#and loads of others

[moodlesmain]

I am THIS close to going full conspiracy board trying to piece together the components of my favourite genre "spooky, mystery solving, coming of age adventures that involve a clash of the mundane and the supernatural"

EDIT: I went full conspiracy board mode

#is this anything #this is just a snippet of my whirlwind thoughts on this topic #I was always sad as a kid that I couldn't fully engage with the mystery kids crossover fandom #because I'd never watched Coraline or played Psychonauts #but was a HUGE fan of Gravity Falls and ParaNorman (and others like otgw and invader zim) #and my longtime passion project story Turned Yesterday is essentially my own take on that sort of genre #gravity falls #coraline #psychonauts #paranorman #and loads of others #mystery kids #EDIT: accidentally posted the wrong version of that last chart SDHTGRFSED it makes more sense now sorry

[chocodile]

👁️Sleep with one eye open👁️

#wolf #werewolf #animal art #forest #vent art #Is there some other tag for art expressing a feeling/experience that is a little less negatively loaded? #It's been a hell of a month don't get me wrong #but you know what I mean right

[brother-emperors]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

#it's all greek to me #perseus #danae #komiks tag #long post #every other week i start to say something about how greek heroes are a good case study in diaspora and exile trauma #but man perseus makes me so sad. so does danae. she loves her son :( #perseus turning a whole island to stone is a huge mood. i would also do that if i were him #anyway (salutes) take care everyone i gotta watch yunho's new video it looks like a fucking movie im so excited #(i singled out ovid bc i remember the fucking shit perseus discourse that ran through this site. i remember #im preemptively loading a gun and pointing at it before it can touch this post #it hasn't died out either i see it on twitter all the time in the most ANNOYING ways possible i am TIRED #esp bc they're actually doing medusa a narrative disservice like congrats! you made it worse! stop telling me it's better!!!!)

[annabelle--cane]

the thing about victor frankenstein is that, aside from the deeply unpleasant but distressingly period-typical views about women and his polar exploration sunk-cost fallacy attitude, he's not even really an outstandingly bad individual. spending two years trying to make a whole person with no solid plan for what to then Do with this person is an extremely extremely bad idea, but after that all his reactions to stress and tragedy are fairly common and natural. avoidance, depression, decision paralysis, secret keeping, etc., these are very normal trauma responses. they are just literally all of the very worst responses he could possibly have had given his particular situation.

#blind fear and panic and a desire to just Ignore Everything after (more or less) having a child is a pretty common feeling #it's why you really really need other people around to share the load in the first few years #he did not have that. and then he could not think about facing the problem without having a breakdown until it was too late. #frankenstein #marina marvels at life

[citrlet]

because i was asked for what mods i use, i decided i'll just make a whole post!

most of everything here is pretty cottagecore/naturey~

under the cut because my game is heavily modded this list is long!!

visual

medieval buildings

way back pelican town

seasonal cute characters base / expanded / east scarp

all cuter animal replacements

vibrant pastoral 1.6 (temporary fix)

overgrown flowery ui

medieval craftables

dynamic night time

cottagecore fences

lamps

gwens paths

animated gemstones

foliage redone foliage only

rosedryads fairies

elle's town animals

sve facelift

more grass

medieval dnt

flowergrass and snowfields

expansion fish redesign

clothing / hairs

more accessories and stuff

cozy scarves

hoods and hoodies

vanilla pants and skirts

the coquette collection

seasonal hats

ani's colour collection

improved and new hairstyles

kyuyas hairstyles pack

furniture

idalda furniture recolor

h&w outdoor furniture

h&w fairy garden furniture

west elm furniture

nano's retro style furniture

asters big furniture pack

gameplay / mechanics

cjb cheats menu (just to walk a little faster)

cjb show item sell price

greenhouse gatherers

craftable mushroom boxes

advanced casks

lumisteria serene meadow

growable forage and crop bushes

cornucopia more flowers / more crops

atelier wildflour crops and forage pack

wear more rings

tree transplant

passable crops

no fence decay redux

multi yield crops

crop fairy

challenging community center bundles

better chests

automate

spawn supply crates on beach

expanded storage

bigger backpack

blue eggs and golden mayo

better ranching

npc map locations

data layers

expansions

stardew valley expanded

east scarp / lurking in the dark / never ending adventure / always raining in the valley

