#and now i can be a bit more realistic

[kaatiba]

i have finally created a spreadsheet to track my expenses, savings, bills, spending, and financial goals like an adult.

....i hate it.

#its super depressing to see how much i spend on non necessities lol #i cannot conceptualize amounts or costs in my head AT ALL #so tho its awful to face reality this also really helps #and now i can be a bit more realistic #and work with how i spend to get to where i wanna be #i gotta cut down on spending a bit but also gotta be realistic about how i am with money esp with eating out and stuff #the eating out can just be....slimmed #while the shopping definitely needs to be under more control #funny bc i never considered myself a shopper haha #i am JUST BARELY living within my means #also i dont know how ppl are surviving earning what i earn? #like if i had to pay the avg amount of rent id be DROWNING #and need to get MULTIPLE jobs #not just one plus a side hustle #i'd need to be working full time AND part time somewhere somehow #and thats not even adding a CAR and all associated expenses #makes my heart hurt just to think about it #anyway end rant lol #kaatiba.speaks

[aurorangen]

How was Felix's case going? Not good. Their current tactics in exploiting the scammers were not enough for the court. From their sources, the Sterling-Ricos had hacked into the bank organisation to steal Felix's money. Apparently, the bank had a request to fortify their system security from any tech company and since Isaac was a certified ethical hacker, he secured the job before anyone else! Through this method, he also found concrete evidence to end the scammers! He looked up after learning of the new data...

"I found something." All his new findings were enough for legal proceedings on their half, but there was also evidence concerning corruption or money laundering schemes...meaning the Sterling-Rico family could be connected to something bigger.

"Let's transfer this over to detectives, it's not something of our scope," Vincent thought. "Good job Isaac, I'm glad you spotted this."

With Isaac as his right-hand man, Vincent believes they could take on anything. "Anyway, where'd you learn how to hack?" he was curious. "Oh, I took some cybersecurity classes during law school. More hard work and now here I am, eyes as sharp as an eagle," Isaac joked around with his nickname back then. Vincent laughed and sat down, "Lucky you're on our side with that!"

Isaac took off his glasses and chuckled, "Heh, they don't call me Eagle Eyes for nothing."

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #postcard legacy #postcard gen 3 #vincent kingsley #isaac kingsley #pam thawatchai #i just noticed isaacs wearing eyeliner lmao #isaac wearing glasses something i wanted to see 😏 so attractive #vincents old office was a bit beige so i gave it a new makeover!! #and hell yeah they finally got that evidence for court and now to win! #the amount of research im doing for story 😂 like im researching law/detective stuff making things kind of accurate #but its sims doesnt have to be 100% realistic so making own twists #also i feel i can be more descriptive like this instead of writing dialogue in the pics! love using both methods for dialogue

[blyszczopies]

the sparkledog of the family

#in my lore they all can transform fully into quadruped wolves but they dont do that often because it is Especially Painful because #of how anatomy has to be extremely altered #but for the sake of exaggerating how ridiculous rozkurw looks when compared to literally everyone else. regular wolves it is #i mean none of them is 100% realistic wolf. they keep their piercings and glasses and such #fiona has small anime fringe. małgo has a bit more dog-like features because shes kinda like an akita to me #man i wanna make an infographic on my werewolf lore theres quite a lot of it. and also proper refs for all the 3000 with lots of info #that most would find unnecessary lol #my art #3000 #rory oaklow #<- posting this to the tag idgaf. barely any original drawings happening in there #i do still check it every now and then. love u rory #the sims 4 werewolves #the 3000 the most important sims 4 werewolves. to me. and to yall also

[retros-artandstuff]

homestuck doodle dump

#eugh theyre so silly #omg i just found out that theres a tag limit of 30 per post. like wow i did not know that. so yeah i gotta stop pausing for effect in my #tags and instead start putting everything in these big fucking paragraphs. 😭😭 either that or stop tag rambling but like lets be realistic #here lmao #eugh it looks like so much more now that its in big chunks why do i talk so much 😭😭 what the hell. ok anyways this is my first time #drawing feferi like ever i thinks. pretty cool shes very fun i likes her. i might change my design for her a bit tho. that can be said for #like any hs character tho like just in general. still getting a feel for them dhgsjabaja. but yeah anyways moving onto the actually tags no #my art #doodles #traditional art #fanart #homestuck fanart #homestuck #dave strider #kanaya fanart #gamzee fanart #karkat fanart #feferi fanart #sollux fanart #alpha dave strider #bro strider #omg this is my first time posting my latest kk design. look at that little guy hes so funny.

