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YES YES I NEED THIS SIGN IN EVERY SINGLE PARK PLEASE
This is my daily struggle, I had so many arguments with people with off-leash dogs (in a mandatory leash area!!!). Thanks to this behavior I'm struggling with Kim being anxious/aggressive with other females as she often gets involved in unpleased interactions with free females while on leash. And every single time that I ask for the dog to be at least recalled, I'm being called names and insulted of course.
Also 9 out of 10 their dog isn't really that friendly at all.
#dogblr#dog#dog training#petblr#the most unpleasant part of owning a dog is having to deal with awful dog owners...#the richer the neighbourhood the worst are the owners#but of course the only park that isn't a hour-long drive from home it's full of this kind of people#I want to live in a city where there is enough space to actually walk without meeting anyone if we don't feel like it
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I've been doing a lot of reflection as of late, especially after this past class.
This past class was about the Torah and Tanakh in general, and the way the rabbi talked about the commandments (specifically the ten commandments) has made me really reflect on how I interpret them, specifically the fifth commandment, or honoring your mother and father.
This is a commandment I have wrestled with for a long time - in fact, it brought me away from g-d at multiple times. I was severely abused when I was incredibly young by my mother, and I used to feel insulted at the implication that I were to honor her while she got to live a better life. It was hypocritical, in my eyes.
But this rabbi surmised that this particular commandment was because parenthood is an act of creation, something that is like the g-d from which we come from. My realization is this: I don't think we're necessarily meant to take even these commandments literally.
I this particular commandment is more of a call to honor creation - creation is a gift, and like any gift, many people simply will not like it and will discard it. The person who abused me created me, but she did not honor creation. She didn't honor me, but I can still honor it.
I have started to honor creation much more. I'm too young, too unstable, not mature enough to be a father (though I fantasize about it), but I create all the time. I create relationships, I create with my hands through crochet. I create memories, I create my world. And I can honor who I am and where I came from that made me who I am. I've been learning one of the mother tongues of my family (Italian, since part of my family originates there) and it was judaism that inspired me to do this.
I don't think g-d wants me to honor my abuser. I think He wants me to remember the Holy action of creation. When I am a father, that act of creation will be Holy, and indeed, I am already joyful about the thought.
I have seen many people struggle with this particular commandment, but I think this perspective helps me personally. I don't think I ever have to forgive my abusers (plural), and I don't think I am commanded to simply because they happened to be family. I am commanded to recognize the holy, to elevate the mundane. In doing so, I will remember g-d. Through creation, I honor g-d and everything he has done for us, for me, and for our collective people.
#jumblr#jew by choice#jewish conversion#personal thoughts tag#abuse tw#i am not sharing this for the sake of pity and i also ask not to be told to divulge my abuse story. that isn't relevant#i have been needing to engage with this topic for a long time though and judaism has helped me a bit in navigating healing#but i decided to share this publicly in the hopes it will help other survivors specifically of familial/parental abuse#i know how it feels (in general). it's so lonely and you can really harbor (understandable) baggage about this particular commandment#i have a meeting with My Rabbi (sponsoring rabbi) and i might bring this up. we've only spoken once face-to-face (zoom)#so that might be really Intense to bring up to him but he is very kind and i trust him (which is why he is My Rabbi)#and he has already told me that he WANTS me to wrestle with g-d and His word *with* him#again i am posting this publicly so i can document my thoughts and keep them straight but also with the hope it MIGHT help others#if it even *casually* inspires another survivor i will feel so grateful (though it is THEIR achievement and not mine to claim)#i want us to survive. i want us to eat well. i want us to smile#i will say that this must be a very sudden whiplash in tone from my last post about sex. from sex to awful horrific abuse#my stream of consciousness is just Like This though in the sense that i have very sudden realizations and tonal whiplashes#so you're just getting a very frank look into how my brain is structured and what my brain thinks are important enough to think about#if i seem much more verbose it's because i needed to write this on my laptop which makes typing and more importantly yapping even *easier*
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a little bit obsessed with this guy
#og post#my art#WxS#wonderlands x showtime#project sekai#pjsk#rui kamishiro#tsukasa tenma#ruikasa#shipping#yaoi#i will not tag emu or nene because they are kind of in the background. even though i tried very hard on them#<- first time drawing any of these guys#i'll be honest i haven't even done much of the stories at all just WxS's main story and One Event Story (the first rui one i think)#had to learn what the fuck is goin on with tsukasa's goddamn jacket. what the fuck is on the sides. i lied i didn't learn#i just drew it#i drew rui's outfit and went aw fuck now i have to draw tsukasa's#the ruikasa isn't important like yeah sure its ruikasa but what's important is rui's strange love language#that one 4koma about rui's flowchart leading 2 an explosion stunt? courting ritual /hell
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see like the thing with 'carewhumpers' as a concept to me is it just like... i know this is prrrrobably not really how it's meant but something skeeves me out about the idea that kindness or caretaking mixed in with hurting someone can somehow meaningfully complicate or dilute the harm done to the point of making that character no longer a 'whumper' whereas someone doing the same 'bad' things but not ever being gentle or caring for them would just be a straight-out whumper. when like... that's how 90% of irl abuse dynamics work? so i just... don't really get the point, i guess. like to me it implies something about the 'care' provided somehow mitigating or combating the harm done that. i just do not personally appreciate or enjoy.
