#spots and grains

[lucyslenses]

next stop

Shot with Street Candy Psychedelic Street 400.

[project-sekai-facts]

Is there a list somewhere that has the way the character calls another? Like Toya calling Akito just 'Akito' but Kohane 'Azusawa-san'? I want to write a fic accurately lmao

the only one i could find was this slightly outdated fanmade japanese one, so I made a more up-to-date English translation of it

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I also made some ones for the individual units + virtual singers but I'll put those below the cut

[front-facing-pokemon]

[thefaeriecreek]

Continuing my series of botw redesigns, I'm working on my boyfriend Revali!

[papermonkeyism]

A whole bunch of small guys.

[capricioussun]

Specifically I think the vibe I want to capture with my Underfell is like. Genuinely scary and fucked up at first glance, but the closer you examine it, it's like thin ice, and you can see all the chips and cracks. It's only surface level. When you squint your eyes and tilt your head you see the misery underneath the anger, and once the infection begins to clear, once the thorn has been removed, they weren't really all that vicious after all

[koka-mi]

coconut pineapple, cherry and chocolate fudge for the ask game >< // if u want //

HII RAVEN HIII sorry I got to this a little late :'D ANYWAYZ TY FOR THE ASK YAAYYYY (link to the og ask game post!)

🥥🍍do you have any nicknames? and, is there anything you’d want to change your name to?

Yes I do! :3 I have a lot actually xD ppl usually call me koka but sometimes ppl call me kami. It's kinda funny but also kinda weird bcz kami means god/hair/paper in Japanese BWHSHWJS oh and uhmm there was this one person who nicknamed me koko which was kinda cute! Uhh ppl also call me kira bcz of another username I go by and a few specific ppl used to call me kir which I always thought sounded like an invader zim name so I loved it :]

Annd back when I was active on quotev one of my old friends on there gave me the nickname Sunberry bcz my name was Strawberry Sunflower and I think that nickname sticks out to me the most. Like I just thought it was super super cute and a nice way to shorten the name. My username actually used to be PrettySunberry on Pinterest before I changed it xD I miss them I kinda feel bad I can't remember their name but they deactivated their acc so I can't check now :[ but I MISS YOU IF YOU READ THIS THEN YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE

(Also abt the last question no I don't think there's anything I'd change my name to..maybe if I had to I'd pick my old username I used on manga sites bcz it was super pretty imo but that's only if I had to. I'm content with the names I have now :3 unless this meant irl name--if so then maybe. I don't like my irl name that much but idk what I'd change it to so I gots to keep it for now xD)

🍒would you rather be gifted roses or baked goods on a special day?

Definitely baked goods!!!! I love flowers a lot but I've never been very good at taking care of them :'D I'd feel really bad if the rose someone gave me died :(( at least with baked goods it'll go to good use bcz I'll definitely eat it all! >:D

🍫would you prefer a stargazing date or a picnic date?

Hmmm... Well the best thing would be to mix the two of these together and have a picnic date under the stars! Buut if I have to pick one then definitely picnic date :3 I've always wanted to go on a picnic but I never got the chance so it'd be amazing to go on one someday! Stargazing sounds a lil boring SORRY I mean if one of us were into astronomy it'd be pretty fun but if neither of us were then uhm..it'd just be kinda staring at stars xD maybe if we brought a telescope it'd be cooler but uh still--it'd be cute if something happened where likee maybe someone was gazing at the other instead of the stars! (hopeless romantic in me hehe) But unfortunately that mostly happens in fanfic... 💔 at least with picnic it feels like there's more eating and conversing xD HOWEVER. I still think combining the two and going on a picnic under the stars is the best way to go <3

[piedoesnotequalpi]

Platonic sprace for the ask game!

(Card prompt ask game!)

Sorry for the delay! I drew the queen of diamonds and jack of clubs, which were royalty AU and horror respectively.

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“I’m telling you, it’s not haunted,” Spot said. “Just because you’re a prince doesn’t mean you’re always right, you know.”

Race lifted the lantern a little higher. “Why else would an entire wing of the castle be abandoned?” he scoffed. “It’s definitely haunted.”

