#maybe i will change my mind but for now

[pardonmydelays]

this is the same anon who listens to both lin and taylor, but feels less enthusiastic about her nowadays - reporting my thoughts on ttpd that you absolutely did not ask for.

i just didn't get it. i know that saying "the songs sound the same" is usually a cheap shot at taylor's discography, but that's sincerely how i feel after giving the entire anthology a listen. i'm sure that later on i'll start to pick up on the differences - but i did a rapid fire game of let's listen to a random part in the middle of a song and then cut to a random part of another song, and the instrumentals/vocal tones were so similar it wasn't even jarring. they all sound the same, except for 1 or 2 songs. even midnights, which had a very uniform vibe, didn't feel like this. nor did cardigan or evermore feel like this, which are arguably even quieter albums.

i feel bad saying all this because i was very curious to see what this album would be like, especially with an interesting title like "the tortured poets department". but i don't know how to express my opinion rn. it's not that the songs are terrible? but i don't see any type of audible progression in the album, and most of them sound like the sort of quiet, toned-down song you might get in the latter third of an album.

they give me "the archer" vibes without the oomf and genuine meaning behind that song. so it's not beguiling and interesting, it's just directionless. there's no beat no melody.

idk man. i was hopeful but this just crashed my enthusiasm even more. maybe i'm being dramatic and i'm sure i'll salvage a few favs out of this anyways, but. sigh.

you're right, i didn't ask for this, but thank you for writing this essay for me, because it's interesting to see someone else's point of view - not very different from my own.

i have to agree, for me most of the songs sound the same, & i literally don't remember any song (except like maybe 3-4), which never happened to me with any taylor's album. it feels so... lazy. & it has some of her worst lyrics ever. i don't love any of it.

i think it's a good idea to give it more time & a few more listens, but like i also said before, i literally have to force myself to listen to this album because i'm so bored. lord save me.

...and for your information, i am the archer's biggest hater. i can't stand this song, mostly because of the production (sorry jack & my friends who love this one). maybe this is why i don't really like ttpd.

[isjasz]

☀️⭐🌙👁️👑

This is the way you are supposed to play this game.

[muchtodoonterror]

it's 3:30am so please excuse this post which is going to feature decapitation and cannibalism and emotions so content warning for those

but i keep seeing people say they've identified fitzjames' body, but they haven't! they've identified not even his skull but his jawbone. his lower mandible with cut marks. and yes the "they ate his face" jokes are right there for the taking, but probably more likely they in fact cut his head off first specifically so they wouldn't have to look at his face while they carried out their task of butchery. and if they were making use of the head....that's the direst of all, because it's the most individual part, it's the part they would have least wanted to consume. there are so few skeletons that were found in their original arrangement so i know it's not necessarily telling, but presuming that they did cut off his head, it really hits home to me even more that all we have identified is his jaw. not even his "face". certainly not a body. his actual body could be somewhere far distant or nowhere because all that's left is this part because these men who he lived in incredibly close quarters with for so long were forced to do the unthinkable to a man who was widely liked and considered an emblem of vitality and who they served under for years. he did funky little drawings in his letter margins and got excited about goodsir's sea creatures and had served with some of these men not just on erebus but for years before!!! he personally hired many of them (which maybe they were not so glad of anymore) because he knew and liked and trusted t hem. maybe they tried to bury his head with dignity to give at least part of him a christian burial. maybe not. but there's something deeply lonely about a jawbone. . . . with cut marks.

[salamispots]

gift/commission for a relative, 15"x20"

[starrspice]

Have a Sun, Moon, and a StarrSpice!

I’ve been super busy with work and other stuff in my life so I haven’t had the time energy or motivation to really draw all that much, but with things settling down a bit I decided to stretch my drawing muscles and dive back in

And who better to do that with than sun and Moon? The most drawable boys ever

Very self indulgent but very much needed with the chaos in my life lately

It feels good to be back

[cozylittleartblog]

is this the tragic clown the sims warned me about

[equill]

The promise you kept.

Extra panel: (liked this version too.)

moving on to sakumo.

Panel 1: Handprint (an older drawing to share)

Panel 2: Punishment.

what if they went for kakashi to hurt sakumo instead.

decided to dump the rest of the drawings together, but the tone shift whiplash is real (I shall do it again)

Comic 2: Bias? Not at all.

extra:

He’s just in a silly mood (he feels no remorse)

Comic 3: Did you say something?

fun idea, kakashi actually picked up his behavior from his father (sakumo version is staring people down, while kakashi is verbal)

[u3pxx]

i had to search up cooking/food-related pictures of these three for this isn't that fun. also i want EXPLANATIONS in the tags i want ARGUMENTS i want STRONG OPINIONS about who can fry the most PERFECT egg i want FIGHTING i want to go LAY DOWN AND SLEE

[ckret2]

You're the only one on this site who draws Scalene and Euclid with only one eye, lol. In most of the fanarts I've seen, they have two eyes and are very different physically from Bill.What do you think they look like, canonically speaking? Do you think they have only one eye or two?

I think they have one eye. There's no good reason for them to have two?

The only reason the headcanon exists is because somebody arbitrarily decided Bill's mom singing a lullaby about his "strange eye" meant "his eye is strange because there's only one of them!!!!"

rather than

y'know

because it can canonically see into a higher dimension.

If he had one eye less than is normal for his species, his mom wouldn't be singing a song about his "strange" eye, she'd be singing about his missing eye.

Nothing in canon backs up the idea that they have multiple eyes. And there were pleeenty of opportunities for Mr. All-Seeing Eye With The Strange Eye to demonstrate that he was raised thinking having one eye is abnormal. Or, hell, for him to mention when he talks about his mutation that it was rare to have one eye! Instead, the one time he ever canonically talks about humans having two eyes, what does he call it? "Deluxe."

