#im thinking out loud

[taeminie]

i think starting next year gmmtv should just mix and match all their couples and gag the masses

[draconeko]

I've been a furry artist for a long time and the sky fandom really took me out of my comfort zone. There are so many things I want to learn to draw and I don't have the energy to study everything I want to do… I want to do painting, but I also want to animate, but I also want to do pixelart but I also want to do just sketches, I want to do comics but also do pngtuvers… Lately I have also found many things that I don't know how to draw and that fail a lot in a… uhm technical aspect? but I don't feel like studying muscles or drawing faces of random people from pinterest I'm suffering nhhhg

[spidey-bie]

Ansi's MJ is a man dating her Aunt May who I'm basing off of Childish Gambino. They're poly and bi4bi btw.

[gremlin-girly]

Now, I don't have anything medieval planned (currently) but can we just appreciate this???

Knight!Bucky and maiden!reader, finding him after battle and fixing his wounds - man 😫

Lamia and the Soldier (1905) by John William Waterhouse

[weirdphilosopher]

ok yeah ive been wondering if i should open an art shop on fr. mostly been thinking about doing little signature buddy drawings like i did with alphagamma, but i hate the stupid 100 pixel high canvas making me have to squeeze everything together. maybe i can do some other form of adopt thingy (is that what the your-dragon-here stuff is called... im used to it being used for buying character designs) or i can stick with the signature idea but just make them like custom banners... or i can just do custom emojis/emotes for like. discord and stuff. idk im just putting my thoughts down so i can keep track of this lol

[foxpunk]

hmmm okay i have to say i both agree and disagree with this post about the writer for dawntrail and the werlyt questline

like, i agree with the assessment of the original post that "ew that writer redeemed gaius" is simply untrue and not necessarily a basis for saying he'd handle dawntrail with the mindset of "colonizer sympathizing" or anything

....however i will say that OTHER stuff in the werlyt questline aside from gaius himself indicate that dawntrail--an expansion that i am ALREADY LOOKING AT WITH TREPIDATION AS A LATINO--is just...not gonna be handled well. (there's also PLENTY in the other expacs and questlines that make me feel this way but thats about different writers and is for a different post)

just to give one example, the main gripe i have about the werlyt questline is the premise itself. the story and character beats are 99% fantastic. the premise of "orphaned children get indoctrinated into joining the invading army" is a realistic and grim premise that would have served as an EXTREMELY solid foundation for the entirety of the questline to rest upon and examine. it would have fully backed up everything the post is saying...IF we were, yknow, ever actually Shown the indoctrination part. "why do you want to See that happening" some may ask and i counter with "i dont but thats how making a story is. showing has more weight than telling."

here are some things we are Told by characters in the werlyt questline: gaius adopted these kids, and his beliefs (at the time) got instilled in them, a few scenes of them in the army interacting mostly neutrally with gaius as their superior officer

here are some things we are Shown actually happening: a flashback of the kids gleefully discussing joining the army that--VERY RECENTLY, violently, and traumatically--orphaned them because it Might make gaius proud, gaius telling them to Not do that and trying to actively stop them from doing that, a ton of horrible abuse they all go through under someone else's command, and all of them dying anyways

can you see the issue here. showing does more than telling. when your premise is, allegedly, built on "orphaned children get indoctrinated into joining the invading army" proper time and weight needs to be put into establishing the indoctrination bit, or that weight has to settle into the rest of it which only leaves you with "orphaned children (gLEEFULLY?!) join the invading army" which is batshit insane without further context. regardless of what you Wanted to set up and what your Intentions for the story were, you're left with the horribly paced complete disconnect between being Told these kids were violently orphaned by an expanding imperial force and then Shown them sitting around smiling wanting to join said imperial force. and when another major point is supposed to be "gaius is reaping what he sowed" and you rush through and don't actually SHOW him sowing, then the reaping part is gonna seem more skewed on average to your audience. because the amount of weight you are putting into these narrative points is skewed.

even if they were working with constraints for how much content you can put into one side questline and what major beats needed to be in there, it's still horrible choice of focus. dark as it may be, rather than being Shown the scene of them happily discussing joining the army and Told that gaius and some other horrible shit were a factor in that decision, i would've rather just been Told that they gladly joined of their own "free will" and Shown why that is. actually Show us a scene where gaius probably doesnt even consider what he's doing as indoctrination. after all, at the time he believed he was fully in the right. that he was saving and protecting the people he was invading.

show is the sowing so the reaping hits harder. cause like. if you had literally just changed that one aspect of Where they chose to show and tell it would've really elevated the werlyt questline from "has good story beats and Potential to be good" to "has well done story and character beats and is actually good"

[bli-o]

hey autistic people who get overwhelmed by large groups or noise or conversation or etc etc etc you’re not evil for wanting to leave a family gathering. just so you know.