lumisteria visit mount vapius

misc

jen's cozy cellar

cozy farmhouse kitchen

asters walls and floors megapack

wrens expanded greenhouse

cuter coops and better barns

nicer sewer

also recommended

hudson valley buildings

elle's seasonal buildings

seasonal fences

ridgeside village

immerisve farm map 2

#stardew valley #sdv #stardew valley mods #stardew valley mod list #stardew valley mods list #i just know some players are probably like apalled i've modded it so much haha #i just downloaded a load of these today #i wanted to dive headfirst into a fairycore style playthrough #i also used to have ridgeside installed but i think im going to take a break from it #with the other expansions things get a little too overwhelming for me real quick

[blackkatdraws2]

Baby I'm Home [Blank Scripts AU]

[Song: Baby I'm Home - ODETARI (feat. Kanii & 9lives)]

#tsp blank scripts au #i made the storyboard last month #then i spedran everything else after that in three days lmao #I'm in a hurry okay I have other things to animate #but I had loads of fun making this one #especially when editing it #you can probably tell from the ungodly amount of transitioning in there #i literally had a headache in the middle of editing this because i had to watch it over and over again and the FLASH #the FLASH kept BLINDING me #Stanley is such a loser in this AU #wowowow he likes drugs and hookers oh em gee i wonder why #what has caused this normal man to spiral into degeneracy? #oohhh ooohhh (I'm trying to make you interested are you interested yet) #the stanley parable #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #tspud #tsp #tsp au #the stanley parable animation #tsp animation #tsp narrator #narrator tsp #stanley tsp #tsp stanley #stanley x narrator #narrator x stanley #stanarator #stannarator #stanarrator #stannarrator

[astrhae]

...maybe it's all part of a great big ineffable plan

#a LOT happened but #its the way the timing of their wings align #(conditional on tumblr loading this gifset right for you akdskdsk) #it's also the way that it's crowley who did the wing thing first #and when he did it the universe was so full of color and stars and fire #because there weren't any sides yet #and when it was later aziraphale who did it #the color is all black and whites because there's sides now #and it was rain and water falling on them #it's just the CONTRAST between the two scenes #but also the constant between them #which is. the two of them. next to each other #anyway i'm not done processing the first scene #how to i process the rest of it #good omens #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 spoilers #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2 #my edits #goodomensedit #tw flashing #ineffable husbands

[theoldkyokodied]

You know which scene I am basing this on. Also (kisses all the fanfic writers on the mouth) thank you for your service

Bonus:

Edit: DISCLAIMER: Before you decide to watch Re-Animator, make sure to check for content warnings, there is a scene that a lot of people choose to skip!

#Reanimator #danbert #dan cain #herbert west #Daniel Cain #herbert x dan #dan x herbert #Re-Animator #cw emetophobia #cw vomit #cw addiction #tagging all these just in case #anyway get a load of these guys #they both are so so so bad at taking care of themselves.. it makes it so funny to watch them take care of each other #not a day of peace in the cain-west household #also i am still trying to figure out the layout of thier house through screenshots oof #the lab is a nightmare to invision in my mind... are the entrance to the crypt and the door to the staircase on opposit walls? #anyway enough rambling from me. change da world. my final message. goodbye (disintegrates)

[futuristichedge]

How I look when you send me out of your garden. If you even care

#im so tired i was thinking abt editing some sonic heroes sprites and got distracted #and. got jumpscared by chao with bindle when looking at menu sprites for sonic adventure 2 #shitpost #meme #<- regretting using that tag but its so quick to type and i dont feel like adjusting tags for 20+ other posts #sth #chao #the spriters resource didnt have the heroes loading spinny sprite so now I gotta go rip it myself -.-

[trans-cuchulainn]

Can’t agree more about that duolingo post you shared, the Irish course is *terrible*. Do you have any recommendations for other places to go to learn Irish for someone with practically no knowledge of the language?

