#ie shitty

[koipudding]

i had a dream abt a-yuan and it was a rlly good au but i forgot it all (a building explodes in it, and for some reason in modern day they’re still doing arranged marriage bs. or i got unlucky.) but it feels like i’m mischaracterizing him in the dream and it feels mean.

[carlyraejepsans]

hibiscia!!! Sorry if youve explained before but is there something specific about reset-remember fics that you hate? I don't really like them either but for me it's just because I feel like a lot of authors type sans in very ooc ways

They're completely antithetical to Sans' character arc for the sake of cheap and easy angst. The nature of his brand of cosmic horror isn't in reliving his life again and again, that's Flowey's. Sans knows OF the anomaly, knows that it's manipulating time and knows it's a threat to the entire universe, but he doesn't know how or why, because he doesn't remember.

And that's crucial! him being mostly in the dark in spite of the MANY warning signs about us... because it's in that doubt that he remains hopeful. YES we could potentially end the world... but what if we don't? yes we have unimaginable power over everyone else and we can bring back time, but what if we're just.... sad? he needs that gap in his knowledge so he can take a leap of faith across it, it's his entire character arc in the pacifist run. sans THINKS he's given up, he wants to have given up, he chose to do it because there's a comfort in that. in contenting yourself with good food and bad laughs. there's peace. but he hasn't given up, not really. on himself? maybe. but not in us.

there's no way to have that arc if he remembers resets.

[lucabyte]

🐮

[baejax-the-great]

I tend to use the verb form of 'steel' a lot (ie "He steeled himself to do something uncomfortable"), and it really chaps my hide that steel did not exist in the bronze age and so this phrasing makes zero sense

[semdere]

who tf was gonna tell me that drawing locs is SO FUN???!??

[diamondseaside]

it’s so wild when i see people say they think taylor’s a shitty person with their whole chest… she’s quite literally one of the kindest most genuine celebrites especially for someone at her level yall just be making shit up

[enjxlrass]

usually I name my pieces but I never really named is one uhhh I call it projecting my indirect religious trauma onto my favorite character by drawing him with religious symbolism

basically I drew this forever ago after having to be around my extremely religious grandma for a week straight

closeups under the cut :D

[pavlovianfuckery]

i feel as if i should apologize to the rest of the fandom when i post this fic. everyone is writing such lovely stuff and then there is me and my shovel doing drive-by dumps of utter filth into the tags and/or ao3. i need an exorcism or something i think

[mechaseraph]

Saw this on twitter and decided to try to feel the effects. Well. Certainly feeling em now. Well, that looks like a logical chain of progression. Don’t feel like it changed in its base that much, I just discovered new tricks+got the flow of anatomy and how to play with it to make it look fun for my eyes. More or less

[aedeagus]

not to selfiepost but i was doing stylization sillies because i think its a fun way to check with yourself to see how you portray the same features across different style languages

[coulsonlives]

Recently, I saw a post about how it's good to leave the house every once in a while and get fresh air, and it got me thinking. Because yup, fresh air is great, it can be shitty for mental health if you're cooped up a lot, if you don't change your scenery!

But: that last part made me think about my experience as a kid, and I'm sad about it. When I was a kid, I was in a suburban neighborhood. Technically, I could leave the house and go for walks and get fresh air anytime I wanted. But it was awful for me, and how my mind worked!

I couldn't possibly walk to anything, because the nearest amenity was a 7/11, and it was like an hour-long walk there and back. So the whole idea of walking felt meaningless, unsatisfying. And there were no sidewalks, so I stressed out abt having to use the same road that people drove their vehicles on (and in this day and age, nobody pays attention on the road, so yikes). There were no distinguishing 'landmarks' to help me keep track of where I was, not even any trees, just cookie cutter houses and lawns and very same-y roads, so I always got lost (yep lol, in my own neighborhood!). Maybe I was getting fresh air, but the process made me feel dumb and lonely and confused.

I was basically walking around, day in and day out, in some empty liminal space where all the houses looked the same, where I could walk for literal hours and never feel like I was going anywhere, like I was on a treadmill, and it kinda messed with me. We didn't even have a park nearby. It was literally just this. Day in and day out. Nothing ever changed. There were no events or anything, nothing to look forward to, past putting on some new music on headphones. I barely saw another person. When I did see someone, they were always in a car, trying to get out of the neighborhood to go somewhere that was actually interesting and not mind-numbingly empty!

