#i don't think i could take it

[leavingkamino]

if they pull a rogue one at the end.......

[powerfulkicks]

well maybe i'm paranoid but im seeing a lot of talk of moral ocd crop up recently and i think it's great to be aware of and talk about but my worry is that if it becomes widely known about people will use it to their advantage either to provoke a certain action in us or specifically to hurt us...

[imagibunny]

never let me become a youtuber ever in my life the school live op beamed itself directly into my head and i'm not okay

[irbcallmefynn]

Wait I've seen several posts acting like Tumblr is days away from shutting down

It's not going to, is it? I think I'd genuinely start crying if it is

This platform has done so much good for me and it'd suck to lose it so soon

Fuck I already feel myself tearing up

[bookwyrminspiration]

I just remembered that during book 4, at one point Keefe has a mustache

HEY YEAH HE DOES! the one canon confirmation we got that facial hair exists in the lost cities...and it was KEEFE....unless I'm forgetting another instance.

What I want to know is what happened to the "stache" after the elixir wore off? Did all the hair fall out of his skin, showering down around him? Did it reabsorb, retreating and retracting back into his skin slowly?

Wait was the specific mustache style ever described? Alright page 518, it says he twists the ends into points, so he's got a--hey why is one mustache style called "the daddy" according to this one article. Back to my point, maybe he's got a nice handlebar mustache. i think it'd be funny if he had a horseshoe one though, real bushy.

I think elves should commonly wear elaborate beard and stache styles if they're such a superior species. You know like this or this. Actually nevermind those beards are too cool for these loser elves (said with love). They couldn't handle the power of such lovingly sculpted beards.

Anyway, a little derailed but man. Can't believe Keefe had a mustache for like 26 pages one time.

Wait he was so excited about it too...adult keefe with a mustache...what if he genuinely and unironically grows one?

[dixie12]

the intermission report is talking about trading pat and jonny, and how "they both still want to win" so they think both guys could get traded before the deadline, and i had the worst thought:

what if they get traded to different contenders and have to play each other in the finals 😭💔

[cuteteacakes]

Me: thinks the protag is going to do one thing because the circumstances would honestly fire at least SOME neuron activation???? Like it's obvious that everything he did was to use you????

Protag: does the lovesick "no but he loves me" thing instead ignoring the obvious warning signs

[sicksweets]

I act mean and bitter because I'm afraid if I showed you how much I actually love and care about you you'd like me less

[administer-distractions]

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[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[californiannostalgia]

why is everyone talking about Bolo

what if sam's next character is one of the aeor people frozen in bubbles

second round in playing pre-calamity hubris personality

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[knifearo]

this year my challenge for everyone is to unlearn the association between love and morality. love is not something that is inherently morally good, and the absence of love is not something that is inherently bad. sex without love isn't morally bankrupt, it's just an action. people without love aren't less kind or less good, they're just people. when we can get past this false (and often unnoticed) dichotomy of good love/evil lovelessness then i think we are going to be able to take leaps and bounds in sex positivity, aro advocacy, certain discussions of mental health...

[keii]

late morning

[canisalbus]

Hello! I wanted to ask if you got any inspiration for Machete’s outfits? I would love to find an outfit similar to one of theirs for personal wear but I can never find anything that similar.

Most of his canon outfits are just slightly modified cardinal's cassocks.

Jehan Georges Vibert's paintings have been a recurring inspiration.

The buttoning on his shoes is visually reminescent to late 19th/early 20th century boots and spats.

[vibinginthebg]

Still trying to find how to draw them ✨