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Nothing like adventures in composting cat litter to end a Saturday night.
#Bokashi#a third-of-a-mile / half km driveway inspires#new ways of not having used cat litter in my car#because now we also lack trash service#which is fine#we are already well practiced at#waste reduction#so a safer way of composting cat waste using anarobic fermentation sounded like a great solution#but oh the learning curve#a personal anecdote of my own
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Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!
Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎
#my art#marinette dupain cheng#miraculous ladybug#miraculous fanart#style mimic#sorry for the @s btw#yall should go follow those artists if you dont already also#this was sort of inspired by a post the three artists on the top row made#i think they all got together and drew with one another#which is really cool#but i was genuinely confused because i mimic styles a lot#and ive seen others do it too so i was just like#wow they really know each others styles really well#until i thought about it and read their posts some more#style mimicking is really freaking fun and i think its really good practice#and a good way to explore other ways of doing things#like you really have to learn new techniques and get out of your comfort zone#also anna scribbles i could not find a recent pic of marinette in her main outfit#so thats the only marinette i drew in different clothes cuz i couldnt find a more recent ref of you drawing it#anna scribble marinette has privileges thats the others dont#but ye#i also threw my own style in there as a frame of reference to what me draw like#ive drawn marinette before just not in a loooong while#sabertooth walrus was the hardest for me to mimic cuz they have a broad range in their style#so its like which sabertooth do i wanna be in this pic#Buggachat has such a distinct style thats very clean and consistent which is amazing so they were easy#being easy or hard arent bad things either it also has to do with like styles meeting up with one another#buggachats and mine arent too too different in some shapes and aspects#so yeah itd be easier plus they drew marinette like 3 sec ago so i have more recent of a ref#as opposed to sabertooth who i have a recent ref of ladybug but not marinette so we got two diff styles in one
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i really hate reading them 99% of the time because they're so hard to do well. and because everyone else usually focuses on the things i find least interesting about it.
but it's sooooo fun to imagine what your favorite characters would do as feudal lords. it's a fascinating question: what would this character do with unlimited executive and probably military power over an area of land and its people? people who depended on them? would they be a good ruler? a bad one? would they take it seriously? do their inherent qualities make them better suited to that role than the modern era? or are they truly a product of the time and place they come from?
because I'm me, this thought exercise is a chance to daydream about "what if I held a gun to this character's head and forced them to get involved in politics?", really.
on one end of the scale you have anakin skywalker, who would....not....have done well as emperor, or frankly as any kind of feudal lord. maybe don't give him more power over life and death, or taxes, or food supplies. maybe don't.
on the other end of the scale, you have jed bartlet, who i truly believe would have been more comfortable with unilateral authority and a divine mandate. somebody make that man a king. let his staff profess their undying devotion to him on their knees, the way they so desperately, secretly wish they could in canon. i feel like it would Fix Them. Leo McGarry wants soooooo badly to swear his sword to Jed. you know it in your heart to be true.
#alternate universe#fic ideas#ish#anakin skywalker#jed bartlet#not all stories are suited to this au#but many of them are#for instance in my continued madam secretary rewatch#i was thinking about 'what if we just crowned elizabeth mccord queen of something'#except you couldn't just have her be a member of a royal family straight up#obviously she starts as the sole surviving heir of some backwater fiefdom#that either already does or is forced to practice absolute primogeniture#and she does a great job#while still being loyal to the king (conrad)#whoooo lets say has to put down a rebellion of some kind#and ends up calling nobles back to court#ones he can trust and ones he can't#to shore up power#and elizabeth turns into some kind of ned stark esque figure#only with actual political instincts and ability to relate to people who are different from her#and it goes really really well
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this fucking dude.
