#moss rambling tag

[dragonpaint]

on the other hand, this shitstorm is giving me more reason to finally go to doctor's to start my transition

[emerald-cloud23]

If anyone has any kind of content with Cole and Lloyd doing stuff together please let me know. Always happy to encounter things of my favorite and my comfort doing stuff together👍

[eternal-moss]

Thank you Ryoko Kui

I don’t think I’ve ever been so enthralled by any mangaka’s art so much before like Ryoko Kui. It’s so fundamentally attractive to me, I can’t stop gawking at it. The way she draws animals just exudes this feeling of deep love and appreciation, and the same goes for her human drawings too. Her niche stylistic choices are what I’ve been waiting for for years, I’ve been trying to draw better noses while staying simplistic/stylised and then Dungeon Meshi comes along.

I feel so inspired with my art, in a way that I haven’t felt in years, I just wish I could thank her in person. I haven’t been so inspired since like. Lauren Marx I think, and her drawings of animals in Sacred Decay. Love it so much, it really informed how I draw animals in my semi-realism style, and just creative inspiration too.

I’m nowhere near as good as these two, and I don’t think I can be without the serious dedication they have to art, but I don’t feel intimidated by their clear understanding of lining, form, atmosphere and colour, I just feel so pumped and excited. Look at what is possible with the human hand and heart!! I think I’ve spent too long in fandoms where everyone just draws thin pallid men making out with each other, I’m so damn tired of the same body types and tropes.

This! This is what makes me feel genuinely alive, and I’m not exaggerating. I haven’t drawn properly in so long, I feel like I was a withered plant that has finally, finally been watered lol.

I love the art of Dungeon Meshi, and the love that clearly is behind it, and drives both the art and story. I think the thing that made me want to write this post is this specific drawing that made me tear up a bit

Look at this!! Baby orcs have light stripes on their backs!!! Just like the natural phenomenon of forest dwelling animal young having dappled/striped backs, so that they can be less easily noticed by predators with light through the canopies. Ryoko Kui doesn’t just randomly implement design choices for her fantasy concepts but thinks them through.

Deer and wild boar have these features in real life, but as demi-humans, orcs also have culture surrounding this. How is it perceived in society? What sort of attitudes would this create? She’s clearly thought so in depth into so much of the world building and I love it so much. Orcs were originally surface dwelling beings, but were forced underground by other peoples, and this is shown by the fact that they still have this evolutionary trait!!

Anyway there’s so much more that I could say- about the story, themes of non romantic love and depiction of discrimination, and all the other countless things touched on through the characters. But oh my gosh. I love Dungeon Meshi!

[magnapanther]

FINISHED WORK?? on MY page??? it's far less likely than you'd think. and yet, somehow, here we are. :D

(well, finished enough to post and call "done", i should say. i may yet meddle with some details when i inevitably notice ten more flaws immediately after posting :D)

good old moss knight, such a devout follower of big slug. surely no wandering knight would ever end such a noble creature's life before he had the chance to speak with a certain fellow at a nearby bench! :D

this was essentially just me testing the waters with digital after some time avoiding it, and especially colours/lighting. it's been a while since i actually tried to make something fully fleshed out like this. i don't know, i feel like it could have come out worse :)

[oobbbear]

It took me years to have the fandom side my brain and the original work side of my brain not fight, they’re always trying to kill each other

[cactusnymph]

@jadeandquartzes tagged me :D thank you jade <333

Rules: Go to your (current/main) AO3 account and find the following:

What ratings do you write most of your fics under?

I currently have 108 works on Ao3, 61 of which are rated T! And then 31 for G, 10 for E and 6 for M.

What are your top three fandoms?

Critical Role (40), Dimension 20 (21) and Baldur's Gate 3 (16).

What is the top character you write about?

Beau and Dorian (CR) both hold first place at 15 works total, and then Molly and Caleb are on place 2 with 13 fics each. And Jester with 11 is in third place. This is all going to be very CR heavy because nothing made my creative juices go like campaign 2 back in the very beginning 🤣

What are your top three pairings?

Ashton/Dorian is 1st place (8 works total) which cracks me up because it's such a weird rarepair :'D Molly/Caleb are directly behind that in 2nd place with 7 works total. And then third place is shared between Beau & Caleb, the Mighty Nein, and Wyll/Astarion/Karlach.

What are the top three additional tags?

