#my favourite Struggler

[styllwaters]

This has been sitting in my drafts for long enough and I haven't properly introduced her so here's my girl Lanh. Second protagonist of Vivere 44 (after Vreaz) and second generation Posthuman, first gens like Kota were originally from Earth but Lanh was born on Hanidias. As a result she's heavily entrenched in Arrow culture and is an enthusiastic fan of Arrow skyracing.

She struggles to keep up with her Posthuman peers due to a damaged node disorder that prevents her from being able to split her consciousness multiple ways. She is doing her best though

[b0tsbby]

“Trigun 1998”❌

“Meryl surviving long enough to get a promotion”✅

[which-hospital]

every friend group got the paramedic, the paramedic, the paramedic, the paramedic, the paramedic, the paramedic, the paramedic, the para

[trashbatistrash]

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[revacholianpizzaagenda]

97 Poets of Revachol pics!

HERE THEY ARE, courtesy of the event's official photographer, Zuzana Šubrtová. The Elysium-based LARP took place in two runs in Terezín, Czech Republic, in the latter half of September. These are from the second run!

I can't possibly describe what it was like to inhabit the rundown tenement of La Cage with more than a hundred other players, bringing to life a whole slice of society: immigrants, barflies, petanque players, sewer people, Union gang members, Wild Pines mercs, disco people, sewer people, looters, street artists, an inevitable mass of fascists, anarchists, communards (or so I'm told), communards (proper), communards (it's complicated), councilmembers, hustlers, taxidermy enthusiasts, the also-inevitable mass of pale-fried strugglers, journalists, Moralintern creeps, RCM chucklefucks, and so on and so forth. The old military hospital burst to life with small human moments and grand revelations happening in every corner at all time, as the gears of history moved toward our inevitable trial run of Le Retour.

We really had it all. Politics, drugs, creeping mold, more drugs, unseen voices steering us toward our best and worst natures, a metaphysical rave, entroponetic anomalies, precognition (scripted), precognition (just kind of happened?? Several times over?), suzerainist coffin deliveries, sweatshop politics, old reckonings, radiant sacrifices (accidental-ish), three-way divorces (one-upping one HDB), strikes and strike-breakers, political dance-offs and political orgies, and did I mention the drugs, under the greatness of history and the pale.

Thanks to the organizers for the colossal effort they pulled off like it was nbd, and to all my fellow dwellers of La Cage.

A few favourites:

First off, this was basically the entirety of my game:

...with a central heartrending tension between that abandon, that 'something beautiful is going to happen', and my character's earthly loves, the family she loved so much. It was really really fascinating and emotionally moving to get to play out that central conundrum in full (and go die on the barricades for an independent Revachol following the push of History) (and also of Franconegro pulling my strings like a marionette in a chilling scene) (but mostly History)

Case in point: me in the back, the Unseen voice/spirit/skill "Doomsayer" to the left, dear husband Tai in the middle. Sorry Tai!

Moralintern mission

Sweatshop workers strike

Both sides of the barricades, right as the game ended (this is not a spoiler, it said up front on the website that that's where the story would end): independentists (feat. His Fuckery Franconegro with the black wings in the background, but also the Unseen of if it sucks hit da bricks, the street martyr and idk who else) and globalists (Dolores Dei, Doomsayer et al)

speaking of those two - here's them in full rave regalia. I love that two of the collective skills of this place are flat-out "Dolores Dei" and "Franconegro", it's so fitting. Can't have current society without them, so here they are, as a molecular part of it.

RCM peeps predictably being serious, professional individuals

Designer drug guy talking to Corrosion who's kind of the local version of Electrochemistry. I'm sure this was a completely hinged conversation that reached sensible conclusions

Wild Pines mercs +1

Disco downtime. The set design for The Bearded Vulture club and The Second Club was out of this world. I hope my own pics can convey some of it.

sweatshop power dynamics (there were accidents, Union leverage, strikes, corruption... you'd think there would be barely time for anything else to go on AND YET)

possibly my fave pic of the whole thing (go Doomsayer!!!). we had specific graffitable areas on the wall and made VERY good use of them. Well, everyone else. My character wasn't much of a graffiti artist, her greatest contribution was turning "Revachol for revacholians" into "Revachol for mold"...

