#maybe august will be my month!

[simgerale]

hi my lovelies!!!!!! i have missed you all!!!!! i’m not back to posting and i’m barely scrolling through my dash but i just wanted to say HI and give you kisses MWAH and wish you a very happy rest of your week and then weekend (^:

[egophiliac]

I have a question about the jp server pickups, since I really want knight Sebek, but I’m trying to save gems for bloom malleus + the 3rd tsum event that’s gonna show up sooner or later. Iirc, after knight Sebek, the next story update’s pickup had all of the previous story cards (ie cerberus Ortho, general Lilia, and knight Sebek). Is this true, and if it is, did it include a token system like the dorm pickups where you can just do 100 pulls and then buy the specific card you want directly? Because if that is how it works, then I can wait until then and be sure I won’t have to go to 200 for him.

we did indeed get a second chance at those three when 7-7 came out! I'm pretty sure there was not a token system -- though admittedly I don't 100% remember, sorry! 🙇 I took a quick search through some past posts/videos from people who tend to include the gacha and news stuff, but I didn't see any mention of it, so I'm inclined to think there really wasn't one. :( they were all separate pickups with their own pull counts rather than a combined one, if that info helps at all.

speaking as a strict f2p who hoards keys/gems like the lovechild of a dragon and a magpie, given the choice between saving for a story card and a birthday card, I'd go for story -- it does require a lot of patience, but there are way more opportunities to get past birthday cards, both from the anniversary events and the rerun pickups! tsums is a bit harder to say anything on because Eng doesn't follow the same event schedule, but it's a longish event and those pickups let you have a free 10-roll, so I think they're also a bit easier to save up for.

(ALSO speaking of free rolls, starting with the fifth round of birthdays -- the kutsurogi my room ones -- the birthday boy/union jacket/bloom cards have had a separate pickup that you can get two free 10-pulls at by doing missions! I got a bloom Jade from it a couple weeks ago. :D meanwhile general Lilia is the only story card I've ever managed to pull, so...I'm probably kinda biased. whoops.)

[night-triumphantt]

I,,,, have @infamous-if brain rot so I threw another blorbo in there

Edit: here have some close ups bc tumblr destroyed the quality tf

[leftneb]

art vs artist but also a yearly art rewind because appearantly I've been drawing car people for exactly 8 months! seriously cannot thank you all enough for sticking around and being such a lovely community 🫶 looking forward to another year of insanity in 2025, happy holidays and merry christmas to all those who celebrate!!!!!

[loopyarts]

Finally got the courage to post some of my august doddles of Dick Grayson Robin.

[rpfisfine]

studying for my czech names exam with the calendar on my grandma’s toilet

[hanzajesthanza]

dandelion is indeed the worst but if he’s not present in the next book i would legitimately be sorrowful as the whole thing will become a slog . you basically cannot have the “short stories” era-of-the-timeline iteration of geralt without dandelion, it would be like eating unbuttered bread.

though it’s not like season of storms did them dirty, i wasn’t disappointed with it (… with regards to them), but since it’s literally been over 20 years since the saga was finished i’m trying to prepare for any potential reality

[petrow1tch]

They weren't lying, this psychological recovery journey got hands

[crescentfool]

a new stream doodle from today + a few stream doodles from 2022 i never posted here! also there's my ryoji brush if you want it... link in the replies 😳

[lume-nosity]

boo! lume jumpscare coming to your feed because i finally found the time (and memory) to visit here. I MISSED YOU GUYS AAAAAGH i mean um hi or whatever,, what did i miss? how’s everyone? it’s been a hot minute.

[sil-te-plait-tue-moi]

Hi!!! I’ve read you Rust fic and honestly obsessed! The intensity, the psychological depth and that feeling which i really feel like reading Rust (not uncontrolled school boi Rust, the original one) you did a great job honestly!

So, do you plan to write another Rust fic with a mind blowing smut 👉🏼👈🏼🥹

my love, I know you wrote this ask in like May, so I am SO SORRY for not responding until now, but like

thank you so much for this compliment, I really appreciate it! it's so tough writing him because everyone's got different views on him, and I think it\s because he's just so multifaceted1! like, for example

the Lana del rey old dog rust and the younger, waify woman is such a niche facet which I lLOVE and will never get enough of (those edits go so hard, ill try find one and reblog it right after this). i love those fics on ao3 by madsmilfelsen which you should definitely go read if you haven't (THAT DOG WILL HUNT etc). this is so corny but I like doing research into other peoples' viewpoints before I can write my own stuff for him. vulturing? nah. more like inspiration

this may be a weird confession but I really like analysing the relationship between rust and Marty too! like im not gonna write m/m stuff because I'm not a dude and idk I just couldn't do it, but it's such an integral part of the show that you can't not consider it when writing a counterpart to rust because Marty is his antithesis

anyhoosles yes the smut is coming, it is mean in like a slow way if you know what I mean? idk I was ovulating

thank you very much!!1 have a gorgeous rest of your august

[cultivating-wildflowers]

my book-buying ban ends on August 1st

my library's huge book sale begins on August 1st

it's fate

[melonthesprigatito]

Every single time for the past six months, when I see that Pokémon is trending on Tumblr, I automatically think "News? NEWS???????" and race to YouTube to see if a new trailer for Legends Z-A has dropped somehow without me knowing and every single time I'm disappointed.

[larz-barz]

HEHEHEHEHE I FINISHED ITTTT (left is the redraw and right is the og)

[kiisuuumii]

some thoughts on self-love (and my self)

i personally dont believe that theres anyone who really truly hates themselves. i find it even hard to believe that it's possible to hate oneself in a way that isn't truly just frustration and anger with oneself (or the classist, racist, homophobic, misogynistic system we are ruled by)

do you hate yourself, or are you just angry at yourself for the way you handled a situation, or for the way you didn't fulfill your (or someone else's) expectations, or for the things you didn't do, whether out of fear or lack?

as a result of some words a friend had said to me a few days ago, i've taken to asking myself why it is i don't see myself in the same bright and colorful light that others do, despite being pretty cognizant of the richness of my inner world, my ability to be conscious and appreciative of other beings on earth, my oddities and and my excitedness and my curiosity and my expression.

i have the capability to take a step back and recognize the good, so to speak, in me. but when someone else confronts me about, and seems to also see, these things, suddenly the things i've done, the ways in which i've behaved, and the things i've said that have hurt others—because i was selfish, immature, unable to see beyond myself, even now—come to mind.

i'm not a bad person—no bad person would ever question whether they are one or not—but i feel like a bad person.

there are plenty of people out in the world who tell you, and will tell you, to love yourself more, but there are never enough people who tell you what that looks like.

"i know you can believe in yourself, too," he'd said.

maybe it's to believe that beauty exists in you. maybe it's to believe that you're not a bad person.

or maybe it's to believe that duality exists. that the human psyche is so vast, so limitless, from our understanding, that there is no choice but for duality to exist. if we can conjure it in our heads, if we can conceptualize it, then it must exist, in some way, shape, or form, physical or not.

maybe self-love is to finally believe that i'm nothing but human, something i've extended grace and compassion to everyone but myself for being.

[deus-ex-mona]

i hope they fight (can’t read past this point)