#no an actual frickin' model

[link-sans-specs]

An Actual Model

No, he is literally modeling pants for brands on their instagram page now. 💅

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[happylittleshrub]

So I'm just NOW finding out they had an interactive event at D23 where you could TALK TO ROCKET!!! I wish I could have been there so badly I want to talk to himmmmm 😭

To fill the eternal soul-crushing void I now feel at not getting to experience this I've been watching videos people posted of their interactions with him and OMG HE'S SO FUNNY!!! The actor needs a raise he portrays Rocket's speech and mannerisms so perfectly! Some of my personal highlights from what I've seen so far:

He thinks IGN is a spaceship

He wants to name a ship after one guest (highkey jealous of her ngl)

He is under the impressions that Mickey ear headbands are some kind of modification and he wants to steal them

His entire interaction with a Mantis cosplayer is absolute gold

He asks one guest what his engineering experience is and the guest responds that he knows how to use tape and glue. Rocket gets very excited at finding someone who knows how to use tape (as someone who loves Rocket's duck tape obsession from the TV show this is everything to me)

He asks a guest what he does and the guest says that he just kind of exists. Rocket calls him unemployed

He says "biologicalistical"

A group of guests tell Rocket they love him and he actually says he loves them back! Then he says he also wants to miss them but he can't do that if they don't LEAVE. Lol

He pitches his voice up and mimics a guest and it's so funny (the CG model bugs out a bit here but it only makes it more hilarious)

To keep guests moving along Rocket will have a funny way of dismissing the current group and it's great every time

He is very weirded out and confused by a guest's Hei Hei cosplay

A guest says "I am Groot" and Rocket admonishes him for cursing in front of the younger guests 😂

A guest wants to take Rocket's picture so Rocket says he'll give them his good side. He then turns around and FRICKIN' MOONS THEM 💀💀💀 I CAN'T-

So anyways now my life will never be complete but by golly I'm going to search out every video of this that I can find!

(P.S. DISNEY YOU ALREADY PUT THE GUARDIANS IN EPCOT PLEASE ADD THIS AS AN EXPERIENCE I BEG OF YOU)

[serpentsillusion]

Not that this didn't take me 6 hours to try really hard to do the "idiot sandwich."

And Jess doesn't HAVE two boyfriends, she has 2 guy best friends and I can probably guess that Imelda is calling her out on the account of her being jealous of her sick broom methods. I feel like Imelda would give her anxiety anyway and they would just end up fighting. 😂

Fingers are hard. Body movements are hard. Frickin SEBASTIAN'S whole face is hard. But HUGE shout-out to @choccy-milky for being super sweet and kind, and for doing a most excellent job at our favorite Slytherin boy. Super floofy hair used for reference only in this one by her main Seb. I did not think of the hair with my own brain. As I'm still learning how to draw things, I very much appreciate you being a mentor AND mutual 💚 Next I will try tackling the floof. Also, Ominis's hair wasn't too hard since he has it slicked back, and Jess's bun is actually getting pretty easy. Drawing is hard and I know it takes a TON of practice and literal HOURS of it, and I'm trying to draw out how shapes form. ✨Please do not use someone else's art for practice without asking for permission first. ✨

I used a base model or this including the eyes and mouths but everything else was attempted free hand. (I think that's what it's called) My brain does not operate the same way a "normal persons" brain does. So if this doesn't make any sense I apologize. I'm trying my best to do what I love so I hope you guys will like it too. And if you haven't already, pay @choccy-milky a visit and give her a follow! 🐍✨

Thank you guys! 🦋💕

[raccoonfallsharder]

How do you think Rocket's tail was accounted for with the Endgame nanosuit-up? I've tried to get screen frames of it to see how it's covered but I can't seem to get a good view. I wouldn't be surprised if they just cut off his model's tail for that scene. Would track with the lack of respect the Guardians got from the writers and directors for E and IW...

darling. yo. they for sure didn’t think about it at all and also fuck that movie. good news is it’s our headcanon so we get to do what we want.

i had heard like fourth-hand that there’s some director’s commentary or something that says the quantum suit in endgame was based on a mixture of the pymsuit, stark tech, and the guardians’ spacesuits (which is really rockettech™). so i guess one possibility would be that rocket’s suit had a dual trigger, and when he triggered his helmet, it also activated the sort of bubble-spacesuit that we see them use in vol 2 to protect his tail and make sure it went along with him for the quantum ride. feels like kind of a lazy and unsatisfying solution, especially since we don’t see it.

