#school 2017 wallpaper

[chuluoyi]

✎ LOVE ENTRIES — 💌 extra scenarios !

a collection of drabbles of your daily life and shenanigans with the strongest sorcerer ♡ (based on suggestions sent to askbox!). mostly fluff and suggestive content !

☆⌒.*･ entry year : 2006—2009

gojo's wallpaper

girls squealing around gojo | part 2

gojo doesn’t taking sparring with you seriously

☆⌒.*･ entry year : 2010—2017

megumi calling you mom

meeting your parents

touching your husband

gojo being giddy whenever he thinks of you (ft. ichiji)

marriage is hard?

yoga (gone wrong) with your husband

07.55 extended cut

passing out

life is good... because of shirtless gojo

casual clothes gojo

pregnancy diaries

using you as body pillow

groping you

boobs

exiling him to the couch (and missing him)

gojo bothering nanami

☆⌒.*･ entry year : 2018—present

your baby’s first birthday

baby’s bad haircut

gojo going along with baby's babbles

baby crying

gojo vs your son

baby gojo and his grandparents

horror movies

your son asking for baby sister?

picnic day

dad!gojo being worried about his son

gojo reacts to your kid being picked on

son’s first school performance

son gojo dying his hair black

gojo’s son and nanami’s daughter

[ddarker-dreams]

What's gg's mc aesthetic outside of the sorcerer's uniform? She's somewhat of a hello kitty girlie so I imagine her wearing the Y2K style especially in her school days but like a little less gaudy. But I wondered what your interpretation of her style would be

THIS AAAAAAASK OMG i know you sent it in a while ago but it was fun to think about and answer 😭 OKAY lemme go into my thoughts

2005-2007 (gg mc's style in her high school years)

your guess was pretty accurate!! she went for light denim, ruffles, and a pinkish color scheme. she had a lot of scrunchies from shoko. as for accessories, she didn't care much for wearing a purse... she'd just make gojo or geto hold her stuff GJSKDFKS she's proud of nobara for this reason. if they weren't around, pockets were a must. got to put that pink razr somewhere.

2017-2018 (gg mc's style in the current events of jujutsu kaisen)

she's on the precipice of entering her MILF era. she still loves ruffles and pink, but she's branched out a bit. midi length skirts have been added to her repertoire. she sees the appeal of purses now too, a revelation that led to gojo buying her waaaay too many. she prefers a line silhouettes and anything soft/feminine.

she might not have her pink razr anymore, but her phone has a pastel pink case if that counts. the wallpaper is always gojo. he takes hundreds of selfies on her phone and then makes himself the home and lock screen. cringe husband.

[kaitropoli]

"A Girl Hides Secrets"

by Nicoletta Ceccoli

2017.

Can I just gush by saying this image has been my wallpaper since middle school. I absolutely adore every piece of art Ceccoli creates. I highly recommend checking out her website (she illustrates books and has her own tarot, which I can proudly say I own and still use).

You can even buy this piece on Ceccoli's store page.

[oonlyaangel]

the eras tour is ending tonight and i wanted to say something about it. please don’t think i am one of those chronically online/celebrity obsessed people, i’m just a really sentimental girl who loves music, and i wanted to share how much this means to me.

i started to like taylor on a random friday in 2017. my dad knew i how much i liked music so he asked a friend (who had a music school) to give me singing lessons. this teacher knew how much i hated english songs (i didn’t understand anything at the time), but she made me sing back to december since it was kind of on my vocal range and was a cute song for a 11/12 years old. i liked this song so much that i started to sing it every time someone asked me to give a performance during family functions, and one day someone told me “maybe you should try to listen some of her music, if you like the song so much” and my journey begun. i remember being 12 years old and watching the you belong with me mv like every day on my computer, but my favorite songs were we are never getting back together and look what you made me do. as an italian tween who didn’t understand a single word in english, i just liked the music and the mv, they were literally so fun to watch!!

then in 2028 my parents gave me my first phone, and the first thing i did (after changing my wallpaper into a photo of my harry potter house, ofc) was install spotify and really start listening to taylor swift. one night i was traveling on a bus for a school trip, and i was listening to fearless with my headphones, but the music was so loud that the next day i heard people talking about this strange music on the bus.

