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For many of years I had this tradition of drawing Wirt and the beast once a year to see how much I have improved, then depression hit in 2023 and couldn't continue, but it left so really amazing art in the process
#There are 2 missing from 2015 and 2016 but those are between God and me#I lost the scanned version of the last#thats why the picture is taken with my phone#so these are from 2017 to 2022#I'm pretty proud of them#over the garden wall#otgw wirt#otgw#You can tell I was a fan of the Bad Ending AU back then...#a friend of mine once joked that I drew them closer and closer with every passing year#that at some point they would end up kissing#wwww#maybe the next one is a kiss of judas reference#who knows#my art
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Alana Bloom and Margot Verger in Hannibal (2013-2015) / Izumi Hideko and Nam Sook-hee in The Handmaiden (2016)
#m*#ending this year with my fav thing: women loving women <3#marlana#marlanaedit#alana bloom#caroline dhavernas#margot verger#katharine isabelle#hannibal 3x06#hannibal s3#hannibal#hannibaledit#the handmaiden (2016)#wlwedit#wlwgif#wlwsource#femalegifsource#femalecharacters#dailytvwomen#ladiesblr#userbbelcher#userstream#cinemapix#tvandmovies#uservici#userrlaura#hannibal e: dolce#hannibal s3b#*mine: gifs#*mine
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You made a post saying “it has been zero days since our last alex hirsch hates ford so much bullshit” and i know it was mostly hyperbole, but you have some really good takes that I would love to be elaborated on in terms of how ford is written
it really wasn't hyperbolic. over the years he's just really shown a lot of hatred towards this one character.
content warning: discussion of abuse
i want to start with this clip from the commentary which i think of as a microcosm for how the writers and especially alex think about ford.
transcript:
rob renzetti: i mean he [mcgucket] should've basically knocked ford out, and... and destroyed the... you know, tied him up, and, destroyed... and... alex hirsch, speaking over him: yeah he should've beat ford with a wrench and taken this thing apart piece by piece! he's the one who understood how to built [sic] it, but...
... so that seems like a pretty violent course of action. shall we unpack that?
ford is a character who's pretty explicitly written as a victim of abuse, and who now has c-ptsd as a direct result of the abuse he experienced. alex hirsch believes that ford deserved everything bad that happened to him, that it's ford's own fault, and that he also deserved worse things to happen to him. this is why, given every narrative chance, alex hirsch has piled more suffering onto ford's plate. the biggest example of this i can think of is in the journal, when he wrote that fiddleford was actively erasing ford's memory (despite this being a massive timeline contradiction which i still refuse to accept). because god forbid ford even have one remotely healthy relationship with somebody. that would be too good for him. ford was manipulated and lied to by bill, but alex repeatedly compares him to icarus, a teenager whose demise was the result of his own ignorance. this comparison is still so fucking offensive to me. the sun did not lie to icarus, did not guarantee icarus all of the happiness and success and sense of belonging which he had been denied all his life, did not actively shut out the voices of those around him who would try to help him.
alex in general has a very strange relationship with abuse. he seems to get really upset when people read his characters as victims of abuse. the strongest instance of this is actually not with ford, it's with pacifica - especially in the nwmm episode commentary. the episode says "pacifica's parents have conditioned her to respond to a bell" and alex says people got "the wrong idea" about it. like. dude. what the fuck. you wrote abuse. even if you didn't mean to, that's what you wrote. you can't say people got "the wrong idea" just because you didn't think about the subtext of what you were writing. anyway, back to ford: i believe this extends to him as well. alex wanted to write a character who's a foil to stan and who was a selfish unlikable victim of his own arrogance. however that's not what he wrote. he somehow seemingly accidentally wrote a really compelling and relatable awesome autistic guy who had to fight for every good thing he he ever had in his life only for it to be taken from him every single time. but alex can't let go of seeing ford as just "the opposite of stan". when he talks about "how someone as smart as ford could fall for bill's tricks", he refuses to realize he wrote a situation in which a man was being psychologically manipulated and tortured.
