#itll help

[hepatitushepatits]

Guys idk if you can tell but I'm rapidly watching TV shows, listening to podcasts, and desperately catching up with the QSMP to keep my interest on one thing. It's not a good strategy lol.

I'm sorry that my posts have been so scattered recently

Rn I'm watching Broadchurch, listening to the magnus archives, trying to rewatch qsmp streams, playing fallout, and getting myself into more Fandoms that I used to be more interested in. and it's super stressful

I'm having trouble focusing, and my seasonal depression is really bad

Anyway, I'm sorry for the vent. I'm clawing at things I used to be interested in, but it's not working.

But can you guys like.. recommend things happening in the QSMP that I can watch? Idk. This is the 2nd longest I've ever been in a Fandom, and I don't want it to go away. Thx lmao (also ask for headcanon posts) ((my interest list is in the pinned post))

[battleram-skirmisher-fr]

I'm saving up treasure to buy more lair space during flameforgers. And it's going to be for hatchlings, not permas.

I need to be able to hatch nests. Don't fill the space. Do not.

I have done this several times already. I can't keep free space open for hatchlings. This time I will though!

Dream FR mechanic that would never work is separated space for hatchlings.

[tayliii]

feeling like shit

[violinfantasy]

when the academic article is so good it has you giggling and kicking your feet

[puppyeared]

learned something about myself lately

[heartorbit]

bugs when you lift up a rock

[transgendz]

My roommates phone bill came out two weeks earlier than expected, and she pays it using her alimony, which is also on a schedule. Long story short, she's about $120 short of being able to cover everything she needs to cover this week, food, a drs appt, and gas. I am the only one in the house able to work, and I'm the sole provider of the household, and my checks this week and next are going totally to rent and food. She urgently needs help with this.

I will do art as thanks for this for her just message me at my art blog @theartistrans

$C--V--PP--kofi

[dawnbreakersgaze]

The fact that Dr Zayne is saving people who want to live

And Dawnbreaker Zayne is mercy killing people who want to die

And both are obsessed/disturbed with each other across space and time

Really has me fucked up in a lot of ways and I'm not okay about any of this

[irusanw4]

Alright yeah I want/need to do all of this so let's try this out.

25 notes = Finish crocheting bearded dragon from scrap yarn

75 notes = Find and finish crocheting owl and crochet his crown

125 notes = Start using a self care app again

150 notes = Crochet a seagull plush

175 notes = Track my sleep again

250 notes = Crochet my fursona plush

300 notes = Begin learning C#

400 notes = Try again at learning pixel art

600 notes = Set a consistent schedule for showering and actually follow it

800 notes = Begin work on a Rain World mod

1200 notes = Try to get hired as a page at the local library

1750 notes = Buy a chest binder

2500 notes = Finally resume therapy and try to get a different therapist

5000 notes = Clean my room? Might change this one if I can think of something more important, but for now it sticks

OLD 5K NOTES GOAL, NO LONGER APPLICABLE: Come out to relatives as non-binary and tell them my new name (yeah this one just kinda Happened lol, it was surreal)

And some tags!

@fymo-blogs @therewillbenoromance @theshaddowedsnow @wxtchesheart @the-principality-of-sealand @non-tyrannical-usa (sorry countryverse members I don't have big moots lol)

[doomdoomofdoom]

Apparently there's currently discussion in science (humanities in particular) about whether video essays could be accepted as academic writing on par with the academic papers we currently have

I think that's awesome as fuck tbh

[papier-ciseaux]

This aromantic week, I have to deal with the fact that one of my best friends has asked me out, despite the fact that they know I'm aromantic. They are giving me the time to think it over (I already know my answer I just want to be careful with their heart), but what do you think the best way to go about making sure everyone you care about knows you are aromantic and don't do romance is? I'd really like to make this clear to all of my friends, but I'm not sure what the best way to come out would be so that it would stick in their minds.

Any ideas, silly or serious, would be nice :-)

It's a tricky situation you're in! And with little details, I can't do that much to help. I hope you'll be able to work it out!

[shiikiyun]

I think something i don't often see in discussions about Futa's character is how, if you really take a second, he's kind of a people pleaser

He isn't so in a way like what Mikoto got going on, he does want to be around people of the same interests as him, and you wouldn't think he'd care about anything but authenticity if you stayed with the way he behaves on milgram. It is only when you think about him -in- those social circles he manages to get into that you can see him tweaking lol

I think the closest to see this that we have in milgram itself is that one interaction with Kotoko in which she attempts to debate how prisons respect human rights. Any other time he expressed his opinion/stance on things he was aggressive and maybe condescending to the rest because they disagreed with him, but the second someone agreed? Whole demeanor changed. Suddenly he didn't have much to say anymore and he just parroted Kotoko's words back at her. Why. If he has such a strong personality and mindset, why was someone validating his point enough to shut down his otherwise very firm attitude?

