#trying to get my muse back

[sikudastoner]

ocs and the halloween costumes they’d wear in their modern!au?

[garlculean]

Toadette's gotta lil crush it'd seem...wah ha ha.

[legionofpotatoes]

everyone hates crunch and everyone wants the new dragon age to have 4x the scope with 8x the quantum content

[a-song-of-art-and-fire]

The Death of Kevan Lannister

"And in their hands, the daggers."

The second in my diorama series of "person ends ADWD being stabbed to death by people he didn't consider a threat". (I have a feeling the editing of ADWD may have spared Barry and the Brazen Beasts being included in the series for now!)

I'm definitely not one of those people who say Kevan Lannister is a good or admirable man, but his death does certainly have a degree of pathos. I always adore the idea that Varys has to off Kevan and Pycelle as the most competent members of the government, not so much because theyve risen to the top as because the bar has continually lowered until mediocrity puts them head and shoulders above the competition. As someone living under the UK government in the 21st century, somehow that image feels very resonant.

As with all my dioramas, this started as a passing fancy when I noticed the Kevan mini could easily be reposed to look like he'd been shot, that got more and more elaborate. I love the winter imagery in Kevan's epilogue, especially the icicles in the red keep, so I definitely wanted to include those, and the white raven letting everyone know the Starks will need new house words - winter has well and truly come. I had fun with all the maester paraphernalia on the desk - theres a glass bottle of wine reflecting candlelight that's probably the most technical bit of painting I've done, and you can barely make it out overall! Another detail I like is the stonework having Targaryen carvings, with Lannister rugs and hangings over the top, and one rug that Kevan has kicked over on being shot - Varys' attack revealing the dragons still beneath the thin veneer of Lannister power.

Finally, I'm sad not to have Pycelle included. It's hard to get minis in anything other than standing or fighting poses, and "old man in robes slumped over a desk" was too much of an ask. I looked at sculpting him myself, but it was just more work than I was willing to put in, so say he's dead just Offscreen of the diorama instead!

[aparticularbandit]

Additionally.

Rio says the boy isn't Agatha's.

Which means Rio knows who Teen is.

Which strengthens my theory that Rio set the sigil.

(If Rio is Death, then why would a sigil matter to her? She's a concept. Etc.)

Further.

The sigil doesn't get removed; it gets destroyed when it no longer has any use.

If Agatha knew Teen was Billy, that would go poorly for Billy. But Agatha is bonding with Billy perhaps to the point where that won't matter and the sigil is removed; this won't happen as long as Agatha believes that Billy might be Nicholas.

Rio did not kill Nicholas (I don't think she can kill anyone), but she did take him from Agatha when he died - that was her job.

Rio knows that Wanda is dead (or at least she said Wand was dead in Agnes's scenes in episode 1).

....

Rio may be playing the long game of matching up a motherless child with a childless mother.

...kind of like a lot of us wanted to happen with Wanda and America in DSMOM, but that's not the point here.

[coollyinterferes]

The unmistakable sound of footsteps approaching begins to fill the air. Whoever is coming seems to have brought some company along…

They are getting closer… and closer… and closer…

…and closer…

……until..................

"Goooooood evenin'!!" Comes the loud greeting from a certain blond man. A big smile on his face and all.

"We beg your pardon for our prolonged absence. It was completely beyond our control..." Then adds the gentleman standing by his side, apologizing on behalf of both, offering a genuine smile along with the apology.

"...BUT! We're back!" And hopefully for good this time…

[vxmpirehunterd]

UPDATE: A REASON FOR MY ABSENCE, A BRIEF SUMMARY Normally I don't make posts about my life but I think I need to give an update to all the peeps out there about my random absences. I don't talk about my life a lot due to the amount of dysfunction and heartache that goes on behind the scenes that drain my will to be creative, to interact with everyone, to even live. It's like every year that goes on, there was something in the background that disrupted my life and mental state further.

First and foremost I've grown up a parentified child taking on responsibilities not mine to bear with no say in the matter. Being forced to give up my own childhood for my own parent's selfish decisions. Then I moved away from my mother's to my father's. Which wasn't even better from 2014-2019 living with him was very terrifying due to his anger issues and violence whenever I didn't do things his way. He had this expectation for me to go to college full time while working full time and expected me to pay for my own college and pay him rent. When I stopped going to school to focus on working, he would verbally and sometimes physically hurt me. I had lost a severe amount of weight due to the stress and decided to move back in with my mother in 2019.

Fast forward 2021 my father died of cancer and my mom is in a custody battle with one of her many baby daddies and looked to me for financial support since she hadn't worked in nearly a decade. I had started a new job around that time but my mental health was drained at that point.

Now in 2024 my mother has decided to bring my elderly and sick grandmother into the household where we don't have a lot of resources and we really aren't equipped to give her proper care. But now the table has turned where she has finally got a new job a month ago and I am not working currently. She decided to dump the task of taking care of a confused, incontinent, elderly grandmother onto. Even though my own mother never had anything good to say about her own mother and I don't have great experiences with my grandma either. But we have to take care of her because "we're family." Gimme a break.