[princekirijo]

POINTS ‼️‼️NEW RIKU ICON‼️ REAL‼️ GRAHHHHH HE LOOKS AWESOME 🔥🔥🔥

Ahh thank you Misty :3c

Here is the uh full icon for those who want to see it properly 👉👈

He's my silly little goose :3 my funny boy

Also uhm a bonus and a little lore drop I'd planning to make for a while undercut ehe

Tada this is Riku's actual eye colour! Much similar to Mitsuru's :3 He wears eye contacts throughout a lot of Captain AU's story and if you ask him why he will give you a different answer every time ehe

#asks #misty-wisp #riku kirijo #oc tag #i cant believe im doing this lmao #but if im gonna do it ill do it scared #but tada riku's official look!! #well aside from teh outfit i'll explain that in a bit #but i can safely say i am 100% happy with this design now :3c #his outfit is kinda what im thinking he'd wear in the catt au! he refuses to wear the actual gekkoukan uniform so hes gonna wear the varsit #jacket instead! <- 100% my personal bias for the jacket i own it and its the most comfortable thing i own #and the ring has lore but eh i wont go into it now #i was gonna post the full doodle page but u know what baby steps #and yeah lmaooo riku actually has brown eyes surprise #the actual reason for the contacts thing is because i couldn't pick between the two eye colours i really like both #but brown eyes is more realistic so its his true look ehe #and uhm yeah idk what i was doing with the expression but nico pointed out it looks like one of yukari's sprites LMAO #unintentional on my part but he is a mama's boy #depnding on how this goes ill post the rest of the doodles #but wow can u guys believe the last time i posted proper art was 2021 #not including the lil character bio sheet i did in 2022 that was a lil doodle #but ehm nico said my arts improved and my gf is always praising my art so im uhm gonna share #i need a new art tag tbfh

[designernishiki]

just a thought but like. if akiyama, who’s established as being a bizarrely talented investigator in y5, suspected kiryu’s death to have been faked (or at least “fishy” in his own words) basically on the fucking Spot, i feel like it just makes sense that majima would’ve been just as quick, if not quicker to see where shit wasn’t adding up and become skeptical that the whole thing was a coverup. reason being, in y5 he put shit together and figured out the grand scheme going on so damn early most people didn’t even suspect yet that there was any scheme going on. he then faked his own death well enough to get it in the papers and had masterminded himself all the way to the final boss (with some help of course) before things backfired on him. so he’s got some crazy good skills when it comes to reading people, figuring out their intentions, putting puzzle pieces together, etc– way better than he wants people knowing, generally– and he knows the hallmark signs of a faked death because he’s literally done it before. all that on top of knowing kiryu like the back of his hand and knowing damn well how hard this man is to kill, and how prone to running away from shit for the sake of the safety of people he cares about (for better or for worse) he is. he could absolutely put together that, if given the opportunity by some faction or powerful individual, kiryu would sacrifice his identity and status as a legit living person for the assured safety of others, or for yakuza tensions to diminish, or maybe even as an act of self-flagellation.

tldr: I think the reasons majima didn’t go rogue/apeshit after kiryu’s alleged death are that A) for once he has saejima around to reign him in and make it feel less like Everything has been lost, B) I think he’s legitimately known pretty much all along that kiryu didn’t die that day; nor would he believe it unless he saw it with his own eye.

