#that's growth baybee!!!!!!!!!

[doodlingcrayon]

2019 -> 2024

Side-by-side comparison of the old/original and the new! I really like looking at these next to each other... It's fun to see how much my style has grown over the years! Lots of similar elements I wanted to keep the same, but just a little... enhanced! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)

There are definitely things even in the new version that I know could be done better, but y'know! That's for future me to improve and learn, just like current me did for 2019 me! ...Does that make sense? 😅

[trek-tracks]

Do you ever think about how Kirk had a "best friend" on the ship before Bones in Gary Mitchell, a man who:

a) deviously manipulates him into heartbreak for Mitchell's benefit,

b) shames him for not being "fun" enough when he's in a position of power,

c) openly insults intelligent and powerful women,

d) treats everyone cruelly as soon as he gets power and tries to seize everything for himself,

e) finds it fascinating that he can stop a person's heart for fun, and

f) tries to murder Kirk instead of admitting that he's a danger to the universe,

and then chooses to replace him with Bones, a man who:

a) tries to save Kirk from heartbreak at every opportunity,

b) gets him to smile and relax by being genuinely interested in how he's doing and telling him that he's great and respected just as he is,

c) openly toasts intelligent and powerful women,

d) treats everyone kindly as soon as he gets power and tries to use it to help as many people as he can,

e) cries about how people suffered when medical treatments were less advanced, and

f) says, "Jim, I can't destroy life, even if it's to save my own. I can't."

because I do

[voiice-of-the-soul]

thinking about how at the end of doomstar, dethklok turned depths of humanity into a rehab center for troubled musicians and how they are finally using their power and influence to help others instead of squandering their wealth on meaningless crap and vanity projects like they did in the show

[trans-xianxian]

same scene drawn two years apart...

[goldenhourhimbo]

The more I see Gemma B, the more I feel that she’s “the one that got away” for Daniel. Breakup with her was basically the beginning of his hoe era

If I’d stayed with my high school sweetheart I’d be living a life of Disney Adult™️ family vacations, starting with the honeymoon. He and his wife seem happy but that’s a Texas sized no thank you from me.

It’s easy to say, in hindsight, that he should have stayed with her, but Jemma is engaged and they’re having a baby and that doesn’t seem to be where our Daniel is at this point of his life. And that’s okay! We’re all on different timelines. He can be a hoe, in five years he could be a house husband, or he could leave it all to become a professional stunt double. Who knows! Life is wild!

[trapper-faggot]

Operation save my plants has begun!

Top surgery recovery+burn out+ general mental health stuff means that my poor houseplant collection is suffering

One of the cats knocked down this guy from the shelf for the last time, so sticking this guy in this big jar I've been saving for ages

ADHD hack: if you grow your plants in water you have an easy way to see when they need water and they're more ok if you forget to water them

Bonus: you can check their root health easily and they're pretty!!

[thenightetc]

how it started:

vs how it's going:

[rorysanderson]

RORY: Sure, yeah. I'll look at my schedule and get back to you next week? RORY: Well, we're in Forest Lake. Lots of trees for tree houses round here RORY: I'd built her one back in Edinburgh. She doesn't remember much about her days there, but she sure does remember the bloody treehouse RORY: Don't worry. I've got kid-friendly duties for them lined up. All the things Annie does, usually

LEA: jajaja it's quite alright LEA: I tend to run off sometimes LEA: We would love to have her over! Whenever you guys have some time. I can cook us all a meal LEA: That's ambitious! Although, I haven't seen a tree house in quite a long time. I think that'd be marvelous. LEA: Let us know when you're planning on building and we'll be right over. Although, personally would not let Diego wield anything larger than a spoon.

[lightwise]

TBB S3E8 - Reactions

- Poor Echo—he really is not getting any screen time is he

- Crosshair’s look of concern when he tells Omega she should be staying away from Rex and Echo 😭

- Okay Omega’s guilt is so clouding her judgement at this point. Poor kid really thinks it’s her fault that all those clones died—no baby girl, the shadow assassin would have gone there anyway whether you were there or not. My heart aches for her

- Hunter 🤝 Crosshair: keep Omega safe at all costs.

- Hunter’s lil “come on” head tilt 🤩

- PHEE!!!! I have been waiting for you!!!

- Crosshair: Who!?! 😶 PRICELESS. EXACTLY WHAT I EXPECTED FROM HIM MEETING HER 🤣🤣🤣

- Not Omega serving as the narrative admitting that Phee is, in fact, much to our dismay, a pirate 🏴‍☠️

- I’M GETTING BOTH MY GIRLS BACK IN ONE EPISODE

- Just slipping a Tech mention in there, why don’t you stop ripping my heart out

- Fennec!!!

