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floatingwithlaura · 5 months ago

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ibuprofen gel save me. save me ibuprofen gel.

#specifically on my lower back #soooo glad my shoulders and neck have calmed down now #no idea what happened or why they were in agony #jaz rambles #jaz vents #chronic pain #chronic illness

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campbyler · 3 months ago

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no worries if not! but perchance would we be able to get a wip wednesday?

#enjoy #🔪

#sorry for taking one million years to write this i have been in the trenches for the last two weeks #the mariana trench to be specific #for reference i moved back in w my family 1.5 weeks ago and therefore have been actively fighting for my life every single day #getting 10.2 out has unfortunately been lower on my list of priorities than i would like #so apologies for constantly pushing it back!#but considering my embarrassingly high cry count of the last 12 days i think im doing very well #asks #a cruel wednesday with you

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aria0fgold · 8 months ago

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Finally done with my version of The Universe's design!

#ariart #isat #isat spoilers #the creechur... btw the stuff written on their back veil are lyrics (chaos version) to fleeting words and beautiful song #they have a mouth. but itd be best for em not to use that. i like to think that the Universe communicates via telepathy #cuz if they use their own mouth itd be like an absolute order that cant be broken (like how wishes are granted via wish craft)#the rest of their body is meant like-- a tree trunk. cuz world tree and all that! also favour tree!#hollow stomach with a single floating star aaannd the lower part of the back veil is meant to be a butterfly when whole #yes those are two faces as well. drawing the lines for that nearly made me lose my mind a lil. the angle was painful...#it aint as obvious but the stars (egg and rectangle specifically) dangling on the front veil is morse code for i love you #also in a way the reason why i decided to make their middle pair of hands in that form is that inside their palm is the country #north of vaugarde. so its like theyre holding the country protectively. a star formed to keep anyone from lookin in!

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starryjkoo · 3 months ago

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ARMYs are really just burnt out and I don’t think the rapid fire pace of releases has helped anything. It’s amazing as a fan to get all this music, but the expectation to chart everything I think is unrealistic and kind of overwhelming. People just don’t have that kind of time, energy, or money to go all out for every comeback when they happen every other month, sometimes several in a single month. It especially doesn’t help if ARMYs aren’t feeling the song, and I don’t think they’ve felt quite a bit of CH2 music.

I have longer thoughts on all this, but I just have so much annoyance towards some chart ARMYs and their unrealistic expectations and their refusal to acknowledge that the current organized fandom streaming power isn’t what they think it is. Another big wave of HL victimization (but sometimes TH is also included??) from ARMYs and it just opened the doors for so much resentment and hatred to be thrown towards jkk but especially Jimin. It was really disturbing to go and block these people & find I had 5-10+ moots following each time. It’s really out of control.

I’m just tired of this RL discourse while they ignore the twenty elephants in the room that explain why the streams are where they are (and no it’s not because “ARMYS hate RL”.). Instead they just throw these tantrums that further divide an already deteriorating and toxic fandom. I don’t know what it will take for them to understand that a fandom that doubled with Dynamite is going to prefer pop music, and that the majority of ARMYs are in fact not zombie streamers but fans who casually listen to the music that appeals to them. Not to mention the fact that a lot of ARMYs aren’t even active right now, so many of them have been dropping off and waiting for BTS to return as a group.

It really just keeps getting worse and worse in ARMY spaces. I’m pretty sure active ARMYs are about 90% diet solos at this point. It’s extremely messed up what a lot of them can get away with saying and not get canceled or called out for. It’s also just this hyper-fixation on drama, shooter accounts, NewJean’s, MHJ, raging against whatever fandom approved villain of the month, trending pointless hashtags for random reasons, and then being shady and resentful because of these arbitrary goals they set that are often influenced by using Jimin as a goalpost.

