#but it's a scale you have to consider

[marsti]

march madness (female hysteria)

#senderkgk #hs #homestuck #eridan ampora #march eridan #the scales were a last minute decision suggested by my boyfriend and i DO NOT regret painting them in #they really pull it all together imo #'sender you always draw eridan in the same pose' if his feet are far enough away from the camera i dont have to consider his stupid shoes

[starflungwaddledee]

I have a feeling Starstruck Dee (and perhaps you lol) are gonna go all out in February, pinks and reds, decorating and covering Dreamland with hearts

absolutely!

perhaps in all honestly more likely me than her, but if valentine's day exists she would be SUPER into it for sure, whether she understood it or not. i think she and kirby could be team Friend Hearts Everywhere and every year everybody else just wakes up February 1 to find that even their locked rooms were decorated in the night.

fwiw, i decided that i'll be celebrating this month by posting answers to various starstruck 'ship' prompts i've received! there'll be some comics, some single images, and so on!

i by no means have enough to fill the entire month yet, so i'm still taking suggestions, and i'll attempt to do as many as i can! i'm not sure if i can feasibly maintain One A Day but i'll do my best!

#february outfit reveal...?! #needed a new icon seeing as the christmas one is now sadly Outdated... alas #also the scale of how “romantic” any of these ships/artworks will be is probably going to be rather nebulous. #a lot of people would probably consider anything i make platonic if i'm being honest. and so do i most of the time?? it's?? it's tricky #it's always a real fuzzy line for me in a way i have a hard time articulating but that's fun to explore!! #anyway... i'm excited to try 😭💖 #turns out you *can* kiss her on her little head. as a treat. #starstruck dee #my art

[taffy-glitch]

ok ok look i understand that celia recognizing chester and emails from "john" and whatever the FUCK is going on with lena and gwen is all mind-boggling and such but

i feel like im not seeing NEARLY as many posts about the statement this episode???

I only listened once but what the fuck is the significance of those donations???? The laughter?? "it's all for a good cause"???????

WHO THE FUCK IS THE "SECURITY FIRM" THAT DEALT WITH IT?????

#the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #there's also the fact that it was the hilltop centre dont think that escaped my notice #you canNOT convince me this statement wont be important later #'security firm' that kinda reads to me like trevor the vampire hunter in terms of handling of supernatural stuff. but on a larger scale #....sister department to the oiar #WHO KNOWS???? #THER'ES SO MUCH TO FUCKING UNPACK !!!!!!! #trying to analyze what the fuck kind of entity was involved with that #something about hoarding and crowding and too much STUFF. unwanted gifts (esp considering it was the holiday season) #while also insisting it's all for charity. all for a good cause #perhaps (going off what people have said about the entities in tmp being desires rather than fears) #it has to do with the desire for the material. the desire for stuff #alternatively considering the charity angle it could be tied to a desire to help.... #but the ''help'' comes in unwanted and in fact SUFFOCATING ways #idk man im just throwin spaghetti at the wall at this point lmao #jort post

[kuroo-hitsuji]

(Minor?) NB Spoilers (lesson 35 (normal))

I'm losing it over the fact that I spent literally the Entire beginning of the train dinner situation telling my partner that I was gonna throw Lucifer out the fuckin window

And then Mephisto shows up and Lucifer says something about fucking throwing him out the window--

Please this Keeps happening fjsjgdxj stop stealing my lines, asshole

#obey me night bringer spoilers #obey me nightbringer #obey me lucifer #obey me mephistopheles #thinking out loud #genuinely this situation would be so funny though #just 3 of the most annoying prideful bastards stuck in a box together #like all things considered Kuroo is at the bottom of that scale but they're still butting heads Severely at the smallest transgressions sfjs #tfw you have to be on your best behavior so you can convince Lucifer yo make a pact with you #but the fucker has literally Said Put Loud that he thinks he knows you better than you know yourself #and has been acting like it ever since #and that's like your biggest I'm Going To Fucking Kill You triggers-- #sitting there in the dining car in the clothes he picked out for you in his color #immediately fantasizing about throwing him out of the damn train when he goes and orders for you without even letting you look at the menu-- #motherfucker i am autistic my food sensitivities are Vast and Confusing you cannot just Do That I can't Trust Like That sgdhxlhx #like order for me absolutely the less i have to talk to strangers the better but LET ME PICK PLEASE GOD #hgkd anyways then Mephisto shows up and is more annoying than ever and now Kuroo and Lucifer have a common enemy to consider defenestrating- #I've just been thinking about it a lot it cracks me up

