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xiakeik · 4 months ago

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Redraw of an extremely old piece of art/my hella late gift for UT's 9th anniversary :]

⏬Older version under the cut! Probably somewhere from 2017ish⏬

Quality's pretty bad since I have NO idea where the original file is

#undertale #chara undertale #frisk undertale #asriel undertale #chara dreemurr #asriel dreemurr #undertale 9th anniversary #the tragedy of bein in uni is missing out on fandom anniversaries & not makin stuff in time for them BUT ey on the brighter side ->#the improvement actually impresses me #still learning how to render but i think i'm actually finding a render style now

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markantonys · 8 months ago

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#i think it's almost universally agreed that the show antagonists are improvements upon the book versions across the board #so i'm curious to see how the votes on this will fall!#wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #i for one am soooooooo torn #but i think i might actually have to go with dain #because i basically don't even REMEMBER him in the books that's how boring he was #you could not have paid me to give a single shit about him or any of the whitecloak drama in perrin's plotline #so to go from that to me feeling deeply compelled by the show version and very excited to see this storyline in s3?#that's a pretty impressive glowup

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silusvesuius · 7 months ago

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this tree from my new drawing looking goated afffffff 👑👑

#yes this is a nel/vas drawing get off me😂#text #i wanted everyone to see it but also since i draw on paper in total silence i think a lot about everything so i wanted to voice some -#- thoughts too's. tbh i've been veeery self indulgent lately #actually i'm happy that n*lv*s is getting actual hits out of me that i like looking at #especially on-paper stuff that i can recall being fun for me to draw. all traditional art is fun to draw #and digital has turned into an actual task for me (only sometimes tho maybe i;m lying.. mspaint we're still bffs)#i think i just don't see the joy in trying to scrap up a ''' finished ''' piece in an art program .. pencil i love you and i love the -#- feeling of it scratching along the paper....sigh............ Rabu #i don't want my blog or thoughts to turn into traditional art suck-off ventures bc ik not everyone can get into it for many possible -#- reasons but if u feel like it U can ok? do it for Pencil✏️ and for me? for silusvesuius? 𝖎 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖙𝖊𝖈𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚 #but Lord i hope i don't also come off as one of those people that r like 'to improve in art just draw that one fictional character u -#- rly like 😂😂' bruh gtfo my face with that.#i'm noticing 'improvement' in my stuff mainly...i think... because i'm always striving to impress #not so much other people that are here just for my art but more so myself #i have a very huge ego (Mind Battle)#also it makes me sad to think about how big egos or genuine (not obnoxious) flauntiness are looked down on #and i can tell bc i used to look down on people that would express the things i'm expressing now #especially in art focused spaces. now i'd rather be in a circle of artists that love to J*rk off their own brain for it's ideas -#-and talent than be w/ very self-conscious artists that are never expressing pride about any of their work #worse if it's to the point where they actively start to fish for compliments bc of it #fishing for compliments is always OK i just wish it didn't stem from insecurity in that context if that makes sense #but maybe that's very easy for me to say and admit bc i did develop a very big ego around my art and ... Creativity? like it's a sims skill #not that i still don't seek out 'attention' or compliments from others to soothe myself but hmmmmmm i hope u feel me.#it just turns me into a very competitive person #who am i competing with? Myself #i'm always in 'you can do better Because you're YOU' mode #which is much better i believe than comparing yourself 2 other artists #i don't think a lot of people read my tag ramblings but if u do i wonder how one feels about a very pompous artist #like me .......(?)

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eggs-can-draw · 2 years ago

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Wanted to draw a bit of isolation, I need to do slice of life more often

#eggs can art #danganronpa #drthh #makoto naegi #so weird to have so little to tag #this was like #genuinely therapeutic to draw #I think I've been getting myself a little too worked up about these. the only reason I started posting every other day was just to keep #myself going and to give myself an easy way to watch my improvement but like. I unno. It almost feels like a Job now #not saying I plan on going on a hiatus anytime soon I absolutely adore creating and doodling and sharing my thoughts and actually having #people who will Listen but like. it kinda started to feel more like an obligation than something I do for fun. this doodle set felt a lot m #ore comfortable to make. nobody to consider and nobody to try and impress. just me and my favorite character. living life.#I think I'm going to try and draw more like that #I want to make something colored next time so we'll see #I really wanna draw him cooking :]

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marklikely · 1 year ago

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i feel like im never going to be fully satisfied by any saw sequel (or the fanbase for that matter) bc i dont think the majority of ppl involved read jigsaw the same way i did.

