#thought it would be the other way round

[uncanny-tranny]

Sometimes, I'm sad about the hobbies I have abandoned or have been too intimidated to pick up. But... what good is it, to just beat myself up over that? My bass is sitting in the corner, patiently waiting, and so is everything else. My life isn't over, and I've got nothing to answer to. I'm wading through a sea of time, and I'll pick up the seashells that interest me, and it's okay to put one back in the sand. The current's waves will bring it back to me if that is to be destiny. I can not hate myself into productivity, so I must swim on.

I think the same can apply to anybody. It's okay if you have dropped something, such as a hobby or passion. Human beings are like that sometimes, it isn't reasonable for you to beat yourself into submission. You, too, can not hate yourself into being a well-rounded person. You must cultivate it like you would a garden - with patience, time, and care.

[ria-starstruck]

and also "putting everyone in a simulation will make it all ok 👍" and also "let's park next to this random system's sun" and also "we can't live on our own planet because of our own folly" and so on

[seventh-district]

“Why’s he call you Darlin’?”

on my knees begging my brain to stop trying to associate this song with Sam

[skunkes]

i dont like when character being blunt/having no filter = character just being Mean, and im trying to find a good balance with that for Talon. I guess it's not that hard since he's not an (active) overthinker and I have drawn him saying things he considers neutral that seem rude to others...I guess I have to find a way to show the opposite, too

[hyumjim]

just some of my little opinions btw

[darkclouud9]

ObiKaka chronological game of noughts n crosses <3

board is

X O X

O O X

O X O

they both suck! ^-^

[twilight-saga-soundtracks-polls]

Another bonus throw-away poll because Breaking Dawn - Part 2 still has a short soundtrack!

[novadorks]

finally finished orv after two years . . . what do i do with my life now

[marietheran]

...So! There are at least two people on tumblr who hate me with absolute loathing 🙃

[thischarmingand]

3! would also love some horror recs if you got them

"What were your top 5 books of the year?"

In chronological order, because I'm relying heaily on Storygraph to remind me what happened. Almost all of these are horror except the first one.

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (David Grann)

From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes a real-life version of the The Terror where English hubris and a disregard for human life leave a ship of men stranded on a remote island somewhere near Cape Horn. I like that Grann takes the time to really get into the fates of a few free Black sailors (grim as they are) and to make it clear that none of this ever needed to happen at all.

The Reformatory (Tananarive Due)

This won the most recent Bram Stoker award for best novel and well-deserved. Set in Jim Crow Florida, we follow Robert Stephens Jr. as he's imprisoned in, and attemps to escape from, a reform school literally haunted by his homwtown's violent past. So tense I sometimes had trouble reading because I was too worried for fictional characters. Does a really lovely, not at all didactic, job of making it clear how systemic racism implicates everyone and what a horrorshow that is.

Cuckoo (Gretchen Felker-Martin)

Felker-Martin is super not for everyone but if you like your horror gross and squirmy and urgently queer she will have you by the throat. This is Stephen King's IT set at a conversion camp, basically, and it's probably my favorite book of the year just for the sheer thrill of reading it not quite knowing what uncomfortable thing will happen next.

We Used to Live Here (Marcus Kliewer)

An interesting little book that had some Tanis/House of Leaves vibes for me. This was a Reddit rec and like a lot of Reddit horror it's stayed with mainly more for the world it implies.

Diavola (Jennifer Marie Thorne)

The family scapegoat goes on a trip to Italy with her parents, siblings and spouses and is the only person who can see with any clarity that they're all being haunted and the Air BNB is out for blood. Infuriating and a lot of fun.

[comixandco]

i think something people forget about pink diamond is that she had compassion for life long before she went to earth

the pebbles assume steven is pink not because of his gem or aura but just because he says ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’ to them, a basic common courtesy that nobody else has given them in thousands of years

in steven’s pink visions, blue is yelling at pink about the little bugs she let loose on homeworld. when one of them is found in her cell, she is quick to check it’s okay before helping it out of the room. even before encountering humans she valued organic life.

even the garden, the setting of pink’s cruellest moment, is proof of her care for organic life. Unlike every other part of homeworld, the garden is teeming with plant-life, which was kept healthy enough that it continued to grow even after pink abandoned it. the only other homeworld structure that tends to organic life is the human zoo. who’s to say the garden wasn’t another attempt by the other diamonds to placate pink after she expressed concern for the life on one of their colonies? or maybe pink picked the plants herself from the many different colonies she visited and grew them there.

pink wasn’t perfect. she had a bad habit of acting on her emotions and impulses without considering the consequences of her actions, and she hurt a lot of people because of it. but she considered all life precious and worth protecting, it just wasn’t until she had a colony of her own that she fully understood that the expansion of homeworld was intrinsically linked to the destruction of life, and the moment she realised that is the moment she stood against it.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

yknow what minor transient detail abt s4 is fun to me? prior to john's reveal, noel apparently assumes the KIY to be a totally unfamiliar character to them both. he pauses his story to give background info on him ("he rules the dreamlands, he's a master manipulator, etc") in a way he doesn't with other stuff. he points out yellow like "that's the bitch btw. if you were curious." which is. like he knows they were in the dreamlands. i think he knows or at least assumes they were in the pits for a while given they ran into lorick. what does he think they were doing there. just. passing through??

[sheyshen]

Something I want to build on with vincent at some point is how much the years of being an adventurer has taken a toll on him. he spent so long just being angry at the world but as he gets closer and closer to carteneau he does start recognizing how reckless he's been and the mistakes he's made over the years. friendships (especially with layla and nhea) helping him get a little closer to how he used to be before finally stopping and trying to do better for himself when he loses his leg. and the fact that guilt has really solidified in him to still make him push himself in his healing rather than combat (though sometimes still pushing himself too far) and how the years of treating himself like a weapon have taken a toll on his mind (he has terrible nightmares that only a select few have been able to help him through it)

[thethingything]

ugh I have drawing ideas I want to work on but I'm also so fucking tired and probably need to just lay down but I've already had to lay down so much today and I want to actually do shit

[hiddenbysuccubi]

Need that convention irl proposal from a Vaggie cosplayer to a Charlie cosplayer I just saw a video of but for myself. Idc which one I cosplay as. Am also willing to be Spidey and proposed to by someone I love cosplaying Deadpool.

[the-heaminator]

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