Mutual Pining, First Kiss and Emotional Hurt/Comfort. Yeah. That checks out :'D

Does any of this surprise you?

Dorian/Ashton being my most written ship does surprise me, the other things not at all :'D

Tagging @calicostorms @curiouslavellan @raziraphale @rzepi @damienthepious

and @amethystviolist

(no pressure if you dont wanna :D)

[wayfayrr]

Honestly you're fine that anon is just mad I like seeing you pop up plus new content is always a good thing you have a great day/night and don't let others rain on your parade!

Yeah I'm just confused on what they're mad about really, if they don't like seeing me they could just block me yk?

but it's nice to know that most people seem to not think like that thank you!!! and I hope you're having a great day/night too! <3

[omegamoo]

mutuals im doing this to you

[and-then-the-trash]

i think one of the things i liked about Everything's Gonna Be Okay was that it didn't make Matilda's or any of the other characters' autism into something for them to overcome as a plot point. lemme explain..

i was thinking about this just now when i was scrolling through AppleTV's "Access for All" collection, which is essentially an attempt to promote disability advocacy and inclusion by showing off movies and TV show episodes with disability representation. the existence of the collection is cool and all, and I'm sure plenty of the things in it have the potential to be good (though I've not seen most of them). but what got me thinking was the "Activists & Game Changers" section of the collection, which looked to mainly be the types of movies and documentaries that turn disability into something "inspiring" that someone "overcame" in order to do some extraordinary thing. and this is not to say that these people don't deserve credit for the challenges and perseverance of these feats, but it got me thinking about how that's not always the disability rep that i want.

cuz im sitting here knocked out by some sort of shitty cold that i got from the rest of my family, which for me means that my hips and back ache a little more than normal, I'm even more fatigued than usual, and i can't breathe too deeply without going into a coughing fit. the fact that it's mainly a respiratory illness sucks for me bc i already have asthma so this has a fair chance of being worse for me than it was for the rest of my family.

basically, i feel like shit, and sometimes i want disability rep where characters feel like shit. where characters have bad days where they have to recline or lie down for a lot of it bc of being in pain. where characters aren't overcoming their disability, but accommodating for it.

and this somehow made me think about Everything's Gonna Be Okay, and specifically S1E10 Discoid Cockroaches (spoiler warning for the episode). this is the episode where Matilda's teacher tells Nicholas that it isn't feasible for Matilda to attend Juliard, which is her dream school. Matilda isn't at a point where she can live and navigate alone in a place like New York City. upset and insulted by this, Nicholas takes the family on a trip to NYC in an attempt to prove the teacher wrong and prepare Matilda to live in the city, but by the end of the episode it is clear that, though she has now successfully ridden the subway alone, Matilda just isn't ready to face the daily challenges that city life would present her with.

the episode is sort of heartbreaking, especially with how much build-up there was for Matilda auditioning and getting into Juliard in the first place. not being able to attend is understandably devastating for Matilda. but that's why i like the episode so much.

Matilda doesn't "overcome" her autism. she doesn't prove that ableist, doubtful people were wrong about her (not that the teacher was ableis. she was a good character who had worked with Matilda and her peers for a while and knew them well. she was a professional trying to prepare Nicholas and Matilda and give them appropriate expectations). she DOES succeed in riding the subway and navigating the city alone, but her and her family come to the reasonable conclusion that that alone isn't enough. she grows, yes, but the fact is that her autism does and will limit her. so they accommodate. they change plans, and accept reality for what it is.

because disability isn't always about changing your circumstances or proving people wrong. sometimes it's about being tired, or being in pain, or being otherwise inhibited in life. sometimes it's about learning to cope with a situation that can't be changed, or at least wont be changed soon. i don't want to see "inspiring" disabled people "overcoming the odds" as my representation, i just want to see disabled people being disabled, and the good and bad that comes with it.

so yeah, Everything's Gonna Be Okay is good rep because it isn't afraid to say "no, this disabled character can't Do The Thing, and that's a-okay". cuz yeah, some of us will be able to Do The Thing, but those of us that can't deserve the same kind of representation as anyone else.