actually, you know, i bet that in-universe, the avengers just fed their measurements into one of tony’s machines and printed out suits accordingly. when they were done, someone handed rocket a little pym-stark suit and when they gave it to him he was like where the fuck’s my tail go and they were like what and he was like unbelievable. gotta do everything myself. retailored the whole damn ass himself and added his very own patent-frickin-pending spacesuit-tech for tail-protection.

well now i’ve made myself bitter on a saturday night

[pitbullwithaship]

Okay y'all yesterday I watched the Much Ado About Nothing with David Tennant and Catherine Tate for the first time. Which means it is time for...

Thoughts

Okay. Cool. Great. Um.

Most of my thoughts currently are along the lines of THEYRE SO CUTE FUCK I WANT TO DATE SOMEBODY IM FRIENDS WITH ALSO SO BAD AND I LIVE THEM THEYRE SO ADORABLE AND CUTE

anyway, the other thoughts are about how David Tennant and Catherine Tate are frickin amazing actors omg. Just. Omg.

And like the whole they're both all silly and stuff, but then they have the scene in the church and Benedick is all like military mode and stuff and it's frickin amazing, having a character whose all silly and stuff but also has that side where you can 100% see that like 'that is a man who has fought in a war' and all.

There are so many like amazing line deliveries too, like lines that just the specific way they themselves said them made them funny, cuz Much Ado About Nothing is supposed to be a little bit unhinged (like lots of Shakespeare stuff) and primarily a comedy. And lots of adaptations don't quite get that I feel like, cuz I've seen other ones that don't quite hit the mark with a lot of lines. And I'm bad at thinking of specifics and all, but I feel like they definitely (as cliche as it sounds) brought out the spirit of Shakespeare and the play really really well.

Also, like, how cute is it that the both of them hear that the other is in love with them and are immediately like 'well I don't want to hurt them, so obviously I am just going to love them back aggressively' and like the scene where Benedick is covered in paint and just fuckin grinning at Beatrice while she talks is amazing and adorable.

Moment of appreciation for freshly cleaned and shaved David Tennant in the scene after that.

Anyway, the entire play was hilarious and all the actors were amazing. And the entire time I was thinking like, I feel like a large marker of Shakespeare's works is all the characters not communicating just for the sake of being dramatic bitches, which I support honestly go for it, but also it is incredibly funny that frickin Leonato found out about Claudio being deceived and instead of going 'okay well here's the thing we actually just faked Hero's death to avoid social scandal, you can marry her tomorrow' instead decided to put that off for a dramatic revelation.

As a last note I can guarantee that I am going to end up modeling any acting I do on David Tennant and Catherine Tate (or trying to anyway, my personality is very different so I might not pull it off well but there are some things I can incorporate) because I have an obsession.

Stay fresh y'all

[transmutationisms]

Re: BITE model posts

Idk i feel compelled to chime in in about how tiring it is to see the word cult have morality attached to it and then used as some kind of pejorative (like when ex-caths call the church a cult) but I feel like it's often more useful to use the word purely to describe the non-mainstream status of certain beliefs or practices. Like obscure religious deities are referred to as having a "cult" because their worship is limited to highly specific places and communities. Calling a religious denomination with m/billions of members across various backgrounds seems hardly appropriate of "cult" status.

I'd dare to extend this to then say even MLMs aren't a "cult" anymore because they're like... frickin everywhere. I'd be more surprised if a person says they've never met a single person who wasn't vulnerable to like Mary Kay or some other cosmetic brand scheme.

i literally thought you meant marxist-leninist-maoists that acronym is going to kill me. anyway you're missing my main point about the uselessness of the designation 'cult' because if it's only determined by how mainstream something is then that's not actually telling us anything about the degree of control or abuse in the group is it. like this is a completely useless distinction as you've outlined it and would only label any non-dominant religious or commercial (?) practice as a cult... like why lmao what is the point of that. this is precisely the kind of usage i was objecting to it doesn't tell me anything about characteristics inhering in the groups themselves

[lelet-draws]

Sorry, but I hate how Disney just decides to make everyone look like Rapunzel instead of modeling characters that actually look distinguishable.

Like seriously there are so many beautiful women out there:

Really dark skinned women

Albino women

Women with vitiligo (I added this guy too because he looks sick)

Women with unconventional (yet beautiful) facial features

Women with noses that don’t fit in the beauty standards:

Women with acne, feckles, birthmarks, scars, etc

Women with different eyebrows (or none!)