#however. I also think it would clash with his tendency to be way more cynical and nihilistic than his persona makes him seem #like I do think he’d be pretty fucking sure in his gut And with his logic that kiryu wasn’t dead #but there’d be a pesky depressive part of him that’d scold him for being too idealistic or hopeful in a world that’s so fond of #torturing him. he doesn’t think himself Lucky to say the least. but if he held out hope for saejima while he was on death row for literally #years and saejima did make it back to him in one piece eventually– he’d have some ammo to reason with himself if that makes sense #that + I feel like saejima upon hearing him spiral into supposedly ‘realistic’ nihilism would Strongly reassure him #via reminding him that HE made it back to majima in the end. and that saejima himself knows from experience what a faked death feels like #and how holding onto hope Can in fact be fruitful in the end. overall a bad time for majima after kiryu’s fake death obviously but #he’d be surprisingly stable with all that going for him. makes me think he and saejima would really be the ones keeping daigo from falling #apart. considering he doesn’t have basis for the kind of hope they’re capable of having. almost everyone important to daigo dies eventually #his dad. mine right in front of him. now kiryu. boy must have abandonment issues off the damn charts. #I also like to think he hung around shinada a bit after that incident to just have Something good and pure in his life occasionally. but #he’d be cautious and occasional about it out of fear that he’d ruin shinada’s life or cause him trouble #anyway. many thoughts about all this. they didn’t dive nearly enough into the old guard characters’ reactions to kiryu’s ‘death’ so. yeah #rambling #y6 #majima #kazumaji

[chipjrwibignaturals]

I have a chronic illness called “unable to pick up a game again mid-game” that prevents me from actually playing persona 5 (the game with a 10 hour long tutorial)

#to be fair I think in THIS case it’s a bit more choice paralysis #iirc i JUST finished madarame’s palace but its near the end of that Chunk of Time #and between being low on guts and finishing it late meaning I couldn’t get the teachers confidant sooner #(or now bc see above. low guts.) #it’s just made me like. YOUVE FUCKED THIS. START OVER. #but I’m like!!!!!!!! 20 something hours in or whatever!!!!! #I KNOW the realistic answer is ‘not everyone can somehow 100% the game on the first playthrough and p5r has NG+’ #that I should just continue On and if I rlly wanna make up for that I can do a Second Playthrough but. !!!!!!!! no!!!!!! #idk maybe I’ll start a second save file and we’ll See #I wish you could rb w polls at Least on your own posts I wanna make Yall decide for me HFKDBN

[xhanisai]

I do kind of feel a bit spoilt with how the fandom pre-pandemic would share my work easily (fics getting hundreds and even thousands of notes on tumblr and on AO3 immediately and arts getting thousands of notes too). Back then, my work was so eUGH compared to the work I create now which is so much more polished and well thought out.

And now? It’s such a struggle for my art to reach even a hundred notes on this app alone and my fics take a long time to accumulate some attention on ao3. At first I thought it was because my creations have gotten WORSE lol but then I realised it’s been happening to all my friends too online.

Kinda sad tbh.

#delete later #i know that X amount of likes or notes on work doesn't necessarily mean that it's great quality #but i like seeing and knowing that people out there on the internet are enjoying what i put out #and i want more people to see what i can do if that makes sense? #my mentality is a little fucked right now because in the past i created mainly for me and i enjoyed what i did to an extent #but now i'm at that stupid stage where i hate everything i draw and get bored of my own writing and i don't like that #so validation online sort of helps with that mentality to go away #i can't keep up with internet art trends to get the attention on my work that i want that is not a realistic and healthy way of life #and i refuse to touch any salt or negativity in the ml fandom just to get the hivemind to find my work #my most popular work on ao3 is only popular because of lila karma and that makes me so mad because i write 100000x better than that LMAO #but people just wanna see a 14 yr old italian nightmare girl get expelled from school over and over again and i'm just tired af of it #as for art with twitter it's a bit of a russian roulette #you don't know what will be a banger and what won't unless you pay special attention or have a decent following or are always grinding #i don't think my art is for tumblr #i do appreciate the few people who always love and reblog it but i've always known from the start that my art isn't what would be popular #on this hellsite #oh well it is what it is #also don't worry i'm never gonna stop drawing nor am i ever gonna stop writing those two are literally my only outlets of my life #and the only way i can get emotions and feelings out of my body without exploding #and i am still madly in love with ML and will always be obsessed with it #i just miss how the prepandemic fandom would interact with my work and let me know what they thought and all the asks they sent about the #aus i created #it was a good period on this hellsite for me

[alangdorf]

