#11 first lines

[veveisveryuncool]

finally back home after a long battle..

kirbytober day 1: together again/friendship

#hey this is the first fully rendered and lined piece ive done in almost a year #just something to start the month :]] #ughshhdhdbcj ibis paint says i spent 11 hours on this #the shading..it hurts #i also express a very sorry to mage sister stans.. i couldnt find a good place to put them (lie. i just abhor doing their clothing details) #character tags yippee #kirby series #kirby #meta knight #metadad #let me have this one #bandana dee #bandana waddle dee #king dedede #magolor #adeleine kirby #taranza #susie haltmann #ribbon kirby #gooey kirby #rick the hamster #marx kirby #elfilin #daroach kirby #morpho knight #veves ultra cool art #kirbytober #kirbytober2023 #kirbytober23 #help!! idk the kirbytober tag

[thefloatingstone]

Not to be like "haha I'm better than you guys!!!" or elitist or anything because that very sincerely is NOT the point of this post.... but I never really understood people extremely love for Harry Potter.

I read them as they were coming out. Most of the time they came out soon enough that I was the same age as Harry. I liked them. They were cool. Goblet of Fire was my favourite and I was always happy to see what story the next book would bring but that's all it was. Interest to see the next story whenever it came out. Like a sitcom you enjoy but you didn't set your tv to record for you in case you missed it.

And then the word "Chosen one" was uttered and, just like that, I fucking lost all interest. Honestly there was "Chosen one" talk in the 4th book and already I was like

Honestly I think I liked Goblet of Fire the most because there was no friggen Quidditch. And there was less focus on the SCHOOL part of Harry Potter and more this weird Video game Quest setup which just appealed to me more.

In retrospect, I think that might be a big part of why I enjoyed it but never LOVED it like other people.

Like

"Oh boy my absolute biggest most favourite fantasy! THE BRITISH EDUCATION SYSTEM!!!!"

The fact that the books take place in a school seemed like a default to me because, well, most teenage focused cartoons and shows I watched had the main characters at school. Because they're teenagers. But the school wasn't why I enjoyed the books. The school was just a location. No I didn't want to go to Hogwarts. No I didn't want to get attached to a specific school house (although I feel it worth mentioning that when I was 13 I did the online house quiz thing on the official site and it said I was Hufflepuff so make of that what you will).

I really disliked whatever the one was that came after Goblet of Fire. So much so that it completely killed any and all enjoyment I had in the series. Which, considering I was only mildly entertained by them wasn't a massive loss or anything.

I know I read whichever book it was where Dumbledore died but I very genuinely cannot remember one single thing that happens in that book whatsoever. I read half of the Deathly Hallows after coming back from College and gave up because I wasn't enjoying any of it and I never picked the book up again.

I saw the first movie in theaters when I was 13 and I did not like it. It was visually very very dark and gloomy and just... extremely uninteresting to me. Idk how to explain it. The first book just felt so much more vibrant than what I was watching on screen.

I know I saw the 2nd movie although I have no memory of where or why. And I... THINK I saw the third one??? I think??? I'm actually not sure. But that's about where I just stopped and completely lost interest.

Because it wasn't very good.

They just weren't very good books.

They weren't TERRIBLE or anything like that but they were just so.... blah. The earlier ones 13 year old me enjoyed the one time I read each of them but I don't think 13 year old me had the best taste considering I also disliked the Princess Bride at this age.

But I was reading other books because I was a kid with ADHD in high school who desperately needed something stimulating to stop myself from going insane. And frankly, there were just far better books out there. Books I actually re-read. Books I borrowed from friends which ere just... so much better and more interesting.

So I just don't understand this insane appeal so many people have for it, even if they have severed that connection due to Jowling Kowling Rowling's bufoonery and showing herself to be a withered old crone with a shrivled heart and mind every time she opens her mouth.

I grew up with these books the same way as a lot of people. I was the exact age to go through the series' highest popularity and I just did not click with them despite reading them.

So seeing so many people my age or a little younger try and do their best to re-analyse and de-tangle what the books actually are and that... maybe.... just maybe.... they might not have been very good?? Maybe?? is very weird to me because I'm just like.

"Yeah they're overrated as hell and not that interesting."