#all these attempts to like humanize and flesh him out just end up totaly misrepresenting him and his goals #no he is not actually trying to improve the world hes a sadistic little man whos angry about dying and coping with it badly #he gets a front row seat to all his games and cuts trophies off his dead victims. bc he likes the violence #he puts people who absolutely DID NOT DESERVE IT (in saw 1 at least) in these elaborate death traps that they overwhelmingly fail to escape #sometimes he puts a completely innocent person in the crossfire (like seriously who is that guy who amanda had to kill to get her key)#hell they explicitly say that guy in the chair trap did nothing wrong he was just dying 'for a greater purpose' to test the trap.#but nobody ever acknowledges all this its just like 'what if we give him depth by saying serial killing isn't so bad'#and it never works and usually ends up with him being unbelievably self impressed and annoying #id honestly rather they explore his 'depth' by just. expanding on him as in denial and wanting revenge #which tbf i thought X was doing a decent job at until the last half hour when they threw the character study away entirely #like just give me a jigsaw who is angry at dying and takes it out on the Living because he has no other outlet. ill accept that.#him killing people who need to go can be like. gory tasteless fun in the sequels but it makes it like.#idk. less satisfying to me? or it just puts this wall up that makes the movies not come together the way the first one does.#avpost #movie diary

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kindnessoverperfection · 1 year ago

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There are two paths before me.

One is overgrown, full of thorns and bristles and broken branches. The other is sunny and clear.

Surely, the first will lead to nothing but risk, danger, and pain, while the second will be a blissful, joyful walk.

But there's nothing for me on that clear path. No food, no life, no person out there besides myself. I know that the overgrown path can grant me all those things and more, if only it weren't such a wretched way to go.

So I spend some time on the clear path, walking forward until I can't take the loneliness and discontent anymore, and I turn back. But when I arrive where I started, the first path is still overgrown, worse still than before. Frustrated and feeling helpless, I start down the clear path again. When I decide to take care of myself and survive instead of starving to death on the barren trail, I turn back again. And again, the other is overgrown and terrifying.

I go back and forth, until I fall to my knees, crying and begging for someone, anyone, to help me. To remove the thorns and bristles and branches.

And then I realize, this entire time, I've been running from the pain. I've been waiting for the trail to clear up on its own, to grant me safe and easy passage.

It wasn't my fault I was never taught wilderness survival - I don't know how to make it through such an area, bandage the scrapes and wear functional gear and step over the branches. But I can learn, even if I'll experience some hurt along the way.

#i've been improving but #i decided to spend my time on things that matter instead of spending it on my appearance #i've been practicing doing that a lot #but it's still really hard sometimes. i feel so desperate to prove myself. to hide the autism and anything else they've ridiculed.#prove to them that i can. that that's ''not me''. trying to heal inherently means taking care of myself and investing in my actual #interests rather than wasting my life so i can look pretty and come off appealing and confident and NT and whatever else #but the shame and desperation are so strong i've spent the day crying just because i didn't spend the time to make myself the #most impressive person in the room lmaooo #anyways. realized that i always run into the same roadblock. ''this hurts really badly so i'm going to run back into the arms of NPD becaus #that feels safe and stable''#people can look down on me. not take me seriously. assume i'm incompetent or incapable. find me shameful or embarrassing or flawed.#they can make fun of me. talk about me behind my back. show disgust or disdain. abandon me with no explanation. exclude me. reject me.#and yeah it hurts. it hurts so fucking bad. but hiding who i am and turning everything into a source of approval-seeking is making me #actively want to die. and i'm incapable of getting close to anyone or anything like this. i need to acknowledge the pain and let it hurt.#learn to deal with it instead of run from it.

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raventhekittycat · 10 months ago

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i did it! I'm back to being caught up in the anime!

