#but maybe half-decent again

[britneyshakespeare]

I like drawing ppl's faces in charcoal bc it's like you caress them very gently until all their dimensions are there. Teehee so intimate so tender

#tales from diana #forgive me father but i have purchased art supplies from temu......... #it's just charcoal i just bought sticks of willow charcoal #and i only did it bc someone in my family lost my box of charcoal >:( #my mom got me charcoal pencils for xmas but i genuinely do not think she is aware that that is Not what i needed #i do appreciate it but i really do not like working w pencils #pencils require precision. which i do not have #i wanna do more drawings. i wanna draw brian protheroe again #but maybe half-decent again #all i can think of that i wanna draw is shakespearean actors. old movie stars. and my friends and family #but should i want to draw anything else? #yes. toys. #ive lost touch with my doll-and-stuffed-animal-drawing roots

[buttercup-barf]

Back at it again with posting crossovers of things I like, because I just get possessed like that sometimes. <3

This time as a rushed sketchbook doodle.

#and wow would you look at that the first two suggested tags are the things i post The Most about. crazy how that works #twinsomnia #pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #if you are wondering where all the half-decent art went. i am away from my puter and not sure how long it will be until i see it again #(praying to god that i just jinxed it and will see it soon) #she is speaking in italian like when he was a kid because it's easier to communicate in one's own native language but pep's so used to- #-speaking english with everyone except gus and maybe goopino that it just feels weird to him now. rip bozo

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Characterization: BFTC

1. Yes, he called Gotham evil. That’s just a fact. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t love her like they’ve been married 64 years.

2. ACAB Jason. He also dislikes how Batman became a brand symbol. “Cause & effect > vague ideas”.

3. Child sidekicks recruited for the wrong reasons + Bruce’s fucked up mentality.

4. I’m not going to complain about them attempting to vilify Jason in the attempting to vilify Jason book. But even worded in this misleading way, the point is that he ultimately believed in solid consequences (which Batman could never deliver on).

Batman: Battle for the Cowl #2 (2009)

5. Yeah, that was shitty. All that talk about how he’s “not a child” because he’s dangerous/“from the streets”.

6. Okay the first part obviously yeah but the second part’s not true lol. We all know it, he knows it. He always wanted to do more to protect Gotham than limit himself to a symbol and a set of hypocritical rules like Batman (refer to #2 & 4 lol).

Batman: Battle for the Cowl #3 (2009)

7. He holds his ground. He doesn’t validate their shitty victim blaming by accepting their “help”. Since they found out Jason was SA’d, they keep using that against him to claim he’s just throwing a tantrum rather than actually trying to do his job. He shuts this down like ‘No, you’re wrong. My point has not changed since I came back to Gotham and I won't change my mind now either. Stop changing the topic.’ Lol

#there’s more in the third issue but this would become a bit too long #my post #but again like I said. aside from how obvious it is that the writers only added the SA to rob Jason’s way of any validity #the other characters’ mindsets are just so fucked and not at all agreeable lol #also maybe it’s just me but if I know for a fact that a miniscule detail was just a bad editorial decision #but the rest of my fav’s characterization is half-decent/pretty funny I can enjoy it for what it is & not whine about how he’s too violent #anyway Jason said fuck influencers and fuck u for becoming one Batman #bftc

[mitamicah]

I see a lot of people have made covers of the snippet of Everybody's Waiting (the new JO track)

I may do it too but at the same time I am hesitant given that I am 90% sure they won't see it (since everything else I'd ever made have never been noticed by them - Bojan's big share yesterday included) and if by chance it is getting seen I am not sure how I'd feel having the first thing noticed by them be just another cover