it goes back further, too. people repeatedly theorized that filbrick was... not a very good father, to say the least. on top of the very explicit and canon fact that he threw one of his children out on the street (seriously, there is no defense for this), people pointed out that stan would flinch at filbrick, that ford seemed upset by things filbrick said but dared not talk back, that filbrick was mad at stan not for hurting his brother, but for "costing the family potential millions". but alex can't have people seeing ford as sympathetic. ford can't have it bad like stan did. ford had to have everything and he lost it all because he sucks so much. so he wrote the graphic novel story where ford is filbrick's favorite child and filbrick also is not even a bad parent you guys he's just stoic. ignore the whole thing in dreamscaperers where stan perpetuates the abuse that filbrick did to him. ignore the fact that ford was shouting at stan and then completely shut up as soon as filbrick entered the room and did not say another word for the rest of the night. ignore all that because i just made up this story where he cries at a present from stan. filbrick loved his boys for sure you guys!!!
i'm not even touching on how alex repeatedly villainizes traits commonly associated with mental illness and neurodivergence. ford's hypervigilance becomes arrogance. his passion for knowledge means he's a know-it-all. his difficulty socializing and making friends means he's a misanthrope. his lingering resentment for the way he was raised means he hates his brother and is the worst human being to ever have lived. i could go on, go even further into how the finale reaffirms this, but i feel weird talking about this too much.
#help you unclogged the dam and it all came rushing out#it's been years#didn't know i still had all this in me#apologies for the lack of sources. i reference a lot of old interviews and tweets from 2016-2017#i know insider was one of them but a lot of it was questions he'd be asked at convention panels and off-handed comments from the dvds#seconds before the clip i included alex says ford's great flaw is pride#as though it was his pride that led to the world ending#and not a millenium-old plan by a monster using advanced manipulation tactics supplemented with literal mind control#tales of the wild zeep#1009
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Then and now.
#19 days#zhan zheng xi#jian yi#jianxi#old xian#one of the panels of them with the fireworks was my lockscreen for a long time back in 2016 or so#god can you imagine the strength of old xian who has been dragging 19d for years#back then there used to be a theory that the whole story would end after 19 full days because like in 120 chapters only a week had gone by#i dont know if that applies now....#i wonder.#19d
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Oh my gosh, I'm a new fan of Mystic Messenger this year 2024 😁. I'm gotta say I love your art and your Daycare AU. Do you know the song Thank You and Goodnight? Listening to that song make me cry because of nostalgia about this game despite I'm a new fan, also The Night We Met remind me of this game too
omg hello, new mystic messenger fan in the year 2024!!! /SHAKING UR HAND!! i just gave the song a listen, and you're right—it's very nostalgic and also sums up my feelings for mysme very well! the game's given me a lot of fond memories to look back on, and i hope it does the same for you! as for the daycare au, thank you hehe!!! i had fun with it and i had IDEAS... that i no longer remember. the kids would probably be in middle/high school now that i think about it! again, ty for taking the time to message! it's always nice to revisit mysme!
