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Page of Pentacles compulsory heterosexuality: she was very bad at it
When you want to run away to sea but you also want to take all your books with you.
#tarot#page of pentacles#my idea of escapism#when a library is also a submarine#retro cool captain vibe#conversations with imaginary sisters#sea hag love#sea witch craft#my art#also other people's art
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BG3 is really testing me because my natural inclination in all situations is to be like "well, i think you should do what is best for you :-) <3" and then my companions are inevitably like "i want to kill an angel" "i want to ascend to godhood" "i want to become the most evil vampire in the world" like can we take it down a notch . please
#astarion's like 'i have escaped the torment nexus and now it is time to make a new life... by building a torment nexus of my very own 😁'#and i'm over here swiping the idea away like he's a cat that stole some cheese. NO! BAD! PUT IT DOWN!#trying to rehabilitate him like a mangy shelter cat and my GOD is he making it difficult#bg3#be shh now
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seeing things
#thinking about how ragnvaldr lost a partner and a child...and gets other two. inch resting. i'm sure he has no mental illness about it all#fear and hunger#funger#ragnvaldr#the girl#enki#no idea how to tw this#tw blood#comic#digital art#fanart#rabisco#escape au#enkivaldr#via “i think of you as my dead wife”
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idea!
more in op tags for those that see this post reblogged (unless reblogger included the ideatags)
#alan becker#animator vs animation#ava#ava tco#ava the chosen one#ava tsc#ava the second coming#ava yellow#OKAY tagsplaining time#so basically my idea was that tco was unaware that he was in rocketcorp#and also unaware that hes being watched and/or kept an eye on via the box#victim purposefully made sure chosen doesnt see the box's door open#keeping chosen unaware of whats outside or the fact he could escape at any moment if he was quick enough to run through that door#(even though hed most likely get paused again before he could go anywhere else)#because if chosen knew there was a way to get out it was most likely that he would just. want to leave and not cooperate more#but since he DOESNT know... sure he still wants to leave but to him there is seemingly no way out and the only other thing there is victim#sure the box door opened when victim got the memory scanner but then again tcos face was on the floor or something (view the box 12:45)#so he wouldnt be able to see that#hed hear something yeah but the box's door barely makes a noise so its prooobably unlikely tco would think that a door just opened#this idea is so so fun teeheehee#lilacsart
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for me personally‚ the flashlight in the museum (that Armand had stolen from the guard) represented her hope/dream (to be seen, to belong, to find home)‚ happiness (Madeleine)‚ and Claudia herself.
#yes this whole gifset is based on that one flashlight scene#interview with the vampire#claudia de pointe du lac#madeleine#claudeleine#armand#vampterview#iwtv#tvedit#iwtvedit#*gif#vampchives#iwtv meta#cw body horror#cw blood#flashing gif#flickering gif#iwtv spoilers#armand gave her hope then snatched it away. he took her happiness. her life. that house was full of snakes 🔨🔨🔨#and yes that is the gatsby's green light#armand's gif beside sun claudia. that's black hole btw. not sure how clear my idea is#“a black hole is an astronomical object with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing not even light can escape it.”#if you're looking for coloring consistency. look other the way
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Your reflection, your bitter deception / Setting you free A Series of Small Offerings - IV/6 - day38
#not the most original thing ever but i had this idea of escaping your self through a mirror as it shatters#because your reflection no longer exists so cannot hold you back or something#i don't know it wasn't really a fleshed out idea just somehow made sense in my head for the lyrics#a series of small offerings#man i missed putting that tag under posts so much#i know it is a bit sloppy but i don't care it felt good to do it#sleep token#sleep token fanart#vessel fanart#levynn tries to draw#vessel#vessel i#sleep token i#i sleep token
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day 18 - sacrifice
#alek art#lego ninjago#ninjago#ninjago nya#nya smith#nyad#seabound#2024#this is a late entry so it *vaguely* counts but i had this idea in my mind and couldnt get it out#trying to escape art block oops#thinking of s3 v s14 finale parallels#'what is he doing?' + 'what is she doing?' and just the whole ice v water stuff#nya i love youu so much. i keep her bob cut in my design for her in the later seasons. i like the ponytail but i dont like drawing them oop#also this is water practice jfgfhr typing this at 4:30 am oops#ft kaImaar spear#anatomy kinda fucked i used no refs#artistic nudity#??? technically#ninjago inktober 2024#<- forgot that oops
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Hollow Escape AU
Chapter 1: Part 1/6
This is my first post in Tumblr and I'm not really experienced with making a comic so please don't attack me-
Next // Character Design
This is an AU where TSC ran away from Alan in the events of AVA IV. Meeting TCO earlier in the process.
