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wmnylander · 11 months ago

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someone posted mo’s OT winner in game 3 as all star propaganda (real) and it felt like a kick to the kneecaps

#my red flag (?) is that when a good thing happens i cannot go back and rewatch it #i have to let it sit in history #eg. i cannot rewatch monza 2021 #or any of the mavs 2022 playoff run #or the 2022 nba finals #& i most certainly cannot watch the lightning series (or the panthers but i don’t know how anyone could YUCK!)#all good things that i cannot bring myself to revisit because those are a set memory in time that i do not want to taint

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 year ago

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Wei Wuxian eats a watermelon. Yep!

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #nothing out of the ordinary here. Just good fandom fun #Watermelon discourse has been going on and I want to let people know where I stand.#This came about because I wanted to experiment with translating the (traditional) PD-MDZS style to a digital format #and while sitting there thinking of what to draw...my inspiration came to me.#This is the equivalent of sneaking vegetables into the spaghetti sauce but its important to get your gotdamn veggies #I'm not very good at organizing my thoughts (evidence: the tags of every post on this blog).#but please do not look away from this moment in history. One person cannot solve it and no one expects you to.#Even if it is just spending time doing some research on the situation and history. Or boosting posts that are more articulate #Any action helps! ANY action! Everyone has a different level of capacity for this and that's okay. Anything is fine. Dont let it be nothing #Anyhow. did I like doing this digitally? Yes but its mixed. It was faster but also spark the same joy I usually get while drawing #I will have to get over it very quickly though. You will all see why in a few days

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deoidesign · 6 months ago

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how did u learn to paint?? like i just cant wrap my head around it

<3 I love answering asks like this!

You will have to bare with me, I don't save many of my studies, and my files aren't that organized so I don't have as many images as I would like.

The studies I've found most helpful for myself personally with painting are various master studies. (This is also, as always, alongside study of fundamentals.) And always follow a study with self-critique (and, if you can get it, outside critique!)

"Master" in this sense means anyone who you want to learn something from.

One way you can do this is by copying an artist's work directly. This is to try and understand some of their stylistic techniques. Leyendecker, Andrew Loomis, and John Singer Sargent are personal favorites of mine! I try to keep these quick, I'm not trying to get an exact copy.

I also get a lot out of copying photos. In this case, I'm not trying to glean some technique, rather, I'm trying to interpret the photo and explore my own stylizations.

(photo credit mountain men of alaska )

I also really enjoy taking a painting or piece that already exists, and making it "mine" by putting my characters in it haha, which is sort of a combination of master studies and photo studies!

(William Bruce Ellis - Covent Garden (1930)) (Barberini Faun)

And then, in my work that's not a study at all, I'm informed by all of these!

What master studies do is help me refine my style and practice my technique, but also I'm communicating with artists of the past through my art! They're teaching me! And I have so much to learn.

And of course... most importantly... I paint.

a lot.

I don't do as much study anymore, not because I feel I've learned all I need to, but because for work I draw 50+ drawings a week. 'Drawing for work' and 'study' occupy the same space in my brain and I need some fun drawing time!

So to sum up, draw a lot, reference constantly, and copy the people you want to draw more like!

(and, of course, when doing a study off of someone else's work, always give them credit. If it's your photos there's no need.)

#I really tried to pare this one down cause it got LONG #as always I am more than happy to delve deeper into any of these particular points!#I'm always always always happy to explain as much of my process as possible #and I'd love to pass off some of my knowledge to others!#I love to see people creating art and want to do anything I can to help empower people to do so more #I love you mwa mwa mwa #asks #edsheerankinnie #art tips #painting tips #I pretty much wear my influences on my sleeve #like I don't care #I honestly get so so so excited about art I'm like shaking a little #like oh my god #we get to MAKE Things #we get to sit down and through the power of our own hands we get to CREATE #and I get to access the knowledge of humanity. throughout history #I get to reach my hand out and have people who are long gone pass their knowledge on to me.#like come on. that's unreal...#at some point you will unlock this feeling if you let yourself #the feeling of connection over centuries #when you hear michelangelo was so shocked by the lifelike nature of his own sculpture he threw his chisel at it to see if it would move #when you see rockwell's love for simple moments between normal people #when you see cave paintings of a woman and you know she was loved.#you get to fucking connect #and feel human #and it's really special #and it's why I think everyone should draw. everyone should draw a LITTLE #music too #augh I'm emotional

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tuttle-did-it · 1 month ago

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As someone who has worked on war and history in an academic setting, the rise of Trump all felt incredibly familiar to everything I've read and seen.

