#this should not be working as well as it is. its awesome.

[queeninyellow4]

The big thing that hit me about the original story is the fact that it works really well as a psychosexual horror. Affini will use everything to break you, they will drug you, lie to you, rape you all because they fully believe they are doing this for your own good. And you cant do anything to realistically stop it. After a while you wont even want to stop it cuz you yourself will believe that this is good for you. And while stories usually frame domestication as something with really positive results that helps florets. Its also really fuckign scary when a being twice your size that kidnaped you and that you can't stop forces drugs in you and tells you that they will fix you and soon you will love it. Even if they are right its really not easy to trust them on this.

They will take your autonomy. Remodel you to their liking. And at the end of the day you will thank them for it even if you dont want to do it right now. And you know that even if you hate it now you cant stop it. It will just happen and you will end up with implant that may influence your mind a bit. But you will end up happier than you are now and you will be thanking them for that. After the first period of denial you have to accept that even if you are trying to still resist you know that you cant win. They will force happines on you no matter how much you beg them not to.

And you really can't win. There's almost no way to hurting them in any way that matters. The best you can hope for is hiding on some shitty spaceship for few years before being captured. And living on those spaceship is really just torture. So why not just accept the eternal happines? Since you cant win anyway and affini really dont want to hurt you even if their help seems scary.

And theres something really scary about it on innate level to me. You just have to trust that this new way of existence they are forcing on you will trully be as good as they say. Being always happy sure sounds awesome but doesn't just something feels a bit off about it?Sure you can look at florets walking on the streets and see their smiles as proves that this works but florets can also be really creppy in their own right. What really is their level of autonomy? How much the implant influences them? Does being constantly on drugs makes you unable to think for yourself? But all those questions you have wont matter, cuz you will become like them, and you will be happier than you are now, you have no saying in that (unless of course you go to domestication center on your own which you totally should do, then you have some saying in it :3 )

[strawberry-seal77]

the simplified designs is something that I think works for any kind of drawing!! It's breaking a character into their most recognizable shapes (shapes which Pokemon make ABUNDANT!! it's so awesome. They rock the silhouette game) which makes them much easier and quicker to draw again and again at whichever angles you need!!!

roy, for instance, keeps his big sleeves and collar, which are big important shapes (he SHOULD also have the backpack strap but I forgot BFJHDB) but loses details like the buttons and white strip on the shirt !!

similarly, for coral a lot of the patterning and detail are gone !! for simplicity's sake >:3c (though I might be inclined to add Something back to the legs so they don't look bare)

I, in fact, did not give reference pictures more than a passing glance during the creation process, and thus have made Some Errors. Oh well !!!

Speaking of retrospect, I'd also make her legs less pointy to match the render! But regardless, if it reads it works !!

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To the topic of DUPLICATE FRAME and LASSO tool, its a quick and simple (if a bit messy) way to make small movements!!

Duplicate frame is pretty self explanatory, and lasso tool is a tool that lets you select an area in any shape!!

You can see that coral is slighttly more squished in the first frame, which was done with duplication and lasso tool! The head is moved down and right to make the impression of forward, and the legs are moved up. For the body, I used mesh transform, which lets you drag things around and squoosh them with a little more variability than the normal tranform tool!!

That first frame is a bit less clean than the second (its base), but that's okay!! It's an overshoot (animation technique to make quick and exaggerated movements by going jussst past the next keyframe and then snapping back into place) and it'll only be in frame for a really short amount of time :3

me when my characters start ripping apart at the seams (I have been cutting them up and taping them back together in new but similar poses)

Hello pokemon horizons fandom!! Today I bring you: Coral Being Confidently Wrong (with sound effects!)

As always, more thoughts under the cut.

Time Spent: 2.5 hours

This was QUITE fun!! Done really fast compared to a similarly timed storyboard (which took 8 hours) due to the uncolored nature and slower pace!! I had less overall frames to draw, and longer times for each frame (since I wasn't squishing a ton of actions into a fast-paced song FBDJHSB)

Got the idea from a conversation with the AWESOME @cowcowwow (hi!! hehe) who said that MAYHAPS the reason Coral doesn't swear in the main series is, rather than Horizons not allowing it, she simply Doesn't Know Swear Words (by virtue of the rest of the explorers being Very Careful with their words. She would be too powerful otherwise)

Which then evolved into her thinking the fake swears (flip, crap, darn) are the REAL ones !

In terms of process, I thumbnailed it out first, then did the actual boards (starting with each shot's main pose, and working from there), and I made the scene + caption part afterwards by expanding the canvas !!

