#talk about rent free
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I've been working on my 100 Ways to say I Love You fic project for over 4 years now - I'm super proud of sticking with it so long, but at the same time it makes me wonder if I'm ever gonna finish it at that rate... It took me 4 years to get to chapter 25 (of 100, unsurprisingly) and if I keep the pace up I'll be done in 2035 and no one will even give a shit about ffxv anymore lmfao
#in fairness those 4 years include 2022 during which I posted... I think one chapter?#it was not a good writing year#so maybe in terms of productivity I've only been working on it for 3 years#also that makes it sound like they're like super long chapters or something but nope 1-2k each#but yeah at any rate I'm kind of really proud for sticking with it for so long and for still being just as enthusiastic about ffxv#those boys truly have a permanent space in my mind and heart it seems <3#talk about rent free
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the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.
three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.
two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.
their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.
one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.
i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.
i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.
and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?
you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.
a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.
someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.
#writeblr#warm up#this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru#but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist#ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school.#like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it.#was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes.#but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create''#when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work#part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just#like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent.#speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r#ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week#this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice.#''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism#imagine if we said that about literally any other profession.#''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt?#u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky''#we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY#''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''
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i feel like we gloss over the first few pages of SoN FAR too much. i mean, take percy’s name out and i would think it’s all about hercules. the book opens by dropping banger after banger regarding percy’s recent escapades, as if this is some epic greek myth.
like how did rick just casually slip in that percy strangled a sea monster with his bare hands (no biggie) and we as the readers were just like “sounds right, anyway—”
#can some go remind rick that percy is a walking legend#because i think he forgot#and then hazels like um so he’s basically a god#this all lives rent free in my head#this is hercules level shit#he’s so fucking cool#or at least he used to be#and then rick has the audacity to write percy as INCOMPETENT???#anyway#we should talk about this more guys#percy jackson#the son of neptune#son of neptune#heroes of olympus#hoo#pjo#percy jackson and the olympians#rick riordan#riordanverse#book quotes#hoo quotes#pjo quotes
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Personally I've never been a fan of the "magic is a beast that needs to be tamed" metaphor. Magic is more like the ocean: powerful, terrifying, capable of unbridled force. But at the same time, it is gentle, warm, the lifeblood of millions of people. The folk who know the ocean know you cannot harness it's force, you must work within or around it, lest it destroy you. Similarly, magic is great and terrible and gentle and kind, all at once. And those who work with it need to work WITH it, not reign over it. Because the primordial forces have no rules about biting the hand that feeds you.
#this has lived rent free in my head since last night's discussion#discord saw it first#made some slight alterations#all of this comes from our grump#talking about a post using that hackneyed metaphor#we are not so important as to be masters of magic#we are simply those who found a way to work with it#witch#witchcraft#magic#witchblr#magic discussion
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the attempt to try to make the ace attorney games as self contained as they can is really funny because I mean the doylist reason for edgeworth never referring to phoenix by name in aai is that they didn’t want constant name drops to phoenix wright to feel confusing or invasive to players who are playing it as their first ace attorney game.
but from a watsonian perspective it just makes edgeworth look completely insane. “ah yes that man who had such a profound impact on me and I have a deep unwavering respect for who I shall NOT name under any circumstances.”
#that one tweet that was like ‘if I had no context I would think he was talking about jesus christ’ lives in my head rent free#miles edgeworth#narumitsu#aai#ace attorney#abe plays aaic
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Can we pleeeease please please talk about Crowley taking off his glasses before his confession because-
Okay we know he mostly uses them to hide his eyes from humans and avoid uncomfortable situations but we also know he uses them as armor- in case you forgot:
And I can't help but cry at his stressed but hopeful little yank he did the second before he started speaking because he wanted to be brave and honest and wanted no barriers between them and okay bye I'm gonna go cry in the bathroom peace out homies 😭
#we have talked about this before#but not enough#never enough#the final fifteen live in my head rent free#making these gifs utterly broke me btw#itsscottiesstark gifs#itsscottiesstark posts#good omens#david tennant#crowley#michael sheen#aziraphale#crowley x aziraphale#ineffable husbands#the final fifteen#the final 15#good omens final 15#good omens final fifteen#good omens season 2#good omens s2#good omens pain#good omens gifs#crowley glasses
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Cale says he is a bad person, a selfish, stone cold bastard because he spent at least 10 years believing the words he heard on his team funeral and after it.
And he had nobody to say the opposite, nobody who knew him, who cared about him. To prove them wrong, to insist that they are the actual bastards without heart for saying that to a mourning person.
He was alone, terrified of getting close to people again, and thinking that the deaths of his family was all his fault. Of course he thinks he is a bad person.
For him, people that don't protect their family are trash, so he is the worst human being that ever put a foot on the planet.
#i hate to say it#but#this lives rent free on my head#and if i had to suffer with this#you do too#can we talk about his 0 self-esteem#or how he is trauma with feets and a silver thonge#cale henituse#kim rok soo#lout of the count’s family#trash of the count's family#tcf#lcf#kim roksoo#i cried when my grandma told me i wasn't a bad person#i breaks my heart
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Spoiler free Deadpool & Wolverine
#I couldn't resist#this movie lives rent free in my head#I would never spoil anything#but I wanna talk about i so bad#deadpool movie#deadpool 3#deadpool & wolverine#deadpool wolverine#deadpool and wolverine#dogpool
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Loki + searching for Mobius moments after disaster
#mobius#loki#lokius#mcuedit#lokiedit#marveledit#loki spoilers#owen wilson#tom hiddleston#THE ROMANCE OF IT ALL 🥺😭#those s1 shots have lived rent free in my mind for YEARS now then s2 said thanks have more??#giving me all my rights because i talked about it constantly after the finale and it still wasn't enough lmao#taking the excuse to lose my mind over this again and running bc this is what love looks like to me. the one person who makes it all okay#and somehow this season has delivered that message time and time again in every ep what an actual gift 💖#loki s2 spoilers#marvel#owenwilsonedit#dianagifs
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draw the boys witnessing the horrors
Aka murder sonic for #characterdevelopment<3
Actually forget allat I want more of the child forgot his name but he's little baby destroyer of worlds
this reminds me of an old storyboard i made for my primal fears au (tma/sonic au) bc the horrors™️
more importantly though here’s some doodles of spark or whatever her name is!!
