#but also not really

[magicalboycupid]

Oh my god!! It’s Jerma985 and his best friend forever Hatsune Miku!!! :D!! They are such good friends :)

#my art #I literally learned a new shading technique to draw this #sorry to out myself finally as a jerma fan 😔 #but also not really #jerma985 #Jerma #Hatsune miku #miku

[sillysnaily]

RAVAGERS MY BELOVED

#sillysnail art #sillysnail sketches #hermitcraft #sorta #ravager #decked out 2 #pumpkin the ravager #tango’s cough the ravager #i just love ravagers alright #ravagers #art #sketch #DO2 spoilers #but also not really #DO2

[lovetals]

slight warning about spoilers for the fontaine update, mainly just about neuvillette so like be warned ig—but anyways—

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you know how ppl say dragons hoard treasure and shit and will gift them to the one they love as a way to ask them out? and and you know how it’s basically canon that neuvillette is the hydro dragon??

cause i just recently had a dream where neuvillette keeps dropping his trinkets into the tip jar at your work and you and your coworkers have no idea what the hell those things are

you find so many things; small charms, tiny gems, rings—literally anything precious-looking will show up in that jar by the end of your shift, yet none of you know what to do with them

meanwhile neuvillette is just rushing out of the cafe/restaurant/shop/whatever with shaky hands and a fast beating heart. his mind keeps racing with thoughts overlapping one another with various questions like “will you like it?��, “was he being too bold?”, etc.

it’s not until he runs into someone (like furina or a melusine) that they point out 2 major flaws in his plan: did you even know that he’s the one leaving them behind? and did you know that they were meant to be gifts for you?

just just someone plz say they understand where i’m getting at here my brain has become dumb

#OH MY GOD AND IMAGINE THE MELUSINES HELPING OUT TOO #THEY START LEAVING TRINKETS BEHIND TOO AS A WAY TO HELP DIRECT YOU TO HIM #i just ugh #i love him so much #i’m def losing 50/50 but i will cry if i don’t gain him or wriotheslay TwT #imagine furina telling him that his plans sucks outside and immediately the two get drenched in rain 💀 #plume rambles #but also not really #genshin #genshin impact #neuvillette fluff #neuvillette #neuvillette x reader #neuvillette x you #genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #genshin imagines #genshin fluff #genshin impact fluff #genshin x you #genshin headcanons #x reader

[kkomsed]

The Harbinger and The Dragon (full comic)

tumblr gets the compiled version, hello hello, hope y’all like (somewhat) resolved angst.

full poem 💥:

In the eye of a hurricane, silence reigns.

For just a moment, a steady heartbeat.

And a question is whispered, but still heard clear:

“Oh, my old friend….

How did we get here?”

#lego monkie kid #lmk mk #lmk mei #lmk fanart #monkie kid fanart #comic art #comics #short comic #season 5 #crack theory #but also not really #kkomsed draws

[sandstworm]

random cherik sketch for setting up tablet purposes

#poto #poto 1990 #phantom of the opera #erik carriere #this style won't last for long honestly #also i'm totally not posting this to make up for how long i'm taking on the scene redraw i'm working on #i kiiinda hate how terribly long my rendering process takes #but also not really #it's a hate-love relationship #and tbf i AM quite rusty at art #so there's that

[froschli96]

If this isn’t setting up Aziraphale learning to actually say the words "I love you" to a certain someone in season 3 then what are we even doing here?

yes, he can’t return the sentiment here bc it’s gabriel obviously but it still feels like he balks specifically at the "love" part. I’m in my delulu era, just let me have this

#good omens #good omens 2 spoilers #aziraphale #archangel gabriel #ineffable husbands #go meta #if wishful thinking counts as meta #im mostly joking #but also not really #like #why does gabriel use those words specifically #gomens tv

[disfrutalakia]

Cc!Forever hates us saying that he knows that the 4halo shippers like to suffer and to see their cubitos on a grey zone in terms of relationship, in his words it makes us stronger.

I hate him I want him to shut up

#qsmp #liveblogging #qsmp forever #4halo #like kinda #but also not really #mostly just mentioned

[blood-orange-juice]

ok so ive never properly played genshin and don’t plan to but i know a bit about it’s lore and characters and i think it’s really neat. however i have thousands of hours on ffxiv. on that note please explain why graha and childe are similar. i only have very basic knowledge on childe and i gotta know

Fellow ffxiv enjoyer. <3

(anyone asking me about G'raha has a 100% chance of getting a wall of text and I'm not apologising for that. enjoy your wall of text)

I'm not entirely sure I'm not a case of a person with a hammer to whom everything resembles a nail, but I do think they are the same archetype.

