#and you gotta start somewhere

[starlightphil]

I love how we made all those jokes about Phil having a crisis when Dan was away, like needing to be babysat by their friends and killing all the plants, but we just got the lore drop that Phil actually had a mini crisis and started dying everything in the house green for no apparent reason?? Like Dan leaving truly made Phil so bored and/or unhinged he decided dying his bathmat green would be fun. Is Daniel Howell of all people this man’s impulse control? How many weird impulses has Dan successfully stopped? How many has he encouraged?

#dan and phil #phil lester #daniel howell #dan Howell #amazingphil #I spent far too long on this and I fear it is incoherent #but I am trying this whole making original posts thing #and you gotta start somewhere #meg speaks

[thevirgodoll]

to all of my dolls finding themselves:

originality is the "aesthetic" you are looking for. individuality is the "it factor" you are looking for. from your personality, pieces, hair, cadence of voice...even down to your favorite foods or special interests. you aren't supposed to change every aspect about yourself to be more palatable for everyone you meet. that actually makes you BORING!!!

"but so and so is doing this" "but what if people don't like it" ... so??? don't take people disliking your aesthetic as a sign that you need to do something different. like, of course they don't like it or have second thoughts - it's because THEY wouldn't do it themselves because it wouldn't go with THEIR given aesthetic. HELLOO??????

unless they are like minded, stop asking other people to weigh in on the things you CLEARLY like about yourself. especially if it's a core personality trait or interest. your LIFE isn't a group project. your LIFE is not a co-op game.

and yes... people will try to force you to assimilate and follow the crowd by speaking misfortune on your rebrand, your expression, your hobbies, your chosen path out of jealousy. however, that jealousy is lowkey unspoken respect for the fact you have the candor to go against homogeneity.

your authentic dedication to everything that makes you YOU is what will bring you the illustrious life you so fervently seek in the end...not some book a celebrity wrote or a youtube video. it's in YOUR DNA to be a star already in anything you want to do.

there isn't one tutorial on this world wide web that will help you if you don't realize you have the components within you first. there is NOTHING wrong with you!!! you are EVERYTHING that is right already!!!

NEVER conform to the way they think you should shine.

#thoughts #i cant stand seeing a pack mentality i hate seeing ppl shy out of who they are esp neurodivergents #while it is to be expected and is a result of our age group as well as cultural factors especially collectivism #i cannot help but reiterate how harmful it is for everyone to move as if they are the SAME PERSON! you are not so and so and they are not u #yall both just have the same hair or skin or smth you are still YOU hello #inspo is everything and dreams are a foundation BUT make it ur oWN #we all gotta start somewhere but golly gee! PUT THAT STUFF TO REST! #the obsession everyone has with humbling someone who is being themselves is old and tired! KEEP GOING I BELIEVE IN U DONT LISTEN TO THEM. #words i needed to hear when i was younger #ok rant over

[joenateuser]

Jacob Elordi | “Saltburn” Los Angeles premiere

#jacob elordi #watched priscilla earlier today and even more excited for saltburn #gonna ignore his comments about the kissing booth movies tho 🫠 #you gotta start somewhere lol

[ar0rin]

Baby's first traditional art

#Don't look too closely at anything featured in this image #Not really proud of it but you gotta start somewhere yk #splatoon #splatoon 3 #agent 3 #agent 8 #agent 4 #marina ida #pearlina #ar0rin

[heart-of-a-rebel16]

Do you ever think about Kallus on Lira San and then just explode

#Side note: he definitely fell into that creek 👍 #I don’t know how happy i am with this #Bc I still struggle a lot with backgrounds and textures and nature stuff #But you gotta start somewhere! #star wars rebels #swr #sw rebels #star wars #agent kallus #alexsandr kallus #star wars scribbles

[chrollohearttags]

lowkey makes me sad when people are scared to write bc they think their fics won’t get recognized bc the series/characters aren’t popular or bc they think their shit might end up in the wrong hands and somebody will make fun of them for it not being perfect. (I know how the girls get down on here). Reminder that popular characters/shows ≠ best or even a good writer. Hell, it’s some people who’s writing is only contingent upon what’s hot at the moment. Also, your first story is supposed to be bad!! Stop letting people tell you otherwise. You’re allowed to grow and mess up. You’re very much valid for wanting people to read/reblog. Nobody wants to create into a void (don’t let nobody gaslight you either). But don’t forget to write for joy and not to be liked.