And there is honestly so much more I could add, but this post is getting long, it is a shame Disney doesn´t want variety. If you take a look at their concept art, there is some creativity, like Asha´s original pointy chin, but then they just ignore it and change the final draft to look like Rapunzel.

At this point representation isn´t even the main problem, cause if it depends on Disney they will make princesses of all etnicities that can be capitalized but all will look like frickin Rapunzel.

[itzpris15634]

LPS head cannons?

oooh sure!

these will be associated with my humanizations.

lez go!

Pepper. She has a tendency to refer to people by their surnames.

“You know what I think, Nevla?”

“Okay Terrio, listen here-“

“Painting’s looking good, Mark!”(which I will admit is a little strange, bc mark can be an actual first name- but shhhh)

So on and so on. It’s a casual nickname’y thing. Though there are exceptions, like when she’s trying to be a bit more genuine and/or personal.

“Penny, I’m really sorry…”

“Russell? Is something up?”

Oh and Zoe. Her main exception is Zoe since she is considerably closer to Pepper than the others are.

Blythe and Russell.

You’d think with Blythe being a fashion designer and all, she’d hang out with Zoe the most. The one who loves modeling and attention, fashion and fame. Right?

N u h u h , it’s actually Russell that Blythe hangs out the most with.

If Blythe is in designer’s/artist’s block, she’ll go to him first for inspiration and ideas. And while he’s confused on why him of all people- he doesn’t know alot about design, and Zoe is right there- he’ll do what he can.

And it seems to work. After some conversation with him, Blythe gets back into a creative flow. Russell doesn’t know what he did there, but he’s happy that he helped a dear friend out.

Russell does not like rain.

His reactions can range from being mildly annoyed, to being absolutely terrified of it. Especially the thunder and lightning parts during heavy storms. During times like that, his friends will be there to make sure he’s alright. Either by being physically there, or talking through a call if not.

Penny enjoys baking.

She loves to bake and will look for excuses to do it. She’ll bake pastries on the holidays like Valentine’s, New Years, Christmas, Halloween.

She’ll even consult Russell’s list of everyone’s birthdays so she can have a valid excuse to make cakes or cupcakes. Girlie just loves baking, and loves sharing her creations with her friends even more.

Minka is very much so capable of other artstyles. She just like her abstract one the most.

I think this was part of an episode where she was exploring other artstyles and frickin hated them. Personally, I think she was just having a bad artist’s day. She actually does like painting in those styles too, but she finds her usual one more fun.

Vinnie absolutely loves stage musicals.

How could he not? The emotions, the singing, the choreography. The choreography! He loves ranting about the latest one he’s seen to Sunil. Sunil doesn’t know what Vinnie is talking about, most of the time, but he’s happy that Vinnie is happy.

AAAAND thas all i got for now

[cosmicsponge2004]

THE TRUTH ABOUT SONIC'S EYES!!!! - Part 02: It all went wrong

This issue is so great it has 2 Parts!!

Check out Part 1: https://www.tumblr.com/cosmicsponge2004/737460712226553856/

Now that you've seen it, We back gang. Here's one of the few pics where Sonic displays a non-neutral/happy/angry expression and it's actually drawn correctly. Here's another (Season 1)

Let's get back on topic.

First off, SONIC ADVENTURE (1998, DC)

Sonic's eyes were actually done right

The issue comes with KNUCKLES & AMY

Amy is the most consistent & persistent issue

SA2 (only her)

Heroes (only her)

The worst one imo... SONIC X

Yes, while the beginning got Sonic right, that was not to last. And Amy once again was always an issue. Knuckles was inconsistent

Amy's problem is in THE MODEL SHEETS

More recently another issue has emerged. Not just Sonic Channel but the IDW COMICS

Among other issues with IDW's art, the art staff also seems to take the X influence in their misunderstanding of conjoined eyes. Maybe that just happens to people who aren't rubberhose fans? Idk. Here's the pics

This kills me. Here's more

I just about exceeded Tumblr's image limit and made by point clear so here's one more. From THE MURDER OF SONIC THE HEDGHOG

This game generally looks nice but the eyes are off, again. To an annoying degree!!!

All this upsets me and it's ALMOST always ugly. I can't really campaign for change cause 1. That stuff don't work, and 2. Even if it did work, I'm on TUMBLR. I'm lucky if 200 random basement dwellers see this.

