#no pressure only do it if it's fun

[sensitivehandsomeactionman]

Oversharing on the Internet

I was tagged by @heytheredeann, thank you! 🥰

ONE: Are you named after anyone?

Yes, my name is a variation of their name. I also have a Chinese name which traditionally takes a word from a family poem for each generation. 🎍

TWO: When was the last time you cried?

Probably about two weeks ago. I cry more easily nowadays, but it feels cathartic, so it's good. 🌦

THREE: Do you have kids?

Happily, no! 🙌

FOUR: Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Yes. My usual flavor of sarcasm is dry, bemused. 😏

FIVE: What sports have you played/do you play?

I'm decidedly un-sporty! However, I do swim well and enjoy snorkeling immensely. I got my SCUBA certification (expired now), but I prefer snorkeling. I can play most racquet-type things like badminton, ping pong, tennis. I know how to horseback ride, both English and Western. 🤿

SIX: What's the first thing you notice about people?

If they can laugh at themselves. 😊

SEVEN: What's your eye colour?

Brown 👁

EIGHT: Scary movies or happy endings?

Any as long as the characters are interesting, the concept is intriguing, and/or the production looks amazing. 🎞

NINE: Any special talents?

I can pretty much cook anything if I'm given a good recipe. I can even improvise a little. 🍲

TEN: Where were you born?

Pennsylvania USA 🥨

ELEVEN: What are your hobbies?

JENSEN fandom, nature walks, eating out, and I recently returned to playing WoW after over a decade. 💚

TWELVE: Do you have any pets?

16-year-old cat. I cook chicken to mix with his cat food because he's my furbaby. 😼

THIRTEEN: How tall are you?

5'3" 🦐

FOURTEEN: Favourite subject in school?

English. It was my easiest subject. I've started a lot of languages (Spanish, French, Mandarin, Cantonese), but I'm too shy to converse, so I've never become fluent. I enjoy the insights that learning language gives into a different culture. 📖

FIFTEEN: Dream job

If I MUST have a job... caring for critters, or being a naturalist of some sort. Sometimes I wonder if I would have pursued that if I hadn't had a discouraging biology teacher in high school. Yet like most people, I think, I'd rather spend my time playing and being creative. 🌼🎨

I tag: @jranutter, @lastcallatrockysbar, @deansraspberrypie, @avengerdaisy, @deanwithscissors, @zombielovescore, @afacefromamoviescene

[yeonjune]

Yeonjun about the strain he felt while preparing for his debut solo project ✙ "GGUM" MAKING FILM

[welcometogrouchland]

(ID in alt) I literally said I was gonna post this month's ago and then never had the wherewithal to describe it and so I didn't Lmao (said with pain). But since I'm thinking of opening my commissions I figured I should remind ppl that I. Yknow. Can draw.

Lots of Steph here (I had major art block making all of these and my brain worms for her kept me going) + some sprinkles of stephcass for Cass nation to enjoy!

[heartorbit]

a mob of emus for an artstyle game on twt! ^_^

[tora-the-cat]

An interesting little fun thing with team 7 is that you assume that Sakura's gonna, like, woobify and simplify Sasuke by putting him on a pedastal,cause her goal is centered around him and shes a 12 y/o fangirl so like of course her understanding of him is skewed cause she doesnt see him as a person, just an object of affection, right? She's can't get Sasuke, can't imprint on and/or traumabond with him like Naruto and Kakashi do. They don't see him with rose tinted glasses, because they've lived through their own Horrors and empathize with Sasuke's experience.

......right?

WRONG lmao!! They have too many ghosts!! Naruto's single-minded codependent ass won't get out of his own way long enough to see Sasuke for who he actually is, only able to empathize with the parts of his trauma Naruto relates to and not really capable of understanding him outside of the context of himself (because Sasuke is. His other half). And Kakashi is far too jaded to be fair to him!! He can't decide if Sasuke is gonna end up as a mini-him or a mini-Obito or maybe a mini-Itachi, but either way he ALSO is too traumatized to see Sasuke AS SASUKE.

meanehile SAKURA'S autistic ass may have dogshit empathy, but you know what she does have? A special interest in sasuke. Nothing better to do then give herself a degree in Uchihaisms. She can write character studies about him. she can read his soul. Whenever she says something about him she is right. Every fucking time! She is RIGHT!!!!

'sasuke would NOT compliment me this directly or explicitly express worry unprompted, especially if it gets in the way of his goals' correct.

'Sasuke shouldn't hide that curse on his neck its not healthy BUT if I tell anyone about it he'll never trust me again, which might be even more dangerous for him then the curse mark. Like he can probably handle the curse mark but no one else can stop him from ripping peoples arms off.' correct.