This took a lot of courage for me to share and I hope you like it. If a lot of you people are interested, I might continue to post more about this AU and share more info. I already have the 3 Hollow Heads design so why not?
#animator vs animation#ava the second coming#ava the chosen one#ava comic#ava fanart#ava fandom#Ask me anything!#If someone already made this idea then sorry for unintentionally stealing it then!#My arts not that good lol.#achly arts#hollow escape au
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Diomedes being the first name ever spoken in Epic the Musical is enough for me.
#epic the musical#diomedes#odydio#epic the troy saga#epic: the musical#epic: the troy saga#the horse and the infant#that is why this song will forever be chef’s kiss imo#Diomedes Diomedes bestie for the restie 🥰#no tamer of people you don’t get to be mentioned first#ayyy my good Menelaus dw you’ll get the longest line cuz you’re the best#hey Teucer my friend you know I can always count on you with the shooting#Lil Ajax. DON’T. DO. ANYTHING. STUPID. JUST DON’T#Nestor. Cover Helen’s escape with your yapping#Neo…you do you#sorry Idomeneus you don’t fit in the rhyme guess we’ll have to find another time#I have no idea why I’m yapping here this is all too random
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Hey, what makes a character a 'plot device but not a character'? And how do you not do that? I'm trying to do it on purpose but also I need to still make them interesting because it's on purpose, yknow?
A good skill to pick up is to learn to criticise criticism itself. A "plot device" is simply a thing that moves the plot along, it's a neutral literary analysis term! Usually, when people are angry that "a character has been used as a plot device," it doesn't mean they hate plot devices. It means they're gesturing at something deeper.
Runningwind and Bumble are equally plot devices in their deaths. They are both killed by the antagonist to escalate political tension. Runningwind is rarely "accused" of just being a plot device, and yet, we're talking about Bumble for the same thing.
So, why?
Well, Runningwind is just a background character, but in life, he was a part of the community. He was characterized as impatient but responsible. Yet, he wasn't SO important that he died with a bunch of unresolved plot threads.
He is mostly an extension of the entity of ThunderClan. His killing by Tigerstar, and the fear and paranoia that settles on the group after this, feel like a progression of the story insteas of something forced.
Bumble, on the other hand...
Is hated immediately by Gray Wing, when she's established as Turtle Tail's friend. Bumble's abuse at Tom the Wifebeater's hands invites even MORE investment. The rejection is shocking and upsetting. There's a story there about our main characters being imperfect; jealous, bigoted, and judgemental.
But, she is simply killed off. Everything they set up for this character is gone with little personalized fanfare. It's not a tragedy with a lesson about cruelty, or something anyone regrets.
It's just... plot. Gray Wing whinging that no one will like his shitty brother now that his body count is 2.
More than that, in the discussion of women in particular, "Fridging" was coined to give a name to the way women characters often don't get their stories told at all. There is a CULTURAL trend of female characters facing disproportionate violence, for the sake of advancing male plots.
Bumble has a lot going for her. Petal had a lot going for her. Turtle Tail had a lot going for her. Bright Stream had a lot going for her. When they died, they took their potential with them.
It's not always wrong to kill off a character of high potential, mind you. In Gurren Lagann, Kamina's death is sudden and shocking, leaving a massive hole in the hearts of the cast that never heals. Grappling with that loss, but also letting his memory fuel them, is a major theme of that story.
All that to say... there's no formula for avoiding it. You've gotta identify what the deeper issue is, in your specific narrative.
I can't say for certain what that will look like for your story, but here's some things I keep in mind;
When you make characters who exist to die, make sure they're people before you axe them.
Ask yourself; what about them does the cast miss?
If they just miss them because they were (pre-existing relationship), go back to the drawing board.
Fluttering Bird as an example. Who was she? Dead sister. Why do they miss her? Dead sister. No traits until after her death.
Runningwind was short-tempered and helpful. Kamina was a valuable leader who made people believe in a brighter future. Swiftpaw was fiesty and desperate to prove himself. The better characterized, the more profound the loss usually is.
