#idk why but my head hurts

[sandeewithtwoe]

Got some drawing requests

First one is for @nsstuff , wanted to see Reapermare. They both want to kill each other but in a loving way <33

Second, from anonymous (or anonyme if you want to be French)

Just pretend they’re in a bar here. Blue takes Lust home safely after this

I’m not taking requests after this!! But thank you to those who sent me some <3

Reaper belongs to renrink

Nightmare belongs to Jokublog

Lust belongs to NSFWshamecave

[apostaterevolutionary]

I am so sorry, apparently it’s 2024 and I’m arguing about dragon age again lmao. How did I get here! Why is this happening!! Time is a flat circle!!!

Anyway. People can feel how they want about the past games not mattering in this game. If you’re cool with it, I’m happy for you. But there’s one particular argument in defence of this choice that is really, really bothering me and I have to rant

The thing I keep seeing is “well all this other stuff has nothing to do with the main plot or Rook, so it should be cut” and that’s. Not a good way to tell stories in my opinion. Because here’s the thing: it’s not about the Big Overall Plot. It’s about the characters that live in this world, big and small

I’m going to use the example of Varric and Hawke cause I think it’s the easiest to explain quickly. Varric is a storyteller. That’s the defining trait of his character. He tells stories, and sometimes they’re true and sometimes they’re not and sometimes it’s something in between. In DA2 he tells you about his brother. In inquisition, he talks about hawke and there’s banter about several of the companions. Most of these are just little one liners that don’t “serve the overall plot” but they serve Varric’s character

And that matters

So if we take this character known for telling stories about people that have been in his life, well, he largely can’t do that now. How can he talk about Hawke, someone who can be a very close friend of his, without even their gender being a choice you can select? Or whether Varric should be saying ‘is’ or ‘was’ about them? How can he talk about the companions in DA2 or inquisition when a lot of them don’t have to be recruited or can die? Will he limit himself to only characters that are guaranteed to be a part of it and alive? Or is it that he and Rook will have such a shallow relationship that Varric, of all characters, never talks about his life and past exploits?

Or has Varric as a character changed so much that he doesn’t even want to tell stories anymore? That Hawke living or dying means nothing to him? That the friendships he built with people in 2 games mean nothing to him? That he’s become literally unrecognizable?

This is where the problem is. Sure, Rook maybe doesn’t care about these people they’ve never met. But do they care about Varric? What about if a companion mentions an old friend of theirs, talks about an experience they had that made them who they are - is that only okay if that experience isn’t from a previous game? Or are all the characters so flat that we never learn anything about their connections to others outside of Rook? Is this story SO focused on this player character and this plot that NOTHING else matters, even within the world, and there’s no depth to be found in any of the characters that feature in it?

Writing characters so that they only ever talk about things that “directly serve the plot” is how you get flat, unremarkable, boring, forgettable characters. And that’s not something I would have accused bioware of doing even if some instalments are stronger in this area than others. But it sounds like that’s what they’re doing here, at least with the past characters. Cause sure, maybe Morrigan is so closed off she’ll never mention her son and partner. That’s believable, even if iffy given that they’ve said she’s going to be more involved than we think. But Varric? VARRIC??? Never mentioning ANY of the people he used to spend time with and care about except Solas and maybe some of the inquisition characters that can’t die or not be recruited but also carefully skirting around what happened to them in the game? That’s literally not the same character

And I would expand this to like. A letter mentioning this or a codex mentioning that, or ambient dialogue about so and so - that makes the world feel deep and those random, unimportant NPCs feel richer by connecting them to the larger world. It’s not about “serving the plot”, it’s about making your world and characters deep enough that they feel real, lived in, and like something we can actually care about

[lunarharp]

What led to this (orufrey comic, cw an uncomfortable/creepy scene)

[carbonateds-oda]

I hope the bruise on dazai’s forehead stays and that he uses it to guilt chuuya into giving him forehead kisses like the annoying little loser he is

[radd-overzero]

i gotta sleep

[asillypineapple]

How the hell did he see outside

[blogblogartstuffuhh]

HEARD OF ACTION DOUGLAS?? GET READY FOR EXECUTIVE DYSTOPIA DOUGLAS !!

HE IS A COMPUTER TECHNICIAN AT MANDARK'S CORPORATION!! And general technician as well

Douglas is the only one who actually knows how the computers work and is at charge of the power energy of the building. The problem is that he is the ONLY one that is at charge of these tasks, despite how efficient it would be if Mandark actually hired more people for that department to help Douglas out, this is on purpose as putting Dexter's best friend under so much distress feels like indirect misery for Dexter !! And Mandark was never truly fond of Douglas in the first place, boot licking dork.....

