#Though….. This one may be longer

[canisalbus]

What if I told you that RoobrickMarine went and wrote an entire novella starring my 16th century dog couple? It's very canon-adjacent, well researched and thoughtfully put together, has inspired me a ton during these past months and it's now publicly available at AO3. I highly recommend it.

✦ Separation ✦

#content warnings for sex violence self harm and general angst #six chapters 41K words #people who have asked for longer stories of these two please give this one a look #I've watched this unfold since late may? early july? and it's been an exciting experience #I'm not a writer I think it's better than what I could've come up with #honestly though the way he managed to get inside Machete's and Vasco's heads was uncanny their mannerisms and thought processes are spot on #some of the events aren't canon but they might as well be #and most of the background details and backstory tidbits are accurate believe me he's very well versed on their lore #big history nerd so the worldbuilding is intense #you get to meet the dog pope #there's saint sebastian #roommate hijinks #it gets kind of bleak at times though so be mindful of that #it's not all fluff and good feelings #Separation #Heinaven #RoobrickMarine #own characters #own art #artists on tumblr #CanisAlbus #Vasco #Machete #anthro #sighthound #dogs #canine #animals #if you end up reading the whole thing it would be really sweet if you left a little comment as a thanks for his hard work

[whereismyhat5678]

Heck yeah! Kick his butt Gustavo!

Let’s recap! For those who don’t know go to this post: here

TW: There’s blood underneath so look with caution!! ⚠️⚠️

I loved doing the expressions AND THE POSE FUCK YEAH GUSTAVO KICK SOME TWINK ASS‼️‼️💥👊💥👊💥👊💥

#Pizza Tower #TW: For blood!! #This one took a bit longer for some reason- #Think it might’ve been the constant editing but eh- 🤷‍♀️ I like it!! I think it looks good :D #I may have gone a bit overboard with the blood but I wanted to add it to know that GUSTAVO’S BEATING 👏 HIM 👏 UP 👏 #We love the badass Gustavo WE’RE HERE FOR IT WOOOOO‼️‼️‼️‼️ #Also I could imagine Pizza head still back-talking him even though he’s getting absolutely mauled- #He’s just that type of Goober! 😛😋 #Pizza Head #Gustavo #Ask(?) #Anon ask(?) #Request(?)

[tinycurlyfry]

Inktober Day 22 : Hurt

“Nami... I can’t face the others!”

#It may no longer be October but I’m still gonna finish the prompts~ #I really enjoy doing them #Nami #Usopp #Water 7 #Sogeking #Cat Burglar Nami #OP Fanart #One Piece #myart #Inktober #Inktober2022 #Though there are a few that are also really high up there now Water 7 still remains my favorite arc

[aur0raaura]

September Magma Session Drawings!

Had the pleasure to do these pieces for @choochooboss's September Magma Session! The theme was... TCG and League Cards!!!

I was super excited to tackle this theme, to a point i did four art pieces! (Yeah I'm insane.)

Many thanks to Jun for hosting as always! Hope everyone enjoys this and the other pieces the others did! <3

#Pokemon #Prince Lear #Rival Lear #Lear pokemon #Lear #Hoopa #Pokemas #Pokemon Masters #Pokemon Masters EX #original character #oc #GUARDiANverse #aura's art #honestly the Hoopa EX art was a challenge because of the shading and lighting #im still shocked that it looks GOOD despite being such an ambitious effect to pull off #good practice for a future piece im making...though for that one............. #you may need to wait much longer to see- it is pokemon related though! #also yes i made an exception and posted this an hour earlier than usual tee hee #jun's magma events

[arihi]

I shook my head, trying to clear the cobwebs and stay lucid and responsive. But I wasn’t here to be responsive, or interesting, or even a person, right now. All I needed to be was good. My head lolled back, my efforts futile, and my vision went white.

Later, I remember surfacing again, trying to hold onto the words that they were whispering to me.

“Go away. I’m having a private conversation.”

Not even privy to the words in my ear, the taunts being etched into my eager, stupid brain, I vanish.

#ari adventures #hypnosis #small little vignettes #to those who follow me on both platforms I love and appreciate you and apologize to you #for having to read blurbs on both twitter and tumblr #this one has the second added part which may or may not make it onto twitter in another tweet though #see tumblr gets longer ones!

[miodiodavinci]

the burnout is real lads . . . . .

