#and i really don't know why

[redbootsindoriath]

Fëanorian Week 2023, Day 4: Caranthir

Oh, Caranthir, what do I do with you?  Every year I get to him and go “Oh crap not this guy again” because we really don’t know what his interests or motivations were.  I gave him short hair for visual variety (since his complexion doesn’t come across in monochrome stone) and left it with that.

#feanorianweek #caranthir #the man the myth the legends #three shinies #my trash #/end classification tags #one year i decided maybe he liked horses and that's about the most effort i've ever put into trying to figure him out #i doff my hat to those who are able to come up with headcanons because i'm afraid to say i have next to no interest in him #and i really don't know why #i wonder if tolkien had the same problem because he didn't tell us much about him #''this guy was angry at everyone about everything and that's his entire personality and he has no other ambitions in life'' geez...okay

[villereals]

flower day! the family didn’t have a party or anything to celebrate, but worked on the garden and their skills. little lana go to meet the flower bunny too! 

#farren is almost like best friends with this damn bunny too #and i really don't know why #connelly #chap6 #ts4 legacy #gp

[tonguetiedraven]

This is more a question for everyone, but what do you like to do while writing? Is it grabbing a quick snack or eating a whole dinner? Laying in bed or sitting at a desk? Listening to music or do you prefer to have a quiet work space? (Of course, don't stay limited to the questions I asked, just say what you like doing most.)

I polled my writer friends (from the aoex writers server), and the consensus seemed to be yes to music, but everyone has a specific sort of music they like to listen to (some even having specific playlist for specific scenes/fics) while a few preferred calm and quiet with just a few ambiet noises.

Desks won as the preference, but beds and late nights were also quite popular.

Snacks were not generally used (too distracting) but sometimes enjoyed for refulling to get that final burst of energy for a scene or used post writing as a kind of reward.

It did seem like writing late in the day was the general preference.

As for my own preference, I will do quite literally anything while writing. Eat, walk, sit, lay, crochet/knit/weave (yay for voice to text, lol). I even have an exercise bike for really wet days that I'll type on (can't do it on a real bike or I'll crash, lol.) I don't tend to do it a lot while I'm eating a full meal because messy fingers or easy spillage do not go well with keyboards or phone screens. (Sometimes I get an idea and will frantically try and scribble it out on a napkin.) However, I'll totally snack or drink (tea for the win!) while writing.

If I'm laying in a bed, then I'll use my phone (I don't like to use laptops on beds unless I have something under them because blankets/sheets/pillows can all make laptops overheat) and I will usually only write on my bed later at night after I've wound down and found myself hit with a sudden idea I know I won't remember in the morning. I don't have a desk at my house (funnily enough), and I have a laptop, so most of my writing is done in my living room. Sometimes I'll use my dining table for writing or drawing.

I struggle hard writing in silence. I like to use music (lofi or scores), but most of the time I have some YouTube videos playing while I'm typing. Some times they're lets plays, sometimes they're video essays (typically literary analysis, scary game or scary movie analysis), sometimes they're crafting videos, and sometimes they're funny video compilations. Sometimes I'll even watch something that goes with what I'm writing, but mostly they're more random than that, lol.

I also tend to have two or three wips open at a time when I'm writing so I don't feel pressured to stick to one story if the words won't come for whatever I started with. I don't typically edit as I go--unless it's a big misspelling--because that always takes me out of a creative headspace. When I do edit, I usually do a read over in the doc, and then another read over on ao3 because the different layout makes it easier to see my goofs. (I still miss a lot because beta reading is not my strength xD )

I like to use different doc and font colors when I write, because it makes it easier to pick my docs out in google, and the colors make me feel more creative. Plus, weirdly, the unique color palettes help me get in the headspace for certain stories more easily.