I am probably overthinking things again

#so here's the t in the tags (aka me ranting) #I have not felt great about my art or my contribution to the joker out and käärijä fandom recently #I have honestly felt like an art block is coming #the few things I have been able to create just doesn't feel good to me #and I don't get the same satisfaction of sharing it either #Ik I should be grateful for whatever faves and views it gets but I cannot help but feel underappreciated #which in turn doesn't make me feel motivated to make more #the last few days I have actually been more drawn to playing my guitar and writing songs than creating artwork #so that is what I've been doing #in that regard creating a little cover would maybe be fun #and yet I fear I'd fall into the same trap as with the art #that now I might make something to share with the fandom it has stakes #and in the end the stakes will be too high since I cannot help but compare what I make #and so I will lose interest in making music as well #honestly I feel kind of lost #I have had days I just stop working for half an hour to several hours #falling down an unproductive rabbit hole where I just stare out into the blue or at a youtube video #I don't want to be here #I want to love what I do and love sharing it with you again #but after a pretty productive and somewhat decent january #I now feel meh about it all #thank you for reading my tag novel #I will go now #micahs thoughts #micahs foolery

[kiekiecarrera]

It’s we don’t get a Rafe and JJ fist fight in season 4 and JJ being protective of Kiara because Rafe is trying to hurt her for stealing his boat or makes suggestive comments I’ll be disappointed!!

I don't need the actual fight part of it, JJ going feral because of something Rafe says to Kie to the point where he has to be held back is enough for me. Bonus points if they turn to leave after calming JJ down and Rafe says something nasty about him and Kie turns and punches him instead

#answered #anonymous #this spiraled into something half decent #maybe i should try writing again ksdnvlnsdv #jiara #otp; did you tell jj

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

I have this tea cup I made in highschool (it’s really cute and was designed more like those Japanese ones without a handle than it was those fancy English style with even more elements to them) but I never actually asked if the glaze we used was food safe (we all used the same glaze on those cups specifically because the teacher glazed those ones in particular and I don’t remember checking. I glazed and painted every other project but only one of them was something you would use for food and that thing broke a few years ago and was honestly more decorative) and this has haunted me ever since. It’s a super cute cup and I adore it, but I have no idea if I can use it for its intended purpose and while I could buy a lead testing kit I’m not sure how I would check for anything else that might have been in that glaze. I know the color used but not the brand, so that’s not really a help either. The teacher I had left the district after that year because our school district paid art teachers a shit wage and we rotated through them like elementary school kids needing new shoes every year. I’m not entirely sure how I would contact her, but even if I did track her down (something not entirely impossible from what I know about her life outside of teaching us for a year, I would feel slightly weird about it though, even though she was my favorite art teacher) but I highly doubt she would remember something like the glaze she used on one project her students made at a school she taught at for one year. I’m not sure what other testing kits I would need besides lead to confidently say it’s safe enough for my personal use, and it’s annoyed me for several years now.

#emma posts #it was peacock. peacock green I believe #and do you have any idea how many brands produce a peacock named glaze? #I could maybe narrow it down by looking for one that tended to be more forest green to dark blue #but that’s not really a great way to get a definitive answer #I also wish i could make more ceramic stuff right now! I’ve been hooked ever since yhat class #polymer clay sculpting isn’t quite the same (though better than nothing) and air dry clay often feels crumbly #neither of those could be used for cups and stuff #but even just making clay sculptures (my favorite) hits different with clay #I miss the smell and the feel and the way it worked #the closest I’ve gotten to the experience was digging up clay near my parents house and trying to fire it in the bonfire #it was only a half success #I tried to learn how ancient people made stone wear with raw clay and other materials added #but i just can’t seem to fire it the same way and it ends up slightly ashy on the surface from the soot #it’s also a bit more prone to cracking and I know I can’t expect the same as what it’s like working with the good stuff #and I know the clay on the farm is at least decent but not modern quality #also it doesn’t get fired all the way so if I get water on it it starts to dissolve a bit again #I should try to study ancient clay methods #it would be really fun to try to recreate some stuff in the area behind the lilacs #but it isn’t as good as modern clay #I’m getting really side tracked though #art problems #I wish I had an actual studio. I don’t see that happening any time soon though #my dream is to live on one of those houses in the woods north of town and have an art studio and room for more pets and gardens #i don’t think that’s ever gonna happen though #right now I’m just trying to figure out the local buses and stay in government housing #I can’t drive. I dropped out of college because of health problems. I’m living on disability and foodstamps. my health inssues make my #schedule and availability unreliable for a regular schedule #keeping up with the dishes is my worst enemy (aside from everything else) #i just don’t see myself doing much outside of my desk in the corner of my small living room any time soon

