#it also seems so weird tho

[sysig]

You're still standing off to the side. Somehow, center stage has shifted from under your feet without you realizing, and you're standing in the wings, performing to no one.

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[ryssbelle]

Some of y’all portray John Dory as so old and yeah he is older and you can do whatever you want forever as an artist or writer but he is 30 years old and yall draw him like his pushing 50

Mans got one foot in the grave and the others going in the second he his 36

Bonus:

[venti-death-watch]

so glad the hearth timeline is like… slightly more understandable than before. previously i had freminet down as being given to the hearth at about 5, arle killing the previous knave when he was about 8, and the twins being taken in a few months later at about 12 when he was still 8. for my au, that makes them about four years apart, which feels slightly large of an age gap but ultimately it works better than making them a year or two apart.

apparently, canonically arle was 16 when clervie died at 16, 17 when she killed the previous knave, and then spent an unknown amount of time in prison before becoming a harbinger and taking over as the director of the house of hearth.

freminet was taken in during the year between clervie’s death and crucabena’s death. the twins were taken in a few months after that.

if freminet was taken in at 5-6, the twins taken in around 9-10, that keeps the age gap between the trio as well as explains the ~10 year gap between this and canon. that would make freminet 15-16 and the twins 19-20, which fits them really well. i wish arlecchino was older, though; she definitely feels older than ~27.

[satorisoup]

people will think im ordinary until they say one (1) thing about tmnt and all of a sudden im explaining the entire lore starting from the 1990’s movie & why donatello is the best turtle i fear… T^T

tag limit fights me… i must yap… please listen… SOB </3

[iceclew]

L-listen I...

I can explain..

I may have crossed the path of windbreaker today, and.. and.. I MEAN...MIGHT BE COMPENSATING THE LACK OF A CERTAIN DOOFUS BUT ALSO BADASS BOWL CUT HERE,.... BUT I SORTA FELL IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER DOOFUS BUT ALSO BADASS BOWLCUT, I AM SORRY, YOUR HONOR, BUT TO MY DEFENSE HE WAS FCKING SHIRTLESS FOR LIKE A GOODDAMN MINUTE OR TWO!!!

[performing-personhood]

Dropout content has always been solid even when you go all the way back to the CollegeHumor days (which I'm doing at the moment as I suffer through the actual physical pain of watching Total Forgiveness) and that's extremely rare

Usually the hardest part about watching someone's early content is how rough it still is, but since Dropout has been solid since pre-conception, the hardest part about watching the early stuff is that everyone keeps misgendering Ally. It makes me feel bad for them.

[moeblob]

A succubus and a demon! (The succubi don't have names but the demon is Kronos and the succubus is one of his bosses in Hell and he's not /fond/ of the succubi for many reasons but they all adore picking on him)

Also because I love them and like to point it out, the succubi act more as pleasure dealers in the sense of they offer up whatever a human wants most in exchange for their soul. It's rarely of a sexual nature since it's what they want MOST in life. And most people's ambitions are outside of a bedroom. (happy pride, asexuals are able to get affected by a succubus now without discrimination)

[roxynychus]

Saw GxK this weekend, it was a blast! The third act felt rushed and the editing was choppy at times, and the way it used Godzilla felt kind of weird, like they weren't sure what to do with him until the final battle. Overall though, it was exactly what I wanted it to be: a late Showa era movie made in the modern day. Not great cinema by any means, but so much silly fun.

Also there was a Jet Jaguar reference and that made me happy :>

[equalseleventhirds]

it is so late and i am so tired and i haven't even been online much lately, but i've been ruminating abt ttrpgs (as i have endless rumination time at work and on the train, which is 80% of my time anyway)

and abt the like, unreasonable mindset ppl get into abt dnd 5e due to Marketing and also Actual Plays. u kno, that it can Do Anything, that u don't gotta know the rules, that the dm should plan a conventional narrative and u gotta stick to it, that it's for cute queer found families, roleplaying rollplaying bullshit, etc.

and sometimes there's posts from ppl who are outside of that mindset like, wow try another game, but also pls don't bring that mindset to other games we love. u kno.

and maybe i simply spend a lot of time in podcast & streaming circles and also circles of ppl who learned ttrpgs from podcasts & streaming, but, crucially, i don't play d&d

so i meet a lot of ppl who have moved past d&d, right. but. still have that mindset abt their new favorite game(s).

like, 'oh unlike d&d this is actually a queer found family narrative' they say abt a heavily pvp game where u can be queer but it's not about queerness.