I just wanted to make this issue known and hope one day it goes away. And also why is it ALWAYS AMY!?

One more eye issue, and it's FRICKIN' AMY AGAIN!! this one was explained by a twitter. I know people don't like him and he believes in the whole hyperstrict SEGA comic mandate conspiracy but he makes good points here and shows off something I thought I was just imagining. Maybe we're not crazy in this silly little fanbase

Ciao, Yall!! ✌️

Get it because ciao means goodbye but it also sounds like Chao. Like the tiny Sonic creatures, cause this is a Sonic post. I like Sonic Adventure 2 for the SEGA Dreamcast, can ya tell??

[ihavetoomuchhomeworkforthis]

Okay I have some more detailed quotes/stuff, also out of context, but this time a lot of them are... rather suggestive, shall we say. (Also they're all from band this time)

Read at your own risk, I guess :)

Mr. T: "You're punching me in the mouth with your face! I'm not getting that from all of you."

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Mr. T: "I want you to punch me with your mouth!!"

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Mr. T: "It's just really frickin' good"

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Mr. T: "There's so much innuendo"

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Mr. T: "That was the tastiest I've ever heard"

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Mr. T: "[Marimba] sucks" [Marimba]:"Oh yeah" Mr. G: "Hey [Vibraphone], don't use [Marimba] as a role model"

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Mr. T: "You look like bad... butts"

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Mr. T: "It's the end of the world and YOU ARE THE REASON WHY"

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Mr. T: "You all need to be inside of him" Other Mr. T: "woah" "ay yo" [several people in front of me]

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Band parent: "You need to grab your meat, [Mr. T]" Mr. T: "That's not a good thing to say, [B]" Dad: "Various connotations" Mr. T: "Eat it, [my dad's name]!" Dad: "I might" Mom: "No! Husband! Oh, oh no"

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Mr. B: "That was great [my name], you looked like you had no bones!"

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[During drill talking about roommates for the trip, [Saxophone] and [Mello] are rooming, [Saxophone] being suggestive about it] [Mello]: "I did [Clarinet] last year"[much commotion and giggling] [Mello]: "no no no no not like that" "I slept with--" "I shared a bed with--" *gives up*

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[Tenor Sax] and [Mello] had their hands on each other's butts during the hands-around-each-other ending of the Closer (Y2K) at a rehearsal [Mello]'s a senior and [Tenor Sax] is a freshman so this was maybe a little not okay

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[Snare guy] dressed up as a cat maid for the pre-Dome costume party

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[Mello¹]: "would you rather be 6 inches taller, or get 600 dollars?"([Trombone¹] and [Mello²] immediately agree that they'd take the 600 dollars, they're happy with their heights already and wouldn't want to be taller) [Trombone²]: "I'd take the 6 inches" [Mello¹]: "WOULD you!"* [Trombone²]: "Is that an offer?" *[or something to that effect, I wish I remembered what he said] **also yes [Mello¹] and [Trombone²] are both guys

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[Trumpet]: *has a hand warmer tied with a hair tie to her mouthpiece at States because it's cold outside* Mr. A: "What are you doing, what is that" [Trumpet]: *explains* Mr. A: "I've done just about everything you can think of with a horn, but I've never done that before" Everyone: "..." Everyone: *chaos* ("[Mr. A], you can't SAY that")

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"if you're too loud and rowdy, they'll perish" ~Mr. S

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[Clarinet]: *to [Baritone]* "Why won't you finger my clarinet??" [Clarinet]:"I want you to finger my clarinet" [Sousaphone]: ok I don't actually remember the full conversation, but he wanted to participate and referring to the sousaphone bell, said something like "the hole's too big"

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?: "Why are all baritones just fat mellophones?" [Baritone]: "Excuse me?!" ?: "Why are you a fat mellophone? [Baritone]: "Why are YOU a-" [Clarinet]: *interrupting* "a licorice stick?"

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Cute bonus:

[Mello]: *lying down on the seats of the cafeteria tables with his head in the lap of one of our drum majors*

[thorns-and-rosewings]

Christmas in Seraphim AU🔥

Just a few points of interest, not a particularly long post. Just something cute to write after a long day :)

-First and foremost the entire Pizzaplex is closed and all human employees are given the day off with pay. Seraphim Eclipse is quite the generous guy when it comes to the holidays.