Despite the horrific stress and lack of sleep from all the exploitation, Douglas still tries to stay cheerful and positive about the circumstances

Also fun fact! His designated number is 137 as a reference to Tom Kenny's birthday (his VA)

[katyspersonal]

Lrb dear god, this reminded me of that time when Alfred-chan got sooooo mad at my post explaining why fans should respect bisexual headcanons for Maria and Malenia instead of pretending like they're canonically lesbians and that they get oppressed and erased by mxf ships with them. They kept vagueing that post for like a MONTH in their blog including in tags under reblogs of Maria fanart, passively-aggressively changed their url to character+sexuality to "spite" me and then even made a sockpuppet account to start shit with me in the comments.

They deactivated when me and Val completely obliterated their "you cultivate lesbiphobic following by telling people why they should respect all sexuality headcanons instead of acting cultish or assuming their experiences and stereotypes equal canon confirmation" garbage with actual facts and logic tho but I screenshotted everything fjthfgfj (I learned to document everything the hard way after they've changed the she/they pronouns to they/they pronouns ONLY to accuse me of misgendering, so thank you for making me wiser I guess 😎). Even more vile, as they, a white person, larped as an Arab in that sockpuppet to hold even MORE "privilege" against me in discussion gjtjfh Because for them race, gender or sexuality are just badges of honor and dishonor, they don't see these as traits of actual human beings. And Dr Eugene X, who worked with them and weaponized her race to accuse everyone who disagreed with her of racism, didn't bat an eye at such a terrible act too?? As usual, rules are not for their friends, lol

It is not even the worst thing Alfred did, and yet all of this just, just, JUST because I wrote a point on why bisexual headcanon people did nothing wrong and there is no ground to claim something is canon when it isn't. 🤦‍♂️ Like, they were soooo convinced that I hated lesbian headcanons and that I'd feel angry if they called Lady Maria a lesbian, when what I was angry at is this exact toxic behavior in the fandom. No matter how much you like a headcanon, don't be a bitch about it. Maria doesn't """belong""" to any gender or sexuality, she belongs to anyone who likes her and is invested in her complexity as a character!!!

Yet, apparently, common Malenia simps / Finlay shippers are no better than common Maria simps / Mariadeline shippers. Just, wild how after shit like this, many people have the guts to claim that it is "sexist redditbros" who are the biggest problem of creators in the fandom. 🤦‍♂️ They'd actually blush if they encountered what such self-proclaimed "feminists" do to their own (!!!) over headcanons. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[10hourshift]

Day 6: fankid

Redesign of the only fankid I've ever made for anything.

She's Katherine, daughter of Toddy and Onnie

[brainrotisseriechicken]

college aged francis wojciechoski and benjamin kondraki, Marrakesh, Morroco, circa the 1840's

[moe-broey]

... One thing about me is that I am ALWAYS fucking up the handedness on Moe's bracelet arrangement 🧍

[stalkerofstuff]

Look look- it may be 1am but I slept, for like

A normal time for once-

Like seven hours

[sudokuplayer]

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[wereh0gz]

Sonic au where everything's the same except the werehog was feral during unleashed. Nothing else abt the plot changes bc at his core sonic is still himself BUT he's more Creature. Bigger, fluffier, can't talk, overall more animal-isms. Yeah

[fishandshesmygills]

i need to just start journaling. my closest friends are sick of hearing me complain all the time and im realizing ive made myself kinda miserable to be around. i posted about this on my finsta story but then the girl i was in love with in high school who during our nearly friendship ending fight after prom SAID EXACTLY THAT ABOUT ME viewed the story (why is she even still on my finsta) and i realized that i need to genuinely like kill myself sorry

[running-in-the-dark]

I think I just got a migraine from a car air freshener thing?

I was tidying my desk, found the thing still in its packaging, cut the plastic to take a look at it. Then the smell hit me (like bubblegum +laundry detergent times a thousand). My face started to burn immediately which always happens with strong scents. Then my tinnitus got really bad and my hearing got weird and my ear felt weird (stuffy? full? Something like that). And I started feeling dizzy and nauseous and my head started to hurt (my head and my face and my skull). It's been over an hour & it's not really much better so I'm going to bed now :(