#this story is everything to me

[handmemyshovel]

“this fucking old👴 random dude just comes up to the table🍽 and my mom🧍‍♀️says hi😄 to his dog🐕 next thing you know i’m fucking 🪤LOCKED🔒 into a social interaction that i—i did ❌not❌ consent to😓. and this man🧍‍♂️ is breathing down my neck😖, he’s practically fucking just — just — he’s fucking — he’s gonna get his fucking dandruff🌨 on my french fries🍟. like — his body is spilling🫗 over onto my cuisine🍝, like he’s this close🤏🤏 …… and — and i fucking hated it and i couldn’t tell that my parents👨‍👩‍👦 genuinely wanted to speak🗣 to this man👴 who is a stranger🚶‍♂️ to me but apparently they knew⁉️

i didn’t realize💡 this, but i was being polite🙂 so i was like “okay☝️ i’m gonna take responsibility here😌. i’m gonna take on the responsibility of not contributing to the vibe that is making this man feel welcome😊” SO. I look dead ahead😐😐, i don’t make eye😑 contact with this beast🐆, i don’t fucking say hi👋 to him, i just — i’m like a stranger👽 on the fucking subway🚊: we ❌don’t❌ know each other😒, we’re ❌not❌ gonna know each other😤, just don’t. fucking. talk to me. 😊

and… and he leaves🍃. after like ten years🗓. and my parents just fucking jump🤬🤬 down my throat😱. “what the fuck?!! 🤬🤬what was that face you were making😤😤?!??”

and i was like, “i — i don’t know this man!!😰 i didn’t know him and i didn’t welcome him!”

and they were like, “well.. we knew him!😠”

and i was like “🥹well i—i—i- whatever 😐😐” i thought💭 i was do— i thought i was ⚔️protecting⚔️ them by being the ☝️one guy in the group who does— who is trying to be clear with their body language🖕.”

(episode: road dogs from life in the world to come)

[chloesimaginationthings]

The Afton kids deserved better in FNAF..

[esiscia]

Read Transparent Eyes on ComicFury!

Here's the link to the ComicFury page for Transparent Eyes!

[c-rowlesdraws]

Ratatouille would have been a better and potentially much more interesting story if Remy had partnered with Collette instead of Linguini. Two underdogs with talent and passion forced to maintain a dangerous ruse. Fiercely independent Collette giving up temporary control of her body to a creature who, despite the insanity of a rat wanting to cook professionally, she can relate to on a personal level and who she does want to teach. The inner conflict of wondering if Remy’s growing talents are eclipsing her own, if the praise their food is earning belongs more to him than to her. Her guilt over feeling resentment and jealousy towards this little guy who wouldn’t have a hope of realizing his talents if not for her trust and protection. Both of them unraveling the mystery of that sweet but bumbling kitchen boy with the obvious crush on Collette being Gusteau’s secret son, and working together to thwart the new evil owner’s plans to stop Linguini from claiming his birthright. The message of the movie not being this weird, almost smug “some people are born with talent, some people aren’t, and that’s how being a ~great artist~ works”, but something more like, “if you have a dream, you deserve to pursue it, and be supported and encouraged in your pursuit of it, even if other people tell you that, because of some intrinsic aspect of yourself or the circumstances you were born in (like being a human woman in the restaurant industry, or being a literal rat), you have no place pursuing this dream. Also, raw talent can only get you so far, and skill and passion existing in the right balance is key.” I’ve been thinking about this for seventeen years. I’m breaking my silence

[magicicephoenix]

i finally finished reading I see you, Sundrop! by @shirajellyfish and IT'S SO GOOD I CAN'T BELIEVE IT TOOK ME THIS LONG TO FINISH IT RAAAAAAA

i will be gushing about it in the tags but here's a lil animation i made based on the below paragraph in chapter 6 that gave me such a strong mental image that i had to make it real :)

[mobius-m-mobius]

#the Nowhere Man who waits and the God of Stories who watches

[egophiliac]

bring your son to work day

[rendevok]

Act I ~ The Prince

A tapestry for Let No One Sleep by @azalawa-scroggs on ao3

[stil-lindigo]

the fox god.

a comic about a trickster.

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[haliaiii]

reading up on argenti’s lore

[dunmeshistash]

Something I find amazing about Dungeon Meshi is how much "restraint" Ryoko Kui shows when telling this story. It's so clearly crafted to be the best story it can be.

By that I mean how she had SO MUCH world building for this story but still kept it as contained as it needed to be, it's a story about a few characters inside one dungeon, even if the world is expansive the story isn't. And even with the amount of characters she clearly loves so much she never got side tracked as I see so many other mangas get. The world is alive, other people exist fully with their own lives, but it stays true to the story that's being told in this universe.

I think it really shines through with how the world building relevant to the story is slowly shown to us in a non expository way, that's also something I see a lot, especially in movies, just stopping everything on it's tracks so they can info dump about the world to you, but in dungeon meshi its all so organic... magic is explained because some characters are ignorant, cultural differences are shown through cultural clashes, world history is implied through relevant conversation (monster facts are info-dumped to us but even that is in character) it's all really good and I don't think I could have gotten this into it if everything was just laid out in front of me right away.

This is all to say I'm glad we have the adventurer's bible and all this extra content that didn't fit into the story but I'm glad they weren't forced into it in detriment to the storytelling.

[vegetadaily]

Rest in peace Akira Toriyama-sensei. Thank you for creating and sharing your art and stories. They will forever be in our hearts as will you. May your light continue to shine on us. Thank you for everything.

[puppyeared]

littlest furth shop

@laikascomet

[parasol-mortis]

Some Godwyn sketches that were living in my head rent free after reading a lore theory on reddit. It theorized that Godwyn was ascending to godhood by becoming a true dragon, in alignment with the myth of the koi fish swimming up stream until it became a dragon.

So I played around with that design as if it were a phase shift in his boss fight, with his weird oyster face opening up and revealing his true form, a rancid deathblight dragon.

Also playing around that the oyster face isn't Godwyns real face, but rather just like a real oyster, with Godwyns head is being reformed within it much like like what happens in real oysters when they make pearls (instead of calcium it's deathblight, and the "outside particle" is Godwyns corpse being covered and changed to create the Prince of Death.) (This is also like... visually could be compared to Griffith being rebirthed through the red behelit into Femto, since I know Miyazaki loves that Berserk stuff)

[mobius-m-mobius]

#there are two types of actors 😂💖

[egophiliac]

I've had a beast of a cold for the last few days, but I wanted to get this out before the new year! while I've sort of made my peace with my first take on Lilia's UM poster, I really wanted to do a version with the new context that chapter 6 gave us. because. c'mon.

(don't worry, Lilia can carry ALL HIS KIDS AT ONCE)