Had Traitor Magolor almost done except for the legs too, lol. My brush settings were way better on this one; I just did the coloring process kinda backwards and was really stubborn about not pulling it into csp to make the EX recolor better, but I still like the results ok. And I’m including a rainbow version of the background I made but didn’t end up committing to both to shorten the post and because I think it’s funny. Bisexual Flag Guy in the Gay Dimension

#art #digital #kirby #magolor #kirby gijinka #tumblr is letting me add alt text on desktop this time phew #so yeah I added in my light sources and background at the end as usual but on this one you can really tell they had no effect on the shading #usually I don't do strong in-frame light sources and like. environments #I could've messed with it more and redone a bunch of the shading but I'm just ready to be done with it #the skirt looks a little too short here but I'm just not great at drawing it riding up realistically #too much 3d thinking #I just wanted to show off the legs #though the magic circle covers up the upper one a bit lol #This is the end of my backlog but not the end of the Magolor gijinka drawings. Apologies or congratulations #I'm really mentally ill about him right now and it's like a Problem #wait is it only letting me do captions on desktop?? is there a difference? I thought alt text would let me do way more characters #whatever #I usually post from drawings directly from my laptop so I don't have to deal with discord compression but this is so bothersome

[brawlqueen]

Stolen from: very talented : @sins-of-the-sea / @immy-ooc ! 🐇

USE LETTERS FROM YOUR MUSES FIRST NAME TO DESCRIBE THEIR PERSONALITY.

Mature

Intelligent

Zealous

Unafraid

Kind

Independent.

tagging: @zelotae @nostomannia @godfrey-industries @bonescribes @dnangelic @thebreakfastmuses @musekaiplex @psychcdelica @hopefromadoomedtimeline @saizansha @shatteredwastes @stellarhistoria @nulltune @auburniivenus @sheyearns @sinplly @cosmicdreamt + anyone who wants to !

#she's v zealous about anyone bullied / oppressed / lgbtq+ basically anyone who suffers her goal i think in life really rn is just #to prevent a lot of suffering within a realistic sphere #i love how mizuki sincerely says she'd fly to anyone who was hurting and give them a hug then beat the 'bastard who made them hurt' #she's such a protector and uh can back it tf up #super passionate about loving who unlocks her heart and protecting and encouraging. but also realistic and blunt and can be moody. #also the insane trauma kinda . . . yeah. #i highly rec og ai1 to get an idea of mizuki ! #she's a bit more cheerful now but still . . . #𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒 *ೃ༄ “you wanna fight? bring it on!” #𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘*ೃ༄ and this line is your path & this cross is your heart. #𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌𝐒 *ೃ༄ all bite; all might; all heart. #i love my demi-pan girl she has lots of love and lots of rage and lots of uh ... mascots ! yea. #Q.

[hoperays-song]

Johnny’s Money

Can we look at the money we see Johnny have in Sing 2? 

One, his wallet is literally falling apart at the seams which supports my last theory. Two, the money in his wallet in the above picture is wrinkled to all get out, the money he places on the table is very much not. 

That stood out to me in particular because we know the money on the table is $50, all in smaller bills by the looks of it, so it’s not money from a heist (especially with those being so long ago), and it’s more than likely not how he gets paid for his work at the theatre. No theatre as successful as the New Moon Theatre would be paying their employees in small bills, so why does he have so many in such good condition?

The money still in his wallet appears to be two small bills, a $20 and a $5(?) and are pretty wrinkled. They look like they might be change due to how fast they appear to have been shoved in the wallet and since Johnny just bought a skateboard, that’s what I’m going with. The money he probably used to buy that skateboard was more than likely his own from working at the theatre, and he probably withdrew it from his bank account before the trip to avoid losing his credit/debit card (the boy grew up in major cities and keeps his wallet in the inside pocket of his jacket, he’s all too aware of pickpockets).

Now on to the theory. The fact that all the clean, unwrinkled money is exactly $50 stood out to me. It seemed like an oddly specific amount to mention, so I looked it up. And it turns out that buses between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the real world base locations of Redshore and Calatonia, can range from $25 to $60. Johnny might have some money he’s found or been given by Rosita or Buster during the trip, but it definitely wouldn’t be $50 worth, and would likely look more like the crumpled bills still hastily shoved in his wallet. So who would have given him money, a fair bit of money to be honest here, in neat, clean bills? 