It was super shitty. Yep, it got me out of the house which was good, but it could've been so much better if there had just been. A freakin park, or a place to gather and actually see other people (these are called 'third places' and suburbs, like, never have them!). Even if I didn't need to talk to anyone, and I just wanted to people-watch, I would've loved something like that. Alas, there was no chance for spontaneous interactions, or for fun, interesting things to happen, which I think is super super underrated, and a big part of 'getting out of the house' as a complete package.

Gonna link to a Vox article, bc I thought it was really insightful:

How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult - Vox

[grandaddy-of-all-liars]

"I deedn't mean it..."

[octoqi]

Y’all wanna play uno?

Anyone can play just tagging two of my friends

@nonsensical-violence @wynn-ivor

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

this might be very niche but i love when you start watching a new youtube channel and you can immediately tell that the person is very smart and know what they're talking about and can formulate an argument!! there are so many dumb people on youtube pretending to be smart and god does it really show in contrast to people who are actually smart

[ghostlyerlkonig]

unfortunately i am giggling so hard at anyone who thinks the lord of the rings line from Celebrimbor is too much. you are taking it too seriously and guarded i think. That is literally his title. it pulled me out for 3 seconds to think 'oh i wonder what being confronted with that reality of how he's getting power- OH-". at least the references in this have been more natural (ie the pity line and Gandalf line references (TRACKS considering the movies have him talk about learning from others and this is going far more off the movies and smidge parts of the books due to the restraints of the adaptation)) than Alien Romulus referencing a line that hadn't even chronologically happened yet and failing at hitting the same level of drama it has in Aliens for a bad comedic moment of the glitchy goody boy robot swearing.

[tinylilvalery]

Shiv weaponises her vulnerability to victimise herself to force Tom into forgiving her [1][2] + doesn't respect his boundaries [3][4] when he needs space from her.

1. In 1.10 Shiv comes clean to Tom on their wedding night about her cheating on him, AFTER their marriage (despite Tom asking her beforehand and giving her a chance then). Shiv weaponises her vulnerability into forcing Tom to forgive her, bringing up how when they met she was a "mess" and in a "very bad place" and how she needs him and also tries to gaslight Tom about their relationship never being monogamous. He forgives her because he's in a difficult position (divorce on the same night as marriage?? She didn't give him an out to call off the wedding beforehand and waited until after he was secured), he loves her, and he's forced to sympathise and accept things.

2. Shiv only apologises to Tom when she sees how cold he's being with her in 4.8. There's real danger he's actually done with the relationship. The kicked dog isn't returning to heel. She apologises. He doesn't accept it (you don't have to accept an apology, especially if you're still upset and someone is tryna force an apology on you because THEY feel bad and want to alleviate their guilt and return things to something that THEY'RE comfortable with). She uses the fact that her dad just died, which doesn't change the fact that everything he said in the prior fight was true. Their relationship had been shit for ages prior to Logan's death, therefore Logan's death doesn't excuse the rest of the relationship, and he's still immovable. Damn, he's always comforted and folded to her before, he's not doing that right now. Shit. Bring out the heavy. I'm pregnant and it's yours! The ultimate card to reel him back. He wanted a baby right? But he doesn't even believe her now... Why should he care anyway? How much has she ever cared about him?

3. In 4.7 Tom walks away from Shiv and goes to the balcony, needing space, telling Shiv he's tired. She doesn't respect this need for space and corners him on the balcony, literally not allowing him any reprieve, and actively mocks him for being exhausted, pressing and pressing him until he snaps, despite the fact he didn't even want to fight in the first place. He needed space and wasn't allowed to have it.

4. Tom is exhausted and stressed out of his mind in 4.8 with his job (something that means the world to him and yet also something Shiv has never taken seriously - and how could she understand the importance it holds for him when she's a nepo baby). He asks Shiv to talk about this another time and that he can't do this right now. She doesn't respect his request and presses her needs above his and takes him aside again and isolates him, and then acts surprised and offended when he doesn't respond how she wants him to. Ironically if she had actually respected him asking to talk another time when he wasn't so stressed, she might have gotten the results she wanted: Tom back in her pocket.