Hope that answers your questions ^^ let me know if you have any more <3

#writing #my favorite is typing away on stormy nights while something a little spooky is playing #and i really don't know why #tea will always be my go to beverage #pringle #popcorn #and carrots tend to be my snacks of choice #i try to make my doc colors match the story #like i have an icy blue for frost bite #a fiery red for avidya #a gray and green for spellbound #etc #i am very good at typing on a keyboard #but phone keyboards make me feel slow and clumsy so i don't use them a lot

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

#dungeon meshi #kabru #laios touden #falin touden #Happy Thistle Thursday once again. Have I been holding on to this comic for several weeks? Sure have! #I forgot how long it takes for Chimera Falin to come into play. #I still really love my 'better drawn' art of her - unfortunately it was several weeks too early for the anime only folks. #Slowly getting the hang of drawing Laios. I don't know why I struggle so much but I am getting...somewhere. #Meta time: God damn I love how the chimera shows off the expertise and gap between Kabru and Laios. #The truth is: they are both *right* and they are both *wrong*. #This creature is a combination of monster and human and they only have the skillset to deal with one of those. #Kabru goes for all the human vitals - but she isn't human. #Laios tries to approach her as a monster and is struck down by the humanity he sees in her. #She is something new that defies what they *both* understand about the world. And that makes her such a perfect antagonist. #The damsel was the dragon all along! #...She is really so cute though. Terrifying! But adorable. I am so excited to see the boom of fanart for her.

[herd-reject-arts]

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

#not vc sorry #bird #birds #aves #raptor #hawk #red shouldered hawk #i think. might be wrong on that id #accipitriformes #birds of prey #honestly a really cool guy so close up #I'm happy i wasn't attacked. i would not want to fight a guy that big. #talons on this bird were huge. big scary. #I've never heard of large predatory birds just landing in front of people like that so i don't know what gives #it didn't catch any food or anything. just landed near me then stared me down. #I don't know a lot about bird behavior so i tried to not look back at it but still. #it also didn't look injured. seemed like a healthy bird #if anyone has any idea why this thing would act the way it did I'd love to know

[n-------------------n]

Never in my life have I ever controlled the volume of my voice. I'm so sorry to everyone who had to listen to my call on the tram. 🫤

#i do not realise how loaud i am #never #this is why i cant really whisper very well either #my voice also goes real squeaky sometimes #and i really don't know why #i should really only vall people while at home #but i fucking hat doing that #or its more like #i want to talk to someone after leaving for work #so i call #and as soon as I'm home #i don't want zo anymore #well whatever #this is my apology to the woman who i really annoyed with that call

[canisalbus]

#own art #own characters #CanisAlbus #art #artists on tumbr #Machete #anthro #sighthound #dogs #canine #animals #sort of a destress thing #still really tired and fatigued and hurty every day I don't know why #screens have been giving me eyestrain/headache quickly so I've been trying to avoid them #not having the energy to draw and talk to people and respond to asks is bringing my mood down

[biomechabird]

Despite everything, it's still you.

#kieran #pokemon #sorry i know this is badly formatted but i only really made it for personal reasons but then thought hey maybe someone else might need this #yes im sorry the first image having a different outfit bugs me so much but it's the only one i had in my screenshots with that expression #why am i even saying sorry JUST TAKE THIS IF YOU LIKE IT and if you don't... bye #hello if you're reading the tags

[egophiliac]

innocently logging in to look at the Twst schedule for May like

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 8 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 8 spoilers #tsumsted wonderland #i-is that enough spoiler tags #anyway twst just absolutely obliterating me with the schedule again #i saw the story completion campaign ended in june and was like 'oh okay that'll be when we get the next part' NOPE HA HA #oh my god rook. oh my god savana rook is real. #w...why is this a story card. hey twst wHY IS THIS A STORY CARD -- #is rook dreaming of still being a rowdy boy or #and why is he...(squints) why is he in a pomefiore bedroom #never mind i'm actually terrified of this card now #god. the STETSON. i'm crying. #he really is just applejack huh #also vil i don't know what your problem was this man's mane is LUSCIOUS #and what's this? it's twst following up that first punch with the right hook of EVEN MORE of the best and silliest event #malleus is going to be in the middle of an angsty flashback while dangling us over a pit of spikes or something #and then we're going to cut directly to him having a charming little tea party with a small plush version of himself #oh twst your sense of pacing remains exquisitely incomprehensible #(no i love this though)

[spaceytrash]

Will never not hate that there's no way for me (that I can find without having to subscribe to anything half legally) to watch the italian version of Name that Tune episodes since Ciro and Fabio have taken over. Italy just let me watch Morgan play a quiz about music pls this is so mephobic

