sense! i don't necessarily want him to have the facial expressions that skyward sword link had, i just want to see some shred of visual personality out of him in these cut scenes.

i mean... in ocarina of time, when the great deku tree is done telling his little story, you see that link has been sitting down. that's... something! stuff like the way he gets out of his bed and the speed at which he walks or runs in cut scenes... the engines oot and oot3d were done on can't allow for the same kinds of animations as botw/totk, but we still got little bits of personality just out of the way he moved his body. you emote with your body as much as your face. i may have a fairly straight face, but the way i may move gives away how i feel and how i act.

i wanted something like what we got in that first scene under hyrule castle- i wanted more of the moment when he gently takes zelda's torch because he knows her, understands that she may need both of her hands, and is willing to hold this torch for her while she grabs her stuff. you get a bit of personality out of that, you get that he knows zelda and how she works to some degree, and you get that there is trust between them because of this.

as far as i remember, this is the only instance of link being animated in such a way that suggests personality and his relationships with others. he emotes and is animated plenty outside of story beats, so he's very lively in dialogue options and little extra cutscenes, but in story beats, where he is interacting with his friends and discovering history and incredible secrets and trying to help the people he cares about and the world he cares about- it's all washed away, and it's kind of frustrating. i don't want anything big, just subtle little things, like his taking zelda's torch for her. something that isn't just him interacting with his environment and tepidly reacting- something that suggests little things about him and his opinions.

[inverse-problem]

was about to p-rank 1-3 and then the hideous mass was enraged and at a tiny fraction of its health bar but then I ran out of nailgun nails and panicked and died

[helreginn]

Happy Coats' Disease Awareness Day for all who celebrate.