#gav gab#just thinking out loud#like i don't think that's 'nuance' or 'grey characters' i think that's just an extremely common and typical dynamic of abuse#someone breaking your nose and then cleaning up the blood and tucking you into bed is not less like#violent or abusive or harmful than someone who just stops at breaking your nose yk#and i think that it can successfully be summarized by any number of other ways?#carewhumper is just not useful or meaningful shorthand to me the way caretaker/whumper/whumpee are#it implies that the word 'caretaker' or 'whumper' encompasses 100% of a person's constant behaviour#in a very flattened and simplistic way#please do not come at me about this im not saying this is how everyone means it this is just#how i personally feel about it#due to the way i approach these words#and im not trying to say anyone CANT write about very typical abusive dynamics#im just saying the elements of like. 'good' behaviour or 'kind' treatment#doesn't make the Bad Part any less real or bad#the way that 'carewhumper' being set as a different or distinct thing than 'whumper' implies to me#i just feel insane whenever i see people using the term tbh like this is probably a me thing#a very stupid distinction to get hung up on#but i just. im always like isn't that just a whumper who's nice sometimes#what is the utility of this word if not to imply that#someone being nice sometimes meaningfully combats how cruel they are other times#what part of 'whumper' means they always have to be violent and awful 24/7#and do not take this to mean caretakers are never allowed to fuck up#or do anything wrong or get frustrated#or anything like that but that is like#very distinct from being a whumper of any kind at all#like the idea that a 'whumper' can only be 100% a sadist who means to cause harm and intends to cause harm every time is like#cmon now
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Verses from Guido Cavalcanti's La forte e nova mia disaventura
#artistic nudity#dragon age#warden cousland#elanor cousland#anora mac tir#warden x anora#ndo sta l'art tag#the way I crammed in all their symbols lmao#my splendid queens of diamonds <3#also that is a very 'in the guts' poem about love and the loss of it and the impossibility of communicating that kind of torment#phrase can be translated with 'I can't ask for pity because I'm in the hands of that lord (love) who controls the weight of pain'#but I'm sure it's not 100% correct because xiii vulgar italian isn't today's italian and my english is awful lol#...yes I'm plotting stuff. yes they're involved. yes it's angsty.#:'D aaaaa#*squeaking noises from brain*
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Your art tastes like aged paper, sugar, and chocolate to me, with a hint of salt every so often
Machete looks like white chocolate, and Vasco's like buttery caramel
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#aw#that sounds nice#anonymous#answered#I was wondering what the aged paper is doing there but it reminded me of something#so I'm going to share a weird personal detail totally unprompted#I think I used to have pica disorder when I was a kid I would gnaw on and eat a lot of small inedible objects#pieces of cardboard rubber bands and blu tack#the plastic animal figurines I had had bitemarks on them and were often missing bodyparts like if a dog had gotten to them#also a ton of uncooked pasta#I think it wasn't a flavor thing I had obsessions for specific textures that weren't found in actual foods#I particularly craved those candy wrappers that are made of waxed paper#(finns might be familiar with pihlaja or marianne wrappers for example or those translucent inner wrappers in lehmäkarkki/ cow cream fudge)#can't say for sure when it stopped but one day I realized that hey hold on this probably isn't normal human behavior#I think I was over 10 but under 15#and I had forgotten the whole thing but got such a vivid flashback from that line it was actually kind of alarming