when i started high school lover had just came up, and i became old enough to understand that i could just search for the translation of the songs (plus i was getting better in english anyway!); that album helped me so much since everyone in my new school kept pushing me for a coming out. they were right, but at the time i was so confused about it.

i had a lot of dark moments in my life, and i could alway rely on music for support. like when i fell in love with my amazing girlfriend in the worst moment of my life, feeling so alone and literally clinically depressed (lol), and reputation became my favorite album, i could really connect with it. that’s why my favorite song it’s call it what you want (and dress, but that’s a completely different story)!

when taylor released the europe dates for the eras tour i couldn’t get tickets, but i thought about all the times my dad told me he found last minute tickets at concerts/soccer matches and i convinced my gf to go with me to milan ( a 4hours train ride.)

idk how but we found 2 tickets DURING APPLAUSE, they were a little bit pricey but in one year we made some money just for the concert so we made it.

going to the eras was the best experience of my life, dancing to lover with my girlfriend, the love of my life, listening to my favorite childhood songs, THE REPUTATION SET, everything, you don’t know how much it meant to me. knowing that it’s over breaks my heart, and i know it’s stupid because it’s a tour, but idk, i feel like it helped me so much during this year (and i had a lot of sick family members, my sister almost died, plus my declining mental health).

[theblueststar]

UNTITLED

most of the time i feel hopeless,

but tonight I'm sitting on the floor of my childhood bedroom with a guy I've known since 2 grade, and his hair is curly now, his voice is deeper, but he has the same smile, and i still have the valentine card he gave me in 2017.

tonight I'm watching my little brother play riptide on a guitar my dad gifted him, the warm light of the lamp illuminates the wallpaper, it looks just like it did five years ago, and his voice while he sings sounds just like it did when he was 6 at his school's Christmas play

tomorrow, I'll feel hopeless again, but tomorrow doesn't matter right now

i smile and look up at the ceiling.

tonight, it feels like everything is going to be just fine.

[bree4]

I Know Who Killed me Chapter 1

it was Monday October 30, 2017 a day before Charlie Summers would meet his Demise. the air was crisp the leaves orange, the perfect setting. fourteen year old Charlie has nothing to worry about other than THE night of the year where we only care about being a skeleton or a superhero and even though he was way too old to still be trick or treating it was a tradition he and his four close friends had every single halloween. But this Year would be different.....

Three out of four Best Friends would go home and one would be murdered. on Wednesday November 1, 2017, the town of Anoka will be asking who killed Charlie Summers?

there's an alarm sounding on the dresser next to Charlie's bed he's tired but he knows he needs to wake up now or his mother will be aggravated. groaning he grabs his phone it's second hand iPhone 4 that he got from his cousin for his fourteenth birthday, the screen is cracked but you can still see the wallpaper , it's a picture of Charlie and his three best friends: Liam, Olivia, and Ethan who was grade a head of them. 

Mondays were always such shit days but not this week, this Monday meant they were only a day away from Halloween which is the best day of the year, incase you don't know. he jumped out of bed and started to get ready.

Getting ready Charlie grabs his MacBook laptop and starts youtube he's currently watching youtube art hoe look books and you-tubers who vlog their lives living in London or new york, two places he hope to live one day. but he's bored and can't focus so he goes to Spotify to find a fall playlist specifically a halloween play list, hits play than jumps in the shower. 

his closet consists of Levi 501s bright wind breakers and vans that range from classic black to his most worn pair, a checkered print with a rose embroidered on the side. he grabs his pumpkin spice lotion he recently bought at bath and body works shopping with his mom and sisters. he knows it's girly but he's never been one for masculinity. grabbing a yellow top and a pair of Levi's he tucks in the shirt grabs a black belt and rolls the cuffs of the jeans to show his nike socks, and finally grabbing a purple and green windbreaker and his checkered vans he's ready for school. his yellow kanken bag is hanging on the chair of his desk ready to pick up on his way out.

downstairs his mom is cooking breakfast but he doesn't eat much as of recently, he gained a couple pounds over the summer and is now self conscious. his mom has a iced coffee ready for him, he sips it and grabs a banana on his way out, but he throws it in the dumpster as he walks down the drive way. the cold of a 7 am morning in the fall hits his face and it's a feeling he will never forget.

