#please be realistic

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

reading through some of the articles that came out about Jake Adelstein in the wake of Tokyo Vice and man. why do people do this. you live a life that is objectively cooler than the lives of most people, but for whatever reason, you feel the need to embellish things or outright lie. for what!!! you could have just written about your cool life dude. you didn't have to get into all that mess.

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Cannot count the number of times I’ve seen the “the jOkeR waS the OnLy onE at fAuLT for jaSOn’s deAtH” take circling around.

Jason forgave Bruce and never gave him shit for it. That doesn’t change the fact that Bruce left his son alone with a stranger they just met in a foreign country, it was child endangerment lol.

[nianeyna]

"I lost followers for this"

am i the only one who doesn't like when people say "ermm the fact that people aren't reblogging the post with this addition says a lot" like no it doesn't. have you considered that not everyone is intentionally trying to slight you by reblogging the original version of the post. have you considered that some people just don't see the version with the addition. why are you like this

[sysig]

Permission to headbutt: Granted (Patreon)

[bixels]

tarpit site.

[nokkiart]

As a long time httyd fan who has been heavily involved in the fandom since the first movie and who has spent years working in the animation industry, I’d like to share my thoughts on the new httyd movie. Keep in mind, this is just my personal opinion and it's completely fine if you disagree with me. I just want to say a little something about all this that really bothers me.

The core reason that Dreamworks and Universal made this film is that it’s a quick and easy cash grab for them. Thats it. They don’t care about telling a good story or making a “better” version of the original movie for fans or even having an accurate portrayal of the characters/story. It’s purely about money. They know that fans of the original film will go see this movie, whether it’s good or bad. And those guaranteed ticket sales are all that matter to the studios. And with Universal, it has the added bonus of being a cheap promotional and merchandising opportunity for the new HTTYD land in Orlando that opens around the same time that the film is premiering in theaters.

And to help the studios make even more money out of this, they are using non-unionized VFX companies around the world to make this film, so that they can get cheaper labor and push the artists to do more that would be against American union standards. The same thing has probably happened with the costuming and fabrication for the filming, hence why the costumes look un-weathered and the sets look cheap. They don’t want to pay for the extra time and effort that it would take to make the practical bits of the production look good.

On top of all this, Dreamworks has already announced that they’re shutting down all their in-house animation projects in favor of using AI and outsourcing projects to cheaper international non-union studios.

With all this in mind, I just can’t support this film and I will not be seeing it in theaters. And I hope that others will do the same.

The only way to stop all these horrible “live action” remakes (which are actually just realistically animated remakes) is to not buy tickets to see them. Money is all that matters to these studios, and if they don’t make any money off of it, then they will stop and try something different. Maybe they'll even go back to focusing on original stories!

That’s the power that we hold as audiences. Our wallets help drive the decisions that the executives make. So support unique storytelling and gorgeous cinematography in movies. Support indie films. Support animators as they're fighting for fair pay and better contracts. But don't support a mediocre shot-for-shot remake riding on the coattails of an already successful film.

And I just want to wrap all this up by saying I have absolutely no hate towards anyone that has worked on the new film. Toothless looks incredible and I know the artists and creatives involved in this project did the best they could with what they were given.

But I also know that those same artists have so many more brilliant ideas that they would’ve loved to be given the creative freedom to do. I just wish hollywood would be willing to take a chance and let them do it.

[dragonagepolls]

@peace-potatoes-and-dreams

[werewolfaday]

day 44!

[crabsnpersimmons]

"Your heart was in the right place. Don't blame your earnestness and efforts for their lack of understanding—the right people will appreciate your heart."

EDIT: i mention this in the tags already, but please don't copy my vent tags in your reblogs. thanks for understanding.