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just realized all over again that harding and rye never got to talk about varric. when he got out of fade jail she was gone. she's never coming back. they never got to talk about it. they will never get to talk about it. they spent all that time together, they became so close, and still they never got to meet in a world where they could both talk about it and now they never will because she's gone too. she'll never know he felt it just as deeply as she did, that she wasn't alone in it. millions dead thousands wounded in my heart and brain right now it's just a bloodbath in here
#worst part is I think rye kind of resents neve a little bit for being the only other person left who knew varric...#but not in the way he needs not in a way that would ever help them connect (which they already struggle with real bad sooo...)#which is so fucked up of him but grief doesn't care about logic or fairness or playing nice. and it isn't even about neve#none of this is her fault. of COURSE it isn't. her only crime is who she isn't. he just wants harding back :'(#(I mean he would never in a million years tell neve this needless to say but the undercurrent is there)#it's just awful and sad and unfair for every single person involved in this situation I'm. dying#maybe. maybe someone should write to the kirkwall crew or something to alleviate this situation b/c poor neve doesn't deserve this lol#adaar at the very least they can at least connect over both harding and varric. head in my hands. I'm so sad#lace harding please come back I miss you always I'll even suffer fereldan cuisine for you with a smile I promise#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#oc: Ellaryen Ingellvar#lace harding
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i love karna fate grand order so fucking much because in serious grail wars he’s an extremely fascinating, imposing, and badass character who just has this unique, grand air about him, he looks almost otherworldly and speaks with such purpose yet personality, and he has a huge amount of power, but he's dangerous because he does hold back until he either feels the need or is instructed to just explode everything
but nearly all the rest of the time he exists he is an autism creature in the shape of a gender man who just happens to have godly powers
he may look pretty and composed but do not be fooled. this is the glowy body horror god baby. he is a Huge Dork(tm). he never knows what to do with his face. when given the choice to wear whatever casual clothes he wants he dresses like an arts college student who just tossed on 2-3 layers of whatever was laying around on their dorm floor before heading to the nearest whole foods. his ass is the posterchild for flat fuck friday. he absorbed the meathead jock braincells from the guys he hung out with in life and during christmas he goes full unga bunga about it
in vibes alone karna is like a goofy baby albatross compared to his brother who may as well like the perfectly sleek and beautiful adult ones with the perfect eyeliner in comparison. which is ironic, because karna already has the natural makeup (also, once again, do not be fooled, arjuna is a screaming disaster on the inside, but that's a love post for another day)
i think one of my fav examples of the contrast between ~beautiful ikemen~ karna and absolutely clueless fucking loser karna is that bit in the 5th anni pv where there's that shot of him oh so cooly popping open a bottle of champagne, and he's got the bishie sparkle going on, and looks sooooooo pretty in his fancy clothes,
and then you realize
he just soaked arjuna with it, probably entirely obliviously
tl;dr karna good. yes he is cool. yes he is dorky and silly as all hell. duality of mankind
#fgo#gif#long post#i just!!!! i love him!!!!!!#sometimes i feel like a lot of people only think of him as being plain and uninteresting (listen he's just awful at people'ing ok)#or the ultimate badass like he was in apocrypha (he IS badass but he has so many other sides!)#this isn't even getting into how kind he can be or just how good of a servant to his master he always is#i want more fuckingh loser karna representation! cmon!!!!
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wiggles my fingers at you ouuuu… you want to tell me about solace so bad…
HKJGG wiggles my fingers back lovingly!!! i really do, i fuckin LOVE solace :3 hey did you know i really like making fake skill descriptions?