#managed to do it in about a month #while also spending time studying [comma] juggling a fuck ton of social stuff [comma] taxes [comma] full time job #and a fuck ton of other things while maintaining a reasonable sleep schedule #and also reading about a case a day in japanese in the manga for the conan reading club #which takes time and effort but my reading is improving #anyways if this were me in college this wouldve been easy #cept during capstone hell #but now?? actually kinda impressed i did it #anyways have one more ep Saturday before the movie might try to catch it live!#dcmk #Detective Conan #surpringly I hadn't gotten behind where i read in the manga which was nice! I think i even have a case to spare

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prurientpuddlejumper · 2 years ago

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I FOUND AN EASTER EGG IN THE FOUNDATION SERIES!!!!!!!

feels like my weirdly specific knowledge of old-timey sci-fi just paid off

Near the end of Second Foundation (1953), the First Speaker off-handedly mentions that something is “a consequence of Leffert’s Theorem.”

George Lefferts was another sci-fi writer, at the time, most famous for adapting stories to radio for the series Dimension X (1950-1951), which featured stories by Isaac Asimov.

I did not know that they were friends & I can’t find anything online suggesting they were friends, but -- there was literally no reason to mention “Leffert’s Theorem” otherwise; it was just some technobabble. THEY WERE FRENNNNS!!!

#btw George Lefferts is the Dimension X writer whose name always stuck out to me #because EVERY EPISODE where the female characters were actually well-written and not cringe 1950s stereotypes #was written by George Lefferts #apparently in the 1960s he created an emmy-winning Women's Lib series so my impression of him from his sci-fi work was correct lol #MAYBE HE HELPED ASIMOV WRITE BETTER FEMALE CHARACTERS????#bc honestly I noticed a marked improvement over the course of the Foundation trilogy #the first book had literally zero (0) women #GEORGE DID U HELP HIM? XD #george lefferts #isaac asimov

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blujayonthewing · 1 year ago

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I draw like someone who's got other stuff going on

#someone with other prospects for example #or just other things occupying time that could be spent drawing and improving skills #certainly I don't draw like someone who's supposed to be Some Kind Of Artist #skilled enough for my family and at least some friends to think I'm impressive but also skilled enough to know better #I didn't want to Be An Artist when I grew up but I could never maintain the grades I'd need to go into STEM #art was the 'easy fallback' and oops! uh oh! art takes a ton of discipline actually! and people who aren't artists don't know that #so! I've just grown up to be Nothing In Particular #about me

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certifiedtrashmouth · 1 year ago

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it’s just one of those days where you compare and compare and compare yourself to others and it makes it all seem a bit harder ignore my pity party in the tags bleugh

#every aspect #comparisons of my writing and comparisons of my general personality and comparisons of physicality #feeling like i’m too much #feeling like i’m not enough #feeling like i should be doing better than i am #in my writing and in my weight loss and in the way i am there for others #i wish i knew how to be a better person #id like to be better at this human thing #idk it comes in waves #the sinking feeling that my writing hasn’t improved and is getting worse #and none of my concepts are very fun or entertaining #that maybe my writing is flat or one noted #feeling like i’m just playing house when it comes to being a creative individual and i’m actually not very creative or good or impressive #never have been and never will be and the devastation because it’s all i want to be #ANYWAYS IGNORE ME #IM ON SOME STUPID SAD BULLSHIT TODAY #and then there is the fear that all my sadness is just annoying and i should staple my mouth shut #WAHOO #just ranting do not mind the sadness behind the curtain

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bittersweet-mojo · 1 year ago

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FIRST GOOD WITCHER SEASON EVER MADE!!! ITS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE!!!!!

#about me #FUCK!!!#THEY ACTUALLY DID IT #I CANT BELIEVE IT #HOLY SHIT #im THRILLED #dude!! it was so good!!#i cant believe it like they added so much stuff! and they got rid of all the bits that were boring as fuck!#thank you!! god!!!#im so impressed like theyve tied so much together in such satisfying ways!!#all the truly great plot points of the books carried over while actually improving upon the shitty parts #they actually made a good redania plot line #and a good nilfgaard plotline!!!!#oh my god and tissaia's death was so much better still just as frustrating but better thank you for actually putting it on screen #jesus christ #and vilgefortz looked so grosssssssss #low key pissed about how shit the last season was now like look!!! you actually know how to write!!!#what the fuck was that then!!!#AND MILVA #MY BEST GIRL #AND THE RAAAAATSSSSSSSSS #IM SO EXCITEDDDDDDDD #thank god we didnt have that long ass bit where shes in a swamp #that part sucked and we all knew it #sad that yenn didnt get to piss in francesca's water fountain #but i guess her actually having agency is better... okay....#im so excitedddddddddd #AHHHHH #the witcher #the witcher spoilers