You don't look at something you were raised to think is a standard feature and call it "deluxe."

The headcanon doesn't exist because anything in the lore around Bill implies having one eye is abnormal for his species; it exists because some human reader defaulted to assuming ~naturally~ having one eye must be considered "strange." Even for an alien species. For... some reason.

[saradiation]

Feferi 💖🌺🫧

[somegrumpynerd]

Killer is the only one Nightmare can't track down easily, since he can feel the others by emotion but can't usually sense Killer's unless he's in stage 1.

This is a small part of why he and Color got off on the wrong foot, because the first time Color and Killer met was when he was helping Dream fight them and he managed to pull Killer away from the main fight to try and reason with him. While they were doing that, Nightmare decided to retreat but couldn't see Killer around and couldn't find him using emotions, so he had to leave without him. (He did return later to scour the place and found Killer waiting for him, since he'd refused Color's offer to go with them.)

This became a running theme, where sometimes after a battle Killer would be gone without a trace because he was off fighting/talking with Color and Nightmare would have to come back for him later. It's also what makes Nightmare a little uneasy in present day about Killer running off to hang out with Color sometimes, because if Color succeeds in convincing Killer not to return, Nightmare has no way of tracking him down anymore. He just has to trust that Killer will return at some point, and wait.

[ch1zzie]

The original in the bottom

Plus the picture I mainly drew but decided to draw the rest for funny

[buwheal]

I dont know how to feel about how you can see the adjustments and the little added features accumulate over time........its almost scary..... but i thought it was interesting.. so heres The Page at the end of its lifecycle before i open a new one and perpetuate my endless purgatory.

[mblue-art]

"—matsukawa, quit pushing me down, asshat!" "nah." "i will kick your shins bro do not test me—"

alt. ver. before the redraw (bc i still kinda like this 😔)

[qdkdraws]

Ruan Mei's quest, at least first part with bugs, really pissed me off.

Okay, okay, listen, it's not because she "used" us - let's be honest, there are very few characters in the story who haven't used Trailblazer to some degree - but because Stelle kept being absurdly nice to her. Like, c'mon, girl, you can't be nice to Sampo, who's 50/50 troublemaker and helpmaker (seriously, the answer options with him are "negative, negative, neutral" most of the time, even though we've been shown his positive sides numerous times), but "want to see again" the one who fed you weird drugs in the first minutes of meeting you and sent you to clean up her shit? We have both positive and negative answers for Kafka, but not a single truly negative answer for Ruan?

[dorky-kawa]

As I’m waiting for tcb and the official translations to form my final opinion, I just wanted to write out some thoughts onwhy I take issue with Kusakabe said, at least from having read all the different versions of the translation of the leaks so far:  

Yes, he did tell the kids to act like kids and not feel like they are responsible because it wasn’t their fault. But what he was saying was that it’s not their (even Yuuji’s) fault that Yuuji didn’t die; that the blame lies solely with Kenjaku for his craziness and the grownups for not following through with the initial execution order. Whether or not that’s objectively true (and yeah, anyone can say that the events of jjk wouldn’t have happened if Gojo had just killed Yuuji chapter 1), that’s an absolutely shitty way of comforting anyone, which was what he was trying to do with that statement.  

Also, to have him reiterate that he was in the pro-execution camp and that they only have Yaga to thank for being here even at this point of the story is a really banana thing for him to do. Take Nanami as an example. He also originally said that even though he thinks the higher-ups are shit, he believes in abiding by the decisions of the higher-ups. But Nanami also turned out to be biggest softie there is. Nanami grew to care for Yuuji so much - Yuji made him believe in the future. Nanami would never have said something like this after getting to know Yuuji. Kusakabe might not want Yuuji to die at this point, but he still firmly believes that Yuuji dying was the correct decision from the beginning.

You can say he is just stating objective fact and that he is actually the most sensible one in the series, but this inability to be moved by the kids to try to fight against what is “right” and for something bigger is my issue with Kusakabe being one of the few adults left to be a teacher/mentor/adult figure in the lives of the students. 

Saying that ‘well, I don’t think anyone was right or wrong - everyone had their truths and all those truths led us here, oh well’ doesn’t make it better. Because it’s such a wishy-washy (but in-character) thing for him to say - which brings me to my problem with him: that Kusakabe ultimately doesn’t have it in him to risk everything and stand up to injustice and the status quo. 

It’s easy to say “kids should be kids” and to be a “nice” person. It’s harder to stick with those beliefs under massive resistance and opposition, and that’s where I think Kusakabe falls short. 

I don’t think that Kusakabe is a bad character. He is someone who both Gojo and Nanami referred to as "kind." When the world was in chaos, he stepped up and put his life on the line to protect the students. He obviously cares about students, but I think he also takes the easy way out when something doesn't concern him personally, and he limits what affects him personally quite strictly (we've seen that can do things that go against orders, ie. freeing panda, to repay his debt to Yaga). He is a character that finds it hard to stand up for something on his own, to be at the forefront of something without other forces pushing him. 

Kusakabe hasn’t demonstrated his potential to be revolutionary, to have the will to fight for something because he wants to see change, and maybe that’s not necessarily a character flaw inherently. But the jujutsu world (and Japan) is in upheaval. Gojo got rid of all the higher-ups. Now is the time to change things, break the cycle, and build a better world. He’s one of the few left who is in a position to do it. He cares about the next generation. But I don’t see Kusakabe stepping up in the same way as Gojo, Nanami, or even Yaga would have in his position. So yeah, I really don't like his stance this chapter.