[chrometheraptor]

giving my issues to my ocs <333333333

[ashtcnirwin]

🌻

[dragonpaint]

incoherent talking under the cut bc i need to get this out of myself somewhere and i dont really want to talk directly to friends about it. im not really on earth while typing this so nothing makes sense, today has been a hard day

i dont want to talk about this directly to any of my friends bc there's nothing they can say to make feel better without also burdening the hell out of them given that they also got a shitton going on in their lives (also one of them doesn't know im trans even tho ive tried telling them twice but i they don't remember bc both of times i tried telling them, we got really fuckin wasted, which is only times i feel stupid brave enough to come out lol)

as much as my current family situation hurts, it is also giving me the courage to stop worrying what others think of me (including them) and be myself more and more.

i have been worrying so much about what others think of me and hiding and suppressing it, i barely know who i really am. who i am because of expectations versus who i really am.

im so tired, i wanted to say more but i just cant formulate normal sentences without, idk, vagueness. im reading this back and i see it doesnt make sense to me but i need to post this because i cant keep this bottled up after weeks of pretending it's fine.

fighting myself from overshading vs not wanting to say a thing and bottling it up aaaaaaaa

[mossarchives]

Im gonna be writing little drabbles for Veiltober to keep my sanity until the game comes out so,,, might post those here I havent posted any writing in a while!

[eternal-moss]

waaaaaaaaa this is the best Genshin update ever. I have so many thoughts. The family stuff… god I’m predictable but I loved it so so much. Xianyun :( her proud smile of Gaming…

DONT even get me started about Hu Tao Zhongli and Xiao. I’m actually in shambles. Of course Zhongli’s silly kite metaphor about looking after your children did nothing to me. Nothing in the slightest.

Uuuuuuuuuuuauauauuauauaurrrfggghh.

I’m running on 4 hours of sleep and I’ve done 2 exams today so my brain isn’t in the capacity to write some lovely prose or any coherent analysis about the event so far but god. Xianyun’s demo is the 2nd best, but her story quest was the best, Chenyu vale is the best region in the game, the best event and the best version. I feel so aauaiuauauuuu

Gaming. Gaming. My son. My son. Shenhe my lovely eccentric daughter. I laughed so hard at that part my dad thought I was crying from downstairs and I had to explain the plot to him. I’ve never actually laughed at any of the Genshin jokes before out loud but oh my gosh it was hilarious. Ganyu fixing her hair ☹️ So older sister I actually cannot. Ganyu’s capacity as an older sister is so relatable I love first born daughter characters (totally not biased in any way). Xiao……….. Hu Tao :(((( I cannot cannot cannot with those three. SILLY OLD DRAGON. SILLY OLD CRANE.

The voice acting this version has been PHENOMENAL. I know some people think the English localisations for Gaming are a bit awkward (which I get. But I think it suits him. My cringey son.) but I love both the cn and en voicing. MY SONNNNNNNNNNNN. AUGH,.,’”*#’#’

Qiqi and Yaoyao :( golden finch :( Yaoyao Shenhe Ganyu Shuyu. XIANYUN SILLY OLD CRANE UEUEUEEEEE.

FamilyyyyYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Liyue harbour. Üuuuuuuuuuuuuü. I can’t I just cannooooot. And now with Xianyun’s descension. They are all together. A. A a. A. aa A. A.

Familial ties are one of the key things that drew me to Genshin. Art, culture, mythology, music, gameplay, lore and found family is genuinely what keeps me tied to this game. Emphasis on the damned found family. Xianyun of course calls them her disciples. BUT ZHONGLI STRAIGHT UP CALLED THEM HER DAUGHTERS.

I had to take a moment to calm down from that. There were a lot of moments when I had to do that. Ohhhhhhhhhhh iaaiaiaiiaiiiiiii

’Zhongli, you’re the same as ever.’ PAIMON. WUEGGEDICYGSDUG. YOU DONT GET IT. EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE AND YET. AND YET. HE REMAINS. HE STILL WATCHES AND STILL FLIES KITES IN THE TEMPERAMENTAL WIND.

[burgerking-drive-through]

wheres the beetle part in ur name come from?

“Oh! Well,

I’ve always liked beetles.

And when I first came here,

nobody really noticed me.

The one time I thought someone was talking to me, they were talking to the beetle next to me. And I realised how long it had been there without being noticed.

I became friends with the beetle after that. It listened more than the other cats. And I think it understood.

And, I don’t know, it just sort of felt right!”

[moonyistired]

waiting for some mods i like to update before i start my 1.6 perfection run (for real this time guys i promise-)

i'm making my farmer's favorite thing "moss"