#of personal thoughts and opinions

[anonymoosen]

Just some personal thoughts and opinions :3 (U DONT HAVE TO AGREE WITH THEM)

This might sound a bit cheesy or obvious to many, but I feel like more people (especially teens!) should know this:

Don’t waste your childhood / adolescent years on trying to fit in too much with people! And no, it’s not saying that you should be those “quirky not like the other girls” kids— it’s just that y’all should try to be yourselves more and let yourselves be crazy and have fun in doing the things you truly enjoy! (AS LONG AS ITS HARMLESS OF COURSE LIKE IF ITS DANGEROUS AND ACTUALLY REALLY BAD THEN YEA DONT DO THOSE THINGS!!)

And no, you don’t have to be crazy everywhereeeee like there’s also a time to be mature, and I get that. And you shouldn’t purposely be crazy in front of those judgmental kids if you know how bad the consequences are. Just at least let yourself have a safe space to be yourselves in! (For me, that safe space to be all crazy and myself is on Tumblr and WhatsApp and with my closest friends and family :3)

Sometimes, you might feel like you’re the only one who’s crazy and left out because no one else would match ur craziness level and that everyone would just grow up without you. I felt that way too, and it’s really valid to feel sad about something like that because if you can’t force yourself to fit in, you’ll also feel left out…

….But forcing yourself to fit in wouldn’t be the answer either as you wouldn’t be honest with yourself and start to feel all empty inside because of creating a mask of yourself that isn’t really…yourself.

However, you should know that it’s really okay if you can’t find someone who matches your craziness level 100%! Because there are at least people who appreciate who you really are and also have their own (HARMLESS) way of being a “weirdo” like you, and then you realize that you wouldn’t feel all alone anymore because there are more “weirdos” in the world than you think!! :3

And if things are thattt bad and you can’t find people who appreciate / accept your uniqueness (which they shouldn’t do because I’m sure ur really lovable and amazing and you deserve the world!), then remember this:

It’s better to be alone and be yourself than to be with fake friends who force you to be someone you don’t wanna be.

You probably heard this a lot but yeah this fact is really important to me! Don’t change just because others tell you to change! Change because YOU wanna change! (Again of course: If others are telling you to change because your fun isn’t harmless and it’s really bad, then take their advice and be a better person! But like if it’s just you being yourself harmlessly without hurting others, then yeahhh you get to be yourself in your safe spaces!)

Anyway, if people think you’re cringe in high school, it wouldn’t really matter anyway in the next 10 years! Being a “popular kid” (the bad ones) wouldn’t matter in 10 years either because the friends would be fake anyway!

IN CONCLUSION: LET YOURSELF BE YOURSELF AND LET YOURSELF BE CRAZY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THE RIGHT PLACE / SAFE SPACES AND NOT BEING THE POPULAR KID DOESNT NECESSARILY MAKE YOU LAME OR ANYTHING! JUST ENJOY UR CHILDHOODS GUYS!! :33

(ANYWAY AGAIN THESE WERE MY THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS SO FEEL FREE TO DISAGREE AND STUFF!!)

(ALSO SORRY IF THE SENTENCES DONT MAKE SENSE JDSJDKSK)

[brethilach]

[deeva-arud]

A considerable amount of makeup was used to cover Deeva's freckles and face marks, and Cater also had to use magic to make her clothes his size. They did this as a joke, but they sure were committed to it! 💪

Original style swap challenge by @ashipiko ! (see her post here!!) If anyone wants to give it a try, go ahead, it's really fun!!! <3

[shalom-iamcominghome]

You're anti-antisemitism because you know there are good jews who don't deserve antisemitism. I am anti-antisemitism because I know no jew deserves antisemitism. We are not the same.

(what you also don't know is that you aren't anti-antisemitism)

[atoriv-art]

older designs for my specialest guy

[oifaaa]

Realising that my idea of what it means to be in a fandom might be a little skewed so help me out here what is your baseline qualification for being part of a fandom

[stationed-radio]

Throws these at you

[velichorus-k]

I'm more of a sci-fi lover than a fantasy lover (in case you couldn't tell) but Damsel (2024) was cool, I kept pointing at the screen and saying 'this is structured like a horror movie!'

