#recognition? i guess?

[sunlit-mess]

doodle before I go to bed lol

[deoidesign]

For my birthday... read my webcomic! It's literally free! (Unless you want books. Those are not free)

It's beautiful, it's gentle, it's funny, they're canonically t4t and gay... And it's about time traveling vampires solving supernatural mysteries!

I've spent thousands of hours writing and drawing it, and it's really good! I'm not biased!

It's on hiatus right now and coming back in 2 months, so it's the perfect time to get caught up

[doloneia]

thinking about this article i read that mentioned illegitimate children in ancient greece (athens in particular) and also this chapter from imagining illegitimacy in classical greek literature and how teucer's entire relationship to telamon (and by extension, ajax and eurysaces) is reliant on maintaining telamon's favor, and how when he loses that - after fighting for ten years to sack his mother's city, killing his own maternal family in the process - he is basically left without any kin at all. and i think it hits harder that teucer went to war against the side of his family that (in other circumstances) he would have been included in, since illegitimate children were typically raised by their mother's relatives. he gambled everything and he lost it all in return

[vagun1ka]

masters and their disciples

[kalpasoft]

it feels weird because it's obvious i've 'dropped off' since first announcing my game, the hype from the kickstarter and the markiplier play through of the prototype dying down.

it's weird because of course it bums me out that people aren't as excited as they were, but its also nice because it feels like there's a bit less pressure hanging over my head.

[gaeasun]

We all make fun of the disaster lineage for being disasters, but when you think about it they had exceptional dueling skills. Dooku was specifically known for his dueling ability; Obi-wan beat Anakin and Maul and yes though he ended up shooting Greivous he was one of the few Jedi to even survive dueling him; Anakin was well, Anakin.

Its hard to even say whos the best but Ahsoka sure has a list of achievements against opponents three times her size, and i think shes my favorite to actually watch (animation that is, with her reverse grip and acrobatic style).

Surviving Ventress in her first week as a padawan

Defeating three magnaguards, also in her first week as a padawan

Survives Ventress several more times, when Ventress is crazy enough to give a Jedi Master like Luminara serious trouble

Surviving Grievous when she still had one lightsaber and stubby baby montrals

Surviving Grievous again later during the youngling arc, once she has two lightsabers and a lot more experience under her belt. Even using all four of his lightsabers he can't kill her.

You know, Maul. When she was 17. Need i even say more?

The time she beat that one Inquisitor without her own lightsaber and killed him with his own (happened in both the book and TotJ).

That time she beat off two Inquisitors at once.

There are only three Jedi who ever survived against Vader. She did technically die but she came back and also a temple fell on her. anyways she survived long enough to have a building fall on her which is saying a lot.

Anyways disaster lineage are epic duelists and we have to respect them for that

[lowkeyrobin]

not so kind reminder that ai writing IS NOT WRITING. especially in fanfiction. get off the internet if you're that fucking dense. you're a loser and this isn't up for debate. making ai write the next chapter to your shit harry potter fanfic is loser activity. it's bland, lazy, and you're taking credit away from actual writers.

I beg of you to block me if yall stand w that shit or use it to do your writing for you

[banditblvd]

Ough…..Clorten Mini arc….

[astercontrol]

I have not watched the wolverine deadpool movie but the idea of two indestructible guys dealing with the "boohoo immortality would mean you lose all your loved ones" rhetoric by going FUCK YOU WE DONT WANT YOU PUNY MORTALS WE WANT EACH OTHER is 1. epic 2. legendary 3.the same reason I used to go feral over Jack/Ten

[l0verei]

CLEAN START AU UPDATE

Currently working on writing for the Clean Start AU, might take some time depending on how much I can get done considering that art block AND writers block(?) is a pain.. But I will be posting the writing here! Maybe add a few artworks here and there, some short animations too. But as of now, I am going to focus on writing and reference sheets, don't be shy to ask any questions!! Im here to answer, theories, ideas, maybe I'll get inspired by your comments too!

[ Perhaps I'll add a few OCs of yours into the background... As long as I have a reference! ]

(will update later)

CLEAN START AU HERE

ARTWORK #1

CHAPTERS

[non-plutonian-druid]

[ID: Two similar images of Viktor in the Paranatural au in a grocery store, pushing a cart and looking behind himself worriedly. He is surrounded by people going about their business, unable to see anything strange, including his mother. In the first image, the background is a photo of a grocery store aisle and Viktor's eyes are glowing, indicating that he is talking to his spirit. In the second, the landscape is white and gray and the architecture has turned into violin shapes. A giant spirit, the White Violin (based on Vanya post-surgery in the comics) reaches out towards Viktor, who is the only point of color in the scene. End ID.]

tfw you astrally project while grocery shopping and find a giant woman who really, really wants to kill you

(for those not in the know: in paranatural, when spectrals talk to their spirit, they go into a bullet time trance and the spirit changes what the world around them looks like. The White Violin makes the world black and white (mostly white), empty, and exclusively made up of melty and/or violin shapes. Also, the white violin is a wight and so "talking" doesn't really come into it very much)

(oh also, i based the background drawing off a screenshot i took of a supermarket 3d model made by richcontent on sketchfab, this appears to be their website: http://dougricho.com/. the actual photo i used is from an advertisement for shelving units)

[micahdotgov]

heartbreaking: ollie is not on the wikipedia page for special advisors but glenn is

[queercodedcowboy]

i have TWO best friends who absolutely refuse to watch justified but it was REALLY nice to get these messages this weekend

[viiridiangreen]

[queervocasongtourn]

So a fun thing about making the Youtube playlist is realizing the surprising amount of old songs whose only trace of existence is a single "[Title] eng sub" video from 2011 that no longer has the English lyrics because it was subbed through ANNOTATIONS. And now finding English lyrics to the songs is a Sisyphean affair, relegated to wading through the depths of old blogs like these.

Nonetheless, I find it a fun task! So many songs forgotten to the sands of time coming back for this tournament! It's beautiful to see :)

[uncanny-tranny]

One conversation I remember people having about people who have endured abuse or trauma is the use of survivor versus victim language, and I think a lot of people have misconceptions about the "right" language to use.

I think a lot of people have this idea that using victim language (e.g., "I was/am a victim of abuse") can send the message that you're perpetually a victim, and that because of that, it is "bad language." However, I think it's more accurate to conceptualize it more so as putting responsibility onto the people who harmed them. Framing yourself as a survivor can feel final and permanent, and some of us aren't ready for that level of definitiveness.

I think we need more acceptance of peoples conception of their experiences. It's okay to say that you were/are a victim, just as it's okay to say you are a survivor. The idea of being a "good" victim/survivor is damaging, and it's harmful to us. It puts the onus on us to think about everybody else's comfort but our own about our own damn trauma