#maybe more some day... perhaps

[leenfiend]

my secret santa gift for @witchy-boba !! and my first foray into a college au

[beneathsilverstars]

you know what fuck you [loopifies your figure drawings]

original normal drawings under the cut lol.. for the art-heads

[quirkle2]

[zombie au] when ur.when ur brotherturns into a z.when ur brother turns into a zombie and u spend the next several years of ur childhood braving the most fucked up shit ever so u can find a cure and it gets to the point where ur killing parts of urself just to pick up the pieces of ur brother with shaking, cut up hands and glue him back together but at that point ur just going to end up bringing him back to a world that's not worth living in

[crustyfloor]

Luka is very good at keeping himself composed on stage, mostly with the help of maintaining track of his heart rate, but during Mizi's attack in ROMH he seemed to slip up, not only was the red background a tell-tale sign of Mizi's violent intentions but it was a more symbolic way of showing Luka in quite visceral fear. Even if for only a second.

I'm not convinced Luka will be as continuously calculated as he normally comes off, it all seems too fake to me. Because it is. It’s a similar case to Ivan who can't feel, isn't normal, isn't human enough so he makes a persona to blend in. So Luka, whoever he is, makes this version of himself to cope with what he has to live through, pretending like he's on top of it all to survive in this world.

So in round 7, I think something drastic will happen to make him 'snap' in a way.

It's safe to say that we don't know Luka. We don't know who he really is. We don't know his real desires. But we do know one thing--he is scared. he is afraid of the aliens. That's why he appeases them--being their trophy. He's only kept around for his purpose as an entertainer and nothing else and he's very aware of that. He knows very well that a dented trophy will be discarded; with that mindset, he's been able to get so far, and he's scared of losing. That's why he holds any little thing he can get his hands on close. And an important extension of that fear is his fear of losing power.

Till should be the more likely in this position, given he's such a rebel. But isn't that just too predictable? Keep in mind, that Till is a strong person. Even after all he's been through, even after he's been beaten into something more manageable for the aliens--He still hasn't lost his spark. Till is a raging storm. subdued but nonetheless a force to be reckoned with.

Round 6's effect on Till is greatly ambiguous for now but at this point when the time for round 7 comes, Till has been put through so much hell. Whatever Luka does to provoke him probably won't work, he and Luka are equally talented individuals and will make for an intense battle, and at the end of the day, the numbers won't lie. Exactly that is what Luka is ready for but scared of--a worthy opponent for the throne. Someone capable of stripping him of his power. (Is fear what makes Luka so dismissive?)

It would be so aggravating that this 'pest'. who is so indignant, so rebellious (in a way Luka envies.), could so easily destroy everything Luka has worked for, disregard every pain Luka has been through to get to this point, and Till doesn't value this throne as much as Luka does, and Luka doesn't want to feel the pain of death anymore. If his facade is as destructible as I think it is, that will be what ultimately brings out Luka.

This idea may be flawed. Luka is so perfect, too perfect and confident and experienced for something as little as that to break him, just think of all the training Luka went through to get to this point. I'm positive he's very aware of what playing unfairly will lead to. But isn't there always room for a wild card?

Just remember what happened to Hyun-woo.

What happened here isn't fully explained (and probably will be in round 7) but imagine Luka: "Trophy child, goody two shoes" Luka possibly killing another human. Whether by accident or not, what happened?--what and how did Luka feel in the moment for the repercussions of whatever happened to be that bad?

A Luka that is secretly greatly insecure, pliable, and defensive enough that in a spur of emotions, he can’t help but lose his cool in a way he hasn’t in a while because he’s afraid—just to try and prove he is still valuable. That is the type of character I theorize we'll come to see in round 7.

[ganondoodle]

woah, all of the sudden i feel like i want nothing more but to turn into a soggy piece of dead wood, and its even worse bc its seems like this time its exaggerating all my worst qualities on top of worsening my regular mental health struggles-

... remembering that its been a month since the last time .... no, no it cant always be that, the majority of my deep dives into mental health hell and public annoyance cant be all that, what am i, nothing but a enzyme and hormone controlled meat puppet that i have no control over? haha no its just me actually getting wors-

cramps.