Sweet characters who could have been perfect sidekicks (who still are perfect sidekicks) but listened to too many epic tales as kids and found themselves in a wrong place at a wrong time and now have to play a key role in some universe-changing story.

Both are defined mostly by their stubborness, they are not very suitable for the roles they've chosen and fail over and over again until they do it somewhat right (barely).

No matter how badass they look, their power is not their own, G'raha is a glorified technician of someone else's miracle and little else than a living key, Childe wields an art of old Khaenri'ah without fully understanding it. It's all borrowed from someone else who needed them to achieve a goal.

They do look badass, but mostly because they larp. I'm honestly not sure which one enjoys theatrics more.

Civilisations that created the magic they use specialised in perversion of the natural order of things. They try to use it in relatively noble ways and mostly hurt themselves but the flavour is there.

Both are unbelievably tragic and both somehow make their stories seem almost lighthearted. Complete absense of self-pity. I think that's what makes them both so charming, it's a rare trait.

Both have an incredible capacity for loyalty and love and an incredibly twisted view of what relationships look like. "I'll cross time and space for you, I'll die for you, I'll build a city for you, I'll live for you but please don't ask me to share my plans." "I'll sacrfice my own health and respect of my subordinates to keep my brother's happyness, probably my humanity too, but don't expect me to actually interact with him."

Both have something that looks like self-sacrificial tendencies bordering on suicidality while being, if we are honest, a self-serving trait (partially born out of low self-esteem but still self-serving). They want to live in an old myth and sacrificing oneself is a perfectly reasonable price for that.

Huge egos. And I mean Huge Egos. It's a bit less obvious in Graha's case but I know the type, you see guys like that in PhD programs a lot.

Huge dorks. Both of them.

Both are stuck somewhere between human and non-human and, hmm... their ability to remain human is the most astonishing quality of both. By all accounts, neither should have. They somehow did.

Both are incapable of lying to the point where a third of each fandom headcanons them as autistic. Both are somewhat all right with tricking people without technically lying (although Childe had more practice).

Both are secretive because no one would understand anyway.

FF XIV is a kinder story, so it's easy to overlook, but technically G'raha is a case of body horror, accepts the role of a villain for a while and hides from the player way too much. Hmmm... Where else have I seen it. Hmm. Oh right. That ginger guy from Genshin.

Minor things:

Both are little shits and enjoy annoying the hell out of people they dislike.

Abysmally bad fashion sense. There should be a name for this particular type and level of bad. I don't think I've seen this anywhere else.

And then there's the colour scheme. Red+black+white+blue and red+black+light grey+blue (it's an "anime magician" color profile, I think. black-red-white as alchemy colours + blue as pure magic/something elemental). Childe doesn't quite fit but still the combination is rare.

They way they talk. Dear gods. Who the hell talks like that.

Here's where the similarities end.

One is morally grey but ultimately a good guy (technically. I think the point of ShB was that Emet and G'raha are almost the same), another is a morally grey but still (kind of) a bad buy.

At every step of his story Graha is surrounded by people who love or at least appreciate him, Childe is pretty much on his own and surrounded by people who are either shitty or clueless.

G'raha is kind. Truly and astonishingly kind, in a doomed world he chooses to love everything he touches. Silly little priest of hope. Of all the things he has done this is the most wondrous, I think. Not the time travel, not the city he founded, just being able to remain kind after everything that happened to him.

Childe is... well, Childe. I think he is a deeply decent person (to the point of having a visceral distaste for any kind of unfairness) and he's idealistic but he's indifferent more than he is kind. Empathy usually develops only when someone has shown the person empathy first and, as far as we know, he didn't have much of that in his life.

Also G'raha builds things. Childe breaks things. Childe breaks pretty much everything he touches.

One is an archeologist and a mage and another is a warrior.

I think these differences are caused mostly by the settings they were put into. Childe raised in Sharlayan would have been a very different person. G'raha trained by a voidsent and shipped off to Garlean military would look very much like Childe.