LARP^2

fascist campaigning at the Democracy Picnic

Petanque club...

...actually playing petanque? I never saw them ingame, I was starting to wonder if it wasn't a front for something else

Pictured - no scheming, plotting or quadruple-crossing here as you can clearly see by "Kras Knezhinisky"'s super normal demeanour and unassuming name, which I can totally believe was on his legit birth certificate)

I mention Kras because here's the theatrical taxidermy show with him in the middle narrating the adventures of his antifascist ferret Kommissar Kunixet. Nice pic, I take the shot. Five seconds later, superstar Frittte clerk Jamie Delaney joins in, and what can I do, NOT have Jamie in a shot? Absolutely not, so I take the same exact shot with Jamie in it as well.

And by sheer twist of technology (and of course the pale, and of course vile censorship in defiance of the Romangorod convention)... Kras Knezhinsky of all people gets kommissar-no-kommissar'd. "Kras, the pale is erasing you from our memories, from images," I warn him, showing him the two pictures. One hour later, he gets taken behind the waste disposal facility and shot.

Hm.

(LARP's haunted. These things KEPT HAPPENING. In the first run, that version of my character went "YOU MURDERER" at the specific merc who'd turn out to be connected with her background, a couple of hours before getting that reveal in-game. What's Elysium without some good old-fashioned precognition after all!)

Poor Flowerseller (red dress here) was kind of my Empathy - many valiant attemps were made, however. Uphill struggle.

HARDCORE anodic club leader Konrad Nilsen doing something not so hardcore here, idk what was going on exactly but then again I never even noticed we had a morgue and I had a plot right next room, so what do I know. I know that the end is near. That much for sure. And that the resolution of history's contradictions goes through the pale. But corpses? Nah.

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[starocide]

@muslimfish I'm glad you asked! Introducing the latest recurring triteragonist in this long-running series: a chronically employed man by the name of The Struggler with no will left to live. Here's an official image of him almost falling into a lava-filled ravine.

I fear I may or may not have acquired my first ever properly employed "blorbo".

[gayson-voorhees]

VIP (Very Important Prefect) collection

I’ve drawn more in the past few months than I did the entirety of last year.

These are in order and it's really funny to me to look at them and be like hey where did that artstyle come from??? this does not matter to any of you bc I never post art here so You can't tell. but this is nothing like the way I drew pre getting big into twst. I also used to struggle really heavily with drawing little things for fun?? Stuff akin to the blazing jewel thing, like I had to draw with the intention of drawing an entire thing or when I did do little stuff it was because I was really frustrated and couldn’t draw anything at all and had to try and force something out or I’d go insane. But now I’m skipping through a field of flowers under a rainbow. Art has become a real yippee activity. AND ITS ALL THAT STUPID CROW’S FAULT. Like yeh yeh I guess the way to get better at art really is to go insane about the character. Real tried and tested method. But I think this is the first time I’ve for real gotten better. My character interactions are better, their interactions with the world in general are better, my forms have more weight, I’m so much faster than I was before, I’m enjoying myself, I am simply no longer the struggler!!

I don't like the way my playful land one turned out and you can tell (Well I can tell) I was having problems with the face n stuff but it's important to me and I think that one shows more than anything else how my art changed. Very rapidly mind you. Also I like the outfit so I couldn’t just nooooot post it. My mental illness that says I must draw an outfit for every event also says i must post it actually. I have a couple more playful land/fellow stuff and HONESTLY I just need to redraw it all🧍‍♂️ I was struggling really bad with my art pre-twst and the first couple months of playing before the ability to draw again hit me like a train and so I look at the couple things I did manage to force my hands to comply with and I’m just clenching my fist bc I know I can do better.