It got forced to 16:9 by my editing software (SAD!!!) but oh well, I'll be putting it on youtube anyways FBDSJHBF

ALSO!! I'm very proud of this smear frame!

And the tinies are QUITE cute. I love you tinies!!!

Rotom's expressions were also VERY fun to do !! I love that even the phones are livin little guys that can be scared when they fall. Rest in peace Roy, you did not have good pockets 😔

also LOOK at Glalie's face. this is the expression of a pokemon who trusts its trainer DEARLY!! (which I do think is a cool thing with Coral and Glalie!! They have LOTS of trust and care <3)

Overall, im getting more comfortable with storyboarding! YIPPEE!

[zorollade]

pkmn masters ex is fun because i make a team of exclusively strike pairs and name it #girlpower and give them max upgrades and watch them win despite it all

[existencebringsonlypain]

She didn't.

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Spoke too soon, she will ABSOLUTELY be messaging this guy. That kaiju thing is awesome, she must know how he made it. Because he made it, and if he didn't then someone else made it and she refuses to believe anything otherwise. She is not getting into more dangerous magic stuff, nosiree. That is just good CGI. Maybe practical effects, if large ones.

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Steven checked his phone again. It was unholy-hours-at-night-o-clock, but his back was NOT agreeing with the car's seats tonight, so he's probably checked his phone twenty times tonight and every time the clock gets more and more mockingly late. He's a normal person, normal people are up at 2:53 am. This is not at all concerning and he does not need to use more of his dad's money to rent a motel! He is fine. Everything is fine.

Remind him to never think that phrase again. He does a breathing exercise as the pink glow intensifies. Bright pink lights coming from your cheeks aren't exactly conducive to sleep, either.

There's actually a new notification on his phone this time, someone with the URL @luzura. A quick gander at the blog reveals them to be a fanblog for some children's book series. He has no room to judge, he still posts about Crying Breakfast Friends. It's a good show! Once you get past the weird start, at least.

hey!! im just messaging to chat about your arg, its super cool. howd you get it on the news??

He chucked. Not the first time he's gotten that.

After a few attempts at drafting out messages, cleaning typos, and deleting them, he settles on:

hey yeah I know you're probably not gonna believe me but I promise you everything I've posted about has been real. I can, like. send video proof or something. or video call you, if you're comfortable with that. but I promise you it's real, I know it sounds absolutely insane

A bit defensive, but it works. He taps the arrow button.

Three dots pop up after a moment. Then disappear, then reappear.

youre right

i dont believe you

send vids

like float or something

actually no thats too easy to fake. do the shield thing. shapeshift. bring something to life idk

and hold up a peice of paper that says luzura on it so ik its real

*peace sry

*peice

*piece

He supposes that's a healthy suspicion to have.

fair enough, I'll be on it.

He props his phone up on his windshield and turns on the lights of his car. He scrounges around for paper and finds a napkin, which is probably good enough. A quick scribbling of a sharpie later and he presses record.

"Alright, yes, hi. Um. Here's your video. Sorry for the lighting, it's late. What to do... Oh, the napkin, here." He holds up the napkin the wrong way around at first and laughs.

"Hm. I guess... Bubble? I'll bubble it." He bubbles the napkin and nudges it closer to the camera, before pulling it away and resting it hovering over the passenger's seat.

"That's that. Uhh. I'd rather not bring something to life, that's only gone well once and that was more of a resurrection thing anyway. Oh, shape-shifting. Actually, I'd rather not do that either, I'm. Not very good at it. When I want to be, at least. I cannnn heal something? There's grass outside, should be easy enough. You're coming with me."

He grabs his phone and steps outside, rotating the camera at some grass and turning on the flash. "There, see, flora." He roughly grasps some blades and rips em out, tossing them to the side.

He didn't really think through this part, does he spit on them? That's kinda gross. He'll just...

He flips the camera and licks his palm, belatedly realizing this is even more gross, and flips around again to smear it on the dirt.

"Eugh." He scrapes the remaining grome off on the concrete as the grass regrows.

"While I'm at it, I'll just..." He sets his phone down, jumps and hovers in the air for a few seconds, summons his shield, and bubbles himself, all in quick succession.

Steven grabs his phone again. "That good enough?"

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It's been six minutes. Luz is tapping her foot on the ground, how long does it take?

Seven minutes.

The video arrives. It's six minutes long. No time for filters to be added. She presses play.