It's got an innocent 'maiden' (read: teenage girl) as the primary victim, an unseen monster (they take care not to reveal the whole dragon until a while into the movie!), gore, chase sequences, false hope, building tension/dread into the reveal of the monster, and even jumpscares! And that whole sequence taking place in a CAVE with TIGHT SPACES??? UGH! Cave exploration/diving is freakin' terrifying to me, it was so fun to see it utilized this way. Maybe I haven't seen enough fantasy, but this made me realize I want more horror fantasy. So cool.

Funny that the moment the dragon's appearance is revealed in full (in the cavern scene against Elodie's dad), it moooostly goes back to feeling like a typical fantasy movie. Like I def saw that resolution coming from a mile away, but still overall really good stuff.

[childotkw]

My dad and I always talk about a re-do of The Princess Bride - all the other things people say. Fred Savage should come back and read the book to his grandkid. Certain pieces should be scene-for-scene like the original, others should be completely different. The absolute batshit energy must remain.

But we were talking this morning about another possibility that I think would enhance all of the above.

Everything remains the same, except Buttercup and Westley swap roles. Not swap genders. Swap roles. Buttercup is the 'farm girl', Westley is the asshole that pulls her pigtails. They fall in love. Buttercup goes off to find fortune on the sea, 'dies', and Westley mourns.

No other character changes anything about themselves.

Westley gets picked to marry Prince Humperdinck (it's imperative that no reason is ever given as to why), Buttercup becomes the Dread Pirate Roberts (the one before her, Ryan, was a chaos gremlin and thought she'd be an excellent, if hilarious, replacement). Buttercup comes to rescue Westley from his upcoming nuptials.

They bicker. They argue. They reunite.

No one acknowledges the fact that the Dread Pirate Roberts is apparently a young woman. No one cares that Prince Humperdinck is set to marry a man.

Just...pure, unfiltered, batshit insanity.

Just a grandfather slightly changing a story to read to his granddaughter.

[kingofthewilderwest]

Those leaked images look like ass, y'alls.

They're matching everything exactly to what it looked like in the movie. The result is everything looks very, very fake. The final product should have more refined visuals (we ain't done editing). But I don't see how we're going to take those shots and de-ass-ify them.

The movie's whimsical designs don't translate to a brick-by-brick recreation. You aren't selling me that people made an arena like that. You'd be better on live sets that lie closer to reality than forcing a pastiche of the movie's over-the-top whimsy.

Part of HTTYD's charm (to the delight of the animators!) was getting things scruffy, dirty, lived-in, imperfect. I was talking with @hcsp1 today and I agree with what he said: "It looks like a cool cosplay image, not a big budget studio film." The arena pic feel like a hyper-edited, visually-scrubbed Photoshop rather than a lived-in world.

If you're going to match visuals exactly, it highlights how redundant and pointless it'd be to make that live action.

I could be wrong regarding the cove because they're blurry images, but: the color, lighting, and differences in graininess / resolution / definition / whatever-word-goes-here between the foreground and background make it feel like a cheap greenscreen. Also: the foreground is ass, and the background is ass.

Toothless is an example of "try so hard to be 'realistic' that we render it ugly." Guess what word I'm going to use to describe how I feel about the model? Looks like ass.

A person can't make an accurate analysis on something with so little data. But. Something something something ass ass ass. My takeaway is this looks like ass.

I still want folks to know I'm not following live action news and don't anticipate answering questions on it; I'd prefer to see and know as little of it as possible. But I am voluntarily providing my opinion here. ;) And my opinion is... [dramatic drumroll with the most glorious of winks] (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ ......ASS! ∘* ✧･ﾟ

[laufire]

jason's lazarus pit was golden jason's lazarus pit was golden jasonslazaruspitwasgolden jason's lazarus pit was golden JASON'S LAZARUS PIT WAS GOLDEN

AND PIT MADNESS IS *NOTHING*

[bloggingboutburgers]

It feels like you're being kind of self infantilizing when you draw yourself all small and cute and then talk about how you don't kiss your partner with tongue. I don't know. It just feels weird and almosy creepy. We're not children. Why do we have to act like such children when it comes to intimacy and how we represent ourselves?