"Charlie?" a familiar voice shouts from across the street it's Liam who lives a block over from the Summers, he's wearing a white oversized sweater and baggy 'mom jeans' with dark green converse and of course he's wearing a Kanken bag as well,  matter of fact almost everyone at Anoka Middle are.

not surprised a art school is obsessed with The Art Hoe Aesthetic, a term that started in 2015 from a poc creator on Tumblr. 

the boys ride the same bus together and a few stops away Olivia and Ethan get on they live next door to each other. and they are the other two of this core four friend group. Ethan is a grade higher than them but they all still hang out together. the bus ride is about a ten minute ride to Anoka Middle outside is a colourful pallet of orange, red, and yellow. everyone here clearly uses tumblr and watches you tubers like OkaySage and Haley Morales; my favourite is Eris the Planet, and Shane Dawson specifically his Conspiracy Videos. 

the bell rings and everyone rushes  inside to make sure we aren't late for first period.

[brightsuzaku]

I STILL HAVE SOME OF THESE IMAGES AS DESKTOP WALLPAPERS!

Hold on, let me get my folder, For The People.

At the time when these were being made, for the modified fractals at least, most people simply referred to them as "fractal art". I'd know. I was in high school downloading this stuff for my computer!

THIS is the oldest wallpaper in my wallpapers folder, it is from 2004, apparently. It was from a DeviantArt user called Graphic Serenity. Original source link is long gone, now.

For above, that's the link to "Follow The Light" from user aurora900. It's really cool that I can still find these online! That the original artist's profile is still up! You can also see how old this art is, oh my gosh. They uploaded this on September 27th, 2005!

From hereon, THESE ARE FRACTALS:

Above, this image "In the depths" was uploaded by DA user w3bdiod on 2002! Very good example of this specific style.

The above link is to Fractal Web by McMike on DeviantArt! Uploaded Decemebr 6th, 2004. You can tell I was fastidious about putting the name and artist in my file names, because this has been very easy to do, lol. I prefer linking back to the original files, you see.

UNFORTUNATELY, abstract_dark.jpg is not so lucky.

Reverse image search has NOT been kind to me, and the only DA link that got spat back at me is a re-color from a reposter. At this point in time, I was very active on DeviantArt myself, and got most of my wallpapers in this style from that site.

I even logged back into DA and, wow, searching backwards for "abstract dark" is a blast from the past. This particular image is VERY popular, however. My condolences.

Some people are still playing with fractals and running them through photoshop as late as 2017! This style is still alive!

This is "So Long" by PJKfractals on DeviantArt, and is from October 13, 2018!

Meanwhile, this below, is one of the oldest images in my Favorites folder on my DeviantArt account!

"String theory" by wordpaw, and it's from July 11th, 2005.

And, from hereon THESE ARE NOT FRACTALS:

"Mezzoluna" by elquin96. This it a minimalist take on the overall style, I would judge. It's from the right time, September 2nd, 2005. Not a fractal!

This is "artifact" by k3studio, and it's another one of those images from an artist that's no longer on DeviantArt! The "Date Taken" in my folder is May 17th, 2008, but the image itself may be older.

I hope you like my wallpaper collection! I absolutely loved this particular style, and I still have a billion favorites that I cannot share in one post.

This is one of the original "Saber" arts by RPGuere. It's definitely this version that's in my wallpapers folder, because the date I have on the image in my folder is from January ‎26, ‎2006, and the artist uploaded this one only two days earlier! He also uploaded a widescreen version later, in 2011, by the way.

This was uploaded September 5th, 2003, so I can only assume that supersampled is the new name of dreamwa1ker from DeviantArt! Very strong example of this particular trend in the 2000s. It's gorgeous, even still.

I was thinking about switching back to one of these wallpapers myself, but my huge new resolution (3480x2160) is going to absolutely murderize them, haha. I guess I'll have to look for a new wallpaper in this kind of style!

