#it's a balancing act for sure

[capricioussun]

don't feel bad about self reblogs, it's always awesome to see your art on my dash and I'm sure I'm not alone with this!

Awe, that's very sweet of you to say!

Tbth i have a really strange relationship with posting online – on one hand, I love just posting whatever and really really enjoy interacting with others, but on the other hand, I'm not sure if it's RSD or what, but i experience like. Social recoil? Where i tend to immediately regret and/or worry over the perception of stuff i post (way more than would be considered normal), especially with posts or reblogs that hardly really garner any interaction at all.

I know it's normal for artists of all kinds to be disheartened by things like that, and I don't necessarily create for others, but that is why i post it online- i mean...why else would you? I see that a lot, people feeling poorly about low interaction, and others trying to encourage them by telling them to make art for themselves and to not worry about it, but that's always come across a little odd to me. No, you probably shouldn't be doing something if you're only doing it for attention, but isn't interaction the point of sharing the things you make online?

Especially so in the case of people who really want to make a living being an artist in their chosen "field". To some degree, you do have to treat it like a business. You do have to sell yourself and try to "grow your audience" if you have any chance of making any sort of income at all, just like any self employment type of job. It feels condescending to see others tell artists who get frustrated with social media constantly doing things to make it harder to have any reach at all that they should care less about the algorithm or numbers when a lot of these people don't have a choice. It feels like hardly a day goes by I don't see posts on twitter or tumblr of someone taking emergency commissions just to cover rent or food for a few days.

Got a bit off topic there, but i sort of rest in a very strange place with my art in that, skill level wise, I'm very much an amateur, but due to Life Issues I won't get into, I can't hold a "normal" job, and I've been constantly kind of battling myself for a couple years now on how to approach trying to make Doing Art Online my career.

I need to put in the work to improve my art so i can not just post more frequently but hopefully get more commission work (which i would honestly also enjoy, I love making things for others, it's one of my favorite things about being able to post online), but i also want to improve my skill level so i can make the things I want to as well (I'm also unfortunately plagued by the Kind Of Wants To Do Everything desires and also want to make plush, music, 3D and live 2D models, and I'd love to get into streaming proper at some point).

So aaallllll of this to say, self reblogging is a big thing for artists on tumblr these days, esp as i see more and more talk about how low interactions gotten on here in the past few years, it's rough! But i also feel like im not...skilled(?) enough to do Proper Online Artist things. I guess. Which is dumb but ah I do not control the chokehold whichever mental issue has on me

[forgettable-au]

Hi! I was rereading the comic again and page 16 got me curious about something. Not sure if you’ve answered this already, but how old would present papyrus be? And how old would that make wing dings?

Honestly I have no idea

But like, monsters probably age diffently from humans so...does their exact age really matter??

All you need to know is that they're young adults in the past and then they will be slightly older adults in the present lmao

Papyrus is weird because, technically he's the age Wingdings would be, which is the same age as Sans, BUT he could be considered a little younger because of that whole "no memories" situation?? That does NOT mean he's mentally a child, that would be weird, he didn't lose ALL of his knowledge, he wasn't a baby having to learn how to walk again

Sooooooooo, uh, conclusions

Papyrus is the same age as Sans

The fact that he's child-like is a part of his personality and development but it does not mean he's a child

The fact that Papyrus doesn't have a lot of his previous memories does not make him mentally a child either, he didn't magically become a baby who didn't know how to write

Even though he's the same age as Sans, he considers himself the younger brother!

I don't have an exact age headcanon for anyone, just know they're adults

[feroluce]

Thinking today about Boothill falling first, but Dan Heng falling harder.

Like I think of Boothill as being pretty self-aware, so he knew it almost immediately. He pointed his gun at Dan Heng and the guy didn't flinch didn't hesitate didn't even get scared just stood there with his arms crossed and casually insulted Boothill like he couldn't have made the furniture of the Express an even brighter red with a single squeeze of his trigger finger. Boothill knew he was doomed before they even defeated Sunday, and it only got worse and worse, the longer they sat at that bar in the Reverie together. ♡

Meanwhile Dan Heng was raised in a prison cell with zero say over anything. He was considered a criminal and he was being punished. There wasn't exactly anyone encouraging his emotional intelligence. It didn't matter what he wanted, so thinking about his own wants/needs/feelings is something that just like. Doesn't occur to Dan Heng.

Like he IS slowly but surely figuring it out, and he still acts on stuff of course. He and Boothill share that sort of ruthless straightforwardness where they can see action -> result. Dan Heng knows that he doesn't want anything to happen to the Crew, so he guards them viciously. Action (guard person) -> result (person stays alive). But I think if you asked him, he'd have a hard time putting his feelings for them into words, "they're once-in-a-lifetime companions" is about as deep as you're going to get from him haha

Anyway, all this to say, I think that even if he already knew he liked Boothill romantically, when Dan Heng- who guards his chosen little flock like a herding breed or maybe a sheepdog with a coyote collar- sees Boothill do something protective, like literally take a bullet for March 7th

("It's fine, it ain't gonna hurt me near as bad as it woulda hurt you, missy. It's just another dent, quit yer fussin'.")

that is when it suddenly hits him like a brick that oh, oh no, he loves him.

