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nutsack90 · 1 year ago

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goddamnb!!

chill out man!!!

#zuko #zuko atla #atla #avatar the last airbender #the blue spirit #i cant tell if i loved or hated the process of this drawing #pike art #also i loveddd all the blue spirit stuff literally so awsome #need to draw blue spirit stuff more often #edited because i realized it was slightly off center and that made me so upset to look at

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egophiliac · 4 months ago

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Final manifestations for Book 7?

I'm trying REALLY hard not to build up any solid expectations, because I wanna go in ~fresh~! they're already so far away from anything I thought would happen (not in a bad way, I'm just accepting that I'm on Miss Yana's Wild Ride at this point and we're seeing this thing through 'til the end, by gum). so it's nothing too major, but:

they've been handing new crying expressions out like candy lately, I want to see some delicious Malleus tears.

honestly I want everyone to cry buckets. their tears sustain me. the more Silver angst specifically I get the happier I am.

SILVER!!!! 👏 VANROUGE!!!! 👏

just let him have this. the poor boy's been through so much. let him have his big "I'm proud of you, son" moment with Lilia.

I'm 100% expecting Grim's arc (and probably whatever's going on with Crowley) to be its own episode, but a nice hook to leave us hanging on would be good!

a nice hook though, please, I don't think I can take another "Grim is attacking us! now wait eight months to find out what happens :)" cliffhanger...

some Meleanor? as a treat? just a little bit, a tiny quick flashback or something, please Twst I just, I just want to see her again. let her have a little ghost cameo like Dawnathan Knight got. Lilia and his kids are all having their big group hug or whatever and she can gently fade in to be all like

(turning asks off until I'm done playing, SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE Y'ALL)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 13 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 13 spoilers #one last chance for me to be wrong about everything!#(no it's good i am enjoying it SO much) (just stomping right down on all of my personal like buttons with its whole weight)#(it's just also VERY good at totally subverting all of my expectations)#i don't think we're actually gonna get a permanently dehorned malleus though #just because it feels like an insane thing to remove the most iconic part of one of the most iconic characters of the game #but i could see like...a temporary thing ala raisin vil #or a permanent smaller change like cracks/chips or something (kintsugi horns would be super cool actually)#but i do think it's more likely we'll find some way to keep the status quo re:horn design #if this was the END-end of all of twst then maybe but they still wanna sell merch of this guy so they can't change his design TOO much #i am sorta wondering if he might get a bit of a power nerf though? take him down from ridiculously overpowered to just normal overpowered #idk they made a point of saying the horns were specifically what caused the weather stuff #and the weather stuff has been called out in particular as one of the reasons why mal being so stupidly magical makes him pretty unhappy #everyone's scared of him all the time and he has to actively try not to accidentally kill people when he gets upset #so. idk. maybe it was just a little worldbuilding. but i thought it was interesting they brought that up was all!#me: i'm not going to form any expectations (writes a whole thing speculating on the fate of malleus' horns)#look it's now or never okay #that end of episode rhythmic better be SO cute because i'm already losing my entire head over this

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dreamsy990 · 3 months ago

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wake up babe more odypen just dropped

#just looked up poses on pinterest and doodled stuff based on that #theyre soooooooooo. throws up #im so exhausted im gonna pass out maybe #(literally only spent like 4 hours on this)#doodles #odypen #odysseus #penelope #epic the musical #need to doodle my post canon ody more i think hes growing on me #like i was upset with it but i like it more now #idk im mostly incoherent

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specterthief · 1 year ago

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ah dungeon meshi

#fandom: dungeon meshi #shitpost #mine #farcille #that one kui doodle sheet where marcille's like 'those are men's clothes!?' at the stuff falin looks chill in #and 'you look so cute!' at falin being embarrassed/uncomfortable in really fem stuff #and her being upset at the drawing of falin with short hair #though that one was probably more for the fact that it makes it really obvious that falin really does look just like laios asfhjk

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memoryunit · 18 days ago

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the fact that Donut is Church’s favorite Red is so funny

#no commentary on this - it just tickles me #like. on one hand - that man blew up Tex so like. what gives?#but. one the other hand - she DID blow him up first #and then Church spent months attempting to kill him in ‘the past’#so i guess they’re basically even at that point #i feel like he just looked at the Reds and was like ‘okay who is the least exhausting to deal with on a regular basis?’#and Donut won out simply bc Sarge Grif and Simmons are soooooooo obnoxious #this post brought to you by: Church being legitimately upset about Donut’s death in s5 #co-sponsored by his refusing to entertain Simmons’ homophobia towards Donut in s4 #great stuff #red vs blue #rvb

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caligvlasaqvarivm · 7 months ago

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Why The Ending Sucks

Ok I figured it out. Hear me out:

The entire comic has a running theme best summed up as "who is controlling the narrative, and why are we listening to them?"