- And Cross has the same reaction to Fennec 😆 —he’s finally starting to learn about the life that his family has lived during their time apart

- Hunter being in full dad mode and also being very perceptive about Crosshair hiding his hand issues. He may not always be able to say this about himself, but Hunter admitting that ignoring something won’t make the problem go away is huge growth from him.

- Thank goodness Hunter can pilot. This would be a very short season otherwise

- Cool space station

- I love when Star Wars is grimy city underbellies and neon lights 🤩

- The guys look SO GOOD in purple. Jus sayin

- As does Fennec (Queen that she is)

- I’d let those boys hem me in a booth anytime

- Ming-Na Wen is really pulling out all the stops for Fennec’s voice

- Hunter in neon bar lighting is something so personal to me

- “Ruined one of my scores” lol Fennec is salty tonight

- “More than you’ve got” she doesn’t even know how much they have on them but she knows it’s not enough 🤣 but also where is that 30k credits that Omega won?? They could have used that?

- “We made a deal. I’m going to keep it as long as you hold up your end”

- “Ten? For THAT? That’s what I thought”

- Gosh that water looks nasty

- Wet helmet Hunter instead of WET HAIR HUNTER??? Fffffffsssss Jennifer *clicks tongue in disappointment*

- That is so many mines

- “Close doesn’t count” 🥺

- It’s really interesting to me that this show has been focused solely on the Batch as a family this season. We’ve been on Pabu multiple times and have seen hardly any other residents, no one trying to be neighborly or prying (even though we know Shep has tried to make sure Crosshair is comfortable). The focus is on the Batch themselves this time, not their dynamic with the outside world.

- “You don’t like anything” “true” at least he’s self aware by now lol

- Batcher’s like “you like meeee!”

- Hunter’s senses are back baybee

- Never knew I needed to see Wrecker yeeting space alligators until today. Glorious. Straight up punching them in the face 🤣🤣🤣

- Ohhhh Wrecker giving back her sass blow for blow!

- “So what happened with the kid?”

- I will die on the hill that Fennec cares about Omega deep down

- “Just…seems odd. Considering our past”

- Love that the atmosphere on this planet is orange and it’s Fennec’s episode

- “They thought Omega would be safer with you guys. Guess they were wrong about that” she is not pulling any punches

- “Money’s not everything” you right boy

- “That’s because you don’t have any” phewww 🤣🤣🤣

- Pulling the blaster across the throat in a kill motion?? Hunter what are you doing to me right now 🥵

- “Pretty much” lolol

- This dude is so creepy looking. Giant bug eyes were not what I was expecting

- “You heard me!!” Oh Wrecker is done, done

- Man this guy does not go down easy.

- Bug spit. Nuff said

- “I doubt that” oh Cross, honey, I know, I get it

- THEY HELD HANDS

- I REPEAT SHE HELD HIS HAND

- Sorry I’m having Kenobi show Obi-Wan and Leia handhold flashbacks 😭😭😭😭

- Okay okay I’m back. I think.

- “You’ve missed a lot” “I know”

- Okay just rip my heart out why don’t you

- That is one of the most beautiful sunsets I’ve ever seen

- Pointy finger scrunched brow Hunter is the best Hunter

- “You can either fight me or trust me. Good choice” 😮‍💨

- Hunter getting tipped off that ramp is uh…is ummm…doing something to me. What, I’m not sure 👀🫠

- I also find it really interesting that they’ve barely had us on the Marauder at all this season. Foreshadowing?

- Both Fennec and Phee make the same two fingered salute to the boys after talking to them. Cute.

- Ohhhhh is she…is she selling them out?? Who is she talking to? Cad?

- Wait no she wouldn’t pass them over to someone else if any money could be gained on her side. I bet she’s talking to Ventress. I really wanna know how those two know each other 👀

- Wow. Things are really going to get interesting from here. Can’t wait.

[cat-boots]

holyyy fucken shit i finally found your blog. mail time

did you ever go through a period in your art where it felt like your artstyle was bad? like, have you ever felt like you needed to learn super duper realistic anatomy really badly or else you'd just be bleh forever? what'd you do?

thx. -p

hiya!

I've definitely had times where I've seen some amazing work by someone else and thought "well what's the point in making anything myself? this person's nailing it!". that's a trap, though! comparing yourself to others is a one way ticket to a hellpit of perfectionism that's a real struggle to get out of.

much better to compare yourself to your past self. you can see the growth, then. and if you see someone else do something amazing, analyse it and see if you can pick up anything from it you can use in your own art.

the "two cakes" meme is an old one but nothing's said it better - even if you made a cake that isnt as impressive as another one at the table, it's still another cake! holy shit, two cakes!

what's most important to me, despite things like technical proficiency, is that I'm having fun and that my art gets the point across that I'm trying to make. I don't mean that it has to have super deep meaning - more like, if I want to draw a cute dragon wizard casting a spell, then did I draw a cute dragon wizard casting a spell? that's all that matters, baybee

also I'm self-taught and I try not to fret about things like "super duper realistic anatomy". I've always been a "learn as I go" kinda guy so as long as it looks right to me then it's good enough

thanks for the nice ask :3

[wisteriagoesvroom]

🏎️💨 THE FORMULA 1 TAG GAME! 🏎️💨:

stealing this from the timeline...

