#but it just

[nebuladreamz]

Going apeshit insane thinking of.

Over the Rainbow but with the boys

Like. Like think about it, man, think how much that shit would fit them both, not only aesthetically (bc rainbows, rainbows in the daycare and sunshine brings rainbows yadda yadda) but literally THE SONG ITSELF

LIKE FUCK!!!!!! THEY'VE NEVER SEEN THE OUTSIDE THE WORLD!!!! THEY'VE NEVER HELD A FLOWER BEFORE!!!! NEVER SEEN THE SUN!!! THE MOON!! THE STARS!!! THEY HAVEN'T SEEN ANY OF IT BECAUSE THEY'RE ANIMATRONICS, BECAUSE THEY'RE PROPERTY, MACHINERY, THEY'RE CORPORATE ROBOTS WITH A JOB TO DO AND NEVER MEANT NOR DESTINED TO EVER GO OUTSIDE!!!!!!

CAN YOU IMAGINE THEM LEARNING ABOUT THE SONG AND JUST FUCKING LONGING TO ESCAPE THE MUNDANE OF THEIR LIVES, OUTSIDE WHERE SKIES ARE BLUE, DREAMS THAT YOU DARED TO DREAM REALLY DO COME T-

#nebula rambles #im so normal about this i promise #i am SO fucking normal #<- lying through their fucking teeth #LIKE I KNOW WE HAVE FICS OF THEM GOING OUTSIDE #OF THEM BEING FREE USUALLY POST FIRE #BUT IT JUST #-pUNCHES AIR- #IMAGINE THE WONDER!!!!!!! #THE FUCKING CURIOUSITY!!!!!!!!! #THEM FINALLY MAKING IT OVER THE RAINBOW!!!! #i desperately want to make an animatic or comic of this #so fucking badly

[yardsards]

forever rotating the idea of amity and lilith re-forging their apprentice-mentor relationship (but this time healthy and also anti-establishment) around in my head

#eliot posts #toh #the owl house #amity blight #lilith clawthorne #they just have so much im common and i think could learn a lot from each other #ever since the end of s1 i have had this fic idea in my head that REFUSES TO BE WRITTEN #that would take place during the first half of s2 #where lilith and amity have to reunite and they talk #and lilith helps amity overcome the conflict of it being 'her dream' to join the emperor's coven vs recently learning it's evil #and s2 has only further driven home a lot of the themes i want to address #and i actually know a lot of the details i'd like to include #but it just #it won't let me write it!

[miodiodavinci]

zola anniversary one week from today , , , , , ,

#not gonna lie lads the regret is hitting me Most Deeply™ #not to get too far into a spiral but it does have me sitting here like #what have i even done these past several months?? #i recorded some utau libraries and set about going through oto hell #started on some diy projects that i still have yet to finish #started playing games again for the first time in a long while #bought my first plant and actually managed to get it to grow #completed my plp2 cover and started on another #but really it feels like i've done nothing at all ; ; ; #it feels like i've just been paralyzed by responsibilities day after day and exhausted by brain fog and lack of sleep #and intellectually i know i was super burnt out and Had™ to drop my anniversary plans #because i'd dreamed too big and i had too much going on #but it just #feels like shit man ; ; ; ; #first zola anniversary i've ever missed since i started and it's the big decade celebration #when they're getting updated no less #god ; ;

[minimutty]

yknow something that always frustrates me about ppl being like "oh you have to use glaze and nightshade" and im like "yes i agree thats a good idea its a good program to use" but the problem that i face is that, and i may sound very vain and selfish for saying this but:

all of these are things i did that i could vaguely describe as "i put some effort into them" and on a smaller screen at a lower resolution from farther away it looks alright

but close up it's pretty easy to tell that they're glazed and they also just ruin the quality for me.

TLDR: Glaze alters my art too much and I'm a whiny baby about it, but if you can deal with it looking how it does to your art, you should use it.

rambling non-tldr:

now ppl might say "oh well that's the sacrifices that have to be made to be vs AI" but at the same time i hate the idea of spending over 20 hours on something that im objectively proud of that i want to show off to ppl only for a program to alter it in away that makes it look

a) not as good as i imagined it

b) blatantly obvious that it was glazed

now ive talked to the glaze devs about it and they said that my art style is at best "too clean" which makes the artifacts show up more, and I agree with that. The areas around the not-face area are actually not that bad, but it's just. So much more obvious around the skin areas and to see my works look like that just doesn't make me want to use it.