If this is a female character who is dying just to serve the plot, be aware of cultural bias and tropes. How is the gender ratio looking in your cast? Is this happening disproportionately with your girls?
Note how Quiet Rain's litter had both a boy and a girl, but the girl was chosen to be "weaker" and wither away.
And how most of the time in DOTC, whenever a man had to be upset, a girl would get killed for it.
If you ever feel like the character on the chopping block is NOT a full character, ask yourself why it needs to be a character at all. You don't need to spend narrative time building out someone when a literal object of high value might suffice.
"My sister died when I swore to protect her and I can't face my family" = Old. Tired. Ive seen this.
"I lost my heirloom sword when I swore to protect it and I can't face my family." = Fascinating. Why was the sword so valuable? Will they really not take you back? How did you lose it?
When you do kill off "high value" characters, try to make sure you're not leaving too many plot threads hanging. Or at least make a point of how they will never get closure.
#Bones gives advice#These questions can be hard for me to advise on because making characters is one of the easy parts for me.#It's more the “working them into a story without overwhelming it” part#But making characters that are fun and interesting has always come naturally to me as a writer.#I just work out some fun dialogue and fill in what their wants and desires would be based on backstory#And the rest kinda fills itself out as the message and themes of my narrative forms.#In fact the thing that makes BB so easy for me to work on is having an existing “story template” in mind#I don't have to chart out the long term events in advance because I do have a full picture of what leads where#And what I want to say with each rework.#I've always been told I'm really good at killing off characters though#Especially in my RP days. I remember I singlehandedly turned a pretty standard 'escape from evil lab' plot into--#--a painful story about loyalty and suffering. I was the main villain and the escapees knew he would never give up.#Because he loved their master and believed fully in the idea of 'sacrifice for the greater good.'#Always friendly. Passionate. Would have been a dedicated leader in a slightly different setting.#They knew he would never want to actually hurt them so they had to trick him into trying to “coral” them with his fire powers on ice#He didn't know it was ice and melted through#I guess the thing I do is just... make them cool lmao. It's hard to give advice on this#''Draw the rest of the owl 4head''
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tbh i do get a little bothered by the notion that tim took the first shot he had to drop out of school because he hated school and didnt wanna do it and all of that bc i feel like it ignores the probably very important context that he dropped out after his dad (as well as steph-or at least, he was led to believe, in the same week) died, also he was in a school shooting. He did attempt to go to a school in bludhaven but the kids there were so wildly insensitive about the shooting that tim dropped out under the pretense of his "uncle" homeschooling him. In his oyl era, he /did/ go back to school, and it provided him some form of normalcy. Tim was a normal kid, he wasnt crazy about school but he still went to school and it helped him feel like a normal kid, something he desperately clung to. He only dropped out again to do his Brucequest, in an era where he was notably Not Doing Well (which. Yeah. he wasnt doing well bc he was like 17 and almost everyone in his support system was dead, he recently had hits put out on him, got blown up, and backstabbed by his not-dead-ex, he couldnt support his theory that bruce was alive and was extremely stressed about that, and he didnt know wtf he was doing. I love him btw.) Basically tim dropping out of school was a signifier that he wasnt doing well and he was giving up on the normality that he tried to cling to and im a bit of a nitpicky person who gets irked by minor things
#robin 1993#tim drake#red robin 2009#rambles#Tim Drake wanted to cling to the idea of normal#Including going to school#School shooting mention#Tbh if all the shit that happened to tim happened to me id probably also drop out???#Like his sorta friend philmont got murdered at school#His friend darla got shot and he gave her corpse cpr (dw she came back as laura fell)#There was that one kid at brentwood who overdosed in meth i think that tim tried to save and couldnt#dc#Just things that i get bothered by a little bit????#This isnt crit aimed at anyone i literally just had too many thoughts and they had to escape#Tim Drake my beloved
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so what do we think fiddleford saw when he looked into the gremloblin's eyes? dude was so traumatised that stanford "oblivious to my assistant's emotional turmoil" pines took notice. it's what motivated him to INVENT THE MEMORY GUN IN THE FIRST PLACE. I'm honestly surprised i haven't seen more speculation about this
#what do we think is fiddleford's worst nightmare#I'll throw my hat in the ring and say it should be close to what actually happens to him. for maximum angst#maybe because he's away on work so often he's terrified of never seeing his family again. or his son forgetting who he is#and his response to that fear starts the chain of events destroys his family and changes him beyond recognition#because i love a good self-fulfilling prophecy#anyway please. share your ideas#tragedy enjoyers when a character's best efforts to escape their fate only leads them towards it#damn i just missed fiddleford friday#gravity falls#journal three#fiddleford mcgucket#ford pines#stanford pines#journal 3#da gremloblin#my favorite character#fiddleford...saturday?#:(#oh ig I'll tag#ford²#fiddauthor#cuz there's. potential there
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Wouldn't lizard fashion be something like spikes and scales and a frilled lizard collar?
