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like a day or so late for mermay but I wanted to try redesigning a mermaid I drew back in 2019 and also try my hand at some more designs!
#mermaids#Character Design#Illustration#original character#artists on tumblr#doodling#completed doodle#i feel like working on it some more but also no#sometimes ya just gotta throw it into the wind#anyway the original 2019 design was based off of vietnamese blue+white ceramics#and the overall mermaid design (like the tail and horns) are based off of dragons from viet culture#this was also me trying to draw more different bodies because i need the practice#will probably edit their designs maybe in the future#but for now i'm setting them free lol
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Favorite and least favorite activities, if you’re willing to share?
Also, did you learn anything about what’s going on with the new guy down the hall? Sure, you were supposed to stay out of it, but you’ve got to at least be a little curious, right?
LEO: *quiet guilty thoughts because he can't ask about if Loki is like Loki in the movies* *pretending to know anything about Norse mythology*
MAGNUS: *overthinking about Uncle Randolf and the Loki symbols* *forgetting that Norse demigods aren't the only demigods bc they still haven't talked about his Greek cousin*
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#at some milestone I'm thinking magnus should answer some questions! but probably not for another lil bit (I'm on vacation this weekend)#for now feel free to keep prompting for these interactions bc I live for it#Leo's got other activities to go to and people to meet; he also needs to be presented by Sam to the einherjar...#Leo I think this is your hint to talk to Magnus some more#leo valdez#magnus chase#mcga#hotel valhalla#blood of olympus#post-blood of olympus#v²au#art#leo valdez responds#hammer of thor#magnus chase and the gods of asgard#*groans in probably setting myself up for a continuity error bc I've officially placed us on chapters 4-6 of HoT* whatever#alex fierro#bby's first appearance!#man I'm already thinking about all the things these 3 have to bond over I'm so happy for them#sidenote is the canonical croquet hate as funny to anyone as it is to me? I loved making that the thing they became friends over pls#also TBC they are not actually the chess pieces I was just showing which side they were on T-T
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Ode to interesting CGI in music videos Placebo - Special K Coheed and Cambria - The Suffering Thursday - Counting 5-4-3-2-1
#placebo#coheed and cambria#thursday#thursday band#my gifs#<- guy who realized he hasnt been tagging his gifs and will probably need to find them#guy who forgot to post these for weeks bc he was like maybe ill go back and redo the first 2 sets but like absolutely is not doing that#i might go back and tweak these eventually but for now i free it from my drafts
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in the interest of using 4 year+ old asks as a way to announce my new chapters,
good question, reader from fifty three months ago!
genius mastermind @paperpaperowl has thankfully produced some material to help answer this question.
i like to imagine she's very Creature despite wearing human clothes all the time - she likes to think she looks like the end one on the right but it's definitely the middle one
come and read cardinals if you like AUs where bj is horrendously depressed !
#it's probably so weird and sad to still be interacting with the ghosts of all these people who liked my work four years ago#but it feels like they're all trapped in my inbox and i need to set them free#not this one i responded to this one four years ago when owlie sent me the pic but the point still stands#i just want to share my writing and have people read it and relate to it and feel like some semblance of understood or as close as you can#get through the oppressive limits of ao3 comment box#i didn't even know there was a tag limit#beetlejuice fanfic#beetlejuice musical#beetlejuice fanart#beetlelands#ask el
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anyone ever have the urge to put a character in a time loop to see what happens. what sorts of self-reflection and discovery would they do with all that time. what would they try, knowing it's a time loop? would they stay strong? when would they break?