Before anyone asks, I'm using the web version of glaze because my computer is too weak to run the app version. I've tried the app version and glazing even one photo to a high enough setting where the artifacts wouldn't be as noticeable would've taken over 8 hours. I don't want to wait over 8 hours after finishing something to actually post it, so I have to use the presets that come with the web version, which gives these results.

This isn't a "Don't Use Glaze" or "Glaze is bad" post, before anyone comes at me. This is a "why i selfishly have trouble using glaze because of the issues with my art style." I desperately hope that both glaze and nightshade will eventually improve enough for less textured/painted styles like my own become less noticeable/altered by the program.

#minis ramblings #might delete later #ive been wanting to use glaze ever since i started posting art #but it just #i dont like how it looks #and it makes me mad

[ilivelikeimtrying]

You know, I know it hurt, his expression said that it hurt,

but to actually read that it hurt, actually makes it hurt more somehow? Does that make sense???

#big hero 6 #bh6 #big hero six #bh6 tadashi hamada #big hero 6 tadashi #bh6 tadashi #tadashi #tadashi hamada #bh6 hiro #big hero 6 hiro hamada #hiro #hiro hamada #bh6 hiro hamada #i saw this while searching for some reference for a story and i don't know if this is from something canon or not #but it just #i adore Tadashi so much as a character and this just gives more insight to his person more and it's just #*hugs him* #i wish we could've known more about him #if someone could tell me where it's from #that would be great

[cloudymistedskies]

I HAVE A QUESTION TOO.. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DOING SOME FAN ARTS.. YOU'RE REALLY AMAZING

JASHSHSJAJ I HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR LIKE 2 MONTHS NOW I DHDHDH

This was the first doodles i drew relating to mari and muichiro (ik that doesnt count as fanart buuut)

And this

Heres also a fun fact

#cloudy asks #cloudy somehow ends up making oc x muichiro #Idk how #but it just #happrned #like huh

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

Hi I was wondering if it might be slightly incorrect to state that the characters who want to enact greater change are the ones who’re punished because over the course of the series we see characters advocating for change receiving plenty of positive treatment: rand enacting laws that punish rich and poor alike and egwene pushing for tower reform and encouraging debates about the future moving forward for saidar channelers after the discovery of the kin are the more popular examples. besides, egwene’s fate was picked by harriet, and jordan intended to still write the outriggers meaning that mat’s arc couldn’t end on the note of a happily ever after that a few characters managed.

You're reading is totally valid of course! Though I was more wading into the murky water of saying that perhaps some limitations of the 90s influenced how the story played out for Egwene and Mat.

RJ's writing is strong in how he builds worlds, histories, systems, structures, and characters. He was very good with complexity and empathy. However, it feels to me that radical social and political changes, while present, were only allowed to go so far.

Egwene is a revolutionary by the end of her arc and she's given the heroes treatment, but her legacy is taken up by an Aes Sedai who embodies what she wanted to change about The White Tower. Cadsuane appearing to be brought in as a buffer against the continued disruption of the way The White Tower operated. Change but not too much. The story not dealing with the future trajectory of what Egwene hoped to achieve, but instead implementing a status quo and treating Egwene's tenure as Amyrlin as expedient.

Meanwhile, Rand's mere presence disrupts many systems he finds himself involved in. His views and his vision for the world, however, can often harken back to an idealised past. Part of that is Lews Therin's influence, but part of it is Rand being a history nerd homebody who wants to live a pastoral fantasy. Story-wise I don't know if Rand breaks the world so much as puts it back to rights. He's definitely an agent of positive change, but part of me can't help think he escaped death because he accepted the heavy mantle of his fate using a set of values that are prized by a conservative mindset. Hard work and no play making Rand into a martyr that doesn't actually die. But, ultimately, what Rand represents in the story is not his politics, it's his trauma. His striving to be good and do good despite *gestures at everything*. Rand subverts The Chosen One narrative and I think him alive and sliding away into obscurity also plays into that.