“Or they didn’t need all this extra space.” Spot took a few more steps forward. “Keeping all these rooms clean takes a lot of–what the hell is that?”

The way he stood blocked the light of the lantern, but the shadows were still moving.

“I was right.” Race sounded irritatingly smug. “It is haunted. Wanna keep exploring?”

[mariocki]

Alfred Burke puts on his best policing face as Parisian detective Inspector Maron, in Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!: The Billion Franc Mystery (1.6, ABPC, 1957)

[spotlightstudios]

Idk if this is just me, but most (art) tutorials make me want to gnaw on drywall. However, watching artists create in their natural environment is like drinking from a cool natural spring.

[queen-mabs-revenge]

i set up a photo in an artwork using the spot pantones that i'm using in the rest of the artwork for flexo printing, just to avoid having to buy cmyk plates in addition to the spots, and the plate makers rang me like 'um....what?' cause apparently that's very much freak behaviour? idk it just made sense to me to make the image up out of the spots instead of cmyk? lmao but apparently they were really intrigued, but they've never seen that before so bohhh

i said lmao this is what you get when you get a self-taught weirdo setting up your graphics

[lucyslenses]

looking out the window.

Shot with Kodak Portra 400.

[thebirdandhersong]

Hey so Lockwood-George-Lucy and Eleven-Rory-Amy and Sousa-Jarvis-Peggy....... just going to go sit in my thinking chair and think

[biantianyang]

bian tianyang interview with rua娃吧官微

[noco7]

Hi! I just read your post on Nemma and Noah's characterization in RR and, although I actually really like Nemma, I totally agree with you about how nuts the writing was. But it made me curious so I decided to ask: what are your thoughts on Emma as a character? I quite like her, but I prefer Kitty lol.

Hello! Nice to hear from you, and I'm glad n*mma worked for some people. As for Emma, I'm going to be honest - I don't know what to make of her. The first (and last) time I watched RR, I really tried to like her. I didn't want to be one of those people who hated the female love interest for getting in the way of their gay ship. And I accomplished that, I don't hate Emma. But I don't love her either. Perhaps I should love her. She's a bit like Courtney - not as extreme and so not as interesting imo, but she's still a mean girbloss. And I like evil women. Hell, I like Amy from Pakhitew and the only thing she ever did was be mean to her sister. And I enjoyed every second of it. That girl was so evil it crossed into camp. Considering all those things, Emma should have been easy favorite. But ehh, didn't happen. And I think that's more on me. The more I force myself to like something, the more attention I pay to the flaws. The more people tell me something's bad, the more I look for the good things. It's like I always want to prove someone wrong, whether thats myself or the public. But enough about me, let's talk about Emma:

IMO, Emma has three main things going for her during RR. Her relationship with her sister, her relationship with Noah, and her trust issues regarding alliances. 1) The sister plot. I have mixed feelings about how this plot began, because yeah, Emma was pretty mean. Which I should like, because I liked Amy. But I was never supposed to like Amy, so I did. But I was supposed to like Emma. Emma's a protaganist. So I didn't. 💀 That being said, even I can't deny how well this plotline resolved. Her problem had been her putting the competition ahead of her sister, but for her to accept defeat because her sister was more important? Chef's kiss. Masterful writing. Great message for the kiddies and adults alike.

So yeah, mixed feelings, but overall, I'd say it was Good. 2) Her relationship with Noah. Yeah, no. You already saw me diss this ship, which, sorry. But I will be nicer this time! Despite my dislike, It does solve the problem of her not being over her ex. That's good, that she could find love again. And tbf, I think it does make sense that she likes Noah, or at least more sense the other way around. Since she's allowed to dislike him first, it's not insta-love. And once Noah proves himself by always trying to impress her and help him out, like.. yeah of course she likes the guy who's dedicated to being her simp. I too would grow to like someone who liked me. So what's the problem? Ehh, it's her weird comments. She compares Noah's ass to apples, when the guy is flat af. Emma says Noah's funny in his least funny season, then laughs at one of Noah's jokes, before admitting she doesn't get it. Like, it feels like the writers weren't sure of how to make Noah appealing without making Emma a little insane. The family thing, the hair fish thing, the obession over him even when he's gone. I know that's her thing, that Emma is slightly obsessive. (And I'd be a hypocrite to hate Noah's SO being slightly obsessive. Like that isn't the whole plot of my Noco fic. But uhh, I use it as a way to deconstruct anxiety, neglect, and talk about the importance of consent. TD doesn't do that with Emma. It's just a funny weirdo thing she does 😜)

