#my knowledge is limited like I said

[whathorselegs]

I just finished reading the beast bsd manga and I'm just a bit curious about smt. If dazai made all of these universes from the book. Why couldn't he just make a universe where everything goes right since the book can make anything into a reality. Or am i just dumb (⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠)

I'm probably not the best person to ask this because I have not read the light novel yet. I've read most of the manga and watched the movie a good while back.

But from my understanding of the book, Dazai didn't create any of the universes, they all existed as possibilities within the book simultaneously. The Beast universe is just one of many that exist within the book.

As for the book's rules from the main storyline, you can't just write anything you want in the book an have it come true. It has to make narrative sense and you have to be able to guide it into fruition.

The Decay of Angels, couldn't simply write "The world turns on the Agency and blames them for mass terrorism" they had to take careful steps to set up the scenario they wrote in the book. They had to manipulate the members of the Agency to be in the right space at the right time, for the book to take effect. Only then did reality change.

Similarly Dazai had to guide things within the Beast world, otherwise it would have all been for nothing as the book can't change things without help. The steps he took had to be achievable, he couldn't just vaguely write "Oda is alive and well." and have it happen.

Now if I'm just theorizing why Dazai didn't write a perfect world, I'd say it's because that wasn't his goal. His goal was to make a world where Oda was happy and writing his novel. So Dazai made ruthless and selfish decisions to achieve that goal. Technically speaking, he achieved that, so in his eyes you could say he did create a world where everything went right, but only for his ideal version of Oda. It didn't matter how many other lives were messed up along the way.

Dazai is a very tragic character in Beast. He hurts other people he cares about to control one outcome for a man he never got to know and I think he knows that. I think that's why he ends it the way he does. For all his tried to do for Oda, he was rejected and hated for it. He succeeded, but he lost. His perfect vision was achieved and he forgot to include himself in it.

Dazai didn't write a world where everything goes right, because he wasn't capable of doing so.

And that's my understanding from my limited knowledge of the Beast universe and the rules of the book. But as I said, I am by no means an expert in either.

[greatyme]

Was not expecting to do a harp cover first thing in the morning but last twilight is just that powerful. Here’s my rendition of this OST based on what Day/Sea plays at the end of today’s ep :P

[friendly-neighborhood-furry]

i've never watched fairly odd parents (or the new one) but i know how to appreciate a good animatic when i happen across it so i'm sharing this with the people of tumblr 👍

[beybuniki]

one thing i noticed (form personal experience and by observing other artists) is that the longer you draw and create, the more boring it gets to simply replicate references, especially when it comes to characers' fashion choices.

with bnha, i keep mine pretty simple and basic because teens ARE very trend-loyal, but mainly im just lazy lol, but when i AM motivated, i love to think about characters' personal style, what could influence them, but also more trivial things such as budget into account, which is why i love to draw Deku in basic tees or clothes provided by his school (while bakugo gets to wear ed hardy and shoto wears arcteryx). i also love to limit the items like its just more realistic to me when someone as ordinary as deku wears the same 5 crewnecks all the time

which brings me to my actual point, namely that the more frequently you draw, the more you learn to do research andto combine your findings into sth new rather than staying faithful to one reference, and i think that's what makes good art so good, being able to draw inspiratioin from all kinds of niches and creating something that feels very authentic and suspends the spectator's disbelief. sometimes i see art and i know exactly which fashion editorial or which kpop idol was referenced, and I'm not insinuating these are bad things i do that too (less frequently now but i sure did!), my point is it's kind of nice to see how ALL artist start out with rather derivative art but eventually move on to create more authentic art that is less about drawing beautiful and perfect people and more about trying to individualize them and that ALSO means giving them weird clothes, scars, asymmetric eyes, a receding hairline etc. like drawing the same beautiful character 200 times gets so boring and it's just more fun to try and make them a bit more human

[nahimjustfuckinwithya]

simm!master will be in the giggle ok guys. source: trust me bro he'll be in it i can feel it in my bones

[starlit-eudemonia]

Question to my black gamers/writers, what hairstyle do you envision your self-insert or your MC wearing when going on these long-ass journeys and quests with their hair? What protective styles are y’all using? What type? Locs? Braids? Crochet? Cornrows? Mini-twists?? How do you story-wise work in the maintenance? Are they wearing a scarf/headwrap? How’s they get said headscarf? Do they wear their world’s equivalent to a bonnet? How are doing their wash-days; where do they do it? What products are they using and where do I get them?

[siilvan]

i am once again disappointed but not surprised at the COD fandom only caring about “sensitivity” when it’s convenient for them

[hotmilf45-xxx]

Extended Hemospectrum (not accounting for mutantbloods)

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I'm aware I'm not the first person to do this but since it was relevant for something me and my friend made I thought I would share it :,) Please do feel free to use it or base things off of it etc etc LOL

Anyway, so like I said the idea of an extended list isn't new however the one that I made operates off the assumption that your aspect is what determines your actual blood color and it's not arbitrary; so the higher up your aspect is on the list (spanning from time on the lowest end and life on the highest), the closer your blood colour will be to whatever the next caste is; starting with red and ending with fuchsia of course because they are the first and last colour on the hemospectrum.

