#i want to learn how to use them properly

[sysig]

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[biblically-accurate-dca]

sb humanizations + various vannys :3

[skaluli]

dude i finally figured out how to draw him im so happy i love him so much

[iniziare]

Consider Yelan's facial expression to be my own in reaction to opinions shared on both X and Tumblr, and I guess I'm in the minority of the 'loud ones', but I'm pretty excited for Natlan since that trailer, actually. The previous teasers left me a little 'eh', but this definitely got my hopes back up, and I'm back in the right spirits for it (and ready to catch some Pokémon.)

Now I wouldn't be me if I didn't touch on the salt that I've seen scattered across the dash, so here I go. Listen, I read people's objections and I see what you're all aiming at, but in that light want to note that it's often incredibly easy to point fingers (arguably too much so) at others while being, quite honestly, hopefully rather aware that many of our own countries, cultures, and its populations across the board (and no, I'm not excluding anyone here) would likely be just as easily guilty as MHY is with these things. And no, I'm not blindly defending them, but I also won't point fingers at only one without pointing them everywhere else as well, including those you might think would 'never do such things', because I'm absolutely certain that they would. /continues on in the tags.

[unionizedwizard]

small headcanon of the day: long before The Actual Yearning and Years-Long Complex about it (kickstarted before she joined the scions, but in a sort of hopeful way; it only soured after she joined the scions), sharlayan was the #1 destination/port to deal with for irma as an assessor of mealvaan's gate. first of all you KNOW they had all the relevant paperwork ready and signed in advance and with an extra copy, printed with the neatest Mammet-Powered Copy Technique to ensure perfect legibility & legal duties, with everything in the cargo properly labelled and accounted for and the manifest in an alphabetized list. also while i know the conservative factions (like the bibliothecs) have been gaining influence within the forum for the past few years, and their main thing is that they refuse to share their knowledge & interact with the world, realistically speaking i still think most of their export (and economy) would involve (general) books (nothing too advanced, but like. basics of every topic. you know? SUP. sharlayan university press. do you see my vision) which would of course be super interesting to her & also easy to inspect and unload. not to mention sharlayan boats are smaller than other ships so they'd be quicker to inspect & unload (always appreciated i think). ALSO the gleaners would definitely see her & the other assessors as (distant) colleagues - not even only because of the arcanima part, but because they're (underpaid and overworked) civil servants and basically their lominsan counterparts. so they'd be pleasant to deal with & competent too, definitely a far cry from the average lominsan sailor lmao. would be funny if she actually dealt with erenville at, like, 15 also. "hey i remember you" "hm?" "you delivered a cargo of books and got a load of la noscean flora and fauna in return" "what the hell are you talking about"

[swordmaid]

having shri’iia thoughts as one does bc GUESS who’s save file completely died when the new patch came out nooo we have to replay her again 🤭 alas. just stewing on the thought of how she never got to fuck her Mistress even though she wanted to…!!!! like she was out there getting psychologically tortured and mind broken but she was just like WHY won’t you fuck me im literally doing everything for you. which is so bad for her, woman who already has an excruciatingly low self worth because she missed the mark on the standard for lolth’s children (and that’s worse than not fitting in the standard at all) by something out of her own control btw (not being born in a noble house) but she’s been recognised and blessed by her goddess, and she’s been invited to join a drow house so everything should be good right?? she should be desirable right?? finally everything is correct and well and good and the way it should be right????? but no..!! it’s not..!! and so she’s doing everything for this woman, no dignity left, literally doing anything to get her approval, to be told that she’s finally enough, and she’s finally fitting in - and she gets it sometimes, she gets ignored most times tbh and it’s just this painful excruciating stew of self loathing and insecurity that she’s in, and she’s in there for a century but the thing is she can’t even give up. it’s not in her nature to. and she’s done too much to just give up , and she’s been doing this for a long time that she can’t give up and lolth didn’t raise no quitters so she sticks by it, trying to achieve that hopeless praise. but then one day she gets dropped like nothing, everything she’s done and suffered and worked towards and sacrificed gets thrown out bc her goddess isn’t pleased with her and good luck going home btw you’re not welcome here anymore bc ur pathetic. the rug gets pulled under her feet and she’s left in this strange world that she can barely navigate in let alone speak the language and u expect her to b fine with that…?

