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now i dont know anything about demons but ive never seen someone do a beelzebub interpretation and so heavily drop the whole lord of the flies bee bug thing like that other vivzie show has
#as im typing im noticing she has wings outside of just the ear antenna and extra arms i just didnt see em but its still eh#i know like 3-4 beelzebubs off the top of my head that come across better like do what you want with character designs#you dont haaave to have the theme be apparent but idk having a character b an interpretation of a theologoical figure id hope you'd keep#some themes at least#and even outside of that shes just doesnt look that great below mediocre to me personally but whatever im not a professional idc#and i dont get why shes a wolf maybe theres an in world reason there are so many canines but i feel like its shooting the design in the foo#not that you couldnt do a bug wolf demon but i like...wouldnt have done it like that ig#kae.txt
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finally at that age where i'm thinking i should get a tattoo. not bc i feel strongly about it, just seems like a waste not to. i've got so much skin i'm not using
#feels so selfish like. all this skin what am i saving it for?#open to design suggestions! (please make me regret this offer)#maybe some deep sea horrors. a pretty watercolor of a gulper eel#once saw a person on the subway with various Skeleton Tattoos on all their limbs#i respected their commitment to the theme#but more than that i respected how all the skeletons were engaged in Activities#dancing in a ballgown. juggling its own (and two other???) skulls. swordfighting. being a mermaid skeleton#ANYWAY. the only reason i haven't already gotten tattoos is i just couldn't be bothered#i'm old enough to know i don't have any strong-but-potentially-temporary feelings driving me towards it#aesthetically i prefer decorated to non-decorated surfaces. but i'm not artistic or thrilled with commitment#honestly it feels like sheer laziness. indecisiveness--nay. immaturity!--that i HAVEN'T gotten a tattoo yet#letting all this blank canvas go to waste. tut tut i need to grow up and be an adult and get a tattoo sleeve already.#really i've put off my responsibilities long enough#(in fairness i DID at one time have 18 different piercings)#(but i took most of them out bc they interfere with wearing headphones and/or shoving my face in my pillow during Sleep Time)#(i only kept the nape piercing bc oddly enough it ended up being the most convenient. and the least painful to get now i think about it.)#(neck piercing? no problem. normal pair of earrings? Tribulations And Suffering. i don't make the rules i just poke them with a stick.)
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I think depictions of Anya being cruel to Curly or drawing out his suffering are artful and chilling but completely miss the point of the story and her character.
I'm not saying she doesn't deserve to have that "I told you so" moment with him but not in something callous or cold. Even if that is how it happened, she'd immediately feel guilty cause at that point she's not tormenting her tormenter or even the person truly at fault. She's doing something cathartic, similar to how Jimmy likely hits Curly to release rage he can't against the rest of the crew. She'd see herself as no different when she'd come back from the moment and see Curly cowering at her. She wants someone to take responsibility but how does being cruel to the defenseless help? Why would she want the power Jimmy has over her over Curly?
The idea of her extending someone else's pain is just so against the struggles she already faces and how she can't even bring herself to cause someone pain even to help them. Her very desire is to release herself from her own suffering and I doubt she'd even fine some sort of guilty release in being cruel to another.