#💡// i wrote out a whole set of “rules” for the time loop but then i realized i was just spoiling the entire mechanics of isat#i feel like any member of team snakemouth (bug fables) would be a good candidate for a time loop. all of them need therapy#and what better therapist than time itself trapping you until you resolve your issues both within yourself and with your team#new terrifying concept just unlocked after a slight mental leap#being trapped in a time loop together at first. but suddenly one day one of your group stops remembering the loops#they were the first to break free. leaving the rest to struggle.#and eventually being stuck in it alone#having once at least had company to confide in about it#but now they remember none of it. actors like all the rest.#all on their own paths in life as you're still stuck in that day#probably thinking “how great we got out of that loop!”#not even knowing a version of their friend is still in there#thank you for coming to “Mirai's 'Wouldn't That Be Fucked Up?' Show”
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The Great Notes App Exodus: Half-Dead and Still Kicking
The thing is, Jason’s been a ghost for a while, okay? Six whole months, and it’s been a goddamn adjustment, being capable of floating through walls and falling through furniture if he’s not careful, if he’s not concentrating. He goes unseen and unheard in a manor too full of grieving to only be residence of two people - Alfred keeps his room tidy and untouched, as if it’s a shrine to keep care of, and Bruce is…
Jason is, was, Robin, so he can’t quite help himself from following in Batman’s shadow as the man patrols, more vicious, more brutal than Jason has ever seen him. He takes more risks, gets injured more often - and it’s terrifying, the way Batman grieves, as if trying to follow him into the grave. So Jason follows, unbeating heart in his throat, and only relaxes again when Bruce is safe in the manor, sleeping off whatever injuries he got during the night.
He can’t interact with the world, but he can watch the shades of past residents going about their lives, and he learns things from doing this even as he fears becoming them one day, mindlessly replaying a life long passed. He can snoop and explore without worry for being caught, and if he ever gets bored he can practice flying (so much harder than it seems - he’s careful never to go too high, too worried that he won’t be able to come back down again, even with the ceaseless curiosity in the back of his mind wondering - just how far can I go? Beyond the sky? Could he touch the stars, if he wanted?) and when everything is terrible, when the memories of his death, his last few hours of life, haunt him, when he is drowning in his own head, he finds distractions; the way the air currents sometimes seem to react to him, trying to move things like ghosts do in those terrible movies, chattering to whoever is around and pretending they can hear him, finding mysteries to solve (what’s up with that camera kid, anyway? He’d never noticed him before…) and trying to read books in the library through sheer force of will, usually ending up just reciting the parts he knows.
(Two months and a bit in to this whole “ghost” thing, he finds out the deal with the camera kid. Jason can only be relieved because, kid’s got a point - and Bruce seems to do better with someone to protect, to teach, to watch over.
He’s not practically tearing people apart with his bare hands anymore. He’s not taking hits he should have been able to avoid anymore. He’s not lurking at the edge of rooftops anymore, staring at the ground as if contemplating how far away it is.)
And Tim… he’s weird, but brilliant, and Jason feels a little protective of him. Follows him whenever he goes out, sharp eyes watching his back regardless of whether he can protect it or not (and maybe it’s his imagination, but the world seems more real when he’s watching over Tim, closer and present in a way he can almost feel, as if he could actually affect the world, if he just tried hard enough - if he just needed to desperately enough).
And then, six months after his-… after this ghost thing started, something… changes.
Something Happens, and he can almost taste the strange Knowing - something, somewhere, has gone wrong, or perhaps right, and the ripples extend beyond the event, slipping into each corner of the universe with the subtlety of a truck, and yet somehow unnoticed.
The ghosts notice. Pale shades lift their heads, existing outside of their own memories for the first time in an age - and Jason, who is new, who is Robin, who lived in Gotham where all things become possible, is hit by the wave of Something Happening Elsewhere Rippling Out and wakes up in a box.
In a coffin.
(But Jason has been a ghost for six months, and the pain of living again is enough to reach for the existence of being a ghost, and by the time he has sorted himself out and half-clawed, half-floated his way out of his grave (again), he doesn’t expect himself to be anything but what he has been for the past six months.)
(And then, of course, he discovers he can interact with the world if he concentrates, if he wants it enough, and he assumes that Whatever That Was made him a stronger ghost.
