#i cant wait to start posting on here

[luke-warme]

i have spent the past 7 years never understanding how to create digital art, it was always ao confusing, too lany buttons, different layouts for apps, not feeling comfortable using a drawing tablet.

but now. now, i’ve learnt the secret, and its finding the type of art you enjoy. in truth i could’ve spent my entire life just using physical media, messing around with paints and the sorts, but now I’ve discovered i’m somewhat decent at pixel art and its like a whole new world has opened up to me.

I’ve started looking forward to creating art again, my creative spark is back, and i love it oh so much

[westywallowing]

wondering why he jumped out of the way,,

(a prelude for a new au I'm making :))

[scarrletmoon]

okay i know the Discourse™️ has been going on for way too long at this point, but

i think some people outside of the OFMD fandom don’t actually get why we’re particularly annoying about this show

OFMD is not the first queer show to ever exist. if anything, it's a late entry in decades of queer media. over a year and a half since the first few episodes aired, everyone knows that OFMD is queer. that doesn't make it particularly special

but back in March? this is the trailer that dropped in February of 2022, 2 weeks before the premier. if you're used to seeing queer chemistry in shows that aren't intended to be queer, you might see the hints between Ed and Stede here. but to most people? it's just a silly little pirate comedy. just guys being dudes. the trailer doesn't even hint at the other 2 canonical queer relationships in the show -- the closest it gets suggesting romance is the music and the pink in the poster

so when people watched this show in March 2022, they went into it expecting subtext and nothing else. to them, it was like watching Sherlock or Supernatural or Merlin in the 2010s. if you were in any of those fandoms -- especially Sherlock and Supernatural -- you know what it was like; constant jokes at our expense, being mocked for creating explicit fanwork, made fun of by the creators and within the show itself. if we saw queer subtext, that was our problem. this was a time when you pretended NOT to be in fandom, for fear of ridicule. we kept our fanwork to ourselves, we DID NOT share it with the cast, and we accepted that our favourite ships would probably never be canon. maybe one day, if we were lucky, we'd have a show where the subtext wasn't mockery as much as deliberate foreshadowing -- but that had to be YEARS away

right?

OFMD was never billed as a queer show, not in the beginning. there was no LGBTQ+ tag on (HBO) Max, it wasn't on anyone's list of upcoming queer shows in 2022, it flew under the radar through most of its first season. this was a show about pirates, and sure, some of them were queer. but not the LEADS. if you think they're romantically involved, that's must be fandom brain poisoning

except the 9th episode aired, and they kissed. and the show said "you're not crazy for thinking they have chemistry because they really do. it's been a romance this whole time". and in the 10th episode, Stede realizes that he's in love

(not mandating you watch this clip if you don't care for the show, but there's something that feels particularly earth shattering about no one saying the word gay but knowing that Stede's realizing he is, that it's completely unambiguous and explicit in a way that only straight romances are usually allowed to be)

this is why people freaked out about this show. no one knew. even the creator, David Jenkins, was surprised when WE were surprised that it was gay for real -- he set out to write a love story, using all the tried and true beats of a rom com. he'd never even heard of the term queerbaiting. he looked at historical Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet and thought "oh, there's something here" and just...wrote that, with very little fanfare, like it was inevitable. like it was obvious. of course Jim and Pam end up together. of course Buttercup and Westley end up together. what kind of disappointing ending would it be if You've Got Mail ended with the main characters just going their separate ways?

so of course Ed and Stede are in love

look, i get it. we're annoying and won't shut the fuck up about this show that seems mediocre at best. i watched the whole thing back in march, thought "huh, that was cool" and was sure that i'd forget about it in a few days

an hour after looking at fanart on twitter, i was lost in the fucking sauce

there's just so much to unpack from a mere 10 episodes. it covers racism, toxic masculinity, gender expression, sexuality, trauma and abuse. and i don't think we should overlook the fact that the non-white characters in this show get to be fully human in a way i haven't seen in my favourite shows in recent memory

additionally, most OFMD are 25 or older. we're not people who've been spoiled by queer rep, who don't get how hard it used to be, how you'd have to grovel for scraps, how shipping and fanfiction was a way to find queer rep where we thought there never would be. we've been here. we're annoying about this show because for a lot of us, it's the first time we've been treated like our queerness isn't an anomaly that needs to be relegated to its own section, that needs to be praised for the bare minimum of acknowledging that we exist. it's not pulling punches to avoid scaring away a straight audience. it just is.

