#it’s ok to be simple sometimes

[goldensunset]

aqua for @star-sworn! thanks for the request!

i think this is my first real attempt at a lineless/paint-like style and it was fun! love this queen so much she deserves the world

[robntunney]

TV Appreciation Week '24 Day 7 : free choice: a character that I miss | LEXIE GREY

The depth of grief that you felt with all the losses… it’s because of the depth of love. As long as you’re alive, you get to feel it and you get to do something about it. Everything changes all the time when you’re alive, and all the time, you fight the change. You cling onto what you have and what you know, like that’s how it should always be.

[eriochromatic]

desert king sir crocodile

[randomalistic]

Cool awesome reminder that you don’t need amazing technical skill to be a good artist/storyteller

[tategaminu]

The biggest reason I want married Rayllum is not because a superficial thing like "omg now that they are married they are gonna be together forever" or "omg husband and wife!!". They are gonna be in love and partners for life married or not but marriage in TDP seems to be very important. All the older couples we have seen (with few exceptions) are married. Harrow wanted to marry Sarai because he was in love with her‚ Janai and Amaya were upset at the concept of not marrying‚ Skall was Conrad's bride‚ etc.

It's a big deal‚ a very important symbol of love and union and it would probably mean a lot to them‚ to their relationship.

also Rayla was so happy at janaya marrying she deserves her own wedding too

[mblue-art]

out w these tall clowns 🌲🌸

[jinnify]

irreplaceable. — park sunghoon

pairing: sunghoon x idol!reader genre: angst? warnings: none. it just hurts a lil to read n imagine word count: seven hundred sixty-nine now playing: glimpse of us by joji extended note at the bottom.

How could he explain that whenever you’d hang up the phone, he’d lay in bed for hours, contemplating whether he should call her? How he’d stay up for days on end writing songs for her to hear on the radio and think of him? Every time you’d lay your head on his chest he imagined it was her instead, making his heart thump faster than it ever had in the months he had been your boyfriend. Sunghoon would be lying if he said he had ever tried his hardest to fall in love with you. Since the beginning, you had only been a filler for her. Your hair. Your eyes. Even your lips were the same shade as hers, but he could never feel the same love he felt for her. You had been nothing but a replacement.

You had fallen head over heels for your coworker-turned-boyfriend. Consistently visiting his groups’ practice sessions or music program promotions to leave some food for them, even when in the middle of your own groups’ promotions. You wished you could say that Sunghoon did the same for you, but you knew you’d never receive that affection you so desperately craved from him. It hadn’t taken you long to figure out that Sunghoon didn’t want you, not even as a friend. You had caught many of the longing looks he reserved for her, feeling your heart shrivel up and die each time he did it. It was easy to ignore at first. You took it as a look of admiration for the idol on the television screen, going as far as even pointing out how it looked like Sunghoon looked up to the group once. The sympathetic cringe that crossed the rest of his group's faces confused you, along with the alarmed look on Sunghoon’s face but you had been all too ignorant of Sunghoon’s feelings then.

Sunghoon had started to feel guilty over his “complicated feelings,” as he put it. He knew he was unworthy of you - of your love. It wasn’t fair to you to pour your entire self into a relationship where the other half wasn’t even trying. He had noticed your distancing yourself lately. There were fewer calls and even fewer dates than there already were. He had gotten word from his members that you had gone abroad for promotions, confusedly pointing out that you hadn’t said a word to him about your comeback. There was a pit that had formed in his stomach. Was there a chance you figured it out? That you had finally given up on the abysmal relationship he had been the one to ask you to be a part of? He couldn’t help but feel the dread build up in his chest, scared for what was to come when you arrived back in Seoul.

It had been a few weeks since you had touched down in Korea without a word from Sunghoon. It hurt to know how insignificant you had been to him, but it had been the final push. You hadn’t made up your mind just yet on how you’d do this, but you had already spent the entirety of your overseas promotions bawling your eyes out and it hadn’t been hard for fans to notice your change in demeanor. You had to end this quickly if you didn’t want your manager to talk to you. You took your phone, quickly scrolling through your contacts pressing on Sunghoon’s. ‘Baby,’ reflected onto your irises in bold, sneering at you for ever having called Sunghoon that word as if he were ever truly yours.

“I got your text. Do you need someth-?” “I want to break up with you.” You hadn’t even let him get his words out before you seemingly ripped the bandaid off. He watched as you silently trembled in place, avoiding his eyes all that you could. Sunghoon quickly digested your words, trying to find his own to properly apologize to you for what he had done. “I-I have to go now. I don’t wanna get in trouble with my manager. Later, Sunghoon.” Sunghoon felt an all too familiar prickle behind his eyes as he watched you walk away, leaving him in some secluded park, away from any prying eyes. His throat had closed itself off in an effort not to cry, prohibiting him from saying anything he had to tell you. He had no right to cry and he knew it, instead, he kicked a stray rock as he stuck his hands in his pockets, walking back to his manager who had silently waited on him, ready to take him home.