-Leading up to Christmas the whole Pizzaplex has been decorated, the whole place looking incredibly festive. Attractions like Monty's Gator Golf, Fazer Blast, Mazercise, or Roxanne Raceway are decorated how their respective animatronics would like them to be. The only stipulation Seraphim Eclipse set was nothing that was a health hazard. Here's looking at you Chica...

-Likewise the Daycare is decorated by Seraphim Eclipse, Arc Bloodmoon and Cherubim Lunar. They were even able to come up with unique special games and events for the kids made especially for this time of year.

-On Christmas day there's a huge party for the animatronics. But also invited are some select humans.

-There's Gregory, granted he actually lives in the Pizzaplex in an apartment for him and Freddy who's his adoptive father. (Courtesy of Seraphims hacking and creating fake identities.)

-Vanessa is there and actually enjoys where she works nowadays, let alone how she has grown to care about this crazy group.

-Cassie of course attends, much to the delight of Roxanne.

-Cassie's dad is also there and while he's still a little weirded out by the fact that the animatronics are sentient (Let alone how he's the only human aware of how Seraphim Eclipse is technically the owner and boss of the place) he is just happy to see his daughter having such a good time.

-Twila, Cassie's aunt is also invited. As she is very close with the Angelic family, as well as delivering something that Seraphim Eclipse commissioned of her... That... And bringing a special gift for Arc Bloodmoon.

-For Bloodmoon, she gives him a silver medal on a durable chain. The medal bares the depiction of Archangel Michael. As not only is Arc Bloodmoon modeled after an Archangel, but also given how Bloodmoon loves the DOOM games so much... She thought it would be appropriate if she gave him a medal of 'The Original Doomguy'

-He frickin loves it. While he doesn't wear it around his neck, he loops it around the upper part of his left arm. Where it stays permanently.

-As they are talking, Cherubim Lunar flys overhead holding mistletoe and yelling "Will you two KISS already?!"

-Unfortunately Bloody got extremely skittish and walked away before anything... As he's still coming to terms with his ever-increasing feelings towards Twila. As he's not dumb and realizes exactly how having feelings for a human just... isn't a good idea.

-Twila feels very awkward... Genuinely not sure how she should be feeling about this. Especially because she's trying very hard NOT to have feelings about... Whatever...

-Cassies Dad, Twila's brother, is oblivious to this entire thing. 😅

-Another individual who is invited to attend is the good friend of the Angelic family, Forkface/Frank. Seraphim Eclipse is happy to see that Frank arrived as he has a Christmas gift for him.

-The item that Twila delivered was ordered by Seraphim Eclipse. A pair of custom daggers, specifically modeled after 'Rikku's Thief's Daggers' from Final Fantasy. Only made in a blue and silver coloration. Seraphim presents these gifts to Frank along with one other thing...

-He asks if Frank would like to move into the Seraphim universe permanently... As he's aware how Forkface isn't always appreciated in his own universe. Seraphim Eclipse also deeply worries about Frank getting hurt or worse... (Hence his gift of weaponry) He offers him a new home where he will be loved and appreciated.

-Frank doesn't accept, but he doesn't exactly decline either... Only indicates he will think about it.

-But he is extremely grateful for the offer and to know that he has such good friends here and he gives Seraphim a very tight hug. Wordlessly conveying this fact to his six-winged friend.

-Throughout the party there are multiple large monitors set up. The only purpose being that it allows MXES and Solar Flare to interact with the party as much as possible.

-Cassie has definitely tried to apologize to MXES over the whole Mimic thing... However the digital rabbit is still carrying a grudge.

-Solar Flare has pointed out that he's gradually getting less angry at her... Maybe someday he'll let the grudge go. But it will probably not be for a long time...

-Still, the one person who genuinely isn't happy about the Christmas party... Or about the holidays at all, is Canon Eclipse. He was given plenty of opportunities to NOT be an asshole and try to enjoy the activities. He was invited to the party... But all he did was stare and glower at everyone and everything.

-Watching Arc Bloodmoon interact with Twila got him to roll his eyes and mutter "Wonder how he's going to kill her..." he was then swatted with a broom by Cherubim Lunar.

-He watched Solar Flare interact with some of the other guests and... It absolutely infuriated him that his frickin creation was, in his own way, enjoying the party and having a good time with actual FRIENDS. He went to storm away from the scene, only he failed to notice he'd gotten his leg tangled in some lights and he sent the monitors crashing to the floor... So MXES and Solar Flare could no longer enjoy the party.