Hussie plays a caricaturized version of himself that he describes as "buffoonish" and "oafish". Caricature!Hussie is well-meaning, but a dumb idiot who's incredibly biased in favor of certain characters and in disfavor of others (the most obvious example being his "love" of Vriska, but there's also the way he constantly disparages Eridan). As a result, you have to be VERY SKEPTICAL and VERY CAREFUL when approaching Homestuck's narration, because even when the "best" narrator is at the helm, he's not 100% trustworthy and incapable of giving the readers an unbiased view of the story.

I say "best" because, importantly, Hussie isn't the story's only narrator. He and Doc Scratch explicitly fight over control of the story - Doc Scratch, the child abusing predator who engineered Alternia's fascist murder society, whose shaping of its history is explicitly described by character!Hussie as "fanfic". He is then killed by Lord English, who is described by Hussie as embodying the "toxically masculine" and by extension, the patriarchy, and Caliborn explicitly takes control of the story. John even grapples with Caliborn's version of events, calling out how sexist and misogynistic and shitty it is.

So if we're keeping score: control over the narrative is LITERALLY wrested away from Hussie (who was already struggling to be unbiased) by fascists, abusers, and the patriarchy. It's stressed multiple times that Caliborn/LE are responsible for literally everything that ever happens; the reason the Game Over timeline ends the way that it does is because the alpha timeline is, in essence, the narrative LE is telling: the forces of fascism get to claim the new universe, thereby propogating itself, while friendship dies and all hope is lost.

Who's in control of the narrative, and why are we listening to them?

There are other minor examples of this, too: Aranea is an exposition fairy, and she's biased as fuck and wrong ALL THE TIME about her own teammates. Karkat's explanations and rationalizations are constantly tinged with his own self-loathing and self-blame. Sollux and Meulin are both prophets as per their Mage class, but are both so bogged down by their own emotional issues that the futures they pick out are actively harmful. So on and so on. At nearly every turn, you have to interrogate who's telling the story, what their motivations are, and what they're overlooking or deliberately obfuscating.

So given that this theme is so prevalent, and so thoroughly weighted toward "well, actually, maybe you shouldn't take narration at face value and should interrogate it and come to your own conclusions," it would be Really Weird for the story to go "actually, you can totally trust the narrative now because everyone gets a happy ending".

So, I know that it makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist, but here's my genuine take on Homestuck's ending:

The ending is shitty on purpose because the viewer is intended to take it as a dare to refute the narration and make something better.

Why are we letting character!Hussie tell the story? He's a biased idiot. Why are we letting the various avatars of LE and Caliborn tell the story? They're fascist, misogynistic, predatory assholes.

And - because Homestuck is a story about life - why are we letting idiots, assholes, abusers, and creeps dictate the story of real life? The world is full of forces that would try to take control of the story and make everyone else play along, represented in microcosm within the text of Homestuck. We cannot let those forces win.

So please go out and do something kind and hopeful and loving in the world today. Thanks for reading.

#homestuck #homestuck lore #homestuck analysis #anyway i know that this sounds Crazy but hear me out #Hussie does not drop the act in the book commentaries #which were written after the comic ended #moreover the ending and epilogues are chock full of stuff that really seems designed to piss off as many people as possible #like vriska coming back but having her character development reverted #which upset both vriska haters AND vriska fans #and famously the existence of Yiffany which lowkey fucks up rosemary #but the baffling thing is that in spite of these 'lets make everyone unhappy' moves #we're still getting vital exposition about how the world works (ultimate selfhood) and characters outright saying things like #it confused me for the longest time but looking at this running theme it makes sense #the ending of homestuck is the ending picked out by terezi... who never finished her arc #it's why even though it's LITERALLY the ending she picked out for herself and her friends #shes still unable to be happy in it or feel 'fixed'#because she too is unreliable!!! she can't do it alone!!!!#and bringing back vriska eased her guilt but didnt solve her fundamental issues...#because homestuck kinda can't have a happy ending unless EVERYONE IS THERE