[sandeewithtwoe]

Congrats on hitting 18 million subs king 🐷

[ghost-proofbaby]

can y'all please come into my humble abode and imagine something with me i don't yet have the wits to write a full fledged fic out of (yet)?

so, everyone knows how when you get a tattoo, part of the healing process is the itchy phase, right? and for obvious reasons, you can't scratch it. favored method, in my experience and fellow tatted friends, is to just give it a good old slap.

perfect. so now, with this in mind, can you imagine having gotten a large hip/ass piece, and how mortifying it would be to smack your own ass to soothe that itch? and it's just plain painful. you want your new ink to heal properly - it's gorgeous and you put a lot of time, pain, and money into that damn thing - but it just sucks.

enter best friend eddie.

he loves your new ink. thinks it's fucking sick. nearly creamed his damn pants when he found out you were doing a hip/ass tatt (because how can he ask to see it without being weird? how can he react to that without being weird when he's spent the last several years with the world's most pathetic crush on you?) at first, it's fine. you show him the tattoo in a totally friendly, totally platonic way. he hypes you up, he calls you 'the most metal person he knows'. flourishes you with all the compliments and looks at you with starry eyes out of sheer awe at the way he's managed to snag a person into his life who is just so. damn. cool.

but the days pass by, that new ink begins to heal, and it fucking itches.

when you first proposition him, you're even more embarrassed than he is. stumbling over all your words, the request coming out contorted every wrong way. you don't want to make things weird, but is it really that weird for a friend to help a friend? it is really that weird to ask your best friend to smack your tattoo to help with that itch you can't even really properly reach?

it's just friends helping friends.

and that's the mantra you both repeat to yourselves - as you request the embarrassing favor of him, as he agrees almost too eagerly, as you find yourself face-planted in your bed wondering how deeply you can bury down your shame as he tries to make jokes to make it all a bit less awkward.

it's just friends helping friends, until eddie's hand lands down on your ass with a resounding smack, and that first little whimper escapes your lips.

[dreamerdrop]

holding garak responsible for his behaviour on empok nor is kinda ridiculous for a number of reasons, one of which is obviously the fantastical nature of specifically what happened there in the first place, but. i gotta say.

if someone was slowly induced into a state of psychosis, dosed with utterly absurd amounts of basically amphetamines against their will, and then placed into a situation that involved them being encouraged to murder at least two people in the name of self defense, if they went ahead and flipped out and tried to kill everyone else present at the time, well—

i think i would forgive a real world human for that too, honestly. i do not think that would be their fault. i would think that situation was fucked up and they (and everyone else) were gonna need therapy forever and ever but that was not their fuckin’ fault.

[steamedlotusroot]

remember when swk tried to take li jing and nezha to court for gross negligence in jttw? good times

[laswells-ashtray]

Sometimes Nikolai forgets John's favourite colour, he isn't sure if it's some kind of blue or green. But he can tell you about the mole in the crook of John's right elbow and how the Englishman is weirdly insecure about it. Or about how going down John's shoulder, there's a line of freckles that slowly get smaller and at almost looks like an art piece.

John can't always tell you Nikolai's favourite movie or tv show. Sometimes, it changes, and he can never quite keep track. But he can tell you exactly where the patches of skin pigmentation on Nikolai's body are. They're pale like birthmarks, but they've appeared randomly throughout the years, and he has them memorised. There's one directly under Nikolai's right arse cheek, his personal favourite. And three of them across the centre of his chest.

[itsnotmourn]

im crying skid and pump need to learn how to KNOCKKK LMAO😭 BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY THATS WINIFREDD THIS SHORT IS SO CUTEEEE I DIDNT KNOW I GOT IN I NEED TO RAMBLE ABOUT IT BELOW

just kidding, i drew this!!

i asked for oc's so i can plan for the spooky month inktober theme (animals and monsters) :]

all usernames is on twitter except for (to my knowledge)

@michax-forever + @jbwashere + @murderchonk + @arrietty-rune + @nscolin81

[t3a-gh0st]

CURT!!! CAN YOU EXPAND ON THIS!!!!???? WHAT!?!