#like y’all are talking about missing a fandom or characters when you can literally write it #just bc the internet’s attention span is 2 mins long means that something is dead djdjdhd #you think imma stop writing what I want cause y’all get a new flavor of the month? hell nah #cherry chats 🍒 #and when it came to my work from just a year ago #that shit was atrocious #we all gotta start somewhere baby #and it’s at our own pace #and if you think that fandom is dead or nobody will like it #I see fanarts and fics abt 16 different shows/fandoms everytime I scroll #so trust that there’s something out there for everybody

[chuckyray]

we need to bring back the concept of swinging again cause if i see one more person say the waltens and the krankens would have some sorta queer platonic polycule bullshit ill lose it.

theyre straight married suburban middle aged couples who are close friends in the 60s - 70s. they'd be swingers. that's what that would be.

#yall have so soon forgotten the concept of swinging. do midlife crisis mean nothing to you people anymore #linda left cause when she agreed to this she didnt expect felix to be the one getting fucked by jack #yall asked for my twf takes now yall gotta deal with them #charles and susan start this rumor the bosses are swingers cause they got invited over to drink one night no kids present #and the vibe was so weird they almost asked cyberfun to transfer them somewhere else #twf #the walten files

[becauseplot]

Penciled Lines

(Cross-posted on ao3, if you prefer to read it there. Reblogs still appreciated!)

Missa wakes up, and he thinks he might be doomed. This doesn’t scare him nearly as much as it should.

Missa is awake early—by his own metric, anyway. His nocturnal nature causes “early” for him to mean “early night” and not “early morning.” Regardless, “early” means that Philza is not asleep yet, still going through his nightly rituals. “Early” means that Philza is sitting up in (his? their?) the bed, pillows propped up behind him, notebook in his lap, sketching away.

And when Missa wakes up to the soft scritch-scratch of a charcoal pencil on textured paper, his forehead just so happens to be brushing Philza’s hip.

Missa can hardly breathe.

Oh no.

He knows that if he gives any indication that he is awake, Philza will stop sketching, close his notebook, shift himself over until he is politely seated on his side of the bed, and greet Missa with a friendly smile. Philza has done it before, when Missa wakes up early. That’s how Missa knows he’ll do it again.

Thus, Missa can hardly breathe—his breaths have to be the slow in-out of sleep. He can’t so much as twitch, either. He has to keep quiet and play dead or else he’ll be found out. Seen. Caught living the lie.

“Husband,” Philza calls him. They’re not married. They share a bed. They’re hardly ever in it at the same time. They have a son and a daughter. Neither of them know Missa very well. Philza has had an extra set of armor and a skull on his backpack for months, waiting for Missa. Missa doesn’t even know Philza’s last name.

Philza is a good man and a good friend—and Missa doesn't deserve him. Still, he takes what he can get. Curls around it. Hoarding every innocent kindness Philza extends like a starving creature: the generosity of a backpack fully stocked with equipment; the trust Philza places in Missa to watch the kids when he’s asleep; and now, the courtesy of not moving his hip from Missa’s forehead to ensure his “sleeping” isn’t disturbed. Missa clutches all of these little offerings in his greedy claws and hugs them into his chest, even as the guilt eats away at him.

Because, regardless of the lack of mutual feeling, he loves Philza. He loves him so, so much, and that is why he is doomed. He can’t afford to lose what little he has. He can’t cross that line. 