So right now I'm a bit pissed, sad, tired, and a myriad of other unpleasant emotions. If you ever want to know why Koji is gone all the time. Here is your answer. Family life bullshit.

But not to worry, I've been working on trying to get myself out of this hole I've seemed to find myself in again. Because I do want to interact with all my new followers and old ones. It's just that I've been recovering from deep wounds.

[asmidge]

It upsets me sm that there aren’t inaction figures for TS, Brandi, and Bethany when they’re the main characters of their movies

[cursivebloodlines]

MUSE: Finley 'Finn' Lowe | Test muse - lead singer of some boyband whose name I've yet to think of. They quickly shot up to fame after being part of some reality talent show (think of 1D style lmao or something similar - I'm figuring things out still!) and it's gotten to his head a lil. Feel free to humble him, he needs knocking down a peg or two.

OPEN TO: M/F/NB | Mutuals and Non-Mutuals

PLOT/CONNECTION: Probably self-explanatory but also plenty of possible options! Your muse and Finn have been fooling around a little, maybe casually dating? It could be a secret thing given his fame, or not. Either way, wires are crossed: your muse has caught feelings, wants more from Finley and is questioning the state of their relationship. idk! Anything works!

@indiestarter | Open Starters Tag

Despite the smile painted on his lips, there was a flicker of confusion in Finn's eyes as he leaned against the wall. "What do you mean?" The question left his mouth among some form of...noise (for lack of a better word) that resembled something akin to a laugh or scoff. Maybe both. To say he was caught off guard was an understatement in itself, the words tumbling from his lips with ease, despite the perplexity hiding him, somewhere deep down. "This isn't..." Awkwardly ruffling his hair, he gestured between the two of them. "We're just having fun, aren't we? You know how it is."

[ruinpowder]

so far neko atsume 2 reminds me of new horizons in that there’s less content and everything’s behind a paywall. makes me sad

[protography0]

I wanna do digital art I wanna do pixelart I wanna do glitchart I wanna do ditherpunk I wanna do abstract and surrealist art I wanna make patterns I wanna make textures I wanna do photography I wanna pick up drawing again I wanna do more digital collages I wanna make more aesthetics/moodboards I wanna do digital stamps for neocities I wanna do vaporwave art I wanna do album covers I wanna do movie poster mockups I wanna do fanart I wanna do original art I wanna do art in GIMP I wanna use Aseprite I wanna learn Blender I AAAAAHHHHH-

[sonnenreich]

ooc — something I'll add to my carrd soon, but want to tell y'all right away: if you ever feel uncomfortable during character smalltalk (zeev is a rather pushy-person) or ooc-talk (miscommunication happens) (novels too) ALWAYS give me a sign! May it either be "is this still rp?" or "can we switch to ooc for a second" or whatever. i never mean real-life harm and it is hard to see the lines between ic and ooc talk, even for a chill person like me. this includes jokes you might not like or sexual innuendos. misunderstandings happen, let's talk about it.

[repressedgaymer]

there's this

[vanaglorie]

( crawls back here like... )

[bxtonpxss]

Like this for a one-liner.

[nayruwu]

Do you think shinya is kind?

He is someone who won't really care a lot if he had to kill his captured teammates in a mission (not guren and. The squad) but that is only because otherwise they will be tortured and treated worse. Also he doesn't seem to care much abt himself, but then that's not really selfless, ryt?

So I wonder if he is selfless or kind?

that's an interesting question!

short answer: i don't think shinya himself is kind, but he does things that are. he can be selfless, but only within the limits of rationality.

long answer...

i think first we need to take a look at the difference between niceness and kindness. being nice solely means you are someone that is friendly towards others, treats them well and helps when they can. and shinya is nice! unlike the other high-ranking hiiragi, he's gentle and treats people fairly, causing him to be quite popular amongst the army.

being kind however goes more into your actual nature and intentions, implying that you treat them according to a genuine sense of compassion or empathy. and this is something shinya lacks.

a big part of his character is that he doesn't really feel much of anything. he grew up in a place in which feeling sympathy towards another person was quite literally a death sentence - so to allow him to survive, his mind had to adjust. since he is mostly incapable of feeling the things that cause a kind person to act the way they do, it's not necessarily a word i would use to describe him.

but he's not nice for personal benefit either. he's nice because he knows being kind is good, and this is something he learned over the course of catastrophe. he grew up entirely without kindness, but in watching guren, who was raised to live for others, realised that it's something the world needs. but because of his trauma, it's not something that comes naturally to him as it does to guren. instead, he has to make a conscious effort to be good to others, and he does so because he wants to be good.

the same thing counts for selflessness - he was raised to be selfish but taught himself that living for others is what gives life meaning, so he went from watching out only for himself to risking his own life to protect and support his friends.

none of it was given to him. he decided to change all on his own. and i think that's really cool.