[hassiegfrieddoneanythingwrong]

Sure. I was more angry that the writers are conflict-avoidant when it comes to Kriemhild and passed over not one, but two large, potential character arcs that Siegfried could play a minor part in rather than the only, major part. Only one I easily understood because Byrnhildr is from Sigurd's legend, so she's not the Queen of Iceland and it would be silly to linger on Kriemhild's conflict with her.

Mind you, I'd still like to see an interlude on it, much as I'd like to go over Gudrun and Sigurd, but let's not kid ourselves here. The FGO writers nowadays don't seem like they ever want to bring it up given Sigurd's line on it.

Remember when I said I wanted a Enkidu-like interlude for Kriemhild? In that interlude, Enkidu spared nothing for Ishtar and went straight into catty dialogue with her. There was no delicately dancing around their hostile relationship nor any retcons regarding what was already said before in FGO regarding Ishtar and Enkidu.

Kriemhild, on the other hand, gets two lame excuses that cut off parts of the Nibelungelied she could possibly grow from: Brynhild's conflict with her and the long time she spent with Attila and the Huns.

I wasn't talking about the event entirely as it was a breath of fresh air from the last two events where she spent time with Siegfried. That's expected. No. I was talking about the small part between her and Altera where she said that she couldn't remember her time with Altera and the Huns - which contradicts Byrnhildr saying she smells Siegfried's scent on Altera. Which hints at Altera having spent time with Kriemhild. That little aside soured the rest of the event as it not only confirmed the writers don't want to dedicate time to fleshing out Kriemhild beyond her Fate-only conflict with Siegfried (thanks Higa), but that they're content in using any out to avoid going over Altera's time as Etzel/Attila. Want to know what I wanted when saving a pity for Kriemhild? Character expansions for both Siegfried and Altera on top of Kriemhild herself. Guess I wished on a monkey's paw. I'm now sure her kids with Altera are also retconned out of existence. Not too sure about Gunther II, though.

Oh yeah, want to know the best part? In the same cop-out dialogue, the writer of this event said there's another version of Kriemhild that remembers her time with Altera instead of casting away the memories as not important (even though Kriemhild's tactics in Traum say otherwise). I remember another servant version promised by the writers that never came out: rider Caesar. Yeah, it's been years and he still hasn't shown up. Sorry Cleo. Odds are, that version of Kriemhild won't show up either. And it's been nearly a year since the last batch of interludes too.

So yeah, that's what I meant about her being Siegfried's shipping attachment. It seems the writers only want to focus on their romance part of the Nibelungelied and not go over Kriemhild's personal development as a character herself. One issue I do have when it comes to couples in this game, regardless of who's being shipped.

But I suppose this comes with the territory of loving the character from the source material first before getting their Fate version. You start getting disappointed when the writing doesn't meet what you expect.

Anyways, I hope this explains it. And thanks for not immediately assuming I hate Kriemhild herself just because I have issues with how she's written.

OOOOOOOOOOHHHH, yeah that makes more sense now. As much as I would also love to see more focus on both Kriemhild and Siegfried (especially on the former), as well as possibly for Altera, the sad fact is that it will possibly never happen.

Kriemhild forgetting why she politically married Altera is like as if Artoria forgot why she abandoned her humanity to be a good king, or Gilgamesh seeking out the herb of immortality, or why Yu Mei-ren/Akuta Hinako initially wanting to summon her beloved Xiang Yu. It makes no sense on any level for her to forget it. Perhaps this'll be ignored and actual focus on them if Kriemhild gets an interlude, but I sadly don't have high hopes (or even a medium level of hope).

