#just a pet peeve

[wickjump]

ok ive been seeing too much romanticization of vampires lately n it’s kinda upsetting do you realize how fucking DIFFICULT it is every day??? like holy shit the one thing you can properly digest is LITERAL BLOOD?? like yeah we can eat other things but unless you’re trying to passively kill yourself you need the blood. and everyone and i mean EVERYONE goes “ohhh just eat the cattle blood! the cattle blood is good enough!!” yeah as a BRIEF SUBSTITUTE. that’s like eating cucumbers. you get the cravings gone but like ultimately you still have to fucken eat after like two weeks (also it’s gross). it tastes bitter (pigs taste the best imo they’re sorta savory but not something id eat every day if given a choice).

and THEN there’s the whole ass process of trying not to kill the poor bastard you get your claws on because DO YOU FUCKING KNOW HOW DANGEROUS IT IS TO PIERCE AN ARTERY. you have to hit a vein but not the artery which is a pain in the ass when you feel like you’re starving and can’t focus easily!!!!! and then you have to either kidnap your dinner, seduce them (not my thing), or if you’re experienced enough MAYBE you can alter their memories IF YOURE EXPERIENCED IN IT (which im not, ive only been around since like the seventh century, i haven’t had enough time)

and you can’t even bet on the other humans to not believe them because there’s a wound as proof!!! and your fangs can help scab the wound over but it’s still there and it’ll still scar. idk if it’s different in this century but i don’t want a pitchfork up my ass again. media portrays vampirism as something soooo easy but it’s not!!! “just kill the guy” ???? YOU REALIZE I HAVE MORALS RIGHT??? STOP ENFORCING STEREOTYPES??? i don’t want people to die?? im just hungry man. if you’re lucky you have a resident that offers their blood in exchange for a place to live but i don’t exactly have a castle like the count.

[justfriendsbestthings]

Big side eye to fan accounts who put their watermark on pictures and videos they post even tho they didn’t take any of them. What do you get from all this gate keeping? Mhhhhhhhhhh

[robinette-green]

I love you guys

But

Please

Please, if your gong to post your fic straight to tumblr

Please use the read more function.

Pick a nice snippet to catch the readers attention and then put the rest under a cut

It’s either going to be a squiggly line on your options bar beside the poll option

or you can type out

: readmore :

With no spaces and hit enter

Let’s you hide things on your post

[numberonetrashwitch]

People are mad over mods

So yeah, there are 3 Mods for Astarion that are commonly used, and 2 illicit some vile hatred amongst the player-base for some reason, bashing not the mod itself but the people who prefer to play with these mods. Personally, i wanna voice my opinion because i have played with some of these mods (and deinstalled them for various reasons)

Younger Astarion; The reason i have used this mod is because it, to me, added immersion, simply because Astarion is an elf who died young and has stopped aging since. It doesn't really make sense to me - role playing wise - to have visible signs of aging a human of his age might have.

It makes sense for Gale who appears to be in a similiar age range to Astarion, with the main difference between those two being that Gale is a human; humans age differently. Even between humans aging it manifests very differently based on genetics, sun-exposure, diet etc.

I myself am just 9 years shy of Astarion before he died (going by the dates on the grave) and have no smile lines, forehead wrinkles or crows feet - so i don't really think it is that much of a contentious issue?

Black Hair Astarion (white hair version is what i used) - basically long haired Astarion people call this cliché, but.. you only see vitriol against those who change Astarions hair? By all means, if you prefer his hair in the Style Larian provided go for it, but why bash those who have other preferences?

No-Abs Astarion;

Actually a mod that is hailed for its "realism"? Astarion is 1,75m tall, or 5'9 (cannon) & about 55-65kg (~ 122-144lbs - sources differ) heavy, ... which are quincidentially the measurements of my boyfriend (1,75m / 55kg) So he is on the lower end of what is theoretically possible for Astarion and doesn't work out, and he has abs. Now, they aren't deep indentations, more of a faint outline of the rectus abdomini (or front-lower belly muscles)

If if you're underweight (which i was, briefly) abs will show. Simply because there isn't enough (often essential!!!) fat to cover the area. HOW they manifest though is entirely different to everyone.

