#it's such an odd realization too Tumblr posts

[batcastlesociety]

nah because i remember a few months ago, all of my then-friends kept joking about how i was basically a vampire.

just "ooh hahaa you have pale skin you don't like the sunlight or bright colours. lmaooo you have naturally sharp fanglike canine teeth. haha you like bats and have a vampire hyperfixation haha you're just like a vampire. we're only joking though"

and i don't think it's a joke anymore you guys ...😟 like at all ... nuh uh ...

[chalkeater]

i have NOT drawn enough talk sprite redraws. Heres some warm ups!! RAAHH 🦖

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[sukibenders]

Is it just me or does the way Hera is portrayed in the PJO/HOO series feel out of touch? By that I mean, while it plays into the idea of Hera's relationship with her husband's children and ideals of family, it seems like Rick just took that and ran with it without actually wanting to dive into those aspects and develop them more (ngl, his writing for his female characters, especially the goddesses, could use some work even if I do enjoy them). The reason Hera is the way she is with her husband's children is because she can't punish him [Zeus] directly due to him being more powerful (and the last time she turned against didn't he literally hang her from the sky)? And even while I'm not justifying her actions, there's a method to them, so why would she go after other random demigods like Percy and Annabeth? Or at least in a way that was written better than her falling into a trope (I enjoy this series with my heart, but the criticism about how the gods are written holds some value that shouldn't just be ignored either). Like, I don't know, it just feels like there was more that could've been done with her character instead of just immediately writing her off as the cruel, cold-hearted, evil stepmother (a trope that's overplayed, especially when not even bothering to give them any depth). I could write ideas, but then we'd be here all day.

[pokkop15]

Thalergy

The opposite of Thanergy (AKA “Death Energy”) in the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir.

So you say, “ok so it’s just life energy?” to which you are mostly correct. Thalergy is exactly that but what’s interesting about this to me (and soon to you all as well I imagine) is the etymology of thalergy!

The etymology?

The Etymology.

Thanergy as death energy derives its name from Thanatos, the greek god of death (technically the personified spirit of non-violent death but modern perception of the name is usually edgier than that lol). So it would be normal for those unfamiliar with the myriad of divinities within the Hellenistic pantheon to justly assume the ‘thal–’ in ‘thalergy’ comes from an opposite divinity of Thanatos that was a personified spirit of life. Except that doesn’t exist. Reading the first two books I knew that thalergy as a word wasn’t derived from any greek or roman words meaning “life” but I didn’t really dig any deeper on where it did come from because I didn’t think it was overly important. I Was Incorrect.

Because you see, the context for me to really connect the dots had gone over my head up until I had read Nona the Ninth. (I recall some meta posts pointing out that the Themes™ had in fact been present in the previous books just less obvious.)

What Themes? And Who The Fuck Is Thalergy Named For??

Thalassa.

Primordial Goddess Of The Motherfucking SEA!!!!

So yeah! Remember all those posts talking about the importance of all the themes regarding the sea/ocean in the Locked Tomb series? Yeah so here’s more fuel for that lmao

Edit 11/20/2022: also many people have brought up other examples like Thalia (the muse of Festivity whose name also means blooming) as another more direct connection to life and @adurna0 who actually speaks Greek has pointed out that thaleros is in fact a word that means "lively" so even if the Thalassa connection is a thing it is more likely a double meaning than the lone one.

[manzaza]

i love minecraft irep i like doing both designs equally but he’s growing on me more aghh

[theelmoarchive]

Can you show us how to draw the height differences for each of the Marble hornets characters? Some people draw time absolutely tiny compared to the rest and some people make him taller than jay and not much shorter than Brian, and I think it’s funny

I do draw Tim being tiny 😔🤝

This is kind of how I imagine the main four guys!! I like to think of jam as short and brilex as tall just cause I think that's funny lmao

Idk the exact actual height differences between them, but that's how I imagine them ✨✨

(Sorry this took a little to answer, thank you for asking!!! :D)

[oops-i-dropped-the-galaxy]

Ghostlights Prompt Event: Blind Date with a Prompt

aaaaah I'm doing it, I'm gonna post some of my work!

BAM!!

My first time ever posting anything and it's ghostlights, typical. Anyway this was tons of fun to do and I managed to pump this out in like two days. I really hope the smaller details are easy to see bc I had a lot of fun doing things like Dukes heart blush and eyes and Dannys electric scars and it would be a shame if Tumbler crunchifed it too much like Insta usually did.

The prompt I got was Duke is Danny's secret admirer and sharing headphones (that's a lie, it was actually sharing headphones and 1930 but I had no clue how I would do that so I just rerolled and got lucky lol). I might end up doing some more idk I've just never been this inspired before :>

[worldsbiggestnerd101]

WAS CARMEN’S CODENAME BLACK SHEEP BECAUSE HER FATHER’S NAME WAS DEXTER WOLFE. LIKE WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING. LIKE WOLVES ARE PREDATORS TO SHEEP. IS THAT WHY SHE HAD THAT NAME

[that-butch-archivist]

1 out of 4 accelerated summer courses finished today. Next to go is Chem.

[i-really-like-phrogs]

We know you got a sketchbook. Show us.

Friend, you’re sounding a little… ominous. (Is one of my trusty doodle books going to be held for ransom?)

(*heavenly music plays as I whip out my heavily abused, sticker filled sidekicks)

And I added a few snippets for fun!

[fizzytoo]

hedgehog lookbook 🦔

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso

[crow-caller]

Oh my god. Im Dutch and I was trying to figure out what you meant in the tags of that vocal stim post. Its jeetje mina, according to Wikipedia its a version of an old profanity jezusmina (the jesus part clear, no idea what the mina refers to)

YES!!! I KNEW MY MOTHER WAS LYING

imao, she's just. forgetful? odd? and has 1000% told me that 'jeetje mina' is a nonsense phrase she just happens to sigh. and I've picked it up because she said this like, end of any long day multiple times. at this point, because my Dutch is so bad, I'm probably pronouncing it as a nonsensical word anyway

[sollucets]

rowan's "my ride" episode 1 experience: have you seen this man

(in the style of / insp @sparklyeyedhimbo)

[james-p-sullivan]

you think your life is going okay and then you go and accidentally kill a full-odds shiny pokemon