When Trump started shouting into the void, I said that he reminded me of Vollmer, the character Dennis Hopper played in The Twilight Zone episode, 'He's Alive.'

(First thing's first, please try to go watch this episode and then read the rest of this, because the episode was incredibly well done.)

Everyone told me that Trump was just a harmless clown-- that no one would really vote for him. That I was inventing absurdities just because I don't like Republicans and Trump. He's just a joke. He's a sexist, homophobic, racist, transphobic rapist. And no one would vote for him. We're too civilised for this, now. We've evolved as a species, and that will never happen again.

Everyone got a pretty clear reality when people did, enthusiastically, salivate over the idea of having a sexist, homophobic, racist, transphobic racist in power. And over the past few years, he's become enveloped in his own conspiracy theories and hatred. And I am still strongly reminded of Vollmer every time I see Trump speak.

For those who are not aware, the episode is about a tiny, useless little white man who craves power and adoration. (spoilers for a 61 year old show below.)

A man in the shadows teaches Vollmer how to capture the attentions and hatred of the white audiences and rise to power. The phantom is eventually revealed to be Adolph Hitler.

S4 E4, Episode aired Jan 24, 1963, Written by Rod Serling, directed by Stuart Rosenberg.

Rod Serling's Opening Monologue:

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Key scene where the Phantom (Hitler) teaches Vollmer from the shadows. Tell me that Trump and the other Republicans have not learned these lessons just as well as Vollmer ever did.

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Rod Serling's End Monologue:

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All of this has happened before. All of this IS happening again. Make no mistake-- Trump is unstable, and doesn't know about half the lies that come out of his mouth every day. But if you think, for a second, that this man has your best interests in mind? You are going to get a very, very harsh dose of reality. But not before millions of people suffer at the hands of this monster, and will for many, many years to come.

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gio-cosmo · 3 months ago

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HE’S HERE

#miku featured bc I know in my heart and soul Jin would be a miku fan #ALSO!!!! TAKAYA IS ON THE WAY #then I’ll save for chidori!! although it’ll probably be a while until I can get it lol #I love taking pictures of figures w the stupidest possible angles #I can’t believe I finally have the jin figure. this is a moment in history #yk what this is making me realize that I should push the Jin miku fan agenda more #idk it’s just funny to me #vocaloid fan jin shirato is so real to me #what would his fav miku song be though…let’s all sit around a table and discuss #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #p3 #persona #jin shirato #miku hatsune #hatsune miku

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samarecharm · 7 months ago

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Love being able to write. I can do whatever i want. I can make Ryuji interact w Lala-chan and u literally cant stop me.

#chattin #i feel like shinjuku and crossroads doesnt get enough love #ohya and lala dont get enough love 😭#if they had an option to work there as a parttimer some how my akira wouldve absolutely taken it #u never see the place packed or w customers at all; it just feels cozy every time u go there #akira doesnt have a lot of places free from prying eyes; so id imagine he goes there often to just hang and study #catch up w ohya and get a bit of knowledge and validation from lala #like shes so sweet. i love her. she comes across as wise without being unapproachable #she makes comments she shouldnt (talking about ohyas job and history) bc she just forgot that she shouldnt lol #adamant about not letting him drink while hes there. its like. a safe space for him.#and i think hed like to invite his friends into his safe space; esp ryuji #gets to a point where even ryuji stops by on his own sometimes.#hes got questions but hes always in his head; never says it out loud #but it leads him in the right direction almost all the time #im thinkin of him having like. the most base level internalized homophobia and transphobia #like the kind of shit you just pick up as a child and teen and never question #and u kinda make fun of it bc everyone else is. but akira stumbles into his life and makes it so confusing #like. i dont think hed be trans. but akira would make him second guess alot about himself #about what he likes. what hes into. what hes okay w doing w someone like akira #and lala is like. u got that look in ur eyes kid. come sit.#doesnt entirely get it. but he feels a little lighter. not on labels but on his feelings #‘kid. u think of the ideal person and u think of him. at that point; it dont matter what bits he got.’#and its blunt and MAYBE it gets him a little flustered. but hes always responded well to blunt words. no beating around the bush #makes his brain confront shit head on without the second guessing hed suffer through when left on his own #WAA. rambling.#gonna see if i can draft this up at some point