Enjoy these old links! Get yourselves some new-old wallpapers, lol.

"Metalheart (also known as Depthcore or Trendwhore) is an aesthetic that was prevalent from roughly 1998 to 2004, during the Y2K Era. It was characterized by deformed abstract shapes and futuristic fonts on blurry backgrounds."

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[bersergner-blog]

Practice 1_1.2 - Gathering Inspiration

A few inspirations instantly sprung to mind.

For Composition: Daniel Warren Punisher, Hotline Miami, Patrick Brown, John Woo gunfight chaos

DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON (2017). [Online] Available at: https://twitter.com/danielwarrenart/status/946796548754759685/photo/1

PATRICK BROWN (2020). [Online] Available at: https://www.joblo.com/awesome-artists-weve-found-around-the-net-patrick-brown/

For Colours: Hotline Miami, David Hartman, Seung Eun Kim (Palette)

SEUNG EUN KIM (2021). [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4X9Lv1

TWITTER (2020). [2020]. [Online] Available at: https://twitter.com/HotlineMiami/status/1272216295799500802/photo/1

For Character: Tetsuo (Akira), Akira (Rival Schools)

PXFUEL. [Online] Available at: https://www.pxfuel.com/en/desktop-wallpaper-tilqo

FIGHTERS GENERATION. [Online] Available at: https://fightersgeneration.com/np7/char/akira-project.png

Moodboards

A collage of images I used for inspiration.

References Bergner, E.B. [Sketches] 8TRACKS. [Online] Available at: https://8tracks.com/deluxeturbopuns/collections/dorohedoro AMAZON. [Online] Available at: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61SpYj+V3iL.AC_UF894,1000_QL80.jpg PINTEREST. [Online] Available at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/2251868551208392/ MADABOUTHORROR. [Online] Available at: https://madabouthorror.co.uk/product/scream-greats-killer-klowns-from-outer-space-fatso-8-figure-pre-order/ MERRIAM-WEBSTER. [Online] Available at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harlequin ARGOS. [Online] Available at: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/3334807 ALEXIS RIVES. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g0GLRQ WIKIMEDIA. [Online] Available at: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Neon_White_cover_art.jpg PINTEREST. [Online] Available at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/winter-outfit-idea-a-really-big-jacket-and-cool-sneakers--354377064430711535/ MOTOLEGENDS. (2022). [Online] Available at: https://www.motolegends.com/reviews/Motorcycle-leather-suit-vs-textile-suit-Which-is-best PINTEREST. [Online] Available at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/372461831680449765/ DUPONT. [Online] Available at: https://www.dupont.com/fabrics-fibers-and-nonwovens/motorcycle-gear.html ETSY. [Online] Available at: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/953397913/leather-deadpool-cosplay-costume PLAY-ASIA. [Online] Available at: https://www.play-asia.com/figma-durarara-x2-celty-sturluson/13/70ajpn DURARARA.FANDOM. [Online] Available at: https://durarara.fandom.com/wiki/Celty_Sturluson?file=Celty_character_sheet.png SLASHFILM. [Online] Available at: https://www.slashfilm.com/802551/akiras-motorcycles-came-straight-out-of-another-sci-fi-classic/ PINTEREST. [Online] Available at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/super-glossy-black-giant-puffer-coat--633389135100281974/ PATRICK BROWN. (2015). [Online] Available at: https://www.deviantart.com/patrickbrown/art/Deadpool-576146472 TWITTER (2013). [Online] Available at: https://twitter.com/HotlineMiami/status/305451269072490497 FILM SCHOOL REJECTS. [Online] Available at: https://filmschoolrejects.com/john-woo-action/ TRIPOD. [Online] Available at: https://fabkid.tripod.com/wootrade.html PINTEREST. [Online] Available at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/oni-mask-lol-video-game-8x10-craft-sewing-cotton-fabric-block--434386326571351037/

[starlingsrps]

elise scott

BASIC INFORMATION

FULL NAME: elise kay scott (nee wallace)

REASONING: nope.

NICKNAME(S): el, ellie

PREFERRED NAME(S): elise or ellie - her late husband was the one who called her el the most and you gotta know her well for that one to slide.