EXTENDED NOTE. joji you crazy bastard, you'll rue the day you released glimpse of us. look at what you've done to me.

[krisssssssy]

i've never played an MMO before FFXIV and the levels of anxiety i get when forced to do content with other people oh my god

like damn maybe i should just watch the cutscenes online because i can't handle this lmao

[nattikay]

ahh I feel like I've made a bunch of rant-y posts this week, sorry about that y'all, but I've got one just one more to slap down real quick 😅

This video came up in my YouTube recommendations, and while it makes some interesting points, I fundamentally disagree with the assertion that "Avatar's story wasn't very good because it wasn't complex enough".

Here's the thing: The good/bad scale and the simple/complex scale are SEPARATE. A story does not need to be super complex to be good. A good story can be complex, certainly! But it doesn't need to be. A simple straightforward story can still be a good story. And so it is with Avatar, in my opinion.

Same with the character criticisms. Sometimes we just don't need to know every minute detail of a character's life for the character to work within their story, we just need to know the parts that are relevant. Selfridge, for example...do you really think we needed to have part of the runtime set aside to flesh out every little detail of what led him to become a greedy corporate middle manager? Would that tangent really have inherently enhanced the story being told here? Or would it just have taken time away from the intended focus, that being the wonder of Pandora and Jake's journey?

More complex does not automatically equal better. A good story is one that is told well: the audience can follow what happens, they resonate with the emotional beats, there are no gaping holes or inconsistencies in the plot or worldbuilding, characters grow and change in a believable way. And that can be done in complex stories AND in simple stories!! Just because your story doesn't have a gazillion wild plot twists and intricate 10-page biographies justifying every decision every named character makes doesn't mean it can't be well-executed enjoyable story!

Avatar's story is not a bad one. It's simple, sure, predicable even—and if that's a turn-off for you, hey, that's totally fair—but it's executed very well. No, we don't know how Quaritch became head of RDA security, we don't know how Norm came to be part of the Avatar program, we don't know what inspired Grace to become a botanist...because we simply do not need to. Those details just aren't all that relevant to the core story being told. Could they make for interesting trivia? Sure. But is it needed to understand the heart of the movie? The message? The story? Not really, no. In fact, depending on how it's implemented, adding extraneous details like that could actively bog the story down.

Simple movies can be good. Simple movies can be bad.

Complex movies can be good. Complex movies can be bad.

"It's too simple" is, therefore, a rather silly criticism. Totally valid as a personal opinion! But kinda meaningless as an analytical criticism.

[nightyraven-art]

I'm very proud of this simple drawing, I like her design a lot.

She looks so cute so I had to drew her and the trailer has me on choke hold!!

I still want to draw more but this is what I have to offer rn!!

[dorothywonderland]

HOW DO Y'ALL LAUGH ON THE INTERNET? I ONLY KNOW HOW TO LAUGH IN BRAZILIAN. PLEASE HELP ME

The "kkkkkkkkkkkk" always gives away my HUE HUE BR blood

[fappellmoan]

so i just wanna say i think i fumbled with a bad bitch a little bit the other night but not just in a shy loser wuhluhwuh way i just have so many other problems. but going forward i am going to be brave 🙏

[kosher-salt]

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[angeart]

You say share AUs with you like that wouldn't be slightly intimidating xD

But :x AU where the Watchers steal Grian's voice (dunno why, haven't gotten that far), no talking no laughter no sound at all, and Grian acts like it's fine. It is! They have communicators! He can still talk to the hermits while X and Doc try and figure it out! Honestly he's close enough with some that facial expressions and gestures are enough to have a whole conversation sometimes. And bonus, he doesn't have to hold back his giggles when setting up a prank, Scar literally can't hear him laughing as he's tunneling under the base. .... but being in big groups is hard, he can't quip like he used to, by the time he's got a line halfway typed out the conversation moved on and the joke dies on his keyboard. (No hermit is excluding him on purpose!! Just, that's how talking flows and typing can't always keep up!) Can't hear him laugh but... can't hear him cry either.

I have nothing written, I haven't written in a loooong time, this just lives in my head. :x

-🎀

noo don't be intimidated. i'm harmless. i'm just a silly dummy. i love talking about aus and things. c'mere and share freely as much as you want! <3

OHHH mute grian! it's interesting that it also translates to any other noises. he can't cry! he can't laugh! (gathering this angst lovingly in my arms)

he can sob and nobody will hear it. he can hide and nobody will be any wiser. he— you know, he can't call for help, or call attention to himself, or even greet his friends. he can't call out scar's name, he can't say hi or bye to anyone. he needs eyes on him, or time to type and people's attention on the chat, and he doesn't always get those things.

