#i am on the spectrum i fear

[sulfvr]

Bastard stupid ugly-ass unloved experimental idiot failed abortion curbchewer little shit child (affectionate) fanart

so uhh here's my art of this dumb little disgusting thing that has bore it's way through my skull and made a nest in my brain. @asmogorna thank you for making this little dirt child that won't leave my frontal lobe whatever I do (I love him so much oh my goddd oh my goddd oh mygoddddd)

[jensensitive]

the thing is i actually think that soldier boy hooking up with a guy would flip a switch in sooo many straight men's minds

[lgbtlunaverse]

I know everyone here loves a good "A is injured and/or killed and their partner B absolutely loses it and puts the fear of god into everyone around them" as well as unhealthy devotion to the point of love superceding both self preservation and morality. They're classics for a reason. And I think it's fun that in mdzs basically every single one of the examples for either of these have not been romantic (I think lwj would be up for some wei wuxian-motivated murder if you put him in the right situation but the most he ever did in canon was injure some of his elders, and while intense his grief is mostly silent rather than explosive) but familial. All of the big revenge plans and post death/injury deadly freak-outs have been about family. Wei wuxian (and, honestly, Jiang Cheng) for Jiang Yanli. Wen qing and Wei Wuxian (again) for Wen Ning. Jin Guangyao for his mother. And, of course, the whole fucking plot is set in motion by Nie Huaisang going "I don't give a fuck who it sacrifices in the process i will get revenge for my brother's death" for Nie Mingjue.

It really is "unhealthy codependent family dynamics: the novel." I like it.

[hypodermicfroggy]

...I know I'm "just" aromantic, but sometimes I really wish I could come out to my mother and it does make me sad I'll never be able to.

[clockworkreapers]

How long have these OCs been around? Did they exist before the 2020 comic or did it pop into your mind just then???

Oh no they were made LONG before I even had the idea of making a fan adventure, honestly I don't even think I knew fan adventures existed when I made them. The main 6 were made (as far as I know it's hard to place when I didn’t date any of my old old sketchbooks) when I was 13 so they are a decade old now. The first image I posted here that had any of them was in 2016 so I would have been 16 then. In 8th grade though I remember actually getting into fantrolls cuz I made a lil mache statue of the first version of Dextra (the weird sona with the purple hair and clock horns) in my art class and I remember drawing her with the very first versions of my characters at some point during that time. Now I know the main 6 came a few months before her and in the OG sketchbook that lines up cuz her first version appeared like 20 pages after they did. I was 12/13 in 8th grade so that's like the only way I can really “pinpoint” when they were made really. I do still have the sketchbook I first drew them in as well I just don't have it dated cuz what 12/13 year old remembers to date their sketchbooks lol 

There's something fun for you, those are all the first drawings I could find of each of them VS the ones I did in senior year of collage with their fancy godtiers, vast amount of development and improvement over a decade.

[brittlebutch]

one thing i do love about Brennan's storytelling is how often he creates characters who carry Anger with them. like, it's not an anger that subsumes or permeates who they are, nor does it tend to Remain throughout the entirety of their arcs, but it's there, in Zelda, and Hob, and Evan, and Ayda, and Nikhil, and so on. Characters who snap and snarl and growl and shout, and - and this is Key - are never like, reprimanded, or corrected, or resented for it. i cannot express how much this means to me

[savage-rhi]

🫂

[moe-broey]

LIKE........ @ the prev post about armor flexibility.... Is That Why They Look Like That??????? 👁️👁️

Something else fascinating I found actually when I was comparing the Askr trio (knowing Alfonse and Sharena largely match, just a few differences here and there), wanting to get a better look at Anna...

SHE HAS BIG ASS BOOTS?!????? I. COMPLETELY FORGOR ....... it gives her a real sturdy look though. Hm.... (Thinking about what this means for characterization/how I'd draw her, esp w my initial impressions kind of. Being the opposite of this LMFAOOO oops 😥)

[clowningcrows]

i fear i cannot mentally or emotionally handle being conscious much longer so im gonna take a melatonin and hope to god it works enough to make me pass out by 8:30 tbh

[possum-quesadilla]

I just saw Longlegs twice in 24 hours. Am crocheting a sandworm. Received my MatPat retirement figurine in the mail today. Staring longingly at my framed mini painting of Venom.

I think there may be things wrong with me aside from The Obvious

[rawliverandgoronspice]

One thing I really like is that the whole Unhallowed Vespers trilogy (so Litany, Descant and Antiphon) is that is really served as my brainstorming test grounds for Thralls.

There are ideas in there I realize I don't like as much as I thought in hindsight, or conflict with other stuff I decided I'd rather pursue instead, and I get to have explored them before committing to those in a more long-form kind of project --or some that are too subtle or complicated to be carried out outside of writing (mostly thinking of a ton of Ganondorf character details, some things about gerudo culture that I want to tweak, characters that are getting axed because We Don't Have Time, etc).

On the contrary, there are things I set up in there I never actually got to explore, and I get to pull out that thread in here instead (basically every single of the hylians' character arc roughly, Nabooru, even Impa in a way). It's pretty weird and interesting to revisit the same core ideas twice, but in a different medium and with different character arcs in mind starting off the same thing.

[lovebloods]

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[agios-rio]

What I've learned from my book of alien abduction cases so far*:

- aliens are keeping an eye on us because they want to figure out what went wrong with our development as a species

- because impending self-annihilation shouldn't be the way of things

- rather we should be finding ways to connect to each other, other species, and eventually other planes of existence

- they are trying to help us without intervening directly because they know we would lash out in fear

- they are amazed at our capacity for feelings. they don't feel as intense as we do (but they do feel the same things)

- and they love us. they love us a lot. they love us. they care about what happens to us because they love us.

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*Abduction by John E. Mack (who was the head of the department of psychiatry of fucking Harvard Medical School for 27 years and won a Pulitzer in his younger years. Make of that what you will.)

Look. Am I 100% convinced this is true? Nah. But it's a nice thought. If there are beings out there I'd rather they adored us. And being saved from the pickle we've manoeuvred ourselves into makes me way more hopeful than any alternatives. Because we sure as fuck ain't going to get ourselves out of this alone. And I like the idea of the universe running on love. So I'll just integrate all that into my belief system.

[brown-little-robin]

I spent a wonderful day with family on Sunday, went to church, and drove through a terrifying thunderstorm late at night, and I feel like I'm a whole new person.

It's spring and it's perfectly warm and humid with a cool wind.

[sammydem0n64]

Tbh fellas my identity has reached a point of true “idgaf” (it has been like this for months actually. Lolz.) Thinking abt it gives me brainrot. Pronouns? Idc call me whatever. Gender? I am not a man that’s all I got. Sexuality? Idk. I don’t wanna date people tho!!!!!!!!! I don’t wanna find myself!!!!!!!!!!!! I am Aaliyah sammydem0n64 and I am autistic and that’s it‼️‼️‼️‼️

[sibyl-of-space]

an important part of being an artist is learning that every single other artist you will ever meet is somewhere else on the "cringe" to "normie" spectrum than you. and that every single other artist you will ever meet also has a different internal "cringe" to "normie" spectrum and they think YOU'RE the one in the wrong place. AND that your OWN "cringe" to "normie" spectrum, along with your place on it, will shift as you interact with more and different kinds of artists.