dublin city university has asynchronous courses that run regularly on futurelearn, starting with irish 101 and going up to 208 (you might have to wait a little while for 101 to come around again because they don't all run simultaneously). they're a pretty good intro with more grammar explanations, written exercises, etc. my biggest issue with them was motivating myself to actually put the time in, because i found it tough to get through all the course in the amount of time i had available to give to them, but they're probably the best free online resource i know of, especially because they do have people there to answer questions and explain grammar

there are also various online courses on zoom etc but those tend to cost money. i do think after a certain point it's worth trying to get in an actual class (in person or online) for the conversation practice if nothing else, but something like the futurelearn courses is a good stepping stone to get going

for pure vocab, memrise has so far not fallen as far down the hole of "gamification of language apps at the expense of actual teaching" and you can make custom courses to learn vocab that you yourself actually need (e.g. lists from courses you're taking), but i know memrise is trying to push a new version of their "official" courses which may end up being at the expense of "community" courses (custom lists) so idk how long that'll last, and anyway it's more of a supplement to learning elsewhere than a way to learn in and of itself, in my experience

#there are probably loads of other resources i'm just giving those i've got personal experience of #irish #gaeilge #answered #finwe77

[cinamun]

Are you dating? | Next

#ts4 #indya #black simblr #i have no comment other than the gifs might take a minute to load #I'll see y'all in the replies #with a fresh pan of lemon pepper wings #and ice cold Ghettosas™ #ts4 story #sims 4 story #simblr #ch24

[thronealigned]

no it's fine this mind flayer is totally my friend and 100% honest with me all the time it's ok it likes me everything's so normal

#bg3 spoilers #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #i love how raphael directly calls you out on this. 'if id have known you were so gullible i wouldve tricked you into selling your soul for #a bowl of beans when we first met' #and then just keeps insulting you more if you keep insisting emp's really your ally #oc: impulse #sure this'll go in their tag #everything about impulse's Thing with the emperor is so funny to me. and then deeply fucked up if you think about it long enough. and then #really funny again if you think about it even longer #one day i'll do their 2.0 playthrough so i can fully form all my thoughts. and get better screenshots and the ceremorphosis ending #i mean there's nothing stopping me from loading an impulse 1.0 save and going ceremorphosis from there but idk it'd feel wrong #impulse has more tadpoles in their brain than synapses by act 3 and it does really fundamentally change them as a person #tfw your chaotic neutral act-first-ask-questions-never no-impulse-control 17 CHA bestie becomes one of the most detached calculating people #you've ever met. all their old casual wit and humor is still there but they think before they speak now and that really shouldnt feel as #sinister as it does. they have this look in their eye and it feels like they view everyone around them as lesser beings #not because they view other people as subhuman or worse than they are but because they view themself as something *more* #if they have any raw unfiltered emotion left you haven't seen it in weeks. there's one person(?) who gets Unrestrained Feelings privileges #and it's the fucking illithid that lives in their mind and not any of their actual non-monster normal-ish-person friends. that human #connection is fading so fast now. when did they change so much? it happened so slowly in the moment but suddenly now they seem like they #were never the person you became friends with at all #and like impulse is a pretty selfish person from the start but they *did* genuinely like and care about the rest of the party. they were #friends. and by the end of act 3 that friendship should be the deepest and most meaningful it's ever been. but. it just isn't. #so on and so forth etc etc like that. All That Bullshit makes their relationship with lae'zel so interesting (and upsetting) too #they encourage her to side against vlaakith and then they never even try to free orpheus for her and her people's sake. they never even #think about it. they never consider it as an option. they just don't care. and then they EAT HIS BRAIN. #very possibly RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER. #and she's just left adrift. a rebel with no rebellion to lead and very little hope #i'm unwell. #ok i'm done this is a silly meme post. but god i have so many thoughts i have barely been keeping contained

[haunted-xander]

Do you think Saix' emotional co-dependence started as a Nobody or did it start as human Isa and just grew to an unhealthy degree?

