#i do not have object permanence

[llamagoddessofficial]

okaayyyy soooo …. I may or may not be making fanart of your Forest God AU.👁👁 ( and possibly a spin off sorta AU story?? self indulgent ramble thing) and I was wondering if you have any examples of the boys antlers / horns ? My guess is that Sans has basically deer antlers but bigger and branch-like, skull has moose antlers but they’re misshapen and twist up in an odd way ( like that story that said they extend up like hands reaching out ), and red has caribou antlers. like a mix of deer and moose because I feel like he’d have the pointy parts of deer for fighting ( and general edgy aesthetic) but the shape and width of moose. I’m bad at explaining so i’ll just add an image. ignore the face shapes tho because I haven’t figured out how I want to really draw that yet and didn’t have examples ;-; it was all rushed hhh

That's absolutely perfect! You've nailed it. But just for the sake of it, here's the reference images I used when writing about the forest god boys' horn structure.

Sans - elk/stag

Red - Caribou/reindeer

Skull - moose/irish elk

Hope this helps!

[werecreature-addicted]

internalized biphobia is crazy "Maybe I'm just faking it, I really do like guys what if I'm straight" I dated a woman for three years. that's not "faking it for attention" behavior

[sergle]

The body positive/plus size art has been great! But you can’t expect people to think there isn’t a discrepancy when you talk about being that, and then posting the pictures you do. You’re allowed to be average, especially now after the reduction. Super skinny people also have a different experience too. It’s just that you talk about being plus sized and people relate to that and the art and then look at pictures of you, and suddenly feel dysmorphic?

Me when I'm Average and Thin

Me when I'm so so skinny 🧡🧡🧡

[friendlycatwife]

I get a lot of people telling me Helluva Boss is gonna get better or that’s it’s all leading to some big something. If that does happen, I think we gotta understand what that means.

At this point, at least to me, the current ideology is so baked into the show that any sudden deviation would feel like a Twilight Zone-level twist. We’re talking WORLD SHATTERING!

So much time has been spent setting up a very specific toxic environment. To say it was all a ploy and in actuality the show was against these things the entire time would not only be incongruous with everything we’ve seen up to now, but it would also be just like so insulting to the audience.

It’s not a new trick. We’ve all seen some sort of media that, for instance, sexualizes a character and then says that you, the audience, are bad for sexualizing them. No my dude: YOU’RE the one that presented this to us. You can’t critique the male gaze by just giving in completely to the male gaze. We’re not children. You can’t treat us like that.

It’s lampshading but the lamp is on fire (I think that’s a song?)

Point is, you can’t just switch your narrative at the end like that. You made Blitzi and Stolas’s relationship this way. You don’t get to get out of it that easily. See your choices through 💯

[vaperarmand]

Do you picture Luke or young!Eric when you write young!Daniel? Inquiring minds are desperate to know

i do picture luke but specifically this picture.

i can’t express how much this picture has affected my psyche in the way i view them. this picture has shaped the entire dm relationship in the 70s and 80s in my mind. this pictureeeeeeee

i do know that in the 90s onward i imagine eric. the only time i’ve explicitly written the mid 80s/night island era is in my new yuri wip which is a whole different beast entirely. but honestly by then i probably imagine eric too?

[aleksikesa]

You really can’t make this shit up

[inflammatoryfandomblog]

Why is the worldbuilding in ATLA more cohesive than in TDP?

because the writers actually remember it as a context for its story and characters.

........... ok more elaboration.

the worldbuilding in ATLA and TDP is very similar in the respect that they have color-coded elements where each "nation" has each element. in both series the color-coding exists to make each group obviously and immediately different.

in ATLA the cultures deeply matter to the characters and story. as early as the first episode you see hints about the culture of the water tribe from katara and sokka. you know sokka has put this immense pressure on himself to be a Warrior and his sexism is partially an outgrowth of that. katara is fascinated by waterbending and her culture but there are no resources for her to learn because of the war, and you immediately get the idea she's also hoisted on a "mom role" from a very early age. all of this reinforces the patriarchal standards of water tribe culture and also the fact that they're impoverished thanks to the war. the characters would not be the same if you transported them to a different setting.

like some of the dialogue can be clunky and the entire conceit of the world is obviously kiddish ("fire nation" "water tribe" "earth kingdom" "air nomads" is not going to win any realism of the year awards.) but it's a very effective introduction to these characters and ties them explicitly to the setting.

in tdp it matters fuck-all. rayla is a moonshadow elf and the effects of their honor culture are clear on her. out of all the characters i'd say her, runaan, and ethari are probably the most developed in the aspect of "the setting should inform the characters." yes runaan and ethari are shitty parents but honestly like what would you expect from an honor culture society where one party is an assassin who allowed rayla to become one thanks to her guilt complex, even when ethari expressed doubts?