#infuriating!!! tbh!!!#after how much he was talked up all week#joe ja'marr the coaches going out on the line for him#only for him to (allegedly) miss the walkthrough (and not for the first time!!!!!!!)#'getting out of bed is the first step' well first step failed i guess!!!!#i'm so over it#showing up late for meeting missing practices and walkthroughs not knowing the playbook halfway through the fucking season!!!!!!!!#we needed him this game!!!#the team needs him!!!#think of how he could have already been contributing#the plays he could have made that could have been the difference#in all those close losses#not to mention HIS CAREER HIS FUTURE#this was when he was supposed to step up#to prove himself#absolutely ridiculous#and people blaming zac saying that he's like...maliciously holding him out??#are you kidding#zac is a lot of things. he fucks plays up sometimes. i get it.#but he's a players' coach#he is remarkably patient with these guys#but if you aren't doing your part then why should he trust you enough to put you in an actual game situation#when you can't even run a route correctly#zac plays rookies. tee and ja'marr their first years. look at erick all this year (and erick missed half of training camp!!!)#wild. absolutely wild. i'm so pissed off i'm sick tbh!!!#jermaine burton#yeah i'm tagging him
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"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
+ process(tw blood)
Also, look at him, bloody little guy 🥹
This drawing was inspired by several matador pics :D here and here:
^ I don't think I'll ever live up to the second one ah. There's several pics of that specific guy just soaked with blood, and I'm uh a bit obsessed with then ITS FUCKED UP I KNOW OKAY! But I've not drawn blood in a while so it was a bit difficult so I added less than I would want to I guess. Also I'm obsessed with how often they kneel in bullfighting?? Like okay who are you arching your back and spreading your legs for-
#ah not 100% sure abt this one but i think i still like it!!!#i was practicing matador poses during the wknd and im like yeah should prob paint one#and then it felt like all the energy left my body djfkkglg i was like ugh how do i paint again?????#mostly: just really wanted to draw him bloody#i love how every time i draw him in ferrari colors its just the most eye bleeding thing ever#my eyes get too used to it on my ipad's display and im like aw this isnt red enough :(#and then i transfer it to my phone and it feels like the red suddenly is hurting my eyes even worse djfkkglg#im glad the blood turned out well. i honestly think it was probably easier bcs the clothes are red already#but yes yes suffering ferrari nando. hes my comfort character atp 😭😭#perfect catie drawing: depressed ferrari fernando. blood. napoleon quote#anyways yeah lmk! i think it looks okay?? idk i think i just love the first 2 matador drawings i ever did#and its very hard to live up to them. but whatever. we move on#im glad i did a more complicated pose at least ?????#also god i was somewhat annoyed w his face and then i redrew his eye and it was like OH OKAY suddenly good okay#tw blood#<- i would put this drawing under the cut but like. my blog i do what i want and i want to draw blood#i used to draw bloody stuff a lot more but ah idk less opportunities now sjfkkglg so it was kinda nice#catie.art.#f1#formula 1#fernando alonso#matador au
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Heyo all! Rules are simple! Like / comment this post if you could consider / potentially see our characters being shipped together if chemistry so allows. Gentle, complex, hidden relatonships etc... the shades could be many!
Why? Because I have one sweet but also dangerous blue birb to offer and I am curious!
#✾ — SHIPPING CALL#|| femmes... mechs... beyond - I am practically trash loving ships xD#|| adore different dynamics - even chaotic ones#|| also Cee works so well with many#|| you may like this if we already do too <3#|| poke me with ideas
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Kind of funny when fanfic writers have Tim figure out Dick’s identity by seeing Robin do a quadruple flip in person, because DC writers didn’t even think of that back when they were trying to make it a rule that Robin couldn’t be seen on TV so the Batfam could be urban legends. They just still had Tim see Robin do a flip on TV and never tried to explain how Robin could be an urban legend and still have his exploits broadcasted on TV by professional news media.
#dc: hmm tim drakes origin requires him to see robin do a flip on tv…but how can we do that when robin can’t be on tv?#fanfic authors: he could just see robin do it in person. without seeing a video#dc: i guess we’ll never figure out a way to make this work. we’ll just have to hope no one notices#tim drake#dick grayson#to be actually serious tho my headcanon is just that Bruce erases the evidence after Tim already saw it.#and I think Bruce learning how tim figured it out would make him way more paranoid about videos and etc#baby tim is easily gathering all the evidence that Bruce is scrambling to hide#fondly remembering the alternate world without yj universe where tim says he figured out Bruce’s identity by looking through Bruce’s trash#<- even in THAT origin tim also based it off news footage and I still wonder if that part of the au could be main canon as well#9 yr old tim seeing the vid of Robin’s flip and immediately trying to find a bag of wayne manor garbage#also the library. he did also use the library. but that’s less funny and more practical#super interested in what garbage they carelessly threw away that helped him figure it out lmaoo#batfam#heroesriseandfall#dc continuity#zero hour
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Ultimately I KNOWWW being born in 1997 means I'm not really a 90s kid, I didn't grow up in it, but I STILL do remember the turn of the century (however very very vaguely it is) and thus. People born in 2000 and later will always feel young to me. So I will continuously be surprised when I hear that someone I know was born in 2000 or later. Such is my affliction.
