#the improvement actually impresses me

[xiakeik]

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

[silusvesuius]

this tree from my new drawing looking goated afffffff 👑👑

[piplupod]

feels like the isolation is a gushing wound and going to the centre is just a small bandage. i think perhaps i am not really ever going to feel okay unless something miraculous happens. i am retaining some semblance of sanity now that I'm leaving the house and socializing with non-family more than once a week, but i am still hurting more than I can really tolerate and I don't know what to do about it. there doesn't seem to be a fix for this that I can enact.

[eggs-can-draw]

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

[faded-florals]

Emilie Kouatchou as Christine Daaé

Ben Crawford as The Phantom

Paul A Schaefer as Raoul de Chagny

Broadway, December 8th 2022, 2pm

[serendipitous-mage]

......... who's gonna tell him ... .. ill do it @markiplier

[marklikely]

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.

[kindnessoverperfection]

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.

[raventhekittycat]

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

[raiiny-bay]

my favorite posts of the year :-)

links to full posts below the cut:

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12

[prurientpuddlejumper]

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!!! 

[blujayonthewing]

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

[stormears]

I met up with the twin friends and it was...pretty good. About what I expected.

I made sure to get to the fast food joint we agreed on early so I could buy us a few things to share and look cool n prepared for them. They rolled up and looked almost exactly like they did in high school, hugged me, gave me the details on their current jobs and showing me fun photos.

I shared my life updates after, and one twin kept saying "no way" and "yeah" and "that's crazy!" as I talked, a little too frequently. It felt like, robotic or hollow or something, like they were either uninterested or frantically grasping for something to say. Which irked me.

Something I remember about these guys is that we all got along pretty well, but if there wasn't an immediate activity or game to play or thing to watch in front of us, etc, conversation could lull really fast. With good friends you'd just chat about nothing but they fucking wouldn't! (75% of the time, I wouldn't/couldn't either...) So this time I was being extra chatty to make sure we had no awkward silences.

Like, we were never each other's besties. But I do remember in the old days it would irk me how there wasn't too much natural, easy conversation unless we had the crutch of Some Activity in front of our faces, and they like. Hardly ever tried to fix that. To just talk. Back then, and even now. Well, I do remember them trying to fill it with like...jokes and dumb silly comments, stuff I'd politely laugh at but half the time I didn't actually find funny.

Still, I showed them my fanzine collection and art pieces and they were really into that. And now I can grind up this social gathering I had and deftly pepper it into future conversations if someone asks what I've been doing recently. I'm such a homebody I could always use the Talking Ammunition.

[caffeinatedopossum]

Skgkfj i just got my first "underrated <3" comment and my first hate comment on my tiktok under the same video. Lol it's okay my art gives me mixed feelings too

[certifiedtrashmouth]

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