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[catnap-design-drafts]

Alright, so while the DogDay poll is going on, I'm going to be making some quick reference sheets for the CatNap plushes I've made so far.

I'm starting with the critters that already have names, which means that if you have name ideas or suggestions for the others, now would be the time to let me know!

(All un named critters have the #an un named friend tag for easier searching)

The reference sheets are mostly to help me keep track of what I have or haven't done pattern and color wise

[houseswife]

practically emanating

[cult-of-lilith]

Making love? Don't make me laugh fleshlight. This isn't even sex! I'm just using your holes to jerk off. This is just masturbation with a particularly delusional toy 😘

Cis men dni

[squarebracket-trickster]

By the way, lurkers are welcome on my blog<33

Yeah, yeah, Writeblr is a community and all that. But I get it.

Some of us have anxiety disorders. Some of us are (or were once) minors on the internet who had it drilled into us to never make our presence known in online spaces lest we get stalked or groomed.

It's okay if interacting is outside of your comfort zone.

Some of us aren't actually on tumblr enough to make making a Writeblr intro worth it.

Some of us prefer to take a few months, maybe years, observing the community to learn the rules. And let's face it, there is a huge learning curve to Tumblr culture. I came here from Pinterest in like 2018 and hooo boy was it intimidating!

Like, I was that 17 year old pinterest lurker with an anxiety disorder who was taught that internet safety meant "never comment on anything" who took a few years before I felt comfortable enough with tumblr culture to reblog things with tags, let alone make public posts.

So I guess what I am saying is, I can't judge. Because I've been there.

Writeblr is a community. And the community (for me) is the best part. And remember that if you don't contribute to the community you don't get to complain about it either. But this is also a public space. Silent observers are to be expected. And on my blog you are welcome.

[thenamesblurrito]

SNAP Season 1: Year of the Primes

Episode directory for season 1! I will be reblogging with summaries and title cards whenever I finish drawing one

"The Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology has finally opened, and school is now in session! But when a mysterious storm breaks over the campus, something emerges that will define a new era for the world. Primes, heroes with magical artifacts the likes of which haven’t been seen since the age of the Knights of Cybertron, now run rampant across Iacon, doing good in reckless defiance of the functionist regime. Little do people know, these heroes are in fact students at the very school where it all started, and two younglings named Orion and Megatron may very well hold the fate of Cybertron in their hands."

Heroes present+introduced in this season:

Autobots: Optimus Prime, Mistress of Flame, Ultra Magnus

Decepticons: Galvatron, Hellscream, Scourge, Cyclonus, Sixshot, Thunderblast

Elite Guard: Elita 1, Elita 2, Elita 3, Elita 4, Elita 5

Primary antagonist: Bludgeon

[dwellsinthebog]

i may be cringe but i am free heyyyy what if labrumisu had kids

[arttsuka]

Jed and Oct need a bigger tank- who put them in such a small tank???

I like to think Larry was like "I'll go buy a big tank tomorrow for you to stay until we figure out how to turn you back" (because the shops wouldn't be open at night) and then he put them in two glasses of water. Jed had a panic attack (almost dying in a hourglass will leave some trauma behind) so Larry just went to his house, found an old fishbowl he had (for decorative reasons, filled with little rocks etc) and brought that back to the museum.

[edwardsissyhandsthtdanceslikeabb]

Something i find interesting abt sydcarmy is everybody's spontaneous investment in platonic dynamics and making sydcarm its posterchild as if its not completely reasonable that ppl ship two characters with chemistry, narrative and parallels. And doubly, the sudden affinity for a "softer" pairing that very coincidentally relegates syd with a side character and away from the conventional main lead™.

[fidgetspringer-art]

✧ The Ardal stars ✧

[robinsversion]

The most ironic thing to come out of having not one but multiple of my posts about the James Somerton situation that’s been blowing up over the past couple weeks, is people plagiarizing the additional commentary I put in the tags of those posts ON THE SAME FUCKING POSTS THEYRE USING THOSE TAGS ON

[whoa-an-mcyt-blog]

oh my god i thought the update posts would slow down. but ivory keeps making stuff.

sooooo there was some intense character overload in the newest post when you turn up the brightness. there was a dash that we don't need since that's a part of the youtube link we already bruteforced, but the rest of the characters were very confusing...

eventually, we figured out that it's supposed to be this:

a link to a map on planet minecraft titled "0" with an image of a spruce tree as the thumbnail (and a skin that looks like ebony's...). there's a mediafire link, but there's nothing in it at the moment.

so how did we get from that gibberish to a planet minecraft link? well...