Mat, by contrast, does not have values prized by a conservative mindset. His internal code of honour is strict and stubborn but buried under irreverence, addiction, avoidance, and promiscuity. He would tell you he's a selfish layabout with a smile on his face. Is he though? As a narrative device Mat reminds the reader of the human cost to war. Somewhere underneath his paranoid anxiety and genuine desire to run away, he is frustrated by his friends willingness to bend and break for the rules unquestioningly. He wants the reader to remember they are people, not the figureheads for The Pattern, or Aes Sedai, or anyone. He wants the reader to acknowledge people are not to be played with, nor should they be beholden to the whims of the powerful. He wants you to remember their humanity. Rand as Rand. Perrin as Perrin. Egwene as Egwene. Elayne as the thorn in his side (but with a pretty dimple). He'll speaks to peasants the same as he speaks to an Empress, to soldiers the same as he speaks to The Amyrlin. Furthermore, he'll anxiously worry about all of them while he tells himself he doesn't care for any of them. He'll shove money into the hands of refugees while telling you how self-serving he is. He'll offer Egwene a public display of obeisance despite telling you he doesn't care. He'll climb a impenetrable fortress because he saw Rand putting himself in danger. He'll give his eye to save Moiraine without hesitation. He'll sit quietly with a distressed Rand for hours despite convincing himself they're no longer friends. He'll kidnap his prophesied wife and try to connect to her humanity rather than run away like he said he would.

And he's punished because at some point the story begins to believe the lie of him. He stops being that voice, that character. Instead, the promiscuous shiftless layabout is broken with sexual violation, work he cannot shirk from, and a fate he was apparently wrong to question.

#mat cauthon #wheel of time #matrim cauthon #rand al'thor #wheel of time spoilers #wot book spoilers #egwene al'vere #the end got a bit heated there sorry #i'm not angry anon! #just passionate #i actually think the greatest example of my argument is how the seanchan are handled #tuon's world needs to start coming apart substantially #(within the wot series and not another potential series) #but it just #doesn't

[cometchasr]

im not doing enough and its going to take fucking forever but i dont want to wait fucking forever i dont want to endure his bullshit for another half year until it becomes acceptable. but im not doing enough. i need to do more. maybe then, it would go faster. and next year i would finally be good.

but its so slow. so slow. always so fucking slow. and we cant do anything about it, and my fucking teacher is being very good at draining away any and all motivation i have to do anything, and my confidence, and i just- why cant i have done this earlier, or had it beamed into my fucking head

#mine #argh. #the time limit. #its so long but its so short #i cant see any progress #i cant see myself going anywhere #and its been 1 month of 2 years #and its obvious that after a year ill be better and after 2 ill be even better #but it just #its so long that i cant see the process and im impatient #but it feels so fucking short #itll pass and then i wont be ready

[ask-ghostly-mist]

You ever remember how deeply in love you are with your spouse and you have an absolute attack over it? Yeah.

#flux chord #is used to this #ghostly mist #is his favorite meal #mlp oc #lmao i had to edit the post #cause like a fool i posted them in the incorrect order #but it just #“shadow banned” my post instead #so instead i have just deleted it and reposted it #i am having fucking issues with tumblr today #i had to resize both

[vurelly]

lots of people wanting seafood flavored and i have taken a sharp turn into electric and shitpost flavored

#HYGTFTGYHBJK #its all because an anon asked for soft moon #AND IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SOFT #BUT IT JUST #ITS N O T #LMFAO

[s0fars0perfect]

keep getting stuck...

#gdi #i know where i want this to go #but it just #keeps stalling out #in my brain #why #maybe i'm trying to include too much #maybe i need to back up a little and look at it from the big picture

[wincestisasincest]

okay no because everywhere, but especially in the arcane fandom, writers are dropping like flies, and i still think that it genuinely has not occurred to a lot of you that this is because of lack of engagement.

i was nicer about this before but i'm so sick of this shit now.

everyone is tired of writing to the void. i'm very thankful to those of you who engage, y'all are the best, but respectfully, there is NOT enough of you.

writers come on here and they post their shit for community. no, if we only "wrote it for ourselves" then it would stay in google docs, but we post it on here because we want to interact with fandom. it's the same reason that people go to conventions and start discord servers.

writers are not wrong for wanting engagement. and yes, engagement means doing more than just leaving a like. a like tells us fucking nothing. comment, reblog, leave an ask, send us a message, literally ANYTHING. we're not picky.

posting a work and seeing that someone left a like feels like sending someone a text message and being left on read. or performing at a talent show where no one in the audience applauds.

we put so much effort and time into this shit, we put it out into the world, and apparently a lot of you like it and show up for it, but you don't fucking tell us. you don't interact. and we feel like fucking robots spitting content into the world for NOBODY.

we desperately need a community that doesn't just consist of other writers reblogging our own shit because they're the only ones who can understand this.

and unless this starts getting better, writers are going to keep leaving and getting burnt out. and then you're all going to be left with the same void that we're posting to.