SOLACE
Follow the north star. Find light in even the darkest places. Cool for: Optimists, Recovering lost souls, Sweet summer children
Solace is the skill you tucked away long ago, at the bottom of Pandora's box. The little one that tells you: despite it all, there is still hope. It needs a lot of nurturing -- and it's far from being the most helpful for police work -- but taking care of it is basically self-care. It enables you to find the glow in yourself that you often ascribe to gold lungs or brilliant halos in others. It encourages you to wake up and watch the sunrise, to play board games with someone you love, to forgive yourself and let yourself be a gentler kind of animal. Constantly looking forward to a brighter future, it also helps shield your morale from damage.
At high levels, Solace gives you a heightened sense of childlike optimism - which isn't always the sense to lead with in this precariously harsh world. Always looking for the bright side will blindside you with naivety. At low levels, however, you may just extinguish whatever keeps your soul alight. You've already lost her once. You may not survive the desolation if you let her disappear again.
#i wanted to draw a skill portrait for her for this but [gestures vaguely at life] i hope this is cool enough hkjgkj <33#solace is truly voli's ''keep going. there's still hope for us'' and echem's ''we can be happy again! let's go find joy wherever we can''#this is why i keep saying she's their kid hkjgh she covers the happy medium of both of their ideologies. hope for a happier future.#harry goes to the store and finds a pair of pink heart shades that gives her ''+1 Rose Colored Glasses'' :3#i feel like theres some mechanic that keeps her from gaining too many points. a locked skill cap or maybe she can lose skill points??#hm. considers this.#echem voice ''i can't believe i'm saying this but we really can't drink alcohol anymore. it's bad for the baby :(''#ALSO. THIS IS ONE OF MY MORE SELF INDULGENT WORKS SO IF IT SEEMS OOC IN ANY WAY THAT'S BC THIS IS MY COMFORT FIC HGKJKJ#i know sometimes i write skill relationships too sweet and the world too kind and the game too unrealistically...#i know shivers said the end of the world is in 22 years. i know being a revachol cop would kill solace. i know alcoholism is hard to kick#and dora still haunts us. i know life is so hard and there is so much that kills hope and that the pale is going to swallow elysium. i know#but isn't disco elysium about how the world is awful and corrupt and futile but there is still beauty and worth to living in it?#the sky. the world. you're still alive. after death; life again. one day i will return to your side. sunrise parabellum.#the phasmid exists. the pale can be fought back with art. the city's alive and she told us she loves us. and solace believes there is hope.#augh idk man hjlkjg just don't want to lean into the ''young witch trying to find a cat in the alps'' bullshit lmao FUCK that </3#i just think harry deserves a hope skill.#volta transmissions#inland drabbles#task: when two skills love each other very much
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Ask and you shall receive (a sneak peak of what's to come)
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#mdzs au#homestuck#I genuinely do have troll designs for the major characters of mdzs adn thoughts pertaining to their hemospectrum#I honestly thought ppl would start throwing holy salt at me at the mention of homestuck but the enthusiasm is super motivating!#With that said; Thank you all so much for the support with the hollow knight crossover#Even people who have never heard of hollow knight have been so kind (go buy and play hollow knight; the aesthetic and story are amazing)#More bug doodles and comic are ahead! I'll try and space them out between comic updates.#More thoughts will come later but for now...allow me to leave you with this:#Non-homestucks may see the blue and red and go 'aw blue-red ship how cute' while those who know might realize exactly what im putting down#namely that this version of wwx is *very* interested and persistent about getting lwj to spend time with him.#Lwj lives in a very insular indigo colony and isn't fully aware of the differences in life span between hemocasts (yet).#But wwx is. So he's driven to live life to the fullest! This would also drive him to be way more self-sacrificing.#Since his life is so small compared to everyone else he loves anyways. That purple isn't just aesthetic either.
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not going to give the blog any attention or time of day but this is your reminder that the leverage crew would never be zionists or support israel whatsoever
I wasn't going to engage with it because I value my mental health but yeah. absolutely fucking NOT
y'all really think that this group of people that actively go out of their way to go against the rich and powerful, who make it their goal to help people that are oppressed, devalued by society and taken advantage by those more powerful would at all EVER align themselves with israel? bffrrn
I'm going to go off for a few paragraphs about why this is such a horrendously ridiculous and delusional idea, but I'm not going to clog up your dash so it's going under the cut. I want to respect people who already participate in activism and need fandom space for lighter things
tw for discussion of the atrocities and war crimes happening in palestine
over 25 THOUSAND innocent people have died as a result of israeli terror the last few months alone. over 10 thousand children. entire family lines have been erased from the world forever- grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren all martyred, often together as they are sheltering from bombs and bullets until they are murdered by soldiers that laugh as they shoot and detonate bombs.