And perhaps that would be fine and quirky. Not everything has to deep. And that's true. Unfortunately, I'm an ex BNHA stan. For those who don't know about the manga, good, but also there's uhh some Sexist Writing in there. In this specific case, I'm talking about Deku and Ochako. Deku is the main hero guy, and Ochako is the love interest. They both start off as capable heros with their own unique motives, yet as soon as Uraraka started liking Deku, everything became about him. Every fight she thinks of him, 99% of her plot and screentime becomes about him. She stops being a character on her own and more a sattelite that revolves around Deku.

Now, TD didn't do this with Emma. She is still her own character after Noah is gone, and arguably a better one. But still, her continuing to think about Noah to the point of getting distracted rlly bothers me. It's like war flashbacks to 2018. So no, I don't think N*mma was a successful plotline for Emma, because while it did solve her problem ✅ and did kinda make sense ✅ it made her annoying to watch. ❌ And I hate Nemma, so BOOO! Negative points!!

3) But what about her thing about not being able to trust people? And I don't mean men, I mean alliances. There's this whole thing where Kitty tries to get Emma to consider alliances. The Nowen one works, sorta. (You know, if Noah was a true boyfriend, he would have continued the competition, just so he could stay and help his GF. But apparently Noah's just one of those guys who like... is lazy and annoying, meets a girl he likes, puts massive amounts of effort to woo her - then once he gets the girl, he stops. Oof. 💀) But what about the other alliance? The Adversity Twins. Uhhh. Emma kinda betrayed them. For Noah! A good cause! But it kinda weakens her trusting other people, and willingness to help her competitors, when one of her Big Moments was throwing them overboard for her bf she wasn't even dating yet. Wow. I'd be so pissed if I were the Adversity Twins, lmao. This moment isn't bad in itself, but it confuses the message. She's trying to learn how to make alliances, but she throws one alliance to save the other. Net gain 0. And if I'm remembering wrong, she also didn't trust the Surfer Dudes later on? So uhhh. Tl;dr Emma had 3 main things in RR, she aced one of them, flopped in the other, and kinda... nothinged the third. At least for me. So in the end, it all cancels out. I feel like if I watched RR again, I might like her more. And if I liked N*mma, like you do, I might have liked Emma too. Unfortunately, I have taken the path into darkness.

If you're wondering if my fic will bash her, the answer is no. She doesn't have much of a presence in this fic for obvious reasons, and if she appears, it will be brief, and as Noah's friend. Emma the dog, however, will be making consistent appearances. I feel less bad about the overlapping names now that the new TD Season also has another Emma. Thank you TD, for assuaging my guilt. They really do care about their fans. 🤧 And if you're wondering why I named the dog Emma, when I could have just not... I took a Jane Austen class in college, thought Noah would like Austen, Emma is Austen's best book imo, thought the coincidence funny, starting thinking of how to insert his Austen like in the narrative in subtle ways, thought of his dog, and well. Yeah. That's the main reason. Should I have just named her Elizabeth or smth? Yeah. But Noah hates the monarchy :(

[akuzeisms]

WHAT COLOUR IS YOUR AURA?

Brown

wicker baskets, bookstores, wood rings, chocolate bars, suitcases, mochas, teddy bears. your essence is brown: you are a strong-hearted worker afraid to burden others. you are persistent, and thankless; you will be the wielder that your loved ones need and will fight for what they deserve. your tenderness only seeks to belong. you are the martyr. you are the unyielding. you find kinship in like-minded individuals of umber, beige, chiffon, and terracotta, who share your devotion to others. you are also drawn to the bright pink and yellow, who will help you grow and show you how to speak up for your needs. however, you may struggle to get along with the aggressive personalities of purple and red who look after themselves first.