The last one is the only for real wip on here and it’s also the one I’ve struggled the most with recently. Which is kinda antithetical to everything I’ve said about yay yippee art, but I tried to draw it and it pissed me off so bad I had to put it in the hell folder (the folder where I put things I’m so unhappy with I know they’re a dead end and I can’t look at them anymore but they’re also important to understand what I’ve done wrong so I can’t delete them) which is the first hell folder use this year! I was like “this isn’t working. what if I just made it into this instead” and then it looked bad and I was unhappy with it and it’s just not what I wanted, but thats because I had fallen into my old ways of not using my lines and simple shapes properly and getting really frustrated while drawing and trying to force it. I went back the next day new canvas and redid it from scratch perfectly first try and it’s perhaps my most favourite thing I’ve ever drawn. And I will finish it. Trust🫡 There’s a first time for everything!!!! It’s too nice and silly and cute to just leave collecting dust. Maybe I’ll even colour it oooooo

Ok What else do I have in my files.. I’ve got a second Crowley wip that I didn’t want to post bc I’ve not drawn clothes yet and it looks.hm. without them. but I’m putting off finishing it bc drawing them is going to drive me insane- and I’m having some pose problems with an arm in it and you know I’m gonna finish it at some point but I need to sit on it for a bit. BUT. it’s cute. so here’s the last screenshot if took of it.

[feketeribizli]

me and my sisters ability to choose absolute strugglers for our favourite driver should be studied

[noodleblade]

🔪, 🏜️ & 🪲?

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 thank you:3

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

UHHHHH hmmmm that's a hard one. I forget a lot of my older fics which I'm sure had some nonsense. Recently aside from my horrible magnet research probably different historical methods dissection/mortuary care practices combined with a interior struggler of military vehicles. You know, normal transformers research. Nothing too crazy actually.

🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

(stealing from a previous ask)

Mmmmmm I quite like when people copy and paste their favorite parts?? its a nice way to know what parts of my writing they enjoyed the most, especially like the actual language? <3

🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here

(sdkfnjkenfdqejkwdnkqefkd THANK YOU FOR JUMPSTARTING MY WRITING LUNCH BREAK <3333. I take your challenge and apparently double it. A tiny snippet of a soundstar competency kink fic I've been toying with...)

It got worse. Now, Starscream’s flirting was a pointed effort. He was bolder with his actions, demonstrative and daring. A servo on Soundwave’s arm here, a leaned in whisper to spymaster there. The worst part in observing this was not so much Starscream- though the very sight caused burning rage in Megatron’s spark. No. The worst offender came from Soundwave’s compliance. To the untrained optic, it would appear that Soundwave was indifferent to the horrific and occasionally lewd display of Starscream’s interest, but the very allowance of the touch, the close proximity, the saccharine words- all Megatron could see was mutual interest. He would have to put a stop to this at once. Not just because the very notion of Starscream getting what he wanted caused Megatron’s hackles to rise but…Soundwave was quite dear to him and it was finally his turn to repay all those years of loyalty by making sure his friend did not go down a path he would inevitably regret.

[mamawasatesttube]

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🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it

i have to pick one (1) favorite?????? just one????? just one?!?!?! ...ok well. i couldnt pick just one i narrowed it down to three but i am the struggler. anyways i Adore this pic of kon in a pretty dress by nik for my birthday last year (it has been my lock screen since last year). he is so prettyyyyy and also so gender and yaaayyyy

also, i am never ever ever ever getting over beckett's sotm ch5 comic with kon & krypto over the pacific at night. holy mother of god. it is so gorgeous and captures the scene so so so perfectly. aough

and then finally grays supernova kon with a big beautiful ponytail has been rotating in my mind for weeks. ive always abstractly liked long hair kon but this image altered my brain chemistry i think. next time i describe older kon with long hair please know this is what i mean

i almost went "wait and also--" and added a fourth but ill stop here. im being so brave about this btw

🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

answered here!

🦋 ⇢ share something that has been on your heart and mind lately 

immediately went no thoughts head empty and forgot literally everything thats ever occurred to me when i saw this. um

[5 full minutes later]

well i guess heres one. ive been feeling like im stuck in permanent waiting mode wrt my actual life lately, like im just passing time and treading water until i can get back to being a Real Person who's "allowed" to do more stuff/put down roots/have more of a life (i.e. having to put a lot of things on hold for disability reasons the past few years kinda fucked with my head and now i feel like im just playing catch-up), but in recent weeks i've Finally figured out, like, what i want to go to grad school for, so i can start planning for it properly, and that in and of itself (having a direction) feels like such a huge weight off my chest. which is very nice!