That being said, the game model of Astarion appears way to broad and muscular. Truly realistic would be if there was a mod that would shrink his bicep, tricep, latissimus dorsii and external obliques (less arm muscles and a more skinny waistline)

Sincerely, i don't care if you use this mod.My stance is; Its a fantasy game, and you can customize your experience based on your preferences. But so do I - and others.

Especially because the people who hold vitriol against young Astarion mod - claiming it's way more "realistic" that he has visible signs of aging are the one who often use this body mod but don't see the issue. My guess is that this stems from a lot of first-time fantasy players who love the more mature aesthetic (compared to other games, such as Dragon Age) and bought this just to date Astarion yet don't really care for the lore-background, going by human standards and well ... that is fine!

For me, i have been obsessed with dating "the elf" since lord of the rings came out. I have been diving deep into this hyperfixation through books, shows and mostly video games of the same genre. I am also a metalhead who has a thing for "shorter" guys (<180cm) with long hair, so .. fuck me i guess?

I just don't get where the hatred is coming from.

[femmefataleapologist]

fanfic writer psa: If you are going to use a number to describe a character's weight, first google how much people weigh. Because I have yet to see a number that isn't off by like. 30 pounds at least. I once saw a fic describe Izzy Hands as 110lbs soaking wet and bestie, my five foot zero aunt weighs more than that. Aziraphale is not 150. In no universe does he weigh less than me, a skinny 20something who is shorter than him. Ya'll please

[lunarrisings]

One of my local tattoo artists just shared a "Tim Burton mashup" tattoo of all her clients favourite Tim Burton movies.... the second most prominent character is Coraline ���😭

[42-clocks]

[image ID: Bernie Sanders meme with a small aromantic flag captioned “I am once again asking for you to include aromantics in your pride art/posts/merch” End ID]

[queenofallornothing]

Taking a glance at my followers to block any obvious porn bots and such spam and GodDamn, I wish tumblr would purge 5yr+ accounts. Half of my followers haven't posted since 2016, which is fine, but all the urls taken and the bloat in follower/following numbers. They're not even marked inactive. I wish at like the five year mark it would auto generate an email confirming you still want your account, and if not clicked in like a months time, it would expire, and the blog would lapse/ automatically be labeled as inactive.

[norselyqueer]

oh gods oh no-

people using elder fuþark as direct replacements for latin letters 😨

[eternalgirlscout]

earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding

[mwagneto]

sorry idk but the way the world is so fast and the people in it still want it to be faster is sooo annoying to me. people groaning while standing in line for 3 minutes people being mad the train ride is gonna take 2 hours people complaining that the bus is a few minutes late people being angry that construction work is taking months even though it used to take decades. don't you see the world is already so so so fast in every single aspect can't you understand that being mad will do nothing and just make your mood worse. enjoy the moments of stillness you're given. just stand in line and look at the people around you. sit on the train and watch the scenery. you'll get there.

[nyancrimew]

i'm a us liberal and i think you're cool

i highly doubt you're a liberal then and just think liberal = leftist which it very much does not

[wolfythewitch]

wolfy this might be a stupid question but what's the difference between an animatic and an animation

Animation is like. Smoother? I guess. Animatic is the rougher version of it, like a draft. It usually has mostly the key poses and maybe some breakdown poses, but when you start inbetweening (poses in between frames to smoothen the action) it starts getting into the realm of animation

What's funny is a lot of animatics on YouTube aren't really the industry definition of an animatic, they're so much more defined and polished that animatics you see in pre production. Mostly because those on yt are already the final works, while pre prod animatics are like preliminaries for before the animation

[valc0]

Rogue is Jack

Rogue is the Master

Rogue is a pre-Hartnell doctor

[notherpuppet]

it's my pet peeve when someone comments something rude on artists' posts so it's an instant block for me :)

[golyadkin]

you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life