#tag for collecting

[rottkitt]

ME MEBEME EMME ME ME HI HI IHI HELLO HEY HI HELLO HELLO HELLO HI HI HO HI ITS ME HI IM PICKLETUBE CEO HI HI HIBHOHGB OHNMY GOD I LOVE YOUR ART Hoi HOI IHJI HI HI

sorry. i got autistic. hello. thank you for drawing pickletube i already have some of your art saved and this is going right with it because your art is actually awesome

test tube and pickle! saw this pairing in another tumblr post and immediately had to draw

[goldensunset]

curious about something so i want to conduct a free-response survey. who (or what) first comes to your mind when you hear the name sebastian

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[daturanerium]

obsessed with this genre of images

[novelarrts]

i forgot to post :'[ but here are some aa doodles!!!!

[rottkitt]

​i love you mr payjay please dont get stolen by a giant bald eagle and fed to its dying babies

nickel gijinkas organized at the top ❤️ s2 s2 and post s3 he's pretransition in s2

lemon slice is pickle's baby he's a single father now

ulrikke and aislynn are ocs... technically set in the tawog universe

balloon with a drill is, of course, hd balloon. missed her

[louvaints]

Sylvia Plath, from Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices [ID in alt text]

[egophiliac]

ANNIVERSARY GROOVY BOYBAND! THEY ALL LOOK SO GOOD, I also love the hades reference with idia! Ik ur probably really swamped with the book 7 brain rot but I wanted to know ur thoughts. I also wanted to mention that I am so card deprived I feel like I need a replacement event to take tsumderlands place

AUGH NO I LOVE THEM. 😭 UGH now I really have to think about if I want to try pulling for Grim again. dangit. heck. I already got his little pedestal to add my guest room shrine, but...now I kinda need the boss himself...

also, the implications of it not being an OB thing, Idia can just. Do That? apparently? do you think he ever just sometimes does it by accident? what am I saying, he absolutely sometimes does it by accident.

gosh though. this event has been SO cute in general! I was wondering who'd get the focus for year 5; I could not be happier that the answer is apparently EVERYBODY. :D all the dorms get their own special songs! so many cute little scenes!!! the lowest of stakes bringing out the highest of pettiness in everyone!!!!!! it's excellent.

(also, because I will make literally anything about my diaboys...I know these events are typically sorta, let's say chronologically unmoored with regards to story. but the further implications that this takes place pre-episode 7/Malleus' Big Existential Crisis, and yet...some of these lines?)

[dandeleon]

HAPPY FIDDLEFORD FRIDAYYYY‼️‼️:D

[rottkitt]

is that lion by fish in a birdcage.

ough this isn’t very good but whatevs go my tacopad angst

[padmestrilogy]

has it ever been more over

[gresit]

MONKEY MAN (2024) dir. Dev Patel

[rottkitt]

YESSA???!.!:!:!3$3$3$3$77777!!!!!!!8!!!$22’nn!!??€$)/!

i see an artist with art requests open💥💥💥💥💥

ppickle x test tube artt….. /nf

your art style is super pleasing to the eyes btw!! /gen

you ask and you shall receive

[blodwyrm]

[oc] 𝔏𝔦𝔬𝔫 - soft-furred cream cat with bloodshot pale eyes

[awetfrog]

19 imitator

[velvetwyrme]

more of that bug.

[afanofmanyhats]

One of my favorite things about Tolkien's writing is that he has a very specific, recurring trope. For lack of a better term, I'm dubbing this the Tolkien Wife-Guy.

This is mainly obvious in the Silmarillion, but Tolkien loves to write couples where the man is a notable individual- nobility, commits a great deed, or both- but the wife is at least equally notable, if not more beloved or powerful. Manwe is the king of the Valar and Eru's main representative in Arda? Everyone loves Varda more, and Melkor fears her more than his own brother. Elu Thingol is the king of the Silvan Elves? His wife is Melian, whose Girdle is the magic that keeps Morgoth's forces at bay. Beren is a chief among the Edain, who befriends animals and survives one of the most nightmarish places in Beleriand? His wife is Luthien.

Even in Lord of the Rings we see this occur, though the couples are on more even footing. Tom Bombadil is... Tom Bombadil, but Goldberry is the River-daughter, and Tom adores her above everything else, and the hobbits are completely taken in with her when she's their host. Similarly, while Celeborn is a mighty lord among Elves, Galadriel is one of the only Noldor in Middle-earth who saw the Two Trees, and her hair inspired Feanor to make the Silmarils, not to mention her own accomplishments in the war against Morgoth. Aragorn is the king of Gondor and Arnor, but Arwen is the Evenstar of the Elves, the descendant of three(?) different royal Elven lines. And Faramir becomes the Steward of Gondor and is one of the noblest men alive, but Eowyn killed the Witch-king, so you know. She got the grander moment for the saga.

But with (most) of these couples, we never get the impression that the man views his wife as Less-Than, or as a junior partner. Thingol is the main exception to this in how he dismisses Melian's counsel, and that's made out to be his foolishness within the text. Otherwise, Manwe treats Varda as his co-ruler, Beren never tries to downplay Luthien's achievements, and I'm pretty sure most of Tom Bombadil's dialogue is about how gorgeous Goldberry is. It's really sweet.

All of these examples really testify to how much Tolkien loved his wife. People rightly point to Beren and Luthien as the prime example of that, but I think you can find it in these other couples too. Even though Edith is mainly known to history as Mrs. Tolkien, it's evident to me that Jirt saw her as a whole person worthy of admiration outside of being his wife.