[sillybond]

I feel like, I need to express myself a bit because there's an emotional bomb right inside me and It's tiking very fast!

Might get a bit cringy lol

Adventure Time brought many thimgs to my life. It has made me think, laugh, love, cry and adore all about it, the characters, story, the world, the art, the creators, everything! But the singular best thing about it has been the lessons it has taught me. I'm the same age as Finn was is CAWM I ended the show alongside him and, (despite not having been through quite the traumatic mind boggeling adventures as he has) I have learn a lot by seeing him and the people around him.

There's a lot of experiences that the whole AT cast have gone trough. Each one might affects people differently. Maybe you relate with Finn and Marcy for their strugglers with their fathers. Maybe you see yourself in Bonny, with her over controling-work focused mindset. Perhaps it's in Huntress Wizard and her inability to open to other people. Whatever it is, we all have at least a bit of thoose problems in ourselves. Thoose are our battles to fight for.

But once thing that stands above all and gives meaning to fighting thoose problems is the simple fact that whever, whenever or whoever you are your life is worth living.

And THAT is the key. We've seen time and time again how characters break down, have fights, loose people or whatever but what keeps them going is that they know their lives are not only worth living, but fulfilling pieces in a gigantic puzzle formed by all, moved by all forms of life, that they exist to love, to love others and to love life above everything else.

That IS the lesson. Yes! your life my life is worht living! Just because you are alive.

I belive that nihilism is a natural force inside of us. To ask ourselves the big questions (i.e. what is my porpuse, why am I here etc) and then realize that nothing that we respond will matter, cause nothing matters!!! I know captain obvious right here. But it does'nt have to matter to be meaningfull. Love is an end in it of itself, LIfe is and end in it of itself. You aren't alive to do anything in particular. My personal belife is that Life shouldn't be seen as a tool to acomplish anything (because again, nothing that you get will matter), life is tool to get itself. I'm not telling you to do nothing or not help people or don't do what you are passionate about. It's the oposite. I'm telling you to do all that, beacuse it's not only your life but it has meaning just beacuse it exists. As long as you are alive you should persue yourself , search for your life and love every part of the journey, even if it's bad. The trip is infinite, but beautiful and full of wonder and terrible and distraughtful at the same time. But loving it is the key and it doesn't matter it's all worth it cause YOU ARE ALIVE!!!

I'm getting kind of worked out, but I think you get my point.

Every time I think about this I remember both Astral Plane and The Comet. Two of my favourite episodes. In 22 minutes it sumarises everything that I've just talked about.

Previous to those episodes I ditached myself from everything in my life, pretty much. And I just wanted to go to Ooo beacuse it felt like it had a meaning, and there's was cool magic and everything. I'm sure some of you might have had a similar feeling.

But after thoose it made me realise that, no, that wasn't the point. Adventure time wasn't created so you could get hunged up on it and just wish everything was magical, (just like Fionna!!) AT exist so you can realise something much greater the same thing Finn realized when he pondered his existance.

In both episodes Finn choose to live. He saw the world around him, he saw pain, regret, beauty and in the end he choose his life, everything that he had experienced. It would have been so easy for Finn to go with the Catalist Comet and disapear. He wasn't in a good place. Everything had seemeangly gone to crap. He lost his arm, father, girlfriend. But even then he choose the pain rather than being detached forever. He has seen life and death, he has been the reincarnation of both thoose things. He choose life because it was simply worth living.

In a cold, dark universe life shines a glimps of light, a speck that lasts for a blink of an eye, even if it doesn't last it's worth experiencing it and protecting it.

Fionna understud this. Fionna was like me, wishing for her life to be different. But in the end. She saw that that wasn't the point. Finn would have choosen his reaity even if it was non-magical, or better, or worse than what it was, that doesn't matter. What matters is that you love where you are. Finn does, Fionna finaly learned that two. It's a long journey, but it has to be started. And I thank Adventure Time, the crew, characters and everything for this oportunity. To see life in a new light. To make the active choice to live and love and trust and die happily, because if I could be in any alternative universes I wouldn't wish to be anywhere else but in this one.