[cosmicrhetoric]

my personal fave "luffy holds a mirror up to someone's soul" moments. aka the whole point i think

[b1mbodoll]

omg jay forcing you to take a dildo that is obviously to big for you 😵‍💫😵‍💫

god. yeah. and he’s so fucking good at it.

jay definitely sweet talks you the whole time too, praising you for takin’ such a big toy in your tight little pussy; presses kisses to your thighs and squeezes them lovingly. he has one of those clamp vibrators too, your clit pressed between it to draw more orgasms from you and make it easier to slide the toy inside. he loves watching you take thick toys.

he prefers knotted dildos so he can watch how your cunt gapes for him, your gasps n choked out cries of his name cause his cock to twitch, pre leaking from his slit n making a mess of his sweats, because yes. he is half dressed. he doesnt have to touch himself to cum, just wrecking you with a silicone cock is enough to have jay blowing his load.

the ring of your cream coating the knot and length of the toy make him fucking dizzy, he doesn’t know whether he wants to taste you or watch you deepthroat the toy instead.. maybe he’ll have you do it and kiss you messily afterwards, a gentle but firm hand on your jaw keeping you in place as he works his tongue inside your mouth, a mixture of drool and your cum makin’ a mess of your chins.

he doesn’t bother taking a hand off you or the dildo to stroke his cock, but when he gets too into it, jay grinds against the mattress, moaning deeply when you clench around the toy as your orgasm washes over you. he swears ‘s like he can feel how tight you’re gripping the toy and his fingers dig into your thigh as his hips stutter, his thick load seeping through and leaving a stain on his pants.

[alwayslostinfiction]

I'm sorry but I have to repeat it again:

"appreciate YOU, buck"

He said YOU, not it, YOU.

He's not talking about buck helping him in that specific moment, he's talking about buck IN GENERAL.

And he says it OUT LOUD. To buck and himself.

I know as an audience we know that. Hell- they know it too.

He's shown it over and over again across the seasons.

But he's never actually said it out loud THIS DIRECTLY.

No reading between the lines, no big gestures, just a plain, casual, undeniable "appreciate YOU".

[draconeko]

Today I remembered an artist who inspired me in the past and who is no longer here, it's a strange feeling because I know who she is, I knew her art and her process, but she never knew and will never know how much her content helped me in those years that I watched her videos. Oh god I wanted to draw like her, I wanted to design creatures like her, now that I remembered her again thanks to a video that her family uploaded, I heard her voice again and it's so strange to miss someone you didn't even know, I just… I'll never know how her art could have improved, the stories she wanted to tell, the fantasy world she was creating, something that no one else could do, everything, lost along with her. Somehow I feel like this world is too small right now, she was a person from Norway… and I, a person from a totally different place, saw those videos and was inspired to try to dedicate myself to art thanks to her.

I don't know why I'm talking about this honestly, I needed to get it out of my mind somehow

[snipdoodle]

bonus comic strip i made for class

[ezool]

[palia talk]

ashura looking out for reth by providing him a job despite him straying from his path to provide for tish, like ashura atoning for losing contact with his own son nuroo.

reth saying ashura’s overprotectiveness can be overwhelming at times, despite them being very normal levels of protectiveness, only bc he and tish lost their parents at a young age and reth isn’t used to having an adult figure looking out for him.

ashura and reth filling in a space in each others’ lives of people they had previously lost, and finding that trusting relationship in kilima village 🥺

[cali]

a lolcow is obviously a bad and harmful thing but studying weird people online is a wonderful and soul enriching experience. but if u treat the fun of it as a product and engage with them to get more of this product, if youre "milking" the "lolcow", youre fucked. youre going down the path of darkness. it needs to be aetherial and loose. the better alternative is looking at lolbirds instead which is quite beautiful cuz, like birdwatching, its a process where u do not enact power and force over ur subject to make it show u what u want, you just let them naturally come by and show off their plumage (10000 near identically composed deviantart illustrations of different kids show character crying while getting knead into dough and baked[this happened in a single episode of a show the artist saw when they were 4]) and then u maybe show some of ur favorite feathers of theirs to your close group of friends and then let them pass on with the wind and u keep them as a sweet memory ❤

[milksnake-tea]

have u ever seen a man so beautiful you starting crying

AND OH MY GOD THEYRE BACK WE'RE SO BACK I LOVE YTOU STELLARON HUNTERS OHOSGHOSGHHSGO WE'RE SO BACK

[star-struck09]

I’m so fucking tired of everything.