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unproduciblesmackdown · 2 years ago

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obligatorially thinking through [uhh "i don't dance" from hsm2 crossover with summer stock joke] instead i'm posting that umm "like me" from meta dcom musical "teen beach movie" crossover put it in summer stock ('50 movie) where the main problem is jane as mack (green) isn't telling gloria as lela (pink) to be more feminist as much as a dcom character a decade ago could do so (girlboss through personal choices, which eventually (sequel ending) lela does so hard she becomes a god in the teen beach cinematic multiverse which includes the "real world." win) but rather jane is hardworking enough to never Need to be ordered with increasing browbeating into doing things correctly, while gloria is so sillily insistent on thinking of herself as a person, oversensitive as she is, that she ends up with orville who is silly enough to be focused on his fiancee being a person with feelings, instead of romantically bossing her around, and doesn't mind that gloria has Too Much Moxie, while himself interestingly indeed having an arc about behaving more "correctly" that still only hinges on telling the other guy who's being pushy & demanding & mean to back off (his father) (gloria getting to do the same to joe When. while jane is like "oh whew i thought you were going to yell at me. wow i can hardly believe you aren't" to joe while their romantic future is assured to us) like gloria and orville as sympathetic & uncondemned & deserving of a happy ending too but also still like haha smh oh those two. surprise, the [husband ready to declare his demands and his wife who is hopefully so dutiful he doesn't even need to give them] dynamic isn't Timeless somehow. anyways every teen beach movie number rules also. and jordan fisher is there

#'50 voice ''haha we all know those wayward couples who are so compatibly [way to be a pussy] that it manages to work''#the man who won't run over the woman's feelings and the woman who won't stop insisting on having & even acting on those feelings #again i'm so sure that summer stock '23 is like ''okay so from the start actually joe's Not an asshole'' lol #Like Me! x6 #''i don't dance'' also requiring the shakeup of [okay so corbin bleu's role is jane's. or orville's. vs ryan being joe. or idk. phil?]#truly when learning jordan fisher was cast as evan hansen like omg i know him.....Seacat #teen beach musical not only riffing on but building on hsm like thee choreography. composing & arranging. editing. thee Fun. my god....#Youtube #also nothing could be like I Don't Dance is re: sexuality metaphors but teen beach movie is impressively gay #in that like hsm it's like time to be more confident following our hearts & then unlike hsm this happens through friendship #and the friendship that gets the most focus & weight is that of the would be gay pairings. but also everyone in the main quartet #dates every other member of it basically so it's like well really all the more reason to be like okay sewww....#while you tell your bestie to not even worry abt Attracting The Opposite Sex(tm)(tm)(tm)#but hey chill & have fun & don't be afraid to be vulnerable & follow your heart do what you wanna do :) nothing gay possible therein #and if it improves your would be straight(tm) relationships? well that's Just Like Real Life :) (for real lol. nonsarcastic '':)'')

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mabelsguidetolife · 2 years ago

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i am in shock……

#my mom has actually been cutting down on beer #and she’s been drinking since the age of fourteen #she still smokes menthols like a fumigator but she’s trying to change something #it would be more worrying if she was coming off heavy beer but it’s natty lite #or as i call it….. nasty lite #anyway i’m legitimately surprised because she’s a day-drinker #she’ll drink a beer right as she wakes up at like two in the morning #but lately????? things are different #me and my dad will have to keep an eye on her for her safety but i’m….. almost kind of impressed #she’s been drinking a lot of iced tea instead which is nice #my dad replaced his beer habit with flavored sparkling water #so i’m glad that they’re at the very least getting hydrated #the thing that surprises me is that she’s really resistant to personal change/improvement so this is wild to me

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noxtivagus · 2 years ago

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Final. Fantasy.