G'raha also has a beautiful character development arc. I love his ShB role. He has this huge ego in the raids and is insufferable and then we see an older and wiser him with a bunch of actual achievements and a bad case of impostor syndrome (trying to do anything real always humbles a person, we all know that real world is held together by sticks and scotch tape. honestly, this change alone is beautiful). And he gets to be an actual hero when he abandons all hope to be Important and resigns to die as a nameless villain if it saves everyone and spares his loved ones from heartbreak.

Childe's character development is yet to happen and I'm not hoping for much but we'll see.

The only difference that definitely isn't created by setting is that G'raha is naturally manipulative. In a kind-hearted way and mostly for the sake of better larp but he isn't that straightforward. Childe is spectacularly blunt for all his mysteriousness.

As a bonus, they both compare main characters to stars, but in completely different ways.

"No doubt your heroism will be the star by which I chart my course," says G'raha to the WoL.

Childe mentions the morning star, which is, of course, pretty and a good companion to a lonely traveler, but also it's not a celestial body you can chart your course by.

It's a guy whose signature weapon is called "Polar Star" and his first artifact set was full of nautical themes, so I think he fully understands what he's saying. "You are my friend but I won't change anything in my life for you."

So I don't think his story will be anything like G'raha's, his life took a different turn very long ago. I do think they used to be similar as kids, bookish boys who dreamed of adventure and being special. So it's fun to compare.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. <3

#honestly I think it's mostly involvement in deep lore and the lack of self-pity #everything else just snowballs from it #I refuse to be contained #the world must know everything about g'raha #he's the only character who has a personal tag in my old livejournal blog #even childe doesn't #even dragon age morrigan #g'raha tia #eternal wind #ff xiv #childe #tartaglia #rinn talks to people #one would think that the closest ffxiv parallel to childe would be zenos #another blood knight #and in a sense he is #but also not really #zenos raised in sharlayan would still be zenos #but also maybe I'm overthinking and reading into childe's character too much #I hope not #I want a good story for him

[secondstar-acorn]

did team starkid give you unrealistic expectations for your university theatre experience or are you normal

#I am a victim of ‘go blue’ #JOKING IM JOKING #but also not really #starkid #team starkid #avpm #a very potter musical #avps #me and my dick #mamd

[callmebrutus]

people who genuinely think that cellbit is better at pvp than fit only because he managed to kill him few times during the purgatory how is it to live in constant delusion

#/lh #but also not really #i like to be mean #qsmp #fitmc #qsmp fitmc #cellbit #qsmp cellbit

[pan-gya]

my favorite nier character is zero from drakengard 3

Please Reblog

#this is a joke #but also not really #i love zero sm #zero #drakengard #drakengard 3 #drag on dragoon #drakenier #my art #digital art #lmao she looks so dead inside #ive been on a bit of an art kick lately #ive just been finishing up old abandoned things or doing psycho pass art lmao

[nezu3kun]

dracula pomeranian...? pomeracula?

#renfield #dracula #my art #this is from my fic lol #i am sort of sorry for clogging the tags with my bullshit #but also not really

[dragongirlfangs]

"Rachel is the compatible character that's written in relationships with Taylor the least despite their canon interactions even in fics about Taylor x many girls because she's butch and not conventionally pretty so people are superficial and ignore her" send post like throwing a rock at a crowd

#half joking #but also not really #because this is an actual phenomenon #virtually everyone in the fandom with a brain agrees that they have some of the most chemistry in the book #and their interactions are some of the most romantic #yet they're never fucking written together? #like you can count the number of multichapter wolfspider fics that have been published since Worm started in two hands #(and I have written two of those) #which compared to like smugbug and pillbug is #nothing #like it's nothing #write more wolfspider please #I'm on my knees begging you #parahumans #rachel lindt #taylor hebert

[may-coops]

omg is that hatzenos yae miku

#zenos yae galvus #ffxiv #ff14 #zenos viator galvus #Final Fantasy XIV #i'm so sorry miss miku #but also not really

[conceptofjoy]

#d draws #homestuck #homestuck kidswap #june egbert #jade harley #rose lalonde #dave strider #but also not really #kidswap

[joelsgreys]

the thing i’m going to post later tonight

i’m either going to regret it

or it’s going to unlock a whole new side of me y’all have never seen before

#well that’s a lie maybe you’ve seen part of that side of me #tw daddy kink #i am so sorry #but also not really #its 100% self indulgent and for me #but also won’t complain if other people like it too #just don’t yuck my yum that’s all i ask