#is this even coherent. im tired

[shrimpmandan]

Ngl I find it funny that some of my followers/mutuals are still very deep in "nonbinary isn't real, ace spectrum isn't real, binary trans people have to have very specific transition goals" mindsets when I'm many of those things now LMAO. I'm not nonbinary but I AM Salmacian and have kind of thrown out the idea of getting top surgery any time soon. I'm most likely aspec which would explain a lot of my past relationships as well as my relationship with kink. Some of my best friends are nonbinary. I ain't outright blocking anyone nor do I particularly care if you still follow me or vice-versa, but I do wonder how some of y'all would or do feel about me nowadays. 's it a 'community traitor' sorta thing or do you simply pretend to not see it?

[operose-reblogs]

Do yall think that if neil were to get a new tattoo, one that was his own choice, that he might get caught in a rabbit hole?

Imagine, if you will, Neil getting a tattoo, probably of a fox, with Andrew nearly asleep in a chair next to him. And Andrew notices neil looking at the tattoo being poked into his skin and his expression is a little too intense. Andrew pushing the tattoo artist away while also pushing Neil's head between his knees, quietly telling him to breath.

Meanwhile Neil's mind is working double time against itself to remember the last time he got a tattoo done and also to keep that memory hidded. He doesn't want to remember but the sensation is just too familiar for his mind to not recreate it.

[bowelfly]

Hi there! Discovered your work today and I love it!!! You have such a lovely style. Do you have any advice for how you interpret the complicated insect anatomy into something manageable that still makes it distinguishable?

I've been trying to get into drawing insects but sometimes the leg joints specifically really have me scratching my head.

hey thanks a lot, i'm glad you like my bugs.

as far as drawing bugs goes, i do really think that having a grasp of insect anatomy and how everything fits together is really the best way to start figuring out how to simplify their designs in a satisfying way. unfortunately insect anatomy is so varied between and even within taxonomic orders and families that knowledge of how one group fits together doesn't necessarily always translate to others. i've found that when i have confusion over how things fit together with a particular beast, doing an image search for it's scientific name + "anatomy diagram" or something along those lines is often very helpful

after that i feel like it's just a case of the more you practice drawing them the more you can intuit which parts are more necessary to distinguish than others and which ones can be de-emphasized.

as far as the legs go specifically, keeping in mind that there's a million variations on this formula, this is sort of the generic plan:

note how the segments tend to slot into each other like little gimbal joints or something. and from the diagrams above you can see how the legs tend to be attached to the ventral side of the insect and then sort of splay out to the side.

again really can't emphasize how much variation there is on this schematic, with every segment liable to be massively expanded or contracted or disappeared altogether

i hope that was at least a little helpful? i'm hilariously sleep deprived right now so can't really put as much effort into answering this as i did with my little bug mouthparts tutorial from a while back

[siriusly-the-best-bi]

Ya know what’s curious to me? In Episode 2 when Crowley asks Aziraphale in the cellar whose side he’s on, Aziraphale responds “God’s, of course!”

Ya know why this is curious?

Well, for one, they’re talking about sides. Heaven and Hell. Their respective bosses. Crowley’s response of going along with Hell as far as he can makes sense, it’s what we expect to hear, but when he turns the question on Aziraphale, he doesn’t exclaim ‘heaven’s obviously!’ He immediately associates himself and his values with God directly.

Second of all, In episode 6, when talking about accepting the Metatron’s job offer as the new supreme archangel with Crowley, Aziraphale says “but heaven! Well, it’s the side of truth, of light, of good.”

For the entirety of Good Omens season 1, Aziraphale had always talked about following God’s ineffable plan, which was a noticeably different turn of phrase than those such as Gabriel used in heaven, always referring to it as the Great Plan. This is even the very thing that lead them to wiggling their way around Armageddon in the first place when confronted by Gabriel and Beelzebub.

Aziraphale has always made the distinction that he is an angel and does good because he believes that God is good and he trusts in their design.

Now I might just be loosing it, it is nearly 3am, but this sudden distinction and the choice of Aziraphale to not only discuss heaven in such a manner, but to refer to it as an entire Side, and use the adjectives he uses to describe heaven when we’ve only ever seen or heard him talk about God this way… it just all plays very intentional to me. It feel’s weird.