#anya is not a character i see taking agency or indulging in cathartic behaviors#not knowingly like i see her as a character trapped in her head and maybe in the scenario she's cruel to Curly she is envisioning Jimmy#in his place but its not a story about justice or those deserving of punishment and those not like its the opposite of people projecting#their issues on the wrong people and saying things to the wrong people and doing things they shouldn't but anya uniquely falls out of it as#she is subjected to a lot of it but it is also not something she wants to subject another person to like you are doing what Jimmy does and#placing ur rage into another persons and viewing their actions through your eyes like she'd more likely yell at him than do harm or#cause him more pain like at least make it in character#but also she clearly doesn't want to see jimmy or curly in the same light and doesnt because she still repeatedly goes to Curly for comfort#and protection and god there's like concepts that need to be applied to characters individually and then the story as a whole#we can not view the game through only one themed lens less we forget to inspect the compounding factor of Anya is so much more than girl#that needs to be allowed to go off but a woman that simply wants right to be done by her and no more harm like she doesn't want to be aroun#the suffering like idk but some of yall would just benefit from like understanding that people are inherently grey with the capabilities of#black n white thinking or actions#mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#anya mouthwashing#i like her the most but then again i am defensive of all women in media and hate when people change the way the character would take agency#for themselves like yes I want her to tweak out but she just wouldn't and I like seeing realistic depictions of a woman suffering the way#she is like shes not the type at the end of the movie to have a one liner but feel a shallow freedom cause she needs to realistically heal#idk but its just like there is an obbsession forming with making her character her pain and not how she handles and navigates the issue
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Her Saturday 💙💛
#Fellas is it gay to match each others ink colours for the fest...#they're so gay#the true valentine's splatfest🔥🔥#our theme is so nothingburger but at least there are some shivrye crumbs💙💛#shivrye#shiver x frye#splatfest#splatoon 3#leyko drawz
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By the way, Will is explicitly written not only as a gay character who is in love with his best friend, but also as a character who grew up believing that he’d never fall in love. He’s someone who still believes that he doesn’t deserve to be loved, because he feels like his feelings are a mistake. This isn’t the type of character arc that will end with him watching the only person he has ever expressed interest in, the boy he’s in love with, be with with someone else. That wouldn’t be satisfying for viewers, wouldn’t make sense for Will as a character, and it would be needlessly cruel. In a story focused on demonstrating why society’s outsiders deserve love and acceptance, he’s going to find just that. It’s the only end for him that fits with his arc and the show’s narrative themes. To have it end otherwise is terrible writing.
#there are dozens of examples of ‘proof’ for byler being endgame but we don’t need any of it. it’s built into the story itself#look at the themes. the story they’re trying to tell. and ask yourself whether it makes sense for will to end up alone#spoilers: it doesn’t!#and they aren’t going to introduce some boy last minute when will has been in love with mike for the past two seasons (at least)#that wouldn’t make sense and would also be terrible writing!#trust the process#will byers#byler#byler endgame#byler analysis
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aro/ace themed valentine's day teddy bears ^^ because i just recently found out i might be arospec but also just cuz like..... why not
#this may be out of character for me because just a few weeks ago i strongly disliked valentine's day lmao#now that i know im probably some kinda flavor of aro? i.. dunno how to feel#how i feel about the holiday is complicated#while i still dont like the romantic aspect of it.. at least i dont find myself rolling my eyes at valentine's themed stuff as much anymore#idk maybe i'll go back to disliking the holiday next year who knows lol#i guess its just the catharsis i suppose..#aromantic#asexual#aroace#aspec#arospec#lgbtq#valentine's day#valentine's#teddy bear#digital art#art#toby draws things
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have you put the pieces together yet, detective
#goro akechi#akechi goro#persona 5#persona 5 royal#p5 akechi#p5 spoilers#persona 5 fanart#jesst some art#i may have worked on this for... just under two weeks? i had like. so many fckgin thoughts i might make a process/concept breakdown post#it's honestly just for my own peace (haha piece) of mind because i overthought about. SosoooOoOo many motifs and symbols and i just wanna#idk PUT EM ALL somewhere........ maybe it'll become its own jessay of mine. god. who can say.#also DUDE tumblr rly does crunch up quality wow ouch#unironically a core thematic inspiration for this piece is a quote from the folding ideas' video 'the nostalgia critic and the wall'#'it doesn't all make sense or resolve or coalesce because we don't all make sense'#'everyone is the illusion of order constructed brick by brick out of chaos'#i've watched that video essay through at least. a dozen times at this point. everything about it. yeah. it's good.#this piece initially went many different directions and i have realized ah yes to fully explore just THESE themes that i'm interested in as#they relate to goro akechi i will need to draw. at least two more pieces. sdlfhsdlkfjsd
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what is Midst about?
Oh, this is a QUESTION.
Midst is space fantasy New Weird about three people whose lives are disrupted when The Trust, a society based around quantifying the value of good and bad deeds, takes interest in the planet-like islet of Midst.
Midst is about how the moon will explode and the government will spend more time talking about how bad this is for the economy than organizing disaster relief.
Midst is about what happens if The Good Place point system was an economic policy.
Midst is about a cult expanding its sphere of influence and its attempts to maintain hold on a cast of new converts, increasingly disillusioned devotees, and escaped apostates.
Midst is about the mechanics of blame, guilt, fault, accountability, and culpability and how emphasizing sole individual responsibility (for good and bad) deflects from the role of institutions, structures, environments, cycles, and ideologies in perpetuating harm.