#discourse #just a little fandom rant #wanted to be present for NJs comeback #but yeahhhhh #definitely shouldn’t have come back to this side of the fandom #they’re genuinely intolerable sometimes #most of the time actually #they’re really going to chase all the good people out #maybe they already have #and some of the nasty stuff i was seeing about JM yesterday was unreal #ARMYs are entirely to blame for the solo and diet problem too btw #just like they are with tkkrs #but i wont get into all that rn #alright sorry #back to ignoring the fandom mess #ahdgljhadslghsdg #just remembered something else i read that pissed me off #but im going to stop myself 😩#vent series #wait actually one last point in my tags #but RL streams arent even that low #its because they lost sight of what our normal streams ACTUALLY look like #because theyre comparing everyone to jkk #and specifically jm #even though they pretend theyre not pitting the members against each other #like how on earth can you complain about THs streams??#its neglect if any member is lower than JM??#im gonna write another post about JM being the goalpost one day lol

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faithfromanewperspective · 1 month ago

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what’s there not to understand about hypomania? you know when you get overtired, and like a toddler, you get all hyperactive and also want to cry or do Every Fun Thing you can think of and it actually becomes harder to sleep? like as a result of too much overwhelm or being so emotionally exhausted that’s how your body makes you able to cope, the aftereffects of too much adrenaline? just imagine being stuck like that. and every day it triggers itself more, overload of emotional whiplash and energy and you’ve lost all ability to think rationally and you can do anything at this point, because why not? you’ve got nothing left in you to hold back on any idea that could be exciting and stop you from falling into the void where the wiredness you feel has nothing to latch onto to burn off that nervous energy in a positive way, emotionally. for days or weeks or months on end. you don’t need to have ever experienced this fully to extrapolate and be like. yeah. I can see how it would suck eventually to get stuck like that

#at this point I’m begging people to see the overlap with adhd too bc anecdotally it seems like everyone I know also has that #and the overlap with bpd and hpd but I think the main difference is. being stuck in that high energy state. even when the energy turns sad #and bitter and hopeless. it’s essentially just overstimulation from your own brain. gets stuck overstimulating itself to cope maybe?#like i know people say it’s not triggered by life events but they sometimes can trigger it. but imho depression is gonna trigger it too #eventually. anything where everything is Too Much can start the positive feedback loop that’s almost impossible to turn off #which if you don’t know what a positive feedback loop is. means smth triggers smth which goes back and triggers its original trigger #thus getting bigger and bigger in magnitude. it’s like the chicken and the egg. egg makes chicken and chicken makes egg. more egg more #chicken and more chicken more egg. as opposed to a negative feedback loop which by the time there gets enough of smth it stops triggering #making more of it. your body relies on negative feedback loops for smth called homeostasis which is basically keeping everything stable #so obv positive feedback loops are gonna do the opposite of stable. in this case for your energy and your mood #most people are able to sleep better when they’re tired. my hypothesis of hypomania is when being tired makes you less able to rest #and that obviously spirals in on itself. mania would just be an extension of that I guess? but in some people it does happen really fast so #I get the narrative that it’s a chemical imbalance bc it is. but the specific imbalance being the tendency to a positive feedback loop make #more sense to me too. and can be why predictability and external cycles to ground yourself to are so important #there’s also never a 0% chance of you ever having a manic episode btw. anyones brain can theoretically get into this loop it’s just that if #you’re genetically predisposed to bipolar you’re much more likely to! and that’s okay. you can manage it with meds and lifestyle #but it makes sense why lowering stress (which can trigger this cycle) is such an important part of treatment and management #anyway. hopefully I’m not like. horribly horribly wrong or smth. in the end I can only speak for my experience so lmk if I’m missing smth #bipolar awareness #bipolar 2 #hypomania #personal mental health tag #neurodivergence #would you believe I was reminiscing about a concert I went to once. and it made me think of all this

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sonknuxadow · 8 months ago

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people hated shadows game and mocked it endlessly calling it one of the worst sonic games ever made for years and saying shadow himself is a cringe edgelord but im calling it now the second the trailer for sonic 3 drops and shadow as a character becomes relevant in the eyes of the general public those same people are gonna suddenly decide that its cool to like shadow now motorcycle and guns and swear words and all and the game will start selling for 200 dollars minimum on ebay . 70 dollars for just the case or manual. 500 for all 3