It's a very weird thing to live through because it's like looking into a bizarro version of the world you remember living through... but not like THAT. I remember the Pokemon craze and yes, it was like that. I remember when anime started to become big and yes, it was like that. I remember DBZ airing and yes, it was like that.

But this insanity around Harry Potter while it was releasing?

Yeah I don't remember it being like that at all.

They were just mediocre books I read because I needed something to occupy my attention and eventually they got worse and worse and I just stopped reading them. That's all.

#I'm watching a youtube essay on the weak writing in the HP books #and it's like looking into an insane alternate reality where people really were THIS obsessed with this franchise #It's a very uncomfortable feeling #Like your memories don't line up with everyone else's despite knowing you were there #text post #cw #Harry Potter #JK Rowling #rambling #For context I grew up reading Terry Pratchett #I read my first Pratchett book when I was 11 #14 year old me groaning at the concept of a chosen one probably says a lot about my media criticism even as a child

[lizstiel]

he wasn't even going to say anything!! in the end of time, when he goes back to see rose. he's standing in the dark, off to the side, just watching her. he just wanted to SEE her. he wasn't evne. he wasn't even going to manufacture a scenario where they got to talk, just seeing her was enough!! but like. how many times. how many times did he do that and just never say anything?? (red bicycle when you were 12) how many times did he just. visit. "I think it's time you went home" "yeah" THAT WAS HIS HOME. SHE! THE ESTATE. JACKIE. CHRISTMAS. THAT WAS HOME. HE MADE THAT HOME. after losing his that felt like home for him and he went there to die and to just see her one last time I am--

#and then the fuc king #the #11 line #''your face was the first one this face saw'' or whatever #but like. #rose. literally the first and last thing ten saw #he #i'm so weak for htem i am so fucking insaNE for them #tenrose #rosedoctor #timepetals #dw

[nyanfish]

sleepoverrr

#yosukan #yosuke hanamura #kanji tatsumi #persona 4 #yosuke x kanji #kanji x yosuke #yoskan #kansuke #yokan #kanyo #drew that first one for a fic im writing #the 2nd one isnt necessarily connected but i had the idea and then feverishly spent until 1 in the morning drawing it. which it is rn. #no clue when i started the 2nd one but it was already way too late. maybe like half past 11 #BUT IT CAME OUT SO GOOD RAAARGG. ive gotten so bomb at sideviews. and i finally feel like ive got a grasp on yosukes hair #also their sleeping poses are based off of the ones they had in the anime #and the kiss one is kind of inspired by a previous drawing i made + the official line sticker where kanji tries to kiss yosuke #tedpost #tedart #EDIT; i switched them w nicer looking coloured ones. i was working on a dark canvas at night and only noticed it looked kinda poopy later #only 1 person has rbed the original so thats out there now ig

[semiotomatics]

as it should be

#(yes i did start it at 11:59:11 so the first line would start right at midnight) #(the app tracks based on when the song ends i guess) #anyway!! happy new year everyone!! #lets make it a good one #this has been an original post

[jemmo]

“i never know what to think about, so i think about you” - the 1975

bad buddy week: day 2  favourite episode - ep 11

#just smashed this together bc i listened to this album for the first time today and omg was this fate #bc this song is ep 11 perfection #esp pre- second half of ep 12 #when you still think they've broken up #like it just hits right #i heard the married line and was like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! honeymoon !!!!!!!!!!!!!! #and ep 11 is my fave #well top 4 ofc i have a top 4 its ep 3 ep 5 ep 7 and ep 11 #so basically every other episode #which is basically all episodes #look its pretty impossible to pick it depends on my mood and how much i wanna cry #bad buddy #badbuddyweek #made by jemmo #oh and you will get a costar post too i just can stay up late to make shitty edits this week so i took the opportunity and ran

[kil9]

D-12; 2011 💖🍓💋

#taemin #shinee #my first kiss #drawings #100 taemins #taemin girl month !!!! (shinee world 1) #sorry for this kinda gskdh not rly..... sorry for not drawing the based t shirt tho 🙏 too small for that kinda detail #its also so frustrating to me that 2011 is day 12 and 2012 is day 11 😭😭 i wish at least one of them lined up #this is SO 2011 shes literally kesha

[ralexsol]

dreams of the sun

#jrwi #jrwi fanart #jay ferin #jrwi riptide #digital art #rrays art #felt the need to use the slime story brush on jay again #havent really used it for anything non-slime story since the here before animatic #also this is technically my first time drawing jay with her new design so woooo! #was thinking of adding gillion and chip but nah it's already 11 pm and this feels nice #also! looking at this right as im about to post it!! #her eyes are not open they are closed and those lines are her eyebrows!! #i know they look exactly how i draw stylized open eyes but i swear they're not!!