you really think that eliot 'I adopt every child I see' spencer would support a regime that let a child stay trapped in a car where her family members were martyred, not let paramedics in for days and then when they finally let the paramedics approach they kill both her AND the EMS? you think he would stand with the government that arrests children as young as 6 years old for *checks hand* being terrorists (because what fucking 6 year old is a terrorist let alone any kind of national threat. they're fucking SIX). that snipes children for throwing rocks at tanks and their apartheid walls
he and all of them would weep at the picture released the other day of the little girl handing from rubble with her legs blown off.
all of them would be horrified of the bombardment that has murdered tens of thousands of innocent civilians, women, children, men, elderly alike with no fucking care. that shoots people with their hands up waving white flags. that bulldozes graveyards and digs up bodies and probably steals organs from they dying and deceased. that bombs hospitals, governmental and archival buildings, mosques, churches, holy sites, schools and universities. whose soldiers have a trend where they go through women's underwear drawers and make lewd comments about their lingerie and how kinky they must be. who make tiktoks of them playing in decimated playgrounds and signing their children's names on bombs. who force parents to collect pieces of their children in plastic bags because they have been blown apart by relentless bombing. who shoot a grandmother holding a child's hand. who murdered a woman that dared say that she was older than the 'state' of israel.
the fact that you're posting this as israel relentlessly bombs rafa, the place they were told would be the only safe place to be, where 1.6 million people are living in tents living off animal feed because no sufficient humanitarian aid (if any) has been let through
these people that advocate for comeuppance and exposing wrongs would not support a regime that actively targets and murders journalists and their entire families.
you really think any of them would actively support a genocidal sociopathic government? fucking delusional
to a certain extent, I know that people want to keep fandom and advocacy spaces separate and I acknowledge and relate to that- when we are logged on every moment of the day we sometimes need to take breaks and engage with something else for our mental health. I need that too. and there is a very thin line when you try to apply fandom to current events because in all honesty, making headcanons about how your faves would react to X horrendous event can come off as extremely tone-deaf. I get you love your blorbos (I do too!), but actual people are suffering and it can come off as disingenuous to a lot of folks when you try to talk about your characters instead of the very real harm that is going on. HOWEVER, the other account posted in the leverage tag that the crew would be zionists and started that discourse and since it was already out there in our space I wanted to make sure that people know that this blog does not support that whatsoever.
and before this gets misconstrued: antizionism is not antisemitism. I have a lot of love for my jewish friends and followers, but saying that we can't be critical of war crimes and incessant aggression because it is a jewish state is fucking ridiculous. we should be able to hold any and all governments accountable when they do bad things (this absolutely also means I think we should hold the US accountable for enabling them and I live here. every country that is complicit needs to face consequences). saying that israel is exempt from criticism because jewish people deserve a right to a homeland isn't a great take. I completely understand fear of antisemitism and discrimination, but at some point we have to think critically and acknowledge that people are dying by the thousands and standing up for that and calling out atrocities takes precedence. jewish voices for peace has some really good content about this topic
anyways there's a random blog out there posting about how your faves are zionists splattering their rancid sponge and I want to make sure my stance on this subject is very clear: fuck israel, free palestine, and no one is free until everyone is free
#i got really fucking angry and this was kind of cathartic but honestly i'm just really fucking tired of this shit#thank u digitaldiscipline for talking me out of reblogging it with a response because that would just give the blog more undeserved attenti#free palestine#palestine#gaza#anti zionisim#fuck israel#fuck isntreal#leverage#leverage redemption#your fave is NOT a zionist#tw war crimes#also raf 'splattering their rancid sponge' is such an iconic phrase thank u for sharing that w me#I'm not going to talk about my real-life activism for privacy and security reasons but I regularly interact with people from jvp#and they are super awesome and lovely and courageous people#i really respect them. they are treated so awful in my area when we have protests at city hall from local rabbis. it takes a LOT of courage#ALSO there is a lot to be said about eliot as a character and how he isn't the best person but for the sake of him loving children i wrote#it that way. also hardison would be disappointed in you for supporting israel#mine
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Do me a favor, okay? Next time you have a chance, close your eyes for a minute and take a deep breath and imagine someone loving you.