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jrueships · 4 months ago

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zesty lowkey just another way for str8 ppl to say faggot / faggy and get away with it

#and im sick of letting them #cus why my lil nephew not even ten yet saying that and 'acting 'zesty' ' with his friends #i hate sounding like a boomer like i value the upside of technology #but u give humans / ANYONE rlly a chance to relax and a lot will turn it into laziness / neglect just because they can #like it's good to spread awareness but it's maybe likeeee. Not a good thing to spread statements/stereotypes with no further explanation #and peddle it to CHILDREN #whose comprehensions skills are. surprise. that of a CHILD'S #i say this ironically. btw #'oh im so mature for my age' no bro ure an immature HUMAN whos being forced to immaturely consider urself mature #due to the nature of ur relationships and homelife (or more-so the lack/negatives of them)#like it's ok to be a little stupid #as long as u keep trying to improve instead of just sitting in fault #or acting like they dont exist #anyways this got off topic but ya. crazy #kids have been killing each other n crazy shit like that but lately the crazy murder stories have HEAVILY leaned into #a misunderstanding of materialism #instead of just 'i wonder what it feels like' it's 'she took my ipad & also i wonder what it feels like'#like the first was already scary enough & now we've got this shit???#empathy is going thru a downside and we need to adjust the scales back!!!#im not gonna act like this is some new never seen b4 onset of fear impacting a generation after mine #bcs it's not never seen before in LIFE.. it's just never been seen b4 in UR life. which can feel like LIFE LIFE bcs like. uve only got one #that u may be cognizant of or etc religion aspect insert here. the point is. history repeats itself. but the points of history #can vary in visibility. some events get more notice than others bcs history's voice is ppl & actions & sometimes that gets erased #this isnt some bastardization point of one generation. but it IS a flaw that can show up in any gen (usually the oncoming ones)#bcs changes can be comfort & discomfort & the one u'd usually consider negative isnt always #anyways what im trying to say is. we need empathy back up period. always. we need empathy #lack of it is concerning. end of argument

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teapot-of-tyrahn · 3 months ago

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Gempearl or Pearleo drabble perhaps? ^_^

WARNINGS ; DESCRIPTIONS OF GORE & (REPEATED) MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH.

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“I’m sorry … I’m sorry. Sorry, sorry! My bad… I didn’t — I didn’t think they’d die so quick…” Not again. It was happening again. "Wooooah!" "You did it, Pearl, you did it!" "Stop stealing all my kills!" She could barely hear their exclamations over the voices echoing in her head. Her own voices. Or, rather, voices' of who she had once been, what she had once done, of what she was doing again. [ “Get her! Get ‘er, babies! GET ‘ER! Hahaha… OH! Oh." ] [ “Yes! Oh — Oh… Oh my gosh… ooooh my gosh…" ] It was always her. Every time. No matter what she did, no matter what she tried… It was always by her hand. It was always the same.

ZombieCleo fell to their death while fighting PearlescentMoon.