Especially once you take into consideration the flashbacks we’re shown of Beelzebub and Gabriel discussing the failed Armageddon in their little pub rendezvous. They never once mention their respect ��boss’. Gabriel says “we are ready for round two.” And Beelzebub’s response is “as are we.” This we that they’re referring to isn’t God. It’s not Satan. They’re talking about the beings who reside in these respective places. The Angels and the Demons. And the conversation then continues with Gabriel admitting, “everyone in Heaven is all like, ‘Well, you’re the commander-in-chief, can’t you just make the war happen anyway?’ Like, I make the rules.” And whats Beelzebub’s response? “That’s exactly what my lot said.”

The pressure isn’t coming from God anymore. In the past, like seen in the Job episode, when there were divine tasks at hand they were dealt with by the angels for God, and God was directly involved in finding the outcome. There was no going through management or filing paperwork or monitoring miracles. And hey, I get it. As time evolves along with the humans, so does everything else.

My question is, is it possible that with these evolutions in the human world, that Heaven and Hell have perhaps learned a thing or two from humanity as well? Already they’ve mimicked the clothing, the office spaces, the entire design of heaven and hell down to the management hierarchy. Is it possible that these wars and these fights aren’t being started by God anymore, but an act of civil war amongst the Angels and Demons? We already see Michaels urge for power and control paralleled and almost foiled by Shax’s drive for control and power and both were the driving factors between any of the Major problems this season that lead to major conflicts between Heaven and Hell.

That brings us of course, to the Metatron. Who is he and where exactly did he come from? When did his position become necessary and why wasn’t he present as the ‘voice of god’ in the job minisode? Why suddenly are all of God’s plans, only being carried out by him?

Do you want to know why I think Gabriel was being demoted and not sent to Hell as a fallen angel? Because I don’t think they can. I think that’s something only God can do, but what kind of fear and control would that hold over all the busy bee’s? No, no, instead, let’s frame it as a Kindness. Heaven won’t cast you out because it will make them look bad! because it’s happened before, so they have no choice but to play a game of politics to keep everyone in check.

But here’s my question. Has there been a fallen angel since the great war? Why is it that after all this time, Aziraphale hasn’t fallen time and time again? Why is it that instead of an Angel falling from grace to join the armies of hell, the response to an act of rebellion is absolute destruction. The same could be said for hell. If you have demons walking around that are doing good, wouldn’t that simply just re-spark their halo’s? Why is it that they’d be destroyed by Holy Water instead of simply returning to Heaven?

It’s because God plays an ineffable game of their own design. They’re not playing with earth, or humanity. They’re toying with the Angels and the Demons. It’s why they’re placing bets with Satan.

When Crowley’s attempting to convince Aziraphale to run away for the last time, he doesn’t say Fuck God and Fuck whatever game this is, we don’t need to be a part of it. He says Heaven and Hell are toxic we need to get away from them.

It’s just so curious to me how this season has carefully and slowly taken us away from the idea of God and God’s Ineffable Plan and instead led us into this drama between Heaven and Hell, no mention of God whatsoever. No narrator.

[time-woods]

gender bending aziraphale and crowley and calling them wives is odd since they’re not men and don’t have gender like drawing them fem presenting is fine but saying they’re suddenly women and wives vs men and husbands is odd cause they’re not men anyway

i sorta understand where your coming from but yet people still refer to them in masculine terms normally so is it really terrible to use feminine terms when they are fem presenting ? shouldnt that be seen the same way ? tbh im all for husband and wife being gender neutral in the first place- its kinda just down to what ppl prefer- i could also bring up the whole bbgrl thing and how thats less of a gendered term- but im confused on what the issue is? would it be inherently different if they were default fem presenting then in a version present more masculine? angels n demons still refer to eachother using pronouns n such- its cool to prefer not using any gendered language with the 2 of them but we cant rlly ask the characters themselves what their preferences are when theyre presenting a certain way,

i dont know if any of this comes off the way i intended- and if i just sound dumb but

[crazylittlejester]

im sorry but you mean to fucking tell me i stayed off my phone all day and the FIRST thing i fucking see when i get on it is that Netflix is making a version of Dorian Gray WHERE DORIAN AND BASIL ARE FUCKING BROTHERS?????? ARE YOU FOR REAL RIGHT NOW?????? HAVE THEY READ THE GODDAMN BOOK WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEIR READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS??? oscar wilde didn’t fucking go to jail for being gay and have this book be used as evidence at his trial just for some mother fucker in 2024 to be disrespectful to him and his work like this, not to mention the fact its erasing queer characters. the fucking book has already been censored enough for the love of GOD.