Imagine someone who gets excited just thinking about you. Imagine someone who loves the things you say and do and who genuinely enjoys spending time with you. Imagine someone who feels lucky every moment they get to be around you.
It can be a real person or someone you just made up. You can imagine them praising you or laughing with you or touching you or whatever love means to you. It can be romantic or otherwise. Take your pick.
And if you had a hard time doing it?
Do it again. And again. And again.
I read once that it’s important for us to visualize being loved. That your brain needs to be trained like a muscle, and like a muscle, it can become weak from disuse. Your brain can only do the things that you practice doing, and if you never, ever visualize someone loving you, it becomes difficult to even imagine someone loving you. You get stuck in a rut. And once it’s impossible to imagine someone loving you, it becomes impossible to believe you will ever be loved.
I think… sometimes it can become easy to stop believing that we’re worthy of love. And I think sometimes we have this fantasy of someone making us believe that we’re worthy of it again. Or that somehow we’ll just — earn it, one day. Being worthy of love and desire, respect and affection.
But I think the truth is that we can only start believing that we’re worthy of love if we’re capable of imagining it. And it becomes much, much easier to imagine it if you practice doing so.
It may feel awkward at first. Embarrassing. Silly. Maybe even painful. But think about it like this, maybe: your first day in a dance class, you’ll fall. You’ll look ridiculous. It’ll feel like your body will never be able to do this fluidly. But by the end of the class, you’ll be able to move in a whole new way. Maybe not perfectly, but… better, y’know?
Learn to waltz with your own mind, and try not to cringe too hard at your first awkward movements. Start small and work your way up if you have to. Someone liking you, then someone liking your conversations, then someone liking your presence, then someone purposefully seeking you out. Someone putting time aside for you. Someone thinking about you when you’re not there. Someone being with you because there’s nowhere they’d rather be.
It may feel self-indulgent, but… I mean, we all deserve to be indulged sometimes. And we all deserve to feel worthy of love.
So… indulge yourself. Take a moment and have a silly little fantasy. Get into the habit of imagining love, and imagining it for the you that exists right now, not the you that you wish you were.
Learn to speak the language of love as it applies to you, even if you think that it doesn’t, and one day you’ll realize how to use those syllables to say your own name.
It’ll come one day. In the meantime, let’s learn to dance together, okay?
#personally...#I mean I am disabled and I am not conventionally attractive#I have PTSD now from the kind of childhood abuse that makes you feel... broken I guess#so I have spent an awful lot of my life finding it difficult to imagine truly being loved#when there are so many 'easier' choices in this world it is hard to imagine someone picking me#so believe me when I say I know it's hard#but I also know that I closed myself off to love once I stopped being able to imagine people doing it#I lost the vocabulary for people loving me so when people did it I could no longer describe it#I didn't notice or worse - it stressed me out#but... I have started doing this visualization exercise and it does help#sometimes I have a spark of... well yes this person in this fantasy does deserve to be loved#and I am that person#so there's a spark of hope to it#hope can be good and hope can be bad but... I guess it's necessary too isn't it?#so let's do our best to make our brains stfu when they're being mean and instead focus on self-love
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if you wannnnnttt you could tell us more about your ocs.. i know you've talked a lot about gills but i still feel like i barely know him. only if you want to though serious
HMM. I feel like I often give very barebones information about my ocs as I want the story in the comic to speak for itself, and I haven't gotten to the point yet where I'm ready to start advertising them more and making promotional art, etc. I want to make information sheets for the main members of the crew, more in-world illustrations, fun stuff for people to get into these characters more, but it's a little difficult when I'm focused on making the story itself. that and college.
gills in particular is difficult to talk about as so much of his arc depends on him being fairly mysterious and emotionally guarded... but I can give you the rest of the crew's pov on him from the point the story starts, which is that he's their mildly bitchy but mostly boring and reclusive weapons scientist who lives in the "lower" level/lab of the station. if he isn't in there, chances are he's locked himself in his quarters.