Well it’s obvious, Marcus would. Johnny and his family don’t have a ton of money in Sing 2, more than in the first movie to be fair, but still nowhere near the “$50 being play money” mark. They would more than likely be overly careful with their money, keeping it in good condition so there’s no chance of it being rejected for being a damaged bill (yes, that can happen), so the neatness of the bills would make sense. 

Therefore, my theory is: Marcus gave his son enough money to make sure he could get home if he needed to. He made sure Johnny had an out if need be, could afford a bus ticket even if it was a more expensive one. And judging by the family’s rough finances, that was probably all the spare money they had laying around. That was what they had left from costumers after bills had been payed and he gave it all to Johnny just in case he needed it.

#sing #sing 2 #sing johnny #sing marcus (only mentioned) #in today's episode of Gooseless vastly overthinking things #if y'all had the patience to read through all of that you're a saint #i can just picture marcus driving johnny to the bus station that night and pressing the money into his hand when johnny went to get out #johnny would definitely protest but marcus would insist that it's just in case and to ease his dad's mind a bit #it ended up coming in handy #marcus got another kid out of it #and johnny got a sibling #ok let's be realistic here #johnny's family is probably one of the poorest in both movies only being above buster (Sing 1) and Nooshy (Sing 2) #they're doing better in sing 2 but that's because all 4 of them have well paying jobs now and nana payed off their debt #i'm very sleep deprived #i'll edit more in the morning #I know most of these are headcannons #i probably should have said that earlier but oh well

[hajihiko]

You can correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding, your current brainrot is supportive found family platonic soulmates who have been through thick and thin together with hints of something more affectionate beneath the surface?

So basically, like usual your brainrot is just your version of the Dr2 survivors XD

YEAH.... it just flares up sometimes lmao. Like a disease

#I think that's been my shit for a long time but I'm understanding it and myself a bit more every day #It's just!!! Has anyone ever truly described how it feels. When someone is in your entire heart #I dont think that's a thing you can summarize and so I must suffer #Also I will unapologetically say my version of the sdr2 survivors is my own fantasy and I wont even apologise #I do NOT care how realistic or canon or accurate it is this is MY AU now and I will goddamn beat it to death like a horse verbatim #Not an art

[illogicalvulcans]

one of my little rituals after i beat cazador is i make sure to have one of my high strength companions tag along to pick up his and godey and dufay's bodies and drop them right up on the top of the bright sunny rampart so they can rot in the sun forever while my dear friend astarion lives a happy life <3

#realistically should i have risked this fight on honour mode: no #in my heart can i leave it alone and know that astarion will be hunted forever if i don't: also no #so we risked it :) #his fuckin miasma aura though???? holy fuck it drained like half of my tav's health in ONE round b4 i got shadowheart close enough w the la #lathander mace to trigger his sunlight sensitivity #but we all lived :) yay :) #and now he is just a big ol burnt crisp :) #i'm now debating if i attempt finishing off shadwoheart's quest but. um. #even in NOT honour mode that final fight for her companion quest was fuckin SCARY #so i think i need to recon a bit more on a tactician level campaign and figure out a strategy #illogical rambles

[exopelagic]

sudden realisation that the thing holding my art back is that I never had an anime phase

#going to find a time machine and get my younger self into death note or smth #I have been driving myself insane for the past few years bc I wanna draw characters but all I know how to do is portraits #I’m trying to figure out how I could recreate smth similar now and tragically I think it does just come down to draw more :/ #however! I am also going to try using brushes which will be bad for sketchiness and better for lineart bc I might need to force myself here #I just gotta simplify things down to basic shapes how hard can it be #[has been thinking this exact thing for years and it’s not worked] #I am getting better every time I do stuff I’m just not satisfied bc art is frustrating when you know what you want but can’t get there #god it’s 2am I should not be awake rn but I could draw again tonight so I was taking advantage #endlessly frustrated by hair. why is it so awkward. I need to understand hair better how do I do this #i have a feeling it’s bc I’ve not figured out how to apply the shit I figured out abt volume yet #I’m also getting impatient bc I’ve been trying to do a study thing for some art styles but I decided I wanted to draw ocs instead of that #when I hadn’t gotten to the actually important bit which was. making smth new. but I can still do that #and I ended up doing a different style anyway (someone pls stop me rounding everything make me use high opacity square brush for my health) #the Other problem is I never wanna switch brushes. like I want to use one brush for whole drawing bc the extra clicks annoy me #I wonder if there’s a shortcut to swap brushes #anyway I’m gonna stop complaining bc drawing is fun but god I wish I’d drawn some more pokey mans when I was a teenager yknow #ideally younger. would rlly like to not have to actually think to figure this out rn #I’m probably overthinking stuff anyway honestly and I KNOW I’ll get it if I practice enough but goddamn it is hard to practice #especially when my me insists on making the bad things look better by making it more realistic #instead of figuring out why the shapes aren’t working #OKAY IM DONE WITH THIS NOW. GONNA TRY NEW ART THINGS LATER STOP TALKING <3 #luke.txt