#prices for older 3d sonic games are already getting kinda bad but i just know that the prices for sa2 and shth specifically #are gonna go from bad to nightmareish the second shadow is in a big popular movie #glad i got most of my physical copies of sonic games a few years ago when prices for secondhand games were a lot lower ..#actually i never did get physical copies of sa1 and 2 just digital #because even back then the prices for those were kinda high compared to other games. but if i had know just how mcuh they would rise #i probably would have gotten them back then ... and i kinda want them now but i dont like the prices im seeing #but i also know theyre only gonna get worse from here. SAD

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rosie-b · 4 months ago

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤️

Hi @kasienda! Thanks for the ask! 🩷

True Blue - It's not even that close. This is my baby, the AU I've put the most effort into and gotten the best response to. I got to crank up Gabriel's villainy and then had to put myself in his shoes in order to get Marinette to join his side (even just for a while). It was a challenge (still is, since it's not finished yet) that I really enjoyed, and I've loved the comments I've gotten on it! I really adore it when I can know that I'm not the only one who loves my fics, and this is one of the fics that allows me that security.

it's them (again) - Recency bias, partially! The idea for this fic was just so fun to work with, and it required more thought than your average AU since it doesn't really intersect with canon at all. I had to create a whole new world, and limit what I showed for simplicity. I think it worked pretty well! It still doesn't have many hits on AO3 compared to my other works, but I think it's just the side effect of locking my fics (what can I say, I don't enjoy AI stealing my work). When few people respond to my works (like with this one) it makes it harder for me to enjoy them, because I feel like I did something wrong. But this one was born in specific circumstances that allow me to at least temporarily overlook its response, and I think it has a unique charm that I'll keep liking. Plus, for a low number of hits, there's a high corresponding rate of kudos and bookmarks on this fic, which I do find encouraging

Centuries Overdue - Another fun AU to work with! I enjoy writing things that make me think and plan and scheme, I guess. Plus I got to work with two artists on it!! This fic (historical and modern, unique magic elements, plot twist-reliant) was unlike any others I'd written, so it forced me to try new things and grow as a writer. I think it turned out pretty well!

The Bedbug Problem - The last Ladrien fic I had a real blast writing! This was for the ml secret santa exchange, and while I haven't heard whether the fic's recipient liked it, I did, at least. I had fun trying to include certain elements I hoped the recipient would like as well as the ones that would drive the story forward. It always helps when you have similar tastes to the person you're writing for, because it feels like it's partially your gift, too!

Stealing Freedom - This was the first fic I wrote that got a lot of attention (by my standards) and it's one that was a lot of fun to write! It's another fic that was a new style for me at the time and that required me to kind of scheme as I worked my way to the perfect ending. I think I struck a pretty good balance of angst and hurt/comfort where Adrien and Marinette's love for each other basically saves the day, which is one of my favorite things to read. I was really glad that other people liked it, too!

#ask game #rosie-b writing #writer insecurity ig #here's some more of it :)))#i know hits aren't really a measure of how good a fic is. but it sucks ass to put so much work in and get so little back sometimes #sometimes i just want more than one person to like the fic enough to comment. especially if it's not a specific non-love square-centric au #sometimes I just want to know i'm not screaming into a void and getting laughed at #sorry these tags are so down it's just been a subpar summer for writing. subpar year really #and despite it I do still love my writing! i just hate feeling stupid for that #and i didn't rely on hits/kudos to let myself pick my favorite fics!! most of these are not my top-hit/kudosed fics!! i love all my fics #i just don't always feel like other people do. and that lowers my confidence in writing more and liking what i've written in the past #i'll still love my work if it gets a cool response. just not as much. i'm left feeling stung when i look at it instead of proud #i’m giving self love my best shot here but my feelings on my fanfics have been mixed for a while #sorry #i do appreciate the chance to look back at what i've written and feel at least some pride

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thoughtpeek · 4 days ago

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I'VE FINALLY FINISHED BROTHERSHIP IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD!!!!!!!