And for Altera, none of the writers seem to be interested in fleshing her out in FGO. All of them seem content enough that everything interesting about her is just locked behind another game. Like, her second interlude is the only one that's actually about anything while her first and third interludes are more vague memories before and after she became the leader of the Huns. There's a small (and I mean small) possibility that there probably could be an Extella collab at some point in the future, with a guest writer who is really damn passionate about the character(s) similar to what happened with Samurai Remnant, but again I wouldn't hope for it.

TLDR the only way to deal with the giant, tangled, unfocused mess that is the situation between Siegfried, Kriemhild, Altera and potentially anyone else is to Cope™️.

Or write fix-it fics, either way.

#ask #it was a mistake for hoping for her to appear in FGO instead of a new entry 💀 #stupid monkey's paw... #the amount of times any of the children between the couple Servants could possibly be counted #on either one or two hands #like there's Caesarion - Aslaug - Mordred (don't know if they/he counts in the grand scheme of things) #+ the Orkney sibs - I think Medea's sons with Jason were alluded to at some point (don't count me on this) - #Cú's son with Aife - Herc's kids with his first wife I think were mentioned or alluded to back in Stay Night - Kiichi Hogen's daughter #Galahad - Solomon - Tomoe's son with Yoshinaka - Kijyo Koyo's son is also mentioned/alluded to in the Requiem event #as well as Marie's son who actually kinda showed up in Requiem - Chacha's/Yodo-dono's son Tsurumatsu appears in a future GudaGuda event #... okay it's more than two hands I believe so. maybe a decent for Gunther Jr. to appear or at least be acknowledged? #as I keep on saying don't put any hopes on this potentially happening 💀 #also no prob anon! I would like to think that I can tell the difference when someone says ''I don't like/hate this chara'' #and ''I like this chara but Whelmed™️ about their writing'' #and again I do get it bc I also like her but rather ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ at like half of her writing in FGO

[skinzchoerim]

Almost sobbed when they played the eng version of loonatic, that song came to me at such an emotionally weird time and listening to it was always therapeutic. Something about the lyrics just speaks to my imagination and comforts me, but since the boycott started I haven't been able to listen to it as much, so it meant so much to me that they chose to perform that version

#i just missed being so in love with loona that they affect my creativity #i finally want to draw them again #and maybe I'll come back to these weird ass stories i was writing inspired by their lore #now that I'm actually a half decent writer

[gamebunny-advance]

Huh.

I'm already getting a good amount of response to today's polls, and now as usual I come to realize in hindsight that my wording of the questions might be affecting how people are voting.

I've really got to be better about that.

#i should have at least specified 'default size' when asking about djss #because again. if we were to talk about his 'maximum' size then he's the biggest person in the entire game #which might be why there's so many people voting that he's the tallest main character #and i also assumed that everyone would agree on other relative character heights #i think i picked decent points of reference but it still assumes that the reader agrees with non-canon info #and maybe i should have broken up the age brackets for 10/10 a little more #i figure the common consensus is they're in their 20s so i mostly just wanted to break that in half #to see if y'all preferred early or late twenties #but there are people responding that believe a bracket that belongs to two different answers #at the very least i should have said 'if your answer falls between the options #pick the answer that contains your personal answer's median age' #or something to that effect

[the-kipsabian]

shaved half of my head again <3

#its been a hot minute. immediately feeling better #if i only could cut the rest in a decent way i would do that too. maybe i'll learn one day when i dont have to think about one day having #to leave the house for something more than the store lol #but yeah half of it is gone again hell yeah ✌️ #night is an absolute mess on main

[seven-saffodils]

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#wish i could go back in time and stop 3ish years ago me from reading that tumblr post abt how not all romance books are bad #i've found the very specific microgenre i like and unfortunately there are about 3 authors who are good at it and available thru the library #maybe a handful who write decent books and like one of each is at the library #several whose sample pages are promising but i cannot be in the habit of buying them bc i do not work full-time #and just an absolute boatload of trash #whether it be sexist or racist or homophobic or rapey or just so cringey #if i could just go back in time and stop myself from reading about 70% of the available good stuff within the span of a few months #i wouldn't be stuck now reading it all again and again until i've half-memorized it #DDDXXX #of course if i had that kind of wishing power i'd wish that everyone who wrote good lgbt+ historical romances had all the time and money #so they could just have fun making nice things that then per my very detailed and airtight wish would be available thru my library #time to win the lottery ig