I would describe gills as being my most emotionally driven character in terms of how I approach writing him :] his arc is a labor of love regarding a number of things I have never personally been able to put into words.
and here's a sketch with him and domino that I never finished, something about domino messing with him by hanging out in his blind spot while he's working but I thought the pose was boring
#askbox#as a general disclaimer I am god awful at answering broad questions#though I realize it's kind of difficult to get specific ones when there isn't a lot of information I've given people to go off of. lol#oc tag
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I love nothing more on this earth then a character trying to find comfort or betterment but is so deeply close to being a monster it comes across as inhuman and scary
its truly the most heart warming thing to me in the world
#Truly i try to get this across with rosa so bad#She knows she has problems and can FEEL the chasm between her and humans and vampires with higher humanity#and would like to close it but she isn't sure how#so she sometimes is just strange around vampires she sees as having closed that gap#She is a monster in so many ways and doesn't even hate them but wishes she DID hate them so maybe#just maybe#If she stares at her coterie mates close enough she can remember how it was to think torture is bad or cringe at murder#maybe if she peers into the soul of a kind thin blood doctor she can make it back to a person who feels sick at the idea of gore and carnag#she doesn't seek out these awful things but she wishes they bothered her when she saw them#I AM TALKINGTO MUCH IN THE TAGS
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okay pause on phone people posting to do some Rhinedottir Posting ™
I think that while all of the Five Sinners are generally around the same level of unhingement and gray morality, Rhinedottir was just Like That even before taking a dunk in the Eldritch and Forbidden. I think it's kinda funny.
"That's Surtalogi, he basically invented lycanthropy and has a pet multidimensional narwhal that eats French people, that obelisk over there is Vedrfolnir, the single greatest visionary to kinda-live, capable of restoring sentience to the cursed, and the lady over there is Rhinedottir, a revolutionary alchemist and she, uh... Yeah these days she's mostly printing flying dismembered dogs. No idea why. She's not even taking care of them, or of any other thing she ever made for that matter. Yeah, she made a bunch of her clones and dumped most of them into a vat of acid. No idea why, something about them not being good enough. Oh yeah no, that was before our country was nuked. I don't know what's her deal and honestly at this point I'd keep it that way. Anyways, that guy over there is Rerir and he uhhhhhhh-"
#rhine rambling tag#genshin impact#genshin#rhinedottir#i think she deserves the assigned unhinged at birth privileges#both as a woman in stem and the only woman in a group of “the best of the best in their respective fields” consisting mostly of men (joking)#granted i do think she's more complex than “get that fetus kill that fetus x999” but at the same time.#a female villain who isn't manipulated misunderstood or with a tragic backstory meant to make her more sympathetic/less threatening#is a nice change of pace.#we already had that in genshin with signora ei and arlecchino as they all had some kind of Trauma backing up their actions to a degree.#so for rhinedottir i think it'd be interesting if she just made all those choices on her own - without being pushed by trauma of any kind.#simply knowing what she wanted - willing to do anything to get it. ... whatever that something is.#a fully self made woman - from her achievements in academics and social status to all that comes with trading your morals for a goal.#that way there's Agency in her awfulness#yknow what i mean
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might end up in a not super great financial situation soon (not like i am already but it might get a LOT worse) and it's like. a part of me is like "ok people like cravingpepsimax do something with that" but like wtf do i do LOL i don't really make anything???
like i guess i could open commissions but pretty much all of my art on here is shitty doodles and shitty doodles are about the only thing i can trust myself to actually finish. how would i even price those. they'd have to be like. 3 cents each. which would be nothing LMAO
fucking. i can. make more fankids. and sell them as adopts. would anyone like that??? controversial ship fankid adopts (or design commissions, if you want me to come up with a design for you -- not gonna be a super detailed character sheet or anything tho lol)
(also, should go without saying, but any input/suggestions would be great. like if there's something y'all would pay for that i hadn't considered)
#feels kind of awful posting this since like WOW great reminder that i am NOT actually contributing anything meaningful#and it DOES make me look/feel like a pathetic grifter#but . 14.50 an hour at wendys isn't livable in the slightest.#and i don't have any like. irl friends that could help. so.
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