#im done #im not going to stop writing #but i have a lot of thoughts and feelings #because it sucks ass #im sorry if this comes off as mean but a lot of people really just dont understand this #and ik that a lot of readers probably have the best intentions #but it just #does not feel like that at all #fandom culture has seriously gone downhill

[florida-preposterously]

I think a lot of desi kids know what tinkle is? That comic that you could always find in bookstore? Maybe all your classmates had at least with them when you were younger. Today I saw one story which broke gender stereotypes. Another dealt with mental health. And I saw a non-binary character. Their name was Linny, and they liked wearing big watches. No big deal. Just a person who befriends one of the main characters. I teared up, sitting there in the library. Because this is India, and my classmates still use lesbian as a slur. But sitting there, I had hope. And so much of it. I could be myself. It would take a few years, but I knew that I could finally hope.

#sapphic #nonbinary #enby #genderqueer #lgbtq #queer #pride #hope #desiblr #desi culture #comic #florian rambles #Homophobia #non-binary #sorry this is really emotional #but it just #it struck something in me

[just-spacetrash]

🫥

#brain ran out of wwdits hype juoce and now i am profoundly sad #it is just cause its late but man....😔 #I'm thinking about my shit 20th birthday #sent a 'hey its my bday does anyone wanna go for drinks' text to the gc (sweating hands shaking almost passed out muted my phone for 8hrs) #and then everyone came and talked about their own relationship/mental health issues for like max 3hrs and then went home #and last week my best friend had her 20th bday #and the other friends had like. baked a cake gotten her gifts wrote cards #and like i know im not as close w the other ones as my bff is #but man it did sting a lot #at one point one of em said like 'we did all this because we care about you we wouldnt do it if we didnt care' #and ngl i almost cried then and there #but yea kept it together didnt say anything didnt ruin my bffs bday #and the rest of the party was rly fun #but it just #i wish i had friends like that #and ik im not like. like i dont know how to talk n stuff ik im not as easy to be friends with i know im super anxious n awkward like always #but like #u didnt have to say the whole 'we wouldnt do this if we didnt care' #on my birthday i cried from like 3am to 6am and then pulled myself together and went to a hotel breakfast w no sleep #and like. didnt even feel like shit in the morning so it turned out ok in the end i guess #but looking back it was kind of. fucked up #but yea even the fact that im thinking about it now means i should just go to sleep probably #or i guess i didnt ever rly process it but still #lets hope writing this to my diary (the internet where everyone can see it) #releases some of the pent up. stuff #yeaj #my post #vent #rant #whichever it is

[ivycorp]

I am often sometimes re-watching TF shows during my work because I am familiar with them enough to fade in and out without losing the plot

usually I am picking Beast Wars - because. yes.

however, I just finished that (and Beast Machines) a few days back, and decided to switch it up with TFA

and oh boi

I think another re-watch in detail is in order

because

not only did I forget they did the "G1 montage" in the "history reference" at the start which made me remember at once Earthspark and caused me to go "How could I forget???"

BUT

I am only 2 minutes in

and this exchange:

OP: do you ever get the feeling you were programmed for something more than just repairing space bridges?

Ratchet: I got a diagnostics program that can delete that feeling like a bad line of code

fills me now with horror that I really, really did not catch before

#transformers #maccadam #i have seen this show aplenty but it was years ago when i did it in entire eps #and on a conscious level i remember how much tfa gets in there #but it just #raised some alarms that i should have picked up before #or at least feel like i should have #and now im just sitting there #what #else #did #i #miss

[combexperience]

hey you ever hate something so much but everyone else seems to love it so you find yourself desperately trying to find other people with your opinion but doing so only furthers the idea that everyone else loves it so anytime you consume something in the same genre you constantly have it in the back of your mind (is this going to just be thing i hate again?) and sometimes it isn't but most of the time it is?

anyone ever do that?

#yes i'm talking about in space with markiplier #damn it #it could've been so good #but it just #wasn't?