1: reading the letters from across got us this: seead://hhh.aw1ypextypnc1qe.nzx/aczypne/1-7483223/ (credit to dusk)

2: a ceaser cipher of -11 got it to this: https://www.pl1netminecr1ft.com/pronect/1-7483223/ (credit to... a bunch of people)

3: changing the 1s to As got this: https://www.planetminecraft.com/pronect/1-7483223/ (credit to thatchronomacer)

4: then, taking the remaining numbers and subtracting them by 1 got us to the final link. (credit to davidcz2051)

there doesn't seem to be anything important here, nor is there anything sus when you turn up the brightness on the thumbnail image, but we definitely need to keep track of this "skeleton squid" account, as well as the emberton wire twitter account.

but ofc the most important part is the description. ebony is four years old confirmed?!?!?!?!?!?!? (joke)

[murderballadeer]

to be honest i am starting to feel kind of watched and scrutinized on here & i don’t like that very much

[secret-wrestling-blog]

some comments from this post by @orange-catsidy

[scarletspider2the2ndpower]

Chasm: Curse of Kaine (Vol. 1/2024), #2.

Writer: Steve Foxe; Penciler and Inker: Andrea Broccardo; Colorist: Brian Reber; Letterer: Joe Caramagna

[valleydean]

i actually love being a bitch

[metabolizemotions]

Maybe Station 19 was like an experimental cubist painting.

There were too many stories to be told and too many people trying to tell them, from too many perspectives, with too many styles…

Each viewer saw a different picture.

It was the show that tried to capture the zeitgeist and represent the under-represented. Also the show that often struggled. With the tones and textures. With representing w/o tokenizing. B/w laughing with and laughing at. B/w realism and romanticizing. B/w deliberate and arbitrary. B/w educating and entertaining. B/w what they consider profane and sacrosanct.

At times, it touched our hearts deeply. At times, it frustrated us to no end.

Not every story was given the respect, sensitivity and intricacy it was due.

One moment could lead to a profound understanding of an aspect of a lived life some of us had never known; while the next could be a moment that was beyond confounding - about an aspect of ourselves that made us feel slighted, diminished and even erased.

It had often been an exercise in empathy to find our common humanity at the intersectionality of stories. Yet, the scale of empathy often skewed too far in favor of some characters with the differing standards, narrative frames and plot armors. Ironically yet reasonably turning people off these very characters they wanted people to root for. A persistent dissonance and disconnect.

But it was also the show that didn’t shy away from the ugly, the raw, the uncomfortable and messy parts of our shared human experience. The tribulations of oppression. The perils of ambition. The tests of morality. The trials of friendship and love. That we would make mistakes, but we could also make amends. That we're not defined by our worst. That our best lives could still be in front of us despite the current struggles. That sometimes life sucks but having your people with you makes it more bearable.

I would think it an interesting journey for the diversity of people behind, on, and in front of the screen. The evolving stories, evolving characters, evolving storytellers, an evolving fandom - all amidst an evolving media landscape.

It was probably not an easy show to make. The show had a bewilderingly lack of support from abc or shondaland. Diversity seemed to be both good for promotion (when there was any) and the reason for the prejudice against it.

Just as it had not been an easy show to watch - so biased, inconsistent and self-contradictory. Like when they kept telling us about the family spirit and deep friendships yet somehow spent more time showing otherwise. Or when the writing of systemic sexism was somehow inherently sexist.

Personally, I don’t think characters belong to the writers alone. Besides the usual constraints, the characters were often adjusted back and forth to fit the plots. We’ve also learnt how network execs' dislikes, writers’ personal experiences were factored into the stories. I fully respect the writers’ artistic rights. But actors who embodied the characters for years have a unique understanding too. Viewers also have their personal takes about what were true to characters. It's ok to agree to disagree.

There had been sparks of brilliance, but often extinguished too soon. It has been confounding how the greys-verse did not capitalise on its vast potential, esp. S19. Even while both shows share a show-runner. Grey's anatomy could have lent its scale while Station 19 could have injected renewed energy back into its mothership. Both shows could have been better for it.

Although the characters have the foundation of distinct and interesting backstories, their development often did not fully utilise the narrative potential and the talents of the cast. I’m sure the crew was also competent and hardworking. But somehow some elements b/w n within the shows seemed to just cancel each other out instead of amplifying their impact. IMO 704 and 709 were a few exceptions.

But I'll always be glad S19 existed and we got a S7. I believe they had tried their best to wrap up and give closure to everyone invested in the show. I truly appreciated the hard work given the circumstances even when I personally didn't agree with some takes.

In the end, I really do want to remember it as the show with heart, the show that made us laugh and cry and the show that tried. The show that's unique - in both its merits and flaws. I’ll definitely miss the characters. One last time - 19!