#asks#static the hedgehog#sonadow#sonadow fankid#realizing that i need to make a master post for a bunch of tags#mainly for static lol ig i don’t talk about her a lot but she lives in my head rent free
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She is my scar.
#living forever in my head rent free#lets talk about their expressions in this scene#especially agatha's right before she bails#the mask cracks just a little and she goes 'nope gotta go'#and rio being like 'don't look at her don't look at her' until she gets it all out#and then she stares unblinking#waiting for the reaction#god these two are so good#ma'ams pls#agatha all along#agathario#owly gifs things
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"Gangle's too shy to speak up."
We're winning with this episode abstragedy shippers!!!
#they're everything to me guys#when that character talks about that other character for a split second#honestly tho zooble definitely cares about gangle#even just as a friend#god I'd love to see them interact with each other#I really hope the fandom was also right about zooble and gangle being besties cause that idea just lives rent free in my head#I NEED MORE OF THEM#so glad we got to see more of zooble's character in this episode#I love this messy jumble of shapes <3#the amazing digital circus#tadc#tadc zooble#tadc gangle#zooble#gangle#zooble x gangle#abstragedy
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A lil guy !
#honkai star rail#dan heng#genuinely have a million things i wanna draw and then zero energy#so dan heng in a hoodie#now i gotta go get dinner sooooo maybe that will give energy and then i can draw more of what i actually wanna draw#but i kinda spent like ... hours ? talking to my mom earlier today#since shes been in the hospital for many many days#so i was catching her up on whats been goin on and showed her silly lil videos#and telling her how hyped i was for summer hrid and she (very patient with my fe talk)#was like you always tell me about banners being bad so it must have made you REALLY happy to say the whole banner is good#and im like yeah and i had multiple people on multiple sites like hey salmon/moeblob did ya see the banner#and she was like thats so cool that people acknowledge who you like and im like yeah it is p cool#and then i told her how mad i was at the absolutely criminal act of limiting how you can watch clue (1985 hit movie)#like i told her yeah sure i own it twice on dvd and once on itunes and that the only way to watch those#are either desktop or ps2 and how i dont have access to my itunes email#and i dont have it on my laptop so i sadly would have to rebuy the movie on itunes under a new acct#then i said how i loved that it was free to watch with ads on yt and id watched it twice that way#but then recently wanted to watch it on there but laptop and hoo boy you have to buy or rent it now#so i v angrily was like fine whatever ill do the thing and leave my room and go watch it on my moms tv#while she isnt around and use her amazon prime where it should be included except ! IT WASNT!#YOU HAVE TO HAVE PRIME TO BUY OR RENT IT NOW TOO!#HOW ARE THEY DOING THIS AND WHY ! who in the world is watching this movie so much that isnt me that they have to charge for it now#on all platforms unless you straight up pirate it#and hey why would i of all people be needing to pirate a movie i own physically two times and digitally once#this is literally a personalized attack to me#and my mom was like i understand how you feel cause yeah thats really weird to do to a 1985 movie#and im like yes exactly i have morals and principles that make me opposed to this and its v maddening#and she said she understood and its ok next time we are having power issues and i have to shut down#that if i really wanna watch it i can rent it on her amazon account and i looked at her and shes like oh you feel v strongly about this#and i do! I HAVE HAD IT GIFTED TO ME TWICE ! I BOUGHT IT ONCE! WHY DO I HAVE TO RENT IT FOR MORE MONEY!
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a sketch for @morningstarwrites again because i simply cannot get their fic out of my mind SOS
#to the person that was talking about how the harp scene had a chokehold on everyone#YES#i froth at the mouth for the harp chapter#harp encounter lives rent free in my mind#i cannot believe ive drawn it twice now#that being said#people who read the tags? yall should send me your favourit osas scenes#for *cough* for no reason#no reason at all#hartradio#hartart#alastor#lucifer morningstar#lucifer magne#radioapple#appleradio#duckiedeer
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most recent tomgregs ft. one mini comic of a convo i had with @urban-barbarian about tomshiv running away together, new zealand sheepfarmer style (they are as bad at it as you'd expect) making them a bad selfmade wine and ugly ill-fitting sweaters that tom knits couple, and of course greg shows up to mooch off of them. So he gets a sweater too :) The dialogue i used in the pics is written by them, Kath is just incredible in getting their voices right <333
#tomgreg#tom wambsgans#greg hirsch#gregory hirsch#succession#tw drugs#for the cocaine use bc they are crazy#sending many hugs and kisses to kath for indulging me. the way we can talk about this show is incredible to me#our chats live in my mind rent free 24/7
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STUPID WIFE 3x01 Valentina and Luiza
#stupid wife#luiza x valentina#valentina x luiza#valu#priscila reis#priscila buiar#mine#they are really something 🔥#living in my mind rent free these days 😍#thankfully i can talk to ava about them whenever 😂
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