[flappyhappystim]

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[ebbpettier]

i don't believe in the fandom concept of problematic faves (all characters should have at least one Problem, i think, for flavor) but if i did, fiona pitch would have a permanent throne at the very top of my list. i just think she's neato-cheetos.

#on a scale from one to belittling a teenager who was just subjected to weeks of solitary confinement starvation torture #i think that fiona is a 10.5 and should consider prozac #rainbow has a way with multifaceted characters who do things because it's the only thing they know how to do #good things for bad reasons and bad things for good reasons and selfless things for spiteful reasons and vise versa etc #everyone is at least a bit of an asshole about something. even goodboy milk chap boyscout simon killed a bunch of vampires on sight #they were probably up to something shady but the likelihood that they were gonna kill those girls in broad daylight at a crowded renfaire? #probably pretty low. too late to un-kill 'em though. like. those were People. vampires are People. goblins too. #imagine you're a goblin looking to make some serious changes in your society and the only thing you have to do to achieve those goals? #is kill a fifth grader that already hates you and your entire species on principle and would definitely kill you first given the chance #some of those goblins were probably pretty power hungry assholes but i imagine if they have a monarchy they also have tax laws and shit #i couldn't kill a fascist cub-scout for free healthcare but i'm also very anti-murder in general and goblins seem quite pro #i am definitely thinking way too far into this but that's also my One SkillTM #the incredibly similar way that simon and fiona view 'dark' magickal creatures (and what it means about the entire WoM) is an essay itself #its also a LONG essay and i'm too much of a weenie to post in-depth fandom opinions more controversial than 'big teeth Hot' #so the gist of it is 'I JUST THINK THEY'RE ALL NEAT I LIKED THE BOOK A LOT' #del/lat

[zerodaryls]

i often find myself questioning reality and i'm thinking that maybe people shouldn't let their 8 year olds watch The Truman Show (1998) because it might actually create lasting psychological damage

#anyone else see The Truman Show as a kid and still catch themselves wondering if the entire world is a Set Up or nah?? 👀 #like i know it's a pretty narcissistic concept to believe the entire world revolves around you lmao but i mean. the paranoia sometimes... #i genuinely 100% blame that movie for this #like i actually think that if i'd never seen that movie then i would just dilly dally on my way through life #never questioning the very fabric of my existence #...i mean realizing that christianity was bullshit might've still ended up doing a number on me #but like. HELL what if watching that movie opened my brain up to be ABLE to consider that my concept of reality (in which YAHWEH is real) #was actually bullshit. and i needed that movie in order to be able to eventually break free from the bullshit. #who knows lmao #but dear god... the other day i was driving #and i noticed that most of the cars would like. ease off the brakes jUST BEFORE the light turned green. like they KNEW. #and logically i'm like. 'that is because they are watching the cross traffic slow down and anticipating their turn.' #but Truman Syndrome Brain was like 'THEY HAVE CUES. THE DIRECTOR IS TELLING THEM TO GET READY TO GO.' #which is dumb bc if i were running a large scale program and had actors driving around i'd just tell them to follow the basic traffic rules #but ya know. the 'Truman Syndrome' or 'Truman Show Delusion' is a legit thing. there's a Wikipedia article on it. lmao #that shit done fucked some of us up :| #unreality #unreality tw #my posts #ramblings #my life is not nearly interesting enough to warrant a tv show #...but then again neither was Truman's. which was the point.