Well, that definitely isn't the goal. I always draw all of my characters on the small side, and it's kinda accidental but I ended up drawing myself short because my partner is on the short side, and it just turned out to be a body type that I associate with nice things, so it just... Happened when I was looking for a character to draw myself as. Didn't even hit me it was out of me liking how my partner looks and that I basically "stole" their looks til like... Months later somehow. I'm lucky it doesn't upset them 🙈

Also uh... Sorry I don't wanna stick my tongue in someone's mouth and that it took me a while to be comfortable with kissing on the mouth at all? ...Nah, wait, actually I'm not sorry, that's just who I am and that's my experience, just like other aces are down to tongue-kiss. Everyone has different experiences and everyone's deserves to be seen and heard for what it is, not what it should represent. And each of them are valid, needless to say.

Lastly, I'm pretty freaking open when it comes to me being over 30. I have "very old" in my bio because it feels like that's how that age range is perceived online, and I've drawn several comics about how I don't like to be infantilized, and how it's important that I'm open about my age because it shows orientation isn't a "phase". So... Yeah. Obviously. We're not children. But I of all people don't need to be told that, thanks.

[alicentflorent]

Better writers would have connected parading meleys’ head around kingslanding to the scene where meleys and rhaenys killed and injured a bunch of smallfolk. Like they could’ve marched through the streets and announced that “their king” had killed the dragon responsible for the deaths of your loved ones on the day of his coronation, that the people of kingslanding who lost their were avenged when rhaenys was killed. It would have been a smart move propaganda wise but instead it went like “the people are disturbed by the greens army parading a dragon head around because that’s just cruel and wrong”

[uncanny-tranny]

Sometimes, I'm sad about the hobbies I have abandoned or have been too intimidated to pick up. But... what good is it, to just beat myself up over that? My bass is sitting in the corner, patiently waiting, and so is everything else. My life isn't over, and I've got nothing to answer to. I'm wading through a sea of time, and I'll pick up the seashells that interest me, and it's okay to put one back in the sand. The current's waves will bring it back to me if that is to be destiny. I can not hate myself into productivity, so I must swim on.

I think the same can apply to anybody. It's okay if you have dropped something, such as a hobby or passion. Human beings are like that sometimes, it isn't reasonable for you to beat yourself into submission. You, too, can not hate yourself into being a well-rounded person. You must cultivate it like you would a garden - with patience, time, and care.

[varyathevillain]

no joke but what I really want for Buddy Daddies as a fandom is to make fanart and fanfic post present time ep12 where Rei wears an arm orthosis when working.

I think varied disability aids being represented would be fantastic, and personally would write Rei as someone being deeply proud of something he's done for his family, but also understanding with time that using an orthosis also helps him at work and in raising Miri. with a giant portion of mobility/motorics aids being represented by prosthetics, seeing more variety and exploring it in fiction would also help making a step in normalising disability treatments.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

It's absolutely true that delusions can take on religious elements and be fueled in part or whole by religion, but dear l-rd, do I hate when people blanket all religion under this whole "it's all delusion, anyway!!!".

No it is not, and I know that because I know what it's like to have gone through delusions! I was reminded of that difference recently, and I'm religious. Not everything that you personally disagree with is a delusion, a narcissistic power play, or anything else. Sometimes you disagree with others. I am pretty religious, but I am more than willing to agree with non-theists about their opinions because they come up with good ideas and we are equal human beings. In fact, the atheist has strengthened my own religious beliefs because I am challenged by them to actually think things through. My whole issue with this is the - funnily enough - holier-than-thou, stigmatizing attitudes that are necessary to say things like that.

As someone who has a vested interest in mental health and accurate information about it, this stuff unironically angers me. The human in me wants to educate people, but the ape in me wants to take away the terms delusional, narcissistic, gaslighting, and every mental health term under the sun away until people learn how to properly use and apply them. The only people you are hurting are people who are already hurting.