-Everyone stared; honestly Bloodmoon was ready to bounce Canon Eclipse out of the party. Thinking it was intentional... However Seraphim countered that due to his collar, he couldn't delibrately break things... In spite of this Canon Eclipse felt even more out of place and just left the party to return to his room.

-To his surprise, on his bed was a present wrapped in orange paper and decorated with a black bow. There was a card, baring Seraphim Eclipse's logo on it that read 'Merry Christmas, whether you like it or not asshole.' More curious than annoyed, Eclipse opened the box...

-It was a custom tailored Aviator Jacket. It was literally made just for him... Made to be everything he would like. There was also a 3D puzzle of a human skull in the box, most likely from Cherubim Lunar.

-Eclipse wants to hate it. He wants to burn the stupid jacket and throw the ashes in Seraphims face... But he doesn't... He just quietly puts it back in the box and puts it underneath his bed and then starts working on the 3D puzzle.

-He's even more conflicted about his situation now than he was before...

[qle-mentine]

Yo Qle-mentine, I was wondering If I could put your oc In my fanfiction of Monkie Kid?- I promise I'll put credits Into it, But Idk If I can add ur oc to the fanfiction Since I don't really know her backstory and since it's yours so Idk- And the fanfiction aka my own story of LMK is called " LEGO Monkie Kid And The 5th of AWESOMENESS"(Still workshopping it😅) Its about My LMK Oc And She teaches my Fav Idol's Ocs- I meant by Idols I mean the Ppl I look up to (@auburnitzy and You) Idk If you guys would actually like your ocs to be in a story I am making- But It doesn't change your character's backstory cause the timeline is after your backstory but like its a timeline where Lianhu is still finding a cure to her corrosion but there can be small changes like something that does not add up to your oc's timeline like in this story, Your Oc will also be meeting @auburnitzy's Oc (Nawa) And I know this is a bit complicated- But I mean- you and @auburnitzy and @starberr have thought of your ocs being a trio team- so I was also wondering of making a story about it >:D and that's how I made my frickin fanfiction story of LMK- Its ok if you wont agree but DANG I just wrote a whole dang paragraph

I don't mind! I'd be more than happy to read it~

Basically, she was once a young Huli Jing takin care of personally by the Queen Mother of the West, but eventually found her way to be trained, or more accurately, study with Nezha. One thing led to another, which caused their eventual fall out (there still friends but grew distant) and Lianhu is now a working model in Megapolis!

It's as simple as that! Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg but this is the simple summary.

[tea-with-eleni]

honestly the mods to implement the mystic class into BG3 following the third iteration of unearthed arcana nearly beat-for-beat just make me even more annoyed that Wizards of the Coast chickened out on making it a real class of its own.

like, it works. and it's somewhere between awesome and so frickin' goofy. Half your attacks are just standing there and death glaring your foes into submission. so many fights where you barely move, but, if you take the right disciplines, you're also just insanely mobile. Soulknife isn't quite as good at stabbing as a rogue, but the ability to upgrade your soul knives with psi points is pretty sweet. And that's nothing on the mindflayer-like psionic attacks...

I would also argue that it makes a damn good choice for the Dark Urge. Whatever they were before, it was really really good with knives. They were intelligent. And now, thanks tadpole, they have psionics. Ahem. Please examine the soulknife subclass: what if knives, but they're made out of pure psionics?

(tbh I originally was looking for a soulknife-as-rogue-subclass mod, which is actually pretty sick, but the original concept is way cooler. I love being able to teleport all over and melt enemy brains.)

I'm not sure if the model the modder used for the soulknives differs if you don't try and make Dark Urge the soulknife, but I also approve of them using Orin's knife (with netherstone) for the job. Soulknives are, according to third edition lore, supposed to be crafted by the wielder's soul (hence the name) and it just adds a fun little bit of foreshadowing if your knives are your *old* knife, the one you no longer have...

The only real issue is that you mostly do just do psychic damage, though, so if you need to break down a wall for something you gotta have another party member do it.

[quirkle2]

Bluey is so frickin good!!!! I love watching it as someone who wants to be a parent or like actual good role model to kids in the future! Chilly and Bandit are so chill and it's nice to see the adults still do their adult things AND also treat their kids with respect????!!!! And yes of course! It is an awesomely cute and relaxing show too! Sorry if this isn't helpful or wanted to see- I just wanted to let you know that Big Agree. It's just GOOD! I'm really glad you like watching it too!