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

For better and for worse, [Sondheim's] is the most systematic and unsentimental mind that has ever addressed itself to the American musical—the sort of mind one might more easily imagine designing particle accelerators, or computer viruses too wily to destroy. “The first music teacher I had at Williams College was a man named Robert Barrow,” he says. “And everybody hated him because he was very dry, and I thought he was wonderful because he was very dry. And Barrow made me realize that all my romantic views of art were nonsense. I had always thought an angel came down and sat on your shoulder and whispered in your ear ‘dah-dah-dah-dum.’ Never occurred to me that art was something worked out. And suddenly it was the skies opening up. As soon as you find out what a leading tone is, you think, Oh my God. What a diatonic scale is—Oh my God! The logic of it. And, of course, what that meant to me was: Well, I can do that. Because you just don’t know. You think it’s a talent, you think you’re born with this thing. What I’ve found and what I believe is that everybody is talented. It’s just that some people get it developed and some don’t.”

(x) on the one hand, it's unbelievably funny that sondheim is like, "everyone would be thrilled to learn about leading tones and diatonic scales. the fact that i felt this way about them has nothing to do with me having any kind of talent. this is just the normal way for people to respond." but on the other hand i truly love so much knowing that one of the great creative luminaries of his century agreed with me that Teaching People Stuff Is Good Actually.

#one way i'd like started souring on things and a thing i still have a grudge over #was how often i'd hear or read people talking about the importance of teaching math in a way that nurtured mathematical creativity #meaning like: lots of problem solving with open ended problems not a lot of sitting down and doing your facts #and this made me feel very crazy bc i had taken piano lessons as a kid #(a 'purely' 'creative' pursuit) #and like... MUCH of my memory of learning to play the piano was. uh. #boring uncreative rote repetition in the service of building automaticity #and i mean. i was not a good piano student and i have no way of assessing my piano teacher's skill #but it's difficult for me to imagine a path to being a good pianist that does not run throough a lot of scales #or a way of even just memorizing a single piece that doesn't involve playing it until you're blue in the face #anyway. this isn't really about piano. it's about like #this notion that teachers had of capital-C Creativity #that felt totally separated from like the specifics of what i knew it meant to pursue like. many kinds of creative pursuits. #in a way that was like... what are you basing this on. where are you getting this idea. what does this look like in your head. #most of you are not people who consider yourselves to be particularly creative math thinkers #so what makes you feel like you know what it takes to turn someone into a creative math thinker

[the-bitter-ocean]

(LMK season 4 episode 7 spoilers )

Idk I just think the possibility/ idea that xiaotian accepts all facets of himself instead of immediately going “nope I could never be anything remotely like you LALALALA *represses every negative emotion ever*” could be neat to explore.

Idk I think inky just is more blunt about his xiaotian is feeling and does not hesitate to make that known.

#lego monkie kid season 4 spoilers #lego monkie kid spoilers #lmk spoilers #lmk s4 spoilers #lmk season 4 #lego monkie kid #lmk ink xiaotian #lego monkie kid xiaotian #qi xiaotian #lmk qi xiaotian #lmk fanart #lego monkie kid fanart #the bitter ocean arts #digital art #digital doodle #you know. I shouldn’t have to say this but considering the weird shit I saw on Twitter I’m gonna say it now: please do not tag as ship. god. #I like to think that the mirror reflection that warns xiaotian in season 2 during minor scale #and the reflection that talks to him in season 3 when he’s stuck in the furnace is inky #idk nuance I guess I just think their mirror reflection is not inherently evil #that being said I think inky doesn’t like lemh LOL. #(recognition of the self through the other derogatory) anyway #six ears will try to talk to xiaotian and inky is just blank faced like ‘He Doesn’t Forgive You btw in case you forgot. :]’ SGCHB #the bitter ocean talks

[murky-tannin]

Where is your "its discourse" now? He is an abuser and everyone knows it. Go pander to your white boy abuser cc cunt