#Morgan #name that tune #name that tune - indovina la canzone #indovina la canzone #italian stuff #ahh the good old times when enrico papi still hosted it and my vpn still worked on tv8 #and I could actually watch the eps when they put it on the website #i don't even know if they still put the full eps on tv8 afyer they aired there and not just sky #cause the livestream never accepted my vpn but I could at least watch them afterwards back then #better times #yes I' drunk.and actually sad I can't watch this dumb show #and yes I refuse to pay for sky subscription with a vpn #don't even know if that would work #and yes I know morgan's problematic and an idiot most of the time don't @ ? #* don't @ me I know but I'm obsessed with him and like him for some unexplicable reason #like I really don't know why cause if anyone else did half the drama he did I would have ditched them already #but a certain Marco Castoldi has put a spell on me that I can't escape him & have to like him despite the million BIG flaws he has #and I really don't know why #anyway whatever I'm drunk and I'm rambling sorry #mystuff

[dihuh]

I made this last year after I watched Squid Game

#animation #i guess #storyboards #question mark? #squid game #humor #i also guess #i really don't know why i did this

[skyberia]

I'VE GOT A FEELING YOU'VE BEEN SELLING ME OUT!

#persona 5 #goro akechi #akechi goro #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #akeshu #shuake #artists on tumblr #drawings #your disposition is a foot in the grave etc etc. i'm tired of looking at this. please pretend the pose makes sense #i really don't know why i don't just learn how to draw kissing. at this point it would be easier than doing whatever this is

[somethingcorenotsure]

I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

and musical instruments

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

#yes I KNOW i posted about this the other day but *crying* i just love plant domestication and the history of agriculture #and humanity's positive affect on the ecosystems we live in #mine #image IDs in alt text #hmm. I'm gonna tag this #permaculture #just to pspsps @ that community to look at how cool gourds are please everyone grow birdhouse gourds and give cavity nesters places to live #i don't think mine will become fully ripe before i get my first frost :( next year i need to start gourds indoors #i didn't want to grow them before because i didn't have much garden space but now i do and i need to grow all of them #i might be. a little obsessed with gourds. but also i saw a pair of purple martins flying by the road last year #and i had never seen one before then! and i need to see more of them #i have a few hundred barn swallows but i need more birds flying around my house. more!! #and also i have a ton of invasive cavity nesting species around here. house sparrows and starlings. #gotta make up for those things competing with native birds for nest dites #*sites #the invasive birds very often win :/ #that's why they're invasive #i really do need to start trapping them....

[nyxofdemons]

THE WAY THAT THEY INVENTED ROMANCE WITH THIS SONG???? HELLO?????

#'i don't know why you waste your time on me' 'baby; all i got is time!' OH MY *GOD* #WHY IS THAT THE MOST ROMANTIC THING THATS EVER HAPPENED #im screaming and crying knowing no one else will ever have what they do #like i am so serious ive never REALLY cried at this show before but this song got me so bad #theyre so fucking cute. im going to lay on the floor and be overwhelmed by yearning #mine #fave #<- yes im tagging my own posts w this #helluva boss #helluva boss spoilers #fizzarolli #asmodeus #fizzmodeus #helluva boss fizzarolli #fizzarolli helluva boss #asmodeus helluva boss #helluva boss asmodeus #e: mammon's magnificent musical mid-season special

[kaiserouo]

"We're not going THAT far, Guardian."

#i don't really know the lore about red death and crimson but this scene stuck in my head #why didn't anyone mention that gun when they talk about banned guns that's literally THE banned gun #btw crimson was my lucky pants gun until warden's law is a thing #yeah i never got malfeasance #destiny 2 #destiny hunter #lord shaxx #destiny 2 art #my art

[ryllen]

delivering peaceful judgement

#the look he used to know #twst #twisted wonderland #sebek zigvolt #twst yuu #twst mc #trey clover #Broomquet Birthday #fanart #everyone is so nice towards him but he is really ruuuudee at timess #i can't have it #even tho nrc full of 'evil' students; they like saints when it comes to handling sebek #i don't know how they learnt it #not even ex-delinquent deuce snapped at him on sebek's halloween vignette #is there extra class at nrc that i don't know #is it delivering lesson about how to handle sebek when his mouth starts to open ??? #why are all the other students are so good at this ??? #no one actually ever yells back at him #even tho we all know that's not the best way to go against him #how could no one be tempted to ??? #whhy are they all soo matureee ???? #they actually know from the start it's useless to go against how stubborn he is ?? #not even the mobs ??????????????