#i like to think it started as a human partially bc that would make the most sense to me #(as xemnas/org xiii likes to use its members established weaknesses against them and saix/isas attatchment to axel/lea would be very easy to #manipulate him) #but also it furthers the parallels between saix' jealousy and rikus arc in kh1 #which i think is fun #obviously it wouldnt have been nearly as big a problem back then as it ended up being later on #partially bc isa wouldnt have been manipulated and gaslit so much but also #bc he wouldnt really have any fuel for it like saix got #no super-important super-secret mission they have to do #no forced emotional distance #and the idea of being 'replaced' would have been much more fueled purely by anxiety than any actual possibility of happening #oh and he also would have at least one other friend (subject x) #even if its one he wouldnt be able to talk to all the time #anyway im rambling. saix/isa got fucked up bad and i hope he gets loads of therapy bc god does he need it #isa #saix #lea #axel #leaisa #akusai #it feels kinda wrong to tag their noboy names when its them as a kids #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts birth by sleep #kh #kh bbs #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

[metalgear-f-15e-tfr]

I support small fees for things that should probably be free because it keeps human refuse away. A park near where I live was once free to the public and you couldn't even drive by without seeing litter everywhere, whole park was covered in a haze of weed stick and vague booze smell, always some group of racially ambiguous 19 year olds hanging out in the parking lot scaring off the elderly. About a year ago they started charging $1 (ONE WHOLE DOLLAR) to enter and its like I moved to fucking marthas vineyard. ZERO litter, no more 24/7 skunk stank, I don't even bother locking my car half the time, you can actually see wildlife walking around in the park now, it's wonderful. I don't know what it is about literal pocket change that scares these cretins away but if that's all it takes then I'll happily spend a dollar for a few peaceful minutes at the park.

#a movie theater nearby used to show 2-3 year old kids movies for free during the summer (guess they made money on concessions) and I'd go pr #AME churches would literally bring the single mother raised little niglets in by the bus load so they could make as much noise as physicall #They started charging $1 per movie and most theaters were half empty and as peaceful as any other

[ryssbelle]

Just two kids who got left behind

So now we got Clay's side of the cave in!! He didnt really have time to process any of the emotions he was feeling due to having to immediately run for his life, then guide others to safety alongside Viva.

This was made mostly in response to this fun little tag by @zivazivc

I wasn't planning on drawing it up so soon but AUGH I had to, also ty I pride myself in drawing raw emotions

Btw I do read all the tags and comments I get on my posts I'm very happy to have crushed you all thoroughly 💖

#my art #n2 au #trolls #trolls 3 #trolls au #trolls band together #trolls clay #trolls viva #trolls john dory #im having a lot of fun #i also have like 4 or 5 mor posts locked and loaded about this au #ill probably schedule them to go out for the next few days while i work on other stuff #but ill still like answer asks #i just have been hyper fixating on this and i forgor i have another comic im supposed to be focusing on #but thats for another day #im really excited to share all the silly things ive made #theres quite a few #when i go bonkers insane about something i go #bonkers insane #my wrist hurts so bad but that will not stop me #im so much stronger than possible carpal tunnel #but yeah about little clay doh #he is not well lmao #mentally or physically #hes grieving and terrified and theres so much responsibility on his shoulders #he also feels like its his fault if JD got caught in the cave in #because if hed gone back with his brothers before the escape JD wouldnt have to go back for him #but he loves being with Viva so #its a whole mess of emotions #the reunion with his bros minus jd when they find him is going to be very different

[originalartblog]

In retrospect, Dazai telling Chuuya his hat, the anti-mind-control hat, the unlock-corruption hat, the you-are-your-own-person hat, you know, that hat, should destroy his mind and kill him, was a bit, uh. um. yeah.

#''dazai makes fun of chuuya's fashion'' vs ''the hat is one of the most loaded items in chuuya's lore'' fight #like he probably wouldn't make fun of chuuya's gloves #on the other hand chuuya is yelling at dazai that he's rotten at his core so like the girls are fighting and hitting where it hurts #and neither of them is backing down or showing weakness and i respect that in their fucked up relationship #but again that was a throwaway joke made literal years ago #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #skk #soukoku #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai osamu #bsd nakahara chuuya #bsd storm bringer #bsd stormbringer #stormbringer #nawy's comics