#which is to say that i came home and just stared at the wall for roughly 2 hours instead of completing my documents #it was at least validating to get to talk to one of my coworkers today #and hear that they're just as burnt out as i am #and usually have to sit in the parking lot for 4 to 5 minutes before they come in because they just don't want to be here that badly #and it feels hard to admit because this is typically thought of as a passion driven profession #and it's like #neither of us have lost the passion for it??? #it's not that we hate our jobs #it's just that we both feel like. we're putting in increasingly more effort week by week but we're just. #no longer getting results. #i mentioned how i feel like my faith in my ability to do this kind of work has just plummeted to zero #not at all helped by my mentor constantly pushing me to go faster and faster but then getting mad when my presentations go poorly #because i went faster or reduced the amount of material or cut the Q and A section down 10 minutes #i just feel . . . . . tired . . . . . . . . . . . #i still need to write three planning documents for tonight #one of which needs to be Really Good because my direct supervisor will be looking at it #but my god #i just want to sleep for three days straight and then stare at a wall for another three #i'm so close to the end though . . . . . #just another 15 of these documents (including the three from tonight) and that about covers my internship #of course then there's also the seminar work and the group project and all the fancy official employment documents #and. the portfolio project (a man screams in agony) #but god . . . . . . . . #so close . . . . . . . . #so close . . . . . . #once i'm free from the portfolio it's back to zola work and THEN . . . . . . . . . . #i can finally have a substantial mental health break for the first time since last may ;;; _____ ;;;

[sortanonymous]

I've watched and adored Encanto, Wolfwalkers, Across the Spider-Verse, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. All absolutely incredible animated films that I'm sure will be held up as classics even 20 years from now.

With that said, Nimona is frankly a good step above all of them and my choice for animated film of the decade so far (at least for what I've heard of). An absolutely stellar film on every level. Do yourself a favor and watch it all on YouTube these next few days!

Does it stand a chance at the Oscars? Absolutely not, especially since even the Annies were dominated by Spider-Man. But it would absolutely deserve to. (And again, I adore Spider-Verse and still think it's 100% worthy of the Oscar on its own. It's basically the reverse of the Puss in Boots vs. Pinocchio situation last year. They're both masterpieces, only this time the slightly better masterpiece is almost certainly gonna get left in the cold.)

#nimona #nimona movie #oscars 2024 #i'm not exactly gonna pretend nothing good came out of disney last year #maybe elemental and especially guardians 3 are good #but holy crap the fact that this film they left to rot with blue sky came back to mop the floor with them? #that truly is the ultimate nail in the coffin! #that and you know the draconian capitalist stuff but that's a different story #rip blue sky #now i can no longer call ice age: the meltdown my favorite blue sky movie that i've seen #sorry 4-year-old (and honestly current) me :( #you know this decade's been a rough one for animation in so many ways even in regards to the movies #(though they may be the least of the problems now) #but man has this decade already given us some classics from both the big and small studios #i'm sorry i haven't said much on the movie but i don't even know what to say because it's so amazing #go watch it right now #now just hoping it comes to blu-ray because i have all five of those other movies on blu-ray #and the only one not in 4k being wolfwalkers simply because it doesn't have a 4k (tho at least also having two more movies) #(one of said movies (song of the sea) actually being better than wolfwalkers but that's a different story; cartoon saloon rocks) #Youtube

[spicysucculentz]

where the fuck is korkie kryze????

#spicy speaks #did filoni forget about him or smt??? #is he ok?? #girl what happened to him #is he dead??? #one ep left and there’s been no satine mention?? #no korkie???? #I fear that may mean he is no longer with us #it would be slay if he was though….. #korkie kryze #the mandalorian #the mandalorian s3 #where is he?????? #the clone wars