[majestic-salad]

Brought my skates on holiday and I may be scared of falling but I'm gonna skate every day for maybe half an hour and by god I'm leaving this island capable of skating

[dandyshucks]

part of me wants to (re)start up the indigenous selfship tag bc it seems to have died last year but also i do not feel like the right person to do that bc I'm still working to reconnect w my culture properly. also i missed saying anything about indigenous history month last month and augh I wish I'd been around for it properly to actually make art for it ;-; maybe I'll make some late art.... share some cultural things I've learned over the past couple years... draw Wardell with a sash and ribbon shirt perhaps,,,

[paimonial-rage]

I was thinking about this while helping my friend beta something yesterday like… I vaguely remember that at one time, I felt (punctuation) periods were too harsh. They had a sense of finality about them. They were too loud and vibrant. Commas were more comforting to use. They felt softer and not as exact. And then I look at my writing now and there's nothing I love more than a period. I love how sharp it is. I love its finality.

Like I can't understate enough how much a period makes a statement. Like that's what it's supposed to do, yes, but it's more than that. It tells the audience that what precedes is true. It's a fact. And when you yield a period properly, it emphasizes and highlights what is stated. It stands out. It's final. It has weight. It's such a powerful thing that it's addicting to use.

[falderaletcetera]

success: navigated several conflicting tutorials to open up my old laptop and remove the hard drive without, apparently, breaking it.

not such a success: opened the magic portal on my new pc that is meant to allow me to plug hard drives into it without opening the case and. hm. I think the "3.5 inch hard drive" thing refers to width and not length. the laptop hard drive is much too small to fit.

conclusion: I'll be using a pen drive for today to bring over my stardew valley save files and mods etc, and figuring out something else - maybe just giving up and getting a portable hard drive - later.

(okay, yes, I installed SV on here yesterday to get photos of my li'l farmer for the trans gaming avatar survey thing and realised that SV on a big screen and a good smooth computer is a thing that makes my heart very happy. it might take a while to actually get around to the games I bought this computer for. what a shame.)

(edit: bonus farmer avatar, because I'm feeling fond about it)

[entropys]

:-) things are getting better september truly is a month of new beginnings

[bibleofficial]

absolutely exhausted i’ve done sooo much today 😭😭 dealt w the shoes, went through old papers & binders, cleaned out boxes under my bed & in the closet, & i just finished watering plants. i ALSO got those mormon shirts today & the box ? WENT THROUGH IT - but the shirts are G O R G. like i’m truly a medium/small & thought the large would end up being too big but it fits PERFECTLY like it’s a HAIR smaller than the vintage guess shirt that has an immaculate fit - MONEY WILL SPENT !!!

[blacknovelist]

Thinking about grief thinking about betrayal thinking about anger and helplessness overlapping thinking so so much about dark knight and feri'um and the echo of fray and being so caught up in their thoughts and their fury and their fear and their desperation that they don't realize when sometimes fray answers before they can actually speak, or how sometimes others watch them worried because something is off even in the daytime, or the way they aren't the only shadow skulking the city at dusk, or how it's trying to eat them alive and they've plunged headfirst down the valley towards it

...but people still smile when they offer spare cooking to passersby in the brume who know them well enough to take it, and they still wander around outside and bask in getting a little bit lost, and still end up tugged gently into helping one, two, five things until its late enough to stay for at least a snack and some tales around a table or fire, and

getting lost in the darkness forever was never an option— they can be dark, certainly, they are, and this is fact. But sometimes a lad's heart is made to bleed and heal and try again another day, and the doubts that fill the abyss will not drown them out. And when they can't drag themself up, that's what friends are for

[diivineray]

Oh man, I’m not gonna lie this person on tik tok just spoke straight up facts.

It actually makes me dislike ppl as a whole who don’t want to learn about their heritage, their culture, their language.

This lady said it’s understandable as kids because our parents had the duty of teaching us Spanish at an early age. But as an adult? Not learning how to speak Spanish is a choice. Because there are options everywhere for you to do it.

And my dudes !!! They are right !! One thing that always made me feel so out of place was because we were told to act like white ppl. Do what they say, all to avoid drawing attention to ourselves. It got to the point that I had started to feel embarrassed about my culture.

It wasn’t until I was older that I started to really want to learn. I learned most of my Spanish from the kitchens working with the best Latinos ever. They spoke to me in Spanish and I had to learn how to communicate. I also learned a lot of my Spanish listening to Spanish music. Watching Spanish tv shows.

I started to incorporate Spanglish and speaking more in Spanish to my parents. They will correct me if I say something wrong, and we will hold convos in Spanish and they alway get surprised but I see how proud they are too that I am trying.

But it’s something I really look at now, because in todays society where racism is so damn high being proud of the color of your skin, being proud of yourself and the people you come from is so important.

[arolesbianism]

Every second of every day I remind myself that I'm going to need to learn to draw gore and body horror and every second of everyday I simply keep imagining it instead of drawing it because I don't even wanna try finding usable refs for the shit I wanna pull off (it also doesn't help that searching up refs for skinless human anatomy is. Annoying to do if you wanna draw someone who isn't made of muscle and nothing else)

[neverendingford]

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