Speaking of! 'Sasuke would not hurt me even when he seems to be...possessed? whatever the only way to knock him out of it is to present myself as Alive and thus something to be protected rather then something to be avenged, because he gets really stuck in his own head about revenge' CORRECT

'hey so um. like. Sasuke's gonna leave Konoha. I'm not sure anything can stop him at this point and honestly I'm kinda starting to doubt anything should, so the only thing I could possibly do to help him at this point is ALSO defect.' CORRECT!!!!

[ganondoodle]

(zelda comic rough draft)

im still unable to draw anything ... except for really slowly getting the chapter 2 rough draft further for some reason, another screenshot from page 59

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hi!! I love this series so much, and as someone who hasn’t really drawn since they were a kid but wants to start as a hobby, do you have any advice for sort of learning to doodle on paper and get better at it? I want to start but I don’t really know how/where

The most important step in getting better at any skill is Persistence and Consistency. Practice and keep practicing! The best way to do that is to keep it fun! Picking a project helps generate ideas (e.g. drawing Pokémon, or characters from a series you like). There are also a ton of monthly prompt lists out there!

I also highly recommend scheduling in a 'drawing/practice' time in your day. For me, I started with 30-60 min before bed (bonus: its a good 'no screentime' activity), and the habit took root there.

There are a lot of 'technical' things to study but find the fun first. At a certain point you will discover you've hit a wall, and have a specific aspect/goal you want to target (colour theory, anatomy, lighting, comic layout). Then it's time to go looking for resources.

Once you have the habit and some goals, go collect some inspiration! Find people who inspire you and study their work!

Another little 'art skill builder' I recommend is the Shrimp Method! Only if you find technical challenges like this fun though (Example of one of my studies below)

[vaguely-concerned]

it's so incredibly interesting to go in with this plan I have for rye's ending, because so much of it is built up in their relationship to varric -- and the relationship they have to varric is so completely different to and entirely separate in my head from the relationship I have to varric after loving him for more than a decade and relentlessly psychoanalyzing him and his many and various insane emotional intimacy issues through the rich medium that is dragon age 2, but it's arguably even stronger. I love varric, but rye LOVED this dude for being exactly the person they needed when they were lost and needed someone to truly recognize them and ground them in the world as they lost their anchors. (with some additional baby bird 'DAD SHAPED!!!' primal instinct from their father figure growing up). but also rye didn't know varric like I know varric. (the same way you uh. can't know your parents until you come along to be born, sort of thing I guess lol.) and I know the reason varric immediately took to and understood this kid is that they remind him so much of hawke as a young man that it hurts his heart a little bit with sheer tenderness for rook, for hawke then and hawke now -- for himself back then, (for anders, always, beneath the old and ashen anger, sometimes despite himself). for every lost and young and struggling person who's trying their best and truly could not have known any better until the one day they did, no matter what happened later in consequence. which is also part of what I feel towards rook.

I am making out with the fourth wall right now. me and the fourth wall are doing some things that wouldn't fly on tumblr after 2018 to each other. (it's what varric would have wanted)

(rye being someone who beneath it all is so desperate for parental warmth and guidance and being seen (and even more basically with feeling warmly invited by someone into the story of the world/reality as someone who is a unique and separate and loveable part of it. which, for all I love the grand necropolis and all the absolute fifth house style weirdos that inhabit it, is not something the mourn watch is very good at giving people if they need it, I think) that he'll take even the hollow shell appearance of it with only the lightest touch of blood magic to help him along in accepting the unreal scraps as enough. grief fills the room up with my absent dad, speaks with his voice, walks the necropolis halls up and down with me every day already, I'm GREAT at ghosts I call them up all the time just to have a chat. gimme back cloth mother I'll bring her to some semblance of life with necromancy myself if I have to. like yeah it feels like varric is becoming more distant and unreachable to me every day in the lighthouse. just like the man who was to all intents and purposes my father did, when he was dying. and afterwards the necropolis swallowed him up in its quiet eternal mercy that'll never give him back to me. if anyone knows there's no struggling against that it's a watcher. so I can never ask to have him back, and the helpless child-like cry for it anyway will find its peaceful tomb in my throat and never be let out. oh rye. oh buddy. yeah I'd probably also want to stab solas to something worse than death, under those psychological circumstances, fair enough. rye 'I keep all my feelings bottled up in here and then one day. I will die. trust me on this' ingellvar but the bottle finally broke and now it's the nastiest kind of barfight you can imagine)

[squuote]

he’s so fucking loud dude

[busiest-bee]

I’m a chronic “what if they were nice and also my friends”-er 😔💔

[spotaus]

Thinking about Orchid and her connection to my take on Gender (because this was meant to be about her and the Crew but it just devolved into a character analysis kinda??? More trauma-dumping maybe???) This is very much an oc/personal rant so feel free to ignore it 🫡

So, Orchid started off as a character I didn't really think much of (hear me out this is going to be relevant) because I wanted to add a 'girl' character but didn't know what to *do* with her, y'know? She was always going to be the strongest one there, she had the odds stacked in her favor with her parents. She was always going to be the gloomy side-character to match Reset's energy. But I think she's gone through every stage of Generic Woman I could possibly find.