Midst is about trying to balance the metaphorical books by making them very much not-metaphorical and how understanding that you can never (figuratively) zero out in reality shapes the way different people face or run from what they've done, hope for redemption and absolution (or not), and relate to themselves and others.
Midst is about taking the phrase capitalism as religion literally.
Midst is about a murder case in a frontier town that swiftly escalates into a major public scandal that reaches into the highest ranks of the federal capital and threatens to destabilize its most prominent institutions.
I promise none of these are exaggerations in the slightest.
#Midst#Midst podcast#Midst things#edit: I wrote this between S2 and S3 and now I'd reword some to be more accurate to theme but I retain it as it was for historical reasons#it's only slightly off at least#Midst Cosmos
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magical cat design
#she uses the celestial cursor to change into this btw its a magical item...magical cats all have some sort of item and the different kinds#have different sources of power. she was given the cursor by shadow who makes them and thats why its themed like her already#being in this form costs a lot of magic energy and she is very weak at least at first..so she can only keep this form for so long which is#usually only when she is fighting or in trouble...it gives her the ability to use magic attacks and prevent her from dying BUT if she takes#too much damage she can be reverted to her normal cat form and be killed so its not completely invincible. it also gives her#game like stats that can be increased. basically it turns her into a video game character#kemono#webcore#sparklefur#sparklecat#y2k#myart#micha#cat world
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Kingdom Hearts 3 - Rage Form
#kingdom hearts 3#kh3#sora#rage form#arendelle#formchange#my gif#rage form is so intriguing#sora still behaves in a wild animalistic fashion similar to his anti form but it's different#anti form felt as if he relinquished all self control and acted strictly on instinct just like a heartless#he used to run around hunched over on all fours and fight tooth and claw with reckless abandon#but here you can at least see SOME semblance of who he is. he's able to wield his keyblade while in this form which is pretty major#he still fights in an absolutely chaotic and primal manner but it feels evolved#the big difference is you call upon rage form at will. he channels his rage and darkness in a desperate last resort to stay alive#which is very significant but he still loses some control like the ability to use of magic; items; shotlocks; etc#it's cool to see darkness used in this way but i really want sora to able to explore themes of darkness within himself in future games#i want these to be more than cool forms with fun gameplay. i want them to have implications that something dark is brewing and needs to be-#brought to the surface and tackled head on because we've never seen anyone capable of cloaking themselves in darkness in such a way#take riku's dark form for example. he's in control and he's very much still himself. it's entirely different#on another note i'm now thinking about how hp is fully restored when activating rage form but you have the choice to give it up again-#when using risk charge. it'll increase attack damage but you're still walking a dangerous line in the pursuit of power
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day 1398
#amphibian#frog#halloween#*authors note: it is in fact early september. the trees are not even turning yellow yet#i saw halloween stuff at the store though sooo#capitalism bad but at least we get halloween themed items as early as they think they can get away with it#this year im on the hunt for some spooky fabrics i wanna make my own creepy buttonups#ive never made a buttonup but how hard could it be? <- hubris
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*sigh* thoughts on Nintendo's botw/totk timeline shenanigans and tomfoolery?
tbh. my maybe-unpopular opinion is that the timeline is only important when a game's place on the timeline seriously informs the way their narrative progresses. the problem is that before botw we almost NEVER got games where it didn't matter. it matters for skyward sword because it's the beginning, and it matters for tp/ww/alttp (and their respective sequels) because the choices the hero of time makes explicitly inform the narrative of those games in one way or another. it matters which timeline we're in for those games because these cycles we're seeing are close enough to oot's cycle that they're still feeling the effects of his choices. botw, however, takes place at minimum 10 thousand years after oot, so its place on the timeline actually functionally means nothing. botw is completely divorced from the hero of time & his story, so what he does is a nonissue in the context of botw link and zelda's story. thus, which timeline botw happens in is a nonissue. honestly I kind of liked the idea that it happened in all of them. i think there's a cool idea of inevitability that can be played with there. but the point is that the timeline exists to enhance and fill in the lore of games that need it, and botw/totk don't really need it because the devs finally realized they could make a game without the hero of time in it.