Like so?
(Bonus art under the cut)
#thank you anon I've been wanting to draw proper lizard fashion for a while and this gave me the motivation I needed#dracula daily#re: dracula#dracula#lizard fashion#The colours I chose here make Drac look like Harry Du Bois - which is appropriate given how I tend to depict his personality in my shitpost#bonus under the cut featuring Dracula's Weed Smorking Girlfriends#personally I really like the theory that the three vampire women are actually dracula's wife and two daughters#since the book never actually calls them his wives and the two subordinate girls are specifically described as looking similar to him#the idea that he turned his family but is no longer capable of loving them (or being loved by them) adds a whole extra layer for me#because he still goes through the motions - goes out to get them food (babies) and provide for them/fulfil the role of a patriarch#but its hollow and loveless and done out of strange obligation/habit - like an echo of being alive#BUT for the sake of comedy I will always draw them as his three weed smorking girlfriends because it's just funnier#or rather as I like to think of them - his three weed smoking EX-girlfriends who spend all day making fun of him and and freeloading#I'm going to tag any art with them in it from here on out as#the ex-wives of dracula#he's going to england to escape their ridicule
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“It’s not that you don’t forgive others... it’s that you refuse to forgive yourself.”
Li Xiangyi / Li Lianhua - Mysterious Lotus Casebook, Ep. 40
#li lianhua#li xiangyi#mysterious lotus casebook#mlc#lian hua lou#lhl#not a day goes up that I'm not absolutely wrecked by the thought of that damn bird#it's so fascinating to me that these scenes exist side by side in the same same episode#like:#the left side shows that llh still blames himself for everything that happened in his youth#but the scene with the bird makes me think maybe he DOES forgive himself#unless the idea is that he can extend kindness and grace to OTHERS but not HIMSELF#(hence the quote I chose from the monk)#but a part of me wants to believe that we can maybe have our redemption cake AND our metanarrative cake#and deduce that llh is able to forgive himself to such an extreme that he escapes the entire narrative#he flies away (literally!!!) and is finally free....#back to my hidey hole shaking sobbing weeping over this fictional man
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i have begun to suspect that the question is not "where is zagreus" but rather "when is zagreus"
#i kinda rotated the idea in my brain a bit after chronos isekai'd melinoe to hades 1-era asphodel#and then i got to the third time fighting him + the flashback and like. hear me out ok#he notes that melinoe is capable of escaping his techniques. 'your brother was not so fortunate'#and it's obviously not identical but the way he freezes everyone in time is not dissimilar to what he does before sending melinoe back#and based on the state hades and hypnos are in i think it's possible that everyone has met a different fate relevant to their character#and that particular bit of pre-fight dialogue implies he could be in cosmic time-out somewhen#how does this all get resolved? who knows!#personal#hades ii spoilers#hades 2 spoilers#hades ii#hades 2#this game has a vice grip on my brain. i was enjoying it from the start but this fates business is cool as fuck#best of
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Ok, whatever, deconstructs your funyarinpa into tragic schrodingers cat girl ❤️
#zero escape#zero escape 999#999#9 persons 9 hours 9 doors#akane kurashiki#funyarinpa#so the whole idea behind this is I had a hard time seeing the dog in the funyarinpa puzzle… I thought it was supposed to be a face.#I have very bad vision.#but somehow lol it gave me a sort of art idea! turn silly dog puzzle into 999 art.#I actually sketched this out years ago#I’m really sick right now so I’m trying to go back through old art#since I have very little energy to actually make something#I wanna do something with this eventually#like I’ve got an idea for it#but tbh it’s been sitting in my wips for like two years so#throwing it into tumblr#ze spoilers
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