At first she was angry and abrasive (think Fell!Sans) where every other word was a curse and she was likely to throw the first punch then laugh as she kicks her enemy while they're down. This was when Reset was a cartoonishly self-centered villain whose goal was simply to prove others wrong. Then Orchid became a sort of sisterly figure. This was short-lived, but she was the one comforting people who Reset would torment, but would ultimately follow his orders, because at this point he was actually a danger and sadistic. And then there was the phase where the story mellowed out and she became the token Goth Girl who, yes she was strong, but was heavy on the 'whatever' energy. Then there was her Era of deep self-loathing and anxiety about her worth that held her back and made her a much more timid and meek character who would only lash out on occasion.

Now, Orchid is the best of those iterations I've written yet. She's calm, level-headed, and a natural leader. Her father raised those traits into her. But she's very reactive, and can be silly, and when she's comfortable it's likely that air of importance transforms into something more comfortable and familiar. She laughs loudly and grins wide, she likes loud video-games but loves to read in the quiet. She's extremely disciplined, and normally no one can get through her tough exterior besides her best friend, Reset. She does what she does for her own enjoyment, sure, but she's thought of every angle and makes her choice to help Reset and control the others with her whole chest. She still worries she won't live up to her invisible expectations, and that and her loyalty are her two driving forces.

I know that Orchid is important to me because she's the longest-running female oc I've had. I have a rough relationship with womanhood/girlhood and I know looking back that Orchid recieved every ounce of my distaste for being a woman that I could shovel into her. That never made her less of a character, she was actually always one of my favorites, and rarely was she a 'punching bag oc'. I just... projected onto her a lot. And she's a good sign of how I've learned who I am. I've decided that my own femininity is something I could live without. I'd rather not associate myself with it, and I'd like to leave it in my past, focusing on a future where I'm not tied down with any gender roles or expectations. That won't happen, but I've come to terms with it myself. Orchid though? I figured out through her that I don't have to hate women characters. My own distaste for my circumstances doesn't mean I have to push it onto my characters (on God I've never expressed anything rude to actual people, that'd be rude as hell and uncalled for, but I have a bad habit of disliking fictional women in media). So, Orchid is a well-roubded character finally. She has motivations abd goals and a *lot* more depth than I ever expected her to. She's happy with being a woman, she's content. She's not treated differently for it in unfair ways by those she cares about, so she doesn't mind it. She likes to wear pretty outfits and lets Reset add bows to her ribbons. She doesn't let being a woman hold her back in the slightest.

So, yeah. Orchid is one of my babies. If I ever leave this Fandom behind for good, she's one that's coming with (Ichor, Orchid, and Pretender all have human designs I can use elsewhere lol-) but in the meantime I'll just rotate her around in my brain for a while longer.

If I'm right, she's been with me for nearly 5-6 years and I went through a *lot* with her as an outlet. So, she's kinda just like an old stuffed animal. A lil ripped, matted fur, maybe a stain or two, but there's a story there and that makes it important beyond belief.

[characteroulette]

I cannot recommend this enough: get yourself a crack ship.

Find yourself a pairing of characters (romantic or not) who absolutely have no business interacting and make yourself stupidly invested in their dynamic. Make it the most niche shit imaginable tailor it to yourself specifically.

Seriously though it'll help you understand the full meaning of creating art for yourself first and foremost because who else is gonna make content for your crackship? You're the one who thought it into existence!

[story-book-sillies]

Reblog and respond with what stuffed animal you think the person you reblogged this from would be if there were a plushie running their blog!

[muirneach]

tennis is a really fun sport and all the players are freaks which is enjoyable i suppose but then seeing ppl in other sports having a good time its like. oh my god none of these people are any fun!!! why is everyone weird and sad always!! i was thinking about the differences in socmed from hockey and tennis at work today like tennis players typically only post match results but hockey players often post them goofing around. and now these olympics all these athletes are constantly showing off fun little moments of the village and interacting with other countries and sports and all that. idk why are we kind of lame….

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hey, what's ur favourite holiday btw? Bc mine's Halloween tbh- CANDY!

DITTO BABEY halloween is where it's at! although i will admit im Not a big candy person - sweet stuff isn't my area! unless it's Cake! even then I can't handle a lot at once!

but man, Halloween. i miss her. the vibes, the energy, the flair, the decorations, the spooky stuff, the Everything... she serves.

[averlym]

from this post by @caligulas--aquarium

(if she keeps this up, she might even get a real desk!)