OFMD for me is like when i watched Black Panther for the first time and realized that this is what white people felt all the time. have there been other black superhero movies? of course! does Disney fucking suck? BOY does it. but that was the first time i got to sit in a movie theater and watch a mainstream film that looked at Africa and said "look at how beautiful you are, exactly as you are"

and idk. i think that's really cool

[irafuwas]

🌹: Jack, what on earth is that outfit supposed to be? You look like you’re headed to a party or something. It’s slovenly. Now button up your shirt!

🐺: Uh, looks like you're gonna be hitting up that party with me, Riddle Senpai! You're totally decked out with flowers right now.

🦈: Bwahahaha! You look sus as hell in those sunglasses, dude. They suit you to a T. Heh, this is great.

🐙: Look who's talking. If you went into town dressed like that, the crowds would part like the red sea with how sketchy that getup is.

🦇: What in the world just happened… Yuu! What about me!? How's my outfit, do I look cute!?

🦐: You look very cute, yes.

🦇: Oh, thank goodness. Crisis averted!

🐈: I know you’re always tryna look cool, Ace, but you really went off the deep end this time. Who do you even think you are, tryna pull off that tacky getup!?

❤️: The heck!? When the hell do I ever try and look cool? Besides, you’re one to talk. I bet if you looked up “tacky” in the dictionary there’d be a picture of those flaming red sunglasses next to it!

[todayisafridaynight]

[apocalyptic-byler]

WHEN EL DROPS THE BOMB THAT SHE HAS HER POWERS BACK THEN WHAT???? WHEN WILL DROPS THE BOMB THAT VECNA IS STILL ALIVE AND HE CAN STILL FEEL HIM THEN WHAT???? WHEN KAREN FINDS OUT ABOUT THE UPSIDE DOWN AND EVERYTHING ELSE THEN WHAT???? WHEN THE PARTY GETS A SIGN THAT MAX’S SOUL OR WHATEVER IS STILL PRESENT THEN WHAT????? WHEN MIKE FINDS OUT EDDIE IS DEAD AND THE TOWN BELIEVES HELLFIRE IS A CULT AND HE IS A TARGET THEN WHAT????? WHEN NANCY FINDS OUT ABOUT JONATHAN’S COLLEGE LETTER THEN WHAT???? WHEN MIKE FINDS OUT ABOUT THE PAINTING THEN WHAT???? WHEN WILL FINDS OUT THAT MIKE TRIED TO CALL HIM THEN WHAT????? WHEN VECNA STRIKES AGAIN THEN WHAT???? WHEN MONSTERS START DESTROYING HAWKINS THEN WHAT????? WHEN WILL REALIZES HE HAS POWERS THEN WHAT????? WHEN DUSTIN STARTS LOSING HIS USUAL HUMOR AND BECOMES MORE QUIET BECAUSE OF EDDIES DEATH/GRIEF THEN WHAT????? WHEN LUCAS FINDS OUT EL SAVED MAXS LIFE THEN WHAT????? WHEN MIKE FINDS OUT VECNA TARGETED NANCY THEN WHAT????? WHEN WHEN WHEN

[pokemon-leggins-arcoos]

IRIDA FOR MERMAY 𓆝 ⋆｡𖦹°‧𓇼

[scribesofcalamity]

In my infinite thoughts about my vampires, I’ve really worked on their timelines around the games they’re in and created characters that are part of their stories,either directly or part of an AU-including Seth’s and Solomon’s Sires, a fellow mercenary buddy for Seth,and then Virgil (who is my partner’s character!)and Sophie's lover. I’ve of course made little concept sheets for all of them as I figured out how to draw them and the little things about them,and finally managed to clean those up,add flat color,and update their notes a bit. Although most of these characters will never be directly played at a table, they’re all very special to me and were very fun to create and flesh out! 🥹💕