#speculation nation#back when i was first on the internet 2000s babies really did feel so young...#see when ur 16 a 13 year old is practically infantile... and my brain just never moved past that.#of course when i meet a 24 year old these days im like yea we r peers. of course. not much difference between 24 and 27#but My God... then i learn they were born in the year *2000*... and my entire life is changed...#im just being dramatic lol but it still does feel weird. ah well.#im the one with a 1900s birthday ;p so im just gonna have to deal with more and more people born later than that.#sometimes i do think about when im old and grey and having a 1900s birthday is a mark of someone *old*#not tiktok old. im already old according to tiktok. but like actually old.#if i live a full human lifespan i might be among the last of the 1900s babies.... u ever think about that...? it's crazy....
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there's an essay jumbled up in my brain about dunmeshi's beginning and how clever and deceptive it is as a sleight-of-hand trick that distracts the audience from the depth and scope of the worldbuilding and foreshadowing that's being set up the entire time by dangling zany characters and wacky dishes and biology fun facts in front of us, and how that serves to catch invested viewers off guard when those elements come to the forefront, but also how it works against it with other viewers wanting "more" and not seeing it because the plot bait isn't laid out up front
how people getting frustrated with the characters "not taking things seriously" is mirrored and refuted in the confrontation between Laios and Shuro. how the characters' attitudes aren't just a result of shallow low-stakes "comedy rules" where nothing matters, but are an extension of their personalities (Laios's nonstandard expression of emotions being offputting even to people he knows) and the world and social environment (adventurers being desensitized to death and injury because resurrection magic is commonplace). the way the party refers to "saving Falin" instead of "retrieving Falin's corpse," indicating that they still see her with full personhood, and how that phrasing leads to some readers/viewers believing that Falin is alive in the dragon's stomach, conscious of being slowly digested while the party carelessly fucks around "wasting time." how the weird tonal dissonance makes sense in-universe and yet is deliberately challenged more and more the deeper the party goes
all the character building and pieces of lore slowly weaving together the shape of the larger world, laying the groundwork for the major themes that will surface later. so much is right there in the "low-stakes" early episodes if you know what you're looking for (or pass the perception checks).
it can be so satisfying to see new viewers/readers pick up on the clues even in the earliest "simple" episodes, or notice new things and make connections yourself....and it can also be frustrating to see people dismiss oddities and dissonance as shallow or bad writing because they don't expect a "cooking anime" to have depth like that. why try to question and understand and peel back the layers when you don't expect there to be any layers?
why can't laios take things seriously for once?
#mypost#i'm majorly out of practice for doing any real critical cohesive writing lol#trying to put this into coherent words has been such a mess so here's a vague gesture at my thought process about it#it's both my favorite and the most frustrating thing to see#because i've seen SO MANY people say they dropped the show after a couple eps thinking they know what it's about and where it's going#a cute but ultimately unsustainable gimmick#people for whom the characters and the food/biology infodumping weren't enough of a hook#but i wouldn't change anything about the structure to put a more obvious plot hook in the beginning#because it would give the game away TOO much#i LOVE how the audience has to acclimate to the characters' attitudes about death#only for our assumption that it's all normal and fine in this world to be thrown back in our faces#how we're left to notice the winged lion appearing in statues and carvings and coins and armor in the background#long long before it's ever brought up as a real entity by the plot#the history of the kingdom laid out in plain view but nevermind that. magic painting food!#i've seen the language around falin and her resurrection cause so much confusion#but of COURSE the characters involved wouldn't directly say 'we need to get her corpse to revive it'#bc pragmatically they already understand that as their goal. it doesn't need to be stated out loud; it's just how this process works.#but also they don't SEE her as an object. a dead body.#they need to 'save her before she's digested.' 'the spell couldn't reach her in the dragon's stomach.' 'hang in there falin'#death isn't real to them. not really. and so it doesn't quite feel real to the audience either#not until they find her skull and that realization slams home#like......i keep comparing it to gravity falls#which is episodic and goofy in the beginning but also has a much more obvious plot hook to keep people interested#(a main character entering a secret bunker indicating that he's lying about his ignorance of the town's mysteries)#the main characters in gravity falls are AWARE that there is a mystery to be solved and are trying to find more information#but i don't think that approach would work as well for dm!#laios's goals were never that lofty. not until they HAD to be because the situation demanded it of him#it's the characters trying to solve one personal problem and finding themselves entrenched in something vast and dramatic#that they weren't even fully AWARE of when they set out. and we the audience are on that journey with them!#it's SUCH a good structure i wouldn't trade it for anything. but also. tragic to see people give up and dismiss it so fast.