The situation is objectively current discourse?? I never said he wasn't an abuser. I never even mentioned anything about the situation. Hell from the start I suspected he was the abuser in the story, even though I wasn't gonna be yelling about it on the internet as if it was my business. Like I'm not even a wilbur soot or lovejoy fan💀

Do you think "discourse" means "false accusations of abuse" or "a person who is discoursing is wrong" or something along those lines? And why are you on anon still? feel free to send asks off anon or even dm me if the idea of speaking your Very Reasonable And Logical Accusations publicly is too scary

#discourse #anon hate #cw abuse mention #murky mumbles #wilbur situation #i genuinely think you may need to consider what the meaning of discourse is because you have extrapolated the most wild conclusions here? #like. discourse is a neutral term. It doesn't mean someone is right or wrong. #It means an active communication where multiple opinions are at play. #we tag discourse for larger scale conversations with multiple opinions #such as when thousands of people are arguing and stating differing opinions on a specific abuser #whether a person is 'right' or 'wrong' isn't the point

[gierosajie]

I wonder if there's a whole little ceremony to get newly made wind gliders blessed (like how people over here have their newly made fishing boats/cars/motorcycles blessed for safe travel), or if whoever made them just. straight up asks the Anemo Archon for it to work like Firnas did for the Sumeru glider

#genshin impact #thinking thoughts about those wind gliders #like in the Wings of the Forest it reveals that the gods' blessing are part of Teyvat's laws just like the regular physics we could see #it pretty much gave an answer about the anemo particles when deploying the glider and the fact that you have it open in time tunnels #since y'know. time and wind. #there's also the thing with the spiral abyss having been the top of pilos peak #the mountain Leonard wanted to scale #Leonard who invented the wind glider #I wonder if he ever personally met Venti considering he knew Venerare and the fact that the mountain was still standing

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

laymen often comment that the primal forces of magic in fact seem rather underpowered; that it is only by marrying two or more of them together that one can achieve any kind of usefulness. this is the result of abandoning depth for breadth, but an understandable decision. the difficulty encountered is that in order to excel, truly excel at any one primal force, one must alter their understanding of reality fundamentally.

mages of space view the world as expanses, more easily manipulated once grasped, for good and for ill—they become impossible to disorient, but extremely dense objects feel, to their magic, like impossibly vast distances. time mages, on the other hand, eschew distance and see everything as a long line of history. a mage of time can take that line and follow it back to its source, or use it to choose the future they find most preferable.

to a mage of light, the world becomes not space or time or air or gravity, but rather: a series of laws. of facts, and extrapolations following the facts. but seeing is only the first step: the second is daring to take one's own pen and strike out the lines of the contract deemed undesirable.

it is then perhaps unsurprising that the students of light were the ones who set their sights so high. believing fully in their own right to determination, they identified the chief bottleneck in their abilities and sought to remove it. each magical force filters through a divinity—save now for one. the mages of light have killed their god.

#the nemesis speaks #ley lines au #things that just bit me and demanded to be jotted down #the side effects of this were naturally unpredictable. it fundamentally changed the way light works as a force- #-and led to it being today considered one of the most dangerous and unpredictable elements. #of all the schools that can heal- which are many- light's is both the most powerful and the easiest to comprehensively fuck up #because there's no limiter anymore. no higher hand to reach down and say ''that's far enough'' #you have to know yourself and your limits well enough to do it yourself #i guess in this sense light acts as a smaller-scale prior example of what will happen if akari's quest fails #here's a god that shattered entirely. here's what happened to everything else in the wake of that #ANYWAY.

[ssaalexblake]

The fandom experience is watching Those spi/rk fans say the problem is that they paired spock with the Wrong woman and everybody was fine with Uhura and Spock in the aos movies like i do not remember very easily with no trouble at all the metric shitton of racist misogynistic biphobic sludge that came from fandom from that other thing actually happening in those movies.

Like, I was not even IN the fandom then and I saw all that from the outside, so that means it would have been worse behind the curtain. This is not the argument you think it is.