#clai speaks #spoilers in the tags probably #ahhh first of all i am still astounded the game exists at all. we all thought m&l was done forever but here it is!!!#the timing of me playing superstar saga and getting really into mario last year couldnt have been better #i mean i probably would have played brothership still even if mario hadnt become a main interest of mine like that. but anyway #absolutely stellar re-entry into the series it did not disappoint in the SLIGHTEST #i think i 100%'d it? only thing i didnt do was finish that last dyode dance sequence but like its fiiiine #took about 50 hours i didnt get a chance to check my final time. really surprised that the game went that long!#i dont think it was a bad thing at all though. the game mostly didnt feel like it was overstaying its welcome #i did think lottacoins and the lower level solitree went a tad too long and i didnt like them but only a little. they're still fine sections #surprised that i didnt even feel like the sidequests were a drag they were all alright!#character interactions were so good ofc. love the new cast!! starlow felt a bit flat which is a shame but she also didnt appear much so #the sidequest where she visits bowser and he calls her chippy!!!! made me so happy!!!!!#all the callbacks were so good i'm glad they can still do that. yelled out loud after finding the peasley reef #docking points for no dreambert reef however. jail worthy offence #on reclusa specifically i dont have a lot to say about his character he's just your typical evil for the sake of evil villain #but i have to say i Love his design. the really exaggerated facial expressions and that clown neck frill. really fun character actually!!#ahhh call me childish but i'm never a fan of endings where friends separate but i like to think the second uni-tree--#--will allow them to link back up once its grown and can generate more connectar to do it #cant say if its my favorite yet bc recency bias is still too fresh but its absolutely my second favorite m&l game at least!!#i havent played paper jam yet i wanted to play the original paper mario and spm first. but i always hear its bad so??#brothership is at least on par with dream team for me rn. absolutely stellar game #i hope this means we'll get more m&l someday! i've already left a very positive response on the survey they put out #anyway. now to decide what to play next because i have a MASSIVE backlog of games and i didnt think this would take this long BJDHJFHF #10/10!!!! please play brothership immediately

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sysig · 5 days ago

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Just Desserts continental northern map made using this method! :D (Patreon)

#My art #Just Desserts #The JD residents all live on the northmost landmass in the middle green area - which I've been calling The Basin #It's a fairly flat area that has a very extreme mountain range to its north #They jut up extremely and then clifface on the coastline - keeps the Basin very protected from high moisture!#I've mentioned before how the JD universe doesn't really have summers - I mean that's Partially true #The Basin only experiences three seasons but the more south you go the more seasonal variation there is #But Residents can't stand the heat - even ones that are pastries that would require heat to bake don't fare well day after day #So none live in warmer climes! Other things do tho :)#It's funny to me how piecemeal this idea came together haha #The map-making trick is hecka cool! And it was definitely the push I needed but there are other bits of this that fell in line first #Most especially the fun little idea that I've doodled here or there and talked about in bits and pieces #Of how since the residents are candy that they mine teeth like cavities haha - it's canon now! >:3c #The northern mountains are the silhouette of the lower half of a human jaw! And with how they jut up - the mountains are shaped like teeth!#The Basin is the basin of the mouth/jaw where the tongue would normally be - the tasty bit haha #And residents do have a calcium-mining industry up there - and if the deposits happen to form in a specific shape well ♪ Hehehe #I'm still parsing what I'd like the mineral to Do exactly - it's more likely to be a building material than a food item but hmm #Why would they have such a need for it! Something more to consider #For now it's just a fun idea that finally got put to reality hehe ♪ And it was a fun thing to work on! :D #I'm not sure yet of what other landmasses might be around - maybe this is the whole world! - or what other fauna and flora there is #I'm back on thinking about Elemental Magic so there's that lol I can't help it #I'd like for the JD universe's magic system to be a little more defined :) Every little step helps!#See if you can identify the other silhouettes I used! :D

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cuteniaarts · 8 months ago

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Behold, my latest and most enamouring new obsession:

Malina, Lady of the Chief of the Northern Water Tribe. As if Red Lotus child OCs weren’t niche enough