FR FR it's one of the most wholesome shows i've seen!! it's so cute and delightful and i wish people would stop acting all high and mighty simply bc they enjoy more mature shows. like ?? cool . good for u. let me enjoy my mindless entertainment and comfort?

like i get that sometimes it could seem "weird" to other people that so many people are drawn to a preschooler show and like Yeah it's quite a phenomenon, but i'm not harming anybody by watching it. sometimes i'm simply in a headspace where i can't Deal with very many Negative or Unfortunate concepts, which MANY shows have (naturally! shows need conflict!). which is why i like to watch bluey—it has almost none of that, and is kept rather lighthearted and surface-level, and sometimes i need that. i mentioned in my tags of that reblog that it's helped me get over anxiety and that is true; it's genuinely calmed me down and allowed me to take in the world again

i wish other people would stop ridiculing others and calling them "babies" for enjoying a show for kids. what r they gaining from that?

[papirouge]

Prayer circle ladies 🙏 that the balenciaga scandal wakes more people up to the world of pedophilia in fashion. Often they are higher up gay males in power with an agenda that hate women so they enforce rules to make women look as masculine/deformed for their fetish. They love to force straight men into gay shoots or gay sex (like the casting couch in hollywood) for their enjoyment too and these males are pedos into bdsm on children!! Obviously shown from that Balenciaga shoot with kids being surrounded by pedo propaganda. I want more women to burn these stores and brands down. I hope we do. We need to revive and support jobs of local seamstresses so they don’t have to work at these corrupt companies and protect anyone thinking modern fashion is a safe space. It never was

Unfortunately, nothing will change. Only normal people/normies are outraged about this, but fashion people know that in a few weeks everything will get back to normal....

Balenciaga eventually issued an apology

As a fashion graduate, I keep an eye on the fashion industry and groomers have never been remotely threatened by these scandals. And they've been MANY (Alexander Wang, Richardson, Bruce Weber, etc...). As soon as they are in a position of power, men (for the most part) abuse models. But since they aren't as mainstream as Balenciaga, normies stay unaware of that. Right now as stylist called Nusi Quero is getting exposed for sexually abusing models, licking & flashing them (without consent obviously), spitting on their mouth, and making them wear tights soaked with cat urine???

(btw side eye ing Diet Prada BIG TIME for being so wishy washy in calling out Balenciaga and being surprisingly factual on this one🤔 Weirdly enough, they went harder against Kim Kardashian (so did Candace Owens, probably to whiteknight her newfound bestie Kanye) when homegirl is nothing but a pawn but hey, she's an easier -and more visible- target than those pedo scrote hiding behind curtains... ) They usually aren't that much cautious when it comes to call out other (less known) designers for copying/stealing design, but I guess they can't go after Balenciaga like that since they probably line their pocket🤡 Like, I already knew they were sold out, but it's embarrassing how they aren't hiding anymore lol)

Oh and this predatory behavior doesn't only happens in high fashion, Abercombie OG Creative Director was known to be a creep (and OH SURPRISE! Bruce Weber photographed their campaign 🤡 I recommend you the documentary "White Hot" to understand the extent of the controversial legacy of this brand

Back to Balenciaga: there's a twitter thread exposing one of the creative of the brand's weird Instagram posts. If you're familiar with Pizzagate, you'll immediately understand there's a hole rabbit nest under this trash.

I wouldn't be surprised if internet sleuth find some other evidence of the utter degeneracy of this industry. But it's important to understand that like Pizzagate, it's not just individual, but a whole network. I'm absolutely not surprised to see Marc Jacobs commenting on her post and she mingling with Gosha Rubchinski...

Oh and while we're at it, I'd like to explain to the idiots thinking this

is a "clever" clap back, that it's not.

Regardless what delusional Conservatives think, PEOPLE (not company) are absolutely entitled to not buy products based on whatever reason. That's not "cancel culture" in and of itself. This always existed as a leverage for citizens to express themselves - that's the whole point of boycotting (were the civil rights movement "cancel culture" too?🤔) and I'm FRICKIN TIRED of idiots using this word for literally EVERYTHING. Actually, the same conservatives are actually those who called to boycott Gilette and Nike BECAUSE they didn't appreciate the statements these brands did. So how any of that any less "woke" than liberals refusing to give their money to a republican brand?