It’s not an unfair assessment. Incorrect, but not beyond reason.
Why would he think he came back to life, anyway? That’s a bit far-fetched, really.)
#tangentially a danny phantom crossover but it’s not hugely important#graphite writes#i have so many random bits of writing in my notes#this is me basically setting them free into the world#lmao enjoy ig#DC#Jason Todd#Jason Todd is a ghost#The Great Notes App Exodus#I figured the deal here was Danny’s misadventures with stuff like the reality gauntlet causing a ripple effect#and because Danny is a halfa the rest of the multiverse kind of gets a template of his existence#thereby making the creation of halfas more likely in places they wouldn’t have formed before#… such as the dcu#so yeah Jason is a halfa but coming at it from the opposite angle than danny#and for most of the time his human form is kind of sleeping and healing from his death wounds#but he starts needing to eat and stuff as a ghost in the meantime in order to maintain his living half#and the ripple also caused the ghosts closest to Jason’s haunt to become more aware#like proper ghosts rather than the shades they were#that’ll probably extend to Gotham later as Jason gets stronger and thus gains the ability to filter the city’s manky ecto more and more#especially if he’s not using up a whole lot of energy fighting ghosts like Danny does#so the surplus is just kind of siphoned off by Gotham where other entities can feed on it#and become stronger#>:3c
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i want to go ahead and write up A Whole Thing about how ricky's arc ultimately comes down to 'protect what's yours,' in a way that tbh manages to be kind of the opposite of the toxic masculinity that trope tends to embody in western media especially. but also it relies on several other major essays about the themes in this show that i need to write up first to tie them all together with it. ashdjsjdjdh. Help
#SDMItag#ricky owens#i'll probably try writing it up for now and then see which things it does turn out i'll need to establish first#but the tl;dr is that ~protect what's yours like a man~ tropes are all about Defending Your Assets from Outside Forces with Violence(tm)#and ricky's 'protect what's yours' is about love as in loyalty as in setting down your stake Here#committing yourself to the wellbeing of whoever or whatever you've chosen; being a support for them to grow and be safe and be free#'yours' as in your family your community your work your activism the things you've built#instead of 'yours' meaning 'i have the right to destroy this and exploit it and throw it away as i please. it's there for me to take from'#it's 'i have a duty; and that duty is not synonymous with Violence; it can be feeding and healing the people you love'#'it can be putting your foot down and removing someone's access to a person or thing you've chosen when they're exploiting them/it'#'it can be *refusing* to do violence'#it's 'you chose me and you were supposed to love me and instead you treated me like a thing that exists for you to use and ruin'#'well i wasn't. i'm not. and i'm going to be what i needed you to be and you weren't'#'i refuse to hurt what's mine for my own gain because i can and i won't let you do it either'#it fucking kills me and it makes what pericles does to him and forces him to do in retaliation that much more fucking tragic#there's so much dude oh my god#kill me#professor pericles#dyn: when i die i want you to die too#abuse cw
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Ok yeah I’m a little obsessed with them
#keese draws#oxygen not included#jackie stern#olivia broussard#I’m experiencing joy and whimsy allow me to be cringe for a time#anyways ferret jackie snuggling with her tail is my favorite image now#and olivia eating pecha berry is my second favorite look at her#if I’m the only one making fanart of these two I must train myself to go insane over my own art it’s for my own survival#even if I don’t have the motivation to make a full drawing rn#plus it’s good practice for me to get better at sketching sketching is usually big biggest roadblock to making the pieces I wanna make#anyways I was nowhere near consistent with sizes here but I like to imagine that olivia is significantly smaller than jackie#jackie is very large by furret standards and olivia is very small by bibarel standards#again didn’t draw that well