(scar in particular forgets to check the chat, even when he's with grian. he sees him type, he just. he's a bit silly.) (grian has to make signs and meticulously place them and type on them to get scar to see any of his words, and even that has only like 50% chance of success.)

(he misses talking to scar.)

imagine cub gives him a bunch of custom horns. he means well. he tried to make some useful ones. but none of them feel like grian, or match quite what he wants to say.

his steps are still audible, but if he can't say a person's name or a greeting, he keeps accidentally sneaking up on people. he doesn't know how to alert them without it being absolutely ridiculous. they startle. mumbo especially lets out a loose comment directly after a scare, about how grian can't do that.

he doesn't mean it like that.

but maybe grian starts approaching hermits less.

[acircusfullofdemons]

˳·˖✶ ⌣ Vincent ⌣ 🪡

⟢ ₊ ⋆ ✧ — ❝ Eternal Labyrinth ❞ *｡ ★彡

☁️ ꒰ para self ꒱ ⌣⌣ ✧ 17-22 ✧ ✨

☆彡 ⌣ aromantic 🪡 ｡⋆⁺ bisexual ⛧ ˚｡⋆ ⌣⌣⌣╰┈➤ nonbinary ꒰ he / they ꒱ 💭 ✶

╭ GENERAL ｡

┆ — ❝ Eternal Labyrinth ❞

┆

┆✨ — Name: Vincent Hyde

┆✨ — Alt. Names: Nox, Entropy, (Agent) Cheshire

┆✨ — Nicknames: Vinny/Vince/Vin, Magpie

┆ – – – – – – – – – – – ⟢

╭ AGE ｡

┆

┆✨ — Age: 17-22

┆✨ — Bday: October 31, 1999

┆

╰ – – – – – – – 💭

╭ IDENTITY ｡

┆

┆☁️ — Prns: he/they

┆☁️ — Gen: nonbinary

┆☁️ — Sex: male

┆ – – – – – – – – – – – ⟢

╭ ATTRACTION ｡

┆

┆☁️ — Sexual: bisecual

┆☁️ — Romantic: aromantic

┆

┆☁️ — Mono

┆☁️ — Closed

┆

┆☁️ — Status: taken

┆☁️ — Partner: Jake Rivers

┆

╰ – – – – – – – 💭

╭ ABOUT ｡

┆

┆🌙 — Height: 5'5"

┆🌙 — Species: varies, typically human or demon or a mix of the two

┆🌙 — Eye color: green

┆🌙 — Hair color: black or dyed purple & pink

┆ – – – – – – – – – – – ⟢

╭ PERSONAL ｡

┆

┆🌙 — Personality: introvert

┆🌙 — Traits: stubborn, timid, distrustful, witty, resourceful

┆🌙 — MBTI: estp

┆

┆🌙 — Neurodivergence: adhd, autism

┆🌙 — Physical disabilities: n/a

┆

╰ – – – – – – – 💭

╭ MISC ｡

┆

┆🌙 — Basically raised by the internet.

┆🌙 — Detective but like in the way the Scooby Doo gang are detectives yknow.

┆🌙 — Embodiment of chaos.

┆

╰ – – – – – – – 💭

╭ FAVES ｡

┆

┆🎧 — Color: purple

┆🎧 — Animal: wolf

┆🎧 — Food: gummy worms

┆🎧 — Music: alternative rock

┆🎧 — Movie: Labyrinth (1985)

┆🎧 — Aesthetic: 80s

┆🎧 — Hobby: investigating

┆

╰ – – – – – – – 💭

╭ SOCIAL ｡

┆

┆📝 — Father: Vitalis Zoticus, Daniel Hayward

┆📝 — Mother: Theia Mortimer

┆📝 — Brother(s): Ketrill Hyde

┆📝 — Sister(s): Lucien Jekyll, Willow Murphy

┆📝 — Grandma(s): n/a

┆📝 — Grandpa(s): does Edward Hyde count

┆📝— Aunt(s): n/a

┆📝— Uncle(s): n/a

┆📝— Other(s): Emory Warwick

┆

╰ – – – – – – – 💭

╭ OTHER ｡

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┆✨ — Playlist: Default / Entropy / Nox / Origins

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┆✨— Face Claim: n/a

┆✨— Voice Claim: Peko Pekoyama (DR2), Kara Zor El (MaWS), The Collector (TOH) || Basically a kind of gruff, androgynous voice trying to sound mature.

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╰ – – – – – – – 💭

[articskele]

I'm so tempted to friend f/o Micolash he's so funny to me