'oh unlike d&d you can create a real story' they say, as the gm ignores the handy Make Situations sheet the game comes with and plans a 5-act narrative years in advance.

'oh unlike d&d this game is about ROLEplaying not ROLLplaying' they say, ignoring the social mechanics of the game in order to draw out talky scenes. for character work. for realism. for the story.

'oh unlike d&d this one is so easy to learn' they say, not reading huge and relevant sections of the book until halfway through the session.

i could go on. once i played a kinda weird and poetic indie game with folks whose primary game was motw, and the amount of 'hey this weird and poetic mechanic doesn't make literal sense to me as a character action' haunts me.

and it is immensely frustrating, bcos like.... on the one hand, god i'm glad you're playing something that's not d&d!! that's so important!! on the other hand, you likely learned about this game through an actual play where they (hopefully) used the basic mechanics for stuff, but mostly ran the story like a 5e actual play.

like, i love the adventure zone, but my god you're gonna come out of amnesty or steeplechase with a WILD misunderstanding of the themes and story even a lot of the mechanics of motw or bitd. (both games i like very much. but don't play them like the mcelroys.) or like, god i'm glad the d20 folks are having such fun with kob-adjacent games. but do NOT learn kob from them.

and listening to famous ppl do that to a game i like is one thing. a frustrating thing, to be sure. but participating in a game like this, or even hearing my friends & acquaintances play like this? hateful. makes me grit my teeth and cry. makes me make weirder and weirder game mechanics, which hopefully i'll make into coherent games someday.

anyway, this is all to say, before you start your found family motw game where u will team up with the monsters to save everything and maybe also bigfoot is there, a. stop listening to taz amnesty, b. read, really REALLY read apocalypse world and get a handle on THAT, c. go reread motw and think hard abt it, and d. watch buffy and supernatural a bit. yeah i know they suck. think rly hard abt that scene in buffy where xander chooses not to tell buffy that angel will get his soul back so buffy has to kill her and then no one ever finds out abt that and i HATE that scene but also it's the kind of thing motw was built for, you see.

also play weirder games and adjust ur expectations but whatever.

[tormentum-ab-intra]

skeledog Leander WIP

the skull here is actually modeled closely after a deer skull, just compressed to fit a dog's overall face shape. also tried to make the eyes a little less wide-set than a deer's without making them completely front-facing like a dog's. here's the rest of the (still un-rendered) body:

i'm testing out the screen recorder i just downloaded so if that ends up working the way i want it to i'll have a timelapse of this piece when it's done :)

[honesttoglob]

Another unpopular opinion: Neither Steve nor Cesare bathe on even a semi-regular basis. I'm talking like,,,, several weeks going by at a time. With Steve it's fine because if he doesn't bathe for long enough he just smells more and more like popcorn or smthn, while Cesare smells equally of roadkill whether he bathes or not.

[ajdrawshq]

update on building isat characters teams btw. siffrin has 11 pokemon and counting (help)

[hunsa-jars]

Howdy peepers, I've been feeling pretty down lately but I think I'm on the right path to snap out of it!

See yall on monday hopefully

[bloodydeanwinchester]

hmmm i've been thinking about the fact that so many of the fic authors that i read and liveblog will never see my live blogging of their fics and how much i enjoy reading them! and i don't usually leave comments on fics but i feel like i should so they can understand how much i love their fics! would it be weird to leave a link to my live blogging of their fic??? would an author even want to see that???

[istherewifiinhell]

Went on walk about. Mini van pulled along side to. I guess. Check on me. [Ask if i need a lift] 'cept.. There was 2 huge ass dogs in the back seats. Side Window Open. Barking like hell and wanting to u know. Check on me also lol. Well and also i saw a bear [in the distance. Relax] so turned around to the commerial area. Tho really. Forget man or bear. Cars or bears.

[caterjunes]

i know my body is doing its best but christ alive.