#i really do have a love-hate relationship with this timeline#because it's FASCINATING lore. genuinely. and i think it carries over the themes of certain games REALLY well#but i also think it's indicative of a trend in loz's writing that has REALLY annoyed me for a long time#which is this intense need to cling to oot#and on a certain level i get it. that was your most successful game probably ever. and it was an AMAZING game.#and i think there's definitely some corporate profit maximization tied up in this too--oot was an insane commercial success therefore you'r#not allowed to make new games we need you to just remake oot forever and ever#and that really annoys me because it makes certain games feel disjointed at best and barely-coherent at worst.#i think the best zelda games on the market are the ones where the devs were allowed to really push what they were working with#oot. majora. botw. hell i'd even put minish cap in there#these are games that don't quite follow what was the standard zelda gameplay at their time of release. they were experimental in some way#whether that be with graphics or puzzle mechanics or open-world or the gameplay premise in its entirety. there's something NEW there#and because the devs of those games were given that level of freedom the gameplay really enforces the narrative. everything feels complete#and designed to work together. as opposed to gameplay that feels disjointed or fights against story beats. you know??#so I think that the willingness to allow botw and totk to exist independently from the timeline is good at the very least from a developmen#standpoint because it implies a willingness to. stop making shitty oot remakes and let developers do something interesting.#and yes i do very much fear that the next 20 years of zelda will be shitty BOTW remakes now#in which botw link appears and undergoes the most insane character assassination youve ever seen in your life#but im trying to be optimistic here. if botw/totk can exist outside the timeline then we may no longer be stuck in the remake death loop#and i'm taking eow as a good sign (so far) that we're out of the death loop!! because that game looks NOTHING like botw or oot.#fingers crossed!!#anyway sorry for the game dev rant but tldr timeline good except when it's bad#asks#zelda analysis
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Average historian denies all gay relationships statistic false!
No-Lesbians Ruth Franklin, who lives in an archive and denies any possible sapphic interpretation of Shirley Jackson’s work 50 times a day, is an outlier adn should not be counted
#biography#Shirley Jackson#seriously “a rather haunted life“ it is so good in most ways#but this woman seems to be like. Personally offended that anyone could possibly read anything sapphic into any of Jackson’s novels#I get it; she wrote that whole document freaking out that someone interpreted Hangsaman as#‘about lesbians’#but still there are a number of things she wrote where it takes an incredibly stubborn reading to not at least see that interpretation#(And I’m not fully sure that document was so much about objecting to Sapphic interpretations of her work#(as it was being upset at the idea of her central theme is not coming across in favor of other themes she’s considered less important#(besides which it gets into some incredibly interesting introspection about why she is “afraid of a word [lesbian]“#in ways that have a lot of people saying “the lady doth protest too much“
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Exciting news: I now have a story page and a characters page! They're pretty basic at the moment, but I'm hoping to think of some fun stuff to add later. For now, you might find a few new nuggets of insight in the character bios! I just wanted a cute little hub for readers new and old to find everything they need in one place. Let me know if you think anything (or anyone) major is missing or if you notice any errors. Here are all the character portraits. Aren't they cute? And thanks to @buglaur for the incredibly easy to modify template!
#ts4#sims 4#story: hzid#the zhaoverse#i'm going to change my pinned post to this#at least until i get a better blog theme where i can more easily add links#but that will have to wait for another day#i know it's kind of silly to include some characters that showed up for only a post or two and exclude others#but i tried to choose based on relevance/relationship#so julia's friends feel more important than that dude in helena's creative writing class even if they appear less
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I have no idea whats going on in Amanda the Adventurer lore wise but I keep seeing her monster design in thumbnails and its so bad it pisses me off so have some foeart about it (like fanart but angry) + some process doodles
#As I said I have no clue whats going on story wise so for all I know its great#no hate to anyone who likes this game#but her monster design..... why.....#amanda the adventurer#redesign#doodles#theres so much they could have done with her but she's just so generic!!! why!!#it looks like they slapped human hair onto a rat. and she does look like a weird rat#they have so much sheep themeing they could have incorperated at least some of that#not to mention they ditched her entire color pallet?? there are ways to make a character look sickly without making them stark white#the way they did the eyes makes it look like she has rocks on her face. they dont even read as eyes because they didn't give her pupils#wont try to claim this is necessarily a better design but at least its recognizable as Amanda
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Since the poll was close for the additional Medieval Monsters, I have sketched up the top four ideas for you all to vote on again. Let me know in the poll below which you prefer!
Here are the others in the set, there will be five monsters total.
#themed monster enamel pins#wip#poll#I might move some into other sets depending on how this poll goes#church grim priest and unicorn knight have been sponsored so at least one of them as to be picked ahahaha
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