here since I was being lazy with jackie but just imagine I did draw it well#honestly it’s going to be a miracle if I ever get around to designing anyone else in this au I have favorites#plus some of the ideas I have are going to be. annoying to excecute to put it mildly#it’s my own fault no one is forcing me to make ada an aegislash but I’m going to complain abt it anyways#although tbh liam as a panpour is probably going to be harder for me since at least I have a silhouette in my head for ada#and then there’s yanma ari and kabuto hassan who are deceptively easy sounding#as in my gut says oh yeah that’s easy but my brain says oh this is going to be hell#otto as flaaffy is another one that Should be easy but I know it’ll be hell since I have no ideas for their shapes#and I’m never drawing mi-ma since for some ungodly reason my brain decided to cling to making her metagross#and then my only other idea as of now is galvantula ellie but I’m not set in stone on that one#honestly if anyone has suggestions for the other scientists feel free to shoot them at me#or just wants to share what they’d make any of them even if it’s the guys I’ve already decided on I’m still not set on some of them and#it’s fun hearing other ppls ideas#real sad thing for me is that this is probably going to be pmd au number 2000 without any good zorua candidates 😔#nails comes close but the shapes man the shapes don’t call to me#also color pallet would be hell I’m sorry bestie but your hair is such an ugly color#ohhhh wait what if I made them a trubbish…. that could work honestly#I’ll also totally need to make someone a vanilite as the worlds number one vanilite defender
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WHAT THE HELL NOBODY EVER TOLD ME TWO OF MY FAVE VILLAGERS GOT A LINE STICKER TOGETHER. ive loved tabby for YEARS like since 2019 at LEAST. and these stickers are from 2018 how did i not know !!! i love tabby and boots so much 😭😭😭 TABBY AND BOOTS ANIMAL CROSSING I LOVE YOU SO MUCHHHHH OOMFS FOREVER AND EVER
#im so happy any official content of tabby is awesome shes my fave i looooove her so much SHES SO SILLY!!!#and boots was one of my starting residents on acnh so he holds a special place in my heart#in case anyone was wondering which im sure you were not. my other starting villager on acnh was rocket and shes soooo silly i love rocket#not enough people love her like shes so silly. u are all HATERS#anyway i love talking about my acnh villagers I WISH I HAD MY ACNL ONES WRITTEN DOWN. the only ones i remember are tabby and kyle#but my acnh ones atm (and when i say atm i mean they will be probably til the end of time)#are my guy sherb (found on one of the ticket islands)#stiches (who i also found on an island i think?)#chai (i have her amiibo card shes so cute.)#tammi (another island find)#stella (man i really did just take the first villagers i found on an island and kept them huh)#rocket and boots (starter villagers)#tabby (I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO TRADE HER TO ME ON REDDIT I THINK? and then they were like oh if shes ur fave u can just have her +#like for free. AND THAT WAS SOOOO AWESOME)#bea (i think she was also a ticket island thingy find)#and finally... tom (ok he has a fun story.#i think it was margie who lived on my island at the time and listen she was SUCH a sweetheart i wanted to keep her forever#(she replaced drift who i found on an island and he was mean to me so i have beef with him. still. like four years later.)#but them tom showed up as a camper and i got this crazy hit of nostalgia and i remembered my guy tom was in my childhood city folk town#and i was like. I MISS MY BOY. COME BACK TO ME. so he moved in)#umm only other villager we had was chadder which i think my little brother picked when we shared the island#i think i remember him saying he got chadder because of dantdm...? i dont remember the details#but i got the sanrio amiibo cards which i need to stress i had wanted for YEARS. i was so fucking happy when they got a rerelease#to the point where like. i couldnt get them at first because they sold out super fast. so#i bought them from someone in twitter dms im so serious. and it fucking worked thats how i got them#anyway i wanted chai to move in because shes my fave of that set (i love cinnamoroll) but i needed someone to move out#which i always get so sad about :( but my brother offered to take chadder so i felt a little better abt it#and then i think we forgot to like. have him come get chadder in boxes. so chadder went off somewhere hope hes living a good life#thats it i think. i wish i kept a list of all my villagers ever but considering ive been playing for a decade or so now that would be. crazy#muffin mumbles