He wasn't lying.

ideas for a steven universe owl house crossover fic GO

[itsalwaysdark]

and when i live on my own ill be able to decorate like real life decorate ive never gotten to do that in real life b4

[buggbuzz]

well the meds still work but now my fingerpads hurt from typing 💔

also just realized my adhd meds are functionally just ozempic cause of the appetite loss LMAO. especially when you consider how, like, i lost 20 pounds in the first three months on adhd meds, how i had to focus more on not ending up underweight rather than overweight for once, and how my appetite has never been the same since lmao. like, i knew that was bc of the constant lack of appetite for years, but realizing its basically makeshift ozempic really put that into perspective lol.

my healthy weight seems to be 120-130lbs (i'm a 5'1 irish american female for reference). im definitely overweight at 140 and underweight under 120, as i have learned from overworking myself while on meds 💀 (pounds MATTER when youre short bro weight shows easily when there's nowhere for it to go). im naturally pretty stocky so its crazy to me that i know multiple people around 5-5'2 that are healthy at like 110 lbs like WHAT where is your MEAT at if i was 110 i'd be fucking decaying 😭

anyways i just found this stuff interesting lol. boy is it fun to be an organism with a complex body when you're a huge biology nerd! i'm like a personal specimen that i can study 24/7

[whumpy-wyrms]

can someone just like spam me with tllr things you want me to draw. can be anything i just neeeed motivationnn

[electricpurrs]

i cant help but always really like the idea of taking a stablished female character and specially the ones that are particularly girly or feminine and turning them into transmasc pretty boys. extreme gender self indulgence but i love to see it done

[tazzmanian-devil]

guy who hasnt taken his meds in a week: oh so theres no point? were all doomed? im doomed? im going to die? theres no point in trying? its all hopeless?

[guinevereslancelot]

please please please let me get the job that is 11 minutes away from me on quiet roads and not have to take the one with city traffic three traffic circles and a scary turn amen 🙏

[botseeksbot]

food . water . vbros women being written well .

[nomaishuttle]

literally consumed by thoughts abt my freaks .

[ilovemylawyer]

finally got around to watching tazza (2006) and it sparked an evilive related inquiry in my mind...

you know in ep3 how ohjae holds his mic in a lil funny upright style?

well peep this gamblingrelated gangster's eerily similar pose in tazza (2006)

so my question is: is ohjae's stance a reference to this? is it a coincidence? is it referencing something even older that i haven't gotten to yet? are these two going up against each other in a 1v1 rap battle?

[chekovsphaser]

Man I have had an emotional rollercoaster of a day today.

[haveihitanerve]

Dad How Do I but with Bruce Wayne.

Bruce who teaches life advice- showing kids how to tie a tie, how to tie their shoes, braid their hair, teaching young adults to do taxes, to surf, the best lawyers to hire when in trouble, how to avoid scams, he educates the less fortunate on the best places to get free food, where to go in Wayne Enterprises for a hot shower and some toiletries, how to eat at formal functions so the higher elite have one less thing to criticize them on. He teaches people how to do card tricks and make your niece laugh by pulling out a quarter from behind her ear, teaches moms how to rock their baby to sleep properly, teaches teens to do front flips and cartwheels and calculus, educates them on how to write job applications and two weeks notice letters. He teaches people to sew, to cook(alfred helps) to assemble an IKEA shelf, how to work a lawn mower, and all sorts of different things. And when his son dies… Bruce uses his account to share his grief, his story, shares everything about Jason, what a delight he was, how awesome he was, how much he loved to read and school… and then one day, he gets Batman to join a video. And the hero is stiff and everyone can see the exhaustion, the anger and sadness in his joints, his movements, radiating off him. But he sits down heavily into the chair Bruce Wayne had previously vacated… and begins to speak. He tells the story of Robin, his young child sidekick, who just like Jason Wayne, was murdered by the Joker. He tells everyone how his little boy tried to save Jason Todd, and how they both perished in the aftermath. He tells people about his grief, his anger, and why Batman is suddenly harsher and hurts more. “Because I hurt more.” he confesses quietly, and the people finally get to meet the man behind the mask (figuratively) and truly get to see who their hero really is. The account’s popularity skyrockets, and soon Batman is a lot more common to be seen, teaching people how to defend themselves and handle the Batarangs he knows they collect after he fights. Nightwing shows up too sometimes, teaching more elegant flips and tricks and they demonstrate their workout together, and a few months later, Batman shyly introduces his new Robin, same messy black hair as the one before, but slightly smaller, and theres something… more behind those lenses in his mask. But the kid is soon a fan favorite, making sarcastic comments and countering Nightwings witty remarks, and the people get to see a new side of Batman, get to watch as he rolls his eyes at them, as he uses them to teach people how to disguise themselves, ways to use clothes to stem blood, tie tourniquets. 