[ethan-ooeeoo]

bugs when you lift up a rock

[skunkes]

beginning to understand the power of a traditional sketchbook

[camzverse]

apologizing in advance for the person i will become when the next pjo show season comes out

[kaatiba]

i guess i should just accept that i am primarily a fanfiction writer. i've completed one (1) long-form original work in my whole life and it's increasingly feeling like a fluke. i've written two "collections" of prompt fills, which are very like fanfiction as you take someone else's idea and run off with it, but they're not short stories really, as they're not complete narratives, just expansions. fanfiction I can write quickly and easily and well and I almost always finish them. but I can't do the same with og work no matter how hard I try. And maybe that'll change in the future but I just feel like a failure and a fraud and a flop

[monsterbisexual]

the silt verses: chapter 34

chapter 38

[voidimp]

long day yesterday but i found a couple of my favorite old plushies

[risingsunresistance]

twitter is entering their "rts > likes" phase now that likes are private after they spent years calling us ungrateful for being demotivated by ratios lmao

[codecicle]

Ash how is the fated watching going rn?? You’re braver than most

godd wampus im fucking THRIVING right now. this campaign sucks so bad it's genuinely unwatchable at times and I think that's the appeal to me <3 they spent like 10 minutes just describing and figuring out how the money system works and literally none of them sound like they've ever played dnd before and i don't think it will ever pass the bechdel test once the entire campaign even with velrissa trying her hardest but it goes crazy anyway

br'aad is my favorite character by a lot right now,, he's my FREAKK i love him and his idiot swagger so much. he's supposed to be charismatic but he sucks so bad at it everyone hates him but sticks around with him anyway. he's a warlock and his patron stops time and gives him insight on things/danger to come and kicked off the main plot in the sickest sequence I've ever seen. also his gayboy ass really did walk so every other gayboy slimecicle character could run !! they were so right !! and the party spent the first and second session hating everything he said and did . Took them sooooo long to be normal about him but they got it eventually when mountain (MY MAANNNNNN) defended him. Also he says everything with ^_^ . Just outloud you can hear it in his voice

for the rest I think the only other character that's talking enough to form an opinion on is taxi. and that opinion is STRONGLY a good one o(-( ! his banter with br'aad is so fun they're the only characters that feel Real and In The World so far and I love it so much. the names bit where br'aad kept getting his name wrong and calling him "saxi" and whenever he corrected him br'aad would just go "I know saxi. Nice to meet you im br'aad!" actually had me in tears at a certain point they're the only ones that have gotten me to laugh fr fr so far

sadly velrissa mountain and sylnan just Don't Fucking Talk so i don't have any real concrete opinions on them yet other than "hmm. Interesting ^_^" velrissa and her necromancy stuff is so neat so far I hope we get to see it in action soon instead of just small mentions here and there. same with the dynamic between sylnan and br'aad I NEEED to see more snockers scenes like their sibling scamming bullshit seems so cool I can't wait for them to emotionally rip my heart out through my throat. I can feel it coming

honestly the main appeal of it all is the characters and the characters alone. them slowly becoming friends and trusting each other will fuck with my brain permanently. I already cheered out loud when they so much as INSINUATED that they could stand br'aad and his charisma and they don't actually hate being around each other like that made me so happy. their meeting makes no sense but that's okay the Shenanigans with the solid snake box and br'aad trying and failing to stealth was so fun and "nice forearms, and a nicer staff!" and the little weirdo gremlin goblin following them around they're all very scared of and creeped out by (except for br'aad. he is strongly sexually attracted to goblins. this is canon and brought up over and over again) all make up for it. the story really doesn't matter to me here at all ^_^ all i care about are the characters being happy and traveling together and that's what makes the campaign enjoyable for me