[mrmeepsmadmind]

rewatching this over and over again.. mainly bcs tarn makes soundwave into a manlet but also bcs it's hilarious

[basil--and--sage]

I'm writing a fic about Fíli's and Kíli's childhood and at least 75% of it is them just getting cuddled by Thorin.

Man, I wish we had more uncle nephew quality time in the movies.

give me some caring and affectionate uncle Thorin right now

[grapecaseschoices]

so i'm leaning toward briala-celene [ugh] or public truce*. but i wanted to know ...

*I've been reading posts/articles that state that public truce isn't best long run ... but it isn't like the inquisitor would KNOW that.

[moreaujeans]

quite pleasantly surprised by wicked movie but i Will say we were robbed of elphaba leaning in close to glinda saying “come with me to the emerald city” followed by glinda’s “i’ve always wanted to see the emerald city” while looking deep into her eyes arms around her shoulders twirling elphaba’s hair

[bitchlessdino]

Oh my Junhui 😩😩😩 it’s so nice to see him on stage again even for a brief period 🥹

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

so agatha didnt let alice do that curse protection spell on her, right? she was just like keep playing. do you think thats bc she was like 'i dont know what Deaths Knife is gonna do specifically but i doubt im ever gonna be rid of her if i get fucking enchanted with it'

[heavenbarnes]

I just offered to clean my crush’s kitchen for him because his whole apartment is a rancid mess from depression and I want to take some of that weight off him

My friends think I’m being a huge people pleaser and he’s going to walk all over me and take advantage of that :(

What do you think?

i mean, if it’s caused by mental illness and he needs some help to get things back on track- then i think that’s a really kind thing to do for someone

you have to give people the benefit of the doubt, assume the best in him that he’s going to appreciate this and that it will help him be better able to manage things in the future

sometimes people who aren’t accustomed to helping people without getting anything in return just don’t understand how that can happen- you can show your friends

[rimouskis]

I know everyone talks about it, but I've still been really, really alarmed by how fast time moves these days. I'd like to do some serious, intentional thinking about what steps I could reasonably take to "slow down" my life and to give more meaning to my days. the churn of the work week has such a chokehold on the imagination.

[justarandomhelluvablog]

oh yeah something else I wanted to mention

I bet Blitz would have been a perfect performer if he was doing the right thing. He was trying to be a clown and make people laugh but honestly, with the moves he pulls out on his missions, and when he went to save Fizz-

he should have been a trapeze artist.

Or at least highwire, or daredevil act. This man's got moves. And also his acrobatics is on POINT, he should never have tried being a clown.

I mean. Just look at this-

he took a running star AND landed it perfectly-

rode it over this mess without eating mud, AND EVEN did a mid-ride jump-

-and rode it up a ramp and was able to leap off of it with enough force to grab onto the conveniently-trapeze-grip-shaped... street lights? I think??

Anyway bottom line Blitz should have focused on trapeze and not clownery-

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

ae recently learned that it’s likely that the impact of the meteor itself is not what wiped out the dinosaurs, but rather the meteor essentially disintegrating immediately and polluting the air that killed them

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

i might be butchering the hell out of gay host club culture im sorry 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[devourcr]

humans + armand headcanons

armand does sometimes treat humans like playthings. like an ethologist?? but with humans and he's a vampire. he loves seeing how things tick, how they work, and sometimes, that extends to people.

can armand fall in love with humans? yes. and canonically he does. but even when love is involved, armand has a selfish disposition where he chases what makes him feel good. if the human vibes with it, it's good. match made in hell. likewise, for those he loves, he'll fiercely protect, but i think it's important to reinforce that armand is very detached from humanity and human morality.

he can enjoy the company of humans, but he's always going to be a monster capable of killing, especially if they are just acquaintances.

this changes when he loves someone. when he loves them, he won't kill them. he will try everything he can to keep them from dying. but does he treat them with full agency? not really. and not always. there are always exceptions to the rule, but i think it's important to note that armand doesn't respect human life ( or vampire life in some cases ) all that much, unless it's someone who means something to him.

[wonder-worker]

"My analysis is predicated on a distinction between the medieval concepts of authority, defined as the legitimate right to act, and of power, the ability to impose one’s will on others. By the High Middle Ages, inherited authority was associated with a fief, granting individuals the right to rule in a certain region according to certain prescribed regulations. While authority typically implies a chain of command, power, a more elusive quality, is defined abstractly as the ‘‘ability to act effectively on persons or things, to make or secure favorable decisions which are not of right allocated to the individuals or their roles.’’ According to this definition, power is much more elusive, based on personal effectiveness and influence rather than on sanctioned right to command. This distinction clearly operated in the Middle Ages, where the two concepts were related but not synonymous. Authority was associated with hereditary [or granted] titles and offices. However, while the possession of authority legitimated one’s actions, it did not guarantee their effectiveness. Conversely, while individuals who lacked authority could impose their will on others by force or influence, their actions would not have been considered legitimate. Although they are often used interchangeably by modern authors, authority and power referred to distinct attributes in the Middle Ages."

— Erin L. Jordan, "The "Abduction" of Ida of Boulogne: Assessing Women's Agency in Thirteenth-Century France", French Historical Studies, Volume 30, Issue 1 (Winter 2007)