#they spark joy

[clinecherie]

clementine … my comfort witch ⊹ᡣ𐭩₊⋆

KRISTIN KREUK as LANA LANG SMALLVILLE (2001-2011) 2.02, “Heat”

[kukkakisu]

Various doodles I forgot to post earlier. Characters are from @venomous-qwille 's GITM AU!

[loserbynaturee]

III 15 spoilers!

Ahhhhhh theyre so <3

[beetlejuicesgraveyardrevue]

my phone is such a nice place :3

[winepresswrath]

something about how mad Ambrosius gets when his special nemesis time in interrupted! something about how smug and gleeful Ballister looks when he vaporizes the arrows. something about the way Nimona literally can't be put in a box the same way she can't be contained by the narrative and everywhere she goes things change because she changes. sparks joy makes me smile 10/10.

[bumbelbee]

Little treat for me... Tea in my blorbo mug on my blorbo saucer...

[twisting-echo]

A romantic moodboard of Katarina Alves (Tekken 7) x Fahz Chutani (Gears 5/Gears of War)

Part of my moodboard trade with DigiformerZinx on DA.

I love the idea of these two because Katarina Alves is an aggressive, sassy-mouthed talker with a cocky and slightly flirtatious personality who seems to be very confident in her abilities as a fighter. And Fahz Chutani is arrogant, unpleasant, and smug, yet a dedicated soldier of the COG. I think these two make a spicy couple and they both wear cool shades~

Twisting Echo~

🚫 IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THIS SHIP, PLEASE DON'T COMMENT 🚫 🚫 PLEASE DO NOT STEAL OR REPOST MY 🚫

[kauntersteer]

I love piss yellow neons

Guys look at my gen z build

I swear I'm gonna add side skirts and a new rear bumper I swear I swear I'm just broke rn

[queerpyracy]

I want one of those highland cow plush toys. that's the right kind of highland for me. extremely low maintenance

[tau1tvec]

I really love your sims!

I LOVE YOURS MORE!

[witchcraftandburialdirt]

❝ Hey yo, cut the music, cut the music. Somebody left an ice cube on the ground, it melted and now my SOCK is wet— who the fuck wanna DIE?! ❞ (amala is off her shits tryna throw down)

MY FAVORITE VINES ═══ CANON VERSE ═══

The loud banging and screaming is enough to make Robin jolt and drop his silverware onto the floor, half of his glass spilling onto the table as he groaned, flicking the liquid off of his hands as he stood up to glance over the edge of the arena, seeing chaos erupt. The band seems to shrug before beginning to play once more as the entire area seemingly breaks into a fight, everyone swinging, throwing glasses--

"HEY!" Robin shrieked his hat was plucked off of his head and he chases after them, bumping into Amala. He looks her up and down before grabbing her shoe from her hand and throwing it square at the guy. He swaggers over and grabs his hat, shaking it dry and putting it back on his head as the pit continues its insanity. He takes her hand and starts to walk her out, fully aware that her loud mouth started this! He brought her upstairs before a group of men carrying another nearly bumped into them, Robin gazed at them with concern before he sighed and stepped aside with a gesture.

"Carry on gentlemen."

And so they did, once the two of them were in a fairly calm balcony overlooking the chaos, Robin sighed and smiled. "I'll buy you a new shoe. And a new sock-- Don't worry, I won't tell Sett that the whole place blew up because of you, Miss Amala." Although his smirk was one of devilish intent, "I'll blame it on that one fighter who called me a bitch last week."

[marlynnofmany]

That is a great point. Make a list of things that bring you joy, and build a story out of that! It's bound to be exactly to your tastes.

One of the things that’s really struck me while rereading the Lord of the Rings–knowing much more about Tolkien than I did the last time I read it–is how individual a story it is.

We tend to think of it as a genre story now, I think–because it’s so good, and so unprecedented, that Tolkien accidentally inspired a whole new fantasy culture, which is kind of hilarious. Wanting to “write like Tolkien,” I think, is generally seen as “writing an Epic Fantasy Universe with invented races and geography and history and languages, world-saving quests and dragons and kings.” But… But…

Here’s the thing. I don’t think those elements are at all what make The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings so good. Because I’m realizing, as I did not realize when I was a kid, that Tolkien didn’t use those elements because they’re somehow inherently better than other things. He used them purely because they were what he liked and what he knew.

The Shire exists because he was an Englishman who partially grew up in, and loved, the British countryside, and Hobbits are born out of his very English, very traditionalist values. Tom Bombadil was one of his kids’ toys that he had already invented stories about and then incorporated into Middle-Earth. He wrote about elves and dwarves because he knew elves and dwarves from the old literature/mythology that he’d made his career. The Rohirrim are an expression of the ancient cultures he studied. There are a half-dozen invented languages in Middle-Earth because he was a linguist. The themes of war and loss and corruption were important to him, and were things he knew intimately, because of the point in history during which he lived; and all the morality of the stories, the grace and humility and hope-in-despair, was an expression of his Catholic faith. 

J. R. R. Tolkien created an incredible, beautiful, unparalleled world not specifically by writing about elves and dwarves and linguistics, but by embracing all of his strengths and loves and all the things he best understood, and writing about them with all of his skill and talent. The fact that those things happened to be elves and dwarves and linguistics is what makes Middle-Earth Middle-Earth; but it is not what makes Middle-Earth good.

What makes it good is that every element that went into it was an element J. R. R. Tolkien knew and loved and understood. He brought it out of his scholarship and hobbies and life experience and ideals, and he wrote the story no one else could have written… And did it so well that other people have been trying to write it ever since.

So… I think, if we really want to write like Tolkien (as I do), we shouldn’t specifically be trying to write like linguists, or historical experts, or veterans, or or or… We should try to write like people who’ve gathered all their favorite and most important things together, and are playing with the stuff those things are made of just for the joy of it. We need to write like ourselves.

[almondpiglet]

ppl were drawing mikus from all over so heres habesha miku and her lil twin sibs rin and len!!

[robylovi]

https://open.spotify.com/track/5DYtvbg3WpnxLuWdPVuMYC?si=eeKaFT3dSnWFHg2Q8cg2PA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0vahSxlX9QBiGGnuEeE5K5

don’t know if you take song suggestions but i’m loving this song from a smaller creator and wanna share it with the world

YO ANON THIS WAS SUCH A VIBE TYSM

[pleasant-plant-x]

>Tall enough to stand inside >sedan height front hood for pedestrian safety >looks like a ducky :3

YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT , BUT THIS IS WHAT THE IDEAL MAIL BODY LOOKS LIKE

[cuddles-with-tribbles]

I would buy those 100% 🤌🏻

Made some Star Trek pants because I have a problem!!!! Had a lot of fun with this project and I’m gonna wear it everydayomgeheheheh :D !

A very special thanks to @strawberfolk for all their gracious help and for cradling me in their arms when the sewing machine literally attacked me at gunpoint