#submission + critique

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

KANAYA: I Must Say I Find Karkats Knight Outfit Rather... Simple

KANAYA: Not Heir Of Breath Or Maid Of Time Simple, This Is More Of The Opposite Side Of The Spectrum

KANAYA: This Is The Kind Of Simple You Get With Saltine Crackers

KANAYA: Or Skim Milk

KANAYA: I Guess I Cant Expect Too Much From A Classpect That Gives You A Pair Of S... Slops?

KANAYA: What Are Slops? 

KANAYA: Okay I Know Joggers, I Know Khakis, I Know Jeans

KANAYA: This Is A Subgenre Of Pants That I Am Not Familiar With 

[lime-bucket]

Notice how i never brought up eve in any of my complaints abt cain & abel?its not becuz i havent thought abt her,but since we all know how viv writes her female characters,theres not a universe in wich eve would have been handled properly in the narrative,like at least theres an open plot potential fr her sons😑the most nice possibility i could thing is it will be revealed she divorced adam long ago & got herself a new man/angel IF THEY MAKE EVE & LILITH A THING ISTFG IM GONNA-

Howvr i still have hope that eve in s2 gonna appear as an obstacle against lute & her plans once shell step in & take over adam high position,or she could offer aid to emily on contacting charlie in hell to help the sinners.& even if eve wont contribute to the plot they can just cut to her showing sir pentious around in heaven & helping him get use to his new life.

Nontheless im afraid she wont matter in any way in HH cuz ever since the story introduced lilith as the rebellious wife of adam i had this worry that eve will be the foil to her & have a submissive/meek role

[houseofbrat]

Submission: The story behind the facade

Another long one, but I haven’t seen anyone else address this issue.

We all gripe about how inept the KP coms dept. is, and I think a lot of that is because you have indecision and incompetence at the very top. You do the math. That said, they have done a great job at erasing the line between the duty aspects of being a working royal (as in, their JOBS) and the more personal and physical aspects of the Wales family. Catherine wears a stunning dress to the Bond premiere and the grumbling about the paucity of events populating her calendar dies down. William takes George to a football game and the grumbling about his lack of commitment to his royal duties reduces to a whisper. Every other royal I can think of keeps their personal lives fairly distinct from their public lives precisely because we see them day after day out there doing the ribbon cutting. What separates the Wales from EVERYONE else is that they’ve flipped the dynamic through a series of carefully crafted PR events that rely very heavily on the attractiveness of the couple and their children to silence or at least muffle the criticism. Frankly, attending Wimbledon wearing the latest from Emilia Wickstead does fuck all for the majority of Brits. Is it great PR? Sure. Except that Wimbledon will generate its own amazing PR. Having Catherine appear at Wimbledon is in service of HER PR. It’s not like Wimbledon won’t sell out if she doesn’t attend. Let’s get real here.

The perfume ad makes my case without me having to even think for two seconds about this. Did she appear behind her desk with the camera focused on her and her alone? Did she make a short announcement that she’s finished up her medical regimen, there are side effects, unfortunately, and she’s not sure of the extent of her ability to attend to her royal duties in the future? Did she follow that up by another sentence or two about how she’s so proud of her patronages and the work that they continue to do during these trying times (maybe even a cheesy handclapping on her part might happen)? Did we get any that? Nope. We got her gliding through the trees and cavorting on the sand dunes. NO mention of her duties as a royal. And if we dare question why she’s not addressing her duties as a WORKING member of the BRF, then we are monsters. Look at her gliding through the trees. She’s suffered so much. She’s so pretty, and what designer is she wearing, by the way. 

I’m becoming disgusted with these two and their PR shenanigans. Anyone with a brain can see that something serious is going on here, and some transparency–given that they live off the public purse–would be appreciated. And to be clear, I am not a Sussex stan, I despise them, ironically for the same reason I have issues with the Wales: they are abusing their privilege. Aside from whatever serious shit went down last year, I think that W&C aren’t that enamoured with being working royals and the stats support that, but they sure like their five lengthy vacations a year–no long weekends for them! If they don’t want to do the job, then abdicate. It’s that simple.

[fishfingersandscarves]

excited to subject my creative writing class to homoerotic cannibalism

[jaytttodd]

Honestly I don't get the muscle argument with Dick and Jason because people are just talking about height most of the time. They get upset when Jason isn't his canonical height. If artists drew Dick as short and thicker than Jason wouldn't that work. But for the most part fans who say big Jason is toxic just switch it and make Dick taller and beefier. It more often feels like people are co-opting social justice issues to get around the fact that they don't like beefy depictions of Jason but just saying that is silly so it has to be about toxic masculinity or some other social justice issue. 

[comical-wheelchairs]

Thoughts on this from The Wicked + The Divine Issue 10?

Just a silhouette, but at least a bit more practical than some comic wheelchairs.