[ "Oh — Martyn—! AH—" The scream was ear-piercing. It was a strangled, deluged sound as Cleo's airway was flooded with a salty sanguine, as she choked on the sticky substance filling her mouth, drowning in her own blood. A branch was embedded straight through her torso, the bough skewering right through her abdomen and entrails. The sight was a beautiful conglomeration of death and life; a rotting corpse impaled by an evergreen conifer. Her blood dripped to the ground and seeped into the soil like plantwater, sinew would soon putrefy and wither off Cleo's carcass to serve as fertilizer... The tree's branches would continue to grow, life would prosper from their death, and the spurs would soon contort and twist around her corpse in an ethereal state of thigmatropism and occlusion. She'd look absolutely beautiful. "I don’t feel any remorse!" And she didn't! She'd been waiting to kill Cleo for a long, looong time. Ever since the first session. Such a pity she could only do it once. She'd love to see that look on Cleo's face again - the horror, the terror, the foreboding realization that Pearl was about to take her last life, that permadeath was approaching, that it would be Pearl's scythe that would harvest their soul... She didn't think she could ever grow tired of that expression. "Why, you kill my dogs, you might as well be killing me at that point, haha…!" Pearl took Cleo's limp hand, the skin already beginning to grow cold, and lightly pressed her lips against the back of the corpse's hand. Then, she sunk her teeth into the decayed muscle tissue, ripping out a healthy chunk of a hypodermis and tendons, and spitting out the flesh she'd managed to tear off onto the forest floor. She'd never been a fan of rotten flesh, but her puppies loved it, digging into the flesh like a buffet as they gouged themselves' on the zombie's marrow. She smiled. She'd always have a piece of Cleo with her, now, forever! Inside of her dogs. ]

ZombieCleo was slain by PearlescentMoon.

[Hell hath no fury like a mother. Hell hath no fury like Cleo. Her rage was silent, an unspoken fury, an animalistic ire. The frenzy of a mother who had just lost their last child, whose sons had both met their untimely end, a woman with no regard for her own life, as they had nothing left to live for. She had nobody waiting for her to come home to them - no kids who needed her protection, who she had to stay alive to be there for, because there weren't here anymore. But like Hell she was going to join them without putting up a fight first. Without trying to drag the one who had killed her son down to the depths of Hell with her, kicking and screaming, clawing and crying. "Wait, hold on, nonono, we can't be killing Grian—" "PEARL! Do something about this!" Pearl hadn't been intending to kill Cleo. Not now, not seconds ago. She hadn't pushed them off that ladder to kill her — there had been water at the bottom, she'd thought she would land unscathed, surely, just a little goof. But they hadn't. Pearl had said she didn't regret it - and that was true. How could you regret doing something you'd never even thought through? You couldn't regret something you hadn't even done on purpose. That was an accident, a mistake, not a regret. All she was trying to do was to get Cleo to stop attacking Grian. To crit her a few times until she backed off when she was low on health and they all stopped fighting. But they hadn't backed off. Even when they must have been on the verge of death, they didn't make the smart decision and back off when they were being one-v-three'd, the zombie only dug her own grave deeper. She had made their bed, right next to her children's, and they intended to lay in it. The zombie left no corpse behind. There was no carcass to speak of. No cadaver, no viscera, no innards; she was there one second, and gone the next, a flash of lighting erasing every remnant of their existence. The only indication of what she had done, that Cleo had ever been, was the blood. The blood staining her blade. The blood staining her clothes. The blood staining her hands. She had just been trying to protect Grian. She really hadn't meant to kill them. But she had. She had too. It was their own fault, really. Pearl just wished they hadn’t let herself be blinded by grief. It could have easily been avoided. If she had two nickels, it wouldn't be a lot, but it was sure weird she’d killed her twice, huh? ]

ZombieCleo was slain by PearlescentMoon.

Three times makes a pattern. [ “I was super excited to be in an alliance with you…” ] She really had been. Pearl thought they could be friends this time. Things could be different. She could make it end differently. Cleo had never liked to be defined by fate, anyway, had they? They'd defied fate before. She could do it again. And, yet, no matter what Pearl did, no matter how hard she tried, it always seemed to end the same. With Cleo's blood on her hands. And, whenever she finally managed to clean them, she was forced to sully them again with the same blood she was doomed to spill over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Wasn't it tragic? The killer in love with the corpse she was always doomed to kill. The corpse in love with its' killer no matter how many times she plunged a dagger into her heart. Cleo always forgave her. Pearl never forgave herself.