[idontwanttospoiltheparty]

It is truly fascinating how the common tumblr narrative around John and Paul somehow makes the guy who literally got violent multiple times over people insinuating he was queer appear more "on board with the whole gay thing" than the guy who said some awkward/dated stuff in interviews a couple of times.

[billpottsismygf]

Mockumentaries

The mockumentary format can be really fun, but I've been thinking more and more about how it's not always used to its best effect. Binge watching Abbott Elementary is what has really brought some of the specifics of this into focus, and it's what is freshest in my mind at the moment, but it isn't limited to one show. My problems with it manifest in many ways, and there's nuance to all of them, but to boil them down to their essentials it's usually:

Characters doing/admitting things they want to keep secret, either from the world or from other characters, while aware they are being filmed

Shows going on for years and years, which indicates either that the documentary crew are sitting on years' worth of footage or that the fictional documentary is being released year by year equivalent to how we see the real show

Characters going off to have private moments and acting as if there isn't a cameraman (or several for all those extra angles) two feet away from them.

On the first point, especially egregious examples include the breaking of laws or rules. My main example, because it's the episode I'm halfway through right now and the thing that compelled me to make this post right now, is everyone at Abbott trying to hide the fact that they got the computers as bribes from the golf course. Even if they deceive this one guy (I'm five minutes from the end), it's going to get out eventually via this documentary they're all so happily admitting it to. This goes for various things throughout the show, including more than one plot-important blackmailing.

Even when it isn't something illegal, there are plenty of things that characters are trying to keep secret from other characters, and yet they're brazenly doing or talking about it on camera. Relating this to the second bullet point, it is thus weird when characters find out information in later seasons from interactions with one another, when they should have found that out from watching the prior season (if we assume that is how the documentary functions).

I thought about these first two bullet points a lot during the latter seasons of What We Do in the Shadows, particularly whenever the characters would emphasise that vampires are meant to be secret (eg. when Nandor appeared on the news and they freaked out, or when Nadja yelled at Nandor for sponsoring a marathon during the Vampiric council stuff). They did at least fix all this in the final episode, with the vampires explaining that they've had many documentaries made about them and none of them have ever aired, which is the sort of absurdity that fits really well in the wwdits universe. Even so, this was a last minute addition and my experience of the show as a whole was (very slightly) marred by this dissonance.

On the third bullet point, this is possibly the most egregious because it often takes me out of the most emotional scenes. This especially goes for characters sneaking off to be alone. Sometimes we only see these moments from a distance, as the camera crew has to sneak an angle to catch the character unawares, which works a lot better. Sometimes, though, this goes out the window. Because I watched it yesterday, my mind goes to Janine leaving her School District party to be alone in her office, where there are two different close up angles from inside this very small room. It's not inconceivable that she'd still be able to experience this big moment without acknowledging that she's being filmed from very close up, but it doesn't feel entirely realistic, and there are plenty of similar moments throughout Abbott Elementary and other shows.

There are lots of other little things that can break the immersion - such as the (multiple) cameras already being in the flower classroom when Janine and Gregory have their first kiss, given that J&G think the place is locked and no one is meant to be there. So, the camera crew just ran ahead, got inside and waited, then Janine and Gregory break in and don't even acknowledge the fact that these people who've been filming them for however long are already in there? - but it would be impossible to name them all individually.

It works best for me when the cameras are acknowledged as part of the world. You want to make it so that these characters know they're being filmed? Use that! For example, when Janine and Gregory actually get together and have their second kiss, Gregory dismisses and shuts them out! It still felt weird to me that they started kissing when the cameras were right there, but I love that they chose to acknowledge that it would be forced and unnatural for these two characters to finally get together while a camera crew stared at and filmed them at close quarters.