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saw tags on @lottieurl ‘s post and now I find myself also asking the question what does saira think about gay marriage. she hates straight marriage because of its patriarchal origins and family trauma ofc… does it extend to gay marriage? is she talking about the Islamic concept of marriage or the social/economic model of marriage? does she distinguish between the two? does she know that there are imams who do gay marriages? does she know she wants to get gay married? to amin-
#many many thoughts#plsssssss I need to know what do you all think#in my very very humble opinion I think she is primarily talking about social/economic marriage AND the practice of Islamic marriage when it#abused and manipulated by men#i don’t know if she distinguishes between the ideal Islamic model of marriage and how it is actually practiced by human beings but I do so t#that’s my bias talking#tbh some ppl r surprised to learn that there are imams who do gay marriages so i don’t know if she knows#Possivly is it one of those situations where what she abhors from a man she would love from a woman? maybe#tbh I think she is aware of her queerness but has not accepted it specifically because of the internalized homophobia you sometimes get when#there’s already so many other things quote unquote wrong with you. or so many ways you have already failed in the eyes of society#that it is simply too overwhelming to think about exploring that part of yourself In Real Life Permanently#I’m also fully projecting bc that’s how I was with my transess I was like well this is hard so I will pretend it is not true.#saira sherwani#we are lady parts#walp
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the amount of antis in the ygofandom now.
#the cryptoconservatism is getting a lot less tolerance from me from now on i think. bc of reasons ha#i cant believe u think anime and cartoons and shit are real kids. get well soon but also fuck that#& the sex neg moral panic and the redfem ideology attached to it. i dont think i can be as patient about it anymore#if fandom anti bs is part of whats introduced folks into a conservative pipeline via virtue signaling & exclusionism#then why mince words about it tbh. make this embarrassing again. moral panic is embarrassing. cryptoconservatism is embarrassing#that ygofandom used to be what it was in the 2000s to mid '10s & the LIVING PROOF that radfem/anti ideals are practically factually FAKE#like genuinely can we STOP PRETENDING that its ok to think the worst of a real person's character for ships & shit#when oldschool girlies had YUGI and KAIBA FUCKING HARD NASTY & MESSED TF UP and didnt all en masse grow up to be what antis INSIST we will#OBVIOUSLY....idk how this take spread so easily (jk i know now moral panic always works without enough pushback) but its CLEARLY INCORRECT#anyway too many eng speaking ygoblogs that come across my feed who i dont already follow are antis. on their profile. so thats fun#it's a big reason for why i havent been sharing as much of it these days#fandom discourse
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(follow-up to this)
having grown up in atlas, weiss is very familiar with the academy's team anti-frat policy and gets very hung up on just how much trouble they could get in if anyone thinks they're dating.
(which they're definitely not doing. no, sir. absolutely not, sir.)
so better safe than sorry.
(except winter has eyes. and also doesn't care.)
#snowstorm vampire au#weiss schnee#nora valkyrie#nordic winter#rwby#rwby au#winter schnee#this may have been an excuse to draw winter okay don't @ me i've neevr drawn her before and once i realized this fit the sitch i had to#weiss (upon being properly lucid): wait they saw?? PENNY SAW?!?!?! we are going to be in SO MUCH TROUBLE OH MY GODS#(they're not. honey. you are riding so many exceptions right now this barely registers)#heavens forgive me im shitposting about my own fic aksbskdbsnsdn#kina draws#ssvau future spoilers#though they're probably not too bad there's just a lot a details thart raise a lot of questions i cannot answer right now#ignore the mix of volume hairstyles and stuff i had to choose practicality over spoilers assume nothing is canon until proven otherwise#*shrugs* i mean its a military academy thry probably have anti frat rules im running with it#did i spend too much time thinking about the initial comic to the point where is't baaaaasically canon. maybe hush now.#also like. weiss has already broken so many rules why would she hang on to this one specific one?#well you see when you're repressing your feelings for the girl who's save your life a million times you'll take whatever wall you can build#arc ii hiatus
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Even since Michael's heavenly ascend, not just the music industry but, quite frankly, the entertainment industry as a whole has been left with a massive void that I don't believe will be fulfilled in the near future or ever again. That man had a star power equivalent to three Galactuses at their most powerful. You will never witness someone like that ever again, not in this lifetime nor the next one. He was and still is one of a kind.