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

god help me i'm going insane about dickson xenoblade again

#this is what i get for thinking about lord of the rings too hard this week (specifically denethor / gríma / saruman and the like) #thinking about the way anthony may delivered “when will you learn you HAVE no future?” #he thinks shulk is fully DEAD at that point. he thinks HE killed him. which he very much meant to. but now that the kid is no longer there #now that the terrible future he's been preparing for and actively working to bring about has in fact come about #i don't know that dickson really cared anymore. he played his part he did the deed expected and he did it unquestioningly. So What Now? #well. now nothing. now the world that he spent so long biding his time in; so long getting enmeshed in (even for nefarious purposes) #is about to end; is about to be gone forever. #sure zanza will probably just create another world and maybe he (dickson) will have Even More Power in the new one #(though that's not a given! he doesn't know for SURE his lord and god will keep his promise!) #but like. what the hell does he care at this point #dickson SAYS he wants power but i suspect that long long ago what the giant dickson really wanted was SURVIVAL. #we never get to know just how he became a disciple or what the giant civilization looked like in its heyday or how it ended #but in MY headcanon dickson saw that some kind of destruction coming and he wanted Out #and maybe he hated his peers and figured any power and prestige that came from this bargain was just a bonus #i think he thought of himself as a saruman type: powerful; remote; far above the petty troubles of mortals (even the long-lived high entia) #but i have always headcanoned that by his later days (i.e. when he started engaging w/colony 9; machina village; etc. in earnest) #he committed too hard to the bit and started “going native” as it were; started to give a shit in ways that he would never dare admit #maybe not as much of a shit as; you know; a regular guy would. but more than an immortal disciple and horseman of the apocalypse should. #and all the time knowing that all the world he'd seen would soon be gone #maybe everyone else can get fucked. but shulk had to die too. and that's what their god MADE them to do. #he can't allow himself to care or to hope for another option bc in his mind it's already over; decided; that's it #what else can you do in the face of ultimate power but bow to it and take whatever scraps may fall to an obedient servant? #“you have no future” nor does he except that shulk came back. except that the peoples of bionis/mechonis just wouldn't accept Fate. #and in some final rebellious corner of his mind he starts putting eggs in shulk's basket. “if they can't even defeat telethia they won't #stand a chance against me (or zanza)” so let's see if they CAN. oh they did? how about a dragon? oh fuck they defeated the dragon too? #well fuck. maybe there WAS another option all along. but will/can they stand against me; the final disciple? oh they can?? #guess i'll die then bc i'm not looking THAT in the face. i am NOT unpacking my cowardice/failure/lack of vision after all these years. #good luck with that tho <3 you're welcome for the training btw. where i'm going i don't have to see your trauma assuming you live that long. #dickson #xenoblade

[aceofthegreenajah]

Thinking about Mountains of Mourning got me rereading it again for the millionth time. Every time I think, 'surely by now it has no hold of me? I know every turn it takes, can damn near recite parts of it.' And here I am, sobbing.

The story itself is beautiful, the language is gorgeous, but there is also something in the setting that speaks to me personally.

Our family farm is in a community smaller than silvy vale, and has been in the family for at least a couple of centuries. It's in the least populated and most backwater part of the country. And my country itself is small and insignificant, sparsely populated, mostly wilderness. In the eyes of some we may be backwater forest folk, tough as our land and just as stuck in our ways.

And I am a very tied-to-the-earth person. I am at home barefoot in the forest, fishing in the lakes, foraging in the swamps, working with animals, chopping wood. These forests are my forests, this land is my land. I was born on it and if I have to be buried, I want to be buried in it. I've never wanted to leave for better pastures. I've wished I could hold my home and my people up.

So though I cry for the beauty of the language and the message, and the grief of the plot, I also cry for the happy ending that Silvy Vale receives.

#Ah I miss our family land #I remember staying there for months as a kid and never once seeing an outsider #the community has been bleeding out people longer than i've been alive #when my mom was a kid there was still a school and a general store in the closest town now those are gone too #no-one wants to stay where healthcare may take hours to get to and there are basically no jobs #catching/gathering our own food during summer was what we did when i was a kid because we were poor #(mom and me in spesific not all of the family #but none of them were rich) #but doing it year-around is a shortcut back to starvation times #anyway i get why people wanted away - i don't live there for several reasons - but i wish it was different. i wish i could move back. #i wish there was someone still running our family farm. it's still our land - though some of mom's cousins own it now - but it's abandoned #(it is also a place where once upon a time #hurts and crimes could only be committed by family #and could go unanswered just like in the tiny Dendarii mountain towns. Mom's therapist knows all about it.) #vorkosigan saga #mountains of mourning #mountains of mourning spoilers #vorkosigan saga spoilers #probably

[lil-tumbles]

Thinking again about how much "gayer/homoerotic", how much more impact, those longing glances from the 80s have compared to actual gay couples on screen. Like, when you watch shows from decades ago, how much more powerful it feels to see two men (usually, although I can also think of an example or two of two women) loving one another. The forehead press. The touching of a hand to the small of the other's back. The "he's my... Friend". The long stares into each other's eyes, followed by a change of mind, or a certainty in what they're doing.

The power a stare can have. And how those feel so much more powerful precisely because they're transgressive, they're intentional if you know where to look, or if you're even looking. They are raw, powerful, and somehow feel *more* than progress. More than casual displays of gay intimacies, than gay people calling one another "husband" after 2014/15. That is progress, but the stuff of the past? That is something else entirely.

