#z archive

[blurring-poetry-and-idiocy]

i long for softness to be gentle i dream of being a feather pillow i need you to lay your head on me and feel safe i beg god to shape me into something loveable into big brown eyes

i was little and alone and content jaded and carved into kindness into masqueraded love

i fear looking grotesque now that i am not a child my nature is sin

[animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

[puff-z]

[fuckyeahinternetarchive]

In 2004 an anonymous fan made half hour reels of all the known intros to all known super robot and mecha anime that was known to exist. In 2010 they were copyright struck from YouTube.

All four reels are now back.

[doodlewizardry]

Have you ever wanted to find your old Ao3 comments? Easily keep track of which (and how many) fics you've commented on? Rediscover a fic that you left a time capsule of a gushing essay on?

Well, you can! And it's simple! (* Note: it only works for comments written after you turn this on.)

Go to your Preferences:

There's a checkbox labelled "Turn off copies of your own comments". This is selected by default. If you deselect it (and save your preferences) then you receive an email for every comment you leave.

But I don't want to get my inbox flooded by Ao3!

Understandable! Luckily, most email clients allow you to set up rules for incoming mail depending on their sender and contents. For instance (using Gmail), I've made it so that these emails skip the inbox, are marked as read, and moved to a label I call my "Comment Collection".

The result? A complete, organised and fully-searchable repository of any comments you leave from this point onwards! Search by fic name, author, date, that one sentence you vividly remember leaving!

I've set up other rules, too, like starring emails that are replies to my comments - I'm always excited to receive them!

I love this system, and I think it's motivated me to leave more comments. I hope that others find it useful too. Happy commenting!

Original preferences trick from this Reddit thread. Tagging @justleaveacommentfest, which motivated me to write this post!

[cantcatchmeee]

The location of some iconic images via "thebandwashere"

[skelethereals]

reblog this post if your childhood obsession with goth characters was an early sign of your bisexuality

[gambit-phelbeez]

doodles :]

[10bendog]

Happy 25th Anniversary, Powerpuff Girls!!!

💙❤️💚

[star-bear-art]

Physical art is sadistic and mean and being unable to fix my errors sucks. But also it's very very pretty and a definite tribute to the always incredible fanfic The Season by the amazing @linnetagain.

These are little stills from Chapter 17—as always, I'm horribly behind, and only because every little scene rots in my head until I can find time to draw it.

The foibles of trying to scan and upload physical art and fixing the colours and aaaaagghrrrrr so so annoying. But I will get it down to a routine. Eventually. Hopefully.

Individual pretties below:

[blurring-poetry-and-idiocy]

the ache of missing someone i knew for what seems was just a moment

[machiningtheherald]

TMAGP 16 WAS SO WEIRD BECAUSE LIKE WDYM "So, as I finna get marked, make sure you’re following on socials, subbed to my Youtube and OnlyFans (if you know, you know)". ALEXANDER J NEWALL, PHONE ON THE TABLE. RIGHT NOW.

[zs-starwars]

I really liked WaT. It was a fun read and a good arc end. It was really nice to read the new book without any previous spoilers getting to me. I don't have a big post about all my thoughts or anything but this one thing is bugging me. (spoilers ahead)

I don't like the Gav thing all that much. The age up thing not the champion thing. I think it would have worked better for me if he had aged up a little only. The Elhokar jumpscare was neat but I wish he had stayed younger. It makes sense though in a way- a child is easier to take care of and sympathize with (in the Watsonian way). Now he's a grown man, only a few years younger than his father when he died. What will the people in Urithiru do with him now? He's not a little boy to protect.

I may be a little rambly since I've binged the entire tenth day but thinking of Gavinor in the Watsonian vs. Doylist way is - intriguing not the exactly the word I want but that's the gist- since I feel he echoes Elhokar so much in the doylist perspective. We'll get to know him more later but for now he really exists as a plot device. Mirroring his father who we never really got to know. One of the only Kholins who never got a POV (outside of Evi, though she's gone before the story starts). Elhokar is half of the original story Brandon thought of- the other being Dalinar. At the heart of it all he has to be a bad king and he has to die. His death has wide narrative purpose- so many things happen because he died. But you kind of have to dig in implications and side notes for a personality. And I wonder if that will be similar for Gavinor down the line narrative speaking. Like how much of him being one line in the end of WaT is Renanrin and Jasnah being busy (Watsonian) and/or unsure what to do with him (fair enough) and how much is Brandon not being sure yet where he'll go? Like Renanrin makes sure to hug her -but not really check on Gav-and then she thinks of her whole family but Gav when going to bed. She even thinks of Elhokar in that moment for the first time in her POV I think. I don't think I'm making sense but it feels nice to write out.

[puff-z]

Bro,,,

[blogalahezy]

[geek-22]

I have a confession to make.

I find editing physically painful, I avoid it at all costs.

There. I've said it.