[poohbea]

Okay so I just finished watching The School of Good and Evil and now it made me wanna watch Ever After High dammit 😫😩 I’m a sucker for fairytales

#but the school of good and evil was pretty good tho I give it a 6/10 maybe a 7/10 for a nice soundtrack #it’s a bit rough around the edges but it was a decent watch #a whole 2 and a half hours long tho 👀 #⊹ ⋆ﾟ꒰ఎ pooh’s rambling again ໒꒱ ⋆ﾟ⊹

[the-acid-pear]

Mila napolitana con papas boludo hoy se cena como reyes 😎‼️🥳

#luly talks #I FINALLY CAN EAT DECENT FOOD NO MORE EATING GUISO FOR 4 DAYS STRAIGHT NO MORE NOODLES NO MORE PEAS #MEAT!!!! HAM AND MEAT AND FRIES MDHFMHMGNG SO TASTYYYYY #my stomach is already rejecting it tho NEGDNDHDBFV 💀💀💀 #my stomach is like ''tf is that give me sausages and soy patties again 🤨😡'' #OR MAYBE IS BC I ATE IT IN LIKE 3 MINUTES OR LESS 💀💀 #not all in pic only half but still emgbnrtb #soon my life will go bsck to normal imma have money and clothes and will be all o-kay again....

[dadfag]

kissing everyone thru my hazmat suit rn

#i am feeling half decent today!!! #still coughing and blowing my nose but i had a fever yesterday and now i dont :') #maybe in another day or 2 i will be feeling good again <3 #speaking! #tw covid

[sweet-as-kiwis]

International business is officially the Podcast Class

#just started rusty quill gaming it seems fun lol #I have. no attention span for this. the guy just reads the textbook and occasionally goes on rants about how it’s So Important #and then will say something that I personally disagree with like. globally consumers are starting to all ask for the same exact things #which is GREAT if your an international firm cause you don’t have to edit your product for the consumers in that area #but like. idk man I feel like culture is p damn important #and the fact it’s American culture spreading. which really just boils down to consumerism #(I could explain more cause like it’s Not but it’s a decent part but it’s early and I am in class even if I’m not paying attention) #and idk maybe that assimilation is gonna have some Weird Effects on people (again. could explain. it’s early tho) #but he’s all like this is the Greatesg Thing to Ever Happen and I’m just like is it tho :/ #anyways hopefully this doesn’t have any super adverse effects on my grade #last year the podcast classes were research methods and data analysis #and I pulled an 115% out of research and a 69.69% out of data analysis #so it could go Really Well or i might have to retake the class. again #although I think they should’ve passed me because it’s kinda a Funny Grade and idk how I pulled it #both in like a. WHATRE the chances of getting THAT and also #I did nothing but sit in the back of the class and listen to the magnus archives like i didn’t even do half the HW and I still Almost Passed #anyways. we’ll see how long it takes for me to get RQG Brainrot #this class is twice a week from 8 to 9:20 so that’s. #like. most of an episode? I think? #yea fun times!!

[green-and-grey]

fun tricolor strat for the defending team: two team members multitasking alternating throwing autobombs at the ultra signal and covering the other two members, who are focused more on the flanks. if anybody from the other teams manages to make it to the ultra stamp, no they didn't

#i was giggling for the first half and CACKLING after my fifth autobomb splat LMAO #it really only works if your slayers are decent in their role but when i saw it was me and another N-ZAP '89 on the team i knew #win or lose this is gonna be a goddamn hilarious battle #and i was right! the most fun i've ever had in a tricolor match! #seriously though the range of angles from which you can hit the tip of the pyramid? ridiculous. love it #this post is about splatoon #also i'm digging the special tricolor stage #great theming #could maybe be a little bigger but i'm just happy to see a special stage again!