+ zero pressure tags (but i love reading these!) - @lecrep @souvenir116 @fueledbyremembering @thinkingaboutfilm11 @supercollide @fireopaal @callsign-shortstack @thatguywasvaping @linewire @buryawoman and whoever else wants to do it.

1. Who or what got you into F1?

charles edits on tiktok + drive to survive, lmao. i'm one of those bitches. sorry not sorry!

but! i will say! what greg james said about f1 resonated with me because i have never ever really cared about physics or engineering in any deep or substantial way. and now, i am avidly reading people like supermak's incredible posts talking about downforce or apexes or deltas and car configs, looking at the charts and the data, and i just think that is a really fun place to be.

f1blr and f1 fandom so far has been a nice confirmation that multiple things can be true - yes we want to make the vroom vroom boys kiss, but we also care deeply about the ethics of the sport, the growth, about driver + team stories, driver pipelines and equity and race excitement and engineering. i think it's really cool these things can coexist.

the sport never should be one thing to one group of people, you know? (wow that ended up longer than i thought.)

2. Who was the very first F1 driver you supported? Do you support them now? Have your opinions on them differed or stayed the same since then?

charles, and still charles lmao. unfortunately.

i am an oscar piastri enthusiast also. i think there's a bit of recency bias at work here but he's come swimming like a fledgling shark into the shallows with his deadpan personality and i'm just very intrigued by His Whole Thing.

i want good things for yuki! and lewis! my GOAT!! give the man his 8th :( (it probably isn't happening but lets' not manifest that.......)

TL;DR it's been a joy getting to "know" the grid (or at least as much of their public persona will tell us) and getting into the lore. *shaky hands* the LORE!

also nobody asked, but, schumacher was an omnipresent name when i was growing up - which might give away my age - but he always felt like an old school driver. in the sense of his mythos, his mystery, his dominance of the track. that era of f1 is over and the sport only moves on and evolves, but in the same way his presence felt a lot more removed and unrelatable to me, and far away. the speed of technology now and broadcasting and social content makes f1 feel more fun and accessible. it feels a lot nicer to find fandom spaces like f1blr where there are different audiences (female, queer, a variety of ages and backgrounds etc) yelling about the same things.

it's just a different time, not a value judgment. but i am enjoying it.

3. Who’s your current favourite F1 driver?

see above, but i'm 100% here for lestappen having a track battle next year only for oscar to pip them to the podium in one of the races lmao. i think it'd be amazing.

4. Is there a driver pairing or pairings you support? What made you attracted to that pairing in the first place?

*long sigh* once again lestappen baybee... the lore... the parallels... the sun-moonism.... the enemies-to-rivals-to-friends-and-gay-rival-soulmates-something

i like other pairings too like in my about me post - landoscar, galex, blabla. my dark horses are riccussell (george/daniel) and groto (george/toto).

something about that greyhound, very wound-up, very upper-middle-class, highly-strung, born-to-want-but-not-to-always-win english george:

5. Do your parents, siblings or relatives have a favourite team and/or favourite driver(s)?

i got my sister into f1 at around the same time but she's not indicated any preference on drivers yet tbh. she's a casual fan. must be nice being normal.

6. Do you have any favourite races? Are there any that stand out to you the most?

haven't seen enough of them to say, 'cus i only started following like two months ago as the season was winding down. i looooved Vegas '23 though and the legendary charles overtake. he's just so fucking smart and cunning when he's given the conditions and the car to be. watching Abu Dhabi '21 on replay was also a TRIP.

7. Do you have a favourite circuit? Can be from the past or from the current calendar.

i'm still learning them. but i'm mildly curious about the old tracks like nürburgring - it was from a totally different era of the sport and it'd be nice to rebalance the long tracks with the current spectacle of street races even though that doesn't seem to be where the sport's moving towards.

8. Have you ever been to an F1 race in real life? Feel free to tell us your experience going to one if you like.

i actually live in a place with a track... i had a free ticket for general access once many years ago but that was pre-f1 hyperfixation, and at that point i didn't understand the appeal at all. idk.

i feel like f1 is actually a better experience for me to watch on tv as a fan.... probably blasphemy i know.

9. Have you ever met an F1 driver in real life?

no and idk that i would because i've seen celebrities in person in the past and it's usually so quick and transactional because they're surrounded by hordes of handlers and/or they're usually running somewhere even if it's a fan-focused interaction.