Banks...do not close the account of people whenever they get in legal trouble. This talking point I've seen many Kanye simp/Conservatives pull out is retarded. Kanye didn't get his bank account closed: the IRS froze his account over TAX EVASION. Actually Balenciaga has yet to be condemned about anything. Plus, there's also the issue of them using 3rd party for the shooting which makes harder to identify an actual individual responsible for this. Expecting banks to close the bank account of company because they got under public heat is PEAK cancel culture, so Conservatives should live up to their own standards and shut it down.

I want the fashion industry to be destroyed as much as the next sane person, but that's not the way to go. Weaponized such a serious issue for silly political catfights while spouting misinformation is NOT helping. We need to bring awareness about the network of people pushing a very specific agenda (and guess what? That's not Kim Kardashian). All of this overrides political parties and I'm SICK of seeing people using this very serious issue to shoehorn their personal grievances against Liberals. Disgraceful and Wrong.

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Book report: Winter in the Air

Winter in the Air, Sylvia Townsend Warner

This is a book of short stories, which is objectively the most difficult fiction of them all. There are 18 separate realities in these few pages, and they are each inhabited by totally separate beings. It's like going to an enormous party full of interesting people and talking with one after another after another, there are always more people to talk to, you never go back to the one you already decided you did/did not like, it is only the party as a whole you judge at the end. AND it's not fair to say "well it was lovely but now I'm exhausted" because the exhaustion was going to happen no matter who was there, wasn't it? You can't blame the concept of parties.

So: I talked to some great stories. These were mostly all published in The New Yorker, in a big stretch of time but possibly 1938-1955. The pithy little images STW creates are some of the best I've ever read for revealing a character's #relatable but not even remotely generic observations and conditions; she forms a person up in a few opinions stated in a few words and she's highly amusing in the process. The materiality of her settings! the economy of her skewerings! the desolation of her heartbreaks, all the more because half these characters have the epiphany that they've thrown their lives away on nothing and will VERY OBVIOUSLY go have a good sandwich and put it out of their heads forever.

A couple gorgeous sentences: "...one must have a small decency-bit of time in which to lick one's wounds and wring the sea-water of shipwreck out of one's hair." "It was a dislikeable room, mutilated by the remodelling, which had shorn it for a bathroom. The tree beyond the bedroom window, she thought...--even the tree, in itself a pleasant thing, must be contemplated as a sparrow-rack, where, from the first light onward, sparrows would congregate and clatter, making sleep impossible." (both from "Winter in the Air")

"It was late October. The trees had already shed most of their leaves, which were quietly consuming in bonfires. Those which remained hung motionless, their colours burning against the deep blue of the sky. All the shabbiness of late summer was gone. The grass had renewed its green, the plane trees had stripped off their sooty bark, the picnicking parties contained no inelegant nudes or panting dogs. It was as though summer, after a purgatory of equinoctial rain and gales, had come back ensainted." ("Shadwell")

The other thing about the unity of form and audience in these stories is that is exposes the formulaic nature of the model: the single heartfelt detail that creates the fatal twist, the twist that creates the re-narrativizing of the entire past and/or future, the way love and being true to yourself simultaneously is the only worthwhile path and yet also so unsatisfactory, muddy and full of potholes and not in the direction one would prefer. No one gets what they want here, unless it is as comeuppance, and we look at them from on high where we can appreciate the full distance between the inchoate longings of the soul and the crappy little options the body manages to locate. It rings perfectly true in some chambers and flatly ridiculous in others. It would be a lot easier to appreciate if more or less every story didn't work in the exact same pattern.

Does every story work in the exact same pattern? IDK, because I didn't wholly get the reference on a couple of them and am left flatfooted at the turn from relation of events to Meaningful Sentence. I frickin love the subtle accumulation of evidence suddenly revealed to display the Whole-Ass Answer of what's going on but a lot of it depends on cultural touchstones in common and I don't have a full matching set with STW. I'm definitely keeping the book longer to google what's going on in the bits where I can feel how it comes together but I don't understand WHY. (This is actually exactly what it felt like to read New Yorker stories as a late teen or whatever. I just don't know enough and everything is references and inferences from references. Foundational literary trauma.) Possibly googling them will teach me how to pull these tricks off better myself, and then I can assuage my cultural anxiety by putting a bunch of footnotes to explain the joke and then pretending the footnotes are also jokes so that no one feels condescended to or excluded.

Anyway if this is STW's random party behavior commercial fiction I suspect I'll love visiting her house her novels.