#like today for example

[kosmogrl]

a sunny autumn day will make you find the divine in anything

[thisperfectmonsoon]

nobody ever asks me to post selfies when I actually look cute 😤

[eatyourdamnpears]

siblings stop being selfish challenge

[maudlin-scribbler]

tumblr sometimes doesnt show me when someone interacts with my post. I mean it shows me that I have a notification but not what the notification is which pisses me off. Normally it wouldnt but this is like. My last fucking straw of the day. Which is weird bcs I have had a pretty decent day but some things really got to me it seems.

[lazylittledragon]

neurotypicals when someone asks you to repeat yourself please please please for the love of god just repeat the whole sentence not just PART of it, i don't know what you're talking about and saying what you think is the most important part actually doesn't help iT TAKES TWICE AS LONG BECAUSE I HAVE TO ASK YOU TO REPEAT IT AGAIN ANYWAY WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

I draw normal things

[paradoxbeta]

i wish i got to hear more about the dynamics iterators had with their cities as a whole because i think its one of those things that occasionally gets glazed over in favor of iterator social dynamics post-mass ascension. for this reason i am upgrading glass arena from civil unrest to civil war! anyways... tell me about your iterator/city populace dynamics 👀?

[rururaragaga]

hi kaoru nation

older stuff unda da cut

[dotpyenji]

Dragalia Lost Period Tracker

[razziematazz]

guys is there a reason everyone decided that stones first name is aban and his color is ourple or did that just Happen?

[halo-stylinson]

ever notice how fetus larry's hugs were always so... stumbly? like they always sort of stumbled into each other's arms and i think thats so cute and precious.

[erinwantstowrite]

More in-depth thoughts on making the switch to csp? I’ve been debating it for a good while now and would love a secondary opinion! Also thoughts on having to use new brushes after the switch? <3

I'd been using krita since 2012, so it felt like i'd be cheating on it if i switched to csp. I think it was a combination of the fact that i know krita very well by now, plus i had made a whole bunch of pens on there and i'm pretty sure i can't bring them with me to csp, etc. oh and also the fact that krita is free. That was major for me, because i grew up without a lot of money and so i learned to work around getting expensive art supplies and such

However... Csp is totally worth it. It's been a process figuring out the set up and configurations, because it's not as simplified as krita (though krita has these same tools, some of them are different in either program. Some things are just two clicks in krita, and take longer in csp, while other things are a fifteen step process and krita, and csp already has an entire docker there waiting for you). But it's not too hard and it's fairly easy to look up anything i have questions about. They would be tied when it comes to set up, if not for the fact that csp has set ups ready to go for comics that feels a lot easier to work with. So that's win 1 for csp

Win 2 for csp was the brushes and stamps, etc that are on there. It takes a lot of getting used to, and i'm not a fan of the stabilization so far (not exactly sure if there is another option yet, but from what i can tell, individual brushes have stabilization options. Not bad, until i struggle to find an overall stabilization option, if there is one). In krita you can just hit "E" and it will turn whatever brush you're using into an eraser with the same texture and settings as the brush, and pressing "E" again turns it back. But in csp, erasers are limited and i don't like them very much.

But!! Texture,,, i'm a big fan of the everything else about the brushes. it kind of feels like working with actual physical materials (as much as it can). Watercolor mixes and acts like it's on real paper, etc etc. i'm really liking the pens that i found (because in csp, you really should be using the assets page to find brushes, or look up tutorials to make your own, but the default brushes are still amazing if you don't want to adventure out!). Krita is very limited on these. Csp sort of gives the effect of physical media and texture, whereas krita always has a digital look to it. If that makes sense? I'm not saying csp doesn't look digital, but it just has way more of that oomph that i've been wanting for my art for years now

All in all, i can say that i still recommend Krita, especially for beginners, and especially for people who can't afford to spend money on a program. It's still a VERY good place to draw and i'll likely still use it. It's a great starter and honestly, you don't have to make a change if you like it. But csp is also very much worth the money and you won't regret it

[jon-sedai]

Underrated reason why Lyanna as the KotLT just works is because it follows a pattern of deconstruction re the concept of knightly chivalry and honor, from Lyanna herself to her son 15yrs+ later. Lyanna as the KotLT is a gender-swapped version of the ‘knight rescues a helpless maiden from raucous bullies’ trope, but grrm of course puts his spin on it because one Lyanna is not even a knight to begin with and two, she’s a girl. Then knight!Lyanna fights the bullies which is again an adaptation of another trope: the ‘mysterious knight-errant enters the joust and wins then dips’, which is interesting because these types of knights sometimes fall into the black knight trope. And the black knight is, more often than not, not the hero. But the main reason why this is so interesting is Jon. Lyanna “cosplays” a black knight, but her son Jon later becomes an actual black knight. Jon then repeats his mother’s actions by defending Sam in AGoT, which is another subversion of the aforementioned ‘knight rescues a helpless maiden trope’ because the helpless maiden in this case is a helpless…lad…Though Jon and Lyanna acting as agents outside the bounds of knighthood (Lyanna being a northern woman and Jon being a member of the NW) puts them more in line with the traditional black knight (who is usually an anti-hero/villain), the actual essence of their actions puts them closer to the more valiant and honorable white knight according to tradition.

[shivunin]

I think it's really fascinating that either way you activate his romance scene, Fenris doesn't come to Hawke that night until after he explains about the Fog Warriors (you can kill Hadriana and still not activate his romance scene if you have not had this conversation). There are are a few romance options in that conversation that might explain this ("few pleasures greater than speaking with a beautiful woman," the two lines about whether you're attracted to each other), but I think that divulging how he escaped is the actual keystone there.

Fenris talks about how the Fog Warriors are "free with their affections" and (though you can also take this as an implication that he was romantically/sexually involved with some of them) I feel this could be intended as a kind of implicit warning: "These people sheltered me, they gave me space to recover, they offered me affection and freedom, and look what I did to them. Do you see what I am capable of?"

You cannot skip this conversation and continue his romance. Idk if it's the process of telling Hawke that matters (he himself says he's never told anyone), that explaining it aloud is what makes him realizes how much he trusts Hawke, or if Hawke knowing acts as a sort of prerequisite for further intimacy, but....augh. I have played that conversation through a dozen times and I am still thinking about it.

[stunie]

it’s so easy to forget that you can literally write whatever you want

[ducktracy]

i am a chronic "i need to watch that"-er, and i'm very lucky but also cursed to be surounded by excellent friends always recommending me excellent things. and i finally want to get off my keyster and actually WATCH them, but i have so many different serieseseseses i'm in the middle of that it's really hard to commit to one. so i made a watchlist of every series i'm either watching, beginning to watch, or wanting to watch. and then i decided to do the same with movies. and books i'm reading/want to read. and decided i should keep track of my art ideas and projects too. and this is great because with the shows especially, i've made a system where i watch one (or more if i have the time) episode of a show a day, and then make my way down and alternate between shows every day. and so far this has been working out great for me. but standing back and looking at my list is just making me say Oh, god. if you're wondering what's Eliza watching/reading/needing to work on, i have excellent news for you:

i'd also like to add that this is all on top of a continuation of last year's resolution in which i have thousands of golden age cartoons listed in a google doc, i roll a random number generator, and let it dictate the GAC i watch for the day. i am drowning