#trek shit #shipping is not activism #is present in this post #shipping has no moral value #the show potentially shipping spock with uhura is not more moral than what they did do #and frankly considering he's like in her direct chain of command that'd be Worse??? #they skirted that in the movies and gave her the upper hand to make it not be a big wtf #i know we're all on the loser gay website but christ since y'all attributed shipping worth scales on some kind of #morality or representation scale you have gotten so weird about it that #we're like one of those isolated ponds with Weird As Fuck fish in it that exist nowhere else #i'm sorry to let you know but m/f pairings are not wrong in characters with no confirmed sexuality lol #there is a reason nobody takes any of us seriously and it's entitled nonsense like this #we can't even use the term queerbait anymore bc you changed the meaning so awfully that now it's just willthey/won't they #and not active homophobia like please stop

[pluralwizard]

i wanna figure out a fun way to share some of the worldbuilding I've done for Aerund, it's been well-received by folks who know,

#its a fairly typical fantasy setting though #its just got WizardNewYork in the middle of everything #and its BAD #anything the players can do #capitalism wizards can do At Scale #have you ever considered what would happen if your insurance company could resurrect you #......or your boss

[pocket-prosecutor]

they have fun sometimes 😏

cutout of the 4th panel for clear Miles view:

#aa gt #aa g/t #wereshifter miles au #g/t #giant tiny #giant/tiny #sizeshifter #considered briefly doing flat colours but ehhh #it's better this way #if you see the first panel floating around (not likely. im not exactly tumblr famous lmao) yeah that checks out #i uploaded a full colour version of the first panel on my art sideblog #but im keeping them separated because i don't want my g/t side and art/main blogs to mix #anyway.- #i think miles gets a bit more cheeky once they're comfortable together #him touching phoenix's face as a sign of 'alright this is nice let me return the gesture *strokes face*' #which probably feels kinda funny considering he's still shrinking #i have a poor sense of scale but the last panel seems like Miles could be 10 inches i think? #i said 6 inches before but i scaled him up to 10 bc 6 was too tiny #a little too helpless #also i did front view Phoenix. artistic peak #art tag

[deus-and-the-machina]

xenoblade 1 is interesting because when I first played it I had really mixed feelings. mostly I think because it had been slightly overhyped for me. there were so many videos with masterpiece in the description and people saying it was their favorite.

there was a lot that first turned me off during the story (namely the way it handled its female characters made me frustrated at multiple points) and also how they handled the revenge arc because I have very very specific taste in revenge arcs and I just dont think it landed for me. 

I think I appreciate it a lot more now that im fully deep into the series. I do like a lot about it, from its gameplay to its environment to a lot of the little cast interactions, to just shulk existing. yeah. yeah its alright

#I remember when fiora died and dunban reyn and shulk were all talking about it I couldn't help but just be acutely aware they'd killed off #the only girl in the cast for their revenge quest and it put a sour taste in my mouth. at least we got sharla soon after who they ALSO did #dirty :(((( and they do bring fiora back but man. girl you've been through so much and have a GOD in your body but all you can think about #is how your bf will feel are you serious. its like they saw the backlash to shion and went ok women no more being realistically upset for #you gotta wait like another game or two :/// you get to never confront or be mad about the guy who stabbed you or the guy who wanted you #brainwashed and also forcibly altered your body irreversibly no your boyfriend gets tobe mad about it. be nice and optimistic darnit #and every lady in the party has their story tied to a romantic relationship in some waytoo. l'man. at least melia got her moment in fc #and its like. its odd bc I dont really DISLIKE any of the major 1 characters its on a scale from liking them to being upset on their behalf #like you have so many charming moments and interactions and I WANT to like you. but they just did you so dirty :(((( #idk ive wanted to get that out there for a while. I have very messy feelings on 1 which is kinda ironic bc a lot of people considered it the #less controversial one for a long time lol. and it is. but still. #siren says #xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles #im constantly on my hater arc btw but I only let it out occasionally bc I am constantly worried of backlash online. I keep my bitching to #friends mostly lmao and oh do they know all about it