WHO LET THIS EVEN GET TO THIS POINT WHO LET THIS HAPPEN???????

[quartermoonconvergence]

Ok i think im really sick of this so i'll say it - it is very obvious how much of a higher standard people here hold max up to compared with the rest of the cast and im really sick of people pretending they don't do this.

You are not smart for saying constantly "oh max is an asshole" and not providing any other further explanation for that same statement. You all will ignore the times that other, worse written characters have been rude in the show in favour of reiterating the same point over and over and over and over and im really sick of pretending otherwise. Like no shit max is an asshole id be a dickhead too if my entire worldview was based on the fact that my parents are too busy to give a fuck and i have only myself to rely on in this world.

And if i said this is also heavily because of the fact that max is an indian child and a lot of people have issues with seeing children as people by themselves along with how poc are adultified socially id be the bad guy. I'll likely elaborate on this more in a later post but I simply have so many issues with how this fanbase treats max and im really sick of this

[phwedding]

the fear a lot of people in the phandom seem to have that, if we as a community say or do enough things "wrong," things will "revert back to how they used to be" (aka dnp will close themselves off again or stop making content) is really odd to me. it essentially ignores all the personal growth they've both experienced in the last decade or so and instead imagines their current willingness to be more open as being hinged upon, and an effect of, the good behavior of their fans. i see no reason to assume that there's any such implicit system of bargaining for more openness in exchange for less invasiveness taking place between them and us -- they're just living their lives, and occasionally sharing parts of it with their audience, of their own volition. now, at a point when they're clearly very happy and comfortable irrespective of us, it doesn't make much sense to claim it's plausible that they might decide to go on hiatus again and end "dan and phil" for real this time and go back in the closet or whatever because some people said weird things about them online

[phagodyke]

the masculine urge to take a saucepan off thr draining board and bash myself repeatedly over the head with it until I pass out and no longer have to experience feeling Bad 😍

[pbpsbff]

crazy how “genocide is bad” is a controversial take to some ppl these days

[revans-rubber-duckie]

Spoilers up to end of act 2 but my brain is eating itself

Opted to burn the grove down and I don't think anything is quite as sobering as the difference in reaction Shadowheart has between saving it and burning it.

Like she's pleasantly surprised to learn she cares about the tieflings if you save it. She's drinking but it's pretty clear she's just having fun enjoying the night ect ect. You can have a cute moment with her. She's even willing to tease you a little. We all know how fun and light this is. You get to see her drop her prickly exterior and you see how much she really doesn't want to keep people at a distance but she knows she made this bed and she will lay in it, but she lets you know she's not opposed to you closing that gap at least a little.

Burn it down and she's so smashed your illithid check is a 2 to learn she's agonizing over what she was part of while trying to justify it as being in line with Shar doctrine. She knows she's too drunk to sleep with anyone without it hurting her later. If you offer to cheer her up with a war song she's almost angry you suggest it and says she wants nothing to do with war for tonight. If you call her out on feeling guilty she immediately tries to hide behind "we survived" rhetoric. Even when you offer to just sit at a fire with her she opts to go it alone, despite conceding doing nothing might just be nice (and the way the convo plays out I do get a personal read that 'nothing' should have been applied to the offer of burning the grove). She is having a no good very bad day and 0 fun.

And not that it wasn't really obvious that Shadowheart struggles with her faith even in the "good" run, but I think this just.... really drives it home. When she does something her goddess would be over the moon (forgive me) for, she feels sick. She tries to drown it. She's young. She just lost her fellow clerics. She's alone with only her faith to keep her company and guide her. She's trying so hard to present and posture herself as a proper Sharrian and...she's just not. She's not. She's soft at her core and it doesn't matter how much brainwashing and memory suppressing happens she fundamentally does not have the heart for it.