Why don't you see the pattern by now? I'm going to kill you. I keep killing you. Why do you keep letting me kill you? I don't want to kill you. I can't get your blood out from underneath my fingernails. I can't get the smell of decay out of my nose. You only have one life left. I already took your second. I'm going to take your last. Don't let me. Please, please, just run, just hide, just don't let it be me again. It can't be me again. ... I don't want it to be me again.

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the most doomed yuri ever. i am always thinking about how pearl was responsible for TWO of cleo's permadeaths IN A ROW ... pearl can NOT stop murdering her gf FR !!! anyway this is the in the pov of pearl after she took cleo's second life in secret life and realized the Cycle was Doomed to continue !! // @mcytblingsbracket

#secret life #limited life #double life #pearlescentmoon #zombiecleo #life series pearl #life series cleo #moonrot #pearleo #secret life pearl #secret life cleo #secret life session 8 #life series #traffic smp #trafficblr #trafficfic #traffic life series #life series smp #mcytblings propaganda #writing requests #my writing #sugar's writing #//#“ are we allies or enemies ? this will be the death of me .”-ass fic #anyway. the inherent tragedy of being doomed to kill the person you love.#the inherent tragedy of the person you love being doomed to kill you.#as long as neither of you can let go of the past history is doomed to repeat. the wound will open again and again and again and again #cleo's (metaphorically and literally!) a dead girl walking !#anyway. this could probably b better. but i have once again written a ficlet in one sitting from 1am-5am and am too tired to improve it SO

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kaseyskat · 2 years ago

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being both a sparrow apologist and a normal enthusiast is so difficult sometimes I am sitting here imagining them bonding and crying over canon and so few people truly understand me

#kasey rambles #dndads #no you guys dont understand. sparrow is a good parent! to me!!!#which is highly ironic because i was FURIOUS at him on my first listen #BUT. theres a post that puts this into words somewhere. about how judging sparrow for saying something #when he was in a state of complete vulnerability #FEELS like thoughtshaming a bit. because like #i think sparrow has this mentality of. i dont have to be proud of someone to love them. and i will love them so hard in spite #because he gets too in his head and he worries and he doesnt want normal to be like him #and he feels like this about henry and lark too- hes not proud of them. in fact theyve both actively mistreated him. but he loves them #and that's enough #its like. we're not sitting here bashing on grant for the REALLY shitty way he inflicts his own self loathing onto link #because we know grant only says this when hes vaguely sauced #but sparrow gets SO much heat for saying hes not proud of normal when he was both drunk AND sauced simultaneously #and maybe like. if there were signs that sparrows let this mentality ruin their relationship in the past?#but theres not. the reason it hurts normal so much is because it was UNEXPECTED.#it made him doubt his own memories and his history but. as far as we know. its only doubts. sparrow loves normal so much #and sparrows always been the first one sitting there apologizing (which is another story: we love seeing him continue the oak cycle)#and loving. and accepting normals anger.#god this was such a rant im sorry for anyone actually reading my tags shdjfkdkkfvk #i just have such strong feelings about how like. in comparison? sparrow is NOT as bad of a parent as yall think he is #and i think the only reason we think otherwise is because we only see him through normal #if we got his own pov? youd forgive him just like we forgive henry #also i would kill for sparrow choosing normal over lark i feel like thats a decision hes gonna have to make pretty soon

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wizardemotions · 9 months ago

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sometimes i like to think abt my plat quartet meeting their canon counterparts or having dreams of canon events. this is because i want to see my plat quartet draco suffer a little bit

#potions essays #platinum quartet #fr. pq draco has a nightmare of the sectumsempra scene and doesn't recover for weeks #sees himself taking the dark mark and wakes up shaking etc #fuckin MEETING canon draco??? jesus #'i would never take the mark -' 'not even if father told you to?' '....'#not to mention canon draco looks at pq draco and sees everything he has ever fucking wanted #in another world he has it all #'how - how did you do it? how did you - become friends?' 'i made a fool of myself and then managed to cover it up well enough -#- he let me sit with him and ron on the train. and from there it's all history'#canon draco vs pq draco making essentially one singular decision differently and getting to have everything he ever wanted

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heartbeetz · 9 months ago

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As people who took a break from regular selfship posting for March 2nd start to come back online and pick up where they left off, I just want to leave a little reminder. Please do not ever stop caring about people in Gaza. Do things in real life, not just online. Talk to people. Help how you can. Show support. Learn and retain. Don't let Palestine or the genocide leave the public consciousness. Not now. Not ever.