#michael jackson#txt#michael is one of the very very few celebs i actually care about even though he is no longer here with us physically#how come this man has been dead for nearly a decade and a half and he is still more relevant than the most relevant LIVING celebs rn????#that's how you know that if he was still around people would go just as insane over him as they did decades earlier#michael is the biggest celebrity artist performer entertainer of all time. there is no debate around this topic#the mj fandom on this site is practically dead but i know there are a few of you that will come across this and agree wholeheartedly#i manifest the biopic being a massive commercial and critical success#it will gross over $1 billion at the box office and become one of the most profitable movies of the 2020s as well as a staple in biopics#specially the musical ones. we are gonna make that happen#i mean we already do a far superior job to his actual goddamn estate so we can easily turn this into an overnight hit#not a sleeper hit/cult movie but an INSTANT hit#the closest people we got michael's level of legendary fame are paul mccartney and madonna but even they don't make as much noise#i'm (not) sorry but michael was truly built different. he was on a category of his own#a category so incredibly monstrously and insanely high that i don't believe anyone else will ever be able to reach it#no swifties taylor swift isn't on michael's level either#her level of fame is closer to madonna's at her peak#a massive star but not on michael's level. michael was practically worshipped outside of america even in the most racist anti-black#cultures you can think of. he broke racial barriers like that#and madonna was still bigger than taylor in her heyday lol#so what does that tell you?#i'm sorry but being famous was far more impactful back then than it is now#social media changed the dynamic between the public and celebs forever
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finally actually finished signalis (i immediately quit the game after the fake ending thinking that was it bc i'm a coward when it comes to horror games, but wanted to know what the story was actually about so i watched a breakdown. didn't think i'd be that interested but was hooked within five minutes. watched the whole thing and realised i never properly finished it. put off finishing it and watched more videos) omflllll this game is insane. it's so quickly become one of my favourite games of all time, like a game hasn't deeply impacted me and made me feel so much since i first played nitw back in 2020
#and the fact that it was made by TWO people#crazy talented. I can't get over it#but yeah once i resumed it actually wasn't all that scary 😭#definitely bc i already had a good sense of what to do but oh well#i was relieved once i “finished” it the first time#i was like hmm this isn't too bad.. i'm having fun... then i got to nowhere and was like.#oh this just turned into silent hill. i want to go home.#although bc i had practically no resources and no map it was probably more stress than fear#very glad i finished it tho :] would replay on survival to get the last two trophies but i'm satisfied now#not a big replay/rewatcher anyways#all in all 10/10 game i am never gonna shut up about it 💖#getting my bff to play it as we speak#signalis
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Ayy hap day! A cheer in the murk, hope it's as good as can be
It was pretty good, ty ♥
#DDoodles#Pokemon#Pikachu#Metapod#Seadra#Clefable#Cooked and ate together and got a few presents and played a Pokemon board game#A couple actually haha we played Pokemon Yahtzee before dinner but that was fast and silly#We ended up playing a rather complex board game that goes by Pokemon Master Trainer - it's fun!#It's a pretty long game - we had to call it a night before finishing it haha#Smol and ma have both torn into the lead and are clearly rivals against each other which I've been egging on haha#I only ended up with four Pokemon total while they've got practically a full team already!#Still better than our last player who only had two 'Mons by the sleep-enforced break haha#Decided to draw my four lads - sleepy scribbly doodles this time#Got Pikachu as my starter I just knew it I manifested on accident lol#Named him Star - he's the main Pokemon and he's a Star(ter Pokemon) lol#Got a Metapod next and named him Dick Joke pft lol#Then a Seadra named Dead because the only thing he's done so far is Faint twice thanks Dead#And finally a Clefable named Moon for obvious reasons - and also she matches Star :) Space theme <3#I'm looking forward to playing more ♪ I'm glad they all joined in it was nice to play together#Ty as well to the hap birth comments <3 Appreciate ♥
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Going insane over Fairest reread I love when beloved books from days of yore are as good as I remember
#gail carson levine#fairest#daisyreads#Ivi and Aza as parallels both driven by their insecurity!!!#the characters actually acting within their cultural/religious framework!!!#the little worldbuilding touches like the symmetrical names and words!!!!#I think this book was a big contributor to my love of political/palace-intrigue flavored fantasy come to think of it#also Ivi is SUCH a compelling character the way that she's so clearly vulnerable and incompetent yet has such a hold over people#the way that Aza's terrified of her but also half in love with her#but also! she's not even that smart! we see through her and yet can't outsmart her!#And also the way Aza/Ijori works pretty well as a pairing bc almost immediately they are cast as a team#first in the composing game as a kind of foreshadowing to their larger shared task of Managing Ivi#Literally the part I'm at now they barely know each other#but they're already working together to try to keep Ivi from upending the kingdom on day 1 of her being in charge lol#in a very practical and mutually respectful kind of way#but anyway bi Aza is canon to me#this book is so well crafted. read and respect it or die by my blade
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