#windmills are real

[armadillo1976]

recent Ted Lasso-inspired sketchbook pages. just playing with marks on the page, no rhyme or reason to them really. but I love seeing fanart on here, maybe even especially the rough sketches, the messy in-progress stages of art. so if you like it too – enjoy!

[stargirl230]

brush test inspired by a road trip through the Pennsylvania countryside 🏞️

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated!)

[lala-blahblah]

Reading the Raven Cycle as someone who grew up in Northern Virginia is soooo crazy bc whenever they mention Ganesy living near DC I'm like omg that's my home? They mentioned picking up Professor Mallory at the airport and I was over here twirling my hair like "oooh I wonder if he's at Dulles or Reagan national"

[putridbenny]

started curse of strahdanya few days ago i just finished episode 3 and omg i love sarnax so much i need to draw him immediately

[gaiaxygang]

these shots are so gorgeous 🥹 i love them

[strwbrypoet]

untouched by the veronicas is so royjamie coded like it's THEM, more specifically "I feel so untouched right now/ Need you so much/ Somehow I can't forget you/ Goin' crazy from the moment I met you"

and–and(!!) this part: "So even if the world falls down today/ You've still got me to hold you up, up/ And I will never let you down, down"

[timesforham]

thinking about the kamen rider number theory again after not doing that for the past 4 years. it's really funny how it makes a pretty compelling argument at first (one decade card, two gaia memories, three ooo medals, four astroswitches.) but then you immediately get hit with "there are five fingers on the hand of the wizardriver" and "if you open a lockseed it kind of looks like a six" and you realize that no one ever knows what they're talking about

[sinkableruby]

i think i finally put my finger on what bugs me about saying that ougi wants to make araragi alone

because like, she doesn't. not exactly

in the owarimonogatari light novel (and in the anime!) she's genuinely disgusted when araragi mentions he had no friends back in freshman year. this is not the reaction of someone who wants someone to be all alone forever

there's nuance to it, i think-- in owari when araragi says he's going to wait for kanbaru, she responds: "so you're counting on being saved by others?"

recall her words in the avant of kabuki: "people think they're being watched by god when they're going under these streetlights" (when really they're not totally free from danger)

under that philosophy, putting all your eggs in the basket that someone will show up for you is too hopeful. what if no one ends up showing up? then you'd be sitting there helpless. better to learn how to stand on your own two feet before you wait for someone to pull you to them. that's what i think the idea is: "you can't always rely on the people around you, so it's best to be able to rely on yourself if you need to." being able to help yourself, in other words

of course, asking for help could be a form of self help. but just don't bank on it, is what ougi suggests here. (and not even that adamantly i might add. she's not pushing for it very hard-- this is just one point in her criticism, not the whole itinerary. which is why it confuses me when people say getting him to be alone is her goal. because it's really not)

the tsukimonogatari scene is a little different-- ougi criticizes him for relying on a "little girl" (ononoki, whom she knows is not truly a "little girl"), calling it pathetic. i think the ethos is ultimately the same here: "really? putting your problems on a little girl? why don't you learn some self-sufficiency and take care of it yourself?" araragi relies on people a lot, so it's only natural that it would be a recurring point of criticism for ougi. i think the "little girl" thing might either be to rhetorically make araragi's reliance more of a heavy thing-- corpse dolls might not be bothered as much by the weight of your problems as a little girl would. perhaps it calls attention to the idea that oddities changed based on how they are perceived-- calling ononoki a little girl makes her seem just a little more incapable, a little less able to deal with araragi's issue. or perhaps it's to produce more of a sting when ononoki designates herself clearly as a monster to araragi, create more of a rift between them (that she admits she is hoping for). but it's not clear cut, and i'd have to rewatch tsukimonogatari probably to be more sure

either way, the through line still seems to be "don't count on other people or god to help you. do it yourself." which isn't exactly bad, but again since araragi relies on people a lot, ougi criticizes him more for it, and also is just overly critical in general, so it starts to become pushing him away from his friends as a result of that. but my point is it's not "isolate yourself" for the sake of it, it's isolate yourself so you know you can help yourself by yourself

which of course would make hanekawa and meme's appearances in ougi dark all the more baffling to her. she'd been trying to get araragi to not count on a miracle, but because he decided to stay open to one, one actually did happen.

[deancasforcutie]

when it's year four of the "WHAT WAS THE REASON" crowd refusing to hear out better and better evidence and explanations of The Reason

[windmills123]

rpg game where instead of items in shops naturally getting more expensive as you progress trough the game and get more money there is a background plotline about an inflation crisis that's making healing potions go from eight coins to 1200 coins in the span of a couple of days and the protagonists just have to deal with it

[categoricalglitches]

Hey so did this episode actually happen or was it a collective fever dream?

Roy and Jamie!

Will?!

Trent!! And Colin, once Trent stopped kinda-sorta stalking him and tried the alternate approach of, like talking to him.

Also shoutout to Keeley off to see the northern lights with Jack.

[thisaintnofuckingdisco]

"The world is like an apple whirling silently in space"

-Noel Harrison (1968)

[akajazy]

[baccan0pe]

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[medicinemane]

Sometimes you have something that you could say, that you think about saying, that you more or less know how you'd phrase it... but it's just not fucking worth it cause you know for a fact that people don't fucking listen

I don't know, I try to stay... if not optimistic then at least with a mind set of "doesn't matter, we've got no choice but to try and make things better"

Truthfully though I think I'm extremely pessimistic when it comes to the chances of anyone actually listening to what I say

I'm not sure if I'm just bad with words but... it seems impossible to convey even simple thoughts to people so... truthfully I've more or less given up and have just stopped trying. Especially if I don't at least know people well

So there it is

[mi-miz]

the gwibbygwobby of a sckrunkly is found in the hababloing of the wrifwraf