this is basically thrown away to tell her "oh dw all your parents (dads + bio parents) are all Good and Did Nothing Wrong." they also scrub away all of her flaws that she exhibited in the first season, or really anything that might make her seem like a "bad person." the moonshadow elves are just scrubbed to be Vaguely Good Guys With No Problems And Whose Choice to Ghost a Teenager Must be Respected (finger wag from the writers.) this could have been genuinely compelling drama for rayla. the setup is there. but they just forget about this stuff i guess.

how about callum and ezran? how does the culture of katolis or indeed any of the human kingdoms rub off on them? does their culture actually inform anything they do? i mean besides the fact that the human kingdoms aren't magical because of dark mage lords eating magic or whatever, which, by the way, the idea of dark mage lords doing this is like. in supplementary material and there is 0 indication of it happening in the actual show. do they have a particular culture or perspective at all? does even something as simple as the fact that they are princes and might have some differences with the common people ever come up? no. they're just bland POV characters who are high-minded to a kind of absurd degree. their context is very clearly supposed to be "Normal." which isn't a context at all because nobody's context is actually Normal. it should be normal to the character, but a grave mistake for the writer to treat it as such.

with the elves it's a little better but still not great. they have at least thematic set-up but moonshadow elf culture is the best of them, which isn't saying a whole lot. what exactly is the relationship between the dragons and the elves for example? who knows!

the writers frequently forget that their characters are situated in a particular situation in a particular world. i mean my favorite example to throw around is the time one of the writers said (on twitter) that khessa's comment to janai ("have fun with your pet") was meant to be a tease about their relationship. and that's insane to me. "have fun with your pet" does not work as a cheeky little tease when you are talking about a pow who's afraid for her life and you are a cruel monarch that tortures people for funsies? like this is khessa endorsing SA if you decide to take the show's context with any level of seriousness. this isn't a coffee shop au? this isn't a high school au? this is supposed to be a high fantasy with actual stakes that addresses Deep Themes? the context to a situation that these hacks themselves wrote should matter?

etc. etc. xadia does not feel like a real place because the setting is completely disconnected from the characters, and only matters to the story insofar as "wow look at this Cool Place you will find your Macguffin in!" It's just about worse in every way even if on the surface it may appear to contain """nuance."""

[runawaymun]

Six Sentences Some(mon)day

Rules: post six sentences of your WIP

Tagged by: @emyn-arnens - thank you!! :D I love being tagged in these. It motivates me to keep writing my WIPs so I have something to share haha.

From Beneath a Boundless Sky:

 Anyone who wasn’t a thane was hungry, and thanes still had stomachs; they too would starve if the food finally ran out. Unless one of them had some new and magical way to cure their barren fields, aid from their neighbors was their only option, and all of their close neighbors were elves. The þulir had been muttering over those fields for five years to no avail. The yield remained low every season. They said there was a sickness in it, some malice that rotted the crops or else stunted their growth. Many seiðmaðr theorized there were evil spirits devouring plants before they even had a chance to sprout.

From To Partake:

Beloved Tyelpe,  I apologize that I do not have much time to communicate! But I wanted to pen you a letter and tell you all of the comings-and-goings thus far of my time here in Mithlond. Many things have happened since last we spoke. Before you worry, know that the King has been good to me. I am happy. I am even making new friends…or at least, I am finding friendly faces. So is Erestor, it seems.

No pressure tags for: @jaz-the-bard @niennawept @polutrope and anyone else who would like to share. Just say I tagged you :)

[b4kuch1n]

tdov was like a week ago already but I just wanna say when I came over to vacation slash help my sworn brother move flat he told me, "ever since you said you wanted to get top surgery I've been thinking about it. it's straight up number two on my bucket list"

[your-reluctant-optimist]

New month, new budget!

I'm trying to act all ironic, boo, boring, but I actually find it so satisfying to add every single transaction to my little list. It's so orderly and pleasing.

[bookwyrminspiration]

I love making jokes about shitty object permanence and being forgetful but it’s also genuinely so fucking annoying

[mikkeneko]

Shen Qingqiu at pretty much all times:

[essektheylyss]

actually finished a writing piece for the first time in MONTHS and it was confirmed good, we are so fuckin' back babey

[noys-boise]

sometimes my anxiety brain will go "here's 1001 ways your favorite person could start to hate you suddenly out of nowhere to agonize over while he's not online" and I'm just supposed to go "cool. leave me alone" at my own brain i guess

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

the desire to do comms vs my inability to remember that i got a message FIGHT-

[paranormaljones]

bruhhhhhh i am coming to terms with the fact that i REALLY need to work on healing my attachment style because i got that anxious avoidant combo like i couldn't pick a struggle