#my art #artists on tumblr #the legend of korra #lok malina #still feel like that’s too vague of a tag but I can’t come up with anything better for now #and yeah. she has completely stolen by heart and I don’t know how to feel about that #don’t think I ever was this attracted to my own art before #to be fair the design isn’t mine. it’s very heavily based on something nina drew back in 2021 #because I did not have the energy or creativity to come up with my own thing #but the art is all mine and I genuinely adore it. super proud of myself which is a rare occurrence #anyways. kat and I spent three days digging this niche lower and lower and now have a he #*hell of a lot of lore about this basically nonexistent character #for lore about a lady from the North Pole a lot of it is rather hot… to the point my cheeks are burning non stop #I would say I’d let her do anything she wants to me but in my very specific aroace-adjacent case it’s more like #I’d let her tell me to do anything she wants to her #if that makes any sense and I have not completely lost my goddamn mind yet #okay. enough yapping. back to the art itself #lazy background because I suck at those and am not currently attempting to learn them. I’ll probably do that over the summer #about time anyway. my characters have been placed against an off-white background for far. far too long #this is the first piece in just over a year that isn’t tagged with sotrl. which is kinda weird tbh #I’ve been drawing my OCs almost exclusively for nearly 5 years so it is genuinely surprise I’m branching out #*surprising #less branching out and more diving from one hole into another but y’know #anyway. in my personal and very correct opinion she turned out absolutely gorgeous #her servants are way too lucky and unalaq is way too much of an idiot. no offence to vaatu but he could never beat out this #and I also have Kat’s personal and very correct opinion to back up my own. two against the void. once again we’re winning #I wanna draw her a lot more bc she has completely possessed my brain. I just wish character interactions were easier to draw 😭#I’ll figure it out. just need to fight my visualisation issues for a proper idea. brb #okay I’m almost at the tag limit so. in summary:#she 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

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t4tstarvingdog · 2 months ago

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had the craziest nightmare today. hit every nightmare genre and added a new one just for me

#timothy's txts.#late getting off my break at work for my worst manager BUT at the worst place i worked #walked into my manager in a meeting with EVERY head person in our district and they all chided me for being late and told me to hurry and #then i couldn’t find my apron #and then the street turned into a riot with cars being targeted by rockets and pedestrians being. also hit by rockets ?#this lady and i were by each other and we were like well normally we wouldn’t steal these motorbikes (they were hot pink though and swag as #hell) and then we started trying to escape but my seat was too high so i couldn’t drive safely #eventually we made it to her house with a small group of my coworkers / friends #and then a coworker i really liked got targeted and killed bc of me and the killers were shouting my name and hunting me down #so i go inside this lady’s house and it’s huge and honestly really nice #and i’m like hey do you have a toolbox PLEASE i need an alan wrench to lower the seat so i can drive safely and get away #and she was like yeah second floor #i asked which room? give me a landmark of the room so i don’t search every one #and she said it’s directly on the landing you can’t miss it #i go upstairs (the people hunting me in a red minivan have pulled up to her house and are suspiciously pulling all around it and backing up #and looking in the windows and i don’t know if this lady would sell me out) and ITS A TOY HOUSE. ???!??? not a toolbox…#so i’m searching but the people come in so i’m running through rooms and being quiet and make my way down to the basement that connects to #the garage and look desperately for a fucking alan wrench and they’re getting closer and i go through a small closet and there’s a trap door #and i go in there where there’s another hidden door and i finally get to the garage #and i find a tool box and decide to write the lady a note thanking her and telling her why i left so quickly #but all the papers i find are filled with scary notes and i’m wondering why they make me so uneasy #until i realize they’re notes that were written to Me from. a guy who really fucked me up #and one of them says ‘trans hot’ and i literally go :( i don’t want to be trans hot…#<- specifically from him because of the issues.#and then i realize that he’s the one hunting me down to Get me (the red van was irl his family’s car lmao)#and i’m panicking in an increasing amount and i won’t be able to get to the motorbike and escape with my coworkers and friends #and then my sibling woke me up asking if i wanted a breakfast sandwich or pancakes. so. crazy dream to have at nine in the morning #ask to tag

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thefaeriefeatherdark · 11 months ago

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I do think the wildest part of the Skyrocket/Connie concept is that Visaggio seemed to legitimately believe that Kon-El is like... a D-List superhero. Which is just like, a wild thing to believe considering the Comic Kon won in a fan poll hadn't even finished coming out at the time she pitched her idea.