Futa doesn't go as far as to manufacture his every word for it to cause a positive reaction on others from the get go, but he does seek validation all the same. He braces himself for rejection by being loud and obnoxious and harsh until he sees a positive reaction and then is when he does a complete 180 to keep the other person in that place of validation. He is simultaneously completely bad at it though, but I never said he was good at people pleasing. Which connects back to what i've said before about his inability to fit in. Even when he thinks he's doing it right and he sees himself getting validation by people he cares about (in the case of his crime, by mimicking his friendgroup's method of "bringing justice" by calling out someone online, that same friendgroup following along and reinforcing the idea that he was doing it right), he ultimately fails anyway and loses it all over again.

In the end, he's just extremely socially awkward and anxious. It isn't in his nature to reach anyone else's expectations even if he genuinely wants to, so he'll either do what he can within his parameters (mold himself for his friendgroup of people he deems similar to him) or he'll avoid trying altogether because he knows he'll fail (what we see in milgram!)

It also shows how his yearn for a support system (t2 qna + mu's birthday timeline convo) isn't particularly new from his current circumstances, or why the only person he could think of when asked who he would want to see right now was his mom (who left so long ago he barely remembers her). He has just never truly had people that genuinely cared for him no matter what he tried to do to make himself likeable.

[huitandahalf]

I know that we got plenty of options as to how everything with the Ender King is going to go down, but a thought that has not left my mind was the idea of the Ender King downing qPhil in some way and taking him away. Which means there would be a chat message for all to see :)

For example :)

[vanderbilt-draws]

one of the dimmadomes with curly hair?

beautiful cats with homophobia 💕💞/ref

also minor rant abt the dimmadomes having super curly hair: hi, hello, white dude with very curly hair here, idk abt yall but ive TRIED to get my hair to slick back like dale and devs for formal events before and it DOES NOT DO THAT WITHOUT A BOATLOAD OF GEL. to get my hair to look even partially as neat as theirs i had to essentially glue my hair down AND THEYRE GETTING OFF HELICOPTERS AND WEARING HATS/HEADPHONES AND RUNNING AROUND WITHOUT A SINGLE CURL POPPING OUT LIKE OUGH ik its just bc they prob didnt wanna have to sculpt or animate that but im begging the writers that if they get s2 and ever make an episode abt/involving the dimmadomes having naturally curly hair (bc yk dale literally canonically has curly hair even if dev doesnt) they MAKE SOME SORT OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ABOUT THE SHEER AMOUNT OF PRODUCT IT TAKES TO GET CURLY HAIR TO SLICK BACK LIKE THAT. LIKE HTAT SHIT HAS TO BE CRUNCHY AF. YOU TRY TO RUN A COMB THROUGH THEIR HAIR AND IT WILL JUST BOUNCE RIGHT OFF

[awholeassmess]

Artists who are chronically ill [mental, physical, both, any pls];

How do you get yourself to draw, even a little?

I constantly Want to draw, I have ideas I have things I would like to study- I have all this and no energy sometimes. Either its executive dysfunction because of my adhd/autism, or its my chronic joint pain and my body feeling so heavy and exhausted. I never really end up drawing, these ideas get stuck in my head and i cant get them out.

How do you guys do it? How do you work with your respective conditions to do the thing you love?

[scarewulf]

I think one of the biggest sort-of unpopular opinions I have when it comes to being an artist is that, unless they are used in moderation, using things like references, tracing, and other little tips and tricks to help you will actually hinder you at some point if you use them too much

If you rely too much on these tools you will eventually lose the confidence and the ability to use your artistic know-how to fill in the gaps yourself....and those "gaps" could be anything from proportions and anatomy to things like dynamics and even coming up with an idea for a drawing in the first place

Using too many pinterest images for your poses will at some point result in stiff art, and unless you already know how to manipulate it in your own style (the ones who do this already know how to fill in the gaps when it comes to anatomy), drawing 1:1 from a reference pose will just make your stuff look a bit boring most of the time. If you use 3D poser programs and you trace those poses all the time so you feel more comfortable with them, then at some point, again, your stuff is just going to feel stiff and a bit boring

At some point an artist has to know how to draw a hand without a reference. At some point an artist has to learn how to draw an arm without a reference. The same goes with the rest of the body, and the same goes with posing as well