#i'm feeling creative today

[weewookinard]

Tommy: I almost died today. And all I could think about was you. The chopper fell and I could not care less about my life because you were the only thing in my mind

Tommy: Fuck I miss you so much

Tommy: Please Evan, tell me it's not too late

Tommy: I can't do it without you anymore

Tommy: I'm sorry

...

Evan: Where are you?

[bookie-bookdust]

Maybe this is a hot take, but as creative people, our #1 priority in our work should be ourselves.

It is not, AND SHOULD NEVER BE, what would get us the most engagement. Dispel "content creation," popularity, and monetization from your brain. Write, paint, draw what you want to! HOLY SHIT!!!!!!

The people who resonate with it will eventually show up. But the people who don't? Who cares???? The art you personally create is meant to help you heal, to help you express, to bring you joy and pain!!!!

You need to learn how to work on something because you deeply care for it and can revel in that self-satisfaction. Of course recognition feels fucking great! We all want it. We are humans, but you need to stop creating with the idea of other people consuming your work!!!

Give into the art movement. Create a renaissance for yourself. Fuck other people. Be that bitch! People are not going to be in your lives forever, and when you're left to your own devices, you should be able to look at what you've created and fucking love it.

[getvalentined]

Vincent Valentine of the Elite Four from Pokémon Holy/Meteor, releasing never on the N!ntendo Switch.

I put way too much effort into this for a dorky one-off, but here we are! I have a whole backstory for this AU but I will not bore you all with the details.

[pharawee]

—I FEEL YOU LINGER IN THE AIR 💮 Episode 12 (Finale)

[nellasbookplanet]

Fantasy works commonly (though obviously not always, this is a general observation, and I'm more of a scifi enjoyer than a traditional fantasy enjoyer anyway so my pool of reference is limited) place this divide between magic and technology. The two are placed as incompatible to the point that many fantasy worlds are almost stuck in this semi historical setting, not really allowed to grow or evolve past this mythological past, as if we can’t imagine magic and technology mixing. Why would technology evolve if we have magic? The stories I think of rarely outright say this, and I think writers create these types of settings more out of genre tradition than a genuine belief in never mixing magic and technology, but it saddens me that we so rarely see secondary fantasy worlds that are futursitic, or modern fantasy worlds that aren't either an obvious mirror of our present or literally our present but with a secret magical underbelly that has had little to no impact on the evolution of the world at large.

And it just occurred to me that in critical role, the divide is more often placed between magic and the divine, while magic and technology are presented as almost one and the same, and nowhere is that more obvious than in the Age of Arcanum. The magical fey changeling of Avalir was fantasy tv personality!! Magic doesn't hinder growth or trap the world in a medieval state of nature where people become incapable of imagining technological growth due to the convenience of magic: magic is technology. Magic interweaves into their societies, their ways of life. They study it, they grow it, it doesn't hold them back any more than discovering fire or electricity held us back because it’s the very foundation of their growth. How very fitting that Corellon, god of the arcane, takes the mortal form of an aeormaton, a robot, a being we would normally consider the anthitesis of magic, but which here is the embodiement of the sameness of the two.

[octosan]

And I want to say while I'm making these that I'm not trying to bash the writers. I do not truly believe that the way this Script is, is because the writers are terrible.

I think that this game is largely the product of inexperienced writers, and good writers who were treated terribly during development. I think it is the product of firing several of your veteran developers, having others leave as a result of the working conditions, and leaving whoever is left to scramble to make a workable script under poor leadership.

I don't have much insight into the development process, but the amount of things I think might have come down to frankensteining voice clips and not being able to proof-read and correct the script gets higher the more clips I string together.

idk who was in charge of sanitizing everything though. I feel like that had to be a mandate, looking at even the Veilguard part of the artbook.

But acknowledging that a lot of these things are probably because of crunch and poor development conditions doesn't make the writing good. In fact it makes me feel like it's even more important that people critique issues with the writing that stand out to them instead of giving the game a pass. Bioware as a company shouldn't be allowed to think they can get away with treating their writing staff so terribly and have it not affect the perceived quality of their games.

[daemon-in-my-head]

Based on my latest post I'm overjoyed that my moots (whether or not tumblr officially recognises them thx sideblog doing sideblog sht) and those who randonly stumble upon my shit are objectively some of the greatest people.

I love this weird corner I found myself in and the general mindset and views on things.

And I may be too scared nd socially awkward to approach anyone directly but be assured I'm on the sidelines rooting for folks in a very cutesy, very demure manner and y'all should feel loved.

[stupidlittlespirit]

god i just watched a movie about body swapping and i-

[dionysiaproductions]

Me: *tries to start working on today's scheduled revision*

The Liar Me In My Head: Maybe some more caffeine will help?

Me, after another expresso: M-m-y brain is-is sh-shaking 🫨🫨🫨

[despairforme]

New shit??? For the firs time in years??

[cupcakes-and-pain]

Shoutout to my siblings for putting up with my neurodivergent ass. Just now I remembered how multiple times I tried to convince them that we should roleplay a complex trading system between towns and/or nations. I wanted no plot, one dimensional characters, and all the focus on trade. It's a miracle they didn't tease me more lol

[shadowglens]

does anyone else ever just scroll through their own pinterest?

[queer-omens-in-the-archives]

Immense willingness to write VS absolutely shot visual/word processing that makes it hard to read: battle to the death right now

[dragonanne4fun]

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[yourdailyjormy]

Holding Pattern

I am waiting for something to happen.

I do not know if it is profound or trite Or whether it will raise me up, or cast me down Or whether it will ever come at all But I am waiting for something.

In the meantime I:

Stand up, sit down, move from room to room Rise, dress, drink tea, repeat Eat, work, sleep, repeat Stand up, sit down, move from screen to screen Make bread, make words, make work, repeat Stand up, sit down, lie down, dream of dreams Keep moving, keep going, hold the pattern and repeat

There is something untethered in my chest A loose and lagging end that always comes undone I am waiting for something

There is a sense of hollow impotence in all of this Potential untapped; a well whose water is not drawn I am waiting for something

The knowledge lingers that I could be doing more: Could, should, would, repeat May, might, won't, repeat That complacency can cut deeper than violent agonies Hurt, weep, dry tears, repeat Hold on, hold tight, and let the time go past unseen Minute, hour, day, repeat

I am waiting for something

There is no ending to this poem There is no ending to a holding pattern Go back to the beginning and repeat.