Then Red Hood returns. And a kid in Crime Alley catches him cursing at his jacket because a button fell off and he cant get it back on. “Um! Mr. Red Hood sir?” the kid pipes anxiously. Red Hood turns to him, angry, but the kid doesn't back down and just goes “You should watch ‘Mr. Wayne How Do I: Sewing’ it'll help.” and then he scampers off. And Jason is pissed and even more angry because of course while he was dead Bruce decides to become a father to everyone in Gotham. But he watches the video. And it helps. And… well, its one of the older videos. And Jason finds another old video. The one about… the one about his death. It shouldn't make his anger lessen, shouldn't make him cry, shouldn't bring him to Bruce’s doorstep where he reveals himself and they hug and cry and catch up and cry some more… but it does. 

Gothamites are a little surprised when their local Crime Lord appears on the channel, standing right next to Batman. Surprised, but pleased. Because Batman looks happy in a way he hasn't in a long time and well… Red Hood watched out for them too. And now their two protectors are working together.

[drchucktingle]

i have copied this comment without name because i think it is very kind and respectful and i do not want buckaroos interpreting it the wrong way. PLEASE UNDERSTAND this buckaroo is very sincere and has important points and please respect their way. i am going to answer in a way that is counter to their point and i do not want buds to go after them IN ANY WAY. THEY ARE PROVING LOVE AND THEY HAVE GOOD POINTS

okay here is what i have to say:

i have not transitioned and in this lifetime i do not expect to. i think you have a good point of 'how can you know?' and honestly i cannot know that is just how timelines and reality and perception work

HOWEVER i must caution against this train of thought slightly because what works for one buckaroos MAY NOT WORK for another. every time i talk about my non-dysphoric way there are plenty of well meaning buds, particularly fellow trans buds, who show up with posts in the tone of 'its only matter of time.' like i just do not understand yet.

this reminds me of bisexual buckaroos who are told 'you just do not know you are gay yet'. as difficult as it is to step out of our own dang minds, i implore buckaroos to accept that there VERY JOYFUL AND FULFILLED NON-DYSPHORIC TRANS BUCKAROOS who do not need to transition and never will and are healthy and happy without that. just like there are bisexual buckaroos who are not just on their way to being gay

a good way to look at it is like this: I LOVE MY MALE BODY. i think i am a very handsome buckaroo. i have masculine features in my muscle and height and frame. as far as how fate could have placed me on this timeline I WON MY OWN PERSONAL FOOTRACE. i am up on the podium and i am standing here with a medal around my neck. GOOD JOB CHUCK

HOWEVER when i look down i see that medal is silver. i am not going to lie and say it is gold. it is silver.

YES my gold medal is a female body. that is an objective truth to my trot. i believe my gender way is that of a women, but there is no part of me that is upset about where i have placed.

I GOT SILVER. i am not upset. there is no tragedy. in fact i am OVERWHLEMED WITH JOY not just to be on the podium but to be in this race in the first place. HECK YEAH I DID IT AND I GOT A MEDAL

of course this is not to dismiss the difficult journey of others. many do not feel the way i do and their trot is VALID. a dysphoric way matters and is important and these voices are important. they should be elevated and supported. i understand some do not share this podium imagery, and they feel PAINED by trappings of their body.

i feel so much for this. i understand and care for my dysphoric buds, but the simple truth is that is not my story. i cant just lie and say that it is.

it will never be my story. i cannot say this enough: i love my body. however i STILL believe my truest way is that of a ladybuck. if it was a simple button push to change me, then i would push it without hesitation.

but it is not a simple button push.

talk to almost any buckaroo who has transitioned and they will say 'transitioning is hard'. it takes time and work and money and emotional support. i am in awe of the bravery of buckaroos who trot this path, but all of that is not worth it for something that i already feel good about. SCRATCH THAT, i feel GREAT ABOUT. i feel overwhelmed with joy every day over just existing in this male body that i have been blessed with. YES buckaroo, i feel joy existing in a male body that i know is ladybuck on the inside. it feels interesting a cool and exciting.

but my truest way is STILL a ladybuck trot

i guess i am just trying to say that i love second place. im happy to celebrate it. i think my male body is really dang cool. it is not a 'perfect me' but it is really dang awesome, and i never really bothered with trying to be perfect