#I know I don't post about it here. but that doesn't remotely mean I'm sitting idle or ignoring the things that are going on #I don't intend to talk about what I do irl. my business is my own. but just know that I support palestinians with every fiber of my being #please don't let yourself be on the wrong side of history #you have to care about people. when the genocide ends and palestine is free you still have to care

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morningmask27 · 30 days ago

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I'm going to be bitching about Star for a while now. I'll tag them all with #asc spoilers, but really what the fuck was this book?

#morningtalks #asc spoilers #The biggest flop I've ever seen in the history of everything #How could you even fail this so badly? Where did you think these were good ideas?#The Icestar thing I'm personally miffed about because I genuinely wanted Froststar. Not for her happiness but because she's the only cat #Who felt like she had a bit of a REASON to be leader #Look for the less obvious choices. Makes a senior warrior they ALREADY CONSIDERED leader #While she was off on a whole other adventure in Another Book You Gotta Buy Now To Know What Icewing Was Up To #While the Real Plot Was Happening #Splashtail is dead already when she arrives #Do these fucking morons really just sit on their asses AGAIN up until Icewing arrives/Frostpaw wakes up?#Timeskips of hell. I hate it here #Berryheart's death is also one I am FURIOUS about #Woman Died For Her Daughter So Now She's Good and All Her Family Mourns Her #They really had to go Redemption Death for the most radioactive piece of garbage in existence #She spent THE ENTIRE ARC being an absolute shithead berating her son/trying to KILL her own daughter-in-law #Manipulating (or at least trying to) Sunbeam. Plotting against Tigerstar within and outside of ShadowClan #Was fully into the plan to trap Tiger and co ''because then she could fix ShadowClan herself and get River out''#This fucking book I swear I hate it so deeply #How do you fail such an arc?#How idiotic do you have to be to not let Sunbeam (and Spireclaw) deal with their rancid mother once and for all?#Why does Sunbeam still Love Her So Much after everything?#(okay I know Trauma and Parents and growing up within odd situations and how you still kinda love them)#But Berryheart was a Problem the entire arc #Why?#It is really just because Berryheart is Mom and this Has The Mom Instinct still?#You let some rando horrendous man kill his own daughter in SkyClan's destiny by accident. Why can't Sun and Berry fight?#I wanted some horrific death for Berry. One that would haunt Sunbeam for a long time and maybe if needed cement her choice #To not return to ShadowClan because it hurts #Yes I wanted SUNBEAM to kill Berryheart (or at the very least Spireclaw)

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elitisim · 9 months ago

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your last conversion was a godsend oml thank you. pls consider converting more of hairs like that🥺 my black male sims are strugglinnnn' chi😩😩😩 i saw that post and was like PRAISE THE LORDT.

Aww thank you 🥺💖! I'm glad you like it! 🥰

And yes, there’s definitely more black male hairstyles coming down the pipeline! Like, originally I really wanted to do this huge mega pack of all of sheabuttyr’s loc collection for men for black history month, but trying to get it all done by the end of the month stressed me tf out so bad that I kind of scrapped that idea.😭

Instead I think I’m gonna try drop one one hair everyday/every other day for the rest of the month. Then maybe one or two a week until I finish it.

#lee.txt #anon #the real story is that i was watching my cousin play 2k and I saw all the black hair options they had for their create a character #and I was sitting there HEATED #like how a basketball game gonna have better hairs for black characters than a game I’ve been playing for a decade?#like damn #anyways i don't stop being black after black history month is over so neither will my content #you can expect lots of locs braids and fros going forward #i just wanna let ya'll know what the plan was

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mcybree · 11 months ago

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Random limlife Scott rant, GO!

I got this ask and decided that I’d give it my best shot but got so mad on my skim through some of the moments I remembered that I gave up.