BIRTH DATE: november 3

AGE: forty four

ZODIAC: scorpio sun/sagittarius moon/aries rising (oops all feelings)

GENDER: female

PRONOUNS: she/hers

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: token straight on thin ice

NATIONALITY: american

CURRENT LOCATION: chicago - she came here for grad school and it's home now.

LIVING CONDITIONS: a house in lincoln park on wilton that she spent too long picking out wallpaper for to move from, even if it kind of hurts to stay there now. (https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/3015-N-Racine-Ave-60657/home/13363893)

BACKGROUND

BIRTH PLACE: elkhart, in

HOMETOWN: same

SOCIAL CLASS: middle

EDUCATION LEVEL: indiana university for undergraduate degree in psychology; masters in education from university of illinois chicago

FATHER: don wallace, 77

MOTHER: karen wallace, 75

SIBLING(S): laura, 49; hallie, 47; ryan, 40

BIRTH ORDER: next to last

CHILDREN: nope - she's delighted in her nieces and nephews and adores them but she's also so, so happy to be able to give them back to their parents. she and neil were forever talking about it but there was always something else that took over so it never happened. 

PET(S): nutmeg, golden retriever. nutmeg is her child, it counts. nutmeg is four years old and was a throw rug in her past life.

OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIVES: nieces and nephews and brother and sister in laws through her siblings; neil's family because they were married for fourteen years so you bet your ass she's still invited to the gatherings.

PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: neil scott, deceased. neil passed away a year and a half ago from pancreatic cancer and no she's great! she's doing fine! she's absolutely not stuck on the anger stage of grief!

ARRESTS?: no but she did get a little mouthy with a cop at the women's march in 2017.

PRISON TIME?: nah.

OCCUPATION & INCOME

PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: high school guidance counselor

CONTENT WITH THEIR JOB?: she's very fond of her job but she does also find it very ironic that her job is to counsel people when she is the reigning champion of bottling it up.

PAST JOB(S): little bit of whatever - waitressing mostly, some retail.

SPENDING HABITS: nothing insane - she has neil's life insurance policy but doesn't want to touch it.

MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION: her wedding rings, neil's record collection, and nutmeg.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

PHYSICAL STRENGTH: strong enough for one trip from the car to the house with groceries and heave her couch around but not strong enough to lift a car.

SPEED: she walks real fast

INTELLIGENCE: curious, fairly well read.

ACCURACY: fine!

AGILITY: fine!

STAMINA: like is it the depression? no idea but she's going to take a nap.

TEAMWORK: very good. she genuinely is a people person, just a lil prickly lately.

TALENTS: bringing out the best in others, a tetris like ability to make things fit.

SHORTCOMINGS: she is real bad at quitting anything. nothing is ever finished, it's just on pause. for many years. gathering dust.

LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: english, a little spanish

DRIVE?: yes

JUMP-STAR A CAR?: at one point, sure but she really couldn’t tell you where to start now.

CHANGE A FLAT TIRE?: see above. 

RIDE A BICYCLE?: yes

SWIM?: yes

PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: nah

PLAY CHESS?: nah but she is a killer at checkers.

BRAID HAIR?: more or less

TIE A TIE?: nah

PICK A LOCK?: nah

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS

FACE CLAIM: rachel mcadams

EYE COLOR: hazel

HAIR COLOR: light brown

HAIR TYPE/STYLE: longish, swishy - she's had the same hair since she was thirty and she's far too lazy to change it now.

GLASSES/CONTACTS?: reading glasses

DOMINANT HAND: right

HEIGHT: 5'4

BUILD: skinny side of average - she dropped weight after neil died and she's still trying to get back to where she was.

EXERCISE HABITS: she walks all the time and if she's the only person on the riverwalk because it's raining then GOOD.

SKIN TONE: fair, dark undereye circles for days

TATTOOS: nope.

PIERCINGS: ears

MARKS/SCARS:  mole on her left cheek, general freckles and such

USUAL EXPRESSION: elastic - she's bad at hiding emotions

CLOTHING STYLE: work mode is black ankle pants and either a blouse or a sweater, casual mode is that but leggings.