But she'll do it. She has to defend the only home, the only family she knows. She's nothing if not faithful. She's always hopeful it's worth it, that it amounts to something, that she just isn't at a place in her faith to understand yet. But it eats at her and if you pick the justiciar route for her (and you do have to specifically pick it for her. You have to give her specific direction, the thing Shar has been doing for her whole life more or less.If you stay silent for the whole thing she will choose to throw Shar away) it really hits as her finally drowning. She couldn't hold herself underwater long enough to do it, but god will she let you do it for her.

This got away from me but the point is it's almost tragic to see how quickly she falls apart when you do exactly what Shar would approve of.

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

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[lesbianmaxevans]

the meltdown armand stans are having over the reveal that he didn't save louis........ he's not going to stick his neck out for anyone (at least he isn't that person yet, I feel p confident he will have a character arc where he becomes that person) and he deeply believes in the great laws. hell, he tried to warn louis to not turn madeleine, which I suspect was probably a large factor into why he "went along with" the trial in the first place. (I say "went along with" in quotes bc he's more powerful than everyone in the coven and they can't actually force him to do shit)

like this brilliant post says, armand chooses the path of least resistance. I have the suspicion given his past that this is ingrained as a self-preservation tactic. he probably feels like he has no choice and has to go along w decisions he doesn't like, because he doesn't want to be involved in conflict. but we all saw that fucking dinner when he froze everyone in the coven! again, no one in the coven can force him to do shit! he could have prevented everything! he wanted claudia gone bc her existence violated the great laws. santiago wanted louis gone bc he's a petty racist bitch who was offended that louis fell asleep during one of his performances and hated that armand allowed him to have a life outside the coven. the fact that louis repeatedly says he didn't want to join the coven meant things had to come to a head. santiago finds the journals and proof of the crime of "killing" lestat. he now has something backing his hatred of louis. like the post I link says, why would he go against the coven now, when the deck is stacked against louis? it's easier to conform with the group. so of course he was ready to let louis die.

[skoulsons]

im going through withdrawals and am touch starved bear with me

joel and ellie riding on a motorcycle. joel talking her through everything before they even get on because he has to make sure she’s safe. joel making sure her helmet fits and is on snug. joel putting his own helmet on and pressing the foreheads of their helmets together. snug? snug.

“remember, hold-“

“hold on to you tight, don’t have my helmet too close to yours, and keep my feet… off the ground.”

“Just perch ‘em on the pegs. Don’t touch the wheels.”

“Got it.”

joel kicking the stand up and waiting for ellie to climb behind him. ellie using his shoulders to balance herself and get comfortable.

“You good?”

she settles her hands around his waist and smiles beneath her helmet. “I’m good.”

they ride. joel keeps their speed on the slower side as ellie gets comfortable. he has to remind her once (or twice) don’ hug me too tight with a brief hand over hers as she loosens her grip (joel turned and leaned farther to the side than ellie was expecting). he speeds up after a while, the sleeves of her sweatshirt and the hair sticking out of her helmet blowing every direction

once they’re back home, ellie excitedly hops off when joel says it’s safe to and she whips her helmet off, joel parking the motorcycle beside their house.

her helmet comes off and some of her hair sticks up, joel laughing and smoothing it over. “Have fun?”

“Fuck yeah! You gotta teach me, joel! Can we do a wheelie next time?”

“No, you are not learning,” he says, hand still on her head.

she looks up at him, a clever smirk on her lips. “…so we can do a wheelie next time?”

joel sighs and closes his eyes. He brings his hand to back of her neck and leans over to kiss her hairline before pulling back to look at her. “No.”

[constantly-confused-queer]

Another thing with Fionna and Cake: I find it kinda funny how many people are calling Marcy and Bubblegum enemies to lovers in episode 7. The vibes are so much closer to bitter ex-lovers who had a horrible falling out then they are to enemies to lovers. The sexual tension between them while fighting was way too strong for nothing to have happened between them yet

[usermoreid]

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