Anyway, this isn't supposed to be a rant against any particular show's use of the mockumentary format (apologies to Abbott for being my main source of examples). It's more an observation of the way it's used (or misused) in general. If I could be bothered, I'd watch a bunch of shows and take notes every time something bothers me, but it's not that big of a deal. I can see why showrunners choose the mockumentary format, as it allows characters to express their thoughts directly to camera. This can be very valuable, especially since theatrical soliloqoys feel out of place in most standard TV shows. However, while I can suspend my disbelief to an extent, it does often take me out of the world and I'd love to see more care taken when figuring out how the fact that these characters are being filmed would affect the way they act.

[icewindandboringhorror]

recent things and such~

[raiiny-bay]

once again posting to say… hi…

[gio-cosmo]

This is my favorite image ever I think

[ivalice-tifalucis]

With the release of From The Rehearsal Room - Tokyo to Ramin's youtube I finally, finally, continue and finish this side project I'm doing.

Initially, I used AI to mastered it because the first version I got from bilibili were not in good quality but I wasn't satisfied and I found the much better quality. But with Ramin uploaded it to youtube, I re did all the mastering just with audacity for both Part 1 and Part 2. The Part 2 is still from the better version I found from bilibili, by the way.

What you need to do is just download the file and put it on your music player. The metadata is all completed as if it's whole legit album. Enjoy, guys!!

And I'm being weird so all the lyrics that are put there are from my listening although I still use what I found online but I still listened and compared. They made few ad-libs and changes and I notice because for the songs that I wasn't familiar, the lyric that I found online and what they sang was slightly different. Perhaps they sing the newer version of the lyrics or mistakes? Even each Sheytoons songs they sing one in both parts differ from the ones I found online.

Another sample from my favorite:

Source and Credits Part 1 | Part 2 (Ramin's upload) Album cover Photos

Vocal & Guitar: Ramin Karimloo, Hadley Fraser Piano: Ryohei Mori

[age-of-moonknight]

“Blood Moon, Blood Brothers,” Phases of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2024), #4.

Writer: Tom Waltz; Pencilers and Inkers: Ken Lashley and Brian Level; Colorists: Dono Sanchez-Almara, Erick Arciniega, and Antonio Fabela; Letterer: Cory Petit

[scoriarose]

A Noisy Chicago Apartment Ghost

Here's a little spooky story of something that really happened to my girl and me a few months back when I was still living in my apartment in Chicago (Specifically July 11th through the 14th, so not that long ago!)

Chicago is a place with a lot of old buildings, not sure if that means more ghosts? But I'm also the sort of person that if something spooky is going on, I'm usually the one that's most likely to experience it, and surprisingly my little girl did too!

We were living on the fourth floor of an apartment in Edgewater that was so old I had to sign a waiver that I knew the walls had lead somewhere in the paint omelet the landlord coated the interior with. There was something else there, something I couldn't see, but it made itself known by throwing things, mostly. Most would think, "Are you sure it didn't fall?" But most of these things were sitting on a flat surface, sometimes for months before they were suddenly flung with force across the room. Whatever it was didn't like my cat, as several times I'd see him run out of a room then something be thrown out of the doorway at him. I lived alone, and he very well couldn't have done it if it was thrown after he was out of the room!

This is a photo I took of the hallway just before I moved, which is where the most recent spooky things happened. To the left is the bathroom, to the right is the walk in closet my cat claimed as his room, and the far back is where I had my bed. My computer desk and girls were against the opposite wall, so I had my back to this area. Around the time it happened, most of my things were in boxes, aside for what I needed on the daily, so if something was out of place it was pretty easy to tell.

One thing that's nice about working from home is I could have my baby girl chilling with me, and she'd often be snuggled with me while I organized video shoots, booked talent, or worked on preproduction. So one day early in the afternoon I was buy working away on something when I heard a loud sound behind me. Imagine someone holding a leather biker's coat above their head and dropping it to the ground- it sounded exactly like that. Owning a leather biker jacket, that was the first thing I checked and it was still on its hanger. In fact, nothing was out of place, which is pretty strange since that was a rather loud sound- but not a thing had been moved! So I just added it to my mental list of weird things I can't really do anything about and went back to working.