Oh thrilling! Thank you for the wheelchair!

So I don't know this character, but I can tell a lot about this wheelchair even from the silhouette - and it shows someone who likely knows their way around wheelchairs!

So a couple things jump out at me - the first is the spoked wheels. Those are a common trait of custom wheelchairs, unless you get really fancy. [Both links lead to LoopWheels and SoftWheels listing for education purposes. Sometimes wheels will have lightweight plastic spokes but it's less common on custom chairs.]

The single piece footplate implies this person is either a full-time user or, if they are ambulatory, they use a wheelchair enough to get a custom one.

The back looks low enough that their shoulders are free, and though there are push handles that isn't an automatic problem - a lot of people opt to have them, choose them "just in case," or need them sometimes but not always.

A really neat note is that you can see that single axle running under the chair - this is a great detail! Most (if not all) rigid frame chairs have that one single axle to connect the wheels. It's kind of like homestuck troll horns in that even people who are into drawing wheelchairs will forget to put it there lmao.

So I can't give it an exact score since I don't know the context of this wheelchair user - but I can say that this is a great depiction of the silhouette of an active custom manual wheelchair! In that aspect it's a 10/10 outline lol

[fiyaharts]

art tip i was extreeeeemely late to finding out about: throw a black layer on top of your drawing, set to colour mode, and keep toggling it on and off while you draw so you can check that your colours are interesting and you have enough contrast between them!

[your-mom-friend]

I pulled two consecutive all nighters because my college is insane and decided to cover six subjects vivas over the course of two days and as a result had no idea that

1) it’s now April

2) it’s Tuesday?

3) I completely missed April 1st

4) Tumblr had a day long site wide boop function that I completely missed

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Stolitz in nutshell

[cherrysnax]

when I was a kid I was rlly upset that art teachers didn’t like anime-inspired art, and then I realized it wasn’t the anime aspect. jumping into highly stylized art without knowing the fundamentals AND with a refusal to learn them is a bad combo

[sketching-shark]

I've seen so many complex and interesting deities get shoved into the good guy - bad guy boxes and it honestly is frustrating. Not to say I haven't had my moments, but I've been trying to look at ALL myths involving certain deities before jumping to "clearly he is evil and bad". Erlang Shen is not a complete bad guy just like Sun Wukong isn't a complete good guy.

MYTHOLOGY RETELLING CRITIQUES AHEAD

but anyway yeah @ladyzerodark LITERALLYYYYYYYYYYYY like it's getting straight-up WEIRD the extent to which people go on and on about how much they love morally complex figures & yet when presented with figures who are exactly that suddenly it's actually time to completely warp their stories and/or cherry-pick particular parts of it & ignore the rest so that they can be easily pigeonholed into the good guy/bad guy boxes. Personally I find this particularly annoying when it's being done to deities, and ESPECIALLY when it's people outside of the culture the deity is from imposing particular morals on said deity & subsequently refusing to change their mind or even consider other interpretations even after presented with more information. After awhile that kind of thing starts to read less as a personal retelling & more as an act of belligerent ignorance.

Now of course it has to be acknowledged that there are number of big budget works by Chinese people where Erlang Shen is presented as a straight-up antagonist, and looking at the larger mythological world it is undeniable that there are quite a few deities that have long histories of being understood as strictly malevolent forces. But even with all of that it is pretty disappointing how it more and more seems to be the case that many deities which are brought into the mass media sphere have their stories retold almost solely in very specific ways that end up demonizing them and that's it (see for example Demeter being turned into an abusive helicopter mom, Erlang Shen being reworked into a gleefully genocidal god, Sun Wukong being interpreted as a chaos-causing dumbass, etc.). Honestly, a number of these cases not only make the older versions of their stories a lot more interesting and even relevant than the contemporary retelling, but the retellings can come off like a deliberately defanged and even dumbed-down versions of the older myths.

[houseofbrat]

Submission: Enough the with sainthood

Will Catherine appear? I don’t care. Honestly, I really do not care. The PR shenanigans over the last year have left me cold toward both of them. Like I’ve stated in the past, they are using slick PR promos and their attractive children to gloss over what appears to be some serious issues in their household, whether medically related or other issues. Also, although I am throughly sick of seeing Catherine elevated to sainthood for having a serious medical issue alledgedly (like millions of Brits), William’s halo has seen some damn serious polishing.

The stans have put down his massive weight loss to Catherine’s illness. Bollocks. They refuse to see that William has all the hallmarks of having suffered from a nervous breakdown. I question how someone loses forty pounds while his wife is undergoing chemo. According to them, she’s out of the woods, yet he continues to lose weight. It’s like HE underwent chemo. Is her diagnosis is totally dire? That might explain the weight loss, but it does NOT explain the perfume ad assuring us that everything is back to normal. Also, I will point out that I question when that video was made because William doesn’t look the least bit skeletal in that video.