These quiet acts of defiance feel bigger than your corporate sponsored kisses.

#lgbtq #queer stuff #queer shows #doctor who and star trek are specifically what I'm thinking of rn #threegado and even tensimm are so much bigger somehow than twissy (genderfuck though that is) or thasmin #ace and the cat woman feels so much more powerful to me than thasmin simply because it is a story of love that is not allowed #but happens anyway #it is brave in a way we may no longer have to be #it is raw and powerful and heartbreaking #do you get me? #progress is one thing. but forbidden homoeroticism is another #lila speaks #lil tumbles

[justinefrischmanngf]

HAVE SHIFTS FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS AND BY GOD ARE THEY SEXY!!!!!!!!!!

#got my shifts for next week a couple days ago but now having them both is like #fuck we might be onto something here !!!!!! #guysssss this is good this is really really good #it’s not perfect but it’s very good #i may no longer be teaching one student i really like though and if that’s the case it’ll be rly sad but it might not be the case so fingers #crossed !!!!!!! but my hours r very good out of what could reasonably be asked for #like if i could get slightly more that’d be even better but what this is is fantastic i cannot lie #very very very happy about this and also very relieved #bc if they’re scheduling me in this way then they clearly think i’m doing a good job AND it means there’s less immediate worry abt me #getting another job which is amazing #like i was rly worried that as the term started my hours would take a dip bc people might be more available/they’ve got a better idea of me #so how much do they rly want me around but it hasn’t !!!!! and touch wood everything keeps going smoothly bc i’ve got More hours than ladt #term and that is exactly what i need and have been hoping for #🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿 i dont want to jinx this but my god this is good news

[yume-fanfare]

today a year ago i got into enstars........... this is the part where i'd try to count how many toris ive drawn in the span of a year but i'd die. that is so many toris

#just the posted ones have to be an overwhelming amount #i can't even imagine how much it'd add up to if i counted unposted ones as well #though actually.......... maybe ill actually try to count we'll see #i think i first drew hajime in may though so he'll have to wait a bit longer #mar's midnight rambles

[seveneyesoup]

you know the last time i had this gin i was already drunk and it tasted so good now having it straight first thing when you’re sober that shit tastes like a fuckin Potion. not necessarily in a good way

#a potion or perhaps some sort of tonic #like genuinely it’s. it needs something #but by the time i’ve finished the whole bottle i may have developed a taste for it #i spent $35 on it i’m gonna fuckin drink every last drop of it #and i better learn to enjoy it #we have a club soda so i may add that and it’ll make it less strong #it tasted so light and lemony and floral but now it’s like. potion #yk #thirty five dollars and i don’t even like the gin #last me longer than two bottles of wine; though #don’t remember the brand but the one in the blue bottle w the jackalope on it

[gardenvarietycrafts]

WIP Wednesday!

I've finished the first sock of sock set #3 and am slowly working on the second sock. I just finished doing the ribbing on this one, so my least favorite part is over.

Pattern is the Hermione Everyday sock texture pattern/chart, with 2×2 ribbing for the cuff and a Japanese short row heel.

Yarn was a destash that I'm not actually able to find just based off of the information on the tag, but the colorway is called Pond with the Wind, a Doctor Who reference.

Scarf 1 is coming along really well! I lightly blocked it out a couple days ago to be able to see the pattern better, but have made some progress since then. Really love how the color is starting to fade into the gray, but it's still got a bit of the light blue lingering for a bit more.

Pattern is the Icelandic Long Shawl knit in lace weight yarn I got from my mil a while ago, which didn't have a tag with it.

And lastly, I've started a blanket! I'm not numbering this one because I don't actually anticipate knitting a lot of blankets. This was a spur of the moment cast on, but it'll probably be one I work on off and on periodically, and not really a steady knit.

Pattern is just a diagonal knit blanket in garter stitch, with 3 stitches for the border, to try to use up some of my acrylic worsted weight yarn. Yarns are mostly Red Heart, Joanns brand, or Mainstays, but they're all acrylic yarns in worsted weight.

#knit #knitting #knitblr #crafts #description in alt text #scarf 1 #socks 3 #blanket #i told myself i wouldn't do more than 2 knit wips but i don't think adding the blanket will be that bad since it will be much longer term #and also because i literally can't add an additional project because i don't have any more cords to use #though i also considered making a 10 stitch knit blanket but i think that one can wait until this one is finished #and may need to get some more yarn for that so may get a gradiant yarn or something fun