As you go higher up the hemospectrum it becomes less of a continuation (see the difference between rust transitioning smoothly into bronze VS indigo having lighter shades than cerulean at the very beginning). I based the colour order around the true zodiac signs, therefore making each aspect's lightness or darkness relative to whatever their "root aspect" would be instead of one clean continuous line. Now you can guess someone's aspect based off the colour of their blood relative to the real world zodiac, hoo-ray.

Why did I pick to make the colour relative to whatever the true sign is? That's because I pulled the colours from the main troll kids, who as we all know are our real world zodiac representatives. Going off the assumption it's not arbitrary and aspect based like I said, that'd mean that a spectrum of colours in a caste revolve around those colours since we aren't shown any variation otherwise (with the exception of Gamzee, but that doesn't count here LMFAO).

Lunar sway, thank fucking god, has no relevance to colour because that would be too much work. This chart accounts for aspect only. If there's any difference it's not perceptible to enough people to make me compelled to add it—so feel free to add that yourself though

Anyway, there's my YAP SEEEESH just wanted to share because I spent too much time on this stupid fucking thing to not be annoying about it

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Sonic fandom when Knuckles has an entire epiphany montage where he calls the Whipple family his home: I mean. This could mean anything. Maybe Wade and Knuckles are good friends. Maybe Knuckles is friends with them.

Sonic fandom when Maddie tells a construction worker that the damage Knuckles did was done by her "big kid" so as to not admit that she has alien anthropomorphic animal teenagers living in her house, and then follows that up by calling Knuckles by "our big red friend" to Sonic, with all of this happening after Sonic says he considers Knuckles to be his roommate: OMG Knuckles series confirmed Knuckles Wachowski CANON I cannot believe we won!! He's her kid this is his home he's Sonic's brother!! After the show he gets back to the Wachowski household and gets in sooo much trouble cause Maddie is his mom

[quibbs126]

I’ve been trying to draw fankids, as well as this one new OC, but it just isn’t going well

I can’t figure out anything to do for the outfits, or even the hair, which I can usually get down

I also just don’t really know what I want to do for their designs, and I feel like I’m just making them generic

Sorry, I guess I just want to complain. It’s really frustrating because I want to try and design them, but I’m coming up with nothing, or at least nothing good

[theultracharmingladynoire]

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[strangebrew]

thank you @levon for the tag😁 anyways my knowledge of films is limited since i only know carny but anyways

hrmm i’ll tag @cdfreak @crashed-on-mars @hopelesscalico @gegengestalt AND @clownbugg-ie 😘😘

[love-at-first-bite]

WHO SAID THAT!?!?

[shirleyjacksonesque]

i think my dad just unlocked one of my character traits

[pallases]

watching dungeons and dragons honor among thieves. been saying it for ages but i Gotta get in on this

[starryoak]

It really sucks to comment on a post in a mildly joking or even entirely sincere manner and immediately get blocked. I absolutely realize people block other people on this website at the drop of a hat, but as an autistic person with scrupulosity my immediate reaction is that I would like to be able to tell someone I’m sorry for dropping the hat in the first place and that I didn’t mean to be rude.

Like, I’m not even saying it because I feel the need to be unblocked! I just need to tell them that it wasn’t meant to be annoying or rude, and I don’t hate them or anything. I mean, I can’t say it’s healthy that my OCD compels me to want to be unblocked and absolved for all my ‘sins’, but I can live with it and I’m fine with just feeling a little pang of sadness when I’m unable to like a post. I’m working on not having that happen either, but it’s very hard work, unlearning everything your brain as it was naturally made says you should feel.

And it’s just frustrating to me because it shows that even after near meteoric improvement in my social skills as I’ve gotten older (and also medicine), that it’s still hard for me to successfully assess social situations and comedy on a website where being rude is taken as funny over 75% of the time but there’s that other 25%… I often do literally add “(I am exaggerating for comedic effect”) as to make it more clear that this is intended as comedy, and… I guess it’s odd to me that’s treated as suspicious or something? Like, that nobody takes anyone else in good faith? I understand it’s a fools effort online, but I do genuinely try to be entirely sincere in my interactions online.

Like the automatic assumption that I’m not engaging sincerely when I’m trying to signal the exact opposite is both understandable and completely frustrating,

Just.. it’s like. People mock you if you engage with something sincerely, they mock you if you try to fit in, they mock you if you’re too rude, too nice, it feels frustrating when it feels like no matter what I do or whether I point out I am making a joke and not serious or play it straight, that I can’t get it right.

It’s not even about being blocked, really, (I’m lying my OCD hates it), it just hurts being confronted with the fact I’m almost two and a half decades into life and I still fail at basic social interaction despite my best efforts and despite the fact that I really am trying.