He’s done jack shit since *last* October. I will point out that Charles (who IS undergoing a medical regimen) has done more public engagements than his son. Also, it didn’t stop the Queen from going out there when Charles was recovering from surgery. It amazes me that people don’t see this disconnect while trashing Charles at every opportunity while William, who has shirked his duties for over a year, is the king they dream of. I am NOT a Charles or a Camilla stan. I am a commonsense stan, and something is amiss with the Wales’s. Note that the BP PR team has their shit together in terms of spinning Charles’ diagnosis, while the KP PR team flouders from one disaster to the next. I think that’s because they don’t know HOW to spin the Wales’ ever shifting narrative. William can’t escape from the public eye (like Catherine has done0 and his weightloss is staggering. No sane person can honestly claim that it’s just because of his wife. The majority of the weightloss seems to have begun at the beginning of the summer, when I assume that Catherine was through the majority of her regimen. So what in the hell is going on?

Plus, it feels like he’s constantly counting the days until his next vacation (every other month). I think KP was so unsure if he would show up for Earthshot that they hedged their bets by not flooding the airwaves weeks before and then put out a tepid (at best) announcement that STILL sounded like they weren’t sure he was going to attend. Also, the lack of any interaction between the King and his son is a red flag. Something went down. Personally, I think that Charles is disgusted with both sons at this point. Whatever you can say about Charles (and his mother), they acknowledge(d) their enormous privilege and see that duty is the price you pay for such privilege. I am coming to the conclusion that both William and Harry are spoiled lazy manchildren and want all the trappings of their heritage and none of the responsbility that should come with it.

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As I said on 29 March 2024–one week after Kate’s cancer-on-the-bench video premiered:

NONE of this is going to age well. Not in three months. Not in six months. Not a year later.

Poor leaders often choose other poor leaders because the rot comes from the top. The poor leaders in this case are Will & Kate. 

William did his most consistent royal work when he was in the military, i.e. not having to report directly to the people in his family, aka his grandmother, grandfather, and father. After he finished his military duties, he finagled a job working for the air ambulance and still hardly did anything, particularly when compared to his father at the same age.

After graduating university, Kate was basically a rich party girl who had unsubstantial jobs. She worked briefly for a clothing store, Jigsaw, and then for her parents company. She never seriously pursued more demanding jobs that would have given her the opportunity to develop more skills and abilities before she got married. 

Is it really surprising that these two twats–because that is clearly what they are–unraveled in less than two years after William became the heir to the throne?

No. 

Because they both believe that anything can be smoothed over with some public relations strategy, which includes Kate’s bench video from March. Because they’ve worked so little as grown adults. Because they’re both too used to having their own asses kissed and getting their own way. 

“It’s the reset to end all resets. This is Kate and William as they mean to go on. It’s family first and f— the haters, f— the press, f— Harry and Meghan.

Can’t imagine where it all started to go wrong for them. Can’t imagine when they crossed the line, and both started to mentally unravel.

I might have to think about what and when that was.

[ambersky0319]

My essay's peer reviewer: the essay exceeds 5 pages, but this can be a simple fix by rewording some things or removing a sentence or two

Me, who spent a good hour making sure I DIDNT exceed 5 pages: wait, what

*checks and Word says it's only 5 pages*

Me:

Me: well whatever that was it wasn't my fault

[pettyprocrastination]

submitting to literary journals and being so brave about it 

[writtenworkshop]

I had this idea of sitting with you in a house we would never leave, where we would kiss for days on end and the moon would never fall, and our mothers would never come to visit. We would squander every penny on increasingly useless items: pearls and books and other pennies, and anything you could wear around your neck. How in the hell are you supposed to say no to that? You would form all sorts of bad habits; you would laze around the house in a sweatshirt and some socks, publishing brilliantly cryptomnesiac research from the comfort of your study, and I’d write a million little poems and put them in frames. I’d barricade every door, or never build them at all. I would still be full to bursting with the pleasantly consumptive desire that pervaded me at sixteen; I would beg for a sort of domestic vampirism to replace sex, and I’d say: This is what love is, baby, take it or leave it. We would never buy groceries. You would crawl into our bed each night brimming with raw anticipatory genius, and I would kiss your hands to settle them, again and again, because I could make a million empty promises but I could kiss you for days on end. And our mothers would never visit, and I would be mother enough for both of us. And our home would never want for anything and sweetheart—I would call it good.

- "homebodies"

[queenerdloser]

i submitted to a lit mag where you enter your story & then comment on other submissions and vote on which ones you like best and like... some of these stories are truly Just Stories. i’m not trying to be mean (i also feel like my stories are Just Stories lol) but like... it makes it so impossible to comment on them lol. like. all i can say is that you did write a story. it is very story. nice work.