JEWELRY: whatever earrings and necklace go with the outfit, neil's watch, her wedding band. she stopped wearing her engagement ring a few years ago for no real reason.

ALLERGIES: wicked seasonal allergies

DIET: sparing and not well. the last year has been a grief fog and the year before that was taking care of neil so whatever steady health or nutrition got left in the dust.

PHYSICAL AILMENTS: nah

PSYCHOLOGY

MORAL ALIGNMENT: lawful good

TEMPERAMENT: choleric

ELEMENT: fire

MBTI TYPE: ENFJ

MENTAL CONDITIONS/DISORDERS: is the depression situational or is it forever? she doesn't know but the prozac helps.

SOCIABILITY: pretty good - she's great at deflecting attention from herself and making people feel welcome and valued.  

EMOTIONAL STABILITY: been better! she's kind of stuck at anger in the stages of grief and while she's pretty good at keeping it to herself, she also is gonna yell if someone's being an asshole at the grocery store.

PHOBIA(S): she has a reasonable and healthy fear of getting hit by a taxi.

DRUG USE: she started smoking pot with neil when he was starting chemo - it helped with his appetite and pain management and frankly, this was the good shit soooo...she kept it up. 

ALCOHOL USE: not especially - not worth the hangover anymore.

PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: her mouth writes a lot of checks her weak wrists can't cash so no.

MANNERISMS

SPEECH STYLE: smooth, lilting. good voice, soothing.

ACCENT: flat midwestern but fuck you she doesn't have an accent.

QUIRKS: nutmeg is an amazing conversationalist, what do you mean it's weird to talk to the dog?

HOBBIES: her little walk/stomps, sitting on her patio and people watching

HABITS: work, walking, grief group. she finally started going in the past four months and it's not helped as immediately as she would have liked but it's nice to not feel alone.

NERVOUS TICKS: she's going to change the subject IMMEDIATELY and GRACELESSLY.

DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: no idea. accepting ideas though.

POSITIVE TRAITS: loyal, sincere, perceptive, reliable, altruistic

NEGATIVE TRAITS: angry, impulsive, harsh, stubborn, prone to extremes

SENSE OF HUMOR: it was always a little dark but now it's real dark

DO THEY CURSE OFTEN?: not as much as you'd think

FAVORITES

ACTIVITY: walking. it was the only way she could tire herself out enough to sleep when neil passed away and she kept it up. she doesn't like silence and she doesn't like being alone and walking is....well it's still mostly solitary but she's at least out.

ANIMAL: dogs but mostly nutmeg. that dog is her soul dog.

BEVERAGE: coffee, black with three sugar packets.

BOOK: the seven husbands of evelyn hugo

COLOR: green

DESIGNER: whatever's on sale at nordstrom.

FOOD: pasta

FLOWER: poppies

GEM: emerald

HOLIDAY: anything with a long weekend

MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: walk or train. she can drive, she just doesn't enjoy it at this point in being a city dweller.

MOVIE: forever on the nancy meyers beat.

SONG: "you and me on the rock" by brandi carlile

SCENERY: sitting at the lakefront with the city behind - best of both situation.

SCENT: coffee, lavender

SPORT: baseball, she guesses but that was more of a social outing when she was still in better touch with her friends.

SPORTS TEAM: cubs. there was no other option. 

TELEVISION SHOW: dateline, mostly keith morrison episodes.

WEATHER: fall

VACATION DESTINATION: northern michigan - she grew up going to a cabin that's been in her family for generations during the summers. she and her siblings share ownership of it now (their father claims its so he doesn't have to do upkeep anymore) and she still tries to go as much as she can.

ATTITUDES

GREATEST DREAM: [file not found]

GREATEST FEAR: worst case scenario has already happened so fuck it, bring it on.

MOST AT EASE WHEN: when nutmeg is laying on top of her. it's like therapy, don't worry about it.

LEAST AT EASE WHEN: being treated with kid gloves. she feels like there's a stamp on her forehead that everyone else can see that says "widow, handle with care" and it pisses her off. many things piss her off but that's one of them.

WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN: hahahahahhaha

BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: she's very proud of her job and the good that she does there and while she can't stop wishing they had more time, she loved the life she built with neil.

BIGGEST REGRET: she knows it's not logical but neil passed away in his sleep on a night when he and the hospice nurses talked her into going home to shower and get some rest. she wasn't there and it guts her.

BIGGEST SECRET: nah, not really. mostly how badly she's handling this but also that's pretty obvious.

TOP PRIORITIES: [file not found]

[kimjunghyunintlfans-blog]

Kim Jung Hyun / School2017 HD Wallpaper 🌟

[party-in-hell]

Lockscreens - School 2017 pt.3

I got inspired ;v;

[cxkemel]

halloween special! Round 6 and Pennywise, icons Melanie Martinez. Like or reblog!

Photos edited by me. Elitta.

[kkum-mongjjang-blog]

School 2017 Wallpapers/Lockscreens

[hometoursandotherstuff]

These disturbing fliers began popping up around Los Angeles some years ago,  featuring horror movie-worthy images, that advertised a rather unsavory service: The chance to “bathe” in a stone-faced, silver-haired woman’s “milk.’”

The “Bathe in My Milk” flier directed men to BatheInMyMilk.com to apply for an appointment. Those deemed worthy would be allowed to sponge themselves down in milk — “traditional, soy or almond” — while the lady looked on. (“I will watch you,” the leaflet promised.)

The setting for said baths looked equally disturbing: A filthy, dilapidated bathroom with torn wallpaper, a bathmat that looks like it hasn’t been washed since the Nixon presidency and, ominously, a rope.

The mystery of the bath only deepened when photos of the grim flier started going viral. It made the rounds on Reddit and Twitter, and sparked perplexing responses: “The men in the bath in my milk photos are no longer with us. That is a fact.”

So what the hell was it? The fliers were an elaborate prank done by artist & comedian Alan Wagner. Wagner came up with the bizarre idea when a beverage company asked him to create a meme that would make their drink go viral. He offered a version of this, but it was rejected because it was too quirky.

So he decided to do it himself. Though meant as a joke, interest in the milk baths was strong. He told inquirers that the old woman didn’t have technology, and asked them to mail her a physical letter explaining why they are a “top candidate.” The address he provided them with? An unsuspecting friend. (The USC film school grad hopes to someday support himself with his twisted art.)

https://nypost.com/2017/12/22/the-story-behind-creepy-as-hell-milk-bath-flyers

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Ahhhhh happy birthday my precious child. I'm so happy that I was able to make half way good edits for your birthday. I decided that this time I would make laptop backgrounds and not phone ones this time. Though later I will be posting some icons just to celebrate her birthday a little more. Once again HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANAYO!

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Today I remembered Mad Magic, and I made a LONG post about it. MM ran from November 2017 to May 2020 for a total of nearly 200 pages, my longest comic yet, not only in terms of actual continuous posting, but in development, as I have sketches and art dating back from 2011. Almost ten years of planning and drawing resulted in me having a big burnout that lasted a year and a half. It wasn’t MM fault that happened, and this post is sort of me coming to terms with what went wrong.

While the details and the higher concept shifted and changed multiple times, the heart of this comic always remained the same: there’re two girls, they’re roommates, and they live through a series of comedic horror adventures. 

Around early 2017, I combined this first draft with many newer ideas about high concept parody/deconstructions of Harry Potter: “What if a teenage Chosen one enters their adulthood and realizes they can’t top all the stuff they did as a kid?” and “What if one of those wallpaper background bullies that work as henchman for the main rival was the center of the narrative?” To be honest I was never a huge fan of Harry Potter, but still, I was in the right age group to see the movies as a kid, and read a few of the early books, so these concepts intrigued me.

Enter Mad Magic, the story of Joy Kaplan, former Demon Goat (that’s your house Slytherin), who after getting kicked out of school, ends up living a life of expedients, together with sassy Alix Peck, a punk girl that appears normal but has actually a mysterious past.