So Missa lies beside Philza, forehead pressed against Philza’s hip, pretending to sleep so he can imagine that they’re not just lying in bed together, but lying in bed, together; and later, when Missa truly wakes, he will sit on his side of the bed and look at Philza’s face soft with sleep and think about how lucky he is that he still has a side-of-the-bed to begin with.

Missa doesn’t mean to drift off. When it starts to happen, he’s hopelessly torn between shaking himself awake and thus giving himself away, or remaining how he is, silently fending off the inevitable. In the end, Missa clings to that scritch-scratch sound of Philza’s pencil on the paper for as long as he can before the fog at last pulls him under. 

Eventually, he dreams. In fact, he dreams of the calloused fingers he dreams of every night, hands like his own, an artist of Death, cradling and shading the contours of his face—a softness dashing charcoal across his jaw, and over his cheekbones, and perhaps on his lips, too, if he’s lucky. Defining every edge of him.

~*~

A deep sigh. Phil stops sketching as Missa shifts in his sleep. He tilts his head up so that the tip of his nose is now just nearly brushing against Phil’s hip. The motion disturbs the wild splay of his dark hair, revealing more of his face: eyelashes, cheeks, warmth. Tender blush of something Stygian and otherworldly. New.

Phil’s lips tilt upwards. He turns to a fresh page, and he starts again.

#qsmp #pissa #qsmpshipping #qsmp missa #qsmp philza #i hesitate to put main character tags bc it's shipping content but i think we're all p much okay with that?? we chill??? we chill thumbsup #my fics #ficlet #anyway would you believe me if i told you this took me a week to write. hhourgh. #i'll prolly make small edits as time goes by if i dont scrap this version entirely. #i really like it rn but we'll see how i feel abt it in like a couple hours or a day. the sheer number of times ive rewritten this hhhhh. #this little character/relationship study is primarily for me to try to work them out in my head. #so if this doesnt quite hit the exact vibe you know why. #im still getting acquainted w missa's character but i gotta start somewhere ya know #i didnt actually get to explore missa's feelings of inferiority as much as i wanted to but thats bc i found trying to tackle that As Well- #-as everything else saddled the fic/setting w too many Things and made it cumbersome and muddied the story being told. #so another time perhaps. #anyway i adore them. beloveds.

[knifearo]

reblog a post about aromanticism and it'll feed you for a day. make a post about aromanticism and you'll get mind-numbingly amatonormative comments for a lifetime

#not even like. people being stupid about aromanticism in general. #just like... #post about 'hey platonic and romantic love are not significantly different' getting a response that's like #'yeah stories about family relationships are important too!!!' #ma'am you are seventeen steps behind where i needed you to be to comprehend this post in the first place. #like you're Right but we're past that we're talking about deconstructing that binary entirely not reinforcing it #while ALSO simplifying it down to platonic as equivalent to familial... #like i'm sure at the point in everybody's life where they are responding to me #the concepts that they're pulling out are revolutionary. everyone's gotta start somewhere. #but being at 'romantic love is not more important than familial' when i'm at 'the different 'types' of love is an outdated construct'... #i need to make that series of aro theory posts Immediately i'm going to go insane #aromantic #aromanticism #aspec #talking

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

forgot to say this earlier but

HAPPY PI DAY!!

was gonna send a lil thing out to each and every moot in their inbox but I figured it'd be a better idea to just split the pie and tag all of you guys right here if that's alright!

@itsberrydreemurstuff, @sunnyys-jarss, @archangel-fucking-judas, @capring, @pointyfruit, @bibooby, @friskheart000, @sleepyjuniper, @saltyfryz, @artoutoftheblue, @starheirxero, @sipnoot, and everyone else!