[volfoss]

sincerely i think the worst part of having bjds of different sizes and styles is you will get a guy bc u think he looks nice and then you realize his head is massive and doesnt mesh with ANY of your other guys...

#twist rambles #^guy that finally reached out to doa members to be like hi. HELP PLEASE. bc like... i dont normally have realistic sculpts so its really #scary for me. but its something where i think id like to umm. do a slightly different faceup than what i tried w him last time. bc hes a #robot to me. so i want to have the circuit boards and stuff showing. initially i wanted half his face to look like that but now im like... #small sections would look rly good of like. tiny bits of the skin peeling off to reveal circuitry. if that makes sense. but also its so so #hard for me as a guy w shaky handsssss augh #like. hes 70 cm tall and JACKED. and my other biggest doll is 68cm and pretty sldner so its so scary. this also reminds me i need to keep #wiping the old faceup/body paint off my other doll so i can like. well. make a silly b.lack jac.k doll ok :3 but i gotta get references too #hmm. much to do. but anyways. its so scary idk his eyes are a lot smaller bc his features are more realistic so like. im very scared about #it bc i just. yeah. its very different to my other guys bc like... i prefer a slightly less realistic doll. so its so scary. but i fell in #love w his face and his body ohhhh god yall dont even KNOW how bad and how much work thats gonna be. beautiful jacked so.nic the hed.gehog #body <- due to the fact he is blue. only partially tho. which is why im doing circuitry. bc i then dont have to um... wipe the 5 billion #spots of paint off. sorry thsi is so rambly in the tags but. its so scary for me #bjdposting

[rosicheeks]

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#I JUST WANT MY OWN PLACE AND A FUR BABY #really really want a dog but I feel like a cat is more realistic for an apartment especially #anyway #just wondering #could rent ya know #go down a little bit please? #I’m so sick of studios being $1500+ and then they don’t even fucking include utilities half of the time #so who wants to get a place together? #I feel like life would be a whole lot easier if I had friends so I could just find a place with them but nooooooooooooooooooooo #tempted to look into loans but I have no clue how they work or where to even start #doubt I’d even get anything tbh #no credit cause my dad always told me credit cards are evil and like bro I get it but I also kinda need them so I can build credit????????? #idk idk idk I’m just grumpy #I’m sick of the life I’m living #I miss being able to chill and relax and do my hobbies…. don’t remember the last time I painted…. maybe a year now? #hopefully I’ll find a full time job that pays incredibly well and I’ll be able to get my own place and start living my life again #but until then I’m just kinda stuck #I feel trapped #I feel like I have no path and I’m just sitting in darkness #I’m sorry to anyone who has messaged or snapped me or reached out in any way - I’m struggling a lot right now #happy holidays and happy new year to anyone who sent me something as always I love you all and I appreciate all the support #I just feel numb and I don’t feel like rosie right now #been very very sex repulsed so that might be way I’ve been taking a break from here #like I want touch and I want love but the thought of sex or anything like that makes me want to throw up? idk it’s super weird #gotta get up in the morning and go to my nieces bday party - she’s turning 2! so you know what that means? #a whole bunch of other little screaming tots 🙃🙃🙃🙃 and a bunch of people I don’t know #wohoooooooooooo #gonna delete in a hot minute #so enjoy a Rosie post since I have been away for awhile #shut up rosie