You know how they tell you “don’t make your first comic your big end all epic magnum opus”? Well, Mad Magic wasn’t technically my first attempt at a webcomic, but it nailed the too big for its own good part. When I finished planning it, it was going to be 17 chapters long (40 to 80 pgs each), with dozens of characters, twists, turns, action scenes, magic, time travel, vampires, elves, doppelgangers, lovecraftian gods, crossovers with other stories of mine, long haul plans a la Once Piece where that one character introduced in one panel in page 4 of chapter 1 was supposed to become the main villain of the story arc of chapter 12…

Considering the series ended after 4 chapters and a quarter, we know something broke down along the way. But what? Well first off MM was a ton of work. I structured the pages in a large euro-comic style, with four rows of panels, that fluctuated between 10 to 20 each, all full color. With a day job, completing a full page could take a couple of days or even a full weekend. So that was tiring, maintaining the schedule ate up a lot of free time, and whenever I missed an update or decided to take a brief hiatus I always regretted it and felt like crap about it.

But the biggest problem was a lack of general fulfillment and this absence was caused by my perceived inability to “find an audience”. There’re plenty of articles online explaining the causes of burnout, and one of the big ones is the problem with “reward”, when you don’t feel like the effort you put into something is worth what you’re getting in return.

There were people reading Mad Magic, there were people that seemed to love Mad Magic, but in my eyes, they were never enough… but what would’ve been “enough” anyway? What magic number would've made it worth it??? Ultimately, this junction between my inability to gather a larger interest, and the presence of this foggy, undescribed “number” of people that would’ve satisfied me caused the wheels to break down. I was letting things like subscriber counts, likes per page, pageviews and reblogs dictate how I perceived my own creation. If a page got fewer likes than average, I started wondering, obsessing what was wrong with it. 

The point is, after nearly three years of working on Mad Magic, doing my damnest to put out pages weekly, I was seeing absolutely no growth in reach or audience and I didn’t really know what I was doing wrong or if I was doing anything right in the first place. This stagnation led to stress, which led to losing pleasure in doing the comic in the first place, so that I was forcing myself to make pages, eventually leading to burnout and the complete loss in my desire to draw again. It took me a year and a half to get back into things, a period so nasty and bleak that even the idea of reading a comic made me queasy. The fact that this coincided with the global covid pandemic exacerbated the problems, but I think that even without that, it would’ve simply taken a bit longer to reach the same point of no return. I realize now this mentality was unfair towards the few readers I had, and to myself too.  I try not to worry about the idea of “finding an audience” anymore. I make the stuff I make because I want to, if I catch myself thinking “people won’t care about this” I nip it in the bud. I’m lucky enough that I don’t need to draw for a living, and considering artist’s spaces on the web seem to be constantly shrinking, the whole endeavor of finding a following online seems just a headache. I also try not to be bothered by the concept of schedules and updates.  I only draw when I want, when I feel like it, and it works. I look at stuff like Toxic Park, one of my current projects: in 2022, I produced around 80 pgs of story in two blocks, when the will and inspiration to do so hit me. That’s roughly the same amount of pages of Mad Magic I made in a similar period 2017/2018, by forcing myself to have at least one page ready every single week. So, the change in schedule or lack thereof, didn’t result in a change in output. Not to mention, that in both cases, I tried to develop other ideas simultaneously, and while with MM coming out that felt like crunching, at my leisure carefree pace I also made a 20 pages historical comic, Theo the Lucky, and nine more shorter comics, which are all around two to three pages worth of story (and you’ve seen posted on this blog). Simply put, I feel like I draw so much more now that I don’t cage myself in a mentality where “I must get this done before this completely imaginary deadline hits”.

I still hold the Mad Magic’s cast dear to my heart, they’re part of a ten year journey. I often try to think of ways of bringing it back, but continuing from the point where I left it off, where things were just starting to get interesting, doesn’t feel right. I may follow Osamu Tezuka’s Star System, where the same characters in personality and design are recontextualized in completely different stories. We’ll see.

Mad Magic is still up on tumblr where it was originally posted! And looking back at it, I think it still holds up relatively well. I lost all passwords and emails relative to that account so I can’t access it, but the entirety of the comic in its uncompleted state (I think some pages might’ve been weirdly flagged during the tumblr porn ban?) can still be read here:

@madmagic-comic