#ask#nowayimdie#i appreciate the song suggestions!#i haven't played ray's after ending#idk when i'll get to it#but until i finish it#i can't say i'm Officially done with mystic messenger#also i can't believe we're quickly approaching the tenth anniversary of the game#i thought it came out in 2019#only to look it up and see that the release year was 2016...........#the mysme fandom was cooking#re:daycare au#vanderwood thought he'd be free once they aged out of daycare but no#they come back to visit mc ever other day and are 2x the headache
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wish i had a consistent character to show for this, but since i don't i just used icons :0]
blank template for those that want it under the cut
#different urls at the time of posting each of these too. from uglyramen to vhsanimal to girlboyburger#slowly my lines get thinner and thinner...#this was rlly cool to put together actually. i ended up digging up like#2016 and before art too#like 2015 is when i became a furry#its rlly evident that i used to just mimic the art styles of furry artists with styles i like#like straight up i found pieces tht i traced (didnt post) from like. okamiwolven and ashketchumsays (i think they go by luxebites now?)#waves my hand#its neat. idk. ive stumbled across pieces in the wild of young slash newer artists clearly referencing or tracing my art#i never thought id be the artist that ppl would learn through like that#im not encouraging creditless tracing btw. but. idk. its hard to articulate the kinds of feelings i get from seeing the cycle#of imitating/tracing to developing your own style but w my stuff#i think it makes me feel nice#its cool that some ppl find my art inspiration or aspirational in that way#this isnt like a weird humblebrag or anything btw its just cool#its also RLLY neat to see the things i was clearly trying to do come through stronger over the years#the lines on the coat of otto in the first icon was my attempt at including crosshatching esque texture#and now i do that For Real with cow's hair and more recently with shadowing#shrugs#ive rambled for too long now. hello tag reader. i hope u have a good night#my art#art style timeline
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The fact that the new DA game will soon be released after ten long years feels insane to me.
Inquisition basically saved my mental health, because it was released just three months before my dad's death, so I spent the majority of my 20s playing it, loving it, writing about it, obsessing over it. I remember humming its main theme under my breath while sitting next to dad's bed at the hospital.
I had already played DA:O and DA2 before, enjoying them greatly, but Inquisition came out right when I needed it most, so it's the game that most changed and influenced those years of my life, the one that I hold most dear and close to my heart. All its characters, locations, lore, and music deeply moved me and gave me strength.
Solas and Solavellan in particular were - and still are - very important to me, and my Scarlet is basically the person I would have liked to have at my side during that terrible time - that's why she's so optimistic and kind all the time.
So now that the new game is finally upon us, I'm both elated and terrified at the same time. It's the conclusion of that story that so deeply affected me - what if it isn't as good as I hoped? What if disappoints me or doesn't give us the closure we all wish for?
I know it probably won't be the case - the team seems to have poured all their love and efforts into it -, so I really hope this will be the beautiful goodbye Inquisition deserves.
#dragon age#da:i#da:tv#solavellan#lafaiette's space#fjgkgklhlghgh a bit personal but YEAH inquisition and DA in general really helped me a lot#i think i would have gone insane without them#2014-2016 were probably the worst years of my life#so thedas and all its characters and solas and scarlet in particular were an incredibly huge help for me#what i am saying is#please give us a happy ending ahdjkfkgfglfhl
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I am wondering if there is some overlap between FL players and people who were at one point into Homestuck, so: hello Fallen London folks!
#fallen london#personally I was in the fandom around like 2011 to 2015 or 2016#kinda faded out during the super long hiatus/after it ended#but Homestuck was a formative part of my early tumblr years#and my first con/fandom meetup experiences
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hmmm i wonder who that could be
hes so smitten its so cute. hes just flexin he has a FEMALE staying over :0
they met at a christmas party and 3 weeks later hes gushing over them on discord
also bonus:
#k1m posted a tweet ab j saying theyd been dating for 4 years#in 2020#but they met at the end of 2016#so i dont get it#unless it was a joke i missed
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right now on youtube there are video essays being made about obscure online artist drama you couldnt even begin to comprehend
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In 2016, my 8th grade social studies teacher made us watch the presidential debates. Now I don’t remember a single thing about those debates, besides the fact that he turned to my class, gleeful smile on his face, pointed up at the tv screen, and said “this is history in the making”
That fruity tall as fuck straight man had no idea how right he would be for the next 8 years