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firestorm09890 · 1 year ago

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Penny stardewvalley makes me so sad because she's SO sensitive to, like, basically everything you tell her (telling her that you can't stand children while two children are nearby is a pretty lousy move but -1500 friendship?? being a jerk to other characters' faces typically loses you about 50 points, and if you choose the option labeled "creepy" and ask Leah for a kiss in her 2 heart event she physically hits you and kicks you out of her house but that's only -100 friendship…) and so if you want to befriend her it's a whole lot of lying and tiptoeing around her feelings (2 hearts: George was right but saying that makes her feel bad. 6 hearts: her food sucks but even if you try to be polite about it she feels like a failure; only a bald-faced lie pleases her. 8 hearts: saying you don't want to be tied down with a family loses you a little bit of friendship and she's only happy if you say you want kids) and I can't help but think she's a product of her environment. She lives in a trailer with only her mother, who gets drunk every night and has something of a temper. Penny's like a skittish rescue animal who won’t even come out from hiding under something unless you leave her lots of treats

#stardew valley #penny sdv #I didn't mention the SECOND opportunity to lose 1500 friendship with her #because I think if you go out of your way to date her and then tell her that you don't like her that way then you deserve it #but yeah she's super volatile #i was upset for a little bit after reading that one post saying the ‘right’ answer in the 2 heart event is ableist #like nooooo not my favorite farming game :(#except that in the context of several other things in the game it becomes clear that winning someone over #does not always mean doing the right thing #looking directly at how the easiest way to befriend shane and pam is by enabling their alcoholism #which is framed as a harmful thing even if the characters themselves like it #you have to lie to befriend other characters too like with sam dropping his egg #and you can lose a little friendship based on preferences like sebastian asking about what books you like #though to be fair if i saw someone who could potentially be cool and i found out that what they like was stuff im not into id also #lose interest a little #anyway those are all examples spread around on different characters #penny's got it all at once #me post

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chiropteracupola · 10 months ago

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there's no rule saying you can't turn medieval kings into magical girls.

#em draws stuff #h5 #henry v #henry v 1989 #reappearance of me shouting DAWNTREADER TEXAS HALBOY which continues to be a joke I refuse to explain #manythanks to my housemate the magical girl conoisseur for the design assistance #still not Quite satisfied with the various frills since they make him look less of his time #but then again. Who am I to say such things when I have written 'oh my god! i was a lancastrian magical girl!' on this drawing #I think in the end I did an okay job of managing my personal inclination in character design (simple and practical)#and the magical girl one million bells and whistles and bows and greebles aesthetic...#his little mascot-critter is a swan because 1) dunstable swan badge 2) SCARY #large upsetting bird of which I am afeared!

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notsooldmadcatlady · 6 days ago

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#ts4 #the sims 4 #ts4 historical #wip #I feel like my old cc was much more creative than it is now #now it's just kind of boring #and that was the idea #to make simple clothes that look like someone actually wore them #not court dresses #so I made boring stuff #and now I'm upset that it's boring... yeah 😔

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hemi-demi · 2 months ago

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Tip for adult artists if your focus is improving your anatomy and drawing bodies that feel more grounded in a space, genuinely one of the best exercises for that is to draw smut.

You don't have to post it. Hell, you can burn it when you're done for all it matters. But hardly anything will give you more of an understanding of a realistic human body interacting in 3D space when you smush two or more of them together.

#art advice #18+ art #obviously not the only way to go about it #but I definitely learned more from drawing smut than from gesture drawings alone #if you're adverse/repulsed by images then non-sexual intimacy would work just fine #I'll admit references are hard cause I hate searching for irl stuff #but worst case scenario 3D model poser apps can help you find the general positions of things and you can pose however you need to #at this point I've been practicing construction a lot so I can just draw from my own understanding of anatomy #and I'll fill in the rest by using reference which can often just be my own photos or looking at my own hands/mouth/etc #added bonus is if you do it enough that embarrassment goes away eventually #but don't be upset with yourself if you are painfully shy at the start that's perfectly normal #ok sorry this turned into a ramble #artists of tumblr #demirambles

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ask-enchantingdelights · 24 days ago

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