#personal #random #pi day #silly stuff #sorry if you guys didn't wanna be tagged! #i know i don't know all of you very well but i figured we gotta start somewhere and pie seems like a good place to do so! #anyways yea! #three point one four one five nine two six five three five eight nine seven nine three two three eight four six two six four three three! #eight two seven nine fiiiiive #ehehe

[cottoncandysprite]

Just got into hozier over the winter and now here I am spending all my birthday money on two of his vinyls (one of which included a cd) and listening to unheard on loop tor days on end

#listen i gotta start my vinyl collection somewhere #self titled and unreal unearth i love you so so so much <3 #now i just gotta find wasteland baby and finish the collection #ramblies #music #hozier

[mirick-vn]

Fleeting Innocence.

#finally finished my wip #does it look good? #please tell me it looks good #im rusty #its been years since i actually colored my drawibgs #well you gotta start somewhere... #can you tell im supposed to make the astermite flowers glow?? 😭😭 #yknow what maybe if im feeling it i'll redraw this again in a few months or so #that's a lie #vanitas no carte #vnc fanart #vnc #the case study of vanitas #memoir of vanitas #noé archiviste #dominique de sade #there's #dominoé #if you squint #they're so small #fanart #my art

[feluka]

GPS lady on google maps in this country is like:

turn left at a̷̢͔̬̓̈́̿͐b̸̡̖͗̅̅̌a̵̩̘̳̾͝a̸̢̛͓̒̾̕s̵̛̲l̸̠̟̇à̸̰q̸̖̲̜͑͌̚̕ͅǎ̴̜a̷͙͂d̵̗̘͛͝ street 😊

#PLEASE there's gotta be a voice model that can speak arabic street names #one of the funniest interactions i had with a taxi driver earlier was #when i asked to go somewhere and he said 'i don't know where that is but i heard these days the phone can tell you how to get anywhere!!' #and he was so excited about it and asked me to try it with him (he was an adorable old man lol) so i set the location on my phone #and the lady started talking and i said 'i'll translate ok?' and he was like 'ok ^_^' #but every time she spoke and he said 'what did she just say??'i would be like i don't know.. that's scary... #fortunately i understand the words 'left' and 'right' so that was enough to direct us the right way #(plus i read the street names myself off the map) so we got there #he was so excited and fascinated with technology god bless him!!

[winged-wheel]

I haven't really tried doing much traditional art in ACTUAL years at this point, but UTY has so much unbridled passion that it's really made me want to break out of that rut. Here's the result of a couple hours I guess!

#undertale yellow #uty #uty fanart #uty chujin #uty ceroba #uty starlo #uty martlet #ceroba and chujin are A Little Goofy Lookin but you gotta start somewhere #ADHD bird girlfailure my beloved #starlo's mouth shape in his default face sprite is a very subtle shape which was interesting to try and draw

[bearotonin-international]

we have existential tuesday, wet beast wednesday, thinky thoughts thursday, salmon slammin saturday, polar bear sunday... what about fierce beast friday

We’re trying to respond to this diplomatically, but. Mate. Are you seriously forgetting

Fat Bear Friday

?!?!??!!??!???

#rude #Ursula is so disappointed in you anon #how dare you disrespect her like this #fat bear Friday #a true staple of our bear programming content #C’mon bro #Don’t disrespect fat bear friday like this #getting a jump start on fat bear Friday content because #it’s Fat Bear Friday somewhere #we are international afterall #gotta respect the time zones #the team is on some real bullsh*t tonight #the team is so sleep deprived #the team is incoherent #the team wants to sleep #so so badly #can someone please please please just let the team sleep #please #we are literally begging #the team probably should not be allowed to post when tired #the team gets extra neurodivergent when no sleep #¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[unsanctitude]

various women designed for funsies who knows what ill do with them :)

#porcupine may be in same universe as alpaca hands the other two each have their own scenarios in my head atm #the deer was a human cab driver and she hit a deer and ummm woke up like that #mermaid is a pollution enthusiast who is also secretly a prototype design for a char in a dream game i wanna make lol #gotta start somewhere #anyway look at the funny animals i hope you enjoy them #feels nice to design things that are completely mine #my art #ocs #character design #seal #deer #porcupine #furry #anthro #monster #mermaid #TW: #blood #wounds