#and for 4 of those years#it has all been announced to me through the fucking destiel confession scene#watch me come back year after year to change that number#I believe that was also the year I became obsessed with supernatural#major historical events keep happening#makes me wonder if the universe is cramming in as much as it can because the world will be ending soon#us politics#politics#2016 election#2024 elections#donald trump#history#Cassarole TedTalks#idk what else to tag
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spent the first hour and change at work deleting some old files and am having a grand ol time laughing at myself for not realizing i was a lesbian sooner
#vulnerable tag rambles ahead please be kind abt them i didnt intent to ramble this much but i dont wanna delete it eitehr#me to every single man i have ever dated after 6mo-1y: yeah hey this really isnt working out i dont really know why but i really hate mysel#and i dont want to blame you because i dont think you did anything inherently wrong here; i think this is something about me but i need#space to figure out why im feeling this way [every single one reacted by telling me No i wasnt allowed to leave btw]#i hold very complex feelings about these relationships esp bc of them ending in very violent/chaotic ways most of the time#but its interesting to look back at it all and realize ive left every man for the same reason (which is that ive hated myself Every Single#Time ive dated a man) and its funny bc i recognized the self hate pretty early on w/ cishet men but when it came to queer men it was#much more confusing (esp w/ nto knowing Any lesbians at that point in my life). im so happy im a lesbian tbh#i have a lot of issues w/ the racism fatphobia and transmisogyny present in lesbian groups#and also coming out as a lesbian really truly saved my life. before i met my wife i was quite literally in a 3yr abusive relationship that#definitely would have died in if i hadnt realzied i was a lesbian and ran from him#its also weird seeing liek the hard evidence of the things that happened to me btween 2016-2020 tbh#cause that was such a bad time of my life. i truly dont know how i survived it but im so glad i did#like the three major relationships in my life b4 meeting my wife was: guy who was in college when i was in HS who stalked me when i left;#guy who was a year younger than me who cheated on me the entire time while telling me he was being victimized (he wasnt; this was very mess#guy who saw the very messy toxic ldr i was in and helped me dump my ex then decided that meant we were in a relationship [insert 3 yrs here#and admittedly all 3 years with him werent the same level of abusive but it was definitely unhealthy from the start considering I Didnt Kno#we were together until he wanted to celebrate vday and got mad i didnt know our anniversary - and like this isnt including the other stuff#that happened between those Relatonships[tm] (cause ive never been monogamous; these were just the Major Relationships)#like i genuinely think if i hadnt come out i'd be dead rn given just how dangerous my relationships were/continued getting#i am also so tired now that ive seen all this cause like. fuck i can barely believe it and i not only lived it but have PTSD about it#i should write about my life sometime. i feel like it'd be cathartic to try and make a tangible timeline and stories from the years ang stu#anyway yeah. be nice about the tag rambles. dont message me with pity or curiosity or anything about this. i dont usually talk abt this stu#publicly bc i hate the ways ppl start tryign to baby me when they realize my life has been extremely fucked up until only a few years ago#n im still working on accepting kindness from others bc of [insert life traumas here] but its a long process so pls respect my need for jus#being heard rn w/o too much pressure< 3 (but ig if u do read this can u like it cause i feel a little crazy seeing all the evidence of the#stuff i experienced now also cause fuck ik logically it was but also i cant believe it was all real still yk)
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I'm not trying to cause any anxiety here but I was kind of there when v*ltron ended and everyone collectively decided to become tdp stans instead and if we don't get s8-10 like.. what's the plan? I'm not a show-watcher really but I loved getting my yearly season of animated fantasy to gobble up in a week and think about for a month and sporadically think about during the year until it was time to do it all over again
#take this lightly I will still be very fond of the show I say this as a 20 year old still talking about the first percy jackson series#but realtalk I haven't written GOOD fanfic for this fandom since I was 14 on wattpad and I fear if I dive in now I'll just be broken foreve#also the yearly seasons got me through some really tough stuff! fuck I can't not have that consistency anymore!#and like genuinely tdp is what got me through voltron ending so let's just consider ME for a second. I've had My Animated Show since 2016#MY PRETEENS!!#tdp#the dragon prince
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rewatched arrival for the hundredth time. this movie never fails to gut punch me with its approach to determinism. louise embracing her future that she knows every moment of, despite the tremendous loss and pain it contains, with open arms. she doesn't hesitate, or ruminate on how she can try and change it. she accepts it all, the good and the bad, because what she gains is worth it, so many times over for her. she steels herself against a certain future and runs forward to meet it all, to love, learn, and lose, and trusts and leans on herself to live through it all. because that's what life is; it's the joy and the suffering. to try and isolate the joy alone is madness, futility in its purest definition.