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To get good at telling stories... writing stories... one must... practice by writing stories ;-;
#rant#i tell u what i think id have functioned well in a wrbnovel publishing format. but i dont think#any good sites for that exist in english as of yet? (i think theres one but its contract is Yikes i heard)#but just like. the idea of publishing chapter ever 1-2 weeks until youre done. maybe 20 chapters maube 2000. maybr you never finish.#most of the chapters free and maybe idk you make some advertizing money on ads viewed on your chapter page. or make the last couple extras#paid only idk. but the big thing? the point im getting to - sorry i got lost in the sauce -#my point is: you probably DO write shit at first. or write fine with some SHIT ARCS or rushed chapters to hit ur weekly updates#and 5 years from then youll look back and wanna overhaul some of those fucking stories (weve seen many a jjwxc writer revise later).#but wow will you have practiced writing a LOT.#youll have 100k 500k 1 million 5 million words worth of writing under your belt in a few years#and youll probably be a hell of a lot better at knowing how to make more chaptwrs on average interezsting and Building Consistently to your#main plot and arcs. you'll probably get much bettwr at raw scheduling of wriitng and pre-planning that works for you and structure mapping#youll have a much better idea of your personal strengths whrn you need to lean on them for a rough month when your story's turned#into a mess. youll value your own writing more (i hope) cause LOOK how much you fucking accomplished.#like. npss? dmbjs author? idk about others but i can definitely see the improvement in wriitng skill#between dmbj book 1 and the recent heihua book and mountain village book#(in terms of style in word choice. and goals for the story set out to be told)#i look at priest and newer novels by priest are as impressive as any literary novel ive ever analysed#(and older ones while i also love i do see their slightly rougher word choice and how some were executed a bit#more up and down/not as tightly)#i just. agh. i am :c feeling that ill probably write 200k words this year#and none of it will be as good as i want. but i NEED to write these first 200k#because the only way i get better. get to the way i want to write. is to make the progress of improvement with this first 200k.#ToT fun fact i wrote 170k words this year. WOW. and maybe 400k words of fanfic in the 4 years prior (so 100k words on average)#i know i am imptoving. i just gotta keep at it.#also? annoying i cant focus my attention lmao. 160k words is mkre than enough to finish a 1st draft novel#but me? i split those among like 20 projects this year. so the novel most written so far is still only at 40k#and im probably going to need 60k more words to finish it
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Anyone else feel like going apeshit and pummeling netflix and dreamworks with demands for a she-ra movie, merch, or what have you, again?
#spop#sheraandtheprincessesofpower#We would honestly need to put together statistics and revenue in some business portfolio#we would still need to bombard them with the request to show our activity#aaaaaand netflix would probably need to stop being stupid with their current two season axe framework#and you know#less homophobic#i'd honestly need everyone to set an ultimatum#like a literal#give us she-ra or we cancel netflix on [date]#and we would absolutely need to cancel#I don't think you understand how paying for netflix is a courtesy when you can literally get all their content free#if you're in the know of course
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Head in my hands with the 3-4 creative projects I want to start. Once i'm done with this stupid ass sedimentology paper it's over for everyone including myself esp bc all of these are different fucking ideas with different characters and themes and medias. AUGH!!!!! THE NEED TO BE CREATIVE BUT UNABLE TO START IN FEAR OF NEVER LIVING UP TO THE IDEA IN MY HEAD!!!!