[smute]

i was so excited (well kind of excited) for the hijack series but oh my god it's bad. and i havent even gotten to the good part yet! the first ep alone has so many plot holes (spoiler warning) from the behavior of the crew to the pilot opening the cockpit door just because they're pointing a gun at his fuckbuddy to the fact that he is able to CHANGE HIS MIND about the emergency on board talking to atc like "yeah never mind it's all good now" LIKE YOU HAVE TO LAUGH

#i get that fictional stories involving planes have to take certain liberties #because aviation is so highly controlled #but that is exactly the point #everybody knows that there are procedures and check lists for every little thing #it's completely ridiculous to expect your audience to believe that a pilot 22 years post 9/11 would simply open the cockpit door for the #hijackers (after knocking his first officer out with a fire extinguisher no less) #this guy SEES A MAN WITH A GUN outside his cockpit and rather than squawking 7500 or using that code when talking to atc #he's like um... possible security incident on board #i dont care if some screenwriter somewhere doesnt give two shits about aviation protocols #one single google search along the lines of #what pilot do when hijacker #and this could have gone somewhere #and ANOTHER THING #the real time narrative #😐 #these people made a seven hour long miniseries about a seven hour flight from dubai to london because #well thats the question isnt it? i sure as hell dont know #because they could i guess 😶 anyway point is #narrative focus aint just a river in egypt #the discrepancy between story time and discourse time exists because some things will always be omitted or summarized BECAUSE NOT ALL OF IT #IS INTERESTING #if you want to tell your story in real time you better have a reason for it #who the fuck looked at a seven hour flight (argaubly one of the worst experiences a person can subject themselves to) and thought #oh my god i wish i could watch this on tv #granted there's a bit more going on with the plane getting hijacked and all #but the pacing is already becoming an issue #and again: I AM ONLY ON EPISODE ONE #anyway im determined to finish this show #im still hopeful that it could improve (as i said: i havent even gotten to the good part yet. this is a show about idris elba negotiating) #and even if it doesnt at least ill be able to shit on it properly lmao

[felixcosm]

130: Compound Storage Will Protect Us has some of the best voice acting performance ever.

The switch between comedic and witty, to terrifying and gut wrenching is something Dylan does so well in his writing, but then he and David took that script to a whole nother level in their acting

It's hands down one of the best woe.begone episodes out there

#woe.begone #wbg spoilers #i recently relistened to it for fun and then for that one web weave #i could talk for hours about it #the first back and forth between ty and mikey has some banger lines (mikeys little 'you cant do this to me ty' lives rent free in my head #he sounds SO dejected #or ty's 'they already hate me' YEAH I WONDER WHY #and then the second time around theyre a bit more agreeable and it even ends with mikey sort of accepting whats happening #and by the third time he even greets ty in a friendly manner only for the worst possible outcome to be confirmed #ty's anger at mikey's fate and mikey's reaction to being told everyone he loves is gone #its so heartbreaking god #his worst fears literally come true and ty doesnt do anything but apologize and eventually promise to leave him be as mikey asks #and then ty's decision to save him again #and tex coming in to get mikey out of there and its such a relief and the tension deflates as they riff back and forth #the whole thing is amazing - season 11 had some of the most emotionally difficult to listen to episodes in the entire show #ty betteridge #mikey walters