Thank you adventure time, you taught me to live again.

[wildtornado-o]

Granby & Forthing for the blorbo bingo :D

Granby!! My belovedest Granby my beloved favourite character. So dear. So lovely. So struggler.

I fear he is in fact cursed by the narrative to have everything bad happen to him and he Will complain about it the whole time <3

We could have crazy conversations tbh. <- sharing stories of our godforsaken misfortunes

Bingo for Forthing!! (Kind of. I am not immune to changing the bingo sheets) second belovedest....

You know my thoughts on this man. Shaking him around and chewing on him like a dog. He drives me insane and I am obsessed with him forever and ever . If you get me to talk about him I will not shut up and quickly descend into madness. This is my guy.

I think he'd feel pity on me and that is why we would get along. Friendship through sympathy djssj

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[duskoon]

Hi! :D

Just want to say , I LOVE YOUR BERSERK WRITING VERY MUCH. I can't help but be so happy that there is another person who also knows it.

It's okay if you against it but can you make Platonic Yandere! Guts with Female!Y/n who is like an childhood friend and pretty much the only person that showed him affection?

Well. Hello there :D

I am thankful for your kind words, really it warms my heart that people appreciate my writing in spite of me taking, figuratively, a century to publish my works. I don’t blame ya. Yandere writings, let alone general writing, for Berserk is pretty underrepresented.

Berserk is one of my favourite, if not my personal favourite, series. The panel arts are so 👌, and it’s thematics is what initially hooked me up. Sorry for nerding up but consider your request in my list, fellow struggler 😉.

[valer203]

Chapter 5-Part 2

…and missed? The Pyromaniac moved at the moment of the shot! -Hohoho what do we have here? Another struggler. Did you not know that the guns create an explosion of fire when they shoot? -Shit of course you have awareness of that too. -I think you would be better off without it.-The Pyromaniac flicked his hand and the gun exploded. Was it not for Detective's fast thinking and him throwing the gun away in the last moment it would have exploded in his hand leaving him with severe burns. -Dude that's my favourite gun! What the hell man?! -You still cling to material things. It will all burn anyway! Meanwhile the Gardener was busy dealing with the fire and the Shadow was busy panicking. -Shit shit shit shit this idiot is gonna get himself killed! What do i do? What do i do? Wait a minute.-The Shadow remembered Detective's remark about her melding in the shadows during her first use of her "Void" Gift.-This can work.-She slipped into the shadow of the nearest infected running towards the Pyromaniac. The shadow was pretty weak since the entire area was on fire and it felt like holding on to the steed that wants to shake you off but the Gardener was using the distraction to put away some of the fire making it manageable. Meanwhile the Detective was aware of this trick and was trying to distract the Pyromaniac. -Damn and i was starting to think i was a bit crazy but no. Here we have this maniac burning everything and thinking he's doing the right thing. Let me guess the outbreak caught you in a psych ward or something. -Keep talking heathen and you'll get burned next. These godless idiots couldn't recognise that i've heard the voice of God! It told me to burn this cursed world to the ground and now it gave me the opportunity to do so! Tell me how can it not be the God's will?! -All i see is your insane fixation on fire and religious delusions dude. I would have told you to go get help but i don't know if anyone can help you anymore. -Be it your way heathen.-The Pyromaniac briefly stopped to completely incinerate the burning infected that was running at him without even looking in his direction. And that was his mistake.-Now burn in holy fi…-The knife to the back of the head from the Shadow instantly silenced the Pyromaniac putting an end to his mad quest.

[idc4987]

Now Christmas has never been my favourite time of year. It has never been celebrated well in my family's house, it always meant a bucket load of stress, seasonal depression and some 2 week long argument between my parents and snide comments at every meal time. But I know Christmas can be a difficult time of year for a lot of people for so many reasons so to all my fellow Christmas time strugglers, I hope you all get a chance to enjoy the time you have off from work or school and appreciate all the effort you've put into your life this year ❤

[xienst]

dorm knitting competition: GENDER DORM <3 my fav [knitting skill: 6/10] they're pretty decent! tetora can't knit. HiMERU is shaming us;-; why is he like this

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