#anyways the 4 ideas are 2 games and 2 comic#lighthouse comic with really only 2 main characters thats a slowburn romance between two different species of people#another comic idea that is much more long form and is an adventure/action/tragedy style comic about dragons#games are a light visual novel/puzzle game set in a western town where you use a lasso to lasso the heart of various characters#and finally and probably the largest is a fossil fighters spiritual sucessor#these ideas rotate around in my brain rent free I need to create at least one of them of I feel like I'll die
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wait people are actually paying for spotify I thought that was a joke
#on an UNRELATED NOTE#if you need to record audio theres a program called AUDACITY that you can download to your computer FOR FREE#and among many features you can set it to RECORD YOUR SPEAKERS' AUDIO and nothing else#so basically if you had umm a video like a home video and you wanted to record the audio you could do that and export it as an mp3#and then do that with any other HOME VIDEOS YOU QUITE ENJOY THE AUDIO OF and export those and then wow youve got a folder of mp3s#copy them to your phone so youcan listen to your.. home videos audiosz..#side note im not sure what settings exactly to set it to if anyone cares i can check#but i do know you can do that by going to Edit>preferences#if youre a smart techmin you probably know what to look for#or if youre a dumb dumb like me you just ask someone who already has the right settings for a screenshot 🤣#anywho#the last time i paid for music i was 11 years old and it was the Fantasia soundtrack#and i didnt actually pay for it my mother did#a whole $9 and change#spotify#music#computers#computer hack#money#money saving hack#subscription#yuck
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Uh… hope y’all like long chapters 😅
#rawnsyf#running away will never set you free#I had a lot of thoughts to get out onto the page okay#Anetra and Marcia have big feelings that need to be explored#these girls make my life so hard#but it’s worth it#anyways!! draft done so it’s edit time :)#if all goes according to plan I will be able to post later this week 💕#if all doesn’t go according to plan I will probably kill myself and you’ll never see the chapter#jk but fr tho#I need this to be out there in the world.m#keeping all this information secret has been so hard#especially from the people I regularly talk to who love the story like aaaaaa I can’t wait for them to finally understand!!!!#anyways I’m very excited to have finished the draft#and very full of nervous energy rn :)#someone distract me#ask me questions or summat#anarcia fanfic#anarcia fanfiction
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cannot understand when fic writers have chapters that are over 40k long. like there is literally no need, split that shit into *at least* two chapters like. that's basically a whole novel why do you think writing shorter chapters is beneath you
#like i know fic writers do it for free i get it i truly do but seeing a chapter that's nearly 50k words on it's own is so offputting#and you get fics that are like. 120k words - 4/7 chapters and they're always SO heavy#where are you letting your readers take a break?#what exactly are you actually losing if instead of having 5 mid-chapter breaks you just. end the chapter at each one#i feel like if your fic is fairly lighthearted and has a distinct set of arcs then having longer chapters is okay?#but if it gets pretty heavy then it's not fair to readers not to give them more manageable chunks?#30k of pure angst is ROUGH to read without breaks and even if the reader does take breaks they probably wont be in places that narratively#make sense#okay im gonna stop now#fandom wank#tbh. just needed to rant for a sec#maybe txt
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where is that one post about gif making being such an embarrassing hobby cause yeah mood
#for context. i rested (not even slept i was barely unconscious) for about two hours last night#got up and watched the ddt show. babes were on around 5am and then ive been working on gifs pretty much ever since#its about 1.30pm right now so. you do the math. from about 5.30am forward to just posting the last set lmao#and what do i get from this? nothing but personal satisfaction and a veeeeery minor fraction of internet points that dont do jack#so uh. yeah i am having a time#also if you can please watch them from todays ddt show its free on youtube#anyways. my head hurts so im going to either have a snack or take a nap i havent decided yet#i dont really feel tired but i can tell my hands for example are fucked up so. yeah#i hope yall had a great night since youre starting to wake up lol#night is an absolute mess on main#update yeah i think im gonna have a nap. im still not exactly tired or falling asleep but i can feel that physically i need to rest so#i'll see you in two hours or whenever. still probably rotating that idea of chris and kip in my brain tbh. cause its very much still there
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