#still gonna finish it though

[lostcryptids]

I do find it annoying when people are just like "just read the manga! the anime adaption is bad/not as good" for so many things..like yeah, they're different mediums. Anime can have a hard time capturing what makes a manga special, but it offers new things to enjoy..because you know..it's animated. it moves.

[st-guliks-fnord]

Just solved the steam pressure puzzle in Vampire the Masquerade: Swansong & I’m like. Pissed off

I eventually looked up a tutorial only to determine that the tutorial literally only works from the initial gauge pressures, and once you’ve messed with them at all no tutorials will help you. The only way to just get the pressures back to default would be to restart the entire level over again. I’m stubborn & I’d already restarted the level from scratch (after getting shot at the end) so I just continued to fuck with it until I finally got it solved but like…who designed this shit. Why this. Are there not enough bullshit steps to find all of the necessary valves without also making them not work like real valves? Where just turning the associated valve makes the connected pressure increase/decrease? You’re gonna make it a pain in the ass to find all of the necessary valve locations and then ALSO make them function in this bullshit way, & there’s no way to know how many psi each valve affects each gauge ahead of time without turning them individually yourself? Like at least make it so blowing out the steam resets the pressures to default, jfc.

Every time I play this game I encounter something else that makes me say “oh that’s why people hate this one”

[cavalierclavier]

When I broke the cycle, I made sure that the tear was rough. You carry a part of what should be her, and she carries a part of what should be you.

[jessaerys]

goodbad news y'all as soon as the protagonist went from small child to teenage boy with Desires and stephen king started writing about sex i immediately was turned off from his narrative choices and hated it. i appreciate the salt of the earth-ness of his writing style and he can bang out a poignant turn of phrase when he wants to. i like that he takes his time spinning out a yarn and he has a great sense of pacing within a scene; skips the unnecessary transitions and goes straight to what he wants to write. it feels like he's classically trained in the craft, if that makes any sense at all. i don't think his construction of a story and all of its nested dolls components (chapters, scenes, paragraphs, sentences) is my issue with him; i can tell these are solidly good.

however he writes for a very specific person and that's white american working class boomers and all of their anxieties, nostalgias and political concerns. he does it really well too, so i can connect emotionally, but it's still an exercise in empathizing with the dominant group, standing outside looking in. it gets old really fast.

he's also obsessed with very old-school, mars-venus "women are mysterious beautiful sensible wise trophies who exude sex appeal", "men are bumbling idiots in love" romantic ideals about "the sexes" which makes me roll my eyes so hard they fall out of my sockets every time. it's so so so painfully picket fence straight. his constant description of breasts can be blamed on this.

he loves a good americana childhood and is stupid good at writing those (so is his son joe hil who suffers from the same problems) but as soon as his characters grow up and get cursed with Gendered Behaviors, it's all annoying downhill from there. diagnosis: books that are written by some type of northeastern breed of malboro man

listening to a stephen king book and it really pains me to say it boys but i think the prose is very beautiful and im enjoying the storytelling pace a lot. on this ONE. specific instance. i mean statistically i was bound to like at least one of like seven hundred of his whack ass books. also i think the audiobook narrator is really really helping to be fair

[delicourse]

end of spring🌸🧶🌱🧵

[prints]

[bluerosefox]

Drake Siblings

Have I read this prompt somewhere or was this a fever dream from my bored mind.

What if, now hear me out.

What if we bring up Dana Winters-Drake (whose confirmed to at least be alive in the DC verse but no one knows where she actually is)

What if instead of when she had a mental breakdown and getting committed to an Bludhaven clinc she wandered away before anyone noticed and by the time Tim or anyone did notice a lot of stuff started happening at once in both Gotham and Bludhaven (Steph dying, The Bludhaven crisis, etc etc)

Tim still tries to find her though but even with best resources it was like she just disappeared into the wilderness and the stress of trying to handle more and more problems get worse.

So when out of the blue, a couple of years later, he gets a call from an unknown number. On his private, only for friends and family, phone and when he answers he meet with a young girls voice on the other end.

A very young, maybe six or seven, girl who informs him about his apparently half-brother Danny Drake-Fenton. And how she loves Danny so, so, so much but knows her home is dangerous for him to be in.

Tim is stunned and before he could question her, she says Danny is Dana and Jack's baby and that her parents had adopted him years ago and put Dana's stuff that the hospital had away for him to look at when he was older but she just had to fight off their lunch from eating her brother and she knows he needs a better place to live and so she snooped around and found Dana's diary and that she had to unscramble the nonsense Dana wrote and found Tim's number with the words 'tell him about his brother Danny' hidden in it. And-

But before she could keep rambling she hears Danny screaming "JAZZY THE MILK WENT BAD AGAIN AND HISSED AT ME!"

Tim is left with silence after hearing Jazz yell to Danny to lock the fridge and step out of the kitchen as she gets the bat.

[egophiliac]

the lovers, reversed

(aka I'm still freaking out about Jou)

[marigraphia]

I've had this pose ref saved for a while and the Superman set photos just gave off the same energy 👉🏻👈🏻

The reference is this photo of Katharine Hepburn as Antiope and Colin Keith-Johnston as Theseus in the 1932 play 'The Warrior's Husband' (and I'd love for people to turn into a draw your otp meme pls pls pls this pose is so good)

And also, of course, the Superman (2025) set photos

[holymaccaronii]

I was making something a bit more serious about this but then I remembered these typa funny redraws

Have whatever this is, feat. my fugly lookin AM design over there in the back staring at you.

[banditblvd]

Bad boys..... Ssave me bad boys..... Oh God oh no.......,,..

uhh

[magnolia-sunrise]

one sided // mutual

still obsessed with the intimacy of body language when the faces are obscured. inspired in part by Mead Schaefer's limitted palette paintings

[junebugdunes]

the pikmin experience

[weirdglassthing]

There’s NO WAY my last art post was Kavir beating up Torbek

The first three are the most recent and my favs! Look at those cuties! Oh and Kavir Leboosh and pyke I guess 🙄

Hootsie T cutesie grimgrin you will always be famous..

I wanna draw more of ouaw krew meets sdr it’s actually so fun (they’ve been swimming around my head)

Dandy steps foot in their vicinity and she’s adopted immediately

Hootsie and Dandy would be the cutest sisters

Druid family <3 Druid family <3

[ra-vio]

this blog is 11 years old now 🎉

I drew the siblings ever to celebrate as usual

[devilsskettle]

The X trilogy + "psycho-biddy" influences

[starflungwaddledee]

Oooo starstruck dee has little stars at the bottom of her feet! Are they just aesthetic or would they make imprints into the ground? (like pawprints)

exactly like that! though she's not the only one...

edit: might need to add some additional dialogue to this to make it more clear, but a clarification in the interim; he knows about his own footprints. he's just surprised to see something similar already there when he knows he's only just landed. he lifts his own shoe to confirm that they're not identical (and also to reveal this to the viewer). seems his stoicism beat off the clarity in this one, sorry 😭