The next day, around the same time, I heard something get thrown into the bathtub. I'm half wondering if this time I'll actually find something or it will be another mystery sound- and I find my makeup case thrown from a shelf into the bathtub. No reason. I put it back and again add it to my mental list of things I can't explain and just have to accept happened. Third day, around the same time, I again hear a sound in the same area of the hallway, just outside the bathroom door, but this time it sounds like something plastic got dropped. I rush over, worried that something like my live crickets or isopods got flung (and subsequently LOOSE) in my apartment- but again, nothing out of place.

At this point, it's become a daily thing at around the same time. Was their a reason this started? Are they upset I'm moving? Whatever the reason, on the fourth day I've notice the trend of something weird happening in the hallway behind my desk around the same time. Today, the fourth day, I was holding my baby girl.

Scoria is sweeter than pie and she lives to play, explore, and love her family. Absolute sweetheart. She was wandering about in my arms, but then stopped and started staring into the empty hallway. She periscoped up, just staring, and I couldn't see anything! Then she hooded up bigger than I'd ever seen her hood before, like something scary was there and she was trying to intimidate it. There was nothing new in the hallway, again, it was pretty empty since most things had been packed away for the upcoming move, so it wasn't as though she were misidentifying something unknown. Whatever she saw, this tiny little gummyworm thought was dangerous- and she was going to protect us.

Thinking back to the prior three days of things I couldn't explain, and the possibility of ghosts in my mind, I honestly wonder if she saw someone I couldn't. And what the heck do you do in that moment? I did the only thing I could think to- I talked calmly to her, asking her what she saw, and what was wrong? After a few more moments she relaxed, her hood melted down, and she looked at me as if to say, "Everything is okay now Mom."

And the weird things in that apartment completely stopped through to the day we moved. I honestly wonder if my girl scared a ghost? Experience with the paranormal has taught me that most ghosts use to be people, and the beliefs and fears they had in life go with them into the afterlife. So if whatever was in my apartment use to be a person afraid of snakes, well now they were a ghost afraid of snakes. Even little teenie tiny gummyworm snakes. There's a surprisingly high number of people afraid of friendly little gummyworm snakes. And I guess this ghost was one of them!

I certainly appreciate my baby girl squaring off with this thing I couldn't see or do anything about. Somehow she could? I guess? And she was my brave little girl, who would protect her family from whatever scary thing she saw. This is just one of so many reasons I love her more than words could ever express.

( @yeetntve you liked my other post so I tag u so u can see the story.)

[lvnarsapphic]

I say all this but I still do take pride in my Islamic upbringing and have used many of its values to kind of inform how I approach people and the world. Which kind of makes this whole thing worse because!!! So many religions and governments fucking hates Muslims!!!! We even hate ourselves because we started forming sects!!! Literally one of the foremost forbidden things the Prophet and the first Caliphates said NOT to do after their death!! Yet we can't talk about dismantling religion without also including Judaism and Islam, two very persecuted religions, but in such a way as to not contribute to white supremacy and fascism or the half dozen other chud groups or ideologies or countries that want us dead.

Do you see my issue? I do genuinely believe we need to remove religion from the world but I don't know how to currently conceptualize religious-based persecution within that belief. So the belief in removing religion from the world gets pushed to wayside in favor of wanting to protect religious minorities.

[cuteniarose]

Me: *creates an OC*

Me: *heavily implies OC will meet a bad fate*

OC: *meets bad fate*

Me:

(Alternatively, I may have started it, but @katkastrofa enabled me and now I’m losing my mind)

[bearyyayay]

What if Tommy had different personality? Perhaps a personality like Sam, cold and ruthless. Well since I'm too curious, and my motivation and imagination came back, I decided to draw Tom :D

Now black butterfly is a represent death ( at least that's what Google said ) so since he killed 5 important people trough out the game, I added the butterflies :D

Without the bottom text thingy

I hope you like it 😎