[seventh-district]

so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

#hsr #honkai star rail #hsr 2.2 #hsr spoilers #hsr leaks #the body of this post reads as far less enthusiastic than i really am #i just don’t know how to casually return from my latest 2 week hiatus only to gush abt a game i’ve hardly blogged abt before #but i’m not making a whole ass sideblog for it like i did for Genshin. nah y’all r gonna bear witness to my fixation with this one #so anyways don’t mind me. vibrating into another dimension with anticipation for the next 11 days #it’s insane man. a year ago i Never ever woulda thought i’d be so invested in this game. and it took Months for the game to really grab me #but i’m v glad i kept coming back even when i was struggling to really get into it. like i just had this feeling that if i stuck around and #gave the game a chance to really like. come into its stride. i just always felt like there was Something there and i just hadn’t found it #and holy shit i finally found it in Penacony. the devs really truly outdid themselves with this region and these characters and this story #not to discount everything that’s happened prior. like i was genuinely Liking it all before now but i wasn’t Loving it y’know #but that may be more a ‘me having to fight tooth n’ nail to force myself to consume new media’ thing than it is a matter of the actual game #anyways i came here to talk abt the program! bc since i’m not filming my HSR stuff i’m gonna be insufferable abt it on Tumblr instead ! :) #and i’m probably not filming any more Genshin stuff. or anything else at all for that matter but let’s not talk abt that dead dream #pun not intended lmao. Anyways let’s return to the subject at hand while there’s still room left in these tags shall we #i’m so fucking glad they had Aventurine on this program man. especially since he’s leaked to only have 18 lines in 2.2… it was nice to see- #-him here at least 🥹 i’ll take what i can get. his unenthusiastic little bird noises at the beginning.. him being reluctant to come out.. #the way one of the first things to come out of his mouth was ‘y’know DR RATIO once told me…’ like boy we get it ur in love with him 🙄 (/J!) #i love how they can’t go on these programs w/o talking abt each other it’s adorable. AND THE WAY HE WAS THE ONE TO EXPLAIN BOOTHILL’S KIT!? #they can’t just fuel my crackship like this… god and his whole ‘muddle-fudger.. son-of-a-nice-lady?’ thing had me wheezing #Aven mocking Boothill’s inability to curse was not on my special program bingo card but fuck i’m here for it #and Robin being all curious abt him was so cute.. ‘who /is/ he? … does he order milk at the bar?’ i’m crying she’s so sweet #also the trailer was fucking insane. which feels redundant as hell bc all of HoYo’s version trailers go hard but like. still. wow. #that millisecond long shot of Boothill surveying the skyline is so fucking good. also what the fuck is Jing Yuan doing here!! #not complaining at all tho. we’ve got JY & DH(IL?). Argenti(?). Boothill. Sunday. Aven. all my men r here and i am eating so fucking good #Seven.txt #viddy game stuff

[luciuscaelus]

After the release of the Underworld Saga, I finally understand what it means to be heartbroken…

(What’s with the tags? Mhm just excuse my emotional ranting…)

#epic the musical #tagamemnon #epic the underworld saga #greek mythology #SPOILER ALERT: #I can’t shake Polites’s lines off my head at all #That’s why I keep getting traumatized and can’t escape it #And those lines sung by Jorge’s mom are soooo beautiful! #yk how I get devastated every time I hear Penelope sings “waiting waiting”? #This gets worse #I’ve been devastated already when I was reading the Odyssey and got to book 11 when Ody met his mother #Thrice had he tried to embrace her but thrice he failed #And the scene in my head plus the lyrics in the musical #And shout out to Mircsy’s wonderful art btw #I’M BROKEN OK? I’M COMPLETELY BROKEN #it’s just the first song #need I talk abt how Ody thought Teiresias was talking abt a suitor in his house and swore to kill him #but in the end he’s the one that Teiresias has foreseen? #need I talk abt the contemplating of Ody #and his eventual turn to become a monster? #heartbreaking has never been so real to me up till now #And now? I’m suffering from it

[be-good-to-bugs]

2023 / oh to be such a lesbian that your crush turns into a god and changes the laws of the universe itself in order to change your fate. meduka meguka you truly are like no other.