THAT SAID! i would love to attend a talk by Lewis or just generally hear what he has to say, because what he's done is so beyond f1 at this point and he always shows up in terms of advocacy and speaking up, in recent years, where it really matters. he's a fascinating figure, sometimes contradictory, sometimes controversial, but i definitely would love to hear what he has to say.

10. Do you have a favourite F1 car? If so, what is it?

i am partial to that black and gold lotus from the 80s, ngl:

and this 7up car (jordan 191?) which with the fujifilm sponsorship is just peak 90s:

11. Do you have a favourite one win wonder?

does charles count as a one win wonder............ fight me in the comments

12. Do you have any favourite quotes from the F1 world? This can either be inspirational or hilarious.

"don't waste it" from seb vettel to charles on seb's last day

[playing-with-dax]

Would Dax let me braid his hair? I bet it would feel so nice in my hands 🤧

Absolutely, he would love to have you play with his hair in any way 🥰

I have a 2 part comic about it here and another ask about it here!

Looking back on them now I'm like 😬 those deserve to be redrawn lmao but hey that's growth baybee. Maybe I'll rework them some time 😊💚

[thebluestbluewords]

"M," Evie says, voice sharp and fond all at the same time. "Babe, we talked about this. You can't just go around tackling people to the ground just because you want to. You're supposed to be a good role model for the children." 

Dizzy, who to the best of Mal's knowledge is the only child currently in the house, snickers. 

"I'm a great role model," Mal says, choosing not to acknowledge any evidence to the contrary. "I'm like, the best role model ever. Dizzy can back me up here. I'm the coolest, best adult she knows, right Diz?" 

"Right!" Dizzy chirps, grinning. She's been experimenting with her hair recently, and the current blonde streaks make her look a little older. With them, she almost looks her actual age, which is horrifying. Cute little Dizzy is supposed to be a kid forever, and not do awful things like grow up and become independent. Mal is firmly in the camp that she's too young to have a nineteen-year-old kid, and helping Dizzy through all the things she never did, like grow up and apply to schools and study for tests and figure out how to deal with building a credit history, are so far beyond her actual comfort zone that they might as well be on the moon.

She's nowhere near responsible enough to help a whole young adult through life, but for some reason the Auradon Adoption committee didn't think things like the harrowing trials of adult life through when they granted Evie temporary guardianship of Dizzy the second that she turned eighteen, so here they are. Five years later, and hopefully not any more fucked-up than they would have been if they'd stayed on the Isle. 

"Thank you," Mal says, and doesn't even grimace when she says it. That's personal growth, baybee. "Dizzy, you're my favorite now. Evie, you've been demoted to my favorite girlfriend, which is a very competitive place, and if you want to stay there, you'd better be nice to me, because I could have other girlfriends in a heartbeat if I wanted—oof!" 

"Mal." Evie says very seriously, from an inch above Mal's face. "Babe. I love you, but I'm also going to murder you right here if you don't stop talking." 

[loominggaia]

Wait, I just realized....what did you mean when you said Zareenites can have their sperm and eggs frozen, and then buy a plan....?

WHAT KIND OF PLANS DO THEY EVEN HAVE?!?! IT SOUNDS LIKE A DAMN HULU SUBSCRIPTION INSTEAD OF A BABY!!

WELCOME TO LATE-STAGE TURBO CRAPITALISM, BAYBEE!

Here's how it works: you pay Zygrow "rent" to store your genetic material in their bank. They will keep it safe so long as you keep paying. If you stop paying, they either trash it or sell it to other customers. Then when you're ready to have a baby, you upgrade your plan to reserve a growth vat. As soon as one is available, your baby will be grown inside of it. The plan automatically ends when the babby is done cookin'.

There are special plans as well, such as for growing twins or feeding the fetus custom nutrient diets. You can also buy other peoples' genetic material from the bank to mix with yours, sort of like a sperm bank.

The Zygrow corporation turned reproduction into big business. Some people think it's cool, others say it gives them the creeps. Either way, Zygrow is making fat bucks from this amazing technology.

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3, 15, 34, 25

3. What was the last song you listened to? 

Runnin' Outta Moonlight by Randy Houser. I'm working on a Country music playlist.

15. What’s your favorite season? 

I love sweaters but I'm hot all the time. So fall. Cold enough for a sweater, not cold enough to cover it with a huge coat. Just a good time. Love overcast weather.

34. What’s your favorite flower? 

CRYSANTHEMUMS BAYBEE. Maximalism.

25. What’s your favorite decade? 

I did answer this one (popular choice), but I must say that. the 80's are growing on me with their funky lil synths. And I'm hopeful for this decade, at least from a personal growth standpoint.

[bethanythebogwitch]

Controlled burn day baybee

Controlled burns are important for prairies. They recycle a lot of nutrients into the soil, help encourage native plant growth, reduce competition from non-native plants, and are absolutely fucking metal