comparing her line of thinking to a palindrome (how she named her daughter, hannah), the movie kept emphasizing, "it's the same backwards as it is forwards." it doesn't matter if you can see the end; life is the same whether you live it "forwards" (without knowledge of the future) or "backwards" (with foresight). it doesn't change the significance of your life experiences; to try and avoid certain future pain just because you have the knowledge of it is a zero sum game. you think you win because you avoided pain, but you also avoided the joy that preceded it. the metamorphosis. so you still lose if you try to win, and vice-versa.
all you can do is rush forward and take it all head-on. see this whole beautiful mess as your one most precious gift; this one life, this one chance, a laughably miniature blip on the colossus that is linear time, to experience all there is to feel before you return back to an eternity without perception. it's all worth it, because only in living a full-fledged life open to everything it has to offer does the experience of living turn out to be greater than the sum of its parts; it's in trying to beat the system (avoid pain) that we actually lose.
"if you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?"
"maybe i'd say what i feel more often. i...i don't know."
#arrival 2016#pleaaaaase this movie has a chokehold on me#the perfect sci-fi imo is one that blends the scientific and the emotional realms seamlessly and wow does this do that#this particular movie speaks so personally to me#because i lived so much of my life in stagnation trying to avoid pain i could see on the horizon#a couple of years ago when beginning my last relationship i could see the end as early as 3 months in#you know when you just realize early on there are cracks in the relationship foundation that are not repairable and will only get stressed#the more you build on top of it? yeah#it terrified me like you couldn't believe and i spent so much time in denial and fighting against it#fighting against this future i was intuitively certain would materialize#i watched this movie around that time and decided to just go for it#to not let my intuition rob me of joy in the present#as someone who lived so prudently and always tried to make the “right” choice this was monumental for me and so out of character#for a while i wished i'd just listened to my instincts about how this person would ultimately hurt me so i could avoid the suffering#because i really did have foresight everything i was scared would happen did happen almost to the letter#and i wondered does that make me stupid?#that i marched forward anyway? i didn't have the degree of certainty louise did so i thought i could change things#if i loved hard enough if i was patient enough if i did what i knew in my heart to be the right thing#but it changed nothing#but no i wasn't stupid and i would do it again#because it was still a beautiful experience at its best and it taught me valuable lessons at its worst#i have undoubtedly changed as a person i will never be the same again and THAT is living#not rotting away in an unchanging state. unchanged by joy or mundanity or by adversity. that is not living#undoubtedly better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. i never rly agreed with that until i saw this movie#personal#favourite movies#scifi#movies#this applies to everything not just love. take that chance! do the thing that scares you. bc that's the only way to really live#regardless out of the outcome
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why do you think nico retired from f1?
got mpregnant
#real answer: 2016 was incredibly mentally draining and he did what he set out to do: win a wdc#keke also retired a year after nico was born. and nico retired a year after his daughter was born in 2015#cause he saw the strain it was putting on his family (all the child raising duties went to vivian)#he had a present dad his whole childhood and wanted to be one to his own kids which racing didn't allow for#the fact unlike every other driver who retired he never went into another racing series like nascar or ROC shows he's fully content ending#his motorsport career at the peak. and go on to do other stuff now#blorbocedes ask
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I miss the prime johndave years. I mean I wasn't even there but... I miss the idea of it. I think.
#when was prime hs? 2012?#I joined 2016#when it ended#so I really missed out on the best years#sigh...#shut up op
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