#madoka magica #pmmm #madoka kaname #magical girl #puella magi madoka magica #fanart #orbs art #anyway. these were quick lazy stuff but im very happy with them. trying very hard to change how i draw #i need to be more chill and silly about it. feeling to stiff and bleh about drawing lately. this was v good for me #i had wanted to shade this but itd take so much effort to shade the lineless and the lined its not really worth it #i think it looks good as is and ik id just get bored and then never finish this drawing ever if i tried to shade it #anyway. just rewatched this show and. its so good. it like. changed something in me when i first watched it 6 years ago #and not exaggerating. i have though about this show almost every single day since then. my brain ran with the whole concept #thats good though. its been 1 of 2 main focuses since i was 11. it means a whole lot to me. when i finally learned of and watched rebellion #my little brain was ecstatic. i hadnt felt joy love and inspiration like that in such a long time and i havent since. #idk. its my only main special interest that wasnt tainted by others thinking it was stupid. hell even my mo watched the show and loved it #anyway ill stop talking now uh. its 6am and im rambling. not that i wouldnt do that at 6pm too

[airenyah]

wish me luck that i'll manage to fit 12 different examples into my analysis

#i have about 3k words left (3.5k if i can keep my conclusion at 500 words) #it COULD be manageable if i don't need more than 333 words per examples #which CAN be doable like for my first example i needed 300 words and for my 2nd example i needed even less only 276 words #however for my 3rd example i used 809 words so... #then again that was a super long and complex one that has many linguistic things going on so that ones staying #(yes it's bad buddy my beloved <333) #the other examples that i have collected don't have THAT much going on and are between 1-5 lines #(bbs ep2 has 11 lines in comparison!!) #sooo chances are good #the double savage and the atots one are longer as well #but only the dialogue like. linguistically it should be easier to explain bc there's only like 2 things #meanwhile the bbs example had like 4-5 things going on #i'm hopeful i'm hopeful #i can also free up some words by deleting all the thai writing and putting that in only in the appendix #airenyah plappert #airenyah vs her ba thesis

[a9saga]

i completely forgot that tao from exo used to ask other members to shower with him, which i thought was the most hilarious thing when i was 16.

#most members of exo admitted to having showered with him #he does make a point in that with 12 of them it does save time to shower together #i cant imagine waiting for 11 other people to shower i would definitely not like to be the last in line #that does sound correct i mean it did then but especially now #what i thought was really funny was that most of them would do it #i also think... mm here's the thing #super hot take i know but my first instinct is that i would prefer not showering with other people #i get some people think you have no secrets if you live with someone might as well be naked in front of them #i think i would err on the side of 'i feel like i need my privacy' too bUT but but #i think now at the same time #if i were living with someone who had showered with the majority of the other several people we were living with #i think i could very well be swayed to the idea that showering with said person is the least strange thing one could do #friends... would you shower with tao? nonsexually i mean #you guys dont shower naked do you?? #if i were exo in 2013 i would simply shower w my clothes on #diana and i watched the old episode of happy camp they were on in 2013 today and generally i had a lot of fun #other than glaring at the face of someone who is now sitting in prison whose crimes are totally unrelated to his time in exo #man fuck that guy #anyway #exo #tao #shut up kaily #what is tao from exo up to now anyway is he doing well #he's 30 jesus #he's like a week younger than my brother #i cant believe how young all of exo were when i got into them #i got into exo like the very second he broke his leg and went on hiatus with the group #he played that hiatus very curiously looking back but i hope he's doing better now

[elftwink]

just saw a tweet that was like "imagine if 9/11 happened 2 mos earlier and 7/11 had the worst PR crisis ever" like that wasn't basically what happened to corona beer in 2020

#granted. pandemic obviously not the same impact as terrorism #& also we stopped calling it coronavirus or varients of that by like 2021 iirc #the switch to covid-19 was like. not smooth by any means but it did happen #but i do recall in 2020 when liquor stores were one of the only operating businesses #everyone being like damn... sucks to be corona rn #havent looked at the data though so idk if their bottom line or pr was impacted that bad #anecdotally i think the people i knew ended up drinking more corona that year. for the bit #alcohol / #also i forget who it was but to whoever rb'd that tweet to my dash #im not vagueing you i didnt rb it because i dont have the energy for an ID rn lmao #good idea generator #also circling back to my first tag. want to re-muddy the waters actually pandemic and 9/11 very similar #with perhaps the most major difference between the two being government willingness to do anything about it #or arguably controversially their willingness to pretend to do something about it in order to use it as a cudgel on the international stage #but we dont have time to get into All That with any sort of nuance #esp not in the tags of a one sentence post about corona's pr problems